Dreams = parallel universes?

[lishesquex]

Lish says (10:43 AM): i sometimes wonder if... all the dreams we dream are real
Lish says (10:44 AM): and we're just a dream too
Ruth says (10:44 AM): i wonder this allll the time, if it's on some level real. maybe thoughts and dreams aren't boxed into the same linear time as reality
Lish says (10:45 AM): ...but then again, that would make all the weird sex dreams really weird

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[jailbaitjello.livejournal.com]

Omg, Zhuangzi! I'm writing a paper on that right now actually. You've heard of the Zhuangzi right? It was a hugely influencial text on Chinese Buddhism, and it's famous for the part where Zhuangzi has a dream about being a butterfly, and then wonders which is real. Is he a man dreaming he's a butterfly? Or a butterfly dreaming he's a man?

[lishesque.livejournal.com]

I have heard of the butterfly dream guy, but didn't know his name was Zhuangzi.

Ha, a thousand years ago, I might have become an famous scholar too! But instead my mind goes down the track of "weird sex dreams" instead of something more poetic like butterflies. And I guess LJ isn't really the medium of enlightenment.