Thread: Arrrggghhh!! Blurring Everywhere!!!

Dreams are truly the recollection of your unconscious episode. Truthfully, the cerebellum is inclined to assimilate experiences to make chronological sense. This is why it seems that you are experiencing the dreams as they are happening, but you are actually not and cannot. There cerebrum is functionally deactivied (no monoamine neurotransmitter activity) so it is actually when you awake that your mind re-arranges everything and functions on lucidity, dreams, etc.

The blurryness is likely the result of confused or difficult recall.

Either way, the recollection residually helps and reinforces attention and focus.

Your exams and suspension of the dream journal are likely the culprit to this blurryness. I could interpret it as the uneasyness about your exams (ie. "i do not know how this will come about" analguous to "i cannot see the future" etc. etc.).

What do you think...?

What about the WILD technique? you dont even lose consciousness. and WILDs are alot clearer than DILDs. they are for me anyway. They feel more like present experiences than past experiences for me as well.

Originally Posted by freefire

What about the WILD technique? you dont even lose consciousness. and WILDs are alot clearer than DILDs. they are for me anyway. They feel more like present experiences than past experiences for me as well.

I'm really not sure what to say about WILD's - I have no grounds to really work from.

I speculate that it may be conditioning, hypnogognic imagery control, etc.

However, you cannot have consciousness during sleep - it is just impossible. Your brain will not function like that because while you are asleep your monoamine neurotransmitter production is inhibited which invariably inhibits your cerebral activity.

I cannot really prove this to you or persuade you otherwise. It is a result from my experience in research in other forms of psychology that I presume transfer over to the phenomenon of sleep; I call it a phenomenon because we do not know what regulates sleep.

With that said, if I were you, I would likely take what I say on a marginal level unless you are willing to trust my opinion. In that case, I would say you could strengthen your hypnogognic imagery control and the attention will seem over to sleep.

The only thing I do know for certain is that you cannot have the same stream of consciousness from waking life to unconscious life - it is simply a biological impossibility.

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Mmm I'm confused. We know we're dreaming, but we're not conscious until we awake, which makes sense. But what would be doing the lucid dreaming then, or in other words, how does it become lucid if there is no consciousness to become aware and make decisions? (I'm not learned on brain mechanics)

(Yea, not the point of the thread but it was bugging me )

Yea that was bugging me too. I have taken a really basic psych class, bt most of my knowledge stems from research I have done on my own. I do not understand the mechanics you are trying to explain, but I trust your opinion. Part of understanding involves keeping an open mind. What you are saying explains a lot of things I never understood about dreams so, I cannot disagree. Though, it seems quite the opposite, it does explain skipping of dreams from place to place, and visual processing is a subconcious process to begin with.

If we are in fact unconcious, then a dream is like picturing something in your head and actually seeing it (or is that still a concious process?) because this is what I do to create things in my dream. It does not, however, agree with decison making in dreams, lucid or not. This definately gives me something to ponder for the next few days because there are a number of possibilities that could emulate decision making. All I know is that our subconcious brain is capable of quite of a lot of processing. It creates the world we see every day, and displays accurate dipictions of motion of multiple objects instantaneously. A dream may be a depiction of the subconcious mind which could make them a usefull tool for discovering the secrets of the brain. To this end, I am pretty much stumped.

I read somewhere that when we go to sleep, the gland in our brain (I feel stupid for forgetting which one. If I had to guess it is pituitary.) releases DMT into our brain. DMT is a natural hallucinegenic that can be smoked or eaten. This would mean that we trip our faces off every time we are dreaming. This DMT could serve as the input for the visual processing, but that is just a hunch.

Links worth checkin out:
I saw this on TV last year. Famous savant explains how he does math subconciously. Goes to show how powerful our subconcious mind, and why isn't it doing my math homework!?!? Check out how he does math toward the end...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UqLzoiVzEY8

Akinetopsia is a disorder in which a person is unable to perceive motion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47Js1MtT4w

Wow,

Cheers guys, that kinda cleared a lot of things up, i guess i was trying to hard, and i guess thats sometimes why i would drop in an out of sleep. So al just try and relax and see how it goes

Thanks again

Mustang

nice avatar freefire!

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