Exploring Dreams

Lucid Dreaming - conscious awareness during the dream state - is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creation, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams.

We all have private fantasies, dark desires that we hide away and dare not share with others. We keep them secret from spouses or partners. Sometimes we even deny them to ourselves. The scent of leather as it warms against the wearer’s body...the sudden darkness of a blindfold...the “smack” of a palm coming down across an upturned bottom...the cold, harsh feel of metal against tender skin...the mix of anticipation and sweat and arousal as control is relinquished and taken...Do you feel a curious fascination with ideas such as these? You are not alone. The appeal of bondage, of sexual ...

Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, When Brains Dream debunks common myths while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming.

At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. Listeners of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways.

"Exploring Litha: Embracing the Magic of Midsummer" is a captivating odyssey into the heart of the summer solstice, a time when the sun's radiant energy reaches its zenith, infusing the world with warmth and vitality. In this comprehensive guide, readers are invited to embark on a transformative journey through the rich tapestry of traditions, rituals, and celebrations that define the enchanting season of Litha. As the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, ancient and modern cultures alike have marked this celestial event with reverence, honoring the interconnectedness of nature and ...

A story of love, loss, and Land Rovers. Travel from Cape Town to Northern Kenya and back with the author and her husband in a 1973 Series III Land Rover, a quintessential African overland safari vehicle that screams adventure with every bump in the road and every broken leaf spring,. Their yearlong, 48,000 kilometer journey in Ndoto (Swahili for dream) takes them through South Africa's national parks and into Mugabe's Zimbabwe. They travel over the Kalahari in Botswana, and into the deserts and dunes of Namibia. Traveling up the Great North Road from Zambia to Tanzania, they dodge potholes,...

"Grand Cayman: Jewel of the Caribbean" is a comprehensive guide that invites listeners to explore the enchanting beauty and cultural richness of Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands. With its stunning natural landscapes, captivating marine life, vibrant history, and warm hospitality, Grand Cayman is a tropical paradise like no other.

Creating ideas is driven by imagination and we can use what we recall in our dreams and memories of past events to imagine the future. Interestingly enough, we can be the most imaginative when our minds are quiet or idle. Neuroscientists have found that our brain has a ‘default’ mode to contemplate the future when our mind is unoccupied. That is why taking the time to meditate is so powerful. Even though daydreaming has a lousy reputation, neuroscientists are discovering that a wandering mind benefits our health.

Dreams can be letters coming from someone's unconscious mind. These are also considered as successions of ideas, images, sensations, and emotions that usually happen in an involuntary manner to one's mind. These are highly evident during a specific stage of dreams known as oneirology.

This audiobook covers how to hear from Heaven with a collection of true examples. It intrigued me, as a child, when I was told to pray and ask God for help. Would God talk back and tell me what to do? I'd heard stories and read in the Bible that God spoke to people in the past. Why should that relationship be reserved for the afterlife, when things are good already? I needed help and comfort the most here and now. Read as a magical book, the Bible whispered to have the simple faith of a little child.

Have you heard about lucid dreaming and are curious to learn more about this magical practice? Does the ability to control your dreams seem too far-fetched to you? People are interested in going within and living their best lives. So we meditate more and listen to our inner voice instead of the noise surrounding us. Lucid dreaming allows us to create our reality within the dream space actively. This practice isn’t some new-age idea. It has been practiced for centuries by many civilizations. This guide will give you plenty of information you can use to satisfy your curiosity!

The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place. Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face. You are rudely awake, and resent it.