articles and stories, facts and reflections about not only dreams

Remember the article about the unconscious? In it I described a large water planet on the surface of which we, living humans, are like crystals half-submerged in an ocean of unconsciousness. Try to imagine that these crystals are in the shape of small spheres. Half of the sphere above the surface is our conscious energy and the one below...

In previous articles I have tried to bring you closer to the phenomenon of the anima and animus archetypes. I have tried to make you try to imagine something as unimaginable as energy coming from the unconscious. This time it will probably be even more challenging, because I would like to introduce anima and animus to you personally.

Whenever I write about the archetypes of anima and animus, I cannot describe exclusively one of these archetypes without digressing to the other. Thus, it is impossible to completely distinguish between a text that relates only to the anima or only to the animus. This is probably because the two energies are inextricably linked and cannot be...

The energies of our unconscious parts, anima and animus, are very important for conscious life, because they largely determine it. If the conscious and unconscious energies cooperate, do not weaken each other, do not absorb each other, we can speak of harmony, so-called wholeness (as C.G.Jung said). This harmony is not only important for the...

I find it amazingly interesting how precise knowledge our ancestors had and how much wisdom is hidden in old proverbs, sayings, proverbs and even in the words themselves. Today, folk wisdom would be something like this: 'Most diseases, except sexually transmitted ones, are psychosomatic'. And perhaps this information would not be far from the...

Do you know the popular mental argument about whether sound exists when no one can hear it? What if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around? So does sound even exist without another device to detect and "read" it? The basis of sound is a vibration that stirs the environment and this acts on the eardrum,...

We begin in theory, in order to end up in a mystical contemplation of the nature of the universe and the stars. Well, music is tones that follow each other in a certain order, and a tone is actually a kind of sound. It is a vibration that is created by the shaking of matter. This energy vibrates the surrounding...

The word ψυχη (psyche) originates from Greek and corresponds to the word soul. In Greek mythology, Psyche is often portrayed as a beautiful girl with butterfly wings. The Greek word ψύχω (psycho) means to bathe, to breathe. Psyche thus mythologically refers to the breath that leaves the human body at the moment of death. This breath accompanies the...

The questions around the meaning of dreams and where dreams actually come from have been around for a very long time. In ancient Egypt and Greece, for example, dreams were thought to be sent by the gods to express their will. Even though we feel much more advanced, smarter and more educated than people who lived a few thousand years...

Many people don't really know what they are talking about when they talk about lucid dreams. It's not that you wake up in the morning and you say, "Hmmm, I had an interesting and very vivid dream today, just like reality, I guess that was the lucid dream as it's being written about now." In fact, the name lucid dream...

Sleep is a natural state that is actually the opposite of wakefulness. It is a state in which our physical activity is very much reduced and our consciousness is somehow disconnected from external reality. The body is resting. But what does our brain do when we sleep? Is it also resting?

The Mona Lisa could be the image of Leonardo's pregnant mother. It sounds unbelievable, because Leonardo's mother, Caterine, was already dead at the time of the painting, and she was certainly not young, like the woman in the painting. But given the available information, this theory doesn't seem entirely implausible. Leonardo da Vinci was born on...

Interview with physicist Rostislav Szeruda for the internet journal The Invisible Dog

The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons. The connections between neurons are called synapses, and there are about a trillion of them in the brain. The number of people who have ever lived on earth is also approximately 100 billion, according to the latest calculations, and it is quite possible that the number of connections...

Why would you want to wake up in a dream and lucidly dream? In this state you have a unique opportunity to become more familiar with one very important person, yourself. For if you can wake up to dream, you will find yourself in a dreamscape within your own mind. There you can explore and investigate, test, rest, fly or...