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- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!hermes!miket
- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: Don't interrupt me you dream character!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.201143.548@tcsi.com>
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <gj156879.725500532@cunews>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:11:43 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <gj156879.725500532@cunews> gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879) writes:
- >Interesting idea, Michael...
- >
- >Re: only one character at a time can control the speech centers.
- >
- >....
- >It would be interesting to try and set up a lucid dream experiment
- >where you interrupt a dream character or talk at the same time as they
- >do... (Still trying to remember if I've been in either of those
- >situations...)
-
- Another possible experiment: have people who are bilingual
- make a point of speaking only in their weaker language when
- they talk to dream personalities in lucid dreams, while prompting
- the dream personalities to respond in detail in their stronger
- language.
-
- This might have the effect of reversing the usual linguistic-
- competence asymmetry in dreams, where the dream ego is more
- coherent and articulate than other dream personalities. Giving
- dream personalities the of the brain's main speech centers might
- enable them to say things that they can't say very easily now.
- That's my hypothesis, anyway. Who knows what other interesting
- things might be discovered?
-
- I've heard that many people who are bilingual also feel that they
- have a kind of personality split -- i.e., they feel like a slightly
- different person when they are speaking their second language.
- This might make them ideal subjects for dream-personality
- personality research.
-
- (Feel like a guinea-pig yet, Maiko?)
- ---
- Michael Turner
-