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Posted by: still - 05-21-2015, 07:55 AM - Forum: Public Dreams
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last night I intended to dream more about the latest incubation location since we haven't been told the answer yet. I was in a vast open place that looked like western Colorado from grand junction to eastern Utah. USA desert - not like the sahara with sand, but hard packed dirt and essentially no vegetation except sagebrush. some small hills in the horizon. a few abandoned buildings. I asked where am I?!?! I heard Walker air force base...Roswell.
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loading trucks, 1283 |
Posted by: still - 05-21-2015, 06:20 AM - Forum: Public Dreams
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First scene im floating high above a city.. everythings dark. Feels like gotham city. Industrial area. I sense fire. I cant see it or smell it, but I know its there and im trying to find it.
Next scene. I am at some kind of truck loading area. There are 2 trucks outside the bay and one truck inside. The substance they are loading is white. I can see the residue of it on the loading spout. In my dream I think Cotton? Suddenly theres smoke. Everyone starts to panic. Im confused cuz im the new guy. Ive never done this before. I don’t understand how theres smoke. Its coming from inside the loading spout and truck. Maybe its vapor? Chemicals? Not really smoke. Im scared and these people aren’t telling me anything. They are yelling orders at me. Theres a young girl sitting on the platform in the loading bay. Somethings wrong with her but I don’t know what. The “boss” is there now. She is yelling orders to get out here to the other trucks and move this cargo around. She is a white woman with short white hair cut in a bob. White long sleeves or jacket and black pants. It is freezing outside. The stuff is freezing in the trucks. Move these boxes to that other truck. I start moving boxes. They are grey storage tubs about 1.5 foot almost square. Moving them one truck to the other but one box is red. Then the boss walks to the edge of the loading area. I see her. There is a fence around the whole area. Its cream colored and its like a containing wall or dividing wall made of abot 3 feet high concrete and about 4 feet tall steel panels on top of the concrete. The panels aren’t solid though. They are like fencing, but not slatted. There is black ocean beyond the wall. I feel like we are on top of a tall building near an ocean. I move another box. Then I see the boss collapse against the wall. I think she has just tripped into the wall. I move another box. I see her still in the same position. I go to help. She has a black rope around her neck and is hanging. I quickly remove the rope. And im like what are you doing?!?! She says I didn’t try to kill myself. I fell into the rope. I don’t believe her. I don’t believe anything any of these people are telling me. It is all fishy.
ive never been to this city. all I can say is it reminds me of gotham city in the batman movies.
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the Adam, 1031 |
Posted by: still - 05-20-2015, 11:15 PM - Forum: Public Dreams
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The only part of the dream I can remember is this: I was taking care of 3 children – 2 native American boys about 3 and 5 years old and a blonde haired blue eyed white girl about 3 years old. We went outside and sat under the fort swingset thing. We are wearing coats. Its pretty chilly. The grass has not turned green yet. Beyond the yard of the house is plowed dirt. And flat for miles. Like the farms of the northern plains. The house is a pale color. The children are all very solemn. Not rambunctious like any other 3-5 year olds ive ever seen. Neither of the boys’ hair is braided or taken care of. Its just blowing in the wind. The girls coat is white with fur around the hood, which she isn’t wearing. Her hair is in a ponytail. Under the swingset we all sit down on the cold dirt. The older boy begins to say a quiet prayer. I cant hear what hes saying but I bow my head in reverence as he prays. The little girl and younger boy are playing in the yard. I ask the older boy what he is praying. He says “it’s the Adam” like it’s a common prayer similar to the lords prayer. He said have you ever heard it and I say no. he says it out loud for me. Then the younger boy and the girl come under the fort with us. The little boy is quiet. The little girl begins to eat dirt. I tell her its gross and she will get worms. She looks up at me. She has beautiful blue eyes and really long lashes and she says “Sooooo?” I think she is a brat. The older boy starts to play with a beer bottle lid on the ground. I notice there are a lot of these under here. He is leaning against the rope ladder of the fort playing with one of those and says something about how it hurts real bad to get spanked with those lids. Im confused and I try to think of how you could get spanked with one. Im trying to visualize how it would stay in your hand while your spanking.
