Sonhos, cérebro, FOMO

"A humanidade dos nossos dias sofre de FOMO – o medo de estar a perder alguma coisa – e embora tenhamos mais por onde escolher, na verdade perdemos a capacidade de prestar atenção ao que escolhemos.*
Além do olfato e da capacidade de prestar atenção, também temos vindo a perder a nossa capacidade de sonhar. Para muitas culturas, aquilo que as pessoas vêem e fazem nos sonhos é tão importante como aquilo que vêem e fazem quando estão acordadas. Assim, as pessoas desenvolviam activamente a sua capacidade de sonhar, de se lembrar dos sonhos e até de controlar o que faziam enquanto sonhavam, naquilo a que se chama "sonho lúcido". Os especialistas em "sonhos lúcidos" moviam-se à vontade nos sonhos e afirmavam que até conseguiam alcançar estados mais elevados de consciência e encontrar visitantes de outros mundos. Pelo contrário, para o mundo moderno os sonhos não passam de, na melhor das hipóteses, de mensagens do subconsciente ou, na pior, de lixo mental. Consequentemente, o papel que os sonhos desempenham nas nossas vidas é muito menor, pois poucas são as pessoas que desenvolvem voluntariamente as suas capacidades oníricas e muitas dizem mesmo que nem sequer sonham ou que nunca se lembram dos seus sonhos."**


Neuro-Psychoanalysis - Where Mind Meets Brain

* The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew Crawford
**The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience

da aferição... do princípio da realidade...

 "We know that self fulfilling prophecies don't work if they don't match the reality that the rest of us perceive. They are going to be massive prediction errors that you can't avoid. You can't only define evidence for your hypothesis and get away with the fact that all the other things nevertheless exist even if you're not sampling them. Eventually you're going to bang into them. And how we come to know that the self fulfilling prophecies are fallacious, are fantasies, is through affect. The prediction errors will result in things not actually working. If you remember, all this perception of reality, all this learning about how reality works is only in the service of meeting our needs in that reality. If you generate an inaccurate reality, you're not going to be able to meet your needs in that reality. So the needs will not be met which will generate the affects which will make you have to ultimately come up with a better model, otherwise you will not survive. And Freud spoke there of the experience of satisfaction. It's why all this cognitive perceptual stuff has to be grounded in the vital processes of the organism, which we come to know through affects."
Mark Solms

The unconscious in psychoanalysis and cognitive science

"Ego functions are intrinsically unconscious. ID functions are intrinsically conscious. The ID functions when they extend up onto ego, when these free energies of the ID extend onto the inhibited functions of the ego, they render the ego functions conscious. So it is exactly the opposite way around to how Freud put it. I'm sorry but it is. [...] What is pleasure without consciousness? How can you possibly speak of pleasure without consciousness? This is the very same Freud that said that affects always have to be conscious. It's no such thing as unconscious affect, said Freud. How can the part of the mind be unconscious where the pleasure principle reigns?"
Mark Solms

Id = Free Energy
Id = Consciousness
> Free Energy = Consciousness

Ego = Bound Energy
Ego = Unconscious
> Bound Energy = Unconsciousness