Or has my whole life been someone else's bizarre dream? If so, what happens when this person wakes up?
2006-08-10 12:41:55 · 23 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes you exist. In a dream? maybe. But what difference would there be between death and that person waking? You would continue to exist in that person's memory, and likewise in death you would continue to exist in the memory of the people who knew you in this world.
2006-08-10 12:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by kioruke 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep, your representation is on my screen. The question is representing something -- of what I'm not sure.
Can't answer if you are somebody's dream or not. As I have no real knowledge of your "whole life" -- which may or may not have terminated.
I have no knowledge of the said dreamer which was supposedly dreaming of you.
I suppose if you were in his / her dream, a real you MIGHT really exist somewhere somehow or you could be fictional.
Another possibility is that the dreamer you have mentioned is actually the "dreamee" or "imagined" in your mind.
2006-08-10 20:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you exist?
Descartes would answer that question by asking you a question: do you have the faculty of thinking? If you do, then you do exist. Existence to Descartes can be summed as: Cogito, ergo sum.
My take is that, existence is a matter of making a difference in life. If you made a difference, then your existence count.
Now, I turn the question back to you, whose life have you changed lately? Do you exist?
2006-08-15 17:46:43 · answer #3 · answered by naomi neiya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No man, you do actually exist: you are no body else's bizarre dream, as you put it. But I guess you already know about this.
2006-08-10 20:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by george 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont you exist ??
I Mean who is writing now this strange question ??
okay if you mean that you feel inside that you dont exist .. then you really need a doctor !
And it isnt a dream because if it was a dream that means you can go and come back .. and none of these who went ever came back
2006-08-16 15:57:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question shows thought. Descartes would say "You think, therefore you are."
Then again, I've always preferred Lewis Caroll's line from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" in which Alice remarks of the sleeping king, "He's dreaming us all into existence."
Time has gone on for quite some...time. Maybe we're the dream of dead man who is experiencing the ultimate sleep.
2006-08-10 19:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, that sounds like my fear/paranoia when I was younger when I thought that my life was actually some sociological experiment. I guess there is no real way to knowing if you're too "open minded." All I can say is that if this is someone's dream, and you, as part of their dream, have a dream, then this is one complex being.
Best of luck to you
2006-08-10 19:52:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Descartes would say you exist, but other philosophers, such as Bishop Berkley or Bertrand Russel, might disagree.
Maybe we're God's dream, and his awakening will be Judgment Day for us all.
2006-08-10 20:00:34 · answer #8 · answered by Ashleigh 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When u start asking this question,u 'll exist 100%,read Descartes philosophy!
2006-08-10 19:49:09 · answer #9 · answered by marie_2902 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always thought that same thing. The way I have it figured you die when they wake up. Best wishes
2006-08-10 21:58:53 · answer #10 · answered by colorist 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