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

• 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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      • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m in art.

        Almost invariably, you show them a piece, they ask “what is it?”, “what does it mean?”.

        (Sometimes they even want an explanatory essay pinned to the wall next to the frame)

        Because the meaning, the dream-manifestation, is more important to them than the actual sensation.

        For most of us, dreams are realer than reality.

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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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