“Imagine if you could dream 75 years of time in one night.”
Maggie…’ Well, I tried to but you interrupted my dream.’
The Dream of Life - Alan Watts
So then…
So then…
Let’s suppose that you were able, every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream. And you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have.
And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure.
And after several nights of seventy-five years of total pleasure each you would say, “Well, that was pretty great! But now let’s have a surprise.”
“Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going to happen to me but I don’t know what it’s going to be.”
And you would dig that, and come out of that and say, “Wow, that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”
“Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going to happen to me but I don’t know what it’s going to be.”
And you would dig that, and come out of that and say, “Wow, that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”
Then you would get more and more adventurous.
And you would make further and further gambles as to what you would dream.
And finally, you would dream where you are now.
And you would make further and further gambles as to what you would dream.
And finally, you would dream where you are now.
