The album opens and closes with matching songs featuring ambient, dream-like guitar and distant, robotic-filtered vocalization in contrast to the overall intensity of the album.
Naked women, or strangely mutated women-creatures, populate deep, dream-like landscapes.
Stripped of the dream-like art direction of previous years, 2008s festival was presented in a minimalistic, confrontational yet playful manner.
Many people regard these aspirations as being dreamlike, and they dismiss them out of hand.
It is reasonable to assume that the normal alternations between thoughtlike and dreamlike mentation that occur throughout the sleep cycle are somehow related to these (largely cholinergic) forebrain mechanisms.
Accordingly, damage to these mechanisms results in excessive dreaming during sleep (when the visual system is deafferented) and the intrusion of dreamlike mentation into waking thought.
The l-dopa condition dreams were significantly more dreamlike (p 0.01), vivid (p 0.01), detailed (p 0.01), and emotional (p 0.05; t-test for correlated samples) than the placebo condition dreams.
Such attempts are clearly more likely to succeed from awakenings performed early in the night, but it is precisely at this time that less dreamlike mentation is observed.
