Thread: Dreams are real

By real, i meant as real as waking life. In my perspective, this waking world is real because everyone in it believes in it, or in other words are asleep to it's non-reality. I've noticed that within a dream your perception of anything acts as the means to it's result. Alternatively, i've thought of dreams as another realm of perception, another world so to speak. Between which exists a veil, and it is there that senses are heightened to extreme extents. (if you've ever noticed sound gets a lot louder/brighter when you're about to fall asleep.) Once you cross the veil, you're on the other side and things become normal.

This other "world" imo is the fourth dimension of perception, whereas lucid dreams extent into the fifth. I think this is so because in dreams people are able to simultaneously perceive a potential of events ranging from the past, the present and/or future. Almost as if from different possible outcomes of events that could have/have happened irl. It's like exploring every possible outcome that could ever happen in any version of this reality just with the power of expectation/belief. (in the 4th dimension you can only view the past.)
Also, when you have a false awakening it can sometimes be just as realistic as real life, so how do you know you haven't had one every time you "wake up"?

"Historically-speaking, dreams of the dead are some of the earliest transcribed accounts of dream life. Aristotle mentioned them, as did Lucretius, in part to comment on the widespread folk psychology that the characters in people’s dreams actually seem to be the spirits of the departed."

just a quote from this http://dreamstudies.org/2009/10/29/v...orlds-is-thin/



Something about dreams seems more real to me than this "reality".