I enjoyed reading your post Heather. I think you hit the nail on the head regarding Descartes mad man’s concept. Sane people can determine what is real and imaginative unlike people who aren’t sane. Descartes disputed that our senses are lying to us and we can be easily fooled. He himself had to remove doubt which is what he called the method of doubt aka Cartesian doubt, in having truth in our beliefs in order to reason between reality and hallucinations. Once I write my DB post I will discuss this dream I had that felt so real and how I had to determine whether this dream was real or just a hallucination.
