Thing about most dreams is once awake you recall how limited your mental bandwidth was (for lack of a better term) while you were in it. It’s the thing that telegraphs to you instantly that you are really awake: your mind is all there. \u00a0 In most dreams (at least my own) I have no memories of prior events, no sensation of thinking really. \u00a0 I don’t feel my body or even notice it much. \u00a0 There are none of the usual sensations of motion or my environment. \u00a0 I don’t feel temperature, don’t feel the air around me, don’t feel the sensation of gravity on my body. My consciousness is entirely on the surface of things. I am an automaton strolling through the dream.<\/p>\n
But some dreams are so vivid I find myself remembering things, including past dream events I’d forgotten. \u00a0 I have conversations with the people in my dreams and think in depth about what is being said to me while talking to them. I can feel my environment, feel hot or cold, feel the wind, feel gravity tug at me while doing things like running or climbing. \u00a0 I sit quietly and ponder something and I am thinking in depth, just as if I was wide awake. \u00a0 And lately I’ve noticed myself even daydreaming in my dreams.<\/p>\n
What is it when you’re daydreaming within a dream? I was doing that last night.<\/p>\n
Our minds…our human consciousness…it is such an amazing, intricate, constantly surprising thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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