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Has anyone ever asked questions in their dreams like.."how did the universe begin" or "how far does the galaxy go" "how did human life begin" etc. etc. That would be cool if you have if you could post some of the answers you got here.
btw...for the record i'm atheist so if it has to do with religion, it would be much appreciated if you refrained from mentioning it.
well if its not gone to be about religion then whats the point of asking! Since you aint gona get a a true answer thats not linked to religion!
i'd just like to point out that by adopting this attitude you are just as closed-minded as those followers of "religion" you think are wrong. maybe consider that the notion of "god" is another way of describing something we all (i think) believe in: the universe (whatever that is).Quote:
Originally posted by evilknny9
btw...for the record i'm atheist so if it has to do with religion, it would be much appreciated if you refrained from mentioning it.
i haven't asked any of these questions, but this kind of thing has been on my to-do list since i first started trying to become a lucid dreaming adept...one day i will find the answer (provided it's not 42)
Then you need to find the question and not the answer!
I dont really see how a LD could tell you anything about the universe since its just what you alredy know, uless you believe that your dreams are realy a glimse of the 4th dimention and that we are really 4 dimentional creatures in 3 dimentional bodies so our spirits are formt the 4th dimention and by dreaming you can learn more about what you are really. Then i dont think that dreaming will help, unless again you are a prophet or get some premonition.
Yeah, as hypernova said... if you believe that it is anything more than your own knowledge, then your ideas are the same as "religious" ideas. My dreams can be so much more sophisticated than I can and deliver messages so much more eloquently, but other than that... it's all out of my mind. That's one thing I find is so great about dreams... I can think up all these amazing ideas without trying much. Also, if you find an idea you like you can use it and it won't be plagarising ;)
Yeah. I am agnostic. I don't think of myself as religious, but I am definately spiritual, as are all people. Anyway, taking on the mindset of someone who doesn't care about other's opinions and beliefs is really closed minded and will only detriment you in the end. I mean, no one is trying to suck you into their beliefs.
Jeez, what a sheep. d0_0bQuote:
Originally posted by HyperNova
well if its not gone to be about religion then whats the point of asking! Since you aint gona get a a true answer thats not linked to religion!
... Did this have to turn into another Religion and Philosophy Tanglisation (I just made that word up :D )? I once asked what 2012 would be like in one of my dreams, and I was taken there! Very stormy. And I think we (England) were at war with anouther major power. I spent most of my time trying not to get killed in this underground shelter at Bournemouth Seafront.
Also, I died once, and asked what life would be like in the 2070, the decade I think I'll die during... I can't remember much about the world, only personal acheivements and stuff that would bore you!
I don't see why people think that deep and meaningful questions about life are automatically religious questions :| By saying that you're basically saying "anything and everything in this world can be categorized by pre-existing religions" which is quite silly to be honest, especially consider how little we really know about the universe.
As for the topic, i've never had the chance to ask such questions in my dreams. I would love to though! I think it would be very hard for me to decide whether any answers i get would be the truth, but it would be very interesting none-the-less.
ok, let me clear up a couple things, first of all i'm not trying to be close minded at all, I respect other peoples beliefs and I have no problem with them, the fact is, when I posted this thread, I posted it as a question, and since I am not interested in answers related to religion (since I don't believe in that) I simply mentioned that I wanted answers not related to religion.
Now about number 2, I'm not religious, but I do understand that science still hasn't answered many questions, and unexplained things happen all the time. What I *THINK* might be is that the answer to questions like this could be hidden in basically a "partition" of our brain, and maybe in a dream you can gain access to that "subconcious partition" which you couldn't regularly gain access to in real life. Obviously this is a far fetched idea, but an interesting one, which is why I asked this question because if people started coming up with similar answers, it would be something to consider a little more seriously.
Your right, since we only use a third of our brain. I have this thereo that apart of our brain that we can not use is our subconscience. If we could "unlock" our subconscience we would be able to have things like "superpowers". Let me explain. When we are injured - cuts, wounds - that part of the body sends electronic signals to our brain. Then the brain tells our body to fix that part. This is all dpen subconscienly. Now if we were able to tap into our subconsciene we would be able to heal ourselves faster and more efficiently. We could be able to tell our heart to slow down, and be able to run faster withought losing breath since we could tell our bodies to use less oxygen and stop creating (i forgot what it is called) by respiration which creates cramps :D
this is a pretty old concept actually. jung's collective unconscious is similar to this idea, but i think more closely related it the notion of the "akashic records." cultures all over the world have been using dreams to obtain information that they could not have access to--of course, i'd imagine most people would deny the validity of these claims because they are not based on scientific evidence, just thousands of years of anecdotes. but if you read ethnographical literature you'll notice that ours is pretty much the only culture that no longer practices dreaming.Quote:
Originally posted by evilknny9
Now about number 2, I'm not religious, but I do understand that science still hasn't answered many questions, and unexplained things happen all the time. What I *THINK* might be is that the answer to questions like this could be hidden in basically a "partition" of our brain, and maybe in a dream you can gain access to that "subconcious partition" which you couldn't regularly gain access to in real life. Obviously this is a far fetched idea, but an interesting one, which is why I asked this question because if people started coming up with similar answers, it would be something to consider a little more seriously.
Any awnser would just be some random bullshit you yourself made up.
Anyone that sees god in their dreams just wants to see god so they themselves create a fanthom in their minds.
Man the mind doesn't work like that, it can't give you awnsers from the outside, LDing can only give you awnsers from within.
That's not exactly true. We use every bit of our brain from time to time, but only about 10-15% is active at any given moment. It helps if you don't think of the brain as a hard drive. It's a bladder, just like every other internal organ. It just stores and excretes neuroelecticity rather than bile or food or pee.Quote:
Originally posted by HyperNova
Your right, since we only use a third of our brain.
Yeah hypernova, that whole thing about getting "superpowers", ect, if you "use all your brain" is completely false.
See, but that's just it. Nobody really knows how the mind works. All we've got are all these different theories. In which case, it's not up to anybody to state whether or not the mind can gain information it wasn't aware of before (or at least info that the conscious mind was unaware of). It's just up to which theory the individual trusts more.Quote:
Originally posted by Neruo
Man the mind doesn't work like that, it can't give you awnsers from the outside, LDing can only give you awnsers from within.
I'm not saying i believe the mind can give you outside info, and i'm not saying it can't. I'm just saying we don't really know what the mind is, thus we can't know for sure how it works.
No you misunderstand. WHat i mean is that you could tap into your subconcxience and do things that your subconsciene does but do it consciencly and faster. Ifg that makes sence.Quote:
Originally posted by ataraxis
Yeah hypernova, that whole thing about getting "superpowers", ect, if you "use all your brain" is completely false.