It's nice to see Laberge still rocking on Lding ! |
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An interesting study by Stephen LaBerge, Benjamin Baird, and Philip G. Zimbardo: "Smooth tracking of visual targets distinguishes lucid REM sleep dreaming and waking perception from imagination": |
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It's nice to see Laberge still rocking on Lding ! |
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LaBerge et al of course being researchers who want to be seen to work only within the accepted domain of physical reality, had to phrase it very carefully, like they did: "the visual imagery that occurs during REM sleep is more similar to perception than imagination". |
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So ... is this the real universe, or is it just a preliminary study?
I think a useful experiment would be to test how smoothly the eyes can traverse closed versus open. That might be the main difference. I mean they can obviously track something quite smoothly when there's a moving object to focus on, but if there isn't and you're trying to move them across a visual field with all kinds of stuff in it (background objects etc) they have nothing to follow and they keep getting 'stuck' on background points. But if closed my eyes seem to be able to track pretty smoothy in comparison. Of course that said, I don't really know the parameters of the experiment or even precisely what some of the terminology means. But I think it would be the next logical step (if they haven't already tested for that). |
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Last edited by Darkmatters; 01-17-2019 at 11:33 PM.
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