You can't prove the content of the dreams.
We can show the brain has certain activities that correspond to dream states.
But there is no proof of content.
Do you get what I'm saying
harmonica?
We have been "taking it on faith" that people dream what they said they dream.
No proof.
All faith based on taking people's word for it!!!
have or have you not ever dreamed?
Yes but you cannot prove or disprove it.
It is based on faith, and we agree or not.
It is not based on scientific proof.
?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????!!!!
what?
so you have dreamed --but you say you can't prove dreaming exists.....???????!!!!!!!!!
huh?????
it's like 1 + 1 =2 ---you CAN'T deny that
Yes
harmonica just because I have experienced a dream
doesn't mean I can prove it to you.
Just like you don't believe in divine experiences other people
have which they can't prove to you.
One of the most interesting perspectives on this was in the observations
Scott Peck wrote in his book Glimpses of the Devil. He did not believe
such demonic personalities or forces were "real entities" from another
plane or spiritual dimension that were invading the minds and taking
over conscious will of schizophrenic patients. He was certain these were
merely chemical or neurological disorders and delusions in the brain
that weren't real, but imagined by sick patients.
Until the day he interviewed patients sent to him by a friend, Malachi Martin,
who is historically known for his controversial work performing exorcisms
to rid people of demonic obsessions.
Even AFTER Peck saw these same manifestations, and witnessed these "demon"
personalities tell him things that were in his subconscious memories that his
patients did not and could not have known, Peck admitted he could NEVER PROVE
those spiritual experiences. He saw the snakelike and demonic personalities
manifest physically, and so did his team witness the same phenomena.
But all that remains FAITH BASED, so Peck struggled with how to reconcile this with science.
He still determined that the behaviors he could document as observable, quantifiable
changes or stages followed a set pattern so this was adequate to develop a model
for therapy, using standard scientific methods.
So BOTH things were going on:
A. the quantifiable measurable effects that can be established and replicated
as following a pattern, from sickness to healing and recovery
B. the SPIRITUAL factors or process that CANNOT be proven but remain faith based
harmonica I wish you could research the process used by spiritual healing
including deliverance and exorcism, and compare reports. Even if the visions
that manifest during the process are on the level of "dreams" and not real in the
sense of the physical world we experience empirically, if we can agree "dreams"
are real, why can't we agree that these "demons" and "demonic activity" are real.
How many experiments would have to be replicated, where people report seeing
these "demonic" manifestations? Before these are accepted as "real" the way "dreams" are?