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This is a very interesting post and it has answered some questions that I have had for a while such as how are we able to discern between awake states and sleep states?

Rebecca's explanation of lucid dreaming helps answer the above question for me.

This also helps me explain how psychics and those who meditate walk in and out of sleep and dream states. They say they can move in and out of dream states of REM by creating higher awareness. Well that can also translate to mean that they strengthen a particular area of the frontal lobe so much so that the lobe automatically or on call, lets the "Self" know that it is sleeping.

Secondly, in class Paul said that usually the I-function is what we associate with the "Self" when he was making the example of being drunk or sleep walking. So it makes me wonder if Earth has an I-function. To further the analogy, she may not be cognizant of all the things happen inside of her such as global warming, pollution, war, sex, and art, but she could have a consciousness that she believes to be her "Self." That is just something to think about. I always take a specific thing I learn and blow it up. I also deflate too.

Lastly, it was very interesting that in the Delta stage of sleep when the I-function is off, the body is most at peace or on one accord. When the I-function turns back on, then the pattern looks more chaotic and random. What are the implications of this? Is this saying that there is a natural pattern for beings and the I-function messes it up? Or maybe the I-function brings it under control? But under control of what or who? Ourselves? Or something else?