What dreams may come
If you are the observer of your own dreams, and they are real to you while you're sleeping, what makes them any less "real" than reality?
If spacetime is merely a collection of ripples, are not your dreams merely a collection of ripples as well?
Is it only a question of scale?
I am what is called a "lucid dreamer". I know my dreams are dreams, however I have a presence in them which enables me to control them. I came on this ability accidentally many years ago and I have not had a nightmare since. In dreams in which I am a participant or player I am self aware. I can control the events and I can end the dream at will.
Even though my dreams are not real they are an opportunity to think about certain matters that come up in the dreams. I do very good dialogues in my dreams which I am unable to equal when I am awake.
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interesting. i've had partially lucid dreams a couple of times, where i have become aware, in the dream, that i am dreaming, and have been able to temporarily control it. however, each time, i've lost control of it and it's become a terrible nightmare. it is strange as i very rarely ever have nightmares normally. it'd be great to have lucid dreams all the time. i'd spend so much time asleep...
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I even defend Bicentennial Man, but What Dreams May Come was terrible IMHO. Even "Hook" was better.
Wow, Hook has been mentionned? Been a while since I saw that movie, a long while...
I personnally think that Robin Williams is a pretty good addition to whatever role he plays, from what I've seen so far. =/ (And I've seen quite a lot...)
Anyone remembers "Toys"? <.<
If you are the observer of your own dreams, and they are real to you while you're sleeping, what makes them any less "real" than reality?
If spacetime is merely a collection of ripples, are not your dreams merely a collection of ripples as well?
Is it only a question of scale?
ok SO i was reading Science magazine and i read an interesting article called "Another Remembered Present" by Kaspar Meyer, and it made me think of this thread. the article summary:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6067/415.summary
basically, there is neuroscientific evidence that seems to indicate that conscious "experience" is not really just occurring as an external process that we absorb wholesale, but rather it is a bidirectional process where our minds interpret and decode what we see as it is happening. the article explains this phenomenon in depth to a degree that i can't summarise very well (and it doesn't completely pertain to this thread), but at the conclusion the author notes:
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So, the New Agers who claim we each create our own reality are right - at least as long as that reality is confined to our own minds. Sounds kind of like saying everything is a matter of perspective, at least to a certain extent.
As for dreams being only about what's going on in our heads, I found out that wasn't true when I was in junior high school. I was taking a nap when I dreamed that someone kept calling my name over and over. I kept answering, but it did no good. I finally woke up actually grumbling, "What?! !" It was then that I found out my father had been calling me for dinner.
I've had elements of my physical state either enter my dream in some way or change the nature of the dream as a whole. If I'm sleeping in an awkward position, causing me back pain, I may dream that someone is doing something bad to me that is hurting my back. If I overheat under too many covers, I may have a nightmare of some sort. If I drift back to sleep in the morning while waiting for the bathroom because my girlfriend is in there first, I may have some strange bathroom imagery in my dream.
Alternately, if I wake from a strange dream, it may affect my mood and thinking for the rest of the day - maybe even a couple of days.
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