I don't dream and when I do they are usually mundane like going to work. Which makes me sleep in as I think I am already heading to work
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8 hours sleep? I wish... As I get older sleep become an elusive thing.
Anyone who says this doesn't know what "coma" means. Or "lucid" for the matter
The natural selection implications for dream amnesia are wild.
What do you mean, care to elaborate?
My 100% BS conjectures are:
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to save energy versus committing the dream to long term memory
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to facilitate childhood/adolescent development, as object permanence is learned you need the external world to be the consistent one. You can't waste energy learning to adapt to the worlds in your dreams in later childhood.
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as adults dream amnesia can help avoid relived or newly generated trauma incurred as the begin processes your external experience.
Idk, there's lots of possible benefits. In not about to do the research paper deep dive. But the wild part is that dreaming developed and the mechanism for not remembering the dreams also developed and there was a selective pressure for that to be the case.
Yeah it's super interesting to think about, thanks for explaining!
Look at the guy who sleeps 8 hours a night and also have dreams, I wish I would have that luxury
What more proof do you need that materialism is bullshit?
Capital won't care about dreams until they can inject commercials, propaganda, etc.
Luckily the dream state is still one of the few remaining surrealist safe places to us humans.
I have had only a few vivid, real feeling dreams that have stuck with me for years. Do I know what they mean, nope. Do I wish I had more of them... yes. Working on improving my sleep in the last year or so. I think my average sleep time actually got a few mins. shorter. Oops.
8 hours sounds nice. I usually manage about 4 or 5
Obligatory sleep hacks from a person who loves sleep:
- Clean bedsheets
- No phone in bed
- Same sleep time every day
- Same wake time every day
- Exercise during the day
- No lights in the room. No LEDs, no street lights
- White noise
If you do any one of these your sleep will improve. If it doesn't, I give you full permission to flame me and my dog.
This concept is known as "sleep hygiene" if anyone wants to read further.
no way. sleep is great but sleeping in is glorious.
I have slept many nights, on average about once a day for many years. In my experience, it's the routine that has the most effect. I know it's super difficult to maintain but going to bed and waking up same time everyday is the key.
Don't have children
What does your poor dog have to do with this?
Ear plugs have been a life saver for me. I can't sleep without them now, fortunately they sell them in huge containers so I only have to buy them like every year and half.
Do you put in a fresh pair every night?
No, I just keep them in a clean spot and they last about a week before they start looking dingy. Then I use a new pair.
I don't get a lot of earwax though so someone who's ears make more will probably have to change them more frequently.
White noise is critical and underrated.
Human memories are stored in flesh
Flesh has to be replaced constantly
When you sleep your memories are being copied and reallocated to new flesh, the things you experience in dreams are just a series of incredibly losely related themes and concepts. In general human memory searching relies on association of concepts rather than any sorted lists or some other silly inorganic solution.
Flesh has to be replaced constantly
That's more than a tad inaccurate.
Some tissues live a lot longer than others but as a general statement it holds true.
EDIT: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0375-9.epdf
I believe this to. Like ram being transfered to slower media but filtered, parsed, etc to keep the important parts.
That sounds cool, but I don't think it's strictly true.
Memories that have many pathways won't be lost due to a few broken pathways and are reinforced with further experience: learning or remembering.
Others are simply gone with neurons dying or the pathways getting severed.
Neurogenesis doesn't happen as much in adults, they're the longest living cells in our bodies - adult neurons last a lifetime
I boiled down the complex neurological system of organic memory in living beings down to a paragraph, of course there is room for a lot of nuance and sophistry.
Jokes on you, I dream maybe few times per year. And I remember times when I didn't dream about anything for years.
I certainly rarely remember dreams especially in adulthood.
I tend to only remember a dream for a minute or two if I have any.
But, well actually there's one thing that I always remember - that most of them are fucked up. I don't remember why, though.
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