The substance of a dream is not Real, since it was such as it was, merely in that a dreamer so dreamed it; but the fact of the dream is Real, if it was dreamed.
Several times,when I had a nightmare, I told myself that THIS IS JUST A DREAM in my dream. But sometimes, when I awoke form the sleep, I cannot distinguish what is dream and what is reality jusi like the case in the movie INCEPTION.
That which any true proposition asserts is real, in the sense of being as it is regardless of what you or I may think about it.
Does it mean that the reality is the absolute truth?
Reality is that mode of being by virtue of which the real thing is as it is, irrespectively of what any mind or any definite collection of minds may represent it to be.
A dream has a real existence as a mental phenomenon, if somebody has really dreamt it; that he dreamt so and so, does not depend on what anybody thinks was dreamt, but is completely independent of all opinion on the subject.
The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.
The real is that which is not whatever we happen to think it, but is unaffected by what we may think of it.
All human thought and opinion contains an arbitrary, accidental element, dependent on the limitations in circumstances, power, and bent of the individual; an element of error, in short. But human opinion universally tends in the long run to a definite form, which is the truth.
During the process of thinking, people will correct their mistakes gradually.
No matter; it remains that there is a definite opinion to which the mind of man is, on the whole and in the long run, tending. On many questions the final agreement is already reached, on all it will be reached if time enough is given.
Everything, therefore, which will be though to exist in the final opinion is real, and nothing else.
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