Dreaming has been one of my greatest fears ever since I can remember. Sometimes I can't help but be worried about whether or not my life is real or not. I know it's a pretty stupid fear, but it's there. Sometimes I go to sleep at night, and try not to be worried about waking up somewhere else and discovering that the whole life I've lived so far has only been a dream, and that I'm actually someone else, or something like that. it's stunting my ability to progress forward and make plans for myself. Maybe I think about things too deeply, but this seriously scares me, and I don't know why. Does anybody else feel like this, ever? Or is it just me? Does this fear have a name, maybe?

I have think deeply on the subject is this the real reality or not. I thought about it after I played The Simpsons Game because the end is a whole video game playing a video game and so forth. Do I fear it? Not really. Do I think everything might be gone when I wake up? Yes. It all depend if I think about it too much. I decide to not think of anything too long right now in my life or I won't get nothing really done.

I have been having this dream where i`m like an angel and i`m trap in this bottle and i cant get out. An at the bottom of me there are few papers that have letters on them. Then when i spelled it out and i spell out "Bottled Angel". Then i realized that i`m the bottle angel...!

Scary! I've kind of had a fear like this one. My fear is that when I die, I'll go onto a new life and my old life will be swallowed up by the new one, or the past ones. Maybe it's a fear of being forgotten, or something.

i want something exciting happen in my life because i am so sick of the same thing happen everyday

>>4 I'm not really afraid of being forgotten. I'm just afraid of finding out that everything is actually nothing, and that the nothing I thought was nothing was the everything instead. It's so confusing, but it makes sense to be. I guess I'm just scared about waking up into a new life one day, something so very different, and then realizing that the strange world I ended up in was my real life all along, and that the one I'd gotten so used to living everyday was just a dream.

You see I've had this feeling more than just once, I've had this kind of feelings my whole life. I understand where you're coming from and I understand your situation very well in fact. I used to have this very same fears and many others, but you see you're probably not the only one in this world that feels that way, in my life I've met people I can trust and share secrets with, and they too felt the same way. And you know what they said? "I don't really care I just go with the flow, whatever comes my way I'll take it like a boss". So yeah I took their advise and just went wit the flow. But even if all this is a dream then at least I wouldn't be the only one because we're all sharing the same dream wouldn't we? So I decided even if this is all a dream even if nothing is real and all the efforts I've put into my life was for nothing, it wouldn't matter to me anymore, I didn't come this far to just give up on life just because I thought it was all a dream, so I decided that even in a dream like this I should at least give it my all because.... who knows this could actually be reality just trying to fool you into giving up.

>>8
That... makes sense. Thanks for that, it helped a lot ^ ^ your friends are really smart.

Yeah I know that's how I got this far

First off, I'm so happy I found this thread. I love dreams, and nightmares! Everything about them is just so exotic! I'm no official scientist, but I try and write out my own Philosophy on dreams, even with some help from Science.

So, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to share my thoughts so far, and see if they may be similar to yours.

Hinting to the future:
When I say that, I don't mean like having a dream of dinosaurs destroying the Earth, and then two days later it actually happens. I noticed while being conscious in my dreams (lucid dreaming) I have been in random areas. I would also notice that I'm either a child, or grown up (and as of now, I'm only 14.) They're simple dreams, I'm usually in a car with my family and we drive into some town. Then, months later, in the real realm, we end up going to that place and I experience total Deja'Vu! So, this got me thinking; could dreams give us little hints about where we will be in the future? I'm not saying you can predict the lottery, but you will see a place you will go to in the near future. Weird, right?

Describing different dreams:
Something I love to do even more, is trying to listen to what people have dreamed about, pick out the details, and give feedback on what I think they're dream is doing. For example, when most dream of falling off a cliff, it usually means they feel inside that they are losing grip on their life. Dreams like this, are like tricky ass mask, so they can't easily be read and predicted. For example, you may dream of being locked up in a pitch black room and you shout and shout, but no one comes. That doesn't mean in the real realm that you're feeling shut in, or non-sociable. It could mean that you fear a presence getting in the way of your life time goal. Or maybe you think you do not speak loud enough in bad situations.

Summing my reply up:
Our brain, is communicating with us..:
When I tied those to theories and more I made together, I realized that dreaming is most likely our brain speaking to us. In our dreams, we do things that, deep down, we've always wanted to do, but in real life never done it. Our emotions change up our dreams and the way we feel the next morning. Our dreams can be simple signs of what movie you'll go to see in a month! But besides that, something greater is happening with our dreams. What if in our brains, lies our soul..? Is that why we dream, and then when were groggy and such, we have nightmares? When we dream, are we in our soul? Inside the dream realm, which is everyone's soul. Where we somehow face and witness the things we want, don't want, and such, that in real life would seem impossible to anyone listening, but for some reason, when we dream...we believe it? What if our dreams are our soul in our brain, trying to get us to be what we truly want to be, and what were valued to be?

