Truth and Illusion BOOK NOW To say that phenomena are illusory is not to say that they do not exist; it simply means that they do not exist in the way that they appear. In a dream, things appear vividly to us, as if they existed from their own side, but when we wake we understand that they were simply projected by the mind. In the same way, when we are awake phenomena appear vividly to us, as if they existed from their own side, but in reality they are merely imputed by conception. When we finally realise [...]