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Re: Osmosis, Micros, Autopilot

Posted by SGS on February 06, 2002 at 16:39:28:

In Reply to: Osmosis, Micros, Autopilot posted by sleepykitty on February 04, 2002 at 09:37:52:

Based on the past year buried in the medical literature (As it pertains to sleep disorders and accidents) if you are Narcoleptic (and you know it) and you drive in a state you suspect you will have an attack, subsequently causing an accident, then you are criminally negligent. Which means in some of the litigious societies (ie the States) you're in for some serious court time. A certain gentleman in England (not narcoleptic) has just been jailed for falling asleep at the wheel after staying up all night and then causing 10 deaths in a train disaster after crashing onto the tracks in a state ruled to be sleep(Selby Train disaster).

General consensus in the dream research community seems to be that dreams are 'run' at approximately the SAME speed as real life. Wake a person from REM after a random period and they will describe a dream and estimate that dream to be about the same length as the REM period.

I'm not sure whether you refer to Automatic or autonomic behaviour in reference to your driving? It's normal and probably safe to have those period where you drive or walk for some considerable time without any real mental effort and arrive unable to remember the details of your trip. This type of behaviour and lack of memory is typical of expert behaviour according to the mainstream of psychological research. Quite handy really when you think about it. Autopiloting, as you refer to it, whilst asleep is not safe, is irresposible and is an illegal act.

Learning by Osmosis? Knowledge passing through a semi-permiable membrane? If you are conscious of a conversation, can hear a conversation while you are asleep and recount it accurately later you haven't heard this through some sort of "sub-conscious mind" (whatever that is). It's simply your conscious mind (why invent a new plane of reality?). I'm pretty sure quite a few Narcolepts report this ability to remain conscious and hear whilst asleep. The "seeing" whilst sleeping is interesting and probably relates to Sleep Paralysis and it's companion Hypnogogic hallucinations (also common in narcolepts). I'm reasonably sure it's not known why this happens, yet.

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