I do now of course. If reality were a dream that 'appeared' consistent, non-contradictory, and persistent then a little observation with critical thinking would uncover that. For example, in a dream I can look at my watch. One moment it says "5:15", the next "55:40978", and then the next "Space Invaders". Within the dream I can idenity that behavior and realize I am dreaming.
While you cannot imagine a dream that is consistent , non contradictory and persistent (until you wake up or realize that it is?) maybe it is possible.
You have to prove that it is not possible (you cannot use the fact that every night it never happen because you are not eternal and maybe the dream that is consistent,etc. is the one you are experiencing when you believe you are awake)
If you experienced dreams that for 1 second you believed it was real
why cannot you imagine that there is dream that take 1 life to realize that it was a dream?
Reality shares no such behavior.
but only until you find such behavior (An if you did not find it does not mean that there is not) so your argument is not valid
I agree. Optical illusions are simply interprative misrepresentations and the underlying mechanics can be identified and shown to be consistent, persistent, and non-contradictory. Hallucination are interpretive overlays generated internally and are inconsistent, non-persistent, and contradictory; hence, they can also be spotted during the event rather than after.
But it is only after you REALIZE that it was a hallucination that you KNOW that it was an hallucination (self evident)
That much energy would annihilate anything in its vicinity. It doesn't matter what kind of laws might apply in the "real" world, stuffing 10^1000^1000^1000^1000^1000... (do the exponent for several trillion years) units of any form of energy into your "real head" is going to vaproize you (not to mention that much energy is beyond containment).
Do not talk about something you cannot know because as I said you are maybe in a dream
That's not even a possibility. I can willfully examine anything in reality and repeadtly find the exact same consistency, persistency, and non-contradictory-ness.
until you realize (same as in dream) but you did not realize
Any way you look at it, the notion you are proposing is both false and not possible. At best it makes for fun science fiction media.
Which specific notion?
And tell me why it is false if it is so evident for you, that should not take long
Note about your pseudo argument against the fact that you are maybe dreaming:
Don't you realize that all your argument are based on the content of what I qualify to be maybe a dream?
These argument cannot be valid if you are dreaming
indeed if you are in fact dreaming your argument are not valid, while if you are right it is not a proof because you could have been dreaming. you need a external argument.
In other words: you assume that you are not dreaming and then from that you conclude that you are not dreaming.
It is not enough, it is a circular argument
While me, I only said that you cannot know that you are dreaming or not.
I don't say you arr not dreaming neither I say that you are dreaming.
The proof have to be given by you but if you think enough you will see that it is not possible to prove that because all your evidence reside in your experiences (which can be dream or not)
Is there nobody here in this forum that know about the dreaming problem ?
I am quite surprise of hearing Crunchy Cat talking as he knew that he was not dreaming while all his argument are based on the content of his dream (or not) (what he experiences: brain, humans...).
it is what we experience : yelowness of the chair, of a ball...
