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One way to convert sensory panpsychism to neuroscience might be that the way your cortex in your forehead is involved in thinking mimics the top half of the eye which in turn is inverted in the eye’s lens to represent ground level which makes a small bit of spatial sense in how we assess ourself relative to the trees above us.

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Likewise the way our sense of touch is in the centre of our brain mimics the centre of gravity of our own skull in a way that in turn mimics how our spine tries to balance our centre of gravity.

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Senses in brain

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At the beginning it felt like “In the Tall Grass” was a parody of an open timelike curve only for there to be karma much like how an irrational dream making sense when collided against another irrational dream. The idea of the tall grass appears surreal if only because there are few huge ranches in Ireland! The manner of the grass, rock, bird and insect being enlivened mimics panpsychism as if you are what you eat such that an alternative version of evolution is that we are descended from the food of our ancestors. That way we are in some respects descended from the trees our evolutionary ape ancestors climbed on and ate leaves from. The giant rock being used as a source of shamanic knowledge mimics the secret benefits of drinking mineral water. The time travelling sequence appears inverted in terms of adrenaline such that the first time travel evokes the most curiosity in the sense of how this was going to be explained later in the film or whether it’d be open-ended. The manner in which the field acts like a maze can also be inverted as if it’s the rest of the world that’s disappeared rather than the field getting bigger. The time travelling totem (spoiler) of the cousin’s necklace from San Diego used to persuade the cloned brother and sister not to enter the field at the end of the movie mimics the bootstrap paradox of sending information back in time as if it becomes increasingly indirect with each time travel iteration such that there’s always a risk of error where you’d have to rely on a small bit of blind faith. This mimics an entropy-defying message where the scenes of killing and betrayal between alternate temporal versions of the same characters becomes too chaotic towards the end in a way that allows us to downplay it and focus on the bigger picture of the shared meadow visual motif in each character. It’s as if trees take the priority where it’s our own life that abbreviated to a mere few years in terms of tree years as if time travel weren’t such a big deal compared to much longer lifespan of certain trees!

In the Tall Grass | Official Trailer | Netflix

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One reason our vision might be processed at the back of the brain in the occipital lobe might be to synchronise our vision with our motor reflexes in the cerebellum and brain stem. That way if an arm reflex from the spine was deterministic then it’d be initiated pre-emptively in the nerves just before our eyes could see the arm move but just on time for our occipital lobe to process it for simultaneous thought-hand motion.

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A more thorough version of free won’t might be to close your eyelids for a few seconds longer than a wink or a blink much like a yawn in order to stall an athletic manoeuvre like throwing a ball. This mimics the shut-eye of sleep seeing as you’d be less efficient if you can’t see what you’re doing. So if sleep is more natural than waking life then your eyelids would be naturally closed such that active energy is required to open your eyes rather than to close your eyes. The vestibulo-ocular reflex of how our head stabilises our eyes during head motion might be a metaphor for how other body movements are synchronised with the delayed processing of the visual cortex compared to the eyes.

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I was trying to look for an old post on one of my threads about meeting my father on a rocky hill and diving into the sea where there was a whirlpool. I wasn’t immediately able to find it in where I thought at first it was only a few months back before looking further back in my files and worrying if it was a year back. Then as I glanced at other old posts of dreams I realised how much I’d forgotten. So one way to think of a slightly forgotten dream is in terms of the Doppler effect where a the more remembered a dream is the closer in time it might feel to your present moment. Then the more forgotten a dream is the further back in time it might appear to the night you actually had the dream.

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One possible risk of horror movies is of extortion where movie producers concoct their worst possible life fears so as to dilute the fear among a larger unsuspecting audience! Nonetheless there’s a benefit in testing your own resilience as if a whole pile of other horror movies can appear like a trickle-down effect of memes from even scarier movies such that it helps to tackle it head on! I tried this before in a YouTube video “Lucid Nightmare Comedy” several months ago and tonight I tested to see if I improved by watching the scene below. The idea of a monster jumping out of a TV evokes horror in a theory of mind being 2D! What I noticed was a pre-emptive fear response well ahead of the monster jumping out of the TV as if my subconscious mind somehow knew something sinister was about to happen well in advance not only from the title and prior plot knowledge of the movie but also from the implied tone of the innocent characters. It was if their excess seriousness was a sort of holistic lie detector such that fear becomes contagious. Hence my unconscious mind somehow feared the man walking casually around the room and then the fight-or-flight response shifted towards fight where I ironically felt calm by the time the monster jumped out of the TV. In other words I was more afraid of the man than the monster somehow!

Samara Comes to You - The Ring (8/8)

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It’s not just about victim blaming for showing excess fear but also a combination of empathy where my unconscious mind somehow trusted the man in the prior scene of “The Ring” for how much fear was warranted seeing as he knew more than me! Hence there can be accidental component where a victim endangers themselves in a way that produces a chaotic effect in my unconscious mind be it through a risk of being too vengeful to the victim in downplaying how evil the monster might be.

