Scintillating discussions of art and philosophy, by Rebecca Blocksome's Western Thought I class at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
dreaming and reality
Ryan for a moment mentioned the difference between dreams and reality. i thought for a moment that would be a major and interesting part of his argument but its importance was made unclear. anyway, i wanted to comment on how i know that a dream is a dream and not reality because according to the International association for the study of dreams the dreamer cannot interact with a person that they have never had a sense experience with in what we call reality, and that if a person would were to be missing any of there senses such as a blind person they would dream with smell, tastes, and touches. this study has proven to me that we must first experience something awake before we can experience it in the dream state. therefore i can conclude that our experiences in reality effect the dream states when we sleep.
i would say a dream could definitely be reality. i mean,in order for something to be real physically to you, you have to have had sensory experience with it anyway. otherwise, you only get secondary information that this thing might be real. and it would make sense for a blind or deaf individual to dream without sight or sound because that's how they experience real life. so how does that make a dream any less real than reality?
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