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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • If you have a REM cycle, which you should have at least one every night, you are definitely dreaming.

    REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement, and it’s because you’re looking around at things within your dreams. Unlike the rest of the body, the eyes are not typically affected by the natural process of sleep paralysis (the system your body uses to stay still so you’re not constantly acting out your dreams in bed.)

    Fascinatingly, the brain/sub-conscious naturally purges dream memories as soon as it deems them ‘not-reality’. You can train your brain to rememember your dreams more if you write them down as soon as you wake up, this tells your sub-concious that those memories are actually worth remembering.


  • We know a ton about dreams, we just don’t know why exactly sleep “recharges” the brain which I find fascinating.

    This guy assumes people write off dreaming but when I was 17 I was utterly fascinated with the subject and researched lucid dreaming for many years, even teaching myself how to do it. That rabbit hole is absolutely wild.

    If anyone is interested in the subject, check out the book “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen LaBerge, or watch the film Waking Life.






  • Retrograde@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDear iPhone users:
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    19 days ago

    If having more features in a phone for the same price makes me somehow niche, then I’m happy (and actually proud) to say I’d rather be in the “0.01%”

    Apple’s marketing is apparently so effective in the US and Europe that they have successfully managed to convince the majority of people that commonplace features aren’t relevant anymore, when that’s really not the case, it’s just so they can further their exclusivity and planned obsolescence crusade. 📈💰












  • Retrograde@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldLFG already!
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    There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

    And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

    Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

    And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.

    Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;

    And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone

    -Sara Teasdale