Do you believe that life is just a dream?

No, but sometimes I feel that what happens in our sleep has it's own reality/effect on our waking lives.

For instance sometimes just a few minutes of sleep can feel better than a few hours.

Or sometimes people will see something in their dreams before they see it while they're awake.

I have this theory every day when I get home, I keep believing it even though I know that I never actually fainted during class.

It could be.

Something I've always thought about.

When you dream, the scientific cause is the release of a chemical called DMT from the Pineal Gland to the brain. When you die, the same action is preformed, leaving you with relatively 7 minutes of dream state.

What's to say this life isn't the dream state from your death in your last life?

If that's the case there's something deathly wrong with my subconsciousness

I've always, had this theory, since I was a young child, that college is a waste of time

...sometimes I think that I'm dead or in a coma and whatever this "life" is is just my eternal punishment for not being super religious but also not being a thief murderer or rapist either.

...like purgatory.

No

Sometimes I think I'm the only one in reality.

If Life was a dream I would be rich and own several islands.

At 4/8/15 07:27 AM, ConverseMass wrote: NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY

OPEN YOUR EYES
LOOK UP TO THE SKIES AND SEE

Okay, here's a perspective for you.

What if Earth is some weird alien hell and we got sent here because of horrible deeds we did in our past lives.

Or maybe the Hindu have it right and we're just on some spiritual journey that's just a part of our dharma/path to enlightenment.

It must be. The fact that people are taking feminism seriously is very convincing argument if you ask me. Do you really believe that in the real world you could find any person, that would come up with today's feminism and actualy support it?

I think you're asking if we believe in a sort of Solipsism?

I've always toyed with that idea, in my own line of reasoning, it could possibly make sense that everyone lives in their own reality.

At 4/8/15 12:14 PM, Amaranthus wrote: The man in your icon and signature looks really really gay.

Nah, man. He cool, doe!

All that we see and seem are but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe.

I don't think life is a dream, but I also don't believe that this reality is everything that is.

What if I told you life wasn't a dream, but in actuality, it is reality?

At 4/8/15 03:10 PM, disdainfulpanda wrote: life is like a nightmare

I was gonna say that, but I caught myself! I knew someone else was going to say the exact same thing.

YAY!!! So I can go murder the shit out of people who I hate so much! Ugh, seriously, if I ever believe in that I will do this for real. But seriously if life is a dream then do dreams become reality? If that is the case then this is just word salad because nothing really changed at all! We just swap two words with each other and that's all!

Sometimes I believe that life is a dream. Wish I can wake up from that horrible mess and start all over again. *sighs*

At 4/8/15 07:03 AM, RandyRandom wrote: Do you believe that life is just a dream?

Well dreams are a subset of life as a whole, so if life is just a dream, then our dreams are dreams within dreams, and that implies that the waking reality beyond the dream life is is kind of on shaky grounds, because we no longer have any precedent in our experience for a reality that is not a dream, in other words. There is no valid meaning of the word dream other than the context of the downward vector in a stack of nested realities. But our dreams in this life do not contain dreams containing dreams etc., at every level being of the same experiential texture of believable actual and stand-alone reality. So i think that very asymmetry of juxtaposed strata of phenomena at least suggests that life is not just a dream. But clearly life has the qualities of dream in many ways, and as buddha says in the diamond sutra, 'as stars, or a fault of vision, as a lamp, a shadowplay, dewdrops or bubbles, as a dream, a lightning flash or clouds, so should one view all phenomena that arise from conditions...'

All is a flame without a candle.

Or as the zen masters have it,

'The wild geese do not inend to cast their reflection,
The water has no mind to recieve their image.' :)