I meant they would have had greater evolutionary value than their current forum. The reason I say this is because dreams present adverse information that overtime could be confused as being something that happened. Perhaps they are evidence that evolution selects for what creates fitness rather than what is true but that seems to fit in with the evolutionary argument against naturalism. This fact about dreams is something I've wanted to discuss for some time. They are very odd in their current form.

I've tried Lucid dreaming techniques and they worked for a time. Eventually the prompts become ineffective. It's weirdly exhausting so I keep putting it off.

They are unusual from an evolutionary perspective since they appear to present false information which could endanger the animal itself. All I can think is that perhaps before we were saturated with culture, and our minds were more limited, they were useful predictive devices.
I actually enjoy a lot of my dreams more than real life and the more I write them down the more real they appear when I sleep. I hope to gain greater control over them at some point.

Well, integrated information theory is really a version of panpsychism isn't it? So first (according to it) there is only consciousness but then there is its integration and separation.

From Koch's confessions of a romantic reductionist (an interesting read):

By postulating that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, rather than emerging out of simpler elements, integrated information theory is an elaborate version of panpsychism. The hypothesis that all matter is sentient to some degree is terribly appealing for its elegance, simplicity, and logical coherence. Once you assume that consciousness is real and ontologically distinct from its physical substrate, then it is a simple step to conclude that the entire cosmos is suffused with sentience. We are surrounded and immersed in consciousness; it is in the air we breathe, the soil we tread on, the bacteria that colonize our intestines, and the brain that enables us to think.
The Φ of flies, let alone of bacteria or particles, will be for all practical purposes far below the Φ we experience when we are deeply asleep. At best, a vague and undifferentiated feeling of something. So by that measure, a fly would be less conscious than you are in your deep sleep.

A Cartesian-style homunculus is out of date — darthbarracuda

Really? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201407/come-back-homunculus-all-is-forgiven
Anyway how can pain or anything be realized without reflecting back to a "self"? It is realized and expressed by the (whole) person surely? I don't distinguish between the emotions/dreams/imagination it is all something being reflected upon and understood.

Also hi everyone, I had an account on http://forums.philosophyforums.com/ last year.
Is that place dead forever now?