On Dreams, Consciousness, and Insanity (podcast)
Lincoln Stoller2025-01-30T10:23:27-08:00Exploring the way our brains through science, plant medicine, native tribes, and dreams.
Exploring the way our brains through science, plant medicine, native tribes, and dreams.
Dreams go right to emotion. Tey can take you to levels of feeling you’ll never reach by talking.
Ancillary characters playing a minor role in your dreams offer you an opportunity to understand and influence the dream.
Dreams reflect formative aspects of thought, but they are not thoughts in the normal sense. Other levels of thought are needed.
Dreams are an opportunity to understand yourself, if you take them seriously.
Talking about dreams, sleep, change, growth, and how to use your state of mind to fortify your being.
Dreams are not meant to conclude. They’re not meant to pull things together. They’re meant to pull things apart.
A high achiever is someone who achieves a high state; a state of peace with oneself. We call it mental health.
Lucidity is the illusion of self-consciousness, the illusion of self-awareness.
While we cannot reduce dreams to symbols, we can reduce them to threads whose “meaning” lies in the patterns they weave.
If your intellect draws your focus, and your emotions motivate you, then dreams are your recollection of who you are.
Burke presents me as the expert, but in the world of communication he has much to teach us.