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The Naked Dream

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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The naked dream is one of the most common dreams reported. Generally, the dreamer is not aware that he or she is naked at first, but then suddenly becomes aware and is mortified. In other cases though, the dreamer is aware of his or her nakedness, but others are not. In still other cases, no one is aware of the dreamer’s nakedness-not even the dreamer. It seems completely natural.

Often the naked dream is experienced right before some big event when the pressure is on. The most common event reported is some kind of presentation. If a student has to make an oral presentation in front of the class or if a worker has to make a presentation to his boss or executives at work then the naked dreams may start as the event draws nearer. Usually, they symbolize a fear of failing or making a fool of oneself somehow during the presentation. It could also symbolize a fear of being unprepared or not prepared enough.

Naked dreams can also symbolize the fear of being uncovered or discovered. If a person is hiding something about themselves (something that makes him or her feel vulnerable) then that person might dream of being exposed in front of a crowd. This is a big societal taboo, and therefore, a subject to be feared. It would be an extremely humiliating experience were it to occur for real. Perhaps this is why some experts believe that it symbolizes the fear of having some secret exposed.

The last interpretation that has been reported is one of having a fear of being caught off guard in some way. Maybe the dreamer is feeling that his or her life is spinning out of control somehow or that some aspect of his or her life may hold unwanted surprises in the near future. While the first two interpretations are more common and more realistic, there is no one theory that resonates to every individual’s unconscious mind during the process of interpreting subjective reality.

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Lucid Dreams

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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By BoomerYearbook.com

A lucid dreamer is one who is aware that he or she is dreaming. If you are aware when you are dreaming then you are able to control the events of your dream. For instance, if you are having – perhaps the most common dream of all – a chase dream, you can choose not to run or to turn around and see who it is that is chasing you. According to some researchers, only a small percentage of people report having lucid dreams. However, according to others, we can learn to become lucid dreamers if we want to.

Researchers say that if you write down your dream immediately after you wake up before it begins to fade, you will have better recall of it. If you do this every time you wake up recalling a dream, you will begin to remember on your own without having to write them down. It will become a more common occurrence. Now, once you are remembering your dreams after you have them you can begin to actually be aware that you are dreaming as you are dreaming.

Some authors do not believe that it is possible to intentionally and consciously become a lucid dreamer. While many of us have experienced lucid dreams once or twice when we recall that we are ‘overseeing’ our dreaming state, oftentimes this causes us to awaken with a strange, uneasy feeling, wondering whether we’re truly dreaming or having some sort of deeply hypnotic daydream. Other researchers have theorized that once you start to control your dream, in essence, your conscious mind is taking over your unconscious mind. Maybe that is why some lucid dreams awaken us. Another theory is that the REM cycle was nearly over and it was near the time to be waking, and thus the dreamer appears to have control over the dream state as the semi-consciousness was mingling with the unconscious world.

But the verdict on lucid dreaming is still out. If you feel the desire to try to become a lucid dreamer, go for it. See what may come of it.

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Re-living the Nightmare: Flashbacks and Why They Occur in Older Age

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

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Life events that occur can include happy experiences but also things we would all rather forget. Being part of or even witnessing a traumatic event can affect us throughout our lives, recurring to haunt us when we are at our most vulnerable. Baby boomers who are old enough to have war experiences, for instance, might find they are distressed by flashbacks in older age, despite being trouble free for decades.

Some aging baby boomers find that upsetting events that occurred in childhood, such as the death of a parent, returns with vivid imagery in later life. Some of the events that scar human beings might be the death of a beloved pet or an act of cruelty. A child’s phobia can have a long reaching and permanent effect causing elderly problems in later life, despite being kept at arm’s length throughout many years immediately following the event that caused the problem.

There are many psychological disorders that could be the result of serious emotional damage in early life or a traumatic event that has not been properly addressed. Flashbacks are often the warning signs that all is not well. Sometimes they are simply the result of feeling vulnerable following the death of a friend or partner; occasionally, the cause is more serious and will require professional counseling to overcome the problem.

Flashbacks might take the form of fleeting images, seemingly unconnected with the task at hand. Alternatively, they may recur only when the sufferer is indulging in a particular and perhaps mundane activity, such as sweeping leaves or washing the car. The study of psychological connections made by the mind is a precise science and one that is rarely achieved with any success by unqualified parties, however interested and well meaning they might be.

Flashbacks might take the form of quite pleasing and apparently harmless memories or they might be a nightmarish and lengthy experience not easily put aside or dismissed as daydreams. During early adulthood, when the pressure of a busy family and working life exhausts on a daily basis, flashbacks might occur rarely if at all. As baby boomers progress into retirement, however, the incidence of bereavement and emotional upheaval might be more intrusive and lead to flashbacks becoming more intense; less manageable. Increased spare time might also allow for deeper introspection and result in flashbacks increasing in frequency.

