AdeleneDawner comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 13 May 2011 05:36:10PM *  3 points [-]

How sure are you that you have no conscious experience while asleep (in contrast to merely having no recollection of conscious experience)?

I'm moderately sure that I do have conscious experience while I'm asleep, actually, and I don't just mean dreams. I've woken up in introspective mode and caught the tail end of some rather complicated thought processes often enough to be of the opinion that sleep is mostly a matter of using particular kinds of thought that can't be stored in a way that's compatible with waking modes.

Comment author: DavidM 13 May 2011 08:51:57PM 0 points [-]

I wonder if this is a common denominator among people who have meditated or otherwise gotten beyond stage four. Would be interesting to hear what regular folks think about consciousness during sleep.