Dreams are the default for intelligence

Oddly enough, we've been saying that since... The Terminator. NN's and LLM's are cool but not even close to the power of the human brain (maybe quantum llm's?). I'm keen to see how we can tap into our own minds as CPU's or at least drivers thereof. Consciousness is awareness and perception so one could say we are close to a rudimentary consciousness but we have a long way to go before it's aware.

Still, even though we've been saying it for 30 years, exciting times indeed! #skynet

I've only ever lucid dreamed under conditions of extreme stress, nightmares where am being chased by murders etc.

For example I had this dream where I was the guy who got killed in the last bit of The Ring (they think things are OK but Sadako comes for him anyway) and then I was able to lucid dream, control it and beat her up.

https://medium.com/luminasticity/beating-up-sadako-82c5fb3f0...

Possibly related:

I have a pet theory that holds that primarily attentive ADHD (ADHD-PI) is actually a facet of the type of autism that used to be called Asperger's.

And that ADHD, generally, is an extension just outside of the autism spectrum: possibly bridging into it with ADHD-PI if not the other ADHD classifications.

One of ADHD-PI's most noticeable traits is virtually uncontrollable daydreaming. When auditory / cognitive fatigue or fast-arriving boredom sets in, for example.

Asperger's theory is plagued by glut. Which makes the condition challenging to accurately comprehend, but at the same time doesn't necessarily imply that a lot of the theory is incorrect. Instead, it may imply complexity. Which makes sense given that this condition isn't acquired but instead is characterized by divergent brain architecture and talent / cognitive resource re-parsing from "normal". Similar in concept to an RPG game.

One facet of this glut of Asperger's theory is the school of thought that hypothesizes that Asperger's is some kind of evolutionary forward expression of a type of intelligence. Which is both generous and an unusually positive take within the glut of theory, ignoring for a moment any negatives.

My hypothesis adjusts this a bit, and proposes that Asperger's may be a type of genetically de-selected (low reproduction chance) contribution of a specific intelligence type. Which may have existed in human populations from the beginning. Implying that Aspergian intelligence, which may be associated with an increase rate in daydreaming, isn't so much a forward evolution but a population mainstay that may serve some type of function in the sense of low-rate genetic contribution.

Say having to do with visual processing that implies advanced talent in pattern processing specifically.

Some human intelligence academics, who are not involved in Asperger's research, place emphasis on pattern processing as the possible heart of it.

I can think of obvious reasons as to why whatever group genetic "intelligence" governs genetic evolution, as well as the roughly equal reproduction ratio of men and women as another example, would "want" to bias human evolution as much as possible away from a high rate of human-specific-intelligence gain. Possibly smoothing it out away from purely Aspergian expression and blending it, over time, with our other natures and talents.

I used to lucid dream regularly (need to get back to it - it's a lot of fun). I used a reality check where I would try to (lightly) blow air through my nose when my hand was closing it off. If I could I was dreaming. I did this randomly during my waking hours every so often when I had some indication that something was different and I needed to test reality.

Whenever I would come semi-aware when I was dreaming I would do this reality check and realize I was lucid and could do what I want. The interesting part to me is that blowing air through my nose and hand twigged me to the fact that I was dreaming, but the technicolor mega-gorilla screaming at the sky and throwing laser bolts did not.

Is intelligence even intelligent? Only thinking creature and you use your brain for murder machines. Sounds so intelligent. Everything here for everyone, yet some greedy pigs feel more deserving. Intelligence, more like a waste of human life. Intellectuals and computers have been a giant circle jerk. You couldn't support your own weight.