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- From: eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com (Erik Radmall)
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- Subject: Re: dream genesis
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.194111.16236@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:41:11 GMT
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- In article 0@elara.esl.acs.cmu.edu, Ken Zuroski <kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu> () writes:
- >Hm. Well, here's what happened to me the other night.
- >
- >Now, it would be enormously coincidental that I would cry out right at the
- >exact moment in which a sound effect was needed in my wife's dream. But the
- >only other answer is that I cried out first and my wife built all or part
- >of a dream around that stimulus. In other words, she heard some sort of
- >a cry of anguish and then had to conjure a scenario in her head in which
- >that made sense. This made me wonder if ALL dreams are this way: they
- >are a response to stimuli we hear while we sleep, or perhaps are responses
- >to things we think of as we sleep. It's only in retrospect that we think
- >that the dream had a more normal, linear time flow. After all, time sort
- >of turns off when we sleep anyhow; who knows in what other way the
- >brain and reinterpret the sensation of time.
- >
- >What do you think? Is this something that's well-understood?
- >
- >Ken
-
- This is a common enough phenomenon with most people I've talked to about
- it. It seems that the mind does have a way of propagating time backwards
- in dreams to suit an external stimulus. I recall reading an article about
- this somwhere, but I don't have any sources handy.
-