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Old 03-06-2009, 05:43 PM
 
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Fontucky - :-))))))))) you sure made me lol - your suggestion tell me that you don't know much about east Europe - or how it used to been. Ask anyone from there how they called back "home" and how long they stayed on the phone AND - did they ( on any end) understood anything that was said . But that's another story :-)
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Old 03-06-2009, 06:10 PM
 
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My dreams are so intense and so real that sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream might continue and in fact it usually does. I don't believe that there's any evidence whatsoever that our dreams actually are looking into the future or revealing some secret about our lives. I have no doubt that a person who is stressed out by their job or some situation in their life might have a bad dream as a result of that emotion that's churning around in their brain but I think it's a big mistake to try to exaggerate the importance of a dream to such an extent that it's making you believe that the mysteries of the universe are being revealed to you when you go to sleep each night.
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Old 03-06-2009, 06:23 PM
 
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A-B is quite correct in making the point he did, only that the initial example he gave was a bit too personal. and i think it's a well-known very ancient communication practice.. even mentioned in the bible.

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Old 03-07-2009, 01:46 AM
 
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My dreams are so intense and so real that sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream might continue and in fact it usually does. I don't believe that there's any evidence whatsoever that our dreams actually are looking into the future or revealing some secret about our lives. I have no doubt that a person who is stressed out by their job or some situation in their life might have a bad dream as a result of that emotion that's churning around in their brain but I think it's a big mistake to try to exaggerate the importance of a dream to such an extent that it's making you believe that the mysteries of the universe are being revealed to you when you go to sleep each night.
Most experiences in the REM state are personal to the unsatisfied drives generated during your waking hours. Sleep is essential to the building of synapses (learning new things) and the tearing down of old unreconciled firings to make way for new memories . . . keeping the connections flexible.

However, those altered brain states also provide access to other aspects of reality that may exist (such as particularly strong emotionally-charged thoughts of others directed at you . . . even significant events that may imminently affect you). It is not simple and unidimensional . . . with either or specificity. (BTW . . . The vividness of your dreams suggests you may not be as purely dominant left brain as you seem).
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Old 03-07-2009, 09:08 AM
 
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My dreams are so intense and so real that sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream might continue and in fact it usually does. I don't believe that there's any evidence whatsoever that our dreams actually are looking into the future or revealing some secret about our lives. I have no doubt that a person who is stressed out by their job or some situation in their life might have a bad dream as a result of that emotion that's churning around in their brain but I think it's a big mistake to try to exaggerate the importance of a dream to such an extent that it's making you believe that the mysteries of the universe are being revealed to you when you go to sleep each night.

look here, even without speaking this language, that proves the validity of A-B's point of view.


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in addition, i want to say why dunkin' those whose warnings or future catastrophes do not any longer seem compatible with modern scientific predictions?
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