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The Dream Argument

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The dream argument: since dreams can be indistinguishable from waking experience, experience alone cannot certify that you are awake now.

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Descartes recalls dreaming he sat by the fire—while asleep in bed. Nothing inside the experience gave the game away.

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The argument does not claim you are dreaming—only that you cannot rule it out from the inside.