[Help] Closed Updates to this post /post/200727-closed Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:15:04 +0100 The post was closed by -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-6864263 -deadinthehead- Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:36 +0100 The post was edited by -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-6864262 -deadinthehead- Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:31 +0100 Reply from Coalesce /post/200727-closed#reply-4273789 Sounds rather like you had an awesome dream :)

When we reach REM cycle our brains start sending random electrical impulses throughout our brain, this helps build new neural associations (dual pathways to access one part of the brain) thus binding our memories by making it easier to think of one thing by thinking about another. Thus when I think about Summer, it also activates the linked neural pathway to my memory of Lake Tahoe.

The human mind is absolutely obsessed with making sense of things. With all these random electrical impulses firing throughout our brain causing chaotic visual, aural, memory, and muscular bursts of activity our brain ties it all together to make a story, a dream. Same thing happens in Korsakoff’s syndrome… except you are awake at the time :)

Honestly, sleep is really one of the coolest things we do… what if I said to you “Hey I’ll be right back, I’m gonna head home and for 2 hours or so slip into a coma, experience a storm of chaotic electrical activity in my prefrontal cortex, hallucinate, suffer Korsakoff’s as a result and potentially have retrograde amnesia regarding the whole event!” (With thanks to XKCD)

http://xkcd.com/203/

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Coalesce Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:07:51 +0100
Reply from M. Wright /post/200727-closed#reply-4269186 Maybe you should just be proud. There are some people who have dreams so vivid they dream in color. Maybe you’re just able to do something that most brains are usually not strong enough to handle.

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M. Wright Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:00:26 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4269014 Im positive its all quiet. There’s no pets etc…the voices i heard sounded like they were near me…like when ur talking to someone face to face..its this close. There werent any shoutings…cos i could only hear a neighbour talk when they shout/

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:39:30 +0100
Reply from M. Wright /post/200727-closed#reply-4269007 You mean that even when you are home alone there is no noise around or people in other houses? Not even a dog barking?

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M. Wright Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:37:32 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4269002 [quote Verum Causa]It could be possible that you were in that half-dream state where physical events in the waking world can influence your dreams. I know that I have been half asleep in the morning and people talking elsewhere in the house will be like they are talking in my dreams.[/quote]

I was alone at home

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:36:43 +0100
Reply from M. Wright /post/200727-closed#reply-4268986 It could be possible that you were in that half-dream state where physical events in the waking world can influence your dreams. I know that I have been half asleep in the morning and people talking elsewhere in the house will be like they are talking in my dreams.

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M. Wright Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:29:23 +0100
Reply from corryl_6 /post/200727-closed#reply-4268497 string theory! what you saw could be a tiny fracture in the space time continuum where you were in another dimension for a quick second! or it just could have been a dream your mind is a powerful tool it can make you think certain things!

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corryl_6 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:25:37 +0100
Reply from snow angels /post/200727-closed#reply-4268458 If anyone wanted to look at it further, a psychological approach would be good. Some believe that dreaming is your mind, i guess being playful and letting your creative side loose. It can also be identified the times in which you dream cause your eyes start rolling around and your brain activity increases but your heart rate remains quite low.

So maybe that sort of out of body experience is somewhere and between and if they did some study on people whom have similiar expiriences regularly, you’d be able to identify some trends.

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snow angels Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:11:17 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268453 yea, it would so interesting if we know more about all these stuff

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:10:00 +0100
Reply from MF_Dancer /post/200727-closed#reply-4268435 thats so cool.
and creepy
too bad there wasnt a way to prove this stuff yet

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MF_Dancer Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:04:15 +0100
Reply from Sans /post/200727-closed#reply-4268414 [quote -deadinthehead-][quote sans]Check out my next-to-last reply on this post..http://help.com/post/200255-ghost-stories-inspired-by-smoogie#reply-4268254[/quote]so it’s true…our spirits actually leave our body..whoa scary[/quote]

I have no idea. That’ was Shie’s opinion. But it seemed to me that in my dream I traveled through time. I tend to think it just shows the power of our minds, our imaginations, but then I can’t explain how I still saw figures after I woke up.

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Sans Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:58:21 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268413 [quote mjcatdo]woah? rele?[/quote]

someone typed it on other post

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:58:00 +0100
Reply from MF_Dancer /post/200727-closed#reply-4268410 woah? rele?

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MF_Dancer Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:57:24 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268406 [quote sans]Check out my next-to-last reply on this post..http://help.com/post/200255-ghost-stories-inspired-by-smoogie#reply-4268254[/quote]

so it’s true…our spirits actually leave our body..whoa scary

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:56:40 +0100
Reply from Sans /post/200727-closed#reply-4268396 Check out my next-to-last reply on this post..
http://help.com/post/200255-ghost-sto…

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Sans Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:54:25 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268386 what actually happen when we r dreaming? I heard that our spirits actually leave our body when we sleep? is it true?

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:51:43 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268380 I was trying to recall if i was in an accident or something..and when i realised i didn’t, thats when i was back to reality.

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:50:46 +0100
Reply from -deadinthehead- /post/200727-closed#reply-4268376 yea, it dont seem like a dream to me cos it felt real. I tot i was involved in an accident and thus, i was the hospital. For that moment, it felt like i had a right arm injury cos of the accident and someone was holding it. My chest felt heavy too…

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-deadinthehead- Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:49:33 +0100
Reply from MF_Dancer /post/200727-closed#reply-4268365 I always wonder about that stuff too.
I think its a very interesting topic.

thats a pretty creepy thing to happen tho.

im not sure if it is normal or not tho.
hasnt happen to me yet

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MF_Dancer Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:46:17 +0100
Reply from snow angels /post/200727-closed#reply-4268364 no. you need help
kidding. everyones dreams are different and i reckon its probably normal to have different experiences in the land of sleep. I never dreamed before ib. now i think cause of all the caffeine and less sleep ive started dreaming. weird, eh?

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snow angels Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:46:15 +0100
Reply from cookai /post/200727-closed#reply-4268363 you sure it wasnt a dream?
some of my dreams seem so real too.
then i alway ike you… wake up with a jump

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cookai Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:45:48 +0100
Reply from Chickens /post/200727-closed#reply-4268361 Woah… lucky…

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Chickens Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:44:56 +0100