Behind most flashback experiences, there is a psychological reaction to a previous experience lurking. For many people, flashbacks continue until the day they die and are accepted as part of life’s strange tapestry. Others find flashback incidents too disturbing to ignore and eventually seek professional psychological help to deal with them.

Recurrent Nightmare of Trauma

Aging baby boomers experiences of flashbacks and their subsequent journey to eradicate them can be both enriching and enlightening, providing care is taken to consult with a qualified practitioner in psychology. Many psychological articles have documented that Somatic Experiencing Therapy or Cognitive Behavioral therapy can alleviate this elderly problem and is oftentimes a feature of a treatment program when dealing with flashbacks.

The Psychological Article on Re-living the Nightmare: Flashbacks and Why They Occur in Older Age is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Boomer Dreams of Death and Sex: Are Dreams Telepathic Messages?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Behind the Boomer Dream Mask

By Boomeryearbook.com

Everyone has experienced a dream or nightmare so real that confusion is experienced upon waking: Did it really happen? Where am I? As the details of the dream come back, we attribute meaning to the events that took place within the dream and wonder if there is a message to be learned.

Baby boomers might sometimes begin to experience dreams that are quite different to the dreaming experiences of early life.

As baby boomers enter the later stages of life, friends begin to take ill or even die. The process of death begins to have a greater impact on the lives of baby boomers and the circle of friends begins to shrink as the years go by. The psychological effect of losing those close to us might certainly influence what we dream about and how we interpret those dreams.

For people who have more than a passing interest in dream interpretation and who are driven to translate their dreams into tangible evidence of real events, dreaming of their own death can cause them to panic, understandably, that their own demise is around the corner and that a grisly end is in store before too long. For many, the dream might simply be the result of attending or hearing about one too many funerals but for someone with a belief in dream psycho-analysis, the reality of dreaming of preparing for death or even actually dying can be distressing.

Unlocking Dream Symbols

The atmosphere that is prevalent within the dream is important. A dream that deals with death in a matter of fact way might simply be an indication of re-birth rather than the opposite event. The presence of darker feelings, however, might cause more worry.

Death Dreams

One of the more serious side effects for aging baby boomers who are having intensely ‘real’ dream experiences is the resulting rise in blood pressure, insomnia as a result of reluctance to sleep lest the dream recur and other emotional problems causing distress and emotional upset.

Dreams that portray intense sexual activities, either as a spectator of someone else’s adventures or as a participant, are quite normal and may not mean anything at all, other than a healthy interest in sex, regardless of age. For people who have been recently bereaved, sexual dreams can be vivid and disturbing but tend to diminish in frequency over time.

For dreamers who find their night time experiences disturbing enough to seek professional dream analysis, the findings can be fascinating and revealing, not only with regard to how dreams are analysed but how our dreams can affect our physical functions.

Sleep walking and other nightmare connected or dream-state activities should be dealt with carefully and gently to avoid shock on waking. Professional psychological advice should be sought if dreams recur in a disturbing manner over time, not just for baby boomers but for any generation.

Dreams are emotional connections to our conscious state and should be treated seriously and intelligently when analysing their impact on our daily lives; but always remember-the language of dreams is symbolic, and not a one-to-one relationship with waking life.

The Psychological Article on Boomer Dreams of Death and Sex: Are Dreams Telepathic Messages? is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Baby Boomer Guide to Hypnopompic hallucination – what it is and what it isnt

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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By Boomeryearbook.com

Pscyhological articles define a hypnopompic hallucination as a vivid dreamlike hallucination that occurs as one is waking up. It is recognized as the opposite of an hypnagogic hallucination, which occurs as one is falling asleep.

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By the time we reach the age of being a boomer, most of us have all been through weird and scary experiences while sleeping – experiences such as seeing ghosts floating around in the room or feeling the touch of a cold, lifeless spirit. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this certainly does not mean that the person having these experiences is going crazy. Even though the experience of seeing a unicorn in your bedroom may come across as undeniably real; there is a rational and scientific explanation to these occurrences and all that one needs to do is take a step back and relax in the understanding that this is just your brain’s way of snapping out of “dream mode” and back into “waking mode”. In layman’s terms, the brain is in a state of limbo (so to speak) – it’s pulling the cord out on the dreams and plugging back into waking consciousness.

