How do you know you’re not dreaming? - Daniel Gregory

[@TEDEd]

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[@jumbotron2633]

Cool

[@paigesisserman9018]

Love Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

[@iqraahmed7083]

Can you make a video on Palestine's history?

[@fleurdepapaye9635]

I can still recall the event in my dream, feel it, sometime experience it again in another day dream. I think I know how I can repeat a certain part in my dream to create the same experience in a dream. So, from that I argue that repeateble and memorable event are not exclusively property of reality.

[@joshuataylor3550]

@@fleurdepapaye9635 Nothing is real.

[@Shuang_Shuang]

As a kid, I once had a dream within a dream within a dream. It really confused me every time I woke up because each dream was hyper realistic, I was just in my room, so I was 100 % sure I was awake after each dream

[@shweetaa]

We are in a dream right now. Think of the absurdity in this moment. Wake up.

[@Shuang_Shuang]

@@shweetaa It's because I never worke up from that same dream, I'm actually in my bed and I'm 10 years old

[@znarz9503]

You stole that from the Inception script right

[@shadw4701]

That's called a false awakening. It's a good way to have a lucid dream

[@aishteru264]

Omg i had the same experience its kinda confuse our mind feels soo real

[@shinyagumon7015]

I like the surreal images of this video, very appropriate. The good news is that it actually doesn't matter whether this reality is actually real or not, because we wouldn't know the difference anyways. So let's enjoy this dream and see y'all on the flipside!

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Cool

[@lololo4764]

Nice

[@wanderer37]

loved that ❤

[@anuclitz]

Animator of this vid is so good

[@JakeSeeber]

i think we would be able to tell the difference, not as a dream but as a state of being

[@SMint-xo7vf]

I actually had a physical condition that led my body to starvation and one of the most terrible things was I couldn't tell if I was awake or dreaming. I had very vivid dreams and couldn't tell them apart. When I finally knew that my body was starving I watched videos from survivalist and people that survived a long time without eating (jungle, ocean etc.) and it all made sense

[@rayes119]

It is good to hear that you are all right! Just a reminder though, the past tense of lead is led not leaded.🌷

[@jeffwood5897]

don’t talk pish

[@SMint-xo7vf]

@@rayes119 thank you, I was in doubt!

[@dangdanhtruongnguyen6208]

@@jeffwood5897 Dont be rude

[@ultraapple3997]

So you had a parasite? Or a metal Illness?

[@agoogolofgeese]

“From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I've been told where I must go and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed into a teapot. I've been accused of being Alice and of not being Alice but this is my dream. I'll decide where it goes from here.”

[@namelesssoul104]

Where is this line from?

[@unclememer4149]

@@namelesssoul104 Alice in Wonderland

[@nealmiles9070]

@@namelesssoul104 Seriously?

[@coolbeans1578]

@@nealmiles9070 why would they be lying

[@aiphongcao7606]

It is hard to believe it is from a book for children

[@soya9312]

the animation is so gorgeous

[@jumbotron2633]

Yes it very entertaining and alive

[@GhostyGuy_]

Becasue usually when i dream my life is actually happy.

[@dreamcogs3877]

True

[@WhiNikkatherealone]

Us moment'

[@DaughterofPersephone0630]

Well mine become worse🤣 Because usually I imagine too much, I imagine impossible think like I can fly, I have super power,... so in my dream, I’m totally helpless. I once dream that everyone else can fly but me,... It is so ridiculous 🤣🤣

[@camrennbiter673]

Same

[@jameslaiola4976]

Well said brotha. 😂 so true.

[@huahualipo]

"Is it me dreaming about a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming about being me?" Zhuang zi the philosopher has a poetic way of expressing it, thus forever linked butterflies to dreams and reality in Chinese culture ever since.

[@teruphoto]

I ask myself how I arrived at the current moment and remember things that have happened since I woke up. I do this so regularly that I often ask the same questions when I dream, which leads to lucid dreaming.

[@agoogolofgeese]

I periodically ask myself if I’m dreaming and look for a clock - made it a habit - and same thing. Time is always weird in dreams and clocks never display correctly. Now and then I’ll realize I’m dreaming when the time looks like an elephant or like Keanu Reeves hugging a hobo. Sometimes this will happen in a nightmare, like when someone’s trying to kill me or something like that, and suddenly the rubber/molasses arm effect disappears and I have superpowers.

[@abhimitsuman7413]

@@agoogolofgeese this might be common or not but I look for clocks in my dreams, because I've never seen clocks in my dreams, so it helps me realize my current state, idk if there is something similar for others too

[@RoseSmell2005]

@@abhimitsuman7413 You can also count your fingers. That used to work for me.. but lately there are usually five so Not very useful for me anymore.

[@himanbam]

@@abhimitsuman7413 I've done this where you look at a clock for a while to see if it changes. In a dream it usually would stay the same. Or you can look at a clock, look away, then look back, and if it says a different time it's probably a dream. One time I read a clock and it said like 2. Then I looked away and looked back and it was 5. So you know, pretty weird.

[@logan2113]

@@abhimitsuman7413 I've heard people can't see time or read! I can do both although sometimes the words are nonsense (sentence level they make sense, paragraph level it's a random stream of consciousness).

