Expert: Stuart Resnick - 1/4/2007

Question
1.Why do people sometimes says "Life is nothing but a dream"?Why is our life like a dream? What is the meaning?

2.In what way is life like a dream? Why would a person feel that life
is like a dream? How many dream do we have? When will dream end? When will we awake? and whose dream is this?

3.Why do people always say "life is like a dream" when their close relative pass away or have encounter major change in their life?

4.Are "life is like a dream" and "life is like a drama" have similar concept? In what ways are they similar?

Please give examples if possible.I understand "life is like a game" and "Life is like drama", but I just cannot understand "Life is like a dream".I thought this question should be very simple.At first I thought It mean life ended very quickly and nothing is forever, but I think it shouldn't be so simple.  

Answer
"Life is like a dream" means that everything is changing, changing, changing, nonstop. So don't hold anything, just wake up to what you're doing right now.

Just as you don't attach to the names and forms of this world, also don't attach to different kinds of thinking, like "life is real" or "life is a dream."