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One way to overcome a lucid nightmare of a haunted house is to take it at face value one room at a time to be consistent with temporal motion. That way so long as you left the prior room then the room should cease existence. It’s a parody of whether no one hears a branch fall in a forest then did it actually fall as if only the present haunted room exists. So in my second lucid nightmare of the uncanny valley years ago of seeing a ghost before being lifted upwards to a canopy bed before being evaporated into dolls only to wake back in my bed. Who knows whether the canopy bed was a pun about a dividing curtain in a mental health hostel bedroom! It was as if the same bedsit locker was in both the room with the ghost, the haunted canopy bed and my own bedroom as if that were how extreme that furniture item would’ve been were it 2-dimensional! The idea of jumping upstairs to the haunted canopy bed parodied the notion of a stationary TV version of consciousness as if the room rotates when you look up and down rather than your head rotating up and down! Each haunted room had the potential to unleash both positive and destructive wave interference as if the empty threat of being thrown back in the prior haunted room had to be rejected seeing as a haunted house is 3-D but a haunted room being 2-D in an immaterial perception. The difference in real life is that you don’t have to care to remember the prior room you were in to have some physical basis when you return to the room even if it’s not actively material in your own mind.

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Scooby Doo 2 - Haunted Mansion

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One way to think of quantum mechanics might be that if a wheel isn’t a perfect circle than the rate and direction of friction from the ground it’s rolling on isn’t 100% quantifiable which might prove relevant for the scale of nanometres!

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Marbles

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One way to think of a collective unconscious might be a self-fulfilling prophecy simply because it’s so self-deprecating to view a dream character as real relative to a purely materialistic standpoint that you’re forced to re-interpret the real person in a way more informal or friendly manner in a way that might get reciprocated! In other words materialism can be the victim of its own success in exposing how self-sacrificing a religious person is to their own integrity relative to a materialist! The idea of sleep standing like a horse to re-unify with a collective unconscious is as bizarre to a material system as a fighter jet re-fuelling mid-air where the intention alone can be redemptive!

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Fighter jet re-fuelling mid-air incestuously!

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Analysis paralysis isn’t just a problem for academic techniques but also with remembering personal experiences. In other words the fact that we forget some of our childhood might be that we underestimate how relaxed our childhoods were such that we might ironically be thinking too much about our childhoods to have forgotten our childhoods! An unconscious mind can be paradoxical where if we forget a complex word and remember it a day later it might not just be about the synergy and new associations formed later in the day but also our ability to forget our initial stress felt at trying to retrieve the complex word. It’d be as if our unconscious were merely punishing us for not automatically finding the word where we underestimate how confident we should have been. Likewise a complicated dream can help you remember your childhood not by directly replaying you your childhood but by distracting you until you forget your initial reluctance to care sufficiently about your childhood.

A silver lining of finding no solution to the hard problem of consciousness is to be more grateful for the human intention of an artist using computer aided design knowing that much like photography that the computer wasn’t artificially intelligent such that the first instruction was conscious even if all the rest were automatic.

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Techno Art

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If salt helps to make sense of chips then pepper is like the opposite where you’re trying to make less sense of a chip as if chips already made too much sense. Hence the way a sweet or a pop song can make sense can appear circular as if so long as you make sense then the sweet or the pop song can appear serious. Yet if you know you’re not self-aware then something that immediately makes sense to you might not have actually been serious if a serious person wasn’t meant to even make sense to anyone less serious. This isn’t literal but helps to add a playful intrigue into the paradoxical and relativistic nature of gratitude: if someone tries to thoroughly help you in immediately making sense to you then it ironically downplays the hard work you’ve to put in to make sense of less decipherable and more challenging versions of help that might have been ill-thought rather than complex. This follows on to academia as if the goal isn’t just to be humble but to literally make less sense if a system of colonial evil always made more sense as if mysticism was that meta of not caring about how mystical the world already is. This diversionary component might be at play during sleep as if the slow thoughts you experienced as you first drifted into sleep were actually so spiritually serious and biologically expensive that it cost that amount of futile sleep afterwards much like an epiphenomenal working backwards mechanism to those first dozy thoughts! So the way in which you made sense of a dream might have been backhanded as if you weren’t very serious to make sense of a less serious chain of events even if the embarrassment spared you the hassle of concocting evil crimes that required more focus. The problem of proving lucid dreaming can be slightly paradoxical if someone already more serious or stronger than you in their non-lucid dream is as focused as yourself in your own lucid dream!

Space Jam - Jordan's Entrance

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The vestibular-ocular reflex might not just be about simulating head-turn motions and body balancing during sleep but might also be about the ear and the eye sending each other mutual audio or visual messages as if the eye during REM sleep would initiate sonar messages to the ear.

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Vestibulo-ocular nerves

The way the eustachian tubes move inward diagonally to the mouth mimics the effect of tinnitus moving not just inward and outward from the middle ear to the inner ear but also from the back head of our ear to the front face in how we perceive hearing parallax. That way the vestibulo-ocular reflex during sleep could also bypass your ear in order to rhyme your eye motion through the eustachian tubes with your breathing in the nasal cavity and your subvocalisations in your mouth such that you don’t have to hear your subconscious thoughts more consciously in a dream. In other words you might not hear your dream character verbally order their arm to move. In other words your thoughts no longer have to be subvocalised in your inner voice.

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Ear diagram

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“Signals from the right ear travel to the auditory cortex, which is in the temporal lobe on the brain's left side. Signals from the left ear travel to the right auditory cortex.”

When we go to sleep with our eyes closed we could imagine our ears to be bigger as if ear drum was simply so deep that it stretched to the opposite side of our brain. Yet during the day the way in which our visual cortex is on opposite sides of each eye after the corpus callosum might naturally counteract the way in which our ears are inversely linked to each auditory cortex in a way that they both senses passively align with one another. This would mimic how a negative multiplied by a negative make a positive without an independent need to unify consciousness. Hence when I dream it might be that my tinnitus is in the centre of my head without it ever stretching that far during the day as if I could perceive my head as being smaller with my eyes closed.