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Archive for May, 2008

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Journey West

The journey West - No, I’m not talking about death. I mean the move back to California. I’ll be on the road for the next two weeks, making my way across the US, my dreamy little caravan of one.
So may these next two weeks treat you well, and may your dreams haunt you […]

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

How to Deal with World Calamity

I’m having a hard time watching the news about the calamities in China and Myanmar. As of right now, there are 12000 people buried alive in the Sichuan Province, awaiting rescue. The numbers dead in both countries are impossible to comprehend. How can we, as consumers of news, deal with this information […]

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

College Students and Sleep Deprivation

Continuing with the theme of sleep deprivation, here’s a new article from Science Daily about the collegiate rites of passage into our sleepless culture. College kids are lampooned as being slackers, but they are actually one of the most sleep deprived segments of Western culture.
Ha - I’m amused that I’m writing this post at 11pm, […]

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Why do Nightmares Happen?

I missed this excellent podcast about contemporary nightmare research when it was released last fall.  NPR interviews New York Times science journalist Natalie Angier and dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley about the whole mess: theories about the cause of nightmares,  common nightmares, as well as how to deal.
Here’s the link for NPR’s Anatomy of your Nightmare.
Also, […]

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The Good Night - a Lucid Dreamer’s Review

I finally saw the movie “The Good Night,” a romantic comedy about a man who discovers lucid dreaming as a great escape from his boring life. I really enjoyed the movie, and recommend it for all dreamers, if for no other reason to see how the mass media is viewing LD.
I promise - […]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Dream Institute Now Online

I’m happy to announce that the Dream Institute of Northern California is now online, making it easier than ever to see what innovative dream events are planned in the center of the American dream scene: Berkeley, CA.
If you live in the Bay Area, make contact and drop by for one of the Culture Dreaming sessions […]

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Sleep Deprivation and Western Civilization

Check out this amusing and poignant narrative about sleep deprivation and the American Dream as it is practiced in the deep South. The author concludes with a list of facts about sleep deprivation and dreams from the National Sleep Research Project.
Parents might find this statistic particularly interesting: A new baby typically results in […]