The experience described is often called false awakening whereby the mind constructs a picture or scenario that you normally carry out in day to day life so intensely that for all intents and purposes. you are "awake". On 25/02/2014 06:55, Ari Damoulakis wrote: > Its weird that, even though I don't see in my dreams I sort of always > somehow know what's going on. Like I once had a dream where someone > was chasing after me with a knife. I don't know how I knew he had one. > Another awful experience is, I don't know if anyone has had these, but > you dream that you're awake and then you don't know if you're awake or > not, what I mean is, you dream that you're doing what you normally do > when you wake up, that's very scarey. > > On 2/25/14, Shaun O'Connor <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> interesting point, here is another one to get your brains around, the >> nature of perceived reality. suppose you are asleep and you "wake up" >> fully conscious in a dream. for that time frame the dream would be as >> real as the world we perceive in our waking state. , the only difference >> being that the laws of physics as we known them in our waking state >> would not apply.. this leads me to the question is reality a function of >> perception and if so, it then follows that if we are able to shift our >> level of consciousness we can perceive different realities. taking it a >> step further, which is the true reality, that which we perceive in our >> waking state, that which accurs in our sleeping state(of which we are >> not ordinarily conscious) or both? we cannot normally remember our >> dreams in the waking world and we cannot "remember" our waking life when >> in the dream environment. >> On 25/02/2014 00:39, Angel wrote: >>> I discussed the idea about totally blind people seeing in their dreams >>> with an ophthalmologist, who asked me that question. When he >>> determined no light was received by my brain. He said, if a person >>> ever saw at all. Even if he lost his sight at a few months of age, he >>> would see in his dreams. But, a person who never at all saw light or >>> anything else for that matter, would not see in his dreams. My >>> question would be: If a totally blind person never saw at all at any >>> time in his life, how would he know he saw. Not having anything to >>> compare sight or its lack to. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ari Damoulakis" >>> <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx> >>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 3:58 PM >>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Looking for group >>> >>> >>>> Look I have just come very lately to the party on this because before >>>> I was extremely sceptical from reading people like Richard Dawkins and >>>> James Randi etc, but then I read a book by Pim Van Lommel who I >>>> thought the points he made about consciousness seemed to me to refute >>>> what the skeptics were saying. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was >>>> one of the most interesting books I've ever read, particularly the >>>> weird fact that most people they've studied who have actually >>>> experienced an NDE then leave all organised religions, you would have >>>> expected the converse maybe? The thing that really got me though is he >>>> talked about a research study that was done by a guy on NDES that >>>> happened to totally blind people, and 3 of them who had been blind >>>> since birth apparently claimed to have been able to experience the >>>> phenomenon of sight when they left their bodies during the NDES. The >>>> rejections to that that some skeptics made were that blind people also >>>> see in their dreams but I for example have never been able to do that, >>>> I think people who are blind since birth don't see in their dreams? >>>> And there's also the whole thing about whether the blind can >>>> experience ghosts and things that sighted people claim. I don't know, >>>> I just wondered about this and hope there is a group or, even if there >>>> isn't a actual group for the blind, whether there are blind people on >>>> normal groups who've experienced these, and a discussion group for the >>>> blind on these phenomena would be very interesting, since most blind >>>> groups I find are just mainstream religion ones. >>>> >>>> On 2/24/14, Debby McCallan <debramccallan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Me too. >>>>> Debs >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Shaun O'Connor" <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx> >>>>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:36 PM >>>>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Looking for group >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Whilst i do no know of any groups that cater for that interest >>>>>> among the >>>>>> blind community, it is an area of interest that also have. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sean >>>>>> On 24/02/2014 18:47, Ari Damoulakis wrote: >>>>>>> Hi guys >>>>>>> If there isn't a blind one, then a good mainstream one will be OK, >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> is there by any chance a list where blind people discuss the >>>>>>> paranormal, particularly things like NDE's, OBE's psychic abilities, >>>>>>> ESP etc. I'm not talking about religion or religious lists. I don't >>>>>>> know if we in the blind community have many experiences of such >>>>>>> things, so it would be great to know if such a list exists. >>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> Ari >>>>>>> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >>>>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>>>>>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>>>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>>> ** and in the Subject line type >>>>>>> ** unsubscribe >>>>>>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>>>>>> ** immediately-following link:- >>>>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>>>>>> ** or send a message, to >>>>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >>>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>>>>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> ** and in the Subject line type >>>>>> ** unsubscribe >>>>>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>>>>> ** immediately-following link:- >>>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>>>>> ** or send a message, to >>>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- >>>>> No virus found in this message. >>>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>>> Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3705/6620 - Release Date: 02/24/14 >>>>> >>>>> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>>>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> ** and in the Subject line type >>>>> ** unsubscribe >>>>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>>>> ** immediately-following link:- >>>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>>>> ** or send a message, to >>>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> ** and in the Subject line type >>>> ** unsubscribe >>>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>>> ** immediately-following link:- >>>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>>> ** or send a message, to >>>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>>> >>> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> ** and in the Subject line type >>> ** unsubscribe >>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>> ** immediately-following link:- >>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>> ** or send a message, to >>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>> >>> >> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ** and in the Subject line type >> ** unsubscribe >> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >> ** immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >> ** or send a message, to >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >> >> > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > . > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq