Dreaming
Indigenous Australian creation
Dreaming occurs during sleep, primarily in the REM stage, when brain activity resembles wakefulness.
Dreams often feature surreal narratives and imagery, shaped by memory consolidation and emotional processing.
Lucid dreaming is a state where the dreamer becomes aware they are dreaming and may control the dream’s events.
Some cultures historically viewed dreams as divine messages or omens, while modern neuroscience links them to the brain’s default mode network.
She practiced techniques to induce lucid dreaming.
Desire for achievement
fantasy · longing · yearning · idealism · desire · imagination · future · possibility
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
zoning out · absentminded · musing · woolgathering · lost in thought · staring · drifting · escapism
Ability to see
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
ancestor · spirit · omen · mystical · transcendent · visionary · oracle · trance
Founder of psychoanalysis
- JungAnalytical psychology founder
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
repression · manifest · latent · analysis · archetype · collective unconscious · wish fulfillment · psychoanalysis
ambition
Desire for achievement
wish · fantasy · longing · yearning · idealism · desire · imagination · future · possibility · potential
reverie
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
fantasy · zoning out · absentminded · musing · woolgathering · lost in thought · staring · drifting · escapism · idle
vision
Ability to see
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
shaman · ancestor · spirit · omen · mystical · transcendent · visionary · oracle · trance · meditation
Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
- JungAnalytical psychology founder
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
unconscious · repression · manifest · latent · analysis · archetype · collective unconscious · wish fulfillment · psychoanalysis · Gestalt
REM
Acronym for dreaming phase
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- lucidMentally sharp and comprehensible
- sleepwalkingAmbulatory behavior during slumber
slumber · pillow · subconscious · vivid · recurring · bedtime · snoring · drowsy · napping · restless
- Indigenous AustraliansAboriginal, Dreamtime, traditional lands, corroboree, songlines
- Aboriginal AustraliansAboriginal, Aboriginals, Indigenous Australians, songlines, didgeridoo
- Arrernte cultureAlice Springs, Dreamtime, songlines, moiety, totems
- DreamtimeDreamtime, Tjukurpa, Rainbow Serpent, songlines, ancestor spirits
- Noongar
Dreamingwaking
Regaining consciousness from sleep
wakefulness · consciousness · alertness · lucidity · awareness
Dreamingmodernity
Being of present times
recorded history · scientific worldview · colonial history · materialism
- keep dreamingDismissive of unlikely hopes
- lucid dreamingSleep state with awareness
- dreaming spiresOxford's iconic towers