When you’re asleep and dreaming, you don’t know you’re dreaming, so how do you know you’re awake?
If you claim you don’t know you’re awake, there’s a series of bets I’d like to make with you...
1) Some people claim they can recognize that they’re in a dream state.
2) The quoted claims are an example of the rhetorical fallacy known as equivocation.
Given the scientific evidence behind lucid dreaming, I wouldn’t call it a ‘claim’. If someone can, while in the midst of REM sleep, as determined by a polysomnograph, deliberately transmit a previously-agreed-upon signal to an external observer, that’s reasonable evidence that the person in question is aware that they are, in fact, in a dream state.
Of course, if you disagree, it would be appropriate to research the phenomenon yourself.
1) Some people claim they can recognize that they’re in a dream state.
2) The quoted claims are an example of the rhetorical fallacy known as equivocation.
Given the scientific evidence behind lucid dreaming, I wouldn’t call it a ‘claim’. If someone can, while in the midst of REM sleep, as determined by a polysomnograph, deliberately transmit a previously-agreed-upon signal to an external observer, that’s reasonable evidence that the person in question is aware that they are, in fact, in a dream state.
Of course, if you disagree, it would be appropriate to research the phenomenon yourself.