aha, a sisterly rejection.

"..on a beach after nuclear fallout."

priceless.

--xx--

alright, we got sidetracked with 'deja vu'



if it is dysfunction it still gives us a window on its capabilities.
--xx--

now here's an example of dysfunction: "hallucinations" w/o drugs

about 14 years ago (2002) i was living 'alone' in a 100 acre project
site planning it's revival. The power company had cut our lights.

at night, while going to sleep, the opposite wall would dissolve
and a scene from some stone age would appear,
a family of 4; a man, wife & two young kids around a cooking fire
they would all be looking towards me, expectantly like family,
waiting for me to join them for a 'mid-day' meal.

it was tempting to attempt & cross the threshold to 'their time'
something stopped me.

used to happened almost every night, 'same scenario';
so to get some sleep; i started to drinking.

much later i found out this was normal for prisoners confined in
solitude. a form of hallucination.

for me the experience was real; & may be it was a 'time mismatch'.

But to suggest dreams in similar category of dysfunctions...
--xx--

now consider musicians or scientists at work cutting off any interruptions as it would break their flow of 'creativity'
dreams come closer to this 'creative category'
only diff. is they are not predictable!!

--xx--

science may not yet have tools for precise investigations
but i think there's enough info for 'clinical' analysis & 'hypothesis'

question is no longer why do we dream.
it's how do we do it.
This is distinct from how we 'apply effort or force of will'
to imagine or visualize solutions for scientific or other problems

I agree, but that's after the dream is constructed.

Although for most of you the following is elementary,
for the record, dreams are not only assembled in 'patches' and
'fragments' but it's also revised. I believe Dr. Freud calls it the
Secondary Revision.



what's amazing is 'Secondary Revision' in my sleep( effortlessly)
in daylight; the effort would involve cups of coffee & cigarettes

there obviously are two ways to think. The dream way (free flow) and
2) the ponderous, step by step way - during daylight / reality.

An example, with Blondey's permission (in the interest of science)

i could close my eyes and conjure up a beach & Blondey beside
but the script would have a premeditated intent

on the other hand, in a dream,
i might be quite astonished by what B has to say
(have experienced characters delivering dialogues quite alien to
my nature or to the extent i had knowledge on such characters.
That has left me wondering just where did it come from?)
so in a dream, the characters play out their role with unexpected
results!!

May be the experience of deja vu could be from some dreams in the past.

--xx--

Now if we stay with the dream factory portion of our brain..


So from Wiki..we learn about 3 functions of h_campus


Hippocampus may not be contributing say more than 10% and here's
the reasoning.

1. During a dream, i'm not in control; so there's 'no slamming in the brakes' function.

2. Memory: memory of scenarios are, i believe distributed all over the cortex. If it were in Hippocampus it would remain for the long term(?)

3. Space: Spatial memory does not appear as a dominant feature
in dreams. Yes, we have 3D scenes but 'navigating' through them
(which is what is proscribed as the 3rd function of H_campus)
does not appear critical to many dreams.

--xx--

all this leads to a theory that during sleep, for some distressing to occur; each compartment of the brain 'gives up' some fragment of
information it is holding. But that sounds like junk clearance.

ok, may be some junk removal is necessary before coherent dreams can occur. It's also supported by the fact that the more coherent dreams
seem to occur just before we wake up. So after junk is removed we are left with probably our stronger desires
(repressed wishes as per Dr. F)

--xx--

Assuming we now have the motive for our dream plot ready,
and assuming there is a natural tendency for the brain to realize
it (as per Dr. F)

the question now refines to: who or where is the 'Action / Direction' commandeered from?

Even if it is 'id' running the show with Ego under sleep;
(as seems to be the suggestion from Igor)
where is id located? One would presume that clinical science would have located id by now considering the routine measures of brain activities they take on patients in sleep.

it appears to me like Dad assigning his kid the lawn mover while he takes a nap. So either we find out which parts of the brain is 'napping' while the dream is going on
or
which parts are hyperactive during sleep.

-- long post -- thinking aloud.
---xxx-----

aah, running back to the beach with my melting brain.
Blondey, wait!!

hanging around on the beach with you,
with a brain already melted to puddle..?

||| couldn't find the medical term for such conditions |||

ok, so i copy image locations within [.img] ..[./img] (w/o the dot)
and quite often, (as recently) the image balloons outside normal page width.

i think it would help us a ton if we could reduce the size using bb code. isn't this possible?

i don't know if it's just me but women look enchanting sideways.

the screen for our dreams could be the same area where our real world visuals are re-projected. i.e., back of the head.

as a layman, here's what i got from the net

It seems to me that as we get older we see dreams as a movie, a full production. Unexpected story lines, unexpected endings (if we are not jolted out of it by some clock alarms).

We have all been hearing about brain mapping - compartments where functions are clustered; like the famous speech center: Broca's Brain.

There's some recent insights from John Hopkins. It appears that Broca's area is a speech 'planner' and 'adjuster'.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/brocas_area_is_the_brains_scriptwriter_shaping_speech_study_finds

So it may not be wrong to presume that during our dream state Broca's Area is active. If so, like the dialogue deliverer, there must be an image planner. The visuals that cascade so smoothly in our dreams.

And coordinating these two centers must be a director; synchronizing dialogs and visuals to some story line. Call it the Hitchcock center.

The moment i wake up, the dream gets trivialized. This leads me to think that a Hitchcock Center exists, and he hijacks my brain while i sleep.

Am i wrong?

The following info could have been posted in our Zika thread but as the threat is turning to a real attack i say, we shake of old formalities and some of us who can; lets take stations.

for instance, i'm trying to keep the media in India alert.



