is all that we see or seem, just a dream within a dream?

Question

I am not at all afraid of the arguments of the Academicians, who say, What if you are deceived? For if I am deceived, I am. For he who is not, cannot be deceived; and if I am deceived, by this same token I am. And since I am if I am deceived, how am I deceived in believing that I am? for it is certain that I am if I am deceived.
(City of God, XI:26).hmmmm........let me ponder

its interesting, that st alexander tackled the same ponderous questions, over a thousand years before Descartes......inspiration or divine intervention

Answer 1

Edgar Allan Poe! Nice! [The quote in the title]

I believe that all we see is just a dream and when we sleep we wake up, same with dying..

Answer 2

I love Edgar Allen Poe! I hope that what I see in my dreams is all just a dream. I dream such horrible things sometimes that I think I must be going crazy. I feel guilty and I wonder if the things I see are my own secret wishes of what I really want to happen.

Answer 3

or put another way so eloquently by the Moody Blues on the ''Threshold of a Dream'' album:

''First Man: I think, I think I am, I think.

Establishment: Of course you are my bright little star.
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
And now to suit our
Great computer
You're magnetic ink.

First Man: I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.

Inner Man: There you go, man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles
It riles them to believe
That you perceive
The web they weave
And keep on thinking free.''

Answer 4

quite quoteing ppl.. theres a posibility.. have u ever seen the matrix? i have always wondered if that was all true but noone will ever know for the simple fact. if it is all just a dream we will never wake up form it god is the only one who knows

Answer 5

why is thee to ask meer mortals when it is but the words of god?
or somethin like that

Answer 6

Just a nightmare.