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To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never dreamed (I’m almost 50 years old). I’ve always wondered what that means about my brain. Is there a medical or psychological label for people who don’t dream?
who don't dream, or don't remember their dreams?
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I’m able to consciously enter dreams from waking state. Basically, lucid dreaming on hard mode. Like going through sleep paralysis on purpose. Dreams are so close to waking state, I’m always in awe when I successfully transition. Touch, taste, smell, every sense. It’s like waking reality, but with god mode. That said, vision is really really weird. If you pull your sight into your dream body (hard to explain), then i…
How do you pull it off?
It’s as “simple” as learning to remain aware and observant when falling asleep, without rousing oneself. No deity worship or chakra alignments necessary.
Meditation practice helps tremendously, but my first success, I accomplished by trial and error.
A lot of instruction on the Internet suggests focusing on something, visualizing something, counting, eating supplements, etc. I have found all of that unnecessary.
This idea ignores a fascinating aspect of REM sleep. During REM, the brain shuts down the executive functions, while the brain goes into extreme 'story generation mode'. A story in which you are a character. I think this is one of the most overlooked and interesting parts of dreaming. We are able to observe ourselves in our dreams acting without the constraints of our 'executive functioning' brain. This means we get…
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Well, why are you implicitly insisting on the unproven theory that "sleep serves just one single purpose" - one that no one else has proposed? What if sleep is needed for more than one reason? Is the complexity of the world so hard to fathom that you throw up your hands and yell 'bullshit' on the first hint of challenge!
Lol. Please quote where I’m saying this. I never wrote that phrase you quoted in your comment. Are you trying to lie? :) Better read my words one more time: “People see dreams not every time they sleep, not every night, sometimes we can have multiple nights without dreams. By this moronic theory our “visual cortex” should be modified to “blind mode” just in the first night of sleep without dreams.” Clearly “your read…