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Random Thought: Activation synthesis theory during wakefulness?

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

According to James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, Activation-Synthesis Theory briefly suggests that dreams are the result of random brainstem activity which the brain then interprets into thoughts and patterns that can be understood. There is also another theory that suggests dreams are the production of (mostly) random memories that are tied together, like with […]

On Hemi-Sync Lucid Dreaming, OOBEs

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

It was only a few months ago that I was pretty much obsessed with out of body experiences (OOBEs). I had just finished reading Robert A. Monroe’s Far Journeys shortly after his original Journeys Out of the Body — the latter I found far more interesting, but both good reads. As soon as I read […]