Isn't Life Merely a Dream?
Life is often a dream, and then you wake up. I'm writing an essay on why life is merely a dream. Often times in life as we know it now, we suddenly 'wake up' so to speak and realize something or see things from a different perspective. What or who's to say that one day we won't wake up and discover our past life, concious life as we like to call it, has been a falacy?
In this essay, I want to outline why life is merely a dream and explain that few of us, if anyone at all has ever truely awoken. By awoken I mean something similar to being enlightenened, seeing reality for what it really is, not just the dreams we create and live in, or life as you know it right now reading this message. In what ways is life just a dream versus being more than a temporary reality that one day or one minute later, we won't wake up from? How do those who see life empiracly think and argue that life isn't a dream? Don't Zen masters see this life as a sort of dream before death only then moving onto the next life, whatever it may be?
For me, seeing how life can be a dream is fairly easy. How would it be argued that life isn't a dream? What would my opponent in an argument about this say? Why do you think life could be or is just a dream?
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