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circastes
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Who here thinks that life is literally a dream?
#22102024 - 08/17/15 09:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Any takers? What's your evidence?
My evidence -
1. Eyes change in the mirror according to imagination, suggesting one is dreaming.
2. Weather and quality of world I'm in is depended upon state of mind.
3. Brain and body heal at will and are getting younger.
Seems the best explanation to suit the facts here is - this is 'some kind of dream'.
I feel a bit euphoric now, perhaps its the peace of mind from getting out of this nihilism I've been experiencing lately.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22102032 - 08/17/15 09:42 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
circastes said: Any takers? What's your evidence?
My evidence -
1. Eyes change in the mirror according to imagination, suggesting one is dreaming.
2. Weather and quality of world I'm in is depended upon state of mind.
3. Brain and body heal at will and are getting younger.
Seems the best explanation to suit the facts here is - this is 'some kind of dream'.
I feel a bit euphoric now, perhaps its the peace of mind from getting out of this nihilism I've been experiencing lately.

I would agree to this. Its as if I've lived this life already, have already made all of the choices presented to me, and am just fucking 'watching a movie'. When I was a little kid (around age 7) I always felt like this was just a dream. I would be sitting their on my bed just chill in, thinking about this shit.
Whatever this is, its all a big fucking game, it is interesting for sure. I can't believe I was a kid at some point in my history.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MajickMuffin]
#22102102 - 08/17/15 10:07 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm not sure how what your saying are facts? Can you post a video showing your eyes change in the mirror?? How about you post a video every morning when your wake up before knowing the weather and tell us how you feel then look out the window for us everyday for a month. Then cut your toe off and let's see you heal and get younger at your will...
I can see how our world and perception may just be a dream but I don't see how any of this nonsense is fact??
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: dpomalia]
#22102117 - 08/17/15 10:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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He never said any of this nonsense is fact
EDIT: okay maybe he did
Edited by MajickMuffin (08/17/15 10:10 AM)
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes] 2
#22103103 - 08/17/15 03:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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First time I took dmt, which was incredible, I blacked out and my earliest thought upon regaining consciousness was, "this is all a dream."
Im not sure what this is, but I'm sure it's not nearly as important as it sometimes feels.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: cez]
#22103140 - 08/17/15 03:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Im not sure what this is, but I'm sure it's not nearly as important as it sometimes feels.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: cez]
#22103239 - 08/17/15 03:36 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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cez said: Im not sure what this is, but I'm sure it's not nearly as important as it sometimes feels.
I would go so far as to quote Bierce:
"Nothing matters."
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22109173 - 08/18/15 11:18 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Me.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: EvilShaman] 1
#22109476 - 08/19/15 01:48 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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life = dreams = life = equal importance
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Goose]
#22109478 - 08/19/15 01:50 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah it really is happening, it's beyond belief, but then only to the culture, which is arbitrary, I keep reminding myself... Furthermore no one would ever believe me, so I guess it leaves me in some kind of seat of secretive power, if only one built by others' closed-mindedness, and I'm happy to just talk about it freely on public boards, but not in my personal life, since it doesn't help me to have friends and associates think I'm a nutcase.
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Edited by circastes (08/19/15 01:58 AM)
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22109530 - 08/19/15 02:25 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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yep
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Goose] 1
#22118544 - 08/20/15 08:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Life is literally God's dream. We are products of God's imagination who experience the dream from our own subjective points of view.
We are God experiencing his own creation (his dream) subjectively.
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Edited by SycoNautix (08/20/15 08:47 PM)
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22118807 - 08/20/15 09:27 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i think it being largely a mystery to us on many levels makes it that much more interesting 
to the magical mystery !
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: deff]
#22119162 - 08/20/15 10:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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If "life" outside of this physical shell is an infinite continuous stream of consciousness then yes, this physical life would be a dream because it is a finite stream consciousness. Dreams have a beginning and an end.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: TorpidApe]
#22119711 - 08/21/15 12:57 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Maya By extension, it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real. For the Nondualists, maya is thus that cosmic force that presents the infinite brahman (the supreme being) as the finite phenomenal world. Maya is reflected on the individual level by human ignorance (ajnana) of the real nature of the self, which is mistaken for the empirical ego but which is in reality identical with brahman.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Eggtimer]
#22121051 - 08/21/15 08:04 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I kind of feel it is. I feel like the dreams we have when we sleep are just captures of the greater picture going on. This dream we have when we wake up is just much more persistent and rule based thus furthering an illusion of reality. It is easier to become lucid in the dream when we sleep because we are more likely to question something that seems impossible. When this reality we adhere to follows more rules and lasts much longer to our perceptions we question it less. It is easy to perceive this reality as the only real one but when we are dead then this reality is nothing more than a long dream. I like to think death is just another form of waking up...hopefully not into something more rule based than this dream we all have.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: SycoNautix] 1
#22121325 - 08/21/15 09:04 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
SycoNautix said: Life is literally God's dream. We are products of God's imagination who experience the dream from our own subjective points of view.
We are God experiencing his own creation (his dream) subjectively.
Pretty much the way I see it too. Pure Gnosticism.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#22126984 - 08/22/15 01:32 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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the definition of a dream sounds pretty much exactly like daily life except one is "sleeping" instead of "awake":
DREAM 1. a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: resonant111]
#22127021 - 08/22/15 01:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I.
We are not an earthly being dreaming of spirituality, we are a spiritual being having an earthly dream.
When we die we wake up.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Asante]
#22127155 - 08/22/15 01:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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