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Our dreams are all in our mind. Its an alternate reality, but its not real. Our dreams are our mind, or subconscious. In our dreams we defy real laws. In our dreams these laws are non-existant.
But, it all depends on the question What is real? Is real what you can see? Hear? Touch? Taste and Smell? If thats the case then dreaming is as real as reality.
But is reality where science exists? Where laws of the universe exist? Where the universe is in its 4 dimensions? Is real where you can live and die? Is real a physical manifestation? If thats the case, then dreaming is the farthest thing from real, and is nothing but a pseudo-reality.
Can real even be defined? Let me ask you this. A person hears voices in their head, claim that someone is talking to them even though they are alone. They are legally insane. Are those voices real? They are there to the person. They can hear them. They, and they alone experience it. Just like our dream worlds. Each person has their own dream world that they alone experience. So if that person's voices arent real, why are our dream worlds? If someone is tripping out on LSD and they start seeing things, are those things real? They're hallucinations, but the person can see, hear, touch, smell and possibly taste them. Its all an illusion to the person, but its real?
Its all a matter of opinion on whats real, and whats not. Its all on your definition of real. Just so you know, when I told Seeker that its "You know, not real" I was making a small joke. Real is a variable. Real is different for every person. Im agnostic on the subject, and in saying Real is a variable, I say the circumstances depend on the definition of Real. Reality is constantly changing. So dreams may or may not be real. Its up to the person to decide whats real and whats not.[/b]
Yeah, you're right. Real is subjective, not objective. That's what I was trying to make clear. I don't think real can really be defined as other terms. It's different for everyone. Also, I didn't notice you were making a joke.
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In the moment of your dream, as you exist in the universe that is your mind. Its real. It exists to you. But once you awake, its no longer real. The reality it was is destroyed and its nothing but an illusion you experianced.[/b]
Or it's just an experience you aren't able to experience anymore. Just like going to an island, when you find out that your boat is sinking, and you can't possibly go back to home again. Unless somebody saves you. With dreaming, it's possible to get back to where you left off, it's just hard. Just like being saved. I do understand your point about 'the reality being destroyed'. However, will you able to experience youth again when you're an adult? Then how real was it? The reality is destroyed and no longer real?