Don't know what happened last night but I had an awful sleep. I may as well have stayed awake the whole night. I woke up thinking about the two dreams Im sure I had but of which I do know is I don't know what they were.
It got me thinking a little about what happens after you go to sleep. Presumably through evolution, we've evolved to program ourselves to do whatever is best that our brains should when we sleep.
It's tremendously evident that we aren't quite sure what all we've evolutionarily determined that our brains should do. What we do know is that it processes the days events, reflects and perhaps summarises or even deduces various pieces of subconscious information that perhaps we missed first time around. It coordinates perhaps cell maintenance and recovery. I guess it thinks without much effort or strain on the body while the body sleeps because thinking can strain the body: Say I think about a solution and I force myself to think about it until I find one, I get stressed out, perhaps I may not think about other things in the day that when those other things bring focus to me may stress me out because I've not thought about them. The brain is an interesting thing.
What the brain does in a Stuart, is perhaps even more interesting!
I certainly am aware of brain activity as I wake as reminiscents of it slowly fades. The other thing is why does it fade, why doesn't it just give us the answer when we wake? Perhaps what happens is we overload the brains normal subconscious to interrupt it's normal 'throw-away' thinking to do our conscious ones but when it does them it throws what it came with away when we become conscious but like the volatility of RAM in modern day computers. So maybe conscious thinking overloaded to our subconscious thinking for thinking is inefficient and unnecessary.
That said, people do sometimes grab hold of the slowly evaporating thoughts as one wakes which helps the conscious effort. The more I think about the more I feel that it may be the wrong thing that the subconscious is supposed to do. Funny.
The brain perhaps subconcious functions are not to cross over to the conscious but coordinate underlying activities that the conscious isn't aware of and perhaps we should leave it to do that.
I could be wrong.
It got me thinking a little about what happens after you go to sleep. Presumably through evolution, we've evolved to program ourselves to do whatever is best that our brains should when we sleep.
It's tremendously evident that we aren't quite sure what all we've evolutionarily determined that our brains should do. What we do know is that it processes the days events, reflects and perhaps summarises or even deduces various pieces of subconscious information that perhaps we missed first time around. It coordinates perhaps cell maintenance and recovery. I guess it thinks without much effort or strain on the body while the body sleeps because thinking can strain the body: Say I think about a solution and I force myself to think about it until I find one, I get stressed out, perhaps I may not think about other things in the day that when those other things bring focus to me may stress me out because I've not thought about them. The brain is an interesting thing.
What the brain does in a Stuart, is perhaps even more interesting!
I certainly am aware of brain activity as I wake as reminiscents of it slowly fades. The other thing is why does it fade, why doesn't it just give us the answer when we wake? Perhaps what happens is we overload the brains normal subconscious to interrupt it's normal 'throw-away' thinking to do our conscious ones but when it does them it throws what it came with away when we become conscious but like the volatility of RAM in modern day computers. So maybe conscious thinking overloaded to our subconscious thinking for thinking is inefficient and unnecessary.
That said, people do sometimes grab hold of the slowly evaporating thoughts as one wakes which helps the conscious effort. The more I think about the more I feel that it may be the wrong thing that the subconscious is supposed to do. Funny.
The brain perhaps subconcious functions are not to cross over to the conscious but coordinate underlying activities that the conscious isn't aware of and perhaps we should leave it to do that.
I could be wrong.