>>ranting about the education system
It is crap, but it helps get a better job.
>>16
We can still do lots of kinds of tests to see how accurate or from what sources people's dreams are. Right? Like with "tricking" the mind, it's not that hard to reproduce those circumstances or something similar. And like drugs do, they totally fool the mind into believing it's reality.
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>>29 though, the reason I'd say we don't experience another or alternate existence is because dreams seem too much like our own experiences. They're drawn from things around us, and our own creativity and thereby limited to only that.
If we do have some other existence of state of being, it ends quickly, so what's the real use in it? Have people tapped into this and invented some new technology? I don't know of anything helpful or useful that's been pulled from these possible alternate realities or existences.
Lucid dream is just a freakin awesome way to explore your imagination. We get a free trip to "another world" every night and can manipulate it at least for a short time if we try hard. That's better than the pathetic ounce of control we have over real life.