dream journaling + sleep self-help
Bernarr Macfadden started a magazine and a popular movement. Both the movement and magazine had the same name: “physical culture.” Watching what you ate and seeing that you got exercise wasn’t as popular among Americans before he came along. Weakness is a crime! Don’t be a criminal! was Macfadden’s motto. To some, Macfadden was a…
What is the sixth sense? What do you call it when you know something without using your sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell? This poorly defined other sense has been called the sixth sense, extra-sensory perception (ESP), second sight, psychometry, clairvoyance, precognition, and intuition among other things. The fact that there are so…
In Islamic dream interpretation, the importance of “true” dreams was first promulgated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the prophet and founder of the faith. Muhammad believed dreams were important, he said. After he was gone, further prophecy would only be revealed in dreams. The process and tradition of Islamic dream interpretation were later refined…
May all your dreams in 2020 be good ones! The Dream Recovery System
There are a lot of reasons to eat moderate amounts of good, healthy food. Eating healthfully, however, can be challenging to do consistently. Anyone who has tried and failed at a diet can attest to this. It’s a daily conflict between the desirability of eating healthy against the taste and convenience of junk food. As…
Christmas is over but the Nativity story doesn’t end. Today, western Christianity celebrates a time when the Jesus’s family was saved by his stepfather. This incident came to be known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This incident as well as some other incidents in the life of Jesus’s stepfather, St. Joseph, speak to…
Dream interpretation used in this way comes in somewhere at the intersection of art and science like so many other things. It’s building on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and others on what we know about how the brain functions. The art comes in applying the symbols you remember from your dreams to your life and your questions.
Much has been written about lucid dreams. More attention should be paid to guided dreams. Guided dreams don’t require you to be aware that you’re dreaming while you’re in the dream. They’re guided because there’s an interchange between your conscious and subconscious mind. When you get guidance from your guided dream they’re an interesting addition…
We didn’t start out this way. We weren’t meant to live amid all this light pollution. It’s progress in some ways, an irreplaceable loss in others. There’s no going back. Our ancestors didn’t have streetlights, neon signs, porch lights, and motion-detecting lights every hour of the day. Light at night has been easy to come…
If you have a dream about snakes, it’s important to pay attention to the way they presented themselves. Were they slithering and creepy? Was there just one snake? Did it seem wise? Did it tempt? Were they twisting and moving along the ground? Did you come upon them suddenly? Were there many, hanging from the…