 The conclusion – that I don’t perfectly know that I’m now awake – has widespread sceptical consequences. For if I don’t know this, then neither do I know that I’m now “holding this piece of paper in my hands,” to cite an example the meditator had supposed to be “quite impossible” to doubt. Reflection on the Now Dreaming Doubt changes his mind. He comes around to the view that, for all he knows, the sensible objects of his present experience are mere figments of a vivid dream.