Consciousness is the topic that I think I will still remember five years from now simply because I find it the most intriguing. The different stages of sleep and how they correspond with changes in brain waves and eye movements is very interesting to me. I often find myself thinking about lucid dreaming (and wishing I could do it) as well. Hypnosis is another area of consciousness that's interesting to me because I have seen live hypnotists and I always wonder if they are phonies or not. There are also many other compelling phenomena related to consciousness that I haven't mentioned here for lack of space.
Consciousness
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I think the consciousness and dream stages are also really interesting! But mainly, I find lucid dreaming to be one of the most awesome things possible by humans! As i posted on another post,
I recently had a lucid dream for the first time and it was awesome to realize that I was dreaming inside a dream! But sadly i woke up almost immediately after that, hopefully another one soon!
Hypnosis is very fascinating! I know a lot of people who had a hypnosis show during their senior party. My high school had a hypnotist come in for our party, and he hypnotized about twenty people in my class. It was clear that there were some people who were not hypnotized, and then there were some people who were on the fence. However, there were a couple people who really seemed to be out of it! One guy started dancing, and he was one of the last people who would have danced on stage in front of our entire class! Why did the hypnosis seem to work for some people, and not for others? I guess that is part of the mystery behind things like hypnosis.
I think consciousness is incredibly interesting! I find out-of-body experiences to be the most fascinating of all. I have experienced them and it is so interesting to learn about why they occur and studies done about them.
For years I had experienced very vivid dreams that I was seemingly able to control. To me these dreams felt normal and I assumed that everyone had dreams like those. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school when a friend started discussing lucid dreams during our free hour. I was completely unaware that there was different types of dreaming so immediately I was intrigued. He talked about how for the last few weeks he was trying to achieve the lucid state of dreaming and that he was experiencing some difficulty doing so. Immediately I laughed because the way he explained it seemed so pedestrian. After further discussion I realized these type of experience wasn't common and now every time I experience this state of dreaming I record it in a dream journal to try and identify patterns.