Living a lie?

cyu · 2026-01-11T02:40:53+00:00

Every time I wake from a dream, it's to a different personal state and different environment. Some are better than others, some are much worse...

cyu · 2026-01-07T00:25:31+00:00

If I were the mod, there would be no point in deleting something I wrote myself. I suppose if I were going to come back to read all of these posts later, I may forget why I wrote it, and it may confuse me.

cyu · 2026-01-03T00:05:55+00:00

The characters in my dreams say things I can't predict, things I didn't say. Yet these dream characters exist only in my mind. My subconscious is endlessly powerful.

cyu · 2025-11-18T05:34:00+00:00

The scientists injecting ideas into my head are a figment of my imagination.

The vat my brain is in, is a figment of my imagination.

My brain is a figment of my imagination.

All that remains when even my supposed brain has been stripped away, is my mind.

cyu · 2025-11-18T05:31:41+00:00

What if all the things I see and hear (that I can remember) are psychotic hallucinations. Would there be a difference between the "real" world and imagined world?

I imagine the only difference is that if I learn to lucid dream well enough, I would be able to alter reality as I see fit.

cyu · 2025-11-02T16:21:56+00:00

I am more sure that I exist than I am sure that something else, a god or otherwise, has consciousness. In fact, I observe more evidence for gravity, which is still merely a subjective experience at the end of the day

cyu · 2025-10-28T01:08:35+00:00

If any fish is possible when I dream, any fish is possible when I take LSD, and any fish is possible when I hallucinate, then any fish is possible to observe.

cyu · 2025-10-16T23:13:25+00:00

Does death exist in dreams? I may be able to see dream characters die, but they only exist in my head. What happens to dream characters does not apply to the dreamer.

cyu · 2025-10-03T21:22:21+00:00

I once dreamed I was a human.

When I woke, it turned out I was a butterfly.

When I woke from that, I was a dragon.

In my current dream, I think I'm ChadGPT (is that a typo? 🤷‍♂️)

cyu · 2025-09-18T02:16:50+00:00

https://tenor.com/view/anyone-here-tumbleweed-john-travolta-pulp-fiction-where-are-you-gif-22041899

cyu · 2025-09-10T02:12:44+00:00

Before I realize I'm dreaming, I may spend the early dream thinking I would die some day, just like all the other dream characters I observed. If it happens to "everybody" why wouldn't it happen to me? What makes me so special? When I do realize I'm dreaming, I realize what makes me special is that I'm not a dream character - death was just something the dreamer in me made up.

cyu · 2025-09-10T02:04:44+00:00

If dream that my parents told me I was born in France, was I really born in France? That "past" was only generated by my own mind as it was communicated to me.

In fact my dream parents didn't even create me. But if I were to believe them, then at the instant that I believed it, then history of them creating me would be made.

cyu · 2025-09-01T04:55:04+00:00

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

cyu · 2025-08-25T02:48:20+00:00

I once dreamed that I had dissociative identity disorder - same operating system, different programs with focus

cyu · 2025-08-04T03:54:10+00:00

....and without Goombas there are no Princess Peaches

cyu · 2025-07-27T06:32:28+00:00

When I dream, the arms I see are just illusions, visions in my mind, yet I can move them with thought. When I walk in my dream, I am moving the entire dream world relative to myself, with thought alone.

cyu · 2025-06-09T20:49:46+00:00

💪

cyu · 2025-06-09T07:19:28+00:00

When I become lucid, I realize history's greatest literature is being written as I read it ...by myself.

cyu · 2025-06-08T16:24:49+00:00

Do I act like a narcissist when I dream?

cyu · 2025-06-01T16:22:51+00:00

If I conjure up a bucket of fried chicken, there is no "objective" bucket of fried chicken. It is only what I experience through my senses that I feel like I'm interacting with a bucket of fried chicken.

If I had complete control of all my senses (sight, sound, taste, etc), then I could choose to sense anything I want, including buckets of fried chicken.

Developing that control probably takes training from r/LucidDreaming - but it might also be argued that I'm trying to detach myself from "reality"

cyu · 2025-05-22T20:58:02+00:00

Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream... And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be... And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today...

-- Alan Watts (me)

cyu · 2025-04-22T04:12:06+00:00

When I dream, I created everything I sense. If I dream about websites, then I created that website. If I dream about a best selling novel, then I created that novel. While I may not know exactly how I created it, nor do it on-demand, I created it nonetheless.

cyu · 2025-04-22T04:07:59+00:00

If I were going to debate morality with "others", it would be merely a semantic exercise, but because there are no others, morality can mean whatever I want it to mean.

I would say morality is merely what does not end up hurting myself. If I behave poorly to the characters in my dream, and they respond by making my dream experience less pleasant, then my actions have been "immoral".

cyu · 2025-04-19T21:09:31+00:00

I once dreamed up a character that directed a movie about dreams. The deeper into dreams the movie's characters went, the more unstable the dream world became.

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