1. Loved the ending! While I was reading the article, for the first time ever, I had full familiarity with what is being said, as I had watched enough videos on Mandukya Upanishad and Mandukya Karika by you-know-who. Only to be pleasantly surprised by the wonderful conclusion!
2. Very nice parallels between overfitting and dreaming. The other parallel I have been loving (and reading up on) of late is quantum physics and dreaming (and of course the entire non-duality). In both cases, consciousness is creating a 'reality' on the fly.
3. My favorite thing about dreams is that if you pay close attention, they provide a wonderful window to the subconscious. There are things that I would say or read or hear in the dreams that would just come out of nowhere. Only after I really dwell on a particular thing for a good day or two, I would realize - "holy shit, that's where it came from!". Some very random thing that would have happened that I would not have paid conscious attention to at all, or something from ages ago that I would have forgotten for all practical purposes. I wish I can do more of it - remembering and maintaining a dream journal, to really connect the conscious and subconscious.
4. There has also been a very good side effect of training the mind to be more aware of dreams (through dream journaling etc). When I encounter a few things in the dream that I don't like, I'm able to say "this is just a dream, so let's just ignore this part and move on, and it will disappear by itself". And that feeling and awareness is just amazing!
5. Also, waking up from a dream often happens when you realize that something is very wrong or impossible. So I wonder if awakening also has a similar trigger :)
1. Loved the ending! While I was reading the article, for the first time ever, I had full familiarity with what is being said, as I had watched enough videos on Mandukya Upanishad and Mandukya Karika by you-know-who. Only to be pleasantly surprised by the wonderful conclusion!
2. Very nice parallels between overfitting and dreaming. The other parallel I have been loving (and reading up on) of late is quantum physics and dreaming (and of course the entire non-duality). In both cases, consciousness is creating a 'reality' on the fly.
3. My favorite thing about dreams is that if you pay close attention, they provide a wonderful window to the subconscious. There are things that I would say or read or hear in the dreams that would just come out of nowhere. Only after I really dwell on a particular thing for a good day or two, I would realize - "holy shit, that's where it came from!". Some very random thing that would have happened that I would not have paid conscious attention to at all, or something from ages ago that I would have forgotten for all practical purposes. I wish I can do more of it - remembering and maintaining a dream journal, to really connect the conscious and subconscious.
4. There has also been a very good side effect of training the mind to be more aware of dreams (through dream journaling etc). When I encounter a few things in the dream that I don't like, I'm able to say "this is just a dream, so let's just ignore this part and move on, and it will disappear by itself". And that feeling and awareness is just amazing!
5. Also, waking up from a dream often happens when you realize that something is very wrong or impossible. So I wonder if awakening also has a similar trigger :)