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The Gap: An Excerpt from Lou Hagood’s New Book

By Lou Hagood

This article is a excerpt from The Gap, a new ebook by psychoanalyst Lou Hagood that he describes as a book on dreams at midlife, centered around a blind seer who does dream play in the Underworld. (RH)They come to me in dreams. Why I’ve never known. … [Read more...] about The Gap: An Excerpt from Lou Hagood’s New Book

Filed Under: Dreams & Media, Hearsay Tagged With: Freud, Jung, Louis Hagood, mythology, psychoanalysis, The Gap, underworld

Is lucid dreaming unnatural?

By Ryan Hurd

This is the second article in a series that starts with the question: Is lucid dreaming safe? One of most frequent arguments against lucid dreaming is the notion that lucidity disturbs the process—and the function—of dreaming. It’s a strange … [Read more...] about Is lucid dreaming unnatural?

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming, Theories of Dreaming Tagged With: Freud, Lucid Dreaming, lucid dreams, stephen laberge

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

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