It's proven that we have not the ability to seperate our dreams from our realites, Our dreams are thoughts concieved in the mind than appear real, very similar too thoughts concieved when we're awake, and believed to be actual events in reality. How do we know we truly exist?
2006-10-25 15:05:30 · 14 answers · asked by Marvin J 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think, therefore I am
2006-10-25 15:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's possible to prove a concept like existence. It means something different to each person. Maybe everyone is right, maybe no one is right, maybe both. Existance could be something completely out of our realm of understanding. For all we know, we don't exist. Maybe we are all part of an elaborate dream by someone, sometime, somewhere in the universe. Maybe even the whole universe is part of a dream of someone or somthing in some situation we can't even fathom. Maybe you will wake up tomorrow and be five years old again and your entire life from that point on was all a dream. My point is that no one really knows what existence is and how it relates to the grand scheme of the world.
2006-10-25 15:16:23 · answer #2 · answered by mechgirl67 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yours is a beautiful question. This has been asked and thought about for 5000 years.Out of the four stages of existence , waking, dream , deep sleep and another one called "Thuria" one can not be sure whether we are in dream or in waking stage.
This very thing is suggested for the Humans to get over the misery that they have. When you come out of a dream of , say, fear, you are happy and relieved that afterall it was a dream.So, the sages advocate why not think of all that is happening as just a dream? But, to most of us the dream seems a continous one , never ending , going form one to the other.
2006-10-25 15:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you're able to ask this question and to realize you're asking this question is a pretty good proof to begin with. And to be able to carry on conversations with others and for them to respond in a rational manner would be further proof, since dreams by their very nature are individualistic and not subject to group experience.
I'd like to suggest you pick up three books by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer in which he traces the evolution of Western thought to the end of the 20th century: THE GOD WHO IS THERE, ESCAPE FROM REASON and HE IS THERE AND HE IS NOT SILENT. The books touch upon some of the Eastern mysticism that has crept into Western thinking, and Schaeffer shows how we can know that there is an external world separate from our thoughts, and a spiritual world separate from our physical world.
2006-10-25 15:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this question is intense, then the doors open by itself !
After running about for a while, nothing seems to work, then choicelessly a person turns inwards, and the so-far-neglected 'self-awareness' gains strength. With perseverance, the level of perception deepens beyond the sensory levels, and then a person will experience it to 'know' !
2006-10-25 15:30:36 · answer #5 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can not prove it. We can not prove wind either unless we look at the effect of it in our daily lives. Cause and effect. That is all we have to go by..Which explains the belief or disbelieve in higher powers by the way.
2006-10-25 15:17:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logically you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of humans.
With real wisdom (beyond logic since it being too subtle for logic to grasp) you can prove beyond doubt that you exist.
2006-10-26 07:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is we don't know. That is something you have to decide for yourself. It falls on the basic philosophical question of "Who am I" Although their are many theory's out-there none of them can actually prove existence.
2006-10-25 15:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What can the human mind truly prove, which is here today and gone tomorrow?
2006-10-25 15:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-28 05:09:52 · answer #10 · answered by levatt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one's own existence....i think has nothing to do with the 'mind' which as you say is illusion....
concentrate the air you brethe in and out...that is real...focus on that....nothing can be so real than that....
and if you could reach that...grab that moment....extend the focus in everything you are in.....
it just can't be 'trick of mind'.....
2006-10-25 15:20:12 · answer #11 · answered by talking moon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