What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be. — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us. — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist.… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view. — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
