Dream Of Man Research Articles

Man in space. A new dimension in health care.

Unprecedented advances in technology and science in the 20th Century have enabled man to take himself and his inventions on voyages of space exploration. It has been man's dream for centuries, not only to fly, but also to explore the vast outer reaches of space. Modern space exploration, the new frontier, is a triumph for the new sciences of space biology and space medicine.

The Mentor Relationship and the Dream: The Case of Rex Mortimer

Levinson's concept of the mentor relationship, the developmental function of which is to support the realization of a young man's Dream of the kind of life he would like to lead as an adult, is discussed with reference to Rex Mortimer (1926-1979) and Willy Brandt (1913- ), two political figures for whom such relationships were significant. The different mentor relationships experienced by these two men are compared and then explained by reference to their childhood antecedents. It is concluded that a young man of pressing self-esteem needs is likely to choose an overbearing mentor who, far from facilitating the realization of his Dream, may seek to control him by making him over in his own image.

Leonidas Hubbard Jr. (1872-1903)

This is an account of one man's dream to plunge into "a region where no footsteps would be found to guide him" and over which "still brooded the fascinating twilight of the mysterious unknown." Unfortunately, depending upon A.P. Low's map of Labrador, the small party, led by Hubbard, went astray. This error resulted in much misery and cost Hubbard his life.

Age differences in dreams. I: men's dreams and thematic apperceptive fantasy.

Is there a covert, middle-age shift towards passivity and lowered ego energy? Age differences were investigated in dreams recalled from REM sleep by fifty-eight well-educated men age twenty-seven to sixty-four, and also in their TAT stories and dreams recalled from sleep at home. There was no confirmation of previous findings, although there was evidence of a slight age-related decline of aggression in dreams. These results raise the possibility that previous findings reflect cohort differences rather than age changes. Dreams and TAT stories failed to correlate sufficiently to warrant any assumption that they are interchangeable or that they tap covert processes.

The Effect of Physostigmine on Normal Human Sleep and Dreaming

Physostigmine, an anticholinesterase that increases the action of brain acetylcholine, induces rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in normal humans. In this study we show that man dreams during physostigmine-induced REM sleep. Seventeen normal volunteers were pretreated with methscopolamine and received one intravenous infusion per night of either placebo or physostigmine either ten or 35 minutes after sleep onset. Subjects were awakened at specific times after infusion and interviewed regarding any sleep mentation prior to awakening. Results indicated that dreaming occurred during physostigmine-induced REM periods but that physostigmine did not alter mentation during non-REM sleep. These dreams were similar to spontaneous REM sleep dreams in content, vividness, unusualness, and emotionality.

The Ambiguities of Dreaming in Ellison's Invisible Man

66 HlIE ARTIST, Ellison has stressed, must be capable of descending I into deeper level of his consciousness, opening himself to an inner world where reason and madness mingle with bope and memory and endlessly give birth to nightmare and to dream. This inner, oneiric universe is as much province of creator as it is of the psychiatrist.2 And in Invisible Man dreams, drug-induced nightmares, and other hallucinatory states of consciousness become Ellison's province as he explores human personality and imagination in depth. A black American author penetrating, in his fiction, through socially visible persona-above all, through stereotypes and formulas which have conventionally, and delusively, defined black identity in America-Ellison becomes a surveyor of activity, dreamlike yet intense, transpiring on dark side of mind.3 He seeks a fuller understanding of human consciousness by probing its dream-plots and hallucinated images. Criticism, however, which has steadily contributed to our understanding of Ellison's novel over years, has yet to grapple satisfactorily with this dimension of his art.4

