dissed by crush
A bunch of my friends, my crush, and I go to the movies every weekend. My crush knows I like him and he still treats me like a normal person. Anyways, I had a dream that he came up to me and started to call me a slut and was telling me that I was […]
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human sleep
The great mystery of sleep in human experience is that we can know so little about an activity so intimate to us all. To put our familiarity with sleep into perspective, consider that we spend roughly a third of our lives sleeping—about eight hours’ sleep in every twenty-four-hour period. Sleep’s familiarity, however, paradoxically seems to […]
duality and unity
For more than fifty years we have known, or could have known, that there is an unconscious as a counterbalance to consciousness. Medical psychology has furnished all the necessary empirical and experimental proofs of this. There is an unconscious psychic reality which demonstrably influences consciousness and its contents. All this is known, but no practical […]
mental heath
The Transparent SelfWhen we awaken in the morning do our dreams take us by surprise? Do we ask ourselves, “Dear Lord, where did that dream come from?” or are our dreams more mundane? The reason I ask is not to detract from the mystery and spontaneity of our dream life but rather to assess the […]
dream sleep
If we reflect upon our own dream experiences, we find that while dreaming, we always believe we are awake. We describe our dreams as, “I was walking down this long and winding road, then I came to a bridge, which stretched out over an ocean, and then I saw a rainbow,” or something like that. […]
searching for consciousness
Of all of the minds who have attempted the great question of consciousness in human experience, perhaps no one is more intriguing to read than is the Russian philosopher Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. His writings are not widely known, but his discussions of consciousness invariably hold a ring of truth for lucid dreamers. Indeed, anyone who […]
consciousness during dream sleep
Recall your own experience with dreams. Generally you are involved in whatever is occurring in your dreams, and all the while you believe you are awake. You navigate the dreamscape with a familiar sense of self; you react and respond to situations much as you do in daily life. All of your familiar sensory abilities […]
the body of time
The Evolution of Consciousness Against the backdrop of millions of years of evolution, the question is often asked as to why consciousness should have evolved. What benefit or advantage does the ability for self-awareness, and the concomitant existential reflection that attends self-awareness, lend to us evolutionary? As conscious beings, we are partial to consciousness; it […]
why we “sleep” through our dreams
Of all the times when we might most want our consciousness, when we are in the fabulous dreamscape, we find that it is almost categorically denied us! Each night we enter the dreamscape once again, yet each night we enter blind. Without consciousness we are unable to recognize our dreams. We are unable to see […]
consciousness in the dream lab
Dream study has always been criticized for its flawed scientific methodology, concerned as it is with an experience that is, by nature, subjective. Indeed, this is a fact of dream experience. Dreams are completely private experiences, and there is no way to circumnavigate this feature. As a result, the field is criticized because its raw […]
the language of dreams
In chapter seven we observed that lucid experience with dreams would challenge some familiar habits of self-identification. Once we acquire conscious experience with the dreamscape, the real mystery is who is responsible for creating the dream. The dichotomy we sense between our self and our dreams is quite real. Even when we know, somewhere in […]