RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:33 pm
Nope! A dream is nothing more than free-running imagination (because one is not conscious to control it)...
Tell that to a lucid dreamer.
According to Wiki (underlining/bolding mine):
Wiki wrote:
A lucid dream is a type of dream where the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment...
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:33 pm
...made up of sensory material stored in memory, which is all derived from the senses while conscious (i.e. awake). You cannot dream anything the parts of which were not originally actually experienced while awake. All of a dream is just made up stuff, like most people's philosophies and religions.
Once again, you aren't paying attention to what I wrote in the post you are responding to.
I clearly stated that
within the context of a vivid dream, none of your corresponding bodily structures such as, again, your eyes, skin, ears, nose, or tongue are being utilized in the process of you seeing, touching, hearing, smelling, or tasting the (almost "real" seeming) features of whatever it is you are dreaming about.
In other words, you could have your eyes surgically removed and you would still be able to
"see" (within the arena of your mind) a tropical island paradise, for example, in a dream...
Again, our senses are mentally-based, not bodily-based.
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