Thread: Would you trade your current life for a lucid dream of unlimited length?

I thought that too, but then again, it does say UNLIMITED LENGHT.

And if that doesn't mean that you couldn't kill yourself, I'd say I wouldn't have the courage to do it.

No. As kookyinc pointed out, it would be fun at first, but then you would just be doomed to spend the rest of the eternity able to do anything and being really bored. Maybe a LD the lenght of a year would be great, but eternity? Not that great.

What if you were able to lose some awareness of the dream? Still being lucid, but not knowing everything is your mind creating it. I'd do it. Plus, I believe in the dream plane being separate with entities and beings existing on that plane as well. So there would be some realness to it.

Um, this thread is showing the fear of eternity, uh? I don't understad the fear for any kind of eternity, be it eternal conciousness (Life) or eternal unconciousness (Death), if you are in a world where you can do anything, I don't see how you can't make the beings in it independent from yourself, plus I doubt anyone here has good enough memory as a human to remember past the few billion years, it will be like living in the moment and nothing more, if at all, so people wouldn't really realize how much time has passed after a certain point, and if there is a time problem, you can always control yourself to forget and start a new somewhere else, for example, an universe like ours where you can die lol

if its "Would you like to be god of a universe" (your dream universe), sure... An omnipotent god can do anything, including entertain itself for eternity. if it's "Would you like to lucid dream indefinitely," then no. I am never surprised in my dreams, and humans have limitations that would make an eternity become hell, as stated before ... although humans have the abillity for change, so you could improve yourself to the point of godlike intelligence and imagination - perhaps... a good thought provoker.

I wouldn't. To trade all my memories, my family, my friends, my pets, my skills, my education, my achievements my life for an infinate Lucid dream. NO WAY.
If you could do this how could you create a world in a lucid dream anyway, you'd have no knowledge of what people look like, of the nature of relationships, hell anything. Would you even know a langauge??
Real life is important. It is life. It is amazing.
When you're awakie you're living and when you sleep you have dreams and lucids. Isn't it far better to have both?
No one wants to live forever, the idea may seem appealing now, but it's not natural. Everyone dies one day. That's LIFE.

Was an interesting thought though, got a lot of people pondering their lives anyway!

Simply no. It would be great for first month or so, but it would get more boring and boring. You would start to feel that things are not real. Your friends are not real. Your family is not real. Your memories are not real. Nothing is real. And like mentioned before you would just go insane of lonileness.

I think I would BUT, not unlimited. The thought of being 'immortal', even in a dream is scaring me to death. My waking life isn't that great anyway, and all I think about when I'm awake is my next LD XD

I probably would, provided I could alter myself in the dream. If I was just myself, in an infinite sandbox, for ever, and ever and ever, I could make myself happy for the first 10,000 years, maybe 1,000,000 years, but eternity is such a very long time. If I could alter myself however i.e. wipe my memories, alter my mind to remove the concept of boredom entirely, then I would, because think about it, boredom is just part of the human mind, if you could alter it completely, you could remove it, make yourself content with blowing things up or whatever you choose to do for eternity. You could argue that it wouldn't really be entertaining, but if you truly had no idea of the concept (boredom) I don't think it would matter. Maybe if you wanted a different kind of entertainment you could turn boredom back on and relish in having nothing to do, I think it would be workable with self modification.

The reason my lucid dreams are special is because they are different from real life

No way! Life is way too much fun. There are too many things you just can't do in a lucid dream, such as meet new people or learn something new.

Never.
Here's another almost similar ques.
Would you trade YOUR sleep and mostly rest to have:
Guaranteed LD every night with no need for Induction method
Lucidness from start till end of sleep, situation depends fully on your thinking and daily life
To be able to recall your dreams (if you recall it instantly when you wake), along with headaches (depends on how much you want to recall)
Would you?

who says there is a difference?

There is.
His was Everything. Mine was part of your Health.
While I can see Everything is not worth risking for, while some even considered giving 5 years of his/her life for it.

I would. I'm not afraid of becoming bored of lonely in eternity.

To have infinite time in a lucid dream you could create your own universe. You would never run out of things to do. The real world is trash, that's why I lucid dream.

One good swift kick in the ass by a loved one is worth more than an eternity of kissing one's own ass.

I would be very lonely.

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

One good swift kick in the ass by a loved one is worth more than an eternity of kissing one's own ass.

My word, a post by Philosopher that I can easily understand and completely agree with. Never expected that to happen.

It seems to me that it would be fun at first but eventually you'd get bored. When you think about it everybody you meet would just be variations of yourself (unless somehow shared dreaming was possible). I don't think dreaming could ever replace real life no matter how long it was. Dreams are really just a compliment to real life. I think our experiences in real life help our imaginations and make our dreams what they are. Without real life to draw from, dreams would eventually lose their realism. By realism i don' mean whether or not what your doing is possible in real life, but rather the feeling you get when you look at something in a dream and it looks so clear and vivid that its as if its actually real.

No, I would not like to. The life I know as reality, and as far as I can conclude it IS reality, is one I love, even if it isn't exactly what I want it to be all the time. In a never-ending lucid dream, one would be able to do a whole lot, but eternity would be too much. And, on top of that, it would be all projections of your own mind, so after a while wouldn't every dream character-person become familiar? That's too weird. And I probably wouldn't kill myself due to an inherent fear of death.

Honestly, I would rather choose a life of immortality in the real world than one of immortality in a lucid dream, as long as I stay physically young. In that state, even though you will witness death again and again and again, you could be transcendent of all the flaws in humanity, and hopefully, with your experience, make the world a better place than it is. People are inherently greedy and selfish, but would you be if you're immortal like that?

I think dreams fuel real life by inspiring creativity.

I would do it. It would be like going into a coma. People say if you dont know what you want to do as a career then find something you love doing for free and try and get paid for it. So if i was in complete power i could take something I love doing for free and do it forever. But you could do anything with it after that. I believe there is enough stuff to do that you could fill an infinite amount of time doing it. The hard part is, still, will it be worth it if you don't have anyone to share it with. Its kinda like video games that dont have multiplayer.

It pretty much sounds like trading life for death.

Originally Posted by Candlelight

I love that point. I'm going to put it in my signature. Thank you for...well, posting it.

Wow, thanks. I suppose it's easy to be eloquent when I'm drawing from such an amazing experience for inspiration.