Is Dreaming an Encryption Procedure?
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I have also experienced dreams as eerie proposers for behavior, related to the notion that in sleep we can solve nettlesome problems. In one dream I remember I lived an entire scenario with a friend who had terminal cancer, When I awoke, I asked his wife if I could enact what the dream proposed. She eagerly agreed, so I did, and it worked out marvelously. What did my dreaming mind know that my waking mind did not?
Of course my mind goes to Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." There are more things in dreams than philosophy knows, and there are more things in philosophy than we can dream. May the two dance together.
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True. Sometimes we're invincible in a dream and other times we might be hysterically afraid of little things in a nightmare. A dream can play an energetic sequence of events where our unconscious mind lacks stress or fear. Or else a nightmare can activate adrenaline such that we're unsettled by even the silliest of things. Therefore a dream can embolden us and alter our confidence levels. Vice versa if a dream reduces our confidence in a particular goal then we're more likely to prioritise a different goal. If we can overcome fear in a nightmare then we might have more luck in conquering the same emotions in real life even if it's triggered by unrelated sources. When it comes to threat simulation, the actual threat in a dream doesn't have to be realistic. A dream can hone our emotional responses to tense situations even by simulating irrelevant threats. That is to say we don't literally have to practice our self-defence skills for a specific threat we've encountered. A dream isn't only worried about our ability to detect and avoid a possible threat but rather to increase our capacity to handle fearful or negative emotions in general. In this way a dream can build up our resilience to disappointment or sadness even if the threatening stimulus in a dream doesn't materialise in real life.Rhys Griffin wrote: ↑January 10th, 2022, 3:58 pm I would suggest that it engaged in constant revision, triage and affective processing. Revision blends storage with deletion.
"The threat simulation theory of dreaming (TST) () states that dream consciousness is essentially an ancient biological defence mechanism, evolutionarily selected for its capacity to repeatedly simulate threatening events. Threat simulation during dreaming rehearses the cognitive mechanisms required for efficient threat perception and threat avoidance, leading to increased probability of reproductive success during human evolution."
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"Your pain tolerance refers to the maximum amount of pain you can handle. This is different from your pain threshold.
Your pain threshold is the minimum point at which something, such as pressure or heat, causes you pain."
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"So where did this thing come from and what was the video supposed to mean if it even was supposed to mean anything? For a while the internet began forming theories, the most popular of which was that the creator of the android was actually a murderer. The reason for this theory came from some unsettling lines in the song she sings. Along with repeating how she feels fantastic, we feel fantastic, we are fantastic, etc., the middle of the song is where things take a turn and she starts singing, "Run, run, run, run... Please leave, please leave, please leave..." There is also a seemingly random shot where the camera zooms in on a wooded area and the robot's clothes even change briefly.
This led to the theory that the robot represented a woman its creator had killed due to her not meeting his standards of perfection (referencing the myth in the description), and he had then built the robot to replace her, dressing it in her clothes and doing his best to make it look like her. The lyrics were supposed to be the things he'd said to her right before her death, and that random shot of the woods? The rumor claimed that was where the body had been buried.
Another theory, also referencing the myth in the description, was that the robot had somehow become fully sentient and murdered its creator. A far less likely theory, but the internet loves its creepypastsas. Obviously, it's always best to pursue these sorts of theories with a healthy dose of skepticism, but that didn't stop people from wondering 'what if?' The answer, while still leaving some questions in its wake, was not nearly as menacing.
The robot's actual name is "Tara" and was created by a man named John Bergeron."
https://allthecreepylittlethings.blogspot.com/2019/04/
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We nearly always think to ourselves in the form of statements or questions that comply with the semantics of our native language. A possible stream of thought might be as follows: "What will I do now? I'll go for a walk. I see the park up at the bottom of the street. When I reach the park I'll look for a bench to sit down. Actually I see a vending machine by the corner and I'll grab a bar of chocolate so that I'll have something to eat when I sit down." Notice that there's nothing too extraordinary about these sentences even though they were apparently influenced by the awe-inspiring force of free will. However it's not compulsory that I structure my mental musings in this linguistic form. I phrase it according to the rules of the English language simply because that's how I communicate with others and it'd be disorienting to have one accent when I speak to others and an altogether different voice in my own mind. I do have the capacity to speak to myself in the form of a personalised text-speak that only I could understand but this would be too distracting. For example I sometimes write notes to myself on a receipt in my wallet if I'm out walking and I write my thoughts down in case I forget. I don't bother writing full sentences but simply a few buzzwords that I can piece back together when I get home. There has been times where I forget and can't understand the meaning of the words if I've left it too long to get back to it. No one else could understand what I've written because I took shortcuts in my sentences and you'd have to know the thoughts that I had going through my head to make sense of it. Suffice it to say that it's possible to have alternative forms of phraseology if we were really motivated to think in terms of a particular metaphysical world-view. It'd be easier to glean the fluid nature of free will from an abstract point of view. For instance Shakespearean English not only had unusual words but also an uncanny sentence structure where pronouns and verbs were a small bit jumbled. Alternatively we could reinterpret some of our thoughts in the form of a rhetorical sentence. In this way any statement uttered in our imagination will inherently bring up more questions because the meaning of the first sentence is incomplete. I could half-heartedly tell myself: "It's boring. Now that I think about it the statement that I'm bored is true. Ok why don't I go for a walk? I won't refuse to do my previous intention. Wait; the chocolate that I see in the vending machine looks tasty. I'll get the chocolate? OK I will. Sit at the park bench? That's a good idea." Notice how this is merely a more elaborate and impersonal version of the stream of consciousness mentioned at the top of this paragraph. Asking yourself a rhetorical questions means you're free to go along with it or else to work backwards from the end result and find out why you'd disagree with it. I certainly don't spell out all of my intentions in a verbal format since we can use our intuition to fill in the gaps.
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