Processing Short Term Memories, by Vibrata
After a week of rather colorful, detailed dreams, I went to bed with high expectations. It was a while before I fell asleep but I was enjoying the music. I was thinking about the dreams I had during the week and thinking about the dreams I had earlier in the week and thinking about the conversations we’d all had before going to bed.
In a hypnagogic state, I realized I had random images of the day’s events flitting quickly through my head and in a moment of clarify, I remembered talking about how dreaming may be the way of converting short term memories into long term memories. Perhaps having the music keep me awake was allowing me a period of awareness of my brain’s processing.
Then, to my surprise, I was wide awake and about 6 hours had elapsed with no recollection whatsoever. The concert was still playing, and it seemed as if I hadn’t been aware of any of it, nor had I had any dream activity. It wasn’t until I went back to sleep after the concert was over that I finally drifted into an active dream space. In the dream, I had transported into the future and the group of us sleeping together in the loft for Oneironauticum were awake in the morning and all having brunch.