Do you believe that we live another life in our dreams and it is probably more realistic than this one?

Question

I often have lucid dreams (some say it is astral) and for many years I have been watching how I, there, change, progress. I think I am not alone.

Answer 1

Lucid dreams give us the ability to control our own dreams and steer them toward the direction we want. In the lucid state, we are more willing to confront threats and as a result, become more self confident. When we achieve lucidity, we can use it as a tool to improve our sports game, to rehearse a speech, to fulfill our fantasies, or to solve a problem in our waking life. In fact, some athletes utilize their lucid dreams to practice their tennis serve, golf stroke or bat swing. Even in our day to day life, we can use lucid dreams to ask the boss for a raise, prepare for a first date, overcome phobias, get over writer's block, etc. The application of lucid dreams is limited only to your imagination. Lucid dreams can help us visualize and rehearse the event in our minds before it actually occurs.

Because brain activity during the dream state is the same as during a real life event, what you "learn" or "practice" in your lucid dream state can be seen as training and preparation for the real thing in the waking world. Our neuronal patterns are already being conditioned.

At least half of all adults have had at least one lucid dream in their lifetime. Many have reported having lucid dreams without even trying. Often flying is associated with lucid dreams. However with practice, lucid dreaming can be learned and can be achieved at your will.

Answer 2

That reminds me of this anime series i like called serial experiments lain. The girl had a completly different life from that of her waking life. As it turns out it was an astral projection of herself. Some times when i have lucid dreams i do feel like the environment i'm in at that time is real and i can see how things will progress also. For example if i'm at a night club in one dream, if i go back to that club in the next dream the people there recognized me, and the conversations are a continuation of the conversations that we had in the last dream. I don't know if these lives are real as well as the lives we live here...but it could help explain why some of us wake and feel as though we've not been to sleep at all.

Answer 3

Technically, the answer is yes and no. When people go to sleep, sometimes they'll be half awake as well. It's kind of like your self conscious. Or something like that. Have you ever had a dream where you're flying or something, and you fall, but right before you hit the ground, you wake up? Your mind might thinks that you're actually are, and sometimes, you are, and you might actually get hurt if you don't wake up before you get really hurt in the dream. Not all dreams where you're flying and fall are the subconscious or whatever ones, so only few are astral, and those are the ones that you make actual progress, but could also get actually hurt. It's like you make progress in your dreams.

Answer 4

I don't necessarily believe we live another life in our dreams, but our dreams help us put closure on the day's activity. Our mind is a wonderful tool for reminding us of what we need to do the next day. Dreams give us a bridge from today to tomorrow.

Answer 5

No pins in nostrils, please. LOL. At night, when we sleep, we often slip out of our body and visit with our spiritual friends. Then, at some point during the night we slip back into the body. Have you ever been asleep and then suddenly jerked awake? This is a "bad landing", or a "less subtle" return to the body. These visits often are remembered as dreams. This are not "another" life. This is as much a part of your life as anything you do while awake. We often remember these as dreams and, sometimes, we cannot understand or process what we saw, so our mind translates for us and the images take on different - sometimes odd - shapes and events seem unreal. This is all very natural. Very healthy. Not scary.

Answer 6

No, you do not live another life in your dreams. Dreams are the result of the subconscious mind taking over in your sleep. Whatever fantasies, desires, or disturbing thoughts you experience during your waking hours, are manifested in the form of a dream. However, dreams are very seldom realistic, although they may be vivid.

Answer 7

No...your mind is very powerful computer and can do calculations as well....Your mind has a way of telling you what is right and what is wrong in your life but it can only do it using visions or sights that you have already seen. Your dreams meanings are not what you truely see. You have to put thought and effort into determining what your dreams are.

Answer 8

Sherrin, Congrats on the wedding! Matt should be fine, the USS Nimitz is a aircraft carrier, the prize possesion of the Navy..that more than likely will be at sea the duration of the time he's over there, he's alot luckier than some soldiers that are infantry.. He'll be fine, and you can rest assured he's probably thinking about you and your wedding too.

Answer 9

wow, it's cool you brought this up, I wa sthinking about something...:
what if someone was in a coma for say 3 years and in that entire time they lived in their dreams, itwould become real life to them, and they would probably completely forget about the real world and adapt so well to the dream world that they wouldn't want to ever leave it...just a thought I had, so yes and no, I believe that in our dreams we are truly living and stuff, but i don't believe it's more real then the actual world, or perhaps the actual world is completely a dream, and our dream world is the real world...

Answer 10

According to Dreamcrowd:

To dream that you are dreaming, signifies your emotional state. You are excessively worried and fearful about a situation or circumstance that you are going through.
Try posting your dream on Dreamcrowd for a free interpretation.