In Your Dreams!

I was walking down the road. It was a sunny day. I heard a dog barking. I turned around and there was the dog, running down the road, barking at something up in the sky. It was a purple dog...not only that, it was a large stuffed animal, animated, barking, as it flopped its legs back and forth, somehow maneuvering down the street. I thought to myself...this must be a dream...dogs aren't purple! Guess what? It was a dream. I woke up.

I was talking to some people about what they thought reality meant. They did not care. I asked them more questions and got them to thinking a bit about it. They told me that it really didn't matter if we were just one of many aspects of ourselves, experiencing this life. I asked them where they thought new ideas such as cutting edge technology, etc came from. They didn't know. They didn't care. I asked them if they ever considered the possibility that new ideas and technology come from aspects of ourselves that have already lived in the future or in another reality where things such as carplanes already exist. They didn't care. I asked them if they thought that, if more people cared, we might figure some things out and evolve psychologically as well as intellectually, thereby eliminating the redundancy of famine and strife. They didn't care.

Suddenly it occurred to me that my entire conversation and this entire thing I'm experiencing now must be a dream...it's just as crazy as the purple dog, an animated stuffed animal, running down the street and barking up into the sky at the blackbirds up high. How could we all be living in this reality and not question it? It seems absurd to me. It seems as though at any second I could wake up and say to myself, in another dream called reality, "wow, that was some crazy dream!"