Let's say that the last 5 years of my life have been a dream, and tomorrow I wake up and find myself as a 9 year-old in between 4th and 5th grade. And let's say that I remember as much about the dream as I actually do remember about the past 5 years of my life.
Now, there are a lot of differences between me as a 9 year-old and me now, as a 14 year-old. For one thing, my asperger's syndrome was a lot more severe back then, I had some bug anger problems back then, and I believed that pre-marital sex was sinful back then. Now, my asperger's syndrome is pretty mild, my anger problems are almost gone, and I believe that pre-marital sex is not sinful. There are many other differences as well, of course.
So my question is, when I wake up from this hypothetical dream, will I act like my 9 year-old self, my 14 year-old self, or somewhere in between?

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I have the pleasure of remembering my dreams almost every morning. They are often very detailed and can sometimes have very elaborate and cohesive plots. However, once I wake up, other than giving me a little chuckle in the morning, they don't affect how I live me life. I don't see how this would be any different.

14 year old self. Your mental state, as per the problem is held to contiune. The increased serveity would affect you as much as a flare up would affect you now, thinking pre-marital sex is sinful would require you to not remember you hold an unsinful postion and you clearly recall that or you would currently hold the belief and your anger problems I assume are something you've grow to control. That said, if you truely wake up, the dream will give nine year old you a headache and soon your biology will repress the momories. One day as a fourteen year old in a nine year olds body, then back to normal. Heck, it may have happen, hence your curiousity. O.o

Basically, mental states are dependant upon biology. As Abgemacht alluded to.

Hmmm.... on the subject of the my pre-marital sex belief, do you think my nine year-old self would go over the logical and biblical arguments of the belief that pre-marital sex is fine (which he would remember), and perhaps change his mind, or would he just push that belief out as crazy and go on his merry way?

First, I'll say that I had no opinion on pre-marital sex when I was 9, but that's a different topic.

There's a difference between actually processing information and just feelings as though you've processed it and it can be very hard to tell the difference in a dream.

For instance, I once had a dream in which I was in a foreign city and yet I could read and understand the language. Did I learn the language in my dream and then forget it when I woke up? No. My brain was just telling me that I understood what was happening. Similarly, if you were dreaming now, when you woke up, you'd find that you didn't actually have an argument for pre-marital sex, you'd only have had your brain telling you you had one.

Since this dream has been temporally very long I suspect that your 14 year old state of mind would persist for a time, maybe even a day or two, but would quickly be superseded by your real life.

however given that i think you have no experienced this kind of "long dream" before i imagine you may begin to question what parts of your life are dreamt and which parts are real.

in short you would become a skeptic like me. welcome.

Also how dare you fucking presume that your hypothetical is interesting

ugh you disgust me you fucking prick

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@thucy (first post): interesting. I would be a sceptic myself, except that I choose to believe and have faith, even though I fully acknwledge that nothing is 100% certain.

@thucy (second post): +1 for Thucy, -1 for Krellin

@abge: Yes that makes sense. Like for example, the math I learned last year (algebra 2) would have been completely made up in my dream, because my 9 year-old mind has no idea how to do algebra 2.