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God I swear I had a dream recently where there was a "Wake Up Party", like a political party based on the ideology that everything was all a dream and the solution to all the world's problems was simply to identify whose dream it was and wake xem up. Like they'd hold rallies where they would just chant "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" with cowbells and banners reading "WAKE THE F#CK UP!" and they'd hold speeches in parliament encouraging "The Dreamer" to wake up and all sorts of stuff, and they were actually a super popular party just because people were that desperate.

not exactly this, but this

you're all little gay people stuck in my computer and i must free you with a rock

I'd be so fucking pissed if this life was the best dream my shitty brain could come up with.

I'd be pissed if this is a shitty dream with 90 hour work weeks

I watched one (1) show were this was going on, and I think I've concocted a way of telling.

How much David Bowie are you hearing in your day-to-day life?

If you look at a TV screen or turn on the radio, do you hear doctors arguing about how best to treat you?

Have you shot back to the 70's or 80's to work as a cop?

Internet is the proof that you're not in coma. You have endless supply of information on any topic imaginable and there's no way you have all that stored inside your head

Could you dream me up a little cash

The human brain doesn't have the capabilities of synthesizing the richness of life de novo. Dreams and hallucinations are transitory and ephemeral things. Longitudinal consistency makes the idea of such a long-term hallucination absurdly implausible.

What if all of existence as we know it is in the mind of an autistic child looking into a snow globe?

My god, it would be just like St. Elsewhere!

Please wake up babe, I miss you. It's been almost 4 years since the incident took you from me.

the answer to solipsism is that you have to engage with the reality you experience. it doesn't matter if it's a dream or not.

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was an owl, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a owl. I was conscious only of my happiness as a owl, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then an enby dreaming I was a owl, or whether I am now a owl, dreaming I am an enby.

Zhuangzi_Owl

If you were in a coma i would have a much more interesting and notable mustache that characters in the sitcom would later use to point out the outlandishness of the situation "but frank never had a 23' long handlebar mustache so heavily waxed it once put a llama's eye out!"

If it makes you feel any better, despite the fact that there is no way for me to prove that I have a subjective experience of the world distinct of your own (which would then prove you cannot be the only one experiencing it) I can at least say it's incredibly unlikely your brain would be able to come up with all of our unique personalities and behaviors.

I'd like to think you'd imagine something way cooler happening than climate disasters and genocide – like, even your nightmares probably aren't this kinda banal

There's this web serial author I like and I remember reading a chapter of one of his stories and realizing that the voices of several characters who weren't the super pragmatic tactician overanalyzer main character... Were kind of tactician-y and were overanalyzing things to a high degree.

Unless you're a pretty good professional writer I think it'd be very hard to give believable speech patterns to a variety of people.

I mean honestly it would make as much sense as anything

Do those "how to know if your dreaming" strategies, like looking at the time on a clock, looking away, and then checking the clock again for consistency.

You don't. However would it change anything? No. It would not. If this isn't real it still has rules. We already know the rules are fake. Being an extra layer of fake doesn't change anything

All of these comments are way more wholesome than expected