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Dreams: Some Deep Questions

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by icandoallthings, May 11, 2017.

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  1. In today's world, we have a trove of information at our fingertips. With the push of a button, I could be watching something happening half way across the world. We know about places, people, cultures, ideas, art and so many other things, something that people in years past didn't even know of or even imagined existed.
    It's been said that you can only dream of someone you have seen.

    Long ago, people were grouped into tribes and clans, with a members of each group living their entire lives within the confines of their village. Very rarely did someone leave their home to go on a grand adventures and to discover the world they lived in.

    Compare that with all the faces we have come across over the Internet today. We've had more faces pass before our eyes than anyone at any point in history. YouTube, Vines, Television, Movies. It's hard to even remember faces of people we come in contact with but we remember what our favorite Porn Star looks like, down to their very last detail.

    Having said all this, is it safe to assume that living in today's world, we have far more vivid and wild dreams than of ages past?
     
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  2. I think we just dream of more stuff. Cos our mind is full with a lot more stuff. That's all. It's kinda like with food; you could make a perfectly fried egg with just three ingredients (an egg, salt and fat for cooking) or make an omelet with 50 ingredients. Both can be tasty. So same for dreams. Doesn't really make them any better or worse.
     
  3. Star Lord

    Star Lord Fapstronaut

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    I would say no.
    They just have different substance.

    Dreams in days past would have been as equally vivid and wild for their time as ours are now.

    We dream of things we've seen.
    So would they have.

    We dream of things we fear.
    As would they.

    We dream of things we can't explain or have never seen.
    So would they.

    We may dream of more individual things.
    But they would dream of what they knew of.

    We don't know everything even with instant communication to the whole world.
    They didn't know everything as there was always a further Horizon.
     
  4. BeautyForAshes

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    Mine are generally abstract and incomprehensible. Especially since I started taking ZMA. I'm more "conscious" in my sleep.

    Since starting Nofap, I now have "conscious" dreams without the help of ZMA, but besides the porn dreams, they are still vividly abstract. Nuh, even the porn dreams are incoherent. But, to answer your question, they were probably more or less the same as today. A sort of a universally shared consciousness or something.
     
  5. Star Lord

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    I don't remember any of my dreams.
    I can't remember the last time I had a vivid dream even, it's been years.
     
  6. Not better or worse. More complex or basic. Especially since we have all this knowledge about what's going on around us.
    Although I should say, there have been art forms and certain skills that have been lost to time and they probably knew things that we don't..
     
  7. :O I did not know about this! Need to get my hands in this stuff

    You should probably try this then :emoji_point_up_2:
     
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  8. I Free I

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    This is very interesting if you think about it but it's so true .

    The real question is, if it's helping us more than it is hurting us ? If I had to answer my own question, I would say "god is in control of everything."
     
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