Have you ever dreamed, and when you woke up...

...you couldn't tell the difference between the dreamworld and reality ?


"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."



NEO: What truth?

MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. That you, like everyone else, was born into bondage... ... kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind.

NEO: Why do my eyes hurt?

MORPHEUS: You've never used them before.

CYPHER: The real world. Ha, what a joke. You know what real is? I'll tell you what real is.
Real is just another four-letter word.



ORACLE: Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one. Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.

NEO: What's the good news?

ORACLE: Same as the bad news, you're not the one.


All quotes from The Matrix




"I have questions, Sandy, of course I do. Whole days pass and all I feel sure of are questions. What if (...) What if knowing had been enough? If I'd been able to hold her a bit more cautiously? The funny thing is, people don't want to hear about the future. They go to palm readers and fortune-tellers but in the end they only want to hear that they're doing well, that everything is going to be fine. They want to hear that their children will take over their world. No one wants to hear that the future is already determined. Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a big mystery."

Anthony Doerr, About Grace




There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

We are twelve billion light years from the edge
That's a guess
No-one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you
I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don't call me a liar
Just believe everything that I say

There are 6 billion people in the world
More or less
And it makes me feel quite small
But you're the one I love the most of all
We're high on the wire
With the world in our sight
And I'll never tire
Of the love that you give me every night

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die
And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you till I die

Katie Melua, Nine Million Bicycles


The great Zen master Chuang Tzu dreamt that he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he asked himself, "Am I a man who just dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?"