Musings

What’s the difference between reality and the world of gaming? Depending on the direction you’re looking, everything and nothing. Psychologists still haven’t been able to determine exactly what consciousness is.  Where is it in the brain? We don’t know. How do we know the difference between wakefulness and being asleep? Last night, I don’t know that I slept. I felt like I was awake the whole time, but I know I must have slept because I dreamt of something that I know hasn’t happened. As a psychologist, I feel like I should be able to explain how I know the difference between the dream world and being awake. What’s different between being in bed and being in class, apart from the comfort level? If I dream of being in class, can I learn? Or is it that wakefulness is a state in which new information can be learned, while in sleeping one can know only what they went to sleep knowing? Then any realization upon waking is simply information we knew in “reality” falling together during sleep. Today, in any event, I’m somewhere in between wakefulness and sleep. I’ll call it limbo - and maybe in limbo I can get the best of both worlds. Maybe things, thoughts, ideas will fall into place easier by being able to learn new things and put them together in ways I couldn’t access in full wakefulness (due to a lack of ability to abstract from the concrete). Or maybe I’ll just start snoring. Who knows?

Also, never forget. Life is hazardous. - Thanks for that Dr. Campbell!

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