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Siddhartha Ribeiro

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History of the Self: Dreams

If you look into the brain areas that are involved in daydream, they're the same as those involved in nightdream. When we plan something in the future, when we travel in the past, when we tell a story about our own life, when we make a story up, all those situations involve activation of those brain regions that that we need to have empathy to be able to put ourselves in other shoes.

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History of the Self: Dreams

If you look into the brain areas that are involved in daydream, they're the same as those involved in nightdream. When we plan something in the future, when we travel in the past, when we tell a story about our own life, when we make a story up, all those situations involve activation of those brain regions that that we need to have empathy to be able to put ourselves in other shoes.

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History of the Self: Dreams

If you look into the brain areas that are involved in daydream, they're the same as those involved in nightdream. When we plan something in the future, when we travel in the past, when we tell a story about our own life, when we make a story up, all those situations involve activation of those brain regions that that we need to have empathy to be able to put ourselves in other shoes.

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History of the Self: Dreams

So very likely what allowed our ancestors to develop technology, to develop new ideas, to develop culture and enter this process of accumulation of culture is something that was propelled by dreams.

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History of the Self: Dreams

So very likely what allowed our ancestors to develop technology, to develop new ideas, to develop culture and enter this process of accumulation of culture is something that was propelled by dreams.

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History of the Self: Dreams

So very likely what allowed our ancestors to develop technology, to develop new ideas, to develop culture and enter this process of accumulation of culture is something that was propelled by dreams.

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History of the Self: Dreams

This art is not produced at the entrance, at the very entrance of the caves, but very deep in the caves. They had to go for hundreds of meters. And then they needed to use fire to be able to draw or paint.

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History of the Self: Dreams

This art is not produced at the entrance, at the very entrance of the caves, but very deep in the caves. They had to go for hundreds of meters. And then they needed to use fire to be able to draw or paint.

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History of the Self: Dreams

This art is not produced at the entrance, at the very entrance of the caves, but very deep in the caves. They had to go for hundreds of meters. And then they needed to use fire to be able to draw or paint.

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History of the Self: Dreams

For example, when you have like a bison, the bison has many legs. It doesn't have four legs. It has more legs. And this seems to be an attempt to produce the impression of motion.

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History of the Self: Dreams

For example, when you have like a bison, the bison has many legs. It doesn't have four legs. It has more legs. And this seems to be an attempt to produce the impression of motion.

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History of the Self: Dreams

For example, when you have like a bison, the bison has many legs. It doesn't have four legs. It has more legs. And this seems to be an attempt to produce the impression of motion.

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History of the Self: Dreams

They're those paintings that are not just beautiful and impressive, but they are also suggestive of magic, of mental imagery that had some purpose, that was the mixture of people and other animals. A human torso with a bison head, for example.

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History of the Self: Dreams

They're those paintings that are not just beautiful and impressive, but they are also suggestive of magic, of mental imagery that had some purpose, that was the mixture of people and other animals. A human torso with a bison head, for example.

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History of the Self: Dreams

They're those paintings that are not just beautiful and impressive, but they are also suggestive of magic, of mental imagery that had some purpose, that was the mixture of people and other animals. A human torso with a bison head, for example.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this is probably a function that was facilitated by dreaming by REM sleep that conduces a reactivation of memories that is not very strict, that is quite lax. Now, if we transport ourselves 30,000 years in the past and we imagine these situations

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this is probably a function that was facilitated by dreaming by REM sleep that conduces a reactivation of memories that is not very strict, that is quite lax. Now, if we transport ourselves 30,000 years in the past and we imagine these situations

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this is probably a function that was facilitated by dreaming by REM sleep that conduces a reactivation of memories that is not very strict, that is quite lax. Now, if we transport ourselves 30,000 years in the past and we imagine these situations

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History of the Self: Dreams

The only logical thing to conclude is that people would come out of those dreams absolutely sure that they had encountered godly entities in search of guidance.

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History of the Self: Dreams

The only logical thing to conclude is that people would come out of those dreams absolutely sure that they had encountered godly entities in search of guidance.