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3. PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION The accuracy of these is assumed to be correct within the limitations of the same error-producing factors as are found in the normal waking physical state. These factors are contingent upon environmental training and experience, intellectual quotient, and emotional make-up. It must be assumed that sensory inputs in the Second State, although obviously of a different nature, are subject to the same reasoning and rational interpretive process. The objective analysis of structure and shape identification, of qualification, classification, and operation occur in equal relationship to the experience and training of the individual, just as in the normal physical waking state. Further, in perceiving data beyond such experience and training, the mind in the Second State acts under a strong command to identify. In acting on this unequivocal command, it will identify within the limits of experience rather than accept the existence or fact of an unknown. In other words, you must assume that the experimenter is reporting truthfully. You must assume that what takes place while in the Second Body is real, if it meets the conditions of reality held in the physical, waking world. You must assume that the mind works similarly in the Second Body, using different means of seeing, hearing, and feeling, as well as a few new senses. You must assume that the mind refuses to accept an unknown element in the Second State, even to the point of incorrect identification. You must assume that the same qualities of human error in perception and interpretation are present. STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION
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Given these premises, the sorting and classification of some 589 experiments over a period of twelve years becomes somewhat easier. Here are some further conclusions. In dreams, the reasoning, intellectual process is absent Consciousness as the term is understood is not operative. Either participation in events is at the purely reactive or uncontrollable level, or there is complete non-participation as an immobile observer unable to take deliberate action. Perception is limited to one "sense," or at the most, two. No immediate analytical ability is present or utilized. Associative misidentification occurs with all perception, and is retained as such in conscious memory. The Second State is the antithesis of dreaming, just as is the waking state. Recognition of "I am" consciousness is present. The mind attempts to handle perception in precisely the same manner as it does during full physical consciousness. Decisions are made and actions are taken based upon perception and reasoning. Verification of perception can be achieved by
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Given these premises, the sorting and classification of some 589 experiments over a period of twelve years becomes somewhat easier. Here are some further conclusions. In dreams, the reasoning, intellectual process is absent Consciousness as the term is understood is not operative. Either participation in events is at the purely reactive or uncontrollable level, or there is complete non-participation as an immobile observer unable to take deliberate action. Perception is limited to one "sense," or at the most, two. No immediate analytical ability is present or utilized. Associative misidentification occurs with all perception, and is retained as such in conscious memory. The Second State is the antithesis of dreaming, just as is the waking state. Recognition of "I am" consciousness is present. The mind attempts to handle perception in precisely the same manner as it does during full physical consciousness. Decisions are made and actions are taken based upon perception and reasoning. Verification of perception can be achieved by
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