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I had a dream where I was in my bedroom and noticed that it was arranged in an old way that I had since rearranged a month ago. I suggested to myself that I was
by always_good 8y ago
I had a dream where I was in my bedroom and noticed that it was arranged in an old way that I had since rearranged a month ago. I suggested to myself that I was in a dream and tried to wake myself up. I woke up into yet another dream where the room was in its current arrangement. I woke up shortly after for real this time, into reality.
I woke up to the sun beaming through the window into my eyes. Maybe I was more lucid/aware than usual for that reason.
But I have no way of knowing whether the control/awareness I had in that dream was any different than the illusion of control/awareness and decision-making I have in any other dream.
It seems like quite a leap to assume I was in control just because I dreamed I was.
- monktastic1 8y agoAre you in control right now? Leaving the deep philosophical questions aside, you can have the same kind of control in a dream. As in, you feel 100% (or sometimes much more) awake, alert, and in possession of your full waking capacities, but what surrounds you isn't the physical world.
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- rebuilder 8y agoJust a fun anecdote: I once had a dream where I met someone who was introduced to me as being me, although he looked completely different. I thought it was a really boring "philosophical" statement about how we all have many sides to ourselves, got a little angry about how pseudo-intellectual this dream was and decided to wake up. I decided I didn't want anything to do with that dream and forced myself awake. It was a very odd feeling to force my eyes open into the real world, when in the dream my eyes were already open!
- random_comment 8y ago> I woke up shortly after for real this time, into reality. I'm afraid not.