Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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We still do not know the reason for our dreams, right?
Recently I have been pondering on this topic and what I think the reason could be is that there is some sort of mental conscious level required at all times of our living whether it be when woken up or when asleep.When we are sleeping there is a possibility that the mental conscious level required may be falling down and so our brain to not to let that happen makes some weird images mostly taken from our remembrances of our daily life and show us in a story form so our mental level required is always there.This would explain for the fact that we do not dream everyday and our dreams at times are absurd, I mean does not make any sense.
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we do not know the reason for our being alive in the first place, let alone all its details, but perhaps our awake thoughts and images are regulated by consciousness, so when we sleep consciousness switches off and we get unregulated images. Why does this happen? See first part of this reply.
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I would imagine that our brains process everything that they're given (during the day) in a way that breaks eg an image up into more basic components and looks for associations with other parts of other images and that we call the result of this "recognition" or "identification". It is clearly useful for survival. Similarly it analyses speech and other sounds in terms of a comparison of each component with remembered components of other sounds, etc. The processing power needed for this task is enormous, greater than that which 10exp10 binary cells in a normal computer could manage, so the mechanism which we employ is something other than just neuron networks. When we sleep, the regulatory process switches off, hence dreams. But we are not always aware that we are dreaming. Could you please tell me why air moves along isobars and not across them? It has something to do with gyroscopes, I think
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I've been told that the ais moves along isobars because the earth rotates and since our surface speed is so much greater than that of the air's speed relative to the planet surface, it gets "left behind" by the earth. This is apparantly called the coriolis effect and it is supposed to explain why air moves as it does. I don't find it very convincing, do you? It looks to me as if the idea only works for certain parts and directions of the air flow and not all the way round a low pressure point for example. Any ideas? By the way, your question about dreams is very difficult to answer because we don't yet know enough about how the brain works.
Last edited by woolyhead (2010-10-18 11:56:23)
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