Dreams and life – lucid and otherwise.
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DR. JAMES KROLL INTERVIEW – Investigating the PSI Phenomenon
Apr 1st
Lucid Dreaming and PSI Phenomenon – an XZone Interview
Dr Kroll is an electrical engineer by profession. He earned his Ph.D. degree from SUNY Stony Brook in 1997 and has gone on to work on the development, design and management of various telecommunications projects with a number of highly visible telecom equipment providers.
Dr Kroll has also had a lifelong interest in dreaming, stemming from a number of unusual dream re-entry experiences and intense nightmares he had as a child. He had his first off the cuff lucid dream back in 1998. He found it to be a fascinating experience and read up on the subject in an attempt to induce these experiences more reliably. Early attempts met with only modest success.
In 2006, Dr Kroll rekindled his interest in lucid dreaming. By now, technology had improved and numerous web sites had popped up dedicated to the art of lucid dreaming. With all this additional information and options, he found it fairly easy to learn to lucid dream on demand. He has now experienced well over 800 lucid dreams in the last 4 years.
Dr Kroll is a subject matter expert on use of supplements to modify neurotransmitter levels in the brain to induce brain states that are conducive to lucid dreaming. He also holds a recent patent application on the use of cranial electro stimulation to induce lucid dreaming. Dr Kroll also has a lifelong interest in PSI phenomenon. He is now coupling his interests in lucid dreaming and PSI phenomenon to investigate the use of this unusual altered state of consciousness to design experiments that will hopefully shed some light on the connection between the dreaming mind and PSI. – http://www.mortalmist.com/
Listen to the podcast here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/xzone/20100331_seg2.mp3
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http://xzonenation.blogspot.com/2010/03/wed-mar-2010-tonight-on-x-zone-with-rob.html
The Mission – Control Your Dreams
Jan 25th
Have you ever wanted to share something absolutely amazing with others, but were stumped about how to present it? This probably isn’t all that common a dilemma for most people, but it is a problem those of us who practice Lucid Dreaming face all the time.
The term Lucid Dreaming is a handicap, though it is the ubiquitous label for all we do and try to convey. Have you considered what lucid dreaming might mean to the uninitiated? The adjective Lucid means:
1. easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
2. characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane
3. shining or bright
4. clear; pellucid; transparent
(Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lucid)
As you can see, lucid dream is a misnomer! If you don’t understand the term in the context we use it, it doesn’t tell you anything about what we do.
The beginning of any effort to reach out is to learn the language of your audience. In our case, that means we need to begin with a label that actually means something to the non-lucid dreamers of the world. Aware dreaming comes close, as it directly speaks to the conscious awareness central to the lucid dreaming experience. But it is more than awareness – it is control. The thing that differentiates a lucid dream from all other dreams is that we take control, which opens up a limitless playground to do anything we want to do.
While lucid dreamers understand well the vast implications of lucidity, the world is unlikely to ever find us if we expect them to figure out what we mean when we speak of lucidity in the context of dreams. Our mission, then, is to find a way to tell the world not about lucid dreaming, but about the human capacity to control our dreams.
Hey, world! There’s something you need to know, and you’re going to love it: YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR DREAMS!
And we can tell you how.
