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Eric Spirko's avatar

Interesting post! I’m curious why you let go of your dream journaling and if, after re-visiting the importance of dreaming here, you might go back to the practice?

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Anand Gupta's avatar

Aside from our limited understanding of the mind and continued confusion in articles that toggle between mind-brain, there are survival motivations that affect how our mind-body functions. Emotions are the bridge between mind and body/brain, while man is essentially an emotional animal. Sleep doesn't make the mind stop - it shifts into a different mode to organize the brain networks. Wakefulness, deep sleep and dreaming are 3 usual modes of the mind. But there's also a fourth state that isn't naturally available to all, it has to be cultivated.

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Prateek Gummaraju's avatar

And the 4th state is?

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Anand Gupta's avatar

When brain is as restful as in deep sleep while mind is as aware as in wakefulness.

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