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- From: demetri@cgrg.ohio-state.edu
- Subject: Dream Culture
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.005656.14050@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: demetri@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Demetrius Owens)
- Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:56:56 GMT
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- Someone was asking about the culture in which lucid dreaming was practiced.
- I teach Psych 100 and the culture is the Senoi. What I can't remember is
- the name of the anthropologist who studied them. As I recall, children
- were taught to control their dreams. Daily "dream therapy" took place at
- the breakfast table. If a child had a frightening dream in which he was
- chased by a bear, for example, the parents would encourage him to have the
- same dream that night and face and conquer the bear. It was also said that
- this was an incredibly peaceful society that seemed to run smoothly with no
- need for laws or police.
- Renee
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