Dreams colors

Hpnotiq Monday, said of his idea, I like the color—the I Dream of Jeannie type bottle. ... 

Alchemy was developed in Europe in the medieval age and it founded the origin of modern chemistry [1]. The brilliantly shining color and the almost perfect chemical inertness of gold has attracted men and women as a S5m-bol of eternal power and beauty. It is therefore reasonable that so many people dreamed to produce gold artificially. Even Newton was deeply involved in the chemical S5m-thesis of gold [2]. 

I sometimes can shape my dreams and force content into them. Tonight I will float along the Vivonne River by the Guermantes way. I visualize it now. My tranquil life seems like an afterlife or a dream— unreal. My friends who try this mental exercise come to believe that life can be repeated, refined, and relived with slight alterations and sadness avoided. All this lovely play of form and light and color on the Vivonne River and in the eyes of humans is no more than that a playing of illusions in spacetime. 

And then—to begin scene three—another dream miracle happens I arrive at a splendid mansion that has been elaborately decorated with life-size comic characters of people painted on every wooden door and wall panel. Now this is psychedelic Why Because the colors are so vivid, the characters so lifelike, and so psychologically revealing. I am gushing praise to my hostess, a sophisticated lady with a long dress, when she says mysteriously, You are always so subtle and so accurate in your recognition of deeper realities. ... 

Huxley could alter the features of the state by autosuggestion or upon Erickson s instruction. He could see color or he could limit his descent to a lighter level and still retain contact with Erickson. But like subjects in the forbidden zone of lucid dreaming, Huxley tended to be pulled deeper or to exit when his concentration was interrupted by verbal or nonverbal commands. In other words, the introduction of volition, presumably mediated by the frontal cortex, acted in opposition to the trance state. 

Recent studies of dream emotion prove Kliiver and Bucy s point. They support the idea that it is the brain itself—and more specifically the limbic brain—that may generate fear (the number one dream affect), cosmic elation (number two), and anger (number three). To round out the picture, there are reports that an intensification of these same emotions colors the dreams of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Subjects may indeed evince rapid heart action, increases in blood pressure, and rises and falls of breathing efforts in REM sleep, but these are not sensed as part of the subjective experience of dream emotion. 

One reason for Huxley s denial of the adequacy of brain mechanisms in accounting for such imagery may be the very same kind of poor dream recall that hindered my recollection of the flower, the ski run, and the maze. Huxley was agreeing with Calvin Hall when he said, Only one dream in three is colored, or has some color in it. If Huxley had tried harder to overcome his poor dream recall he would have realized that intense, preternaturally brilliant color was not the unique hallmark of... 

In my case, none of these uninvited image people promised salvation. They didn t even reveal scientific secrets. But they did, by their presence, make one thing clear that sleep deprivation alone can open wide the Doors of Perception that Huxley celebrated. Had I prepared my mind for specific communications from the beyond, I have no doubt that my visionary visitors would have articulated whatever words I wanted to hear. The point is that you don t need a drug, you don t need a medium, and you certainly don t need a spirit world to have them. Those exotic ginger flowers and that tumultuous ski run spoke so clearly to the shade of Aldous Huxley You are wrong about dreams. They can be both pre-ternaturally colorful and ecstatically animated. Even without mescaline or LSD, and certainly without cocaine, a drug that will almost certainly counteract psychedelic dreaming. 

QUALITATIVE COMMENTS (with 10 mg) The effects were quite real at an hour, but very hard to define. Nothing left at four hours, but my sleep was filled with bizarre and colorful dreams. Something was still working somewhere, at some level. ... 

QUALITATIVE COMMENTS (with0.4mg) There was a distinct enhancement of visual perception, and some strengthening of colors. Aclean, cold feeling of wind on the skin. I felt an enriched emotional affect, a comfortable and good feeling, and easy sleeping with colorful and important dreams. ... 

The dining hall would seat fifty at a pinch, but only the Maestro and I eat in it. There I can dream that my family s fortunes never sank in the Aegean with the fall of Crete, for our dishes are finest porcelain, our knives and spoons are chased silver, as are the special forks with which we lift the food to our mouths, a custom foreigners find very strange. Colored candles bum in golden candlesticks on the snowy linen cloth between the crystal flagons and enameled beakers. 

Some artists, such as Henri Matisse, chose to use bold colors not natural to the subject, distortion, simplification, and visual texture to describe their ideas. Because of the shocking effect of the works of Matisse and the works of other expressive artists of the early twentieth century, the artists were given the name fauves, meaning wild beasts. Others, such as Pablo Picasso, chose to break down their subjects into simple geometric forms, calling their form of abstraction cubism. Still others, such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, chose to draw upon dreams and fantasy to express their views in a style called surrealism. 

A steady increase in serum chromium was found with length of time on TPN. In some patients, the serum chromium levels were near the upper normal value of 0.2 mg/L and others were up to 8- to 25-fold greater then normal values. No significant correlations were observed with respect to sleep disturbances, daytime mental changes, colorful dreams, frightening dreams, or nightmares. 

A few drugs have as their primary action the ability to induce altered perceptual states reminiscent of dreams. Many of these altered states are accompanied by bright, colorful changes in the environment and by... 

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