Sounds better than pinching yourself.

Younger offspring offers a way to distinguish dreaming from conscious experience:

I thought I was really awake, so I reached up to touch a cloud, but instead of feeling fuzzy like a cloud would feel, it was like touching an empty space. So that’s how you can tell if you’re dreaming, if you touch the clouds and they feel like empty space.

The child hasn’t read Descartes yet, but we’ve got all summer.

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Posted in Kids and science, Passing thoughts, Philosophy.

3 Comments

  1. Actually, the kid (or you) have it wrong way ’round! If you touch a cloud, and it feels “fluffy”, you’re definitely dreaming….
    I *have* touched clouds, and they feel like fog! Take your kids up in a small airplane sometime….

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