Thread: What makes you think dreams are fake and waking life is real?

Is it because we are not sleeping? Or is it because you can't do crazy things like we could in a dream. In my opinion the truth is this. Dreams and waking life are both just as real as the other. When you leave the dream is that world still there? I can't answer that but while you were there you obviously thought it was real because if you didn't then everyone would be able to lucid dream without a problem if they can easily see it isn't real. Think about it like this. What makes something real is if you are able to experience it WHILE you are there. Waking life is real because everyone reading this is experiencing in the NOW. You may think the reason a dream isn't real is because it is in your head but the truth is LIFE as we know it is in our head as well. Everything we perceive is interpreted by the brain in waking life. Everything we perceive while we are asleep is interpreted by the brain. The brain treats both waking life and dreams as the same thing. The reason why it is hard to remember dreams for some is because you did not have a high enough awareness while you were in the dream to even remember.
This applies to waking life as well. If you don't have a high degree of awareness in the moment you will have a hard time remembering what happened during that time. For example you party all night and get drunk. By getting drunk you just seriously lowered you awareness but you still party. The next day you remember next to nothing because while you were partying you had little awareness. Its the same for a dream.


What makes a dream real is the experience. Just because it isn't physical doesn't mean it isn't real. Like I said earlier the brain doesn't care if it is a physical sensation or something occurring in a dream, it treats it as the same. The experience is what makes something real. If you can see,hear,touch,taste,smell it it is real! It doesn't matter if you perceive something another doesn't. Not everyone is the same and therefore cannot experience the same thing another person could experience.

One last thing. I am NOT saying this is the truth or how everything is. This is MY way of viewing things. Feel free to post what you think what makes something real or not real. Sorry for the long post. I just love talking about this sort of stuff.