The Dream Of Life (Alan Watts) Lyrics

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white

Self implies other

Life implies death

Or shall I say death implies life

You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world

Not as something here on probation

Not as something that has arrived here by fluke

But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental

I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it

I want you to play with it

I want you to think of its possibilities

I'm not trying to prove it

I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about

So then

Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream

And that you could

For example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time

Or any length of time you wanted to have

And you would naturally

As you began on this adventure of dreams

You would fulfill all your wishes

You would have every kind of pleasure you've seen

And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each

You would say

Well, that was pretty great

But now let's have a surprise

Let's have a dream which isn't under control

Where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be

And you would dig that and come out of that and say

Wow, that was a close shave wasn't it

Then you would get more and more adventurous

And you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream

And finally, you would dream where you are now

You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today

That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have

Of playing that you weren't God

Because the whole nature of the Godhead

According to this idea

Is to play that he's not

So in this idea

Then everybody is fundamentally God

The ultimate reality

Not God in a politically kingly sense

But God in the sense of being the self

The deep down basic whatever there is

And you're all that

Only you're pretending you're not.