Subjective aesthetic perception causes neuroplasticity during lucid dream
Abstract: The term “Lucid Dream” describes a dream during which the dreamer is aware of being in a dream while the dream is ongoing.1The nature of neuroplasticity and how lucid dreaming may be used to promote motor learning and rehabilitation and show how virtual reality technology and lucid dreaming functions are similar but with differences in the definition of time as aesthetics element of space in the dream environment in which language relativity plays important role by shaping the nonlinear declarative memories as dreams contents, which have roots to synchronicity theory first explained by carl Jung. Experiments and training skills in lucid dreams which have already been done or could be done would be effective for medical intervention as cognitive training.
Introduction: there is a correlation between biosemiotics journey and cognitive positive feedback loop between experiences in nature and environment and how these experiences will be interpreted and expressed as an ultimate psychological impact, which includes lucid Dreaming.2 Specifically, there is anthropological evidence that lucid Dreaming (Dreams in general) had specific biosemiotics and eco-psychological functions, one more meaning-system within a grander biosemiotics coda which integrates intimate learning of natural history with a psychological orientation that must adjust to these real and natural demands. The Lucid Dream, more than any other experience (other than hunting, gathering, chanting, dancing, eating or sex) establishes a link to a Paleolithic mind when it was less disturbed and confused by the synthetic and knew not of meaningless modern surroundings, when it knew that the “others” where at least role models for imitable behaviors that could have induced a transforming shift in consciousness. Thus Lucid Dreaming and its contents as an experiential singularity of total semiotic coda on the way to interpreting inner and outer universe by each individual is different under the influence of different individual perceptions of environmental data analysis , the latter forever unfolding as processes rather than mere static or passive experiences.3 When talking about dream contents, language plays crucial role and its relation to eye movements during communications and perceptions of complex objects4 during waking and dreaming (REM) and its nonlinear correlation to synchronicity concept that could explain dream contents and their meaningful coincidences which occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.
The theory of protoconsciousness emphasizes data that suggest that REM sleep may constitute a protoconscious state, providing a virtual reality model of the world that is of functional use to the development and maintenance of waking consciousness.5 Time intervals estimated in lucid dreams are very close to actual clock time 6.Many argue that the origins of language probably relate closely to the origins of modern human behavior and besides the principle of “linguistic relativity” (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) holds that the structure of a language affects its speakers world view or cognition and determines thought. Considering this hypothesis, some of the subjects who have enhanced skills for lucid dreaming have different experiences because of different brain functions related to tempo. Deficit in temporal-order judgments and damage to time construction system cause different language disorders such as Aphasia, Dyslexia in ADD and ADHD (TD) and recently discovered to underlie some of the hallmark symptoms of Schizophrenia such as misattributions of credit and auditory hallucinations (hearing internal monolog). At present, most imaginable disorders of time would be lumped into a classification of dementia or disorientation.7, 8 Feature-Binding, keeping an object’s features perceptually united, in nervous system requires coordination-not only among different senses (Vision, hearing, touch, and so on) but also among different features within a sensory modality (Within vision, for example: color, motion, edges, angels, and so on).Humans have quite good resolution when making temporal judgments. The resolution is so precise, given that the signals are so smeared out in space and time, concerning that tasks and resources of the visual system has to deal with peculiarities of equipment that supplies it: the eyes and parts of the thalamus. The sense of place and the ability to navigate are fundamental to the existence. The sense of place gives a perception of position in the environment. During navigation, it is interlinked with a sense of distance that is based on motion and knowledge of previous positions. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that some mental abilities exist as a priori knowledge, independent of experience. He considered the concept of space as an inbuilt principle of the mind, one through which the world is and must be perceived. The theory of cognitive space-time allows us to go beyond the space-time dichotomy that is commonly employed in psychology and cognitive science. Linguistic analysis and experimental review is provided to support the notion that what is commonly referred to as spatial cognition (or mental space) in the cognitive sciences always contains time, and that what is commonly referred to as temporal cognition (or mental time) always contains space.9
Test and results : Apart from all, temporal binding and feature binding are like time and declarative memory as dreams space tightly linked and the question what do disorders of time look like could be observed during lucid dreaming by subjects experiencing the environment with differences in visual system. Binocular stereopsis is the ability to derive information of objects distance and is disrupted in strabismus10 and my subject (Ani) has exotropia or so called wall eye which also Dr. Bruce Bridgeman had lived with and his revelation of stereovision happened while watching the 3D Movie “Hugo” and its visual effects gave him his first sense of volume and depth in the world.11
The same image difference and colors occurred in my subject dream which was same as 3D movie but in waking state subjects brains are unable to coalesce images from both eyes into a three dimensional result.
Conclusion: Thus there is an evidence how working with consciousness could alter a perception of solid reality and how VR technology (as dream simulation and vice versa), have the potential to induce and affect synapses, which are generated and dissolved, while others are preserved, in an ever-changing process of so-called neuroplasticity. Ongoing processes of synaptic reinforcements and decay occur during wakefulness when consciousness is present, but also during dreaming and lucid dreaming. Apart from all the above mentioned reasons and observations, we suggest that consciousness influences brain
neuroplasticity both during wakefulness (with virtual reality technics for simulations) as well as sleep (tasks during dream and lucid dreaming and observing the stimulated areas of the brain).This means that consciousness really activates synaptic flow and changes brain structures and functional organization. The dynamic impact of consciousness on brain never stops despite the relative stationary structure of the brain. Such a process can be a target for medical intervention, e.g., by cognitive training.12
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12. Front. Psychol., 10 July 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00412