The newest issue of the Lucid Dream Exchange is ready to download! This issue focuses on tips and tactics for going lucid.
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A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
~The Talmud
24 videos featuring veteran Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz discussing how the archetypal patterns of life manifest in dreams.
In my dreams, the world operates on different laws of physics. Reality is set, and changes, according to me. Often without conscious invocation. What if, in my waking life, it is so, too? What if all of reality is merely formed according to my growth, and understanding? So, quantum physics becomes known, and research expands our knowledge, because I thought about the micro and the macro and realized things must be different at that level —- very different. My attention went to it, at that moment, and so, I began to learn. But, without the element of time, it is impossible to ask “which came first?”. Without time, chickens and eggs just are. We, as a species, are creating our reality as we live it, and I am a micro who is doing the same. Does it make one a solipsist to consider this? In our dreams, we are the only one that is real.
![This process of coming to terms with the Other in us is well worth while, because in this way we get to know aspects of our nature which we would not allow anybody else to show us and which we ourselves would never have admitted.
[The Conjunction,” ibid., par. 706.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrkkigbvx61r2hp4jo1_500.jpg)
This process of coming to terms with the Other in us is well worth while, because in this way we get to know aspects of our nature which we would not allow anybody else to show us and which we ourselves would never have admitted.
[The Conjunction,” ibid., par. 706.]
“The key to seeing the world’s soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”
— Thomas Moore (Original Self)
“A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.”
— Thomas Moore
An excellent article on Depth Psychology by Bonnie Bright here: http://www.depthinsights.com/pdfs/On_Depth_Psychology.pdf
Abstract
Sleep is believed to participate in memory consolidation, possibly through off-line processing of recent memory traces. In this paper, we summarize functional neuroimaging data testing this hypothesis. First, sleep deprivation disrupts the processing of recent memory traces and hampers the changes in functional segregation and connectivity which underpin the gain in performance usually observed in subjects allowed to sleep on the first post-training night. Second, experience-dependent changes in regional brain activity occur during post-training sleep. These changes are shown to be related to the processing of high-level material and to be modulated by the amount of learning achieved during the training session. These changes do not involve isolated brain areas but entire macroscopic cerebral networks. These data suggest a role for sleep in the processing of recent memory traces.
UNDERSTANDING DREAM SYMBOLISM - NEURAL NETWORKS AND PATTERNS Dream symbols have historically been used to interpret dreams. Science tends to dismiss these symbols. Yet it maybe that dream symbols link directly to the neural networks that underpin our intuitive thought. Dream symbols compare real life to a symbolic meaning. Neural networks build up patterns within our brains - they are therefor comparing one thing to another. Neural networks are probably central to the way the mind builds up metaphors. WHAT ARE NEURAL NETWORKS? Neural networks are linked to how we make decisions. In recent years neural networks have been used to describe computers programs designed to mimic how the brain works. Information is fed in and the program spots patterns. What exactly do these do? Click the link to read more, and find a really good dream dictionary and analysis resource. (via Neural Networks and dreams symbolism
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Dreams that form logically, morally, or aesthetically satisfying wholes are exceptional. Usually a dream is a strange and disconcerting product distinguished by many “bad” qualities, such as lack of logic, questionable morality, uncouth form, and apparent absurdity or nonsense. People are therefore only too glad to dismiss it as stupid, meaningless, and worthless.
”On the Nature of Dreams” (1945). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. pg. 532~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
