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Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have unpicked the regions of the brain involved in dreaming, in a study with significant implications for our understanding of the purpose of dreams and of consciousness itself. What's more, changes in brain activity have been found to offer clues as to what the dream is about. Writing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Siclari and colleagues from the U.S., Switzerland and Italy, reveal how they carried out a series of experiments involving 46 participants, each of whom had their brain activity recorded while they slept by electroencephalogram (EEG) -- a noninvasive technique that involved placing up to 256 electrodes on the scalp and face to monitor the number and size of brainwaves of different speeds. While the experiments probed different aspects of the puzzle, all involved participants being woken at various points throughout the night and asked to report whether they had been dreaming. If the participants had been dreaming, they were asked how long they thought it had lasted and whether they could remember anything about their dream, such as whether it involved faces, movement or thinking, or whether it was instead a vivid, sensory experience. Analysis of the EEG recording reveal that dreaming was linked to a drop in low-frequency activity in a region at the back of the brain dubbed by the researchers the "posterior cortical hot zone" -- a region that includes visual areas as well as areas involved in integrating the senses. The result held regardless of whether the dream was remembered or not and whether it occurred during REM or non-REM sleep. The researchers also looked at changes in high-frequency activity in the brain, finding that dreaming was linked to an increase in such activity in the so-called "hot zone" during non-REM sleep. Further, the team identified the region of the brain which appears to be important in remembering what a dream was about, finding that this recall was linked to an increase in high-frequency activity towards the front of the brain. A similar pattern of activity was seen in the hot zone and beyond for dreams during REM sleep. The upshot is that dreaming is rooted in the same changes in brain activity regardless of the type of sleep.
I only have the same one, over and over again...
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It operates on the low level activity of the brain, which happens to be experienced as the manifest content of the dream.. bottom up rather than top down, still focusing on areas recently or intermittantly written to. That's my hunch, amyway
Hah. You and I should be teamed up in the study, because we're diametric opposites. I'm 42, and the last time I woke up and *didn't* recall dreaming, I was in high school. If there are times when I'm not dreaming, that would be a surprise.
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A while ago I told myself that if I ever got rich, I'd invest in research into a machine that could record dreams. I'm sure we're still a ways off from achieving this (if it's even possible) but I just really want to be able to rewatch my dreams.
Dream recall directly correlates with how much zinc and b6 you get in your diet. b6 is water soluble, zinc needs to build up a serum level. Funny thing; cum is high in zinc, and most men on western diets are deficient in zinc. I know in my teens and twenties I put out LOTS of cum on a daily basis, enough to rival most girls monthly periods, yet all the hype about women getting enuf iron never mentions men getting zinc. Try taking 50mgs of b6 and 30mgs of Zn for a week or so. Take them at lunchtime, not just before bed. You may be surprised. I admit it may have been psychosomatic, but the first time I took them I had so many dreams the next morning felt like it was 3 days later.
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Supposedly everyone dreams, but after 44+ years I have no recollection of ever dreaming.
Try a vitamin B supplement after breakfast. I've found it promotes vivid dreams.
For me, I am always dreaming even in naps. :(
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why wouldn't I ever remember dreaming?
Buy smaller bottles at the liquor store. That's how I got my own blackouts under control.
lucm, indeed.
... will I dream?
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Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
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I do dream but don't remember very many, perhaps 1 or 2 a year. And all but a few in my entire life have been very mundane, dreams about going to work or school. I've read a huge amount of sci-fi, fantasy, comics, historical fiction and haven't had NOT ONE dream about any of it that I can recall.
I have a few dreams, perhaps 1/2 a dozen about flying under my own power, which is very cool but none in the past 25 years.
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Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming. Politicians have welcomed the move as progress towards extinguishing all hope.
