For those of you living in the San Francisco Bay Area, a dream theater performance is taking place in Berkeley on November 1st. The event is part of the opening night festivities for the art show Balancing Perspectives: East Asian Influences in … [Read more...] about Dream Theater in Berkeley: Silk Passages
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Dreaming in Black and White
Do we usually dream in black & white" Or is the color in our remembered dreams just hard to remember? This has been a perplexing question for dream scientists for half a century, with most studies not able to report a firm conclusion. Here's a … [Read more...] about Dreaming in Black and White
Children’s Snoring and Cognitive Deficiencies Linked
Science Daily published this article last week about the new links between snoring and mental deficiences in children. The results are a little perplexing, especially where sleep apnea is concerned. As expected, they found that children with snoring … [Read more...] about Children’s Snoring and Cognitive Deficiencies Linked
Google is Pro-Ecstasy, Professors Claim
For a change of pace, a recent study suggests that taking ecstasy only once can cause memory impairments. According to Keith Laws and Fabrizio Schifano from the University of Hertfordshire, ecstasy users show significantly impaired memory when … [Read more...] about Google is Pro-Ecstasy, Professors Claim
Lucid Nightmares – Fear, Initiation, and Beyond
Sometimes there really is nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear plays a huge role in lucid dreams because fear can manifest exactly what we don't want to see. In lucid dreams this well-known phenomenon is called the expectancy effect. When we become … [Read more...] about Lucid Nightmares – Fear, Initiation, and Beyond
Lucid Nightmares & Frightening Near Death Experiences
Today I want to talk about lucid nightmares using the metaphor of frightening Near Death Experiences (fNDEs). Both of these states of consciousness are under-reported, most likely due to the taboos I explored in Part I of this series. In general, … [Read more...] about Lucid Nightmares & Frightening Near Death Experiences