Thread: If you had to choose between lucid dreaming or reality for the rest of your life...

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

What, exactly, is the difference?

None, that question was stupid in both.

Originally Posted by TheLucid

None, that question was stupid in both.

No, I mean what is the difference between a dream and reality?

In a dream, you're basically with your subconscious....you just kind of jive with what your brain already knows. You don't take in any external knowledge or experience, so you don't really grow at all. In reality, you interact with others, gather new information and data, and improve yourself (typically).

Originally Posted by Mario92

In a dream, you're basically with your subconscious....you just kind of jive with what your brain already knows. You don't take in any external knowledge or experience, so you don't really grow at all. In reality, you interact with others, gather new information and data, and improve yourself (typically).

That sounds like an opinion to me. I learn things I didn't know before in dreams all the time. You might say I just 'didn't know' I knew them already, but then that logic can be applied to the supposedly new things I learn in my waking state as well.

Okay...when you're asleep, all you have to work with is what your brain has already learned. Sure, you may "learn" new things, develop new skills, and the like, but really, you aren't taking in any new information. There is a good chance that you won't be able to teach yourself advanced thermonuclear dynamics in your dreams...

Originally Posted by Mario92

Okay...when you're asleep, all you have to work with is what your brain has already learned. Sure, you may "learn" new things, develop new skills, and the like, but really, you aren't taking in any new information. There is a good chance that you won't be able to teach yourself advanced thermonuclear dynamics in your dreams...

Hmm. How do you know?

Hmm...I suppose no more than you know. HOWEVER, you do seem to be implying a positive claim: "Our minds already know a great deal, and instruction only draws out this knowledge." If this is the case, then the burden of proof would be on you...

But along the same lines of logic, I could conclude that I am a brain in a vat and you do not exist. This could be true, but is highly unlikely.