From an older post of mine: |
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I've been wondering as to whether a lucid dream could alter underlying conscious mechanisms, such as emotion, and possibly occluding negative emotion from transpiring after a lucid dream. I've also read upon a few experiences where someone has been shot in a lucid dream, awakens and notices a persisting rash, scratch and/or sharp pain in the area where they've been shot. |
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From an older post of mine: |
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Total LDs (since joining)- 4
Total LDs (including before "The Great Plague")- Hard to count. 200?
DILDs- 2 DEILDs- Possibly 1 WILDs/VILDs: 2 Astral Projections: 1
Current focus; WILDs
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. -Henry David Thoreau
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. -Jean-Paul Sartre
To me dreams can't seem long if it's lucid... |
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When I relate to physical effects, I'm associating to ones similar to those caused by a placebo effect. Perhaps the strengthening/weakening of the body's immune system, secretion of various hormones, accelerated tissue regeneration and an the alteration of memory; a possibly enhancement or integration of eidetic memory; and the alteration of emotional response. From my experience, dreaming can change the behaviour of my memory, and even to the point where certain memories are almost photographic. Other changes are intuitive (e.g. different perspectives of life, views of society and personal attributes), and I suppose one major change is growth (growth enzymes can be released by parts of the brain stem during sleep) and hormone release. I'm wondering if anyone has managed to exert influence over the underlying mental structures responsible for creating these effects (we could suppose that any form of electrochemical activity gives rise to mentality or a mind (albeit non-conscious)). |
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It's quite possible. It is believed that the reason we have nightmares is to give us experience for real life situations. |
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Last edited by Mini Man56; 09-12-2009 at 06:30 AM.
What if I told you that I am dreaming right now?
That your whole life is a lie?
That the laws of physics as you know them are incorrect?
Furthermore, what would you do if I told you I'm going to wake up as soon as you finish reading my signature?
It's most likely that dreaming does prepare us for the environment, but I also believe it's also a clean up - a maintenance for dealing with things that are beyond the scope of the conscious mind. Problems that are too difficult for the waking mind, physical changes and emotion may reach beyond its scope where the dreaming mind may act as an interface for control mechanisms; a dreaming mind may also use more resources, comprised with a greater access and control over memory (since our conscious mind is bound to the external environment, an unconscious can self-reference memory without an input delay; it can access memory instantly without the need for external influence). |
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It's all in your head. There like mental effects that are perceived to be physical, like how some people who have lost limbs still feel pain in said limbs that they don't have. |
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Personally, I think the rashes or bruises or whatever cause the dream, not the other way around. It usually takes time for injuries to manifest, anyway; a bruise doesn't form immediately, and neither does a rash. |
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