Dream a Little Dream
No actual dreams to report, mostly had fragments lately that aren't very interesting or easy to relate.
Just some vague thoughts and noticings on dreaming in general (for me).
Still, I did have a lucid one in which I noticed something... sometimes in a lucid dream where I have a false-awakening.. that is, I wake up, think I may still be dreaming, and confirm it with a dream-test, once I go lucid again, my vision (in the dream) gets screwed up for a while. Like either everything's too dark (even if it should be light) or blurry, or my eyes are going in different direction and I can't turn my head, even if I can walk. This happens slightly more often if I'm napping in the middle of the day (like, er, say, today). I don't quite get why this is...often it clears up after a time, but lucid dreams don't last very long for me so I'd like to have all the time I can get to start doing stuff like flying.
On another, still dream-related note... it's always kind of perplexed me... that the brain is apparently capable of producing immersive, three-dimensional 'virtual' environments, on the fly, including sound, smell, tastes, touch, and so on, such that it's difficult to tell the real from the dream... and yet, I have no ability to access this ability consciouslly. Imagining isn't the same thing; it's not persistant, a stray thought can deflect it... and when I dream I can have a whole stream of thoughts while the enviroment's being produced. I'd love the ability to, even if I had to be lying down and relaxed, to just have my mind create a virtual environment for a few minutes. Like an internal VR system. It bugs me that I can't. (I do suspect that if we do ever get cyberpunkish ability to 'plug in' to a virtual world, at least at first, there'll be some amount of using the user's subconscious to wallpaper over the cracks. The program wouldn't force your brain to replicate seeing a house to their specifications, it'll be telling the brain, 'hey, produce a house. A red house,' and let the brain handle the processing power and produce a far more believable house than the program could)
Of course, I suppose I could be wrong and the brain isn't creating a virtual world at all, but rather interfacing with one already there... it's a common interpretation of dreaming, but it's one I don't generally share - I'm open to (and would be pleased with) the possibility I might be wrong, but it doesn't seem to fit my experiences, the persistant civilization that was thriving in my dreams notwithstanding.).
Just some vague thoughts and noticings on dreaming in general (for me).
Still, I did have a lucid one in which I noticed something... sometimes in a lucid dream where I have a false-awakening.. that is, I wake up, think I may still be dreaming, and confirm it with a dream-test, once I go lucid again, my vision (in the dream) gets screwed up for a while. Like either everything's too dark (even if it should be light) or blurry, or my eyes are going in different direction and I can't turn my head, even if I can walk. This happens slightly more often if I'm napping in the middle of the day (like, er, say, today). I don't quite get why this is...often it clears up after a time, but lucid dreams don't last very long for me so I'd like to have all the time I can get to start doing stuff like flying.
On another, still dream-related note... it's always kind of perplexed me... that the brain is apparently capable of producing immersive, three-dimensional 'virtual' environments, on the fly, including sound, smell, tastes, touch, and so on, such that it's difficult to tell the real from the dream... and yet, I have no ability to access this ability consciouslly. Imagining isn't the same thing; it's not persistant, a stray thought can deflect it... and when I dream I can have a whole stream of thoughts while the enviroment's being produced. I'd love the ability to, even if I had to be lying down and relaxed, to just have my mind create a virtual environment for a few minutes. Like an internal VR system. It bugs me that I can't. (I do suspect that if we do ever get cyberpunkish ability to 'plug in' to a virtual world, at least at first, there'll be some amount of using the user's subconscious to wallpaper over the cracks. The program wouldn't force your brain to replicate seeing a house to their specifications, it'll be telling the brain, 'hey, produce a house. A red house,' and let the brain handle the processing power and produce a far more believable house than the program could)
Of course, I suppose I could be wrong and the brain isn't creating a virtual world at all, but rather interfacing with one already there... it's a common interpretation of dreaming, but it's one I don't generally share - I'm open to (and would be pleased with) the possibility I might be wrong, but it doesn't seem to fit my experiences, the persistant civilization that was thriving in my dreams notwithstanding.).