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The Science Of Dreams

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Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming REM sleep accounts for the hallucinogenic, emotional , and bizarre experiences with a rich narrative. REM sleep is a state characterized by strong activation in visual, motor, emotional, and autobiographical memory regions of the brain, yet a relative deactivation in regions that control rational thought. MRI scans be used to predict with significant accuracy the content of your dreams by matching images of brain activity to baseline templates. Dreams are not a wholesale replay of our waking lives. Daytime emotions, however, do have some influence over the emotional themes of our dreams. Dreaming As Overnight Therapy REM sleep helps us divorce emotion from experience. We can therefore learn and usefully recall salient life events without being crippled by the emotional baggage that those painful experiences originally carried. Dreaming about difficult life events helps people gain clinical resolution from their despair. Like a master piano tuner,...
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Microtubules : Key To Consciousness

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The recent discovery of quantum vibrations inside neurons in the brain supports a controversial theory of consciousness. The theory–which implies the brain is connected to the universe at a quantum level–was first proposed in the 1990s, but it suffered extensive criticism. One major point against it was that the brain was thought to be too 'warm, wet and noisy' for coherent quantum processes. Recent evidence, though, from researchers led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay has found the proposed quantum vibrations inside microtubules within brain neurons. These microtubules are components of cell scaffolding–they help provide our cells with their structure–that are around 25µm in length. Other research has also found evidence of quantum coherence in living cells. It has been found in our sense of smell, in the parts of bird’s brains responsible for navigation and in plant photosynthesis. Hameroff and Penrose explain that their theory suggests…  “…consciousness derives from quantum vibrati...
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The Science Of Biophotons

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Biophotons are weak light particles (ultraweak photon emissions) emitted by all living cells, largely as a byproduct of metabolic energy processes. These low-level emissions, often called 'life energy', are believed to serve as a fast communication system between cells, with potential applications in medical diagnostics and monitoring tissue health. Core Principles Of Biophotons Source: Produced when molecules in living systems, particularly in mitochondria, enter an excited state during metabolism and subsequently release energy as photons. Characteristics: These emissions are thousands of times weaker than visible light and exist within the visible and ultraviolet spectrums. Signaling Network: Researchers suggest these photons, which are organized and coherent rather than random, act as an ultrafast information transfer network between cells. DNA Role: Research suggests DNA may be a primary source and storage medium for biophotons.  Health And Biological Significance Disea...
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Dreams Hold The Key To Consciousness

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Dreams are increasingly viewed by neuroscientists and philosophers as a vital window into the mechanics of human consciousness, often providing a 'simulation' of reality that reveals how the mind constructs experience. While traditionally considered mere subconscious babble, modern research suggests that dreams—especially lucid dreams—are a legitimate form of conscious experience that can hold the key to understanding self-awareness, emotional processing, and the brain's ability to create a 'world-for-me'. The Brain as Creator: Dreaming demonstrates that the brain can generate a rich, immersive, multi-dimensional reality entirely on its own, without external sensory input. This suggests that consciousness is not reliant on the outside world, but is a 'self-sustaining internal activity'. A 'Hybrid' State (Lucid Dreaming): Lucid dreams, where a person becomes aware they are dreaming while in the dream, merge the self-awareness of waking life with the ...
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Morphogenetic Fields

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Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists.  The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well. In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who th...
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Morphogenetic Fields

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From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space. Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe. If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance...
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Morphogenetic Fields

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  Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields. All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not? Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us. M...
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