Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality?

• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fuck?

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  • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not OP but games aren't real life, they're often a power fantasy or a simplification of the world.

    If the two categories we're considering are dream or reality, I'd put games into dream.

    I dunno, the comment made perfect sense to me.

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    • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our so called reality contains lots of dream stuff. Movies, stories, abstractions… even science. Some dreams are “mere entertainment”. Some are useful (science, abstract description).

      And there are links between sensation and dream. Look at a cat and your brain automatically, with no conscious effort on your part, refers to to the term “cat” and a bundle of associated thoughts.

      So the line between dream and reality is fuzzier then people think. Maybe even utterly obliterated.

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      • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most cultural institutions exist in imaginary space but have incredible power of people. The state, god, identity.

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  • Alto@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Entirely a guess, but maybe they're implying they believe dreaming is a simulation is the same way a game is?

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    • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or they meant to say “games aren’t dreams?”

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      • Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe they’re already dreaming.

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      • Alto@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That's probably more likely.

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    • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A game is a guided dream.

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      • Alto@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you and I may have different definitions of the word dream

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He means you wouldn’t be able to in a dream. Same for counting your fingers, most people end up having more than five when they are dreaming.

  There are things your brain on dreams doesn’t do well and you can take advantage of that fact.

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• Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you go down that reasoning road then everything is a dream. You are never not dreaming.

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