Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Meditation 6 "Senses"

"The first was that everything I ever thought I sensed while awake I could believe I also sometimes senses while asleep, and since I do not believe that what I seem to sense in my dreams comes to come from things external to me, I saw no reason why I should hold this belief about those things I seem to be sensing while awake," (Descartes 95).

This is really interesting. It also goes with my previous post for "Body and Mind." When you're dreaming your senses come from your mind like when you're awake, not external things. Even though you're sleeping you still sense the pain you're having. Your dreams come from your mind and imagination not things external from you.

1 comment:

Rob Blank said...

i totally agree with you.....i believe that dreams come from the mind...it doesnt always come from memories otherwise we would always gave flashbacks