Descartes Dream Hypothesis Examples

First of all, let’s start with the definition of Dream Hypothesis. “The dream hypothesis is to claim or demand that it provides some basic evidence and the senses we trust to differentiate reality from illusion cannot be trusted completely, and therefore, any thought that we think or feel or have senses should at the very least be carefully examined and rigorously tested to determine whether it is, in fact, a reality” (From the abstract). Basically, we have to revise rigorously before we make the decisions. Now, according to Descartes about the dream hypothesis, when a person dreams, they can see many things that are very specifically clear but those things actually are not present at the moment or do not exist at all. Similarly, we see many dreams …show more content…
What I saw at first in the streets was deceptive but then later what I saw was the truth. Descartes mentioned ( I have stated 7 lines above) that what we see sometimes, not always may be true. Maybe an illusion. Now the handicapped story falls into the category of deceptiveness and not an illusion. The reason I have stated this example is that not all the times we see things are true or illusory, it can be sometimes deceptive too. In our lifetime, we did see things that are illusory. Another story about me, back in 2012, I saw a white cloth passing from my corridor and going towards the bedroom. This is something that is definitely not true and is an illusion but for a moment I considered to be true and as I followed, it was nothing but an effect in my eyes due to excessive blinking and rubbing with my hands. It is nearly impossible to be true whether what we see in our dreams or in reality due to our brain gets into thinking sometimes about uncertainty or we fear about or we think of it all day. We cannot doubt when we are totally aware of the background, the full reasoning behind it and being totally