News from Dead

Some Ghost come to us in our dreams only just to spread joy and happiness. Not all ghost come to warn of danger and mayhem to enter your life. They can also come to foretell of great joy and many good things to come. From the birth of a child or an answer to your prayers. In Marshall tells Lisa Lee Harp Waugh, we have often been told since childhood of the ghost of "Happy Sallie". Ms. Sallie as many call her is a the ghost of an older woman always seen with a big toothless smile on her face. So many say in Marshall that she presses her face against the windows of homes and even cars on rainy gloomy stormy nights. When you encounter her in a dream your life is in store for some wonderful changes for the better.
OLD HAG / Incubus / Succubus versus Sleep Paralysis
It describes an event where the person is sleeping and dreams that ghostly .... Victims may have been experiencing waking dreams or sleep paralysis. ...
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Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while loop dreaming. In this state a person usually has control over characters and the environment of the dream as well as the dreamer's own actions within the dream.The occurrence of lucid dreaming has been scientifically verified.
The recall of dreams is extremely unreliable, though it is a skill that can be trained. Dreams can usually be recalled if a person is awakened while dreaming. Women tend to have more frequent dream recall than men. Dreams that are difficult to recall may be characterized by relatively little affect, and factors such as salience, arousal, and interference play a role in dream recall. Often, a dream may be recalled upon viewing or hearing a random trigger or stimulus. A dream journal can be used to assist dream recall, for psychotherapy or entertainment purposes. For some people, vague images or sensations from the previous night's dreams are sometimes spontaneously experienced in falling asleep. However they are usually too slight and fleeting to allow dream recall.
In 1906 the famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin published a monograph entitled Über Sprachstörungen im Traume (on language disturbances in dreams). In his psychiatry textbook Kraepelin used the short cut Traumsprache to denote language disturbances occurring in dreams. Traumsprache is probably best translated as dream speech (because the literal translation of 'dream language' would easily be confounded with the language of dreams, which refers to the visual means of representing thought in dreams).
Three types of dream speech were considered by Kraepelin: disorders of word-selection (also called paraphasias), disorders of discourse (eg agrammatisms) and thought disorders. The most frequent occurring form of dream speech is a neologism.
Kraepelin studied dream speech, because it provided him with clues to the analoguous language disturbances of schizophrenic patients.
A nightmare is a dream which causes a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror, being in situations of extreme danger, or the sensations of pain, bad events, falling, drowning, being raped, becoming disabled, losing loved ones , unpleasant creatures or beings, getting attacked, getting eaten, squashed, diseased, burned, becoming frozen, murdered, or facing death. Such dreams can be related to physical causes such as a high fever, turned faced down on a pillow during sleep, or psychological ones such as psychological trauma or stress in the sleeper's life, or can have no apparent cause. If a person has experienced a psychologically traumatic situation in life-for example, a person who may have been captured and tortured-the experience may come back to haunt them in their nightmares. Sleepers may waken in a state of distress and be unable to get back to sleep for some time. Eating before bed, which triggers an increase in the body's metabolism and brain activity, is another potential stimulus for nightmares.
Occasional nightmares are commonplace, but recurrent nightmares can interfere with sleep and may cause people to seek medical help. A recently proposed treatment consists of imagery rehearsal or dream incubation. This technique was first described in Deirdre Barrett's book, Trauma and Dreams with cases of people suffering recurring nightmares of war, childhood abuse, adult rapes and natural disasters "incubating" or practicing imagery of a different outcome to the dream which involved mastering the threat. Two research studies have now shown this to be effective for both spontaneous, ideosyncratic nightmares and on nightmares in acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Nightmare was the original term for the state later known as waking dream (cf. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein's Genesis), and more currently as sleep paralysis, associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The original definition was codified by Dr Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language. Such nightmares were widely considered to be the work of demons and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic * marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare part in nightmare. The word might be etymologically cognate to Hellenic / Marōn / (in the Odyssey) and Sanskrit / Māra / (supernatural antagonist of the Buddha).
Folk belief in Newfoundland, South Carolina and Georgia describe the negative figure of the Hag who leaves her physical body at night, and sits on the chest of her victim. The victim usually wakes with a feeling of terror, has difficulty breathing because of a perceived heavy invisible weight on his or her chest, and is unable to move ie, experiences sleep paralysis. This nightmare experience is described as being "hag-ridden" in the Gullah lore. The "Old Hag" was a nightmare spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore.
Various forms of magic and spiritual possession were also advanced as causes. In nineteenth century Europe, the vagaries of diet were thought to be responsible. For example, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge attributes the ghost he sees to "... an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato ..." In a similar vein, the Household Cyclopedia (1881) offers the following advice about nightmares:
"Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine. Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry. .. Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating ... Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease , as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible.
Night terrors are distinct from nightmares in several key ways. First, the subject is not fully asleep when the night terror occurs. Unlike nightmares, which are frequently dreams of a frightening nature, night terrors are not recalled dreams. Usually there is no situation or event (scary or otherwise) that is dreamed, but rather the emotion of fear itself is felt. Often, this is coupled with tension and apprehension without any distinct sounds or visual imagery, although sometimes a vague object of fear is identified by the sufferer. These emotions, generally without a focusing event or scenario, increase emotions in a cumulative effect. The night terrors can often be recalled by children as they get older. In some cases, the triggering emotion remains over time until they can nearly fully recall what it is that caused their hysteria. An example of this emotional trigger could be having to perform an impossible task (counting stars, counting the texture of dried paint, etc ...) or an image of some sort such as the folds of a human brain. The lack of a dream itself leaves those awakened from a night terror in a state of disorientation much more severe than that caused by a normal nightmare. This can include a short period of amnesia during which the subjects may be unable to recall their names, locations, ages, or any other identifying features of themselves.

