Re: Some brain questions i need help with

From: JPL Verhey (matterDELminds_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:56:34 +0200

"dan michaels" <feedbackdroids@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "JPL Verhey" <matterDELminds@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> >
>> > 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.

Indeed. All these Lucid-Lucy things just make you feel less slave of the
harsh dictate of the senses..you float around in the Sky with Diamonds.

But it's interesting to think of our the normal healthy wake state as
basically not different from "other dreams"..all the brain's own
production. Kinda eery this dream-machine!

Could it be that all our efforts to make sense of it, explain it, model
it into some comfortable computations..are like trying to voo-doo the
scary ghost back into the cosy bottle?

Which reminds me: "better a bottle infront of me, than a frontal
lobotomy."

Cheers

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