Of dreaming

Petroski, H. (1995). Engineers of Dreams Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America. New York Alfred A. Knopf. 

Very recently, it has been reported that SWCNT can be synthesized by decomposition of benzene with Fe catalyst [27]. It would be of most importance to establish the controllability of the diameter and the helical pitch in this kind of synthesis of SWCNT toward the development of novel kinds of electronic devices such as single molecule transistor [41]. It can be said that this field is full of dream. 

In earlier times, when relatively few pure organic chemicals were known, new compounds were named at the whim of their discoverer. Thus, urea (CH4N20) is a crystalline substance isolated from urine morphine (C H NOj) is an analgesic (painkiller) named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams and barbituric acid is a tranquilizing agent said to be named by its discoverer in honor of... 

Fromm, Erich. The forgotten language an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales and myths. New York Rinehart, 1951. 

Fontana, David. The secret language of dreams. London Duncan Baird Publishers. 176p. ISBN 1-903296-02-1... 

Though not on the same plane as his undoubted masterpiece, The Hill of Dreams, it is nevertheless of interest to the devotee of the macabre for its lavish display of alchemy, dream psychology, poltergeists and supernatural mysticism"... 

Dement, W. Kleitman, N. (1957). The relation of eye movements during sleep to dream activity an objective method for the study of dreaming./. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 53, 339-46. 

Machen, Arthur. 1907. The Hill of Dreams. Reprint, Doylestown, Penn. Wildside Press, n.d. 

My very first sea voyage was in a small merchant vessel out of New York called the Alba. I was only twelve years old at the time, and full of dreams of boundless adventure upon the high seas. I was to serve as the ship s boy. I was given the post by my Uncle Joseph, the weath-(V ered old captain of the Alba who uttered few words, choosing to speak... 

Obsession is a greater degree o/interest fantasy is a greater degree of dream. 

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... 

The world of dreams and the wake-world met on that threshold, and he knew now the secret of passing over. For in the great moments of life we cross the threshold in a kind of trance that has been described by those who have known it as a lesser death— when St. Theresa swooned in the Divine Union, when Keats first looked into Chapman s Homer. . . they knew that lesser death and its illuminations. Whoso has never experienced this flux of the soul in some transcendent experience lacks the key to Life.8... 

S Did you close your eyes and imagine, or go off in any kind of dreams or anything ... 

I approach these pages with a peculiar sense of urgency as a man might who had confronted an unexplainable phenomenon as some impossible creation of dreams or unaccountable natural principle. The task facing such a man would be a very subtle one that is, to describe the phenomenon as accurately as possible. My task is compounded by the fact that the phenomenon I must try to describe has itself to do with the very tools of... 

For then she bore a son, of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods.. . ... 

The activation-synthesis model rests heavily on the equation REM = dreaming. The established neurochemistry of the REM state can explain the phenomenology of the dream state only to the extent that this equation is accepted. If dreams are shown to occur independently of the REM state, then the unique physiology of REM cannot account for the unique phenomenology of dreaming. 

If REM and dreaming are dissociable, two questions arise (1) what is the mechanism of dreaming per se (2) why is this mechanism typically (albeit not necessarily) co-activated with REM ... 

Many fibre systems course through this region of the brain. It is therefore difficult to determine which aspect of the lesion produces the observed cessation of dreaming. Converging lines of evidence suggest that the critical... 

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