Category:
Dreams
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16th October 2009Your Most Valuable Possession #1I enjoy cooking, though I enjoy eating even more. Although I could probably cook quite a few things, there are a couple of dishes which I make over and over again: chili con carne and curry. I learnt how to make chili after eating it at a restaurant and knowing that I had to make it myself. I found a suitable recipe on the BBC's website, and when the chili is not too spicy, the meat not too fatty, and it has no magic diarrhoea-inducing tendencies, it is delicious. My Uncle taught me how to make a curry. After finishing my ...
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16th March 2009New Dreaming Technique!I've discovered a great way to have some crazy dreams. Some Dream Theory General dream theory says ((Use of weasel words? Guilty as charged)) that we only properly remember a dream if we're woken up whilst it's still going on. All of our dreamy thoughts are still floating around in our heads, and it is only then that we have a chance to catch and then solidify them into permanent memories ((This aspect of dreaming really interests me, and I will soon return to it.)). If we allow dreams to finish naturally, the idea goes, then the temporary memory where dreams are ...
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5th March 2009An Interesting TheoryHere's a post from Derren Brown's blog, titled "We need to dream regularly as a vital release for our emotions": “An essential function of dreaming is psychological stretching, a kind of yoga for the soul: gently expanding, releasing, opening, and softening.” Like stretching a muscle, a dream can release emotional pain, tightness from earlier in the day - or even hurt from childhood. Dreaming provides “a poetic cushion” for our sharply literal lives, he says. I'm not sure about the use of the word "vital", but I think it's obvious that dreams do help tremendously. By the way, I can't wait to ...
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4th March 2009American Dad!Speaking of trading sleep for time awake, a the recent American Dad! episode called "Stan Time" included just such a scenario.
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1st March 2009SleepLike food and water, sleep is one of life's necessities. Or is it? Of all the science-related documentaries that I have watched recently, almost all unfold in this way: Cite a generally well-believed statement on a particular topic. Seed doubt: ask "Or is it?" Spend the next 50 minutes showing an expert trying to walk and talk simultaneously, constantly interupted with CGI sequences repeated an obscene number of times. (At best,) end with a largely non-commital confirmation of 1. That's not to say that these programs aren't informative and usually enjoyable - in my opinion, normally they are - but this recipe does tend produce an ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
