Is there any way certainly to distinguish being awake from dreaming? How?

Firstly, we would have to question what being awake is, and what a dream is. To the average person (well, we could then question what the average person is, but that is another journal) a dream is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep . Awake, again to the average person, is being alert and aware, and completely conscious; not in a state of sleep . From these definitions, obviously there would be ways to certainly distinguish being awake from dreaming. If one is having a dream, they may feel as if they can sme…