Dream Encyclopedia | dreamhawk.com - Part 2

The work and effort of years of exploration are shown in these many features. Everything from archetypes to the magic dream machine.

Nightmare

This feature originally appeared in She magazine in the UK Darkness, and the sounds of danger .. then something touches you .........More

Body Postures

In every dream in which you, another person, or even an animal appears, a body posture is expressed. Mostly we are used to expressing or being communicated with via language, but in fact most of the .........More

Archetype of the Big Bang

Future Society

I am seeing that the person we know as the Prime Minister or President is not just a human being. If they were most of us would never have ‘met’ them. They are .........More

Egyptian (ancient) Dream Beliefs

Dream interpretation links back to the ancient Egyptians with the first written record of dream interpretation around 1350 B.C. (Delaney 14) – although modern findings see it as much earlier. This record was the Chester .........More

Assyrian dream beliefs

See: Mesopotamian dream beliefs. ...More

Kleitman, Nathaniel

Kleitman had studied with the French physiologist Henri Pieron in Paris. His aim was to gain a thorough understanding of sleep at a physiological level. After studying with the French physiologist Henri Pieron in Paris, Kleitman .........More

ASC

See Altered States of Consciousness; and What produces ASC’s. ...More

Archetype of the Mother

See: archetype of the great mother ...More

Archetype of the animal

Throughout history we can see that humans have created images of animals and worshiped them. So there are many animal archetypes from many different cultures, too many to deal with here. But the animal as .........More

Dreams of Space

When we dream of space we dream of opportunity, the opportunity to explore, to build in the space, to explore our imagination in creativity. There is so much opportunity in a large space some people might even be frightened of it. It brings with it the feelings that here, in a large space, one can ...More

Asclepius

A Greek god of healing, especially in relationship to dreams. The people of Epidaurus claimed their city was the birthplace of Asclepius. L. R. Farnell suggests he was a hero who was elevated to a .........More

Active Sleep

During experiments to monitor the brain activity of animals and humans while asleep, it was noted that the brain seemed to move through a series of levels of activity. In deep sleep there are slow, .........More

Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreaming

This was proposed in 1977 by Robert McCarley and J. Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School. The hypothesis he proposed was that dreams had no meaning, and his ideas were based on purely physical grounds. .........More

Word Play and Puns

According to Freud, one of the major processes of the unconscious is condensation. This means that within one element in a dream, such as the strange room we dream we are in, or the .........More

The Adventure of the Dream World

Dreams give us a doorway into a strange and wonderful world. Although it appears to have many of the features of our waking world such as people, animals, objects and places, it is nevertheless full .........More

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