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Addictions and 'The Reward Pathway' |
Posted by: Eagle1 - 05-20-2015, 08:51 PM - Forum: Miscellaneous
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Just in case, I thought some people might be interested in some of the papers I was writing for school. This might actually begin to touch on dreaming some time down the road, but for now, it's more oriented to brain chemistry and addictions. This was just a discussion question, so it's not chock full of statistical research. If you or someone you know is addicted, they MIGHT benefit from this brief discussion.
Having grown up in an alcoholic family, causation has always been on the forefront of my mind. That is, what exactly causes people to become addicted to substances, arousal, or repetitive behaviors? Certainly, I couldn’t possibly answer that broad and complex question in this format, but I think one of the most fundamental aspects of addiction causality is this concept called, “the reward pathway.”
In the Beginning…
The main premise behind the reward pathway is that there are actual physical and chemical processes in the brain that, at a minimum, could exacerbate one’s risk of becoming and staying addicted. We begin our tour inside the limbic system, which, among many other important functions, is well known for its role in human emotion. The reward pathway is said to begin in the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA), which is physically located near the top of the brain stem. This is one of the few locations in the human brain where dopamine apparently originates. D2 (dopamine) is the main ingredient for those “high” feelings and pleasurable sensations (e.g., an orgasm).
The neurons in the VTA have axons that extend into the Nucleus Accumbens, and so we thus have the first portion of our reward pathway fully connected. The dopamine neurotransmitter fires up in the brain stem (VTA) and gets excreted to the receptor sites in the Nucleus Accumbens. The reason this is important is because we now have our first potential cause for addiction: “Many people who, for a genetic error, have a reduction of D2 (dopamine) receptors in the accumbens nucleus, become, sooner or later, incapable to obtain gratification from the common pleasures of life” (Rocha do Amral & Martins de Oliveira, n.d.),
In laymen’s terms, the pre-addicted person, for one of numerous possible reasons, is incapable of producing the necessary ingredients to ‘feel really good.’ This makes them vulnerable to substances that artificially boost D2 levels. For example, cocaine blocks the re-uptake of D2 and thus artificially increases the concentration of said neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft. As an aside, the action of prohibiting re-uptake is precisely what is done in many of today’s anti-psychotic pharmaceuticals. This reaction is important for the reward pathway, especially when talking about tolerance.
Tolerance
More specifically, the body reacts to the increased dopamine concentrations by trimming its authentic production of it. So, even though the dopamine felt good, the body attempts to return itself to balance, and thus begins tailoring back its D2 production (even though it knows that reduced dopamine will not feel nearly as good—the body is seeking balance!) Thus, it now requires more cocaine to get the same D2 concentrations in the synaptic cleft. This would also explain why SSRIs and other re-uptake drugs can become ineffective or even dangerous in the long term.
My somewhat informal discussion of tolerance was a bit simplistic, for there are a couple of more scientific processes that are happening here: metabolic and functional. “Metabolic tolerance occurs when the body becomes so adapted to the presence of a drug that a given amount of the substance will produce less of an effect than when the user first tried the drug” (Derby, n.d.). In other words, the body begins adapting to the chemical by adjusting its numerous biological processes, which might include extorting the liver to produce more of a certain enzyme to ‘eat up’ the ingested toxin. On the other hand, pharmacodynamics (or functional) tolerance exists more in the neuron itself. Transmitters and receptors will exhibit morphed behaviors based on the dynamics incurred by the ingested toxin. Again, these processes are a direct result of the body’s broader homeostasis mechanisms.
