Our brains are so fucking ridiculous.
I'm reading a book called "Head Trip" which describes, in detail, 8 distinct states your brain goes through on a daily basic(for example, REM Sleep, Alpha wave sleep, trance, hypnogogic...) and just finished the chapter on lucid dreaming.
What blew my mind was the revelation that the way we experience the world is largely modeled not by our sensory input, but by our brain and it's expectations. When we are dreaming, our brain has limited sensory input so it's mostly running of it's own "emulated" inputs, but the two are otherwise identical. There are real physiological reations that occur from these "emulated" sensory inputs.
Our brains are unimaginably powerful, and rule our bodies to an extent that we cannot even come close to understanding. As neuroscience and psychology gain more and more ground (and potentially merge, eventually), we're going to be discovering some crazy shit.
I'm reading a book called "Head Trip" which describes, in detail, 8 distinct states your brain goes through on a daily basic(for example, REM Sleep, Alpha wave sleep, trance, hypnogogic...) and just finished the chapter on lucid dreaming.
What blew my mind was the revelation that the way we experience the world is largely modeled not by our sensory input, but by our brain and it's expectations. When we are dreaming, our brain has limited sensory input so it's mostly running of it's own "emulated" inputs, but the two are otherwise identical. There are real physiological reations that occur from these "emulated" sensory inputs.
Our brains are unimaginably powerful, and rule our bodies to an extent that we cannot even come close to understanding. As neuroscience and psychology gain more and more ground (and potentially merge, eventually), we're going to be discovering some crazy shit.
- Meatball
