Zhuangzi - Butterfly dream - Person who was butterfly in his dream

Posted over 9 years ago , by Praveen Kumar S

This may seem weird, but it is very much possible. You can dream as someone else or some other species too.

There was a chineese philosopher called Zhuangzi, who was butter in his dream.

Translation of his writings:
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.

Zhuangzi or Chuang Chou's picture:

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