Thread: Daydreaming??

How close can you make which? Day dreams or lucid dreams? Day dreams for me are always thoughts. It just feels like my mind drifting off, no vivid images other than what I see in my minds eye.

Lucid dreams are very very vivid. Ask anyone else around here.

Quote from Waking Life:
A lot of us out there are mapping that mind/body relationship of dreams. We're called the oneironauts. We're explorers of the dream world. Really, it's just about the two opposing states of consciousness... which don't really oppose at all. See, in the waking world, the neuro-system inhibits the activation of the vividness of memories. This makes evolutionary sense.It'd be maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator...to be mistaken for the memory of one and vice-versa. If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual image, we'd be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary thought. So you have these serotonic neurons... that inhibit hallucinations... that they themselves are inhibited during REM sleep. This allows dreams to appear real... while preventing competition from other perceptual processes. This is why dreams are mistaken for reality.