Is this real?

Question

What if life has no purpose, what if all the existence of life is not real, if it’s all just a dream, is all this real?

Answer 1

It's a fair point.

You have to make your own meaning.

Think of it like this - there are no solid guarantees. Therefore, the strength of existence lies in belief. Your reality is what you believe it is - dreams are as real to you as your waking life. When you die - will the world continue or was it only by dint of your awareness of it that it continued. Perhaps you created it all out of your imagination. That's how flimsy the concept of reality is.

Check out the links below to find out how past philosophers have dealt with this issue.

Answer 2

Ok you have to break things down and begin at the beginning. I like how classical philosophers approached things because they actually had some SENSE. See Aristotle and axioms. For example, what is existence? What is it to know? What is the mind? What is a dream and how do you define a dream? What is truth? What is being? etc. etc. You have to lay a foundation of things before you make this question possible or even plausible. Some obvious truths ascertained by asking the question "are we dreaming?" are: I am a being which exists, and have the capacity to know therefore I know my own existence. If it were not so, you couldn't ask the question. It is obvious that there is "something" out there which also exists or my thoughts and questions would have nothing to be about, etc. Once you begin to think this way, you will begin to realize your capacity for truth and good reasoning. Contemporary philosphy took quite a skeptic view and seperated mind and body while questioning everything that could be questioned. Is it POSSIBLE that we are dreaming? perhaps. Any REASON to think so? None that are provable or even very likely (that don't have just as good if not better counter-arguments). Many reasons NOT to think so? yes. This is a question you will have to decide for yourself, but can one truly act and think as if everything is a dream? certainly not. Otherwise one would be a vegetable. Inactive, thoughtless...one may as well not exist. It certainly seems as though we were meant to act and be IN a true, objective reality. We eat, we think, we react, all with a reality we perceive as objective. Consider this.

Answer 3

Hmm... but what if life does have a purpose, all existence of life is real, it's not just a dream, and all this, in fact, IS real? what would you spend your time talking about and living for? Maybe, just maybe, you should stop pondering the imponderables of life and even if this is a dream (or nightmare), maybe you should put forth the effort to stop worrying, start living, and make this dream the most beautiful one that you possibly can. Life and dreams contain oh so much heartache without us creating new problems. Just pretend that this is real life and start living it the way you would like to live.

Answer 4

I don't believe in destiny (I think we make our own as we go), and I don't think that you should necessarily look to one specific religion to find purpose in life because who's to say which one is right over all the others? Life is what you make it. Live well, try to do better than your ancestors, and to leave something behind for others to come.

But then again, I suppose it could all be in our heads, or somebody else's head for that matter since we have such a limited comprehention of the nature of our existance.

Is it a dream, or living through deception when 95% of reality is based on our perception?

Answer 5

Life has no purpose. You are not real. This is more like a nightmare than a dream. None of this is real, so wake up now.

Knock, knock...

Answer 6

Virtual reality? What is reality? Of course many people say life is real. But life could actually be a figment of our imagination, and our dreams are the "real" world. Just guessing.

Answer 7

It's real. Your personal attempt to grasp the TOTALITY of life is problematic, however, because the totality shows only constituent parts that are further mitigated by the limitations of language. One need only briefly look at the prohibitions involved in the use of the name of the Lord in Judaism, especially those related to the term-idea "aseity", to appreciate the difficulties of such an inquiry. We can start by noticing the similarity...

REAL: imaginary : : PRIMARY: derivative

Answer 8

If it's all a dream than it is only as real as the dreamer. And as far as purpose goes... Do you need one to live? Does a virus, plant, bird, cat need a purpose to live? It just lives because it is. Therefore the old philosophical phrase comes in to play by Rene Descrates "Cogito, ergo sum" which means...I think, therefore I am.

Enjoy the moment!

Answer 9

What we do while awake is how our perception responds to reality, but some reality is not picked up on the radar of our perception - and this will vary from sentient organism to sentient organism. What we dream while asleep is informed to a degree by how reality (in this case the environment and all - animate and inanimate - that is part of it) impacts on us.

Conscious beings can influence this reaction interface and it is cyclical. What we dream at night can influence how we impact on daytime reality and vice verse, etc and so on.

But perhaps there as many realities as there are minds to perceive them, Grasshopper.

Good wishes.

Answer 10

The way I look at it if that were to be true then I'm still here, I'm not going to wake up so I may as well make the most of it.

To answer your question though your certainly not dreaming. The rests up to you to decide. Make the right choices.