Many Questions

[chzplz]

I started reading about dreams on the Internet, and I came across something I didn't get. I decided to write down the question. While writing the question, another one popped into my head, so on and so forth, until I had this list of questions. I thought it wood be good to ask them all in place, so in case someone has the same question, they could find the answerer. And if there was an answer on here, sorry, I couldn't find it. The questions will be numbered, so it'll help if you number your answers accordingly. Thanks a whole bunch! ^_^ 1.What causes us to loose our dreams immediately after getting up from bed, despite the fact they could have been the most exciting and breathtaking experiences? 2.What causes our brains to paralyze the body during a dream? 3.What makes our eyes the exception to this rule? 4. Does our brain realize that we're dreaming? 5. Does our brain add emotions, sensations, and feelings to aid us in our dream experience? 6. If so, why? Does our brain accomplish something by making us believe that we are still in reality in a dream? 7. To what extent can our brain push our body to make the dream seem real? 8. Is it possible for the brain to push too hard, and do harm to us? 9. Why doesn't real pain from the outside wake you up? Why does it merely incorporate it into a dream? Shouldn't real pain cause the brain to wake you up to tend to it? (See my latest dream for an example in my dream journal.) 10. Can the brain be distracted by your dreams? 11. What turns off in your brain that allows you to accept such oddities in dreams? 12. Does your brain see these oddities and accept them as reality, or as something from the imagination? 13. What physically changes when you realize you're in a lucid dream? 14. When you are dreaming, what is it that locks you as a third person, and just lets you watch from afar, having no control? 15. Do foods, or deprivement of food effect your dreams? 16. Does our physical state effect our dreams? I.E. Sickness 17. What about our emotional state? IE Stress, depression 18. Is it possible to start off lucid in a dream? 19. If you have a conversation with someone in a lucid dream, where are his or her words coming from? You? Your expectations of what they should say? 20. Don't all results that occur in a lucid dream come from expectation? 21. What makes lucid dream sometimes appear more realistic, colorful, and more alive tan real life? Well, that's all of them. I hope all of them can be answered. Thanks a whole lot guys.

[LucidDreamGod]

1. Usualy becouse we don't wake up right after them, or the alarm clock can make it happen. 2. It is to protect you from acting out your dreams (your brain usualy just cuts off your control, not much else to it I think) 3. the eyes can't really couse any harm. 4. No or else your brain couldn't give you adrinalin rushes in dreams disigned to help you in RL 5. it just feels what it expects to feel 6. well your body's asleep your mind is awake and thinking, it creates everything you feel in the daytime, so if you do something in a dream it thinks your awake so it makes you feel that. 7. As real as it gets, your brain makes it so you can see what you see in real life, it can make you see it well your asleep even though it's not really there. (at least thats my oppinoin) 8. Like make it too real, I don't think so, only harm it could do is if your really old on the verge of a heart attack and fall of a building at light speed, and thats just a rumor. 9. Like I said the brain thinks your awake. 10. you mean by loud noises or something? 11. commen sense 12. yes 13. the only thing is you know it's not real, not much else I think. 14. you're kind of in a 3rd person well awake, other then that not realy sure 15. yes, look up B6, also check this out http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...showtopic=6777 16. don't think so, you might dream your sick. 17. stress has a bad effect on dream recall, clearity of mind ofcourse helpes it. 18. yes I've done it, just relise it as soon as you start 70% of the time for me. 19. your expection, you may not have control of it, low dream control results in intresting conversation, coause you don't know what they will say, I had dreams were I pordicted what they would say. 20. yes, and your level to control that expectation (dream control) 21. some people (most to a degree) have a bad sense of color and are somewhat color blind, the mind doesn't have these boundrys well dreaming, and it is aloud to become more intense There, hope that helps

[Howie]