[@KaliTakumi]

One of the longest lucid dreams I had started with me waking up in my bed. I only knew it was a dream because I got out of bed and had shoes on. And only at that point did I realise I was in a bedroom I didn't recognise lol

[@BioTheHuman]

I've dreamt of waking up and then dreamt of waking up again 🤣 Let's say that the second one was feeling a bit too realistic and when I finally woke up (I hope 😬) for a moment I was heavily stunned and started to seriously inquiry this reality too 🤣

[@halimaguled1671]

I had a lucid dream like that were I was waking up on a fully made bed, but realized that i was dreaming because I was fully dressed and the bed wasn’t mine

[@OXIR]

I have woken up in my dream, fallen asleep, woke up, fell asleep, woke up again and fell asleep again and woke up from both dreams one by one. It was short but one of the most bizarre dreams I've had in my life. The dream inside the dream was lucid but the actual dream was not because I thought it was real life. Until I realized that it is still a dream and I can't even explain how I felt. Very strange, scary but also adventurous and beautiful.

[@allied8739]

@@OXIR yep know the feeling. But once I got up from the bed and realized that is the lucid dream and had fun. Almost like I was in my own parallel reality. However, couldn`t end it. At the end of the dream, I woke up 3 times in the dream but it was still a dream. Very scary.

[@OXIR]

@@allied8739 ooh that must've been terrifying. I too actually didn't know how to get up in that dream. I was exhausted and just wanted to get up to real life and have a dreamless, refreshing sleep. But finally a few days ago I also got a lucid dream. I just said "this is a dream" and I was close to open my eyes but heard someone saying "not yet" while my eyes were slightly open. I swear I felt the struggle of my brain seeing the real room and creating the same room in my dream. So I closed my eyes and felt very strange like being stretched out, my legs levitating etc lol. I woke up from the bed and did a house tour in my dream. But I woke myself up on purpose. It wasn't that long and somehow I didn't remember to do fun things like flying, imagining a great place etc but it was surely a very interesting and unforgettable experience.

[@shadp7552]

The scenario goes like this: "Aight, imma bout to sleep now so I'll try being aware in my dream" And then proceed to dream but not question the absurdities happening. It's like the dream doesn't allow you to be aware. And then in the morning , regret happens and you'll say something like "Damn, why did I not realize that that was just a dream?"

[@babadmanz]

💯💯💯

[@dknight1130]

Well, depends on the indivdual I guess. I've known that I'm dreaming and knowing so allowed me to control my actions in dreams like floating or jump extremely high over long distances. What I try not to do is change the landscape of the dream, because my subconconcious is trying to tell me something, and it's always an item. Everything else is "for show". Only when I have a fever dream is when I can't control my actions or anything. It's a nightmare. And I struggle to wake up. Not fun. But I remember each dream and nightmare and sketch the item from each dream.

[@theplatitudefromouterspace]

For people that find it hard, there's a small set of daily exercises that you can perform, turning a light switch on and off, reading something randomly, pinching your palm with the opposite finger and thumb. When you get into the habit, performing these actions in your dream will yield different results, and tip off your conscious mind. The next hurdle is not getting so excited that you wake up instantly. (An even bigger bummer). All worth it when you eventually get to fly.

[@lindasano1552]

@@theplatitudefromouterspace yep, truly flying is the best thing ever.

[@lindasano1552]

So many times has this happened to me

[@Nikhil-iq9vm]

As a kid whenever I had a lucid dream I always ran around in the dream for some reason, I didn't know why back then, but it always worked in helping me wake up. Even now I always want to wake up the second I realize that I'm dreaming...

[@logan2113]

May I ask why?? My best adventures are while I'm dreaming and in control. My favourite was I once built a rollercoaster frame we surfed on to esacpe from some random Bad Guys who had been following us before I figured out I was dreaming. I can't have that exact kind of fun irl and I love it. Also nice, my nightmare fix is to curl up in a ball in the dream and not look at the scary things because then they can't touch me... not unlike kids hiding under blankets lol

[@allied8739]

for me I always want to stay in the dream :D but once some random guy came and told me it is time to leave, I wasn`t scare but I did woke up after that

[@riddhimadey83]

Ted ed is such a brilliant and educational platform ,never fails to inspire and ignite the spark for learning in me!! Also, I've a request on that note- Cain's Jawbone seems to be a really mind boggling, intriguing and a fun murder mystery for most of us booknerds and bibliophiles out there! Not the solution to it, but maybe a video on how the developement came about, Edward Mathers' mastery and some sort of analysis on it would be really interesting! Thank You!

[@XCM666]

Never heard of this before. Thank you for introducing me to it.

[@riddhimadey83]

@@XCM666 The pleasure's all mine! I came across it because of a friend, we're probably going to start solving it as soon as our exams are over, seems like a really fun activity!

[@anwayaamy684]

Referred this book to a friend and forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me with this comment, now I'm gonna try to solve it with my friend too. Such an interesting an unique concept by Edward Mathers, almost reminds me of those 'skip to page number' goosebumps books.

[@riddhimadey83]

@@anwayaamy684 We all should start a club to solve that book!

