There is a philosophical question: how do you determine if you are awake or in a dream?

At first glance, this question sounds like a question that only idealism can raise, because for materialism, this question is not a problem at all, and Marx's theory of existence, all forms of material existence, are mainly based on seeing: everything in a dream cannot be seen in reality, so from the point of view of materialism alone, dreams and non-dreams are actually very easy to distinguish.

But there is also a saying, everything that exists is reasonable.

Idealism naturally has its value and significance, so back to the original question, how do you determine if you are in a dream or awake? If what you're experiencing now is just a dream from a nap in your third year of high school, and when the bell rings, you'll be in a state of intense exam preparation, then how can you determine that your current consciousness is active?

In a way, illusions are equivalent to dreams, but they are not the same as dreams.

The human cortex contains criss-crossing nerve fibers, and the junction between nerve cells and nerve cells has excitability, and from these two points, it can be considered that the cerebral cortex is composed of several excitatory units or excitatory elements.

The connections between nerves have three characteristics: first, radial afferents; the second is the integrity of the intensity; The third is aggregation.

When the excitatory signal enters the part of such a network structure, as the processing feature of this part, as long as there is a signal input, there is a corresponding moderate signal output. When there are signal inputs related to several synapses, there are interrelated signal outputs. So it becomes an unrealistic fantasy or dream.

So how do you know if you're in a dream?

Some people may disdainfully say that "slapping yourself is fine", but think about it from another angle: you know that slapping yourself will hurt, so how can you be sure that when you are dreaming, you will not copy the action of nothingness, and perceive it virtually?

Buddhism emphasizes that meditation and lucid dreaming can promote each other.

If you have practiced meditation, it is easier for you to realize that you are dreaming in your dreams. Conversely, once you are able to lucid dreaming, it is easier for you to fall into meditation while meditating. This is because both meditation and lucid dreaming help to elevate one's spirituality.

The Diamond Sutra says: "All things are like dreams and bubbles." Su Dongpo wrote in the poem "Nian Nujiao Chibi Nostalgia": "Life is like a dream".

Dreams are indeed a great revelation. When you dream, if you dream that you are penniless and have no money to buy rice and vegetables, and you don't know that you are dreaming, you will feel very distressed. When you wake up and know it's a dream, will you still be distressed by these things?

Of course not.

In essence, the so-called "real life" is also a dream, except that people dream in their sleep for a few hours at most; And the dream of life can last for decades or even more than a hundred years, depending on the length of a person's life. When a person dies, he cannot take anything that he has in the world, just as he cannot bring anything in the dream after waking up from a dream.

So, after realizing that "life is like a dream", will it become negative?

I thought that after realizing that "life is like a dream", I would face life with a more positive attitude. Because I know that since everything in the world is like a floating cloud in the end, then I can calmly face all the gains and losses, honors and disgraces in the world.

If I'm going to do something, I don't get nervous about failure, I just think it's a game. At the same time, on a deeper level, I know that while everything in this world will eventually be destroyed (e.g., the Earth will also be destroyed in 5 billion years), there is one "thing" that will never be destroyed, and what is this "thing"?

This is what every enlightened person realizes (Zen Buddhism calls it "Buddha nature" or "self-nature").

In fact, in the vast majority of cases, when you are able to control your consciousness, you are not dreaming.

Ordinary people have lived for decades, and their dreams are always driven, and they rarely control their actions or thoughts in their dreams, and when they dream, it is like watching a movie. You're constantly watching what you're doing, and there's almost no way to control what you're doing, but when you're conscious, when you're motivated, it's different.

Dreams are like this, but illusions are different.

In "Inception", the means of distinguishing between reality and dreams is a dream totem, which is actually incorrect.

If you use the spinning top to determine whether it is in a dream or not, you are likely to come to the wrong conclusion.

The reason is that your brain knows how the spinning top works, so it's likely to transfer that knowledge to the dream, so the spinning top in the dream may or may not stop, and the same other items may not work. In other words, this is a very unreliable result, so it cannot be relied upon.

It seems to be stuck in a cycle of death, how can you determine that what you are in now must not be a dream? Even if there are many ways to help, how can you feel that you must have woken up and not in a dream within a dream, back to the first dream?

The current situation is very consistent with the situation of the four people.

