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 aDoS
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 thinking about thinking 
#9035497 - 10/06/08 03:26 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I heard that in a dream state, you can not think about thinking. Therefore, you know you are in reality if you can think about thinking.
I really don't know if I believe this or not. How would someone explain lucid dreams using this logic? Aren't you thinking about thinking in lucid dreams?
Last night, I had a dream, where before I did something in the dream, I visualized it, that is kind of thinking about thinking isn't it?
What do you guys think about this? Not being able to think about thinking in a dream state?
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Rahz
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: aDoS]
#9035563 - 10/06/08 03:58 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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In a normal dream state, there doesn't seem to be any thinking about thinking, which could be a good or bad thing. It might ruin some dreams if you knew you were dreaming them while it happened.
... well, they're not really cheerleaders.
But yea, just like being awake, there seems to be grades of awareness.
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: Rahz]
#9035677 - 10/06/08 05:00 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you start thinking about thinking while awake you change your consciousness, effectively waking from the dream you'd otherwise be having. You'll find when you stop thinking, "reality" soon turns into a dream.
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: burgatory]
#9035917 - 10/06/08 08:00 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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A dream state? - you mean during a dream.
Since I am usually thinking about thinking, I also think about thinking while dreaming but am still dreaming.
otherwise, being stoned is a dream state, or dreaming is a stoned state, or both of them are like jhanas, it is when layering occurs from slower fading of signals.
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burgatory, the distinction made between being asleep (spiritually), and being awakened (like the buddha) is not so much one of making a dream end, but bringing wisdom into the dream.
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deCypher
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Quote:
redgreenvines said:
it is when layering occurs from slower fading of signals.
How does simple layering explain the creation of dream actors and entire imaginary landscapes that you can interactively move around in?
What does the lucidity in a lucid dream add to this layering?
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: deCypher]
#9040768 - 10/07/08 07:45 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can ask 'Who am i' in a dream state, which is questioning the subject, which in a way is thinking about thinking as its stopping in the dream & asking 'who is the dreamer?'
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redgreenvines
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: deCypher]
#9040786 - 10/07/08 08:05 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Cypher said:
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redgreenvines said:
it is when layering occurs from slower fading of signals.
How does simple layering explain the creation of dream actors and entire imaginary landscapes that you can interactively move around in?
What does the lucidity in a lucid dream add to this layering?
mental layering happens because signals fade more slowly, and sensory gestalts persist (trails echoes), but also memory fragments persist longer, and scenes converge that would not normally be considered real.
the characters from within are released into these mixed tableaux.
lucidity in the dream may just be a dream of lucidity, but the physical effects of this type of dream are shared by many people so a cult of sorts forms.
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deCypher
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Quote:
redgreenvines said:
lucidity in the dream may just be a dream of lucidity, but the physical effects of this type of dream are shared by many people so a cult of sorts forms.
Interesting: so you're implying we're not ever fully lucid within a dream; just that we believe ourselves to be?
Don't the eye-motion studies with lucid dreaming contradict this, though?
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redgreenvines
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: deCypher]
#9043047 - 10/07/08 05:37 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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the thing that may really be different is prefrontal activity
this kind of wakefulness relates more to the matter of overviewing of consciousness or
the idea of conscience, i.e. being awakened "morally" (supervisorally).
"morally" is used in a personal-self-referential way, but that may be all that's natural.
anyway, i think you can have this type of lucid experience in a dream (or awake).
otherwise operating a dream body as if awake - even with physical "rushes" - is more of a toy gain, than a meaningful spiritual advancement (such as moral integrity).
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: deCypher]
#9043282 - 10/07/08 06:19 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Cypher said:
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redgreenvines said:
lucidity in the dream may just be a dream of lucidity, but the physical effects of this type of dream are shared by many people so a cult of sorts forms.
Interesting: so you're implying we're not ever fully lucid within a dream; just that we believe ourselves to be?
Don't the eye-motion studies with lucid dreaming contradict this, though?
Eye-motion studies simply show that lucidity can break through one dream into another, not that you can ever wake up. 
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deCypher
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The question is, what enables one to break through from this dream?
 
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Re: thinking about thinking [Re: deCypher]
#9043377 - 10/07/08 06:37 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Cypher said:
The question is, what enables one to break through from this dream?
I can only imagine.
If only I didn't know that was true...
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redgreenvines
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breaking through sounds like satori - a zen thing that is kind of like enlightenment.
negotiating your way seems more like the enduring enlightenment.
satori is more of a trip
like any other dream.
when one breaks through, one always breaks through to a place from which one can break through again,
until one acclimates to a more sedate sweeping along of consciousness.
breaking through can become an energetic kind of making one's way,
but it introduces shockwaves that shake it up more than necessary.
this is great for getting attention.
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