existential questions

[ickaimp]

What is the difference between a vivid dream and a halucination?
Does it matter if you do not know if you are awake or asleep?

I got visited by a big dark grey doggie today, who wanted her belly scratched then curled up and took a nap with me. And promptly took over the futon. Yay happy doggie time.

... except that there was no dog.

-caught a bit of that bug that Ysabet and MOrgan had a few weeks ago. Evidently it has a two week incubation period. Think I've been awake all of three hours today, every time I think we've got the energy to run errands, we fall over and go to sleep.

My basis for reality for today is kinda tweaked, so apologies if I have talked to you. Or think I've talked to you and didn't. Something. Yay fever dreams?

... I'm gonna go back to sleep and see if I wrote this when I woke up again, okay?

Comments

[mmoneurere.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember (was it in Carl Sagan's book?) that the dreaming-while-awake sort of hallucinations are actually pretty common; it only has the potential to be a problem when you can't sort out what's external from what's internal.