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How dreams wake us up
By
Robert Moss
Here’s an open secret about dreaming. It’s not fundamentally about sleeping. It’s really about waking up. In ancient Egypt, the word for dream, rswt, meant an “awakening.” Those Egyptians were onto something. For starters, dreams wake us up to what is going on inside our bodies and what we need to do to stay well…
Seeking the innermost dream
By
Robert Moss
I’m intrigued by nights in which we slip from one dream into another, as if moving from an outer to an inner courtyard. Sometimes the shift is marked by the experience of falling asleep and waking up inside the dream state. Waking from an inner dream, not yet fully aware that we are still in…
The modern myth of sleep that is contrary to nature and diminishes dreams
By
Robert Moss
We humans don’t sleep the way we used to. No, this is not the lead in for a commercial for some new kind of sleeping pill. It is a statement about how our contemporary sleep patterns are radically different from the way humans have slept for most of our evolution on this planet. Our expectations…
Sleep texting
By
Robert Moss
It seems that sleep disorders are keeping pace with technology and modern lifestyle. Text messaging, or “texting”, is a fairly constant activity for many younger people in our society, and it seems that some of them are now doing it in their sleep. Dr David Cunningham, a sleep researcher in Melbourne, Australia (my native city)…
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