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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Life's small mysteries

Today morning (just before I woke up), my brother called me from India. I was at that point where I wish I could sleep for 15 more minutes, but had to get up since the alarm would ring in 2 minutes.

Amazing thing was, even though I was not awake, I was able to answer each of his questions completely (although groggily), but I could not recall what I spoke or how long I spoke when I was fully awake.

To think about it now, I remember I was rattling away the names of the hurricanes of this year, when I would be leaving for work, distance from my place to Tampa, Florida and also said that my blog would be up today or so!.

Seems to me, that the human brain has some kind of data streaming mode. Something which would be used only during situations when the retention capacity is less and the processing units are transitioning from idle to wake state!.

But funnily, this does not seem to apply to dreams. I cannot recall any dream event from last night, and seems that one has 3-4 dreams per night!. It would be nice if we are able to "store" our dreams and replay it!.

Maybe, in the near future...*yawn*...Zzzzzz.

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  • Dreams are of both the categories... nice/sweet ones and some thrilling/gory ones.

    If I am so disturbed due to some chasers or thrillers, I force myself to get up and look around the room and then go to sleep again. By that way, I cut that dream short and go on some new ones...(since most of the time, they won't be continued in the same sequence)

    By Blogger Ram C, at August 30, 2005 8:43 PM  

  • Actually I heard that its our ego conscious that kinda 'hides' the dream saying that its not real and so forth and the ones that we remember are the dreams that 'sneak out' from our subconscious ego state. Interesting.

    By Blogger Kasthuri, at August 30, 2005 9:30 PM  

  • romba rangea pesangaranga, all over my head

    By Blogger ada-paavi!!!!, at August 31, 2005 9:45 AM  

  • mm.. interesting.. happens to me a lot.. Once I night-outted, and on the next day, I was supposed to attend the 'mock' talk of someone at 9 PM.. Just went to bed at about 8 PM, so, when that person called me up, I picked up my bike, went half the way and then, subconsciously returned to my room to sleep.. I got a real wake-up call at 9:30 or 10 and I had to swear that I had no intention of coming back.. Like sleep-walking it was sleep-riding...

    Brain does weird things when sleep is disturbed/not provided..

    About storing dreams, as ram said, would u store nightmares too?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 31, 2005 11:00 AM  

  • Ram: "If I am so disturbed due to some chasers or thrillers, I force myself to get up and look around the room and then go to sleep again..."...

    LOL!.. normally, I would wake up panting for breath!. But don't you love the feeling when you realize that its just a dream?.

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    Srini: Yea, even I read something like that. It should be the case, otherwise, how else can we dream so vividly?

    By Blogger tt_giant, at August 31, 2005 12:23 PM  

  • Vatsan: sappa matter thaan.. thookam paththi... he he

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    GP: man, that was scary. how come you knew the way back to home?.

    spam filter maari, dream filter poatu vutta, nightmares ellam filter aagidum!

    By Blogger tt_giant, at August 31, 2005 12:25 PM  

  • I dream every single day. and sometimes I even know that I'm dreaming i.e a conscious state even while sleeping. its weird, but used to it.

    I can recollect some dreams .. in one of those, Indira Gandi shot me and my father in public :) :) this happend about 20 yrs back :)

    By Blogger saranyan r, at August 31, 2005 2:15 PM  

  • Saraynan: Indra Gandhi shooting you!!?. Thats extreme!.

    I recall my school (I was in UKG) allowing us to go home when she was assasinated. Maybe that half-day thingy happened to you too and you had too much time to think that day!!

    By Blogger tt_giant, at September 01, 2005 7:36 AM  

  • Hasnt happend to me so far, coz am completly up once the ph rings and totally irritated with that person for disturbing my sleep LOL.

    By Blogger pk, at September 01, 2005 1:18 PM  

  • hmm.interesting....when i was in college, i used to sleep like a log and now i hardly have a sound sleep. Many dreams have interpretations-Sigmund Frued's book will tell you in detail, but the best sleep is when you fall asleep and walk,talk etc in ur slumber and when you wake up, you are totally ignorant of that.

    By Blogger mitr_bayarea, at September 01, 2005 1:37 PM  

  • Kaleidoscope: hehe.. happens to me sometimes too. is'nt it weird when the fone rings when u are asleep, you actually get a frame in your dream where something else makes a ringing noise??

    --..--..--

    Mitr: kudikaaran peychu vidinjaa pochchu.. adhey maari.. thoongaravan peychu.....:-)

    By Blogger tt_giant, at September 01, 2005 4:59 PM  

  • @TT

    i read somewhere that since we have so many dreams in a single day , all the dreams overlap and in the end nothing is stored n our head.

    school la 8 hrs irundhuttu velila varumbodhu onnume illama cleana irukumey adhu madhiri
    :)

    By Blogger expertdabbler, at September 01, 2005 7:01 PM  

  • TOTALLY ABSOLUTELY agree with you buddy! I do this sleeptalking very often.

    My sister even says that I talk more sense when I'm asleep than when I'm awake, LOL

    By Blogger Vinesh, at September 01, 2005 8:42 PM  

  • Dreams take to you the sky with clouds all around you like smooth feathery beds. You are seeing extremely attractive beautiful angels all around you........

    Bang!!! The loudspeaker breaks open your ear and the harsh realities of mortal existence dawn upon you.

    By Blogger Maverick, at September 02, 2005 11:51 AM  

  • Prabu: LOL!.. very true.. all i remember after i come back from school is what lunch i had!

    --..--..--

    Vinesh: Welcome to my blog!. Man, then don't let your somniloquy go waste.. kekule solved the structure of benzene in his dreams...

    --.--..--

    Maverick: Yea.. it actually happened the VERY FIRST DAY of my life in the US - music blasting off the stereo..

    By Blogger tt_giant, at September 02, 2005 12:09 PM  

  • Dreams always fascinate me....Very few of them are re-collectable..and some of them just start for recollection and just vanish.!! Have you noticed that.?

    But I won't be surprised if in the next decade a dream-recorder shows up in some scientist's home.!!

    Imagine what would happen.!!

    By Blogger Narayanan Venkitu, at September 04, 2005 12:36 AM  

  • Deepak, are you still asleep?

    :-)

    By Blogger Krish, at September 04, 2005 2:24 AM  

  • Narayanan: That day is not far away!!..

    --..--..--

    Thennavan: :-) Just got up, and already forgotten what I dreamt.

    By Blogger tt_giant, at September 04, 2005 7:41 AM  

  • Even me too.. when I feel I am at the peak of my sleep..my mom wakes me up to go to gym.. irritating it is..Even in sleep u ask me ganguly's recent scores..I will tell u instanly..but when u ask me about his last century even when I am awake..sorry..can't reply u..hahaha..

    My feeling is humans tend to forget their dreams when they wakeup. But certain incidents or unusual things will make them to recollect their dream.They might have seen this thing happening in their dream but couldn't recollect. Only a real happening of that incident will make their dream come true..It happened for me.. I had a dream that my hostel warden would get transfered with in a week but I forgot about that as soon as I woke up. But after 3 days..it happened and I recollected my dream!!

    By Blogger BoldTaurean, at September 08, 2005 6:25 AM  

  • Boldtaurean: LOL!.. your ganguly comment was too funny..

    Yea, sometimes we do get some premonitions in our dreams. I recall in one of my dreams I heard a word mentioned by some person (which I had never heard in my life before), and that word existed (in the same exact meaning of its mentioned context)!!..

    By Blogger tt_giant, at September 08, 2005 7:35 AM  

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