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Consider that memory is not read-only. Later experiences cause us to reinterpret old and faded memories. We experience such reinterpretations as recall, but the

Consider that memory is not read-only. Later experiences cause us to reinterpret old and faded memories. We experience such reinterpretations as recall, but they are in fact rewrites. Which is all to say, the vague and unspecific memories of your dream were likely made concrete when images you later observed while awake evoked a similar feeling. At that point it felt like you had seen the place before in a dream, but at any point in time prior if were asked to draw the place from your dream you would have produced something different.

ohiovr 4y ago
I believe rem sleep can be either increasing entropy in symbols if your mind is on over drive without access to a mediator such as myself without a certain medicine I take nightly. But if the mind and body are ready to rest rem sleep lets your mind experiment with experience as symbols so that tomorrow, those symbols can be unraveled into an outlook for a period of time in the future. This helps with the natural flow from day to day. There is always rem sleep but not always long enough or strong enough to make you consider drastic changes. After rem sleep the symbols that did not get integrated into a series get trashed. The memory behind the symbol is still there but the symbol reference is removed to free up the mind. This is where the feeling of mental rest comes from. Finally the actionable symbols are muted. Waking up feeling like you just got out of a fight of some kind is definitely a heedable warning. For that there is prayer.
byproxy 4y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia
strogonoff 4y ago
Suddenly matching current reality to what you saw in an old dream is a peculiar feeling—perhaps as peculiar as a déjà vu. My pet theory is that they are more or less the same thing. In case of a DV, one explanation (the one I’ll be sticking to here) is that a brief lag[0] in the perception of the current moment by a part of your mind results in a feeling that this moment had been perceived before. I believe that to self-repair, so to speak, your mind would scramble to look up a matching past experience. However, the lag takes place at a pretty low level, and what your mind has no access to is that this previous experience was microseconds ago, not months or years; it is not in your long-term memory and there is no match. If a dream that shares enough characteristics with the moment is readily recalled (e.g., it is especially memorable because of some circumstances in your life at the time), that dream may easily end up being adjusted (partly rewritten) to fit. If that fails, you would have a vanilla DV. [0] Not coincidentally, this seems more common during times of mental exhaustion.

ohiovr 4y ago

I believe rem sleep can be either increasing entropy in symbols if your mind is on over drive without access to a mediator such as myself without a certain medicine I take nightly. But if the mind and body are ready to rest rem sleep lets your mind experiment with experience as symbols so that tomorrow, those symbols can be unraveled into an outlook for a period of time in the future. This helps with the natural flow from day to day. There is always rem sleep but not always long enough or strong enough to make you consider drastic changes. After rem sleep the symbols that did not get integrated into a series get trashed. The memory behind the symbol is still there but the symbol reference is removed to free up the mind. This is where the feeling of mental rest comes from. Finally the actionable symbols are muted. Waking up feeling like you just got out of a fight of some kind is definitely a heedable warning. For that there is prayer.

byproxy 4y ago

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia

strogonoff 4y ago

Suddenly matching current reality to what you saw in an old dream is a peculiar feeling—perhaps as peculiar as a déjà vu. My pet theory is that they are more or less the same thing. In case of a DV, one explanation (the one I’ll be sticking to here) is that a brief lag[0] in the perception of the current moment by a part of your mind results in a feeling that this moment had been perceived before. I believe that to self-repair, so to speak, your mind would scramble to look up a matching past experience. However, the lag takes place at a pretty low level, and what your mind has no access to is that this previous experience was microseconds ago, not months or years; it is not in your long-term memory and there is no match. If a dream that shares enough characteristics with the moment is readily recalled (e.g., it is especially memorable because of some circumstances in your life at the time), that dream may easily end up being adjusted (partly rewritten) to fit. If that fails, you would have a vanilla DV. [0] Not coincidentally, this seems more common during times of mental exhaustion.