MD and Spirituality (Religion)

[Tuxedo Knux]

Does anyone have any thoughts on MD's effects on an individual's spiritual/religious beliefs? I've been pondering on the question lately and I wanted to know if anyone had any ideas.

[A.Altai]

There is a type of dd that is close to reality. Also there is another type, impossible dds. Thirstness is sign of water, hunger is sign of food and The second type is the sign of heaven. İn there you can do every thing you want. You also can warch your life as a movie. Also your dds and -night- dreams. But MDD not a massage from Allah. İt's a defanse system that says us there is a problem whit your life or toughts. But this is a wonderful thing because God created us and gave it to our mind and showed his loveness and greatness

[maro]

Wow...that makes me think about that thing again. ..i m glad to found the question 

When i was young my feeling about MD it was something not ok and i feels it more when someone opens the room where i DD so it makes me feel it is a sin and sin happens in quiet and silent places and i should have full control over myself i hated myself at that time ..i hated that i DD ..i prayed to have more control ..it actually happens but the thing was i loved DD so my feel was i am a very bad person and those things evetually i learned that people dont have life without doing sins ..it is impossible i have to accept myself as i am ...i began to think that because people dont responds to things equally means people cant judge so none can judge me as they re not in my foot God the love only judge ...now i didnt even wonna judge myself if it is a sin or not .. Well it is relative i mean little daydreaming of course it is a bless is not sin the sin is wasting the time it is in honesty ..the sin is in not being able to do what u wonna do also in trying to have my needs through daydreaming not looking what God can give .. But i stop to be judgy about myself just a little ..everyone sin it is not supposed to be a big deal ...well the only thing i have to do is reaching goals in life and not letting DD control my life ...actually good points about DD it make me not judjing alot putting myself in other situation also feels we all have weak points also when u try to overcome it s control on life it became something so beautiful making life fun also u feel free to go and do feel strong feel not stressed ur most time ,..and everyday we live is a new experience so it is long answer still not complete 

[Fallen Messenger]

I believe that everybody has one BIG trial, along with small trials, in their life that was sent from God to strengthen. Them, and just think this is our big trail

[Mira]

I have a lot of imaginary conversations/debates about religious issues...which isn't as productive as real life, but it also means that I end up examining certain things from multiple angles, before settling on how I feel about something. I often surprise people with statements that 'cut to the heart of the matter'. I think some people look at me and think that it is a strength or a talent that I should put to more use. The reality is that many of those statements are the result of exhaustive, obsessive, mental re-treading of the same ground over and over and over again in both real and imaginary situations. Even though I AM proud of the conclusions I come to, they come at the cost of much time and energy. Which makes me sad.

On the other hand, I love reading about religion. Lately it's been a lot of Eastern philosophy like Buddhism, Taoism, Sufi, etc. But there has been a little bit of other types in there. (Starting to appreciate CS Lewis) I find it difficult to concentrate on fiction sometimes, but I'm comforted by spiritual/philosophical books that tackle the turbulence of one's own mind.  Many of these spiritual practices place emphasis on mediation techniques and 'coming back to the present moment.' Which is perhaps what drew me to these traditions in the first place. :)

[Katherine Milano]

I am personally religious. I want to be religious. However, I feel as if MD has a negative effect on my ability to live out the doctrine which I believe in intellectually. I feel separated from myself, from my real life, since I obviously spend a huge portion of my time living someone else's. Living out any sort of decisive ideology is difficult when I do not feel emotionally connected to the choices which I make in my real life. In some sense, they can start to feel as meaningless as the ones I make in my DD. This scares me.

[Richard Quest]

Honestly, I use DD as a critique of established religions and the abuse of it's power by evil people. But in my DD, religions are given to be true. The doctrines that people base their whole lives on are in fact true, but people at the top use it to exploit the powerless. One of the only exceptions is the Kennedian faith which is extremely down to earth and democratic religion that there is. What I think is that I subconsciously made a religion that I would want to follow: the perfect religion.  

[Roel]

I used my daydreams to figure out wether or not the existance of a God was possible/probable/true. A lot of my daydreams revolve around creation and Gods. And I even have one dd that simply describes my religious thoughts haha

This one! I hope that link works ;)

I wouldn't say MDD makes you believe. Or gives you a faith or a spiritual mind. After all people of all religions (and no religions) use this site. However I do think MDD and being introvert makes you think a lot about things others wouldn't, giving us different perspectives. Since both faith and dreams are things that come from you heart, brain, soul or whatever (the same place anyways), I think it's sure that they influence eachothers.

Just my thoughts though... ;)