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I'm referring to turning minutes into decades. I doubt the brain has the capacity to process that fast.
As long as it has the capacity to make you think decades are passing, it doesn't matter that they aren't.
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in real life dreams are very short. Minutes 1-5. And they feel a lot longer. We can dream a lot 1-5 spinets withing one hour, and they feel like hours. Hence you see your dream to shift from one place, to the other. Here is a very good NOVA documentary on netflix about it: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/What_Are_Dreams_Nova/70129639...
I'm referring to turning minutes into decades. I doubt the brain has the capacity to process that fast.
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The problem is, when a person uses 'they' as a single pronoun, he seems uneducated.
That's interesting, I don't think it makes one seem anymore uneducated than any other piece of correctly used grammar (correct use of the word "one", "none of them is" etc). I wouldn't regard my self as uneducated, having had the privelege to go to a good (if not public/private) school. By any chance is this one of those quirks of American grammar usage that I've not come across before. The only times where I've seen…
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That's interesting, I don't think it makes one seem anymore uneducated than any other piece of correctly used grammar (correct use of the word "one", "none of them is" etc). I wouldn't regard my self as uneducated, having had the privelege to go to a good (if not public/private) school. By any chance is this one of those quirks of American grammar usage that I've not come across before. The only times where I've seen…
"They is so smart!" --> the apparent subject-verb disagreement is just too unfamiliar to most ears.
For instance: "if such a person existed, they were very quiet about their existence". Note that it's not "they was", which is grammatically incorrect.
Entering Limbo = Memory Leak. The reference to an object is nullified (the subject's projection/reference is killed in the dream), so the object is leaked and there is no way to access it, until either a garbage collection happens, or when the parent process is stopped. (i.e. the subject is awaken up).
Can someone explain why the zero g scenes didn't cascade down through each dream level? They were feeling forces in the first dream in the van and those would go to the hotel but those sleeping there would not feel the same forces (eg lack of gravity) the next level down. I did really love the idea behind the totem though, very clever.
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That's interesting, I don't think it makes one seem anymore uneducated than any other piece of correctly used grammar (correct use of the word "one", "none of them is" etc). I wouldn't regard my self as uneducated, having had the privelege to go to a good (if not public/private) school. By any chance is this one of those quirks of American grammar usage that I've not come across before. The only times where I've seen…
"They is so smart!" --> the apparent subject-verb disagreement is just too unfamiliar to most ears.
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Except the human brain doesn't have the capacity to process so fast that seconds turns into years. None the less, the movie was entertaining and I'm just gonna leave it there. I know movie logic shouldn't be a comparison to real world logic, but the geek in me can't help but point out illogical happenings in the film.
in real life dreams are very short. Minutes 1-5. And they feel a lot longer. We can dream a lot 1-5 spinets withing one hour, and they feel like hours. Hence you see your dream to shift from one place, to the other. Here is a very good NOVA documentary on netflix about it: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/What_Are_Dreams_Nova/70129639...