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4 hours ago

Dreams that indicate you're about to DIE - including seeing the light

Many reported vivid dreams featuring lost loved ones, while others saw symbols of transition, including doors, stairways and light. According to the researchers, these themes may offer psychological relief and meaning to people facing end of life.
Medicine
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
19 hours ago

When You Can't Picture Yourself in Your Own Future

Many young adults experience a psychological disconnection from their future, feeling detached from their own lives and milestones due to trauma and existential concerns.
#sleep
Television
fromSilicon Canals
16 hours ago

Psychology says adults who still sleep with the television on aren't just creatures of habit - many of them are filling the room with voices because at some point in their life the silence became the space where the worst thoughts lived, and a stranger talking about the weather at 2 AM is less frightening than whatever their own mind has to say when there's nothing else competing for the air - Silicon Canals

Using television as background noise can become a coping mechanism for stress, impacting sleep quality negatively.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago
Mental health

If you can't fall asleep without background noise, psychology says it reveals something deeper about your mind - Silicon Canals

Television
fromSilicon Canals
16 hours ago

Psychology says adults who still sleep with the television on aren't just creatures of habit - many of them are filling the room with voices because at some point in their life the silence became the space where the worst thoughts lived, and a stranger talking about the weather at 2 AM is less frightening than whatever their own mind has to say when there's nothing else competing for the air - Silicon Canals

Using television as background noise can become a coping mechanism for stress, impacting sleep quality negatively.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago
Mental health

If you can't fall asleep without background noise, psychology says it reveals something deeper about your mind - Silicon Canals

Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
20 hours ago

Psychology says the art of not caring what others think isn't something you decide to do one day - it's a quiet skill built over years of noticing how much of your life was being shaped by opinions of people who weren't actually paying attention to you in the first place - Silicon Canals

People overestimate how much others notice their actions and appearance, leading to unnecessary self-consciousness.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Working With the Inner Child

The inner child concept emphasizes how childhood experiences shape our adult selves and the importance of healing through compassionate responses.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

Psychology suggests you will always push away good things if your subconscious mind doesn't believe you deserve them - and most people who do this don't recognize it as pushing, they just wonder why nothing good ever seems to stay - Silicon Canals

Self-sabotage often occurs unconsciously, pushing good things away despite a desire for improvement.
Books
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Do You See Yourself in a Story?

Comic books have evolved into a serious medium for exploring trauma and psychological depth, exemplified by works like Maus.
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

From Cajal to Dali and Lorca: The drawings that revealed the substance of the human mind and inspired Surrealism

Santiago Ramon y Cajal discovered the structure of the nervous system and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, influencing both science and art.
#lucid-dreaming
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How Lucid Dreaming Can Make Us More Creative

Lucid dreaming enhances creativity and problem-solving abilities, as shown by studies on haiku poetry written in this state.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How Lucid Dreaming Can Make Us More Creative

Lucid dreaming enhances creativity and problem-solving abilities, as shown by studies on haiku poetry written in this state.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Unlived Life: Jung's Most Haunting Concept

Success can lead to an unsettling realization of the unlived life, where unfulfilled aspects of personality and desires remain hidden.
Psychology
fromMail Online
22 hours ago

Scientists reveal scary dreams might actually be GOOD for you

Experiencing fear in dreams may indicate better emotional regulation skills, despite being linked to worse mood the following day.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How to Embrace Being "More" Spiritual

Awareness of the transcendent reveals depth and meaning in life, fostering spiritual growth and a sense of oneness with the world.
Mental health
fromTiny Buddha
1 week ago

What's Really Happening When Your Thoughts Spiral at Night - Tiny Buddha

Anxiety serves as a messenger, revealing underlying fears rather than being an enemy to be eliminated.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks ago

Psychology says people who crave both complete freedom and deep companionship aren't confused - they're experiencing the central tension of the human condition, and the people who resolve it aren't the ones who choose a side but the ones who stop treating it like a choice - Silicon Canals

The autonomy-connection paradox highlights the human need for both independence and intimacy in relationships.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Psychoanalysis Is a Type of Exposure Therapy

Psychoanalysis and exposure therapy both involve gradual exposure to feared stimuli, with relationships being the primary focus in psychoanalysis.
Books
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Fiction Is Indispensable to Life's Journey

Fiction is essential for emotional connection, learning, and social cognition, allowing us to escape reality and engage deeply with narratives.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Invisible Game: Jordan's Negative Space and Jung's Shadow

Michael Jordan and Carl Jung both emphasize the importance of recognizing overlooked spaces for extraordinary performance and deeper self-understanding.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Your Most Horrifying Thoughts May Not Mean What You Think

Intrusive sexual thoughts are a common form of OCD, often misidentified and not indicative of actual desire.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Our Brain Tells Us Horror Stories at Night

