Thread: Richard Feynman and lucid dreams

Feynman was a lucid dreamer? That's interesting!

What is the title of his autobiography? I'd like to read it!

The title of the books is, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.

You can find it at Amazon. This is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846

Thanks! I just added it to my amazon wishlist. I've got a couple of books in the queue, so probably won't get to it for a month or two.

whoa that is really cool I am going to have to read that too! Thanx for the info.

I should mention that the book even without the LD stuff is great. It's inspiring. Although, his experience with LD was interesting. He describes how he starts becoming lucid, and then after a while, how the dream takes over again. The way he decribed the dreams and the take over was pretty fluid as I remember it. I got fooled myself the way he put it.

Of course, you won't. You already know this stuff.

I've never tried to manipulate sub-atomic particles in my LDs. Gonna have to add that to my list of things to try.

Hope I don't blow up some poor unsuspecting universe!!

Could you imagine if each dream is real to the entities you create in it?

Originally posted by moe
Could you imagine if each dream is real to the entities you create in it?

I'm afraid that ability is a little beyond my grasp right now. Maybe in a few more years...

I wouldn't be evil like my son is though. He has SimCity and had a lot of fun growing civilizations and then destroying them with floods and fires.

He even had the National Guard called into his city the other night to stop rioting. The riots were because he didn't create any fire departments and the whold town was burning down.

That's Funny!

hehe it is kinda fun though, if there isint much you can do about your financial situation and the city is a mess due to poor planning, (I found planning for growth is the key in sim city) but if you screw it up its aways fun to lay waste to the city via natrual causes and then restart on the now volcanic and pockmarked with craters landscape =)

Controlling subatomic particles is the basis of telekenisis, somone else was talking about it a while ago some comic book character, DR. Manhatten I think it was... yeah i would be nervous too, could just wipe out all of existance or you might sneeze and somone near you poofs into a pile of dust!

Here's an excerpt from "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!", a biography of the famous phyisict. It tells about how he learned to become lucid and how he psychoanalysed one of his dreams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useraranoid/Feynman

Some quotes from Feynman (a very interesting guy)

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. "

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."

"Every particle in Nature has an amplitude to move backwards in time, and therefore has an anti-particle." [/b]

Feynman opened the door to possibility of time travel. See for example "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" by J. Richard Gott, excerpt at
http://www.physicscentral.com/writers/writ...iters-02-4.html

May be of interest to those who wonder if current physics theories prohibit precognition.

i didn't know that...thanks i'll definitely check the biography out (after i finish the two dozen half finished books presently strewn across my room )

it seems many of the great minds in science found dreams helpful (non-lucid, and lucid).

I've read this book about a year ago.

Interesting little autobiography about his journey through science .

I'm going to have to disagree with his attitude toward philosophy...I think philosophy is a necessity to living in this Universe.

An audiobook version of the novel (a few chapters left): http://music.daresay.com/oddities/physics/

No tiene desperdicio..!