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To: Hank Kerchief
Do you have a body in your dreams? (no sarcasm, but some insightful consideration.)
40 posted on 03/14/2003 9:27:47 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: Cvengr
Do you have a body in your dreams?

In one sense, of course, we always have bodies while dreaming. The dead, that is, those who no longer have physical bodies, I presume do not dream. It might be a question for those who believe in soul-sleep, "do soul-sleepers dream?"

But you specifically asked if I have a body in my dreams. I seldom dream nowadays, but did when a lot younger. In some dreams, as I recall, I did not seem to have a body, or at least I was unaware of one. In those dreams I seemed to be a bodiless observer of some odd events. In other dreams I distinctly remember having a body and participating in whatever activity I was dreaming about. However, I consider dreams in the same sense as illusions, the result of a free-running memory system when conscious (waking) control is removed, of which we become aware during that semi-conscious state when just going to sleep or just waking up. Otherwise, they have no significance whatsoever.

Hank

41 posted on 03/15/2003 4:16:00 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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