Nabokov, Idolatry, and the Police State

In both literary and actual history, there are some curious similarities between paradise and the police state, though they exist at different levels. Men dream about one and then enact the other, as Borges observes in Deutsches Requiem, a story told by a sensitive and cultured man who also runs a concentration camp, the brutality of which will ultimately be justified by the dialectics of Hegelian movement in history. Or so he claims: the narrator is also a sadist, so it is hard to tell. The voluptuous and extreme spiritual emotions generated in contemplating paradisal states have a way of generating their opposites voluptuous and extreme violence and oppression in those who have seen the blinding light that any paradise tends to shine on the receptive imagination. The two states are mirrors of one another and depend, for their definitions, on whether the observer is inside or outside. The police state requires a lack of imagination in order to manipulate its members; it is anti-literary in many senses at once. Paradise, on the other hand, makes gestures of freedom toward everyone; it is the embodiment of the now-outmoded notion of Presence and therefore does not need to worry about loss, which control exists to control. Literature, it can then be argued, can be a paradise but can only depict the police state. One is always free to throw

The Myth and Dream of Paradise

It was Tertullian who coined the phrase, anima naturaliter christiana. This means that in the innermost depth of every human being there is alive a sort of natural religion with its standards of true and false, good and evil; it means that man is pre-programmed to a sense of wonder and awe before the mystery of his existence and meaning within the universe.Plays, like The Glass Menagerie and A Streztcar Named Desire in this essay, often imply this basic truth of man's openness to the transcendent when a man's dreams are seen to surpass both his personal resources and those of his society for their attainment, yet dream he must. In fact, his dreams may become more real for him than any other reality of his historical condition, bearing witness to that reality which underlies human awareness and, nevertheless, transcends human definition.Sometimes the dream is associated with madness when a man, tragically deluded about the meaning of his life, destroys himself in his attempt to force reality to conform to the shape of his illusions. There is a profound pathos in a man's faithful response to a destructive illusion, to the wrong dream : even this, however, is perhaps better than no dream at all. In any case the theatre in general and Tennessee Williams's Glass MenaEerie and Streetcar in particular reveal much about man and the quality of his dreams; they reveal how much man and his society can be transformed for better or for worse by them.

Letter to the Editor

Fore and aft commercials separating each article is an ad man's dream, but how does this serve the best overall interests of the readers (including journal tearers)? The issue of increased visual pollution in Pediatrics is merely a pimple on the buttocks of the large subject of creeping commercialization in the forums of the Academy of Pediatrics. Will the guardians of the Academy respond to the Editor's invitation for comment? Silence in Evanston is not reassuring.

Other Men's Dreams and Burnet's Realities

Other Men's Dreams and Burnet's Realities

On the Visual Fine Arts in the Space Age

Whether or not the special physical conditions and experiences encountered during manned flight in space and during man's sojourn on the Moon and other celestial bodies will significantly affect the visual fine arts is an intriguing question. In this note, I use the term visual fine art to mean: 'the discipline that has the purpose, by means of artifacts, of stimulating human emotions and of deepening emotional perception of selected portions of man's environment' [1]. There are three aspects of 'space-age' art: (1) art made on the Earth with new techniques or materials developed by astronautical technology, incorporating visual experiences provided by space flight and exploration; (2) art made on the Earth to express either the resulting new psychological experiences or the possible new philosophical conceptions of man and of the universe; and (3) art made and used on the Moon and on other planets. The age-old dream of man to fly in the atmosphere like birds and to emulate the angels and demons of his imagination has been a reality for some 60 years. It is true that only a very small percentage of the Earth's population has flown in aircraft and I know of no professional artist who owns and operates his own aircraft. A case can perhaps be made that aviation has affected the visual conceptions of artists. Some have attempted to give an illusion of the motion of bodies at high speed using traditional painting techniques, in particular, the group in Italy that called itself the Futurists [2]. More recently, some have developed kinetic art to give the viewer an experience of real motion or of change of color with time. Others introduced aviation subjects into their art and used in their compositions, usually called 'abstract', landscape as seen from an aircraft in flight. But, all in all, I do not find an art of the 'air-age' of broad significance from the point of view of visual conception to compare with cubism, abstract art, constructivism and surrealism. Man's thoughts of voyaging to the Moon and other celestial bodies are of recent origin compared

