And for the end of Samhain I offer these poems.

Sweet Voices
Those voices are the sweeter which have fallen ( Read more... )

An old woman told her grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all ( Read more... )

The future belongs
to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

An interesting article with new information about why we dream. I'm posting some highlights but it's only two pages: The Science Behind Dreaming.

[N]ew research published in the Journal of Neuroscience provides compelling insights into the mechanisms that underlie dreaming and the strong relationship our dreams have with our memories. Cristina ( Read more... )

Dream ObjectsStrangest is their reality ( Read more... )

Why do we dream? No one is certain, but a possible function of dreaming is to weave new material into the memory system in a way that both reduces emotional arousal and is adaptive in helping us cope with further trauma or stressful events. From the article ( Read more... )

Nicely relevant to issues discussed in Stumbling on Happiness, this article discusses how, to envision the future, we go with what we already know - the past. Scientific American: Back to the Future: How the Brain "Sees" the Future. Whether imagining the future or recalling the past, the human mind calls on the same brain regions ( Read more... )

That. Dream. Was. Awful.

It's been 30 minutes & my skin is still cold & my head echoes with the way my screams sounded in the dream.

Talk about abandonment issues. A wee few problems with communication, too.
I hate not feeling heard.

*shivers*
*shivers some more*

Ugh. Is it morning aready ( Read more... )