Pardon the cliché but have you ever had a dream where you had knowledge of things, people, places and events only to awaken to find that none of it had any basis in reality? You didn’t know what you thought you did because it didn’t fit in the realm of reality, the people weren’t real nor did they even come close to anybody that you knew, and the events didn’t even echo faintly anything that you’ve seen or done. You awaken back to you and nothing more.
I once had a dream several years ago where I lived an entire life from the early 1910’s until the late 1980’s and died horribly. I awoke from it crying because of how sad the end was, but after I managed to regain my composure I began to think that maybe that is also what life is like. You awaken to yourself when you die; this world is just a figment of your imagination. I mean nobody can actually prove they exist, maybe we don’t.
Have you ever had something like this happen to you before? What did you think of it?
2006-06-27 07:44:17 · 13 answers · asked by Daedalus 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i had a dream like that and it totaly freaked me out i thought that my life was what I'd dreamed and i was only three when i dreamed up my whole life. this is a good subject but i sound stupid.
2006-06-27 07:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by Paige 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've always wondered about that. I quite often have dreams that are completely absurd and yet at the moment I'm dreaming them, they seem totally realistic which makes me think whether or not the people in my dreams are really living, feeling and going through life just as I am. I wonder whether I'm not just someone's dream ( if it's true, then I feel sorry for that person because he's having a very boring dream that he probably won't remember anyway), maybe even someone's absurd dream. Sometimes I even think that maybe I'm a game someone is playing. The worst ( or maybe best) thing is that I'll never find out.
2006-06-27 08:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never had a dream like that. However, I once had friend purpose and interested idea to me. We all know the Creation story w/ Adam and Eve. Somewhere (sorry not very familiar w/ the bible) in that story is a story about Adam falling asleep under a tree and dreaming. Wouldn't it be interesting if the world as we know it is just Adam's Dream? I dunno...I suppose anything is possible.
2006-06-27 08:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by la_diablita_1999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. I dream a lot that the people around me die and I got their funerals and stuff. Sometimes they are about my parents or older relitives and i 'dream' like 20 years into the future before they die. They are so realistic sometimes I really believe they happened and it gets me thinking about if this life is just a dream and If I would wake up to my real self, who that person could be.
2006-06-27 07:59:24 · answer #4 · answered by Norah 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had dreams that were like clips from a life not the whole life, but yeah sometimes I wonder if I am just gonna wake up and find out it was all a crazy wierd dream.
P.S. have you ever read any of Sylvia Browns books?
2006-06-27 07:52:38 · answer #5 · answered by grizzliesgurl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. Consider Descarte's "Brain in a Vat" analogy- because we are able to consider that our lives are a dream, they must not be a dream. Looking back, this theory seems a bit self-referential, but remember: when you realize you're dreaming, you wake up (or, in the case of lucid dreams, gain control of the dream). Perhaps you yourself are part of someone else's dream? Your very consciousness only a fragment of theirs, the thing you perceive as yourself merely an illusion.
2006-06-27 08:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Payday 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly that is a previous existence dream. did you comprehend in the experience that your mom, relative, or kin chum had a baby that died an early lack of existence? possibly, you reincarnated back into your similar kin and those desires are what you're remembering out of your previous existence. Meditation can help to unlock extra previous existence memories, good success :)
2016-11-29 20:13:16 · answer #7 · answered by eberline 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If so, then whose dream is it? Am I real or just apart of your dream? Or is it my dream? Are you just some thought created by some brain in a mystical heaven where I lay asleep? What is real if life is dream? It appears to me that all is real? I can see myself. But am I the only one? Or are we all dreaming, asleep in some transcendental land where are thoughts are running together, creating a world where reality exists?
I say life is not a dream... unless you make it so.
2006-06-29 06:31:45 · answer #8 · answered by Just Wondering 777 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've watched the matrix far too many times!! and i dont think life is a dream but i believe dreams do have a lot of significance to an individual
2006-06-27 07:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by Miss Terious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible in the eyes of some Hindu philosophers, Bishop Berkeley, and Mary Baker Eddy.
2006-06-27 08:02:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must first understand life is not a dream and secondly accept the fact that you are just a figment of my imagination
2006-06-27 08:05:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