I started reading about dreams on the Internet, and I came across something I didn't get. I decided to write down the question. While writing the question, another one popped into my head, so on and so forth, until I had this list of questions. I thought it wood be good to ask them all in place, so in case someone has the same question, they could find the answerer. And if there was an answer on here, sorry, I couldn't find it. The questions will be numbered, so it'll help if you number your answers accordingly. Thanks a whole bunch! ^_^ 1.What causes us to loose our dreams immediately after getting up from bed, despite the fact they could have been the most exciting and breathtaking experiences? The area of memory storage for dreams is stored in our short term memory. Couple that with the variety of conscious levels we experience to and from dreaming add to this. 2.What causes our brains to paralyze the body during a dream? A natural process so we do not physically act out our dreams = SP. No punches thrown etc. 3.What makes our eyes the exception to this rule? I don't know??? 4. Does our brain realize that we're dreaming? Our brain believes that a dream is a real experience during the dream. A lucid dream constitutes us coming to the actual realization that we are dreaming DURING the dream. 5. Does our brain add emotions, sensations, and feelings to aid us in our dream experience? That is a theoretical question. 6. If so, why? Does our brain accomplish something by making us believe that we are still in reality in a dream? Not sure of the question. Lucid or non lucid? 7. To what extent can our brain push our body to make the dream seem real? 8. Is it possible for the brain to push too hard, and do harm to us? No one has ever mentioned that that I am aware of. 9. Why doesn't real pain from the outside wake you up? Why does it merely incorporate it into a dream? Shouldn't real pain cause the brain to wake you up to tend to it? (See my latest dream for an example in my dream journal.) I believe if the pain is significant enough, you will wake up. 10. Can the brain be distracted by your dreams? While you are awake or in the dream. To some degree I think yes to both cases. 11. What turns off in your brain that allows you to accept such oddities in dreams? Turns off? More like turns on. Your awareness of your state. I do not know of the actual changes in the brain that occur from a physicians point. 12. Does your brain see these oddities and accept them as reality, or as something from the imagination? This depends on the person. Often the one who can see these as oddities has a good chance at lucid dreaming. You can train you mind to be aware of these differences. 13. What physically changes when you realize you're in a lucid dream? No real physical changes occur on the outside . Unless you consider your state of consciousness being in that realm. 14. When you are dreaming, what is it that locks you as a third person, and just lets you watch from afar, having no control? Then you watch ..from my experience. 15. Do foods, or deprivement of food effect your dreams? Many claim vitamins, supplements, herbs and drugs can have a profound effect. 16. Does our physical state effect our dreams? I.E. Sickness. I believe it can. again many variables. Nutrition, body temp to name just a few. 17. What about our emotional state? IE Stress, depression - In lucid dreams often what you focus on can be the center of attention. This has variables depending on your own emotional state and the dream content itself. 18. Is it possible to start off lucid in a dream? Yes. This would occur via a WILD or HIT technique 19. If you have a conversation with someone in a lucid dream, where are his or her words coming from? You? Your expectations of what they should say? To many theories out on this one. (I believe they are manifested by ourselves. But the dream scene will actively play out with or with our you.) 20. Don't all results that occur in a lucid dream come from expectation? Not likely. Even with very very good dream control there will still be an ongoing dream scene playing out. Total control can be achieved to manipulate the entire scene. 21. What makes lucid dream sometimes appear more realistic, colorful, and more alive tan real life? Well, that's all of them. I hope all of them can be answered. Thanks a whole lot guys. The fact you are conscious brings many of these dream experiences to the forefront of your memory. Just like being conscious in waking life. [/b] All these questions can be answered in greater detail from the Tutorials and the many posts that are in the forum via a search.

[triffidfood]

11. What turns off in your brain that allows you to accept such oddities in dreams?[/b] What turns off (during REM sleep) are the neurotransmitters Serotonin & Noradrenaline (NE). When we're awake, these give us our awareness & our consciousness (of ourselves), and our ability to question things & consider things critically. They also help us to lay down new memories (which is why we remember things that happen to us when we're awake much more easily than we do when we're dreaming). That's why, if you increase your Serotonin/ NE levels @ night (by eating cheese, peanuts, banana, chocolate .. etc.. or by taking supplements like L-Tyrosine, L-Tryptophan or St John's Wort ... or even slapping on a nicotine patch ), you're much more likely to remember your dreams & also more likely to become aware that you are dreaming (become lucid). That's kinda the theory anyway.

[chzplz]

Thanks, but some questions were not answered. If anybody could give me details on the following questions, I'd appreciate it a lot! 3, 5, 6 (If you are in lucid or not, it doesn't mater), 7, 8, 9 (see my 8-16 dream), 14, 19, 20, 21.