MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'dreaming'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:19:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5140358&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F08%2Fco-creation-mind-control-and-subjective-reality%2F I often prep for upcoming workshops by walking around my house talking out loud, as if I’m speaking to an audience. It’s not the ideas I’m trying to polish though. I do this to get better at being in the flow of inspiration as I communicate, maintaining the right balance of head and heart. Inevitably I’ll express the ideas differently at the actual workshop, but the flow of inspiration will feel similar to what I practiced in private. This inspired vibe has many forms, which include aspects like caring, playfulness, happiness, passion, curiosity, exploration, love, and oneness. There are countless ways to be in the flow. The common element is that when I’m in the flow, I feel open, connected, and graceful. It took years of public speaking practice to reach the... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5140358 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:13:43 +0100 5140358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5051331&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2FLbndGxQxOFM%2F ‘Think, believe, dream and dare.’ Walt Disney There is an attitude that sets apart the mediocre from the majestic. It is called the success attitude. Did you know that when Walt headed west to pursue his dream, that he sold his possessions – even his camera, to purchase a First Class train ticket, because he wanted to arrive first class? Now that is success attitude exemplified.   Success attitudes don’t arrive once you’ve achieved success. Success attitudes must be present in the midst of your failure or your disaster. These are the attitudes that will sustain you, and equip you to handle success when it suddenly appears, seemingly out of nowhere, for all to see. So let’s have a closer look at the 4 success attitudes. 1. Think To think is to drink from the very depths of ... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5051331 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:40:58 +0100 5051331 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4842037&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2FVWEOI6ihNAA%2F The subconscious mind is a source of unbelievable power. Every time you get a flash of inspiration, the right idea coming to you at the exact right time, is because your subconscious has been working behind the scenes on your problem and when the time is right, present you with a solution. When sleeping it works best I cannot tell you how many times I have woken up in the middle of the night with a great idea. I always sleep with a notebook beside me so that I can capture these ideas and not forget them. Some of my most popular posts have been written because I dreamed it. How to make your subconscious work on the right things Focusing your mind on a goal is key. The subconscious mind works on one task, your most important task, always. It determines what you think is most important by l... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4842037 Thu, 19 May 2011 07:19:44 +0100 4842037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684797&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2FzeTdD8K1bhQ%2F Flying is an amazing feeling. I’m not being figurative or clever here. I’m talking about legitimate soaring through the air, without the aid of wings or jet engines. You may think what I’m saying is impossible. How can people fly? Okay, I’m going to level with you – they can’t. At least not normally. Yet I flew above a beautiful lake just the other night. How did I do it? The answer is simple. Lucid dreaming. What is Lucid Dreaming? Lucid dreaming is simply realizing you’re dreaming within a dream. It is at this point that you gain control over what’s going on around you. This sometimes happens by accident if you’re lucky, but most of the time you have to learn one or more techniques to raise your awareness. However, once you finally gain lucidity, you’re in for a real ... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684797 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:48:07 +0100 4684797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4337590&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fdid-sleep-deprivation-lead-to-attack-on.html (Source: Sleep Education) Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4337590 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:09:00 +0100 4337590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4295036&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F12%2Fyour-simulated-reality%2F Last night I had a really cool lucid dream. It started out as a regular dream that involved a bunch of robbers stealing items from a large house. I was trying to foil the robbers’ plans. At some point I realized that I was dreaming and became lucid. I ignored the robbers after that and decided to try something interesting.Instead of donning super powers and going around flying, I wanted to see if I could get my dream characters to become more lucid themselves. Could I get them to realize that we were in a shared dream together and to rise above their pre-scripted dream roles? Could I get them to fess up to that fact that our shared reality was a dream?I went outside and found some characters to interact with, but they seemed pretty dim-witted. They acted like plain vanilla NPCs that ... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4295036 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:16:07 +0100 4295036 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266009&cid=t_108936_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FXmynFlO5_uU%2F David DiSalvo, a science and technology writer whose posts we share with you regularly, has just published his selection of the 2010 psychology studies really worth knowing about. A great tour of the brain and psychology that leads us from how many of our waking hours are dedicated to day dreaming, how the impression we are trying to give when meeting someone influences how we evaluate the other person, to how a confident posture gives a biochemical advantage that increases feelings of power and tolerance of risk. Enjoy! (Source: SharpBrains) SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266009 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:45:35 +0100 4266009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259239&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2FniBqWtGWnGo%2F Conclusion Getting your subconscious working on your goals will bring you closer to success because your subconscious works on solutions 24 hours/day every day. It will present you with new ideas, insights and plans. 
