Dreamtime Hypno-Nags. No, Really.

This morning, as I drifted in that half-awake, half-asleep state of grog, I dreamed there were two new comments on this blog.

The first was “Please don’t stop, after such a messsage of hope!”

The second was “I wish you would write more.”

Egads. A nagging subconscious!

Fine, fine… I’ll sit down and write a real post, and NOT one about how I’m going to start writing again…  not even one about how to gag a nagging subconcious!;)

BTW, that half-asleep, half-awake state that produces those odd “I would have sworn it was real!” dream moments is called hypnogogia.   It’s characterized by brainwave patterns that are literally between waking and sleeping, the same sorts of brainwaves that are found in many trances, religious experiences and visions. 

For those of you interested in the gritty details, it’s apparently a Theta-wave state, or on the border between Alpha-Theta (around 7-8hz).  Alpha is the brainwave range produced when you’re relaxed, while Delta is produced when you’re asleep. Theta is between them.   I know, I know, it’s not in proper Greek alphabetical order. I didn’t name the states, I just report them! 

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MindTWEAK: I searched QuotationsBook.com for “hynogogic”, hoping for some pithy statement to close with. It asked me (ever so politely) if I didn’t mean to search for spongecake.  No, really, it did.

But QuotationsBook didn’t have any spongecake quotes, either.  In fact, the only quotation on sponge cake which is to be found on all of Google is from Jimmy Buffet’s song, Margaritaville.  You know the one.. “Living on sponge cake, watching the sun bake…”

Clearly, the universe is advising us that a Margarita is the perfect mind-tweak. 

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