Is Yesterday Real?

Originally posted by Elessea
If yesterday has already happened, Then does it still exist, or is it just a memory. Does anything actaully exist outside of the moment we are experiancing right this second?

I think that it is just a memory because after the other days go by it will be in our minds but be a memory after a while.JM 🙂

This argument sounds really familiar and i think i read about it in a book recently. just to ask tho are the people arguing that yesterday is no more than a memory saying that it lacks the validity of the present moment and for all we know it might not have happened?

i was just thinking though that if everything in the past is a memory then u could argue that every milisecond becomes a new memory; not just every milisecond but every fraction of time. Is there a present or is there just the past and the future?

intense.

i agree though that asking whether yesterday was real is different than asking if it is a memory.

I'm always thinking that I'm just dreaming my self. But one day, I forgot what day it was but when I feel of my bike and I feel realy hard I dident feel anything. That was werid I said to my self. The the next morning I felt the pain. So what I'm thinking to myself right now is that when we die we will see our true selfs.

isnt that a contradiction? dreaming yourself i mean. cause you'd need a to be aware of your true self to be dreaming of soemthing other than that. I think 😖 . do u mean this world is the dream of your true self and that dying is like waking up?

Time itself is merely a metaphysical concept. Intangible and created as a means by Humans to better grasp the significance of their existence and make some kind of sense outta it all. How can you travel through a concept? Technically yesterday is real because we acknowledge it. To soemone like GOD, time doesn't exist. A millenia from now whether in the past or future is just the same as today. So in a way yesterday exists to us humans because we need it to be. But in a broader sense no because time is really something man thought and devised.

we live in a dream of our own making, we in turn are creations of someone else's dream, time and space are concepts that exist only as oddities designed to refrain us, but the are created by nothing other than our selves, and hence our dreams.

infact one mans perception of time might be completely different from some 1 else's perception of time, what one man believes to be space might be another man's explanation for time, n the possibilities are infinite.

id like to think of it as a single bubble of thought, wandering aimlessly in the ocean of nothingness.

This is getting all very abstract. Id like to think of living in the present with thoughts of the furture and memories of the past. Though theyre my own theyre still real just different from other peoples perceptions.

Seriously is it that radical to think that maybe just maybe, we do not exists???
Just maybe we are the figment of a higher being's dream or imagination and when we die, it's because the dreamer wills it???
That in essence death is not the cessation of life but rather the cessation of that particular segment of the dream which is our own individual lives.
So humanity IS the dream itself and within that dream are billions of different segments, some intertwining with another while others completely seperate which is what our lives are and why we have friends and family???

its not radical at all, however it IS very terrifying to a lot of people, because it suggests things that we cant handle or cant come to accept.

What a friend of mine had to say on the topic:

Is reality even real? All we perceive is confined to human insight. Well, at least that's what I think she said ... With that in mind, we could go around in circles saying 'Yes', 'No', or 'Sometimes ... when I feel like it' but it's all redundant. As is this post.

As for what I believe ... well I don't really care. It's not as if I'm ever going to find out, with my little human brain. But if I had a gun to my head and HAD to decide (*laughs* Wouldn't that be an amusing situation?) I'd say no. To me 'exist' means to be tangible, and is not the same as memories and recollections of the past. Materials things associated with the past - ruins, pyramids ... exist in the present, and are subject to the 'now' rather than the 'then', if that makes sense. How do we know that it's not from the future? Or something else? I'm confusing myself, but I think I understand what I'm trying to say ...

ANYWAY the existance of the past is one of infinite possibilities, such is the nature of the universe, even what I've said is one of infinite possibilies ... which is one of ... I'll stop now. The probability of humanity being right about something so beyond us is low to me, but of course I could be wrong ... or something that's undefined. Oh I'm so annoying. 😂

Originally posted by Elessea
If yesterday has already happened, Then does it still exist, or is it just a memory. Does anything actaully exist outside of the moment we are experiancing right this second?

Me and my friends used to talk about this. we also said, is anyone else real, or are they only real for as long as they are in your sphere of conciousness, then disappear when you have no further use for them?

Personally, I think yesterday's real. If I made something yeaterday, it'll still be here today! 😄

OMG like yesterday was so totally like real cos I went out and totally got my hair straightened and I like totally bought this like mini-skirt and it is like only 2 inches wide and my mum was like OMG you so like totally cannot wear that thing, and I was like oh yeah you are like so totally old fashioned, like you have like Busted on your Ipod, anyway she was like totally angry so I left and went to my friends house and so got drunk and stuff, and then these guys came, and I was like totally go away, cos they all thought like I was totally asking which I was so like not!

OMG like yesterday was so totally like real cos I went out and totally got my hair straightened and I like totally bought this like mini-skirt and it is like only 2 inches wide and my mum was like OMG you so like totally cannot wear that thing, and I was like oh yeah you are like so totally old fashioned, like you have like Busted on your Ipod, anyway she was like totally angry so I left and went to my friends house and so got drunk and stuff, and then these guys came, and I was like totally go away, cos they all thought like I was totally asking which I was so like not!

😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

There is one born every minute...

that's pretty sad.
And to think that there exist a number of such "individuals"

of course yesterday existed.But it was in th past.if not everyone would say "i didnt do my homework because it was do today but i didnt do it cause yesterday never existed so my unfinished home work never existed unless its finished...witch its not"

Originally posted by Elessea
If yesterday has already happened, Then does it still exist, or is it just a memory. Does anything actaully exist outside of the moment we are experiancing right this second?

yes and it doesn exsist , if you look at physics time IS a physical diamension. So their for it still exsists, like how if we drive a car down a road the road behind us still is real it is thier but we are not on it.
(technically you can visit it to just have to figuer out how to back up your car)

i hope that awnsers your question

Originally posted by LordFear
Seriously is it that radical to think that maybe just maybe, we do not exists???
Just maybe we are the figment of a higher being's dream or imagination and when we die, it's because the dreamer wills it???
That in essence death is not the cessation of life but rather the cessation of that particular segment of the dream which is our own individual lives.
So humanity IS the dream itself and within that dream are billions of different segments, some intertwining with another while others completely seperate which is what our lives are and why we have friends and family???

i was just thinking of the implications of this. would morality really have any meaning if yesterday wasnt real? if we're all just a dream itd completely undermine our responsibility for our own actions.

also, if we're a figment of someone elses dream it seems we would have no personal identity. you'd be entirely reliant on the imagination of this higher being and as such would you exist at all? i think to question the reality of yesterday is to question the existence of yourself.

just some thoughts- i think this thread is quite interesting

i look at yesterday as the past.