But during it you wouldnt know so! After all, you are delusional or drugged up!

Just like cws910 pointed out during most dreams you don't know your dreaming until you wake up. So if you were to wake up tomorrow and find out your entire life was a dream what would you make of it?

I think all you could conclude is that it was real to you. And that cannot be taken away from you.

I agree with saying that you should treat life as real! I was using that to say that you should treat dreams as equally valid to life. This is all in thoery of course, but isn't that the purpose of philosophy? To explore the universe and its contents using theoretical situations?

Because you cannot truly find proof that what we view as conciousness isn't just a dream from an alternate dimension, we cannot say that it is real. By saying valid, however, you are saying that you can treat it as real without it being real.

Because you cannot truly find proof that what we view as conciousness isn't just a dream from an alternate dimension, we cannot say that it is real. By saying valid, however, you are saying that you can treat it as real without it being real.

That's my views, too. However, how can we ever know we're in a reality, if we ever find one? Like, in the matrix, they fought through all of this stuff, for a city they called Zion. Zion was, "The Real World", whereas The Matrix, (The supposed world that we're living in), was the fake one. How do we know that Zion is real? I've found it best not to question reality anymore, because really....How can we ever tell?

Since there is absolutely no reason to believe that what we view as conciousness isn't just a dream from an alternate dimension, I can, and would say, that it is not true that anything like that is true. If I had to refrain from asserting anything unless I had absolute proof, there would be very little if anything that I could say. And if everything is a dream, even what is not a dream, then the term "dream" has lost its meaning. We say that what goes on when we are asleep is a dream only because we can contrast it with what goes on when we are awake. If everything is a dream, then nothing is a dream.

Since there is absolutely no reason to believe that what we view as conciousness isn't just a dream from an alternate dimension, I can, and would say, that it is not true that anything like that is true. If I had to refrain from asserting anything unless I had absolute proof, there would be very little if anything that I could say. And if everything is a dream, even what is not a dream, then the term "dream" has lost its meaning. We say that what goes on when we are asleep is a dream only because we can contrast it with what goes on when we are awake. If everything is a dream, then nothing is a dream.

But I am saying that you would have no reason to believe other wise because you would be dreaming!

But I am saying that you would have no reason to believe other wise because you would be dreaming!

Deja vu is what I would analogise to lucid dreaming.
And yet again, I am just arguing this in thoery, I do not truely believe that we arn't real, I just consider it a minute possibility.

We can believe we are whoever we are.

I like to spend at least a small portion of each day believing I am someone I am not. Is that inauthentic or unauthentic?

Perhaps if you spent a greater portion of each day believing that you were someone you were not, you would develop qualities of the person you desired to be, and then you would not be either inauthentic or unauthentic?

Perhaps if you spent a greater portion of each day believing that you were someone you were not, you would develop qualities of the person you desired to be, and then you would not be either inauthentic or unauthentic?