| Getting my Geek on: Sleep Learning and Peripheral Knowledge
Current mood:  sick
Category: Art and Photography The following conversation happened earlier...
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al: i was never one to find hope in allagory
JD: well you can read a not so hopeful poem instead if you prefer my fatalist side
JD: i have them in reams
al: not so much
al: hey
al: wanne hear something really wierd?
JD: sure
al: when i said this:"al: i was never one to find hope in allagory"... I typed it... then had to look up what allagory meant... becuase i honeslty had no clue... when i found it online, I saw the sentence had exactly the meaning i intended.. do you see the wierdness?
JD: hehehe i do
JD: i do that all the time
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That means there is some other part of my brain... working independant of my consiousness... that has knowledge that I don't!
I have had a theory, for a while now, that with directed dreaming you can learn a previously unknown to you skill or area of expertise. Or as it were, not completely unknown, only "peripherially known."
Peripheral Knowledge I define as that which you may have seen in passing; maybe read a book on in college, thumbed though a magazine, saw someone do it, saw a picture, or in some other way gained access to the a piece of information that didn't mean anything to you at the time, and wasn't really filed in your brain for later retrieval... here is an example: everyone has looked one time or anoher at the code numbers on fruits and vegetables in the supermaret, but who, besides checkout people, remember that a red delicious apple is a 4016?
My theory suggests that you can take the volumes of peripheral knowledge, and with proper mental discipline recombine it into a useful part of your waking consiousness. I say during sleep, as that is when long term memory gets modified.
Take learning to play the piano for instance. I don't know how to play the piano... But I have read about it, and have seen in passing the proper fingerings, and know the notes, and seen people play... all this "peripheral knowledge" locked in random, non-organized places in my brain.
IF, I were to be able to direct my dreams to take piano lessons, or just reorganise that information into the proper spot, with no further external information, I would be able to wake up one morning and ne able to play the piano.
This thing that just happened, in the above conversation, where I suddenly knew how to use a word I have never used.. and had not consiously knew the meaning of.. is an example of this in a waking state I peripherally learned the word... but not had it in my waking consious until just now.
I think this needs more study by people more learned than I in such areas... or if I were to succeed in this area... I could do my own study.... I think I've peripheraled enough knowledge to culminate this sucker into a Nobel Prize... now to figure out how to impliment... bleh... I've always been a nuts and bolts guy.. but this one has me stumped.
Geek: off
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At least you know what it means though... hehehe.
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