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Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:31 AM EST
Article Source: The New York Timesadvertisement
"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up. It's the same idea here: dreams are tuning the mind for conscious awareness."
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Drawing on work of his own and others, Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking. The idea is a prominent example of how neuroscience is altering assumptions about everyday (or every-night) brain functions...
...lucid dreaming had elements of REM and of waking — most notably in the frontal areas of the brain, which are quiet during normal dreaming...
“You are seeing this split brain in action,” he said. “This tells me that there are these two systems, and that in fact they can be running at the same time.”
Researchers have a way to go before they can confirm or fill out this working hypothesis. But the payoffs could extend beyond a deeper understanding of the sleeping brain. People who struggle with schizophrenia suffer delusions of unknown origin. Dr. Hobson suggests that these flights of imagination may be related to an abnormal activation of a dreaming consciousness. “Let the dreamer awake, and you will see psychosis,” Jung said.
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#1 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:36 AM EST{"commentId":10594994,"authorDomain":"rainbowwarrior"}
OK, so we all have the potential for multiple levels of paralell consciousness. Eastern religions have been taping into this for centuries. It's sad that our western religions can only deal with so called morality. And now with fundementalism, all they leave us with is blind faith!
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#2 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:53 AM EST{"commentId":10596771,"authorDomain":"Nic-24"}
This is a very interesting article. I have always believed there was little to dream interpretation as it is just the mind playing, for lack of a better term.
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#3 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:07 PM EST{"commentId":10598651,"authorDomain":"mooncrow"}
This is a great read. I have very detailed dreams sometimes ... players with complete names I've never heard of before ... actually hear voices on an audio level that awakens me. Sometimes, while daydreaming, details from a sleep dream that I had not remembered become a cognizant memory.
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