Quote Originally Posted by Memm View Post
To be fair they would both be mental realities, which is why you can hallucinate while completely awake, we don't see light directly, it's interpreted through our brains etc...

So dreams are the same except without sensory input, and so rely completely on our memory of our sensory input and our ability to imagine how thing would be regardless of whether we have experienced it or not. Basically simulation, our brains are great at running simulations.

The new virtual reality goggles have nothing on lucid dreaming. =D
When I call dreams "mental realities", I mean that dreams are much less distracted by physical objects.
A dream environment obviously doesn't consist of physical matter, but of our thoughts, wishes and concerns.
That's why I call it a "mental reality" - it is the completely honest "illustration" of everything that is on our mind at that point.