Life is like a dream!!!
By dpk262006
@dpk262006 (58675)
Delhi, India
September 1, 2011 12:25am CST
Hi all!
Do you believe that life is like a dream? Though we live in our present, however, the past memories keep haunting our mind every now and then. Some of our memories are sweet, memorable and worth remembering and some of our memories are bitter, forgettable and pinching. Our brain is the only store house, which makes us recall about our memories. Sometimes, it appears to us that whatever occurred in the past with us was like a dream; we just can not re-live or recreate those unbelievable moments. Be it birth of a new baby in our family, our marriage of marriage of near or dear one, death of a near relative in our family. Time runs so fast that our so called present (moments) very quickly turns into past and we do not come to know. By the time you would finish reading this post, few of your minutes would have gone into past. Would you agree that life is like a dream and we keep living it day by day, till we are alive on this planet? Please share your views and opinions.
Do you believe that life is like a dream? Though we live in our present, however, the past memories keep haunting our mind every now and then. Some of our memories are sweet, memorable and worth remembering and some of our memories are bitter, forgettable and pinching. Our brain is the only store house, which makes us recall about our memories. Sometimes, it appears to us that whatever occurred in the past with us was like a dream; we just can not re-live or recreate those unbelievable moments. Be it birth of a new baby in our family, our marriage of marriage of near or dear one, death of a near relative in our family. Time runs so fast that our so called present (moments) very quickly turns into past and we do not come to know. By the time you would finish reading this post, few of your minutes would have gone into past. Would you agree that life is like a dream and we keep living it day by day, till we are alive on this planet? Please share your views and opinions.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
1 Sep 11
Ever since my guy said I love you , my life has been like a dream! Yes there have been bad times and bad things have happened but for the most part, It has been a great dream. In fact it has been better than a dream because it is All real!
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi sara!
I think you are lucky that meeting your guy has made your life like a dream and you cherish every lovely moment. Keep enjoying. Thanks for joining us.
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@chicksdigscars (5483)
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2 Sep 11
awwww that's so sweet that your partner makes every day like a dream come true for you. i wish you both all the best!
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
Hello Dee! Life is really like a dream and i want to live in that dream. And for one moment there you had me recalled the day i gave birth to my son. That was really perfect and it deleted all the sad memories of my past. Having him was truly a dream come true for me. I have always longed to be a mother, oh, i mean a perfect mother to my son.
I wish that he'll grow up to be a responsible person.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi toni!
You reached to the crux of the discussion 
when you stated that you just traveled back to memory lane and thought about the day, when your son was born to you. We just can not forget our days of marriage and the days our kid(s) was/were born and we always cherish those happy and unforgettable moments.
You reached to the crux of the discussion when you stated that you just traveled back to memory lane and thought about the day, when your son was born to you. We just can not forget our days of marriage and the days our kid(s) was/were born and we always cherish those happy and unforgettable moments.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
1 Sep 11
Hi Deepak
To me life is not a dream, definitely not when I’m being lashed every now and then and I can actually Feel the lashings LOL! I can understand your point of view but just because we can no longer relive the past, I don’t think I can call that a dream. Dreams are something which we create in our mind (not talking of nightmares here, surely), which has everything good and glorious and happy and makes us feel good! Life is not like that for most of us…to the few who are lucky enough, yes, life is like a dream to them
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi Sudipta!
I am not ready to believe that you are lashed every now and then, you are such a sweet and responsible person, wife, mother and friend. Even if you feel the lashing, you forget it the next day, do not you? And life moves ahead.
You say dreams are something which we create in mind, the happenings with us like dreams, even if we did not create it, if you look back at your life the events would look like dreams.
Nonetheless, you are entitled to your own interpretation of dreams and reality and you are free to feel that lashing is lashing not unreal.
Anyway, celebrate this day because it is very 'special' for you. My best wishes.
Deepak
Anyway, celebrate this day because it is very 'special' for you. My best wishes.
Deepak
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
1 Sep 11
I quite agree with your statement 'life is like a dream' Time passes so fast and like breeze, once passed we'll never be able to recapture it. If only we have written scripts to follow in life, we would not be wasting a lot of time doing what we're not supposed to do. All we do now is to be happy with the balance of years left for us with our loved ones so they be able to cherish the memories of our good times with them when we are no longer walking on earth.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi Zandi!
Very well said my dear friend. Time passes so quickly that we just do not realize and we just can not recreate the past. It is true that we can not write the script of life, therefore, we are bound to 'waste' our precious time.. Whatever has left in our lives should be lived with joy and gaiety so that we could remember the happy moments. Thanks for sharing your wonderful views.
