Michael Chapdelaine-Music From The Heart

  “Not all who wander are lost”  JRRTolkein- Michael Chapdelaine is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world’s top competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres; the Guitar Foundation of America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championships at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, Kansas. From [...]

The Haunted Mind

by Nathaniel Hawthorne   Collected in Twice-Told Tales, 1837. What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after starting from midnight slumber! By unclosing your eyes so suddenly you seem to have surprised the personages of your dream in full convocation round your bed, and catch one [...]

Sleep songs–can they make you sleep?

Sleep songs–can songs make you sleep? OR is it the other way around -does sleep inspire songs????? The National Sleep Foundation has posted a list of the Top 100 Sleep Songs….most of these songs deal with the needing of sleep, sleep as a waste of time and/or problems with sleep–that is the negative side of sleep. Still [...]

Musical Inspiration From Dreams

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 Fourth Kind – Alien Abduction

The Fourth Kind – Alien Abduction http://www.facebook.com/TheFourthKind?v=wall The movie trailer states, “it started as a sleep disorders study”. Have you ever had a patient who claims to have been visited by or abducted by aliens? I had one who claimed both but he also talked to GOD, and I mean the shaking hands pat on [...]

Vedic scriptures on States of Consciousness and Dreams

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.

One-Third of Americans Lose Sleep Over Economy

National Sleep Foundation Poll Finds Inadequate Sleep is Associated with Health and Safety WASHINGTON, DC, March 2, 2009 – One-third of Americans are losing sleep over the state of the U.S. economy and other personal financial concerns, according to a new poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). The poll suggests that inadequate [...]