About Behaviorism, Chapter 5: Perceiving, Quote 7

“The thirsty man does not reach for the fantasied glass of water, but the dreamer does not know that what he is seeing is “not really there,” and he responds as fully as a person who is asleep can. (Introspective knowledge of dreaming is weak or lacking because the conditions needed for self-observation are lacking, and when such self-knowledge survives into the waking state, it usually disappears quickly as one forgets one’s dreams.)” (p. 96)

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