From: graham@visiv.co.uk   
      
   In article <41344913$0$1501$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Nick Argall   
    writes   
      
   >> Another problem, or complication anyway, is that people have dreams   
   >> during non-REM sleep as well as REM sleep.   
   >   
   >Didn't know that.  Do you have any pointers to information about that?   
   >   
      
   In Susan Blackmore's Consciousness, she says that when awoken from REM   
   sleep, 70-95% report vivid dreams, while during non-REM sleep, the   
   figure is 5-10%, with 50% reporting some sort of mentation.   
      
   Also note that sleepwalking and "night terrors" suffered by some   
   children also both occur during non-REM sleep. It seems that sleep   
   researchers have been ignoring non-REM sleep until quite recently, and a   
   lot of earlier research is a bit suspect because if this.   
      
   >> Why not apply the same argument to the waking state? Why not just let   
   >> the chemical and neurological processes in your brain run your life for   
   >> you, instead of intervening and trying to gain conscious control?   
   >   
   >Fascinating question, this one.  Have you read _The Inner Game of Work_ by   
   >Galway?   
   >   
      
   No, but my question reminds me of Zen, or Don Juan's "stopping the   
   world" for example - based on reading, not experimenting myself.   
      
   On your ideas about habits and reprogramming, have you read Induction by   
   Holland, Holyoak, Nisbett, Thagard?   
      
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