?Death: why we should be thankful

Death gets a bad press. Invariably uninvited guest who comes too soon. Her fear and hate. "The last enemy" - this speaks of her Bible.
However, poets and philosophers have repeatedly said that without death we would not be who we are. Bleak prospect makes us get up in the morning and inspires great things. Every form is finite, the philosophers say, and something can only arise due to the shape. This choir has recently began to join the social psychologists.It all begins with awareness of our mortality. Like all living things, we are fighting for survival. However, in contrast to other things (as far as we know), we live with the knowledge that this fight we have to lose. Our mighty brain, brilliantly building syllogisms, tells us that the worst will happen. We all live in the shadow of personal apocalypse.
It's hard. Indeed, this is a terrible idea that can paralyze. That's why we are working hard to push it as far as possible, or cancel them completely. This mad confrontation with the inevitable charge of our greatest achievements.
Perhaps the most obvious result - is material progress. For example, farming came to give us food, and the food needed to live. Clothing and buildings warm us, weapons allows you to hunt and defend medicine treats when we are sick. In short, the vast majority of discoveries prolong our lives.
Even science is motivated by fear of death. Francis Bacon, the father of empiricism considers achieving eternal life the noblest goal of the philosopher. For this he sacrificed his life, having been ill with pneumonia during the experiments on cryopreservation. Science - the lot of mortal gods are hardly economic hardship in biochemistry.
Despite all efforts, the terrible prospect of still there. Many thinkers, from Hegel to Heidegger believed that the actual material civilization and culture - it is a way to assure ourselves that we will be living after the death of the body. The same subject in 1973, raised the anthropologist Ernest Becker, whose book "Denial of Death" won the Pulitzer Prize. It is this work of social psychologists look inspired empirical evidence to support the speculation of philosophers.
These researchers were Jeff Greenberg of the University of Arizona, Sheldon Solomon of Skidmore College and Tom Pischinsky University of Colorado. They invented terror management theory, which postulates that the majority of our actions and beliefs due to fear of death. They suggested that we develop these views of the world that allow us to cope with the knowledge of his own mortality.
Most clearly manifested in the religion, so scientists reasoned, in the face of death, people often have to apply to the faith. Indeed, something like this be found. In one experiment, a group of Christian students were asked to rate the personality of the two people. These people are in all respects were very similar, except that one was a Christian, and the other - a Jew. Control subjects reacted favorably to both, and those students who have previously completed a questionnaire about their attitudes toward death, the more positively judged the Christian and negative - of Judea.
Religion, this effect is not limited to this. On the example of more than 400 studies, psychologists have shown that almost all aspects of our world are motivated by an attempt to come to terms with death. Nationalism, for example, allows us to believe that we will live forever as part of a larger whole: Mr. Greenberg and his colleagues found that American students who were reminded of their mortality, with particular fervor criticized anti-American writer. Next, Holly McGregor of the University of Arizona (USA) showed that students who were forced to think about death, not only do not approve of those who challenge their views of the world, but also ready to violence. In the experiment, it was expressed in the form of excessive servings of hot sauce.
These preliminary studies have confirmed suspicions Becker that the denial of death - the cause of all evil. That's what leads to the division of people into "us" and "not ours" promotes prejudice and aggression, war and terrorism feeds. For example, people who show the planes crash into the New York skyscrapers, most supported the invasion of Iraq. But then the terror management theorists were detected and the bright side of the fear of death.