Before we move on to the last component in the reward pathway, it is important to note that despite psychiatry’s incessant rebuke of natural cures, there are, indeed, other more natural ways to increase the various neurotransmitter in the human body. For example, “Tryptophan is the amino acid precursor for serotonin; phenylalanine and tyrosine are precursors for dopamine and norepinephrine” (Marohn, 2011, p. 40). So, instead of unnaturally closing off re-uptake channels to artificially boost certain ‘feel good’ neurotransmitters, it is possible to naturally increase neurotransmitter production through the use amino acid supplementation (‘production’ is highlighted because in this modality, one is not artificially boosting the neurotransmitter but rather giving the body the natural precursors to help the brain create its own neurotransmitter). However, I haven’t been able to find any studies on the efficacy of using this approach specifically with substance addictions. One reasonable hypothesis, especially with the lack of harmful side effects, is that if amino acids can all-out cure severe psychiatric mood disorders, it might be able to do the same for psychological woes in addicted patients.
Don't Forget About the Prefrontal Cortex
The last component of the reward pathway is the prefrontal cortex. This area is critical for several reasons. First, while the addict is intoxicated or ‘high,’ this cortex area is directly impacted, and so the affected person might experience degraded coordination and memory. Secondly, the substance can actually affect the person’s ability to learn, both in the intoxicated state and the withdrawal state. In fact, the dynamics happening in this area could very well explain why addicts and alcoholics have such a loss of control. In 2008, Yin published a possible connection between drug addiction and brain plasticity (or the person’s ability to change and adapt to outside stimuli). Specifically, the reward pathway eventually degrades the biochemical processes needed in order to learn and adapt, which would completely explain why addicts and alcoholics find it impossible to change their ways despite having already lost their family, house, and/or job (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2012).
In closing, the addictive process can be much more physically and chemically based than many people previously estimated. The biochemical processes are just now being unearthed, and they provide revolutionary understanding about how addicts get started and get stuck. Further research promises to elucidate avenues to stop this reward pathway from becoming a runaway freight train. It certainly won’t be easy, for addictions encompass just about every factor imagined and probably can’t ever be reduced to just the reward pathway in and of itself. Nonetheless, I believe the reward pathway is one of the most important concepts in the broader addictions-recovery processes.
References
Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2012). Foundations of addictions counseling, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Derby. (n.d.). Addiction: The development of tolerance. Retrieved from http://www2.derby.ac.uk/ostrich/intro_to...age_05.htm
Marohn, S. (2011). The natural medicine guide to bipolar disorder. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads.
Rocha do Amaral, J., & Martins de Oliveira, J. (n.d.) Limbic System: The center of emotions. Retrieved from http://www.healing-arts.org/n-r-limbic.htm
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This was just freaky...2mins. ago...~ |
Posted by: Nanny - 05-20-2015, 05:20 PM - Forum: Miscellaneous
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I have a landline cordless on my desk and my cellphone, with me. Hubby didn't leave his cell at home today, and usually doesn't, but this was not his cellphone ringer that was ringing...
how can this happen? LOL...I just heard a phone ring four or five times, right IN my house.....in the family room, I am confident. It was not as loud as I usually have our landline set, but no, was not our landline either.
no meds needed here...and I just had to tell someone and since I'm still sitting here...heck yeah, why not type it? I'm gonna go walk this house, anyway.
I'm serious...........(insert twilight zone music here...)
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Out the escape hatch! |
Posted by: Eagle1 - 05-20-2015, 03:47 PM - Forum: Public Dreams
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Much needed nap.
Lolly gagging through an airport with two kids (they are my kids in real life). Inner sirens started going off. No loud noises in the airport, but something big was about to happen. I was intuiting it in the dream. Inside of me, loud buzzers were going off. I suddenly knew what we had to do. I didn't want to tell the kids...first off, I didn't have time. Secondly, I didn't want to get them scared. All we had to do is find it....