Nighttime cognition shifts toward rumination and catastrophic thinking due to reduced prefrontal cortex efficiency, causing minor problems to feel like existential crises that resolve with daylight.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

May Confusion Dawn As Wisdom

Confusion can be a pathway to wisdom and understanding rather than an obstacle to overcome, as demonstrated through Zen Buddhist practice and contemporary art.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Using a Beginner's Mind

Beginner's mind, rooted in Zen practice, enables conscious observation of present moments through widened perception, revealing unique interrelationships and sustaining well-being by treating time as an active verb rather than static noun.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Death Drive

Some individuals exhibit necrophilia—a destructive impulse and love of death—driven by fear of life's uncontrollability, manifesting in pathological enjoyment of war and destruction.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Get What You Want

Historical examples of powerful women demonstrate that independent thinking and strategic action enable individuals to achieve their goals despite systemic constraints.
#dreams
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Carl Jung said the second half of life has a completely different purpose than the first - here's what that means for everyone over 55 - Silicon Canals

In the afternoon of life, one had to find that meaning from within. This realization struck the author profoundly upon retirement, when all external markers of identity—job sites, customers, crew management—vanished, leaving only the question of personal identity stripped of professional achievement and external validation.
Careers
Miscellaneous
fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

I Tried New Tech That Claimed It Could Hack My Dreams | The Walrus

A sleep doctor's early fascination with unexplained nighttime deaths led him to establish one of Canada's first independent sleep laboratories, pioneering sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Does the Brain Know Itself?

Introspection provides direct empirical contact with physical reality through interoception and neural integration, where bodily sensations become emotional and self-aware experiences via the insula and prefrontal cortex.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Cave You Didn't Build

Plato's choice of this word is deliberate. He is not describing neutral carriers. He is describing people whose job is manufacturing a convincing reality for an audience that cannot see behind the curtain. Here is what matters clinically: the conjurers are not necessarily villains. They may be devoted parents, conscientious teachers, or well-meaning community leaders.
Philosophy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why You Don't Have to Choose Just One Version of Yourself

Humans possess multiple self-aspects across different roles and contexts, and greater self-complexity provides psychological resilience against stress and setbacks.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Architecture of Identity: How the Brain Builds a Self

Attention is the brain's filtering mechanism; what passes through that filter is what gets encoded. What gets encoded becomes memory. And memory is the raw material of identity. So in the architecture of your identity, attention is the doorway.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Publishing Untold Stories From the Worlds of the Subconscious

Unfortunately, hypnosis has a negative reputation among the general public, in large part because of how it's been portrayed by the movie and entertainment industry. Also, I was aware that in the late 19th century there were many false positive and negative claims about hypnosis that soured the public on the possibility that hypnosis could be helpful. I did not want to create or add to a 21st-century perception that hypnosis was quackery, and therefore chose to withhold telling about some of the most amazing events that I had encountered with my patients when I first wrote about hypnosis, because these stories might have been too hard to believe.
Mental health
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Benefits and Burdens of Keeping Secrets

Secrets function as social bonding mechanisms and markers of trust, while those kept from ourselves represent repressed aspects of identity that affect mental and physical well-being.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Break Free From Expectations and Live Authentically

A child's self-worth and life choices become distorted when built on a parent's fabricated achievements and false expectations.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Consciousness can connect you to the entire UNIVERSE, theory suggests

Your consciousness can connect you with the entire universe, a groundbreaking study suggests. Experts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts claim that traditional connections in the brain cannot fully explain how we are aware of our existence. Instead, they argue that quantum physics taking place within our skull is what generates awareness. This includes the idea that particles can exist in multiple states and locations at the same time.
Science
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What to Make of Nightmares

A maggot dream revealed Amelia's disgust and fear tied to starting a small business and pointed toward coping through partner support and examining specific fears.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The person I am at 6 AM before anyone else wakes up is the most honest version of myself I've ever met - and some mornings I mourn the fact that this version disappears the moment I hear a footstep on the stairs - Silicon Canals

Early morning solitude enables authentic self-reflection and creative thinking before social roles and external expectations reshape personal identity.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Your Childhood Bedroom Can Teach You About Purpose

Purpose is built through identifying and pursuing childhood interests and curiosities that naturally engage you, rather than discovered as a predetermined destination.
Science
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Sound cues steered dreams and improved puzzle-solving

Timed sound cues during sleep (targeted memory reactivation) can prompt dream content and double next-morning puzzle-solving rates for some participants.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why everything you think about yourself could be an illusion

For most of my life, I thought of myself as a fixed entity: This is me. These are my traits. This is who I am. I assumed I was essentially that same person who loved sugary cereal at age 8, fried chicken at 12, and tequila at 21, and who still loves those things now, even if my stomach disagrees. But this is an illusion. Neuroscience, physics, and Buddhism all agree: There is nothing fixed about us-not even close.
Philosophy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Archetypal Psychology Is and Why It Matters

