Is there any way certainly to distinguish being awake from dreaming? How?
Title: Is there any way certainly to distinguish being awake from dreaming? How?
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Is there any way certainly to distinguish being awake from dreaming? How?
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 621 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Firstly, we would have to question what being awake is, and what a dream is. To the average person (well, we could then question what the average person is, but that is another journal) a dream is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep . Awake, again to the average person, is being alert and aware, and completely conscious; not in a state of sleep .
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awake. Even though your dreams may have what happened in life mixed in with a dream, you cannot stop in a dream and think, "What did I do when I was awake?", but you can do that when you are actually awake (you can stop and think, "What did I do when I was dreaming?"). When you feel awake, that is when you can distinguish you are awake from dreaming because of my previous arguments.