Quote Originally Posted by Ev View Post
I've been thinking about dreams and why we dont act in them the way we do in real life.
Suddenly it occured to me that we may not be "ourselves" because dreams are random events, not connected to real life or each other. An action in one dream will cause no reaction in the next dream. Therefore our minds may process them differently. Have you noticed that your dreamsselves often lack qualities that are almost essential to our everyday survival in the RL. I'm talking about fear, expectations, responsibilites, concern about our future or our past, and many other types of behavior that are associated with linear time. I cant quite put a finger on them all. At the same time the qualities that help us "live in the moment" are increased - confidence, bravery, curiosity, desire to act and experiment. Once again I dont think this is a full list. We are so intensely focused on the moment that we disregard or dont pay attention to the past and that causes us to most of the time overlook the fact that we are dreaming.
Do you think this idea is close to how things really are?
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On one end of the spectrum, it may model dreaming quite accurately. However, I'm at a point now where most of those observations are incorrect. As far as I'm concerned, there is cause and effect. There is no such thing as random, or lucky, however chaotic is there if you need it. Meaning if you don't understand all the causes and effects, call it chaotic.

First, I believe life is only a dream, and so my behavior is bidirectional. Not only do I live life like a dream, but my waking personality carries over into the dream as well. I'm also leaning towards the belief that we are actually one soul separated into seven tiers, living each life/afterlife at the same time, although we are not too aware of them. I think our dream life is the adjacent one. The dream person experiences a continuous life, that cause and effect also applies in the dream world. However, we don't see the entire life, just clips and pieces, so we don't always see the reactions.

Because my waking behavior carries over into the dream world, I more or less go with the flow. Everything else you mention, I don't experience.