Jack Cummins

I think that such confusion over whether certain experiences really happened or not does exist in certain states of delirium, such as those involved i...

I noticed in one of your comments, you say that 'Perhaps dreams aren't really dreams.' and you go on to say that would mean that our waking experience...

I am wondering if you wish to share a bit about your own precognitive dreams. It doesn't matter if they are mundane, because I am not wishing this thr...

As far as I am aware animals dream which does also suggest that animals have a subconscious. We could also say that thinking about dreaming involves w...

I am really about to finish writing for tonight as I am not home yet. I certainly didn't see your comment about 'bowel movements' as the end of discus...

Thank you for your response, and I am still logged in. I am certainly not wishing to create a somber thread, which is why I put my responses on hold. ...

I am putting in my final comment for today, and I don't wish for it be heavy weather, because I opened the thread for lively interaction. I am a bit r...

I am aware that I still have some outstanding replies to write, but I am waiting until tomorrow, to write them, because I want to write with clarity o...

I will try, but it will be later because I am out and my battery is going to run out. But, I will try to illustrate my point.

Thanks for your contribution and the idea of possible worlds'. However, what I do have to say is that I created this thread last night, and went to be...

I think that you are correct to see the way in which we are able to see and construct meanings in dreams. I think that it is so individual and based o...

I think that dreams definitely contain anxiety based on the past. However, they can also contain signs of the future, as many have experienced. But, i...

Having just said that I come from a situation of viewing in a general way, I am just aware that you have said something which is controversial because...

I think that this is a topic for critical discussion and I don't come with any set agenda, or specific arguments to prove. I think that there is a dan...

I think that your question as to whether dreams are 'connected to reality' or just 'imagination' is a central question underlying the philosophy, as o...

Some people don't seem to remember their dreams as much as others and I don't think that there are any clear explanations why. I know that there are t...

Thanks for the quote from Nietzsche, and it does seem that he is suggesting that dreams are a way of switching off from the pressures of life, and I t...

I think that many people do see dreams as being like 'mental bowel movement'. However, I think that is partly connected to the way Western society has...

I think that you are correct to place an emphasis on the subject who is experiencing a state of consciousness rather than the state itself as the ulti...

I plan to reply to many other comments, but will doso when I have done other tasks. I received a lot more responses than I expected in the thread over...

I have read your first post and one you wrote a short while ago today. I probably first experience lucid dreaming, in the sense of experiencing imager...

I do believe that dreams (and sleep) are important in many ways. I know that when I am severely lacking in sleep, I find it hard to function, especial...

I think that dreams are so complex as they can be interpreted on many levels. I did spend time in Jungian analysis and my dreams stopped mysteriously,...

What I have been thinking since reading and writing on this thread earlier is there is little chance of complacency because trends and developments ar...

I do agree with you that one important point of focus is how we see reality in the moment. Whether to reduce it all or enlarge it is a good question. ...

You suggest that 'we need to go through all these painful deaths if we're going to ever see our mistakes' regarding errors in philosophy. It reminds m...

I think that it a complicated dialectic. On one hand, there is the way in which mainstream and countercultural protests are opposed. But, also the ide...

You have added a couple of new pictures, and they are a little different, but extremely powerful. I am interested to know what media you are working i...

When you speak of elites and technocracies, this also makes me think about how in some ways rather than a possible deadend, there is also so much scop...

Thanks to people who have entered into this discussion. I am about to go to bed, but I will look at them tomorrow, and write some comments, because I ...

I am sure that many people are probably fed up with my thread, 'What is your understanding of reality?' I am just putting a mention that there is some...

They are fantastic and I hope that my thread survives a while longer, so that your art and what you have written are seen by others. I do art myself, ...

I think that maths does have a lot to explain about the nature of time, in terms of the figures. But, I think that there is also symbolism of numbers,...

I wondered about your own experience of altered perception. I definitely find music to be one way of experiencing the numinous, and have some kind of ...

At times, my own experiences, including those using substances and those which I had naturally do make me question, even though I do not see them as p...

That is a wonderful piece of art you have put on the thread. It is rather psychedelic and metaphysical. Do you know who the artist is?

I I am sorry if I misunderstood you. I am just interested in the future of philosophy and related fields of thought. It is not my own personal issue, ...

I think that the experience of alienation is complex. It is about feeling rejected and about feeling lost, especially in the age of technology. We may...

Perhaps the struggles we have are an important part of our experiences. If we don't know pain, how can we know joy? It may be interconnected and that ...

In many ways, I think that life can be seen as a gift because I offers potentials for some kind of pleasure, appreciation and rich experience. I am no...

We are indeed limited, looking beyond ourselves for meaning. But, such a view may contribute to our seeing of ourselves as if reality is from the top....

It is so easy to subscribe to crazy, shallow ideas, on the internet, whether it is conspiracy or otherwise. Right now, I am aware that I am competing ...

It is so complex. We could ask what is anything?

I am sure that the answers offered by the arts may be seen as inadequate in some ways, but we could argue that poesis is a way of a certain expression...

I may start a thread based on my own reading of Harari's ideas, but I am certainly not in the position of thinking that scientists have the ultimate w...

Yes, I think we are, but your thread is going in a different direction possibly, so it will be interesting to see what happens. You wrote your reply i...

I don't know how much sense of humour you have but ever since we discussed the philosophy of the solidity of tables I keep recalling a certain scenari...

I have looked at your idea again, and I am sure that it has so much to argue in its favour, but the question which I would have is how could such an i...

I am a little disappointed that you did not answer my reply because I thought that we may have so much to discuss. Instead, you have started a thread,...

I am not disagreeing with you, but don't know how to interpret what you are saying. Perhaps, you or someone else can point to where this leads, becaus...