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Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her rational temperament. When she dreamed one night that her horse was dying, only to wake the next morning and find the horse dead, she dismissed the incident as a coincidence.

Then she dreamed she would die at age 48 — only one year away.  

When Hardie does get ill, just as the dream predicted, she visits neuroscience experts and eventually a shaman. The Edge of Dreaming is an evocative, intimate chronicle of that year and a fascinating investigation into the human subconscious.  We encourage you to watch it, then read the comments here at dreamschool.org as they come from people of all walks of life, ages, and backgrounds, all people who are actively studying and pursuing understanding and developing Mind as students at the College of Metaphysics in the United States.  

The recent Christopher Nolan movie, INCEPTION,  has ignited a curiosity in the minds of the viewers unlike any before.  Certainly, other films have provoked discussion and opinion.  Here, School of Metaphysics faculty and teachers share their first impressions of Nolan's film.  What INCEPTION offers is new experiences in multidimensional consciousness as these posts reveal.  Just as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" so the moral of this story is in the mind of the dreamer.  Read more...

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Welcome to the final REAL TIME forum for 2009.

As we close the first decade of this millennia, those who meditate daily can shine the mind’s light on what has been and what is to come. What has been is an amazing shift in the consciousness of humanity. We owe this largely to the advent of technology; the advances of a few brilliant individuals over time and space have placed the virtual experience of the world literally in our hands. It calls to mind the early stages of Atlantis.

This month we continue our list of 100 reasons dreams are in our lives. Thus far these are the reasons we have deduced.

1. As a pious act

2. As warnings

3. A revelation

4. A result of ritual

5. An oracle, bringing messages from the gods

6. Incubate

7. As comfort

8. For healing

9. Communication with the gods

10. Awaken Self

11. Enliven Self

12. As a means to tune in

13. To find our Center

14. To inform about physical health

15. For alignment

Dreams are a part of every culture. Have you ever wondered why? For instance, the ancient Egyptians believed that the gods showed themselves in dreams. They believed that dreams were caused by real things unable to be interpreted or controlled by the conscious mind. As far back as 2000 BC the Egyptians wrote down their dreams on papyrus. The Egyptians differentiated between three main types of dreams:

Dreaming Peace

What does it mean?  That’s what we hope to explore today during REAL TIME with a TEACHER.

In the final scene of the dream I reached the street.  It was dark, yet streetlights lit up the suburban scene.  I looked both ways for help.  No one was stirring.  It must have been 2 or 3 am.  The fear was escalating and I turned to run back into the house for safety.  This house was large, 3-story, Colonial style, lit up.  In the dream it was where I lived with my family, yet not where we really live.  I ran back down the sidewalk and the front door opened.  There stood my dad.