Modern psychology excels at identifying symptoms but often overlooks deeper narrative patterns that shape human experience and meaning.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Link Between Thinking and Being

Metaphors are linked to how we experience the world around us, according to seminal work by researchers George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. In English, we "move forward" with our lives and don't "retreat into" the past. We speak about people who are "cold as ice" and "heavy" matters we need to resolve. Some of these metaphorical expressions are more than just, well, expressions-they are actually based on our sensory experiences. This mind-body link is called "embodied cognition."
Science
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Childhood and Its Wounds Help Us Know Ourselves

Integrated psychological, spiritual, and saintly development transforms childhood wounds into compassion, guiding individuals toward universal stewardship and non-retaliatory grief.
#maladaptive-daydreaming
Philosophy
fromBig Think
2 months ago

Which of the 5 philosophical archetypes best describes you?

Everyone engages in philosophy through wonder, logic, interrogation, introspection, dialectic, and advocacy, expressed via diverse archetypal approaches such as the questioning Sphinx.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Silicon Canals

Unconscious patterns and autopilot behavior drive most decisions, causing repeated life outcomes until they are consciously examined and changed.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

9 signs your intuition is stronger than you realize even if you've learned to doubt yourself - Silicon Canals

Intuition is a reliable, often-overlooked guide that detects patterns and warns before conscious awareness; pay attention to gut feelings.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Finessing Fate: Living With Two Forms of Power

An old definition of the word fate is "the will of the gods." We might say that it is a fitting metaphor, as it suggests that fate comes from a source much larger than ourselves. Its immensity will stretch way beyond what is in our control. We can ask: How can we create a life that reflects our dreams and what we hold to be important, when so much lies outside our sphere of influence?
Philosophy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Psychology of the Collective Unconscious

A shared, inherited collective unconscious shapes human emotions, recurring archetypal imagery, and convergent dream themes across cultures, especially during times of stress.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Are You Trapped in a Golden Cage?

Many of the people I work with as a burnout coach tell themselves a golden-cage story. On paper, their jobs and lives might look good. And yet, they are exhausted, dissatisfied, and quietly desperate for more time, energy, and freedom. They long for a different rhythm of life - but feel financially trapped. The story they tell themselves goes like this: It would be reckless, even irresponsible, to leave this job.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Why We Call It Psychology, Not Animology

For Plato, psyche meant something like what we'd now call mind -understood as a complex system requiring governance. The psyche had distinct parts: a reasoning part that deliberates, a spirited part that feels emotion and courage, and an appetitive part that desires. Each part has its own function and its own form of excellence. And crucially, these parts need to be governed-integrated under what Plato called constitutional self-rule.
Philosophy
Mental health
fromNature
2 months ago

Daily briefing: What people with no 'mind's eye' can tell us about consciousness

Vividness of mental imagery, handwriting practices, psychiatric-diagnostic revisions, and emerging brain–computer interfaces shape memory, creativity, education, mental-health classification, and technology development.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Who Would You Be if No One Was Watching?

The spotlight effect causes people to edit their lives for an imaginary audience, creating unnecessary suffering through overestimated judgment from others.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Thoughts That Are Born in Darkness

Genius idea generation is mysterious, distinct from academic skill, and unlimited information access risks replacing original thought.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Curious Geometry of the Lived Experience

This story is about complexity, advanced math, cognition, and machine computation. But hold on. For this exercise, my task is to take this complex idea and reduce it-to simplify it into something less daunting and (I hope) a bit easier to understand. So, let's take a step back. My bet is that most of us learned our first piece of geometry with two letters: x and y.
Philosophy
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Why some of us feel most like ourselves at 2 a.m. when the world is quiet and no one is watching us perform the version of us that daylight demands - Silicon Canals

Erving Goffman, the Canadian sociologist, built an entire framework around this in his 1956 work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. His argument was elegant and a little unsettling: social life is theatre. We are always performing. Every interaction has a "front stage" where we manage impressions, modulate tone, and curate which parts of ourselves are visible.
Psychology
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Psychology says people who overthink everything at night usually have these 8 rare qualities during the day - Silicon Canals

Nighttime overthinkers often develop strengths like heightened attention to detail and creative problem solving that become valuable when properly channeled.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Why some of us build entire worlds inside our heads and then feel homesick for places that never existed - Silicon Canals

Elaborate inner worlds built through imagination are common cognitive features that fulfill emotional needs, characterized by specific details and consistent logic that can persist for decades.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Childhood Origins of Altered States in Adults

Systematic developmental and neuro-phenomenological research is needed to understand childhood consciousness. Anyone who has spent time with young children knows they have a way of saying things that make you pause and reconsider what you thought you understood. Many report non-ordinary experiences-moments of "just knowing," feeling outside their bodies, or sensing a deep unity with the world around them. These accounts suggest a form of consciousness that is relational, pre-linguistic, and not yet organized around a solid, separate self.
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