Re: Some brain questions i need help with

From: Eray Ozkural exa (erayo_at_bilkent.edu.tr)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: 24 Sep 2004 18:28:17 -0700

feedbackdroids@yahoo.com (dan michaels) wrote in message news:<8d8494cf.0409240811.773f07c@posting.google.com>...
> "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.

I could agree with Dan. Our visual imagination is very powerful
indeed, but most people do not know how to tap it! (I suspect that is
because our culture does not value visual thought too much)

Regards, 

--
Eray Ozkural

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