Anxious -
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
quote [ There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but we rarely stop to marvel at the strangeness of this liminal world. If we do, we find that it is full of hallucinations both wonderful and terrifying, a mental goulash of reality and fantasy.
Usually we pass through this state of half-wakefulness on our way to deep sleep within minutes. We may experience microdreams during the transition, but the content of these microdreams appear to be random and we usually don’t have any memory of them when we wake. A team of researchers led by MIT master's student Adam Horowitz wants to change that. ] We’re like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream.
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steele said @ 1:35am GMT on 25th April
When I was in the woods sleeping in my truck I would occasionally be woken up in the middle of the night by a vivid hallucination of the sound of my truck topper's rear window slamming shut. As if someone was looking in at me sleeping. Now that grandma is gone and I'm taking care of my grandfather full time, I'm often awoken by the imagined sound of my grandmother calling my name like the time I had to call 911 for her a couple of years ago. It seems like my brain likes running me through emergency drills from time to time.
steele said @ 1:35am GMT on 25th April
When I was living in the woods sleeping in my truck I would occasionally be woken up in the middle of the night by a vivid hallucination of the sound of my truck topper's rear window slamming shut. As if someone was looking in at me sleeping. Now that grandma is gone and I'm taking care of my grandfather full time, I'm often awoken by the imagined sound of my grandmother calling my name like the time I had to call 911 for her a couple of years ago. It seems like my brain likes running me through emergency drills from time to time.
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steele said @ 1:35am GMT on 25th April [Score:1 Interesting]
When I was living in the woods sleeping in my truck I would occasionally be woken up in the middle of the night by a vivid hallucination of the sound of my truck topper's rear window slamming shut. As if someone was looking in at me sleeping. Now that grandma is gone and I'm taking care of my grandfather full time, I'm often awoken by the imagined sound of my grandmother calling my name like the time I had to call 911 for her a couple of years ago. It seems like my brain likes running me through emergency drills from time to time.
