It has been a while since my last post, I decided to stop the personal stuff because I have run out of things to talk about after blogging 2-3 times a week for 2-3 months straight. I decided to get into the science stuff like life as a whole among other things. I had a small taste of this when I blogged about 2012, The Environment and Teen Society. With all the Inception buzz going on, it reminds me of the awkward sleeping habits and dreams that I have. After thinking about the relations between that and the film, I am beginning to question reality in the back of my mind and feel it deserves a blog post. As a simple warning, This post is completely based on my own opinions and thoughts so don’t go flaming me for writing something thats wrong or impossible or any other excuses. The information is simply as I perceive it.
What is reality? A better question, does reality even exist? These question has be rolling in my head for a while and the buzz from the film Inception just makes it more dominant in my mind. Computer processing power is accelerating to the point that not far from now, we may create a virtual reality similar to “The Matrix” but hopefully without all the machines trying to kill us or use our bodies for energy, haha. So with that in mind. What is to say we are right now, inside a Matrix or even in a dream. What if we are just souls in the universe dreaming what we see today. What if we are in a Matrix. What is to say I am some unconscious mind or even a massive computer from the future dreaming this whole universe. Scientifically, I think it couldn’t be proven because of the fact that if this world was fake, simply awakening me would destroy it and thus defeat the purpose of proving it in the first place. On the thought of that, my dreams have been where I live for months or even years in a single dream in a period of 8-14 hours in this world and feel like that period of time as gone by in real life which explains why I feel so tired even after a normal amount of sleep. Another thing is it is when I have these type of dreams, I completely ignore my senses and can sometimes sleep for 12-24 hours unable to be awaken by anything. These dreams interest me very much and I am beginning to be able to become lucid. So instead of observing what feels like a prerecorded movie and instead I control them without realizing its a dream like the level of Shutter Island where he is living a fantasy in the real world without realizing until the end that the fantasy wasn’t real.
In a sense, I wish this was dream. Look at what we are doing to our home. Without it, we would just die off and become nonexistent. But to a reference that Neo’s abilities transferred to the real world, what is to say what we are capable of doing in our dreams can’t be done in this world. Why can’t we do something to save our planet beyond money and technology. Why can’t we choose to unlock the secrets of our minds and save ourselves. Are we so glued to the bullshit that the media and governments have been feeding us for eternity that we can’t be ourselves any more. To another referenced thought, look at the Ocampa species from Star Trek. They had become so dependent on the caretakers that they forgot about themselves. Whats to say we haven’t been so glued to the shit were feed and drawn towards power and greed that we have lost ourselves. What if all the things in the past like the Pyramids, the Mayans, Atlantis, and all the alien stories from history were us in our prime and now our DNA is destroyed from the many millenia of not using it. Maybe the abilities are still there and locked within our minds and within reach if we just believe.
Now I know that there is a lot of what if’s in this but the idea isn’t to explain something or provide information. The point is to make you think what if. Now I couldn’t care less if I am the wrongest person in the world right now. Who cares if I am wrong. But just think…what if I am right.
This is quite the blog post. I’m a first time responder but long time reader. It really makes me think, as I never thought of things this way, and I never had dreams where I could control or so lucid, I usually don’t feel anything in my dreams and I never get the same dream more than once. I guess we never truly know what it is life is and everything until we die. Though I don’t believe killing yourself is the right thing to do in order to get your answer on what sort of life this is we live in.
I think not knowing exactly what is the meaning of life and if what we live now is not our true lives and all that like you mentioned makes things more interesting and like they say “Ignorance is bliss”.
I can’t wait to read your next blog post :).
This is a pretty cool blog never seen it before , been reading a lot of it … good stuff!! All the old memories it’s cool to see your blogs from a decade ago