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but surely you can still dream in non REM sleep can't you?

• coldarchon 15y ago
  Hard to explain, hard to imagine, hard to understand. Your center for visual perception is not active during non Rem. But most of your thoughts are related to imagery, mostly like 90%. So most of your memories are images, but if you don't create memories, your consciousness won't have a memory. Imagine a computer with no RAM just a register working on variables. If you now think you could still imagine you probably think in non REM it's all "dark". It's not. It's nothing. Because as your center for the perception and computing of images is inactive, you don't even know sight exists. It's like a neglect, when someone loses a part of his brain and can't see people on one side although he has full sight. The question is not if you can dream, because you do that all the time and the whole time when you sleep. But does the preception in non REM exceed your expectations or even noise and therefor become a memory. To make it short, you surely are dreaming everytime in non REM but can't remember nor understand. You can develop an understanding but it takes years and is pretty useless if you are not a lucid dreamer who wants to improve his understanding of his own brain.