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Are dreams and nightmares any less “real” than our waking conscious experience?

If so, is everything equally real phenomenologically speaking? I feel as if it’s a silly question but i’ve pondered other things which I presumed were also silly and apparently ended up finding it wasn’t. So here’s my question..
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The phenomena which you can experience during a dream are of course real in the sense that they are phenomena which you are experiencing. But that does not necessarily mean that they are real in the same sense that the phenomena which you experience while awake are. The question is pretty complex, but one sloppy way to handle it is that you could think of the phenomena which you experience while awake to be more "real" since they come from external objects interacting with your mind and senses (again, this is a very messy take on it), but the phenomena in dreams come from imagination. Intuitively this could be supported by points such as external objects generally giving the same phenomena to different people, while its very hard to accurately convey some phenomenon experienced in a dream to someone else. So in a sense, both experiences are real, but they are differ greatly in other aspects.

You could look into phenomenology for more on this.