My experience is that when I’m working on training my capacity for sustained attention (which I do for a few months every few years), I frequently experience dreams in which I either start being critical of the dream-logic (thereby typically ending the dream), or have two simultaneous independent tracks of narrative, one of which follows dream logic and one of which doesn’t. (For example, I will frequently have dreams in this state where I’m in a social setting and interacting with other people, where my interactions depend on not knowing certain things which I somehow know that I don’t know. I’ve often tried to reproduce this dual-narrative state in my waking life, with no success.)
The relationship between this and LW-rationality is not clear to me. If I had to guess, I’d say they’re related only by being in the same cluster of interests.
My experience is that when I’m working on training my capacity for sustained attention (which I do for a few months every few years), I frequently experience dreams in which I either start being critical of the dream-logic (thereby typically ending the dream), or have two simultaneous independent tracks of narrative, one of which follows dream logic and one of which doesn’t. (For example, I will frequently have dreams in this state where I’m in a social setting and interacting with other people, where my interactions depend on not knowing certain things which I somehow know that I don’t know. I’ve often tried to reproduce this dual-narrative state in my waking life, with no success.)
The relationship between this and LW-rationality is not clear to me. If I had to guess, I’d say they’re related only by being in the same cluster of interests.