rashore Posted August 7, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Quote One of the strange things about dreams is that, most of the time, we aren’t aware we’re dreaming. Typically, our memory and our reflective ability are substantially limited within dreams (Fosse et al. 2003; Hobson et al. 1998), causing us not to notice incongruencies within the dream and to take for granted that what we experience is real. It simply doesn’t occur to us to consider whether it might not be. Perhaps even more strangely, even when we do on occasion become aware that we’re dreaming—and according to various surveys carried out around the world, anywhere from 26% to 92% of people have had at least one lucid dream (Stepansky et al. 1998; Erlacher et al. 2008; Palmer 1979; Yu 2008)—the “sensory” experiences of the dream can remain just as convincingly real. I remember in one of my own dreams realizing that it was a dream and then marveling at how solid and real the cell phone in my hand still felt. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201907/is-life-dream 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThereWeAreThen Posted August 7, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 7, 2019 This is probably the best and only good question I've seen on this psychic forum. Answer, no one could possibly tell. Scientists have even backed a notion saying we COULD be living in a virtual reality etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted August 7, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 7, 2019 5 minutes ago, ThereWeAreThen said: This is probably the best and only good question I've seen on this psychic forum. Answer, no one could possibly tell. Scientists have even backed a notion saying we COULD be living in a virtual reality etc Eh, well. The dreamer has to exist in order to dream. Even if the dreamer is completely artificial something has to exist to create the dreamer and that's just a rabbit hole into an existential abyss. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted August 7, 2019 #4 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Is Life a Dream? Well from my philosophy of Advaita Vedanta I will answer 'Yes'. In Vedantic philosophy there is only One Consciousness = Brahman. The universe is then a play/drama of Brahman in which rays of Consciousness/Brahman incarnate finite things to experience. Ultimately only Brahman (our core) is real and creation is 'Maya' (illusion/myth). It is all a play in which Brahman separates Himself from Himself in Act I and returns Himself to Himself in Act II. Why? Why do humans create plays/dramas? To experience. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThereWeAreThen Posted August 7, 2019 #5 Share Posted August 7, 2019 21 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: Is Life a Dream? Well from my philosophy of Advaita Vedanta I will answer 'Yes'. In Vedantic philosophy there is only One Consciousness = Brahman. The universe is then a play/drama of Brahman in which rays of Consciousness/Brahman incarnate finite things to experience. Ultimately only Brahman (our core) is real and creation is 'Maya' (illusion/myth). It is all a play in which Brahman separates Himself from Himself in Act I and returns Himself to Himself in Act II. Why? Why do humans create plays/dramas? To experience. Pardon my simple mindedness but could you simplify what you said? I think I got a rough idea what you meant but not to sure. Many thanks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 7, 2019 #6 Share Posted August 7, 2019 7 minutes ago, ThereWeAreThen said: Pardon my simple mindedness but could you simplify what you said? I think I got a rough idea what you meant but not to sure. We are a entertainment-experiment for a Living Universe. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThereWeAreThen Posted August 7, 2019 #7 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Just now, Piney said: We are a entertainment-experiment for a Living Universe. Oh ok. That's the most plausible thing I've ever seen PG post and it's something I cant argue against him with! b***** quick PG talk about the paranormal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted August 7, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 7, 2019 3 minutes ago, Piney said: We are a entertainment-experiment for a Living Universe. Actually, we ARE that Living Universe would have been a closer synopsis. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 7, 2019 #9 Share Posted August 7, 2019 1 minute ago, papageorge1 said: Actually, we ARE that Living Universe would have been a closer synopsis. No doubt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted August 7, 2019 #10 Share Posted August 7, 2019 14 minutes ago, ThereWeAreThen said: Pardon my simple mindedness but could you simplify what you said? I think I got a rough idea what you meant but not to sure. Many thanks. Vedantic philosophy took my a long time to understand. I'd start with an understanding of what Brahman means from Wikipedia: In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. In major schools of Hindu philosophy it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Walt' E. Kurtz Posted August 7, 2019 #11 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Woe woe your life gently down the stream...yeah we're caught in the matrix :p 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThereWeAreThen Posted August 7, 2019 #12 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Just now, Impedancer said: Woe woe your life gently down the stream...yeah we're caught in the matrix :p Well technically, it's on of the only theory which cant be proven if you think about it! ^^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted August 7, 2019 #13 Share Posted August 7, 2019 26 minutes ago, ThereWeAreThen said: b***** quick PG talk about the paranormal. My pleasure, what specifically do you want me to talk about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wistman Posted August 7, 2019 #14 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Our consciousness is how the universe observes itself. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Duck Posted August 8, 2019 #15 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR-CUB Posted May 8, 2020 #16 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Great question. According to mathematical-equations and Quantum-Physics what we perceive to be reality isn’t reality. And that there are more than just the 3 dimensions, in fact mathematics tells us that there are 10+ dimensions, and many universes. According to spiritual paths (excluding religions) state that we earthlings are merely actors on a stage playing a part assigned to us, everything we experience on Earth is merely an illusion, and that ‘reality’ is in the realm of god, we mortals must strive to reach. