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Dream interpretation and analysis - Glossary of terms

CONSCIOUS MIND : The conscious mind is largely well understood. It links to logical reasoning.
DREAM INTERPRETATION : Attempts to understand what a dream means.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG : Dream analyst from early 1900's. Many of his ideas are still valid today. Understood the link between symbolism and the mind.
ESP : EXTRA SENSARY PERCEPTION. The ability to receive informations or communications outside of the five senses(eg hearing or sight)
SIGMUND FREUD : Psychotherapist who wrote "The interpretation of dreams". A book which contained remarkably few dreams.
HOUSE DREAMS : House dreams represent a common dream symbol. Houses are often seen to represent the self. Mansions and huge houses often link to the self but within the wider world.
NEURAL NETWORK : Patterns that form within the brain. These help us formulate ideas and gain insights into current problems.
NIGHTMARES : A bad dream where you wake up scared. Many dreams feature scarey symbols yet will not include a real sense of fear. They are not really nightmares. Just probably symbolic.
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER : PTSD as it is widely known happens after traumatic events. People may suffer continued anxieties and problems for many months or years afterwards. They may relive events years later. World war One soldiers continue to relive the nightmare of the trenches into their final years.
PREMONITION : Knowledge of events that are about to take place.
PSYCHOLOGY : The study of human actions and behavior.
PSYCHOLOGIST : Someone who studies the mind. They try to understand the behavioral processes within us.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION : The human mind needs sleep and it appears that there are major implications if the mind is deporived of sleep.
SNAKE DREAMS : Snakes are one of the common dream symbols. They are common to most countries and must represent tap into some fears of the threats within the dreamer.
ROBERT STICKGOLD : Dream researcher - assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
THETAWAVES : Brainwaves that only emerge at nighttime. They help transfer memories from short term memory banks into the long term memory banks via the hippocampus.
UNCONSCIOUS : Undoubtably this exists in some form. Freud saw this as linking to our base desires. It is probably more linked to the intuitive mind. To all the higher brain processes. To the creation of ideas, the conceptual emotions, learning strategies and to the imagination.

DREAMS AND THE MIND
THETAWAVES : Brain waves and their link to the hippocampus. Jon Winson
NEURAL IMAGING:Attempts to prove or disprove the existence of ESP
ROBERT STICKGOLD:Robert Stickgolds studies of dreams and the game Tetris
DREAM DIARIES :What to look out for
THE FUNCTION OF DREAMS Why do we dream
COMMUNICATION SKILLS : Dorian Paul on left and right brain issues?
MEDITATION :Using meditation to expand your mind

DREAM SYMBOLISM
DREAM SYMBOLISM :Neural patterns and their relevance to dream interpretation
ANIMALS IN DREAMS :By Dorian Paul
ANIMALS IN DREAMS : Animals in dreams
COLOURS IN DREAMS : By Urban
COLOURS IN DREAMS : By Kafka
Archetypes and myths : Jungs archetypes by Dorian Paul
INDIVIDUATION : understanding the Jungian approach
ARCHETYPES : Jungian archetypes
EVIL ARCHETYPES : By Dorian Paul
Heros and archetypes : by Dorian Paul
DREAMS AND MUSIC : by Dorian Paul
CRUSH DREAMS : The archetype
DREAM DICTIONARY? : Are we influenced by the dream dictionary we use by "Comrade Bart"

SLEEP PHENONOMA
HYPNOPOMPIC AND HYPNOGOGIC IMAGERY :Hallucinations and dreams
HYPNOGOGIC IMAGERY :Example dreams
SLEEPWALKING :Dreams and sleepwalking
SLEEP DEPRIVATION :The TV reality show "shattered"
CIRCADIAN RYTHMS :Dreams and melatonin
LUCID DREAMS

NIGHTMARES
DISTURBING DREAMS : Nightmares.
NIGHTMARES : Childrens Nightmares.
WORLD WAR ONE NIGHTMARES : Dreaming of the front line.
NIGHTMARES : A practical study of nightmares showing what individual nightmares meant
CONFRONTING FEAR IN NIGHTMARES : By Dorian Paul

PREMONITIONS AND TELEPATHY
HEART TRANSPLANTS - Does the heart have a memory
DAVID MANDELL :Psychic paintings?
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES :OBE's and psychic phenonoma
Premonitions :places deep into the future?
SCIENCE :Towards an understanding of premonitions
EXPERIMENTS :Premonition studies and false premonitions

OTHER ARTICLES
BIG BROTHER : A study of the Big Brother reality show
THE SPIRITUAL APPROACH : By Always Dreaming
INSPIRATION : By Dorian Paul
FAITH AND DREAMS : By Weiss
MONTAGUE ULLMAN : Swedish researcher
DREAM FORUMS : Helpful advice
ETHICAL GUIDELINES : By Dorian Paul
FACTS ABOUT DREAMS : Some thoughts

OTHER DREAM INTERPRETORS

Aisling Ireland : Posts at www.bellaonline.com