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Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday
experiences are a form of dreaming,
which is to say, they are mental models, simulations,
not the things they appear to be.Stephen LaBerge, founder, The Lucidity Institute
We are unmistakably and undeniably trapped in a matrix (brain-in-a-vat) scenario. We do not dwell in real reality, as we like to believe, but in a rendering that we call reality. The reality in which we place our belief is supposedly transmitted by our alleged senses through rumored neural pathways to our assumed brains. In short, reality is based entirely on trust. Nonduality, on the other hand, is a trustless system. I don’t trust or believe anyone or anything but my own powers of reason. No sane, serious person would.
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Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane – like all dreams.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger