Re: Some brain questions i need help with

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

Date: 24 Sep 2004 09:11:32 -0700

"JPL Verhey" <matterDELminds@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<415367f9$0$44089$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>...

> >
> > Additionally, in my experience at least, when dreams
> >> generate physical absurdities(eg. flying), I am not overly perturbed
> >> by the
> >> same. I am pleasantly surprised but not astounded.
> >
> >
> > It's usually fun.
> > =============
>
> When I was young (<8 y/o) I frequently had "out of body" experiences at
> night. I think they were dreams, but in the dream I really felt I woke
> up, see the things as when awake but sorta dreamy-dimmed and start
> hovering through the room, through the corridor, downstairs under the
> sealing, a peak in the livingroom..and then back to nothingness.

I suspect all of these new-agers who believe in this stuff have simply
trained [or entrained] their internal mechanisms that produce these
same dream experiences. Kinda like biofeedback, but without the
machine. You relax, tune out the external world, and concentrate upon
producing those sorts of experiences internally. You're just training
or entraining, learning how to stimulate, the same brain mechanisms.
Producing the same loops of activity.

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