"imagine for a moment that you could dream any dream you wanted to dream--and, each night, you could make your dream last for what appeared to be 75 years of total time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. What would you do with this? Naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure imaginable, and satisfy every curiosity. You would visit every place, and see every thing--and after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Wow, that was pretty great! But now lets have a dream that isn't under control." Well, naturally, something unexpected must happen. And you would go through your dream with slightly less control than before, and when the unexpected happened, you would say "My, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And you would proceed on like this, relinquishing more and more control, and making further and further gambles, until eventually, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today."
-Alan Watts
atman imo. The idea of an eternal being that would send a disappointing experiment to a place where it would consciously be tortured for eternity is, imo, the most ridiculously stupid shit I can possibly imagine
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