My belief is prompted by a number of things. Principally, when we die we can't take anything with us, just like when we go to sleep and dream and awake, and no matter how good the dream is we can't take back anything from it, except memories. Or we are watching a very exciting TV show only to wake up to find that the show is long finished. I think that when we die, especially suddenly, it is just like that, one moment we are here, and the next moment we are on the other side. Only philosophical answers please, no flippancy.
2007-02-09 04:19:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anthony F 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe everything to be real. Even our dreams.
To that end though, I'd point out that I believe every dream I have in this life is a view into another version of my existence somewhere else in the universe. Sometimes a montage of various experiences of various lives out there, causing that crazy disjointed dream where seemingly random events take place. I like to think that in our sleep, we pull back from the window that is our experience here and peek through other windows that show other experiences our soul is going through elsewhere (yes, I'm saying time is not linear, and we exist here and everywhere else simultaneously).
So in a way, I agree, in the fact that your life is a dream from the perspective of another part of your soul, elsewhere in existence.
But... it doesn't change the significance of your actions within this life... dream or real, you still have control over the path you're on.
2007-02-09 04:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by John S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is just a dream, it sure is taking a long time to wake up. Sorry, but I don't share your belief. And since I know I dream, wouldn't that be kind of weird dreaming that you are dreaming. And what if you were having a dream while you are dreaming and this life is only a dream. Sounds a little too dreamy to me. Besides, I like life too much for it to be as worthless as a dream.
2007-02-09 05:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by London Hatchet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a sense yes I share this feeling. Greetings I'm a Buddhist and I'll explain if you'll permit me, I'll try to keep it to less than War and Peace...we Buddhists do have a sense of humour...
To Buddhists, all Life experience is temporary, fleeting and impermanent and therefore in a sense not real or at least not permanent. Everything is in a process of change and we sense the Universe with senses and a body also changing and ageing our experiences themselves are only fleeting and we rarely get a chance at experiencing any permanency at all.
Consider your circumstances and environment as a child and compare that to your present experiences and environment, also consider your attitudes and feelings as a child to your present ones...all changed. We experience a set of circumstances one day with mirth only to experience the same set of circumstances the next day with mild irritation, our work environment is an example in point.
We experience life exactly as you have described it...moment by moment like a movie projector in slow motion or a series of stills and we gather our impressions of these moments in the same manner and form our ideas and thoughts in similar manner. This is Life to Buddhists, a series of moments each different yet each the same. Our memory of each moment fleeting and inaccurate yet we form our ideas and feelings from them therefore inaccurately.
Yes its like a dream and we should therefore try to act positively in each of these moments before they are gone and we miss the opportunity to act correctly and for the good of others.
Peace from a Buddhist.
2007-02-09 06:00:30 · answer #3 · answered by Gaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could you be a an advanced intelligent computing device created by God to look and act like a human and even believe that you are human and were surreptitiously sent a programing message so you would post that question for my personal enjoyment?
2007-02-09 04:26:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sense you describe it may be LIKE a dream, but if it IS a dream, then there is no "other side" of this life because there is no "this life" to begin with.
2007-02-09 04:22:45 · answer #5 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a chemical reaction so technically yes it's a dream in a sense.
2007-02-09 04:22:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is a dream then what is real life and when will we actually be in it. You're theory holds no water. If this were a dream it would damn sure be a nightmare.
2007-02-09 04:22:16 · answer #7 · answered by truly_insightful 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God stops thinking of us even more a second, we cease to exist. That is why God "thought" of us into existance. I heard that we can't co-exist with God in heaven, but that we will all become "one" with God in heaven. Maybe our consciousness will be inter-wined with God's, like a spider-web. Maybe we are all a "dream" of God, and God is the only thing that is "real" and is the sustainer of all is creation.
2007-02-09 04:22:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry my friend. This is no dream. It is reality.
2007-02-09 04:22:25 · answer #9 · answered by garo g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be. But it really doesn't change anything if it is.
2007-02-09 04:21:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