Lucid dreams

My names Marla Mills, and i'm a dream weaver. Yeah, I know, super cheesy, and you're probably hearing the song in your heads right now, but just know I had nothing to do with the name. Anyway, I have a question for all of you. What if you could live out your dreams? No, I don't mean the "I want to be a doctor, or model," kind of dream. But, the falling asleep and drifting off into another world kind of dream. Sounds crazy, right? But, I know two people who are doing just tha. You see, they lived

Lucid dreaming is the point in sleep where you are able to control your own dreams and do whatever you can think of. Lucid dreaming was discovered in the 16th century and buddhist monks would do it to talk with their gods. Now you may be eager to learn this art of dreaming. Well first you will have to start out with a few materials. You will need 2 note books, a bed to sleep, an alarm clock or a bed stand object, and a digital watch. The first step to lucid dreaming is to go to sleep. You won’t

Awake or sleeping, dreams are a part of daily life. Some people frequently remember their dreams after waking, while others do not. Dreams have been a topic of fascination for many years. There are many theories as to why dreaming occurs, when it occurs, and what the functions are. Dreaming is an ongoing research topic, with little reliability due to lack of technology. Dreams are stories or events that occur in the mind during sleep. According to “Facts About Dreaming”, a dream can cause a person

been a variety of theories about interpreting our dreams. One theory is known as the “activation synthesis hypothesis,” this explains dreams as memories (Linden, 2011). Whereas the “threat simulation theory” is a way to counteract threats or things that someone sees as bad (Linden, 2011). Not only are there different types of theories but, there are also different types of dreams. Two types of dreams we covered in lecture are garden variety and lucid. Dr. K. W. Brown explained to us that garden variety

achieve the enlightened mentality to improve mental health and well-being. Since there are many ways to achieve, some may be sought out more than others such as with time and meditation, through psychedelic drugs that have psychological effects, or by dream consciousness and logic, which can be comprehended within the study of dreaming. By pre-enlightened mentality, it is to be clarified that it only has the means to describe one as not enlightened, perhaps it could be easier to refer this term as Buddist

Dr. Robert Stickgold believes that an individual’s dream is formulated in a web of memories; memories that individual’s do not have clear access to during wakeful times and therefore, dreams can be a view of our unconscious. Dreams contain more of what the brain finds most essential, which could be something an individual spent the majority of a day thinking about, or something meaningful happening just prior to going to bed according to Dr. Stickgold. Moreover, Dr. Stickgold admits that our dream’s

People have theorized the process and the utility of dreams for centuries. However, much of the accepted knowledge we have a bout dreams today is still only theory. In fact, hardly anything about the dreaming experience is concrete because it is an experience

have an effect both good and bad, opening the mind, but also harming it in the meanwhile. Natural highs such as meditation and lucid dreaming give a similar psychedelic experience and putting your mind in a different reality. The mind can do amazing things, but just as easily be harmed. While there are drugs to give a psychedelic experience there is also a concept of lucid dreaming. It is not common although it is found to give more of a psychedelic experience than other things. This concept takes

relationship to reality by blurring the lines between what is real and what is not real. In a dream, we can be running from a great T-rex or we can be flying above our old childhood home. However, during these dreams, we mostly do not notice these extreme situations as unusual. Instead we are lost in the rotations of images played in our minds that will

The study of dreams, and especially the study lucid dreaming, is very complex and ambiguous. There are many facts and concepts that scientists currently don’t understand about dreaming and how the mind works while asleep. The movie Inception does a wonderful job and capturing this ambiguity of dreams and placing it into a complex and equivocal story line. The movie, although confusing at times, effectively examines the complexity of dreaming and the subconscious. It does this by blurring the line