Poll of the Day > Do you consider your life to be more of a dream or a nightmare?

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Personally I'm going through a phase right now where everything about my life just sucks. Unless I'm drunk, in which case I dgaf. I'm voting nightmare.

I've been depressed for over 10 years.

Take a wild guess.

Every day I live a thousand lives that aren’t mine
Stuck on the inside of fiction
I never feel the wind
Caught in a cage made of fear
Made from the thousand dreams I keep dreaming
A thousand lives that I have lived
My mind is shackles
My mind is wings
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The chains come forth from the ground,
And are attached to every part of my body.
To chains i am bound,
In chains I'll be found.

Attached to the earth, i cannot fly
Attached since birth; i must ask why:
Why does life have to be this way,
Why does nothing change, day by day?

In chains is my heart, i cannot love
In chains is my mind, i cannot hope
In chains are my legs, i cannot walk
In chains is my throat, i cannot talk
In chains are my hands, i can barely write
In chains am i - it's not all right.

Since i can't move, all i can do is dream
Visions of flying above mountains and streams
Sometimes i wonder if i'll ever be free
Free of the chains which choke and bind me?

When i am old, and my time is near,
I will embrace death with joy and cheer.
Cause then these chains will be broken asunder,
And i'll ascend to the skies at the speed of thunder.

Neither, it's more like limbo.

Despite my legitimate problems, it's objectively a dream. I have everything I want and don't need to go out to work. I live in a stable country. There's very little worth complaining about in my life, which is why I spend so much time and energy hating SJWs. May as well.
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It feels wrong to choose nightmare, but it's definitely closer to that than a dream.
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A living hell.
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Life is too mundane to be a nightmare.

7 years ago it would have been easy to choose nightmare. I couldn't find goodness in anything or anyone around me. I was in peril and all was lost. But those feelings are fleeting if you let them. It's been a journey, one of challenges and failure and terribly lonely nights. However, fighting for my dreams have given me a sense of purpose that eclipses the sad realities we surround ourselves with. I may not have everything I want (I don't even own a TV and my first memories are of video games), yet there are joys and elations hiding in between the empty spaces of everyday life. Dreams and nightmares are what you make of them. Even depression can be subdued with the right mentors, practices, and beliefs.

For me, I'm curious to know what your life would look like in the category you didn't choose.

A nightmare for me is living in a big city far from any beach, working a basic data entry heavy job, living in an unwelcoming apartment with a partner I'm complacent with. I'd rather have nothing than being stuck in that reality. Obvi, my own personal opinion.
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maclikescheeze posted...

7 years ago it would have been easy to choose nightmare. I couldn't find goodness in anything or anyone around me. I was in peril and all was lost. But those feelings are fleeting if you let them. It's been a journey, one of challenges and failure and terribly lonely nights. However, fighting for my dreams have given me a sense of purpose that eclipses the sad realities we surround ourselves with. I may not have everything I want (I don't even own a TV and my first memories are of video games), yet there are joys and elations hiding in between the empty spaces of everyday life. Dreams and nightmares are what you make of them. Even depression can be subdued with the right mentors, practices, and beliefs.

For me, I'm curious to know what your life would look like in the category you didn't choose.

A nightmare for me is living in a big city far from any beach, working a basic data entry heavy job, living in an unwelcoming apartment with a partner I'm complacent with. I'd rather have nothing than being stuck in that reality. Obvi, my own personal opinion.

The dream for me would be to have a clear mind. I'd like to be able to sit on a couch for an hour and be at peace with myself. When I try to do that, I get bombarded with flashbacks of failure and humiliation. Yesterday I meditated and prayed for most of the night, and actually got to the bottom of some of my issues and my need for understanding.

I let myself go. At one point I told myself I would learn through fire. I've been addicted to weed, cigs and alcohol for over 8 years and since then, I was hurt by so many people and life became a nightmare. And every time I was hurt, I would turn to those three things, plus binge eating at night (which I can't sleep without anymore). There are predators out there and I survived them all, but not without scars. People want to always dominate each other, and instead of standing up for myself and asserting my position, I ran away towards my addictions, which masked the hurt and gave me the "I don't care" attitude.

I'm not looking for sympathy or anything and it's all in the past, but I need to understand and repent of my addictions in order for me to be my true happy self, which I feel I haven't been for a very long time. I need change, and need to realize that some of the dreams I've had in the past were just fantasies. Reality has been kicking my ass, when will I embrace the good and the bad, and finally be at peace?