Neuroscience
From today's New York Times
Winding Through ‘Big Dreams’ Are the Threads of Our Lives
By REBECCA CATHCART
Published: July 3, 2007
[snip]
“Back to life” or “visitation” dreams, as they are known among dream specialists and psychologists, are vivid and memorable dreams of the dead. They are a particularly potent form of what Carl Jung called “big dreams,” the emotionally vibrant ones we remember for the rest of our lives.
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Neuroscience
Dreaming "Big Dreams"
From today's New York Times
Winding Through ‘Big Dreams’ Are the Threads of Our Lives
By REBECCA CATHCART
Published: July 3, 2007
[snip]
“Back to life” or “visitation” dreams, as they are known among dream specialists and psychologists, are vivid and memorable dreams of the dead. They are a particularly potent form of what Carl Jung called “big dreams,” the emotionally vibrant ones we remember for the rest of our lives.
[snip]
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
- Older People Have More Black And White Dreams
If you dream in colour, you're not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colourful dreams. But it wasn't always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often...
- Dreaming Of The War
Don’t mention this at the World Cup, but interviews conducted in the year 2000 revealed 17.3 per cent of German people who lived through the Second World War were still experiencing war-related dreams 55 years after it ended. Michael Schredl and Edgar...
- To Die, To Sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause... -- William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1) Jacob's Dream woodcut,...
- Sleep, Dreams, And Cognitive Function
A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain By BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times Published: November 10, 2009 "A new theory suggests that dreams are a warm-up for the day ahead." Read the article...
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