Thread: ADA and bad science

Thinking about ADA generates more questions than answers for me. There are so many ways we can focus our perception but obviously there's a limit to our attention. For example, you could choose a kind of introspective ADA where you focus on your thinking and you could even focus on exquisitely fine details like the "volume" of your internal self-talk. Has anyone done any research into which kind of focuses lead to greater lucid rates?

Most of the LD stuff I've read deals with a kind of awake/dreaming dichotomy. But I think there is no such thing as a "100 percent dream" because dreams utilise actual memories from R/L and ways of thinking. Also I reckon there's no such thing as "100 percent awake" - but I'm not quite sure how this is; would it be because of misperceptions? Or is there something - maybe thinking, or a type of thinking - that is "neutral" and is equally present when we are awake and when in dreams?

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

Thinking about ADA generates more questions than answers for me. There are so many ways we can focus our perception but obviously there's a limit to our attention. For example, you could choose a kind of introspective ADA where you focus on your thinking and you could even focus on exquisitely fine details like the "volume" of your internal self-talk. Has anyone done any research into which kind of focuses lead to greater lucid rates?

Most of the LD stuff I've read deals with a kind of awake/dreaming dichotomy. But I think there is no such thing as a "100 percent dream" because dreams utilise actual memories from R/L and ways of thinking. Also I reckon there's no such thing as "100 percent awake" - but I'm not quite sure how this is; would it be because of misperceptions? Or is there something - maybe thinking, or a type of thinking - that is "neutral" and is equally present when we are awake and when in dreams?

I suppose different types of focus are differently effective for different people. Whether you are ever 100% awake depends on how you define being awake. Most of the time, the human brain filters out most of the information we are getting through are senses, and our senses do not pick up on everything that happens around us. Also, the subconcious part of our brain uses some brain capacity, both during sleep and waking life. Memories and relating to situations we have been in before (which we do all the time) also use a part of our capacity. Therefore, I would personally say that we are never fully awake.