In 1957 he read his first paper based on his new thinking; it was about Descartes' dream argument.

Similar premises are found in Descartes's evil demon and dream argument.

The Dream Argument, if meant to suggest the universal possibility of dreaming, suggests only that the senses are not always and wholly reliable.

His dream argument points out that experiences perceived while dreaming (for example, falling) do not necessarily contain sufficient information to deduce the true situation (being in bed).

The "Dream argument" of Descartes and Zhuangzi supposes reality to be indistinguishable from a dream.

Giuliana Mazzoni, Italian psychology researcher/professor (see Dream argument)

The dream argument contends that a futuristic technology is not required to create a simulated reality, but rather, all that is needed is a human brain.

Vasubandhu uses the dream argument and a mereological refutation of atomism to attack the reality of external objects as anything other than mental entities.

The Dream Argument questions Aristotelian epistemology, while the Evil Demon Argument does away with it altogether.

Having received serious attention in René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, the dream argument has become one of the most prominent skeptical hypotheses.

Descartes uses three arguments to cast doubt on our ability to objectively know: The dream argument, the deceiving God argument, and the malicious demon argument.

Descartes' dreaming argument is in the first of his Meditations ; use the Haldane and Ross edition (Descartes, 1955) or any reputable alternative.

If we read Descartes as suggesting the universal possibility of dreaming, we can explain an important distinction between the Dream Argument and the later "Evil Demon Argument."

"This is idiotic," I said, growing annoyed, because this dream argument could very well wake me up, and I knew from experience the difficulty I would have getting back to sleep.

Alan Dershowitz said from Australia that prosecuting the case against a $183 million payroll "is a dream argument" because the Yankees have "ruined my life," first as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and now as a Boston Red Sox lover.

The "Painter's Analogy," which draws on the Dream Argument, concludes that mathematics and other purely cerebral studies are far more certain than astronomy or physics, which is an important step away from the Aristotelian reliance on the senses and toward Cartesian rationalism.

Both the dream argument and the Simulation hypothesis can be regarded as skeptical hypotheses; however in raising these doubts, just as Descartes noted that his own thinking led him to be convinced of his own existence, the existence of the argument itself is testament to the possibility of its own truth.