Hello again friends,
Dreams. I've always been infatuated by dreams. (not only is the word lovely and perfectly explicit of its meaning).... For millennia philosophers have searched for the meaning of life far and beyond, but sometimes the answers are right there in-front of us. Could it be that dreams hold the answers we are looking for? I think so. Dreams and their meanings have become so commonplace that nobody questions why we might have a dream. And i don't mean the typical answer "Because you thought of it before bed and that's why you dreamt it" OR (another classic) "That dream is giving you a message". Both statements I feel are true, but go beyond that. Think "Why would dreams give messages?", "Why would 'someone' want to give me this message at all?", or "What do dreams care whether or not we learn this message". So in a nutshell, what is the meaning of this meaning? (I really hope you're not lost, this is a very difficult idea to convey). Part of me, that is my spiritual inclination, often makes me feel as if those dreams are given to me by some higher being that hopes to offer psychological support. So then you might ask, Why is it that we forget dreams if that is the case?
Have you ever woken up and remembered a dream vividly, and about a minute later haven't got the slightest clue what the dream was. How is that possible? How can thought be lost from memory in a matter of seconds? Again, I am inclined towards something non-empirical. Is it possible that the meaning of life is being snatched from our brains, taken away so we will never know the answer that pervades our minds (or at least my mind). So this higher being, why does "he" mock this crucial information before our minds and disappear it? Perhaps "he" doesn't. (Notice the speech marks, I don't like to refer to something out of this world as male or female, or imply this force is anything similar to what we are but i have to use a word, to make it easier I've chosen "he".)
So, I don't believe in a Devil, (evil to me is simply the definition of something "without good" or "privatio bonni" as Augustus said.) but yes i admit the devil seems to fit here. I think Devil is quite a strong word, for me it is human nature that is the devil of us, and this is what holds us back. So you could say, it is our nature or our inability to understand the meanings of life that makes us forget our dreams.
So you're probably wondering, OK, so what is the meaning of dreams and ultimately, of life. Well I'm getting to that...
P.s. Labeling myself is very difficult but If i were to say what i believe, it'd be that i'm an agnostic, and if you imagine agnosticism on a scale of one to ten, one being closer to atheism and ten being religious, well I think I'm on the high end of the scale. No that wasn't an irrelevant comment, because I want it to be clear that I might not believe my own theories, they are just thoughts to me...possibilities even.
Okay, with that in mind, life after death.
Sometimes I feel dreams our are soul, our subconscious, the inner-self that makes us all Godly...partly because just like this all-good being, we cannot understand dreams. Sometimes I think dreams will be the only thing that stay with us after death. Have you ever wondered where the dreams go? Do they just disappear, all those thoughts and knowledge in the tender capacity of our brains simply vanished? No, I don't think so. Often, we are told that life is learning game, what we learn now will aid us in the next life. Well, dreams are also a learning process for me. Life is a period where our dreams are learning, getting reading for perfection, our whole lives we have imperfect dreams, and this is finally explained and justified in a perfection. So due to our human in-capabilities, we have dreams that our dysfunctional, confusing and often irrational. How could that person be that person, but at the same time not really be that person? After death, perhaps those problems are solved. Perhaps we experience a revelation when we die, a feeling where things often "just make sense." You can't explain how or why, they just feel. This is why dreams are death become perfect. Like heaven.
So the theory is really, heaven in a dream.
For me, perhaps I'd be surrounding by books, people i love, and flowers that sing...
The lovely thing about this theory is it doesn't encounter the usual problems concerned with life after death.
1) Where is this place and how does it hold all these bodies?
2) How can so many people share the same perfection? My heaven is not necessarily your heaven.
So in this theory, My best friend could be you, even if you might not necessarily be my best friend. In your dream your perfection might be with someone else. That's okay. Nobody would know any better, I would never wake from my dream, and neither with you. Our dreams would never intercede one another.
You might think, but it's not real then. Who's to say what's real and not real though? As far as I'm concerned, a dream that is eternal, with a perfection that you feel you are living and never waking up from...may as well be real.
My perfection is conjured from my mind and experiences, something that is different for everyone.
(just look at the different religions...ideas of life after death are based on the cultures in which they were brought to life) ...For example, the Koran promises Islamic martyrs 72 virgins. Is that really paradise for these virgins? I highly doubt it.
So what dreams do "evil" people get? Perhaps these people don't get good dreams?
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Open-mind
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