The Weekly Pique

What Will You Learn Today?

By

The Easiest and Most Effective Ways to Become a Lucid Dreamer

The Easiest and Most Effective Ways to Become a Lucid Dreamer

[pullquote align=”full”]”Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams too?”
– Stephen LaBerge[/pullquote]

 

LucidCatcher

Device / App
“Your will become more conscious and aware that this is a dream by questioning everything around you. Once you get to this point start acting immediately. Fly to the moon or be a dragon!”

 

Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner’s Guide [Tim Ferriss]

Article (11 minutes) – Tim Ferriss
“The first few times you achieve lucidity, you will likely be so excited that you will wake yourself up…”

 

Scientists May Have Found The Part of The Brain That Enables Lucid Dreaming [Science Alert]

Resources (1 hour +) – Fiona MacDonald
“Now scientists from Germany believe they may have found the neurological key to the ability. After scanning the brains of regular dreamers and those who are frequently lucid, they’ve found that the region of the brain that enables self reflection is larger among lucid dreamers…”

 

Lucid Dreaming Techniques for Beginners [World of Lucid Dreaming]

Article (4 minutes) – Rebecca Turner
“Here are my top lucid dreaming techniques for beginners. They range from simple memory exercises (like Reality Checks and Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams) to specialized meditation (like Wake Induced Lucid Dreams)…”

 

3 Must-See TED Talks on Lucid Dreaming [Dream Studies Portal]

3 Ted Talks (37 minutes) – Ryan Hurd
“In these dreams, we are provided with this fully immersive, three-dimentional, multi-sensory hallucinatory experience. So it feels almost like being absorbed into your imagination…”

RELEVANT:

5 Herbs That Will Induce Lucid Dreaming [The Spirit Science]

Article (5 minutes) – LJ Vanier
“This special herb is known to give the dreamer the ability to fly in your dreams. Many Taoists use and recommend this herb for dream mobility, and reports have many users soaring through the skies and all across the universe and even into alternate realities and dimensions…”

 

Tibetan Dream Yoga [Integral Deep Listening]

Article (1 hour+) – Joseph Dillard
“The ultimate goal in Tibetan dream yoga is to attain conscious awareness while dreaming, called ‘apprehending the dream,’ and then dissolve the dream state. When deprived of physical stimulus (from the sleeping body) and conceptual stimulus (from the dreaming mind), one can observe the purest form of conscious awareness…”

 

Thanks for reading,
Joe Howard

Like us on Facebook – Follow us on Twitter – Subscribe

By

The History of Star Wars (and Some Unknown Nuggets)

The History of Star Wars (and Some Unknown Nuggets)

The Sport That Sparked Lightsaber Lore [ESPN]

Article (13 minutes) – Greg Garber
“The sport of kendo focuses on mastering the fine balance between body and soul. It is a nuanced discipline, a series of patterns: strikes and thrusts, attacks and counter-attacks. There are more than 1.5 million registered dan-graded kendoka in Japan alone. There are eight levels in the discipline, the last of which can only be attempted after age 46, something that underlines the wisdom it requires…”

 

Fastest Starship? Most Light Saber Duel Time?: Star Wars Fun Facts By The Numbers [Forbes]

Article (7 minutes) – Hayley C. Cuccinello
“To put these population statistics in perspective, currently Earth’s total population is 7.2 billion, which would rank 7th on this list…”

 

Jar Jar Binks, A Sith Lord? The Star Wars Theory That Isn’t As Crazy As You’d Think [Cinema Blend]

Video (19 minutes) – Corey Chichizola
“There are a few clips where Jar Jar’s mouth seems to be moving in synch with other characters’ dialogue, which is more than spooky. In the Sith Jar Jar Theory, he was actually using Jedi mind-control and helping to will the events of the first movie to his favor…”
 
RELEVANT

 

CERN Researchers Confirm Existence of the Force 😉 [CERN]

Article (4 minutes) – Cian O’Luanaigh
“Though researchers are as yet unsure what exactly causes the Force, students and professors at the laboratory have already started to harness its power. Practical applications so far include long-distance communication, influencing minds, and lifting heavy things out of swamps…”

 

The Star Wars George Lucas Doesn’t Want You To See [The Atlantic]

Article (9 minutes) – Rose Eveleth
“In 1978, Star Wars won seven Academy Awards. But if you want to watch that original version, the first of George Lucas’s soon to be seven-part saga, you’ll find it difficult. In fact, it’s actually impossible to buy an official copy of Star Wars as it was first released. Lucas doesn’t want you to see that version. Instead, he wants you to watch the continuously updated special editions—movies with added CGI, changed sound effects, and whole new scenes…”

 

If I Was In Charge Of Marketing Star Wars

Article (6 minutes) – Hassan S. Ali
“Because for all the marketing surrounding the movie, I can still identify NUMEROUS opportunities for branding and promotion that have gone overlooked, probably to the detriment of box office revenues…”

 

Thanks for reading,
Joe Howard

Like us on Facebook – Follow us on Twitter – Subscribe

By

Human Enhancement Technology is Alive and Well

Human Enhancement Technology is Alive and Well

Enter The Age of Human Augmentation [Forbes]

Video (5 minutes) – Bruce Upbin, Taylor Soppe & Chad McClymonds
“We’re all about augmenting human strength and endurance, and to do that, you’ve got to wrap a robot around a person. That’s what you call a human exoskeleton, and that’s what we’re all about…”

 

A Prosthetic Arm That “Feels” [TED]

Video (19 minutes) – Todd Kuiken
“Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system – improving motion, control and even feeling…”

 

Cyborgs: The Truth About Human Augmentation [BBC]

Article (7 minutes) – Frank Swain
“So I am now a cyborg out of necessity, not choice. Being part machine is my resting state. Yet I don’t feel much like Robocop or the Six Million Dollar Man. If I am a cyborg, shouldn’t I feel more, well, superhuman?”

RELEVANT

 

Human Augmentation: Blurring the Line Between Biology & Technology [VLAB]

Video (1 hour 21 minutes)
“The true age of the bionic man is upon us. Innovative new technologies are restoring and enhancing human sensory and motor functions like never before. Setting a new standard for quality of life and physiological enhancement, their creators enrich human capacities in ways only imagination could promise in the past…”

 

More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers [The Atlantic]

Article (8 minutes) – Patrick Lin
“Our ability to ‘upgrade’ the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we’ve understood them…”

 

The New Bionics That Let Us Run, Climb and Dance [Business Insider]

TED Talk (19 minutes) – Hugh Herr
“Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that’s both technical and deeply personal — with the help of ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and performs again for the first time on the TED stage…”

 

Thanks for reading,
Joe Howard

Like us on Facebook – Follow us on Twitter – Subscribe