Dreams - reality or mentally interpreted?

[WiggyUK]

Hi, this is my first ever post in here so if it doesn't make any sense give me a break.

Anyway here goes nothing. Just out of curiosity, how do we know that dreams are really not reality. It's like we call reality reality because of what we can taste, touch, see, smell and hear, but what if that isn't actually reality. What if we are actually dreaming right now, and what we call dreams is actually supposed to be reality.

Thanks for reading and I really hope it makes sense and I have posted it in the right section!

[stringybeef]

well then alot of things are gonna be confusing, like for example one dream i had when i was younger i was on top of a mountain trying to put on my skiis to go skiing and then 5 mins later im running out of an oil field with explosions behind me in slow motion like im in some action movie.

[bluenose_ian]

Welcome Wiggy and hello

Matrix style livin now thats scary..All plugged into a program that makes our reality normal but really unaware that we are being used 4 slaves by aliens..

[WiggyUK]

It does make you wonder though doesn't it? It's like if you are about to die in a dream, you wake up just before it happens, and word has it if you do actually die in a dream, your mind thinks it is dead so you actually physically die. If you die in so called "reality" you physically die, but the mind has no place for it to go, therefore your mind dies too. Hope that makes sense too. :P.