Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
If you keep a dream diary for a while and try to understand each dream you recover, you’ll soon realize not every dream has a deeper meaning. Not every dream illuminates some insight into the subconscious. Sometimes a dream illustrates a slice of your life from the near-present or the past. But sometimes the dream…
Mental strategic planning sessions in dreams can be long on dialogue, short on symbolism Many dreams feature imagery and symbolism. In that way, they’re not too different from songs and poetry. Yet planning in business and government isn’t done by poets, artists, or the like. Poets call attention to problems and situations. They add richness…
So you’ve seen something you think you’ve seen before, somewhere. They call the phenomena déjà vu. Time is supposed to be linear where one thing happens after another in a logical sequence. Every occasion is supposed to be all-new and never-before-seen. When your experience of time doesn’t match that it can be jarring. Here are…
The questions in the headline aren’t easy to answer. There are a lot of different opinions and only a few points of consensus. Here’s one definition: Dreams are a phenomena that happens primarily when sleeping, whether remembered or not. They’re a type of brain activity that results in communication between the subconscious mind and the…
One can classify phenomena in a variety of different ways. Dreams are no exception. They’re a communication between the subconscious and conscious mind. Communications contain information. You can, therefore, classify them based on the type of information they contain, at least for the person who develops the ability and skill of remembering and interpreting their…
Understanding yourself better using your dream journal (Part 6/7) Blue Opossum (a pseudonym) is a K-12 educator from Australia. He has an incredibly detailed recall of his dreams and a heightened awareness of the different stages of sleep. He’s got a real gift. Born in 1960, his dream journal, for practical purposes, starts in 1963…
Plenty of people have had psychic experiences. These experiences transcend every culture, every country, every time period. Why are you worried about talking about your psychic experience then? Everyone has their own reason, but a common one is you don’t want to sound crazy. You don’t want people to doubt your mental health. Some psychic…
As recounted in the post on keeping a dream journal, one of the most famous dreams of all time was Elias Howe’s 1845 dream leading to the sewing machine’s invention. It was a dream that revolutionized an industry and changed the world. It has been called racist. For weeks, the young man had been working…
Life might be nicer if everything was fair all the time. If it were, however, life wouldn’t be a challenge. We’d all probably end up bored. If everything for everyone was fair, we wouldn’t ever need to feel guilty. We wouldn’t have more than someone else. We wouldn’t have less. We wouldn’t have to think…
In Charles Dickens’s The Christmas Carol, the old, miserly protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge confronts his nightmares and emerges a better man. Dickens describes him as greedy, ill-tempered, and grasping. Scrooge, at least, is good in that he becomes a better person by the end of the story. Dream journalers sometimes have nightmares so unsettling they don’t…