Does this world feel like a trance or fantasyland to anybody else?

Question

Does this world feel like a trance or fantasyland to anybody else?

Answer 1

I dont know...

We live half of our lives sleeping <dreaming>

Are we awake or asleep?

Answer 2

Don't smoke anymore today:-)

Answer 3

Yes, it's like visiting a "foreign" land for me.

Here is something from the story of the Prodigal Son on that. The story goes that the son left his father for a foreign land... but as the son got tired of it, he turned around and went home.

So I think the sense that this life is not real is legitimate. That kind of idea comes along as we are waking up from a long sleep. More on my bio if you are interested.

Answer 4

It's real enough to stub my little toe against, and that's convincing enough for me.

Answer 5

ya it kinda does somedays i wake up wondering if i'm still in a dream

Answer 6

A lot of the time, I personally don't feel "real."

It's called dissociation, and it's a symptom of my post traumatic stress disorder.

It sucks.

But, no, I don't really ascribe to the "world is illusion" theory.

Much as I dislike my life sometimes, I'm not entirely ready to ditch my present state of being to become one with everything else.  Maybe I'd be happier if I realized that the world is the Matrix...or maybe I'd just want to get back in because I couldn't stand the nutrient gloop and the artfully ripped sweaters underground.

So, no, sometimes I'm not real, or at least I have that sensation, but the world seems pretty real.

Edit:  9 to 5?  I wish!  I'd kill for 9-5!  Who works that shift anymore?  It's all about the 7-7, the 12-10, the split shift, overnight, swing shift, five-on-five-off, three weeks out of the month...9-5 would be great if you look at the hours people work now.  And that was the labor movement who instituted work "weeks" rather than sweatshop hours and conditions.

Answer 7

Not really.. my fantasylands have dragons..

Answer 8

It is certainly a Matrix. We live an entirely different reality than those of the ruling class. The people pulling the strings from the Multinational Corporations. They have created 9 to 5, cheap labor, poverty, poor nutrition and other vices. We are confined in a reality and we have no hope.