maia strzygowski

But it’s cold up there, too, trapped inside the dream. I can see it all, but I have nobody to share it with. No wonder so many cultures have rituals of group dreaming. No wonder they traveled far and wide to dream together, to seek succor and interpretation from oneiromantic priests. It makes the night less lonely.

In the morning, the temple dreamers interpreted their visions with the guidance of priests. Nothing about the dream was private; it was something to be plumbed in public alongside others upon waking with the morning. The dream’s prescriptions, a cure proffered by the gods, were enacted in waking life, with the full support of the dreamers’ communit... 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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When I look back, I realise much of my learning was a result of accidental chance; for example, I learned to program mostly by virtue of complete immersion and stumbling upon 'the right things'. I just followed my nose (and to be fair it worked out).

But now I'm an adult with a job and a family, and my time is far more precious. If I want to learn s... See more

Paprika (1993), de Yasutaka Tsutsui, é um romance de ficção científica que envolve adentrar mundos oníricos por meio da tecnologia. [ 5 ] No livro, o monitoramento e a intervenção em sonhos como forma de tratar transtornos mentais são uma nova forma de psicoterapia em desenvolvimento num futuro próximo. A agitação se instala quando um novo disposit... See more

Something a lot of people struggle with is, what is the ethical standard for one to write about something? When are you allowed to mind your own family’s history? Does it ever feel icky? Does it feel like you’re profiting off of your parents and your grandparents’ trauma? And I don’t think anybody really knows the answer. I think everyone should do... See more