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Dreams are basically simulations (lemmings.world)
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Dreams are basically simulations of our lives that we run, sometimes with different physical constants, resulting in different worldly behaviours. Fever dreams (not necessarily during a fever) are when we are sweeping over a range of constants, so behaviour keeps on changing.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

According to some prominent theories, the world of our waking experience is itself a mental simulation of sorts.

There’s a related theory that dreams basically prevent this mental simulation from overfitting our experience, so our brains are always primed to accept the unpredictable.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, the real world does actually exist. But we only experience a simulation of it, created by our brain based on data from our senses. So yes, we live in a simulation, but it does correspond to reality behind it.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That could explain my dream about setting up a projector in a room with a poisonous atmosphere, where everyone except me has a space suit...

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Which vault was that again?

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It was a dream about my actual last job.

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