Such_Saturation
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Ray Peat said:It is well known that alcohol suppresses
dreaming, usually for several days following
intoxication, while the alcohol remains in the
body. The body's "need to dream" is temporarily
suppressed, but catches up later with a night or
two of unusually intense dreaming. Continuous
intoxication presumably builds up an increasing
"dream pressure" that can eventually break
through as waking dreams, or "delirium tremens."
LSD works the other way, stimulating intense
dreams even when awake, but causing a few
dreamless nights when its direct effect wears off.
(Para-chloro-phenylalanine, which blocks
serotonin synthesis, not only interferes with sleep
— especially R.E.M. sleep —but it causes rats to
reject alcohol, and to become hypersexual,
Campbell, 1970).
Ray Peat said:During exhausting fevers and after drinking too
much, I have experienced a defective kind of
dream, a kind of analytical, verbal delirium, in
which one word only leads to another word. In
place of fluid and integrated imagery, there was
just a kind of fizzly yellow, or swarming orange,
activity. Mental satisfaction becomes impossible
in that state. (Green and blue usually seem to be
suppressed in that kind of state.)
Since I believe mental imagery is the real,
working structure of language, I think a related
kind of damage to the dream system, or dream
metabolism, would account for the peculiar nature
of "schizophrenic" verbalization.