MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

Post by tauntz » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:02 PM UTC

DavidSJ wrote: post #100

tauntz wrote: post #98

> Ideas were not coming from me, they were just passing through my head This might sound like I'm crazy but this brings back memories of a strange experience from some years ago that I can't really explain other than "coincidence".. but in the light of this article I started to think.. is it? Me and my gf were really tired and both exactly in this "almost sleeping but not quite" state. We were lying down with our hea…

Consider an alternative hypothesis? In your hypnagogic state, your brain actually produced an image based on what she described to you, then reordered the chronology of events so that it seemed to you like you imagined the image before she described it. Not too dissimilar from deja vu. It's well known that brains can sometimes reorder the chronology of events, especially if they occur within a short time window.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:57 PM UTC

testplzignore wrote: post #48

veli_joza wrote: post #2

I was introduced to this phenomenon through Kurzweil's book "How to create a mind". He claims that the brain is massively parallelized pattern recognition machine, with consciousness being a censor that filters results. While in hypnagogia, this censoring function is suppressed and you are able to make "unthinkable" connections between ideas you normally think are unrelated. Of course, you should just take notes of t…

Until now I never knew that there was a name for "hypnagogia". For most of my life, I was never able to remember this period of sleep, but over the last few years that has changed (not intentionally, so I don't know what changed in my body to cause the difference). I've developed some level of awareness during it and can wake myself up from it, then remember at least some of it. If you've never experienced it, it's l…

Post by anigbrowl » Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #65

mrbill wrote: post #25

All i can think of... This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enou…

This? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093777/?ref_=m_tttr_qt Prince of Darkness (1987)

Post by marshray » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:00 AM UTC

sangnoir wrote: post #99

jl2718 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That moment when your brain falls asleep in class and tells you it unveiled the deep connection between carnival blister peanut texture and the quantum variational bound. And then you wake up suddenly and get scared because you think you might have yelled out something stupid. Or maybe I’m just the only one.

> Or maybe I’m just the only one not just you - I didn't have a name for it, but my brain pretty much does free-association in that phase. On more than one occasion I've jolted awake because I've had a earth-shattering revelation, only to realise my idea was already invented (hot air balloon) or pretty ridiculous (like having your toaster burn the day's agenda on your toast). I can't help but wonder: how many multi-m…

Post by mindcrime » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:59 AM UTC

icnd1ccent wrote: post #80

I can't believe no one mentioned Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity" 'till now.