Snake attack

I dreamed I saw a snake like a chinese dragon. He was huge and bit into my knee and tore out a large chunk of flesh then he recoiled and lunged to take another bite when I awoke suddenly panting and gasping for air.

Awake O sword and Smite the Shepherd

Yah did not murder his son, the sword of murder was wielded by Azazel.

Just before Yahshuah was arrested, he reminds us again that he is not the Passover Lamb about to be slain, he is the shepherd about to be slain. Some translations make it sound like Yah is striking the shepherd, but the Hebrew says, Ur (Open your eyes) chereb (a sword) al (is against) ra’ah (a shepherd) al (is against) Geber (a strong valiant man) amith (a fellow mortal) naum (says) YHVH Tesabaoth (Yahveh of the angel hosts) nakah eth (it murders) Ra’ah (a shepherd) tson tson (a flock) puts (scatters) shub (I will fetch home again) yad (open hand) tsar’ar (those little ones)

· Open your eyes, a sword is against a shepherd, a strong, valiant man, a fellow mortal, says Yah of angel hosts, murder a shepherd, a flock scatters, I will fetch them home again with an open hand.” (Zech 13:6)

Recording and Manipulating Dreams?

Brain-Computer Interfaces for Manipulating Dreams

Michael Anissimov

Michael Anissimov

Accelerating Future

Posted: Mar 19, 2008

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/anissimov20080319/

A first-generation commercial brain-computer interface (BCI) is being released by Emotiv Systems later this year. What does the future hold for BCI?

By 2050, and likely sooner, you will be able to buy a BCI device that records all your dreams in their entirety. This will be done in one of two ways. One method would be to use distributed nanobots less than a micrometer in diameter to spread throughout the brain and monitor the activation patterns of neurons.





By this point, cognitive science will have advanced enough to know which neural activation patterns correspond to which sensory experiences. This has already been done with cats (using electrodes, not nanobots), where researchers led by scientist Garrett Stanley were able to extrapolate what a cat was seeing merely by monitoring the neurons of its visual cortex. Here are some images they obtained:





The next steps will be to increase the resolution, add monitoring of emotions, sounds, and smells, and make it safe for human use. An alternative route, if nanobots are still not ready for commercial deployment by 2050, is to have minimally invasive surgery where tiny holes, no larger than a grain of sand, are drilled in the skull. Electronic nanofibers could be routed through these holes from a port on the outside to neurons throughout the brain. The holes could be protected by a plastic membrane, ensuring that no foreign particles could pass through them into the brain. The access ports on the scalp would be compatible with a BCI headset designed to monitor activity in specific neural groups and selectively stimulate neurons according to a program.

A major challenge, of course, would be to get FDA approval for such a device. The therapeutic and practical benefits of a high-resolution BCI device are so large that if it can be shown not to cause any damage or negative side-effects to its user, approval seems likely.

If the BCI device offers input to the brain as well as recording output, then dreams could be played back too. A Dream Machine would let us show our dreams to others. If we know which neural activation pattern corresponds to which perceptions (sight, sounds, etc.), it’s not a huge leap to selectively stimulate neurons to produce customized dream scenarios, or even enter the dreams of others in action. (In ascending order of technological difficulty.)

Manipulating our dreams… how many thousands of years has humanity waited for this? Here’s a frequent kind of background I see in my dreams:





…other things I see include gigantic academic complexes, cliff networks, green hills overlooking sunny blue bays, and many others. I’m sure you can imagine hundreds of scenarios from your dreams, many of which seem so fleeting. But it won’t necessarily be that way forever.

The possible societal effects of a Dream Machine would be immense. Dream recordings and recreations would offer an opportunity to:

1) Validate or refute Freudian theories about the connections of dreams to subconscious or conscious psychological states.

2) Create a “science of dreams”, or oneirology, that organizes all available dream data, breaks up dreams into categories, studies which type of people get which dreams, etc.

3) Create a “dream entertainment industry” where people choose to have customized dreams, with features like greater visual complexity or richness of colors, or even massively multiplayer dreams.

4) The possible rise of “dream celebrities” — people who freely upload their dreams for others to examine, followed by a positive reception. People might lead double lives — boring accountant by day, world-famous lucid dreamer by night. Some people might even get paid for their dreams.

5) Uncover the hidden world of dreams that barely rise above our subconscious. People tend to have several dreams per night, but remember only one or two. We experience these dreams when they happen, our brain just neglects to transfer the information content into long-term memory. (The reasons for this are likely evolutionary — we would get confused about reality if we remembered too many of our dreams.) Imagine if we could record all these dreams and play them back at will. With enough storage density (molecular memory), you could even store your dreams on a pendant around your neck.

6) Convert dream-worlds into real-worlds; amusement parks based on dreams, or utility fog banks that quickly morph in response to a given personal or collective dreamscape. Or vice versa: turn real world places and people into dream objects.

7) In general, blur the line between dreams and reality by making dreams more tangible, manipulable, interactive, customizable, and social. Bring dreams “in from the cold”. Make dreams as mysterious, colorful, productive, foreign, erotic, or mundane as you want them to be.

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Demonic attack or Sleep Paralysis?

I started this blog after I received the following email from Miguel, my 22 year old son, sent at 2 am.

Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine (face up) position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon awaking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. This may last a few seconds or several moments, occasionally longer. People frequently report feeling a 'presence' that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. The presence is likely to be vaguely felt or sensed just out of sight but thought to be watching or monitoring, often with intense interest, sometimes standing by, or sitting on the bed. On some occasions, the presence may attack, strangling and exerting crushing pressure on the chest.

In the dark depths of the middle of the night you are awakened suddenly with a feeling of evil surrounding you, you can't breathe and your chest is heavy, is someone pressing down on you or trying to suffocate you?
To your horror you can't move, something is holding you down! You think you can hear voices and see a dark shadowy figure swooping around your bed...are you being visited by Demons or are you merely suffering an episode of Sleep Paralysis?

this may seem a little over the top but all of this has happened to me and most of the time its not too bad, but it can be really creepy. it just feels like there is something evil in the room and that u wont make it out alive, and it really doesn't help that u cant move. lol anyways I'm going to try to go back to bed sorry for bothering you with this. I was just wanting to know if this has ever happened to u?

Everyone Has Nightmares

Many people experience terrifying nightmares and they wake up confused and scared. I thought having a place to post your bad dreams and read other people's nightmares might help us to understand and cope with these troubling experiences. Please upload yours and engage in discussions.
Love(Yah)
Sweet Dreams