‘But sire... Doesn’t that have the consequence that... Surely you’re not saying that when I have a convincing dream, it is real!’
‘I’m afraid that logic drives me mercilessly to the following conclusion: from within your dream, while it is happening, if it is convincing — that’s to say, if your experience within your dream is organised so that there appears to you a clear distinction between illusion and reality — then that experience, within that view, is as real as anything can be. Ask yourself this, my boy: when do you judge the dream to be just a dream? It is when you wake up. In other words, when your view changes, when it ceases to be that within the dream, and becomes outside it: remembering, watching or considering the dream, from outside it. Naturally, from within the view of you
