Ruth Lingford - Death and the mother
Pleasures of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu5d4UsjSkg
Types of Dreams
Lucid Dreams -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhPt4r70kU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC0Gqt8VRKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xco_IWBfqsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQMHokZqr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkURrBpoHBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViK2ZYjHf5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Uq-yXc7x0
http://www.dreams.co.uk/sleeptalk/2011/stress-and-dreams/
http://www.livescience.com/17290-facts-dreams-nightmares.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Psychosis
Psychosis is a mental disorder that causes an individual to
lose contact with reality, symptoms that are present include
disorientation, paranoia, delusions and
hallucinations. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/psychosis
Through the individuals delusions, they would be developing
false ideas about actions taking place around them as well as misunderstanding
who certain people may be. Through hallucinations, they begin imagining stuff,
seeing and hearing things that aren’t actually there. As well as an invasive
side effect of a mental disorder, psychosis and psychotic episodes can be
caused by the administration of certain illegal drugs such as methamphetamine
and LSD. http://bipolar.about.com/od/definingbipolardisorder/g/gl_psychosis.htm?utm_term=what%20is%20a%20psychosis&utm_content=p1-main-1-title&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=msn&utm_campaign=adid-19a630b9-8ec7-4c66-a4c6-4a7542af1a1d-0-ab_msp_ocode-4349&ad=semD&an=msn_s&am=phrase&q=what%20is%20a%20psychosis&dqi=&o=4349&l=sem&qsrc=999&askid=19a630b9-8ec7-4c66-a4c6-4a7542af1a1d-0-ab_msp
Psychosis and Dreams
Many different factors can effect the severity of an individuals
condition, a difficult life story or a stressful current situation can take a
considerable toll on a persons’ sanity. Often, the loss of reality can be
understood as a coping mechanism, devised for protection when “contradictions
between the inside and outside world can no longer be papered over readily”, if the individual is having difficulties
handling their emotions or feeling, expectations placed upon them concerning
personal or work goals can become overbearing and suffocating, important decisions
that need to be made become impossible tasks. It is at times like these that
one suffering from psychotic episodes may begin to unintentionally invent a new
reality for themselves. The mood of the patient greatly differs the type of
alternate reality that they fall into, perception and mood influence one
another, meaning that they can either be stuck in a vortex where they see
nothing but black, or they can end up floating in the sky on pink fluffy
clouds.
Psychosis can create ‘an experience comparable with that in
a dream’, but fails to offer the protection of sleep. When we dream, our
adventures cannot harm us, however when a patient travels to another dimension
through their unprotected mind, its another problem altogether. “In a dream it is not dangerous
to feel like a bird, in psychosis it is. Just like there is wishful thinking
and there are nightmares, in psychoses as well wishful and anxious components
are mixed: in allegorical terms in paranoid psychosis as a mixture of meaning
and danger. Sometimes the anxiety functions in the foreground and the wishes
remain encrypted. And yet in therapy and in search of the subjective meaning it
is helpful to look in both directions: wherefrom and whereto?” this can be
summarised by saying “an
access to unconscious experience – as in wishful thinking and nightmares, the
psychosis also has wish and anxiety components. Comparably, delusion of
grandeur or paranoia in psychosis can also signify "something
valuable", however at least not insignificant.” http://www.psychosis-bipolar.com/understanding-psychoses-01.html
Schopenhauer 2: ‘A dream is a
short-lasting psychosis, and a psychos is is a long-lasting dream.’ http://www.celiagreen.com/charlesmccreery/dreams-and-psychosis.pdf
