Why do I feel like I don't exist? i'm not real?

[Anonymous]

All the time I feel that my life is a dream and that every good thing that happens to me in the day is not real.
I do not exist, I feel that the people around me are not real and that I am only in a dream.
Sometimes I think that I am going to wake up from this dream lying in the street like a homeless person and with no one to love me.

Everything is a dream and I feel like my mind is confused, sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I wonder if I am real.
The last thing I thought about last night was: oooh I woke up and I still feel empty and homeless, I'm not real.

I try everything to feel real but nothing helps me, I tried music, entertaining myself by watching movies, reading, talking, playing with my cats and my dog.
but even so I still feel that I do not exist.

[Punkbuster107]

I don’t think of anything I see as being entirely real, or entirely unreal. Realness is a variable quality. Everything is at least a little real, but certain things are more real than other things.


The fact that you’re conscious of a perceptual experience where you’re able to interact to some degree proves that what you’re experiencing is real, at least on some functional level. It might be that there is something realer than the reality you are currently experiencing, but that doesn’t mean that your life right now isn’t real at all. Even if it’s not the realest thing in all existences, you’re still here, and you’re still responsible for doing whatever you’re here to do. If you believe in God, as the realest thing that could conceivably exist, then it stands to reason that no matter what type of reality you’re experiencing, he’s still watching you and whatever you do has meaning in that he sees it.


The fact you are viewing your life out of your own eyes means that at least something is real, or you wouldn’t be witnessing anything; there would only be emptiness.

[Punkbuster107]

If you want to feel something real, voluntarily embrace something difficult. Go out and try to get your life together. Find something to aim for. Take care of yourself as if you’re someone you’re responsible for caring for, and then consider taking care of others.

Pain, if nothing else, is obviously real. You can’t think your way out of it. So find meaning in helping make the world a less painful place.

[Punkbuster107]

Lastly, a dream is real. It is a real dream. There may be things that are realer than the dream, but it is still real, and still serves a purpose.

[ManWithThePlan123]

What is existing supposed to feel like then if all your life you have been in a dream? The standards have been set, you know what reality contains. The difference between being awake and dreaming are in front of you, for you have experienced both. There are consequences to your actions when awake, either good or bad.

[jshm2]

You're just bored and mentally underdeveloped. Hence your struggles with education and self-esteem.