Is Life One Long Dream

[ifuseekamy]

No, it's not. You can't feel anything when you're dead. Brain function ceases. Ergo, you certainly can't dream.

[Black_Apalachi]

Hmm there's not much room for debate really because no-one will know until they die (too late then!).

Although it does fit into the idea of reincarnation quite well. You live, you die which means you just 'wake up' into another life and the cycle goes round. Although is it possible to dream inside a dream? How annoying would that be!

Personally I think 'heaven' is more like a feeling than a place. The feeling of no doubts, no limits, no hate... just everlasting peace.

I was thinking about the bold part when I first saw the thread but couldn't think of the answer. I have a feeling I have had a dream in which I was dreaming. I hardly ever remember dreams though so I'm not certain but I may have done.

That's also what I imagine heaven to be (well, I don't believe in heaven, but you know what I mean). Definitely not some cloud nine place.

I really don't get this whole idea of reincarnation. It just sounds like a fantasy to allow people to believe that their loved ones who have passed on are still around somewhere. To met, the possibility of it being reality is the same as the possibility of the tooth fair's existence. There's no actual practical advantages to it or anything, it just sounds like a magical myth.

[Inseriousity.]

I was thinking about the bold part when I first saw the thread but couldn't think of the answer. I have a feeling I have had a dream in which I was dreaming. I hardly ever remember dreams though so I'm not certain but I may have done.

That's also what I imagine heaven to be (well, I don't believe in heaven, but you know what I mean). Definitely not some cloud nine place.

I really don't get this whole idea of reincarnation. It just sounds like a fantasy to allow people to believe that their loved ones who have passed on are still around somewhere. To met, the possibility of it being reality is the same as the possibility of the tooth fair's existence. There's no actual practical advantages to it or anything, it just sounds like a magical myth.

That's the same for all afterlife theories though, so I'm assuming you find them all fiction?

In answer to the question in the thread title btw, life is what you make it.

[luce]

You know you haven't because when you dream you wake up when you die and when you feel pain etc etc life is impossible to be one long dream because billions of people would all have to be dreaming in sync with each other.. Or if you believed that billions were dreaming in sync there would have to be a god there to control it.

For example.. how could we all dream 9/11 and know the exact timing etc.

Also in your dreams you wouldn't allow pain or suffering on your behalf and you would get rid of people who challenged you or who you didn't like

[Black_Apalachi]

That's the same for all afterlife theories though, so I'm assuming you find them all fiction?

In answer to the question in the thread title btw, life is what you make it.

What other theories are there? The only ones I know of are reincarnation (i.e. coming back as a different person/animal) and going to heaven/hell. Also when I said 'around somewhere' I meant on Earth. I guess you could use the same argument against the existence of heaven/hell however that isn't my reasoning for those

[Adamm]

I tend not to think about things like this because it has no definate answer and it just make me depressed. It's better live life as it comes and accept whatever is thrown your way, whether you're woken up in The Matrix when you die or whether you lay in a hole until eternity.

I have no idea, nor do I want to have.