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Just Five More Minutes!
The snooze button of life
You are sound asleep, snuggled warmly under the covers enjoying a wonderfully delicious dream.
And then the alarm clock goes off!
What do you do? Do you immediately bolt out of bed, turn off the alarm clock and then proceed with your new day? (Probably forgetting all about your dream.)
Or do you reach over to your beside table and hit the snooze button on your alarm clock so that you can get five more minutes before you get up? Do you then go immediately back to sleep, trying to get back into that dream?
Or do you not use alarm clocks? Perhaps you prefer to wake up naturally whenever you happen to wake up. Perhaps you do not have an early morning job that you must be sure to get to on time. Perhaps you follow natural rhythms and prefer to wake up in a soft and gentle way free of alarm and free of any connection to the illusion of linear time.
It has been said that life is like a dream. Some say that our physical lives are not nearly as physical as we think they are. Some even suggest that our physical lives are nothing but a holographic image; that we are just an avatar in a video game being played by some God gamer. Is the real us the one in the video game or are we the one playing it? Is our life a dream that we are dreaming?
