A couple really annoying things about dreams...

One of the things I've always hated about my dreams is that often times I'll have a really detailed and involved journey, vivid and with many twists and turns, and I'll think to myself "This would make an awesome book!" (yes, I actually think that in my sleep, when I'm in a certain level of lucidity). Yet, when I awake I have usually forgotten the most important details of my dream, or something that made absolute and perfect sense at the time now just seems like a jumbled mess upon regaining full consciousness. The same thing happens with music and songs. I have many dreams where I'm performing in front of an audience, singing songs that are completely made up on the spot, songs which seem to be calling for me to create them from the cosmic ether. Though by the time my eyes open I have forgotten the words (though might remember the tune), and can't quite find the notes of the chorus. I have created many songs in this way, those which have jumped out at me during sleep. It's very annoying to feel like a nationwide best selling book was stirred up in my subconscious mind during sleep states, yet I can hardly remember any of the details afterwards... Only bits and pieces remain, bits and pieces...

Sleep Therapy May Be Useful in Treating Psychosis

According to the results of a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop, it may be that sleep therapy could help treat patients with psychosis. Experts have found that brain activity patterns in people dreaming are roughly the same ones that occur in psychosis episodes. Additionally, others have proposed over the years that a strong evolutionary correlation may exist between the two phenomena, and the scientists at the meeting have proposed that dreaming may be an efficient way to combat psychosis.

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The experts underline the fact that lucid dreaming and psychosis are very similar. In the case of the former, people know they are awake, but are also aware that they are dreaming at the same time. This hybrid state of mind generates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the human cortex, which can be recorded using electroencephalograms (EEG), for example. Expert Ursula Voss, from the University of Frankfurt, in Germany, argues that lucid dreaming sends the brain into a dissociated state, in which patients lose conscious control over mental processes, including logical thinking or emotional reaction.

SDCC Press Conference: A Nightmare on Elm Street

The dream stalker invades Comic-Con! It was a big year at the annual San Diego expo for A Nightmare on Elm Street and iconic horror legend Freddy Krueger. He's got a new film. A facelift. And a new man beneath the makeup.

Spirituality and Dreams 101

Do you remember what you dreamt last night? Had a recent doozy of a dream? Those memorable ones hold so many clues into our lives and the situations at hand. Dreams are like little analysts cloaked in symbolic language- sometimes more easily recognized, sometimes subliminal. Keeping a dream log for 3 years+ has been a wonderful journey. Some folks swear by a chocolate goodie, others by banana, still others by spicy foods, figs-either mission or calimyra to help bring on dreams. Dreams are the subjects of songs, poetry and scripture alike. Read the apocalyptic book of Revelations and you wonder what the heck the author ingested to have a dream/vision like that, or prophet Ezekiel and his vision of the dry bones? God communicates directly through dreams in many of the world’s religions. Of course, under the duress of persecution, torture and death one just might also have nightmares, and legend says a person’s hair can even go white.

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