<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">AFAIK dreams are more frequent in REM (rapid eye movement) cycles. If our alarm clock waves us up in the middle of such a cycle we are probably more likely to remember parts of a dream.<div dir="auto">https://teachmephysiology.com/nervous-system/sensory-system/consciousness-and-sleep/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Today when I woke up I dreamt of a picnic in the garden of my parents' house. There was a chain of lights in the tree, similar to one I have seen in the supermarket the day before. A white horse was there too. So my brain was mixing together things I have seen recently and things it remembers fron the past. What would Freud say? No monsters, luckily. Maybe I woke up too early.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">By the way Freud was addicted to cocaine</div><div dir="auto">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cocaine-how-miracle-drug-nearly-destroyed-sigmund-freud-william-halsted</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 6/4/24 7:12 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unpleasant dreams </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Qyestions about dreams; <br></div><div><br></div><div>When do dreams happen. do they happen when we are asleep, or are they memories generated by the flooding of the brain with stimulation about awakening?</div><div><br></div><div>Is dreaminess a specific physiological state: For instance, if you set your self the task of writing a story immediately upon awakening, will it be more dreamy? Have you noticed that it's much more difficulty to remember a dream if you don't "lock it in" on first awakening. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Why is memory of dreams so variable. IMHE, it's very easy to increase or decrease the amount one dreams or the amount one remembers of one's dreaming. Retaining or gernerating dream experiences requires some effort. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And why would you want to do that?</div><div><br></div><div>NIck<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 4:15 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Did you notice that some of the most successful movies from Spielberg are about our deepest fears? Jurassic Park is about monsters from the past. Jaws is about monsters which lurk in the deep blue sea. Indiana Jones is about monsters (and treasures) hiding in dark tombs.</span></p><br dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Paul Boom remarks in his book "The Sweet Spot" that psychologists have long known that unpleasant dreams are more frequent than pleasant ones. Why is that so? Do unpleasant dreams prepare us for possible dangers or are we just relieved that the are over if they end?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sweet-spot-paul-bloom?variant=40262533840930">https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sweet-spot-paul-bloom?variant=40262533840930</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">-J.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p></div>-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<br>
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