For example, one of the most powerful factors in human culture - the desire to leave something behind. Hence, psychologists say, including the greatest works of art. On something like Socrates has said, noting that while the men are desperate to perpetuate his name, women are more simply - have children. Indeed, in one study of the Germans when they were reminded of death, expressed a desire to have more children, and the Chinese - a willingness to oppose the rule of one child.
Recently Kenneth Vale University of Missouri (USA) and his colleagues have made a catalog of things that we bestowed consciousness of mortality. For example, the desire for a healthy lifestyle. The researchers also identified a fine line between conscious and unconscious reminder of death. In the latter case we start mindlessly clinging to traditional social values. And well, if the number of these values ​​do not include the imposition of their aggressive neighbors with cannons and machine guns.
A conscious reminder of death, on the other hand, promotes more informed views on the re-evaluation of life. The more we contemplate their own mortality, the more actively reject externally imposed values ​​like wealth and fame, with a focus on personal development.
And judging by what is happening around, we think of death not much ...
Prepared according to NewScientist.

The Afterlife Dysfunction

?What is a Soul Wanderer

Some wanderers are ETs who have come from elsewhere to planet Earth for this incarnation or at this time. Many other wanderers are earth natives who have matured spiritually to the point of awakening to their metaphysical identity, thereby making the worldly identity less real, and creating the sense of being a stranger in a strange land. Both types of wanderers are in the same situation here on Earth now, in that they often don't fit in well here, for their inner universe has shifted, and the "real" world for them has shifted from the earthly world to the aesthetic and ethical innerness of the metaphysical world.
Wanderers are each unique and come in all shapes and sizes, but their likeliest common characteristics are a sense of alienation and isolation as they make choices of how to live and be, and cope with a strong and increasing inner knowing that they are here to serve . The lesson and mission that all wanderers have in common is to give and receive love. Their common service is to be themselves, in as true and deep a way possible in each moment, as they are working on this life lesson. The main mission is a ministry of being, of living in the open heart that is the deepest self of all beings within incarnation here. They are light anchorers, bringing light through into the earth planes as they breathe in and breath out with an open and loving heart.
If you feel you are a wanderer, an alien, an outsider to planet Earth, or if you feel Earth is no longer your native land simply because you have awakened from the planetary dream, L / L Research has three things to tell you.
You are loved. You are not alone. You have service to Perform for planet Earth.

Reincarnation - Ian Stevenson - Children's past life memories

Five regrets of the dying

There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'.

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom. "When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."

Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as witnessed by Ware:

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

"This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it. "

2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. "

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

"Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result. '

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

"Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. "

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

"This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again. "

What's your greatest regret so far, and what will you set out to achieve or change before you die?