Very well said my dear friend. Time passes so quickly that we just do not realize and we just can not recreate the past. It is true that we can not write the script of life, therefore, we are bound to 'waste' our precious time.. Whatever has left in our lives should be lived with joy and gaiety so that we could remember the happy moments. Thanks for sharing your wonderful views.1 person likes this
@birdie816 (1276)
• United States
1 Sep 11
YES!!!! only every single day. i have always believed that. it actually freaks me out alot. the main reason it freaks me out so much is because sometimes i will actually go to sleep and dream. then when i wake up in the morning i don't even realize i was dreaming because my dreams were so realistic. it is quite possible for a person who sleeps alot to lose touch with reality after a while. i know personally because i used to nap alot purposely to get away from my real life
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi birdie!
It means sometimes it gets difficult for you to distinguish between dreams and reality and you find that your dreams are as good as reality. So do you like dreams when you sleep or when you are awake?
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Sep 11
Hope the real people look better and nicer in your dreams.
@birdie816 (1276)
• United States
1 Sep 11
alot of the time i actually would prefer being asleep to being awake. there are all the same people from my real life in the dreams, only they are better lol. it's weird. kinda like the movie surrogates if you have ever seen it...everybody is living their real life while asleep through a "robot" that looks just like them only more attractive and whatnot lol
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@meenalkadian (348)
• India
1 Sep 11
Hi deepak
I m totally agree with you. Life is really a dream. I often memories my past and surely want to live some moments again and again but it is the most impossible thing in this world. Sometime which happen to us in present just make us to link it with something exactly same of past events. Future is totally unpredictable so we can only memories the past and try to predict the future and make plan for it.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi meena!
Many thanks for agreeing with me that life is not less than a dream. I agree when something similar happens in our present day life, we just correlate the events with our past events. Past looks like a dream and we just can not recapture it, we have just our memories to make us feel happy. Thanks for joining.
Many thanks for agreeing with me that life is not less than a dream. I agree when something similar happens in our present day life, we just correlate the events with our past events. Past looks like a dream and we just can not recapture it, we have just our memories to make us feel happy. Thanks for joining.@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Sep 11
You see we all are human beings and you need to believe that we have many common traits among us.
@meenalkadian (348)
• India
1 Sep 11
Earlier i think it happens only to me. Now i come to know that it is very common and we all cherish our best moments and want to live them.
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
4 Sep 11
Hello Deepak,
May be life is like a dream to some extent, but there is one big difference between dream and reality...When you see a bad dream, you are happy that you woke up and that bad things were not actually happening, but when sad incidents occur in real life, no matter how many times you want it to be a dream, no matter how much you want to say that "no this is not true, this is a dream and I will wake up"........it will not help.....reality is painful, and you will have to face this reality , feel the pain and learn to live with it. Dreams whether good or bad, do not bring tears to our eyes, but reality of life do make our eyes look like dew drops.......
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
4 Sep 11
I agree that we forget dreams and we forget past events with time. All that I want to say is that dreams don't hurt us, but reality does. Dreams don't teach us anything, but good and bad experience of life change us completely. Dreams can remain young forever, but life makes lines of maturity on our faces that draw the picture of history of our life.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
6 Sep 11
Reality may hurt us if we cling to our past bitter memories. Why should we think about the sad occasions, even though we can not completely erase those sad events from our slate, yet we should desist from recalling sad moments.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Sep 11
Hi aps!
Am impressed with your analysis of dreams and realities of life. You see even if any sad incident happens in our life, we forget it with the passage of time. Recalling sad moments does not help much. No doubt when we feel unpleasant situations, we feel dejected and some times tears roll down our eyes but gradually things fade into oblivion. It would be wiser to forget the sad events like nightmares because we can not undo the past. Many thanks for enriching the post. :-)
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Sep 11
Hi there!
So how many times you have been put on trials during your journey of life and did you succeed?
@allknowing (130064)
• India
1 Sep 11
I would segregate that which is the present from the past. Dream is something that does not happen but a fantasy and when it is realised it is no longer a dream. There is a big difference between memories and dreams inasmuch as memories are real but dreams are not.Just a thought.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
1 Sep 11
Hi all!
You could segregate past from present, it is fine. Memories no doubt are real, however, could you recreate those memories in its original shape, as it happened in the past, I think you can not. When you are not able to recreate those memories, they just remain memories and appear like a dream. These are my thoughts.
Many thanks for kick starting the post.
You could segregate past from present, it is fine. Memories no doubt are real, however, could you recreate those memories in its original shape, as it happened in the past, I think you can not. When you are not able to recreate those memories, they just remain memories and appear like a dream. These are my thoughts.
Many thanks for kick starting the post.1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Sep 11
Hi there!
You are entitled to hold your own views and dreams and memories. What you say is also not incorrect. Many people remember their dreams which they see during their sleeps and there are many who are not able to recall their past memories.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
6 Sep 11
Hi Jen!
