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      Thumbs down What would life be like if we didn't dream?

      Imagine a world where we go to sleep and just "wake up" - with no dream experienced?

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      A lot less fun, I'd say...
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      It would be the same, except without dreams.
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      I wonder if that'd make it harder for you to be woken up.
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      Why is this in philosophy though?

      It's not a philosophical question, it's just mental masturbation.

      Wait...
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      Haha, the threads he's made so far. I think

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      it would be like, being a perfectly normal person

      as most normal people actually don't remember their dreams. they go to sleep, and poof wake up. boring huh? let's all appreciate the subjective reality a little more!!

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      Quote Originally Posted by juroara View Post
      it would be like, being a perfectly normal person

      as most normal people actually don't remember their dreams.
      Precisely.

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      Quite a life that must be to not have dreams...
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      Life would not be any different, because the human race would not even know the concept of a dream. If we never dreamed, than the word "dream" would not even be used, and this forum would not exist.
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      Quote Originally Posted by juroara View Post
      it would be like, being a perfectly normal person

      as most normal people actually don't remember their dreams. they go to sleep, and poof wake up. boring huh? let's all appreciate the subjective reality a little more!!
      Really? Are you sure about that? Seems too weird to me to never dream. Maybe once every month or so is the average.
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      Quote Originally Posted by djinternet View Post
      Imagine a world where we go to sleep and just "wake up" - with no dream experienced?
      We wouldn't care because we would have never experienced it. Like you, in this moment, don't miss flying bananas.

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      Guess what it's like for people with low or zero dream recall. I don't think you need to add a "What if" in your thread title there.
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      Quote Originally Posted by apachama View Post
      Really? Are you sure about that? Seems too weird to me to never dream. Maybe once every month or so is the average.
      It's not that people don't dream, it's just that they don't remember their dreams.

      Hang on now, I just thought of something. The people who don't remember their dreams - How do we know that they actually ARE still dreaming?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant View Post
      Their dreams - How do we know that they actually ARE still dreaming?
      Brain activity is identical and they can easily learn to remember if you wake them up after REM.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Serkat View Post
      Brain activity is identical and they can easily learn to remember if you wake them up after REM.
      Well brain activity being identical is true... But how do you know they can easily be taught to remember? Has there been an experiment, with participants starting off all claiming that they never remember their dreams?

      I don't know, I'm only speculating... But I do fully believe it's true that we all dream.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant View Post
      Well brain activity being identical is true... But how do you know they can easily be taught to remember? Has there been an experiment, with participants starting off all claiming that they never remember their dreams?
      Yes, I'm pretty sure that virtually everyone can learn to remember his or her dreams. But I am no expert.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant View Post
      It's not that people don't dream, it's just that they don't remember their dreams.

      Hang on now, I just thought of something. The people who don't remember their dreams - How do we know that they actually ARE still dreaming?
      Ive had friends that didn't know that everyone dreams every night, as in, a scientific fact

      since they didn't remember their dreams, and neither knew about the fact that everyone dreams every night - they did believe that they did not dream

      "I don't have dreams" is what they would tell me

      their world, wow. you don't want to be in it.

      on a more philosophical note, without dreams, spirituality as we know it might as well be non-existent.

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      Are there people out there who consider themselves spiritual who don't remember their dreams? ... Maybe..

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      Yeah, I remember reading in books where a character 'dreamt of nothing; their sleep was clear' for dramatic effect, and I'm like haha no.

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      ^ Heh

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      Well, we'd have evolved some other method to compensate whatever use dreaming has. Perhaps a section of our brains would shut off while the other remains awake (as in dolphins). A few major discoveries wouldn't have been made, and a few poetic works wouldn't have been constructed, but I'd assume we'd eventually find them while awake, as we do with most discoveries.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant View Post
      Are there people out there who consider themselves spiritual who don't remember their dreams? ... Maybe..
      some people are spiritual because they are religious

      but how different would christianity be? look how important the dream experience was in the early testament. look how important it was in the new testament, Joseph having dreams about Jesus

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      Quote Originally Posted by Serkat View Post
      It's not a philosophical question, it's just mental masturbation.
      Lol. You get that from bluefinger?

      If you couldn't dream, wouldn't your mind back up with thoughts or something? Dreaming sort of releases pent up thoughts... at least for me it does.

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      I wouldn't like it, dreams remind us this isn't the only place out there.

      Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.


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