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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi.
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Didn't the narrator here say it was Zhaungzi not the butterfly who went to sleep and dreamt? Wasn't it stated that it was Zhaungzi who had awoke suddenly and not the butterfly?
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But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi.
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Now the narrator injects some drivel to lead the reader to think there is some hidden mystery of the universe to be solved. No mystery here, not if you read the first three sentences which positively I.D. the dreamer as Zhaungzi and not the butterfly.
Next time let Zhaungzi speak for himself.