Originally Posted by inavalan

When I dream, usually, I think that I am real, and that whatever is happening to me, in the dream, is real.

When I become lucid in a dream I recall the me that is dreaming.

Now and here, I think that I am real, and that whatever is happening to me, here and now, is real.

When I am in an altered state of consciousness, I have a different perspective of this me of here and now.