Re: Lucid Dreaming

You are just wrapping yourself into the endless paradoxes of human consciousness. That has been brain candy for philosophers for centuries, but is pretty much irrelevant for daily life: am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming it's a man?? Neither is logically more sound than the other.

You will probably argue that there are physical evidences from awake activities that dreaming doesn't leave, but that is only taking another step. The physical evidence is mediated by the senses; but how can you ever be sure that the senses are right?? We know very well that they can be defective, that they can be deceived (anyone has seen "optical illusion" pics) and that your whole mental state influences them (as happens with so-called drugs). What makes you sure that they aren't cheating you at this very moment?? The only difference is that you find it practical to treat them as accurate enough while you don't find practical to treat dreams, lucid or not, as accurate enough. That's a workable prejudice, but still a prejudice not backed by independent logic.

That's why the only difference between by dreaming of a certain then-7 year old in bed and my having done the same thing awake is not what it felt like, but whether or not I can be charged.