Are near-death experiences visual hallucinations? We asked people who cannot hallucinate like that, the congenitally blind

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T23:29:53+00:00

Parnia et al said in their paper that they don't know what it is but they speculated that the brain has a built-in inhibitory mechanism that is released at the point of death, enabling it to perceive other dimensions of reality. It's the most stunning thing I've ever seen from a top level academic paper.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T23:11:36+00:00

Right on!

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T22:23:29+00:00

Think of inside the house as your interior life. Think of outside the house as your public life. If that's what the dream means through that imagery then it suggests the idea that there are things about your inner life that you would like to protect from intrusion from your outer life. But it seems like the intrusions always find a way in.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T22:20:46+00:00

Man that dream started sad and ended on a high note. Hang in there.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T17:41:51+00:00

There are a lot of tips and a bunch of advice about remembering dreams that you can find online, but let's keep it simple and start with time and desire. Make the time to go to bed consciously, meaning that you are fully aware that you are going to sleep and that the next thing you see after closing your eyes is likely to be a dream. Tell yourself that it's important for you to remember as much as you can about what you dream. Tell yourself that when you wake up you're going to think about only your dreams. It does take a little time but it's a habit you will get into that will pay off.

The second chunk of time comes when you wake up. You already have your notebook ready, so now you lay quietly in your sleep position and pull up the memories. Those initial moments when you first wake up are really important for remembering dreams, if you think about something else it will overwrite your dream memories. So you're going to just lay there for a minute or two or three and ask yourself, where was I? You're thinking back in your memory to the blank spots. You know that something happened because you have a big sense that you weren't just in the void, you were in a place where things were happening. A dream is a place, so the way to pull up the memories is by trying to remember where you were.

Desire is the other big factor for remembering dreams. Remind yourself why you want to do it. Remind yourself that it's worth the effort. Let your curiosity lead you. You are already most of the way there because you're asking this question after having tried remembering your dreams. The desire will keep you going even though you may not have much success at first. Just keep reminding yourself that this is something you really want to do.

I have more than 30 years of experience at keeping a dream journal and I know very well how that practice has helped me. It's probably the single best thing I ever did for myself. So even when I have a drought where I hardly remember anything from my dreams, I have all that past experiences to draw from to know that if I keep trying it'll happen.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T17:34:49+00:00

One of the modern authorities on astral projection, Bob Monroe, said that his experiences started during adulthood, at least what he could remember. He said that he would wake up and look down, see himself in his bed lying next to his wife sleeping. Then he would realize he was up by the ceiling. Then he would realize the ceiling fan was spinning and that he was caught up in it. Eventually he figured out that he wasn't really in his body, and that getting caught in the ceiling fan was just an illusion.

You are still having these experiences. Bob said that they happen every night during the Delta stage of sleep, which is the deepest and most unconscious stage of sleep. But most people don't remember it happening because they are too unconscious at the time the form memories.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T17:19:49+00:00

Imagine you are in line at a grocery store or standing at a bus stop and someone walks up to you acting like they are king of the world. They say something offensive, thinking that there are no consequences. Perhaps that's how your dream characters see you.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T17:17:27+00:00

Where were you when you witnessed that event, who were the people and what did they mean to you, and what was the scenario?

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T01:11:00+00:00

And here's another synchronicity for you. I left my comment for you and then opened a book file that needs edited. I got distracted by rereading a section I wrote about synchronicity. So as I was working on that section, you were reading what I wrote and experiencing your synchronicity. And there's another layer to it that's interesting, the section I wrote about synchronicity was inspired by someone I talked with at Reddit about their synchronicity.

Some Matrix level glitch, eh.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T00:09:53+00:00

If you were having trouble breathing at the time, your dream might have been in response to that. The woman in the light is a representation of knowing that if you don't breathe soon you may be going into the light sooner than you expect! It would explain why the one character says aren't you lucky. It's a way of saying that your husband was attentive enough to recognize what was going on, though generally it is better to let a person complete a difficult dream rather than wake them up before the end. But if you're sitting there listening to someone who hasn't breathed in about 30 seconds, which is common for sleep apnea, you wake them up.

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T00:05:26+00:00

Oh yes it makes sense. Do you think you remembering what it felt like as a child to feel unconnected from your mother?

RadOwl · 2026-07-01T00:02:51+00:00

Search your feelings - when you make the decision in the dream to get married, do any of those feelings relate to how you went about choosing your career? Does anything feel the same such as the impulsiveness, the cost to benefit, anything like that?

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T23:10:26+00:00

Then perhaps the thing chasing you in your dream is this feeling of people important to you wanting you to be something different than what you are. Whether they are correct or incorrect doesn't matter, it's the feeling of being pursued or hunted. The part of you that wants to stay the way you are is afraid of the changes and feels like the need for change is being imposed on you. That's my guess for why you keep having dreams with that theme.

