What if we are dreaming???
My friend Murali has a very interesting read aptly title "Please answer...".It certainly lead me to start wondering on a bit different lines The line on which I thought had more to do with a movie I had seen a year back "Breaking Dawn".
Now I won't go into the details of the post or the movie. Read and Watch to learn more. But here goes....
Many of us have dreams. By which I mean that there are goals that we set out to achieve, many of them we do achieve but some goals unfortunately we all fail to do so.
I'll take an example. Let's say getting into IIT was my dream (and obviously the dream of countless others).
And this goal I did achieve (well atleast I believe so)...or did I???
What if I actually never made it here. What if, I was so shocked on hearing about my failure that I created a whole imaginary IIT around myself. What if the place I beleive I am living in is all just a dream. A dream from which I am just not able to wake up. What if my failure had created some sort of protective psychological world around myself. What if I had never achieved this dream of mine and I am just dreaming.
It may sound a bit like the Matrix. But I assure you the movie Breaking Dawn is more relevant here.
The bigger Question is....
What will happen if I wake up???
Will it be better for me or is it better to live in this world that my mind has decided to create.
Now getting Murali's fundaes in, My brain is a neural net, it has created this world because that's the best way it could balance the charges. That's the only was my brain could cope with it. In other words there is a reason that there is this world around me...and my brain knows the reason.
So should I destroy it? Should I wake up? If so how....
Of course there is the other possibility that this post is a piece of crap and was just written to waste your time.
posted by aniket @ 8:58 PM
4 Comments:
Wow! you are very much here Aniket .. you refer to something like a collective dream consciousness.. but arguing on those lines, anything is possible..
And about what would happen if we woke up(if we are dreaming now in the first place).. the dream should first end.. and for that to happen, I should cease to exist in this form.. Throwing open many more such possibilities ..
Sounds crap?? It should.. proves we are still normal :)
everything which is imaginable is possible
What you are trying to talk about is a basic question of philosophy which i trying to read for the past 2 days for my exam on monday. And i know how much i hate this crappy questioning thing.
What we all basically look for is a one single rational unity for all claims. If for your mental balance you seem to believe that you are in IIT, well thats your own subjective reality. Something like a phenomenological perspective. We are only seeking answers to questions that we ourselves came up with. We who do not trust our surroundings and our reality.
Trust me, the more you read about all this, the more you will be intrigued to know about it.
@murali:
I am not so sure that if this is a dream then I should really wake up.
@kanthi:
heh heh :)
@varshita:
can't really say that i get what you mean to say but I will refer varoius websites (that means wikipedia) to get more on the issue.
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