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Article Source - AZ Central.com
 Tom Sonandres’ interest in dream interpretation began as young boy during a trip to his grandmother’s house.
"When I was a kid, I was taking a nap on my grandma’s sofa and I had a dream that I had fallen off a cliff. When I woke up, I had fallen off the sofa," he said.
From that point on, Sonandres said, he became fascinated with dreams. Over the past 30 years, the Sun City resident estimates that he has interpreted over 6,000 dreams, many through the Web site www.dreamlady.com, where he is known as the DreamKnight.
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Ancient Egyptian Theories
Originally dreams were thought to be part of the supernatural world. Dreams were messages from the gods sent to the villagers during the night perhaps as an early warning device for disaster or good fortune.
From what we can tell, the Egyptians certainly were the first dreamers to attempt interpretation of their dreams, because of the fact that they published a book on some of the conclusions they had come to about dream symbols. In fact, Egypt was where the process of "dream incubation" began.
When a person was having troubles in their life and wanted help from their god, they would sleep in a temple, when they would wake the next morning a priest, which was then called a Master of the Secret Things, would be consulted for the interpretations of that night’s dreams.
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ESCONDIDO ---- David Goodman studies the brain like a scientist from another century. In this age of multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded institutional research, he sticks out.
He holds a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California, Irvine, but works alone surrounded by avocado and lime trees in the hills above Escondido.
"He’s a bona-fide genius," said his friend David Plotner, an eye surgeon in Escondido. "But he’s a little hard to keep up with."
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Article Source JOHN WREN-LEWIS
Attempts to investigate correlations between the incidence of lucid dreaming and near-death experiences (NDEs) have so far been inconclusive (Lucidity Letter, Vol. 1, Nos. 2 and 3, 1982).
The following are some observations following my own NDE in November, 1983, which suggests a new approach.
My NDE itself, which I have described elsewhere (Wren-Lewis, 1985), lacked almost all the dramatic features emphasized in the now voluminous literature on the subject (Lundahl, 1982).
I had no "out-of-body" vision of myself in the hospital bed, no review of my life, no experience of hurtling through a tunnel towards a heavenly landscape and no encounter with supernatural figures urging me to return to bodily existence. I simply dissolved into an apparently spaceless and timeless void which was total "no-thing-ness" yet at the same time the most intense, blissful aliveness I have ever known.
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In the middle of the night, we are all Fellini—the creator of a parade of fleeting images intended for an audience of one.
At times, it's an action flick, with a chase scene that seems endless ... until it dissolves and we're falling, falling, falling into ... is it a field of flowers? And who is the gardener waving at us over there? Could it be our old high-school English teacher? No, it's Jon Stewart. He wants us to sit on the couch right next to him. Are those TV cameras? And what happened to our clothes?
In the morning, when the alarm rudely arouses us, we might remember none of this—or maybe only a fraction, perhaps the feeling of lying naked in a bed of daisies or an inexplicable urge to watch "The Daily Show." This, then, is the essence of dreaming—reality and unreality in a nonsensical, often mundane but sometimes bizarre mix. Dreams have captivated thinkers since ancient times, but their mystery is now closer than ever to resolution, thanks to new technology that allows scientists to watch the sleeping brain at work. Although there are still many more questions than answers, researchers are now able to see how different parts of the brain work at night, and they're figuring out how that division of labor influences our dreams. In one sense, it's the closest we've come to recording the soul. "If you're going to understand human behavior," says Rosalind Cartwright, a chairman of psychology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, "here's a big piece of it. Dreaming is our own storytelling time—to help us know who we are, where we're going and how we're going to get there."
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Written by Inga Martynova
Inna Makarova has one life in the daytime and completely different, exciting life at night.
Every night another life (Inna calls it memories of the past) comes upon her.
35-year old Inna Makarova has a degree in Literature and works as a secretary. She is friendly and good-humored, neither her friends nor her family saw her behaving weird.
I remember every detail of my childhood, says Inna. This is amazing that our memory is able to store so much information. I remember most vividly the feelings I experienced in my dreams.
Inna says she remembers her dreams since she was 2-year old.
When a child, I had one dream many times: I was a man in a military uniform. I was running through the woods hiding myself from some enemies. No success: the enemies captured and killed me by cutting my throat with a knife. For three years I had this dream every week.
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So many of the sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) were inspired by vivid dreams that some researchers have wondered if REH was experiencing a phenomenon called retrocognition, i.e. dream-channelling or psychic glimpses of the remote prehistoric past.
Nowhere is the suggestion of this stronger than in Robert's unfinished Kull story, Black Abyss, which was never published in his lifetime.
The story is set in "languid Kamula," a prehistoric city somewhere in Europe, "this dreamy pleasure city of snowy marble and lapis lazuli that crowned the crest of the hill." In Kings of the Night, a story published in Weird Tales in November 1930, REH reveals that his King Kull character lived "a hundred thousand years ago."
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By VIRGINIA LINN
- Back in high school, Brenda Giguere would ice skate with her friends every week at a local shopping center. But she quickly got bored going in circles, while watching her more adventurous friends switch from skating backward to forward.
"I got really fed up with myself about being such a chicken, but I seemed doomed to skate in circles forever," she recalled.
One night as she was falling asleep, she realized that she could probably practice those backward moves in her sleep. She had been conscious before when she dreamed, although she didn't know at the time what that type of dream was called.
"Before long I was dreaming I was skating, and I got very excited. I knew it was a dream, so I knew it couldn't hurt me at all. ... It was so realistic. I got the very convincing sensation of skating backward - the movement of my legs, the cool air, the feeling of propelling myself this way. Suddenly, it made sense to me as a set of logical, fluid, sequential body movements."
And the next time she was out with her friends, she skated backward without hesitation.
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A Japanese company has invented a product which, it says, allows owners to create their own dreams.
Prospective dreamers are asked to look at a photo of what they would like to dream about and then record a story line into the Yumemi Kobo, or "dream workshop".
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