dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoWhen playing Super Mario Bros I ignore my job, and vice-versa. That's two realities, oblivious to each other. What separates them?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down116
arrow-up1-8arrow-down1message-squareWhen playing Super Mario Bros I ignore my job, and vice-versa. That's two realities, oblivious to each other. What separates them?dope@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squaredope@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·10 months agoYou have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
minus-squareMeho_Nohome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYou do all those things in your dreams. Do you believe dreams are reality?
minus-squaredope@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-210 months agoOf course not. It’s just a dream. Except when I’m in the dream. Then it seems like reality. So it depends on where I’m standing.
You have an avatar. You have a goal. You do stuff and try to get stuff and try to avoid stuff… You feel real emotions. That sure sounds like a reality.
You do all those things in your dreams. Do you believe dreams are reality?
Of course not. It’s just a dream.
Except when I’m in the dream. Then it seems like reality.
So it depends on where I’m standing.