Are likenthropes real or just a figment of our imagination?
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Clinical Lycanthropy is a real mental condition in which a person believes himself to be an animal, so yes it is a real condition.\nThe disorder where hair grows excessively on your body is call hypertrichosis and it's  very rare and believed to have started some of the beliefs in the werewolf legends. Remember Michael J.Fox from TeenWolf? Yeah it looks a lot like that.
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I think it really all depends on what you dream. I dream about my life and months after I've dreamt it, whatever it was happens. So I think that yes, if they are plausible dreams, they come true. If it's something obscenely outlandish I doubt it will.
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The Imagination of Imagery
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They all could be real, or a figment of ones imagination. It is one of life's mysteries. Some things are meant to be left alone.
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they are cool in mythology and books and movies, but if they were real that would kind of creepy
992538
Maybe it use to be shaped like a diamond, and maybe we did just put so much thought and energy into it being round that it became that way. Maybe we are not even living on the world that we think we are living on. Maybe we are all just part of some big atmospheric mind of some sort. Maybe we really are nothing but a dream, who knows.
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It's all shadows on the wall, man, shadows on the wall.  We think it's the real thing, but it's not.  It's illusory.  The *real* world only exists in the pure forms of beauty, truth, and justice.
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Yes, but looking at some of the other questions, I think the "real" and "computer simulation" worlds exist side by side and there are fewer in the real world than you may think ...
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Annoying when responders can be too bloody literal, wouldn't you agree?\n\nI was walking last night looking up at the stars and wondering almost the same question, "Is this life a very long very detailed dream we'll someday wake out of?"\nI myself have incredibly vivid, sometimes wild and unbelievable dreams, and sometimes so real that it's a distinct relief when I wake from it. \nA friend and I have thought that some of the more fantastic "almost another world" sort of dreams are just that, our celestial bodies mingling with other realities and possibly other parallel planes of existance. \nOf course I can't prove any of that, it's my own personal experience, but it's real for me and therefore valid.\n\nI myself have experienced what Prof Beatz mentioned about not being able to make lights come on, and not being able to read things written on paper (though I have sometimes and I get the feeling if I could just remember what it said it would be very revealing).\n\nMatrix really spooked me because of my open-mindedness, but if it turns out I'm on some feeding tube of the worst stuff possible and still able to be this real in my mind, then I'll take contentment for the moment. \n\nKeep seeking your own answers....
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Oh, dear.  So many of them have been disproven.  Be sure to look up the methods of fraud being used as well, such as statues with yes of porous stone, etc.  Best to be careful, as the church doesn't need that sort of publicity.\nAt the same time, science never suggests that something is false because so many have been found to be false.  There may be some real miracles, and waiting for God to prove himself is hubris in the extreme.  I can think of few other apparitions I'd rather meet in a dark alley, or in the skies.\n\nThat some people have dream-like visions while awake is already proven fact.\n\nI had a "vision" of God when I was seventeen.  I still leave open the possiblity that it might have been something else, despite the wonderful results of that experience and knowing it's truth.  There are always other possibilities for what caused my experience that a sane and thoughtful scientific man should consider.   Yet, we must never be afraid to explore the unexplored.\n\nKeep searching.
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Okay, let me start this off by saying that I am a paranormal researcher.  And I do this with purely scientific methods.  Which means that to date, I have found no prove of any mythical or paranormal beings.  This being said I shall put forth what I have found on this subject.  \n\nWhile there has been no actual accounts of fairies in scietific history, it is a very common theme in many cultures.  You have Leprachauns in Ireland, fairies and pixies throughout europe, the "little people" of native american myths (varying in temermant and discription from tribe to tribe) to other sightings throughout the world.  The closest thing to any proof of "small" people to date (excluding those who have dwarfism) is a recent discovery of proto human remains in indonesia dating back some 13,000 years.  These remains are actually similar to that of the homo erectus, but reaching demunitive stature. On average of three feet tall.  This species is known as Flores Hominid
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Yes, we are. That is what the senses are. There are no real things out there, there are just clouds of possibilities. Quantum physicists are finding out the universe is much more complicated and unbelievable than once thought. Our perceptions actually modify reality.. that means there could be a universe out there for every potential choice we make in our lives... it's a mind boggling concept, but people are realizing theres more to this world than meets the eye, so to speak.
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I think they're real. We've all seen something out of the corner of our eyes from time to time right??? The scary thing is, they're not being quite so shy these days. They seem to be seen more now than ever before..creepy
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ghosts & monsters are not real.its all in our minds.we fear them because right from childhood people tell us stories about them.but spirits are real.i have not seen them.but many people have.
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When we observe anything that is beyond our senses, or beyond the capacity of our tools, two things happen: either we find nothing, or what we find is an illusion - perhaps influenced by observation, or even the thoughts of the observer. Most of what we sense as physical beings, and observe with our tools (e.g. science), can only be illusion
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My dad came up with a great idea that all kids imaginary friends are really actually ghosts or similar spirits and that as they grew up, they lost the ability to see them and thus dismissed them as 'imaginary friends'.  But a babysitter would somehow realize the truth and have to deal with it.\n\nI doubt he'll ever write it, so that's why I'm telling you- but seriously, why not come up with your own original idea?
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hmm.....is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?