Reality isn't real, iin?

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I've been wondering this for a very long and only recently I decided to make this into a theory... When, I was a child, I often wondered if life was a dream and everyone was dreaming. I often had "dreams" where I would be asleep and that my "real" family was desperately trying to wake me up and each time I would wake up, I would be still stuck in this life.

I few weeks ago it hit me. What if "Reality" wasn't really real, but when we dream that's reality. But we can't permanently be in that reality, because we eventually wake up. When we die we get to finally live in "reality". Everything is real. Life isn't real and it's only purpose is to prepare us for when we die.

I'm starting to feel that everything is pointless in this life, because nothing is real... I'm not suicidal so, please don't think that. But is this a normal thing to think? Has anyone else thought about this too?

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  • Megid
    12 years ago

    // Wake up.
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    // We miss you.

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    • Eternal_Wisdom
      12 years ago

      that's actually quite creepy..

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  • Shrunk
    12 years ago

    Yeah I've thought of that too, but what I think now, is that life and dreams are both real, they both exist and actually happen. It's just that life is kinda like the more important reality, because it has so much more to offer.

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    • evilfish
      12 years ago

      A very simple yet insightful thought Shrunk.

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  • Dot123
    12 years ago

    ''If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain'' - Morpheus.

    ''I know that I know nothing'' - Socrates.

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  • vibrant15
    12 years ago

    life is real. :)

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  • thoughtfulopt29
    11 years ago

    I use to think the EXACT same thing!!

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  • staybeautiful
    12 years ago

    Leo tyinking

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  • ThatOneGuyFromThatOnePlace
    12 years ago

    As a wise man once said, "Reality is a story the mind tells itself, an artificial structure conjured into being by the calcium ion exchange of a million synaptic firings." (btw if anyone can figure out who the "wise man" is, you have a good taste in video games). So, technically, because everyone interperets everything a little different, no, reality isn't "real" and technically is just an opinionated idea of earth. For all we know we could all be telepathically connected in an outer reality, while we are actually in a dream right now. There's been times where I'll be dreaming, I fall asleep in the dream and have that dream inside of the original dream, then wake up from the dream inside of the original, and later wake up from the original dream. (yeah, confusing, i know, it's hard to explain)

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  • Eternal_Wisdom
    12 years ago

    Just try & enjoy it. what ever "it" is.

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  • zchristian
    12 years ago

    As i said in the other thread who cares if reality isnt real we cant do anything about it....

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  • lc1988
    12 years ago

    If only it were true. I've done some pretty naughty things in my dreams. =)

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    • Who_Fan4Life
      12 years ago

      =O

      Never would have guessed!

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  • evilfish
    12 years ago

    I went through that phase. Some think the world is an illusion, others believe existence has a concrete meaning (religiousity), others see no meaning in existence, while others acknowledge some kind of cosmic scientific breakdown for the "order of things". I fall in the last category.

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  • Energy
    12 years ago

    All the time!!!! but to be honest...no one really knows until they die.

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