To me, the best songs are the ones that come to you in dreams. I wake up, put it down on a cassette next to the bed, turn over and go back to sleep. I wrote “Satisfaction” that way.
(Keith Richards Interview by Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema -22 January 1995)

I think I’ve dreamed all the songs I’ve written. I don’t dream regular dreams. I dream stories. When people tell me they had a strange dream last night, they were riding down a street, and blah, blah, blah, I don’t relate to that. I dream in abstractions, in colors. I dream music and shapes and paintings and sculptures. I have awakened at four-thirty in the morning with a whole symphony in my head. I say to myself, “This is so good I don’t even have to get up now. I’ll remember it when I wake up later.” And then later when I wake up, it’s gone. And then weeks, maybe months, maybe years later it reoccurs to me that the song I have just written is from some old dream. -Billy Joel

One night Johnny had a dream that he turned into the signature song on one of his most lauded later albums.  Later, he described it to talk-show host Larry King:

“I dreamed I saw Queen Elizabeth, that I went into Buckingham Palace and there she sat on the floor.  And she looked up at me and said, “Johnny Cash, you’re like a thorn tree in a whirlwind.” And I woke up, of course.  What could a dream like this mean—thorn tree in a whirlwind?  Well…for two or three years…it kept haunting me.  This dream, kept thinkin’ about it.  How vivid it was.  And then I thought that maybe it’s biblical, so I found it.  Somethin’ about whirlwinds and thorn trees in the Bible.  So, from that, my song started.” 

It became his song “And the man comes round.”  How Dreams Saved Johnny Cash By Kym Chaffin

Paul McCartney, Shawn Colvin, Sting, Rory Block, Billy Joel, Johnny Cash – these are musicians who have written songs inspired by their dreams –

Healing sutra’s of Patanjali.
by TKV Desikachar and Kausthub Desikachar.
Credit: http://www.yogaofyoga.com

Prelude:
The message of Patanjali in the yoga sutra is that, mental activities, which can be classified into five types, are both useful, as well as a source of trouble. This time we look at the fourth type of mental activity, sleep.

abhava pratyaya alambana tamo vrttih nidra | Yoga Sutra I.10

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Ken Grey
“It is my dream that patients will visit their Doctors and instead of asking: What will you give me? They will ask: What will you teach me?” - Dr. Ken AP, DOM

http://www.earthschool.tv - “way to live”

 

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Originally posted on National Sleep Foundation website June 22, 2009

Whenever you’re facing a problem or tough decision, you might get the following advice from a friend: “Sleep on it.” According to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that might not be a bad idea.

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Modern materialistic science is not sure about the origin and nature of most
psychic phenomena including dreams. This information can be found in Vedic scriptures.

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from 18mind.com

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manual_00.html The role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the thinking of the world. The reversal is characteristic. It seems as if the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one’s time. The course, on the other hand, emphasizes that to teach <is> to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.

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G-d caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep and He separated the first human creature called Adam into two equal components of male and female. The male component remained with the name Adam and the female component was named Chava.

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You would have supposed them to be awake, whereas in fact they were asleep. We moved them to the right and to the left, and, at the entrance, their dog stretched out its paws. If you had looked down and seen them, you would have turned from them and run, and have been filled with terror at the sight of them. (Qur’an, 18:18)

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Sleep therapist Dr. Rubin Naiman explains the true causes of sleep disorders, caffeine cravings and sleep hormone imbalances

by Dani Veracity, citizen journalist

Seventy-six percent of Americans are lacking something right now. No, it’s not the latest fad fashion, electronic device or even money in the bank. It’s sleep. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb so that people could work at night, and there are now 25 million night shift workers in U.S.-occupied territory. Thanks to the light bulb and the later invention of television, sleep quantity (per person) has decreased by about 20 percent since 1900. Furthermore, 76 percent of Americans have a sleeping disorder at least a few days per week, contributing to our society’s epidemic of daytime sleepiness, depression and adrenal fatigue, sleep therapist Dr. Rubin Naiman said in his November lecture at the 2005 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Conference (CAMCON) in Tucson, Ariz.

Modern Western society doesn’t comply with our natural biorhythms. Humans are built to nap, according to Dr. Naiman. (more…)