Download or read book Dreaming and the Self written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self—particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, and migration. Actual dreams are examined, including dreams of Samoan young people about race; of a Haitian priestess about vodou deities; of a Pakistani about spiritual teachers; of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars, witches, and sex; and of a young Balinese mother about a neglected dog.
Download or read book Waking Dreaming Being written by Evan Thompson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined self into the remembered past or anticipated future. As we fall asleep, the impression of being a bounded self distinct from the world dissolves, but the self reappears in the dream state. If we have a lucid dream, we no longer identify only with the self within the dream. Our sense of self now includes our dreaming self, the "I" as dreamer. Finally, as we meditate—either in the waking state or in a lucid dream—we can observe whatever images or thoughts arise and how we tend to identify with them as "me." We can also experience sheer awareness itself, distinct from the changing contents that make up our image of the self. Contemplative traditions say that we can learn to let go of the self, so that when we die we can witness its dissolution with equanimity. Thompson weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative to depict these transformations, adding uncommon depth to life's profound questions. Contemplative experience comes to illuminate scientific findings, and scientific evidence enriches the vast knowledge acquired by contemplatives.
Download or read book Dream Death and the Self written by J. J. Valberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Lucid Dreaming written by Angel Mendez and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Lucid Dreaming and Control Dreams With the Best Techniques to Dream Big. You’re about to discover a proven strategy on how to lucid dream and control your dreams so that you can experience and create an extraordinary life. In this lucid dreaming book, you will learn dream interpretation and how to master the art of lucid dreaming with the best I have learned over years of research and experimenting so you can tap into the natural powers you already possess to conquer your dreams in the easiest and fastest way. Lucid dreaming is one of the best skills anybody can develop with a little bit of practice and this book will teach you how to use lucid dreams to create your ideal world, improve creativity, meet anybody you want, create imaginary characters that can help you solve any problem, heal yourself, be able to fly, travel through time and much more. By learning how to lucid dream your dream world is a world of infinite possibilities. The average person sleeps almost half of their life and by learning to effectively lucid dream: we can take advantage of all this time and dreams and get the right insights, boost our creativity, heal ourselves emotionally, and do whatever we can think of. Just imagine, no limits!! And as a result, to use the special techniques in this lucid dreaming book you will live a more fulfilling life both in your dream world and your conscious life. If you want to begin lucid dreaming for the first time or you are already in a more advanced level of lucid dreams, this book has valuable information that can help you get there faster in a much more effective way Experience lucid dreaming on another level. If you have tried some techniques but haven´t been able to produce any results with your dreams or only average results, it's because you are lacking an effective strategy and techniques that produce outstanding results. This lucid dreaming e-book goes into a step-by-step strategy that will help you take control of your dreams, experience strong lucid dreams, and therefore have high levels of pleasure, happiness, a sense of achievement, and a much better quality of your dream world and in real life. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn in this awesome lucid dreaming book... Dream Big What Lucid Dreaming Feels Like Master Lucid Dreaming Skills Use Reality Checks Dream Interpretation Solve Problems Master Lucid Dreaming Techniques How to Take Lucid Dreams To The Next Level Extra Effective Lucid Dreaming Techniques And Much, much more! Download your copy of Lucid Dreaming today!
Download or read book Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self written by Eric Wargo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Outlines a set of clear principles to help guide dreamworkers, illustrated through real precognitive dream experiences • Shows how to detect precognitive dreams through their characteristic features, explaining how dreams relate to memory and why dreams about future experiences are often symbolic or distorted • Explores the mind-blowing implications of precognition for our lives, including how our present thoughts actually shape--or shaped--our past Once only the stuff of science fiction, evidence has grown that precognition--glimpses of your future in dreams and visions and being influenced subtly in waking life by what is to come--is real. Your future thoughts and feelings shape who you are now. And your present thoughts and feelings shape--or shaped--your past. In this accessible exploration of precognition, precognitive dreamwork, and a radically new biographical sensibility, the Long Self, that precognition awakens us to, Eric Wargo shows how dreamworkers can play the role of citizen scientists, adding to our understanding of this fascinating, almost unexplored dimension of human life. Wargo outlines a set of clear principles to guide dreamworkers, each illustrated through real dreamers’ experiences. Drawing on psychoanalysis and contemporary sleep science, he explores how precognition relates to memory, explaining why dreams of future experiences are often distorted and what those distortions probably mean. He discusses never-before-described dream features, including “time gimmicks” (symbols hinting at time distortion) and “calendrical resonance” (the tendency of dreams to foretell experiences exactly a year or years later). He describes why an understanding of precognition augments Jung’s theory of synchronicity by highlighting our own role in producing meaningful coincidences in our waking lives. He also shows how precognition manifests in other states of consciousness like lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, trance states, sleep paralysis, meditation, and hypnagogia. We are at a major turning point in science’s understanding of time, causality, and the self. We are more than who we think we are from moment to moment--we are our past, present, and future simultaneously. When we understand this, a dream journal becomes a personal time machine, with mind-blowing discoveries in store for the traveler.
Download or read book Active Dreaming written by Robert Moss and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moss's "Active Dreaming" is an original synthesis of contemporary dream work and shamanic methods of journeying and healing. A central premise of Moss's approach is that dreaming isn't just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing, and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind.
