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Poll: being awake or being asleep?
- Thread starter Eddi
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I have episodic dreams, which means that for all intents and purposes I have a fully formed additional life that I live when I'm asleep.
I've asked myself several times if I'm more or less satisfied in my dream life than I am in my waking life, and all in all I think it's pretty much the same.
The landscape in my dream life is definitely more interesting though.
My dreams can be very troubling, and I've never been a great sleeper, anyway. I've been caregiver to a couple of dying people, and now my life partner who 6 years ago suffered very severe Guillaine-Barre Syndrome, so I'm quite used to being instantly alert at the slightest out sound.
Besides, when I'm awake, I can spend time reading, learning, listening and musing.
Besides, when I'm awake, I can spend time reading, learning, listening and musing.
I know how that is...
We had a friend stay over a few nights ago. As soon as she got up the stairs to use the bathroom the next morning, and I was instantly up... "Sorry, I'm trained to wake up for foot steps." I startled her, but I can't help it...
What exactly do you mean by that?
It's like different episodes of the same tv show: the setting is the same, I'm pretty sure I'm the same person all the time, but different things happen in every episode.
Not radically different things usually, but just different in about the same way that our waking lives are different each day.
I sometimes have them
For the past few years I have been clearing out and doing up a basement that only exists in my dreams
I have made a lot of progress on it and I often return to it when I go to sleep
I like that basement it used to be dark and full of clutter but now it is nice
On one occasion it had a highway running through it though
Secret Chief
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Definitely awake and living. I'll be a long time dead.
It's interesting that you seem to equate slumber with death, I don't see it that way
Secret Chief
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Ok, I'll be a long time without consciousness.
Secret Chief
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You'd be missing out on annoying me though.
Being awake wins hands down. That's where life happens
I must sleep but it frightens me just in case i have my recurring nightmare.
Being asleep is like being dead without the commitment.
I must sleep but it frightens me just in case i have my recurring nightmare.
Being asleep is like being dead without the commitment.
I don't really have a preference as it pertains to the phenomenal world unless I'm tired, then I would choose being asleep.
But for me, it's by far preferable to be awake spiritually.
When one gets older I think the likelihood of dreams occurring will probably be less - my experience - such that a good night's sleep is more preferred. And where sleep is essentially not being conscious so much like death. Hence being awake is where much more happens, so why would I ever prefer sleep - even if the waking moments might not be filled with joy and happiness all the time. Such still counts as being alive - but where sleeping tales away from this available time - i.e. being robbed of about one third of our lives.
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Same here. Being asleep and being awake are both great states.
Koldo
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Being awake. My dreams are generally tense. Even when nothing in particular happens, I am always feeling out of my comfort zone, having to deal with uncomfortable situations.
I'd just have the kids go to your place to play while I was asleep.
Mission accomplished.
Secret Chief
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