You expect someone on FA or somewhere else to answer ^^ ? Nobody knows.
That actually have been a philosophical debate for centuries, and yet nobody knows.
Does that even matter?

the simplest answers arise from someone without a position on the matter as well as someone who does not ponder on the subjects much as someone formally educated in the subject.

why listen to someone who has argued the subject for a time when it is best to ask those who are not arguing the subject to get the most solid and truthful answers. positions in a debate should not be taken and yet they are.

simply put you ask those around you questions not seek the professionals about every subject.

What I think is we will never know, and have to deal with it.

maybe thats what is ment when they say "living the dream..."

well least one of the reasons

I have had dreams like that, where I can jump right back into it where I left off.

have it happen all the time and the dream is just as real as the reality an injuries in either one portray onto the other.

This is merely my interpetation.

A dream is simply the brain allowing the subconscious to imagine an alternate existance with such visual detail that while dreaming the person may feel that this is reallity. What a person dreams about varies from person to person. Though one thing I've noticed that seems true with dreams is that: real life events good or bad which impact our daily lives will to some degree have an influence on what we dream about. I don't ever recall having a resuming a dream that continues on from the night before. Rather mine tend to randomly repeat the same dream again and again. Sometimes I do realize that I am dreaming and tries to see what happens when I interact in a manner that is completley out of my character. The result: other people in my dream their reactions are usually confused surprise, which forces the dream to end.

for me i usually recall the dreams i have as well as usually always know i am dreaming. or at least assume i am dreaming due to the fact i recall falling asleep but not waking in that bed i wake in the dream in. ofcourse when i rest in the dream i awake in this world. or if i pass out ill awake here again. sometimes i find myself zipped to that one wile i am awake. like i blinked and swapped location then blink again some other time in the dream and am right back where i left off here.

every once in a wile ill have a recurring dream but those are the same recurring dreams i had when i was little.

it seems like my dream and my reality are two different lives only linked by having me in them.