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Dreaming of the Tree

Submitted by Darlene Forde on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 7:19pm.

We presume the tree is not 'heard' by any organisms in the forest. The tree may not have "ears" as we envision. But they do is there response—a swaying of limbs in the breeze created not important or responsive. ifferent that (This of course presumes that the other tree's do not have mechanisms by which to interpret the falling of another tree. How can we distinguish the tree's response to another organism with known mechano receptors?

Finally, let me play devil's advocate. Can we understand some dreams as being reflections of those things which are not observed in the 'real world', but which occur and are interpreted in our sleep? That is, what if soe dreams are a mechanism for that which is unobserved/witnessed to be experienced by us while asleep.

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