This could explain why most of us are mean to each other, because we are afraid we'll sound crazy when our true, true, feeling are spoken. So that makes no human speak to each other about it, and maybe that's what causes things like war, crime, poor economies, and hatred. Because we are all afraid of the same thing, yet our dreams are making us also accept the same thing. And that right there, makes me believe in things like invisible ties between each and every human. No matter how different, were all bonded in some great thread that keeps us going, because when we all dream, we all face our truths, and we can all..be happy..

>>11 One thing. Red string of fate.

I've always had the same thought. Even when I was really young, I remember being on a trampoline and thinking "Wow. I can move my arm. How cool is that?"

I always feel like reality is a dream. It's hard for me to believe something unless I can touch it.

But yet, I still "go with the flow" about things, like said above, because there's not much I can really do about it. And I don't really fear it, either. If it's a dream, it's a dream. If it's reality, it's reality. It is as it is.

Again, ever since I was young, I've always liked to create my own little worlds and story lines that didn't portray me, but, I guess, another me in my mind. Every child probably did this, the weird thing is that I still do it as a teenager.

I create my own little worlds and realities and "mes" all the time. I think because I did this since I was a child, I have problems confusing the things I make up in my mind with reality. I even believe in supernatural things even vampire believers would think of as weird. Not as an offense to those who believe in supernatural things, just a point.

This is something probably a lot of people think. I once told a friend of mine about how I thought reality was a dream, and he told me it was an actual religion/philosophy/thing. He couldn't remember what it was called, so I don't know it but now I really want to look into it.

It sounds like the fear alice had about the red king. she feared that if she were to wake him up that her existance would end, that her entire existance was the dream of another. Heh but to be honest you say it like its a bad thing. The world is rather dull, its so very boring. If it was found that this life was only a dream i think that would be quite the good conclusion. Alas it seems tho that this reality is far to real, such a pity

Its kinda fuzzy in my head but, I remember about a year ago I had a dream that I have lived my whole entire life.
It started out as me graduating from college (Which is strange because I'm still in my first year of high school) And then it gets really blurry I don't remember much but I think I got a job and started to work. Everything then faded to black for me (Or maybe I just can't remember) And all of a sudden I was married I think I had a kid too. I remember the sun shining really brightly in my face and I couldn't really see or hear anything, but someone was holding my hand and I heard a child laughing and talking.

Now here is the most clearest part of my dream, The sun went away again and my view grew dark. Like I was falling asleep. When I got my vision back I was standing behind an old women in a rocking chair. It was outside and the sun was shining again. Her hair was grey and tied in a messy bun. And she was just rocking back and forth in the chair.
I had this weird feeling though as I was watching her. It was like that women in the rocking chair was me, but then wasn't me. It felt like I was there, but then I wasn't there. I was very confused and thinking about it made me exhausted. I couldn't even move from the place I was standing in and I couldn't turn my head away from the woman. All I could do was watch as she rocked back and forth, while the sun kept shinning brightly and the birds chirped. And then I woke up.

I've asked my family about this before and my aunt has said maybe it's from another life that I lived in a past life, I don't know what it really is and sometimes I do wonder if I'm living in reality or in a dream. But maybe it's something hinting to the future like what Dstar89 has said. But then again I'm not sure. What really confuses me is the ending of this dream. Ever since that dream I've had other dreams where I have thought I did something or I've had a conversation with a friend but later I found out It never happened.

>>14

As I said in my reply, I like to describe the meanings behind everyone's dreams, and yes, I believe this one your having of you living your life is most possibly a hint or two of your future's path. This is my theory on your dream:

You said your in your first year of high school right now. OK, but in the dream, your graduating college; meaning your a fully prepared adult ready to live on their own. That part is apparently clear, but not too helpful of my theory. Then, you're working, etc. This could show that the first few years of your complete adult life goes smooth. When you make the transition of seeing yourself married with a child, doesn't necessarily mean you are going to have a child, and I in my beliefs, you may not marry. This part could be hinting either two things; you're going to have a very, very strong connection with your family or someone elses, or you are going to end up with a beautiful relationship, a.k.a: true love. Now, the interesting part.

