Originally posted by @apathistTo be aware that you are dreaming is a beautiful state of mind, something I have only experienced a couple of times in my life. This awareness gives you control over your dream, and I recall clearly flying over a field and feeling indescribably happy.
Have you ever woke up in your dreams? It is not all or nothing. I can see how uneducated or primitive people would get confused. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming but still think the dream is real.
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Originally posted by @apathistIn my thirties and forties I used to get a lucid dream maybe 10 times a year.
Have you ever woke up in your dreams? It is not all or nothing. I can see how uneducated or primitive people would get confused. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming but still think the dream is real.
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Researched it a little.
I always had trouble sustaining the dream and would wake up most annoyed!
butterfly bomb
Using dream control the nightmares are banished. True story. There are still uncomfortable dreams, like of bugs, or alien invasion, or ZOMBIES. I decided to use dream control to let me build fireballs, because I'm tired of running and everyone knows fire hurts zombies.
Roll your hands together to build the element, and then toss it, straight line. The fireball will explode on contact. Zombies don't like this!
So I had another zombie dream and I remembered my intention, so I build the fireball and then toss it! Straight line! Into a mob of zombies! And it explodes
into a flutter of butterflies.
I am convinced I'm not gay. But I guess that's another story.
Originally posted by @apathistWell, not to burst your bubble, but they are on the list...
butterfly bomb
Using dream control the nightmares are banished. True story. There are still uncomfortable dreams, like of bugs, or alien invasion, or ZOMBIES. I decided to use dream control to let me build fireballs, because I'm tired of running and everyone knows fire hurts zombies.
Roll your hands together to build the element, and then toss it, s ...[text shortened]... into a flutter of butterflies.
I am convinced I'm not gay. But I guess that's another story.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
Originally posted by @freakykbhWhat, a list of critters with cortex?
[b]Well, not to burst your bubble, but they are on the list...
[hidden]en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior[/hidden]
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Originally posted by @suzianneAnd large chunks of each sleep period are spent dreaming. We have experiences of all sorts while asleep. Typically we awake with no memory of those experiences. Sometimes we know we just went through a lot of experiences but can't quite remember what happened.
Up to a third, if one sleeps 8 hours a night.
Fascinating. </spock>
Originally posted by @apathistHonestly, I think it isn't confusing.
Have you ever woke up in your dreams? It is not all or nothing. I can see how uneducated or primitive people would get confused. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming but still think the dream is real.
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I've read the Chuang-tzu piece about dreaming you were a butterfly and then not knowing, when you woke up, if you were the butterfly or you, lol, but, at the end of the day, there isn't much confusion.
Originally posted by @apathist2 proper lucid dreams. long time ago mind you.
Have you ever woke up in your dreams? It is not all or nothing. I can see how uneducated or primitive people would get confused. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming but still think the dream is real.
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hard to know what to do when you realize that the fridge has nothing you need 🙂
Originally posted by @jacob-vervilleWe don't have trouble determining when we are awake in reality.
Honestly, I think it isn't confusing.
I've read the Chuang-tzu piece about dreaming you were a butterfly and then not knowing, when you woke up, if you were the butterfly or you, lol, but, at the end of the day, there isn't much confusion.
The human brain creates reality, in a way. Everything we experience depends on the brain producing that experience, right? And we know it creates dream worlds that easily fool us. Virtual reality.
Even our best comprehension of the real world is full of virtual reality manipulation. The blind spot, for example. Or synesthesia! Our impressions of reality are due to a virtual construction!
We don't perceive reality, we only perceive the virtual constructs produced by our brains.
Originally posted by @apathistyep
We don't have trouble determining when we are awake in reality.
The human brain creates reality, in a way. Everything we experience depends on the brain producing that experience, right? And we know it creates dream worlds that easily fool us. Virtual reality.
Even our best comprehension of the real world is full of virtual reality manipulation. Th ...[text shortened]... !
We don't perceive reality, we only perceive the virtual constructs produced by our brains.