On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 3:50:45 AM UTC-6, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > What would be a sure phenomenon that can help us distinguish between > dreams and "real world" ? Because no matter how illogical a dream world > might be, this doesn't make us realize that we are in a dream. So the > randomness of a dream world is not a phenomenon that can help us > distinguish between dreams and "real world". What I'm thinking that can > help us make the discrimination is the phenomenon of sense disappearance. > If we keep a sense on only 1 stimulus, eventually we will stop perceiving > the stimulus. For example, if we hold our hand on the leg of a girl, at > first it is pleasant, but after a time we will stop feeling anything. We > will have to pet the leg of the girl in order to feel it again. Would such > a phenomenon happen in dreams ? If not, then this would be a distinguishing > hallmark between dreams and "real world". Do you have other ideas ? >
Generally people who are not able to distinguish between a real conscious state and a dream state need psychiatric therapy. There are people who do have this problem and as a rule they become labelled as having schizophrenia. Such people hear voices and see "other beings" the rest of people do not see. Often schizophrenics self-medicate to escape this affliction and become alcoholics and drug addicts. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/256dd684-274e-43ae-b215-97a3628e22ca%40googlegroups.com.
