I already linked to it in that post below, but I wanted to make an extra special note of this article on Hypnagogia, because it has all kinds of cool ass stuff to say. If you’re at all interested in creativity and dreams, and the unconscious, and mystical quasi-occult crap, then this article is a sure-fire turn-on.

For people who are too lazy to read the whole thing, I’m gonna post in some excerpts which particularly rocked my world:

But what is most arresting is Ouspensky’s remark that “we have dreams continuously, both in sleep and in a waking state.” Had he lived to see it, Ouspensky would have been gratified by the hard, neurological evidence for this fact. According to neuroscientists Denis Pare and Rodolfo Llinas, the brain’s simultaneous 40 Hz ‘neural oscillations’, which are associated with consciousness, also occur during REM sleep. Given this, Pare and Llinas were led to the conclusion that the only difference between our dreaming and waking states is that in waking states, the “closed system that generates oscillatory states” is modulated by incoming stimuli from the outside world. In other words, what we call “waking state” is really an REM dream state, with a sensory topping. Or, as Ouspensky put it, we shouldn’t speak of being either asleep or awake, but of “sleep plus waking state.”

There’s others, but that’s the best one. I have to go get lunch…