Somebody Just Told Me...
that she has trouble falling asleep, because she starts to worry about where her mind goes when she is asleep.
I had never encountered that before.
I had never encountered that before.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Is this a child? You might tell her to write her dreams out on paper upon awaking.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried this, yourself or with someone else, PSH? How did it work out?
ReplyDeleteNo, but I have read that everyone dreams—and that if anyone doubts that he dreams, the thing to do is to have him write down what he remembers immediately after awaking.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that the thought of being unconscious might be unsettling to her—too closely resembling annihilation. If so, the knowledge that she dreams might be comforting.
An interesting idea, worth trying.
ReplyDeleteP.S.H.'s method is also used sometimes to induce lucid dreams. This gives the dreamer (1) knowledge that she's dreaming while she's dreaming; (2) control over the "dream world"; and (3) the ability to wake up at will. All of which, I imagine, would be sources of comfort to a person who harbors the fears you describe.
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