Consciousness dream

Imagine an automobile thatmns in silence and without polluting emissions. Such an automobile, long a dream of the environmentally conscious, has recently become a reality. The power source is a fuel cell, an electrochemical cell that uses a combustion reaction to produce electricity. Hydrocarbons such as natural gas and propane can be used in fuel cells, but the cleanest fuel is molecular hydrogen. 

The concept of chemical neurotransmission originated in the 1920s with the classic experiments of Otto Loewi (which were themselves inspired by a dream), who demonstrated that by transferring the ventricular fluid of a stimulated frog heart onto an unstimulated frog heart he could reproduce the effects of a (parasympathetic) nerve stimulus on the unstimulated heart (Loewi Navratil, 1926). Subsequently, it was found that acetylcholine was the neurotransmitter released from these parasympathetic nerve fibers. As well as playing a critical role in synaptic transmission in the autonomic nervous system and at vertebrate neuromuscular junctions (Dale, 1935), acetylcholine plays a central role in the control of wakefulness and REM sleep. Some have even gone as far as to call acetylcholine a neurotransmitter correlate of consciousness (Perry et al., 1999). 

Symbolism is the language of the subconscious mind, used in dream and vision. We have access to the entire store of symbols held in the collective unconscious. In Qabalah, this is attributed to the astral realm of Yetzirah on Jacob s Ladder, and to the Sephira of Yesod on the simple Tree. It is called the treasure house of images. As conscious beings, we... 

Every power in the universe, every archangel, every god, every ar-chon, every demon, is both out there, as a cosmic function and within us. Every state of consciousness is reflected in us. Our dreams and nightmares are the frontiers of heaven and hell. Consequently, each and every human being has the innate capacity to be a Buddha or a Hitler. 

It is by the thought-building quality of consciousness that humans formulate and perceive their own unique world. Each perception of the universe is ultimately subjective. Although consensual reality is a strong determinant, there is also an element of mass hysteria in our reactions to experience, as well as an element of mass hypnosis in our perceptions. We, and the worlds we construct, are the stuff of dreams, as Shakespeare put it. We mold this stuff of dreams using our mental... 

In eons past, she says, before the current turning of the zodiac, in Mu, when even Atlantis was a dream unborn, there came to the green and sapphire Earth from the sphere of the Morning Star, Great Ones— Lords of Light—to initiate consciousness within embryonic humanity. ... 

Neuronal activity correlating with natural variations in conscious awareness from states of wakefulness, dreaming and non-dreaming sleep, and also with effects of drugs and diseases which affect consciousness. 

Dreaming is a state of consciousness which has attracted considerable theoretical interest, perhaps mainly due to its phenomenological resemblance to some psychotic states. 

This chapter will review the behavioural changes in PD in terms of conscious and unconscious functions. It is based on the assumption of Delacourt (1995), that consciousness is not a separate faculty of mind, but rather depends on a certain activity mode of basic cognitive functions—attention, memory, perception, action planning and motivation. Changes in these domains of consciousness in PD patients are reviewed and in addition, since consciousness is closely associated with wakefulness, disturbances of sleep and dreaming in PD are also discussed. 

The distinction between conscious and subconscious mentation may however be more a matter of degree than absolute divide. This is most obvious in the transition from waking to normal sleep and dreaming. The neurochemistry of dreaming may ultimately provide one of the most important clues as to the chemistry of consciousness. In addition the basis of some mental disorders may be, as proposed for schizophrenia for example, the intrusion of dreaming mentation into the awake state. According to Allan Hobson s de-... 

Behind the visible are chains on chains of conscious beings, who have no inherent form, but change according to their whim, or the mind that sees them. You cannot lift your hand without influencing and being influenced by hordes. The visible world is merely their skin. In dreams we go amongst them. They are, perhaps, human souls in the crucible—these creatures of whim. 

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