Dream States. We now delve into the great known unknown, the mind’s secret weapon, the dream. Therein lies a power most certainly unknown, and scarcely studied. Let’s begin at the movies. What happens when you watch an intense movie late at night? Your mind is absorbed in the pictures, dialogue, and sounds of the film. Your mind still dwells on these, computing, digesting, and ruminating on all of these even into sleep. In your dreams, your subconscious mind recalls all these thoughts but convolutes them as only dreams can. Maybe you wake up with yourself a part of the distortion. Maybe, you make it through the night of restless sleep but you wake troubled. Dreams fade quickly, happily. Has this happened to you? To me, many times. As a pre-teen, my dad took me to the movie, The Man with the Atom Brain . The imagery and plot of that movie stayed with me for years. I know this was a childhood fantasy, scientifically unrealizable even now, but a remake of the movie titled, The
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