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Somnambulists who do creative work in their sleep

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

36 year-old Lee Hadwin of North Wales, Britain has neither the talent nor training to be an artist. His day job is a nurse. But he wakes up in the middle of the night and creates fantastical works of art, of which he has no recollection in the morning. He began drawing in his sleep in childhood and these drawings became more detailed by the time he was sixteen. Today, his work is displayed in art galleries … Continue reading →

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Why do we forget our vivid dreams?

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

In the May 2011 issue of the Scientific American Mind magazine, a reader asked the question “Why do memories of vivid dreams disappear soon after waking up?”. According to current science, clarity of dreams depends on neurochemical conditions in the brain. In this article, we will examine this question based on the Integral Psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Continue reading →

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How can we “see” in our dreams when our eyes are closed?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

In the Ask Brains Column of the Nov 2010 issue of the Scientific American Mind magazine, a reader asked the question, “How we can “see” in our dreams when our eyes are closed (since the retina is inactive)?”[1]. The answer given over there was that these dream visions originate either in the visual centers within the brain or in the latent memories residing in the brain which in turn stimulate the visual cortex. You can read the question and the response over here. That answer is based on current model of the brain in neuroscience; it assumes that the brain is equivalent to the mind and that consciousness is the result of brain activity. In this post, we present the answer from the perspective of “yoga psychology”. Continue reading →

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Towards more conscious sleep and dreams

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

As the consciousness becomes purified through regular practice of Yoga, one finds that sleep becomes more active and more real. Dreams no longer seem to be phantasmagoric illusions but become excursions into the occult worlds. We truly possess one unbroken stream of consciousness, which during the day dwells in the physical world and at night interacts with the occult worlds and consequently, the experiences we have in dreams are inextricably linked to the events in the physical world. In this article, we discuss various ways to make sleep more conscious. Continue reading →

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