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Sometimes dreams 'hit differently'. It feels like they're reinforcing a lost emotion or feeling, like a calibration. You get reminded what's it's like to feel,
by Geee 4y ago
Sometimes dreams 'hit differently'. It feels like they're reinforcing a lost emotion or feeling, like a calibration. You get reminded what's it's like to feel, usually in the extreme sense. I've had the experience of being 'fixed' emotionally by these dreams.
I've always wondered if there's something that induces these special dreams. I know that diet might have an effect on dreams, especially some types of cheese [0]. So, I'm just throwing this idea out there that maybe there's some link in diet, dreams, and mental health.
[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211117-does-cheese-really-give-you-vivid-dreams https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211117-does-cheese-real...
- pizza 4y agoIn some sense, readiness, probably. But who knows really what that means. Perhaps it’s just the right flux of the electric field coursing through your neurons, or perhaps it’s something even less intelligible. Maybe it’s good health leading to leftover nighttime surplus reflective capacity - with a grain of salt: I once read a paper [0] suggesting that while awake, the brain processes exteroceptive signals; asleep, it processes interoceptive signals - maybe it’s a ‘belief confirmation’ / error-prediction “circuit” gone haywire, affirming beliefs so strongly that you awake to feel the beliefs hot in your bones, but for no apparent reason. But maybe it’s just a jolt that happens like something to remind you of what it feels like to have the feeling of strongly held convictions, if you’ve been having a hard time coping with sparse rewards from the outside world. I could only speculate :) [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697225/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697225/