PrometheanFaun comments on Better Rationality Through Lucid Dreaming - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 October 2013 11:34:52PM 0 points [-]

A frequently quoted one is to try to read or write text and pay attention to the individual words (rather than just the "general gist"). I don't lucid dream, but I've certainly had the experience of being frustrated during dreams by having text shift around as I try to read or write it. (I have no idea if I would have had this experience before being primed for it by being told to expect it.)

Comment author: PrometheanFaun 26 October 2013 03:35:59AM 0 points [-]

That doesn't answer the question? I'm pretty sure a honed attentiveness to the consistency of text wouldn't raise my overall sanity waterline.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 October 2013 03:49:49AM 0 points [-]

That's an excellent point. I must admit, the whole premise that noticing reality-check-violations in my dream-scenarios has some relation to "my overall sanity waterline" (whatever that is) completely fails to resonate with me, so in retrospect it seems I just collapsed the criterion to noticing reality-check-violations in dream scenarios more generally... thereby, as you observe, failing to answer the question. Oops! Thanks for pointing that out.