[@smolcat3029]

as a lucid dreamer, the most special dream i had was meeting my late grandfather in his home, as if meeting him in real life. i didn’t get to say goodbye to him when he passed. i remember telling myself in the dream “i know he’s passed in real life, so this is a dream”. i hung out with him, talked and though i don’t remember the conversation, i felt closure because i did all the things i would have done if he were still alive today, in that dream :)

[@saschaberger3212]

I learned to use reality triggers in my dreams to induce lucid dreaming. My main one is looking at the back of my hand and then start counting the fingers. I did that in random intervals everywhere I went for about two weeks, then I started to do that automatically in my dreams. As soon as I see my backhand in a dream I instantly know it a dream and yeah that changed my dreaming forever. By now I know for sure that I'm awake because I can't fly my own in real

[@blueheart9873]

Who doesn't experience very realistic dreams every once in a while? Even when they are less realistic I still feel the emotions, and at that moment I believe what happens

[@graceh7779]

I’m a lucid dreamer, and it’s always been fun in dreams to think of something and making it happen whenever I want and how I want it. I can also extend the dream if I feel like it’s going to end, or- if I’m in an uncomfortable dream-wake myself up.

[@DasGreenCow]

Like descartes said in the video. Like a movie edited well. In dreams we travel from location to location and event to event to conversation to event instantly. The existence of boredom and actually doing the in between bits proves we aren't asleep.

[@hayvenforpeace]

Descartes is my least favorite philosopher (I disagree with him on *almost* everything-especially animal rights), but he’s correct here.

[@fernandolozano9898]

If we are really just “dreaming” right now, why should it be similar to how we dream when we go to bed? I can easily conceive of a possible world where there are entities dreaming something incredibly consistent and continuous.

[@SCP--fj2jr]

*this takes a new meaning of:* _"Life could be a dream (sh-boom)_ _if could take you to a paradise up above.. (sh-boom..)_ _and tell me darling that i'm the only one that you love.._ *_Life could be a dream, sweetheart.."_*

[@dnayi20]

The equality of the dream state and the waking state, as states witnessed by Consciousness, was discussed and debated by the ancient Hindus and Buddhists in a lot of detail. Mandukya Karika by the philosopher Gaudapada of the Advaita Vedanta system of philosophy (non-duality), is based upon this.

[@mohitbi1]

Yes that's right... They answered the biggest questions. Like , who am I ? A waker, a dreamer or a deep sleeper.

[@jay_Mata_ki]

👍👍🙏

[@yohohohoheyy]

I will surely check that

[@Cellardoor_]

Waking life seems like a dream (or nightmare usually) most of the time so I wouldn't be surprised at all if, one day, I eventually find out my waking life was a dream. If that's the case though I need to wake up cause this dream is horrible.

[@abh1yan]

@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 hmm hmm mmh

[@sator6754]

Stay strong, brother

[@JakeSeeber]

do you/ have you done drugs like psychedelics

[@hayvenforpeace]

I hope things get better for you.

[@kennedya7848]

You can never know if you are dreaming, just as solipsism. You cannot prove reality. But then Alan Watts once said, "Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way." Meaning, is it right to question what reality is? That's why Zen Buddhism got an answer for this, by not answering; and just by experiencing 'it'.

[@mohitbi1]

You are not the waker, you are not the dreamer, you are also not the deep sleeper. You are the fourth.

[@JakeSeeber]

@@mohitbi1 you’re my npc and i’m yours

[@mohitbi1]

@@JakeSeeber Turiya

[@zodiacfml]

timely. i remember dreaming prior an alarm, and another dream after snooze alarm earlier. in a dream, you just know the story and feels more relaxing. being awake feels more stressful with more information and signals through the various senses, or slightly less about the story

[@mahavirnolastname3787]

From my experience: in dreams we experience so many events or things in relatively short time span while when awake we can feel, repeat, interpret every moment....

[@ezekieldaniels5846]

I had this checklist to know if I was dreaming or not, and one time I used it in a dream and it felt extremely real. I could feel all my limbs, the ground had texture, and I could see out to the horizon, along with other signs. The one thing I forgot on my list was recalling how I got to my current place, which was what the video suggested in order to test if events happened out of sequence. Because I forgot that one important thing, I believed I was in real life. I’ve even had dreams where I realize I’m dreaming and try to wake up, and just land in another dream without knowing. I think dreams are really cool, and if you work on trying to make them lucid, they can become surprisingly detailed.

[@paradisa6]

After watching the film Inception, I had a period in life where I would have a dream within a dream within a dream. Each time I thought I had woken up, I immediately started telling someone about the weird dream I just had. When I finally did wake up, I would usually be by myself in my apartment so in that way I knew it wasn't a dream but in those moments, reality did feel really strange and confusing for a while..

[@27th_Player]

I've read somewhere before that if I don't see a time 'in the reality', it meant I am in a dream but then, I got a dream where I could clearly see the time. Another 'dream' I got before is I woke up multiple times and they all begun at same position. At first, I asked myself if I'm really awake but it felt odd and I couldn't move. When I tried to move, I woke up again. Same position and surroundings. I doubted that I'm really awake and just tried to move again. Once again, I woke up. I only knew I was awake is when the weight on me is gone and I could let go of my phone (I fell asleep holding my phone hahahaha)

[@juliadeffner2956]

yea i'm in a similar situation often where i dream about checking the time on my phone and then i realize im dreaming when i wake up to the sound of my phone hitting the floor lol

[@Kaemea]

Sounds like your second dream was a case of night paralysis. That's when your brain wakes before your body but sometimes it wakes and immediately goes back to sleep. I have this happen regularly and sometimes it goes on most of the night. Luckily, once I realize that it's happening, I can yank myself awake and take a small dose of melatonin which helps.

