My experience is that when I'm working on training my capacity for sustained attention (which I do for a few months every few years), I frequently experience dreams in which I either start being critical of the dream-logic (thereby typically ending the dream), or have two simultaneous independent tracks of narrative, one of which follows dream logic and one of which doesn't. (For example, I will frequently have dreams in this state where I'm in a social setting and interacting with other people, where my interactions depend on not knowing certain things which I somehow know that I don't know. I've often tried to reproduce this dual-narrative state in my waking life, with no success.)
The relationship between this and LW-rationality is not clear to me. If I had to guess, I'd say they're related only by being in the same cluster of interests.
Given how much you have learned of the techniques of rationality, of Bayesian updates and standard of evidence, of curiosity being the first virtue and being willing to update your beliefs... have any of your dreams been affected by them?
The reason I ask; I'm reading the entirely of the Sequences, and am about an eighth of the way through. And I've just woken from a dream whose plot was somewhat unusual. I had noticed some mildly strange animals and/or people, and upon trying to find out what was going on, discovered a small riverside camp of people who fell well outside what I understood to be the realm of human variation. The person I had started investigating with then claimed to be a god, or if I preferred, a vastly powerful and intelligent alien entity, and offered to do something to prove it to me. I remembered that I had once established for myself a standard of evidence for exactly this sort of question - the growth of a new, perfectly functional limb, in a way outside of present medical understanding... and in a few moments, my dream-self was the possesser of a nice, long tail. I had not been expecting that to happen, and noticed I was extremely confused, and deliberately raised my estimate of the probability that I really was talking to a god-like figure by some number of decibans. At the end of the dream, said deity-figure said that he would offer to split us off from his 'main project', on a few conditions - one of which was 'no more clues', since he had given us 'more than enough to figure out what's going on'... ... whereupon I questioned a few things, and immediately woke up.
I don't recall having a dream of anything like that sort before - and I dream in understandable narrative plots so often that I sometimes dream sequels. So I'm curious; is this a normal sort of thing that happens to LessWrongians?