False Reality Options

[ApocalypseAelis]

Offer:
You will be injected with a drug that will grant you sleep until death. You will be put into a metal tube where all your basic needs will be taken care of (i.e. food). In sleep, you will dream. This dream will be determined by you - you can choose whatever kind of dream it will be. Be any person you wish, live in any life you wish...do anything you wish.

You will never wake up. You die of old age in your sleep.

This offer is no scam. It's completely safe. It is also irreversible.

You can choose whether to remember your previous life or not. You can choose whether to know if you are living a dream or not in your dreamland.

Do you take up this offer?

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What other people said:

"No, I'd rather live in reality than live a dream. Even though I wouldn't know it was a dream, I'd still know it before taking the chance...there would be no point in living if I get exactly what I want...."
-Sarah

"f**k no....that idea alone is enough to give me nightmares. I used to have obsessive thoughts about existence and reality and stuff like that like... 24/7...but it still freaks me out to think about my life being a giant dream."
-Chandi

"Hmmm...no, I wouldn't do it. I'm not sure why...because its not the truth. It just doesnt sound right...I don't really know why..."
-William

"No, I wouldn't do that. Fantasies should just stay fantasies...and that appeals to me sort of like suicide. You dont like reality so you just decide to go for that sleeping thing you're talking about instead of facing life. I wont like it. I get tired of reality, like the fact that I cant fly, but what about friends and family and the drama in school - all the things that only reality can offer you? If you do that mind-thing, it's almost like living a lie. Everything's in your head."
-Cherry

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Other things to consider:

1. If you discovered the life you are living now is fake, and you were really lying in a metal tube, living a dream, in reality, would you choose to wake up? Would you, knowing absolutely nothing about what reality truly is, knowing nothing of who and where you are, knowing not whether you could escape back to the dream-land or not, choose to wake up? Or would you continue living in a dream world?

2. Is your answer based more on a need for truth or on an attachment to your current reality? Would your answer vary depending on the quality of your life? Would your answer be different if you were a homeless, penniless, drug addict?

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Not a single person I've asked has answered yes yet.


As for myself, I don't know the answer.

I don't know where this idea came from. It just came to me. And I realized I wasn't sure if I would choose to live in a dream world or not. So I asked others.

[misoshiru]

although what ariel says is very, very tempting.

i think that my answer (for now) would be no.
personally, even though if there is a false reality and i could live a seemingly perfect life, right now, i believe that i would like to live and learn for myself. to fall down and learn how to pick myself up.
but ask me again later and my answer might be different.