[@27th_Player]

@@Kaemea The reasons why I tried to move... 1) I found it intriguing that I fell asleep on my side and 2) there was someone on top of me who I wanted to see😂😭

[@cleetus_]

@@27th_Player Oh god thats probably scary 😅😅

[@27th_Player]

@@cleetus_ I had dreams like that last year and there's always a child beside or on top of me, staring. Sometimes, I find it normal but the more I think about the dreams-it's so eerie especially when I remember detail by detail 😅

[@gwendolynb8087]

As Neville Goddard said, this life is a dream and we are the dreamers. In order to wake up, we need to close our eyes, look within, and this is where we find the real world. If my comment confuses you, I would highly recommend that you read Neville's work. Its life changing

[@RodionRaskolnikov333]

Which of his works would you recommend the most?

[@znarz9503]

I’m pretty sure this was all meant metaforically, not literally cause if you can’t tell the difference between being awake and aware or dreaming you’re either under the influence of some substance or there’s something wrong with you

[@gwendolynb8087]

@@znarz9503This is exactly the reason why I recommended Neville Goddard. I understand that we can be skeptical at first, but its only through experience that you can prove yourself wrong.

[@jay_Mata_ki]

Not just Neville Goddard, but there are many similar books out there.. The Vedanta of Hinduism also says the same... It's all "Maya" (illusion /dream)

[@hayvenforpeace]

@@znarz9503 Exactly. It can be a symptom of psychosis.

[@vadsgator78942]

Philosophers are just dreaming about how they're currently in a dream within a dream

[@himanbam]

@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 ah yes Dreaming 2

[@curlyfm]

In a dream

[@bumpom432]

As a person with maladaptive daydreaming disorder, i needed a video like this. Thank you!

[@techieadam5031]

This probably just relates to the perception of time. Awake, I can fully percieve time. Half awake, time is skewed. Unconcious, time doesn't exist relative to me. How do I know I can fully percieve time when I'm awake? I experience it day to day, I can recall it over the stretch of my existence, I can speculate what will happen in the future. A more appropriate question is are we in a simulation as opposed to dream. Dreaming is just a state of partial conciousness. I know when I'm fully concious because my perception of time is the most accurate, and the man with a brain scanner can see that all of the matter that makes up my brain is fully active, not partially blinking within the confineds of it. My brain is to time what my eyes are to frequencies of visible light.

[@hayvenforpeace]

What could we do to test the idea of us being in a simulation, practically? I’d assume testing to see whether information (at the quantum level) is discrete or continuous could help (since no computer program we know of produces continuous information).

[@jessical4866]

For me, I know I’m in a dream when something stops me from thinking. I have ADHD and my mind never stops asking questions and leading me down rabbit holes. But in dreams, once I begin to question events, my brain forcefully shuts off my train of thought to preserve the dream logic. This doesn’t answer the overall question (I could still be dreaming as I type this) but it’s something I’ve noticed in my own dreams.

[@nayanshaji8730]

When I saw this, the first thing I was reminded of was the minecraft credits The way they called the game a short dream and life a long dream was confusing at first, but this adds a whole new meaning to it.

[@Scaro.s]

A point on lucid dreaming from someone who lucid dreams a lot: If I ever find myself questioning if I’m dreaming I always reason that I am since in real life I’m always sure I’m not so I never question it. Obviously there are major flaws to this but I’d argue that a good way to determine that real life isn’t dreaming is the fact that there aren’t really things that make us question if we are, in the same way that strange dream scenarios lead us to ask that same question. Philosophers question it but I don’t think there’s concrete evidence in real life that points to it being a dream in the same way that there is in dreams.

[@ANBU23_]

I want to lucid dream. Any tips would be appreciated.:)

[@jumbotron2633]

@@ANBU23_ keep a record of your dreams

[@Pedro-tm6ue]

I agree with you op. Just make sure you don't run into traffic, just in case you're not actually dreaming 😂

[@ANBU23_]

@@jumbotron2633 Do you lucid dream ?

[@jumbotron2633]

@@ANBU23_ no

[@ko2888]

I once fell in my dream and i felt so real....I even talk in my dream and when I woke up I kinda think that I already had this conversation.....I even asked my mom after waking up that did I talk to you about this thing??...😂😂I even have my sister some insta profile growing idea in dream and asked my sister that if I told you anything or not but she said you just woke you-

[@shadw4701]

Everyone should learn how to lucid dream. Aside from it being very euphoric and fun it's also very practical. You can use ot for lany things like improving mental health, coming up with new ideas, inspiration, practicing physical activities ect. It's highly underrated and underutilized

[@Km0577]

Continuity has been enough for me to convince. When I dream, more often than not, it’s a new story line. When I am “not” dreaming. It seems things pick right back up where they left off

[@hotpinkmadness3528]

Seriously, the timing of your videos ted-ed. I have a psychological condition (which even i m not aware about what it is.) Where i feel constantly feel like I'm ina dream and i can't connect myself to reality. This also happened to me 2 years ago but lasted for only 2-3 months with severe dizziness for two weeks. But now, all the things around me feel like they aren't real i.e. i feel like I'm in a dream. This condition keeps on going as the days are passing, and i don't know if i will ever come out of it.

