~~ Now I'm free to see the world ~~

Hey, how's it going?

They say that dreams are real only as long as they last.
Can't you say the same thing about life?
              
A lot of us out there are mapping that mind/body relationship of dreams.
We're called the oneironauts. We're explorers of the dream world.
Really, it's just about the two opposing states of consciousness...
which don't really oppose at all.
              
See, in the waking world,  
the neuro-system inhibits the activation of the vividness of memories.

This makes evolutionary sense.
It'd be maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator...
to be mistaken for the memory of one and vice-versa.
If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual image,
we'd be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary thought.
So you have these serotonic neurons... that inhibit hallucinations...
that they themselves are inhibited during REM sleep..

This allows dreams to appear real...
while preventing competition from other perceptual processes.
This is why dreams are mistaken for reality.

To the functional system of neural activity that creates our world,
there is no difference between dreaming a perception and an action...
and actually the waking perception and action.

I had a friend once who told me that - the worst mistake that you could make - is to think that you are alive...