Remember that the most important thing is that you act on these ideas and insights, because no plan ever mattered that wasn’t put into action. This was a guest post by Daniel M. Wood. You can read more from him at his blog Lookingtobusiness.com he writes about Sales Technique, Motivation and Success. By following his blog by email you will even get a free copy of his ebook „Double Your Income“ Don’t Forget To Follow PickTheBrain on Twitter! : Reclaim Your Dream, It’s Time to Come Alive Why You Should Read Personal Development Books (Source: PickTh... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259239 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:25:46 +0100 4259239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3872763&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F08%2Flife-in-a-dream-world%2F Today is Day 24 of my 30-day inspiration experiment, which also includes viewing everything through the lens of subjective reality.In this update I’ll share a number of observations on what it’s really been like to view life as a dream for more than three weeks straight.A Roller Coaster of EmotionsThroughout this trial my emotions have been all over the place. Sometimes I’ve felt incredibly blissful, and other times I’ve felt very stressed.When I feel stressed, it isn’t related to events coming up or anything like that. My calendar is still essentially blank. So I’m not feeling anxious about anything I “have to” do. If I wanted to I could just be a couch potato for days on end.I believe this stress has to do with the nature of this experimen... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3872763 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:35:23 +0100 3872763 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862212&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F08%2Fdream-lovemaking%2F One thing I was very curious about was how the dream world perspective would affect my experience of physical intimacy. Would it seem very different if I knew that the woman was a character in my dream world, a projection of some part of me?This past weekend I had a chance to enjoy some dream world intimacy, so I’ll share what that was like from my perspective.Fair warning: If your dream character has a subroutine that makes you express resistance to reading about sensuality and/or sex, especially when it’s of a very personal nature, please feel free to skip this post completely. You’ll probably miss some additional insights if you do though. In the meantime I’ll do my best to love, accept, and forgive my own Puritanical side.Since I started this trial while I was t... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862212 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:35:25 +0100 3862212 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3823186&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F08%2Fsubjective-relationships%2F “What is the primary goal?” “You should know, Professor. You programmed me.” – War GamesWell… this 30-day trial of inspiration is absolutely amazing. I’m so far down the rabbit hole of subjective reality that I can perceive little else but rabbits now. And there sure are a LOT of rabbits down here!Today is technically Day 12 of this experiment. That seems ridiculous to me. How could so much have changed in only 12 days? The pacing of life has become almost unfathomable compared to what it was like before. I feel like I’ve lived through the mental and emotional equivalent of about 3 months in less than 2 weeks. Each day is like a week in terms of the density of its intensity.I know this is a long update (over 7400 words), but it still barely s... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3823186 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:06:35 +0100 3823186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3790370&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Freview-inception-limited-science.html (Source: Sleep Education) Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3790370 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0100 3790370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3757690&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fdream-team-nolans-inception-getting.html (Source: Sleep Education) Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3757690 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:31:00 +0100 3757690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3501412&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Flearning-in-your-sleep-dreaming-with.html (Source: Sleep Education) Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3501412 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:53:00 +0100 3501412 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378042&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2Ftreating-rem-sleep-behavior-disorder.html (Source: Sleep Education) Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378042 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:55:00 +0100 3378042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3051957&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fsleepwalking-sleep-terrors-dreams.html A new study shows that episodes of sleepwalking and sleep terrors may be related to short, unpleasant, dreamlike mental activity. The study suggests that people with these sleep disorders may be acting out dreamlike thoughts. The results were published yesterday in the journal Sleep.The French study involved 43 people with severe sleepwalking or sleep terrors. Their age ranged from 11 years to 72 years. They were compared with 25 healthy controls. Sleep was monitored during an overnight sleep study.Participants also were interviewed. They were asked, “What was going through your mind at the very moment of the episodes, whenever the night?”Thirty-eight people were able to reliably answer questions about their mental content during the sleepwalking and sleep terrors episodes. These recol... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3051957 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:08:00 +0100 3051957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044345&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Facting-out-dreams-fear-and-laughing.html A new study shows that healthy young adults are likely to report dream-enacting behaviors. The results were published today in the journal Sleep.The Canadian study involved 1,140 first-year college students. About two-thirds of participants were women. They responded to different types of questions about dreaming.One group answered questions that described specific types of dream-related behavior. Results show that 98 percent reported experiencing one of these behaviors at least “rarely” in the last year.“Fear” was the most common behavior subtype. Ninety-three percent reported that they had felt signs of fear in their body after waking from a scary dream.But not all dreams were frightening. Seventy-two percent reported smiling or laughing while waking from a happy dream.Sexual aro... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044345 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:42:00 +0100 3044345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3022740&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fnova-explores-dreams-tonight-on-pbs.html The TV program NOVA will explore the world of dreams tonight. “What Are Dreams?” will premiere on your local PBS station.Leading dream researchers will explain how they study the world of sleep and dreams. And they’ll attempt to answer some of the most intriguing questions about why we dream.Do dreams improve memory? Do they enhance our creativity? Do they help us solve problems? Are they crucial to our survival?The program also will focus on the sleep disorders that seem to bring dreams to life. Nightmare disorder. Sleepwalking. REM sleep behavior disorder.You can watch a two-minute preview of the program online. The transcript of the program should be available online one to three weeks after the original broadcast date.NOVA also is accepting questions about sleep and dreams. You c... