Just a thought... or is it?

I was at work today, thinking. Can't have been that busy, but anyway, I happened to somehow stumble upon a thunk.

Or a thought...

The thought was a bit too big to fit in a 140 character Tweet, and so I ended up divulging it later on Facebook, and this is what I was thinking - your thoughts and opinions on this are very much welcomed:

To sum it up real quickly, basically (for whatever reason) I was thinking about dreams, and how sometimes they seem so real you can't tell the difference.

Then I started thinking about them in "physical" terms, and from a Buddhist point of view, you know how everything is everything etc?

To anyone that is reading this and not understanding that concept, this clip from the film
'I ♥ Huckabees' might help explain in simple terms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnEa23MFOg&feature=related

I was thinking that technically, dreams are as "real" as our physical "reality", because they are made up of all the same stuff - they have to be, otherwise how can we "see" them?! I guess they could be the same as when you project a film on to a screen, but still the screen and everything else appears to "exist", and everything between you and that screen, and between everything else too.

Picture a vacuum, apparently in a vacuum, there is "nothing" inside. Well that's utter rubbish. There may not be anything "physical" in a vacuum, but nothing is as something as everything! Right?!

This vacuum I'm talking about, let's say it's in a glass tube. You can see through it right? Well there's your proof that the "nothing" inside is something.

Anyway, without wandering off on a crazy tangent, I was trying to say that dreams are, or appear to be - images, and images are made up of what? the same stuff as everything (and nothing) else, and so therefore they are as real as your normal every day physical reality.

And then you can move on to the next question, which is why do we only experience them when we are asleep? Or do we?

Does that make any sense?! Discuss!