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Who did the people who wrote that up think they were talking to?
Others in the dream? Something about reality being a shared dream. Which sounds a lot like a simulation to me.
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Indeed. The Tibetans claim that this is all a dream, and that the only way to confirm this for yourself is to wake up. Until then, because all of the internal dynamics follow rather precise and well-defined laws (i.e., correlations), it is easy to be fooled into thinking that it is real and external. In actuality, it is all made of "your" mind, in the same way that a dream environment is made of "your" mind. "Your" i…
Who did the people who wrote that up think they were talking to?
Add to this, a very strong insistence that everything is in a perpetual state of flux, that there is no perpetual "you" or "me" (or indeed anything). Trivial physical example - a molecule in your body is exhaled, and now inhaled by me... (cue "we are all one..."). A part of the earth turns into a banana plant, you eat the banana, and the banana turns into a human being. Now where are the boundaries of "you" and "the Earth"? See first paragraph reminding you about the very limited nature of your sense perceptions and memories.
The foregoing is stuff "we all know" but push into the background while we "get on with real life", but the yogic/Buddhist approach asks us to foreground it, and ask ourselves how we would conceive of and live life with those understandings in the foreground. Further, what if dynamics beyond those limited senses were at play? Psychology and ethics which takes the above as a starting point, rather than exisiting power relations, ends up looking different from what we have now.
i usually try to materialize a hot chick and have sex ... afterwards i tend to blame myself for not having used the opportunity for constructive self-inspection.
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My parents took me to a dream/meditation therapist when I was 8 or so for nightmares. He taught me to lucid dream and it has been a benefit ever since. Except, I just haven't been able to fly like I used to in my teens & twenties. In my forties now, I am lucky if I can get some gliding lift from running on a slope anymore.I used to rise from earth all the way past LEO. Sigh. What has helped me stimulate higher consci…
This is entirely hearsay but I've also heard that eating a banana before sleep can stimulate more vivid dreams. I'm going to do some reading tomorrow to see what exactly this is meant to be based on.
However, the NIH research suggests(which I am more inclined to trust over commercial sites): Sunlight, happiness, exercise and diet. Fatigue even reduces amino acids that may inhibit absorption of serotonin. As for the diet part:
"Although purified tryptophan increases brain serotonin, foods containing tryptophan do not."
Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…
It flashes the lights at a predetermined time.
There are devices which detect REM, then flash, but the Remee is not one of them.
Do you use some device yourself? Which one do you recommend?
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Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects Such as?
False memories are one which many have experienced, as well as mentioned above, increased chance of sleep paralysis. Increased SP doesn't seem so bad, just maybe inconvenient. Building up more and more false memories doesn't seem like a great idea.
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Please don't do this here.
Sorry, being a hormonally motivated biological machine developed over millions of years sometimes makes me have sexual thoughts cause I'm programmed to have one too many of them; I apologize for stating the course of action that 99% of the straight males in the world would do if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
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Sorry, being a hormonally motivated biological machine developed over millions of years sometimes makes me have sexual thoughts cause I'm programmed to have one too many of them; I apologize for stating the course of action that 99% of the straight males in the world would do if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
The other hormonally motivated biological machines manage not to do that here, so I'm confident your machine is capable.
Plus I really wanted to point out that 99% of the straight males in the world would do sexual things in their dreams if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
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The other hormonally motivated biological machines manage not to do that here, so I'm confident your machine is capable.
It's not like I posted porn; it was just a comment, you guys truly are super sensitive over there in California. Plus I really wanted to point out that 99% of the straight males in the world would do sexual things in their dreams if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
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The other hormonally motivated biological machines manage not to do that here, so I'm confident your machine is capable.
It's not like I posted porn; it was just a comment, you guys truly are super sensitive over there in California. Plus I really wanted to point out that 99% of the straight males in the world would do sexual things in their dreams if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
I can do sexual things in real life. I can't fly or walk through walls in real life though.
Why do you think that lucid dreaming is not real?