As for Al-Ghazali, his view of dreams is more complex than Augustine's; he sees dreams as the springboard towards escape from the physical restrictions of our senses: “How can you judge dreams to be false, when you affirm that everything in the conscious mind is true? How is this different than what is physically happening to our current state of being? his comparison with dreams in this statement is similar to Augustine's view because it is difficult to distinguish dreams from reality, however Al-Ghazali places more emphasis on his idea; for Al-Ghazali, dreaming is the concept of pure bliss, because it allows us to escape the burial of the bodily senses, allowing us to delve deeper into the state of our inner mind/soul [75]. He theorizes that when we die it is simply another form of awakening, the physical life we live now is a
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