Have you realized how much our subconscious controls our every day lives?  From breathing to aiding in the composition of our sentences, our subconscious is exactly what keeps us going.  What if there was a way to create a link to your subconscious and alter the very characteristics of ourselves?  Well, there is a way and you have most likely heard of it: hypnosis.

I was looking over at howstuffworks.com, specifically in the science section regarding the mind.  They’ve got a whole article on “How Hypnosis Works,” which really brings up some interesting stuff.  For instance, the article (URL below) mentions how everybody enters a hypnotic trance every single day of their lives.  Hard to believe?  Well, look at your average day.  Things like driving are perfect examples of self induced hypnosis.  When you drive, you are fully aware of where you are and what you’re trying to do (drive), but are you really as consciously active as you would be if you were having a direct conversation with somebody?  I know when I drive, I feel relaxed and completely immersed in my driving.  Another perfect example would be watching a movie.  When you watch a good movie, you are completely focused on the movie and nothing else.  Everything–such as stress, work problems, relationship problems–fades away and ceases to exist for that brief amount of time that the movie is playing.  Time perception completely rids itself as well.  Your mind, completely absorbed in the story line, is under a hypnotic trance.

I just thought that was extremely interesting and very true.  The article goes on discussing forms of hypnosis and practical uses.  If you have the time, I highly encourage you to read it!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/hypnosis.htm

Ever since posting up the Power of the Mind post, I’ve been venturing more into the world of “mind powers.”  The question “What if we are capable of doing more than we think?” is clearly answered when you start doing some research.  We are most definitely capable of so much more; our minds have natural abilities that we don’t even recognize.  Psipog.net is a site dedicated to such abilities (of course now it’s only an archived website–they “shut down” in January of 2007) and all of the articles in there are quite interesting.  I’ve looked at some of this stuff a little before the site closed down and I must say, I was very intrigued by my results.

Psychokinesis refers to the power to affect matter with your mind.  The sub-categories of psychokinesis include pyrokinesis, cryokinesis, and my personal favorite, telekinesis.  We’ll stick with telekinesis for now.

Telekinesis has two sub-categories of its own: micro-tk and macro-tk.  Micro-tk is all about using your mind to get a desired outcome in something (some of you may know this as the “probability” factor–but this is actually a smidge different).  In “An Introduction to Telekinesis” by Peebrain over at Psipog.net, Peebrain gives an exercise to practice Micro-tk.  He tells you to take a deck of cards and pick a specific card.  Don’t try to find it by looking through the deck, just keep the card in your mind.  Now, start taking out cards in groups of six or so.  Don’t do it randomly; do it based off of what you feel is a group of six cards that does NOT contain yours.  Shuffle until you get such a feeling and take the six cards out.  It helps to think to yourself, saying, “What are the odds of my card being in this group of six?  If there’s 46 other cards, more likely than not, my card will be with those, not in this group.”  Keep taking cards out and eventually, you may end up eliminating all but five or so cards, one of them being the card you chose.  The idea here is to trick your mind into performing your desired task.  Since you probably don’t fully believe in micro-tk, it’s helpful to think about opposite odds here.  Don’t think “oh my card is probably going to be in this group.”  Instead, think “there’s no possible way for it to be in here, the odds are against it from being here!”  A little bit of practice and you’ve got yourself a kickass card trick that your friends won’t be able to solve.

Macro-tk involves more movement than micro-tk.  The example given on the same article by Peebrain, the same example I went through a while ago prior to the site closing, is the most solid proof of telekinesis for me.  Basically, and this is described much better on Peebrain’s article, you fold a small piece of paper or foil (foil worked MUCH better for me) in a specific way and then put it on a pin.  The point of the experiment is to make the paper rotate on the pin with your mind.  Here’s a picture, taken from Peebrain’s article, of the setup:

When I tried this experiment, I got my “pinwheel” to revolve pretty fast and change directions.  It really is amazing because this works if you do something as simple as believe it will.  It’s like trying to perform a task in a lucid dream.  Whatever you do that makes you think it’ll work will do the job!  Now, macro-tk isn’t just limited to paper on a pin.  The pinwheel is more like training wheels than anything.  If you master the wheel, you can move onto greater things, like rolling a pencil or pushing light objects.  Who knows, maybe you can levitate a staple within the first month or so.  It sounds very far out and unrealistic, but that’s only because this ability to manipulate things hasn’t really been introduced to you in lesson or even theory (formal, that is).

Anyway, I’m considering on starting a project on the forum regarding telekinesis shortly after The Green Room project.  It should be interesting to see results.  Until then, I highly encourage you guys to check out Peebrain’s article and the other very informative articles on PsiPog.net!

Peebrain’s Article:
http://www.psipog.net/art-introduction-to-tk.html

Other Articles (including different areas like telepathy):
http://www.psipog.net/articles.html

“To dream of visiting a seaport, denotes that you will have opportunities of traveling and acquiring knowledge, but there will be some who will object to your anticipated tours.”  This is one of literaly thousands (over 10,000 to be exact) of interpretations of common, and uncommon, items that appear in your dreamworld as you sleep each night.  Dream Psychic is an online reference library of anything and everything related to dreaming.  The site offers an easy to use dictionary of dream interpretations.  Let’s say you constantly dream about teeth and you begin to wonder exactly why your mind is presenting such a thing to you.  Well, simply look on the navigation bar to the left of the site, hit “Dream Meanings T,” and then scroll through the pages of other items until you find “teeth.”

