Descartes believes that a person should not rely on their senses to give them proof of absolute truths. However, based on the idea of the Painter’s Analogy, a person must put some trust in their senses to have any experiences at all, dreamed or not. According to Descartes, one’s faith in knowledge can not be derived entirely from their senses, as sometimes, our senses fail us, or are even dreamed (Descartes 3). Despite this finding, this statement is referring to broad topics, and when we examine the smaller pieces of the grand scheme, we can understand that we must perceive to dream. Descartes himself has this theory, but believes that an empiricist view, which states “that all knowledge is derived from sense experience”, is too far of an
