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Sharing Dreams, Thoughts, and Emotions


Members' dreams    9 Replies

Durward, 2022-08-30, 11:58 PM

There isn't a bunch of literature or study on shared dreams or emotions. Much more on telepathy, but that isn't the topic.
This topic is the question: How much of what we think is our own personal space is actually personal?
My reason is based on my own experiences and digging for possible answers

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Rapid eye movements are not random


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Ninshub, 2022-08-27, 02:14 PM

Eye movements in REM sleep mimic gazes in the dream world
by University of California, San Francisco 

August 25, 2022

[quote]
When our eyes move during REM sleep, we're

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Matter that remembers


General off-topic forum    4 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-08-27, 02:07 PM

I'm not sure I understand what "memory" here means but anyway...

Scientists discover material with a brain-like memory

August 25, 2022


[quote]
In a world-first, researchers

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Past-life memories research and karma


Reincarnation forum    44 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-08-27, 12:58 AM

This thread gave me the opportunity to post something that's been in the back of mind as a possible thread subject, namely the pertinence of the notion of karma

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Almost frightening progress in AI technology


Consciousness science forum    17 Replies

nbtruthman, 2022-08-25, 11:09 AM

There is astonishing new progress in AI-generated art, molecular biology, text and other fields that is revealed in a new NY Times article (paywall, at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/techn...ing&regi_i

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The subtle body


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    5 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-08-25, 03:07 AM

Is the subtle body what I experience when I'm meditation, for example, and just resting my awareness on the "inner body" (feeling the sensations or the energy of the body from the inside, so to speak)?

When I do this for the body as whole, it often feels like it's exactly aligned with the

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How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2022-08-24, 10:16 PM

How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?

Bonnie Tsui


Quote:There’s a robust molecular language being spoken between your muscles and your brain.



[quote]
We’ve often thought

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Listen to the sound of a black hole


General off-topic forum    No Replies

Ninshub, 2022-08-24, 01:43 AM

Courtesy of NASA.

(My cat just ran out of the room, as I started playing - no kidding!)

More on vice.com:

[url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p3dv/nasa-has-captured-actual-sound-in-space-and-its-honestly-terrifying]

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Anti-depressant scandal


Consciousness science forum    40 Replies

Sci, 2022-08-23, 08:14 PM

[i]Note: I think it's important to remember that anti-depressants do seem to work for some percentage of the population and apparently can be life-saving for at least some people and this is not necessarily easily predictable - certainly not across screens by lay persons!

All to say an internet

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The tip of the iceberg of fine tuning


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

nbtruthman, 2022-08-23, 09:54 AM

At https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/has-a-sup...s-physics/.

Fine tuning is real, and astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle (who started as an atheist) had to think again when he discovered the most significant aspect or parameter of fine tuning, the nucleosynthesis of ca

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