Dreaming and reality

When we dream we imagine a reality in our mind which we think at the time is "real" and then we wake up, but what we call reality is also a projection in the mind. Our senses collacts data and we interpret this data like that. We experience it like that.

We understand that imagination of something could be the samething as percieving something in reality, this idea was put forward by the discord user "metricgrace". And I here make the connection of dreaming to this idea witha few more additions.

The idea that what we see isn't really what's there is not new, it is an idea in physics, since we know that all matter and energy can be described as waves, we know that colour as we know it doesn't exist in nature. Therefore colour is a matter of imagination.

So why then do we think the reality we see is actual reality it self? the only reason to do this is because unlike dreams this reality is consistent. We experience the same set of laws and same environement every single day. So this consistency is the only thing we have to seperate reality from dreams.

Why does this consistency exist? Why does it lack in dreams? one theory is that it could be that reality and consciousness are seperate things that but things that boarder each other. If reality contains consciousness then we should not be able to dream unless there is a mechanism in the brain that allows us to experience qualia. But I feel dreaming could eliminate the fact that reality could be subjective in nature.

If reality is a construct of the mind (or consciousness is contained within reality), why would we only experience different realities when we sleep? why not while we're awake? perhaps there is a reason to it, but this logic is 2 steps removed, just like the reality containing consciousness argument.

So to sum it up :

1. If reality and consciousness are seperate. that is why we can experience different realities only when we sleep and when we wake up we experience this reality and not something else.

2. If reality is constructed by the mind, then there is an unkown reason why we only experience different realities while we sleep, since we could experience anything when we wish, and bend this reality as we see fit. So the reason is unkown why this happens.

3. If consciousness is a construct of reality, then there is yet again an unkown reason why we experience different realities while we sleep perhaps this could be explained by the missing link in the chain of physicalism where qualia is explained.

4. If consiousness and reality is one of the same, then it would still have to be broken down to 2 parts, being consciouness and reality, and explain it like that, dreams as far as my logic goes right now, doesn't explain how they can be one of the same thing. Since there is no reason to experience 1 reality and experience many when sleeping. No reason I can see as of yet anyway.