Thread: What is reality?

Originally Posted by SomeDreamer

Your vision becomes more colorful and sharp, your emotions reach such a high that it's like you can feel yourself being alive at the time. It's hard to explain really, hope it makes sense

iv been to diffrent places and seen many beautiful places, to this day the most beautiful places iv seen has been in my dream, absoloutly breath taking, places i had never seen or imagined before, that by it self says something.

you can always sharpen your senses and make dreams more vivid by commands. E.g "increase vividness", "increase my senses"

Originally Posted by SomeDreamer

Let's say you lose a close relative like your mom. If this happened in a dream, you would wake up from it and have a clear memory of this sad event taking place right there in your dream, yet when you get up from bed and go to say good morning, she will be right there, alive and well. While dreaming, this might have given you extreme emotions of sadness and loss. The feelings we perceive in the dream is equal to those we will experience in waking life, no doubt about that, we all agree there, one is not less "real" than the other. But the state of your dreaming world and the state of your waking world is clearly two different things. Your mom died in your dream, though she is alive when you awaken If you instead lost your mom in our wakening life, it would affect you in an entirely different way and more serious way. It could have serious psychological consequences for you, and also the fact that unless your dream world, your mom won't come back in this one. So here there is clearly some form of difference between the two worlds. Losing your mom in a dream, you are able to wake up and simply brush it off, saying "ah, it was nothing but a dream". On the other hand, lose her in wakening life, and it is suddenly not that simple.

well there is alot we dont know or undrestand but The basic principle is that in one reality were eternal and in this one its temporarely, so we have to think why this could be the case.. My opinion so far is that we obviously in this reality temporarely, like when you go on a holiday. I also believe your here to exprience diffrent emotions, and learn common sense and logic, things that you dont get tought in a dream state, so when you come and get all this exprience you can take back to where you originally come from. Maybe the reason for this reality is to be able to undrestand the primary reality of other dimensions such as "dream world".

If you never existed in this world then there couldnt be a lucidity, as when you become lucid what you learnt in this reality comes to mind and effect hence it feels like your in heaven. Maybe thats the aim of life to live in heaven (lucidity), to be able to achieve that you need to make a stop in this reality

People get upset over loved ones death because in their mind they believe this to be the only reality, so they believe they have lost somehting for good, those emotions really come from the false ego, of loosing something or not having soemthing regardless of what the reason is.

Originally Posted by SomeDreamer

I'm not saying this is a way of differentiating between what should be considered real or not, as we all clearly have different ideas of what real is supposed to mean. My point is simply that if we look away from perception and try to define reality using other means, there clearly exists differences between dreaming worlds and our wakening world in the form of state, where the state of our wakening world seems to be constant, while the state of our dream world does not.

i disagree on the constant part. When your in a dream is it constant until you wake up and think back on it. It is the same when your dreaming and think about the events of this reality, then this reality doesnt seem constant and your dream world seems like the constant one. Like in the video the guy says when you get drunk and look back on it the next day it doesnt seem constant, but you know it would have had to been, only because you were drunk. But at the time when you were drunk everything seemed constant

Originally Posted by SomeDreamer

There is so many ways in which you can define reality depending on what perspective you choose to take. I'm not sure if it does any good, then, to come up with any one specific definition. Man, after this discussion I will be careful to use such a loosely defined word again .

i think reality is just bieng and what your expriencing in the "now" moment. Only this moment your expriencing is reality, once 1 second passes its no longer reality its a memory. if you read the book "The Power of Now, by eckart tolle" youll undrestand what i mean