Thursday, April 23, 2009

Just you and me.

"I've often wondered what sort of dreams people have who are born blind. Do they dream in sound and temperature? Has anybody ever documented this?

For starters, i think humans are the only animals to know the difference between sleeping and dreaming. It doesn't matter if you're a lion cub, a jellyfish or a fern- wakefulness and dreaming are the same thing to them all. I think that until recently, maybe a few thousand years ago, that was the case for humans too. But then there was somebody out there who broke the cycle, who told people the the difference between two worlds.

But then something else happened. While we knew about dream life versus real life, we still didn't know about the past, present or future. A day was a day was a day. Tomorrow= yesterday= today= the same thing= always.

There had to be somebody out there who made a radical leap-someone who told the others that there existed this place beyond us that was different than anything we'd known, namely future. And because of future, all human lives became different. Our children's lives became different, better than ours. And then someone came along and told people that on top of everything else, not only was there life and death, but there was also life after death."

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