Full disclosure, I am an LD newb. Like I'm as green as you can be, just started practicing techniques last week, although I do them daily and commitedly. I have an interest in philosophy, and to get into the real juicy stuff, real logic and analytical stuff, you need to understand math and the logic of math better than I do. I only took the amount of math necessary to graduate from high school.

So lately I've been teaching myself some math, and I've begun to apply very, very basic principles of mathematical observation to my ADA and RC-- for example try to recognize angles to as close a degree as possible, if you see a spinning sign count how many seconds it takes to revolve, things of that nature. I was in a dollar store with a very regimented grid of fluorescent lights, at first I noticed the visual effect of changing my perspective and then I counted the lights in a quarter of the store and multiplied it to decide how many must have been hanging from the ceiling.

Anyway, like I said I'm a newb, but it's my understanding that the part of your brain you want to turn back on during REM is the one concerning logic and critical thinking. Am I on to something?