Dreams, Reality & Hallucination !

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Permalink Reply by Kaboom! on December 7, 2008 at 1:45pm

Hmmm....sometimes I even wonder if right now is real. But from a philosophical point of view...I believe in now...live in now...past is memory...which is a type of imagining, and future IS pure imagination. Now is all there is.

Have I confused past as possibly not having happened or get confused on the matter...indeed. I sometimes wonder if my now deceased husband was real...it seems so...surreal...his illness, his death...maybe the life was a dream too. Other things too...both big events and just little things. I do not have a lot of attachment to them though...so maybe that is why. I tend to have to remind myself that I am a physical entity ...my mind is in the ether.

And you?

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Permalink Reply by Ardalan on December 8, 2008 at 9:25am

Well Kaboom,

Sorry for your loss and thanks for commenting on this topic. Its right that past and future are all memories and imaginations of the mind and what is real I believe is what’s happening at the present and that’s what we should be concentrating on.

I think life becomes a dream to us as days pass by and moments become distant memories. But there are times when memories cross our minds and occasionally we have doubts whether they were real or simply dreams.

But I guess if we pay too much attention to our dreams and past memories then we will enter the state of hallucination and confusion to the extent that things can get mixed up and people can end up in psycho institutes. But hey, aren’t we living with our memories ?!!!

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Permalink Reply by lost gemini on December 12, 2008 at 1:00am

yeah sure have and is a confusing thought to distinguish if it happened in a dream or actually experienced it. Or some of the dreams could have been stuff we experienced before the dream and forgot. then remember it as being a dream. Like could have experienced something so great and thought it must have been a dream....

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Permalink Reply by sara on December 12, 2008 at 8:00pm

Most of the time this happens when we are in an unnormal situation.After being in a very sad or even very happy situation,we doubt whether it was real or just a dream.We use the word "dream" when sth is unbelievable.But it is really a problem(if can call it problem, ofcourse) that almost all people have experienced and it has a psychological reason.when mind can't match current events with previouses information,it enters a situation that is hard to distinguish whether is real or dream.
I have many memories in mind (the most from childhood) that now i doubt they are real or just hallucination,and sometimes when i speak to others about them,i find that they can't be real.Or sometimes i cross sth/someone that seems so familiar to me or reminds me a memory/dream/feeling but i can't remember it clearly,in this situation it's hard to find this memory is real or dream.

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Permalink Reply by James on March 28, 2009 at 9:16pm

Do I really want to spend my time analyzing any of them? Think in terms of motion, momentum. Reality's affect on your ambitious self is the same as your not allowing your memories or dreams to curtail your success.

I met a women at a barbecue last night... for two-three years I've been fantasizing about having glorious sex with a redhead. As far back as I can remember I have wanted to make this my reality. She is a redhead and from what I have learned, she is quite the nymph. From the moment we shook hands I felt that I was going to have a fabulous dream about her. And of course, I did! II nailed her good and she did the most endearing thing to show me that my manhood was important to her. This is my reality, see? She is soon to be my cousins ex wife... Their reality, see? And because she squared up her shoulders to me and let me caress her fingers in the company of others, I have become her reality.

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Permalink Reply by Allissa on March 28, 2009 at 9:19pm

i just google dream dictionary. and i usually find all the answers there! its pretty neat.

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Permalink Reply by Ciaran Bracken on July 17, 2009 at 12:11am

In my own estimation on dreams/hallucinations verses reality is that many of us experience from time a euphoric moment. We then try to catch that euphoric moment over and over again it can also have the opposite effect of a traumatic episode. We are searching for that special moment in time. To glimpse the best part of our life and then as we are unable to rein-act that part of euphoria we fail and that causes a dissipation of what was once real that has been through the melting blocks now seems to be overplayed and we then ask ourselves have we actually been through that or are we going through a phase. We no longer understand that euphoric moment with the reality of the seconds and minutes and hours that pass us by with only realising that during that time it may only have been a glimpse in the overall euphoria as supposed to longevity of the mundane life.

Hallucinations would be a separation between reality into a realm of fixations on a certain moment that has distressed you this can be caused by emotional or chemical abuses. The emotional experiences that life is no longer worth experiencing as they have faced a reality which has not given the confidence to actually want to part-take in reality and shifts towards a realm where it is necessary for them to escape and when they escape out of fear they find a situation where they perception is altered and as they now see that they are fixated on this so-called problem instead of letting the thought out of its conscious realm they now enforce the problem which causes a reoccurrence of the hallucinations and as they fixate on this it becomes stronger and stronger until a sensory disfunction occurs leading to unfortunate psychological difficulties. The thought process which we undertake which can have a fine balance between a balance and an imbalance of a healthy thought process can occur when we get preoccupied with our thoughts and when we do not connect them with reality they may become altered to an imaginary form without any reality basis on the persons life which can cause them to become disjointed from the realities of their life and fall into a place where they are increasingly focusing on the imaginary aspect of their life and as they do this they may become separated partially from reality causing the once day dreaming to constant shifting between reality and imaginary thought process and them becoming confused as to which is real or not.

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