Not really. Once I know the dream was not real it just makes me sad. The happiness wasn’t real, it just appeared as such. Once is happy in a dream because they don’t know it’s a dream, once they do any feelings about it evaporate. Fear goes away, at least in my case (once unfortunately, too many nightmares) and so do joy once you see the people in there don’t exist and neither does anything else in there. What you do does not matter because it’s lot real, though that is often used to soothe bad nightmares.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:31 pmObviously, because many things probably already do make you happy.
...and they aren’t “real”.
The happiness is still “real”.
Have you ever had a really nice dream, and then when you woke up you still felt happy from it?
That occurs even though what happens in a dream isn’t “real”.
Though my nightmares sometimes leave me questioning my psyche sometimes.
I can say the same in real life. In the case of friends I had people who I thought I was friendly with but it was all in my head. They just pretended to be nice for something or they weren’t what I thought they were, so I was crushed. It wasn’t real. It’s similar with video games and movies. Once I remember that it’s not real much of the magic is lost in the art. I hope I’m getting my point across. When you see it as a “dream” the joy vanishes. I felt it and I have known others who have too. That’s why the goal of such entertainment is to make you forget it’s an illusion.
It reminds me of some Hindu (I think) guru who mentioned sexual pleasure isn’t real or an illusion. Couldn’t remember the specifics just that it sounded very toxic for a supposedly mystic man.