[@teteteteta2548]

How do you write then

[@hotpinkmadness3528]

@@teteteteta2548 just because i feel dreamy doesn't means i can't do anything lol

[@sydneyp7867]

Your DPDR may actually be a symptom of something different. I thought I had derealization/depersonalization disorder but it turned out to just be how my anxiety and adhd manifested itself in certain situations. It’s an archaic coping mechanism that use to help us while we were playing dead against predators but now is just a nuisance. I really recommend you try seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist if it’s accessible to you! ❤️❤️

[@aditisk99]

This used to happen to me too mostly in 2017. Every morning I felt it was real while still being in bed and in afternoon I thought I was in a dream, not even necessarily mine. Like I was in someone else's dream. I would often question myself what is this happening and think that even if it is a dream, why would I be doing the thing I'm doing in my own dream? Most of the times I felt it was happening because of my routine life. Wake up and slowly get out of the bed then rush to brush and have tea. Then bath and again rush to eat and run for college. It's like I wasn't supposed to do that but was still doing it everyday. Even today I don't much remember the whole 2017. Sometimes it gives me ptsd but I try to forget it by remembering older years.

[@bravomike4734]

It might be just an old wives tale but it is said that in dreams you can't run as fast or as easily. And you can't tell time properly while reading a watch or every time you read a watch, the time is inconsistent like a new time despite reading the watch 1 second later. And that in dreams, you can't see your reflections.

[@StickyCinema347]

After watching Inception, I thought about this a lot, and it was fun and kind of scary to think about. This video has many parallels to Inception and my thoughts after watching it.

[@kabeloalbert8646]

I'm a lucid dreamer, so lucid that I can (once in a dream and have realised I'm in a dream) control the out come of the dream or even decide when to exit a dream... So for me it's really easy to tell if I'm dreaming or not.... Like for instance, during a dream. A lot of certain things defy logic, like falling an endless fall, or as mentioned (usually in my case) running slower than I know I normally can. Things such as strange phenomenons like a person suddenly turning into a snake, or change location or time in a split second those are things I can realise in a dream.... But this doesn't mean I'm always 100% if I'm dreaming or not. Because there Are some dreams where I would wake in a dream and I'd think I've woken only for me to wake up again and realise I was actually dreaming.... So yes it is possible that we could be living a dream only that we constantly only wake to this level and thus we regard this dream as being awake/normal..... But I can also say I'm not dreaming right now because I'm a lucid dreamer that during a dream when things don't go my way I can always bail out and wake up... But I haven't done that in this dream because I've been in such trouble that I'd wish I'd wake from this dream and I never do (it's really)

[@Sajedehcore]

Dreaming is one of the things that tangle my mind terribly and watching this video proves I'm not alone so thx :)

[@catnamedearl]

I love the art style and the content of this video. Due to taking an SSRI, I’ve been having false awakenings and it’s been the weirdest thing!

[@CrazyBunnyProduction]

When I was a kid spending the night at my grandmother's house I had a dream I was laying in bed awake. I sat up then I woke up and sat up the same way. Then I kept doing that 6 more times till I really woke up and I had no idea if I was still dreaming. Once more time passed between the "waking up" in my dreams dream was when I knew I was awake. All the details of what was in my room were the same. I remember thinking "please let me be awake this time.

[@Corgimations]

Ive actually been having a lot of problems with derealization lately so thank you for this!

[@letshavefun-gaming2650]

Plz help me

[@Skye_Issue]

I lefit got stuck in a dream loop once for about 5 dreams in a row. when you are dreaming it is hard to know if you are awake, but when you are awake it is obvious you actually are

[@martinld93]

There are a lot of "reality tests" used to by lucid dreamers to check for SURE whether they're dreaming : the simplest is to close your mouth, pinch your nose with two fingersand and try to breathe. If you can, you're dreaming. If not, youre awake.

[@matthewdown5378]

I'm glad there's a video that appreciates how profound this mystery really is

[@AGstann]

The animations really makes this more understandable and interesting so cool that we could actually be dreaming even if we think we're "awake"

[@uk_picker7307]

No we can't its simply not true..

[@Themystergamerr]

We're not dreaming because of the consistency of this reality- friends, family, jobs, home. When we dream it's almost always different. Plus we sometimes realise we're dreaming. So this is reality

[@mariakoursari7692]

I often think about this, so thank you for solving my wondering.

[@samarthjain5015]

No one solved anything.

[@nikolusguidry]

As a lucid dreamer this stuff freaks me out. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to dream like that all the time. The concepts are so alien to me. The only loss of control dreams I’ve ever had were when I was delirious with the flu ,after too much fatty food or too much cough syrup or something like that. In those dreams I feel impending doom and a sensation of being trapped. It is absolutely awful! I constantly hear from people that their dreams aren’t like that, then they say sometimes, then it always comes up that they don’t remember most of their dreams!!!! Like what?!?! That sounds effing terrifying!

