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right kind of stimulation to the
brain, sensations of touch, sight, and
sounds, can be recreated in the

brain. The best example of this proc-
ess is dreams.
During dreams, your body typ-
ically remains still and motionless in
a dark and quiet bedroom, and your
eyes remain shut. Neither light nor
sound nor any other stimuli from
the exterior world is reaching your
brain for it to perceive. Yet in your
dreams, you still perceive experien-
ces very similar to real life. In your
dreams you also get up and go to
work, or go on vacation and enjoy the warmth of the sun.
Furthermore, in dreams you never feel doubts about the reality of

what you experience. Only after you wake up you realize your experi-
ences were only dreams. You not only experience such feelings as fear,
anxiety, joy and sadness but also see different images, hear sounds and
feel matter. Yet there is no physical source producing these sensations
and perceptions; you lie motionless inside a dark and quiet room.
René Descartes, the renowned philosopher, offered the following
reasoning on this surprising truth about dreams:
In my dreams I see that I do various things, I go to many places; when I
wake up, however, I see that I have not done anything or gone anywhere
and that I lie peacefully in my bed. Who can guarantee to me that I do not
also dream at the present time, further, that my whole life is not a
dream? 269
We are therefore looking at a manifest truth: There is no justifica-
tion for our claiming that we establish direct contact with the original