Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream is a famous philosophical anecdote from Zhuangzi, a fundamental text in Chinese Taoism, attributed to the philosopher Zhuangzi, aka Zhuangzou, who lived around the 4th century BCE.

莊子的蝴蝶夢是《莊子》中一則著名的哲學軼事，《莊子》是中國道教的基本典籍，出自哲學家莊子（又名莊周，生活在公元前 4 世紀左右）之手。

The story goes as follows.

故事是這樣的

Zhuangzi dreamed he as a butterfly fluttering without care in the world, completely embodying its butterfly nature.

莊子夢見自己是一隻蝴蝶，無憂無慮地翩翩起舞，完全體現了蝴蝶的天性。

Upon awakening, he finds himself to be Zhuangzi again, and then struck by a puzzling thought.

一覺醒來，他發現自己又變成了莊子，於是產生了一個令人費解的想法。

Was he Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly, or is he now butterfly dreaming he is Zhuangzi?

是莊子夢見自己是蝴蝶，還是現在的蝴蝶夢到自己是莊子？

This narrative explores the nature of reality and the distinction, or like layer of between dream and reality.

這篇敘事探討了現實的本質，以及夢境與現實之間的區別或類似的層次。

It questions the solidity of our identity and the certainty of what we consider to be the real world, suggesting that the boundary of our identity are fluid, and that our sense of self might be a construct shaped by our perception, which can be as deceptive as dreams.

它質疑我們身份的穩固性和我們所認為的真實世界的確定性，暗示我們身份的邊界是不固定的，我們的自我意識可能是由我們的感知所塑造的，而我們的感知可能像夢境一樣具有欺騙性。