"It's okay, you just had a life."

[VoyageurNocturne]

First,Humans on earth live a concrete life, with a beginning and an end, with one path to follow. While our dreams are the complete opposite: infinite possibilities, very abstract, etc. In our life after waking up from a nightmare, somebody would tell you "it's okay, it was just a dream". That though seems reassuring in our "real" world, while what you lived in the dream could have been horrible at the moment. Now imagine this, when you die, the people on the other side are they going to reassure you by saying "its okay, you just had a life"? Where all you CONCRETELY lived, doesn't matter anymore, just like something horrible you could have dreamed, is insignificant when you wake up.This all kinda makes sense when you think about it, when your dreaming, you don't "fully" remember your real concrete self. So when you live, you don't remember your abstract self. So the point I'm getting to is, if in your afterlife you were to "fall asleep" instead of a dream, you get a life, something concrete with one path to follow, as it is the opposite of you real self, something infinite. And in your life, you have dreams, which is the opposite of yourself...... okay, so would we would be a life, in a dream, in a life, in a dream... a loop? I don't know if this is clear I'm having a hard time explaining it, for those that get it... what do you think? ... and I know this sounds crazy, and I don't firmly believe in this, as this is just a thought, feel free to criticize.

[Rainman]

I know exactly what you mean and I have thought about that for ages. I reached the non-concrete conclusion that it's not the same. When you wake up from a nightmare or a regular dream, you wake up and realize it was only a dream and it becomes somewhat irrelevant in your overall life. To an extent perhaps this may be true of the afterlife, but I think unlike with nonlucid dreams, we remember our lives and they still matter afterward. Why? Because at least most of the members of this forum are constantly aware. My theory on memory (and I will make a separate thread about this later) is that if you will not remember something in the future, then it wouldn't be possible for you to be thinking right now. You would simply be "waking up" from your life at this very instant, only able to remember fragments. You know what I mean? From the perspective of someone who doesn't remember something, you don't remember therefore it's like it never happened. So you would be waking up from life right now if your theory were the case. That's just my theory let me know what you think.

[VoyageurNocturne]

okay, that too, makes sense. But I'm not sure if I fully understand what you're trying to imply by your theory on memory. Looking forward to that thread.