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New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

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Re: New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

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Post by satvikpendem »

an0malous wrote: post #139
coppsilgold wrote: post #135

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Training yourself to remember dreams by writing them down before they fade away is paramount, it's not enough to just think about them - they still somehow fade away along with your thoughts about them. Then read what you wrote before going to sleep again. If you want to achieve lucid dreaming consistently you also have to develop a habit of doing reality checks. The most effective one is to pinch your nose and try t…

Are there any more subtle reality checks so people in the real world don’t think I’m insane trying to breathe through my closed nose all day?

Look into all day awareness. It's the phenomenon of noticing the incredible level of detail of the real world and trying to do that all day.

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Post by satvikpendem »

hobofan wrote: post #188
typeish wrote: post #52

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there's a wearable dropping this year that's supposed to make it easier to lucid dream: https://www.prophetic.com/

Is there any research that would support that such a device actually works? This just looks like vaporware, and what I was able to find on the /r/luciddreaming subreddit also seems to echo that sentiment.

I'm not sure about that device but there's research about lucid dream induction through flashing lights during sleep in a consistent pattern and there are a few head devices that do that.

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Post by vasco »

cobbaut wrote: post #203

Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.

That may be related or not to the article but Feynman for example wrote a lot about the miracles that the brain can do in the small moments between being awake and being asleep. He thought it unlocked some extra juice and tried to force himself to stay in that moment longer and then to wake up to take notes. You should look into it.

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Post by EagnaIonat »

cobbaut wrote: post #203

Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.

It's a well known technique. I first heard about it from Barbara Oakley, so there is probably some neuroscience research done about it.

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Post by smusamashah »

Unai wrote: post #145
mr-wendel wrote: post #111

I was at my first real software job and we had an in-house system to provide automated installers for common open-source applications for our end-users. After I started getting familiar with it I had a dream one night that certain input fields (which were very common) could be rather easily exploited to inject shell commands with root access. I woke up convinced that it was a real bug, went to work the next day, and…

When I was young, I dreamt that I was playing guitar and made up a cool song. When I woke up I was so excited, that's something you would hear an old rockstar say about their best song, right? "Came to me in a dream". I jumped out of bed, grabbed the guitar, and started playing the song, every note still clear in my memory. It was a completely random series of notes.

I have made poetry in some dreams which feels very profound and very rhyming (I have zero poeticness or interest in poetry) but I also remember that a few times when I did wake up with those words still in my head, it was a mish mash of words.

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mr-wendel wrote: post #111

I was at my first real software job and we had an in-house system to provide automated installers for common open-source applications for our end-users. After I started getting familiar with it I had a dream one night that certain input fields (which were very common) could be rather easily exploited to inject shell commands with root access. I woke up convinced that it was a real bug, went to work the next day, and…

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Post by narag »

MITSardine wrote: post #88
ml_basics wrote: post #33

During my time at university studying pure mathematics I had an interesting experience of doing a challenging sheet of combinatorics problems during a vacation. Every day I attempted one question and got stuck on it. Then the next morning I woke up knowing the solution. It was a recurring thing: this happened every day for about 2 weeks until I had solved all the problems. For me this a big eye opener about the impor…

In French, there's a saying: "la nuit porte conseil". Roughly translates to "the night advises", and it means it might be better to sleep on it. I recall my father (also a mathematician, incidentally) often repeating this to me.

In Spanish "consultar con la almohada" (consult with the pillow)

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Post by jmiskovic »

hatthew wrote: post #124
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #87

This is why I would smash my head against a wall trying to beat a boss in Dark Souls for an entire evening, then wake up the next day and beat them on my first or second attempt. Very common phenomena that is discussed frequently in the souls community.

I experience similar, but I'm pretty sure it's just rest and a fresh mind, not overnight learning/thinking. When I'm bashing my head against a wall, I'm stuck in a local optimum, and sleeping lets me reset and try something new that often works better (and I execute it better since I'm not as tired).

It's both. Sleep is when trained skill get delegated into the muscle memory. Not sure if it relates to dreaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory#Sleep_effects_on...

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