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Is this life a Dream? – Alan Watts

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 have cost be able to alter your time sense and slip say 75 years of subjective time into eight hours of sleep and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of Dreams you would fulfill all your wishes you would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive 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 where there was 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 blow them up eventually again into Comcast with enemies and after you've done that for some time you'll think up a new wrinkle forget the gym agree such would think it was all for real and to be anxious about and then Cosby so great when you woke up and then you say well like children dare each other on things how far out what could you take of dimension of being lost of abandonment of your power what dimensional depth will you stand you could ask yourself this because you know you would eventually wake up then you more and more adventures finally you would dream where you are now you would dream the dream of living the life that you were actually living today that would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have 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 Oh

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