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Are Sweet Dreams Really Made of This?

Posted on January 30, 2024 | 3 comments

Are sweet dreams really made of this? Remember the movie Inception? If you didn’t see it, it was a real long and real trippy movie starring Leo DiCaprio as a high tech thief who steals corporate secrets by infiltrating other peoples dreams. The writer/director Christopher Nolan has also written some other great movies such as Oppenheimer, Interstellar and some of the post-2000 Batman and Superman movies.

It seems that Christopher Nolan was prophetic when he wrote Inception. Remember my post about lucid dreams two weeks ago? If not, CLICK THIS. I talked about lucid dreaming, which is when you have control over what happens and what you do in your dreams; very much like Leo Dicaprio did in Inception.

Apparently, an A.I. company named PropheticAI has developed a device to help people have lucid dreams. One of my readers, DeskInvestor.com brought this to my attention after he read my post about lucid dreaming. He has a great website that focuses on almost everything A.I. He wrote an interesting post about the Morpheus-1, which is the name of the device that PropheticAI will have available for sale this Spring.

The Morpheus-1 halo is a wearable device that is purported to help induce lucid dreaming. The digital art here is from DeskInvestor.com.

If you had the option to control what happens in your dreams, would you want to? I definitely would want to do it occasionally. I wouldn’t want it full time.  As someone with a Masters in Clinical Psychology, I believe that dreaming serves a purpose for us neurologically and emotionally. If we were to spend too much time choosing what happens in our dreams,  we may not get the benefits of what natural dreaming does for us. Last year I wrote a post about the purposes dreaming serves for our brain. Click that highlighted link to read.

If the Morpheus-1 and it’s halo do what it is purported to do, I see its use like the Meta Virtual Reality Headset; a device able to take us away from reality for a little temporary fun,  but it’s not a place you should try to live in.

In the comments, what would you do if you had the option to control your dreams?

Btw, if you want to try out the first movie about lucid dreaming, look up Dreamscape from 1984 starring Dennis Quaid.

Thanks for reading! ~Phil

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Lucid Dreaming: Can you do it?

Posted on January 20, 2024 | 11 comments

Pic from WestonJolly.com

Lucid dreaming is realizing that you’re in a dream when it’s happening. This isn’t a day dream when you’re bored during a Zoom meeting for work. I’m talking full on sound asleep at night dreaming and you realize that you’re in a dream and you exert decisions and control over your actions in the dream. I used that picture above because that’s my go to move when I lucid dream. Sometimes I fly for fun and sometimes I fly when I’m avoiding danger or fighting someone. The preceding sentences are just me typing off the top of my head. Let’s see what some experts have to say about lucid dreaming.

Pic from SleepFoundation.org

According to WebMd.com: “Lucid dreams are when you know that you’re dreaming while you’re asleep. You’re aware that the events flashing through your brain aren’t really happening. But the dream feels vivid and real. You may even be able to control how the action unfolds, as if you’re directing a movie in your sleep. Studies suggest that about half of people may have had at least one lucid dream. But they probably don’t happen often, usually only a handful of times in a year.”

Have you experienced this? What do you do in your lucid dreams?

I love that picture that’s above this sentence. It accompanies a blog post from a British foundation called Drive Forward, which assists young people transitioning from foster care or residential placements to independent living. The lucid dreaming article on there seems kind of out of place, but the British are a little bit more open to alternative learning than we are in the States.

The author, Daviona Plowright , works in Service Operations at Ministry of Justice in the UK. Someone working in the Ministry of Justice writing publicly on lucid dreaming? That’s interesting in and of itself. Her column, which you can find here gives you an outline of how she pursues lucid dreams. It’s an interesting read.

I have no structure or plan for lucid dreaming. It just happens sometimes. I’m going to try her techniques in hope of increasing the frequency of my lucid dreams.

Pic from Nu Sci Magazine

An article from NuSciMagazine.com even theorizes that lucid dreaming results in more insightfulness in our waking hours. Hey, I’m all in on a little extra smarts if I lucid dream!

Some of you have read this because you’re lucid dreamers. I’d be interested in hearing more about your experiences in the comments!

I hope you’re having a great weekend! Thanks for reading. ~Phil

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