Alan Watts – What if when we die we wake up?

[Music] I wonder I wonder what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream and you would of course be able to alter your time sense and slip say 75 years of subjective time into eight hours of sleep you would I suppose start out by fulfilling all your wishes you could design for yourself what would be the most ecstatic life love affairs banquets dancing girls wonderful journeys Gardens music beyond belief and then after a couple of months of this sort of thing at 75 years a night you'll be getting a little taste for something different and you would move over to an adventurous dimension well there were sudden dangers involved in the thrill of dealing with dangers and you could rescue princesses from dragons and go on dangerous journeys make wonderful explosions and blow them up eventually get into contests with enemies and after you've done that for some time you'll think up a new wrinkle to forget that you were dreaming such you would think it was all for real and to be anxious about it and then cuz to be so great when you woke up and then you say well like children who dare each other on things how far out could you get what could you take what dimension of being lost of abandonment of your power what dimension of that could you stand you could ask yourself this cuz you know you would eventually wake up then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out Gamble's as to what you would dream and finally you would dream where you are now you would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today that would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have of playing that you weren't God because the whole nature of the gardener according to this idea is to play that he's not so in this idea then everybody is fundamentally the alternate reality not God in a politically kingly sense but God in the sense of being the self the deep down basic whatever there is and you're all that only you're pretending you're not [Music] one day you're gonna wake up and say wow that's me what you are basically deep deep down far far in it is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself and when you find that out you laugh yourself silly [Music] you [Music]