Why people dream and other questions
LET me devote this column to various questions sent in by readers and by listeners of my dzMM radio program.
Why do we dream? What is the effect if we do not dream?
Dreaming is apparently necessary for our psychical health, as well as for our general well-being.
In a scientific study conducted in the ’70s at the Maimonides Dream Laboratory of the Maimonides General Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, pioneer dream researchers Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner found that everybody averaged 30 dreams an evening.
They then tried to find out what would happen if people were deprived of dreams. They woke up a person as soon as s/he started to dream. They could tell when a person was dreaming through the brain waves and the rapid-eye movement that indicated a dream was taking place.
After weeks of preventing subjects from dreaming, the researchers found that these people developed nervousness, irritability, depression, and other emotional and psychological problems. The symptoms disappeared as soon as they stopped interrupting the natural dreaming process.
If reincarnation were true, how come nobody ever recalled being an animal in a previous life, during a past life regression?
Something is wrong with this question. It implies that we should have been animals in the past for reincarnation to be true. This is what is known in elementary logic as a “loaded question.” It is similar to the question, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” It implies you were beating her before.
Reincarnation does not presuppose a previous animal existence. As a matter of fact, in all the 5,000 regressions conducted by psychologist Dr. Helen Wambach on 3,000 subjects, not one ever recalled being an animal in a previous life. That does not mean reincarnation is not true. Several western scientific studies found no evidence of a person reincarnating as an animal.
It is true some eastern religions, notably Hinduism and Buddhism, believe a human being can reincarnate as an animal, depending on how s/he lived his/her life.
Although I respect such religious belief, I have not yet come across hard evidence that that is the case.Are spirit guides true? How do spirit guides differ from guardian angels?
In 1960, French journalist Pierre Jovanovic wrote a very interesting book, “An Enquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels.” In the book, a product of several years of meticulous investigative work, Jovanovic proved beyond reasonable doubt the existence of guardian angels. The book is full of documented accounts of angelic information into human lives.
What’s the distinction between angels and spirit guides? A guardian angel is a religious concept. According to the Christian religion, an angel is a “messenger of God,” and a “guardian angel” is assigned by God to every person at the time of his/her birth. An angel is a pure spirit who has never had a human physical existence. A spirit guide is a being that guides another by mutual agreement, to help him/her out during a particular time. A spirit guide may have lived life on the physical plane. A person may have more than one spirit guide.
How long does it take for one to reincarnate after death?
This depends on the consciousness of the individual soul and his karma. There is no fixed or standard time for everyone.
Some souls remain in the spirit world for years to learn certain lessons before they incarnate back to earth. On the other hand, I’ve read of souls incarnating in the same family while the parents are still alive. So there is no standard answer to this question.
Is there any scientific proof of the human aura?
Yes. Several scientific studies were done on the human aura. The first was conducted by a Dr. Kilner, a British medical scientist at the St. Thomas Hospital in London in the 1800s.
He developed what became known as the Kilner Screen. It is a flat piece of glass that enables ordinary persons to see the aura of another individual simply by looking through that glass. The glass is laced with certain chemicals or dyes that render the aura of a person visible.
In 1939, a husband-and-wife team of photographers, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian from Krasnodar, Russia, invented what has since been called Kirlian Photography.
They accidentally revealed the auric emanation in plants and humans by using high-voltage photography. Living things they photographed showed vivid colors around them.
Kirlian Photography is still controversial. Some scientists question whether what is seen through Kirlian photography is really the aura or just some reflection of light. Others, however, believe in it.
Psychics and clairvoyants see the human aura without need of any instrument. And they have confirmed the existence of the human aura.
Why do we dream? What is the effect if we do not dream?
Dreaming is apparently necessary for our psychical health, as well as for our general well-being.
In a scientific study conducted in the ’70s at the Maimonides Dream Laboratory of the Maimonides General Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, pioneer dream researchers Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner found that everybody averaged 30 dreams an evening.
They then tried to find out what would happen if people were deprived of dreams. They woke up a person as soon as s/he started to dream. They could tell when a person was dreaming through the brain waves and the rapid-eye movement that indicated a dream was taking place.
After weeks of preventing subjects from dreaming, the researchers found that these people developed nervousness, irritability, depression, and other emotional and psychological problems. The symptoms disappeared as soon as they stopped interrupting the natural dreaming process.
If reincarnation were true, how come nobody ever recalled being an animal in a previous life, during a past life regression?
Something is wrong with this question. It implies that we should have been animals in the past for reincarnation to be true. This is what is known in elementary logic as a “loaded question.” It is similar to the question, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” It implies you were beating her before.
Reincarnation does not presuppose a previous animal existence. As a matter of fact, in all the 5,000 regressions conducted by psychologist Dr. Helen Wambach on 3,000 subjects, not one ever recalled being an animal in a previous life. That does not mean reincarnation is not true. Several western scientific studies found no evidence of a person reincarnating as an animal.
It is true some eastern religions, notably Hinduism and Buddhism, believe a human being can reincarnate as an animal, depending on how s/he lived his/her life.
Although I respect such religious belief, I have not yet come across hard evidence that that is the case.Are spirit guides true? How do spirit guides differ from guardian angels?
In 1960, French journalist Pierre Jovanovic wrote a very interesting book, “An Enquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels.” In the book, a product of several years of meticulous investigative work, Jovanovic proved beyond reasonable doubt the existence of guardian angels. The book is full of documented accounts of angelic information into human lives.
What’s the distinction between angels and spirit guides? A guardian angel is a religious concept. According to the Christian religion, an angel is a “messenger of God,” and a “guardian angel” is assigned by God to every person at the time of his/her birth. An angel is a pure spirit who has never had a human physical existence. A spirit guide is a being that guides another by mutual agreement, to help him/her out during a particular time. A spirit guide may have lived life on the physical plane. A person may have more than one spirit guide.
How long does it take for one to reincarnate after death?
This depends on the consciousness of the individual soul and his karma. There is no fixed or standard time for everyone.
Some souls remain in the spirit world for years to learn certain lessons before they incarnate back to earth. On the other hand, I’ve read of souls incarnating in the same family while the parents are still alive. So there is no standard answer to this question.
Is there any scientific proof of the human aura?
Yes. Several scientific studies were done on the human aura. The first was conducted by a Dr. Kilner, a British medical scientist at the St. Thomas Hospital in London in the 1800s.
He developed what became known as the Kilner Screen. It is a flat piece of glass that enables ordinary persons to see the aura of another individual simply by looking through that glass. The glass is laced with certain chemicals or dyes that render the aura of a person visible.
In 1939, a husband-and-wife team of photographers, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian from Krasnodar, Russia, invented what has since been called Kirlian Photography.
They accidentally revealed the auric emanation in plants and humans by using high-voltage photography. Living things they photographed showed vivid colors around them.
Kirlian Photography is still controversial. Some scientists question whether what is seen through Kirlian photography is really the aura or just some reflection of light. Others, however, believe in it.
Psychics and clairvoyants see the human aura without need of any instrument. And they have confirmed the existence of the human aura.
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