Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too sure what their purpose is.

On today's episode of Facts-Chology we explore the "dream argument" and look at our physical reality to find out it it even matters.

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)#%22The_Butterfly_Dream%22

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reality

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528841-100-reality-how-can-we-know-it-exists/

http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/The-Illusion-of-Reality---The-Scientific-Proof-That-Everything-is-Energy-and-Reality-Isnt-Real.pdf

https://www.livescience.com/38234-is-reality-real-or-not.html

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378

https://gizmodo.com/why-freud-still-matters-when-he-was-wrong-about-almost-1055800815

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_dreams.html

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