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Questions about the scientific basis of the imagery and sensations that are experienced primarily during rapid eye movement sleep and occasionally during other stages as well.
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Do lucid dream eyemasks work?
But the majority of lucid dreams that are experienced by the device users can just as well be linked to the fact that a user is more interested and aware of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming. …
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Why does even the most rational brain forget logic in a dream?
Not everyone forgets gravity in dreams. I'm speaking out of my experience with lucid dreaming, which allows thousands of people to act consciously in their dreams. …
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Do we have a sub- or super-unconscious?
Sleep and dreaming is somewhat of a specialty of mind, so I can comment on the wake-sleep-wake transition.
People typically love the feeling of relaxation and warmth associated with sleep. Waking up …
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Why do dreams lose clarity quickly over time after we awaken?
Melatonin supplementation can produce extraordinarily vivid dreams that rapidly lose their grandeur upon awakening and subsequent recall. … Personally I take a melatonin supplement at night and can drift off to sleep while recalling dozens of dreams (seems to correlate with melatonin levels rising). …
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What happens in the brain when conscious awareness is changed during dreaming onset?
I've long been interested in dreaming and there's a peculiar phenomenon of the very start of the dreaming process. Different people experience it differently, but even for the same person there's anec …
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Does dream recall alter the dreaming process?
I've encountered the following phenomenon : within a single night of starting a dream journal again, my dreams became more numerous, recall improved and I'm waking up after each sleep cycle except the … In particular, I scribble down my dreams on paper immediately upon awakening from a dream. This happens 5-6 times a night. …
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Do highly creative people dream more and/or differently than ordinary people?
Everybody dreams, and I'm trying to understand if there is a cause and effect relationship between ability to dream and recall dreams and creativity as an adult. … The kind of dreaming I'm talking about is long, clear or multi episode dreams lasting over 5 minutes as opposed to fragments and vague impressions of activity. Let's say 2+ dreams per night. …
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What are the key features of dreams that trigger dream recall in the waking state?
There are various ways of writing down dreams upon awakening in one's dream journal. I've seen long, detailed descriptions that read like novels and take a page or two. …
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Are there distinct visual perception themes that have been recognized in dreams?
I remember thousands of dreams, and can recall them spontaneously. … From such large subset of dreams, I've observed that there are some dreams that share a common feeling/ experience/ perceptual theme. …
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Are there distinct visual perception themes that have been recognized in dreams?
I think this is the closest article to what I'm attempting to describe -An artists illustration of the effect of 20 different drugs on perception. He draws the same image "under the influence".
Here' …
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Have there been any scientific experiments attempting to communicate with one's unconscious ...
A consistent pattern of responses over several dreams might be considered a form of communication. … For example, intense study causing dreams of classrooms or exams. In this case, the setting can be considered a response of unconscious system. …
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How is light processed by the human brain when awake and in dreams?
I'm particularly interested in how light is processed in dreams, when no light stimulus is coming from the eyes. … It is possible to have dreams that are dark or light, but changing the level of ambient light is generally difficult in dreams. In fact, a common test for dreaming involves flipping a light switch. …
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Why do we always wake up at the climax of our dreams, even when it is an alarm that wakes us?
There has been long standing hypothesis that real life content gets incorporated into one's dreams. …
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Does dream recall interfere with "reverse learning"? (Crick and Mitchison's theory of REM sl...
More specifically, I'm interested in how dream recall (writing down or recalling dreams upon awakening) affects the process of "reverse learning"? …
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Why past events reappear in dreams after a certain delay?
I know that Freud in his "Interpretation of dreams" provides a number of examples of events influencing dreams several days to several months after the event has occurred. … Just to clarify, these are not recurring dreams, but single occurrence dreams about past experiences. Typically the delay between the event and the dream is several days. …
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