Thought Experiment

[drumoflife]

phenomenalist philosopher goes to sleep
sees a dog in his dream
while dreaming, exclaims in his Esperanto dialect
"I seem to see what seems to me now to be a dog!

"Certainly, now one might say of me,
that I am perceiving a certain dog
directly in front of me!"
he wakes up with a start
and procedes to slap himself across the face.

nervously, he struggles to remember
just WHAT he had done to the dog
directly in front of him ---
certainly nothing uncouth, he hopes;
since as a contemporary philosopher, he surely
values modern conventions closest to his heart.

soon enough, he realizes
boldly dismisses this irrational fear
it DOESN'T matter at all
just what he had done to the dog
directly in front of him.
the dog DOES NOT EXIST ---
merely appeared in a dream.

let me know what you think of it..... HAAHA