Thread: If waking life is a dream, how could we really wake up?

PJ, thanks so much for your ideas – I feel that this discussion could go on for a very long time. However, it would also take us way off topic (and I’d have to start quoting Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett...). So maybe we’ll pick up some other time!

I’d also like to thank others who contributed to this thread – it really got me thinking about some fundamental things, and I think I’ve been able to reach a few new (but perhaps not definitive) conclusions.

It has been my pleasure to engage in a discussion at this level without it degenerating into what we have become famous for here at DV. Perhaps there is yet hope.

I might even do it again some day.

Sorry pj this is a little off topic, but what do you mean by "it degenerating into what you have become famous for here at DV"?

Originally Posted by Jerad

Sorry pj this is a little off topic, but what do you mean by "it degenerating into what you have become famous for here at DV"?

Poke around the Off Topic forums a bit and you'll understand.

Well I think to wake up from this dream you just have to die heh.

Originally Posted by Pj

I think that is my most reliable reality check. If I'm not happy, then I've lost lucidity.

Very interesting points PJ, especially your first post on reality checking irl. I also started to do this recently, lucid dreaming is much like meditation imo.

Originally Posted by three and four

I’ve had quite a number of very unlikely coincidences happen to me over the years which, depending on my mood, make me very suspicious about the nature of reality.

Are you talking about telepathy? Law of attraction? Resonance of thoughts?