This reminds me of a discussion on DV from about 2004 . I think the discussion was about the difference between reality and dreams. To me, especially in vivid dreams, the structural make -up of dreams can indeed feel almost identical to reality. The other day I was watching a youtube video by Scott Stride, who was talking about lucid dream supplements. He was saying that when the serotonin levels of the brain are suppressed during REM sleep, there is a tendency to lose logical and believeable structure, but with adequate levels of serotonin available to the system, it is more likely that a dream will seem as if it could actually occur in real life.
In my view, if I remember something, it constitutes reality, whether in a dream or not. I say this because my brain is constantly processing stimuli during waking life to create what I perceive as reality, whereas the stimuli in dreams are almost completely internal. I just don't distinguish internal stimuli as being as separated from reality as some.
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