Similarity dream

Another intriguing aspect of Mr. A s dream is that it seems to be divided into two fairly distinct portions. In the first portion, the A-A parallelism occurs when Mr. A leaves the elevator, the A-B parallelism begins. Why did this shift occur One possibility is that the events happened in the order presented in the dream. That is, Mr. A acquired information about Mrs. A s dream by psi and/or influenced her dream by talking in his sleep and/or arrived at a similar dream via parallel associative paths he then acquired the information about Miss B s activities and dream by some form of psi. One could imagine Mr. A warming up his psi abilities on his wife and then reaching out all the way to Miss B. 

Phenolic resins were the first totally synthetic plastics invented. They were commercialized by 1910 [I]. Their history begins before the development of the structural theory of chemistry and even before Kekule had his famous dreams of snakes biting their tails. It commences with Gerhardt s 1853 observations of insoluble resin formation while dehydrating sodium salicylate [2]. These were followed by similar reports on the behavior of salicylic acid derivatives under a variety of reaction conditions by Schroder et al. (1869), Baeyer (1872), Velden (1877), Doebner (1896 and 1898), Speyer (1897) and Baekeland (1909-1912) [3-17]. Many of these early reports appear to involve the formation of phenolic polyesters rather than the phenol-aldehyde resins that we think of today. For... 

On February 28, 1935, Carothers project succeeded beyond anyone s wildest dreams. The cheerful, lively Frenchman Berchet produced a superpolymer made from chemicals derived from cheap benzene, a by-product of coal later they would be made from petroleum. A filament teased from Berchet s polymer was, despite its lowly origins, pearly and lustrous. And when it was tested, it proved to be spinnable. Its code name was 6-6 because both its reactants—hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid—had six carbon atoms. Technically, the filament was polyhexamethylene adipamide, a long-chain polymer similar in structure to proteins. It became world-famous as nylon. 

Bayer MaterialScience (Germany) in the Project "Dream Production" combines part of waste streams of coal-fired power plants, CO2, with the production of polymers. The target is the design and development of a technical process able to produce C02-based polyether polycarbonate polyols on a large scale. The first step was to convert the C02 in new polyols, and these polyols showed similar properties such as products already on the market and can be processed in conventional plans as well (Figure 22). 

Jacobs, B. (1978) Dreams and hallucinations A common neurochemical mechanism mediating their phenomenological similarities. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 2 59-69. 

Users of fentanyl analogues report that these drugs produce a rapid rush or euphoria that is similar to that felt with heroin, followed by a sedated, dream-like state. As analgesics, they also produce a profound loss of pain sensation and have common unwanted side effects such as sleepiness and constipation. However, because they are so potent, fentanyl analogues can... 

Like all alchemists, Zosimos followed his dreams and visions in his search for the basic material of the universe, and he experienced mysterious archetypal images of sacrifice and transformation. He conceived of the idea of the god-man, who fell into cosmic matter, from which he had to be freed by alchemy, a vision that is similar to the one expressed in the Hermetica. This mystical element of alchemy combined with the metallurgical recipes made for an exotic combination. Another early alchemical work, the Codex Marcianus, contains a translated text that asserts that it was written by Isis to her son Horus. In it she tells him the secret of making gold and silver, a secret she coerced from angels. 

Similarly, Shan on in The Antipodes of the Mind tells us that the ayahuasca visions are not really like dreams in which the dreamer is the protagonist. Instead, objects—like beings or palaces—seem as if they are revealed to the user to behold, admire, and study. Most dreams involve people the dreamer already knows, and revolve around the dreamer s concerns, present and past—like taking a school test or meeting a friend. DMT visions have nothing to do with the psychonaut s life, and they are not as chaotic or illogical as the plots of our dreams. 

These findings together suggest that LSD psychosis is a dreamlike state that occurs in waking and that dreaming is an LSD-like state that occurs in sleep. It is in this sense that dreaming is properly regarded as an altered state of consciousness with mechanistic and subjective similarities to the narrowly defined ASCs of the psychedelic era. 

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