You're brain functions like that all the time. Sometime just randomly making stuff up to fill in for blank slots in memory. Extracting previous memories and compiling them to create new images while unconscious isn't too far out of whack.
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Also maybe you have seen these people but was not aware of it at the time.All my dreams I have people I know and don't know but I have a feeling that I will met them or had already.
I think its deaper than we may think it is. I often dream very real things, where I can smell the air, plants and other things of places I have never bean before. Not only that but the odd effect of perceiving things from the viewpoint of a dot of conscienceness, ie experiencing everything arround me, and not arround me at the same time. Very odd.
all of those "real world" experience are only so vivid because of our perceptual systems. We do not experience the world around us, but reconfigure sensory information to produce a representation of that world.
Because these same sensory modalities are active during our dreams, it is percieved just as vividly.
see, the one that gets me are people who claim they see colours that don't exist in nature when they hallucinate. This sort of implies that our sensory neurons can fire in such a way that, while dreaming or hallucinating or whatever, we may actually be able to experience sensory phenomena that would never be activated by real world stimuli. maybe that isn't as amazing or trippy to you, but to me it blows my mind.
There was just another study that came out about how we sort of "see it when we believe it". I take that they're suggesting that the brain guesses about an object and then starts fixing that guess while you keep looking.
interesting study, especially as it is expanding stuff to the FFA. Not to just shit on it or anything, but that type of "top-down" priming has been known for a while now, and can even be seen in the lowest levels of feature detection. very interesting, though, not entirely unexpected as the article makes it sound. No serious vision researchers take "feature detection" models that seriously these days.
My personal view is that the distinction between "top down" and "bottom up" is entirely ficticious, but that is a very technical rant...
You can see this kind of "filling in" in a few other situations:
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so, the image seems ambigious at first, because there are no triggers for the "top-down" part of your brain to fill in the identity of what you are looking at. However, once you see it, the ambiguity goes away entirely. I can't look at the image any more without instantly seeing what is there, even though there has been no addition of information. It is just that top down correction and filling in that allows you to know what you are looking at.
Dreams are said to be the projected result of processing and re-ordering the amount of input your brain has to face each day. Conscious experiences, memories, emotions and also your imagination.
This vast catolog of data can make anything possible in your dreams, just imagine how many faces you see during week that you can't recall later, while your brain has stored a great deal of these images in the 'temporary files folder'.
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Which leads to the interesting questio is why do we needs sleep, is it because of dreams and the ordering of info process. Ive heard if you donīt get enough sleep you can die.
The bodymind totality that is each of us needs to deal with two environments for optimal health: the exterior and interior. When we're awake, we deal mainly with the exterior. When we're asleep, we deal mainly with the interior. As we fall asleep/awaken, attention -- dedicated energy, so to speak -- shifts from one to the other.
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An abstract sort of philosophical reason is very unlikely. If we had to sleep in order to sort out the issues in our life then we would expect to find simple "low level" animals (lacking such long term or abstract concerns) that have no need for sleep, but instead we find that everything with a brain sleeps.
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Yeah, just read a study (had many faults) about "tricking" peoples' eyes to see colors that "don't exist."
On top of that, there's ways to make colors appear "more colorful" by overstimulating our "brain" to certain colors and making other colors more vivid: green grass becomes really green if you are walking on a really bright red or pink road...when you stare at the road for a bit, and then at the grass, the grass seems absurdly green.
I find that fun.
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according to the text book for a course I am TA-ing, sleep does play a big role in the consolidation of long term memories. It might be like a "defreag" process for memories.
obviously it also plays a role in bodily regeneration, which would explain why animals without complex cognitive structures would still need it, and I think everything with a brain has long term memory (?)
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well, you certainly aren't tricking the eyes. The eyes only have 3 colour receptive detectors, that work in an on/off manner. They can't really be tricked. It would be either in V1 or some later colour processing area (maybe V4....(?)) [the V means Visual cortex]. The reason it is possible we might see "non-real" colours would be because it is theoretically possible that some mechanism would cause those cells to activate in ways nature can't produce through the eyes.
ya, this is much different. After the eyes, there are what are called "opponent process" pathways. Its the same reason that if you look at a green object for a while, then look at a white wall, you will see an afterimage of that object, only in red. Green vs red, blue vs yellow, black vs white (though, this last one is more used for the perception of motion vs the perception of colour).
So, if you used a blue road, you wouldn't get as powerful of an effect, if you got one at all, because blue uses a different opponent pathway than green.
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