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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22131095 - 08/23/15 02:17 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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What is a definition of a dream, when you are dreaming already? Ever had a dream inside of a dream?
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: ivander]
#22133023 - 08/23/15 09:46 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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ivander said: What is a definition of a dream, when you are dreaming already? Ever had a dream inside of a dream?

The intro is kinda long but this video explain some shit. Edit: actually this is the wrong video and I'm too lazy to find the right one.
Edited by Eggtimer (08/23/15 10:51 PM)
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Asante]
#22135679 - 08/24/15 02:20 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Asante said: 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.
This is my hope as well.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#22135838 - 08/24/15 02:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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In that context I consider my out of body experiences some kind of 'waking up'.
But seriously, you know, I'm up this morning wondering what the hell all this is, with a new vigour. I've been a bit too preoccupied with illness to really consider the bigger picture of what I've been through and discovered (OBEs, healing, weather influence, imaginations of self, changes in the 'doors of perception') but this is a great morning so far and I'm just wondering what it all means.
I want to take an adventure like The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or something.
I need to do shrooms again don't I?
Stupid dopamine blockers... blocking psilocin too...
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22135930 - 08/24/15 03:09 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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the world could be anything
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Cowb0yNeal00]
#22135944 - 08/24/15 03:12 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here's this morning's soundtrack, this stuff is spinning me out.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#22135965 - 08/24/15 03:17 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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MarkostheGnostic said:
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Asante said: 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.
This is my hope as well.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: DividedQuantum]
#22136369 - 08/24/15 04:44 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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DividedQuantum said:
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MarkostheGnostic said:
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Asante said: 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.
This is my hope as well.
Thirded.

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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Lucis]
#22149393 - 08/26/15 10:54 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fennario said:a specific type of female
Are you Ferengi?
To the topic: could be. Seeing how connected everyone and everything is, there is clearly more to this world than meets the eye. Too bad perception is so fragile and easily manipulated though (our own and even others, all "magic" just plays upon this and human bias), often seems as though we are not meant to know the truth, only to explore.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: withoutlabel]
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often seems as though we are not meant to know the truth, only to explore.
Interesting.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22150886 - 08/27/15 10:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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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.

We have dreams that we tend to forget, but at times we has feelings that we have done this before and which that is called Dejavu; and which I believed that Dejavu is when we dreamed about something that it happened, like a premonition of some sort, but we have forgotten about the dream that we have had and trying to figure out or recalled the situation where it might of have happened before.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Douglas Howard]
#22155481 - 08/28/15 09:12 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I feel that our waking state is dream like and when this quality is absent life is just a ritual without the magic. The more I am in the dreamlike state when awake the more aware of my feelings and instincts 'I' become. Thinking about this state decreases the awareness of it for me. Life lived in moments of presence becomes full of wonder and mystery. Just like a dream.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Heyowana]
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This may be relevant depending on your perception of what life being dream like means. One day IT convinced me to believe, think and feel that life is a dream. I use IT to refer to an unexplainable side to mushroom tripping.
I would have dreams like others do that meanie (Copelandia cyanescens) season was starting. Often there were ferocious dogs or demons exploding through walls or doors in my dreams. I'd wake up and go on my next meanie adventure.
This would entail driving 300km to my uncles farm. No one lived there so I had the 400acre property to myself. There was a little shack that I'd live in. Then for the next 4 days with each visit I would mega dose on them until something meaningful happened.
One time something a lot more meaningful happened to me than I could have imagined. I always ate the meanies in excess. Some days after eating them I would go out and eat them straight off the cow manure crawling around on all fours thinking I was a wild animal.
Not this time though. I was very annoyed with someone in my life and could not stop thinking about how I wanted to get even with them some how. I left the shed feeling very aggressive and walked up a steep hill. As the meanies kept coming on I felt like ants were inside my clothes crawling around and irritating me.
The hills in that part of the world are very steep. At the top of that hill was a bulldozer with a whole field of Datura strammonium plants growing around it. When I got up there with my two dogs I felt much calmer. The visuals were coming on and I could see what looked like a bird made out of rainbows when I closed my eyes.
I started seeing eagles in my minds eye. I laid down on my back with my head to the North. As I laid down I said out loud "Eagles are very beautiful birds." I felt a force sucking my body into a dream. I opened my eyes and I was in the shed with my head still facing North and my body in the same position as well.
I got up and was gasping for air as if I couldn't breathe the air any more. The cattle that my dogs always chase off had come around the house to eat the grass while I was away.They got a shock when they saw me because they were wild. I just had so much trouble breathing as if I wasn't meant to breathe anymore.
My dogs weren't there of course because an instant before this I had been about a kilometer away on top of a hill. I walked down to the creek and kept thinking there was something I had forgotten. The creek was only about 30 meters from the shed and by the time I got there I realised what IT was. I had forgotten my name.
Who am I? I kept thinking and What is my name? I could not remember. It really irked me and amazed me that I could not remember my own name. I walked down the creek a fair way thinking that "If I don't remember my name I'm done for. I have to remember it."
I sat down at a very pretty place where two creeks join. Then I got up and walked in circles but try as hard as I could I could not remember my name. Funny thing was when I was up on the hill I was very out of it. I was still out of it now and I had spent most of the afternoon not being able to remember who I was.
When it was twilight I remembered who I was. I then walked back to the shed and my dogs were there with wagging tails greeting their long lost friend. I've discussed this story with everyone I know well. They dismiss it of course as a mental aberration.
It wasn't but that's not the point. The point to me was that life is a dream. I just had to realise it.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22902260 - 02/14/16 12:13 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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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.

