Dreams or Reality?

[Arnox]

So let's say there was a way to make it to where, for the rest of your life, you would live in a dreamworld controlled by you where anything you want can be made completely real to you at any time. The catch is that is you wouldn't be able to escape from it, and to other people, you'd be in a coma. For purposes of this discussion, assume that nothing bad will happen to your body while you live in this state and you will live as long you normally would.

Or you could reject it and keep living your life. However, as above, if you reject the dreamworld, you won't ever be able to accept it again. This is a one-time offer.

[oppenheimmer]

easy stay in the dream wold imagein hdff in an unbrakeable cage with all the drugs in the world just an inch fether away then is arm can stratch out off the cage and i sit and watch and probly partake and tesse him haha also lots off naked girls running around haha

[Infinityshock]

speaking of posting while under the influence of OD-quantities of pharmaceuticals...

[Infinityshock]

So let's say there was a way to make it to where, for the rest of your life, you would live in a dreamworld controlled by you where anything you want can be made completely real to you at any time. The catch is that is you wouldn't be able to escape from it, and to other people, you'd be in a coma. For purposes of this discussion, assume that nothing bad will happen to your body while you live in this state and you will live as long you normally would.

Or you could reject it and keep living your life. However, as above, if you reject the dreamworld, you won't ever be able to accept it again. This is a one-time offer.

sounds like the matrix

[Arnox]

sounds like the matrix

Actually nope. The Matrix was a simulation of just a normal, everyday modern world and you couldn't control it either.

[oppenheimmer]

^^^ er the guy with the fucking keys dose a dam good job off changing this

[Arnox]

^^^ er the guy with the fucking keys dose a dam good job off changing this

Actually, he could just unlock and get into anything in the matrix. He wasn't changing anything at all

[Cerealkiller]

Now while in this dream world would you know it's a dream or would your mind think it's reality?

[Arnox]

Now while in this dream world would you know it's a dream or would your mind think it's reality?

You'll know it's a dream world BUT you can make the dream world match reality as much as you want to.

[Idiosyncrasy]

Who is to say that your reality is not actually a dreamworld?

[edify]

I'd take it and the first thing I'd do is alter my time perception so that one second in the real world feels like 1000 years in my dream world. Then I'd spent my days discussing Sartre and shit with husky voiced Spanish supermodels in an air conditioned hanging garden overlooking Angkor Wat, with unlimited frozen lime daiquiris materializing out of thin air.

In the immortal words of Joe Pantoliano, ignorance is bliss.

[Arnox]

Who is to say that your reality is not actually a dreamworld?

Nope. It's way too hard to change stuff in it.

[Cerealkiller]

I'm up in the air on this because in one way I would love to see how my reality world pans out, but in the dream world I'll have no more worries.

[Arnox]

I'd take it and the first thing I'd do is alter my time perception so that one second in the real world feels like 1000 years in my dream world.

Eh, that's kinda h4x thar, edify. You're disqualified.

I'm up in the air on this because in one way I would love to see how my reality world pans out, but in the dream world I'll have no more worries.

Not only that, you're pretty much now dead to anyone who cares for you at all, so I guess this would be like committing suicide except you know what's going to happen if you decide to do this.

[X0MB13]

I went next level on this with a paper I wrote last night. If a computer that is much less complex than the human mind can replicate a simulation universe, I see no reason for our dreams to not be real. "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be in quotes. Quantum mechanics allows for atoms to be in multiple places at once and I believe the same is true for people. For anything to exist it must be observed which is how human perception works for the most part. Current devices can measure alpha, theta, spindle, and delta waves and frequency plays a role in theories of the multiverse. I believe our dream state frequencies may be shuffling our energy through multiple dimensions even if the possibility exists that they are of our own design. I am an extremely lucid dreamer and my dream worlds are designed with the physics of this universe still in play. The dreams I cannot recall are the ones that interest me most.  I want to remember the dreams that occur during deep delta wave sleep.

Now since people brought up the Matrix take it a step further and think 13th floor. We are each gods of creation and destruction. Possibly in the midst of a  simulation ourselves but have the power and opportunity to create our own tangents of reality in dream states. I wake up and pound Xanax to drop right back into my emergent sleep stage one where dreams are most lucid an I have the most control. I've already considered the idea that at the point of death that my 21 grams of energy can deposit itself into one of my own created worlds so I'm putting real work into my designs. Energy cannot be created or destroyed.  Currently my dream designs adhere to the physics that we have in this reality but everything else is tailored for me.