Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Dreams with Damaged Priors - Less Wrong
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Interesting! So you're explicitly evaluating priors in your dreams, then? That makes it more likely that it is indeed a matter of habit.
This was during sleep paralysis, not during dreaming. Perhaps the prior-evaluating inhibition is absent during sleep-paralysis but not dreaming?
They are obviously related states, but from personal experience I have had a much easier time realizing what's going on when sleep-paralyzed (including recognizing that the voices and people I hear in the room with me almost certainly aren't actually there because they weren't every other time this happened)