Originally Posted by
LWA
I came upon something from Stephen LaBerge online yesterday wherein he seemed to be saying that waking life and dreams ARE basically the same, just that one (waking life) is constrained by sensory contacts (what we see, feel, touch, hear, etc.), while the other is not.
I believe that both are constructed by our minds. For instance, our eyes see an apple, but don't directly have consciousness of the apple, while our minds get the news from our eyes about the apple being seen and give us the experience of being conscious of the apple and how it looks, but the mind itself doesn't actually see anything--it doesn't have eyes--so in that sense, our reality is constructed out of sensory impressions plus consciousness, the key word being "constructed."