Descartes Meditations 1 Robert Dotto

In Meditations 1 Descartes describes his thoughts on dreams as they pertain to reality. He claims that dreams are based on reality and if something exists in your dream it must exist in real life as well. Logically this theory appears to make sense but just as misleading as a dream can be, it is not always true. Personally I've had dreams of places, people, and events that I have have never seen anything in real life that even comes close to resembling them. I would agree that while most of the things in our dreams are complex combinations of simpler things we experience in real life, but I think that there is something much, much deeper than that in dreaming.