{"id":40010,"date":"2019-06-28T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=40010"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:00:11","slug":"dreams-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=40010","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>During awakeness, the mind wanders but is bound by sensory inputs from the environment, but also (at times) guided by conscious thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During sleep, with no such constraints, wandering may go in widely diverse directions since no coherent scaffold is here to tame it. only when one awakes does he realize consciously the content of dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line may be blurred when an exterior event triggers awakening and gets &#8220;incorporated&#8221; in the dream trip; this may also happen with sleep walking&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Your actions and perceptions are thoughts, both when you act them or gain them, and when you merely run them as virtual reality shows in your mind, as in dreams or day-dreams<\/p><cite>Koenderink, in &#8220;Between Sentience and Sapience&#8221;, Clootclans press<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Such an erratic wandering of thoughts is thus potentially present at all times. It may be focused on a specific theme when the mind is subjected to a repetitive task for an extended amount of time, as on a deadline. The &#8220;obsessed&#8221; thoughts are thus bothering the subject at all times, day and night, unveiling the common dream experience between dreams and wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taking of psychedelic drugs may also affect the &#8220;scaffold&#8221; of senses and consciousness. The latter may thus not be expanded but instead freed of its control\/guiding purpose and turned into a mere observer of the dream trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But dreams and hallucinations also rely on the scaffold to a smaller degree, in that they incorporate past experience with the world the agent is atunet to. They are more than a mere replay, though. What is really lacking is coherence between successive actions in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The World\u2013Body\u2013Mind TRINITY is my notion of a \u201csentient animal\u201d. There is no such a thing as the mind in vitro. That a ghostly mind might be a kosher object is a modern aberration. That a body-mind might be a kosher object is a modern aberration too. There is a great reluctance to think in terms of the World\u2013Body\u2013Mind TRINITY although this is the only notion that makes sense.<\/p><cite>Koenderink, in &#8220;Between Sentience and Sapience&#8221;, Clootclans Press<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During awakeness, the mind wanders but is bound by sensory inputs from the environment, but also (at times) guided by conscious thoughts During sleep, with no such constraints, wandering may go in widely diverse directions since no coherent scaffold is here to tame it. only when one awakes does he realize consciously the content of &#8230; <a title=\"Dreams Awake\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=40010\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dreams Awake\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40391,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40010\/revisions\/40391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}