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Our usual visual imagination might be 90% transparent. The imagery in a semi-lucid or half-conscious dream could be described as translucent. A lucid dream can produce a mixture of opaque and translucent oneiric hallucinations.
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"A pseudohallucination is an involuntary sensory experience vivid enough to be regarded as a hallucination, but which is recognised by the person experiencing it as being subjective and unreal. By contrast, a "true" hallucination is perceived as entirely real by the person experiencing it."
For example I don't expect to meet other lucid dreamers in my nightly dream. However we could interpret our shared waking reality differently as if there were 7 billion participants in "God's" lucid dream!
"Mutual dreaming is the idea that two or more people can share the same dream environment."
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For me, this recalls the Taoist story:Michael McMahon wrote: ↑June 24th, 2022, 6:43 pm Finding a function of sleep presupposes that waking life is more important than dreaming. Viewing life as a dream however might imply that we live just to find more exciting content in our nightly dreams!
Text quoted from here.Of all the famous Taoist parables attributed to Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu) (369 BCE to 286 BCE), few are more famous than the story of the butterfly dream, which serves as an articulation of Taoism's challenge toward definitions of reality vs. illusion. The story has had a substantial impact on later philosophies, both Eastern and Western.
The story, as translated by Lin Yutang, goes like this:
"Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."
This short story points to some exciting and much-explored philosophical issues, stemming from the relationship between the waking state and the dream-state, or between illusion and reality:
How do we know when we’re dreaming, and when we’re awake?
How do we know if what we’re perceiving is “real” or a mere “illusion” or “fantasy”?
Is the “me” of various dream-characters the same as or different from the “me” of my waking world?
How do I know, when I experience something I call “waking up,” that it is a waking up to “reality” as opposed to merely waking up into another level of dream?
What is the difference between dreaming and 'waking' life? Charles Tart has done a lot of work in this general area.
Full disclosure: I haven't read the whole thread, and could be adding ideas that have already been thoroughly considered here in this topic.
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When we awake we have to be active and make active choices, not flit around looking beautiful and drinking nectar.
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Interesting. I think the point is that when we're dreaming, we don't realise we're dreaming. And therefore, by implication, what we call "being awake" could also, conceivably, be a different dreaming state?Belindi wrote: ↑July 4th, 2022, 8:09 am We know being a butterfly was a dream when we awake because when we awake we get our information, not from memories as in the dream, but from the outer environment including the needs of our bodies.
When we awake we have to be active and make active choices, not flit around looking beautiful and drinking nectar.
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Perhaps seeing an animal in a dream would be like you were watching a nature documentary. Unless animals can have rational thoughts like yourself but lack the oral mechanisms to communicate them! Or perhaps you could be rewatching one of your past lives!
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