On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 20:50, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < [email protected]> 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 ? > What you call the phenomenon of sense disappearance is a contingent fact about our brain. We could imagine a dream in which it happens or a reality in which it doesn't happen. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/CAH%3D2ypU18dnhiL%3Dqj8p7o7bMSc%2Bk9UPh3bqkSJ87Co%3DJqiV-fw%40mail.gmail.com.
