Dreams are only real as long as they last, like life?

I closed my eyes.. I recalled dreams in my head that I dreamt as a child and followed by the nostalgia of real memories. I realized that dreams are essentially the same as our lives, and they are only 'real' in the present. Because how do we really separate our own memories from what was real and what wasn't, does this make reality just an illusion?

 

Reality is the dream you're having when you are not asleep... or the nightmare, depending.

 

It could be an illusion! Dimensions we can't even see, and the percentage of our brain we use, things we never imagined could be real like unicorns. Hmph, we truly will never know

dreams-escapism.

 

oddly enough my dreams usually return me to different times and places in the same parallel universe, just like waking returns me to this one. or is this the same one i was awake in the last time?

 

Maybe I don't get what you are saying but it sounds very contradictory to me.

Why would the dream only be real in the present if you remember them? Is everything that is in the past not real anymore?

And what about memories of dreams and "real" memories .... where is the difference? A memory is a memory.

 

Given that the physical world is a mere dance of tiny (and large) particles - how real is that ? - even if it lures us into taking it for solid and granted, the question rises of what is real anyway.

Life seems a fleeting dream when you forget to be present.

Asides from the opposites real/not real (I think) there's a flux of realites to be experienced, and depending on by whom - the dreamer/ the sleeper / the waking one (and it seems that we mostly are asleep) - they turn into layers of presence, like energy fields, or onion peelings revealing their multi-dimensional nature one after the other.

Any path may get us closer to the real thing ... or let's say to its mystery ... yet the dreamer often seems to know better about the route.

Just a thought. Thank you for yours

 

When you're dreaming and not lucid you believe everything is real in that moment.. or even sleep paralysis. You wake up and then distinguish your reality vs. your dream. If you have a nightmare about the world blowing up and thought it was 'real' in the present moment of that dream, when you remember you realize it wasn't 'real'. The world hasn't blown up because you're alive.. u recall and separate what was a dream and what was 'real' but exactly, where is the difference? sometimes our views are altered, it's all just a blur on how we percieve our realities, illusions

 

Agreed !

 

Dreams are the known illusion of a reality we have not yet grasped
Who's to say what is real, when nothing is?