What if I'm asleep in a hospital somewhere and I could die any moment they decide to pull the plug?!?! 
Jesus why has my mind been giving me existential crisises at night this week? 
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
65 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22726 readers
171 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The human brain doesn't have the capabilities of synthesizing the richness of life de novo. Dreams and hallucinations are transitory and ephemeral things. Longitudinal consistency makes the idea of such a long-term hallucination absurdly implausible.
Incidentally, this is why liberalism exists. /s
Oh thank god that makes sense
What if it's not a human brain that's dreaming?
That's true... it could be a techbro:
We can only really think in terms of likelihoods. Why would a non-human super-organism, who had the mental capacity to simulate the external universe with such consistency and fidelity, dream up such a human life?
It's all a fun reasoning puzzle of course. We don't really fear that we're dreaming, we fear that we're awake and that this is what life is.
They're playing us like the Sims
I don't think I've ever had a dream wherein I was not human, but I have had dreams about interacting with Martians and My Little Ponies.