Personal Essay: Lucid Dreaming

Every day for which we have lived has begun in the exact same fashion. We woke up. The experience for us is often very similar day to day but most often with a change or two. The sun is shining and there is a clear blue sky or maybe there is rain today, overcast. Maybe you woke up and ate eggs or you were out and had cereal. Maybe you wake up get out of bed and look out to see not a sunny or cloudy sky but one that is green or purple or you walk into your bathroom and like Alice you fall through your looking glass mirror. Not every time you think you wake up as there is such a thing called a false awakening, which is where you have a dream that you wake up, but of course being a dream you have in reality remained asleep nonetheless we thought ourselves to be awake. …show more content…
After all my life be some very long elaborate dream. Some might say though that while yes often times we don’t perceive ourselves to be asleep while dreaming occasionally some people can realize they are asleep while dreaming in a phenomenon called lucid dreaming. So then if we are all dreaming why has no one realized they were dreaming? This though assumes that everyone is together in the same dream and it is possible to for us to realize we are “dreaming”. The world around me may only be my dream couldn’t it be that the dream is in such a matter that it is like the, hopefully, fictional matrix. It is conceivable that our senses and the information we receive through them is false or even possibly being manipulated. Descartes gives an ample example that our senses could be being tricked or fed false data without us even being aware of it. In Descartes’ other argument, the Deceiving God Hypothesis, Descartes proposes that it is conceivable that there could be some malevolent almighty being that is giving information in such a way that our mind perceives it to as if we had a body and were getting information through it about our environment, but when