Daily bread 04/07/2018

• The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams | Aeon Ideas

  • The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams
  • the illusory nature of
  • to know that we’re dreaming even while asleep, a state known as lucid dreaming.
  • are closely linked
  • came up with an ingenious way to
  • verify the phenomenon empirically
  • reasoned tha
  • to flick his eyes
  • spend several nights in
  • Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase of sleep
  • have since replicated these findings
  • has proved to be a struggle
  • distilling reliable methods for
  • inducing lucid dreams
  • around 40 studies have been conducted
  • scant success
  • to address the limitations
  • more promising methods
  • focus on
  • to put real meaning into the words
  • kept a dream journal
  • their ‘baseline’ tendency
  • ended up having
  • repeated the mantra
  • the amount of time spent on
  • the most important factor was
  • people fell asleep
  • it proved almost twice as effective
  • to try this for yourself
  • the right level of wakefulness
  • the alarm goes off
  • struggle to doze off
  • It takes a bit of practice
  • starts to fade
  • can trigger a
  • rubbing your hands together vigorously
  • flooding the brain with
  • the sheer joy of being able to
  • can feel almost as vivid to us as
  • where fantasy ends and reality begins

• Convert any Website into a Podcast

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• Can You Believe Your Own Ears? With New 'Fake News' Tech, Not Necessarily : NPR

  • • Fake audio, Fake Video, Fake News....what to believe?
  • Can You Believe Your Own Ears? With New 'Fake News' Tech, Not Necessarily
  • we might not be able to believe our own ears.
  • are evolving quickly
  • Influence-mongers
  • has serious repercussions for
  • to market their technology
  • to mimic someone's speech
  • be put in place
  • discourage its misuse
  • safeguards
  • The implications are huge
  • I don't think it's an overstatement to say that
  • a potential threat to democracy
  • provide plenty of grist
  • a derogatory term for
  • growing awareness of
  • a forgery
  • touts
  • coming up with a fix.
  • a disaster scenario
  • be far more skeptical
  • to be questioning everything

• What’s Going On in This Picture? - The New York Times

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