...that you are not living a dream and what you dream at night is not actually your real life and you have just briefly woken up?
2007-10-12 00:32:14 · 19 answers · asked by Elly 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Hope you can understand that :)
2007-10-12 00:32:35 · update #1
Great answers - though I hadn't meant for people to take it so seriously.
And just for the record I haven't seen the matrix and I don't need medication or pshchological help :)
2007-10-12 00:48:10 · update #2
Answer: You don't KNOW, you only believe that you 'know,' and even then, it could be that their medications (or whatever) are working well ....and you therefore have no proof anyway.
Having experienced Illusion, Delusions and Optical Illusions for a steady 3 week stint as a patient in an ITU, I think I am in a position to know the difference now (although, 'I could be wrong' and that the medications [or whatever] are working really well now......!).
Mind you, some of the questions I've seen here ....they do have me wondering as to my whereabouts...! and as to whether I've been visited by that nice travel agent lady in the beautiful white coat with that 'Scope thing' around her neck again!
Sash.
2007-10-12 01:47:39 · answer #1 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have to say its an interesting question that I ask myself from time to time as well.
All I know is that we probably will never have the answer, even though most people will say that the "day" life is real and the "dream" life is what it says it is... a dream.
Come to think of it.... If the "day" life is supposed to be a dream, then how come so many people experience the same things, hear the same news, see the same shows? That wouldn't be possible if it were all a dream, would it?
2007-10-12 00:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by sposhi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Waking life has substantial differences to dream life.
In waking life, if you look at something and then look away and then look back again it will still be there. E.g. look at the screen, look away, look back and the screen will still be there. In a dream it will usually have changed into something else.
In a dream, it is difficult to change light levels. E.g. if you press a light switch the room won't light up.
Also if you try reading something it won't mean much, usually.
But that all said maybe there is a substantial similarity in that both are projections of our mind? Maybe waking life isn't "out there" just like sleeping dreams aren't "out there"? Maybe it is just a type of dream that doesn't change as much, and which has working light switches?
2007-10-12 08:57:20 · answer #3 · answered by some_pixels_on_a_screen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that because in dreams most senses dont funtion and you cannot really feel life in the environment around. Though some dreams look very real but you'll know its a dream when there seems to be something missing
2007-10-12 00:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Shola 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because even when you are asleep and dreaming some part of your brain knows instinctively that that is the dream and awakening is the real world. Have you ever had a bad dream and tried to wake up to get away from it? Probably, most people have. Have you ever been in real life and tried to wake up to get away from it? No, because your brain knows you are awake.
2007-10-12 00:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by barbsleeps 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a secret to share.
Some times, when I´m dreaming and I KNOW it is a dream, I take advantage of this knowledge and do things in normal wake state I wouldn´t do. And I enjoy every minute of it.
In reality you can´t do it without someone abusing you.
2007-10-12 01:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-06 13:23:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple.Just pinch yourself (as you have just woken up) and if it pains then you know it's the test of real time life.
2007-10-12 04:45:37 · answer #8 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don`t but I do get medication to stop that sort of thing. I think your spirit leaves your body during sleep anyway. your question is a simple description of psychosis.
2007-10-12 00:36:10 · answer #9 · answered by finn mchuil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing changes. I'd still call them dreams and I'd still call this reality. What would change is the meaning of the words, but that's it.
2007-10-12 01:16:38 · answer #10 · answered by Locust Eater 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