As a kid, for about a year, maybe even less, I used to be able to realize “I’m in a dream”, and control what happened for a short while before the excitement woke me up. It wasn’t just something happening to me; I chose to do things just as I would in real life. I could get close to a girl or fly across the country, or I could stand face-to-face with my nightmares once I understood they were only fragments of my imagination. I felt free, though still confined to the situation I found myself in—and the more control I gained, the more the dream dissolved. I was passionate about it. Unfortunately, I no longer have these experiences. I can’t even tell whether such dreams were truly precise in resolution and I simply lost memories over time, or whether they were never as precise as they felt and my subconscious later constructed memories that never really happened (to get attention from others for example), what conscious level may or may not realize. As the saying goes: “Trust no one, not even yourself.”
This internal chaos made me a big believer in research beyond what biological organs allow to comprehend.
Brain cannot be trusted.
As a kid, for about a year, maybe even less, I used to be able to realize “I’m in a dream”, and control what happened for a short while before the excitement woke me up. It wasn’t just something happening to me; I chose to do things just as I would in real life. I could get close to a girl or fly across the country, or I could stand face-to-face with my nightmares once I understood they were only fragments of my imagination. I felt free, though still confined to the situation I found myself in—and the more control I gained, the more the dream dissolved. I was passionate about it. Unfortunately, I no longer have these experiences. I can’t even tell whether such dreams were truly precise in resolution and I simply lost memories over time, or whether they were never as precise as they felt and my subconscious later constructed memories that never really happened (to get attention from others for example), what conscious level may or may not realize. As the saying goes: “Trust no one, not even yourself.”
This internal chaos made me a big believer in research beyond what biological organs allow to comprehend.