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| rdfs:comment | - The intersection of All Just a Dream and the Ontological Mystery. You're trapped in a weird and inexplicable situation. Nothing you do seems to get you any closer to sorting it out. However will you escape? Simple: it's all just a dream. Once you know that, you're free. It doesn't have to be a literal dream. Maybe you've been hooked up to a Lotus Eater Machine. Maybe you're having a hallucination thanks to your enemy spiking your drink. It could be a magical perception-altering spell. Whatever. The key thing is that as soon as you realize that it's not real, you snap out of it.
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| abstract | - The intersection of All Just a Dream and the Ontological Mystery. You're trapped in a weird and inexplicable situation. Nothing you do seems to get you any closer to sorting it out. However will you escape? Simple: it's all just a dream. Once you know that, you're free. It doesn't have to be a literal dream. Maybe you've been hooked up to a Lotus Eater Machine. Maybe you're having a hallucination thanks to your enemy spiking your drink. It could be a magical perception-altering spell. Whatever. The key thing is that as soon as you realize that it's not real, you snap out of it. There is some real life support for this: most people have found themselves suddenly woken just as they realize that they're dreaming. This may be a defensive mechanism to prevent sleep disruptions (the state of being aware that one is dreaming, called "lucid dreaming", cannot cause a breakdown of the mechanisms that normally prevent behaviors such as sleepwalking, contrary to popular belief. Many people enjoy lucid dreams and try to have as many as possible, generally with only positive side effects). But anyone who has experienced sleep paralysis knows that it's not always as simple as that. (and if you've ever been able to control Sleep Paralysis, things get more complicated. Pinching is generally used as a method of dream detection because it is said that we don't have the sense of touch in a dream. If it's real, then you'd feel the pain from a pinch. This has been debunked by lucid dreamers, who can feel pain/touch in a dream. See also Did You See That Too for seeking confirmation that something is real. Examples of Pinch Me include:
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