On The Nature of Dreams and Reality
I had a bit of an epiphany; this may sound weird indeed.
On the nature of dreams, who is to say they're not real? Okay, so we have no tangible "evidence" that we carry over from the dream experience back with us into waking consciousness except for the memory of the dream experience-- but conversely, we have no "evidence" of the experience of waking consciousness that we take with us into the dream experience.
For example, you can't intentionally take your cell phone with you from waking consciousness into a dream and expect it to be there in the dream experience (but this doesn't mean that your cell phone doesn't exist in the waking world, also, this doesn't mean that waking consciousness as we know it does not exist), any more than you can take the Cadillac you had with you from the dream experience and expect it to be there during your waking experience.
Consciousness is a real thing they say, it just takes on different forms/modes during sleep. The implication being that dreams are just another face of reality (so they say). If that's the case, then in the past week I've made a trip back to visit Maine, hung out with Gemma, Nero, Jax, and Tig (from Sons of Anarchy) and got to meet and receive advice from the Dalai Lama. These dream-experiences feel very tangible to me upon awakening.
I've heard many people say that maybe reality is a waking dream and that maybe it's in our dreams when we're truly awake.
But anyway, that thought occurred to me, and yes, maybe I've been reading a bit too much lately. :)
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On the nature of dreams, who is to say they're not real? Okay, so we have no tangible "evidence" that we carry over from the dream experience back with us into waking consciousness except for the memory of the dream experience-- but conversely, we have no "evidence" of the experience of waking consciousness that we take with us into the dream experience.
For example, you can't intentionally take your cell phone with you from waking consciousness into a dream and expect it to be there in the dream experience (but this doesn't mean that your cell phone doesn't exist in the waking world, also, this doesn't mean that waking consciousness as we know it does not exist), any more than you can take the Cadillac you had with you from the dream experience and expect it to be there during your waking experience.
Consciousness is a real thing they say, it just takes on different forms/modes during sleep. The implication being that dreams are just another face of reality (so they say). If that's the case, then in the past week I've made a trip back to visit Maine, hung out with Gemma, Nero, Jax, and Tig (from Sons of Anarchy) and got to meet and receive advice from the Dalai Lama. These dream-experiences feel very tangible to me upon awakening.
I've heard many people say that maybe reality is a waking dream and that maybe it's in our dreams when we're truly awake.
But anyway, that thought occurred to me, and yes, maybe I've been reading a bit too much lately. :)
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