Re: Alert/Unconscious

Posted by Joerg on November 16, 2000 at 07:41:45:

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

dreams are a physical sensation inside your brain: merely a series of thoughts, emotions and images during sleep. dreams occur to you. they happen. you dream.
and when you wake up you have memories of the dream. the dreams themselves aren't memories - they're dreams - nothing has happened to us during dreams, other than sleeping and resting the body.

: : 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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