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Dreaming is a form of taking control of your memories. You can take control of your internal situation of the world without having conciously done it. The reason this doesn’t happen in normal waking life is due to the constant influx of information, except the phenomenon of ‘day dreaming’ where we temporarily detach ourselves from external stimulation and let our thoughts and mind influence itself. It’s a recursive processes. We remember, change these memories, then project and extend these fabrications, find associations to them which stimulates the mind into bringing forth further memories to be enacted upon. The reasoning for this has been philosophized upon by many. To me it is no different from waking life. We build our model of the world through the information we gather externally, through our senses. Yet when these senses are lost how would we continue to form and ‘hold up’ our contrived world ‘scene’ without loosing all sense of the self? If we lose where we are, we lose all perspective and relation. You cannot imagine yourself without a world to inhabit. Even in empty space your hands exist, your sense of feeling and touching yourself. Your blinking and breathing. But asleep, you lose even this. Although there is still some external influence while asleep, like people whispering ideas or tap on your leg being transmitted to a dream, these stimuli do not pass through the concious mind. Or rather, they pass through us into and are assimilated by the unconscious, then brought to the fore back into the concious dream state. We dream with our concious selves present because without the concious mind we have no self, and we can sometimes remember and influence our dreams. This further illustrates why dreaming is identical to waking; it just has different stimuli. We must still have a world to process and inhabit always and if we were to lose this we would cease to exist to ourselves.