Thread: Stopping real time in a lucid dream

Originally Posted by Mario92

I'm fairly certain that about 40 hz is the frequency most commonly associated with intense mental activity, and about 30-12 is standard, alert thinking. The brain seems to struggle to attain much over 100 hz, it seems. 1,000 hz would be nuts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_waves
You are right in that our thoughts cannot exceed a certain physical limitation. Even if we were to increase our thinking capacities 10 fold (~100% of your brain), which is impossible, I still couldn't imagine your brain perceiving time to pass at a rate of many years per minute. It isn't going to happen. Sorry.

neural firing rates and brain wave activity read on an eeg are similar in some ways and very different in others. The neuron fires at about 1/1000th of a second. Could you imagine if the neuron only fired at 30-12 times per second. It'd take a hell of a long time for any message to get through. Because the neuron charges and then discharges or completes a cycle I used the Hz notation. I think that's where you got confused with what I was talking about. So to be clear, i wasn't talking about brain waves.

and your very right. Now computers, they have the power to do what's being suggested in this thread, just not yet. Computers think A SHIT LOAD faster then we do, we only have the advantage because we have a lot more processing power then they do. If they had near as many cpus as we have neurons we would be their pets.
not sure what you ment by increaseing our brain power ten fold, if I think you meant what I think you did let me correct a common myth. We use 10% of our brain at any given time, we use it 100% of our brain, just only specialized places at a given time. We don't walk with our teeth after all. If that's not what you meant they ok, least i taught someone something somewhere out there.

OH and i should also mention that another limit to this idea is that the message that is sent by the neuron doesn't travel very fast. They travel to and from the brain at about .1-100 m/s or so. 100 m/s sounds fast, but it's not, it's REALLY not.