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In this world we tend to have dreams.  At times these dreams appear very realistic, we can feel things, hear things, and see things that are not in our real world.  Well what I wonder, is how do we know our life isn't a dream?  Everything we know we perceive through the filter of our brains, and in all actuality we don't know if we are always recieving the same messages.  There is a certain mutation in the human eye in which a person can become capable of percieving a color the doesn't exist to the average person.  Some people who have had traumatic incidents where they lost a limb and needed amputation have been able to still feel their lost limb.  They don't feel what is actually hapenning to the limb, but their brain is telling them that they are feeling something that they clearly are not capable of feeling.

More cases of false messages include hallucinations, schizophrenia, and the like.  What I'm leading to with all of this is the fact that our brains can tell us things that aren't considered possible, or it can not tell us things that it should.  As I said earlier, dreams can seem very real at times, but haven't you noticed that during the dreams the real world and your life tend to be forgotten?  And when you wake up and look back on the dream you realize that a lot of the stuff in the dream didn't make any sense, but during the dream your brain's logic said it did.  So if all of this is true, then how do we know that we aren't dreaming right now?

"Well Xyyme, during dreams we can't really control ourselves all that well" you may say, but to counter that, I prupose yet another question; How well do you actually control yourself now?  And yet another; During the dream, does it not feel as though you are controlling yourself?  This causes me to continue to ponder if this world is actually real, or just entirely a figment of my imagination, or who knows, maybe someone else's imagination...

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In this world we tend to have dreams.  At times these dreams appear very realistic, we can feel things, hear things, and see things that are not in our real world.  Well what I wonder, is how do we know our life isn't a dream?  Everything we know we perceive through the filter of our brains, and in all actuality we don't know if we are always recieving the same messages.  There is a certain mutation in the human eye in which a person can become capable of percieving a color the doesn't exist to the average person.  Some people who have had traumatic incidents where they lost a limb and needed amputation have been able to still feel their lost limb.  They don't feel what is actually hapenning to the limb, but their brain is telling them that they are feeling something that they clearly are not capable of feeling.

More cases of false messages include hallucinations, schizophrenia, and the like.  What I'm leading to with all of this is the fact that our brains can tell us things that aren't considered possible, or it can not tell us things that it should.  As I said earlier, dreams can seem very real at times, but haven't you noticed that during the dreams the real world and your life tend to be forgotten?  And when you wake up and look back on the dream you realize that a lot of the stuff in the dream didn't make any sense, but during the dream your brain's logic said it did.  So if all of this is true, then how do we know that we aren't dreaming right now?

"Well Xyyme, during dreams we can't really control ourselves all that well" you may say, but to counter that, I prupose yet another question; How well do you actually control yourself now?  And yet another; During the dream, does it not feel as though you are controlling yourself?  This causes me to continue to ponder if this world is actually real, or just entirely a figment of my imagination, or who knows, maybe someone else's imagination...