This occurrence is known as hypnopompic hallucination. This happens when one opens his/her eyes while in a dream state causing the dream images to get overlaid by the images of the bedroom – for a brief moment, this results is an amalgamation of dream and real images and since the eyes are open, the brain assumes all of this is taking place in the bedroom.

The same mechanics are at work for other sensations as well. For example, if one feels the cold touch of a dead relative or friend then that simply means the brain is beginning to overlay the weakening dream sensations with your real life kinesthetic sense. So, the sound of beating drums in the other room, the sight of flying horses and brief encounters with unknown floral scents can all be explained by hypnopompic hallucination.

This process can also work in reverse – meaning that the brain could go into “sleep mode” even while you are partially awake. The process of dreaming is a helpful (yet complicated) phenomena. Usually its purpose is to reflect and symbolize the thoughts, feelings and emotions we engage in while awake. So, for example if you jump into bed and feel as if some one has slid into bed with you then that’s a case of your brain going into dream mode while you are still awake. However, it also reflects the fact that you are not expressing yourself entirely during your waking hours. The “someone” that slides into bed with you is actually the real you which your brain interprets as separate as it switches into “dream mode” – it’s a symbolic way of being told to, ‘reconnect, express and become one with who you really are’.

It’s important to not get scared when confronted with such experiences; but rather to relish and marvel at the intricacy and power of the human brain. It’s also important to journalize your dreams and use the content of your dreams to make improvements in your waking life. No matter how your dreams make you feel; know that the power lies in deciphering the symbolism and taking action towards positive change in your waking hours.

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The Psychological Article Baby Boomer Guide to Hypnopompic hallucination – what it is and what it isnt is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Animals in Boomers Dreams: Common Meanings

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Common Meaning of Animal Dreams

By Boomeryearbook.com

We have all heard of the phrase Animal Instinct; and if we believe Darwin’s theory regarding the evolution of man, then we have to admit there is a certain animal instinct in all of us, in some more than others. Seeing animals in dreams signify different things for different people. It may be a symbol of one’s sexual nature or some primitive desire that we keep trying to push back into our subconscious.

There are different kinds of “archetypal” (Jung) interpretations of dreams associated with animals. Some of these “universal” meanings are mentioned below to help the baby boomer generation better understand the subconscious mind:

• You may see a talking animal. This manifests knowledge and wisdom beyond what is normal.
• Saving the life of an animal shows a person’s effort to overcome some inadequacy or some overwhelming experience. It may also mean that the dreamer is identifying with the traits of that certain animal.
• Animals like cockroaches, hamsters, frogs or what we can group as lab animals denote an inability to show emotions adequately. Also, that a person may be limiting himself as regard to his choices and beliefs.

Boomer Yearbook reviewed psychological articles for the baby boomer generation to answer their questions about seeing different species of animals. Here is what we at Boomer Yearbook, website for the baby boomer generation, discovered:

1. Apes show dishonesty. Apes also stand for a wild sexual nature.
2. Bats indicate lack of cleanliness and annoyance. They may also symbolize a will and effort to quit a bad habit. Also, they may signify that a person is entering into a situation blindly. There are various kinds of bats and their dream symbolism depends on which type you see. Seeing a white bat is considered a symbol of death, a black bat of private calamity, and the non scientific research views a vampire bat as symbolic that someone is attempting to suck out all your confidence or assets.
3. Bears may be symbolic of the life cycle, or of inner evaluation and judgment. They also stand for new beginnings in life. If you dream of getting attacked by a bear it is said to represent feelings of competitiveness and a measure of your ability to overcome obstacles.
4. Buffalos signify survival. A dead buffalo or one that has received injury is supposedly a warning that you must not take on any new ventures; whereas a buffalo herd shows consistency and prosperity.
5. Bulls are said to denote a rich, fulfilling and prosperous life. They also stand for strength and command. Virility, repression of sexual needs are also said to be symbolized by bulls.
6. Camels stand for the need for conservatism in life. They show the trait of holding on to emotions instead of letting go and expressing feelings. On the other hand, they have also been said to signify the ability to face adversities and be able to find solutions to problems.
7. Cats in dreams show deceit but for a person who loves cats they may signify sexuality, authority and originality. A violent cat biting you indicates irritation and a certain level of dread usually when things are not going according to plan. Chasing away a cat stands for your ability to conquer any impediment. Black cats are associated with psychic abilities and a person’s fear of testing them.
8. Dogs as one would expect, denote faithfulness, compassion and security. We of the baby boomer generation love our dogs but dreaming of aggression in a dog shows deception and a dead dog denotes the loss of a close friend. Dressing up a dog means you are trying to cover some personal flaw. A dog that bites you supposedly stands for your feelings of uncertainty in a situation.
9. Elephants stand for power, vigor and wisdom. Riding an elephant signifies your fearlessness in facing your weaknesses. Dreaming of elephants may also denote your own shy nature.
10. Deer show peace and beauty. A streak of independence within your personality is also manifested in the form of a deer in your dreams.

