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Exploring the borderlands There is a strange state of consciousness that you pass through whenever you fall asleep. It can also happen while you wake up, so long as you wake naturally, and not because of something like an alarm. In this state, strange images and sensations take place. You’ve probably noticed them before. Even …
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Scientific bias, and dream states The mainstream scientific community has their own biases and preconceptions. Several misguided ideas have cropped up in the research into dreams and dream states, that later turned out to be false. Today we look at a few of those ideas and the way science has bent over backwards, to hold …
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Dreaming what you want If you become aware that you are dreaming, while you are still dreaming, you have an opportunity to experience almost anything you’d like. However, your dreams seem to have a mind of their own, and sometimes, odd things happen when you try to control them.
I’m about to archive the current state of this project as figures0.1. 0.0 was just far enough so that a program could reproduce itself, and add a slight mutation. This version has every last port implemented. That is, the little programs, or figures, can do everything I want them to be able to do. They …
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How to have a lucid dream Ask yourself, right now, “Am I dreaming?” Do you know how you got where you are? Does what’s around you and what you’re doing make sense? Do letters or numbers look right, or do the figures wriggle around and change while you’re watching? Does gravity work like it should, …
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Dreams and memory Do you remember your dreams? Everyone dreams, but not everyone regularly recalls them. If you wish to explore your dreamscape, you’ll need to remember what dreams may come. You could have the most inspirational, vivid, detailed dream imaginable, but if you can’t remember it, it doesn’t much matter. Today, we look at …
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Ride the nightmare If you have nightmares, and you wish to experiment with lucid dreaming, you’re rather lucky. It’s fairly easy to recognize nightmares while they are happening. It often happens to people spontaneously, even if they’ve never heard of lucid dreaming. It happened to me.
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A tale of two books, part 2 One of the things I’ve always had available for experiment is my own mind. Whether it’s mnemonics to improve my memory, or strange mental exercises to induce a lucid dream or an out of body experience, I’ve spent decades plumbing the depths of my internal ocean. Today, I …
When I started posting about this project, I just dove in. Eventually I’ll have to lay out exactly what I’m working on, and how I’m approaching the development of my artificial life forms. That will take some time. For now, have yet another post wherein I entirely fail to explain what’s going on. Over the …
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A tale of two books, part 1 After over 120 episodes, I thought it might be about time I introduce myself. So, today we have the story of how I fell in love with science. In this episode, I quote Walt Whitman’s poem “O Me! O Life!” with the line: “That the powerful play goes …