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499 days ago
T aipei R ole p layers C ampaign R esources Contact Information House Rules and General Stuff The following is an early draft of a paper presented to the Tenth National Conference on English Teaching and Learning in the Republic of China - 15 May 1993. The full paper has been published in the Proceedings (Taipei: Crane Publishing, Ltd., 1994, 625-648. As always, this is copyright 1993, Brian David Phillips. Role-Playing Games in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom by Brian David Phillips Department of English National Chengchi University "Role-Playing is getting together with some friends to write a story. It's joining around a campfire or dining room to spin some tall tales. Role-playing is being creative and having fun with friends. In most role-playing games, one person ...>
680 days ago
A Gestalt approach to Lucid Dreaming has yet to make a breakthrough in mainstream psychology or even among those who practice the ancient and brilliant art of Lucid Dreaming nightly. The Gestalt therapy developed by Fritz Perls is an innovative approach to psychology and can be an innovative approach to all things that revolve around the human imagination, especially the subconscious. Lucid Dreaming is a kind of “conscious awake” while still perfectly asleep and if seen as a therapy, could greatly enhance the quality of life of everyone. The challenge seems to be in educating people to Lucid Dream. Everyone can learn to read and write, but can they all learn to Lucid Dream? Yes. Learning to harness and control Lucid Dreaming is like learning to read and write or anything for that matter, it takes practice. Visualization is an excellent way to enhance learning and has been a tool used throughout ancient history by the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and was preserved for some 1,300 ...
687 days ago
According to Oneirologists (dream researchers) a dream is a cognitive experience that occurs during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Ever notice in Matrix when Morpheus asks Neo “Have your ever had a dream Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?” How about the famous phrase from Cypher “Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, cause Kansas, is goin’ bye bye.” A dream is as real to the human brain as is a heavy rain on some idle Tuesday. Just think about it for a millisecond. When you see a fancy looking billboard sign on the freeway how long does it take to experience? In reality about a millisecond. The time it takes for light to travel from the sun to the billboard, bounce and travel to your ocular globe, touch the retina, generate new information, take the synaptic pathways to the cerebral cortex and after much ado, finally make it to the higher cognitive ...
787 days ago
It was a Shoshone man who told me this one... Its about a little girl named "daughter of lame horse"... because she befriended a lame horse as a child and was unseparable from him. As her southern tribe at that time in history, followed the buffalo trail, the lame horse also followed the buffalo (mustangs love to eat buffalo grass) and as it was lame, followed far behind and she would walk with the horse talking to it all the way... Well... daughter of lame horse had lost her father that summer from a buffalo hunt, and it had been that horse that he had been riding... the horse survived, but her father had perished... That horse was all she had left of her father... and she didn't treat it like a big dog either, to her, that was a replacement for her father. After her father died, she was sad for many months, but had forgotten to cry... She would push the tears back because she felt they would make her weak... After a few months, daughter of lame horse began dreaming ...
898 days ago
by Márius Franchescus Lopesini It has been said that if we value our dreams, crime, poverty, drugs, violence, and despair become things of the past. That would be, if the whole world valued its dreams, we would live in a utopia, with no need for weapons of power that maintain the law with repression and an iron fist. Respect for the nightly world of fantasy, is something that we can all learn to cherish and cultivate, if only we wish to. The daily discipline to remember ourselves to remember our dreams when we wake up and remember ourselves to write them down as soon as we remember them, is not as difficult as some imagine it to be, in fact imagination is the key. If we imagine something as being difficult it is, and our dreams will do everything in their power (which is considerable) to make sure that that thing, becomes as difficult as can be. The likewise goes for those things that we imagine to be extremely easy… Our dreams do everything ...
