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Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You know, thinking about it, I doubt this is a coincidence.

The finger-counting is familiar to me as a technique for lucid dreaming. If you look at your hands in a dream, your brain will ki da fuck it up, so if you train yourself to pay attention to that you realize you are dreaming and start a lucid dream.

My guess is that the origin of fae is something like sleep paralysis deamons or hallucinations, and people realized they could detect those from the same flaws of our own imagination.

Now for AI, it isn’t really drawing. What we are using in image-AI is still much more like projecting up a mental image, dreaming. We can’t get it right all at once, even our human brain is not good enough at it.

The next step would logically be to emulate the drawing process. You need to imagine up an image, then observe it at large, check for inconsistencies using reasoning and visual intuition.
Hone in on any problems, stuff that doesn’t look right or doesn’t make sense. Lines not straight.
Then start reimagining those sections, applying learned techniques and strategies, painter stuff (I am not an artist).
Loosely I imagine the ai operating a digital drawing program with a lot of extra unusual tools like paste imagination or telepathic select, or morph from mind.

The main thing differentiating dreaming from painting is that for painting you can “write stuff down” and don’t have to keep it all in your head all the time. This allows you to iterate and focus in without loosing all the detail everywhere else.

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bobotron@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The other day I thought I was in a dream because my torso was missing when I saw my reflection in a window. Even when I moved. It legit made me jump. Turns out the middle section of the window was open so it was reflecting light from someplace else.
  
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  - Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If you feel like you can think clearly and are questioning if you are dreaming but are unsure, you are not.
    All methods of lucid dreaming aim at making you think clearly and question if you are in a dream. With that thought, it should be quite obvious to confirm you are in fact in a dream. Dreams are really not that good, sleeping is just kinda like a heavy suspension of disbelief.
    
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    leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    This must depend on the person.
    
    Dreaming is dreaming and being awake is being awake.
    
    Completely different experiences for me, can’t imagine how someone could confuse them, though people obviously do, so they must be experiencing it differently.
    
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- booty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  These tricks have never worked for me, I wonder if that has some implication. I can see working clocks in dreams, both the digital and analog kinds. Reflections look normal. Hell, I’ve looked directly at myself (or a doppelganger?) in dreams before.
  
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  - Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah. It is not like you can perfectly recreate them, but as long as you don’t see a problem with whatever your brain fabricates it’s not gonna do anything.
    
    What I used to do was try to breath through my nose. That is a different mechanism, where probably for safety your body doesn’t “disconnect” your breathing. If you hold your nose shut, you will still be able to breathe in a dream.
    It is something you can easily make a habit, as just quickly pinching your nose doesn’t look weird, and then you will naturally do it in your sleep too and become lucid.
    
    All you really need is a moment of doubt, and if you have experienced a few dreams you will always be able to tell if you are dreaming or awake at a thought, at least in my experience.
    
    I have stopped lucid dreaming a while ago, but I think I am still always aware when I sleep based just off of how I sleep. Ever since then it feels more like I am just going along with my dreams most of the time, and occasionally I just decide a nightmare sucks too bad and change it or wake myself up.
    
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    AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    As an extra advantage to the nose pinching trick, I no longer turn every dream into a nightmare from seeing my distorted figure in the mirror!
    
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- SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  However I have a slight problem in that I struggle to connect to my mirror image even when awake and sober lmao
  
  Then again, sometimes it does feel like I’m dreaming when awake and sober so
  
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  - chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Look at text. Look away. Look again. Are the words the same? In a dream, they sure as fuck won’t be.
    
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    blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You watch Evil?
    
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- leopold@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Is this really useful? Like, is this something people ever need to do? I don’t do lucid dreams very often, but the rare times a dream has lead me to the thought of “hold on, am I dreaming?” were basically immediately answered by just, uh, vibes, I guess? Like, it’s always just been instantly obvious that I’m dreaming the moment I’d start questioning it, no tests necessary.
  
