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Is it a dream?

Dreamer

Do you guys ever feel like life might just be a dream you're having?

Sometimes I get this feeling like I'm just a dream and I'm just in a sleep or a coma and when I wake up all this was just a really realistic dream.

Or I get the feelings like I'm just a story, someone's character who they are writing about and growing. It creeps me out when I think about it.

Do you guys ever feel like this?

  • no idea if the same, but i often feel im "on autopilot" kind of, hmm, just like some kind of automaton, like a lack of real agency and just going to and from places, doing things kind of without thinking, im probably explaining it poorly

  • This isn't something I experience as Shardovan said I'm in a lot of pain because of fibromyalgia and anxiety so I don't really get that kind of experience, too much going on I guess.

    When I dream though I often wonder if my life is a dream someone else is having. It's an interesting thought to think about.

  • I wish I could, but I'm always in enough pain and discomfort (inflammation, fatigue, sensory overwhelm and also what Eckharte Tolle would call the pain body) that I feel extremely grounded and the chances of my consiousness sliding into a waking  liminal space are less than I'd like. I do find that there's a fundamental strangeness to life, to prescribed majority behaviour as dictated by the way things presently need to be, and it can cause me to feel a little disassociated I suppose. But I really only find that dreamlike state in sleep, or on its threshold. 

  • My daughter experiences this aswell. She told me that it's like her life is a movie and she's watching it. I can't really explain it but it is similar to yours