You definately are dreaming.
I however am wide awake.

I'm considering switching over to your side.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Icelander] 1
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It is a dream quite literally: It is a projection of consciousness into a virtual and independent working time space from the source as a form of embodied being experiencing temporal causality. Causality is created by three different things: History or initial conditions, Present variables, and potential quantum state manifestations thereof.
The current reality is a consensual reality created by a thought form being that feeds it's individual ego in a vain attempt to understand the initial conditions of unity. It is the manifestation of what we call quantum duality and is what most people call God.
When you dream it is the same: A projection of your awareness (consciousness)and your individual ego into a virtual and independent working time space, except it is outside the local time-stream causality domain enforced by the controlling entity.
The only difference is the dream-state we are currently living in is the dream of another conscious being. As such, this domain is mostly controlled by the fractal matrix projected by an observing singularity as a means to sustain it's desired form. In your own dream, you simply manifest thought forms to integrate what was experienced in the causal reality. It is doing the same thing...
Space-Time itself is a fractal created by a quanta divided by a singularity. The quanta is awareness itself, pure consciousness, while the singularity is it's mirror image of form.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
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see how much a 'dream' it is if you step out in front of a busy road! Though you won't know what hit you. But if say you have a dream of falling -or being hit by a truck-you are jolted awake and realize it is a dream
it is therefore more realistic to say that life has dreamlike qualities
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Icelander]
#22907676 - 02/15/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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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.

You definately are dreaming.
I however am wide awake.

