念•眠•梦

平寂
六千万念
刹时中断、平息

就这样没了
空了
恍若从未有过

念起
思潮奔涌
万马飞驰
壮志、柔情、算计与纷扰
日月轮回
没有一刻停歇

念息
千思万绪
骤然归寂
像深谷，没有回响
像大海，没有一丝波澜
像关了电闸
一切在那一刻停住

无垠的宇宙间
一颗小小的星球
亿万生灵

念起而作
念息而眠

念起念息
每天每夜
就这样轮流

念息时
躯体没有意识

念起时
是躯体领回了意识
还是
意识回到了躯体

而梦
可以塑造
醒时没有的人和事
也有自己的逻辑与叙事

庄周梦蝶
是另一个现实
还是
本就不属于现实

注笔：

1 前日朋友圈转来一段视频，说睡眠是每天发生的奇迹，如同每天经历一次死亡，而我们却不作他想，只当作身体的正常修复过程。每日入睡之时，意识似乎消失，而躯体仍在；醒来之时，意识又回到躯体之中。意识是否是一种可离可附的潜在存在？而梦中的意识，是否自成一个世界？

2 “庄周梦蝶”讲的是庄子梦见自己化为蝴蝶。然而，究竟是庄子梦见自己是蝴蝶，还是蝴蝶梦见自己是庄子？哪一个是梦，哪一个才是现实？

c.h.e.f andy

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published on 17.4.2026

念•眠•梦 Thought • Sleep • Dream

Stillness
Sixty million thoughts
cut off in an instant, falling quiet

Just like that, gone
emptied
as if they had never been

Thoughts arise
the mind surges
like ten thousand horses racing
ambition, tenderness, scheming and unrest
day flows through night
not a moment of rest

Thoughts cease
a thousand threads of consciousness
suddenly fall silent
like a deep valley, without echo
like the ocean, without a single ripple
like the power switched off
everything stops in that instant

In the boundless universe
on one small planet
countless living beings

act when thoughts arise
sleep when thoughts cease

Thoughts arise, thoughts cease
day after day, night after night
in endless cycle

When thoughts cease
the body has no awareness

When thoughts arise
does the body retrieve awareness
or
does awareness return to the body

Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly
is it another reality
or
not part of reality at all

Notes:

1. Recently, I came across a video shared on social media discussing sleep as a daily miracle, like experiencing death once every day. Yet we take it for granted, treating it simply as the body’s normal process of restoration. Each time we fall asleep, consciousness seems to disappear while the body remains; when we wake, consciousness returns to the body again. Is consciousness a latent existence that can detach from and return to the body? And does consciousness in dreams form its own world?
2. “Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly” tells of Zhuangzi dreaming that he became a butterfly. But was it Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhuangzi? Which is the dream, and which is reality?