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coil Posted May 8, 2020 #17 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Our world is no less real than the world of God since despite all the spiritual and material worlds, God totally embraces them as one world, as if we lived in the same apartment building with many floors. The difference is only in the level of consciousness of the lower worlds and their creatures, therefore from the lower of the world we do not see the upper floors and all the invisible energies in our world. We can't go up like that right away and ask why you came up with the lower worlds and what is their purpose so that everyone knows clearly how things are and have the right point of view. Since our world is volatile, bad, suffering, there is little truth in it, it seems to us that this is someone’s evil joke or fiction and fun for the sake of someone’s experiment in which we play some role assigned to us, we don’t see and do not feel the eternal soul and spirit behind all things, we don’t know the divine purpose in relation to us, we do not feel our true Self which would give us a sense of the eternal and enduring reality and truth of this being. So, in fact, we are all the multiple and Divine Persons of the One God who came to this world to manifest our true being and personality, the true Man who is God. Spoiler Maya in its original sense meant an all-encompassing creative Consciousness, creative Knowledge and Wisdom capable of shaping, that is, manifestation at the level of limitations and relativity. Maya outlines, defines and creates forms from the formless, makes the Unknowable cognizable and accessible to psychological research, gives the measurable nature of the infinite. Then the word Maya began to be used not in its original sense of knowledge, skill and understanding, but in a derived meaning cunning, deceit, illusion. It is in this second meaning of illusion, magic, that the term Maya is used by philosophical systems. The whole manifestation is limited to two terms: Vidya(Knowledge) and Avidya( Ignorance), the consciousness of Unity and Duality. These are two aspects of Maya, which are a creative, formative, self-existing concept of the Eternal. Matter is a form of substance of being, in which Sat-Chit-Ananda is clothed, exposing itself to the phenomenal influence of its own consciousness and power. Matter is, without a doubt, absolutely real; it is a structural form of manifestation of Energy. Matter ... is not material, it is not a substance, but a form of manifestation of consciousness, guna, the result of the perception of quality by the senses. From the yoga dictionary 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bed of chaos Posted May 23, 2020 #18 Share Posted May 23, 2020 On 5/7/2020 at 9:10 PM, BEAR-CUB said: Great question. According to mathematical-equations and Quantum-Physics what we perceive to be reality isn’t reality. And that there are more than just the 3 dimensions, in fact mathematics tells us that there are 10+ dimensions, and many universes. According to spiritual paths (excluding religions) state that we earthlings are merely actors on a stage playing a part assigned to us, everything we experience on Earth is merely an illusion, and that ‘reality’ is in the realm of god, we mortals must strive to reach. A little off topic, but anyway, had a interesting dream once. I died and immediately entered into some depressive, dark, amphitheatre. There were a couple individuals in the audience, observing, whispering to each other. The actors/actresses on stage were reenacting the final moments of my death. Then, moving on, reenacting whichever recently departed arrived next. It was like some demented form of purgatory. Anyway (as Coil mentioned) "someone's experiment" I really hope not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanormalConfidante Posted May 23, 2020 #19 Share Posted May 23, 2020 On 8/8/2019 at 3:00 AM, Golden Duck said: Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay That's what they call a "big bang" in another parallel universe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian100 Posted July 2, 2020 #20 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Dream world is probably what the ghost world is like.. fake. Unreal.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
openozy Posted July 2, 2020 #21 Share Posted July 2, 2020 2 hours ago, brian100 said: Dream world is probably what the ghost world is like.. fake. Unreal.. No, Dream World is real,it's on the Gold Coast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Posted July 2, 2020 #22 Share Posted July 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, openozy said: No, Dream World is real,it's on the Gold Coast. Lol. And original home to one of the most questionable TV shows ever: Big Brother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Reaper 6 Posted July 2, 2020 #23 Share Posted July 2, 2020 On 8/8/2019 at 6:11 AM, rashore said: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201907/is-life-dream I am uncertain that life is a dream, however I believe that we all have the answers to all eternal question within us and if we are having difficulties in our lives by searching within our own minds we can the find the answers to those or any other problems that may occur. I think if it were discovered that God was at the core of our Universe, and we traveled to the core. When we arrived and peered out the widow of our space craft to see God, we would actually see a reflection of ourselves looking back at us. I am a believer that all we worship, cherish, love, and search for can be found within each of us, and that true happiness occurs when two people who have found this, meet and share their gifts. So in my opinion no one needs to look for anything, all we to do is look into our minds and there we will find all we seek. Peace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted July 2, 2020 #24 Share Posted July 2, 2020 In any case, it is better that life is a dream, than that it is a nightmare.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
openozy Posted July 3, 2020 #25 Share Posted July 3, 2020 11 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: In any case, it is better that life is a dream, than that it is a nightmare.. A bit of both really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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