Sarokrae comments on Does rationalism affect your dreams? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sarokrae 29 May 2012 02:06:08PM 0 points [-]

Well, this is certainly how it works when viewed from the real world. A bit difficult to work out inside my dreams though, when causality is no longer a thing for that precise reason. Compounded with the fact that I still feel like I have free will in dreams, this makes the dream-environment (where I'm not aware that I'm dreaming, but have internalised the dream axioms) quite different from the real world.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 29 May 2012 02:11:21PM 0 points [-]

Ah! I see. Yes, agreed, the causal mechanisms I believe exist while inside my dream are often hard to describe. (Indeed, often there aren't any such believed-in mechanisms to describe.)