Are You Worth Determining If I Am Dreaming?

I. Thesis: I posit that determining whether or not I am dreaming is impossible without going into an infinite regress, however, I can still be able to be certain I came from or are below one stage of dreaming by comparing my current situation to my remembrance of a different reality.

II. Descartes and others have suggested that we cannot ever know whether we are dreaming or not. Devise an argument that supports this skeptical conclusion and consider what you take to be the best objection(s) to this position. Must we accept that we really don’t know whether we are awake or dreaming? If so, is there anything we could still know about the external world? How? It is impossible to be absolutely certain that the senses I feel are the result of reality and are not simply my brain misguiding me as it does most times I sleep. There could be a very convincing dream, so convincing that it seems like reality. The next step would be while I am typing this I am actually dreaming; this claim un not able to be disproved or tested. …show more content…
I could be dreaming about dreaming about dreaming… Meaning I only went from a lower level to a ‘closer’ level with reality.
Just to repeat, it is impossible for me to be able to distinguish what reality is from my brain being misled or tricking me. there is no objective way testing reality because I can conceive of a dream that is just as real as