Howie
05-06-2005, 05:05 AM
[size=18]Short Term Memeory (STM) & Judgment Experiment
I have been somewhat frustrated because I see a lot of effort and many very good Ideas. Many Ideas would greatly benifit from PET scanning or FMRI Imaging. However we do not have acces to those, so we make do with what we have.
I have been wanting to try and differentiate between lucid dreaming brain functioning verses a non lucid dream. And to see if the brain fuctions as if we were awake, in a dream or somewhere inbetween.
Without brain imaging capabilties I was at a loss of how to figure this out.
Well maybe the instrument we need is the one we are ingaged in studying, the brain!
I WOULD LIKE AT LEAST FOUR VOLUNTEERS!
These are some of the things that we know from scanning that has been performed in labratories.
1. Visual Imaging
Areas that generate internal imagery are active, providing visual detail. The regions that recieve siganal from the eyes are shut down.
(This is no real suprise. I don't suspect that will or can change.)
2.Logic & emotion
Emotional centers are very active. Areas that are involved in judgment wind down. *Perhaps giving your subconscious or unconscious free rein to do what ever it wants.
3.Memory
*Regions responsible for short term memory become inactive. The dreamer then forgets what just happened and accepts rapidily shifting scenes or Characters.
(From what I can find out normal STM from a coherant awake person is a mere 20 seconds)
The Process.
The Active lucid dreamer need to do the following.
While in a dream we often on the onset of the LD recall a task of the month or something else that we had incubated.
What I need someone to do is at some point in thier LD, Try and recall what had just happened IN the dream and see if dream recall is relative to everyday recall.
While In the LD, the dreamer, when he/she comes across a Logic/emotion based decision, note it and write down these responses.
Then compare these decisions to what you feel you would have done while awake.
If one repeadely chooses the same response as if they weree awake then the area of the brain would more likley be ingaged. Opposite of that of a normal dream.
(This could give a lot on insight on moral issues in dreams too.)
I have to go. I will elaborate more.
Please add comments and advice and or questions!!
I have been somewhat frustrated because I see a lot of effort and many very good Ideas. Many Ideas would greatly benifit from PET scanning or FMRI Imaging. However we do not have acces to those, so we make do with what we have.
I have been wanting to try and differentiate between lucid dreaming brain functioning verses a non lucid dream. And to see if the brain fuctions as if we were awake, in a dream or somewhere inbetween.
Without brain imaging capabilties I was at a loss of how to figure this out.
Well maybe the instrument we need is the one we are ingaged in studying, the brain!
I WOULD LIKE AT LEAST FOUR VOLUNTEERS!
These are some of the things that we know from scanning that has been performed in labratories.
1. Visual Imaging
Areas that generate internal imagery are active, providing visual detail. The regions that recieve siganal from the eyes are shut down.
(This is no real suprise. I don't suspect that will or can change.)
2.Logic & emotion
Emotional centers are very active. Areas that are involved in judgment wind down. *Perhaps giving your subconscious or unconscious free rein to do what ever it wants.
3.Memory
*Regions responsible for short term memory become inactive. The dreamer then forgets what just happened and accepts rapidily shifting scenes or Characters.
(From what I can find out normal STM from a coherant awake person is a mere 20 seconds)
The Process.
The Active lucid dreamer need to do the following.
While in a dream we often on the onset of the LD recall a task of the month or something else that we had incubated.
What I need someone to do is at some point in thier LD, Try and recall what had just happened IN the dream and see if dream recall is relative to everyday recall.
While In the LD, the dreamer, when he/she comes across a Logic/emotion based decision, note it and write down these responses.
Then compare these decisions to what you feel you would have done while awake.
If one repeadely chooses the same response as if they weree awake then the area of the brain would more likley be ingaged. Opposite of that of a normal dream.
(This could give a lot on insight on moral issues in dreams too.)
I have to go. I will elaborate more.
Please add comments and advice and or questions!!