why do we think that the only way to see reality is to be conscious, what we see is out side of our body but what we dream about is within our minds, could it be 2 seperate realities and lives that we live, could it be that most people go through life only realizing one of them, we dont realize it when we are dreaming so is there a even higher realization that makes our conscious lives dream like, is our entire life just another dream, is what we see really more real than what we dream about?
2006-12-13 19:00:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Dreams are unreal?
2006-12-13 19:03:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dreams are unreal. There's no more to that. I mean, I dreamed that my grandmother died, but when I woke up she was still alive like she'd been the day before. Which one is real? The alive one of course. No, life isn't a dream. Dreams are just stuff the mind makes up. Right now I can think of a purple cow, but it doesn't really exist does it? No. It's just made up. Why do people always think they have to mean something...they don't. Life is just what it seems to be...and so is the world. They're what you're experiencing when you're awake with your eyes OPEN.
Also, if life was a dream or if what we dream about is real, then why don't people believe in mermaids, fairies, dragons, etc? I mean, dreams are real right? So then when I dreamed of a pixie it must mean it's real.......wrong.
2006-12-16 12:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by Alterna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes dreams unreal is the "language", if you will in which they are portrayed......
It is indeed perception, but it is also interpretation between the two conscious'........
While awake, we are aware of the life that we live and the things that we do by experience...... and so with experience, the conscious mind must turn all understanding it has gained over to the subconscious mind when it "goes"... into that place.....
We call it "sleep".... but it is actually something else... it is a mini-death, if you will....... where the body is not aware of the changes that occur around it, and ceases to be a part of society of the wakened world.......
and so the subconscious mind must interpret all that was given it so that it's awareness can say it too has and understanding of those experiences......
yet, the way the subconscious "interprets" that understand of experiences, is spiritual and symbolic...... It sees symbolically, speaks symbolically, and understands symbolically. so that when the conscious mind opens its awareness through the memory of what it is experienced from that "other life we live".....
it can only say, "I dreamt that I was in this house"..... and it be interpreted as "I dreamt that I had an internal issue with myself".... Key word: "IN" = internal
or.....
I dreamt that I was in this car..... and it be interpreted, "i dreamt that I was in motion" or "going somewhere"..... key word: "IN"....... car is movement.... going somewhere
Your sister,
Ginger,
((dream interpreter))
2006-12-14 03:51:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our dreams are telling us things that we keep in our unconscious, and that we cannot get to them, because when we wake up there is a barrier that appears and separate this two. You might remember some parts just after you wake up.
Our dreams are abstract because in that way they don´t frighten us, so they usually appear to be abstract. But when this dream don´t appear as abstract then we might have nightmares.
There is a comic book about that issue.
2006-12-14 04:41:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just don't happen to think that life 'around me' is real. As you understand, that would validate all these individual realities at the expense of my own. Thus I try to keep my distance, and examine what I accept as real. As for my dreams, as much as I want to believe, I have no reason to think that they have managed to influence significantly my personal material reality. (Meaning the dreamworld is only slightly washing off in the physical).
2006-12-14 03:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing that makes dreams unreal is the same thing that makes consciousness unreal: perception.
2006-12-14 03:12:05 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its just a definition. Real = what we do here and the interactions here. anything outside of that is unreal. But it still exists.
2006-12-14 03:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by Magus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fact that we are sleeping....makes it a dream.
2006-12-14 03:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by mjeanius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coherence/control to an extent
2006-12-14 03:06:01 · answer #9 · answered by AnthonyH 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this might be helpful
http://spirita.blogspot.com/
2006-12-14 13:11:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