This life is a dream?

[Squirrel]

Hey yall

So after that video I've been really thinking about what if I am really tripping but my mind makes everything seem that I'm not. I am sorry but what if you guys aren't real, I'll never know, I might be getting replies from my own self.

I have not tryed DMT yet.

 

[Awokenatlast]

You sound like me the minute i came back from my journey on DMT!! I was like "am I real? Are you real?? Are you sure?"

The mind is a wondrous place to explore

 

[Squirrel]

You sound like me the minute i came back from my journey on DMT!! I was like "am I real? Are you real?? Are you sure?"

The mind is a wondrous place to explore

Straight on! I wonder if this will come across my first experience?

 

[HumbleTraveler]

Its a very bizarre existence. Since we are not able to really pop into the consciousness of other's and see the world thru their eyes... from my point of view, I have no proof that anyone I see isnt simply a projection I made up. I myself might be a projection of myself, and Im just along for the ride. To you....if YOU really exist , you have no proof that Im not a projection and that Im 'real'.


Close the door to the room youre in. That is ALL that exists. Only whats there in that room with you is real. And is that even?? Theres no guarantee that you'll open that door back up and that anything that was there will be there, or that anything will be there at all.

Are these questions worth pondering since theyre perpetually futile? Beats watching Duck Dynasty, Dancing with the Stars, and the other abominations on television any day lol.

 

[Squirrel]

Its a very bizarre existence. Since we are not able to really pop into the consciousness of other's and see the world thru their eyes... from my point of view, I have no proof that anyone I see isnt simply a projection I made up. I myself might be a projection of myself, and Im just along for the ride. To you....if YOU really exist , you have no proof that Im not a projection and that Im 'real'.


Close the door to the room youre in. That is ALL that exists. Only whats there in that room with you is real. And is that even?? Theres no guarantee that you'll open that door back up and that anything that was there will be there, or that anything will be there at all.

Are these questions worth pondering since theyre perpetually futile? Beats watching Duck Dynasty, Dancing with the Stars, and the other abominations on television any day lol.

I really like your post, perhaps it's my projection's trying to trick me that I'm communicating with someone

 

[Trypp Jones]

The dimensional matrix grid can be deceiving indeed.

 

[eternal_symbiote]

"A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
Telling me that life is just a dream...
I spent so many years in question
To find I've known this all along."
-THIRD EYE, Tool

I've been toying with this idea that every part of this reality is someone else's dream. Of course this is something that came to me on a mescaline trip, and I've been occasionally wrestling with it in those deep, existential twilight hours of insomnia.

I'm not a stranger to psychedelics to any meaningful extent. I want to do many more than I've done, but still... Psychs are a good way to expand ideation beyond the mundane and earthly into something far more meaningful.

My hypothesis is that we are all a part of some other much higher being's dream. Restlessly sleeping and tumultuous, dreaming of an entire universe which learned to self-actualize. Now this is where the idea gets really difficult to talk about...
When we die in a dream, we wake up into cold reality. I don't think anyone ever actually dies in a dream. Why? Well simply put, the mind can't grapple with such a shock, and doesn't even know where to begin in processing any further input...
Play with this idea for a while and you come to all sorts of interesting conjectures.
There are many different levels of dreams you need, many dimensions and recursions if you will to make this theory work.
That's the beauty of nature is that in the immortal words of Finn from Adventure Time, "EVERYTHING SMALL IS JUST A SMALL VERSION OF SOMETHING BIG! I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING!"

Perhaps we die in this "real life" dream and are shocked awake into a new plane of existence. We are just buried so deep in this level, we're just a part of this higher being's active mind.

Where do you go with such a mind-melting idea? Ask me, I say put it on a shelf and leave it alone until you're heavily stoned or tripping balls. It's a bit of an ontological cul-de-sac.

 

[Squirrel]

Great hypothesis you got. Sorry but I just don't stand by it.

 

[Entheogenerator]

I would recommend that everyone posting in this thread the threads that Gibran posted, "The Improbability of Hyperspace" Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven't already, assuming what you're looking for is some degree of existential crisis...