Dreams
Researchers have been exploring the powers of dreams and how separate our dreams are from the world that we as humans can control. Once people are in a dreaming state, they no longer have control of their bodies or minds. People oftentimes experience dreams that they cannot explain because of the seemingly random nature of the dream. Researchers say that some people experience switches in personality while dreaming. For example, a normally calm person will experience dreams full of anxiety and fear. There are also records of people dreaming up what become world famous musical compositions or poetry. Some mathematicians are able to solve problems in their sleep that they could not while awake. Many people also experience rapid eye movements (REM) while dreaming which tend to lead to a better chance of recalling the dream. This discovery created a perfect opportunity for a dream experiment. There are some criteria that are used to identify telepathic dreams. Some correlation between the dream and reality must be unusual or unordinary. The dream must also contain knowledge that the patient could not normally have known. Another indicator is being intrusive. If the patient feels a sense of strange or intrusive elements to a dream, it is also considered telepathic. Oftentimes, the dreamer will have dreams coinciding with events in his or her therapist’s life. There have been some instances where the patient is able to dream up telepathic events that the therapist has described or that exposes the therapist’s weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Some therapists even use hypnosis to gain information from their patients.
Read more about this topic: Dream Telepathy
Famous quotes containing the word dreams:
“Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest—beginning, middle, and end—is nothing but dreams and smoke.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
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—Daniel Easterman (b. 1949)