In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.