Oh ye Gods, this metaphysics again So far, philosophers concurred that one cannot tell at all (Phil 101?), since the knowledge of the others (beings other than oneself), the external world, the internal world, cannot be rectified and imperically proven to exist. I would love to think that we exist and course through life though, life is too fake to be a dream.
Philosophy is a load of BS that requires you to actually subscribe to the theory and throw away all logical and scientific inhibitions. Obviously, yes. We are living, because this is how we describe life. If this is a dream, then this dream is living.
Haha well be4 u even ask that i guess u should ask urself what life is to u. Which would u perfer to believe it is and why? Personally i perfer to think of life as just life. What if we were in a living dream? Same thing alive in a dream. U can't know and even if u did why would u want to? Ur life still would just be ur life. Ignorance is bliss many times.
so what you are saying is.. when he die.. we actually wake up..?? what do we do when we wake up?? so when we have dreams.. we're actually in our own dream, dreaming...??
^ Ecko brings up a good point. if life is dream ... and death is the wakening from this dream ... WHAT ARE WE WAKING UP TO??
On the other hand, if living is a dream, dying is the end of the dream. It does not refute the possibility that there is another dream lined up after the end of the first dream. So it would be like incarnation.
I thought when someone die, then they will recycle to the next life to a different being... Thats what I heard on the Buddhist theory. -unsure
when i was a little kid .. i would think about what it would be like when ur dead.. when i was thinking i would be lieng in bed.. but i guess we would never know.
To me, only nothingness awaits after death. I don't subscribe to the idea of going to heaven or any form of afterworld. Back to the question posed by the topic starter, yes I believe that we are really living. I define living as having conscience, so yes, I am alive.
So does it really matter? Cause theres no real proof of existence. If we were really just living a dream then do we start to live after death? or do we re-live another dream?
yes but once you wake up.. would you dare to dream again!? ; or are well all hooked up to dream machines..? -shrug
that question, no one can answer. I wish we are dreaming, that mena we don't have to die, or are we dead lol. but if we were dreaming, then why are we dreaming for this long. these question can never be answer, but if i were u, i wouldn't worry about it. Live ur life, and if we are dreaming, that just mean we have a new life waiting for us to redo again.
