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Is this the real life?

When one dreams, any event can take place. Whether it is true or not, at the time, it may feel very realistic. Such as waking up in bed and peering at the clock to see the time. Let’s say its 7:13. Then you get out of your bed, go to work, hit the bar, go home and fall asleep to your television only to wake up to see that your clock says it's 7:14. Now when a person dies, even after all the bodily functions have stopped, there is still brain activity for about 5-15 minutes. Quite a lot of time in the dream world can pass in 15 minutes in the real world.  So then the question comes up, is the life we are living just an extremely realistic long dream of us passing from one world to the next? It’s just something to think about. 

(12-18-2008, 10:49 AM)liquid108 link Wrote: [ -> ]When one dreams, any event can take place. Whether it is true or not, at the time, it may feel very realistic. Such as waking up in bed and peering at the clock to see the time. Let’s say its 7:13. Then you get out of your bed, go to work, hit the bar, go home and fall asleep to your television only to wake up to see that your clock says it's 7:14. Now when a person dies, even after all the bodily functions have stopped, there is still brain activity for about 5-15 minutes. Quite a lot of time in the dream world can pass in 15 minutes in the real world.  So then the question comes up, is the life we are living just an extremely realistic long dream of us passing from one world to the next? It’s just something to think about.   

tldr: is this just fantasy?

shit liquid, caught in a landslide.

(12-18-2008, 10:49 AM)liquid108 link Wrote: [ -> ]When one dreams, any event can take place. Whether it is true or not, at the time, it may feel very realistic. Such as waking up in bed and peering at the clock to see the time. Let’s say its 7:13. Then you get out of your bed, go to work, hit the bar, go home and fall asleep to your television only to wake up to see that your clock says it's 7:14. Now when a person dies, even after all the bodily functions have stopped, there is still brain activity for about 5-15 minutes. Quite a lot of time in the dream world can pass in 15 minutes in the real world.  So then the question comes up, is the life we are living just an extremely realistic long dream of us passing from one world to the next? It’s just something to think about.   

+1 for combo breaker

(12-18-2008, 10:49 AM)liquid108 link Wrote: [ -> ]When one dreams, any event can take place. Whether it is true or not, at the time, it may feel very realistic. Such as waking up in bed and peering at the clock to see the time. Let’s say its 7:13. Then you get out of your bed, go to work, hit the bar, go home and fall asleep to your television only to wake up to see that your clock says it's 7:14. Now when a person dies, even after all the bodily functions have stopped, there is still brain activity for about 5-15 minutes. Quite a lot of time in the dream world can pass in 15 minutes in the real world.  So then the question comes up, is the life we are living just an extremely realistic long dream of us passing from one world to the next? It’s just something to think about.   

This is an euphimism for "is this just fantasy".
I applaud you good sir.

Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

(12-18-2008, 11:03 AM)Arnies Right Bicep link Wrote: [ -> ]Philip Dick

lol.

(12-18-2008, 11:04 AM)Dave link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Philip Dick

lol.
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It's PK Dick.  Also if you named your kid Richard Dick, would he be Dick Dick for short?

(12-18-2008, 11:17 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Dave link=topic=2003.msg56292#msg56292 date=1229616283]
[quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Philip Dick

lol.
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It's PK Dick.  Also if you named your kid Richard Dick, would he be Dick Dick for short?
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double dick

(12-18-2008, 11:24 AM)Dave link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Surf314 link=topic=2003.msg56294#msg56294 date=1229617034]
[quote author=Dave link=topic=2003.msg56292#msg56292 date=1229616283]
[quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Philip Dick

lol.
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It's PK Dick.  Also if you named your kid Richard Dick, would he be Dick Dick for short?
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double dick
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What if he was also tricky?

(12-18-2008, 11:03 AM)Arnies Right Bicep link Wrote: [ -> ]Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

impossible, there's no escape from reality

(12-18-2008, 12:27 PM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

impossible, there's no escape from reality
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but what if i took the blue pill?

(12-18-2008, 12:37 PM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=2003.msg56318#msg56318 date=1229621232]
[quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

impossible, there's no escape from reality
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but what if i took the blue pill?
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One pill makes you larger...

(12-18-2008, 12:37 PM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=2003.msg56318#msg56318 date=1229621232]
[quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

impossible, there's no escape from reality
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but what if i took the blue pill?
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open your eyes!

(12-18-2008, 12:40 PM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=CaffeinePowered link=topic=2003.msg56328#msg56328 date=1229621833]
[quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=2003.msg56318#msg56318 date=1229621232]
[quote author=Arnie's Right Bicep link=topic=2003.msg56290#msg56290 date=1229616236]
Having actually read Liquid's post, that's pretty interesting. Wasn't the idea touched on at the end of American Beauty - with the few seconds before death stretching out to infinity? It was also a major theme in some of Philip Dick's work, notably The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch with the drug that sends you into a trip that can feel like a lifetime but IRL flits past in seconds and similarly in A Scanner Darkly.

impossible, there's no escape from reality
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but what if i took the blue pill?
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open your eyes!
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... look up to the skies...

and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

(12-18-2008, 12:40 PM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: [ -> ]open your eyes!

Was this a coincidence duck? because that movie fits liquid's post rather well too.

(12-18-2008, 01:15 PM)Dave link Wrote: [ -> ]and seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm just a poor boy

I too wonder this sometimes.  I will think about it for a good while, but then look up and remember I was supposed to be taking notes.