Is the world a dream?? How do we know??

Question

I've never really thought about this before until I saw another question like this on here, but how do we know that the world isn't a dream?? How do we know we are real and that the world we live in is real as well??

Like, maybe when we go to sleep, we are really waking up from a dream about the world, and we don't realize or remember it for some reason.

Answer 1

i have always thought about that question. very interesting question.that question comes to my mind frequently.

Answer 2

no

because that makes no sense

Answer 3

you dont know i think bout that like lifes a dream and when you die you wake up...

Answer 4

Aw, Kris, I thought we already talked about this!! Oh well, I know how you are. So I will try to explain this once again.....

First of all, this is a pretty deep question. And that means that you have been thinking this through your head over and over again. And the more we begin to think about something, often times the more real the thing becomes to us. I honestly think that you have been thinking about this so much or found it so interesting that you're starting to view it as true, even though it's not. So get your mind off of it and see how it goes from there.

Alright, now I'm gonna try to make some more sense. When you sleep and have a dream, sometimes you dream about things that don't exist in this world. (such as a 3 headed dog) However the main CONCEPT of the dream is found in the world. (dogs and heads) Does that mean that the exact thing you dreamed about is real? No, but it means that the basic part of it was something that exists and you can understand. So let's just assume for a minute that you were dreaming the whole world up. That to me just means that wherever you truly lived, that place would be very similar to this world.

If you keep wondering about this, just don't do anything stupid like hurt yourself or hurt someone else. Even if this world was a dream, you and I and everyone else are experiencing it and that is what makes it REAL.

Answer 5

Just pinch yourself and find out

Answer 6

No offense in any way, shape or fashion, but this totally sounds like the Matrix.  Waking up one day and finding out that in reality, you've been dreaming for quite a while seams interesting, but not enough to persuade me to think so. My answer, I for one think the world I'm living in everyday is in fact the real world, Earth, the 3rd planet from the sun. (; Hey, who knows, I could be wrong. ^^