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appletrotter | 1 year ago

Have you ever heard of lucid dreams?

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lxgr|1 year ago

Dream states are definitely not equivalent to normal/awake consciousness. Try doing math in a dream!

npongratz|1 year ago

I proved a topology theorem in a dream once.

Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had been bugging me all day long, and I suspected it'd be featured on the next morning's (way too early) final exam for my university course. I solved it in my dream, woke up, wrote on my whiteboard what I remembered and sure enough, it was correct. I worked it a few more times to cram it into my memory before running to my exam.

To my great delight, the ability to prove that theorem was featured heavily in one of the exam's questions, and helped me do quite well on the exam overall.

withinboredom|1 year ago

I have been programming in my dreams, but I woke up and had to retype it all!

SamPatt|1 year ago

When dreaming, if I try to do math or anything difficult, my mind does a nifty trick where it just skips all the hard steps and gives me a result.

I must usually accept these results, but occasionally, I don't, and that's often when I realize I'm dreaming - I literally cannot conjure up those steps at all, they simply don't exist.

aidenn0|1 year ago

I have done math in a dream before.