Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
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Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
32k said:Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
In my dreams I and those I enteract with constantly do thingsthat are outside the laws of nature and nobody notices. Example I might be on a bike being chased by a little dog, then the dog might turn into a cop and my bike turns into a car and I am being chased by the cops and the chase continues.Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
In my dreams I and those I enteract with constantly do thingsthat are outside the laws of nature and nobody notices. Example I might be on a bike being chased by a little dog, then the dog might turn into a cop and my bike turns into a car and I am being chased by the cops and the chase continues.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. Ive never heard of a car with only a drivers side and I have no idea what a trex is. However I was just giving an example of things happening outside the laws of nature in my dreams; I have no idea what happens in yours. If I had any doubt of whether I am dreaming or not, I could simply attempt to do something I know is impossible like attempting to leap 100 feet in the air. If I fail I will know I am not dreaming.So I am guessing that if I am driving a car that has only a drivers side and Im being chased by a Trex...I am actually dreaming? I dunno man hard to tell
The quality of my dreams is very different than the quality of conscious experience. I know that I'm not dreaming because I know what it is like for me to dream.
Let me be the devil's advocate. Both of you offer the explanation that your dreams have certain qualities (call these X) while your experience of waking life has a different set of qualities (call these Y). Yet it's theoretically possible that you could have a dream that has qualities matching Y rather than X. It's like the "black swan" thing; all swans were white, until somebody encountered a black swan. Likewise, it could be that all of your dreams were X until you had a first dream that was Y. If you used the X vs. Y scheme to distinguish between dreams and waking life, then you'd be mislead into believing that you were awake when you were actually dreaming.Paradoxum said:I think we can be sure we are awake when we are awake. The feeling of real experience is different from the feeling of being in a dream.
Why would that be important to know?Challenge: Being that it is possible (or at least conceivable) that you could just be dreaming right now. How would you prove to yourself that you are not?
I know I am not dreaming because I am getting ready for work. I never dream about the mundane boring stuff...my dreams are always filled with weird disturbing whackyness!
Let me be the devil's advocate. Both of you offer the explanation that your dreams have certain qualities (call these X) while your experience of waking life has a different set of qualities (call these Y). Yet it's theoretically possible that you could have a dream that has qualities matching Y rather than X. It's like the "black swan" thing; all swans were white, until somebody encountered a black swan. Likewise, it could be that all of your dreams were X until you had a first dream that was Y. If you used the X vs. Y scheme to distinguish between dreams and waking life, then you'd be mislead into believing that you were awake when you were actually dreaming.
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