I'm considering switching over to your side.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#22907699 - 02/15/16 02:29 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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MarkostheGnostic said:
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Asante said: 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.
This is my hope as well.
if this is the case then i am doing the right think by cleansing the earth of human waste - such as mcdonald bags thrown out the window
and we need to plant seeds
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22908443 - 02/15/16 05:27 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Life is a dream in the Mind of God, where relatively speaking, it's ephemeral dream-nature is experienced by Itself as Real, as concrete. Our own dreams seem real when our mind is involved and identified with them, but unlike the Divine Mind, our dream content probably does not have an objective existence. Nevertheless, the dream-metaphor continues to work. When we sicken and die, God is ceasing to dream us as dream-characters. One can extend the dissolution of a person, animal or thing to the entire universe in Hindu cosmology, where Vishnu sleeps, producing Brahma on a lotus from his navel, and Brahma creates the universe. The age of the universe is subdivided from "about 311,040,000,000,000 years (one life of Brahma, the creator)" which is then destroyed in a process named pralaya.* Then the universe is reabsorbed into Vishnu and the process repeats itself ad infinitum in an oscillating or cyclical model of creation (suggested by Einstein in 1930) as well as in Hindu cosmology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model
The Matrix trilogy was a modern myth that drew upon Hindu, Buddhist, and Gnostic Christian themes, all of which regard Reality to be mental in nature, or in the films electronic Simulacra and Simulation, which is the title of a book by philosopher Jean Baudrillard, which in the first film was the hollowed out stash box for Thomas Anderson's (Neo's) illegal software. (Thomas is a well-known pseudo-Gnostic gospel, Anderson can be seen to be a reference to the biblical "Son of Man" inasmuch as 'Ander' is a form of 'andro' which means 'man').
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#22910407 - 02/16/16 12:42 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sorry if this thread is a bit alienating to some people. I kinda just threw it out there arrogantly.
I assure you it's happening though. At this point I'm just taking the opportunity to see if I can improve life for everybody somehow.
All I can suggest is take mushrooms and take them seriously.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22910424 - 02/16/16 12:51 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think life is literally a dream for this reason.
Dreams, 'reality' and hallucinations, for me, all have one thing in common, which is that all three of them present me with visual, auditory and tactile sensations (among others) which my consciousness cannot distinguish from each other in terms of one being more real than another.
I don't know if life is literally a dream but it doesn't seem like there's a meaningful difference between consciousness being aware of one set of sensations to another set of sensations.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Eywa_devotee]
#22912420 - 02/16/16 03:22 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Eywa_devotee said: It is a dream quite literally: It is a projection of consciousness into a virtual and independent working time space from the source as a form of embodied being experiencing temporal causality. Causality is created by three different things: History or initial conditions, Present variables, and potential quantum state manifestations thereof.
The current reality is a consensual reality created by a thought form being that feeds it's individual ego in a vain attempt to understand the initial conditions of unity. It is the manifestation of what we call quantum duality and is what most people call God.
When you dream it is the same: A projection of your awareness (consciousness)and your individual ego into a virtual and independent working time space, except it is outside the local time-stream causality domain enforced by the controlling entity.
The only difference is the dream-state we are currently living in is the dream of another conscious being. As such, this domain is mostly controlled by the fractal matrix projected by an observing singularity as a means to sustain it's desired form. In your own dream, you simply manifest thought forms to integrate what was experienced in the causal reality. It is doing the same thing...
Space-Time itself is a fractal created by a quanta divided by a singularity. The quanta is awareness itself, pure consciousness, while the singularity is it's mirror image of form.
I dig that.
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circastes said: Any takers? What's your evidence?
I take. Evidence is all subjective for the most part, anything otherwise has culpable deniability. So it's more of a personal affirmation than anything for others, not that I would show them if or point out the "glitch" in the matrix on purpose if done in their presence(barring three family members).
1-Experiencing OBEs, and NDEs was akin to surfacing from the depths of the dream, take a breath, only to submerge in the dreamlike environment we exist in. 2-Though,through utilizing the little skills I honed during such states as OBE, and LDing, then applying them to the "real world" I learned that life really is very dream-like. Far exceeding dream-like then I originally thought. 3-I learned how everything is basically reverse from what I was taught. Thought first, energy first, then form, then body. Spiritual beings having a physical experience, not me having a spiritual experience(say with OBEs/NDEs). In applying particular parameters, felt more like hacking the mainframe. It's all really old school though, nothing new, though new to me. Super neat, and it blew my mind.
I'm in for a penny in for a pound. And jive with alot of what's been said here already. Very cool thoughts you guys.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Thecollective]
#22913136 - 02/16/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's said that man is created in the image of God.
From that, we can assume that the material world also holds things which have a spiritual counterpart.
As many philosophies reveal, there are many things applicable to mind and body such as water and trees (in both their form and behaviour). I think literal allegories exist also. Everything required to learn of the dream seems to be contained within it.
Dreaming when we go to bed (or wherever else) is maybe the allegory and biggest and most important allegory in the 'game' which teaches that we are infact in a dream and will eventually wake. There's also additional teachings within this, namely, when we pass over, we will forget this existence (as we do most with most dreams), or at most the dream loses significance. Another is that dreams are a product of the minds state and vice-versa (dreams stirring up emotions upon wake). From this we can deduct that this existence has a knock on affect upon the 'spirit world' and likewise, the spirit world can affect it. The spirit world is no more exclusive than the dream is to the mind. Everything is interconnected.
Just like humans have generations, the planes of existence too may have them. The dream as we know it could be a third generation from the source. The fact that we can poke our heads into this third generate existence and then pull out (waking) gives us a vantage point to establish our bearings in our supposed 'reality'.
Summarizing on a simplistic level, dreams tell us that illusions DO exist.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22951922 - 02/27/16 12:45 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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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 have felt that life was a sort of dream/manifestation/hologram/projection ever since a breakthrough salvia trip which occurred in 2003.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22952135 - 02/27/16 02:10 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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circastes said: Any takers? What's your evidence?
I don't think life is a dream I know it is
my evidence is my personal experience
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: circastes]
#22952143 - 02/27/16 02:14 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think that thinking is literally a dream.
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Chronic7]
#22952341 - 02/27/16 03:13 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Who here thinks that life is literally a dream? [Re: Icelander]
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