I know the human body understands what it’s like to fall from a small height, or down a flight or stairs, but one could argue that those two things are different.
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I have used a high dive before and felt free falling sensation from climbing trees. Even a swing could make you feel that.
If you do not know the sensation of falling, you lived a very protective (and deprived) childhood.
I’ve heard that this happens because we get so deep into sleep our breathing slows down and our body jerks in a way to jump start ourselves back.
How do you know what falling feels like if you’ve never fallen like that? I mean how do you know that the feeling of falling in your sleep is accurate of you’ve never fallen? Like the matrix, “how do the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like uh…. oatmeal or uh…. or tuna fish.”
Sci show has a really interesting video on this! Their channel is pretty amazing. They take a lot of concepts like this and make them easy to understand. Happy learning!!
(I got pushed off the swing I was on when I was seven, and I fell about 20 metres away).
in my early teens, I had extreme insomnia, and the prescribed melatonin had barely any effects. so I deviced this technique where I would imagine i was climbing the ladder that would take me to the top of the building it was connected to.
I would feel each ring under my feet, and the metal under chipped paint on my hands, so that would bore me and I’d fall asleep.
a few years later I started becoming really sad, and slept all the time. I got nightmares every night when I was failing off the I had been climbing and I woke up suddenly because of the falling feeling. and tbh it was just like the time I fell off the swing mid flight.
You think past lives extend to only humans? That consciousness was not a well from which creatures have drawn, been returned to the mix, and drawn from again, since time immemorial? That within you are not the nebulous husks of thoughts of brachiating arboreal entities and flagella wriggling organisms alike? Nay, fool, those impressions are a remnant of a life for which a fall spelled certain doom. Your ridiculous looking shoulders are not the only holdover.
But you know what falling feels like. You’ve fallen before, and you’ve been on rollercoasters.
Plus what you imagine falling is like in your ‘dream’ doesn’t have to be the same as what it’s actually like. And how would you know that it is?
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