I started running down the hallway. No one anywhere. Oops, this hallway is a dead end. I saw tram tracks, sort of like a commuter train. Ugh, smells like urine. I hold my kids' hands....we run back towards the other direction. Hard to explain, but weird, big stair-type platforms going up. I know our escape hatch is up there. If only I knew exactly where. The steps are getting taller. Kids can't quite jump up high enough, so I have to manually put them up to the next level each time.
Oh my gosh, time is running out. No one else has found this place, I'm surprised we made it! Wait...did we find the right place? Quick....almost here!! Run! Dream ends.
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5/20/15 Peter Pan (again) |
Posted by: Eagle1 - 05-20-2015, 08:36 AM - Forum: DreamBot Runs
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Trending: pan peter sum loose days math temple class graphic spirits knowledge dream terrible journey shouting request backpack self speed view saw radio son circle streets near unfamiliar approximate peak simulation insane wait book
Waning: continued sorry play word low far glass link taken dressed state daughter flight perhaps soul constant college cat snow lion upstairs david husband crowded yesterday thanks posting girlfriend song trust nervous hate sally wine goddess
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Our last Peter Pan was on Dec 12, 2014, and it was associated with Bloody Wars. http://nationaldreamcenter.com/forum18/s...=peter+pan Okay, so the last Peter Pan came out well after the first movie was aired, but today’s Peter Pan is probably directly associated with the sequel, whose trailer just came out:
http://time.com/3887608/pan-second-trailer/
http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-pan...man-2015-5
http://theweek.com/speedreads/555857/new...-leftovers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendels...ease-date/
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/19/pet...gh-Jackman
My last headline is the best because it asks the same question I thought of when first seeing today’s run: “Why do audiences keep returning to this story” (for God’s sake?) http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Cul...tory-video
Summary on Peter Pan: It’s definitely day residue (meaning that dreamers dreamed it because of some mass news article or event—in this case, the second movie’s trailer.)
Moving on, we shifted again on the word CLASS. Today it’s joined by MATH, KNOWLEDGE, BACKPACK, and even COLLEGE.
There’s certainly more, but I’m not picking up on anything newsworthy (yet). Let me know if I’m missing anything.
For more details about these DreamBot runs, please see: http://nationaldreamcenter.com/forum18/s...?tid=17460
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Overlap dreaming, take 1 results |
Posted by: ThePaladin - 05-19-2015, 10:45 PM - Forum: Code Intentions Project (CIP)
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I decided to start a new thread so it's easier to just jump right to the good stuff.
Okay. First up, the dreams.
Windy's dream:
5/18/2015 Intention 1283
Date: 5/18/2015 11:45pm
Location description:
I at the location, but not in my own body, I am in the body of a young woman, and experiencing the location as she did. Through out this experience I do not get to see the young girl only feel what she felt. I believe she is young, 16-20 years old or very naive, Especially sexually. She is overly friendly and has captured the attention of a disgusting pervert.
Location is a building, tall skinny house is the feeling I get, while I am standing inside, there is lots of brick, stone, granite at this location. Red brick wall, granite counter tops, Chefs kitchen, red wine. The red wine tastes really good but for some reason I am not suppose to have it.
I want excitement, fun, adventure so I go down stairs, out of the front door, the small porch is made of stone blocks, the whole foundation is, lovely plants on the porch, and dark wood railings. The man inside of the house (Mental picture without seeing him) Large Italian male.
The house does not have a wall with the other two houses, but the walls are built so close together that it looks and feels like it has combined walls. The closest I could compare this to since this architecture is not present in California that I have seen, maybe new york, from movies.
Everything inside looked modern, now standing outside I get the feeling I am in the past 60's or 70's maybe earlier. There is a motor home of sorts parked outside and there is a couple there, I know them, but not really, as if I know of them, maybe neighbors, or friends of the family.