You know what I an the other way round, I remember dreams as readily as normal everyday memories, no difference. Of course, just like everything I do not remember during normal daily activities much the same with remembering dreams. So what is the most interesting thing I remember from dreams is instances of deja vu. Every time I have an incident of deja vu I can place the dream and the memories that surround it even the segue into and out of the deja vu dream element. So that incident of deja vu is disruptive, using a car like analogy because it it like your pedalling along on your push bike life and all of a sudden you hit a tram track and you life is on a dream rail tracking exactly your current life experience, which is quite disturbing (that sense of loss of control). Whilst each instance of deju vu has not been at all illuminating. What I have noticed is, it causes a pause in action and a change of direction, no real useful information, just a jarring and a delay at the end of the experience often associated with a change of direction very subtle changes, turn left instead of right or just a sufficient delay. The most emphatic of moment deja vu was with another person waffling on and pulling up to a red light, the deja vu moment stopped when the light turned green and disturbed by it I did not take off, just as a person drove through a red light and would have tboned me on my side if I had moved (blind intersection so I could not see them until too late). So after fifty years odd of life and attempting to correlate deja vu with actual outcomes, its seems like a subtle push to change your direction possibly to avoid a very negative outcome, without any information about that outcome, just that subtle, well for most of you subtle tweak (at a guess a quantum consciousness push from the future to the past to the present, weird things happen down there compared to up here).
Now that deja vu thing is really disturbing mainly because of all those other dreams, whilst some of them have been quite fun, interesting and challenging, even life threatening I certainly do not want them to be instance of deja vu (I quite enjoy nightmares, I can always wake up or change it if bored or particularly annoyed). Now you could test for the validity of deja vu extending life, but there are of course two tricks in there, your life might no come under great threat so no deja vu and of course when deja vu fails, how do you tell.
Now statistically speaking it might not have any relevance due to the numbers of dreams you have, based around your own life and their potential to coincidentally align with future actions, keeping in mind the short duration of deja vu and no winning lottery numbers deja vu, not that I have ever dreamed of any and I struggle to read in dreams unless I specifically focus before hand.
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I stopped drinking once for a whole weekend, the whole weekend I kept sober. This was a grueling experience - the world was as ugly as I remembered it from before I started drinking. Brrrr never again. There is a reason god gave us alco and drugs you know.
Poor you. Go get professional help!
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This from january seems relevant... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... : Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
How do people who are blind from birth dream and does it still involve the visual areas of the brain...?
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I put out LOTS of cum on a daily basis
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the first time I took them I had so many dreams the next morning felt like it was 3 days later
Are these things connected?
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Let me guess: more fMRI quackery?
I hate being pedantic, but for a group of intelligent people, slashdot has really been going downhill.
Lucid dreaming, it's a thing and can be fun. You can also remember to count your fingers and or toes (just do it every now and again when you're awake and eventually you should do it when you're dreaming too) you'll almost never have the right number in your dreams, also check the time, clocks don't seem to work too well in dreams. The fingers and toes one works for me. As soon as you know you're dreaming you need to focus on the details like the texture of the floor etc or you might bounce out of the dream. Flying is fun, explore the solar system whatever but sex tends to jolt you out of the dream... damn.
The racist in this conversation is you. You are the one equating countries other than the U.S. as a prison. The rest of the world is not evil, stupid, and worthless. Your whole disgusting thought process is based in the notion that you are superior and others offer nothing. Not only is this idea absurd, it is harmful. YOU and people like you are the problem in the world.
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Can confirm -- what worked for me (surprisingly fast) was getting into the habit of checking every now and then whether I'm able to breathe through my nose while I held it closed (obviously do it in a discreet manner at work or wherever). Unfortunately, the first time I actually did this while dreaming, I got so excited about it that I woke up. Took a few more nights for the first actual lucid dream.
PROTIP: Make a plan what to do in your (lucid) dream, in advance. If you end up there not knowing what to do/dream next, the whole place becomes blurry and you wake up.
another protip: When you do wake up from a lucid dream (or even from a regular dream, after having practiced it for a while), don't blindly believe you've actually woken up. It's very common to *dream* of waking up, and it can be sort of spooky. Easy solution: After waking up, look at the clock, look away, look at the clock again. If you get the same reading twice, you've probably woken up. If not, use the realization for yet another lucid dream, if you're in the mood.
final protip: Sleep paralysis *is* scary. Don't shit yourself, it goes away.
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Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
When you go to sleep again, is the state of the scope loaded from disk or is there an entirely new scope?
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It depends on whether you're running Sleep 2 or Sleep 3.
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Unfortunately dream variables are all locally scoped - as soon as you wake up, they're undefined.
Uhm... it explains why it looks consistent at first but try to access it later and it becomes full of garbage.
A common bug, someone probably returned a pointer to a local variable.
I commonly fall asleep but then start dreaming that I am laying there still awake trying to sleep. Sometimes something will wake me up and I will realize that I was asleep but thought I wasn't. It really is horrible because I get no rest.