maia strzygowski

Sleep paralysis is one of the worst biological glitches. Your brain wakes up, but your body does not get the memo. If this has happened to you, congratulations, you’ve experienced some of the most surreal horror known to mankind. It’s not supernatural—no, those shadows in the corner aren’t demons, it’s just your brain tripping out—but does it feel ... See more

Nightmares often reinforce trauma, forcing someone to relive emotional distress. But lucid dreaming allows people to rewrite these dreams, turning them from panic-inducing chaos into something structured—kind of like an Inception -style dream intervention, where suddenly, you dictate the rules instead of getting dragged through the madness.

And here’s where things get even worse—some people report having entire lifetimes inside a dream, only to wake up and struggle to reconnect with reality. Imagine waking up and realizing the empire you built, the people you loved, the battles you fought, were all an illusion. If that’s not existential nightmare fuel, I don’t know what is.

Dream time refuses to make sense. Inception showed us layered dream time—where seconds in the real world stretch into hours inside dreams—and while Nolan made it look cinematic, science backs this up. Your brain isn’t following real-world physics, meaning time perception in dreams can be completely unhinged. Ever had a dream that lasted days, only ... See more

Reality checks are tiny subconscious hacks that let your brain recognize dream logic failures. Try counting your fingers—do you have the correct number? Look at a clock—does time behave normally? If something seems off, congratulations, you might be dreaming. The more often you do this while awake, the more likely your subconscious carries this hab... See more

Lucid dreaming is the closest thing we have to hacking reality. It’s basically Wrath deciding that instead of letting the world dictate his destiny, he’s going to rule it himself. Imagine waking up inside a dream and realizing, “Hold up—I can change this.” This doesn’t just happen randomly—you have to train for it.

Dream recall is tricky because, much like the Fore-Lesser deciding he doesn’t want to play fair, your brain actively works against you. The second you wake up, your hippocampus—responsible for storing long-term memories—basically goes full Rhage beast mode and bulldozes dream recall into oblivion. Keeping a dream journal is the only way to fight ba... See more

Every thought, vision, and idea that frequently occurs in our psyche happens for a reason. Our dreams are our destiny’s way of communicating with us. We spend far too much of our time looking at our dreams through the veils of the challenges that live between us and our desires. When we approach our dreams with the energy that says “I can, I will,

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“How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it’s a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by

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