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Winter in the Uk now means wet and windy, and I hate that, so I am not going out much. So it is maybe no surprise that I am not getting LD's at the moment (although I am still remembering, and logging a reasonable amount of dreams) I am now in a regular routine of 40minutes+ of meditation/nearly falling asleep. I am not as bad as the lad in the first video link but you get the idea So it is bad for meditation but better for my dream research. It means I can get the brain to show me how it works. There is a brilliant BBC documentary series, "The Brain" with <PERSON>, and he demonstrates how our brain usually controls us, and tells us what to see and do. (The second video link shows proof of that) I believe that kind of knowledge about the brain is important for dream research. He mentions schemas (templates) that the brain uses to "free up" neurons for other essential work. So, when we pass a house, the brain pulls a schema from its template rack and merely adds details to it. Well, when I reach the hypnagogic stage I can get my brain to actually show a few schemas by thinking things like "show me a house" and I got the outline of a house. The schemas are tastefully presented in white outline and surrounded by a white border. I am not saying that is necessarily how the brain stores them, but that is how it shows me. So far I have got geometric shapes, a house (and when I asked for "a house" recently I got the outline of a key!) Fascinating stuff. Of course, the question is, can I use that to advance my LD ambitions? Knowing how the brain works could be the way in. Anyone who lives in a foreign country and does not learn the language is a fool. Presumably a DILD is just a person "creating a dream image" and the brain responds by popping up a schema , then embellishing it (i.e. a dream forming) So, my "house" schema maybe needs to be pushed, so it becomes second-nature for my brain to create it on demand. Then the Polish building neurons turn up and give it a nice frontage, plant a few bushes and away we go into dreamland. It is a thought. Brain trivia Apparently the unconscious is the big brother and the conscious is the runt. Who knew that? He likens the conscious, to a CEO of a large corporation, who steps in when there is a crisis. The trick for us is to get our CEO to make LD'ing one of its priorities. The brain's insistence on showing its pre-determined schema's (despite them sometimes being illogical) presumably explains why we are tricked by magicians. Well, not any more matey! You just have to shout "it is a bloody schema" and some big guy will probably throw you out... <URL> <URL>