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So I have been experiencing some changes to my diet that are influencing my body and mind for what seems to be the better. There may still be some issues with knowing what I can or can't eat, but it's much more minor than it's ever been before.
The biggest change in the diet might be the addition of cod liver as a daily or nearly daily insert into my meals. I get cans of the stuff and just pour it into the frying pan and sooner or later I end up eating it with a bunch of other ingredients. The recipe probably isn't important to the story.
I've been finding that my digestive system still has issues, compared to when I was much younger, but I think that maybe I have had more realistic dreams recently than I have ever had in my whole life. I don't know why exactly, but I'm assuming there's a medical explanation for this and that this is not simply spirits messing with my head. Because they are just ordinary dreams from what I can tell, apart from how indistinguishable they have become from reality compared to before.
In any case, I'm reminded of a phenomenon that I refer to as sensory playback. When I was living in Seattle, my brain would keep recordings of sounds happening while I was sleeping so that noises wouldn't wake me up while sleeping. It would then playback the sounds for me after I woke up. It was a daily occurrence after I fully 'got used to the loudness of the city'. In any case, for unrelated reasons regarding sleep I had to leave the city, and I haven't been back since except to visit but even then, not often. Another example that many more may be able to relate to is simply having a song stuck in your head.
I think what's going on here is when sleep is less disturbed, then dreams are stronger. I guess I have had some bad nights of sleep in the past and if there were signs that were noticeable or not, one of them that popped up was something I wasn't recognizing for what I now believe it to be. Back to the topic of music, if you've ever heard some sort of song remixing, it's some sort of idea someone came up with, what I believe caused this to happen is their own sensory playback. songs were 'stuck in their head' if you want to call it that, or rather playing in their head as accurately as if they were hearing the songs with their live ears.
Although that detail is less important. The more crucial detail is that they were sort of using their brains to redesign whole new songs based on what they already knew. It is similar to how AI programs function in that regard from what I've noticed. AI has some various quirks that are a result of bugs in programming or at the very least faults with hardware, but that's hardly to be unexpected considering the difference between our brains and something we built.
I have also had this happen to me with vision too, it's not just limited to sound or even touch ( yes, I get that as well). And naturally that plays a big role in my dreams to make them seem more realistic when they do. It occurs to me that I maybe have went on living in this world 4 decades without knowing what having fancy dreams is really like. Sure, they're not anything special, but if a lot more people are having these on the regular, it could explain some things, and even if not, it's still an interesting thing for me to be experiencing and I look forward to it continuing to happen if I keep up my daily routine as it is.
In any case lately I have felt more normal than previously, and I wonder if this whole dream thing is another little sign that I'm headed in the right direction when it comes to my health.
