You wake up terrified. Your heart is pounding. You are unable to move. You try to scream for help, but can’t. What’s going on? Was it a nightmare, a night terror or sleep paralysis? While there are some similarities between them, most notably the fact that you’re scared to death, there are major differences, with [...]
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Thinking of our Ancestors boosts confidence and intelligence!
A 2010 study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology reported that thinking positively about our ancestors can boost our emotional confidence and intelligence. Ryan Hurd writes a fascinating article about the study on The Dream Tribe — Check it out here.
Hypnopompic experience — an OBE?
In the pre-dawn hours, I awoke in the middle of a scary “dream” or probably more accurately, a hypnopompic image/experience. “Hypnopompic” means occurring during the period between sleeping and waking. (“Hypnagogic” is the transition from wakefulness to sleep.) I was sleeping on my right side, my right arm bent upwards with my hand, palm up, [...]
Flash of Spirit Blog Talk Radio
Ryan Hurd was interviewed on Gillian Holloway and Meredith Smith’s Blog Talk Radio Show, Flash of Spirit. It’s a really, really great interview. Ryan obviously loves his dreamwork and gives a great, fact-filled, yet thoroughly enjoyable interview. Check it out — Listen to internet radio with Flash Of Spirit on Blog Talk Radio
Check out DreamStudies.org blog on Calvin Hall
Calvin Hall and the Cognitive Theory of Dreaming. It’s another excellent article written by Ryan Hurd in his series on dream theories. He gives an overview of not only Hall’s dream theory but of the Hall Van de Castle scale used in content analysis. Amazon.com Widgets
Check out Ryan’s Dream Studies blog post on Jung
Ryan Hurd shares another well written post on his Dream Studies blog. This one on The Dream Theories of Carl Jung. Ryan only briefly mentions Jung’s The Red Book in which Jung first introduces his archetypal figure, Philemon. I am currently perusing and enjoying the great imagery, artwork and calligraphy of this opus — and [...]
Contemporary Dream Theories Starting with Freud
Ryan Hurd shares this excellent article on his blog at dreamstudies.org.
The Snooze Method for Remembering More Dreams
Ryan Hurd shared a great technique for dream recall on his blog in September http://dreamstudies.org/2009/09/21/how-to-remember-more-dreams