[@lemondemonster]

I know I am awake because I clicked a TED-Ed video. There is no way I know to think about all these subjects without TED-Ed

[@kaylenvee8150]

I reason that I'm not in a dream by just telling myself about object permanence. I just pick something to look at, look away, then look back at it. If it's still there, I'm awake. If it's gone or changed, I know I'm dreaming. The AMOUNT of times I've got to lucid dream by doing this is astounding.

[@lestranged]

Once when I was in the hospital after surgery and was on heavy pain meds, I had this series of very realistic nightmares that were like inception- dreams inside dreams. At some point I would realize I was dreaming and try to wake up, and I would believe I had woken up but I was only dreaming I had woken up, if that makes sense? Like the second dream would start out like a normal morning after waking up but then things got weirder until I realized it was just another dream. So I tried to wake up again but just segued into another dream again. All of them were VIVID and each one more terrifying than the last. Some of them seemed like a long time had passed, like the dream was years long. It went on like that dreams nested within other dreams all night , and being aware they were dreams didn’t help me get out of it. (Usually that works , usually I can wake myself up once I realize I’m dreaming, but this medication almost trapped me in the dreams!) Finally I did wake up for real… OR DID I ? Anyway after that I decided to skip the pain meds the next night. The pain was more manageable than being trapped in vivid nightmares. But there have been times since then when “real” life got so miserable I half wondered : am I still in that dream? Has everything I’ve lived after surgery all been more nightmares? It was thirty years ago but I still remember the dreams in detail .

[@mohitbi1]

You are not the waker, you are not the dreamer, you are also not the deep sleeper. You are the fourth. Turiyam

[@bravomike4734]

It might be just an old wives tale but it is said that in dreams you can't run as fast or as easily. And you can't tell time properly while reading a watch or every time you read a watch, the time is inconsistent like a new time despite reading the watch 1 second later. And that in dreams, you can't see your reflections.

[@lestranged]

@@bravomike4734 It all depends on the dream. I've had those dreams where you try to run and it's like you are stuck in molasses. But I've also had dreams where I can run faster than I can IIRL. I've had dreams where I have a different body, like I am older or younger or a different gender, so running ability can differ based on the body I'm in. In this particular dream I described (one of the looping series) I was running away from a building that was about to blow up and I was running very fast but the explosion traveled faster than any human can run.

[@huonghayley]

This brings 'live the dream' to a whole next level.

[@edriancontridas3.14]

that feeling when you just realized you are dreaming, then suddenly you just wake up, like "wait a minute, I'm in a- *oh."*

[@parthsarda2793]

Exploring the unimaginable possibilities of reality and existence shatters our notion of being at a particular at a time. These things put you in awe about the world and makes you a cognitive thinker.

[@RarelyAChump]

People don't use social media in their dreams. If you do, you're not dreaming 🤷‍♀️

[@cyeayttheratking9501]

i have a lot of disassociation and derealization, but also i dont have super defined mental images, so in the moment i can tell that im awake by the fact that things are more detailed than blobs and that time is moving as i think it should rather than a sped up synopsis. the issue is that my memories can be similarly blurry and a lot of times i have a hard time remembering if something was a dream or not. thanks for the new thing to have to wonder about whenever im feeling existential

[@falcychead8198]

Here's the problem I've always had: I can't find any qualitative difference between remembering something and imagining it. Like when in the video the narrator describes remembering a line from a book you've read, the smell of the book and the taste of the lemonade you were drinking. I can imagine that experience no more or less vividly than if I was remembering an actual event. There is only the _a priori_ knowledge that it didn't actually happen. Other than that, I have no way of knowing whether something I imagine actually happened, or indeed if anything I remember is just my imagination.

[@twizzlerfree]

whenever i’m in a threatening or shocking situation, i always ask myself if i’m dreaming and attempt to wake up. this usually allows me to realize whether or not i’m lucid dreaming. i did it so often that it became instinct irl too

[@marksullivan6319]

I can recall multiple times were i thought in my dream "this can't be real I have to be dreaming". Most of the time it's because I'm scared of what's happening.

[@JakeSeeber]

what’s an example

[@marksullivan6319]

One that really stuck with was one were I was being beheaded. The guy was hacking at my spine cause he couldn't cut through it with the knife he was using. I remember being able to see myself though as if I were standing next to the guy doing it. After some time passed it just popped into my head "please let this be a dream." With most of them, once that thought comes up its like the illusion of the dream is broken and it doesn't take much to wake myself from the dream. It's weird though because I don't remember many other dreams this happened in. I only remember the thought of "please let this be a dream" and being able to wake out of it. That dream stuck with me however because of how surreal it was.

[@logan2113]

I worked pretty hard to be able to realize when I'm dreaming and there's a... feeling in my dreams. It might be a lack of sensation, a disconnection between my environment and sensation. Increasingly that is what tips me off, the dream feeling, but it originally was me assessing my environment. Asking a handful of "does this make sense" questions and feeling into my body. If it felt/seemed like a dream, I'd jump. If I hovered I was dreaming. If I didn't, well, now I either already knew I was awake, I go back to not knowing I'm dreaming and the dream continues unaltered, or lean into the dream feeling and manifest something (easier if my dream eyes are closed, especially if it's a big thing like a roller coaster). There was only one moment in real life where I though I was dreaming and it turned out to be about three coincidences occuring simultaneously. VERY disconerting and confusing moment and it freaked me out. Turned around and dreamt about the situation during my nap and decided "right, yes, this is still real life because this just happened". For the slightly weird but mostly mundane dreams I have, sometimes I think it's a memory for days or months until I go to bring it up and the weirdness sets in or someone tells me that never happened.