We at BoomerYearbook want to stress that while certain dream images may be archetypal or have a universal meaning to most, that as we’ve stated in our article,
http://boomeryearbook.com/blog/2009/01/13/how-unique-dreams-and-their-symbolism-can-be/
all dream interpretation MUST be subjective to the individual dreamer.

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Dreams of Unknown Children

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

If you see an unknown child in your dreams ask: How old are you?

How old are you?

By Boomeryearbook.com

Every now and then people report dreams of a baby or a child that they have never seen before. Although it is not as common as some other symbolisms reported in dreams, it does occur. And if someone asks you, you can probably remember the age of the child, maybe even the exact age, even though you claim to have never seen that child before in waking life.

Jane Teresa Anderson wrote a psychological article on her dream site suggesting that in order to find out what the unknown baby or child might represent, begin by asking yourself “how old was the dream child”. However, she stresses not to take a long time answering this simple question but, to go with your gut instinct and give the first answer that comes to mind. According to Anderson, the age of the child represents how long ago in the past something in your life occurred that caused you to dream. She claims that if you try it, you will find it to be an “amazingly accurate indicator”.

Your next step is to ask yourself what was happening to the child in your dream. Was it hurt or lost? Did the child lose something or was the child scared? Once you find out what the child was doing, you can then ask yourself how that applies to your life. Let’s say you identified the child as scared and feeling lost. She was 6 months old. You then realize that six months ago you lost someone you cared deeply about and have been feeling lost without that person.

The preponderance of psychological articles on dream interpretation report that most dreams correlate to real life experiences or emotions. Usually they simply translate the events of the day (i.e., Freud’s Day Residue), into the symbolic imagery experienced as a dream. However, dreams can also be reflective of “unresolved” past life events. Psychological articles tell us that oftentimes, we humans try our best to suppress our conflicted or traumatic emotional responses, not wanting to face or deal with them. One side effect of this emotional denial is to have our dreams be our “alarm signal” (Gayle Delaney), as the dreaming mind will free the reigns of denial and allow or even force us to confront whatever it is that we have been trying to push out of conscious awareness.

Our best advice at Boomer Yearbook is not to fight it. See if you can figure out the root emotional cause of your dreams and what the dream represents to you. You might find yourself more at peace both in your waking and dreaming life.

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Strangers in Your Dreams

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Dream Strangers: Memories of Today or Past Lives?

By Boomeryearbook.com

It can be a disquieting thought to to think that you can dream of someone that you’ve never in your life met. But if you are out in public and in a cab, let’s say, someone has to be the cab driver. It may be that the focus of your dream is on something or someone else so your mind conjures up some complete stranger with a face you’ve never seen before.

Some people claim that there is no such thing as dreaming about a stranger—that somewhere, somehow we have seen that person somewhere before in our waking lives. These people claim that there is such a vast majority of faces on this earth that is impossible to remember every face we’ve ever seen, but somehow the mind does. There are examples of people describing their dreams of supposed strangers only to find out that it was actually someone that had seen once or more in their past. You can find some of these examples by doing a search on the web.

Yet, another strange theory—or maybe not so strange if you believe in that kind of thing—is that the strangers in your dreams are not strangers at all, but in fact, people that you knew from a past life. This theory says that if you have been reincarnated, you can still dream about or recognize people from a former life in your dreams.

What is your take on this? Have you ever experienced a dream similar to the ones described above? Do you even have your own theories as to why you dream of a complete stranger? Do you believe that the mind can create a totally new human face out of nothing? We at Boomer Yearbook believe anything is possible when it comes to our dreaming minds.

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Freud’s Psychological Theories About Dreams

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Psychological Articles on Unlocking Dreams

By Boomeryearbook.com

Dreams are one of the very important psychological issues; as many psychological articles tell us a dream is more than just a random compilation of the unconscious mind. In fact, psychological theorists believe that a dream actually gives us a window of insight into what the unconscious mind is really thinking and believing. Originating with Sigmund Freud, the theorists represented in these psychological articles posit that dreams are a tool to uncovering things that we have repressed or kept hidden from our waking consciousness, and thus these thoughts and feelings become conveyed to us as “alarm signals” through our nighttime reveries. In other words, to these theorists, all dreams represent something of subjective psychological importance; and oftentimes this emotional material is objectionable to the person’s conscious waking ego.

