Is life just one long dream?

Answer 1

I have thought about that many times, and I came to the conclusion that if it is, what can we do about it? The only thing to do is try to live out our life the best we can, just in case it isn't a dream.

Answer 2

Ahh the arguement from dreaming, put forward by descartes. This is a very sceptical arguement and one which can't be answered. Our senses are so easily tricked.. for example, a straight stick in water appears bent. If we didnt know the science behind this, we would think it became bent. A coin at a certain angle becomes oval. These examples show how the senses are faliable and because we recieve information about the world through our senses we will never know if it is all a dream or not. Our sense data may always be the products of dreaming rather than genuine waking experiance. When we think of dreams we usually think of abstract ideas, things which wouldn't really happen in "reality". However it cannot be proved or disproved whether we are dreaming or not. I'd like to think it isnt all one big dream! :)

Answer 3

why do you ask? Do you study Hume or Descartes? It seems to me that these questions in which we seek to establish reality and truth must be answered by something outside ourselves; something that can speak objectively into our lives and tell us what is true and what is not. I believe that ultimately, when we ask if all this is real or just a dream, we are ultimately asking what life really is anyway. What is our purpose? Is there a purpose? I beleive that this again leads us to the question were we created for a purpose or did our existance begin without any sort of purpose in mind and therefore we live for whatever we decide. It is at this point that you can see that we have come to the place where we might say we decide yet our deciding never comes to the place of certainty because it is we who have decided. Again, we need an ultimate truth outside ourselves Whose existance gives us meaning and purpose and a lense through which to interprete life. Some might say its a dream. Others might say its whatever you want it. Still others might say that to escape the cycle of existance is better than to live in the suffering of this world. God presents something very much different in the person of Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Maybe...it's sorta creepy to think everything that has ever happened to us has just been a dream and someday we'll wake up and have to live our life all over again. For some I guess life can be kind of dreamy if you just cruise though without any excitment or reason to really live, but for most people life is too full of emotion to ignore, not to mention think it's a dream.

Answer 5

Please WAKE ME UP, LOL! It could be. I don't know what the significance of this would be. Would we eventually wake up? And to what?

Dreams are hard to control, and life seems hard to control, too. Is it collective dreaming? Are we all having the same dream? Or is the information in other people's dreams different from what we have perceived?

I'm giving more questions, not answers - sorry!

Answer 6

actually you should add something: life is a long dream, where some goals are reached and some are and will always be part of the dream.......

Answer 7

My little brother had the same question as you yesterday. And my answer was a slap on his face. You know, it worked. It woke him up immediately then he went to do his homework.

Answer 8

Maybe. I think of it as a period in which we are aware of primarily two things: ourselves, and time. We came from before both and we will go there again when we ''die''.

Answer 9

life is real; no dream.

Answer 10

Yes, for me a nightmare.... in my dungeons.