Reason for highlighting is because this is not ‘just like HIV / Aids’. In Aids people died, children died and for some, a bit of us died with each one of them.

In the case of Zika, the baby born ‘looks like a human’, but may not be technically a human baby(!!)

ok, we understand, but allow me to articulate: "with Zika, the human potential is killed during the baby's development."



It would be logical to presume that a Zika virus attack on the brain would come to full force during this final stages. In other words, not only is the territory of the brain reduced: a smaller brain; but the capital that distinguishes man from animal; the frontal lobe; is consumed. (my opinion)

Needless to say, babies born so are like ships without captains; adrift for the rest of their life.

footnote:
anything that hits US today; hits the world tomorrow.

--xx--
if we look at any epidemic, it starts as an S-Curve.
slow first and then exponential!!

what we are seeing is the lower end of the S.
then it goes bizarre.

Requesting Sassy for validations.

15 minutes?
that's because he stops for directions
a slow ghost.

You are right, a man made document

Mr. Thomas Paine said a similar thing in 1791 on Rights of Man
those days, the French had overthrown their King

but some of his chilling words apply to Islam particularly:
"""binding and confining all posterity (your children and
their children) to the end of time."""

hahaha
if you were kidnapped in India or,
arrested for say DUI, flirting or something silly..by the local police

Washington would promptly apply sanctions on India.
not a joke.

thanks love,
your appreciation means a lot to me.


Jai

the joke didn't come out the way originally intended.
(that's another joke)

wicked comments to Jai?
yup; screen freezes.

it appears to me that a criminal mind at the beginning
works like a salesman. (at the beginning)

this psycho, if he's taking effort to come back with different names,
then he must be 'playing' on quite a few girls from Istanbul.
& if he's playing, he must be in the 20s or so:
a kid, a 'ba-chha' as we say in Hindi;
so needs handling carefully

Now apart from reporting: which of course one must not give up
so that doors keep closing on him & he tires out

i suggest following defensive driving:

1. reduce the number of profile pictures.
both you girls are so lovely, 2 pictures ok to interest any man
(i'm not saying 4 pictures attract a psycho
but as a line of thought, maybe)

2. Under interests: instead of writing music - detail it;
as an Indian i may write classicals raga bhairava

understand, a psycho who admires his own tool may not be able to
comprehend higher stuff.

instead of animals, suggest veterinary interests;
or 'i have a giraffe in my farm' that should dismay a psycho
(when the right man turns up, tell him he was the giraffe u were
waiting for)

simple changes (& some more) but i think you get the drift.

remember, attracting psycho means that you are attracting failures
the next step attracting successful men
is not so hard now.

problem with successful men are: their ego-s
if your description also has some ego in it,
(or warnings );
heaven cannot help you

and single men in their 40s, 50s get fewer;
so patience is a must.
& experiments.

Say you like a stranger in M2 what sort of ice breaker would you use?

it finally dawned on me; as i read some agony from a few new comers (wouldn't work for overseas guys like me)..

so here's the filter.

"Dear Ms xyz,
after reading your brilliant and
courageous profile (if she shows her neckline)

i believe you would have drawn to conclusions on whether
Mr. Trump could bring the necessary changes to our system which
his supporters feel has remained grounded for years"

i used to use the shoe salesman line,

"you look fantastic
what size are you?"

3 years wasted.

There was an overlap between your post & mine.
will do it your way, now.
thanks

Facebook - ok some individuals clustering
'freedom of speech'?
like myself in M2
In India, I could still be at risk,
we are still opening up.

but institutions?
UK's Guardian runs articles om Mr. T
as if he were contesting for their monarchy.

the link is just one from their series.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/democracy-is-a-joke-says-china-just-look-at-donald-trump

Indian news, repeat US media & mention source
ok, as long as source is stated it's news networking

But what's with the Guardian?

Lahore Pakistan is quite close to Indo-Pak border.
relationships are risky business here.

try it once,
then other options / alternates kick in.

i think Manturkey1 could validate
or tell us a better way.

don't quite agree with the ladies so a longer explanation
2 case studies from long ago
(one in Rich, Va & 2nd in Bangalore)

Case 1: was an unhappily married woman hooking up a married colleague
guy had the prettiest and sensible wife
the guy quit later; for a career & a future

slightly
now i had some interest in this lady who was married w/ no kids
but by the time she came around to me; 2 years later
she had already worked through all eligible colleagues
and by the time she came around to me
the big boss (owner) was informed by her ex-lover
and nipped it before it started (story of my life)

Case 2: was in India,
guy looked like a star (married with 2 young girls)
and i saw young working women throw themselves at him

in fact, being a pal he took me with him to one of the offices
to intro e to someone
and all the girls clustered around him
me, an eligible bachelor - sitting alone, trying not to watch

this guy's wife - fair looking (trusted me like a brother)
knew all about it. yet she adored him (and what a good cook).

He was a good friend of mine but his career
always a good start; went to rocks
it was a mystery how they survived as a family w/ 2 kids
then the house wife started working; did well after initial
adjustments; in fact for some mysterious reasons she started
to look even better than those other girls
may be it was classiness emerging or something.
---- ---
met their daughters recently (all grown up & great in every way)
--xx--

it appears you are married to a rock star and so..

Now when he says he has to learn 'how to fall in love again'
It could mean anything: a late realization of what a strong home
you have built for him; or something else.
i presume the former.

checked your profile, doesn't say much but it reminded me of case 2.

now for case 3: are you sure he's having an affair
or is it some mild flirt? some men are dumb / gallant types.
women become insecure & men don't realize it till late

as a member said: it's your life
but the difficult part is detaching and looking at oneself
starting up some creative shanges
and Lo, a rainbow...
just sharing.