Freud’s dream theories are representative of the psychological (i.e., non random) approach to dream interpretation; as he believed that dreams are the doorway to understanding the unconscious mind. He believed the psyche had three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. It is a bit of a complicated theory, but basically, Freud believed that dreams occur because of the ego defense theory, which is the waking ego, our conscious minds, defending our more vulnerable subconscious minds from allowing in material the conscious ego would find unpleasant and objectionable. Therefore, if the conscious mind isn’t willing to deal with conflicted or difficult waking issues, the unconscious dreaming mind will push through the conscious ego’s defenses and present the material as dream imagery.

We all need to sleep! This is certainly a well known fact. Lack of sufficient sleep is harmful to both our minds and bodies. However, lots of differing psychological articles have different opinions on the role of dreaming. For Freud, when we sleep the ego part of our mind relaxes and, therefore, the unconscious mind is able to sort of influence our conscious mind. However, he says that if this actually happened it would wake us up, so our mind had to develop a defense against awakening. He explains that the ego begins to do what he called dream work, in which the ego can disguise thought of the unconscious nature by using symbols. In his theory, the symbols do not disturb our sleep and, thus, a dream develops.

Now what does all this mean, you ask? Well, basically, it means that there are two distinct levels of dreams. There is the manifest content, which Freud says is what you remember after you awake or the part that is remembered after the ego disguised it. And then there is the latent content, the true meaning of the dream. To go a step further, Freud thought that the symbolism in dreams were of two types: personal symbolism and universal symbolism. Personal symbolism contains symbols that are relevant to the dreamer while universal symbolism contains symbols that are universally recognized as having the same meanings, (i.e., similar to Jung’s concept of archetypes we discussed in http://boomeryearbook.com/blog/2009/03/04/dream-interpretation-using-title-or-one-line-summary/

What do you think? Do you believe there is any truth behind Freud’s ego defense theory? Or do you believe that each dream is unique to each individual and that there is no such thing as a universal symbol? You will find that the debate rages on. You can generalize a universal symbol as to the possibilities of what they generally represent, but you cannot say for certain that it means the exact same thing to every dreamer.

For further information on Freud’s theory and to read the full article upon which this one was based, you can visit the following website: http://www.psychlotron.org.uk/resources/sleep/AQA_A2_sleep_theoriesofdreaming.pdf, and we hope you can share your thoughts at Boomer Yearbook.

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Dreaming of Celebrities

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

How pyschological articles interpret celebrity dreams

By Boomeryearbook.com

Some of us have gone to bed on what seemed like a totally normal night only to dream about someone famous that we don’t even know in waking life. That’s crazy, right? Why would you dream about a celebrity when you know nothing about their lifestyle or true nature? Well, it happens and it happens more often than you might think.

There are several reasons a celebrity might appear in your dreams. Sometimes the person is there to symbolize what you wish you were, want to become, or a lifestyle you would like to attain; (i.e. called a wish fulfillment dream in psychological articles). Many people wish and day dream about being famous or about knowing someone famous. Psychological articles and research suggest we frequently take this desirous wish one step further and have it fulfilled in our nighttime reveries.

Alternately, psychological articles have informed us that the famous person may be there to represent a certain hidden part of your psyche, what the famous psychologist Jung would call the “shadow” aspect of your personality. The conscious mind finds the “shadow” parts unacceptable and thus they seek outlet in the subconscious recesses of your dream imagery. For instance, you might dream about partying with someone that has been in the media a lot lately for too much party behavior; thus having the celebrity represent a shadow component. On the other hand, you might also dream about becoming best friends with a celebrity that you idolize or have always wanted to meet. This type of dream might be simple “wish fulfillment”; your dream is satisfying your desire to either become or befriend someone of celebrity status.

Another psychological theory about celebrity dreams is that a person who dreams about a celebrity is expecting a big turning point in their waking life. Psychological articles, tell us that in this type of dream the celebrity symbolizes the excitement and eagerness of it all. It could be a new relationship or a big move, a new job even–anything that is a major change for the future of the dreamer.

Lastly, a celebrity could represent some “real” person in your waking life; not necessarily even a high A list superstar. The “celebrity character” may in fact be left over “day residue” from a random actor or actress you saw on a television show, and subconsciously reminded you of someone with whom you really do interact. In this case, the psychological articles suggest that the characteristics of the role “the celebrity” plays represents some aspect of your real life acquaintance.

It may seem strange to wake up and remember that the person in your dream was not really the person it was supposed to be. Yet, next time you dream about a famous person, we at Boomer Yearbook want you to know that it is not such a strange thing at all.

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