Edison, famously, solved problems in a light dream state [1]. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thomas-edisons-na...
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New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
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#32So I guess having dreams about recurring meetings is... honing corporate skills?
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#33During 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 importance of sleep and relaxed thinking to solve challenging problems.
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#34Lucid dreaming is a cool concept but I've never been able to pull it off. I still try, though!
My tell is to recognize any room with a piano in it. I naturally want to sit down and play this piano, but the keys are totally wrong. No problem, I'll look around and, lo and behold, dozens more pianos all... with the keys in the wrong places. I can't play anything. "Oh, this again. I must be dreaming. How frustrating."
A very regularly occuring dream is that I'm in a train and realize that I don't have a ticket (never happened IRL), so I want to buy an e-ticket, but the ticketing app does not work. The text changes all the time, the buttons move around, weird errors, and then I realize 'yep I'm in a dream again'.
The nicer lucid dreams are those were you can fly or make spectacular light and colors, but I find that it's usually a difficult balance to avoid waking up.
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#35Re: New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
#36So I guess having dreams about recurring meetings is... honing corporate skills?
It also counts as overtime, right?
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#37Two months ago my partner recorded me speaking in my sleep. I was speaking fluent Mandarin. I always thought sleep time is used for learning (among healing etc), but now I am convinced.
Well you’ll have to give us more. Do you speak Mandarin at all?
spoiler, he is Chinese and only speaks Mandarin
Re: New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
#38During 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…
Yeah, when you are stuck, put away that red bull and step away from the keyboard, kids.
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#39Is this dream yoga? https://selfdefinition.org/tibetan/Tenzin-Wangyal-Rinpoche-T...
Interestingly this is not something native to Tibetan Buddhists. Neoplatonists had something similar, and even Orthodox Christian monks speak about literally "praying ceaselessly" which inludes prayer during sleep, it's definitely all lucid dreaming
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#40So I guess having dreams about recurring meetings is... honing corporate skills?
Is the main theme that you suddenly realize you aren't wearing pants?
And if so, would you say it has improved your pants wearing performance on the job?