Re:Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers dur...
by jobigoud on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:45PM
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> It's the ultimate VR because whatever you think, the mind will create.
I've been thinking about this problem from the other angle. When we lucid dream there is a certain part of the brain that is deactivated that otherwise makes us aware that we are not in the real world.
That is, in the real world we don't really need to perform the reality check, we can tell intuitively. In the dream world this intuition is lost. I don't remember which part of the brain is involved but it has identified by comparing activity during normal dreams and lucid dreams.
If we could stimulate the brain in the right spot the right way we could inhibit that part that knows what's real and what's not and maintain full continuous presence in VR.
I've been thinking about this problem from the other angle. When we lucid dream there is a certain part of the brain that is deactivated that otherwise makes us aware that we are not in the real world.
That is, in the real world we don't really need to perform the reality check, we can tell intuitively. In the dream world this intuition is lost. I don't remember which part of the brain is involved but it has identified by comparing activity during normal dreams and lucid dreams.
If we could stimulate the brain in the right spot the right way we could inhibit that part that knows what's real and what's not and maintain full continuous presence in VR.