I just woke up...and i just want to know...what do you think a dream actually is? My take is that a dream is NOT JUST a conglomeration of your subconcious thoughts and experiences manifesting themselves to keep your brain going while helping it "recharge". My take is that dreams are another realm that we enter to recharge our true multidimensional and spiritual nature. A realm or realms with less restrictions. A dream feels completely real while your dreaming, it also raises a debate about the reality of this world because if a dream feels real and this world feels real...which is real?, i think both and niether at the same time. What do you guys think?
It's off topic but probably the best article you've made. I think a dream is based on a number of things you think about in real life, that your brain is making sense of in your sleep.
I dreamt the other week that I owned a pet Donkey. he would follow me everywhere and he slept in a white wheelie bin. until that bin was stolen by youths and my mum had to set up a little area for it to stay in our front room back at home. it was snowing outside and donkey looked very cold so i couldn't leave him there. i woke up and was very sad.
Anybody else ever had that dream where you're eating a sandwich and wake up moving your hands in a sandwich-holding shape towards your mouth and have your day ruined because there was no sandwich?
When i was young i used to have those dreams where you woke up jizzin in yer pants, now i just dream of jizzin! Perhaps a dream is a preview of what happens after u croak. I must stop eating cheese. God I'm bored.
Very strange topic... Errrm, regarding the bit about dreams/life appearing to be real so which is it? Can that one not just be chalked down to sensory perception i.e. the only way we feel is through our brain's relationship with the nerves in our body, i.e. the nerves send a message to the brain saying something is hot, the brain reacts...So really, dreaming SHOULD be lucid and real, 'cause its simply our brains doing what they do every second of every day, only its taken its messages from memory and not your nerves (the feeling of falling in a dream can only be based on the feeling of falling in real life/memory).
Nice reply I think the sensory thing is interesting, the brain is inside our head but everything we experience outside our head is made sense of by the brain, its a mind **** trying to pin down conciousness, reality and the true nature of the human. I think another thing is i dont see me as the person i am...the person writing this is a face and a name but in a dream you are just you, there is minimal identity with a psysical body, the true entity you are has the same sense of humour as your human form, we are the same soul, just different forms. Out of body experiences/ astral travel confirms this.
Also why do people think im crazy? I simply am seeking to learn, debate and grow as a person Why do people berate those who say anything remotely out of the ordinary? Scientists dont know what a dream is...so we should keep an open mind.
An open mind to spirituality? That is why I believe your comments were crazy. I'm all for scientific discussions and open minds but you crossed a bit of a bizarre line when you brought 'our spiritual nature' and the question of whether dreaming is in fact reality or not into it. Those are questions for philosophers to contemplate rather than to consider as actual possibilities, lets be honest here.
I once dream't about Arsenal winning the league again.. I hope you can now see that dreams are nothing but made up fantasy's that the brain makes up
Dont you see? Thats the problem, thats closed minded, we should take a hollistic view, science is not the be all end all, there are many things we cant explain, doesnt mean the answers are spiritual but it also doesnt mean they are not spiritual. What about DMT? Scientific study conducted by Rick Strassman raises many questions about reality, dreams, conciousness yet its STILL overlooked. It often seems many rational thinkers cant handle anything they percieve as "irrational" even if the evidence is there...which is ironic because ignoring evidence is actually irrational. I dispair sometimes.
I'm not ignoring any evidence at all, I'm responding to your proposal of a spiritual realm and questioning life and existence by proposing that dreams could in fact be reality. It's abnormally far fetched from a position of all human discovery to date. Are you seriously questioning why people are calling you insane when you bring up this sort of thing out of the blue on a football forum? Come on!
