[Dive Bomb]

Originally Posted by JonathanBrowne

hat's interesting is that as a child I used to have thoughts like "what if the entire universe around me is just something I am dreaming up" but then I started to think about it more deeply. If everything was dreamed up by me, I could hardly be surprised, amazed, awed or in any way phased by anything that goes on around me. On the other hand, how would taking away all surprise and emotion be empowering? Then again, it is possible to surprise yourself with your own thoughts, and dreams certainly are strange and unexpected. Furthermore though, why is that dreams are not consistent like reality, if reality is a dream? If this is a subjective reality, you do not exist. How do you feel about not existing? I'll tell you, it makes me a bit uncomfortable that you think I don't exist. I promise you, I do.
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Steve, this is a challenge to you. Since you've gone down this road, are you willing to take it all the way? If the deaths of these 33 people are meaningless except as a mirror of issues within yourself, then your telling me you would not feel it was a tragedy if your wife was killed tonight by a mysterious gunman? Then if you moved on and got over your grief, why would your wife not come back since of course it is your subjective reality. Are you willing to say that if your wife was killed, she must have been blocking your development and empowerment or it would not have happened?

Well unless you're a pro lucid dreamer, I'm sure you've had dreams that seem so real that you woke up feeling great emotion like fear thinking "holy crap was that real?"..it's funny that your mind can re-create reality so vividly making people seem real within the dream when they're just projections of your mind. Some may argue that when you dream you actually enter into different realities so to speak and if you can control how you dream you might be able to be consistent.