Technical question: He states that you should look at a pattern, look away, and then check to see if it changes. Supposedly it will change because your memory can only hold 7 +- 2 bits. Now if your memory is too small to keep this supposed pattern consistent, how the hell are you supposed to memorize this pattern for a consistency check? I.e. you need your memory to assert that your memory failed. Is there a separate memory he is talking about here? Even if that technique worked, couldn't the pattern stay the same just based off the chance that you get horizontal/vertical stripes twice in a row?
Sorry if I'm nitpicking, maybe my cs theory courses just ruin these things.
You notice the inconsistency, even if you can't quite recall what the pattern was before. I've only had a few lucid dreams and I don't have great dream recall, but when I wake up at the right moment I can remember my dreams vividly, and think through the dream events with my fully conscious mind. I don't notice patterns changing that much, but I do know that text changes. For example, I've had dreams where I fell asleep while reading, then continued to read in my dream making up the story as I went. But then it gets confusing so I back up to reread a page, and the story changes.
Another common event is that people and things in my dreams can be indistinct until I pay close attention to them. Just recently I was with a woman in my dream who appeared as just a silhouette in a shadow until I really wanted to know who she was and focused on her, at which point she became perfectly clear and vibrant. That can happen to the entire setting of my dream too, and people and settings can also change as I pay attention to different parts of them.
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Technical question: He states that you should look at a pattern, look away, and then check to see if it changes. Supposedly it will change because your memory can only hold 7 +- 2 bits. Now if your memory is too small to keep this supposed pattern consistent, how the hell are you supposed to memorize this pattern for a consistency check? I.e. you need your memory to assert that your memory failed. Is there a separate memory he is talking about here? Even if that technique worked, couldn't the pattern stay the same just based off the chance that you get horizontal/vertical stripes twice in a row?
Sorry if I'm nitpicking, maybe my cs theory courses just ruin these things.
You notice the inconsistency, even if you can't quite recall what the pattern was before. I've only had a few lucid dreams and I don't have great dream recall, but when I wake up at the right moment I can remember my dreams vividly, and think through the dream events with my fully conscious mind. I don't notice patterns changing that much, but I do know that text changes. For example, I've had dreams where I fell asleep while reading, then continued to read in my dream making up the story as I went. But then it gets confusing so I back up to reread a page, and the story changes.
Another common event is that people and things in my dreams can be indistinct until I pay close attention to them. Just recently I was with a woman in my dream who appeared as just a silhouette in a shadow until I really wanted to know who she was and focused on her, at which point she became perfectly clear and vibrant. That can happen to the entire setting of my dream too, and people and settings can also change as I pay attention to different parts of them.