[UA] Dreamstuff

[James Knevitt]

> -----Original Message-----

> >What really annoys me, though, is sleep paralysis and
> dreams of waking.

> Oh man, those are TERRIBLE!  Especially if, like me, you
> periodically have
> bouts of insomnia.  I know for a fact that there are times
> I've been sound
> asleep, but dreaming that I was lying in bed wide awake
> WORRYING ABOUT NOT
> GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP.  (Pull THAT bad melonfarmer on your local
> oneiromancer.)

I'm often lying awake in bed with my girlfriend telling me about her
day, and all of a sudden she'll elbow me in the ribs and promptly tell
me I was snoring, even though it seems to me I was wide awake and
conscious of every word I heard. This is a perfect example of
microsleep behaviour, which is the major cause of sleep-related road
fatalities.


ObUA: What happens when, in a microsleep, you enter a dream-state? You
seem like you're awake, and then the wierd stuff happens. Are you
still awake? Are you asleep? Are you somehow at a consciousness level
beyond awake? Are you dead?

James

"We is mad. Mad as hatters. Rich as Nazis!"
- my girlfriend, after too much wine


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