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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 18:39:30 -0700
From: Jack Sarfatti <sarfatti@well.com>
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Paul Connelly wrote:
> 
> In article <320697DA.23DC@well.com>, Jack Sarfatti <sarfatti@well.com> wrote:
> 
> >The conscious part =
> >
> > of the mind is that branch where the beable is. Even when we are sleeping t=
> > he occupied branch appears as the =
> >
> > content of a dream. If the beable is not in any one branch, but is under th=
> > e influence of several branches that =
> >
> > are not well separated we experience a dreamlike superposition of seemingly=
> >  "parallel worlds".  In dreamless =
> >
> > sleep the beable is wandering in a no-man=92s land between widely separated=
> >  branches, i.e., "attractors", in its =
> >
> > classical configuration space.
> 
> I think i missed some background on what you're talking about
> here, so please forgive if the following comment is actually a
> non sequitur.  That said, i don't think most sleep researchers
> recognize such a thing as "dreamless sleep" anymore.  A certain
> amount of dreaming seems to be always going on, but it is less
> easily remembered upon awakening from different stages of
> sleep (for instance, awakening in the delta EEG state there is
> very little recall other than maybe a generalized emotion,
> while awakening in the theta EEG state may be accompanied
> by something more like a "narrative" being recalled).  I'm not
> sure if that materially affects what you're describing though.


Tahnk you, because if that's true it fits my theory even better. I had to force it to get dreamless sleep which 
worried me. In order to get dreamless sleep the beable has to be out of range of any attractor and this seems 
unlikely.

-- 
Jack Sarfatti, sarfatti@well.com, 
http://www.well.com/user/sarfatti/index.html
"Perhaps I did use such a philosophy earlier, 
and even wrote it, but it is nonsense all the same."
Einstein on Bohr's positivism to Heisenberg in 1926.
