Eikasia

Eikasia was used by Plato to refer to a human way of dealing with appearances.http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?eikasia.

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It is the ability to perceive whether a perception is an image of something else. It therefore allows us to perceive that a dream or memory or a reflection in a mirror is not reality as such.

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Perception: In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. Methods of studying perception range from essentially biological or physiological approaches, through psychological approaches to the often abstract 'thought...

Image: :For the film "Pictures", see Pictures (film)...

Dream: Dreaming is the subjective experience of remembered and imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology. Dreaming has been associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of s...