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By: Dream Analysis | Repairing Shattered Pieces

Dream Analysis | Repairing Shattered Pieces — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:15:36 +0000

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By: octavia watson

octavia watson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:51:44 +0000

I’am very glad to hear that.

By: Shawn Stacy

Shawn Stacy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:35:44 +0000

Very good article. All that was mentioned in here relates to what I have dealt with over such a long period of time. Thankfully now I have been able to control it with the proper medications.

By: octavia watson

octavia watson — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:28:26 +0000

This comment is for Valerie Lewis I love what you wrote in your comment.All your perspective’s of dreaming. It seems you have a very open mind.Which is something I love to see in people.

By: octavia watson

octavia watson — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:22:42 +0000

I really like this little article about dreaming.From my perspective I dream to let all my stress go.Make my own world out of my dream.I’m a famous singer what I always wanted to be,but sometimes I see that my dreams try to tell me things that happened in the past or will happen to me in the future I think I’m starting to understand them.little by little

By: Valerie Lewis

Valerie Lewis — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:08:42 +0000

Thanks for the sensible article about dreaming. What interests me is that few people have considered that dreams are not likely to be narratives that we remember, but that a narrative structure is created from the sleep-brain activity by a waking/wakened mind. If I recall correctly, studies from the 70’s showed that when wakened during a dream and asked to recall immediately what was experienced, the reports were not of coherent narratives, but of chaotic imagery and experiences. Martin Seligman wrote a wonderful theoretical paper back in 1987 about all this ( Seligman, M. E. P. (1987). A reinterpretation of dreams. The Sciences, 27, 46-53.) I hope that this amazing paper gets revived, because recent interest by cognitive scientists in a less reductionist approach to consciousness/mind (e.g. Alva Noe’s Out of Our Minds) has made a space for Seligman’s ideas to finally be looked at seriously.So while it is obvious to me that dreams are things the mind does, what you have left out is the possibility that what we call a dream is a narrative constructed after waking, from brain activities that occur while sleeping.

Another equally interesting question, and one that has never really been answered, is why we sleep. Most animals do it, and yet no reason for it has ever really been ‘dreamed’ up.