I had one of the lucid dreams again. Damn these dreams. I started having them since I took the paliperidone jab.
This time it took me to somewhere in time where I am who I am now but I somehow have access to [to] attend a high level government meeting in the presence of MDeC.
In my presence are the high powered government ass kissers like Wan Azmi, a snob who worked with Foreign Affairs (a spy I suppose?) and my good friend Jalil who used to work for MDeC.
We were at at the front yard of a building where the meeting was held. On my left, there was this giant odd looking structure that looked like a skeleton of a wooden ship that is simply called 33.3. It sits on the patio of the building.
On my right was Jalil and a car *th[e] looked like a Ford Mustang.
* LOL seriously honey this is a weird dream even for me but it is very lucid
Pretty much like this one but that car is a compact sedan:
It's the boxy Mustang from the rear. Certainly a muscle car:
Obviously it is Malaysian made. I asked Jalil if he bought the car. He said it is a prototype and he was assigned to do product testing on it.
I asked, how much is it selling? He said RM50 k. I can't believe what I heard. It is cheaper than my car which I bought for RM55 k.
So I had a closer look and found out that it is a convertible, meaning the rooftop get tucked in the trunk mechanically like the Mercedes convertible:
Now, honey one thing about these lucid dreams is that everything is so vivid like I am watching a movie or a You Tube video.
The steering is like I never seen before. Its a pair of slightly concave rods parallel to one another that the driver holds like he is holding to a pair of tiny railings.
I was curious. I asked Jalil what's the deal here. He said he is looking for agents to promote and sell this car. I mused that there is no problem selling this car at that price.
The problem is not about becoming an agent but to funnel the prospects to the salesman, in this case me because I am keen to sell it. Without the proper funnel many salespeople will compete for the same pool of prospects.
I then asked how much is the mileage I can get per liter. He said it is 5 km/liter. Straight away I got up from the sleep. THAT IS RIDICULOUS! My car is 13 km/liter.
That's it I said, the car is not selling LMAO.
What I'm trying to point out to you here is how vivid are these dreams. I cannot afford to sleep late honey. I cannot afford to have intermittent sleeps because of them.
Remember last night when I slept early my dream was still lucid but it was fun. In this dream I have to make DECISIONS.
I wish I can get rid of these dreams and have an uninterrupted sleep.
Fuck the lucid dreams.
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On a serious note, I only sleep soundly nowadays if I exercise. Otherwise I wake up in the middle of the night because my brain is still awake.
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What can I say baby, Garbage In Garbage Out. I watched Chedet's speech last night before I stayed late to read my Blog. Because of that my mind got tangled in External Affairs. Sure enough because of GIGO I got steamed up over nothing on Chedet's political decision and that led to this dream.
What is it about paliperidone that cause these dreams?
This is what I found out.
Lucid dreaming – when you are aware you are dreaming – is a hybrid state between sleeping and being awake. It creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain that have similarities to the patterns made by psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia. Confirming links between lucid dreaming and psychotic conditions offers potential for new therapeutic routes based on how healthy dreaming differs from the unstable states associated with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
New data affirms the connection by showing that while dreaming lucidly the brain is in a dissociated state, according to Ursula Voss from the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Dissociation involves losing conscious control over mental processes, such as logical thinking or emotional reaction. In some psychiatric conditions this state is also known to occur while people are awake.
"In the field of psychiatry, the interest in patients' dreams has progressively fallen out of both clinical practice and research. But this new work seems to show that we may be able to make comparisons between lucid dreaming and some psychiatric conditions that involve an abnormal dissociation of consciousness while awake, such as psychosis, depersonalisation and pseudoseizures." said the workshop's convenor Silvio Scarone, from the Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan, Italy.
Meanwhile, the previously discredited idea of treating some conditions with dream therapy has attracted interest from clinicians. An example is *people suffering from nightmares can sometimes be treated by training them to dream lucidly so they can consciously wake up.
* I don't have problem waking up. I normally continue sleeping because I want to [want] the end of the story which normally ended in a weird unsatisfied way. Usually it's a dark ending with me feeling disgusted. Seldom it is a satisfactory conclusion.
"On the one hand, basic dream researchers could now apply their knowledge to psychiatric patients with the aim of building a useful tool for psychiatry, reviving interest in patients' dreams," continues Scarone. "On the other hand, neuroscience investigators could explore how to extend their work to psychiatric conditions, using approaches from sleep research to interpret data from acute psychotic and dissociated states of the brain-mind."
The existence of such psychotic conditions may be rooted in the evolutionary role of dreams, where dreaming is thought to have emerged to enable early humans to rehearse responses to the many dangerous events they faced in real life. Developed by Antti Revonsuo at University of Turku in Finland, if this threat simulation theory is correct it may have origins even further back in evolution, given that other mammals such as dogs also exhibit the characteristic electrical activity of dreaming.
Researchers also looked at the idea that paranoid delusions and other hallucinatory phenomena occur when the dissociative dreaming state involving replay of threatening situations is carried through into wakefulness.
"Exposure to real threatening events supposedly activates the dream system, so that it produces simulations that are realistic rehearsals of threatening events in terms of perception and behaviour," said Scarone. "This theory works on the basis that the environment in which the human brain evolved included frequent dangerous events that posed threats to human reproduction. These would have been a serious selection pressure on ancestral human populations and would have fully activated the threat simulation mechanisms."
However, dreaming is unlikely to have evolved purely to recreate threats. It may also have a role in the learning process, according to Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and dream researcher recently retired from Harvard University in the US. Contents are added while you are awake and integrated with the automatic program of dream consciousness during sleep. This works with observations that daytime learning is consolidated by night-time sleeping, leading to the phenomenon where people remember facts better the day after they have learnt them than at the time.
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Definitely there is something wrong with how my brain works. I am psychotic baby. So I cannot think too much or exert my mind.
Shit. This is a lifetime condition.
Well, if I cannot get rid of it, I try to steer it towards my favor. Instead of being a passive observer, I'll be an active participant in my dreams.
I however was THINKING when I was dreaming. I think too much baby. Even in dreams I was thinking. I lack physical exertion too
From now on I sleep early and I exercise more. The exercise really helps.
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