dreaming

[samsara]

I wonder if the older sisters dream of Alice's dream was a reference to Poe's - famous saying, "life is just a dream, within a dream, within a dream." Although Alice's adventue certainly could be seen from the perspective of psychedelic experience, the ending caused me to think other wise and back to the power of dreaming. The memories of her Adventure follow her to adulthood, maintaining an attachment to her childhood imagination, which keeps her spontaneous and full of life. Again this parallels the claims of psychelledic experience of opening pathways of insight that remain once the trip ends. <br><br>Either way, dreams or psychedelic, we are called to remember life is just a dream. How powerful our imagination and pespective can be. The ride of reading this story was enough to reopen my eyes before I drowned myself (and you dear reader) in my attempt of fancy intellectual analysis. I think of "The Tao of Pooh" How the story has such an appeal to both children and adults. Children, with out knowing it, embrace these stories because they contain such universal truths that instinctively resonate in them. Which is exactly why children are so wonderously alive and spontaneous. They still know how to dream.