The site is very well organized and allows for you to quickly and easily look up anything you could possibly dream of.  The administrators of the site have also created a free e-book, also located on their site.

I’ve personally looked at this site several times and it really is great to use to figure out some of the deeper meanings of your dreams.  It’s almost as if our subconscious is trying to tell us something each night as we doze off–maybe it’s trying to say you’re too stressed, or maybe it’s trying to guide you in some major decision that you’re dealing with currently.  Whatever it may be trying to say, it wants you to listen.

Anyway, I recommend you guys checking the site out; you can really learn a lot about yourselves.  For future reference, the site will also be located in our “Interesting Links” section located to the left of our main page.

http://dream-psychic.com/

Local CBS 11 news here in North Texas aired a segment tonight featuring lucid dreaming and a co-administrator, Benjamin Klingler (BenDrummin58).  The segment reveals the art of lucid dreaming and interviews with Ben and Damian Nordmann of the School of Metaphysics.  It’s really quite something and allows for many newcomers to see and understand the concepts of lucid dreaming.  Check it out at the CBS website:

 http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=24476@ktvt.dayport.com

 Also, a similar segment, if not the same, will be airing on the TXA21 News station (again, in North Texas) this Wednesday (Feb. 6) between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM.

 Thank you CBS/TXA21 for picking up the story and thank you community members for sticking around with us!

The lucid dreaming community might be on the verge of a new technique that’s dependent on a device.  Unlike the Nova Dreamer (a commercial device that’ll cost you in the hundreds), this device is as cheap as a wrist watch at WalMart.  The method, developed by Jayster over at LD4All, is called Vibrating Watch Induced Lucid Dreaming (VWILD).  You basically wear a wrist watch and have it vibrate throughout the day.  When this happens, you perform a reality check.  After this becomes habitual, it’ll carry over in to your dreams as you continue to wear your watch while sleeping.  The watch will vibrate during a dream and, allegedly, you’ll become lucid!  The method is still under some testing, but I highly recommend you check it out and read this informative review from The Mad Hatter over at his blogging site.  The link is below.

 http://dailydeluge.com/2008/01/15/vwild-vibrating-watch-induced-lucid-dream/

Will Pheagin, a good friend of mine, and Jamie Leto have finally launched their community driven site, Liquatic, that’s dedicated to anything and everything related to graphic design.  Will is a brilliant photographer and displays his works of art for all to see on this site, and then offers to show you that you too can create beauty.  Every one of his photos have the whole “right place at the right time” quality to them, displaying those perfect moments in life.  The site also allows for users to host blogs, show off image galleries, hire photographers, search through tutorials, and download templates for both graphic and web design.  It’s this great combination of features and Will’s inspiration filled photography that without a doubt makes Liquatic our next spotlighted site!  So go ahead, check it out!!

 http://www.liquatic.com/

Ben over at dreaminglife has posted a very resourceful article containing twelve different pieces of software (some including dreamport.net!) that all serve one purpose: to make you lucid. In addition to links to every one of them, he also provides quick descriptions of each for your convenience. If you’re up for the ultimate lucid experience, I highly recommend you checking the article out, and for that matter, the rest of his site; there are some really sweet articles there!

http://dreaminglife.org/2007/08/14/12-free-software-programs-for-lucid-dreaming-train-your-mind-to-have-a-lucid-dream/

Today’s spotlight is on a well known artist and fellow lucid dreamer, dodobird. His site, sadglad.com, features music, video, and software - all created by dodobird himself! In other communities, he is most known for his You Are Dreaming software (YAD) and his Daldom software.

The YAD program basically projects hints that you’re dreaming onto your monitor. Not only does it help achieve remembering to perform reality checks, but it also increases chances of lucidity if you ever happen to see your computer in your dreams. Daldom, the other program, is a cross platform lucid dreaming induction software, also extremely helpful.

If you’d like to see dodobird’s software, or read up some more on it, he will be posting up release threads in the Software Releases section pretty soon. In the meantime, feel free to check out dodobird’s site at the URL below (or for future reference, in the interesting links section):

http://www.sadglad.com/flashsite/dodo.html

A while ago we introduced The Mad Hatter’s Dreaming to Infinity blogging site. Well, now we’d like to put the spotlight on another very respected blogger by the name of Ben (good name isn’t it ). His site, located at the URL below, is one of pure greatness. He focuses on both main and sub parts of the dreaming world to allow the user to better understand the unexplainable. You can find various information on lucid aids such as Calea Zacatechichi, books, interviews, lucid induction techniques, and much, much more! I highly recommend this site, and I truely believe it, as well as The Mad Hatter’s site, deserves full attention to any fanatic of the lucid or even normal dreaming world, which is exactly why it has placed itself up in our “Interesting Links” section located on the right.

Without further delay, go check it out!

http://dreaminglife.org/

There is a plethora of lucid dreaming material all over the web, but very rarely do you come accross a site that is both irresistable to avoid and extremely realistic in point of view. One of DreamPort’s very own global moderators, The Mad Hatter, has a blog specific to dreaming and anything mind related, and it really does contain some helpful information. He is well known for his testing of various products, including dreamport’s software, and gives full reviews of each so that you as the user can get a non biased opinion on what exactly you’re in for. In addition, he puts up various interesting items such as interviews with famous people within the dreaming study world and explanations of commonly misunderstood facts about the human body, such as for sleep patterns.

For anybody remotely interested in dreaming, I highly recommend you check out his site. Who knows, you just might learn something new!

http://www.dailydeluge.com/