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How can you differentiate between the pain felt by a dream character and a real person?

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I don't think the dream character feels pain. Therefore I don't have to differentiate it from what I feel.

The dream character is like a projected image on a movie screen. It looks like a person. It appears to act like a person. But I don't think the image on the movie screen is experiencing anything, including pain.

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So you're basically saying every dream you've ever had was a lucid dream. When you dream you're _always_ aware that you are dreaming?

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I don't see how that implies all my dreams are lucid. I remember some of my dreams so I can talk about them based on that memory. Some of my dreams are lucid but I don't see how that effects this point. Sometimes in my lucid dreams I can direct some of the action and I realize that nothing I do really matters. So if you think you need lucid dreams for this example they are available. That's all I'm using them for here. An example for purposes of analogy.

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