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Reality Check

by | Jul 2, 2012 | Helpful Articles

Visitors familiar with some of the terminology associated with dream work will probably have run across the term reality check before. I’ve written before about how you can employ reality checks to increase your daily awareness and make it easier for your brain to...

REM Cycle

by | Jun 26, 2012 | Helpful Articles

In sleep science, the REM cycle is the stage of a person’s sleep that is characterized by rapid closed eye movements, very low or almost absent muscle tone (REM atonia, or sleep paralysis), and low voltage brain waves called theta waves. Typically, you will remember...

Self Hypnosis

by | Jun 19, 2012 | Helpful Articles

As the name suggests, self hypnosis is a type of hypnosis that you can learn to induce. Using a variety of autosuggestion techniques, it’s possible to put yourself into a state of deep relaxation and trance without any external help. This means you don’t need someone...

Theta State

by | Jun 14, 2012 | Helpful Articles

What is the theta state? Scientists who study the brain, including those involved in the field of sleep science, use an EEG (electroencephalogram) to measure the electrical activity of neurons in the brain. Brainwaves refer to the various different oscillatory...

Carlos Castaneda

by | Jun 6, 2012 | Eminent Dreamers

Carlos Castaneda was a well-known PhD anthropologist and author who published several books on shamanism and ancient Mesoamerican spirituality during the countercultural revolution of the 1960’s and ‘70s. He was awarded his doctorate (and later rose to fame) on the...