dreams or parallel life?

Last nite I was dreaming and then in the middle of what was happening in my dream I stepped back from the situation and thought...now wait a second, is this a dream or is this really happening. I decided that I wasn't dreaming at all and that it was indeed really happening because it seemed so.....you know - REAL!!!. But it wasn't. I woke up and was completely confused because the whole thing felt so truly, truly real. It's not the first time it's happened. Just the first time that I tried to figure out whether or not I was dreaming while I was dreaming. OMG! how wierd is that. Once I dreamed about my dog who had died (the true love of my life) and when I kissed him his nose felt so cold and wet that the shock of the coldness woke me up. I swear, sometimes I think I go to a whole other life in some other place in my dreams and they're not dreams at all. Happen to anyone else ever?

Well, thinking logically, I doubt it can be interpreted as another life unless all the dreams were based in the same world, the traits were common, etc.

But besides that, I think you're lucky for having such sharpened senses in dreams. (Perhaps your senses are sharp in reality and you carry that into your dreams?) That, I would say, is a great addition to training lucidity in dreams.

Well its a good thing you have vivid Dreams. Sometimes it is hard to tell the 2 apart. SOme culterues like the Senoi even belvied that Dreams were the real world, and your wakign world was all a dream we must wake up from.

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Originally posted by scbb4991
Last nite I was dreaming and then in the middle of what was happening in my dream I stepped back from the situation and thought...now wait a second, is this a dream or is this really happening. I decided that I wasn't dreaming at all and that it was indeed really happening because it seemed so.....you know - REAL!!!. But it wasn't. I woke up and was completely confused because the whole thing felt so truly, truly real. It's not the first time it's happened. Just the first time that I tried to figure out whether or not I was dreaming while I was dreaming. OMG! how wierd is that. Once I dreamed about my dog who had died (the true love of my life) and when I kissed him his nose felt so cold and wet that the shock of the coldness woke me up. I swear, sometimes I think I go to a whole other life in some other place in my dreams and they're not dreams at all. Happen to anyone else ever?

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Are these considered false awakenings?

At various times in my life, I have had those. If I recall correctly, there was a number of times in which I had quite a number of false awakenings, one after another, before waking up into the waking world! (this happened when I was in the pre-teen or teenage years)

Several posts ask whether dream-life can be considered an alternative reality. I thought about this when I recently read Einstein's attempt to define a 'reality principle'.

"If without disturbing a system we can predict with certainty the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding with that quantity."

So if you knew you weighed 140 pounds and in your dream you stepped on some scales which registered an amount close to that then you might consider that your dream-world had at least the paradoxical degree of reality conceded to events in quantum physics.

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Originally posted by florian
Several posts ask whether dream-life can be considered an alternative reality. I thought about this when I recently read Einstein's attempt to define a 'reality principle'.

\"If without disturbing a system we can predict with certainty the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding with that quantity.\"

So if you knew you weighed 140 pounds and in your dream you stepped on some scales which registered an amount close to that then you might consider that your dream-world had at least the paradoxical degree of reality conceded to events in quantum physics.

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Im not a big studier of quantum physics so correct me if im wrong:

Quantum physics tries to convey the fact that other dimensions exist due to the choices one can make. Then perhaps our dream world or worlds could be those created dimensions. The reason most people have different dreams is due to the different choices they have made. This also could explain the reason some people share dreams. As we travel through the different dimensions occasionally we cross paths with another traveler.

Just a thought from the dancing banana gallery... :banana:

Hello Levi, that's an interesting idea. Actually you have made me think of another connection between quantum ideas and lucid dreaming.
If the many worlds hypothesis is correct the splitting into multiverses would be true of dreams as well of waking realities since quantum splitting of pathways would occur in the sleeping brain too.
In each multiverse in which a version of you exists, your brain also generates a new alternative sub-universe each time a dream could go in a different direction, due to random electrochemical 'decisions'. Each then splits off into a further infinite series of dream multiverses Since your brain obeys the same laws of QM as any other electrical 'device' .Therefore in each single 'waking'universe there is a further subset of your own infinite dream universes ' and the same applies to me too. As in any infinite series every possible combination must of necessity occur then it would follow that in one of the dream multiverses you appear in my dream and I appear in yours as you suggest.
So perhaps the people who 'meet 'every night in LDs at the 'Crossroads' website are not so crazy after all!

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Originally posted by florian
So perhaps the people who 'meet 'every night in LDs at the 'Crossroads' website are not so crazy after all!

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Is there such a website?
Do u have the link?
Thanks. :D

There was a discussion about this site not long ago that's why I thought of it in this context . See what you make of it .

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/index.html

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Originally posted by florian
There was a discussion about this site not long ago that's why I thought of it in this context . See what you make of it .

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/index.html

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Hey Thanks! I'll check it out :D