Are we a consciousness of someone elses dream...

While lying on my sofa this morning, i looked outside the window up at a patchy bright blue sky smoothered by off white dense fluffy clouds. A thought occured to me that has been squeezing and fighting for room in my mind. This thought has got me thinking if we could actually be a consciousness of someones dreams.

I think the question has materialised from a general interest in what it is to be us, to be human, to be you, be me and watching films like the Matrix, Donnie Darko and Inception. There are other good films, which need space in a well nourished mind before watching. But these three come to mind and i have thought deeply about. These films ask you to question the true nature of reality and the roles we play in a war against those that controller us. But this is going off topic. What i wanted to say was - what if we were the consciousness of someone elses dream and we didnt exist in reality but in someone elses slumber.

Could the person who is dreaming us be controlling our lives? Could the dreamer have manisfested us as part of a larger more detailed and complex dream? Are we just a single drop of water in a never ending ocean of a recurring dream?

We could be because do you remember been born? No! well nobody does, i know this is a weak argument but this is just something i have thought about and no doubt will come back to when the mood takes me. But lets just say we were not born in reality but someone, we know, like one of our parents, sisters, brothers, friends or even someone who said hello to us in passing. Now wouldnt that be mind boggling, if we were a creation in a dream of someone who we didnt know.

You could say well this person has had to of know us before he dreamt us up, but as its a dream then its their dream so they can dream us up the way they want us to. And by apprearing in the dream with us or be part of the dream that we are in could have implications of a deeper complex multilayer dream. If you do not remember been born then how do you know you were born? In fact how do i know what chocolate tastes like? Is the chocolate that im eating right now what a chocolate should taste like or is it what my dreamer thinks chocolate tastes like. If we can doubt this simple thing then we can question everything else we come across in our dream designed life.

Its just a thought but if our lives were just a consciousness of someone elses dream then everything we do is not our doing, everything we like is not what we like and everything we think of, every thought, is not ours! Then if we do somthing that we should not of done, then are we responsible for it? But the thought isnt about any morals or any actions but the thought is plainly about if we were just a figment in someone elses imagination. If you think about this then think about all the complex things we do, our emotions, out thoughts, right down to walking and talking even reading....wouldnt the dreamer be a complex and highly mentally rich being?

You see the more you think about this thought and what it could mean the more complex it will get. This may sound like the silly ramblings of a big brown bear with time on his hands during the hibernation season but if thoughts like Inception and Matrix can exist then why not this thought that we are indeed a consciousness of someone elses dream. The very thought of been a consciousness of someone elses dream is the dreamer dreaming the question and if the dreamer is questioning the reality of his reality then are they just the consciousness of someone elses dream?....maybe....but, then where does it end?