Thread: Impossible for anyone to do within a dream.

Originally Posted by livingthedream

Well.. from what I've gleaned from this thread, it seems the only impossible things to do in a dream are cease to exist and bring something back.

To me this nakes sense in regards to death. Which begs the question - do our dreams and the fact that we always exist carry over after our body cant support itself? Or is death the final most powerful force in this universe, where it can render our consciousness nonexistent even if its impossible in the dream? Not to mention bringinf stuff back from the world - certainly death doesnt let us do that.

So does death trump the dream and render nonexistence? Or does the dream continue when its all over, which would certainly make sense and tie info the dream like nature of reality / consciousness / experience

By definition nonexistence doesn't exist, so how can you become something which doesn't exist?

Originally Posted by Valinor

By definition nonexistence doesn't exist, so how can you become something which doesn't exist?

None of us knows what happens aftee death. The above post was mere speculation, its entirely reasonable to assume that after death we stop existing as all biological processes end. Not sure if this is what you mean bjt this is how i interpreted your question

What I'm trying to say is how can someone become something which doesn't exist? It's impossible. There's nothing there to become.

Think of it like this. Lets say there is a door, and behind that door is nonexistence. So that means nothing exists behind that door. It's impossible to go to the place behind the door becasue there is no place to go to.

Originally Posted by Valinor

What I'm trying to say is how can someone become something which doesn't exist? It's impossible. There's nothing there to become.

Think of it like this. Lets say there is a door, and behind that door is nonexistence. So that means nothing exists behind that door. It's impossible to go to the place behind the door becasue there is no place to go to.

I understand what your saying and it's possible there is no such thing as non-existence, but I think it's equally possible there is some sort of total oblivion where things can be utterly destroyed. Think of it like this, you don't remember what happened before you were born do you? so it's possible you were in a state of non-existence, or at least that is what non-existence would be like.