Re: Some brain questions i need help with

From: dan michaels (feedbackdroids_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: 24 Sep 2004 09:04:32 -0700

"John Hasenkam" <johnh@faraway.> wrote in message news:<41536e34@dnews.tpgi.com.au>...

> > Hmmm, this is even stranger than your comment above. In fact, activity
> > in the outer sensory and motor areas may be highly-attenuated when in
> > a dream, but emotions certainly are not. Many times I wake up from a
> > dream because the emotional weight is too great ... someone dying,
> > etc. Hardly the behavior of a dead soul. In fact, at these times, I
> > think, the emotional content is so great that it breaks through the
> > motor inhibition and causes your entire body to lurch/etc. Ever wake
> > up drenched in sweat?
> > ===================
>
> Yes, see my other post in this thread. The Hobson text also notes that one
> emotional element often present in dreams is the fight/flight response.
> Emotions are present but not in the full range of emotions, there is for me
> at least a noticeable loss of affect.
>
> Thanks Dan, a good start for my return to this ng.

Well yes, maybe there isn't the "full" range of emotions, or maybe
they're just turned down a bit/whatever, but they're in there for
sure, so I don't see the DS paradigm as being so applicable. As you
noted, the nitemares can be so intense they give you the jitters for
weeks afterwards. I think Wolf's ideas are closer to it than the DS
model.

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