Consequently, it may be the case that a tremendous amount of negative subjective experience is transpiring without being remembered… One can imagine that many people go to hell for some period of their slumbers, migrate to subsequent dreams, and they have no memory of many of the horrid experiences they had.
Makes you think—it’s at least 1.66x as important as we usually think to be mentally healthy and able to flexibly and skillfully respond to distress if we need those skills when we’re asleep too. Maybe more important than that if we deal with more extreme and less reality-constrained challenges in sleep!
Nitpicking, but don’t you mean 1.5x as important? If we neglect 8 hours of sleep, there are 16 hours of daily experience. If we include 8 hours of sleep, there are 24 hours of daily experience. And 24 is 1.5x as large as 16.
Makes you think—it’s at least 1.66x as important as we usually think to be mentally healthy and able to flexibly and skillfully respond to distress if we need those skills when we’re asleep too. Maybe more important than that if we deal with more extreme and less reality-constrained challenges in sleep!
Nitpicking, but don’t you mean 1.5x as important? If we neglect 8 hours of sleep, there are 16 hours of daily experience. If we include 8 hours of sleep, there are 24 hours of daily experience. And 24 is 1.5x as large as 16.