Download or read book Dreaming Souls written by Owen Flanagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, "free riders," irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or to create meaning, even when we're sleeping. Rejecting Freud's theory of manifest and latent content--of repressed wishes appearing in disguised form--Flanagan shows how brainstem activity during sleep generates a jumbled profusion of memories, images, thoughts, emotions, and desires, which the cerebral cortex then attempts to shape into a more or less coherent story. Such dream-narratives range from the relatively mundane worries of non REM sleep to the fantastic confabulations of deep REM that resemble psychotic episodes in their strangeness. But however bizarre these narratives may be, they can shed light on our mental life, our well being, and our sense of self. Written with clarity, lively wit, and remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life.
Download or read book The Power of Dreaming written by D. Jason Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a revolutionary new system of dream interpretation that is based in three dream dictionaries--events, objects, and archetypes.
Download or read book Dream Language written by Robert J. Hoss and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast, easy method for dream interpretation is introduced in this guide that links color and visual imagery in dreams to the activity of the sleeping brain. Contributions from 16 dream experts report on psychological and physical evidence that dreams create their own logic -- operating not with words, but with visual images and colors -- and that these associations provide a key to waking emotions in personal, professional, and group dreamwork. Self-help exercises such as The 6 Magic Questions are included for readers looking to decode colors and symbols and uncover hidden emotions in their own dreams, and the book also covers topics such as nightmares, paranormal dreams, and dreams of spiritual enlightenment.
Download or read book The Functions of Dreaming written by Alan Moffitt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-02-11 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many contemporary neuroscientists are skeptical about the belief that dreaming accomplishes anything in the context of human adaptation and this skepticism is widely accepted in the popular press. This book provides answers to that skepticism from experimental and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and anthropologists. Ranging across the human and life sciences, the authors provide provocative insights into the enduring question of dreaming from the point of view of the brain, the individual, and culture. The Functions of Dreaming contains both new theory and research on the functions of dreaming as well as revisions of older theories dating back to the founder of modern dream psychology, Sigmund Freud. Also explored are the many roles dreaming plays in adaptation to daily living, in human development, and in the context of different cultures: search, integration, identity formation, memory consolidation, the creation of new knowledge, and social communication.
Download or read book Lucid Dreaming written by Robert Waggoner and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self is the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreamer who goes beyond the boundaries of both psychology and religion. In the process, he stumbles upon the Inner Self. While lucid (consciously aware) in the dream state and able to act and interact with dream figures, objects, and settings, dream expert Robert Waggoner experienced something transformative and unexpected. He was able to interact consciously with the dream observer - the apparent Inner Self - within the dream. At first this seemed shocking, even impossible, since psychology normally alludes to such theoretical inner aspects as the Subliminal Self, the Center, the Internal Self-Helper in vague and theoretical ways. Waggoner came to realize, however, that aware interaction with the Inner Self was not only possible, but actual and highly inspiring. He concluded that while aware in the dream state, one has both a psychological tool and a platform from which to understand dreaming and the larger picture of man's psyche as well. Waggoner proposes 5 stages of lucid dreaming and guides readers through them, offering advice for those who have never experienced the lucid dream state and suggestions for how experienced lucid dreamers can advance to a new level. Lucid Dreaming offers exciting insights and vivid illustrations that will intrigue not only avid dreamworkers but anyone who is interested in consciousness, identity, and the definition of reality.
Download or read book Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking written by H. J. M. Hermans and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can an internationally recognized theory contribute towards the enrichment of your own life? In Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking, Hubert J. M. Hermans, the creator of Dialogical Self Theory, applies this theory to his own life and explains how
Download or read book Dreaming about the Divine written by Bonnelle Lewis Strickling and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreaming about the Divine, Bonnelle Lewis Strickling argues that people dream about the divine in forms that fit their current emotional and spiritual condition. Using Jungian psychology and the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, Strickling contends that dreams about the divine occur in the context of existential issues; psychic and emotional crises which open us to the experience of the divine. She concludes that working with dreams of the divine can be spiritually, psychically, and emotionally helpful both to people who are engaged in a spiritual search and also to people who are already committed to a spiritual tradition.
Download or read book The Interpretation of Dreams written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power and the Self written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2002, analyses the ways in which power is experienced by individuals as agents and objects.
Download or read book You Have Chosen to Remember written by James Blanchard Cisneros and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The awareness, peace of mind and joy that you are yearning for is available to you now. Anything real that has been obtained by religious leaders or spiritual gurus is also obtainable to you. In fact, awareness, peace of mind and joy are not so much obtained as they are realized and remembered. Love, harmony and awareness are natural qualities of your soul. If you simply extend what you truly are, you will create more beauty than anything that could or has ever been built. There are many paths you may choose to take in order to realize awareness, peace of mind and joy in your life. The journey will be as complicated as you choose to make it, or as easy as you allow it to be. This book provides simple strategies to make this process easy. You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey from Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy is an incredibly inspiring book filled with simple, yet very effective, strategies for remembering your true self, and embodying self-awareness, forgiveness, peace of mind and joy - in your day to day life.
Download or read book Creative Dreaming written by Patricia Garfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 250,000 copies sold, this classic exploration of dreams and how to use them has been updated to reflect recent research on dreams and dreaming.