The early history of weather modification

Since ancient times man has dreamed of manipulating the weather to his advantage. His efforts to this end have ranged from drawing pictographs, lighting ceremonial fires, participating in rain dances and then during the past twenty-one years in directing his attention toward utilizing certain scientific relationships to initiate physical and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. There are certain of these reactions which can be demonstrated in both the laboratory and the field. They are spectacular to see, are fairly well understood from the scientific viewpoint and can be used to produce definite and predictable reactions. There no longer is any question that it is quite feasible to modify supercooled clouds wherever they occur. There is still much uncertainty as to subsequent developments which may occur due to such actions especially in unstable cloud systems. Unlike supercooled fogs and stratus clouds where the seeding results may be photographed and quantitatively measured, these less stable systems involving convection, convergence and divergence of moist and dry air are difficult systems to evaluate. This paper reviews briefly certain aspects of weather control prior to 1946 and then attempts to provide an accurate historical chronology of the significant advances which occurred during the early period of this new phase of atmospheric science. The control of the weather within our global atmosphere has been a dream of man for many centuries. In its earliest phases this ambition was limited to the rain needed for a tiny patch of corn or some similar local and immediate need. As man's knowledge of the atmosphere increased and his needs became more urgent and widespread, his approach to such problems were increasingly directed toward a scientific consideration of the possibilities as well as limitations of changing atmospheric processes. Prior to 1946, all of the proposals advanced toward doing something about modifying atmospheric processes failed to consider the massive nature of the atmosphere and the need to depend on triggering mechanisms to utilize the latent energy which develops from some of the physical reactions and interactions which occur in clear and cloudy skies.

Anacreon Moore and America

A dramatic incident in the literary warfare between England and America during the first quarter of the nineteenth century was Tom Moore's indictment of the American character in Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (1806), inspired by a tour through the United States in the summer of 1804. Four Juvenalian “epistles” developed the contrast in America between man's humanitarian dreams and his actual moral and political performance. Because of the poet's popularity, his diatribe, which included slanderous portraits of Jefferson and Washington, was widely discussed and deeply resented even by Moore's American friends. The most substantial rebuttals came in a lengthy critique of Moore's work offered as prefatory material to an American edition of Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (Philadelphia, 1806); in a serial review by William Coleman in the New-York Evening Post (October-November 1806); and in an anonymous poem entitled An Attempt to Vindicate the American Character (Philadelphia, 1806). So violent was the reaction that not until the publication of Lalla Rookh in 1817 did “Anacreon” Moore regain favor among Columbian readers, and by that time he had come to regret what he called his “crude and boyish tirades against the Americans.”

Physics and life prolongation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY in the 20th century have made real many dreams of men in earlier ages. Among these are transmutation of elements and manned space flight. Another dream of many men in different places and times, that of elimination of aging and death, remains unfulfilled by us. Scientists who work on this problem do not know how to solve it or even whether it can be solved at all. I cannot answer these questions here, and I believe that physics is somewhat peripheral to their solution. Instead what I shall do is to present a somewhat novel way of looking at the matter, based on an optimistic estimate of future scientific progress. In addition, I shall discuss how some results of low‐temperature biology (cryobiology) open the possibility to those living of taking advantage of this progress before the problems of aging and death are solved. This possibility depends on development of reliable methods of freezing, storing at low temperatures and reviving humans.

The time for space exploration

The advanced technologies of our time have made it possible to remove man's long-held dream of space exploration from the realm of science fiction into the everyday world of practical reality.

Science and the salty sea

Man's dream for centuries has been to turn the oceans into sweet water. Today we know that this dream will be fulfilled tomorrow for the vast arid regions from the Mojave Desert to the Sahara, where human prosperity — and survival — depend upon new sources of fresh water “Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where Nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Ancient Mariner Back in 49 B.C., Julius Caesar attempted to convert salt water to fresh water during the siege of Alexandria. In 1963 A.D., in the United States, President Kennedy said: “If it can be done inexpensively, it will dwarf any other scientific accomplishment.” And he directed that a maximum effort be made during his administration to achieve a major breakthrough in increasing water supplies by low-cost water desalting and purification. Today, this program has been greatly accelerated, and Federal funds for this effort have doubled the previous appropriations.

