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Originally posted by blackcat99
reply to post by Greensage
I have had exactly the same thing - thought I woke up but I was still in the dream - this happened 2 times in a row - very frightening at the time as I thought I was never going to get out of it
Have also had lucid dreams where I was aware I was dreaming - but not recently
Originally posted by Sentience365
reply to post by Brianegan
I think you do a great job getting the message across to those who would hear it. Personally, while I believe myself to be a conversationalist I am not one to usually start the conversation, I'm a bit shy you could say but opinionated. Glad a reached out in your threads though, I was drawn like a moth to a flame when I saw your latest post.
Anyway, that video was really funny. I especially like the part he serves the Jewish and Arabic guys ice cream haha, good catch.
Originally posted by HanoverFat
I have read the entirety of your first post and all I can really say is that I encourage everyone to do so too. It's a very brave thing you have done, sharing all that with us. I find I can neither believe you nor ridicule, for how am I to know if I am not still stuck in a dream. what's the difference between being insane and being right anyway? After all we create our own reality.
If this tread doesn't sink to obscurity then I can see a few different types of replies; people who share your beliefs, people who will ridicule you, and people who are genuinely concerned for your mental health. I wonder which you will listen to in earnest.
Originally posted by Sentience365
reply to post by Brianegan
HanoverFat has a good point in that reality (whatever that term means) is entirely subjective.
The difference between Stephen Hawking's opinion on the malevolent domination of humanity by interstellar beings (if we were to encounter them) and the opinion of one of the clients who I work with in the psych ward is influence. If Stephen Hawking was all of a sudden was diagnosed with a mental illness and became one of my clients, would I write a note about his ET opinions if he shared them with me? Or would I brush them off as insignificant because he has shared these ideas with the world before he was considered mentally unfit? His influence over the world of physics and mathematics would dictate that I respect his previous opinions because they were considered tantamount to human mental progression thus far. However, my other client with ET opinions would definitely need a note written up on them because this would show a clear degradation in their mental processes which needed to be addressed.
Originally posted by Sentience365
reply to post by Brianegan
Exactly, the majority's rule is the minority's oppression.
You know OP, I have lived a life which could be considered quite ordinary. I was raised in a good home with logical parents and close ties to relatives and my one sibling. I live with my girlfriend now and we have made a comfortable life for ourselves. I had a good social life in high school and still keep in contact with my friends. I participate in some amateur bodybuilding as a hobby along with fish keeping and dog training. Despite a little shyness (I know you wouldn't think that I was shy based on the previous info) I would say that society has accepted me as a fully functional member and since I got a job in a psychiatric institute I clearly don't show any signs of impairment in reality testing. The point is that I have experienced the things we have spoken about here since childhood, so unless I have had lifelong schizophrenia (not very likely) I would go ahead and say that there is definitely something more to this "reality."
Originally posted by gavron
reply to post by Brianegan
I'm curious...are you dreaming about aliens or UFOs? If not, why is this post in an alien and UFO thread?