Poll: Do you have unrealizable dreams?

[Praestat_Mori]

Do you have unrealizable dreams? Share if you are comfortable sharing them.

 

[oneirataxia]

To turn back time and be a kid all over again, forever.

 

[golta]

To think as a sane person and don't act as a freak even if I don't want to

 

[Spike Spiegel]

While at university my dream was to do research and get published. In my mind this was one of the few ways you can actually see your contribution to the world and make a impact. Specifically I wanted to work on opioid addiction and rehabilitation and do research on things like safe injection locations and push for policy change. Got a bachelors and a masters only for me not to have what it takes for a PhD program.

Since then I've moved back home gotten a interim job to make money and am going to school to be a teacher. In my mind this is still another way of helping people and giving back so in some ways I've kept that original dream alive. But whenever I see an article on drug policy or certain criminal justice topics I miss being at university reading cutting edge studies and materials surrounded by the most ambitious people. Deep down I hope that one day I'll have the ability to conduct research and make a discovery or get published and have my work read and even taught to others.

 

[1MiserableGuy]

More like a dream I already lived out, and still mourn its death. I lived as a professional musician for seven years.

 

[_Gollum_]

I don't have any dreams (unless you count everlasting peaceful nonexistence). I'm not sure I ever really had them to be honest. I'm starting to realize more and more that I just never had much of an attachment to life.

 

[Dead Horse]

Yes, and the unrealizibility of it makes every other pursuit in this life pointless in my mind.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Well my main dream to be generic: aka find love and start a family. Seems completely unreachable. No matter how close I get it seems to always be just out of reach. Realistically perhaps my own self sabotage will always get in the way even if the dream itself attempted to force its way through against my will.

Other dreams I've had like being an animator or working in that industry at all are also pretty dead since I suck at drawing and don't have the patience to even have any good ideas for stories.

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

My autistic ass took this literally at first, as my actual dreams are straight up like LSD dream emulator screenshots where I never know what's going on

While at university my dream was to do research and get published. In my mind this was one of the few ways you can actually see your contribution to the world and make a impact. Specifically I wanted to work on opioid addiction and rehabilitation and do research on things like safe injection locations and push for policy change. Got a bachelors and a masters only for me not to have what it takes for a PhD program.

Since then I've moved back home gotten a interim job to make money and am going to school to be a teacher. In my mind this is still another way of helping people and giving back so in some ways I've kept that original dream alive. But whenever I see an article on drug policy or certain criminal justice topics I miss being at university reading cutting edge studies and materials surrounded by the most ambitious people. Deep down I hope that one day I'll have the ability to conduct research and make a discovery or get published and have my work read and even taught to others.

I really hope that you can return to the research world someday. Our backgrounds are similar except I studied a degree in Neuroscience, and wanted to research trauma, memory, cognitive deficits etc and move towards developing actual treatments rather than the joke of a system we have in place right now.

It's almost eerily identical, I'm also struggling to finish my master's due to my poor health and do not have what it takes to endure the rigor of a PhD program. A huge component of research careers is creativity and having boundless stamina, motivation, and ideas to keep churning out long papers and documents. When your capacity for writing diminishes, it feels like some sort of death knell.

I agree with you that research and innovation is the path forward so to speak, if you want your ideas and thoughts to be recognised by wider society and your suggestions implemented into the world, in spite of all of academia's pitfalls. I truly hope that you get another chance to study again. We need more people trying to solve the issues in this world rather than causing them like politicians do.

 

[SomewhatLoved]

Yes, and the unrealizibility of it makes every other pursuit in this life pointless in my mind.

This.

I hate how people say that time heals all wounds and you should always just try to move on, no matter how meaningful what you lost is. If nothing is worth everything, then everything is worth nothing.

 

[xinino]

I want to be sent to death row.

 

[ryba]

i wanna be a colonist on the moon or mars. even if we had the tech for it, the screening process would weed me out pretty quick.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yes, they at least feel unrealizable now. I'd like my chosen career to be more stable and better paid. I'd like to be able to rely on friendships without getting hurt. I would love to have found a partner. I miss the people that died in my life.

Some of that seems more realistic than others. Some is impossible!

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I don't have dreams to begin with so no. Also, I didn't count me wanting death as a dream because I can tell this thread was intended to talk about normie-like dreams

 

[MyLifeisHell]

Yes. All of them. Now my dream is to die and that doesn't seem to be shaping up to be an exception.

 

[rozeske]

Yes, too many....that is how I cope with my days since childhood. I enjoy my imagination world a lot better than my reality.

 

[eatantz]

My dream can never be real in this world but I've always wished my life would be a fairy-tale in a world where only the gentle and kind can survive. With magic and unicorns and death would be eternal slumber- living in your dreams

 

[derpyderpins]

Do you have unrealizable dreams? Share if you are comfortable sharing them.

Of course.

I've always dreamt of taking all the sadness I feel and producing great music that people will listen to long after I die because they connect with it. To me, that would release all the pressure I put on myself. I hate how common and childish that is but I enjoy fantasizing about it, that someone would see me and be excited because I'm like a friend they've known but never met. There's so much I don't know about life and meaning, but I figure in that case it would be pretty hard to argue I hadn't done enough. The dream has drifted away over time, though.

Of course I also dream like many here of not having to work. That's not happening at this point, but it is what it is.

 

[NumbItAll]

All I want is a gf, but that is not possible since I am a worthless undateable loser who no one has the slightest interest in. I also refuse to replicate my DNA, whereas most people desperately want to replicate their DNA.

 

[Dark Moon]

I don't have any dreams or goals no.

 

[Surreal]

Yes, to be a spirit that can manifest, feel, hear and receive anything it wishes, also to not exist for as long as it wants, at a moment's notice without the superficial obligations our bodies, nature and the financial and societal systems give us daily. Otherwise, we just suffer from our rationality.