Thread: Is it possible to be aware in more than one location?

Wow Somniumrex! You really helped put some of this in perspective. I guess we are really limited by how many things we can focus on at one time. Like with your example of multiple tvs, songs, and fingers in different substances. We could probably focus on one or two, maybe three, but all of them at the same time would be overly difficult. For instance, if i were listening to six different songs at once, and i chose one or two to focus on, the other songs would probably cause distraction. Even now just trying to focus on all five senses equally and noticing all of the input from them is difficult. By trying to do that, your attention tends to either gravitate towards only one of the senses or your focus tends to cycle through them one at a time.

As a note on the 360 degree vision, i'm not sure how the brain could pull it off, although i can't say it is impossible. While typing this, my eyes focus on a very small part of what is within my range of vision. All of the clarity seems to go to that very small area while everything else is visible yet not clear or in focus. Maybe if someone's goal was to obtain 360 degrees of vision in an ld, they could try by expanding the clarity and range of their vision a little at a time. It would probably take alot of practice.

I thought of an idea that might help bring us closer to achieving two points of awareness and 360 degree vision. What if while in an ld, we could take both of are eyes out, assuming that both were processing their own image (the same way our physical eyes do). Then if are goal was to go for two points of awareness, we could place them in two different locations away from each other. We should then be processing two different images (i guess this would be similar to how a chameleon's vision operates). We could place them facing different directions, which would give us two different points of vision, which i think would bring us closer to two different points of awareness. Imagine that you are standing in the middle of a room. You have placed one eye on the left side of the room and one on the right. Then you go and stand in the middle. You could be looking at your body's left and right side simultaneously. The only issue i can think of with doing this is that the view from each eye would be 2D rather than 3D, but since it would be a dream, maybe we wouldn't have such a hindrance. As for help with the 360 degree vision, imagine putting your eyes back to back, so that they were both facing exact opposite directions. This would in theory double the degrees of vision. I don't think it would add up to 360 degrees, but it would bring you closer. Then just think if we could somehow obtain vision through a third eye and maybe place it somewhere else as well. The only problem is that i think we would be getting into the limits of what the human brain could focus on and process at one time. Who knows!? All of this is kind of hard to wrap my brain around. But it sure makes me want to ld tonight and see what i can do.