A question was asked about how often people have lucid dreams, and that question conjured this from me:
"I don't understand this. The dream cycles don't stop with the arrival of consciousness. Dreams are dreams like "parts is parts". Lucid dreaming is what one does when consciousness DOES arrive. Why would I count my daily lucid dreams if lucid dreaming is simply what I do when I'm conscious and hypnogogic dreaming is what I do when I'm not conscious?"
This seems to fill in some blanks about what consciousness is. Since I'm always the last to know, everybody in the world oughta already have realized this.
My vocation is to capture drifting thoughts with words. I don't care if the words I choose to represent the drifting thoughts I attempt to capture are true or false. I've done this for a long time and seem fairly sure of what I have to jettison to keep up with the tempo of the drifting thoughts I entertain. Drifting thoughts are like dreams to me, and they disappear just as quickly if anything interrupts the tenuous grasp I may hang on to them with.
One of the most fruitful tools or methods I began using for capturing drifting thoughts was palm reading. After I studied astrology for a long time and made my thousand natal charts from scratch (before computer software), I ran into this book about palm reading that had pages and pages of how the lines in people's palms might indicate actual events in their lives. The author also stated that if his readers had studied astrology, that's all they needed to read palms. I did and I began. Sometime for money. Most of the time not. Who doesn't like to hold hands with fifty to a hundred complete strangers in a typical day?
I don't know anything for certain. It's not like it matters to anybody but me, and I'm easy. I suspect the sleep cycle patterns don't stop when I wake up. I propose they're as continuous as our heart beat. Just like my heart don't stop beating when I got to sleep, I don't stop dreaming when i wake up in the morning. I start treating my daydreams as if they were what I am shaping to my own fancy. Just like the lucid dreaming descriptions say you gotta do to do lucid dreaming at night.
In the daylight hours when I'm normally conscious of my surroundings and performing my habituations as if an original thinker I am aware that I'm daydreaming. Maybe not at night when I'm dreaming. In bed, I may or may not realizing I'm dreaming when I dream. In the daytime I may not realize I'm daydreaming until I "wake up", but if I want to, I can deliberately let mysefl drift into daydreaming and shape the dream material as I want to.
Sometimes I could say things that really caused powerful reactions in people. Sometimes not. I didn't understand this until I began to read and study a book a friend gave me about the results being obtained about what happens when a person goes to sleep. I read about the universality of sleep cycles. Sleep laboratories wire people up to various detecting machines like EEG and EKG that tell them what phase of sleep the subject they're studying while they sleep is at in the universal sleep cycle.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
