I may be jumping out on a limb to say this but to my understanding the comon beleif is that the mind is in total control... im not sure how to explain
this fully... but upon studying on my self.... i beleive our 'sub-conscious' is in full control, our consciousness just keeps it in check so to
speak.
i have done slight testing on a amatuer level...such as staying up for 19 hrs.... then being totally exausted laying down, and carefully reduce the
oxygen i inhale.....
my sub-conscious state becomes in control... to a certain extent, while in the middle of conscious and sub-conscious, i consciously wanted to get up,
but i didnt, and in my sub-conscious level i did, i came to the computer, replied to a instant message, and then i remember looking down at my
keyboard and noticing my keys were all twisted around... meaning a was where r was, the aero keys were where yiuk were.... everything was seriously
screw up and i consciously said 'wtf' cause i knew it was wrong... and i consciously came back out of the sub-conscious level...what did i find? i
was still laying down, so i got up and went to the computer.... and noticed i replied to my friend..... heres the thing, because ive been studying
this and testing it... when i layed down i purposely wrote things related to what i didnt have up on the computer...and what wasnt going on.... so i
would know if i was sleep walking.... on my peice of paper i have writen 'nothing is on screen'... i did this cause i knew i would come back to the
computer first then when i woke up. always do always have.
now i dont beleive i was 'sleep walking' or anything of that nature...so someone try and explain that to me...
i think the best way to explain it would be thinking of it as a mathmatical equation... lets say the sub-conscious says 1+4=2.... our conscious mind
would say '1+1=2'...so the conscious mind corrects the anomally the sub-conscious creates... keeping it in check... but the subconscious drives the
concious mind.
if it still doesnt make much sense...sorry :-P
this may more or less be a means of telekenises or something along them lines.
i also propose this as a means to long duration intersteller flight.....
put someone in a chamber and seal it. put some sleeping gas in there... not alot, but enough to get them between the 2 states..being aware and
conscious..while the sub-conscious is also there.... then slowly reduce the oxygen inside the chamber... not to the extent where they will die...but
just enough...
possible effects of long duration sleep that way would probably drive a person crazy, i am not sure...
Of course i could just be nutty, i may have to go to the phychiatrist or something
[Edited on 20-12-2003 by eXtenz]