[@theoutsider7119]

I just love this channel ❤

[@GraveUypo]

there is a fun thing i noticed recently in my dreams. wherever i might happen to be, whatever i'm doing, when my body is done resting the dream's theme changes to "go back home" a few dream-minutes before i wake up. ALWAYS. back from a trip, back from work, back from school (funny how this is still a theme when last time i was in school was over 12 years ago on my last college course).

[@BioTheHuman]

I had many lucid dreams and I always experimented with them, tried to analize and so on. I've had very lucid dreams where I could do "what I want", and worst, I had a dream where I woke up in another dream and then woke up again in another dream (wasn't pleasant 🤣) and especially because of this, you can easily say that this reality is totally different from a "dream". But, that's said, I too think that this debate is useful in a way, because what is it actually asking isn't if your dreaming or not (again, it's easy to understand that this reality isn't a "dream"), but if we as humans could be able to scientifically or logically define our reality or exclude/prove the existence of "another reality". It's like living during the "cave era" and knowing that the sun rises and sets every day, but would you be able to prove that one day it would do so forever, or "why" it does so? Obviously now we can, but clearly we couldn't before 😬 So who knows, maybe in the future we could "prove" this too 🤣 But, how the dilemma is given maybe it's even more difficult than the "existence of God" one. How can you prove it if you're already saying that all that we know can be mislead and "not true" because we're living in a dream? It's just impossible... or maybe, we can prove it: After all, can we say that a dream is a "distorted reality" of a true reality? In this sense, saying that we're living a dream implies that the other reality is actually very similar to ours, just like our dreams are familiar to us. So maybe we could identify something that must be true in both reality, and if it is such, it means that the other reality can't exist. Sure, the hard work is finding this "thing", and I don't think that youtube comments is the best place 😬🤣

[@reneromero8144]

continuity, sense of realism, and clarity in one’s consciousness. reason why there is alot of confusion is because not everyone can lucid dream - state of being conscious in one’s dream. if you were caught in a dream scape and were able to “think clearly” you’d be able to find the whimsical nature of the dream quite instantly, usually dreamscapes revolve around you, or up to your level of understanding and knowledge but idk maybe not (dont quote me)

[@michealwestfall8544]

It's the worst when you wake up twice in your dreams and you're still dreaming.

[@paradisa6]

I've always had weird and vivid dreams, even more so during stressful periods in my life. My most common nightmare has always been being chased by something that was gonna kill me and running for my life. I taught myself how to realise I was actually dreaming and then stop to face the direction of the "thing" (a monster, human, animal etc) behind me. Every time I've managed to do that, the dream either morphs into something completely different or I wake up. In dream psychology, it is said that the thing chasing you is a part of yourself that you are running away from, that you haven't yet accepted. By turning around and facing that part of you, you face your fears (and in turn are one step further towards self acceptance).

[@kenmore01]

I think we always know when we're in wakefulness is because it's always the same, day in and day out, year after year. Dreams are far more interesting.

[@mckenziebate2949]

The tip where you look at your watch twice to see if time is progressing correctly works, but in a very unsettling way. About a month ago, I woke up in my bed, but I wasn't sure if I was dreaming. I remembered this video, and so I looked down at my watch, and was shocked to see that the numbers were garbled. This was so terrifying to my dream self that I screamed, and then got forced out of the dream, waking up in my bed once again. I had to look at my watch several times over the course of 10 minutes before I was sure if I was awake. Very unsettling experience.

[@rajlahadke1784]

When i fall from a high point in a dream i keep telling myself before i touch the lowest point that this is a dream plz don't panic sometime it works 😅

[@amirfarahbakhsh2960]

TED-ED I LOVE YOU, it would be Dreamy if you educated us more on Persian philosophy. i'm Iranian and i need it. thank you so so much.

[@aceeonyt57]

Its easy, if your crush likes you back, then its a dream 😂

[@Lance_Tonkin98]

I actually suffered from DPDR .. Sometimes it still comes around but it's mostly under control. It felt so... Unreal like dreaming 24/7 and just floating through life. Eventually I couldn't tell my dreams and reality apart.

[@UriahWarner]

Did it get better currently in the same situation

[@mongojrttv]

If my life is a dream I want to wake up.

[@Squirrely456]

I once went to bed worried about my sick betta fish. I woke up in the night and got out of bed to check on her. Before I reached the tank, I woke up and realized I was still in bed. So I got out of bed to check on her. Then woke up- once again still in bed. I don't know how many times that repeated, but I never actually made it to the tank and I did not feel well rested in the morning. That was a few years back. She's long gone, but she was still alive when I actually woke up.

[@midimusicforever]

It's easy to tell - If the totem falls, I'm awake!

[@im_a_hooman3599]

0:32 remind me again of my childhood recurring dreams about being a sunflower

[@jasper642]

I know I'm dreaming when I'm happy

[@ilIettie]

Copied comment, original comment was by KFIR.

[@jumbotron2633]

@@ilIettie maybe the op and the comment have the same thought

[@lestranged]

Doesn’t work all the time because bad dreams exist. Happiness might never be real but unhappiness could be real or a dream.

