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

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Comment author: hairyfigment 30 May 2012 05:59:00AM 0 points [-]

I had not been expecting that to happen, and noticed I was extremely confused, and deliberately raised my estimate of the probability that I really was talking to a god-like figure by some number of decibans.

As this example shows, it should chiefly raise your credence for being in a dream and e.g. having the ability to levitate regardless of what your 'companion' does. Though if you happen to remember that next time, do recall the possibility of an expected value calculation as well.

While this predates my reading Less Wrong, I've certainly had more lucid dreams, and somewhat fewer where I took my sensations as a refutation of the dream hypothesis, since I noticed that this fails to hold.