Project Seeks Your Predictive Catastrophic Dreams
To help predict pending catastrophic events, the Arlington Institute is seeking dream descriptions of dreams believed to be predictive. Here is an excerpt from the project description:
The Arlington Institute’s project “WHETHERMAP” is predicated on the idea that before catastrophic, world changing events people have intuitional dreams that anticipate those events. While there have been a number of famous people throughout history who have accurately predicted the future, it also appears that almost everyone has premonitions from time to time in the form of dreams, visions, or simple gut feelings.
WHETHERMAP will provide an online portal for people to create intuition journals which they could update daily. While maintaining complete privacy and anonymity, their reports will be scanned and aggregated with the most sophisticated sense making and pattern recognition technology available today in order to create visual displays of intuition clusters designed to identify potential catastrophic events.
Our hope is that through WHETHERMAP human beings will have a system that can anticipate surprise events of global significance, and radically change the way that people look at themselves and at the world.
To contribute your dreams or to read more, visit:
www.whethermap.org
Forum Discussion: The Facts About Dream Interpretation
Check out this intriguing dialog about dream interpretation over at the Research Forum on the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD):
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=2876
Been Dreaming about the Political Candidates?
So have other people. Read more about what people are dreaming about the candidates at:
http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/03/10/the-i-dream-of-genie
Also, Bernard Welt explores dreams about the candidates at:
www.idreamofhillaryidreamofbarack.com/analysis3.html
More about candidate dreams at:
www.idreamofhillaryidreamofbarack.com
Expanded List of Symbols in the Dream Dictionary
The following symbols are now defined in the Curious Dreamer Dream Dictionary:
As usual, these symbols were taken from the list of symbols “not found” during searches by visitors to the dream dictionary. Remember, every time you search and the meaning for your symbol is not included already, your symbol is added to our list of new suggestions.
A Jouralist’s Journey Throught the World of Sleep and Dreams
One man’s month-long quest a good night’s sleep is featured on the Discovery Health website. His account of his experiences includes encounters with sleep and dream experts and other dream-related topics such as creative dream interpretation techniques, nightmares, and lucid dreaming.
“Most of us would love to be an expert at understanding dreams. If we’re sleeping better at night, maybe our restful sleep can lead to better dreams — dreams that make sense to us. To find out what the relationship is between sleeping better at night and understanding dreams, Discovery Health sent intrepid journalist and insomniac Vince Rause on a month-long expedition in search of a good night’s sleep. He visited sleep and dream centers, talked to dream experts, had a tube shoved down his nose, even watched mattresses being abused at a mattress research center. In this sleep and dreams index of articles, Rause takes us on a journey that shows his efforts to sleep better at night and understand his dreams. From sleep doctors to dream analysis, read about Rause’s efforts and find out how he’s sleeping better at night.”
You can read Rause’s accounts of his experience at:
http://health.discovery.com/centers/sleepdreams/expedition/expedition.html
Programming Your Dreams to Answer Your Questions
Have you ever considered that the answers to all of your burning questions could be as close as your own dreams? Nancy Wagaman, MA, explores this topic in “Focused Dreams: Using Dreams to Answer Your Deepest Questions” on About.com:
Once in a while each of us has our own pressing question, from “What is the meaning of life?” to “How can I solve that problem at work?” What many people don’t realize is that we may already have answers to those questions buried deep in our subconscious mind, and we can often access those answers through our dreams.
In the article, Nancy provides a step-by-step procedure to “program” yourself to dream an answer to a particular question, as well as dream interpretation tools to gleen the information you seek from your dream afterward.
Read the full article at:
http://healing.about.com/od/dreamexplorations/a/focusdream.htm
How to Use Dreams to Solve Work Problems
Many people purposefully defer problem solving to sleep time, using dreams and the subconscious as a powerful tool in difficult situations. Some reported examples include Paul McCartney waking up with the words to Yesterday in his head and Robert Luis Stevenson dreaming of the main themes of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before writing the book.
In a lengthy and detailed article in The Globe and Mail, author Randi Chapnik Myers explores this concept with practical advice, primary sources and examples of dream interpretation as pertaining to work life.
From: The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20080220.CADREAM20/TPStory/Business
Dreaming of Your Soulmate
Being human can be difficult. We have corporeal limitations and too real desires to achieve in our too brief time on Earth. How many evenings alone are spent thinking about why we are given the base need for companionship and the lack thereof? For those of us fortunate to have found our counterpart in the wisp of time we live, some of those quiet times are filled with the thought thread of, “Why did I find my soulmate when others did not?.”
The American Chronicle has run a short article on this subject. It voices some thoughts on how to spend your sleeping time to satisfy this need and desire. Can our dreams change our waking lives?
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51951
REM Sleep Affected by Orexin Hormone
Orexin is a hormone that controls eating and sleeping was discovered in 1998. Imbalance in this system can drastically affect sleep, REM sleep, wakefulness and eating.
Actelion, a drug company, is developing orexin-RA-1, a drug candidate that inhibits the orexin system. Rats given orexin-RA-1 sleep better and perform better in maze tests the following day. The rats experience more REM sleep.
From: Guardian Unlimited
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1703210,00.html
Less Sleep Equals More Dreams?
Scientific American ran an article in September about the duration of REM sleep in relation to missing sleep. The surprising observation is that sleep deprivation can increase REM sleep periods in subsequent night’s sleep.
For example, being deprived of thirty minutes of REM in one night can precede a 35% increase in REM state during the subsequent night’s sleep.
From: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
articleID=239C577A-E7F2-99DF-38DA961471472CDD