[@HunterHogan]

Hi. The trailers are louder than the video. This video, for example, from 0:00 to 4:10.39294 is -16.06 LUFS, peak (L) -0.610 dB (R) -0.598 dB, but from 4:10.39294 to end is -14.63 LUFS, peak *(L) +0.278 dB (R) +0.270 dB* with over 200 clipped samples in each channel-in merely 20 seconds. Furthermore, it is a little suspicious that if I change the LUFS of the trailer to match the video (-16.06 LUFS), then increase the gain on the trailer by 1.5 dB, the result is -14.56 LUFS: very close to the original -14.63 LUFS. That suggests that after the entire audio track is normalized, the trailer volume is increased by 1.5 dB. Could you not do that, please? Thank you.

[@AuRoaraAnimations]

i know im dreaming when my dad tells me “i love you”

[@Speireata4]

I think, for me there are two factors that make me believe that I am not dreaming: The first ist a sensual thing. In dreams I have never felt any real pain, any being tickled, any tiredness, any itching and feelings like the wind on my skin or what water feels like are not the same in dreams. The second thing is duration and connectedness of time. I can remember scenes of my whole life in a way that I know I have really been there. My body remembers, not only my mind. Whereas with dreams my mind has memories my body doesn't, therefore I know that they are dreams. And dreams don't last a lifetime. But if by any chance, this is some kind of dream, well, it is my life to me and I will live it as such.

[@angonkatwang]

Is it possible that I'm watching this video in my dream with other people having the same dream?

[@Alpha7177-i2i]

Maybe you are part of my dream too? Maybe you're not real

[@NeonVisual]

During REM sleep the language centres of the brain aren't fully active, so if you look at words with more than a few letters you'll be able to read the word, but won't be able to spell it out. The letters will melt away before you get to the end of the word. That's one of many reality checks I perform when ludic dreaming, and when awake to get confirmation.

[@Kuechenquirrrrl5]

Hold your nose shut and try breathing through it. If it doesnt work you are awake. If it works you dream because your resting body keeps breathing normally without you being able to stop it

[@lima.d.p.158]

3:33 this reminds of a part of "wee free men", by Terry Pratchet, when Tiffany faces the Queen at the end of the book

[@izan9177]

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[@smithbenson9454]

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[@Dennisharber]

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[@smithbenson9454]

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[@smithbenson9454]

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[@smithbenson9454]

He is very active on G mail

[@harmony137]

It's fairly simple to me, if I'm dreaming and I realize it then I'm lucid dreaming, and I can control the things around me to some degree. Even if you ask that question now, you can try all you want but you're not in control of the world around you, simply because it's not in your head, it's a physical world will every other physical beings and objects with their own waking conscious. Sometimes when I lucid dream I try not to be too lucid or else I'd wake up, or worse, it will steer into sleep paralysis.

[@CrimsonOpinion]

Easy, I don't dream when I sleep. Checkmate.

[@Redd_Psycho14]

You do but never remember

[@juliadeffner2956]

it's funny because as soon as i realize i'm dreaming i can wake myself up easily, but i've also had situations where i dreamt about waking myself up multiple times but was still sleeping. it freaks me out a little sometimes

[@notagain3732]

For several years now i have been interested in lucid dreams . Not very good at chosing when i can have one but i would like to study more about this or work with people that study this. I saw that in stanford university they have a department or a sleep lab and it was really facinating

[@lesterabastillas9291]

i remember watching an episode of clarence and it was exactly this but cartoonier and i had my first existential crises at the ripe age of 8, now its a normal occurrence, but oh sweet summer child

[@launacyko4523]

Tricks I use to know if I'm dreaming or not: -Keep your nose pinched. If you can still breath, you're dreaming. -Draw something on your wrist. Look away and look at the drawing again to see if it changes. -Look at a clock and see if time is going backwards

[@rebeccajodhiwilliams182]

I'm super lucid during my dreams. I can completely change the dream and go back to certain parts of my dreams, etc... however, like most people I rarely remember the beginning of my dreams.

[@theletters9623]

the amount of times I have "woken up" from a dream into another, more realistic dream of me in my bed, done something (for example: ripped out a tooth, fell back asleep, realized my hair was shorter), and then woken up again for real this time is so many that sometimes I am genuinely confused as to if I am awake or not in the first few minutes of waking

[@dinodare1605]

My least favorite dreams are when they're wake-up loops, where I don't realize it's a dream until I "wake up" in bed, but it turns out that's fake and I'll have to go through several nightmare wakeups before I can actually wake up.

[@Mielisahotcake]

last year I experienced derealization, (couldn't tell if I was dreaming or awake) when I eated a pot brownie, one of the worst experience of my life and I still got repercussions to this day

[@scordeteyla]

I do quite often know I'm dreaming, but not right away, and sometimes I'm in a weird state in between where I kinda know I'm dreaming but I'm so into it I give the performance of my lifetime; and make myself believe ;-)

[@sababtonoy9689]

I was actually thinking about this topic a few days ago. What a coincidence!!!

[@Cxmplexe]

I have aphantasia and when I am asleep I sometimes have experiences close to dreams but theyre not vivid and sometimes I cant see anything at all. right now everything is vivid.