DREADDlocks

Scientists have shown how the length of REM sleep corresponds to the amount of NREM sleep (slow wave or deep sleep).

http://www.medicaldaily.com/our-dream-state-rem-sleep-influences-memory-consolidation-during-other-sleep-phases-358498

The article is interesting, but the reason I mention it here is because the way they worked this out is by using something called DREADD. Wonderful acronym.

It stands for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs.

Notice how my dream the next morning featured me at a party, smoking a cigarette with a guy with dreadlocks.

"I stand alone in the crowd, wanting [the party] to be over. A guy with dreadlocks asks for a light, which I have. I ask for a cigarette, of which he has two: a roll-up and a straight. I take the straight. He lights the roll-up and it burns halfway down before he even takes a drag.

"The whole party is a drag."

I'm thinking about writing a story where the principal character has dreadlocks. In addition, artwork by the incredible Danielle Tunstall may have had something to do with it too. When I find the exact photo I glimpsed, I'll post it!

http://www.danielletunstall.com/portfolio/

Nothing is Strange by Mike Russell - Review

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25099252-nothing-is-strange" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Nothing Is Strange" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1425831869m/25099252.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25099252-nothing-is-strange">Nothing Is Strange</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/807620.Mike_Russell">Mike Russell</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1425031869">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Haunting, beautiful, worthwhile.<br><br>I felt that Mike Russell was in complete control of his storytelling; a sometimes distant but authoritative, Rod Serling-like guide to a bizarre universe.<br><br>There are moments in this collection of short stories that are laugh-out-loud funny and passages and observations that are actually sublime. I thought the stand out stories were The Meeting, The End of the Pier, Extraordinary Elsie and The Living Crown, though other stories also gave my mind an overdue clean and polish.<br><br>My only gripe is that I wanted to spend more time in the worlds created within each story. My answer to that is to do exactly what I did: read them all twice.
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How to Remember Your Dreams

More posts coming up soon on sleep debt, sleep paralysis, dreams of travelling and why I dreamed about Mike Dickin. For the moment, I'm very pleasantly but exhaustingly occupied with my book - How To Remember Your Dreams.

I hope very much that the book helps people achieve this goal, which is like a hub that can lead in many different directions. As I explore more of those directions, I'll share my results here, but for now I'm perfecting my dream recall and launching on one of the most interesting of dream paths - that of lucid dreaming.

If you want to chat dreams, my favourite mediums are emails and Twitter. If you want to improve your dream recall, bookmark and follow this site.

Get your copy of How To Remember Your Dreams via Amazon. For Amazon UK, click here.

Other outlets to follow.

Thanks.

D