2017: Scientists Get Closer to Understanding Why (And When) We Dream

Like everyone else, I’ve had all sorts of dreams. Most are about ordinary, everyday things – sometimes I’m back at school, or hanging out with people I’ve never met, or getting hundred-thousand-dollar book deals. Other times, I’ll be hiding behind a tree watching people get vaporized by space aliens. I guess it depends on my mood. The funny thing about dreams, though, is that while everyone has them all the time, we still don’t understand them very well. They’re an enigma, and that doesn’t even include the wonder that is lucid dreaming. Luckily, a team of scientists led by Francesca Siclari at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have just published some interesting research that might reveal why dreams happen, and when. Life Could Be A Dream They’ve […] Read More

The Wake Up Call From Inside The Matrix

At some point in each person’s expansion and self-awareness, there is a time to turn away from the broken and failing system of control and domination, which is also known as “the Matrix”. At that point, we begin going within for our “answers”, and many find that all of our questions and all of our answers are already residing within. They have been there all along, just as when Dorothy realized she could have “gone home” at any time, because she had always been wearing the Ruby Slippers! Like Dorothy, we have become entranced in the Land Of Oz. Only this world, our “earthly maze”, is designed to lead us down a hall of mirrors and blind alleys, to get stuck in one, two, […] Read More