Are Dragons Real?

Are dragons real—and we are imaginary?

Maybe dragons are real in their own parallel universe. I like to think they dwell in imaginary time, what physicists call the higher dimension of time perpendicular to each moment.

Dragons are real entities that, because they exist in imaginary time, don’t see our reality easily. We can’t observe them, either—except with the mind’s eye. And though our worlds are very different, we meet at that point where both worlds are the same—the imagination. We imagine each other.

Mush’hushshu is the dragon of my most recent acquaintance. We met in a brisk dawn a couple years ago, and he immediately filled me with so much energy and intensified awareness I couldn’t help but wonder if he is more real than I.

Dragons and people usually don’t believe each other exist. So Mush’hushshu seethed with curiosity about me. Why do I spend so much time in the shadow of dragons? And why had he quested so strenuously for contact with fabled humankind?

The answer arrived between us simultaneously, called forth from the intersection of our beings: Both dragons and people are conscious. We exist in different realities, yet we have in common mindfulness.

Through mutual awareness that there is more to reality than we can see, dragons and people alike approach with light and curiosity, the dark, irrational and irresistible forces of existence, the secret states of our nature.