Dreaming. . .

Ever notice how in a dream, the characters, including "your" character, almost always accept the premises of the dream-reality without question? Whether that dream consists of a world where you are being chased by robotic androids, or a world where you signed up for a full course load and then forgot to go to class all semester and are about to flunk out, or even a world where you can fly at will, it is ever-so-rare that you think "this doesn't make sense" and discover that you are in fact in an unreal dream world. On rare occasion the dream character might partially or totally remember his condition -- we call that lucid dreaming.

Given that truth, is it any surprise that so few people question the premises of the material world, the nature of selfhood and personal identity, and the absolute profundity of conscious awareness? Is this world just a larger and more elaborate version of the dream worlds we experience every night while asleep? Who is the dreamer who is imagining himself to be our character? What would constitute "lucidity" in this world?