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How much physical feeling do you have in a dream? | |||||||
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I dunno why but I thought you aren’t supposed to be able to feel physical touch or taste stuff within a dream. Thinking back on recent dreams, this is not true for me.
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 3:36PM | View TUBSWEETIE's Profile | # | ||||||
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I often confuse my dreams for things that happened in real life. It ****es me off. Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 3:47PM | View Bill_Murray_Fan_...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Throughout my dreams, i always seem to subvert any time of physical feeling through one method or another, I wake up just before it becomes inevitable. |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 4:03PM | View dobnits's Profile | # | ||||||
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 4:03PM | View ChilePepino's Profile | # | ||||||
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I’ve heard that it’s supposed to be impossible to read in a dream – that the part of your brain concerned with recognising words is in the opposite hemisphere from where dreaming originates, but I’m sure I’ve seen recognisable words before.
Could be that, whilst dreaming, not all of your brain is active, so what you can do in-dream depends on what areas are ‘switched on’ during the dream. Pain or the expectation thereof might be enough of a jolt to wake you up though… maybe the same with any sensation. I think I’ve had limited sensation in a dream before, but the only specific example I can remember was just the last little bit of a dream before I woke up so the dream and waking reality might have been merging into each other. |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 5:49PM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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I can never feel in my dreams, though sometimes i can realize its a dream, upon which i wake up. |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 6:19PM | View Joseph of Suburb...'s Profile | # | ||||||
You are not sensing in a dream but you can experiance the sensation of sensing. In normal operation the brain works like this: senses -> identifying -> filtering -> puting into context -> reaction -> physical movment But in a dream this is: memmory -> putting into context -> reaction -> mental movment
Even if you realy have no physical fealing in a dream the brain does not know that because it gets stimulated like normal.
It is worth mentioning that you are not recording memmory in a dream. All memmory is confined to about 3sec of real time dream, but since your brain is using a smaler part it works faster and 3sec feels like at least 5min. |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 7:20PM | View Gnonthgol's Profile | # | ||||||
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Gnonthgol Posted: Surely the “sensation of sensing” is a tautology – I experience sensations when I sense stuff in the real world, the only difference between dream sensations and waking sensations is that dreams don’t correspond to anything in the actual real world.
From within your own head, there is no real difference – your consciousness is presented with images or sounds or whatever that, while you’re experiencing them, seem real. It’s only when you wake up that you can look back and think “you know, it doesn’t really make sense that everything changed when I turned around, and that fish turned into a monkey”.
What’s interesting is whether dreams can draw on all forms of sensation (like touch, smell, taste etc.) or just a limited subset of what we experience when awake. If the latter, then we would be able to know for sure that we’re awake by testing those senses – sniff something or pinch yourself. If dreams can be, in effect, a complete simulation of reality then we lose the ability to distinguish and have to chalk a point up to Descartes.
tl;dr – Whether it’s coming from memories or sensory neurons, it seems the same at the time you experience it. man-man edited this message on 08/19/2009 9:40PM |
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Posted On: 08/19/2009 9:39PM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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um every one of my senses work while dreaming the only difference is i can’t think as well as when i’m awake |
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Posted On: 08/25/2009 5:09AM | View Inertia's Profile | # | ||||||
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man-man Posted:
This; a dream can seem very real, but a few seconds awake and it becomes obvious that it was a pale imitation.
Although one time I got my leg burned by a lightsaber, and it hurt for a full ten seconds after I woke up. No explanation on that one. |
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Posted On: 08/25/2009 7:42AM | View BloodyDemise's Profile | # | ||||||
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BloodyDemise Posted: I have a low-grade example of the same – one dream ended with a bear sort of pawing/scratching at me, and when I woke up I was itchy in that same spot.
Could be that the pain in your leg and my itching were happening anyway outside of the dream for whatever reason, and it got incorporated into the dream with something to explain the sensation (a lightsaber or a bear) |
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Posted On: 08/25/2009 10:07AM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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man-man Posted:
Yeah, ive had falling off my bed, and multiple songs incorporated into dreams. That is, if it doesn’t wake me up. It usually will be in a manner where something leads up to it though, which is kind of odd. |
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Posted On: 08/25/2009 9:20PM | View Joseph of Suburb...'s Profile | # | ||||||
You do not use any senses, nor do you have physical feeling in a dream. You do however, think you have senses, and think you have physical feeling. Oftentimes during a dream I can be running, feel no strain, but think I feel strain.
The bit about reading is that you can read in a dream, however if you are reading off a piece of paper, if you were to turn away and continue reading, the words would change. |
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Posted On: 08/25/2009 9:31PM | View -MLF-'s Profile | # | ||||||