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!

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Interconnectivity of the Internet has proven itself a unique media for communication on an unprecedented scale. Assisting individuals suffering from personal or social discord traditionally require physical presence of the therapist, psychologist, analyst or psychiatrist in private or group discussion.

Somniquest.com seeks a new path for clinicians and clients who are geographically isolated from one another. The Internet bridges additional structure to established scientific methods of Psychology. Somniquest.com hopes to advance professional and lay knowledge of our collective unconscious. After all, the Internet is a prominent human accomplishment rising from our needs for human connectivity. What better way to facilitate Internet technology by that which made it possible in the first place, our collective minds and spirits. Dreams and symbols found on Somniquest.com echo from a beginning of human conciousness. Somniquest.com is evaluating innovative methods to link duplicated themes across different languages and cultures. Eventually collective themes found within may cast the unknown into an expanding perspective.

Screening of qualified individuals for professional services on the web site is not a guilded process; a basic requirement of previous clinical supervision within various fields of Psychology will generally suffice. However, your professional services will be monitored by those involved in your verification. Inappropriate tendencies will be questioned quickly. You may be banned from further professional activity on the site unless you provide compelling reasons for your actions. Perhaps a more powerful consequence will be the flight of your clients from your services. The Internet provides freedom for your clients to act without justification.

Somniquest developed a network of servers both in the United States and offshore to enhance confidential work. Internationally networked servers provide protection for you as a professional and also for your clients. You will be provided a non-traceable email address for your work on somniquest.com if you wish.
Information on our servers is protected to the fullest extent of international and domestic law. Information will not be released to outside parties. Privacy across our servers is high-grade encrypted to 256 bits as a certified secure socket layer.

Somniquest.com will invoke change in your clinical environment. Perhaps you already communicate with your clients by email or fax machine. Somniquest.com may complement your established techniques and lead you to explore new modalities. Consultation with colleagues across the globe is easy and secure on the site. You and your client can share information quickly and begin archiving clinical information.

Somniquest.com’s capabilities will improve with time and experience. Please share your suggestions openly. Your comments will help others as they too gain experience with the site.

We wish the best for you, your good work and your clients.