Quote Originally Posted by Zoth View Post
Actually, you can only perceive the past not the present.
Could there be an exception to this? Namely, dreams?

Yes, we must wait a tenth of a second to process waking-life perception, leaving us always a moment in the past. Also, our cognition, intelligence, identity, and general sense of reality are all defined by our memory (by the past, as it were). So we truly do live in and are defined by the past.

But in dreams we are experiencing "reality" the instant it is created by our unconscious for a true "Here & Now" moment; there is no lag, because there is no physical perception going on, so no input for the brain to process. Hell, you can even "see" into the future when you are lucid and go about creating your own dreams.

Even things like cognition and identity in NLD's are "Here & Now" conditions due to the disconnect with memory. There is still the fact that your dreaming engine, the unconscious, is still fueled by memory (the past), but because that fuel does not do much leeching into the dream itself (not in an organized manner, anyway), that fact might not totally mar the "Here & Now" aspect of dreaming.

I think advanced meditation might also hold to this exception as well.

I could be totally wrong, but it is an interesting thing to consider.