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:
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)
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“Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)