Your Brain on Dreams
Deficient, or just plain different? Throughout history, dreams have alternately been hailed as messages from the gods and dismissed as random hallucinations. But rather than place dreaming on a mystical pedestal, or look at dreaming …
Q&A: What do I do when dreams get confused with reality?
Q.I sometimes have a hard time distinguishing dreams from waking reality. I can fool myself into thinking I’m dreaming when I’m awake if I try. It’s kind of disconcerting and un-grounding, like reverse lucid dreaming. …
Q & A: Last But Not Least (CV)
Q. It seems like the last dream I have before waking is the most vivid and the longest of the night. Is there any reason for this? A. Not only do we dream every night, …
Q & A: Is it Okay to Control Your Dreams?
Is it Okay to Control Your Dreams? If you have been avoiding lucid dreaming because you don’t want to interfere with the natural flow of wisdom and information from your dreams–think again.
The 14th Way of Looking at a Blackbird: Dreaming Awake (Corner View)
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. – from “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens A …
Waking up is hard to do
“Am I awake or dreaming?” This questions becomes something of a mantra for people who are attempting to increase their powers of lucid dreaming. In order to be awake—that is aware—in a dream, one needs …