Last night was another one of those dream-filled nights but I can't really remember many specifics. One of the major themes, however, was that I was dead. I don't know how I died, but being dead was really cool. I was able to fly around really fast. I was immune to different temperature changes. I could fly/walk through things. I could eat anything I wanted. I got to hang out with other cool dead people. One of them taught me how to make doughnuts out of... well basically he taught me how to turn just about anything into a doughnut (he used some old pork chops). We also got to drive around in really fast cars but we never got pulled over because we were dead; what can the cops possibly do to someone who is already dead?! I was also able to swim in the ocean as much as I wanted because not only was it really easy to get there because I could fly so fast, but I also didn't have to worry about holding my breath or anything.
Yeah, being dead was pretty cool actually and I don't think people should be too afraid of it.
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Isnt it interesting to note that people's imagination of the day-to-day goings-on when you are dead, and for that "life" (or after-life) in heaven, seem to be predominantly here-and-now life-like? I think it is a testament to our relative lack of imagination that both of these places tend to get imagined very much "as if" it were life here on planet Earth. Too funny. This is one of the many reasons that I feel strongly that religious faith (and the "stories" contained in the Bible) are mere creations of man, for man.
Are you saying I lack imagination? haha, well I suppose it's true. I would agree with your sentiment about religious faith and my dream about death had absolutely no religious overtones that I remember.
No - I think your dream was funny, and imaginative. Just saying that I think its a good example of how we ALL tend to conceive other-worldly places as very here-and-now life on earth-like. Just cause it is our ONLY frame of reference. My point about religion was that the Bible seems to largely read very human/earth centric, rather than as some divinly inspired authorship. For something supposedly inspired by God it sure seems to be Earth/Human bound in its conception of things (to me anyway).
I like the idea of being able to turn anything into a doughnut, by the way. Perhaps you need to eat a few doughnuts to appease your subliminal desires ...
Yeah, you have an interesting point. I guess it's hard to imagine things that we have absolutely no frame of reference for, so even the wildest things we can imagine have to have some relation to reality. Yeah, maybe I will have a doughnut.
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