when a person is having a night mare and is screaming inside his/her dream, scared, and very frightening. while the people on the outside just think he is just peacefully sleeping. the person who is living this night mare is the only one who sees it, is the only one who is living this night mare, and his family just think he is having a nice sleep.
don't you see any parallels to this and after life?
2007-08-24 19:28:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
AEN
2007-08-24 19:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by Grendel's Father 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people just can't see through the questions, eh?
" his family just think he is having a nice sleep". Just to answer to one of the posters above. When you sleep and others are awake, they will see you as sleeping peacefully and quietly, unless you make a sound. But, if you don't and you are having a nightmare and you're the only one who can feel and see it, then there is a parallel there.
Anyways, the fact that people go under near-death experiences, should be the proof people need to convert.
2007-08-25 02:39:06 · answer #2 · answered by gettingtoknow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. What you've suggested is simply an instance of argument by analogy in support of flawed logic. Dreaming is a cognitive process which, put simply, ceases upon death. If you want to use this kind of analogy, it would have to be closer to the deep, dreamless sleep we experience and then awaken from, having no memory of the moments of that sleep. Death is simply the absence of all cognitive activity and what we call 'life' so it is best defined by the idea of the absence of everything, especially any kind of consciousness as suggested in your analogy.
I do have to contest the suggestion that the Koran - 'glorious' or otherwise - is any form of logical evidence for an after life, Punter.
2007-08-25 02:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by chris m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So you are equating REM sleep with life after death?
There would be one huge difference to note. In REM sleep your brain, more importantly, your subconscious mind is active and responsible for those dreams. When you are dead so is your brain.
If however, you are saying that belief in a life after death is like the fear induced, fantasy world of nightmares then you may have a point.
Either way, dreams are not real and neither is the idea of any kind of life after death.
2007-08-25 03:20:17 · answer #4 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
firstly , nightmares , dreams and other similar stuff is scientifically proven to happen , and can be explained psychologically too.
you feel NO pain in dream.
secondly , dreams is closely related to your real life , if you are running away from a problems or something in your real life , it is reflected in your dream as running away from monsters or stuff.
if you watch too much horror movie , you get nightmares too.
this somehow shows the fact ' you reap what you sow ' because what you do in real life , will affect your dreams to a certain degree.
for some religion , does it appear so ? no , no matter how you try to convince me , some JUST DOESNT . yah you can say i am blinded and yada yada yada .
2007-08-25 02:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I would certainly think the only person having the nightmare would be the one who is sleeping. Good thing Freddy Kruger isn't in it.
No parallels here.
2007-08-25 02:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"The dead know nothing" &
"Better a live dog than a dead lion"
Those who sleep in death will awaken again at the resurection, without concept of the time they where dead. "in the twinkling of an eye" is a very short time indeed, no time for dreams.
"it is for man to live but once, then comes judgement"
Keep dreaming.
Yahushua Shalom
Stephen
2007-08-25 02:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope, because I can assure you that the person whose having that nightmare is not still. I bet they're moving making facial expressions or whatever. Thus, no I don't equate them. Plus, when you're dreaming you have brain activity, but when you're dead you don't.
2007-08-25 02:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first the guy that anwered you can't dream when your dead,how do you know?have been dead???There's already a scienific explanation for that,it's also the same with,sleep walking,they can walk and do things in order,even though they are asleep,it 's all in our subconscious mind,am not a science ex pert,but why do you think word's intuition and de javu are made?......oops i think i think its should fall with the quesrion category,lol
2007-08-25 02:40:33 · answer #9 · answered by binx b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing you left me to think about is your stupidity.What is an oxymoron.Dead means dead.Do you know what the word dead means Dead means gone and longer existing.Dead is dead dead dead Does a dead thing ---I give up. You are just so idiotic and I wont waste more time with idiots.
2007-08-25 02:46:49 · answer #10 · answered by john z 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not so much. For those of you who do believe in life after death, think about this.
Imagine eternity--after awhile you will have learned everything, right? So you'd have perpetual boredom. Those of you who have been married for 20 or more years might get the idea of what I'm trying to get across--You know when your wife tells a story you heard three hundred times before, and is telling it like it's something new? You knew it was coming, and you know it'll come again. It's like a miniature hell. That's what eternity will be like, constantly. I for one choose permanent death.
2007-08-25 02:32:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