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In the past I have not had much success in posing questions on this forum, but I keep hoping that some perceptive and original minds might read this and offer some original insight. |
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In my opinion it could be that consciousness expansion is an evolutionary necessity and so our brains shifts to those different consciousness states (REM phase, SWS states and so on...) by inducing sleep, in order to give us the possibility to become more awake, which lead to less stress, better cognitive skills and so on. So lucid dreaming is the purpose of sleeping. |
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I don't think we ever "lose" consciousness when we sleep. This is the main reason we can become lucid in NREM, REM, and delta stages: we are already conscious, we just need to become aware. By extension, it is arguable that we never "lose" consciousness, except when we die. And maybe not even then |
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Last edited by ThreeCat; 12-13-2014 at 04:53 PM.
Stephen LaBerge's tips for MILD: (http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-expe...ml#post2160952
Viewed through the lens of evolution and physics, a standard answer to just about everything is: to conserve energy. If you are unconscious, you don't move. And if you don't move, you use less energy. |
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I am sure about illusion. I am not so sure about reality.
Sleep is part of an extremely complex homeostatic and self-preservation system, and it's clear when you begin to look at it from all sides that it has many uses, it's part of how the body can maintain itself as long as it can. Dreaming is part of memory consolidation (forming long term memories) and is a highly creative state where two unrelated things can form a connection that was never previously there. Thus, you learn while you sleep, at least during part of it, not to mention form long term memories. The brain and body have so many ways of regulating itself it's a wonder how it all came to be really. During a sleeping state you make use of different resources, it allows you to get more oxygen to vital parts of the body because you are not unconsciously hyperventilating or chest breathing rather than belly breathing. The brain has two competing sets of neurotransmitter systems, a wakefulness promoting set and a sleep..fulness promoting set. The sleep can over come the wakefulness, or simply the lack of the wakefulness can be enough to induce sleep. The neurotransmitters in the brain all work via differing mechanisms as well, some are modulatory (meaning the reduce or raise the amount of another or set of others, or even adjust the sensitivity to them). The newer ones are the more modulatory it seems. By newer, I mean they only appear in animals with higher thinking capability. For instance, worms have dopamine, but no serotonin. |
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Last edited by snoop; 12-14-2014 at 10:54 AM.
First of all, very interesting question JJFrank. And Snoop, very interesting post! I do agree with you Snoop that all you said make sense, and that is something I think most if not everyone like to hear about in the end. Maybe you killed some of the mystery. But there is still plenty of mystery left as I see it, and I wouldnt mind to hear you make some sense of my question aswell if you like. |
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