How do you know this isn't a dream?

[crumhorn]

Just... Wake Up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3SSV13DXk

[LeifonMars]

I had a dream about Live controller that looked exactly like David Hasselhoff.

[Seelensack]

it's probably more like that we all live in a simulation.

Try this - visit a 3D-cinema show and keep wearing your shutter glasses when the movie ends - if there is still something on the screen - it is a dream.
http://www.seelensack.de/virtuality.mp3

[ChiDJ]

Does it seem like we actually give a fuck about your post?



Then it's a dream....

[Angstrom]

http://www.simulation-argument.com/computer.pdf

Let me state what the conclusion of the argument is. The conclusion is that at least one of the following three propositions must be true:
1 Almost all civilisations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature.
2 The fraction of technologically mature civilisations that are interested in creating ancestor simulations is almost zero.
3 You are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

Suppose first that the first proposition is false. Then a significant fraction of civilisations at our level of development eventually become technologically mature.
Suppose, too, that the second proposition is false. Then a significant fraction of these civilisations run ancestor simulations.
Therefore, if both one and two are false, there will be simulated minds like ours.

If we work out the numbers, we find that there would be vastly many more simulated minds than nonsimulated
minds. We assume that technologically mature civilisations would have access to enormous amounts of computing power.
So enormous, in fact, that by devoting even a tiny fraction to ancestor simulations, they would be able to implement billions of simulations, each containing as many people as have ever existed. In other words, almost all minds like yours
would be simulated. Therefore, by a very weak principle of indifference, you would have to assume that you are probably one of these simulated minds rather than one of the ones that are not simulated.

Hence, if you think that propositions one and two are both false, you should accept the third. It is not coherent to reject all three.

[3dot...]

well... nobody really knows what this is..
so any word for 'reality' is irrelevant...same for 'god'...

[nuxnamon]

am i a part of your dream.. or are all of you part of mine?

[Aeroplay]

In dreams pretty cool stuff is possible... Check it out!

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq/lucid-dreaming-faq/

[ethios4]

I'm just a butterfly dreaming I'm a man.

[stringtapper]

"Seems like I've been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like I'm slipping
into a dream within a dream."

[q.musgrove]

I detonated a nuclear bomb 100 feet from myself in my last lucid dream. Also met a very nice couple who spent the dream teaching my how to lucid dream by following my into my dreams... in my dreams. hmm.


If this was a dream I would be humping.

[Khazul]

Which pill did you take?

[Khazul]

I had a dream about Live controller that looked exactly like David Hasselhoff.

You seriously need help...

[djsynchro]

Ask someone to kick you in the nuts. That'll clear things up in a hurry!

[Sage]

Because I live in Swindon and not (yet) a world famous rock god.