Originally Posted by
Posquant
This is not my dream experience.
I mostly see scenes, places, fixtures, buildings, cities, vehicles, technology, entities etc. that I know I have never seen or heard of before, in person or in movies / media.
So, I have difficulty believing that my mind just "makes up" such scenes, or the DCs in them. The scenes are far too detailed, vivid, independent of my will. These are not replayed, dull, poorly recycled. Rather ... unfamiliar, novel, complete.
And, in my waking experience, my mind does not just constantly make things up, fantasize, project. It perceives, and I see and interact with, the world... not my own phantom mental images.
So, really, if you're arguing for #1, and if you have DC dream subject matter that is NOT familiar (replayed), and if you have DCs or scenes that don't obey you, you're actually making a claim for mental functions even more extraordinary than mere extended perception.
You're really suppoosing that your mind is somehow helping to create those worlds. :bowdown:
Given the weird role of consciousness in the quantum, we can't really prove that impossible, either. But the ethical imperative remains the same ...
PQ