How many of yall have dreams with sensations of reality? I can taste, feel, everything, accept I'm free to do anything. For example: If I'm flying kinda fast over a bunch of trees I can feel my heart race, the wind of the coulds rolling just above, and when I decend too quickly I can feel my stomach drop. So this raises the question; How can people be sure that the reality we apparently share isn't just some dream?
Things always feel so real in my dreams...I flown over tress also, and it was such an awsome feeling. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of a sexual dream I get really confused because it felt so real even when I woke up it still feels like it happened, but its just weird.
I sometimes get confused hours after waking up trying to figure out if I've done something regrettable, then later realize it was just a dream. Pesky paranoia I guess. The flying ones are allright though...
last night I had a dream I was piss drunk, in my backyard making a fire in one of those patio chimneys. It was very realistic, the heat from the fire, the drunken swaying, the drunken perception... Anyways, as far as the brain is concerned, dreams are as real as waking life. This is because the body is immobilized during a dream, so the brain registers the dream-body as the real one. In a very vivid dream, one may wake up sincerely thinking it happened.
you're right, forest_pixie, to the system of neural activity there is no difference between dreaming a perception and action, and the actual waking perception and action, to quote waking life.... which, if you're interested in this, you should definitely rent!!!! ...!
i am always upset after i wake up from an awesome dream like 2 days ago i had a whole buncha weed in my dream and then poof it was gone
For all you know, until you wake up, the dream was reality, so I just treat everything as though it were real... Works for me.
well, i think that's pretty much how it goes for everybody. thus, the big question is "what is real?". of course you treat everything around you as real, for the majority of our lives it's the only option; philosophy comes in when you begin to question that.. and people for ages have gone to great lengths to try and gain lucidity within a dream, and find the truth about reality without losing their minds.
