When we dream are we in a different Time & Space Continuum?Than when we are awak

Question: When we dream are we in a different Time & Space Continuum!?Than when we are awake!? Why!? or Why Not!?

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Nope, I call up the Trump Card of Quantum Mechanics again!. There are other Time-Space Continua (is that the proper plural for this!?), but they cannot be perceived from this one!. Existence is not merely a state of consciousness, otherwise Solipsism would be the Truth!. Consciousness is our means of participating with Existence!. It's kinda like travel (in Space & Time) Cars and other vehicles are not the Existence-itself realities, just like the Road isn't the measure of it!. Travel is the motion, not the vehicle that makes it apparent to us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The only way that could occur is if there is a Cartesian dualism between your body and mind!. Few philosophers accept that idea any more and virtually everyone is a materialist because nothing else makes any sense!.

So the answer is No!. The reason is that your dreams are produced by your body-brain and that is in only one time & space continuum, the same one when you are awake!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Why!?
Say you dream that you are in another place[at a time of the day/night] doing whatever, your subconscious brain believes it is actually happening while the truth is you are[in real world time] asleep, wherever!.
Why not!?
When you wake up and remember you try to return to your dream space you realise you could not have been there at that time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you can describe how a different space-time continuum looks and feels (other than "like this but different") I would be fascinated to hear about it!. I can barely fathom THIS ONE!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The nature of reality continues to be a topic of interest for philosophical minds!.

See http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Allegory_of!.!.!. for one of the more famous early ideas, or better yet, read the original in Plato's Republic!.

The nature of time, and the texture of reality are subjects addressed from the perspective of current science in a book by Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos!.

There are many more, of course, but these constitute the first and the most recent of my readings (many years apart)!.

Reality is a subjective experience, which can be distorted by many conditions, including illness, drugs and fatigue, as well as sleep!.Www@QuestionHome@Com