Thread: Questioning Reality

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

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Hey guy, you get high from how cool and "spiritual" you are, aren't you?
Stop confusing the starter of this topic, he was asking a serious question and didn't need attention-hungry people to "impress" him by repeating what they read somewhere and about what they now imagine themselves to be "knowledgeable".

This is why I took a break from my LD pursuit. After I had my first LD a couple of weeks ago I realized they I dont want to do RCs all the time and always be questioning things just for the sake of being aware in something that isnt real* and will eventually be forgotten like all other dreams. After living 19 years and then "living" in a dream there is no question in my mind which one is real (as real is normally defined)

And fortunatly, as of last night, I have found a way to have LDs without having to do RCs and other such nonsense throughtout the day (we will see if it was just a fluke)

*waits for someone to go "bu but your waking life isnt real either!1!1 real life is a dream!1!!"

roff

I don't think questioning your reality will change your waking life one bit. I don't think it will make the line between reality and dreaming any less clear in the real world. You only do it so you will question your reality in your dreams. It like a rollover effect. In your dreams is when you need to question it so you can be lucid, and that will be the only difference.

Originally Posted by RunflaCruiser

I don't think questioning your reality will change your waking life one bit. I don't think it will make the line between reality and dreaming any less clear in the real world. You only do it so you will question your reality in your dreams. It like a rollover effect. In your dreams is when you need to question it so you can be lucid, and that will be the only difference.

Thank you. That about sums it up.

Originally Posted by ZmillA

This is why I took a break from my LD pursuit. After I had my first LD a couple of weeks ago I realized they I dont want to do RCs all the time and always be questioning things just for the sake of being aware in something that isnt real* and will eventually be forgotten like all other dreams.

Not to be rude, but I wonder why you're here if that's your attitude towards lucid dreaming...I mean, sure, you took a break. But why come back if you think about it like that?

Originally Posted by IWantToChange

Hey guy, you get high from how cool and "spiritual" you are, aren't you?
Stop confusing the starter of this topic, he was asking a serious question and didn't need attention-hungry people to "impress" him by repeating what they read somewhere and about what they now imagine themselves to be "knowledgeable".

If you really want to change , you must begin by seeing past your own ego...


just as the OP must learn to see past his own ego and therefore his own fear

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

If you really want to change , you must begin by seeing past your own ego...
just as the OP must learn to see past his own ego and therefore his own fear

It's always funny how an attention-hungry "spiritual" person with a big ego teaches others to be egoless, man. I wasn't asking for your ignorant advice, was I?

Originally Posted by IWantToChange

It's always funny how an attention-hungry "spiritual" person with a big ego teaches others to be egoless, man. I wasn't asking for your ignorant advice, was I?

We laugh at the ego, the object.

Laugh along, and drop it as equal. Be free.

This is no spirituality. It is an embracing of all, body and spirit, humanity and existence.

To be instead of become. To living'ness' instead of living. You cannot escape it, even ego and reality-doubting is a manifestation of reality.

One more teacher *sigh* who imagines that he knows something...
Cloud, I wasn't asking you to share your highly valuable thoughts. Please stay away and mind your own business.

Originally Posted by IWantToChange

One more teacher *sigh* who imagines that he knows something...
Cloud, I wasn't asking you to share your highly valuable thoughts. Please stay away and mind your own business.

Teaching/teacher.

Minding/mind.

My thoughts have as little value as yours. I am God.

Such words, and you see them and not their meaning.

It is so late to sleep.

It's unfortunate that you took that statement the wrong way.

It didn't mean that you would start thinking life is not real. It just means that Lucid Dreaming can trigger the desire to come to a deeper understanding of what reality is. For many people it doesn't even do that, I don't think.

Physics already teaches that the physical world is an illusion made up of nothing but energy particles congealed into seeming solidity. To form not only the environment we exist in, but also the bodies we use to exist in it.

That doesn't mean life isn't real. It just means we have a lot to learn about what real is.

There is no reason you can't get Lucid just for fun and ignore the philosophies, if you don't want to contemplate such things.