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.

[ApocalypseAelis]

^are you being serious or not? e_e Sorry, it's hard to tell over the internet. The "offer" is just a hypothetical question...

It wouldn't feel right knowing that you're living in a false dream rather than living in the real world.

Yes, but you could make it so that you wouldn't know it. You could make it so that it would be like being reborn...with no knowledge of reality - aka sleeping forever. It would feel right then, just as right as reality does.

why waste life living in a tube?

You wouldn't know you were living in a tube. And why would it be wasted? How would living a life in your mind be any different...you'd still experience everything as though it were real. It would feel exactly the same. It's not like anyone knows the meaning of this life anyway.

But if you were always content, there would be no reason for you to get stronger. Why is being content all the time a form of suicide? Can anyone answer this? Why is wanting to always be happy so wrong?

Maybe by accepting the offer, you're admitting that the life that was given to you isn't good enough. It's suicide because you're giving up your life to live in a lie.

If you're comfortable with living in a false reality, as long as you are content and the truth is never revealed, are you comfortable with being lied to, as long as you never learn the truth? Would it be okay to lie to people if what they don't know can't hurt them?

Isn't it a little uncomfortable to think of spending the rest of your life in something that never existed?

i wouldn't do it for life but it be awesome to escape this world and move a fake false one for a week or something.

Yeah, it would be. But I would be too scared to try it. I'd get addicted and wouldn't be able to get out of it even if I wanted to. Who'd want to escape paradise, even if it's unreal?

I guess it's sort of like taking drugs that mess with your emotions. The feelings that come with them are all only momentary and superficial - gone in an instant and too shallow to feel. Even if they are wonderful feelings, they're false...only a small escape from reality. (But then is a momentary escape from reality worse than a permanent one?)

no, i'd rather live in reality where i can make my dreams come true. being put to sleep and dreaming for the rest of my life doesn't sound like a very good idea. living in reality means there will be of course difficulties, tragedies, and happiness. it's life

But you could program your dream-life to include all these things too...you could make sure that in this dream world, you would learn all the things you can learn in life. Or you could just have yourself be the wisest person in existence. Does it matter how you attain your knowledge if the results are the same? Difficulties, tragedies, happiness...these things can be woven into your dream-life. They teach you things...give you experience. You might not even want them to be in your dream life, because you could program yourself to know all these things already without having to suffer the consequences like in reality.

living a fantasy that you make up defeats the entire purpose of living. what makes life so exciting is that you never know what'll happen next. you don't know the people you meet and you're constantly being surprised.

Yes, but you could program the drug to make yourself not KNOW that you are living a dream...then it would be EXACTLY THE SAME AS REALITY TO YOU. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. If you lived this fantasy and made it so that you wouldn't know you were living in a dream, "life" would be as exciting and wonderful, probably even MORE exciting and wonderful than the one we're living in now.

I would much rather live in reality than in a dream, because in reality, you have your difficulties, your problems, worries, but. Everyone. has. to. deal. with. that.
No one's life can be PERFECT, so why bother? It's just a waste of your life.

Yes, now your life can be perfect. Now you won't have to deal with your difficulties, your problems, or your worries. Now you're being offered a perfect life. Why bother? Because this is offering you PARADISE! It's giving you the chance to spend the rest of your life dreaming, living exactly the way you want to live. There are no limits or boundaries. You can be anyone and anything you wish.

It would feel exactly the same. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Living the dream WOULD be reality, for you. How is it wrong? It won't hurt you in any way. You would be granted your every desire. What is the difference, anyway, between this dream life and reality?