EmilyHughes

It's really not the same thing, its the complete opposite. It's brain->consciousness vs. consciousness->brain

I am not denying that the chicken became tasty over night. Time in a practical sense has "passed" but what really happened empirically was just a stream of perceptions, one of these perceptions is the story that hours have passed while you were sleeping. There is a subtle distinction, but I get it, its not easy to grok. I struggle with this myself, it's more of an intuition at this point.

Imagine to let go of all stories your mind comes up with to make sense of sleep and time, what is left? In that state there is simply no sleep happening, only perception and movement.

The radio-receiver metaphor doesn't go far enough as it still assumes a somewhat physical brain, but it helps at first untangeling yourself from materialism. If reality is nothing but a dream it would be no problem to dream up a brain that modulates the dream-content if it is manipulated.

- Taking red paint and spraying it over your wall will modulate the dream in such that the wall appears red.

- Taking a hammer and hitting your head will modulate the dream in more unpredicatable ways.

What if these processes are the same? It's nothing but stuff made out of consciousness affecting consciousness.

From a purely empirical standpoint our minds go nowhere. Your whole life is nothing but an unbroken stream of consciousness, you never slept a day in your life. Just because you can wake up, point at a clock and create a story that so-and-so many hours have passed doesn't mean anything.

There might be more time passing for the people who are "awake" during this time, but this is not a problem for the universal mind. It simply squeezes the missing time in there and synchronizes individual minds together again later.

Also interesting: The thought "I was under anaesthesia for 12 hours" is itself an object that appears in consciousness.

I really don't like buying it but the Nestle Instant-Coffee is simply the best my supermarket has available. I drink my coffee black and that one is pretty close to how it tastes from beans.

Most instant coffees have sugar and milk powder mixed in and taste disgusting. The Nescafe does the job and it's done in less than a minute.

This vapor youtube channel is really good. He takes songs from wherever, slows them down and puts them into mixes. The song selection is crazy good, just pick any video.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Macroblank

I can guarantee you that the amount of people using an iPhone that are desperate to get on IRC are almost 0%

Reminds me of the short time when everyone used trillian or miranda to have ICQ, MSN and whatever else at once. Guess what, these protocols are all gone know, along with these multi-clients. Why keep stuff alive that's on the way out? Just move on.