Dream World Is Not the World

What is he? He was an almost blank thing that had never existed before, born in a place no one knew about. What is he? He seemed like a vast expanse of white. He closed his eyes and slowly groped around, with dense "people" surrounding him. He was so eager to know what he was that he turned himself over to see what kind of heart and lungs he had. Whether he was a human or an animal, a ghost or an immortal, he would not know until his death.