Dream Recall (How to Remember Dreams?)
Remembering your dreams is absolutely essential for every dream-related experience, such as astral projection and lucid dreaming. The problem in this regard is however that our brains seem "programmed" to…
Night Terror (Sleep Terror)
Also members of the unpleasant menagerie of bad dreams and sleeping disorders, Night Terrors are known to be most frequent in children aged 3-13. Some adults suffer from Night Terrors…
Nostalgia & Nostalgic Dreams Meaning
Every once in a while, I have this strange and magical feeling when I am reminded of certain things. Oftentimes I cannot even remember what it is that I'm longing…
7 Levels of Consciousness, Chakras, & Sephirot
The spectrum of consciousness can be divided into 7 levels. In this brief article, I describe the 7 Levels of Consciousness. The normal level is the Conscious Mind. While this…
Mucuna pruriens & L-DOPA
Mucuna pruriens (cowhage; velvet bean) is a tropical plant used by Ayurvedic healers and Native Americans for hundreds or thousands of years for various medicinal purposes. The seeds are also…
Sleep Paralysis (Demons & Hallucinations)
Sleep paralysis is a peculiar state of consciousness, during which the person suffering its effects finds him/herself wide awake in the middle of a dream/nightmare, fully paralyzed. During sleep paralysis,…
Traditional Chinese Hallucinogens
Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine employ a wide variety of medicinal plants, some of which have hallucinogenic properties. In this article I review the Chinese hallucinogens, some of which…
Oneirology (Dream Science): Why We Dream & more
Oneirology, you might be surprised, is not just the name of an album by the Hip Hop trio CunninLynguists. So What is Oneirology? The oneirology to which I'll be referring…
Stages of Sleep (Light, Deep, & Dream Sleep)
Sleep is a sort of "system shutdown" all humans perform on a regular basis, to be able to keep functioning. From a scientific perspective, sleep is much more complicated than…
How to Stop Nightmares & Bad Dreams
For some unfortunate people, sleep is not something to look forward to because that is when they are confronted with unpleasant and upsetting dreams, which can be extremely vivid, and…