I've always had trouble pinning down precisely what absolute idealism IS so I would love to hear your thoughts on this. — Brian
I think that dreams are also what can be regarded as a form of reality, although impermanent and vague. — Question
Thinking as a materialist, you have reality being generated without external input, some (supposedly) internal gibberish, which I don't believe. — Question
Anyway, to answer your question, I think that dreams are also what can be regarded as a form of reality, although impermanent and vague. Why we don't acknowledge it as a form of reality is a deeper question about how we think about how reality works, as something external illuminating our mind as a projector displays still images in quick succession. — Question
That's the thing with dreams, they are apprehended as real, when they are going on, but when you awaken they are dismissed as unreal. — Metaphysician Undercover
How could you not believe your dreams, while they are going on? That's the thing with dreams, they are apprehended as real, when they are going on, but when you awaken they are dismissed as unreal. — Metaphysician Undercover
Dream content (being the content of short-term memory) is also real, being the experiences (sensations, interoceptions, observations, introspections, etc.) which actually occurred during waking hours. — Galuchat
I almost always know that I'm dreaming when I am. Dreams to me seem very similar to daydreams, imaginings when awake, etc. only I'm sleeping instead. So it's similar to knowing that I'm daydreaming or imagining something when I'm awake. — Terrapin Station
Thoughts? — Question
No, because dreams are neither sufficient evidence nor arguments for the truth of 'idealism'. — jkop
That's the thing with dreams, they are apprehended as real, when they are going on, — Metaphysician Undercover
Dreaming/daydreaming are qualitatively different than waking experience. Daydreaming always occurs parallel to waking experience. Sleep-dreaming does not. — Terrapin Station
While I am still asleep, long before I wake up, part of my mind says "It's just a dream". — WISDOMfromPO-MO
In other words, what's the philosophy of lucid dreams and it being in relation to reality or a sort of reality in itself? — Question
I've heard a lucid dreamer tell me that despite having some control over what is to happen in the dream, the dream is still experienced as if it is real. How do you think this could be possible? — Metaphysician Undercover
How could one have some control over what is happening, and yet experience it as if it is really happening? — Metaphysician Undercover
I suppose it's the same as when we go to the movies. We don't stand up and shout, "That's not true!". Some form of suspension of disbelief is required to entertain a film as well as a dream. — Question
That doesn't seem to be the case in my experience. I've had lucid dreams where I know it's a dream; but, still am in the domain of believing/extertaining what I am seeing as real as in waking life. — Question
When we go to a movie we do not even consider the possibility of having control over what happens in the movie. — Metaphysician Undercover
How can one have control over what is happening in the dream, yet still believe that what is being seen in the dream is as real as what is seen in waking like? — Metaphysician Undercover
The content of a dream is not fundamentally different than that of waking life. — Question
In my waking life there is a logically continuity of happenings. If I am walking down the street, in the next moment I will be continuing to walk down the street unless I decide to stop and do something else. In my dreams there is no such logical continuity. I may be walking down the street one moment, then in the next moment in a car, then in a house, etc.. The content is very random with very little logical continuity. — Metaphysician Undercover
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