Thread: Pipe dreams

Howetzer, what prompted your thoughts?

Self reflection, observing specific others, or a general consideration of the human condition?


Or none of the above?

Originally posted by Worlds Within
Howetzer, what prompted your thoughts?

Self reflection, observing specific others, or a general consideration of the human condition?
Or none of the above?

Worlds Within,
Actually I was talking to a friend and his father had went to Vietnam. Since that point he has had several issues.
What I would have mistaken for just being a dreamer, it turns out can actually become a condition.
For example his dad (out of the blue) desired to fix up a motor cycle. Which would be fine and dandy. But then the obsession came and he bought three. He abandons most of his dreams out of discouragement. Just to go out and do it all over again.

Then I did get to thinking that if you daydream about something long enough you can become attached to it mentally. Possibly not letting you see the light. You know what I mean?

And some self reflection in there as well.

i think all goals and aspirations are pipe dreams in a certain sense. meaning that nothing EVER turns out exactly as we envision it, or hope.

firstly, we as individuals constantly change. and secondly, if our pipe-dream involves other people, we can never truly know how they will act in the future.

These are cycles that many fall into.


Things can be good, but attachment can bring unhappiness. It brings to mind the parable of the monkey that grabs the shiny trinket in a trap, ensnaring itself by its own grasping hand.


As I get older, I tend to increasingly live by my personal rule "simpler is better."

The difference between a pipe dream and a dream is how far me go to make our dreams happen. With pipe dreams we tend to acept that our goals are impossible before we even try.