Dream & Reality

It's quite funny really how "dreams" and "reality" are distinguished as such with utterly circular argumentation, and yet so little subject to doubts.

For instance: "in dreams one can fly, therefore a dream is not true", is one of these arguments. But what is implied in this argument? That "in reality one cannot fly, therefore the waking state is true." Now that is quite circular indeed, for it is because the waking state is defined as true that the inability to fly becomes a reference to identify the real from the unreal. So the argument really is "dream is not true, because i assume the inability to fly is more true than the inability to fly".

The same example is valid with: "in dreams, when one is pinched, one feels no pain". First i would answer pain can be felt indeed in dreams (at least in mine), and second, that possibly "pain" is illusion rather than non-pain.

So what is real? Dream and waking state are equally real. Reality rather, is to things what light is to colour. Reality is the common factor between both waking state and dream, it is the thread of consciousness which allows both to be experienced.