My waking self is a reification of my dreaming self and my dreaming self, the same?
The umbrella is upside down and it is raining outside. For now, this is a fine state of affairs. Later, I imagine not. But that is only an imagining, like a dream. Lucky me--to have an umbrella, to have a rainy day. How's your umbrella today?
Wikipedia:
Reification in thought occurs when an abstract concept describing a relationship or context is treated as a concrete "thing", or if something is treated as if it were a separate object when this is inappropriate because it is not an object or because it does not truly exist in separation....This implies that objects are transformed into subjects and subjects are turned into objects, with the result that subjects are rendered passive or determined, while objects are rendered as the active, determining factor. Hypostatization refers to an effect of reification which results from supposing that whatever can be named, or conceived abstractly, must actually exist, an ontological and epistemological fallacy.
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