RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:55 am
You seemed very confused about psychology.
First of all, let me address a major problem in your reply.
The fact that in one post you say the following...
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:33 pm
Nope! A dream is nothing more than free-running imagination (because one is not conscious to control it)...
...and in the very next post say this,...
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:55 am
I am a lucid dreamer. I am almost always aware that I am dreaming, and can actually manipulate some dreams...
...shows me that you have no problem making contradictory statements in the course of a debate.
I mean, did you think that I wouldn't notice that in one breath you insist that one is NOT "conscious" enough in a dream to "control" it, and then in the very next breath you say that you are almost always "aware" (conscious) of your dreams, and can thus "manipulate" (control) them?
Sheesh!
Anyway, with that out of the way, let's get to the heart of your concerns...
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:55 am
You cannot dream anything the parts of which were not originally actually experienced while awake.
I'm not denying that our inner (again, mind-based) sensing structures need to be
"primed," so to speak, with samplings (memories) of what we call "reality" in order to have something to work with as we use those samplings in the willful construction of our thoughts and dreams.
Indeed, I have created several illustrations that attempt to demonstrate that our thoughts and dreams are simply un-ordered, low-resolution replications of the extremely ordered, high-resolution reality of the universe, both of which are created from a similar (informationally-based/holographic-like) substance.
(Note: don't worry about trying to read the small and blurry text; just look at what the drawings are suggesting)...
Furthermore, I am also not denying that we receive the abovementioned
"priming" through the five sensory "windows" of our body that allow our
"central consciousness" access to the outer reality of the universe.
(And by "central consciousness" I am talking about that "I" you keep referencing when you stated: "...("I") am a lucid dreamer. ("I") am almost always aware that ("I") am dreaming, and can actually manipulate some dreams...")
However, do you actually believe that if scientists could somehow create a device that could hook up to the unconscious, inanimate material structures of the human brain, tongue, and nasal cavity, for example,
...that it (the device) could experience the unique qualia of the taste and smell of an apple or banana?
Or do you concede that it would require the presence of the mind...
(the presence of the "central consciousness"/the "I")
...of the former owner of the brain, tongue, and nasal cavity to
sense and experience such qualia?
Now it is needless to say that you (the consummate hardcore materialist) are simply going to insist that all of this is delusional hogwash.
Nevertheless, that will not deter me from suggesting that the physical body, in and of itself, is incapable of sensing anything, and merely functions as a sort of multi-faceted
"interface" that connects the inner-dimension of a human mind to the outer-dimension of what I am clearly implying is a higher mind, as is depicted in yet another of my over-used illustrations...
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