If life is but a dream, which I believe it is based on my own experiences, then the earth could have been created the second before I was born - not unlike the movie The Matrix - though apparently it took 7 days(6 plus one day of rest-Saturday, though the pope might say otherwise) according to the scriptures, which I can believe since it would be much easier to create a world devoid of life, but to create one with a history and life within it following all the physical rules would take some doing. If life is but a dream, it begs the question, what happens when I die? I can only read, contemplate, and prepare for the event to find my answer.

CSI: Why Save the Whales?
"They are the largest animals on earth. They include the biggest creature ever to have lived on our planet, the 100-foot long female blue whale. Their sheer size commands extreme respect. And whales and dolphins have large and complex brains. The sperm whale's brain is the largest of any ever to exist, weighing four or five times as much as our human brain and being at least as fissured and convoluted. The humpback whale creates the most complex, long-lasting, repetitive sound patterns of any non-human animal. Noted marine veterinarian Sam Ridgeway has reported findings that the bottlenose dolphin, by a variety of measurements (encephalization quotient, volume of cortex, ratio of brain weight to spinal cord weight, etc.) ranks just below humans and considerably above other higher primates, including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans."
http://csiwhalesalive.org/csiwhy.html

Greenpeace:
"Every second breath you take comes from the oceans. The oceans give life to our planet. In return we are suffocating them; dredging up too many fish, stealing food from needy mouths, carelessly killing countless creatures including whales, turtles, sea birds and thousand year old corals, we fill the oceans with pollution and warm them with climate change."
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition