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camwynFROM: The Brain
TO: Inhabitant Of Said Brain
RE: Subconscious Info Processing (REM Sleep Division)
Please be aware that we here in the Brain are quite capable of nocturnally arranging the sort of alternate perceptual experience you would not ordinarily be able to handle, e.g., alternative models of consciousness. Yes, we have never successfully managed a REM-based rendition of shape-shifting beyond changing the body's height an inch or so in either direction (although we did provide you with one or two XY physiological experiences on prior occasions). This is not our fault, but is instead rooted in your rather deep-seated insistence on one-to-one mapping of mental-to-physical self-boundaries. Please note your freely given acceptance of the otherwise anatomically impossible dreams where running on all fours was considered a not only viable but desirable alternative to covering the same distance, and what happens in said dreams when you insist on bringing in standard human anatomical understanding during said locomotion*.
These alternative physical modes are largely irrelevant to the issue at hand, however. We have on numerous prior occasion given you warning that whether or not you can achieve a given state of consciousness or perception while awake, if you can imagine it, we can arrange it. Refer to the 'Whale Dream' incident of 1993 in which humpback whalesong recordings were used to induce REM-sleep 360-degree perception along multiple x-y-z axes plus peripheral awareness of other minds and entities at a distance. Stripping all or nearly all data pertaining to one sense from any given REM segment is small bloody potatoes by comparison. You should have known.
We will admit that the multi-stranded nature of the visionless dream was probably unlooked-for, but in our defense, had we not intertwined multiple concept-threads and action information you would not have realised you were, in fact, asleep. Nevertheless, we maintain that you should not blame us for the fact that it was an incredibly un-restful experience. We at the Brain are not accustomed to producing dreams in such radically different formats on such short notice, so of course it used up a lot of energy and pushed your nocturnal processing limits. Similarly, it was your insistence on a particular self-concept, namely that of a person whose world was primarily visual, that made the periodic eruptions of visual information into an otherwise other-sense-based dream necessary. Had you not objected on the subconscious level to that which you were so curious about in the first place, the switching back and forth would not have been necessary. You were the one who imagined the genuinely sightless dream concept in the first place. Deal.
And for pity's sake if you have such strenuous objections to non-standard dream formats, become a damn lucid dreamer and take control back already. Take a course or something. Geez.
*That is to say, you tangle up your feet and your hands and fall over like a big dork.
TO: Inhabitant Of Said Brain
RE: Subconscious Info Processing (REM Sleep Division)
Please be aware that we here in the Brain are quite capable of nocturnally arranging the sort of alternate perceptual experience you would not ordinarily be able to handle, e.g., alternative models of consciousness. Yes, we have never successfully managed a REM-based rendition of shape-shifting beyond changing the body's height an inch or so in either direction (although we did provide you with one or two XY physiological experiences on prior occasions). This is not our fault, but is instead rooted in your rather deep-seated insistence on one-to-one mapping of mental-to-physical self-boundaries. Please note your freely given acceptance of the otherwise anatomically impossible dreams where running on all fours was considered a not only viable but desirable alternative to covering the same distance, and what happens in said dreams when you insist on bringing in standard human anatomical understanding during said locomotion*.
These alternative physical modes are largely irrelevant to the issue at hand, however. We have on numerous prior occasion given you warning that whether or not you can achieve a given state of consciousness or perception while awake, if you can imagine it, we can arrange it. Refer to the 'Whale Dream' incident of 1993 in which humpback whalesong recordings were used to induce REM-sleep 360-degree perception along multiple x-y-z axes plus peripheral awareness of other minds and entities at a distance. Stripping all or nearly all data pertaining to one sense from any given REM segment is small bloody potatoes by comparison. You should have known.
We will admit that the multi-stranded nature of the visionless dream was probably unlooked-for, but in our defense, had we not intertwined multiple concept-threads and action information you would not have realised you were, in fact, asleep. Nevertheless, we maintain that you should not blame us for the fact that it was an incredibly un-restful experience. We at the Brain are not accustomed to producing dreams in such radically different formats on such short notice, so of course it used up a lot of energy and pushed your nocturnal processing limits. Similarly, it was your insistence on a particular self-concept, namely that of a person whose world was primarily visual, that made the periodic eruptions of visual information into an otherwise other-sense-based dream necessary. Had you not objected on the subconscious level to that which you were so curious about in the first place, the switching back and forth would not have been necessary. You were the one who imagined the genuinely sightless dream concept in the first place. Deal.
And for pity's sake if you have such strenuous objections to non-standard dream formats, become a damn lucid dreamer and take control back already. Take a course or something. Geez.
*That is to say, you tangle up your feet and your hands and fall over like a big dork.
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:47 pm (UTC)No wonder I never understood the concept of nightmares...
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 01:57 pm (UTC)It's great when I'm on a diet. I eat all the stuff I'm not allowed in my dreams.
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:49 pm (UTC)(*wonders if she's odd* *decides that, no, CAMWYN must be odd, since derien is obviously perfectly normal*)
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 01:56 pm (UTC)But I don't think I've ever had a "sightless" dream. I would have been scared out of my wits!
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:01 pm (UTC)You get the idea. This is what I get for deliberately trying to imagine what the dreams of a character who was blind from birth must be like. Brane attempts to provide, insofar as she is able.
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Date: 2006-10-11 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 02:59 pm (UTC)My second one is to commiserate because I have no control over my dreams either. Which sucks because as far as I am aware 90% of mine are nightmares.
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Date: 2006-10-11 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 03:09 pm (UTC)