DREAMS: SEX DIFFERENCES IN AGGRESSIVE CONTENT.

Summary The dream series of 42 male college students and 42 female college students were analyzed for occurrence of aggressive actions in terms of (a) frequency, (b) direction, whether initiated from the dreamer or directed to the dreamer, (c) characters in the dream who were aggressors or victims, and (d) intensity. These variables were further analyzed in terms of their occurrence in the men's dreams and then, in the women's dreams with these results: The analysis of dreams for sex differences in aggression shows that (a) men are more aggressive than, and initiate more aggression than the women, (b) men and women do not differ in amount of aggressive actions they receive, (c) men exceed the women in average intensity of aggression, and exceed the women in aggression initiated or received by them in dreams. Men initiate as much aggression as they receive. Aggressive actions received by the men are more intense than those they initiated. The men involve as their most frequent aggressors or victims, (a) ma...

Phantom orgasm in the dreams of paraplegic men and women.

Introduction Accidental experiments of sexual pathology assume special importance in analysis of the variables of human eroticism because, on ethical grounds, these variables cannot be freely manipulated in laboratory experiments. Paraplegia and its more extreme form, quadriplegia, are one example of an accidental sexual experiment. In the paraplegic patient genitopelvic and cerebrocognitional eroticism function independently of one another. Their independence is brought about by injury to the spinal cord, whereby the nerve fibers of the cord are completely severed. Descending messages from the brain are blocked at the point of injury, as are ascending messages to the brain traveling from bodily organs and up the cord to the point of injury. The lower half of the paraplegic body is totally paralyzed and anesthetic. In quadriplegia, the arms and shoulders are affected also, more or less severely, dependent on the height of the spinal lesion. Ordinary

Memorabilia Mathematica: The mysterious number PHI

The imagination is the storehouse of forms received through the senses, the reproductive and creative instrument of man's great desires and dreams; a little bit of body—a little bit of spirit. This quality makes the education of the imagination a vital necessity in the preservation of the integrity of youth.

Geology of Bellevue Oil Field, Bossier Parish, Louisiana

The Bellevue oil field is in T. 19 N., R. 11 W., Bossier Parish, in the midst of the oil- and gas-producing area of northwestern Louisiana. Although the presence of a structure was long suspected from surface geology, the field was discovered in 1921 by a systematic plan of core drilling which located the crest of the uplift and proved it as an oil field. Geologically, Bellevue is probably a deep-seated salt dome in which salt has forced the overlying formations as much as 2,000 feet above their normal horizontal position. The deepest well on the structure is Harry Morgan's Smith No. 2, completed at a depth of 6,147 feet without encountering salt. Bellevue is one of the outstanding shallow fields of northern Louisiana. The oil is produced from the Nacatoch sand at the shallow depth of 300-400 feet, with some gas and oil from the contact of the Upper and Lower Cretaceous at a depth of about 1,800 feet. The economy of drilling to such a shallow depth and the prolific nature of the Nacatoch sand has made Bellevue approach the Utopia of the oil man's dream. On January 1, 1938, the field had produced a total of 9,860,430 barrels of oil from 900 acres, or an average of 10,996 barrels per acre, and for the year 1937, the field produced 280,130 barrels. Depression conditions caused the field to be closed during the years 1932 and 1933. All wells were abandoned and casing was pulled from many of them. Production for the year previous to the shut-down, 1931, was 103,930 barrels and for the year 1937, with only a part of the field reworked, it had reached a total of 280,130 barrels. A re-drilling of one 80-acre tract, which was abandoned with casing pulled in 1932, to January 1, 1938, resulted in a total new production of 3,000 barrels per acre.