/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15412347
>Of course there is a difference between dreams and reality.
not really, not qualitatively
when you dream, unless you are lucid, you're unaware that you are dreaming, because in that present it's not really distinguishable from waking reality at all, it's only after you wake up that you realize it, and the "unrealistic" nature of the dream only arises at that point, when it's only a memory
you could say the same about some event that occurred the day before too, while you were awake
>imagination/dreaming is also vague
not necessarily true at all, as explained above, and many people have imaginations just as vivid as any waking experience
>a dream is *never* as detailed and fixed as the real world
it really is, while you're dreaming it it's indistinguishable, which is why you typically don't know you're dreaming (and when you do it's not due to qualitative differences, but quantitative ones)
you can further extend all this to VR, which will inevitably become hyperrealistic and completely indistinguishable from reality, thus being just as real as any other experience you have