[UA] More Dreamstuff

[Timothy Groth]

First a foolish offer, if enough people are interested I'll do a fairly 
long post on dreams and sleep deprivation (and pull UA tidbits out of 
it) based on new research.  Sleep and dream research was what I 
originally thought I'd do in my academic career and one of the main 
reasons I ended up in cognitive psychology.  The post will have to wait 
for late tonight or tomorrow as I'm on campus all day today.

Second I have some really fucking strange dreams.  I can classify them 
into several types.

The first are false real scenes.  These stretch from hours of tossing 
and turning that are only fictional to what seem like whole mundane 
days that are simply dreamed. The longest stretch was in my sophomore 
year of high school that included three days of boring shit.  Given how 
high school days tended to run together I wasn't able to tell that I 
was dreaming just by the amount of cuts.

The second are random weird one shots.  These are things that are just 
a sequence of really odd events.  Like driving from Boulder out into 
what appears to be a swamp/jungle area to go out to eat and ending up 
skipping along side what looks like a giant tree but turns out to be 
one huge ass angry croc (it may have been an alligator, I decided to 
wake up before I found out).    These are as close as I get to 
nightmares anymore.

The third are false motion dreams.  These tend to be about very fast 
movement with no real plot other than that and suddenly I wake up, 
generally after the motion transforms into free fall.  I feel the last 
bit of the motion leading to a rather freaked out awakening.  I haven't 
had one of these in a while.

The fourth are really really weird isolated ones.  The best example of 
this is the dream that involved two simultaneous experiences that were 
neither overlapped nor split screen.  Both were apparently happening 
and were in the same area, just two parallel mes.  They came together, 
I saw myself seeing myself seeing myself... The result was everything 
going black and me floating in nothingness thinking "So this is an 
actual dream."

Finally there are my recurring ones that occur in one huge disturbing 
city where even if the place looks different I'm always aware that it 
is the City.  I've been there in my dreams quite a lot and it has a lot 
of creepy features.  Most creepy is its vast train and subway terminal. 
  It is vast, dirty and easy to get lost in.

Anyway for anyone whose gotten to the end of this rambling e-mail some 
UA content that's not very original.  What if dreaming is a result of 
purer access to the statosphere.  With low level sensory processing 
gone the higher level functions are free to make up the story the brain 
sees and these are the parts that can experience the statosphere.  
Someone figures this out, learns to lucid dream and learns how to 
access the statosphere without being noticed.  How much can you learn 
exploring the statosphere in this way?  How long before the Archetypes 
and what ever is accompanying them find out?  And what are the 
consequences of constantly exposing yourself to the statosphere without 
being an Avatar?  Maybe Avatar channeling developed to connect with the 
statosphere safely for extended periods of time and the powers are an 
added bonus.


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