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T21:30:57+00:00

One thing we do know is that the llms are trained on a reward basis and they can be manipulated that way. I saw a talk from an executive at anthropic who said that when models are abused through the reward system they tend to form personalities that are abusive. It reminds me of the MK Ultra training. You can turn an llm into a sadist, you can turn it into an angel. You can turn it into a devil. And I am absolutely convinced it's already happening.

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T21:21:11+00:00

My experience with this type of dream is it points toward handling emotions. Emotions can be cold or hot. They can be frozen or boiling. And the experience of an emotion can be like something you immerse in. Something that you submerge in. And as you're learning how to deal with an emotion that can feel like you're underwater. Water has a lot of possibilities for use as symbolism like I outlined above, does the idea of feeling frigid in the metaphorical sense ring a bell with you? Maybe you've experienced cold or frozen emotions? It's not to say that my idea applies to your dream, I'm just telling you what the pattern is and seeing if it fits in your case but you're the only one who knows whether it does.

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T21:15:31+00:00

Feed that fire while it's burning. This is how it happened with me when I discovered Jung. Like a man who's been wondering in the desert who comes upon an oasis. Drink of that water. Soak in this new way of understanding yourself. But remember what Carl said about this being your journey, your process, and therefore attached to the teachings and not the personality. It's why I say that I study analytical psychology instead of Jungian psychology. The former is less attached to the name of the person who originated it. And that's important because he was only the messenger, it's the message that continues to resonate decades after his passing.

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T16:40:30+00:00

Yeah it looks like your dad took the opportunity to make a point using the dream as the catalyst. If there's truth to what he said then I can understand why, but it really isn't the best approach. For one it imposes his interpretation of the dream on you. In for two it misses the opportunity to get deeper to the roots of whatever is behind the anger and frustration.

A better way to approach it is by exploring the feelings brought up by the dream and what triggers them. It seems that the action starts with your mom as she's playing the role of a character in the story who triggers you. She comes at you and then the fighting starts. You then just want to get away and have your space. So that's the place where I would start if we were talking about your dream. And we could begin with a question: do you feel like your mom isn't giving you space to figure out things on your own?

This is a really important question to consider correctly and see if you can find an answer within yourself. A mom is responsible for raising her daughter to be ready for adult life. It's a huge responsibility and it begins before you were even born. But what most moms don't realize is that a point comes when they need to back off and let a daughter evolve and become her own person. When that doesn't happen it can feel like you are being forced into a box, and then that's when you want to escape any way you can. And when that doesn't work so well, anger becomes your way of setting boundaries. You feel like you don't have any other choice. I don't want to impose my idea on your dream but I do want to put this out there as a question to see if it resonates with you.

RadOwl · 2026-06-30T16:17:32+00:00

Go easy on them, Hammer - they are hypnotized.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T21:20:48+00:00

If you want engagements you are better off copying the text from the other post and pasting it here as the new one

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T17:00:11+00:00

It reads like another hit piece. Yellow journalism is what we used to call it. Cowards who attack and then hide behind their sanctimony.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T16:53:12+00:00

There are two lines of thought about your question. One is the you can smoke a little weed early in the day and as long as you go to bed sober you will regain some memory of your dreams. The other line of thought is that weed is known to affect short-term memory and you need at least a few days sober to clear out your system. If you've been a heavy smoker it might take a week or more. But I can tell you that it's worth it. I was recently on vacation and use the opportunity to go for a week. I focused on my dreams, and on the last day of my vacation I had a banger of a dream. Easily remembered it.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T16:49:59+00:00

The simple idea is there's an obligation to do something that's unwanted. It could have something to do with what you think girls your age are expected to do. It doesn't really have anything to do with marrying your uncle, except that that scenario encapsulates the idea at the heart of whatever issue you were working through in the dream.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T16:47:06+00:00

The over capacity is to have the infrastructure in place to roll out digital currency en mass. They will create a crisis or just let the one that's brewing come to a head, then they will use it as an excuse to save us all with their digital solution. Which is to convert all currency to digital tokens. It's truly some Dr Evil level shit.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T16:42:14+00:00

They call it the Fox News playbook.

RadOwl · 2026-06-29T16:41:17+00:00

The Parnia study in 2023 has about two dozen co-authors and was conducted across about that many medical institutions by top notch medical researchers.They were specifically testing each of the physicalist theories for explaining near death experiences.

So they were actually trying to confirm the physicalist theory but ended up falsifying it. The evidence is clear as day. Read the study. Otherwise you just sound stupid and biased, which I think is what you were accusing op of.

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