jjphere Posted March 13, 2013 #1 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Eleven years ago I recovered from an illness that was supposed to either kill me or make me brain dead. Recovering required close to five years and in that time I talked and communicated in emails to countless others who had experienced similar things. And it is true that some of them seemed to be even worse off than I was, and many of them are no longer with us and some are alive only in institutions. Everything seemed to work to bring me slowly back, and since my return reality does not seem to work in the exact precise way that it once seemed to. I have seen some very unlikely things happen, and surely many more such experiences than in my "previous life". So, am I really living here in reality or am I really in a coma in some hospital, or institution...dreaming all these things up? I don't really think this is true, but it is something that I have thought about and wondered about for maybe ten years. And is this post that I have just written really here, or is it all in my mind, my imagination? Probably most, if not all, survivors such as myself believe that they recovered for a purpose, and that something is assigned for them to accomplish. First, you must discover what that is and second you must accomplish it. If I am really here and really have a second life, then I also believe that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiritWriter Posted March 13, 2013 #2 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I would like to confirm that you really did post this topic.! So it's unlikely that you're in a coma somewhere, but if you are you are extremely talented! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjphere Posted March 14, 2013 Author #3 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Yes, but you see, how do I know that I didn't dream up your response here? Are not some dreams very close to reality and we are sometimes hard put to tell the difference when in the dream? When in a coma, do we dream, and do we know it is a dream? Or not? I wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yinarchy Posted March 14, 2013 #4 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I keep saying, "I feel as if I'm dead and don't know it." I wish I was. Since recovering from flesh-eating bateria, the superbug, which should have killed me, I've been in a perfect hell. When I get very stressed, objects fly through the air of there own accord and electrical transformers explode. I call my loved ones, but I'm ignored. Maybe I'm dead or maybe I'm just old, poor, handicapped and no one wants to hear my problems, since they are of the heart. And everyone I know seems to be heartless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted March 14, 2013 #5 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Yes, but you see, how do I know that I didn't dream up your response here? Are not some dreams very close to reality and we are sometimes hard put to tell the difference when in the dream? When in a coma, do we dream, and do we know it is a dream? Or not? I wonder. you can't know that for sure i guess, but we certainly can know it because we exist within our own minds, not yours. so, i figure you're going to have to trust when we tell you that you didn't dream us up. or you may be my dream and i'm sleeping on the sofa right now instead of studying for my exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjphere Posted March 16, 2013 Author #6 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Thanks for all for responding. I don't really believe that I am in a coma or anything similar, but I have to admit that my life since my return to health has been what I would call wierd to say the least. It is almost what I think I might imagine or dream up deep in my mind. At least I suppose so. And thanks to Yinarchy who, it appears, has been through the worst. May the Highest Power heal her. There are some medical conditions that seem to me to be worse than death. To me being in a hospital or home for the ill would be like having no life and no chance, unless one had some chance to leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Only Posted March 29, 2013 #7 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Yes, but you see, how do I know that I didn't dream up your response here? Or that we're 'dreaming', too? As in, living in this same state as you; all mostly unaware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjphere Posted March 29, 2013 Author #8 Share Posted March 29, 2013 To me, it may be all one big dream, if I am really in a coma. Have I dreamed all of this up, including your posts here? You know the answer, unless you are the one in the coma and you are the one dreaming and making it all up, not me. Maybe I do not exist at all, and you have dreamed up my posts, and everything else. To see this you must, I guess, have a really well developed imagination. How do we know for sure what is reality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSOURCE Posted March 30, 2013 #9 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Come with me, my friend. It's time we both step into the light together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flbrnt Posted March 30, 2013 #10 Share Posted March 30, 2013 You need a good dose of George Berkeley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReaperS_ParadoX Posted March 30, 2013 #11 Share Posted March 30, 2013 you can't know that for sure i guess, but we certainly can know it because we exist within our own minds, not yours. so, i figure you're going to have to trust when we tell you that you didn't dream us up. or you may be my dream and i'm sleeping on the sofa right now instead of studying for my exam. You' ve never had a dream where a person in it tells you its not a dream, Iv had plenty of dreams like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjphere Posted March 31, 2013 Author #12 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Now, once upon a time I was a lowly sophmore studying economic theory and my country's history. I was feeling very lonely and had few friends in the mega-university. Even my best friend was in school hundreds of miles away. No girl friend. I dreamed of meeting a lady of my own age who would be like me and yet totally opposite of me in almost every possible way. When it was time to wake up...I saw that it was a dream and I fought to remain asleep, to no avail. But I looked for that girl in my life and within a couple years I found her. Not because of how she looked, but of how she acted and how she treated me. And I am so glad I did. If that could be a dream...I still wonder what is reality? Does a person in a coma sometimes dream, and is that the only reality he/she knows until he awakes again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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