A Grounded Way to Think About Lucid Dreams and Perception (Without Denying Reality)

Occasionally there'll be posts about how real some things feel, or how some experience things that are so real it even affects them after waking. I think it'd be good to take a step back and explain why this is and give insight into this.

It's because everything you see is just your brain having regions activated in it. Every sensation and sight is a model by your brain based on the waking world. It's not that reality isn't real, it's that what you see as reality is actually your brain showing you what reality is.

You're like in a box staring at a tv (your brain), while a camera is strapped outside (your senses) televising images of the outside world to that tv.

Again, this doesn't mean nothing is real or things doesn't matter or that you are absolved of consequences, but it shows how someone really experiences things in life...