tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post115704213144088654..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Dreamt Ideas: not worth the paper they're not written onRichard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1157081709604685562006-08-31T23:35:00.000-04:002006-08-31T23:35:00.000-04:00"One thing I am pretty sure of is that our most ba..."<I>One thing I am pretty sure of is that our most basic ontological judgments about the intentional objects of our dreams are indefeasible.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Interesting! I once discussed a similar idea, <A HREF="http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2006/03/truth-in-dreams.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Richard Y Chappellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1157070429746365252006-08-31T20:27:00.000-04:002006-08-31T20:27:00.000-04:00I've actually had a dream in which I spoke perfect...I've actually had a dream in which I spoke perfect Spanish, a language I've studied since high school. I woke from the dream not feeling that I actually had spoken Spanish fluently, but that I had remembered small elements of the language (inflection, pace, grammar structure) which the remainder of my dreaming mind had filled in.<BR/>Does it make sense to say the stage is not empty, but has plenty of "special effects" to convince the dreamer that what sounds like a language in small phonetic pieces actually is that language?Jaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265489395138702227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1157052679625463892006-08-31T15:31:00.000-04:002006-08-31T15:31:00.000-04:00the feeling of experiencing good music does always...the feeling of experiencing good music does always require good music to stimuale it. So yes dreams definitly do skip important details (like actually having a song in them or whatever) and that is how one would expect it to be because of the way the brain works (as opposed to from an intuitive level). even if you did imagine the song it wouldn't be quite the same as actualy listening to it in terms of the information component (dont tell me you have perfect memory and hte timing of a world class musician) and yet be identical in terms of the feeling.<BR/><BR/>One dream experiment I used to do is to look at somthing and try to examine the detail - effectively to test my mind's capability in the dream. <BR/><BR/>I'm afraid my dream mind generally can't keep up.Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624496692217466430noreply@blogger.com