On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 20:50, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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.
