http://www.realityshifter.com Exploring consciousness, dreams, and mind enhancement Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:06:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this powerfully moving video, brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor recounts what it felt like to have massive stroke. She describes with intense passion the experience of watching her brain functions shut down one by one, losing speech and motor functions, and ultimately losing self-awareness, culminating in a feeling of ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2009/jill-bolte-taylors-stroke-of-insight/ Have you ever felt physical pain while in a dream? Many people have the luxury of never experiencing pain in their dreams. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people. I feel pain in my dreams just as vividly as I feel it in waking life. Some people use the lack ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2009/how-physical-pain-finds-its-way-into-our-dreams/ I recently read Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with an interest in lucid dreams. I've read nearly every book about lucid dreaming and I can say without hesitation this book is one of the best. There are plenty of ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2009/review-lucid-dreaming-gateway-to-the-inner-self/ If you're looking for a quick way to relax and get rid of stress, give this 10-minute audio track a try. It features brainwave technology layered with relaxing ambient music. I design tracks like this for my company each month as free gifts for our customers. We normally use nature sounds ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/free-10-minute-stress-buster-mp3-with-brainwave-technology/ The International Association for the Study of Dreams is hosting its annual PsiberDreaming Conference next week. The conference is held entirely online, so no matter where in the world you live, you can attend without ever having to leave your home. The conference will feature presentations and workshops, group dream experiments, ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/iasds-online-psiberdreaming-conference/ I just came across this great Calvin & Hobbes comic today. In it, Calvin experiences a classic false awakening. He dreams of being woken up, having breakfast, and going through his usual morning routine, only to discover it was all a dream. I've had false awakenings like this one many ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/calvin-has-a-false-awakening/ While it's well known that various prescription medications can affect sleep quality or mental clarity, far less attention is paid to how they can adversely affect your dreams. Some medications dampen REM activity, dull your dreams, and interfere with dream recall. Others stimulate vivid dream activity, though not always in a ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/bizarre-dreams-nightmares-due-to-prescription-medications/ If you're looking for a quick way to relax, either for meditation purposes or simply to release stress and tension, this 10-minute brainwave audio track will do the trick. This is a track I designed for my company a few months ago as a free gift for our customers, and ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/free-10-minute-relaxation-mp3-with-brainwave-technology/ The dream blogging zone has been unusually quiet over the past couple of months. With the exception of Ryan, who continues to post great new articles over at the Dream Studies Portal, many of the folks who blog about dreaming have been silent lately. I'm guilty of it myself. I like ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/new-articles-and-some-changes-in-the-works/ A couple of weeks ago in an article called Control Video Games With Your Mind, I mentioned the EPOC Neuroheadset from Emotiv that will allow users to control video games with thoughts, emotions, and facial movements. Another company called NeuroSky has a similar neuroheadset called Mindset in the works. From what ... http://www.realityshifter.com/2008/another-headset-to-control-video-games-with-your-mind/