You are a nice person, therefore, all your dreams would be sweet and nice. There is nothing wrong in dreaming about future.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
8 Sep 11
No problem even in 'day-dreaming'. Dreams encourage us to move ahead.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
1 Sep 11
Hi
I am agree... Life is surely like a dream. Where there is happy time and unhappy one too. What is future is surely going to become past and from our past I only like to remember by good and happy time. The bad one is just like a bad dream. Which is little bitter part but happy time of our life always take over it.
I am agree... Life is surely like a dream. Where there is happy time and unhappy one too. What is future is surely going to become past and from our past I only like to remember by good and happy time. The bad one is just like a bad dream. Which is little bitter part but happy time of our life always take over it.@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Sep 11
Thanks for agreeing with me. Do you cherish your blessings in life and what do you expect from future?
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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2 Sep 11
my partner makes every day wonderful for me.. sure certain parts of my life are more like a nightmare when it comes to stress in work, and money problems, and arguments and bad things that come are way.. but i'm happy and thats the most important thing :) :)
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Sep 11
It is nice to hear that you partner makes you days and may be some of your dreams. Thanks for sharing.
@pennywise25 (321)
• Mexico
5 Sep 11
I agree with the title of this post completely !!! Life is a dream, you just have to be careful keeping it from becoming a nightmare. It's all in your hands. You can make it a hell in life, or the purest and happiest dream ever. We just have to be able to find the good side of everything, because there's always a good side in everything you look at. Optimism is the key to happiness.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
6 Sep 11
Nobody wishes their his or her life should turn into a nightmare. However, nightmares do tend to come in everyone's life and it is upto him/her, how s/he manages it.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
1 Sep 11
life is a dream, not like a dream
we just need to dream the 'right' dream so that only the 'right' dreams come true
we create our own outcome, we get what we dream / wish for.
the only thing we don't control is karma wheel
it will send us back what we send out
so let's say we treat someone bad, but we dream of beautiful things
we will get these things we dream of, but we have to go through much difficulties to get there
karma wheel never stops spinning. that's why it's called karmic debt
what we did in the past life, if it hasn't been 'paid', we will carry it to the present and to the future
like every debt, it has interest
as soon as I understand this, I am careful with my 'transactions' :)
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Sep 11
Hi there!
I agree with you that life is a dream and our Karma of previous life play an important part in shaping our course of life.
@derek_a (10874)
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2 Sep 11
Yes, I can fully understand what you are saying here. This moment, as it occurs is immediately gone, so we cannot hold on to anything except the memory, and the memory is a dream, not in reality, but in the mind. The past will never return so we can only have it in our mind. The future is no yet, so that cannot be real either. As a Zen practitioner, I practice meditation and often see the intensity of the impermance of life. If we focus on the now, it is real, if we can manage to go with it, because it is always occurring and re-occuring. A fasinating experience but not always a particularly pleasant one especially if we try and nail it down. There is only now, and there is not only now - it transcends opposites but our mind needs it to make sense. But is there really any sense or meaning to life? 
_Derek
_Derek@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
5 Sep 11
derek!
I am really happy to read your response as you could understand its (discussion's) exact thrust. I agree that past never return and it can never return so everything looks like a dream. Many thanks for enriching the post.
@bagumbayan (2705)
• Philippines
3 Sep 11
I believe in you. Dreams are dreams and most of the time in is real. Keep on dreaming nice and good things and you will. The past, the future and the present are part of our wonderful life and serves as guide also on what we will be doing. As the song says to dream the impossible dream...
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Sep 11
Thanks for believing that life is not less than a dream and our past guides us to take lessons for future.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
2 Sep 11
Hi deepak,
May be we can relate the dream and our life as both are fading off quickly now.
However, life never is a dream because life is real but dream is not like that. We can recollect the incidents happened in our life but we may not remember the dreams every time.
However, life never is a dream because life is real but dream is not like that. We can recollect the incidents happened in our life but we may not remember the dreams every time. @dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
5 Sep 11
Hi Sree!
Reality of life vanishes in thin air, when we get to live those moments and those past moments look like dreams.Thanks for dropping in.
@bhabycatch013 (9150)
• Philippines
3 Sep 11
hi dpk,
Life is not just like dream it can also be a nightmare
So as long as we live continue dreaming and go for it
happy mylotting
So as long as we live continue dreaming and go for it
happy mylotting
@pibi713 (187)
• China
4 Sep 11
I do believe life is a dream. We are born with nothing and we die with nothing. The several decades we live is just a dream.When we die the dream is over.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
6 Sep 11
Very well said pibi that we are born with nothing and we die with empty hands. We live our life like a big dream and when we die the dream ends.
