齐物论 第十四章
Zhuangzi
庄子
Once, Zhou had a dream that he became a butterfly - an unfettered butterfly that really could fly, and he felt so much joy and freedom! He had forgotten that he was Zhou. When he jolted awake in a daze, he remembered who he was. But he became uncertain whether Zhou had a dream about being a butterfly or a butterfly had a dream about being Zhou. Zhou and the butterfly are definitely not one and the same. So, which is the real one?
This is how things transform.
昔者庄周梦为胡蝶,栩栩然胡蝶也,自喻适志与!不知周也。俄然觉,则蘧蘧然周也。不知周之梦为胡蝶与,胡蝶之梦为周与?周与胡蝶,则必有分矣。此之谓物化。