The day before tommorow

So, the big day is finally emerging and as many people around the world keep the thought in the back of their minds I simply choose to indulge in movies focused on the destruction on the earth.
Thinking back to all the dreams that I previously had, among the few puzzling dreams I have had in the last week, I am also faced with that same question. What will happen on Friday? My mind is racing with curiosity  fear and anxiety. I also have excitement and feel at peace. So many thing I have wished to happen around this time, I asked god for clarification and maybe, just maybe if this world was going to end to please show me with some signs. I can say with great happiness, the signs I asked for I have seen. So this leaves me with the empty feeling deep down, what will happen on Friday? Any thought out there?

Dream dictionary

Android-lucid-dreaming-app - Using Android phones to induce lucid dreaming
Lucid Dreaming App is an early attempt at using Android phone sensors to accurately detect and score sleep. The intention is to induce lucid dreams by notifying user during REM sleep. Beta v0.7.1 includes two sensors: accelerometer for actigraphy and microphone for volume level monitoring. I would greatly appreciate any help in making this app more useful and work better! Future intentions: create a global actigraphy database with sleep, dreaming and lucid dreaming data!


DREAM_ZS is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm that runs multiple chains in parallel for efficient posterior exploration. It is based on the original DREAM sampling scheme, but uses sampling from an archive of past states to generate candidate points in each individual chain. Sampling from past has three main advantages: (1) Speeds-up convergence to a limiting distribution, especially for high-dimensional problems. (2) Outlier chains do not need explicit consideration. By sampling historical states, aberrant trajectories an jump directly to the modal region at any time during the simulation. It maintains detailed balance at every singe step in the chain. (3) The transition kernel defining the jumps in each of the chains does not require information about the current states of the chains. This is of great advantage in a multi-processor environment where the N candidate points can be generated simultaneously so that each chain can evolve most efficiently on a different computer. DREAM(ZS) also contains a snooker updater to maximize the diversity of candidate points and generate jumps beyond parallel direction updates. Finally, DREAM(ZS) contains subspace learning in a similar way as DREAM, to maximize the squared jumping distance between two subsequent points in each chain. This software represents a Matlab toolbox to assist researchers in optimizing the parameters of their models.

Just as I was thinking about writing this post, I came across Jay’s 9 part Dream Analysis series over at Inner Noodle (I’ve linked to the latest post – 5 of 9).  My version is the quick guide, but if you are looking for more in depth information about interpreting dreams, go check out Jay’s series.  (It’s excellent!!)

Dreams have fascinated people for as long as we have been dreaming.  Dreams can be strange, enjoyable and just plain fun to explain to someone else in the morning.  I often spend time recording and interpreting my own dreams.  For one, I think it’s fun, but also, I find that interpreting my dreams leads me to inspect areas of my life I am not aware of or that I am neglecting.  Dreams provide me with clues about what steps I should take next and have helped me understand my waking life.  Here is a simple process I use to interpret my dreams.

Remember and record your dreams – At certain times I find it difficult to remember my dreams and at other times I am able to recall them vividly when I wake up.  I find that one of the best ways to remember your dreams in the morning is to prep yourself at night.  Just like you can wake up without an alarm clock by repeatedly thinking to yourself the time you need to get up, if you think to yourself “remember my dreams” you will have a better success rate.  Also, make sure you have something to write down (or type) your dreams with close by in the morning.

Notice the parts of the dream that stick out to you – Before you reach for a “dream dictionary” that lists dream symbols and their meanings, think about the parts of the dream that made an impression on you.  Those are the things you want to analyze.  Maybe you dreamed of a childhood friend that you have not thought of in years, or you had a certain emotion during the dream, or the color of an object stood out to you.  Pay attention to these things.

List all associations/meanings that come to mind – For all of the things that stand out to you, brainstorm ideas/thoughts/feelings that you associate with that thing.  For instance, if a childhood friend shows up in your dream, ask yourself – “what was our relationship like?” “what was his/her personality like?” “what do I think of when I think of that friend?”.  Don’t censor yourself.  If you need some ideas, this is where you can turn to a dream dictionary, but I would brainstorm by yourself first.

Notice how the things you picked out relate to each other in the dream – So, if your childhood friend is driving a silver car, think about the relationship between your friend, the car, and the color silver in the dream if those are the things that stand out to you.

Ask yourself how this fits in to your life now - At this point you want to connect the meanings you have discovered and what’s happening in your life right now.  Just ask yourself “how does this relate to my life now?” and see what you get.  For example, maybe this childhood friend used to boss you around, and when you interpreted her that’s what came to mind first.  Is there anyone in your life right now doing the same?  How are the situations similar and how did you interact with this friend in the dream?  This may give you clues as to what steps you need to take next.

Dream interpretation is not an exact science.  A dream is a web of meanings and symbols that needs to be sifted through to get to a message, but ultimately a dream is what it means to you.

Just as I was thinking about writing this post, I came across Jay’s 9 part Dream Analysis series over at Inner Noodle (I’ve linked to the latest post – 5 of 9).  My version is the quick guide, but if you are looking for more in depth information about interpreting dreams, go check out Jay’s series.  (It’s excellent!!)

Dreams have fascinated people for as long as we have been dreaming.  Dreams can be strange, enjoyable and just plain fun to explain to someone else in the morning.  I often spend time recording and interpreting my own dreams.  For one, I think it’s fun, but also, I find that interpreting my dreams leads me to inspect areas of my life I am not aware of or that I am neglecting.  Dreams provide me with clues about what steps I should take next and have helped me understand my waking life.  Here is a simple process I use to interpret my dreams.

Remember and record your dreams – At certain times I find it difficult to remember my dreams and at other times I am able to recall them vividly when I wake up.  I find that one of the best ways to remember your dreams in the morning is to prep yourself at night.  Just like you can wake up without an alarm clock by repeatedly thinking to yourself the time you need to get up, if you think to yourself “remember my dreams” you will have a better success rate.  Also, make sure you have something to write down (or type) your dreams with close by in the morning.

Notice the parts of the dream that stick out to you – Before you reach for a “dream dictionary” that lists dream symbols and their meanings, think about the parts of the dream that made an impression on you.  Those are the things you want to analyze.  Maybe you dreamed of a childhood friend that you have not thought of in years, or you had a certain emotion during the dream, or the color of an object stood out to you.  Pay attention to these things.

List all associations/meanings that come to mind – For all of the things that stand out to you, brainstorm ideas/thoughts/feelings that you associate with that thing.  For instance, if a childhood friend shows up in your dream, ask yourself – “what was our relationship like?” “what was his/her personality like?” “what do I think of when I think of that friend?”.  Don’t censor yourself.  If you need some ideas, this is where you can turn to a dream dictionary, but I would brainstorm by yourself first.

Notice how the things you picked out relate to each other in the dream – So, if your childhood friend is driving a silver car, think about the relationship between your friend, the car, and the color silver in the dream if those are the things that stand out to you.

Ask yourself how this fits in to your life now - At this point you want to connect the meanings you have discovered and what’s happening in your life right now.  Just ask yourself “how does this relate to my life now?” and see what you get.  For example, maybe this childhood friend used to boss you around, and when you interpreted her that’s what came to mind first.  Is there anyone in your life right now doing the same?  How are the situations similar and how did you interact with this friend in the dream?  This may give you clues as to what steps you need to take next.

Dream interpretation is not an exact science.  A dream is a web of meanings and symbols that needs to be sifted through to get to a message, but ultimately a dream is what it means to you.

Do you believe that dreams are meaningful?