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[Persej]

You probably won't believe me on this, but I will tell you anyway.

Somehow, I managed to influence my dreams by light. I have roller wooden window blinds on my window. And my room is oriented towards south-east so that there is a lot of sunlight early in the morning and all the way until early afternoon. So far I was rolling down my window blinds just enough to darken my room somewhat, but a couple of days ago I decided to roll them down almost completely to the bottom, so that now the light shines only through the lines between wooden planks. I also have window shades, so the light in the room with this setup is very soft, yellowish and bright enough that you can read but not enough to disturb my sleep. And that somehow changed my dreams. There is some kind of extra quality to them. But it doesn't work if it is cloudy, there has to be direct light on my window.

I remember that Clark Elliot said that sleeping with his prism glasses made his dreams more productive, and it seems that I achieved a similar effect. But I have no idea how to interpret what I have done. What aspect of this light setup has such effect?

 

[Persej]

I am not sure if this is it, but the way that light looks in my room with this setup looks like this:

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Prism lighting - Wikipedia

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My window blinds are not completely rolled down, so a part of the light does reflect from the bottom of my window up to the ceiling. So perhaps I have an effect of prism lighting in my room?

 

[Persej]

Q: (L) Okay, I have been hearing funny popping and crackling sounds in the psychomantium at night. The other night I even saw an Egyptian guy walking back toward the mirror along the side of the bed where I was. He looked exactly like one of those carved images with the funny perspective. It seemed that he must have come out of the mirror, interacted with me in some way, and I was awakened by his presence as he was going back... We have been sleeping regularly in the psychomantium and there is a HUGE increase in frequency and clarity of dreams. There is an interesting energy in the tent. Who or what was this being I encountered?

A: Find out.

Q: (L) Is there anything we can do to enhance this process? We sleep in it and are trying to just be used to it being there without expectation.

A: Good.

Q: (L) Is it a doorway that can be used while we are sleeping?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Do we use it while we are sleeping?

A: Probably.

Perhaps my room also becomes a doorway with this light setup? I do not have a mirror in a room, but perhaps a ceiling behaves like a mirror?

Q: (Ark) Is it this ghost that is causing sleeping problems and other problems?

A: Yes

Q: (L) So how do we get rid of the ghost?

A: Change the energy.

Q: (L) How do you change the energy?

A: Move the dressing table.

Q: [Laughter] (L) Why?!

A: Mirror faces window.

Q: (Bubbles) So when the mirror faces the window, that does what?

A: Bounces waves of light energy.

Q: (Bubbles) So if we wanted to have a haunted house, we'd just need to have a bunch of mirrors in facing the windows. (L) Not that simple! So these problems started after I moved the furniture around, didn't they? (Ark) It's possible. (L) After I put the dressing table where I put it.

Well, in this setup, the ceiling bounces waves of light energy. Perhaps that's the trick?

A: Chamber for viewing other realms, possible futures and entities residing in other densities. Need clear depth... such as large polished mirror on stand, which can be adjusted as to angle... walls must be completely covered in black, so as to eliminate reflection... soft, low, indirect lighting.

The reflection from the walls must be eliminated, but not from the ceiling? Direct light doesn't do anything, only the reflected light can, but it must come either from the mirror or the ceiling?

 

[daddycat]

I also have window shades, so the light in the room with this setup is very soft, yellowish and bright enough that you can read but not enough to disturb my sleep. And that somehow changed my dreams.

You sleep in light instead of darkness?

 

[Persej]

You sleep in light instead of darkness?

When I go to bed, it is dark. But in the morning it gets very bright because the sun shines directly on the window.

 

[daddycat]

When I go to bed, it is dark. But in the morning it gets very bright because the sun shines directly on the window.

It sounds like you made your room darker, which is better for your sleep and might explain why your dreams are different.

 

[Persej]

It sounds like you made your room darker, which is better for your sleep and might explain why your dreams are different.

Yes, but it doesn't work if it is darker than this, like on a cloudy day.

 

[Persej]

Perhaps this could explain my light setup. With my setup, I have stripes of light coming into the room between window blinds. Perhaps I changed the polarization of light in the room?

Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses

Averting attack by biting flies is increasingly regarded as the evolutionary driver of zebra stripes, although the precise mechanism by which stripes ameliorate attack by ectoparasites is unknown. We examined the behaviour of tabanids (horse flies) in the vicinity of captive plains zebras and...

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Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes - PubMed

The characteristic striped appearance of zebras has provoked much speculation about its function and why the pattern has evolved, but experimental evidence is scarce. Here, we demonstrate that a zebra-striped horse model attracts far fewer horseflies (tabanids) than either homogeneous black...

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2009.2202

 

[Persej]

From the comments section:

The physiological explanation for this is the lower oxygen levels cause mild hypoxia which encourages divergent thinking due to decreased inhibition (altered prefrontal cortex function). It’s like being mildly buzzed from alcohol. The mild hypoxia is also a low level stressor, which increases dopamine production so your reward pathways become more active.