Life as dream like worldly fleeting movie: Mystic Rumi's perspective and inspired poems
- Lalit Kishore
- Jul 28
- 1 min read

According to Google AI Overview, mystic Rumi often described worldly life as a dream, suggesting that our perception of reality is often illusory and that true awakening comes with the understanding of impermanence and the interconnectedness of all things. "Rumi's poetry suggests that our daily lives, with their joys and sorrows, are like a dream, an illusion we cling to," it adds. Rumi further holds that awakening is not about escaping pain but rather transcending it by understanding that attachment to the fleeting nature of the world is the source of suffering
In modern times, worldly life is equated with a movie show as a fleeting waking dream referring to perceived experiences that occur while we sub-consciously awake and watching life events.
Here are two inspired limericks
The world is a movie so grand,
With scenes shifting quick, close at hand.
We laugh, then we weep,
While secrets we keep,
'Til the credits roll up on the sand.
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In a world that's a fleeting show,
Don’t get caught in its ebb and flow.
Life’s but a dream,
So let laughter gleam,
Be a watcher, not swept in the flow.
Here is an inspired quatrain
The world, a screen, a fleeting movie show,
We often get caught in its ebb and flow.
Where light and shadow dance in constant play.
We watch the stories bloom, and watch them go,
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