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Many different kinds of restaurants serve fast food: burger places, pizza places, chicken sandwich places and so on. All of them mean other things to different people. For some, a fast-food restaurant is their favorite place for a quick meal. For others, it’s a lively place to get together with their friends or family. Then…
Some people would want to resist learning what a dream about their ex might mean. They’d be afraid it would mean they subconsciously wanted to get back together with them. If that’s the case, there’s no way. I’ve been through all that before, and I’m not looking back. If that’s the only partner available,…
The presence of spiders in a dream often alludes to lying in wait and trapping. Some spiders also fill their prey full of poison to kill and eat them. The presence of a spider in a dream can also imply a virtual sickness or poisoning. The meaning depends on the viewpoint of the dreamer. Are…
[OC] UPDATE – 2.5 years of my GF and I tracking the sleep quality impact of various choices/behaviours. These were the 9 most significant effects. Note – white dash indicates the % effect 5 months ago. byu/HeroJournal indataisbeautiful While it’s impossible to track everything because not everything can be assigned a numerical value, this is…
Think you’ve been having too many dreams? Would you like to completely shut them down? Are you such a control freak that you are even trying to control what dreams you have? Do you think it would be fun to have dreams about a certain person or a certain place? Whatever you wish, when it…
One morning Gregor Samsa woke up unable to get up. He was stuck on his back and couldn’t leave the bed. He had, inexplicably, been transformed into a giant cockroach. So begins the events in “The Metamorphosis,” a novella by Franz Kafka. While dreams didn’t inspire the novella, the “horrible vermin” is representative of just…
What the bear in your dream represents depends on the way you feel about the bear and how it’s presented in the dream. That is, of course, true for most objects in dreams. Yet themes have emerged about bears in cultures around the world. Considering these can help you understand what the bear might symbolize…
Tips for night shift workers Several extensive studies have given working the night shift a bad name over the last fifteen years. Working the shift seems to promote lousy health habits. Night shift workers smoke more. They weigh more. They’re three times more likely to get into traffic accidents. These effects pool together. Altogether they…
Can two people have the same dream at all? A female friend is telling you about their dream from last night: “There was this field covered with grass. We were standing next to each other. I looked up into the sky and there were clouds, but the thing was that they were in the shape…
No matter what the dream you’re dreaming is about, a dream where you dream you’re dreaming can seem like quite a puzzle. This includes where you dream you’re sleeping in your bed or anywhere else. The picture that’s presented is something like one of those M.C. Escher prints. It’s like a gaze into a dimension…