does anybody know a possible criticism to the idea that it is confusing to distinguish dreams and reality?
Supposing that I am dreaming right now, I would also have to suppose that when I go to sleep later on tonight I might dream, and if this were true then should that dream be a lucid dream, it must also mean that I am in a lucid dream right now while awake. For if now, in waking, I am part of a dream that I cannot control willfully, which could very well be the case, how then would I determine a lucid dream from a regular one later on tonight when I sleep if part of the regular dream I am an actual part of now, which could very well be the case, was determined to unfold as if I were controlling the dream I shall have later on tonight, from the beginning?
Could there be dreaming where an “I” would dream of itself dreaming, but not know if the “I” were a dream itself? That’s the problem of lucidity and consciousness. The “I” can’t be dreamt, it must be involved, and in that it is very real.
It would be much simpler to assume that reality was a dream and that was it. But to say that in that dream reality, people can dream of themselves controlling the dream but not be able to know if in waking they are no longer in the second dream, seems to become rather confusing.
So I’m thinking that it is more likely that dreams aren’t yet completely understood than it is that reality is a dream.
Pinch me.
I’ll show you.
How about the bare fact that people do distinguish dream from reality regularly and with ease, and that confusion on the matter only happens once in a great while?
if that was the end of it, i would more than happy to write a 1000 word essay using that 1 sentence.