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3022740 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:03:00 +0100 3022740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984619&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fwhy-do-we-dream.html A new paper suggests that the purpose of dreams may be more than just psychological.Author Dr. J. Allan Hobson proposes a “theory of protoconsciousness.” He is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.Hobson writes that REM sleep provides “a virtual reality model of the world.” Most dreams occur during this sleep stage.He thinks that dreams have a functional use. They allow the brain to get tuned up for wakefulness.“It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams,” Hobson told the New York Times. “Dreams are tuning the mind for conscious awareness.”This dream theory fits within his broader concept of the purpose of sleep. He summarized his perspective in the title of a 2005 paper: “Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain.�... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984619 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:00 +0100 2984619 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977072&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fchanging-nightmares-imagery-rehearsal.html “Your Health” columnist Kim Painter reports in USA Today that imagery rehearsal therapy is helping some people change their nightmares.This method is just one form of cognitive behavioral therapy. A variety of CBT techniques have been used to reduce nightmare frequency.One method is to record your nightmares in a diary. Relaxation exercises also may be helpful. Exposure techniques involve “reliving” a nightmare in your imagination during the daytime.Cognitive-restructuring techniques involve changing a nightmare. One technique is lucid dreaming treatment; you change the nightmare as it occurs during sleep.Imagery rehearsal therapy involves changing the nightmare while awake; you “rehearse” the new version in your mind during the day.The first step is to write down a recent nigh... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977072 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:00 +0100 2977072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796226&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Flucid-dreaming-sleep-wake-hybrid.html A new study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep investigated lucid dreaming. What is lucid dreaming? It involves the conscious awareness of dreaming while you are still asleep.Lucid dreaming combines aspects of waking and dreaming. You have hallucinatory dream activity along with reflective awareness; you realize that you are not awake and are dreaming. In contrast, during non-lucid dreams you mistakenly think that you are awake. Lucid dreaming also can involve the ability to control what happens during the dream.Lucid dreams tend to occur after several hours of sleep; they are more common during later periods of rapid eye movement sleep – or REM sleep. The longest period of REM sleep may last for an hour near the end of the night. REM sleep makes up about 25 percent of total sleep... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796226 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:09:00 +0100 2796226 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2785659&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fdreams-nightmares-and-911.html Today marks the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.“Nearly 3,000 days have passed -- almost one for each of those taken from us,” President Obama said at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon. “But no turning of the seasons can diminish the pain and the loss of that day.”Did that pain and loss affect our dreams in the days and weeks after 9/11? A study published in the journal Sleep in 2008 offers some answers.The study involved 11 men and 33 women. For years they had been keeping a written record of all their dreams. Each participant submitted written accounts of 20 dreams for the study. These were the last 10 dreams they recorded before 9/11 and the first 10 dreams recorded after the attacks.The 880 dreams were analyzed for features ... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2785659 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:10:00 +0100 2785659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2781668&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fsmell-of-sleep-dreams.html A new study examined how your sense of smell may affect your dreams.The small study from Germany involved 15 volunteers. They were studied using sensory stimulation during the sleep stage of rapid eye movement sleep – or REM sleep.The study compared two smells with a control condition. One smell involved hydrogen sulphide – the smell of rotten eggs. The other smell involved phenyl ethyl alcohol – the smell of roses.Results show that the “olfactory stimuli” significantly affected the emotional content of dreams. The smell of roses yielded dreams with a more positive tone; the smell of rotten eggs was followed by dreams that had a more negative tone.But the smells were not directly included in the dream content; volunteers did not dream about smelling a rose or rotten eggs.The auth... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2781668 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:14:00 +0100 2781668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2517066&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fbig-dreams-from-google-to-monster.html Dreams have no meaning? Don’t tell that to Larry Page. Or Jeff Taylor.Page recently said that a dream sparked the idea that became the world’s largest search engine. This is how the Google co-founder explained it in his commencement address at the University of Michigan:You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning? Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and...I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming.His conclusion? “When a really great dream shows up, grab it!�... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2517066 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +0100 2517066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2414362&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fhow-sleep-disorders-may-affect-your.html Sleep disorders can reduce both the quantity and quality of your sleep. Can they also affect your dreams?A new review examined the current research. Only a small number of studies have focused on this subject. But results suggest that a couple of common sleep disorders may have an impact on your dreams.People with insomnia are more likely to recall their dreams. The content of their dreams tends to reflect current stressors.Breathing-related dreams are rare in people with sleep apnea.People with narcolepsy tend to have bizarre dreams with a negative tone. This may be related to their disrupted sleep cycles.The complex process of sleep involves multiple stages that make up a sleep cycle. Each complete cycle lasts about 90 to 110 minutes. Most adults will go through four to six cycles in a f... