Thanks, PG, that was grand. Connection with the Earth is one of the things I often bore people with, so you are pushing on an open door there. In fact, this morning, I woke with a resolution to review my meds and be ruthless about only taking the really necessary ones. Lots of dreams again last night...I could probably keep a whole faculty of Jungian analysts in business at the moment!

How about yours?   

Has anyone ever read any articles or research into how the dreaming process changes as we age ( if it does)? I mean, I assume it does, what with memory and brain deterioration? There must have been studies done into the dreaming experiences of people with differing degrees of environmental and sensory stimulation or isolation too? I ask because I'm interested from a nerdy educationalist's point of view. I see more and more kids deprived of environmental stimulation for instance ( and I'm not linking that to their academic ability..but it could be proven one day maybe?)...and I'm just curious about how it links to their imaginative faculties etc...
Just musing.. :-/

Very interesting Whisperit...thank you for your comments. It's a fascinating subject. I wonder if we will ever invent the technology one day to see another s dreams? I hope not. I guess I, like most people, thought that death was the final taboo..but I guess exploring another person's subconscious ( or your own!) is even more whacked out than that..

Such a lot of "psychic" power seems bogus to me - not deliberately so, but more in the way of the way we have a natural inclination to seek out patterns, connections and coincidences, and to discount the times when our intuitions and hunches lead nowhere. So its just statistics that sometimes these things work out.

But I do also think that we *are* all connected like you say, PG. We have unconscious processes at work all the time to help us "read" other people - their emotional states, intentions etc. We are looking for these "tells" all the time without being aware of it. We have all sorts of neural systems to do this - mirror neurons being a particularly fascinating one. We're also wired up to make associations between certain physical cues from the environment and our historical experiences. I'm sure you've read research into how our decisions appear to be made by our bodies before our minds have had the time to formulate our thoughts about it - as if the brain operates to justify the decisions our bodies have already made.

Obviously, some people have much more sensitive systems than others, and can make these associations, decisions and "readings" more easily and flexibly than others. That's what  "psychic" means to me, anyway.

I guess being wired to the world is the only way to change the bad transistor sister ;) Oh and I asked the lake too, she said come on over and bring your pole. :D

I had the strangest dream, like a waking dream. Does that make sense? I'll tell you. There is a rampant chemical company in crop science. They deliver genetically modified corn to Latin America. Within several years, severe birth defects show up in newborns with the corrupt gene. The population cannot explain it, they were told the corn was safe. A Nazi propaganda machine starts, telling the native population..it's an insect causing your problems. The local government unknowingly starts fumigating and telling pregnant woman to apply pesticide. Of course, this is to sell more pesticide and knock out the population. In the dream I am thinking..."How do I tell these Latin American countries they've been deceived and it's the poisonous corn crop causing these horrific genetic mutations? How do I get the word out?" An awful nightmare really...then I awoke. Wake-up, wake-up...was the alarm bell as I opened my eyes-

No, I need a direct line to the Brazilian CDC..for realsies.