(June 14, 2022 at 9:25 am)Macoleco Wrote: We all have had that dream from which we wake up, and want to keep sleeping to continue dreaming.
Have you wondered why the brain is capable of producing certain emotions only while you sleep? Both positive and negative ones.
Usually these emotions are extremely strong. What would happen if we could feel these emotions while awoken? Would it be good or bad?
I've experienced several varieties of hyper-reality while sleeping: intense emotions, super-sharp visuals, and incredible music that I'd describe as the Voice of God if I were Christian.
My explanation for this is that it isn't so much what the brain is DOING, as what it is NOT DOING-- specifically, not filtering or supressing mental activity.
I think it would certainly be bad if you could experience at this level while awake-- in fact, it would be something like a variant of autism, in which you'd be so distracted by your overwhelming experiences that just tying your shoes and putting in a day of work would be very hard.
If it were a mental faculty (like if I could sit in a quiet corner and summon up that kind of music), then I think that would almost instantly make someone a genius. And I suspect many of the best artists, musicians and so on are on the border between the kind of autism I just described and that kind of faculty.