"What did you just say? - 'Let go of my well girl'? When did the big girl become yours? ”

Wogua teased Li Luant heartlessly, Li Luant's face was flushed, and he quietly peeked at Jing Qiongshuang, but Jing Qiongshuang and the black glasses had solemn faces, obviously because of the seriousness of the problem, and they didn't have the heart to make trouble here.

On the contrary, it is Li Green Ant-

He was a little happy and a little disappointed in his heart, but he didn't know what he was thanking for and what he was missing?

Black Glasses looked at Li Green Ant cautiously, "What is your opinion?" ”

In this case, Li Luant's attitude is comparable to anyone's attitude.

After the personal experiments of Li Luant, Jing Qiongshuang, and Wogua, they have fully determined that in the illusion, they can exert their subjective initiative and consciously adjust themselves, which is almost equivalent to reality, but they see a different situation.

"The occurrence of this situation must be regular, not random."

Li Luant looked at the sarcophagus on the altar: every time something went wrong, it was inseparable from this sarcophagus, saying that this sarcophagus did not play a role in it, and even the dog did not believe it. Moreover, it seems that every time the illusion occurs, it is a butterfly effect that occurs after seeing the contents of the sarcophagus?

What is there in that sarcophagus that requires this person to set up countless illusion protections, so that any pretender can fall into the quagmire of countless illusions and cannot extricate himself?

The first time I saw it, it was a woman with a beautiful national color, and the second time I saw it, it was a white-flowered snake tongue grass that can produce hallucinations-

However, because it turned out later that even when they saw these two things, everyone was in a fantasy world, so the woman and the white-flowered snake tongue grass they saw were not necessarily completely real, and it was very likely that what was really placed inside was something else.

The dark glasses narrowed his eyes slightly, and he thought of a possibility here: there was an order above, Li Reform left a message in the disappeared Loulan Ancient Kingdom, and this message can directly tell the receiver the location of the "thing" that can change the fate of the country, that is to say, the value of this message itself is the object that needs to be guarded.

Before, the black glasses had been curious: why did this information go to great lengths to hide in this deserted and uninhabited ancient country of Loulan, where no one could even set foot?

If you really want people to know, why not just leave a written form such as notes and leave it directly to the direct descendants such as Li Luant and Jin Yuan Bao for safekeeping?

But if you don't want people to know, why was the commander-in-chief able to dig out that message in a few words of history, and it must have been hidden in some form under this building?

The commander-in-chief overrode the public opinion, let himself lead the team, and organized this trip to Loulan, the fundamental purpose is to get that message, and now that he is in the center of the vortex, how can he be willing to return in vain?

What's even more puzzling is that after more than 20 years, this message is only known to be a sentence, but there are many forms of communication in a sentence. Or are there some hints left behind, and it will take many twists and turns to find the final answer?

Or—

The dark glasses pursed her lips and said nothing, but her eyes burned at the sarcophagus-

Or, the key information that can reverse the fate of a country is hidden in the sarcophagus in front of him, and the mysteries of the altar itself are used by Li Reform, and in the end only the people who have cracked the mysteries of this place can approach it?

This speculation is actually not unreasonable, because according to the commander-in-chief's speculation: Li Reform seems to have an absolute confidence in the people around him, and this confidence will also be transferred to his children and grandchildren in disguise?

Would he have expected that after more than 20 years, the Snow Leopard Commando would find his descendants and would need their cooperation, and if Li Gengai had been a supernumerary member of the Snow Leopard Commando, he would definitely do everything possible to make this mystery that he had been exploring for decades known only to his descendants in the most secret way, and others could not guess it?

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the secret intelligence special search team - the Snow Leopard Commando Team did not develop to such a huge momentum at the beginning, and the reason why the country did not hesitate to expand funds and resources later has a little-known reason: at that time, the high-level of the Snow Leopard Commando was infiltrated too much by "them", so they had to expand the team, and Li Reform was directly recommended to the Snow Leopard Commando by Jiang Yunsu more than 20 years after the establishment of the Snow Leopard Commando -

It only took a few years for Li Gengai to grasp the clues of "that thing" that the organization had not found for almost a century, and proved with evidence that it did indeed exist.

In the decades that followed, he tried countless methods, and finally it really found the place of this "thing", and made bold attempts, and really changed a small history in some way.

Don't underestimate this seemingly "tiny" history, this "tiny" contains countless possibilities.

This may not be anything else, speaking of which, if the black glasses did not guess wrong, this "possibility" that has been reversed is what Li Luant has already seen, 701403 (Y3) Long March 2, successfully launched.

