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| 1 | +import { baseEntryStruct, blogEntry } from '../../../js/blog/blogEntryBase.js'; |
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| 4 | +entryData.title = "Hypnagogic Hallucinations"; |
| 5 | +entryData.date = "2026-05-04"; |
| 6 | +entryData.eid = "A"; |
| 7 | +entryData.tags = ["theory", "hypnagogic", "hallucinations", "metacognition"]; |
| 8 | +entryData.body = ` |
| 9 | + While falling asleep last night, had a quite eye opening pre-sleep visual, a hypnagogic hallucination. |
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| 11 | + <br><br> It was of a red-winged blackbird flying toward me and then perched upon an unseen perch, before disappearing. |
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| 13 | + <br><br> I opened my eyes and said to myself, "woah, an animated pre-dream" |
| 14 | + <br> Before closing my eyes again to see the same bird fly away, with low resolution motion from the wings, "blocky flapping wings?" |
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| 16 | + <br><br> It seemed like the first time I ever saw a hypnagogic hallucination actually move and retain persistence over time. |
| 17 | + <br> For me, normally it's a scattering of geometric shapes which form into faces, very many faces, in rapid succession. This was the first time I saw anything cogent enough to visualize as a moving subject in my minds eye. |
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| 19 | + <br><br> As I mentioned above, the wings looked blocky. I knew I was seeing flapping wings, but it was as though my convolutional deep-learning graph node of neurons showed itself, specifically the convolutional part, like CNN edge detection within an AI network. |
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| 21 | + <br><br> The blockiness was the tensor of flapping wings of a red-winged blackbird, but the motion itself was the min-max of wing extensions over time. The convolutional edges of time based movement, visualized as a solid shape of "wing", while I knew it was flapping. |
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| 24 | + <br><br> I've been focusing a lot on Time. |
| 25 | + <br> Time doesn't look normal in the cases of predicting future states, future word chunks, future predictions. |
| 26 | + <br> It operates like a continuum, where sections of time are perceived like seeing a graph of a company on the Stock Exchange. |
| 27 | + <br> But in the case of images and multitudinous arrays of data, it becomes a ranges of Edges and shapes. |
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| 29 | + <br><br> I never thought I would have seen my brain visualize its internal edges and shapes in a way I could consciously see what my brain believes motion is. |
| 30 | + <br> But then it happened to me last night. |
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| 32 | + <br><br> It validated my approach I used in my ESN I have written up on my 'ESN Motion Prediction' page. |
| 33 | + <br> The difference is, my context window of motion in that ESN, |
| 34 | + <br> Or even the learning-rate over time ESN in my ESRGAN Image Upresser project, |
| 35 | + <br> Is the source of a major "complexity" issue. |
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| 37 | + <br><br> My Motion Detector uses a shifting context window in order to learn what edges exist and should retain after the sliding context window, cyclically, slides over the same area of its brain, |
| 38 | + <br> Over and over again. |
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| 40 | + <br><br> If that's too cryptic, |
| 41 | + <br> There is a bunch of "frames" of data my ESN would fill in, |
| 42 | + <br> As motion moves from frame to frame, |
| 43 | + <br> The "context window" also moves frame by frame. |
| 44 | + <br> But if I have a window of 15 frames, after that 15th frame, it loops back to 0,1,2,3... |
| 45 | + <br> So it constantly re-writes prior frames of recorded motion, |
| 46 | + <br> Unless the motion found within the last frame to update the current frame... |
| 47 | + <br> Like, every 15 frames, it will rewrite the data from 15 frames prior, |
| 48 | + <br> Supports the found motion 15 frames later. |
| 49 | + <br> Then, motion is retained, edges start to form, and shapes beging to dictate movement on screen. |
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| 51 | + <br><br> And just to say again, from my Terminology page, my ESN is not a fixed-reservoir, like ESNs usually are. |
| 52 | + <br> It's a Dynamic reservoir, that reinforces prior found patterns prior to training on the reservoir's output. |
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| 56 | + <br><br> All this being said, |
| 57 | + <br> I think this further proves an idea I've been playing with, |
| 58 | + <br> Compounding Frequencies within the mind reveals the 'Edges of Information', |
| 59 | + <br> Or maybe the 'Edges of Consciousness', if I'm to be so bold. |
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| 61 | + <br><br> If consciousness only starts to take hold while the brain is producing Gama waves, |
| 62 | + <br> Yet the motion I saw in the bird's wings, in my minds eye, |
| 63 | + <br> Would be the result of Alpha and Theta waves, influenced by my Frontal Cortex to produce those "meaningless" hypnagogic hallucinations. |
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| 67 | + <br><br> This reveals a path between a few drastically different areas of my thinking process toward AI development. |
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| 69 | + <br><br> I'd like to believe it further validates ideas I've been playing with Graph Neural Networks, |
| 70 | + <br> As I'm sure I've mentioned the Resonance between neurons in a graph network to spread signals, in prior posts. |
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| 72 | + <br><br> That a single neuron vibrating at a certain frequency can harmonize with neurons not directly connected by edges. |
| 73 | + <br> The propagation of similarities throughout the local area network of a single neuron. |
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| 75 | + <br><br> I do see some potential issues with this approach, where completely disconnected neural networks in the GNN, or lets even say, |
| 76 | + <br> Nodes ever so far from each other, not being able to harmonize with another neuron's frequency. |
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| 78 | + <br><br> They say we are all 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon, |
| 79 | + <br> But in the years to come, |
| 80 | + <br> There will have to be a 7th, then 8th, then 9th degree of Kevin Bacon, once he stops being in movies. |
| 81 | + <br> And if the rule is, "we are all 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon", |
| 82 | + <br> The 7th, 8th, 9th would not harmonize with the network of those initial 6. |
| 83 | + <br> The Graph Network gets too large, |
| 84 | + <br> Harmony is then lost. |
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| 88 | + <br><br> Sure, being sleep deprived enough to have two separate hypnagogic hallucinations be about the same red-winged blackbird can't be healthy for me, |
| 89 | + <br> But sometimes in our most sleep deprived states, |
| 90 | + <br> The ridiculous becomes the answer we were looking for. |
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| 92 | + <br><br><div class="textFullRight">- May 5th 2026</div> |
| 93 | +`; |
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| 95 | +const blogEntryObj = new blogEntry(null, entryData); |
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| 97 | +export { blogEntryObj }; |
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