A Fourth State
In Psychology, there are traditionally only three States of Consciousness: Wake, Non-REM Sleep and REM Sleep. The innerdance signifies a fourth possibility: the REM Wake State. Such as state is non-existent and is rarely considered. To look at such, we would consider the various mental processes when Time Perception expands as it does during psychedelic journeys, dreaming, the near-death experience and in spiritual awakenings. |
Before hosting a discussion regarding innerdance as a brain entrainment process that makes REM Wake possible, here is a basic introduction to REM Sleep Stages:
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The body's neural oscillations separate Wake from Sleep. As such, our brain regions and functions were carefully designed over Deep History to inhibit REM awareness during Wake, when Beta-Gamma alertness is prioritized over Delta-Theta slowness and drowsiness. When we allow REM stages to take place during the Day, very old patterns are reconditioned, shifting oscillatory sequences which took millions of years to program and congeal.
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The Circadian Rhythms as a Chronobiological device was first regarded by a French astronomer named Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Marian when he studied the mimosa piduca, a small flowering plant that folds its leaves when touched. It is aptly called the shameplant, touch-me-not, sensitive plant, and sleepy plant, based on the fact that the mimosa's leaves go to sleep at night, becoming the first organism that demonstrated to scientists that a day and night clock is internally programmed within living things. de Marian took the mimosa into dark rooms and found that even without exposure to sunlight, the mimosa's leaves folded on a day and night schedule.
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