The Mystery

Everyone dreams. Psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have tried to interpret dreams and our subconscious thoughts. Though these modern scientists have provided multiple theories and vast quantities of written analysis, they are by no means the first to have taken on this eternal and elusive subject. Dream interpretation has directly influenced Native American cultural and spiritual beliefs for centuries. American Indians believe dreams influence the conscious soul of the dreamer, oftentimes acting as a means for change in personality traits such as confidence, maturity, kindness, and loyalty. Dreams have always been a fundamental part of Ojibwe culture and have many purposes.     Prophecies:  Dreams can show future events that will affect a tribe or individual person.     Names:  Spiritual leaders can receive the name of a newborn child through dreams.     Spiritual Strength:  Many Ojibwe people pray, meditate, and fast in order...

Now, suppose world-boundedness is incorrect — or at least can be relaxed as a constraint for both Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) and the possible worlds framework. What follows for the nature and functions of dreaming? First, note that dreaming largely consists of counterfactual simulations of what might have been and what might be for the dreamer. A first default and easy hypothesis would be then that dreaming actually really depicts events occurring in a real alternate world unfolding from the initial branching event. Given that counterfactual simulations are constructions of alternate histories and futures for the dreamer, we ask: Where do these alternate histories occur? The most reasonable answer is, of course, they occur in the mind of the dreamer. But this is a thought experiment, so we can ask: If the many-worlds framework is correct and dreaming consists of counterfactual simulations of what might have been and what might be for the dreamer in a world that branches off of th...

This truth will shock you and make you re-think next time you sleep or dream. If you want to manifest what you want using law of attraction then you can consider this to dive deeper on the seekers journey. What if we are in dream and when we think we dream we exit from this parallel universe into another. If you've ever questioned where we go when we dream or if dreams are real, then this will give some answers. Do we live in Multiple Parallel reality? Where does our mind go when we dream? Especially when we dream, is it a possibility that we may be traveling back and forth to a whole another reality, being unaware of ourselves? The debate is going on, like us human beings have been curious and wondering about them throughout history. Countless researchers unveiled many facts about dreaming which has been ongoing till now. According to them: Our mind is classified into 'imaginary' and 'reality'. While ‘imaginary’ is what we consider as 'dreaming', the real i...

Dreams can feel awfully real when you’re deep in sleep. Perhaps you find a hidden doorway in your home that leads to entirely new rooms and passageways. Maybe you went to work in your underwear — yikes. When you wake up, you check your closet for that mysterious doorway; maybe you jolt awake in a cold sweat, instantly relieved you still have plenty of time to properly clothe yourself before leaving the house. Regardless, whatever you were experiencing felt very real just moments ago. Dreams are essentially vivid memories that never existed. Yet you find yourself inside an all-encompassing parallel reality, a fantastical world that’s uniquely yours. The trouble with dreams, especially the fun ones, is that they’re fleeting. Often, you can’t remember a thing from a dream just moments after waking — the echo of some feeling is all that remains. But what if you could record your dreams, and play them back for analysis, or even share them with friends? Theoretically, experts say, that might...

Psychology Professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson talks about 'The Interpretation Of Dreams' by Freud and the expansion by C. G. Jung on Freud's theory. Jung and Freud disagreed over the fundamentals and derivatives of dreams. Freud believed that we can learn more about a person through their unconscious as opposed to through their conscious mind. Freud believed that when we are in a conscious state of mind, we do not act upon our deepest desires because of the considerations of reality and morality. But when we are sleeping, the forces that make us more reserved are weakened, meaning we can live our desires through our dreams. Freud concluded that our dreams are able to access repressed or anxiety provoking thoughts – mainly sexual desires – that are otherwise not acted upon because of the fear of embarrassment. Defense mechanisms allow a thought or desire to sneak into our dreams in a symbolic form. Someone dreaming of a large stick, Freud would view them dreaming of a penis. U...

What is liminal dreaming? Liminal Dreaming, which is the space between awake and asleep, hypnagogia, when you’re falling asleep, and hypnopompia when you’re waking up. So, liminal dream states are some of the most unusual dream states. I’ve had a lot of background working with dreams, lucid dreams and oneirogens, things that promote vivid dreams, different kinds of dream work. And a few years ago I started getting really involved in liminal dreams. It started with an experience where I was lying in bed and I realized that basically my body had fallen asleep. And my mind was still awake and I was having this dream and it had a little bit of narrative, but it’s kind of non-narrative. And that experience got me really interested and I started exploring a little bit and realize that hypnagogia and hypnopompia, they’re experiences that everyone has, we all go through them and they’re super weird. It all depends on brain waves: Most brainwave states and measured by EEG, are marked by one sin...

Humans have an inherent drive to play with our experience of the world. Yet in our explorations of consciousness we frequently ignore the potential of the original altered state: the dream. The Oneironauticum was founded in January, 2008, by a group of dreamers dedicated to consciousness experimentation through the use of oneirogens: any herb, root, sound, scent, technology, practice, or food that promotes vivid dreaming. During each Oneironauticum event, an in-person group gathers to sleep in the same place and try an oneirogen. On that same night, people around the globe use the same oneirogen. Nine years of experimentation has generated a catalogue of oneirogens and effects, searchable on the Oneironauticum site. Lucid dreaming can become a Buddhist practice, hypnagogic dreams can harness creativity, while hypnapompic sleep paralysis allows others to work with fear. The talk will outline the informal research conducted via the Oneironauticum on oneirogens and dream as tool of consci...