OKay, so what if our dreams is actually reality, and that we are just living one big lie right now. Because its only in your dreams that you can control your life and your own world.
Buddhists believe that life is dreamlike and insubstantial. Like ripples in a stream.... Peace and love
well there are several risks in taking that too litterally, principly involving that causing of suffering and the getting in trouble with other humans over some of the silliest things. these are two parallel universes, each insubstantial in the context of the other. what we think we know, thinking that we know it, yes, that's not being entirely honest with ourselves, especially if it comes from some belief, which by their nature, arbitrary speculation is at the root of all beliefs, whoever said or wrote whatever. can what we do in either of them affect what happens in the other? yes, to a degree. a small degree though, and again these are two seperate things, so that which ever we happen to be in, at any given time, we still need to pay attention to our surroundings, whichever and wherever we happen to be. i mean we don't need to become our surroundings, to be molded and shaped by them, only to be awaire they are there, and which universe we are in so we can be awaire of what we are likely to be able to mold and shape ourselves and how, and to what degree this depends, the most effective ways of doing so, on which at the time we happen to be in. inaccuracy is the risk of simplified expression total incomprehension is the risk of accuracy so it is always a balancing act between the two what to say and how to say it for anyone to really understand what we're trying to =^^= .../\...
I'd say that the biggest problem with that theory is the lack of continuity between dreams. The "dream world" seemingly has no rules, as the dead come back to life and events in said world have no bearing on future dreams.
Maybe all experience is real, but we put too much stock in our interpretations after the fact. How can you say that this is a lie? Perhaps you are sensing the falseness in the way you have been taught to interpret what is in front of you. You do control your reality here to an extent, though the rules are limited in a different way than they are in dreams. These rules are probably only mental barriers, but who knows. My point is that both places are limited in different ways. I would call them two sides of the same coin, but they're probably more akin to two shades of the the same color in a stream of an infinite number of colors.
