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Old 10-14-2007, 04:42 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler View Post

The only way that our brain can make heads or tails out of these random chemical and electrical events is to give them a reference to some sort of psuedo-reality, based only loosely on the people and events around us. That's why they're so freakin' weird. But here's the thing: As we are experiencing them, we don't actually perceive them as having images & textures & noises & all the rest. Our brain only puts those things together after we awaken. We can only understand & interpret our dreams in our memories of them, not as they happen.
How do you explain lucid dreaming? You are percieving the dream as you are sleeping which means your "consciousness" is experiencing the dream.
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