Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Are we living or are we being dreamt?

Are we living or are we being dreamt? - a question that has been bothering me since childhood.

We all have dreams. And in dreams, we see different people, places, things and settings. The laws of time, speed, gravity do not hold in our dreams. But, things do happen and we generally make sense out of them.

Just think! Are we living? Can't you be a character in the dream of someone else. Can't it be so that your life and universe be a part of his/her dreams.

We have so many unanswered questions about the formation of universe and beginning of life। It might be perfectly fitting to say that - the person who is dreaming us has full knowledge about his own existence. Just because we are his dream, certain rules are being defied just as certain rules are defied in our own dreams.

Keep thinking about this and you would find lots of daily occurrences supporting this idea।

Your thoughts, observations and deductions might
  • Prove that this is true and explain our existence better. You would be given a Nobel prize for finding our existence and also establishing a connection between the dream and the reality.
  • Prompt you to write a brilliant book series like the Harry Potter. If someone can enter a 9 3/4 platform and earn a whole lot of money - you too can.
  • At the least it would give you enough fun.
Think well!

10 comments:

Ritesh said...

Baap re! philosophy of dreams :O

Raghu said...

As long as the person who is dreaming abt ur life doesn't figure out that he/she is dreaming abt u , it's fine . Else imagine the person can manipulate ur life.It might be a person whom u know very well.

I said...

My my! That's a long dream you're referring to, centuries long! I wonder what would happen to all of us if that person who's dreaming wakes up from his sleep or reverie!! Would we all evaporate or disppear into thin air? I guess the one who figures out how to keep this person dreaming would win the noble prize too :-)

Vee said...

but it so happens that, we ourselves play a major part in many (not all) of our dreams... so is it like, one of us living in this world is that person him/herself who is actually dreaming all this?

Unknown said...

lp: Interesting thought. But, the unit of time might be completely different in the real world. Also, it can be so that people can dream while being awake in the real world. We know nothing about the real world. Our world is the dream world. What say??

Unknown said...

veee: One of us MIGHT be the dreamer. It could be the person as such or a completely distorted version of it.

Anonymous said...

U ppl are dreaming a lot..
keep Dreaming..Jhonny Dreamer

Anonymous said...

Its been a nice thought kasha but what if the person who is dreaming himself is a dream of some other ............. This even could be a chian. Then it becomes messy and scary. You can even imagine that we are characters of a computer game where somebody from some other galaxy or whatever are playing. Whatever we are , where ever we are wether in a game or in a dream just expect that the dream continues or the game never ends............................

lavixu said...

http://yetanotherblogbyme.blogspot.com/2008/04/dreamy-land.html

I am taunted by dreams. My subconscious mind takes over me for everything I do in the morning, I dream what shld have happened at night. Its scary. Hope to get cured. I was really amazed to see someone dedicate two posts to topic names dreams. Feeling better!

Satish said...

u shud have shared a part of this philosophy with nolan !!!!