At that time, the 701403 (Y3) project no matter how much effort the designer spent, how much manpower and material resources were invested, but it still failed again and again, the fundamental reason is not that our technology and resources are not better than other countries, many things in history, its success, need a more special moment.

Like a butterfly in the Amazon rainforest in South America, an occasional flap of its wings can cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later. A powerful, effective, and highly destructive tornado doesn't just come out of nowhere, and it takes many small moments, one after the other, or at the same time, to create a deadly storm in a row.

When the whole country was frowning and unhappy about the failure of 701403 (Y3), Li Gengai made use of "that thing" and made a "very small attempt", but this time it seemed to be a "very small attempt", and 701403 (Y3) project, it succeeded.

Engineers, ingenuity, labor, and artifacts.

Until then, the big problems that good designers and engineers could not solve have been changed by such a "small turn".

The old writer Ke Ling once made such a comment in the article "Sending Zhang Ailing Remotely" written in the 80s-

"The Chinese New Literature Movement has always been linked to political waves, and cause and effect are inseparable. The Literary Revolution of the May Fourth Era - Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Feudal; Revolutionary Literature of the 30s – Class Struggle; During the Anti-Japanese War - the same hatred of the enemy, anti-Japanese salvation, of course, is the mainstream. In addition, it is regarded as outrageous, sideways, which is not tolerated by orthodoxy and cannot arouse the reader's idea, which is a good tradition that is not without flaws, and the advantage is that it is closely related to the fate of the motherland, and it follows with the times; The disadvantage is that it has greatly reduced the literary territory...... I counted with my fingers, in the huge literary world, there is no Zhang Ailing at any stage. ”

It was the fall of Shanghai that provided Zhang Ailing with a stage to show her talents.

"It's hard to say whether it's fortunate or unfortunate."

Whether it is "Death is like jealousy, it should be severe, and life is not at the right time", "Wuchang Prison Book Sense", or "Although the husband has a talent, he is born at the wrong time", "The Road is Difficult......

These talents from the past and present, the most often sighed, are probably full of complaints about "the time is not right".

In fact, these four words, at first glance, seem to be the indignation of the incompetent, but is it right?

When playing billiards, the ball doesn't go into the hole, but your mind drifts away first, and in order to save face, you will naturally say "the pole is too old, the hole is too small, the case is too high, and the state is not good." ”

In fact, if we say this, "born at the wrong time" is indirectly equal to "timing" here.

"Life" is the excuse of the weak, and "luck" is the excuse of the strong.

Doing one thing, your failure, boiled down to "fate", that is no matter what, can not be changed, because the limitations and talents of the starting point are clearly almost desperate here.

If we sublimate the future, the "life" here contains a kind of "class limitation" that people are born with.

In modern history, there is a famous peasant uprising, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in which the peasants led the defeat of the war because the class was not the representative of the new productive forces and relations of production, and they could not overcome the class limitations inherent in the small producers.

The term "class limitations" is worth pondering.

The implication of "class limitations" is why did you fail to do this?

It is because you have this "class limitation" that the fundamental meaning is that the fundamental reason for your failure is that you are you.

You are you, the root cause of your failure in doing this, in other words, even if there is a second, third, and fourth reason...... If you don't exist, you won't succeed, because you are you, and you are the root cause of your failure, which is called "class limitations".

The lethality of these five words is comparable to the weapon of doomsday, and it is also the highest level of scolding, ordinary people often insult their opponents, but "class limitations" scold people to the bone. You are you, is the root cause of your failure to do this, don't talk about anything else, even if other influencing factors do not exist, you still will not succeed, as long as you are still you one day, you will never have any hope of success!

Countless parents hope that their children will not lose at the starting line, but the more they struggle, the more they find that even if their children are truly satisfied at the starting line, they still lose.

Some people may be debating here that "God rewards hard work", and what you say is all false-

But if it is "God rewards hard work", what is the reward of the earth? What is humanity?

In fact, the "loss" here is no longer caused by insufficient effort, but by class limitations, that is, "class limitations" that people often cannot get rid of, but vainly try to get rid of.

If a person is in this life, he is accompanied by heroes, and he lives under the shadow of heroes. Then from the day he joined, like everyone who was on the front line, he became a loser bound by class limitations.

If you consider the infinite complexity of nature, perhaps success is really too accidental, and failure is the norm.