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mikebart101
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Dreaming; Is it all just a dream?
#7062180 - 06/18/07 03:51 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Dreaming is imenseley important." How many times have you heard that, but never given an explanation as to why? Well this is how I see it...
Dreaming allows your mind to practice creating realiites. Its amazing that even when you got to sleep, your mind can't help but try and create another world for you; it's simply amazing.
And what happens when you deprive yourself of sleep? Your world begins to fall apart. It becomes hectic, unusual and filled with hallucinations more 'real' than ever before, just like a dream, and it makes you wonder, are we the imagination of ourselves?
-------------------- So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Zaprabe
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Re: Dreaming; Is it all just a dream? [Re: mikebart101]
#7062599 - 06/18/07 06:14 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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The 'imagination of ourselves'? This cannot be entirely true. A pure imagination would be something with no objective existence, yet saying that we're the imagination of ourselves implies the existence of an imaginer (yourself). As far as the science of dreaming goes, I have previously read that dreaming is associated with "re-playing" recent events in our lives so as to filter them through memory. There are various theories of what dreams actually are, but I'm putting my money that the true functionality of dreams is pretty anticlimactic. Neuroscience is a booming field of research right now, and so I'm optimistic that we will unravel some of the mysterious of the mind over the next few decades.
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fishersfinest
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Re: Dreaming; Is it all just a dream? [Re: Zaprabe]
#7063901 - 06/18/07 11:41 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Unrelated: Sometimes in the mid afternoon, i get very tired. I put on ambient or trip hop or downtempo music and find myself slip into a nap/dreamscape arena. It is not sleep, but it is more than mere revery. I do this once a week, on days i do no work and no one is home. I just put on wierd music and get half drunk and fall half asleep to wierd music. Upon waking i journal all the wierd phenomina that occured during my semi-dreamstate existance.
i believe i see the future. perhaps its just the past.
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SurCal
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Re: Dreaming; Is it all just a dream? [Re: fishersfinest]
#7068304 - 06/20/07 01:17 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sometimes i think when we dream were just entering another deminsion lol Because i remember having dreams when i was a teenager of people telling me id have to wait a little while for me to get back awake because there having problems sending me back from dreaming to being awake and other crazy shyt like that would make me wonder if maybe its just another world and after having some lucid dreams i kinduv think it might be true. I dont no wtf im talking about im just throwing shyt out there cause im stoned lol
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AlteredAgain
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Re: Dreaming; Is it all just a dream? [Re: SurCal]
#7068339 - 06/20/07 01:28 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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fishersfinest
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Re: Dreaming; Is it all just a dream? [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7069148 - 06/20/07 09:53 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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I agree totally. I think that our dreams are synthesized with specific purpose in mind. The fact that we remember them or experience them is only a random side effect of thier true purpose, which is to manipulate our subconscious. I would love to see the type of technology Aliens use to do this. It has to be like a really cool type of photonic plasma-quagulater ion rifle type of device.
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