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Question: Have you ever asked yourself!?
"Am I dreaming" yet you know that you are awake!. How do we know that all of this is real and not a dream!? Dreams can be as real as what we recognize as reality!.
I dreamed of me being hit by a bus and I felt that the pain like as if it was real!. Have you ever thought that we are just in somebody else's dream!?
Here's a quote from a philosopher (forgot his name):
I dreamed that I was a butterfly but how do I know that I am not a butterfly that started dreaming that I am human!?
There is a reason why this is in Philosophy!. Thoughts!? No ridiculous answers please!. I think this would be understood more by people who have experienced Lucid Dreaming!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
If Buddha is right and we are living in an illusion, what makes Buddha NOT an illusion!? Whether the rules are real or a game, we still have to play!. Lucid dreaming and visualization are all well and good, but if their OBJECT is an illusion then they are parlor tricks, nothing more!.
I believe that changing myself (also an illusion) to suit circumstances is better magic than changing circumstances to met my "delusion of self!."
The butterfly dream was Chuang Tse, a chinese scholar!. He said "I woke up and didn't know if I was mandarin dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a mandarin!."Www@QuestionHome@Com
Confucius I believe was the one who said this!.
It is my belief or thoughts that we are all dreaming the experience that we are in!. That we are dreaming in such a way that we even create the world about us to fit into that dream!. Though we are a single dreamer dreaming a dream that is created though our own thoughts, the thoughts that we think and project are also picked up by other dreamers and as a whole we then become caught in a dream of the collective whole!. If only a few of us would awaken to the reality of our existence, then the whole would too, and that which we dream as sun, stars, earth, rain, man, etc, would cease to be, and a new reality would take its place!.
Deep isn't it!. We just don't want to awaken, but we will, and when we do, we will find what it is we were looking for on this plain of existence and move on to another!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I've thought about this a lot!. I recommend you watch the movie Waking Life!. It can really open your mind up to dreams and reality but I'd say, the bottom line is, no one really knows anything for certain!. We could all possibly be butterflies!. Lucid dreaming may be about self-control along with imagination!. There are so many questions to pinpoint and analyze!. It's difficult!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
yea i think about it a lot!.
It would be so scary 2 just wake up one day and find out that my whole life was all a dream!.
Like i dk it could acualy be true but like im thinking this and sum1 else is thinging it 2 so like if we were in a dream whould we all be in eachothers dreams with our own thoughts!? Maybe im dreaming everyone else had thoughts!.
grrrrrrrrr this is so cunfusingWww@QuestionHome@Com
Yes, I have many times!. Today was my last day before school ended!. Tomorrow is my graduation so we had practice today!. I've been waiting for this day since the beginning of the year and yet, here i am now, not wanting it to end!. That is when i asked "Am I dreaming!?"Www@QuestionHome@Com
honestly, i do not understand why so many people waste the time we have on things like this!.!.!. you will never get the answer & even if you did -- what would you have accomplished!?!?!?!? NOTHING!.
i do not believe philosophy JUST for philosophy sake is useful in any way!.!.!. philosophy is meant to guide ACTION!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
If he was a butterfly, he wouldn't be aware enough to think about any of this!.
I don't really wonder about this!. I think it's pretty real!. I dunno what kind of reality it is, but it seems more real than dreams to me!.!.!. or at least related!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
The philosopher quoted is Chuang Tzu!.
There is a thin line between Dream and Reality, and sometimes the line is so faint that we aren't sure which side we're on!. Maybe the two sides are binary, like Ying and Yang!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
there is a philosophy that claims dreams are reality and reality are dreams!.
interesting to think about!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I have thought that before!. I frequently can't remember if events and scenes in my head are past dreams or memories from life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com