So it must have happened to you too. You got interrupted in the middle of your dream. You had to wake up. You tried to go back to sleep, tried to have it back. You rarely, if ever, succeed.
I do not know about your dreams. But my dreams are pretty interesting. For one, they always obey the laws of Physics. So no, I am never Superman or Spiderman in any of them. Mostly it is always just me.
I was having a pretty ordinary dream today. The people involved , some were very familiar. Some were plucked out of the archives by my brain, because I do not know them well in real life, but anyhoo, they were there! There was a bus, we were all passengers. I do not remember the conversations, I assume they were quite unremarkable.
However just before a single dazzling ray of sunlight made me open my eyes, I remember vividly an image, an image of exceptional beauty, but one which also invoked curiosity; "wow, but how?" kind of, got it? The kind of image which normally forms a brilliant start to a story. What tragedy! Its worse than the interruption of a good dream, because in this case I did not know what course the dream would have taken!
I would like to study in more detail about dreams. I accept that dreams somehow are related to our deeper/deepest feelings, and manifest themselves somehow; but what is the science behind it? Can you control it? And how come the dreams are such HD quality. Could we unearth some mechanism to develop subjectively Super High quality videos. Understand the science behind dream production to develop a Video coding method that fools the brain into perceiving them as HD? Neuroengineering meets Image Processing.
Ok I better put a lid on my train of thought!
Sign off with these lines which seemed so apt in the morning today:
"Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky."
-- Echoes, Pink Floyd.
I do not know about your dreams. But my dreams are pretty interesting. For one, they always obey the laws of Physics. So no, I am never Superman or Spiderman in any of them. Mostly it is always just me.
I was having a pretty ordinary dream today. The people involved , some were very familiar. Some were plucked out of the archives by my brain, because I do not know them well in real life, but anyhoo, they were there! There was a bus, we were all passengers. I do not remember the conversations, I assume they were quite unremarkable.
However just before a single dazzling ray of sunlight made me open my eyes, I remember vividly an image, an image of exceptional beauty, but one which also invoked curiosity; "wow, but how?" kind of, got it? The kind of image which normally forms a brilliant start to a story. What tragedy! Its worse than the interruption of a good dream, because in this case I did not know what course the dream would have taken!
I would like to study in more detail about dreams. I accept that dreams somehow are related to our deeper/deepest feelings, and manifest themselves somehow; but what is the science behind it? Can you control it? And how come the dreams are such HD quality. Could we unearth some mechanism to develop subjectively Super High quality videos. Understand the science behind dream production to develop a Video coding method that fools the brain into perceiving them as HD? Neuroengineering meets Image Processing.
Ok I better put a lid on my train of thought!
Sign off with these lines which seemed so apt in the morning today:
"Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky."
-- Echoes, Pink Floyd.
Haha! I like the echoes touch at the end!! But I get the feeling that tapping into that might be dangerous and this is not just because of inception!!
ReplyDeleteman, I was thinking about this! Look at this argument: suppose there are two "knowledge spaces" S1 and S2 which are totally uncorrelated. Now, suppose my brain is lying somewhere in some subspace of S1. Then, it would still be capable of learning stuff about other subspaces in S1. But it wouldn't be able to learn anything about S2. What I am trying to say is that dreams comprise only what we already know or are capable of learning. Weird bending of the laws of physics in dreams probably occur because we 'know' what are and what are not examples that obey those same laws!
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