One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and, upon waking, was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man.

'The poet Hoha once dreamed he was a butterfly, and then he awoke and said, "Am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming he is a man?"'

"What if," she said, "you're a butterfly dreaming you're a human dreaming you're a butterfly dreaming you're a human?"

Chuang-tzu's wonderful saying that's frequently referred to, "I dreamed I was a butterfly dreaming I was a man."

Randy becoming a happy butterfly in the dream has reference to Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi philosophy of The butterfly dream where he argues if he had dreamt he was a happy butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi.

Take Lao-Tse's celebrated question: 'If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man?'

The old quibble - is the philosopher dreaming he's a butterfly, or the butterfly dreaming he's a philosopher?

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher.

Was I a Chinese philosopher dreaming that I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that I was a Chinese philosopher?

Now, did Chou dream that he was a butterfly or was the butterfly now dreaming that he was Chou?