I felt a strange feeling when I read about you seeing a old lady just rocking back and forth in a chair. I began to think: this is where your current self and your older self is together to realize the great life you're going to have, and had (I don't know if your a guy or girl, but by your context I say your a girl. Sorry if I'm wrong). Anyways, this old women rocking is most likely you. And you, are presumably there with her, just watching. Your staring into the future, while the old your stares into the past. Your current self, and your self when your old, alone but happy, are reunited and are proudly staring into the sky, knowing the great life you are making, and had made.

So, to sum up my theory; you are most likely going to have a very happy life, surrounded by people your love, even when any of them pass away.

>>12 It's uncanny how we both sound the same, with our look on reality and dreams :)

I began thinking one day, for no apparent reason, on the concept of death mixed with dreams. I thought, "Could reality actually be dream?" but I don't mean it like most others do. This isn't part of my religion, and I hope it's not infringing other's religions, but I came up with an idea: When we die, do we wake up as someone else?

As I mentioned, I believe when we sleep, our brain let's us into our true soul, so what if this may be true? When we die, may our soul be transferred into the mind and body of someone else who may have been sleeping? I wouldn't say this theory of mine is reincarnation, but a mere dream realm/philosophy phenomena.

Added to that, I recall my first life experience I remember as a very small child was, for some reason, waking up on the side of a pool. There were children everywhere, parents with them. But I, I couldn't identify anyone. I was having trouble too. I just looked around, then my eyes closed again, then after that I remember nothing but blackness, then waking up in a nice little home in West Virginia with my Dad, Mom, Brothers, and Sister. From there on, I've been living life.

I'm still trying to come up with that pool side scene. Why was my first life experience ever remembered, started with me awakening then falling asleep? Could I have been someone who died and their soul was transferred into my newborn body?

So, that's my look on "Life is a dream."

do you sometimes think that what if one day you realize that your whole life was just a dream??

I'm just watching a dream I can never wake up from.

>>18 Oh man, you're so deep I can't even see you.

>>20 omg I've never heard that comeback before, but I'm stealin it from you, and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it!

>>4 Yeah I sometimes feel as if my whole life is a dream. When I die, I'll become someone new, and most likely someone my current self wouldn't like. It's weird to feel this way....

Matrix~ :P

The whole dying and waking up in a new life thing reminds me of a period in my life where the majority of my dreams were things like me riding on a bike, and I couldn't get it to go straight, so I fell and woke up suddenly. Things like that.

But they haven't been happening that often anymore (yay I can actually sleep now) so it's all blurry.

I also have something called phantom pain (idk the scientific name for it) where you can say something like "cut a person's throat" and I swear I can feel it. And it's not just that, it's a whole bunch of other things, too.

And according to Feng Shui, at least my sister's interpretation of my reading, I'm an "old soul".

If it's true I feel like all that stuff goes hand in hand ._.

>>24 thats cool, maybe you can figure out who you are in your past life *o* !!!

>>24 thats cool, maybe you can figure out who you are in your past life *o* !!!

>>24 thats cool, maybe you can figure out who you are in your past life *o* !!!

I can understand your fear of what could be, involivng your dreams. I had a similar fear, because I couldn't dream. Every night was blank. For a week, I could hear my dreams. The sounds were of nothing but pain, fear, and death. In my opinion, enjoy the dreams that visit you in the night, and don't fear the unknown reaches of them.

I see where your fear is coming from. I too have also been terrified of dreaming. My reason is just a bit different. Ever since I was a childI have had dreams of me dying. Now I know what you may think. People always say that if you DIE in a dream you die in the real, but I haven't. It's a reoccurring thing. Usually I end up in similar situations, but obviously I live, so the next time it happens it's further in my life. Now obviously I think it's just a coincidence, but whatever. As lately, for the past two years this dream still comes to me though.

I'm at a party/ball thing in my old hometown in WV. Outside, where we are for the beginning, is a type of fair. I bump into two men that I don't know, but supposedly do in the dream, and we go inside together.

>>29 Very unusual dream to be truthful, but then again dreams are our mind trying to tell us something. I honestly can't come up with any "great" reason behind this dream you're having, but it may be this:

You say it is in your old hometown, so most obvious to me is that it does have something to do with your connection to your hometown. The part thing could indicate the feeling you had within your hometown, and what you feel deep inside for it is comfort and fun (thus indicating this may be a dream of deep emotion.)

The two strange men may not stand for any significant people, but most likely a form to tell you that your connection and feelings you have for your hometown in WV seem strange, but you truly know it's there.

*party