"Someone who dreaming says "I am dreaming," even if he speaks audibly in doing so, is no more right than if he said in his dream "it is raining," while it was in fact raining. Even if his dream were actually connected with the noise of the rain." --Ludwig Wittgenstein (his last philosophical thought) This was a very eye opening and very interesting topic for me. Wittgenstein wrote this down a day before he passed away. I wanted to know more about why he felt this way so I researched Wittgenstein online to configure what state of mind he was in when coming up with this thought, and I was able to understand that because it was written a day before he died, that just maybe he was coming to realization that he was going to be taken away from this world.
I looked up this whole quotation from him and read the whole thing. It made me ponder if he really felt that he was dreaming, and would wake up when he died.He passed away from prostate cancer, and I believe that he accepted what was brought upon him way before his life here on earth ended. He probably wondered if life really was just a long dream, or did he want to believe that his life was just a dream as a way of accepting his fate? Wittgenstein probably was not in full awareness at the time he wrote this quotation down, or was he? and we just don't want to believe that this life we all live is really just a long played out dream? Sometimes our brain can play tricks on us...who knows the difference from fact and fiction?
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