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Originally Posted by Tanner  One last thing: I take issue with the dream argument I see being used to support the possibility of subjective reality. People say that since our consciousness can create life-like sequences in dreams, it should also be able to produce our complex daily experiences. I think this is wrong because dreams are always made up of images from your daily experiences. |
I must emphasize that we are not talking about an ordinary dream, but about a lucid dream.
People use the lucid dream analogy to describe subjective reality, NOT because you can experience life-like events, but because
in a lucid dream you are aware that you are dreaming, while all other people in your dream are trying to convince you that they are as real as you.
If you ever had a lucid dream, you know how "real" it can be.
In your lucid dream you know that you are the only real person, no matter what the other characters in your dream say.
I think that most people who have lucid dreams have no problems with accepting the subjective reality concept.