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  - Riven@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I think the idea is to build a habit of checking, so you don’t even need to have that “hold on, am I dreaming?” moment. You just habitually do that thing you always do, and then “oh it seems I’m dreaming. I didn’t notice”
    
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    leopold@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I see. Will avoid, then. I don’t like lucid dreaming, always wake up right away. Whenever I notice I’m dreaming it becomes hard not to notice that I’m in my bed and that I can feel my covers and by that point it’s all over, so whenever I notice I’m dreaming I just cut the crap and open my eyes for a couple of seconds to wake myself up and then close them again so I can get back to proper sleep.
    
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- howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Wherever I see weird things in a dream and I’m lucid enough to notice, I just panic thinking that something’s wrong with my brain, followed by doing anything I can to get to a hospital.
  
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  - sunbather@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    pretty funny how different reactions ppl can have, when i was younger and thought i might be lucid dreaming my first thought would always be to try generating flame in my palm or some other anime move
    
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- leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  DO YOU LOOK DIFFERENT?
  
  Depends on how many hours I’ve been in bed. 🤷‍♂️
  
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MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I had a similar thought about AI; that it’s more like imagining something than actually drawing it. When you ask a program like stable diffusion to draw something, you’re basically asking it to imagine something and then you reach inside its head to pull the image out. I think that if AI was forced to draw the “ol’ fashioned way” then it’d be both better and worse. The results would be more “correct” but the actual quality would probably be worse. It’d also take it longer to get to the same level as a professional artist.

There are a ton of shortcuts you can take in the digital world to save time; you’re basically a god limited only by your computer’s specs. You can do extremely complex things near-instantly. This saves significantly on training time when it comes to AI. An AI forced to learn how to do art the ol’ fashioned way would take significantly longer because it can’t take the same shortcuts.

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- Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah. You want to preserve the AI’s abilities. Hence adding the “paste imagination” feature for example. If you simply use that and finish “editing” that is current AI. Then you can quickly redo only sections from imagination until they look good, maybe with a specific prompt or other form of understanding about what needs to be done and changed there.
  
  We can invert our visual center, so basically we see an image, think about it, then can summon a mental version of that painting back as an image by converting the abstraction of it and change things about the abstraction until the mental image seems good. This abstraction can handle ideas like recognizing, moving, scaling, recoloring objects. It can do all we can imagine because it is literally how we interpret the world. Then we spend hours trying to paint that mental image we created using limited tools. If we could just project something the same way we see, that would probably match image-AI in the initial output but after tens, hundreds of passes you could likely within minutes create something completely impossible by any other means.
  
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s not about the medium being used, it’s that AI doesn’t know what things are. You and I have a living library of how a 3D object works in space. When you train your artistic abilities, all you’re really doing is perfecting that internal library and learning the techniques to bring it out of your own head.

When you draw an apple, you bring forth the concept of an apple in your mind and then put that down on the page. When an AI draws an apple, it creates a statistically probable image of an apple based on its training data. It doesn’t know what an apple is, it just makes something that was good enough to pass the testing machine.

AIs make products like a dream, because just like in your dreams, there’s no reality to anchor it to. You hallucinate fairly similarly to AIs, even while waking, but your brain then adjusts its guesses using sensory inputs. Like why you can feel the pain of a stubbed toe instantly, if you see it, even though it actual takes the chemical signal some time to get to your brain. Or how your brain will synchronize the sound coming out of someone’s mouth with the image, even though that’s not what is actually happening. And an AI will never be able to do that, because all inputs are identical to it.

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- grandkaiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Somewhat interestingly, the module of your brain that cooks up the image of an apple doesn’t know what an apple is either. It just knows what they look like. Many modules come together to produce what you consider an apple, then the interpreter module accepts their input and realizes it.
  
  When you decide to draw this, commands are sent to the cerebellum to direct the hands to move your hands to make the realized image. Your cerebellum doesn’t understand what an apple is either, it’s just accepting input to draw specific shapes as directed by various parts of your brain that know how to draw. (And those parts don’t understand what an apple is either, they’re choosing what to draw based on the synaptic information of an apple).
  
  No part of your brain knows what an apple is in isolation. Is easy to think of your brain as having a section for “apple” but it’s actually different parts of the brain keeping their own local records of what an apple is. Combining them creates what an apple is to that brain
  
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  - chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes! Exactly! You had the next thought that I did.
    
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