If you can feel it, smell it, and taste it what makes it any different than a past experience you haven't really taken anything tangible away from? What makes a dream different than your lone trip to the eiffel tower without a camera?
2007-07-30 15:35:08 · 20 answers · asked by sophia100 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nothing different. One is a waking dream and one is a sleeping dream. This world is called Maya (illusion) and is temporary and full of misery. This world is a perverted reflection of the absolute world, which is eternal and there is no birth, death, old age or disease there. Even time here is illusion. Though we have been here for many, man births it is less than a blink of an eyes time in the eternal world which we came from. For the intelligent person they take up the process of self realization (Bhakti Yoga) and transcend this dream and return to the Supreme Unlimited world at the time of death. The process begins with the chanting of the Maha Mantra (the great mantra for deliverance from all suffering and illusion) Read Bhagavad Gita as it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, which tells the whole process of self realization and the purpose of human life and how to transcend. Ilove it.
2007-07-30 16:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dreams are the body's way to recharge its batteries. A way for it to unwind. Dreams are not meant to be understandable.
That is the way God intended it to be. The behavior of a person during his/her waking hours reflect the kind of dream you will have.I don't think most of us would like our dreams to become a reality. But yet again there were dream I've had in the past that I wish were real. The eiffel tower thing, that is a good example, I like that.
2007-07-30 23:39:33 · answer #2 · answered by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Events in reality follow rules; laws of physics, for instance.
Events in dreams have the freedom of the dreamers imagination. In them we can fly, dogs can have people heads, we can walk on water, we have super human strength, we change locations in an instant, etc.
But dreams can sometimes leave emotional scars which, at least for a short time, can be as real as the scars from real life.
2007-07-30 22:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is normally consistent, but dreams vary by night. And dreams are normally but for a short time, while reality is more constant. Also, all the events in reality are normally connected throughout your entire life, while many dreams seem to not be connected at all.
2007-07-30 22:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by Source 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
REALITY is existent. It doesn't dissolve even with our eyes closed or open. It's that bad, sad, joyous, exciting, peaceful, frightful, everything-there-is-to-describe-it truth...And it's REAL.
DREAMS are...just dreams. But they are more ingenious, more intriguing, more delightful, more incredible, everything-there-is-to-wish-for kind of thing...And they're NOT REAL.
And yet, somehow, we go through reality with our purses and pockets filled with them...like they're some sort of multi-vitamins to keep us going. They lift our wings much higher, and push us more to attaining what we aspire to have or be.
"It is only in dreams that man takes wings; At all other times, man is just a sluggish, earth-bound creature."
2007-07-30 23:30:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are two types of dreams...day dreaming...and asleep dreaming. I like the second one.
and lets say you are asleep...and you are dreaming...you bought a lotto....and you won it...guess how much...100million dolar..that is a lot of $$$$$$$. You are happy...you even started to make a 20 year plan...ooops....you wake up....there is no money...not even a penny by your side...that is just the beauty of dream. the same thing applies for the negative things you see in your dream ...when you wake up everything is where you left them before you went to sleep.
so ..reality is somewhat boring ....if something happens to you ...that is it. you cant wake up from reality. Unless reality is just a dream that we didnt know of yet.
2007-07-30 22:45:32 · answer #6 · answered by CuriousG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are real. In one, you are manipulating the physical world. In the other, you are manipulating an imaginary world. The fact that the one world is made up of thoughts rather than the physical does not make it less real. If thoughts are real then dreams are real.
2007-07-30 23:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Wait a Minute 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dreams are real and reality is fiction. Well... could be. A computer has to follow rules. A real human aught to have free will.
2007-07-30 23:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing in my opinion, reality is subjective. I've seen people who have gone from sanity to living in total delusion, it is totally what you make of it all with your brain and your perception. If you want to see the world as a happy place, you can! Sadly we are drawn to all the terrors in life by the mass media political machines ;)
2007-07-30 22:39:54 · answer #9 · answered by Jay82 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nothing. Imagine a person in a coma. Some of them dream. They will spend years building a life that exists only in their mind. It is real for them.
2007-07-30 22:38:03 · answer #10 · answered by Immortal Cordova 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