After 3 almost 4 years of psychosis, I feel like I’ve seen enough to know that reality really is just a dream state, how many of you feel like you’ve seen enough to confirm this is true?
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Life is not a dream. You can feel pain and die, so its definitively not a dream.
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Yeah sometimes it seems like life could very well be a dream.
After suffering from numerous psychotic breaks anything is possible.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
I can do these things in my dreams. Those are not really an indicator that reality isn’t a dream.
Really? Never heard of someone dying from his dreams 
Oh, yeah. It can be very painful. If you ever get the chance, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Personally I am unsure if I already am in the afterlife.
I’ve had to come to the realization that your reality is what it is in the moment you are in. Reality might be a dream, life or something else. Your reality is the moment that you are in but you have to know that your reality can change and that the actions you do can effect all of them.
It’s how I get by at least. 
Life is a possible world as like as so many of others
In a way it’s like a dream, but a dream is something else we experience in life so it can’t be that. That’s like saying milk is fat or a computer is lines of code.
I agree with this. Life is not a dream. If it were, we could wake up and be like average people who don’t have mental illness. But there’s no waking up from that nightmare, because it is real.
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solipsism
- the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
I never felt that way before I got sick, so from that I deduce that everything is real but sometimes the disease of schizophrenia made certain things seem unreal.
Well I feel if you can read this , and other people here can read this , that’s enough proof it’s not a dream.
I’ve heard that you often get a strong sense of how you impose our own views on the template of objective reality when you do acid. There was a song about that by the Grateful Dead titled “Estimated Prophet”. People were taking acid so they could find enlightenment. There were a few train wrecks because of that, though. Every once in a while someone would do a swan dive off a building and break their neck, leaving them paralyzed from the neck down for life. This one guy in my home town did a few too many trips on acid, and he used to wonder around town staring up at the sky. I think he eventually quit doing that, but he was still pretty spacey.
I felt like this too after psychosis and I found lots of media that had those messages very comforting (I was obsessed with the film Vanilla Sky). But I know now it was just my way of coping with the distress of psychosis and away of accepting/denying (depending how you look at it) my reality.
Row, row, row your boat.
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I’ve thought many times that life is a dream. It would make sense. I just posted about the Truman delusion. Rearrange the letters in truman and it spells out traum, which is dream in German. He is also sleeping on the movie poster. The matrix is also a dream. Neo is adam and trinity is eve. Morpheus is lucifer and the world is the garden of eden. God puts adam into a deep sleep in the bible but it never mentions him waking up. The movie begins with Neo asleep at his computer. It kind of makes sense. In the truman show, his wife is reading a book called “the dream machine 2”. Anyway, I just see reality as malleable and it seems to easily shift around to reflect certain thoughts, but maybe that’s just the illness…
I was going to write this too but felt shy.
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“He/she who hesitates is lost.”
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