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Question: How do you know for sure that you are not in a dream!?
I mean how to distinct your being between being in reality and a dream!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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how do you find out you were dreaming in the night!? by waking up, right!? before you took the dream as real, you never questioned it, and even if it would be absolutely strange and absurd!.
so, waking up!.!.!. wake up from the dream called "my life as a separate entity"!.!.!.!. how!? you cannot awaken from the dream by analyzing the dream!.!.!. find out who the dreamer is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To be dreaming I would need to be asleep or at least semi-conscious!. Currently I am fully conscious and, therefore, not dreaming!. Unless, of course, you view human life as a dreamlike state!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We're in Maya which is a kind of dream!.
But we're not dreaming it!. We're dreaming in it!. It is a kind of cosmic dream!. Reality is not what we think it is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

because I haven't woken up!.
because this is the concrete, harsh reality
because I can feel pain and regrets that won't go away with time as they really happened
because I can feel, laugh, love and interact with othersWww@QuestionHome@Com

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream!.!.!.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream!.!.!.

We're all dreaming, aren't we!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Pinch your face, if it hurts, your in reality!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Oh, I am fairly certain I am dreaming!.
If you look at anything close enough it will reveal itself!.
Blessings!Www@QuestionHome@Com

life is a dream in which you choose the outcome!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If this was a dream my life would be better!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We can't, don't our night dreams seem real when we are in them !?Www@QuestionHome@Com

pinch yourself very hard and you will know the difference!.Www@QuestionHome@Com