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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Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 4 months agoI can read text in games. But games are dreams. So that’s something.
Grimy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kissaki@feddit.de 4 months ago
If you go down that reasoning road then everything is a dream. You are never not dreaming.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The fuck?
Hegar@kbin.social 4 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.
Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 4 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.
Hegar@kbin.social 4 months ago
Most cultural institutions exist in imaginary space but have incredible power of people. The state, god, identity.
Alto@kbin.social 4 months ago
Entirely a guess, but maybe they're implying they believe dreaming is a simulation is the same way a game is?
Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Or they meant to say “games aren’t dreams?”
Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Maybe they’re already dreaming.
Alto@kbin.social 4 months ago
That's probably more likely.
Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
A game is a guided dream.
Alto@kbin.social 4 months ago
I think you and I may have different definitions of the word dream