Quote Originally Posted by amat
Dreams are another thing that are fascinating.

You can pop all the shrooms or take all the acid hits you want, you won't get anything the quality of your dreams.

2 nights ago I had a dream that Mike Myers was chasing me after seeing the new halloween and then my entire city turned into a swamp. If someone had a trip and said that happened, I would never believe them. Since it was a dream it's not hard to believe at all.

The fact that most people don't even unlock all of their mind in a lifetime is unbelievable.
Everyone uses a great deal of it either 90 or 98%. Even the primitive reptile part of the brain is used in modern humans so whatever the remaining unused portion is, whether it be just extra space for shock absorption or an extra part that can be used but not very easily, your guess is as good as mine. A dream is, IMO, the brain simulating life whether you want to have input into it or not. The fact that the human brain is nearly capable of going thru the motions of life without a conscious willful person behind it is really odd.

Obviously dreams won't have proper physics or very logical events (from a real life perspective) but the difference between completely lucid dreams and being "awake" is negligible. At certain points, it's possible to have a completely lucid dream that you either control mostly of what happens (the other stuff is subconscious stuff that just shows up) or not only do you control exactly what you do (all 5 sense work and you either know you're dreaming or are completely aware in the dream state as if it were real), but you also tap into your subconscious to the degree that you know what it's thinking and you can think faster than it by knowing what it's gonna insert into your dream before it happens. I've had several lucid dreams, very few mostly controlled ones, and about 2 or 3 completely aware of everything going on in my mind dreams. You ever jump or wake up right before the alarm or loud sound of something hits your ears? My guess is you just somehow know the sound is on its way but the speed required for the brain to get that information and react to it faster than it takes the speed of sound (750ish mph) to travel a few inches or feet is unbelievable.