experiment A

simon's dream project LADYTRAP, INC. tinkering with the mechanisms of sleep
SIMON'S DREAM PROJECT - others' adventures - dreams in film - why journal? - experiments - A - B - 1 -the log Z-GATTS' CYCLING ODYSSEY EXPERIENCE HUMANITY NAME THE COFFEESHOP STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND TYING THE KNOT! TRANSCENDING MATERIALISM THE SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL THE LADYTRAP MANIFESTO VOYAGE OF THE SUPERNOVA PEOPLE TRAVEL RECIPES COMMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY THE ORIGINAL LADYTRAP THE ANIMATION PROJECT?	experiment B During dreams, it seems that dreamed events pass by much more quickly than they would in the waking existence. For example, in the space of three minutes, it seems that one could have dreamed an hour's worth of experiences? Is the brain working faster or are we dealing with the three minutes of data differently? Is it an illusion of time? If dream time does elapse at a different rate, how can we find the conversion ratio? To begin to understand this, Patrick and I will conduct an experiment Wednesday the 10. I will wake him while in slumber and then allow him to sleep for sixty seconds, after which I will wake him and ask him to recall the events that transpired in that dream. I will also ask him to estimate how long those events SEEMED to need to elapse as he perceived them. It is important that he not continue the dream that was transpiring before the first awakening, lest he continue that dream and recall events from before the first awakening, and therefore not have a set of data limited to sixty seconds. In order to insure he is awake enough to have terminated the dream, I will ask him the following questions, which he must actively think about: 1) What time do you work today? 2) What day is this? This is a preliminary experiment and further tests will be conducted based on the results of this. TRAIL ONE: WEDNESDAY MORNING. I awoke pat around 7:15 AM. It was considerably light outside and I was concerned that he may have slept too much already. I opened his door and asked him what time he had to work today. He fiddled with the clock radio and said "I'm supposed to surf with Ben." I asked him what day it was and the answer was annoyed an inconclusive. I left him alone for one minute and came back to ask "Pat, did you dream?". His response was "No, I haven't been able to sleep yet". So I intended to leave him for two minutes, to salvage the experiment. Unfortunately his alarm went off just 30 seconds later and I heard him hit snooze. Had it been cycling already? I came back 90 seconds after that and asked him if he had dreamed. He told me he was just remembering pieces of his old dreams. PAT TYPE YOUR DREAM HERE: include as much detail as possible an estimate how long those events would take in the real world. Don If you went downstairs but don't remember the actual act of climbing down them (you jsut remember the intention and then being downstairs") try no to make assumptions like "well, it takes at least thirty seconds to get down stairs so I'll add 30 seconds there"... Just try to get an gauge on the actual events you felt. Maybe that why some much time seems to pass; we fill in the gaps of what must have happened by interpolation. Maybe we only dream in a series symbols and all the events that transpire are just the glue our brain uses when patching them together after the fact.

simon's dream project

LADYTRAP, INC.

tinkering with the mechanisms of sleep

SIMON'S DREAM PROJECT

Z-GATTS' CYCLING ODYSSEY

EXPERIENCE HUMANITY

NAME THE COFFEESHOP

STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND

TYING THE KNOT!

TRANSCENDING MATERIALISM

THE SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL

THE LADYTRAP MANIFESTO

VOYAGE OF THE SUPERNOVA

THE ORIGINAL LADYTRAP

THE ANIMATION PROJECT?

experiment B

During dreams, it seems that dreamed events pass by much more quickly than they would in the waking existence. For example, in the space of three minutes, it seems that one could have dreamed an hour's worth of experiences?

Is the brain working faster or are we dealing with the three minutes of data differently? Is it an illusion of time?

If dream time does elapse at a different rate, how can we find the conversion ratio?

To begin to understand this, Patrick and I will conduct an experiment Wednesday the 10. I will wake him while in slumber and then allow him to sleep for sixty seconds, after which I will wake him and ask him to recall the events that transpired in that dream. I will also ask him to estimate how long those events SEEMED to need to elapse as he perceived them.

It is important that he not continue the dream that was transpiring before the first awakening, lest he continue that dream and recall events from before the first awakening, and therefore not have a set of data limited to sixty seconds. In order to insure he is awake enough to have terminated the dream, I will ask him the following questions, which he must actively think about:

1) What time do you work today?

2) What day is this?

This is a preliminary experiment and further tests will be conducted based on the results of this.

TRAIL ONE: WEDNESDAY MORNING.

I awoke pat around 7:15 AM. It was considerably light outside and I was concerned that he may have slept too much already. I opened his door and asked him what time he had to work today. He fiddled with the clock radio and said "I'm supposed to surf with Ben." I asked him what day it was and the answer was annoyed an inconclusive. I left him alone for one minute and came back to ask "Pat, did you dream?". His response was "No, I haven't been able to sleep yet".

So I intended to leave him for two minutes, to salvage the experiment. Unfortunately his alarm went off just 30 seconds later and I heard him hit snooze. Had it been cycling already? I came back 90 seconds after that and asked him if he had dreamed. He told me he was just remembering pieces of his old dreams.

PAT

TYPE YOUR DREAM HERE:

include as much detail as possible an estimate how long those events would take in the real world. Don

If you went downstairs but don't remember the actual act of climbing down them (you jsut remember the intention and then being downstairs") try no to make assumptions like "well, it takes at least thirty seconds to get down stairs so I'll add 30 seconds there"... Just try to get an gauge on the actual events you felt.

Maybe that why some much time seems to pass; we fill in the gaps of what must have happened by interpolation. Maybe we only dream in a series symbols and all the events that transpire are just the glue our brain uses when patching them together after the fact.