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Comment author: James_Miller 03 September 2014 01:50:02AM 6 points [-]

Dreams demonstrate that our brains (and even rat brains) are capable of creating complex, immersive, fully convincing simulations. Waking life is also a kind of dream. Our consciousness exists, and is shown particular aspects of reality. We see what we see for adaptive reasons, not because it is the truth. Nerds are the ones who notice that something is off - and want to see what's really going on.

The View from Hell from an article recommended by asd.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 06 September 2014 07:08:03PM 9 points [-]

The easy way to make a convincing simulation is to disable the inner critic.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 09 September 2014 05:00:29AM 1 point [-]

The inner critic that is disabled during regular dreaming turns back on during lucid dreaming. People who have them seem to be quite impressed by lucid dreams.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 September 2014 10:17:34AM 1 point [-]

You still can't focus on stable details.

Comment author: chaosmage 12 September 2014 09:12:44AM 2 points [-]

You can with training. It is a lot like training visualization: In the beginning, the easiest things to visualize are complex moving shapes (say a tree with wind going through it), but if you try for a couple of hours, you can get all the way down to simple geometric shapes.