The closer you get to the meaning the sooner you know that you´re dreaming?

Answer 1

True

Answer 2

If your life is an island then what is the ocean? See the vastness of oceans around from the island upon which you stand, for without it you would be nothing but the ocean itself. The words on this island are like pots of grain each carrying grain according to the capacity; and then words are like cups of wine each with a level of intoxication of its own - each word has meaning, and has its charm. World are things, and then they are symbols for things we know – a flower is a word as it is spelled with its petals. Thus the worlds we build with words are the worlds of our dreams, and then they are the worlds where our dreams reside. We feast into our dreams and we gorge upon our wakefulness, but all but an illusion – an island made up of symbols.

But then we look deeply into the meaning of things, as we must, and yes, we realise that we were in a dreams. And this only when we enter into a dream that is a dream within a dream - not a dream of our peaceful nightly sleeps, but a dream of utter and unbearable wakefulness. We wake up into existence that has not limits, no recognisable boundaries and no line of demarcations - a place where nothing is big or small; nothing is near or far; nothing is bright or dim; a place where things are just because they are - the only ones who dare dream.

But, for a dreamer of such dreams pots of grain go empty and hunger stays; the wine from cups evaporates but intoxication remains. Lets not go too close to things, big or small, dim or bright, or else like a moth too close to the flame of a candle we will get our dreams burnt. Lets stay together instead, and try to dream what we can dream together.

Answer 3

Possibly - I'm a long way from the meaning so clearly no expert

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Answer 4

Yeah, you're right, only in our dreams we will know the meaning of something..In the real life, we don't know the meaning at least of ourselves, like who are we, humans? Come to think about , you don't know anything about humans..You can say that you know the true meaning of you, but you will never know what you can do , what powers lies beneath you skin,..In our dreams we let everything go, because we don't control our brains, so what we wish in real life, will be "reallity" in dreams world..

Answer 5

And the sooner you know that you're dreaming, the quicker your brain will start steaming.

Answer 6

Absolutely.

Answer 7

I wonder. I had a great dream about many fountains and kept seeing more of them, then I kept climing up all these stairs! I thought...I'm not even out of breath...I must be dreaming. Then I woke up.

Answer 8

Que? Or are you trying to make an aphorism out of the idea that we are all dreaming reality?

Answer 9

I disagree. I have been very close to the meaning and I wasn't dreaming, I was dying.

Answer 10

Knowing the meaning is sometimes not enough,it can be found
on the dictionary, but the keyword is "Realisation".