Me & My Zeo: (Or, How my bedroom became a sleep lab)
My friend DNMNK recently lent me his Zeo for a few weeks. The Zeo is a nifty device that looks like a digital alarm clock with a removable headband. You wear the headband to sleep …
Dreamers in the S’News: Madam CJ Walker
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove on Dec. 23, 1867. The daughter of slaves, she became the first black millionaire by building a beauty empire for people …
The Longest Night of the Year is the Best Night for Dreaming (CV — Seasonal)
The Solstice (12/22/11 this year) marks the longest night of the year … but it doesn’t have to be the loneliest. What if on this dark night, you could dream with over 500 other people …
Lonely – Together (CV)
What is the antidote to loneliness? No, the answer to loneliness doesn’t involve going to a party, hopping onto Facebook or taking a trip to the mall. The antidote to loneliness is solitude. Solitude is …
Ode to Fallen Trees: The Dream as Lorax (CV)
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.” ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax I was walking home along a city bike path recently, …
Dreamers in the S’News: Happy Birthday Walt!
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” –Walt Disney, born Dec. 5, 1901 I love this quote for so …
Joyful Dreaming
In ordinary dreaming people describe anxiety and fear among the most common emotions experienced. But in lucid dreams, one often achieves states of bliss, joy, and delight seemingly unattainable in wake life.
‘In My Own Little Corner’
Awake we can direct the dream with much better control and more easily. Cinderella is meek and obedient as she does the bidding of her stepmother and stepsisters, but in her little chair alone she fantasizes about an enchanted life.
Forgotten Dreams
“Where do forgotten dreams go?” J. Allan Hobson, Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir, pp. 175-176 Where Do Forgotten Dreams Go? They sleep in endless seas Dissolve into the orange gold horizon at dusk Rise with …
MLK’s Dream and Mine
On being link in liberty’s chain By Tzivia Gover Originally Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette 11/08/2011 – 1:00am NORTHAMPTON – On a cool, crisp November night, my co-worker Anita Gallers and I stood in …