“Your Dreams Are Inner Visual Teacher of Wisdom for You”
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ISSN 2347-162X HAPPY Holi RNI No. GUJENG/2002/23382 | Postal Registration No. GAMC-1732 | 2016-18 Issued by SSP Ahd-9, Posted at P.S.O. 10th Every Month Ahmedabad-2, Valid up to 31-12-2018 AHMEDABAD, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2018 VOL.16, ISSUE-11 www.theopenpage.co.in facebook.com/theopenpage (12 + 4) TOTAL PAGE -16 INVITATION PRICE: `30/- From, The Open Page, 4th Floor Vishwa Arcade, Opp. Kum-Kum Party Plot, Nr. Akhbarnagar, Nava Wadaj, Ahmedabad - 380013 | Ph : 079-27621385/86 Dear Readers, May the shines of this Holi brighten your “Your Dreams Are Inner Visual path towards progress and continue with success. May the spirit of it brings you joy, gladness of hope, love and happiness.. I wish with all my heart that it brings more colors to your life. Wishing Teacher Of Wisdom For You” you and your family a fabulous Holi.! reams are stories and images that our Chief Editor Dminds create while we sleep. They can Archit Bhatt be entertaining, fun, romantic, disturbing, frightening, and sometimes bizarre. They teach you about you. It is you talking to you. Most of the time we try to pretend we are something we wish to be, your dreams will show you the darker aspects of self, INSIDE they will also show you what you are like when you are not controlled by social norms. Dreams tell you what you most de- sire, they entertain you, they teach you about worse case scenario by playing out a possible nightmare. They show you who you think you are most attracted too. They give you insight to your emotions. They show you directional course you can choose to grow as a human being. Nathaniel Kleitman was a physiologist REMEMBER HOLI WITH p3 and sleep researcher who served as Pro- SPLASHING COLOR fessor Emeritus in Physiology at the Uni- versity of Chicago. He is recognized as the father of modern sleep research and is the author of the seminal 1939 book 'Sleep and Wakefulness'. In 1953 Aserinsky, while working under the direction of Kleitman in a sleep study love and hate are aroused we push down Thus, if we wake straight out of a dream, laboratory was the first to observe the either. we have a greater chance of remembering Rapid Eye Movements – REM – now The paradox is that we do not know it. A 2011 study showed that people who known to occur during dreaming. As we are thus pushing our hatred at the have more theta brain-wave activity in Aserinsky had observed this in the sleep of moment we do it. And we do not allow it their prefrontal cortex after waking from babies, it was first assumed to occur only UNDERSTANDING AND to come up when we are awake. The ha- REM sleep have better dream recall. Theta p7 within infants. Later investigation proved tred that we push down is the seed of activity indicates a slower-paced, more re- COMPANIONSHIP it to occur with all people observed. the dream. Freud called it ‘Day Resi- laxed brain state, and greater theta activity Any idea how many dreams you have due’. He is considered the father of psy- has been linked to enhanced memory every night when you sleep? How many choanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856- while awake. dreams you have in a year? 1939) revolutionizes the study of There are techniques by which the rate Scientific experiments by Eugene Arsen- dreams with his work. of recall of dreams can be improved, on sky and Nathaniel Klietman in 1954 dem- Freud begins to analyze dreams in order waking up, do not jump out of your bed. onstrated that we get three dreams every to understand aspects of personality as No, you should not even change the pos- night which add up to a little more than a they relate to pathology. He believes that ture in which you are lying when you thousand dreams every year. Most of you nothing you do occurs by chance every ac- wake up. Usually, it is our ears that awak- may not remember your dreams on many tion and thought is motivated by your un- en first, not the eyes. Try to recollect the days. Of course, we differ in our rate of re- conscious at some level. In order to live in eyes. Try to recollect the dream you had. call of dreams. Some people remember a civilized society, you have a tendency to Perhaps you will catch only the tail of the EXAM FEVER p9 more dreams and we ourselves remember hold back our urges and repress our im- dream. Go backward and retrace the our dreams better on certain days. pulses. However, these urges and impulses dream flow. You should not edit or cor- There are many theories about why we must be released in some way they have a rect the dream. You must not have a sim- get dreams. As with every other phenom- way of coming to the surface in disguised ple, dry, cerebral recollection but try to enon the questions ‘why’ always ends up forms. It is interesting to note that Ayur relive the dream experience. explaining ‘how’ we get dreams. Veda, the ancient Indian system of medi- Once the entire content of the dream Freud was the first psychologist to at- cine characterized dreams as symptoms is firmly captured, write it down; better, tempt to understand and explain dreams. of’ mental indigestion’ . dictate it into a tape recorder. Then listen Freud said our dreams are rooted in the The day residue settles down in the un- to it. You will find your own voice ambivalence of our psyche. ‘Ambivalence’ conscious part of our psyche. Freud said charged with emotions. Now, try to go means we human being have two oppos- that this unconscious part of the psyche is over your experiences during the previ- ing feelings at the same time, or being un- greater and more powerful than the con- ous day or a day or two before. You must certain about how you feel, It is a state of scious part. The day residue networks be able to recollect a situation in which having simultaneous conflicting reactions, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT p10 with similar experience we had earlier in you had been ambivalent. Whatever YOUR DIFFICULTIES... beliefs, or feelings towards some object. our life. It picks up our life. It picks up our words or images spontaneously flow Many testimonies, as well as fictional responses during those occasions and when you think of it and record them. For Sridevi, A Tribute works, describe situations in which people weaves them together and presents it as a They are nodes of meaning. When you find themselves hating the person they dream. Yes, a dream is the distilled essence are able to link up all the nodes into a From “The Open page” love. This might initially appears to be SHE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO MILLIONS of our experience. single, major network of nodes it is the contradictory, for how can one love and So, dreams are considered the inner grand meaning of the dream. Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan hate the same person at the same time? visual teacher of wisdom of person. But Dreams are feedback from our subcon- :professionally she was known as We want to do something and do not we don’t understand the meaning and lan- scious. They can teach us what we want in Sridevi was an Indian actress want to do it- at one and the same time. and film producer who starred guage of this teacher. With a little atten- life, what we are doing right and wrong. in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, While our psyche can be so, our body can tion and practice we can learn to read the They teach us about our fears and desires. Malayalam, and Kannada films. act only in one way at a time: either we message of our teacher who gives a ses- We think dreams make no sense but if Regarded as Hindi cinema's can love a person or we can hate a person sion of wisdom and guidance every night. you dissect them and analyze them, they first "female superstar", at a moment, but cannot do both at the she was the recipient of As the brain awakens, it starts to turn on often do. five Filmfare Awards. same time. During the course of the day processes needed for long-term storage. when we are in situation in which both Dr. Raja Ganesan, Chennai www.theopenpage.co.in l [email protected] BACK TO THE ROOTS AHMEDABAD, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2018 2 Remember Holi with splashing color ndia, a country where you’d discover Ia festival in each month of the calen- dar. In some months, we even have two-three festivals together. That is why our country is known as the land of festivals. In our country all the fes- tivals have its own marvelous and in- teresting story behind its celebrations and we have been celebrating it from ages ago in different forms in different parts of the country. The spring pag- eant 'Holi' is widely known by the Hin- du community residing all over the globe. The pageant is therefore fun and engaging that everyone are bent to- wards its engaging and vivacious col- ours. it's taken the form of a commu- nity sport where matter no caste or creed, faith or sect, individual of all ages take part in the fun of smearing and splashing colours on one another. plays part in distracting the traditional Holi is widely known as Phalgun Purni- culture too.