This show addresses basic questions about DREAMS, SELF and CONSCIOUSNESS. It is based on the book “Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind: Experiencing the Emergent Supervening Self” by Glen Just.

How does the mind work? Kind of a loaded question….Alright let’s narrow it down a bit. How do dreams work? They are influenced by the physical self aren’t they? Are they influenced by our waking lives or the amount of sleep we’re getting? And what if our waking life is causing us to have nightmares? How is the Physical-SELF transformed into the Virtual-SELF?  Some big questions. 

Today on Newsgram we’re going to break it all down and learn how you can take unpleasant thoughts like nightmares and brain images and transform them into something more positive. You see, we all have emotions and anxieties — good and bad. These feelings are made into imagery by our mind. 

Glen Just (Emotion Images) and that can be visual. I can be tactile, touching, it can be sound and it can smell or taste as well but usually it’s visual or it’s auditory. So those are things that can get transferred into things you can see in your dreams like you are the movie director and screenwriter. Concepts  get turned back into emotions in dreams as well and so this is a bi-directional process so I give a fair number of examples of different emotions, different feelings and the bi-directionality of the imaging and the sensory process that occur in there and once you understand that it opens up a whole world of fascination to observe your own dreams because you’re now understanding what’s causing them. 

That is Glen Just, author of the book, Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind: Experiencing the Emergent Supervening Self. He says one way to control these processes is by usinga technique called “self-hypnosis”.

Glen Just (Self hypnosis) I use self-hypnosis to learn mind control. If you think of mind control to say the way some Buddhist’s do or Yogi’s do, they can control the imaging in their dreams or when they are awake what’s going through their minds and so I learned how to do that on my own using the mind control techniques of self-hypnosis. 

Sounds like we just need to focus on having good thoughts. In a small way, that is true but it goes a lot deeper. From a layman perspective here — nightmares a reflection of unmet psychological needs or simply a frustration going on in your life manifesting itself in this way. Glen has done a lot of work in this field and we’ll get into his background in a second. Here he talks about his experience in the early stages of learning self-hypnosis. 

Glen Just (Learning Self hypnosis)

To learn self hypnosis I would say things like, lay down quietly, relax  without any disturbances and say my arm or leg is rising, you’re not making it rise it is rising on its own. So, what I was doing was teaching the automatic primary part of the old brain to act on its own and then by remaining lucid, meaning that I was aware  of what I was doing while I was doing it, I observed myself doing these things. 

Visualize the outcome and control the outcome. Interesting. Before we get too deep into this let’s cut to the chase. Why?  

Glen Just (Why) Part of my motivation to write the book is to counteract a lot of the mythology that’s out there. You can read books where an acorn means this and a snake means that and Freud did that. He had over like 247 or something,  specific things that he’s following the old mythology. If you are caught up in that mythology, give it up and learn how the transformations actually occur so you can deal with your own anxiety, lead a better life and have more insight into who you are and who your fellow human beings are. 

Knowledge is power. The more we understand about our own mind the better equipped we are to deal with our personal issues. Now, this is no substitute for professional help but personally, I do like to arm myself with enough knowledge to try and understand what is ha...