Benighted

That's why I like having Bob around. He says things like that.
"It's exactly that simple," I reply, not for the first time. "Waking up from the dreamstate is a very straightforward business. It doesn't take decades. It doesn't look like tranquility or like a calm, peaceful mind. It doesn't look like saving others or saving the world or even saving yourself. It doesn't look like a thriving marketplace where merit is determined by popular appeal or commercial success. Waking up looks like a massive mental and emotional breakdown because that's exactly what it is, the granddaddy of all breakdowns. That's the only way it works. I know there are thousands of books out there that say otherwise, and I can tell you that they were all written by Maya. Once you understand what Maya really is, once you see her for yourself, that becomes perfectly obvious. You'd see it like you see th