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News Briefs 25-02-2009

I remember you, do you remember me?

Quote of the Day:

I did not know whether I was Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was Chuang Tzu.

Chuang Tzu (Amazon or free)

  1. Energy from Hamsters
    Imagine how stupid the poor lab tech felt while putting jackets on hamsters.

    On a human scale, Matrix analogies aside, may I suggest footie pajamas for two year olds? They always seem to have WAY too much energy!

  2. Dreams
    Geez, I was hoping my month-long absence would be noticed with conspiratorial speculation!

    What do you all think of dreams? Just neurons randomly sparking meaningless images from our memory banks? Freud believed dreams are a cathartic method of dealing with our base desires (sexual, violent, immoral), to clean out the closet and allow our subconscious to operate normally each day. Jung believed in a communcal ocean of ideas and archetypes we all swim in. Buddhists, Australian aboriginals, Hopi, Amazon tribes, and some quantum physicists think that dreams are doorways to supernatural realms and alternate levels of consciousness and reality, more real than waking life.

    Joseph Campbell, the Jungian mythologist, described it eloquently for me: myths are communal dreams, and dreams are personal myths. With advancements in DMT/psychedelic research (Dr Rick Strassman’s scientific experiments, and anecdotal ayahuasca/DMT experiences) and quantum physics, I think supernatural realms and other levels of consciousness are very possible.

    I certainly don’t believe it’s just a random spurt of neurons and memories. From personal experience, there’s more to dreams than this simplistic (and in my opinion naive) explanation.

    A penny for your thoughts.

    1. Like UFOs
      In the sense that there are several kinds of dreams. Some are only meant as a way to ‘clean’ the conscious mind’s buffer of the events experienced during daytime. Some other might be a way the subconscious is trying to resolve a personal problem. And others might be much more interesting, like lucid dreaming.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

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