Subconcious...reliable?

[LucidFreedoM]

How reliable is your subconcious? Let me explain; Would it be possible to, lets say, have a 'dream stop watch' in your pocket, and at the start of your dream you start it, so you see the timer counting seconds starting at 0, and during your dream you completely forget about it, would the timer be right whenever you decided to check it? Or would it just be either a random number, gibberish, or just stay at the last number you saw before you put it in your pocket? Can you leave things for your subconcious mind to control? So that you can completely forget about them in your dream and they still continue to function, being controlled completely by the subconcious? I think this could vary with dream control, hence why I posted it here.

[The Enterer]

I wouldn’t count on the subconscious to work with anything as rational or logical as a sequence of numbers. The natural language of the subconscious is symbology. That said, it is fairly reliable in that it is highly suggestible and really seems to want to work with you, imo.

[apachama]

Yeah. I believe you'd be making a mistake to expect the subconscious to keep a timer running. It seems it can plot out a plot in advance and do a lot of other really powerful things. But numbers and rational analysis is not its domain.

[seeker28]

I wouldn’t count on the subconscious to work with anything as rational or logical as a sequence of numbers. The natural language of the subconscious is symbology. That said, it is fairly reliable in that it is highly suggestible and really seems to want to work with you, imo. I completely agree. The subconscious deals in symbols. So if you want to trust your subconscious to run something, trust it with symbols.

[LucidFreedoM]

Symbols as in..just something visual?

[JET73L]

For the stopwatch, I expect it would be whatever number makes sense, ither a random or important number, or gibberish if you expect it to be. If you set something up in your dream, trust your subconscious to keep it running, and go back later, I think it would have been eradicated to whatever degree other bits of the dream have to which you aren;t paying attention, then rebuilt to a later stage when you return (either fallen apart, or continuing, or built to a new level, again whatever your subconscious expects it should be). That's just my opinion on the subject. It may or may not be correct, I don;t know.

[Dash]

If you think about it - you put the watch in, you know it's there. As long as you know it's there, it will be there. If you forget about it, it ceases to exist.

[apfire26]

Instead of a stop watch, set an hour glass on a table. Go on with your normal lucid activities, then come back to the hour glass. It would be cool seeing your results from that. If your really good with WILDs, you can look at the clock before your dream, then look at it again after the dream. Then relate that time with the hour glass in you dream. I'm just rambling here because I'm bored. I know what I'm trying to say but I doubt anyone else does. LOL!

[Malac Reborn]

I wouldn’t count on the subconscious to work with anything as rational or logical as a sequence of numbers. The natural language of the subconscious is symbology. That said, it is fairly reliable in that it is highly suggestible and really seems to want to work with you, imo. Actually that would be the complete opposite. It deals with almost everything.

[Hukif]

Well... since it has done many times with watchs, and many others with planets and the way they are placed on the galaxy and space... I suppose its reliable.