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[Evad]

By comparing a human to a computer, you are using an analogy. I dig it means I think it is a good analogy
I have heard this analogy before, and it is a good one, the only thing different that I believe from what I remember you saying, is that we are fully capable of programing our mind. I mean fully too, not just concious.

[Playbahnosh]

Yes, we are capable. Just think about the fakires or whats their name. Thos who lie down on a spikebed, and thrusts needles in their skin. No blood, no screams. They can sub-consciously turn off the pain "sub-rutine"(according to the PC analogy) in their body and turn off the bleeding too, accelerate the healing rate...etc. They mastered this alright.
And YOU can do this too, just you have to learn how to do it. I have some cool links here, and I'll gonna post them here as soon as I find em k:
If you want, I can help you discover this territory k:

[Evad]

I'm very interested in this stuff. Please do post some info.

[Microprose Veteran]

REM: Yeah tell me about it! Sometimes I dream very vividly, more like a nightmare. And I know I will be alright if only I can get my eyes open! Then I'm already awake, still trying to get my eyes open.

Falling in a dream: very unpleasant. I am scared of heights and rarely jump off the highest springboard in a swimming pool. The feeling I get while falling in reality is exactly the same as when I'm dreaming it.

Dreaming that you can fly is much more fun. Sadly, that hasn't happened to me in some time.

[Playbahnosh]

Yeah, you CAN control your body and the functions too, including your dream. It is very hard to master, but if you do, you can do whatever you like.

First of all, you have to understand how your sub-conscious works. I have read some texts regarding this. Here we go:

The subconscious works differently from the conscious mind because one of the really important jobs of the subconscious is to keep subconscious processes sub- or unconscious. That is, secret from the conscious mind.

But first let's tackle this business of logic. Deductive logic is the process of reasoning from the general to the specific. There isn't anything difficult about this process if you remember that deductive logic means applying what you know about a lot of things to one or just a few things that are similar.

For instance, just about every human being you've ever known or heard about was born with eyes. So when you hear that someone gave birth to a new baby, it is through deductive logic that you assume that that new baby also has eyes.
(Put aside for a moment the sad case of birth defects. We are talking in general or statistical terms here.)

To make another example, consider the case of redheads. An unsubstantiated stereotype has it that redheads are hot tempered. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that you have known 10 or 15 redheads in your life and every one of them have had volatile tempers. If you were then introduced to one or two or three people with red hair, it would not be illogical of you to conclude that these new friends might also have quick tempers. This is deductive logic, or deduction.

Inductive logic goes in the reverse direction. With induction you form generalities from specifics. This is the logic of science, in which you go from the specific to the general. You make a limited number of observations, then generalize what you learn to the rest of the population.

Much of the uniqueness and contradiction that inhere in the subconscious mind are possible because it is limited to deductive reasoning.

Why is this important? Because it means that a good suggestion repeated often enough and long enough will be accepted by the subconscious mind as true. It is this characteristic that allows us to make statements that, in the beginning, are not really true, but that eventually become true. That is basically what we do with suggestion.

Digest this one and ask what you like k:

[skyfire1]

i can actually control my dreams and do whatever i want in them if i figure out that it's just a dream. just wondering, is it possible to make your mind believe your're dreaming when you're not? or is it possible to make yourself go to sleep and remember your dreams?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Sometimes you remember your dream, sometimes not.

The scariest dream I ever had? Probably my death. I don't exactly remember what the dream was about, but I sure like hell remember it ended up with me getting stabbed right through the heart and dying. Everything getting dark around and a feeling of numb cold spreading through the body.
Worse, this repeated about 4 or 5 times in one night. Fortunately I never had this dream again since.

[Doubler]

I experienced something very strange yesterday.

I was sitting right in the school canteen with some friends, when suddenly I'm gone.
I just fainted, or had some kind of attack or something, very weird. All I could see was grey and white flashes, and I didn't really realise anything at first. It took a while for me to be able to think that something was wrong. Then slowly my vision returned, with flashes of black in rapid succession. I tried to get up, and it all ended suddenly.
My friends were pretty concerned. It seems I just fell off of my chair, and lay on the ground spartling a bit for seconds. I don't remember falling at all, and I have no idea how long the flashes lasted.

It might have been the heat, but the strange thing is that I've never experienced anything like it in my life.
Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Can anyone tell me what it was?
:blink:

[BeefontheBone]

Has anything similar ever happened to you? Sounds like a bad case of heatstroke or maybe an attack of epilepsy - if it's happened before or again I'd go to the doctors.

[Puffin]

Happens to me every now and then. Fainting. Went to the doctor, he saw nothing wrong with me. It just happens. I take iron and vitamin c, i wish to believe it helps.