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2414362 Thu, 14 May 2009 19:47:00 +0100 2414362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463419&cid=t_108936_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Frebecca-turner-interview%2F Rebecca Turner is a successful online entrepreneur who created a website to teach people about lucid dreaming, aptly named World of Lucid Dreaming. She’s been a regular participant in our discussion forums. After watching her openly share eBusiness tips with other forum members over a period of months, I asked her if I could interview her for my blog, so she can share what she’s learned with many more people. Rebecca used Site Build It! to create her website. Since many people are curious about what kind of real-world results can be achieved with Site Build It!, I asked her if she’d be willing to share specific traffic and income figures from her business’ first year online, and thankfully she agreed. I think you’ll find her results encouraging. If you a... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463419 Thu, 14 May 2009 19:32:19 +0100 2463419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2329682&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fsurvivor-reinterpreting-dreams-with.html In 2000 Finnish researcher Antti Revonsuo proposed a new theory for interpreting dreams. It has become known as the “Threat Simulation Theory.”The theory proposes that dreaming is a defense mechanism. It serves a biological function by simulating threatening events. The theory suggests that the brain selects waking events that pose a threat to your safety.Then during the majority of dreams your brain simulates these events over and over again. The threats are replayed in various combinations.In this way the brain is able to practice how it perceives threats. It also “rehearses” threat avoidance.A 2006 study tested this theory using a sample of 212 recurrent dreams. It provided some support for the theory. Sixty-six percent of the dream reports contained one or more threats.These th... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2329682 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:12:00 +0100 2329682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2274552&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fare-you-dream-deprived.html Sleep deprivation can have a severe impact on your health and well-being. Sleeping less than seven hours per night increases your risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and depression.The Times in London reports that sleep loss also may cause you to suffer from “dream deprivation.” The article suggests that healthy dreaming is vital to your overall mental wellness.Is the article right - do dreams really matter? It depends on who you ask.Some believe dreams have symbolic meaning or predict future events. Others see dreams as random, meaningless information.New theories suggest that dreaming helps your brain process both old memories and new information. The brain may use dreams to help you adapt to events in your life.What do you think? Are you suffering from drea... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2274552 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:26:00 +0100 2274552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207948&cid=t_108936_146_f&fid=38266&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsleepeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fplanes-dreams-relationships-when.html You’re sleeping during the night before a scheduled plane trip. Suddenly you wake up from a dream about a plane crash. Do you still get on the plane the next day? Or do you change your travel plans because of the dream?New research examines this and other questions about dreams. The results of six studies provide a look at how dreams affect our daily lives.The plane crash study involved 182 commuters at a Boston train station. Results show that a dream of a plane crash is more likely to affect travel plans than a change in the U.S. government’s national threat level.What if a plane crash had actually occurred on their route the night before their trip? Both the plane crash and the dream would produce a similar level of anxiety.Another one of the studies shows that dreams may affect how... Sleep Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207948 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:58:00 +0100 2207948 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=947335&cid=t_108936_150_f&fid=34889&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmamkting.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fchantix-californication-dreamin-viagra.html In the Larry Niven science fiction story, Death by Ecstasy, a belter, Owen Jennison, is found dead on Earth in a locked Los Angeles apartment. His death is an apparent suicide. Hamilton, a friend and former crewmate of Jennison, is called to the scene to investigate. He finds Owen with a droud (a wirehead's transformer) plugged into the back of his head. The latter apparently starved himself to death while continuously stimulating the pleasure center of his own brain.In the real world of today, there are many legal and illegal drugs and other chemical compounds that people use to stimulate their pleasure centers. One such agent is nicotine. Another is Pfizer's Chantix, a smoking cessation drug that competes with nicotine to stimulate the brain's pleasure center.Below is a page from the boo... Pharma Marketing Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947335 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:11:00 +0100 947335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=513810&cid=t_108936_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F31%2Fsearching-for-stillness%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Environment, Cancer SurvivorsWhen I sit still in the middle of the day, I fall asleep. I'm not sure if it's a side effect of cancer or of life in general, but as a result, I keep myself moving at all times. I'm always doing something -- writing, emptying the dishwasher, packing a school lunch, reorganizing cabinets and closets and drawers. There's always something to fiddle with, something to keep my body from crashing into a deep sleep.My little boys have been playing with Lego all afternoon. For hours they have been content and happy and full of imagination. They've built flying boats and castles and pirate contraptions. My wish: to just sit and watch them, to absorb their words, their sound effects, their interactions. I tried to just sit and watch, tried to ho... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=513810 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 513810