BTCurious, that link reminds me of recent research that suggests a huge number of people previously considered vegetative actually have mental clarity. They didn't communicate with their eyes, but with different regions of the brain. They were asked to imagine, for example, playing tennis if the answer to a question was false, and asked to imagine following a map or rotating three dimensional objects if the answer was positive. Because these thoughts activate very different regions of the brain, the researchers were able to scan their answers in real time. I'll find a
link, so we'll be prepared if Atlas goes comatose on us.
Ooh, interesting. Thanks for the link!
I almost killed myself in a lucid dream.
To this day, I honestly and fully believe that I would have also died in real life.
If I jump off a building in a lucid dream, and then fly away, then I will do the same in real life.
Actually, that was what I was going to do, sort of.
Quick back story -- I had only had one lucid dream prior to this one when I was around 11 or 12. I became lucid, wanted to fly, flew for 15 seconds or so, then woke up when it got overwhelming.
This 2nd time, I was about 23, and when I became lucid, I wanted to conduct a series of tests (I actually tried calling my real-life friend from my dream cellular phone). In the lucid dream, I was standing on top of these 50 foot bluffs overlooking the beach/ocean in Santa Barbara, CA where I had attended college for a few years. Being conscious and knowing I was lucid, I thought to myself that I wanted to run to the edge of the bluffs, jump off, and fly. But, when I ran toward the edge, an extreme sense of doubt stopped me. At that moment, because the dream felt as real as real life, I knew that if I jumped off I would fall. I still believe that because of my doubt of being able to fly, I would have fallen and killed myself.