Re: Alert/Unconscious

Posted by Sharlee on November 06, 2000 at 07:02:39:

In Reply to: Re: Alert/Unconscious posted by Sambersil on November 05, 2000 at 11:28:48:

To address your question, I believe that dreams actually occur. LD's answer explains the theory behind it.

To look at it from your thesis, if dreams are made up of immediate confused sequencing of events when we awake, how do you fit into your theory the experiences I described in my last post? Sharlee

: : Dreams occur during rapid eye movement sleep (REM).

: My question is, do they actually occur, or do we simply remember something that never happened to us?

: :
: : They key to being alert is remembering what happens to you. The key to being unconscious is having no memory of what happens to you. When we sleep, we do not remember what happens to us, and therefore we are unconscious. Most of the pathways in our brain that are shut down during sleep probably deal with memory in some way, either in the recording of things or the getting of things to record.

: : : Are dreams just memories? Do we really experience the dreams or do we simply wake up with, as a side effect of our brains reorganizing themselves outside of our memories, certain pathways open that tell us that give us the memory of the dream?

: : : I realize that the second paragraph is a dumb question, philosophically speaking. Approach it from the point of view of science, just for the sake of interesting discussion.

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