This is a tricky notion to get your head around but bare with me...?

Question

.... imagine everynight, when you sleep, your spirit is taken out of your body and switched with someone else in the world who happens to be asleep. Once your spirit is in that new persons body you absorb their memories, feelings, weaknesses etc. And when you wake up the next day, you believe you were doing whatever that body was doing yesterday because your spirit has absorbed that persons memories. How bizarre is that? You could be a 5 year old english boy with out a care in the world one day, to an indian housewife being abused by her husband the next day....

Ok this is assuming the following:
PHYSICAL BODY: The flesh
THE SOUL: Mind, emotions, memories
THE SPIRIT: Innder most core of being, intuition

Answer 1

It would be great fun BARING with you..... sorry couldn't restrain myself from that dig! We men are always looking for an opportunity like that.

Now the serious stuff.... indeed, your originally imaginative question does make the head whirl!!

I think it would be disastrous for my personality if my everyday experience was to be substituted by that of someone else, that too of different persons each day. As it is, in spite of all the continuity and connectivity in our own experiences, life is so inconsistent that we invariably end up a mixed personality, so much so that we ourselves are not quite aware of all our traits and often fail to predict our own likely reactions and reflexes to different situations..... we many a times manage to surprise our own self.

Now, if we were to accumulate such diverse experience each day that not only have no connection or semblance but also, in all probability, have divergence to the extent of being conflicting and contradicting, then I suppose we would just be deprived of any benefit whatsoever of a cumulating experience...... and each single day would become a stand alone rather than a next day to the previous day or the previous day to the next.

I believe, we would in that case just not develop into any wholesome personality at all and would remain a scattered and shattered person...... as though there were bits and pieces of us that could never fit into any pattern or entity in totality. I just can't venture to imagine any further as to what would life be like, how would people interact with each other etc. etc. etc. ...... perhaps a perfect living picture of CHAOS.... my understanding of the absurd and chaos has improved by this imaginatively creative question... thank you!!

Answer 2

Intriguing idea, but what you describe as "spirit" I would assume to include the "memories," "ideas," and "feelings" that you describe as remaining with the body.

I mean, if there is such a thing as "spirit," what is it if not the part of oneself that is OTHER than the physical self? If not memories, thoughts and feelings, then what is there?

So if this spiritual musical chairs were occurring, you'd wake up with a new body in a new life, but with your memories and thoughts--everything that is spiritually YOU--still the same as you always were.

Answer 3

i once dreamed i was naomi campbell,and for a few seconds after i woke up,i still thought i was naomi campbell.i always wondered if,that night,she dreamed she was me!!!!! i also worried about this when i was 4 and had my tonsils out.i was worried that i would somehow wake up after the operation and find out my life as me was really just a dream,and that i was really some other little girl.i remember crying,because if i woke up as someone else,i knew i would miss my mommy.it was hard to explain to my parents why i was upset,i couldnt get the concept across,but the fear haunted me.(i had the tonsils out,and im still me,happy to say!)

Answer 4

Scientist have long wondered if "memory" is encoded in our DNA strands...
We're born with a brain that is pre-wired to learn a language very rapidly...
I don't remember being two years old, but my parents assure me I was talking in full sentences...

Perhaps, every now and then, encoded memories of past people down the genetic line of our family tree, manifest themselves in our dreams, and waking intuition...
We seem to be born with a totally clean slate...but maybe it's not totally clean...
We might have "whispers" of past memories in our DNA...

Cool, huh....?!?

Answer 5

if it were possible to enter a parallel geographical reality in sleep, what would stop you from timetraveling just as easily?

when you fall asleep you could inherit the mind set of a mede from the fourth century before christ, or a dacian peasant before the territory was annexed to rome.

except none of us ever dream about anything truly exotic: we never learn anything in a dream we didn't already know before we fell asleep.

when was the last time you woke up to find you remembered the welsh you spoke in your dreamworld?

Answer 6

I dont know what the question was but I like the way you think. Very creative and out of the box. I never thought of that before, sounds interesting. Why dont you write a fiction novel on it? I'd love to read it!

Answer 7

You are all of these people. You and I are one. Separation is an idea you were forced to believe. There is nothing in the universe known as a separate entity. The dream is that you are separate.

Answer 8

I'd hope to hop into some interesting bodies/lives, like a one-legged Lithuanian hooker.

:-)

Answer 9

For that to be true there would have to be a 'spirit' (whatever that is).

There is no evidence of any 'spirit'.

So why would I believe that?

Answer 10

hmm, have you been watching the matrix. Are we really here at all or is this life a virtal reality