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7.7.14
6.7.14
Waking Life Excerpt #4
"The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will
to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is
contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say
yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence."
2.7.14
Waking Life Excerpt #3
You know, they say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't
you say the same thing about life? See, there's a lot of us that are out there
that are mapping the mind-body relationship, of dreams. We're called the
oneironauts. We're the explorers of the dream-world. Really, it's just about
the two opposing states of consciousness which don't really oppose, at all.
See, in the waking world, the neural system inhibits the activation of the
vividness of memories. And this makes evolutionary sense. See you'd be
maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator to be mistaken for the memory
of one, and vice-versa. If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual
image, we would be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary
thought. So you have these serotonic neurons that inhibit hallucinations that
they themselves are inhibited during REM sleep. See this allows dreams to
appear real, while preventing competition from other perceptual processes. This
is why dreams are mistaken for reality. To the functional system of neural
activity that creates our world, there is no difference between dreaming a
perception and an action, and actually the waking perception and action.
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