<p>That whole foreshadowing in real life thing is interesting. I think it could be possible....Now i am going to become very morbid and mistake everything for a sign of darkness to come. </p>
<p>Sometimes when I am on the tip of sleep but haven't quite fallen under, I suddenly jerk my body and become wide awake. I don't do it on purpose, I just sort of spaz out and twitch and wake up. And sometimes after I become more awake, I think I remember feeling like a twitch was about to come on, but I am not positive because I was sooooo close to sleep.</p>
<p>Like some of the others have posted, I have always thought of the color question:</p>
<p>Is my interpretation of blue the same as your blue? If it isn't, how would we ever know? My blue would always be blue, but your blue would always be red and there is no way to ever really <em>know</em> what the real answer is.</p>
<p>When I was younger (like 6-7 years old), I often wondered if heavier people were "heavier". I thought that a heavy weight might actually be a light weight because the earth had to hold down to heavier people so they wouldn't float away...go figure. :) On the other side of the equation, skinny people were indeed heavier because it didn't take as much to keep them on the ground. Physics (and common sense) eventually proved otherwise. ;)</p>
<p>I had a dream last night, too. I was in space and it was just cool because I realized there is no up or down, no left or right. If I was in space, I could go down as easily as I could go up. There would be nothing to use to control my movement - it was just a freaky revelation.</p>
<p>...I think it's funny how a lot of us have contemplated the "color" question...</p>
<p>well its crazy to think about... its one of those "everything you know could be wrong" situations. I thought of something else to put on here, but now i've lost it. It will come back to me.</p>
<p>Far more importantly, how does it feel when you're dead?</p>
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Is my interpretation of blue the same as your blue? If it isn't, how would we ever know? My blue would always be blue, but your blue would always be red and there is no way to ever really <em>know</em> what the real answer is.
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The problem is, we can't know. That's why so many philosophers dismiss perception!</p>
<p>What is feeling? I mean we feel things in certain parts of our bodies but in actuality we feel them in our mind. I've always wanted to control feeling. Like I've got a fairly high tolerance for pain, but in reality what is pain? When my stomach hurts or something, I ask myself that, and it actually helps me. Sometimes I wonder if I live in constant pain and don't know because I'm so used to it, and if somebody switched into my body, they wouldn't be able to handle it.</p>
<p>jusgimmethegun
"When my stomach hurts or something, I ask myself that, and it actually helps me. Sometimes I wonder if I live in constant pain and don't know because I'm so used to it, and if somebody switched into my body, they wouldn't be able to handle it."</p>
<p>wow i wonder the same thing. i distinctly remember one time when i was ten, and i smashed my thumb on a tree (i know that sounds stupid) by accident and it hurt SO much. but then i kept thinking, 'pain is not real, its a concept' and it instantly healed! that has been working for me for minor things, like banging a toe on the wall. but still when i have stomachaches, nothing makes them go away (although recently my technique of taking really deep breaths helps a LOT) ...because i have killer stomachaches. i sometimes wonder whether i have a low threshold of pain, or it i am really the only one in the world who has experienced such horrible pain (its really bad trust me).
and i always imagine changing bodies with someone. and i wonder the exact same thing... are we all living in constant pain but we just have gotten used to it? so if we switch bodies with other people will it be unbearable?</p>
<p>first off thanks for starting this thread :)</p>
<p>and I'm right there with you on the stomach pains thing. The doctor doesn't know what it is exactly, but it gets so intense that it makes me throw up (even though I'm not nausious (SP?)). It's hard to get our technique to work on those kind of stomachaches but it helps some.</p>
<p>I always wonder why I'm alive now. What if I had existed hundreds of years in the past or future? Would I be the same person? What would I look like? Would I have been British, Chinese, or Somali? Would I be shorter or taller? Richer or poorer? Would I think the same way? Would I be a girl? I know it's wierd, but I always find it strange that I'm alive in the present out of all times. Whenever I think about this, reincarnation kind of makes sense to me.</p>
<p>sorry about all the question marks
(I'm Ron Burgundy? - I laugh everytime I remeber this, all the question marks I typed reminded me of it)</p>
<p>does anyone here make up vocal lines for a song randomly while your listening to the song? I think it's cool to have two different melodies, especially when I'm half of them.</p>
<p>This is a very interesting thread. I have wondered a lot of the same things that you all have.</p>
<p>One of the things that I wonder about a lot is if everything happens for a reason. It seems like everything does, including the seemingly unfortunate events. I have certainly had my share of difficult, frightening, and unpleasant times, but, in the long run, they helped me to become a better person.</p>
<p>does anyone ever wonder....if this is one big dream..........
......also I always think about driving over a bridge....I'm afraid that I wont be able to control myself and that i will yank on the wheel and go off the side...
...at least that is how it happens in my dreams. in my dreams i have no control over my actions....it sucks when u are constantly getting killed and u put urself in the situation....weird</p>
<p>wow, i've thought of ending it all before. Not in a suicidal way. Just thinking to myself "hmmm, who's to stop me?" I mean we have all these guidelines we follow, legally and socially. What if we just break them? Sure we pay the consequences, but so what? </p>
<p>It's so much deeper than that, but I can't explain it.</p>
<p>when i was little i used to wonder if i was the only being in existence in the whole world, and everything else was a figment of my imagination (that must have meant i was pretty damn smart... for thinking up everything that has happened since the world began. so.. i imagined someone inventing the atomic bomb... i imagined Van Gogh painting his art... i imagined CollegeConfidential... and i am imagining all of your responses.. and my brain is thinking that you are your own people but really i have created you!) needless to say i have abandoned this theory lol but i think it is pretty interesting</p>