“albs” blog

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99, (Letter ‘d’ comes for the first   time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999, (Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999, (Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter ‘c’ does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting. Just try ….

Why Do We Dream?

Nobody knows for certain why we dream. One of the first people to come close to a scientific explanation was the Greek philosopher Aristotle. At first, he spoke of the soul exercising special clairvoyant powers, in accord with its divine nature, when freed from the body’s constraint in sleep. However, he was to conclude that the function of sleep and dreams was to dissipate the vapours that rose from the stomach after food. Similarly, for many centuries it was believed that blood rose to the brain and caused congestion there. Sleep enabled the blood to drain drained back into the rest of the body.

Science asks: Why Do We Dream?

Early in the 20th century the first scientific theories about sleep and dreams proposed that chemicals such as lactic acid, carbon dioxide and cholesterol, collected in the brain during the day. These were dissipated during sleep. In short, sleep and dreams were thought to be a function of the elimination process of the body.

Today some psychologists are reconsidering these initial ideas. Although Aristotle and others were clearly wrong about their science, they may have been correct in saying that dreams are a physiological process. Some of the latest theories propose that dreams are the body’s way of ‘rebooting’ the brain.  Dreams dispose of memories that would otherwise clutter the mind with unnecessary remembered experiences. In particular they enable the emotions to become balanced. Dreams get rid of the junk and allow the brain’s complex chemistry to stabilise. Without dreams, we would simply overheat.

REM Sleep: A way to discover Why We Dream?

One of the biggest breakthroughs in dream experimentation came in 1952 when a researcher noticed that the eyes of sleeping subjects would move beneath their closed eyelids. In 1955, Eugene Aserinsky and Nathan Kleitman published a paper on these strange eye movements. They named them “rapid eye movements” and called this phase of sleep REM periods. REM sleep (also now know as paradoxical sleep) occupies 20 per cent of your night’s sleep and alternates with orthodox sleep about every 90 minutes.

It has been found that during REM sleep the flow of blood to the brain increases, as does the brain’s temperature and both the penis in men and the clitoris in women become erect. REM sleep strengthens memory-traces although the release of growth hormones is less than during orthodox sleep. But most importantly, the brain shows a radical change in activity that can be measured on an electroencephalograph (EEG). If a person is awoken at this time, they usually remember vivid dreams. This discovery enabled scientists to tell how often we dream and by waking the subject during REM sleep they could guarantee there would be a dream to study.

How Often Do We Dream?

Most of us dream every 90 minutes and the longest dreams, lasting 30 to 45 minutes, occur in the morning.  Studies have shown that half of us wake during REM sleep and recall our dreams but the rest wake during non-REM sleep and are less likely to recall a dream. This may account for why many people believe that they “never dream”. The truth is that we all dream- every night- but most of us forget we’ve been dreaming.

REMEMBERING DREAMS

Before we can work with our dreams, we firstly need to learn how to remember them. A simple technique is to set your alarm clock a little earlier than usual. This may interrupt a period of REM sleep and you are more likely to recall a dream. Some authorities claim that many people unconsciously wake themselves at a time when they are not dreaming, because they want to repress what their dreams are revealing. It has also been shown that you are more likely to remember dreams if you are keen to have them. The fact that you are reading this book will increase the likelihood that you will have more dreams- or so it seems. In reality, you are only becoming aware of the rich dream life you already have. The difference is that now you are learning to take notice and remember them.

Another technique is to drink a large glass of water before you go to bed. You’re likely to wake up during the night wanting the bathroom. By doing this you may interrupt a REM period and thereby recall a dream. I’ve tried the method and it works but apart from being uncomfortable, I invariably wake to find that I’ve been dreaming of trying to find a toilet!

THE SEASONS
Spring: To dream about spring is a sign of fortunate undertakings and cheerful companions.
Summer: Summer foretells joyous events and prosperity; denotes the maturity of ambitions and signals unbound satisfaction.
Autumn: Implies cycle of transformation and change of surroundings. Will experience many ups and downs.
Winter: In this case is a cycle of disintegration and rest. It foretells happiness and financial gains.

THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.

At the time, crucifixion was the “worst” death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There’s a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself so that He could breathe.

Both of His feet were nailed together.  Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross.  Jesus could not support himself with His legs because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using his legs just to continue to breath.  Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.

Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering?  A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding.

He was simply pouring water from his wounds.

From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side.  But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body.  A hammer driving large nails through the wrists, the feet overlapped and an even larger nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear..  But before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and beaten. 

The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. 

The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. 

The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp.  Most men would not have survived this torture.

He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds.

The human adult body contains about 3..5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into his members; a crown of  thorns on his head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into his chest.

All these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying his own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where his hands were nailed).

Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you can have free access to God.

So that your sins could be “washed” away. All of them, with no exception! Don’t ignore this situation.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU! For you.