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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8vVPDZVAY By Adil Rasheed  * The unseen hides behind the patently obvious The more drenched a dream the more real it appears (Hai ghaib-e-ghaib jisko samajhte hain hum shuhood Hai khwaab mein hunooz jo jaage hain khwab mein)   This mind-bending couplet of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib tells us about the consciousness of dreams. It states how the most powerful dreams are those that we experience as if in full wakefulness. But wait a minute, is it then possible that our wakeful consciousness is itself a big dream and are we actually all in a deep sleep or state of ‘forgetfulness’ as Wordsworth put it, unaware of our true eternal existence somewhere else. You may say these are disturbing questions, spurious speculations that should never be discussed, but today for just a little while let us pursue this line of thought and see where it takes us. A few years back a major Hollywood blackbuster, directed by one of the greatest directo...