Sleep and Dreams Boost Learning

Yes it was theorized, hence the sentence "evidence for some long-held notions".

More like added information and evidence to a theory.

In what way? Infinite as in something you can not count? Something that survives forever? A representation of something incomprehensible?

Furthermore, if there is such a concept as eternity, can you know when it is, or when it begins?

I love philosophy so much.

Open ended ideas have no boundaries. That would qualify.

Want to help me count all the sand?

Im not sure if it was "lucid dreaming" as how it is exactly defined, but what i know is that my mind was awake but my body was asleep. once i realize this i just try to wake up because i dont want to see anything crazy.

And i think lucid dreaming points to a spiritual body because of the infinite possibilities

I've experienced a lot of things like that, like where my body was asleep but mind awake and my eyes opened, I couldn't help but still be dreaming, it was like hallucinating. I think that's called sleep paralysis. I've also experienced false awakenings, where you are lucid dreaming, you try to wake up and think you do, only to find yourself still stuck in a dream.

If people are interested in this, I recommend a movie called Waking Life; the animation is awesome (the same style as A Scanner Darkly) and the content is thought provoking!

But dont you think that shows that theres something more to life than just the physical realm? I mean being in that state of mind feels just as real as being in the physical,

But everything is coming from the brain, whether it's our perception in real life or in a dream. The body has evolved to shut off while we are dreaming so that we don't physically respond to the things that we dream, explaining the sleep paralysis where the body is still immobilized. So while I can't explain the how and why about dreams, I also don't immediately attribute it to something outside of the "physical realm" (how are we defining that, by the way?) or something supernatural.

do you really feel the same when you dream as when you are awake? the same physical strain when doing something nondescript like walking up 3 flights of stairs? my personal experience is almost "floating through time", ya know i'll be at a party or flying around the world or something and then poof i'm now at school or japan or my grandmothers house (which by the way is not really my grandmothers house). it's more like a movie the only thing i see is what is important to my current story, wherever that story takes me and the only thing i feel is what i want to. certainly not real, that's how i know i'm dreaming and can then turn this story where i want to go. which is the real magic of dreaming, to me anyway.

I have many dreams like that, just buzzing through the world with out getting tired or anything, but I can have really "life-like" experiences while dreaming, like I eat in my dreams a lot, and I can taste the food. I had a dream that I was pregnant and I could feel the baby in my stomach (that one freaked me right the fuck out). And I've even had conversations with people while dreaming, almost like sleep walking, but talking. I didn't know about it until one day my older sister woke me up because she made a cup-o-noodles and she didn't like it, so she thought she would give it to me. So she gave me the soup, but I was still sleeping. In my dream she was handing me a bird, so I put the bird/soup on my shoulder a laid back down, spilling it all over myself. I huge 2nd degree burns on my back and neck... It really sucked. My point is dreams can spill into the physical world, at least technically.

I just had a dream that I was tired. Then I ran a marathon and stopped halfway through to give safety tips to transvestites... And there was a monkey that looked like a collie guarding the refrigerator outside my castle... Dreams are fun.

Dreams use human immagination on the unconscious level, which is
a form of surrealism. In the words of the Beatles song: " Picture yourself
on a boat on a river, with tangerine porters, and marshmallow skies.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, it's the girl with kalieidoscope
eyes- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. People theorized the song title was
referring to the Beatles' experiences with LSD. But only they can say. The
fact remains that dreams are a trip- with or without the psychedelics. Yeah,
dreams are fun. They're whacked, but that peculiarity just adds to the fun.

woot woot you have taken psych haven't you? but you forgot to add eat a hot high protein breakfast.

I don't know about god, but dreaming makes me believe that I exist.

" Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Merrily Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, life is but a dream "
And as the hippie group Jefferson Airplane's 1967
album title put it, a Surrealistic Pillow too. Yes, ditto.

Really? What's your thesis? Tell us more!

Yeah, sounds interesting.

The starting point is determining whether dreams are technological artifacts. I'm going to be looking at Freudian theory as it pertains to art (Freud's theory that a dream is the self conscious revealing itself [think of Salvador Dali and Surrealism here], as well as whether you can call art a technological artifact), epistemological significance of sleep itself, and now I'll be tying this study into the consideration of dreams as they advance technology (insofar as the classic "it came to me in a dream" scenario pertains to innovation).

/philosophy!

Wish me luck!

i was told years ago (by my mom) about my nightmares. she said if i looked at it like a tv show i could change the channel. if i didn't like the show for any reason, if it was scary or boring or even now if it brings up my ex i just think about channel surfing to find something fun .........that may be the dream spinning xiola is talking about

Lucid dreaming is awesome....

Yes, I can fly. I fly quite frequently, but sometimes it's easier than others. I used to do the ole running start; that's pretty effective. Straight up levitation is hard but I try to make myself do deep breathing exercises in the dream and that is helpful...it's hard to convince yourself that you are not at the whim of reality's laws. A lot of times if I try to jump off something to fly I can't help but fall.

When I was younger I used to have bad nightmares about dinosaurs chasing me (thanks for taking me to Jurassic Park, mom and dad!) ... my grandmother put a ruler on the night table and told me that could be my weapon in my dreams. It worked! That was probably my first introduction to the idea that you could control your dreams.

I think with lucid dreaming, practice makes perfect...I just wish it was easier to realize the lucid state!

Jurrassic Park :). Nice. You're grandmother rocks for coming up with that solution. I love it. I'll have to try the running start during my next lucid dream. About a year ago, I had the whole lucid dreaming thing down! Every night, I knew I was dreaming and did whatever the hell I wanted! :) Then, I lost it. The other night, I almost figured it out. But in my dream, I asked my best friend, "is this a dream?" And she's like, "hell, no, this isn't a dream. You're talking crazy." And I took her word for it! aha ha. So close. Back in the day, when I was having lucid dreams every night, that's when I experimented with the dream spinning. (My dreams frequently take bad turns.) But the flying... I don't think I've flown since I was a little girl.

I'm jealous. :)

I remember a dream in which I tried to prove to my friends that it was a dream. They typically don't believe you. It was a waste of time; I ran around this weird party trying to do crazy things to convince people nothing was real... I've also heard that if you wake yourself up at night, like set an alarm for 4 or 5 in the morning (depending on what time you get up I guess) when you go back to sleep you are more likely to experience lucid dreaming, it's worked a few times but not with too much regularity. I'm not too great at consciously realizing I'm dreaming, it just kind of hits me.

If I realize that I'm dreaming when I'm asleep, it wakes me up. Weird but I haven't been able to get around it.

It may be that your artist nature is expressing itself and telling
you that you're a free spirit. What better way to prove that than
to fly.