Quote Originally Posted by somniumrex View Post
our brains can handle only so much input, like try to watch two tvs and you'll do okay, now try to watch ten. try to keep your mind going and figure out whats going on on each one without looking at any one individually but look at them all at once. i can't imagine having much success at all. or try putting each of your ten fingers into different substances. you won't be able to take it all in at once. try to ask yourself without looking which substance your ring finger is in. then look. you'll probably be wrong. or listen to two different songs on two ear buds. you should hear both more or less. now try six different ear buds each a different song, three per ear. good luck lol! so i think we're designed for two different inputs at any given time so in a dream you could make two consciousnesses but no more.... maybe three but that's probably the limit. however i've always wondered about this. ever since that guy in waking life said he has three sixty view in dreams i've been trying to wrap my mind around such concepts.
For little things like that we can do it, but to handle two separate entities and their surroundings all at once, I'm not sure the human brain can do all that at once (I mean, it's designed (so to speak) to do all that onceover, so twice...). That aside, I never thought of this before and I'm interested to try it. If I get any results (once I finally LD again, just too damn busy) I'll post back here.