Are dreams as much as reality as when we are awake?

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

That goes back to a question asked a long time ago... How do we know what is and what is not real? Is it our brains that perceive reality? But personally I think there is more than 1 reality. Dreams allow you to experience a different reality. If our life is a dream, what happens when we wake up?

Answer 3

Yes, I could answer the freudian way (like answer 2), but we are in the Philosophy section, right?

-If dreams are as much as reality as when we are awake, then this means two things:
-> Either our dreams are as real and tangible as our everyday life (I think you'd disagree about this, by experience).
-> Or our reality is just as a dream as our dreams (suspense...)

-If dreams are NOT as much as reality as when we are awake, then this means that what we dream is not "entirely" real, while they <> resemble reality in some way, and that dreams are subordinated to a bigger set: reality.

If you think we are not living in a dream (a dream in which we dream), then the only answer is that dreams are part of the reality, and that they may resemble it (but I can't affirm this from my personal experience).

Answer 4

wow...deep question...i would say what do you beleive? I beleive that dreams are in categories: like trash dreams or "cow in a kitchen dream" = your subconcious dumping the files unnecassarry to what you need anymore...then there are fear driven/ resolution dreams...the former being obvious in its description the latter being a problem you had, something you hadnt resolved in your own mind and the dream showed you that you have or you will...then there are premonition dreams...these i think are what you may be asking about...i do beleive in them because of the countless ones ive had...if you dream it in detail and it happens just like the dream then it was something you knew(in your subconcious) would happen just as it did..if it doesnt happen just like the dream but feels like de ja vou...or it paralells reality later, thats premonition....pay attention...write your dreams down as soon as you wake up so you dont lose any details, keep a log, then look it over now and then & youll learn to identify the differences & the symbolism...sometimes we put pictures of what we know on what we cant yet understand...learn how to conciously dream (there are many books on this) and youll figure out how to tap into that ...everyone can do it...if they try to or not...some have to try harder than others...your mind is a POWERFUL tool..what you beleive...really beleive is so in your world...you will make it happen without knowing you have if you beleive itwill...dreams are feelings colored like pictures...and sometimes a dream can seem so real its like youve visited another place and time or a paralel world...

Answer 5

This is quite a debatable topic, but I believe that the answer is yes, dreams are a reality. Simply because they differ drastically from our everyday perceptions is no reason for it not to be real, for 'real' can be interpreted many different ways.
When you enter a dream, most of the time it is a way of giving yourself knowledge of things your not rationally conscious of. However, dreams often use symbology. For instance, a dog in a dream could be interpreted a friendship to someone. The symbology varies from person to person too. For another person a dog could represent fear, if the person has a deep-seated fear of dogs in their everyday reality. This goes on and on, but there is no one symbol for everyone.
But back to the question, are dreams as much as reality as when we are awake. Yes, they are. When you are in a dream it is much like "Astral Projection". For those of you who are not familiar with this term, Astral Projection is when a person exits their body, but remains conscious and awake, but nonphysical. It is exactly the same as sleeping, your body is fine and asleep. But instead of being in a dream, you remain in your physical reality in a nonphysical body. This body differs from your regular body, to a ball of energy, to no body at all, simply a feeling of being there.
Now when you go to sleep, dreams are much the same. You are in a body, in a different reality, interacting with sometimes different things. This reality is constructed differently, but it very real indeed. You can move in it, feel, see, hear, smell, and do everything else you can do in everyday reality. But what throws people off is that we can do much more. We can fly, disappear, or change. Things will transform before our eyes. It is then very easy to shrug that off as unreal, simply because in our society these things are considered impossible, therefore, by that happening in the dream, the dream cannot be real.
But when we're in a dream, we always see it as real. We know we're there. We know we can feel and hear things. We are aware. How is that not a reality, if we can do everything we do in our everyday lives?
After all, we are living in a dream now. All of us. As you read this text, you yourself are reading it in a very complex construct, created by our own consciousness. You could call it a dream, or you could call it real.
Or you could call it both.
Either way it makes it no less, and no more.

Answer 6

Yes. For we always exist within the Moment of Now. That is why , when we remember things from the past long ago, the memory is like remembering a dream. We are no longer there, in those moments. As time goes by, we are constantly existing Only within the moment of Now. So when we go to "sleep", the physical body rests, while our individual self, exists in what ever moment of Now, that our minds choose to see. For we are Always Seeing. We are the watchers of the universe, just as the universe watches us.
Seeing is experience, and experience is sight.

Answer 7

I personally have to say that if I have a Dream and get woken up in the morning with it, it generally comes true, it has happened many times.

Dreams do drive your lives, like dreaming of a big house, dreaming of being successful etc drives you to that point in life that you actually make the effort to fulfill that dream.

Answer 8

OK lets go.
dreams are not as random as one would think or just as random as one would think.
dreams are two minds thinking as one with as it appears know one seeing the difference.
your asleep and some one thinks of you in an intimate way[ you two read the same book and discussed it together recently or heads up competitors for something that meant something to both of you. you would have to connect mentally like when you know the person in the car next to you is looking at you.]
imaging what it is to read through your own thoughts they are not linear but can be anything you can think of.
Strong connections mean your asleep mind was part of it so you will remember.

Answer 9

nope. that's why its called dreams..

but you can make it a reality if you want it so much and pursue it..--if possble, but hey,

--its good to dream regularly accrdng to psychology.. cuz ur brain works and active..

=) you know i got ur point here, sometimes its like when i go to new places, its like iv been there before, and tell myself, this thing occured, or happpend already, then later on, il realize that ive been there in my dreams..

actually, i really do believe that there are really reasons for dreams, just like Joseph in the Bible, he could interpret dreams..

last night, i dreamt of playing soccer with a team, and i was the one who made the goal (ball to the net), then yesterday, i just got my new job..

=).. im not a prof, or expert, but i just want to share my experience with you..

hope somehow, we could help each other figure it out..

=)

Answer 10

Who is to say that dreams are in fact the reality, and what we percieve as reality is really dreams?

Answer 11

I even have deemed this question genuinely ineffective via fact that there is not any thank you to tell, and it is not considerable while you're dreaming or wide awake. you're experiencing this subjective "actuality", and you quite have the phantasm of loose decision. I say phantasm via fact loose decision is yet another factor which could't be shown or disproven.