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Dream Catcher |
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By AlexR
What are dreams? Are they simply the result of the subconscious mind processing all the information that the brain had stored for the day or days? Or is it more than that? These are some of the questions that are repeatedly asked but few have satisfactorily answered. Now I don’t claim to have the answer to these questions, in fact, by the time you finish reading this article, you might even have more questions then before. What I’m trying to accomplish in this article is simply this; I’m going to try and devise a theory about dreams and their significance, along with what might cause a more lucid dream to occur.
Let’s hypothesize for a second that dreams are not only the manifestations of the subconscious mind processing data. Let’s look at some of the legends that derive from holy books such as the Christian bible, which tells of the story of how the Angel Gabriel spoke to Joseph (husband of Mary) and told him through a dream that the child Mary was carrying was the Son of God. If this story is historically correct, and I say this because religions and their beliefs are just that, “Beliefs”, then this would prove that dreams are a lot more that data being processed. A brief observation by scientists with respect to dreams is as follows:
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Learn to interpret your dreams |
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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.
Posted by Angel on Monday, October 03, 2005 @ 01:00:00 CDT
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Dream Lucidity and Near-Death Experience |
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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.
Posted by THoTH on Friday, November 26, 2004 @ 00:00:00 CST
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What Dreams Are Made Of |
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Article Source
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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Theory: 'Lucid' dreamers say they can learn skills, cure ills,but is it safe? |
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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.
Posted by THoTH on Saturday, January 24, 2004 @ 03:25:57 CST
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