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oroboros commented on the word metacognitive deficit
"...the dream Ego does not know that it is dreaming. It does not realize the signals it is turning into an internal narrative are self-generated stimuli--in philosophical jargon, this feature of the dream state is a "metacognitive deficit." The dream Ego is delusional, lacking insight into the nature of the state it is itself generating."
--Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel, p. 138
In lucid dreaming, this is not the case, for the dreaming Ego is conscious it is dreaming/creating the dream state.
July 4, 2009