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We know almost nothing about consciousness or dreaming, to say otherwise is unearned arrogance in my opinion. We understand some mechanics of dreaming and consciousness, yes. But many were related to problems that required individuals to visualize something in his or her mind, such as an inventor picturing a new device." She found examples of almost every type of problem being solved in a dream, from the mathematical to the artistic. "Barrett has also extensively reviewed scientific and historical literature, looking for examples of problems solved in dreams. However, many people have studied the ability to solve problems during the dreaming state. You are like a man who, because he cannot breathe underwater, claims no one can possibly swim underwater.ĭreaming, even lucid dreaming, will never be like waking consciousness.
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You are merely watching a movie in which the protagonist realizes it's a movie. I'll never have the kind of consciousness I have as I write this comment for instance. But you'll never truly have a lucid dream. Because the point is that you can direct the kind of dreams you will have. It enables you to do certain things, e.g flying, and other cool things. This does mean that this has some huge overlap with what would look the same as lucid dreaming. You just have a dream, where you thought you woke up, and what ensues is a random scenario from what you believe you can do while dreaming. I promise you'll never be able to accomplish this.īasically what my thinking is this. Then go into your dreams, solve it with a giant imaginary dream pencil, then wake up knowing the number you got (or hell, you can just round it off if you can't quite remember each digit).
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You'll know how to solve it, it's super easy to solve. Super easy to remember right? If you're "lucid", you should also remember this math question as well. Put simply for instance, I can't spend a dream planning out what I'll do for the next day, recall a math problem I've been trying to solve, solve all of it in the shit loads of time I have while dreaming, and then wake up with all of that possible.ĭo you think that's possible? Do you think that if you were told to just memorize a certain problem, you could go to sleep and wake up and immediately write down the answer? Let me put it this way, My mind is never clear, I am never as aware as I am when I am awake. Regardless of what kind of dream I've had, there was never a moment of true thought that was in my dream.
I've had "nightmares" where I'm able to just summon light and shoot whatever was bothering me. What do you consider to be "full on lucid dreaming"? I've had dreams where I decided I wanted to fly, shoot lasers out of my eyes, and turn invisible and I could do that. Obviously the idea of lucid dreaming isn't quite as amazingly stupid as homeopathy, but it's an argument that I detest a lot. But yes, you can cherry pick questions that we still don't know the answers to. we still understand so little about it." Why? It's used by creationists, believers of homepathy, etc. We know lots of things, we just don't know the specifics of why we have to sleep for example, which is admittedly a very tantalizing question.
We know the cycles your brain goes through as you sleep. The idea that we know very little about dreaming is misinformed. I've read up on it enough, and experienced enough and frankly don't believe in it at all. Rat go sleep, same brain times but multiplied by three, seeming longer. Now like I said this doesn't fully answer your question but I hope it shines some light on what is happening. So judging from this the rat was experiencing what they just had done IRL while asleep. But here's the kicker, they activate at 3x the rate while the rat is asleep. He found that that these cells activate sequentially in relation to where the rat is in the environment when they are awake. He then compared activations from when they were awake to when they are asleep. This professor basically hooked some electrodes (recording devices) up to some rats and recorded the neural activity from these kinds of cells when they were plodding around a circle. Matsumoto) did a study on this.Ĭertain cells in the hippocampus activate when you (or a rat) enter and leave a certain place in the environment.
One of the professors there (I'm sorry I don't remember his name, I believe it was Dr. I'm going to explain a study done at the University of Lethbridge that might shed some light on the subject. The long answer is we have some interesting evidence that points towards a reason for the phenomenon but not a cause.