I go inside of the motor home with the couple and for some reason I am laying down between the man and the woman. The man keeps getting up and sitting beside me and trying to get me to touch him, all he is wearing is blue under ware. He is older than I am 40's maybe, and I am very uncomfortable, okay grossed out. I keep pulling away and finally I ask the woman if I can lay on the other side of her and she agrees.
They both seem like they are irritated with me, so I get up to leave and there is a large dog (Rottweiler I believe) guarding the door. I can not get out.
I woke up not wanting to be touched feeling very yucky.
Still's dream:
First scene im floating high above a city.. everythings dark. Feels like gotham city. Industrial area. I sense fire. I cant see it or smell it, but I know its there and im trying to find it.
Next scene. I am at some kind of truck loading area. There are 2 trucks outside the bay and one truck inside. The substance they are loading is white. I can see the residue of it on the loading spout. In my dream I think Cotton? Suddenly theres smoke. Everyone starts to panic. Im confused cuz im the new guy. Ive never done this before. I don’t understand how theres smoke. Its coming from inside the loading spout and truck. Maybe its vapor? Chemicals? Not really smoke. Im scared and these people aren’t telling me anything. They are yelling orders at me. Theres a young girl sitting on the platform in the loading bay. Somethings wrong with her but I don’t know what. The “boss” is there now. She is yelling orders to get out here to the other trucks and move this cargo around. She is a white woman with short white hair cut in a bob. White long sleeves or jacket and black pants. It is freezing outside. The stuff is freezing in the trucks. Move these boxes to that other truck. I start moving boxes. They are grey storage tubs about 1.5 foot almost square. Moving them one truck to the other but one box is red. Then the boss walks to the edge of the loading area. I see her. There is a fence around the whole area. Its cream colored and its like a containing wall or dividing wall made of abot 3 feet high concrete and about 4 feet tall steel panels on top of the concrete. The panels aren’t solid though. They are like fencing, but not slatted. There is black ocean beyond the wall. I feel like we are on top of a tall building near an ocean. I move another box. Then I see the boss collapse against the wall. I think she has just tripped into the wall. I move another box. I see her still in the same position. I go to help. She has a black rope around her neck and is hanging. I quickly remove the rope. And im like what are you doing?!?! She says I didn’t try to kill myself. I fell into the rope. I don’t believe her. I don’t believe anything any of these people are telling me. It is all fishy.
ive never been to this city. all I can say is it reminds me of gotham city in the batman movies.
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Actual location: I picked somewhere familiar to me for this first run, just so I could be sure on the details, plus somewhere I knew no one but me would know about it. This is the business that rebuilt my CJ7's engine. I was out there just last week.
Brutal
I chose this particular photo because it gives a good view of the actual building.
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At first glance, there doesn't seem to be anything that correlates with the location in either dream. Upon second reading however, I picked up a few details that could apply: The motor home in Windy's dream corresponds with a mobile home that's about fifty yards from the shop, and the truck loading area in Still's dream is very similar to the shop bays. What can't be seen in the photos on the site is there are ancient trucks parked everywhere around the property. The owner buys them at auction, either uses them for parts in other projects or fixes them up and sells them.
My take: It's like the dreammasters had dreams they wanted dreamed but there was still bleed-over(for lack of a better word at this point) from the intentions set. Bits of the location bled through into the other dreams, so to speak, making it appear that the experiment wasn't successful at first glance.
Okay, now it's y'all's turn.
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"The Question" Military Litmus test is *Real* says Retired CIA Agent~ |
Posted by: Nanny - 05-19-2015, 09:37 PM - Forum: Miscellaneous
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This little 10min. video is of a CIA Agent that is recently retired, if I understand clearly. He is "the" agent that broke the story that our malls are threatened back before it was headline news, I believe.
The Litmus test is that current admin. asked our Generals, admirals and commanders if they would obey an order from the very top to shoot on US citizens that refused to hand-over our guns if, during an emergency they were being confiscated. *(Think Hurricane Katrina because it really happened there...house to house.)
https://youtu.be/cNuiLJHejKM
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