Descartes’ role of the first meditation is to doubt many things. One of the things that he begins to disbelief is the concept of dreaming. He questions the concepts of how does one really know if he is dreaming or if he is awake. He asks, are there any definite signs that distinguish the dream world from reality.
Descartes discards the senses as a reliable source of truth and as an indicator of an object’s existence. For example, one may dream similar experiences to what the senses communicate is reality when one is awake. When we are in a dream, we are not usually aware that we are in a dream, so our circumstances
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