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		<title>5 Traits of Natural Lucid Dreamers</title>
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This article is for those who wonder if lucid dreaming is for them or if it is a waste of time to try to learn. The fact is, successful lucid dreamers have certain habits and personality traits in common.
Lucid Dreaming Basics
Lucid dreaming is the art of becoming conscious in our dreams. Most people naturally experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/03/09/5-traits-of-natural-lucid-dreamers/</link>
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		<title>Sleep Paralysis, Fear, and Spirituality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from my soon-to-be published ebook,  Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer&#8217;s Guide.  This section illustrates how sleep paralysis is a complex set of experiences that includes body paralysis, waking hallucinations, and the fear that connects these two strands together, reinforcing the nightmarish aspects of the condition.


Separating the Components of the Experience
It’s important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/02/26/spiritual-sleep-paralysis/</link>
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		<title>Avatar: A Dreamer&#8217;s Review</title>
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Avatar is the movie James Cameron has been dreaming about for over 20 years.  It took that long for the technology to catch up with his vision.  Worth it?  Yeah, worth it.  I usually only see movies in the theater if something is guaranteed to blow up.  Avatar met this requirement, and if you wear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/02/04/avatar-a-dreamers-review/</link>
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		<title>Sleep Paralysis Treatment – Dreams of Being Held Down</title>
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Sleep Paralysis is a troubling sleep condition that is deeply misunderstood in our culture. Experienced by millions as an incubus attack or being “ridden by a witch,” sleep paralysis (SP) has biological causes that are related to sleep hygiene, stress, and insomnia.
In SP, the dreamer is aware of the body’s paralysis that normally comes with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/01/22/sleep-paralysis-treatment-wake-up-cant-move/</link>
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		<title>Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams</title>
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The neuroscience of dreaming is a relatively new enterprise but has quickly become the major paradigm of experimental dream research today.  J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard University, is the undisputed celebrity of this scientific outlook, and the author of several popular books on the topic.  Hobson, in his 30 years of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/01/07/neuroscience-of-dreams/</link>
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		<title>5 tips for Powerful Dreams Over the Holidays</title>
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Today is the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere.  With the longest night of the year behind us, we can look forward to longer and warmer days ahead.
But hold on a minute.  Let’s not invite the light back just yet.  These dark days have something for us, something that has been forgotten in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2009/12/22/winter-holiday-dreaming/</link>
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		<title>Inner Work: When Productivity is Counter-Productive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently wrote in an email; “I&#8217;m coming to realize that this transformational path I&#8217;m on isn&#8217;t exactly productive. I don&#8217;t know what it is but productive it&#8217;s not.” Her comments, coupled with my own experiences of times when I am not accomplishing as much as I would like, caused me to reflect on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2009/12/08/productivity-and-self-growth/</link>
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		<title>Calvin Hall and the Cognitive Theory of Dreaming</title>
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Any survey of modern dream research must include Calvin Hall (1909-1985).  Hall was a behavioral psychologist who explored the cognitive dimensions of dreaming.  His work began before the discovery of REM sleep, so little was known about the biology of sleep and dreams.  Hall drew worldwide attention for his cognitive theory of dreaming, which was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2009/12/03/calvin-hall-cognitive-theory-of-dreaming/</link>
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		<title>The Dream Theories of Carl Jung</title>
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Except for Dr Freud, no one has influenced modern dream studies more than Carl Jung.

A psychoanalyst based in Geneva, Switzerland, Jung (1875  -1961) was a friend and follower of Freud but soon developed his own ideas about how dreams are formed.  While depth psychology has fallen out of favor in neuroscience, Jung’s ideas are still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2009/11/25/carl-jung-dream-interpretation/</link>
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		<title>Contemporary Dream Theories Starting with Freud</title>
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I’ve been brewing this post series for a long time.  Many readers have asked me to review the influential theories of dream formation that are still at work today.   Unfortunately, in our Western culture, where dreaming has long been considered insignificant, advances have been slow due to a lack of funded research. And no one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2009/11/19/freudian-dream-theory-explained/</link>
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