Relationship between consciousness and reality

The relationship between consciousness and reality


You see the pea, you smell the pea, you feel the pea, you eat the pea, and, believe it or not, it looked like a pea, smelt like a pea, felt like a pea, and, unfortunately tasted like a pea! What would you say if I approached you and asked you, “How can you prove to yourself that you just consumed a pea?”
And I’m almost certain you would reply, “I saw it, smelt it, felt it and swallowed it! Isn’t that enough evidence to prove that I just ate a pea?”
No. The evidence if far from sufficient. I’ll explain why.
When you are fast asleep, dreaming blissfully that you had just won a car, and I approached you in your dream, and said, “How can you prove to me that you just won that funky new car?” And you would say, “They delivered the car to my doorstep and congratulated me, and then I took it for a spin around the block, isn’t that enough evidence to prove that I just won a car?”
No. The evidence is far from ...