It kinda makes my head hurt, but if it means I don't have to make my mortgage payment anymore then I'm all in.

Really? That sounds nice! I hope it's true.

I am awake but truly dreaming, I must go asleep to truly wake up. This all we see or seem to see is just a play in which we are all actors upon this stage. Life is an infinite game in which we truly experience in which all that is seen. So I am in a dream within a dream, and when I go to sleep here, I wake up where I really am. When I die on this earth I just wake up from my dream where I was lying down to dream, to begin with, this life is just a detailed dream in which I see thru the eyes of this body.

1) "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." Those are the last two verses of the first strophe of the poem "A dream within a dream" by Edgar Allan Poe. At the end of the second (and last) strophe, the statement comes again as a question: "Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" Source with the complete text of the poem: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dream_Within_a_Dream 2) "The poem questions the way one can distinguish between reality and fantasy" ""A Dream Within a Dream" reflects Poe's feelings about his life at the time, dramatizing his confusion in watching the few precious things in his life slip away." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dream_Within_A_Dream 3) The experience of just having a dream, and to wake up and being suddenly concious of the dream having been nothing but a dream is an usual experience. Shakespeare is using this idea in some of his plays, for instance in Richard III, in The Taming of the Shrew, in A Midsummer Night's Dream; also Pedro Calderón de la Barca in Life is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño) The quote refers to the not so usual experience of a dream inside a dream. This experience makes us questions even deeper our concept of separation between reality and dream. If I can wake up from a dream within a dream, could it not be possible, in some way, to wake up from reality? 4) "The "dream argument" is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion should not be fully trusted, and therefore any state that is dependent on our senses should at the very least be carefully examined and rigorously tested to determine if it is in fact "reality"." "While people dream, they usually do not realize they are dreaming (in non-lucid dreams). This has led philosophers to wonder whether one could actually be dreaming constantly, instead of being in waking reality (or at least that one can't be certain that he or she is not dreaming). In the West, first formally introduced by René Descartes in Meditations on First Philosophy, the dream argument has become one of the most popular skeptical hypotheses. In the East, this type of argument is well known as "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly" (莊周夢蝶 Zhuāng Zhōu mèng dié) introduced by Zhuangzi. It relates that one night Zhuangzi dreamed that he was a carefree butterfly flying happily. After he woke up, he wondered how he could determine whether he was Zhuangzi who had just finished dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who had just started dreaming he was Zhuangzi. This was a metaphor for what he referred to as a "great dream."" Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument 5) Here is an interesting essay about the idea of "degrading the level of reality of life down to that of the level of dreaming": http://en.allexperts.com/q/Philosophy-1361/Life-dream-4.htm 6) to answer your question, I think it would be interesting for us to recognize the deep reality hidden behind all those illusions.

a whole religion was based on it// see Science and Health, with Keys to the Scriptures, by Mary Eddy Baker - 1866