Do we ever mistake a dream for a real experience?
Jean-Paul Sartre makes a compelling case to say no: we can never truly mistake a dreamed experience for a real one because the mind that is dreaming is cut off from the very concept of “real.” Instead, the dreaming mind is trapped in a spellbinding fiction from which it cannot escape.
In this talk, I discuss Sartre’s conception of “dreaming consciousness” and why it has interesting and useful applications for modern philosophy of mind.
