How do you tell the difference between dream and reality?

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anecdotal, but I once dreamed an entire Wednesday. Got up went to work, a few hours in realised it was Wednesday all over again.

  I suspect that one’s mind can differentiate a dream from reality because dreams are not a simulation, they are not internally consistent or even generally comprehensible, while reality is.

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  • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the high stress times of college, on multiple occasions I dreamed my entire morning routine and walk to class, only to wake up and do it all again.

    One time I dreamed the whole thing, “woke up” and did it again, but THAT one was also a dream, woke up for real and did it all again a 3rd time.

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    • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Had the same shit happen to me in college too. College is one hell of a time…

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That must have felt like some kind of ground hog day situation

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• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Stop wasting time on Lemmy and wake up

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• BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meh, don’t worry about it… whatever environment you find yourself in, navigate it the best you can. Reality might be real to someone experiencing it, but it’s irrelevant to someone who isn’t.

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• rarkgrames@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If Kylie Minogue is in my bed it’s definitely a dream.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, according to Waking Life, if you flip a light switch and nothing changes, you might be dreaming.

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  • nnullzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On a similar note, one technique I use while lucid dreaming is to try to pass my right hands index finger through my left hands palm. If I feel and see the resistance to my skin, I know I’m awake.

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  • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard that reading text is another method. If you can read text then you probably aren’t dreaming. Because if you are dreaming the text gets all weird and unreadable.

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• CatpainTypo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dougal had exactly this question in Father Ted. Maybe Ted’s diagram will help. youtu.be/n_Jbk6gqRfo?si=SDW2FP-IlQaeFC7C

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• BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can always tell that i'm not dreaming, i'm never really sure when i am dreaming.

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• Coki91@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Eh I usully cant, being sleep deprived reality really feels like a dream but things still function, in dreams I usually cant tell which is terrible because I have a tendency to die/watch loved ones in them… and even then I wont wake up from either event

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• subignition@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hardly dream so I guess I would say "it's a dream when I wake up afterwards"

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  • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s something called the “doorway effect”. Passing through doorways can break your memory. It’s a common phenomenon.

    Now why did I come in here?..

    The passage from dream to wake may be such a door, and the forgetfulness such an effect.

    A very big door, very big effect.

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