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Avatar: A Dreamer’s Review

By Ryan Hurd

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 … [Read more...] about Avatar: A Dreamer’s Review

Filed Under: Dreamy Movies Tagged With: Avatar, Avatar movie review, David Price, dream shamanism, Human Terrain System, Lucid Dreaming, Papua New Guinea, shamanism

Sleep Paralysis Treatment – Stop Feelings of Being Held Down at Night

By Ryan Hurd

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, … [Read more...] about Sleep Paralysis Treatment – Stop Feelings of Being Held Down at Night

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: hag-effect, hynagogic hallucinations, incubus, Nightmares & Dream Terrors, paralyzed sleeping, sleep ghost, sleep paralysis, sleep paralysis causes, sleep paralysis cure, sleep paralysis treatment, succubus, suffocation dreams, wake up paralysed, waking up can't move, witch-riding

Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams

By Ryan Hurd

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 … [Read more...] about Allan Hobson and the Neuroscience of Dreams

Filed Under: Theories of Dreaming Tagged With: 40hz entrainment, activation-synthesis, AIM model, Allan Hobson, anti-Freudian, cognitive neurophilosophy, dreams and neuroscience, Freud, Freudian dream theory, integral psychology, Integral science, integral theory, James Foulkes, John Antrobus, Lucid Dreaming

5 tips for Powerful Dreams Over the Holidays

By Ryan Hurd

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 … [Read more...] about 5 tips for Powerful Dreams Over the Holidays

Filed Under: Working with Dreams Tagged With: Choline, Christmas dreams, holiday sleep, Lucid Dreaming, REM rebound, sleep debt, solstice dreams, video game dreams

Calvin Hall and the Cognitive Theory of Dreaming

By Ryan Hurd

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 … [Read more...] about Calvin Hall and the Cognitive Theory of Dreaming

Filed Under: Theories of Dreaming Tagged With: Bill Domhoff, Calvin Hall, cognitive psychology, cognitive theory of dreams, content analysis, Dream & Sleep Research, dream science, dream theories, Hall van de Castle scale, Robert van de Castle, scientific dream interpretation

The Dream Theories of Carl Jung

By Ryan Hurd

Except for Dr Freud, no one has influenced modern dream studies more than Carl Jung. A psychoanalyst based in Zurich, Switzerland, Jung (1875  -1961) was a friend and follower of Freud but soon developed his own ideas about how dreams are formed.  … [Read more...] about The Dream Theories of Carl Jung

Filed Under: Theories of Dreaming Tagged With: archetypal images, Carl Jung, depth psychology, Jung, Jungian dream interpretation, myers-briggs, Philemon, Red Book, uroboros

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