What Is Sleep? - New York Times (blog)

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What Is Sleep?
New York Times (blog)
Lucid dreams are dreams in which the dreamer knows he is dreaming, a form of double consciousness that would put Descartes by the fire and in his bed at the ...

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The neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas has proposed that consciousness and dreams are not distinct but part of the same intrinsic brain functions, “that wakefulness is nothing other than a dreamlike state modulated by the constraints produced by specific inputs.”

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I like this theory. Makes sense to me.