Sentence examples for waking perception from inspiring English sources

He points out that there are phenomenological differences between dreaming and wakefulness, noting that dream imagery lacks, for instance, the stability of waking perception.

According to Llinás & Ribary (1994; Llinás & Paré 1991), waking perception is a dream-like state modulated by the senses.

Saying that dreams are hallucinations is not, however, the only way of making sense of the claim that dreaming has the same phenomenal character as waking perception.

Yet, it is not clear that he thereby takes dreaming to feel different from waking perception, or that he thinks there is a necessary distinction between conscious experiences (in the phenomenological sense) in dreams and wakefulness.

The former view would challenge his claim that dream imagery arises independently of external sensory stimulation, and the latter would challenge his claim that dreaming has the same phenomenal character as waking perception.

Throughout the history of philosophy, the standard view has been that dreams have the same phenomenal character as waking perception and count as hallucinations in the philosophical sense, that is, as experiences that are subjectively indistinguishable from genuine perception but where there is no mind-independent object being perceived (Crane 2011; Macpherson 2013).

It's only upon waking that perception "recovers the power of reasoning".

The impression, according to one commentator, was of "a grown child, waking to perception, but wondering at every object he beholds".

When the Mansonites went further and moved the furniture around before they left, just to fuck with the waking homeowners' perception of reality, was this beautiful or evil?

Dream imagery utilizes the same underlying systems of neural processing that are utilized in waking visual sensory perception, but during dreaming the representational imagery system has cognitive prominence.

According to a gallery note, Walls depicts "the states between visual perception, memory, waking life and dreams". But the artist's style seems too concrete to evoke such intangibilities.