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For some reason, I've always suspected that this life might all be a dream and one day I will wake up as a 7-year old boy just starting school. And I always wo
by delegate 9y ago
For some reason, I've always suspected that this life might all be a dream and one day I will wake up as a 7-year old boy just starting school.
And I always wonder - if that happens - what should I do ? (provided that all the 'truths' I've learned while dreaming are still true)..
Should I buy Apple stock ? Should I write a search engine ?
How would I convince my parents to buy me a new PC ? How should I talk to my teachers, now that I know all there is to know about math and geography and history ?
Should I meet the girls that I loved ?
Things get complicated fast if you go on that path, so I hope this life is not a dream from which I'll wake up and have to live it all over again.
- tetraodonpuffer 9y agoI really enjoy reading books about re-living your life, I think the best two I have read are Replay by Ken Grimwood and the first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North, very recommended. In terms of movies also About time incidentally explored some of the same concepts.
- givan 9y agoThis is the main belief of hinduism, buddhism and many other cultures, they call it reincarnation. Tibetans have techniques called dream yoga so that you can learn to know in your dream that you are dreaming, and they call life a longer dream and the waking from this dream, ultimate liberation.
- jerry40 9y agoOn the other hand if you knew that everything is in fact the illusion, why would you need money and girls? And is there an evidence that other people are real, or are they just parts of the illusion? To write a search engine in the illusion - is there more strange thing? :)