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development in memory and cognition released their imagination into a burst of invention in
technology and art that lay in stasis some 60,000 years.
So began the conscious awake dreaming, a coherent remembering, a self-conscious possession
of things, beyond the ephemeral minds eye. And so here “We” are the last in the struggle with
“Nature”, the last to survive it or not, still making external, concrete and permanent what was
previously a wisp of thought. It is a history within which my dreams have become the thoughts
of our future shouting in my mind.
Joanna Schaffhausen in The Dreaming Brain discusses dreams as a way of remembering, a way
that itself is remembered or forgotten according to when in the dream cycle one awakens. If we
awaken from a dream during the rhythmic hippocampal-REM cycle, there is an 80% chance of
remembrance, while only a 7% chance of remembrance if we awaken during the non-rem
cycle.
This makes sense considering that dreaming is in its bio-brain and cognitive-process, brain
stem, thalamus, auditory cortex dominant, abstraction and objectivity in process in memory are
inhibited unless the dreamer is educated to lucid-dreaming, to abstraction and objectivity in
dream process and dream memory. In other words the Rem dreaming cycle is sensoryemotional-bodyfelt-limbic-dominant
in process and memory.
Within their limited bio-brain architecture one could imagine our cognitive and bio-brain
limbic-dominant earliest Hominid and archaic-Sapiens ancestors reality dominated by the
cognitive-processes we associate with unlucid dreaming with its inherent potential for error
in cognition and remembering. We can extend this process of error to their recall if at all of
only fragments of their dream memories, with fragments remembered as a reality. Their awake
thinking, experience and remembering must have been much like that of the dream lacking as
much lucidity.
I believe that is the case generally in the present, not only are we not lucid dreamers, we are
not lucid thinkers. I argue that it is due to acculturation, to educations failure, that despite our,
as Sapiens-Sapiens, bio-brain-evolution, having for some hundred thousand years now the biobrain-architecture
with its prefrontal-lobe-system-development 6 times greater than that of the
chimpanzee, our memory, our imagining, our dreams, our art and culture are still trapped in
the ancient past of our unlucid limbic-cognition.
We have the abstract-cognitive potential to all become lucid-dreamers, to abstract-cognitively
engage and direct our dreams to higher-purpose, beyond their limbic driven and directed
cognition, with its inherent retributiveness. As lucid dreamers we can apply the same memory,
cognitive and art skills to develop the ability to have a lucid relation to reality, moving it
through lucidity in memory and cognition to higher purpose.
But rather than strive for lucidity, we Sapiens-Sapiens since our surviving the some 15 previous
now extinct branches of our species family tree, have for some 30,000 years of generations
socially-engineered a failure of cognition and memory within our larger society. We have in this
history of limbic-retributiveness created classifications of cast, class, race, religion, gender, age,
ethnicity, criminality and sexual identity, that in their bias in justice and their biased
empowerment of intellect, engineered within a socially constructed survival of the fittest,
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