Has anyone ever wondered?

Question

That what if when we are sleeping/dreaming that is reality and then when we are awake that we are really dreaming?
I know its weird and confusing but it was just a thought.

Answer 1

gurl i love you..how i wish it culd happen it wuld mean i wuld get to be with her on a moutain top with a gentle breeze blowing watching the moon .............gawd wont it be lovely?

Answer 2

Sounds like you must be in philosphy class. If not look up Descartes. He is a philospher who questions our existence. He gives an example of dreaming, "in a dream, one's senses perceive stimuli that seem real, but do not actually exist. Thus, one cannot rely on the data of the senses as necessarily true."

Basically how do we really know if our senses in the "awake" world are true. Our senses in our dreams seem to be real, so therefore which is the real reality? Is it that when we our "awake" we are actually dreaming and making sense out of "reality" (what we call the the dream world.")

Yes it so confusing and to base our reality and our existence on our senses (touch, feel, hear, smell, pain etc) seems to be quite silly because we have those senses in our dreams and our senses could be false.

If you haven't seen it already watch the matrix it goes along with the idea of what is really real.

Answer 3

Do you want to switch the definitions? Then it would not matter.

Do you want your life to be more interesting, and your dreams to be less so? This would depend on how much you sleep vs how much you are awake.
Or, would the times stay the same?
With time in mind It may make the slackers have to do something other than sleep. Likewise, all of the people who only sleep four hours per night would become bums.

If the time switched as well, then all of society would be fu
Day would become night.
Oh, sh!t.

Answer 4

Dr.S.Radhakrishnan,President of India who was also a great philosopher has in his book Indian Philosophy as raised this question while dealing with the nature of the phenomenal world. He has hypothecated as case where a man dreams the same dream every night for many years. If that happens it would indeed be very difficult to what is the real world--the draem world or the world in the awakened state. From there he proceeds to propound the Indian theory of the Unreality of the phenomenal world (Jaganmithya)

Answer 5

Hehe you are far from the first person to ask this question:

"Zhuangzhou's Dream of a Butterfly" is a Daoist anecdote, an allusion found in the chapter "On the Equality of All Things1 " in The Book of Master Zhuang2 . According to this book, Zhuangzi dreamed of changing into a butterfly and fluttering about and even forgetting that he was Zhuang Zhou; but when he woke up, he felt he was Zhuang Zhou again. Then he wondered which was true, Zhuang Zhou dreaming of changing into a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of changing into Zhuang Zhou? In the view of Daoist philosophers and Daoist believers, it is in fact unnecessary to distinguish artificially between Zhuang Zhou and the butterfly, because if the mind is in a state of undifferentiated integration of things and self, the great Dao remains in one's heart.

Answer 6

Yes, I've wondered, and it's actually a debate among some people.
What is existence? We can see, think, feel, hear...but we can also do so in our dreams, right?
I think you would like this book: Star Signs by Linda Goodman, as she talks about many interesting and strange things about life, the past, now, and tomorrow, and even some of the things Nasa are doing, whick proves she isn't talking nonesense.
I think you would be really interested in this book, since your mind is opening.

Answer 7

that would be cool my dreams are far more interesting than reality.

Answer 8

yes that would be nice in the day, but dreams would get wierd

Answer 9

I think you've been watching the Matrix too much.

Answer 10

i believe wat u say is right , all the time we think as reality is actually a dream ,,,how else can v justify so many things... for eg....