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The justification for emotional blackmail is often dependence - the abuser may be afraid to lose something important that the victim provides. An abuser may:

1. Withhold essential information
2. Contradict the victim's perspective
3. Disguise abuse as humor
4. Block the victim's goals
5. Install limiting beliefs
6. Trivialize thoughts and achievements
7. Make threats to increase power
8. Forget promises, agreements or previous discussions
9. Invalidate the victim's reality and perceptions
10. Express anger to release tension and feel powerful

Vital!!
Virile!!

Visifying!

heehee

Innovative visification of oppugnant Canuck bruins.
I love it!

Precisely! Damn!

Damndamndamndamndamn!

My son has been back a while now. He was part of the initial occupation and spent a year in Baghdad - Camp Liberty.

Now, my youngest son is in training for the Corps of Engineers. Pray this is over before my luck runs out.

Chicken Little never had it so good ...

LOVE 'em!!

I like them best with fish, and with breakfast - fried eggs.

I'm more concerned about waking so angry, than whatever the rest of that might mean ...

It is so totally NOT like me!

All things, the Earth included, have cycles.
What many people dont realize, beyond the Global Warming hoax, is that the thinning of our atmosphere and the eventual (impending) reversal of the Earth's magnetic field are two of the major contributing factors which encourage the development of cancer.

Sensationalism.
I wonder that these so called 'professionals' are not ashamed of themselves.

Do you find that, more often than not, you wake with the residual emotions from your dreams, rather than actually remembering them??

That's what happens to me ...

I suppose that is a form of remembering a dream, too.

They do, when they're allowed to think independantly.
Would that we all could remain without subterfuge - uncomplicated, forgiving, intense, appreciative and joyous - as children.

AMEN! AMEN!

What do you suppose my dream of the truck means??

I am inviting opinion ...

In the words of Nina, the assassin (Bridget Fonda, Point Of No Return [1993]):

"I never bothered with the little things."

Remember, when times get tough - It Came To Pass.

Congratulations to the both of you.

The most vivid dream I have ever had (barring the recurring one that plagued me for 20 years) was about my two eldest boys. I had it while sick during a difficult pregnancy - woke crying uncontrollably - pillow was wet and I was stiff from head to foot.
I had to really dig to remember why I was so heartbroken, but it finally came back to me. The jist of the dream was that the two boys would never learn to work together - even at risk to their own lives and the lives of those they care for.
I am hoping this will change, but that dream has yet to be proven wrong. They are, and most likely always will be, too different to be friends. Let's hope that blood is truly thicker than water - that they learn to put aside their differences when push comes to shove.

A few days ago I woke after crying out - in the last stages of a dream.

What came out as a sort of yell/grunt (I do talk in my sleep) was actually me screaming "You stupid f***!!!"
In my dream, someone I was not well acquainted with was in my truck ('72 Chevy - restored). When they were asked to get away from it (nicely, of course ), they knocked it out of gear. The truck rolled down the drive, across the street, up an embankment into a neighbors' yard, back down across that persons' drive way, and up the opposite bank - effectively trashing the undercarriage and truckbed.

I ... was ... LIVID!
Talk about waking up on the wrong side of sane...

People dream during REM sleep, perhaps as a result of excited brain activity and the paralysis of major voluntary muscles.

Sleep quality changes with transition from one sleep stage into another. Although the signals for transition between the five (or six) stages of sleep are mysterious, it is important to remember that these stages are, in fact, discretely independent of one another, each marked by subtle changes in bodily function and each part of a predictable cycle whose intervals are observable. Sleep stages are monitored and examined clinically with polysomnography, which provides data regarding electrical and muscular states during sleep.

Waking
The waking stage is referred to as relaxed wakefulness, because this is the stage in which the body prepares for sleep. All people fall asleep with tense muscles, their eyes moving erratically. Then, normally, as a person becomes sleepier, the body begins to slow down. Muscles begin to relax, and eye movement slows to a roll.

Stage 1
Stage 1 sleep, or drowsiness, is often described as first in the sequence, especially in models where waking is not included. Polysomnography shows a 50% reduction in activity between wakefulness and stage 1 sleep. The eyes are closed during Stage 1 sleep, but if aroused from it, a person may feel as if he or she has not slept. Stage 1 may last for five to 10 minutes.

Stage 2
Stage 2 is a period of light sleep during which polysomnographic readings show intermittent peaks and valleys, or positive and negative waves. These waves indicate spontaneous periods of muscle tone mixed with periods of muscle relaxation. Muscle tone of this kind can be seen in other stages of sleep as a reaction to auditory stimuli. The heart rate slows, and body temperature decreases. At this point, the body prepares to enter deep sleep.

Stages 3 and 4
These are deep sleep stages, with Stage 4 being more intense than Stage 3. These stages are known as slow-wave, or delta, sleep. During slow-wave sleep, especially during Stage 4, the electromyogram records slow waves of high amplitude, indicating a pattern of deep sleep and rhythmic continuity.

Non-REM Sleep
The period of non-REM sleep (NREM)is comprised of Stages 1-4 and lasts from 90 to 120 minutes, each stage lasting anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. Surprisingly, however, Stages 2 and 3 repeat backwards before REM sleep is attained. So, a normal sleep cycle has this pattern: waking, stage 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM. Usually, REM sleep occurs 90 minutes after sleep onset.

Stage 5, REM
REM sleep is distinguishable from NREM sleep by changes in physiological states, including its characteristic rapid eye movements. However, polysomnograms show wave patterns in REM to be similar to Stage 1 sleep. In normal sleep (in people without disorders of sleep-wake patterns or REM behavior disorder), heart rate and respiration speed up and become erratic, while the face, fingers, and legs may twitch. Intense dreaming occurs during REM sleep as a result of heightened cerebral activity, but paralysis occurs simultaneously in the major voluntary muscle groups, including the submental muscles (muscles of the chin and neck).

Because REM is a mixture of encephalic (brain) states of excitement and muscular immobility, it is sometimes called paradoxical sleep. It is generally thought that REM-associated muscle paralysis is meant to keep the body from acting out the dreams that occur during this intensely cerebral stage. The first period of REM typically lasts 10 minutes, with each recurring REM stage lengthening, and the final one lasting an hour.

Wow, huh? That should explain sleepwalkers/talkers.

I think that recurring dreams take time, sometimes years, to make sense of.

After what I've recently learned about my extended family - particularly my mother's sister who is my age, and her children - I may have finally sorted out some logic behind my own recurring dream.

Karma does not sleep, but it moves at it's own pace, nonetheless. We arent capable of understanding why, or making any adjustments.

Responsible, sensible, emotionally well-rounded individuals still harbor some pretty strange ideas.

What motivates you toward your personal dream interpretation?

Mousepotatoes!!!


psst
Go outside!

I thank you all for your input on this subject. It has helped me add dimension to a thesis for a psychology class.

I appreciate your perspectives, and have learned a thing or two about the interpretation of dreams and what they mean to the individual.

sanjeev009
jasonbourne
wiley (absof***inglutely!)
deeanne
iam4u
snoman1951
WarDriverJ
chachacha

Thanks again!!