Reddit reviews The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
We found 7 Reddit comments about The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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We found 7 Reddit comments about The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
This was discussed in detail in a really great book called "Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness." Recommended!
A very interesting book I read that talked exactly about this was "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" by Jeff Warren.
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I read about this in the book. You know that optical illusion with the hole on a grid which disappears when you line up the hole with the blind spot in your eye? Things like that happen all the time, and expectations are a part of the "fabric" of reality as you know it. The different during dreams is that expectations don't have sensory reality to keep it in check, so you end up shuffling through existing patterns of thought.
No, it's not that unusual. But it's not in the average, "HAY GUISE!" category. I do think it is weird, tho--imo, it's more fuck-with-your-mind than just a normal [crazy] dream.
And I don't know what reality-testing you're doing, but it sounds, to me, like you're doing it wrong? I mean, I can't imagine how I would ever be able to materialise a sandwich in front of me in my waking life. Unless you're saying you can't materialise sandwiches in your dreams because of this, I guess--I can see how that would be possible. What about reading written material, then looking away, then re-reading it? Does it stay consistent? That would be highly impressive to the point of nigh-unbelievable [to me personally] if you said you could do that in a dream.
Tbh, if you want to know more about it, you should read some books or even talk to people in /r/LucidDreaming; I'm not an expert. What I can say from my personal observations is that there do seem to be correlations between different personalities and the kinds of dreams people have.
The best example I can come up with off the top of my head that I didn't just make up: Researches have found memory & dreaming are somehow related. I've read it hypothesised that dreaming might be a mechanism which assists in memory storage. Also, psychopaths are known to both have poor memories as well as, for the most part, actually not experience dreams, or have very weak/pale ones. This is highly unusual, as you may already know, since even though many people can't remember their dreams this is not an indication of them not having dreams; everyone dreams, so it is said. However, psychopaths aren't considered to have the most normal personalities, anyway. (Iirc, these tidbits were cherry-picked from The Head Trip & The Psychopath Test.)
So anyway, as a lay person, I make wild personal speculations about how whatever it is that gives rise to personality also gives rise to types of dreams & dream experiences, but it's just for my own amusement & I haven't looked into it deeply enough to make some kind of insightful statement to you about this kind of "uncanny valley of waking consciousness" dream. But I guess usually that kind of thing seems to pop up when one's life is highly routine..? So perhaps trying something new & breaking out of your comfort zone could be in order?
I mean, if you like.
I have a book called the head trip which is not strictly about lucid dreaming. But it does have a chapter on it. It's very well cited so it will give you a lot of jumping points on other books to read. On top of that it just has a very interesting view point on various states of consciousness you go through during the day, While still having a rational approach.
I think you'd really enjoy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Head-Trip-Adventures-Wheel-Consciousness/dp/1400064848
After reading the chapter on lucid dreaming I had a lucid dream that night. Now it only happens rarely but the book does give you some tricks that help make it happen more often. Way interesting stuff even if you don't lucid dream.
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness - By Jeff Warren
At first is sounds like some kind of new-agey spiritual garbage. It's actually a science book about the human brain. I bought it in a clearance bin and LOVED it.
It's a non-fiction, soft science book. I say "soft science" because it's not concerned with presenting detailed figures, or numbers. It's a lot like "A Brief History of Time" in the way that it represents complicated scientific ideas in really understandable ways.
It's about the human brain, and the various "states" it can be in. Stuff like your normaal alert state. Stuff like REM state while sleeping. Stuff like hypnagogia when you're on the verge of falling asleep and start having weird disjointed thoughts.
Or that dreamy state when you naturally wake up in the middle of the night.
Or when you "zone out" after driving on the highway for 4 hours.
Or lucid dreaming.
Really, really interesting stuff. I think the title of the book caused people to misunderstand what it is so nobody bought it. It's really enlightening and interesting stuff.
But I feel like everyone is going to list the usual classics here and this will get buried. Ah well. If one person reads this book I'd be overjoyed.
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