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Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Office Culture Reconsiders the Siesta
Our culture is a sleep-deprived culture. While that is obvious to many, it is helpful every once in a while to call out the larger dynamic, the water we swim in.
Workaholism, ambient electric lights, unregulated microwave radiation, houses constructed out of toxic wood, global economic uncertainty, irradiated salads, pharmaceuticals in the water, aluminum in our [...]
Lucid Dreaming Radio and Dream Theater
Two great dream events to point you to today. The first is an interview with the editor of the Lucid Dream Exchange on Coast to Coast Radio. Veteran lucid dream educator Robert Waggoner provides a balanced history of lucid dreaming research, and then discusses the distinction between lucid dreams, control dreams, and precognitive dreams.
Here’s the [...]
Dreams Influenced by Smell
Here’s a great piece of dream research that just hit the wires:
In a study of 15 healthy German women, smells in the dreamer’s environment effected their dream content. Specifically, the smells (rotten eggs for some, and roses for the luckier subjects) boosted the negative or positive emotions of dreams.
The researchers asked the women to [...]
September’s Moon Dreaming Post
Listen to Miles Davis’s classic Moon Dreams while you read!
Today, the day after the full moon, I looked back into the research on the Moon’s Effect on Dreams done by the College of Metaphysics in Missouri. When I first blogged about their lucid dreaming and moon proposal this past February, I was skeptical because the [...]
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Exploring Imageless Lucid Dreaming
Below is a segment from my paper on imageless lucid dreaming that I’m presenting next week as part of the online Psiber-Dreaming Conference. I use visual art to help describe these lucid spaces that are difficult to put words to.
Growing up with Imageless Lucid Dreaming
Since I was a child, I have had conscious dream experiences [...]
India’s Courts Convict on Untested Brain Scan Technique
According the New York Times, India’s courts have blasted into new territory this week by admitting brain imagery data to convict a suspect of a crime. The only problem is the method has not been verified by any scientific journal on the planet.
As a modern update to the lie detector test, The Brain Electrical Oscillations [...]
Calling All Dream Warriors
I had a really unsettling moment this week when I realized I’ve been unconsciously living out my life according to the plot of A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors.
As I was reminded in this hilarious post about the 1987 horror movie, the main character Kristen leaves her hometown to study dream research after [...]
PsiberDreaming Conference Schedule Up
The list of presenters and topics has been finalized for the 2008 online PsiberDreaming Conference. If you are still wondering if this two week event is worth $40 (or $25 for students), this list may help.
Some featured presenters include near death researcher PMH Atwater, author Robert Moss, ex-government Psi researcher Dale Graff, and dream [...]
My Lucid Dreaming Knol
Always experimenting with new online publishing venues, I just wrote my first knol. Knol is Google’s attempt to out-wikipedia Wikipedia. So far it has not attracted too much attention, but I found this newborn article directory site to be pretty user-friendly. I like that that the author can control how collaborative the knol can be, [...]