Recording Your Dreams and Podcasting
Vocalizing your dreams can be a useful tool as you participate on the site. Somniquest.com provides you with the ability to upload a .mp3 or .wav file and allow others to listen after they download it. Knowing your podcast is in public domain and on the internet may influence what you say. We recommend you keep your comments specific enough to jog your memory, but keep private information in a handwritten notebook. Also, consider providing a verbatim transcription of your podcast; others may not have the ability to listen to your podcast. Your blogsite allows you the flexibility to type your dream in any descriptive fashion you want.
Vocalizing your dream is not new to most people. Many of you often share or discuss dreams with others. Children who feel safe discussing dreams often express dreams almost as if they were on a stage. Sometimes you may have left shameful items out, or embellished your discussion. Maybe you share with everyone or maybe just with one or no one at all. Somniquest.com shares with everyone. However there are advanced settings available that restrict public domain viewing and downloading your site entries within the real ability of the somniquest.com servers. You may use the security features if you want. For Depth Psychologists, it is possible to provide your services across the internet under the protection provided by our 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.
We sleep in different depths. It is possible to become skillful at vocalizing your dream into a voice recorder while you are above the deeper dream state of REM sleep. It is easier for most to record their dream rather than write it down after emerging from REM sleep. Usually it takes a more conscious effort to physically write your dream in your handwritten notebook than it does to vocalize your dream into a voice recorder. After all, most of us utter or vocalize something recognizable in REM sleep occasionally, but cannot write anything recognizable in REM sleep. Doing so would be considered abnormal. If you can write or draw while in REM sleep, we want to talk to you! Occasional talking while in REM sleep is not abnormal and if you talk while in REM sleep you might consider podcasting it. Some voice recorders have a setting allowing voice recording without consciously pushing a button. Or, perhaps you might record your whole sleep cycle and edit out the snoring!
If you like, here are some references you might find helpful.
Story Structure In Verbal Reports Of Mental Sleep Experience After Awakening In REM Sleep
Carlo Cipolli and Diego Poli
University of Modena, Modena, Italy
Summary: Four night reports obtained after awakening in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and their corresponding morning reports were collected from 20 subjects in an experimental night. All of the reports were analyzed using a slightly modified version of Mandler and Johnson’s story grammar. Values for a series of indicators were compared with respect to the factors “moment of reporting” (at night/in the morning) and “order of reporting” (first/second/third/fourth report). Story-like organization seems to be a feature of dream production and not merely due to reconstructive effects in recall: values of no indicator significantly differ in night and morning reports. The more extensive thematic progression and the increasing complexity in reports over the first half of the night show that the effectiveness of the system of dream production varies in different periods of REM sleep. These findings, while strengthening the view of a multilevel character of the system of dream production, still generate the problem of the direction of activation (bottom-up or top-down) of this system.
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