Our Dreams

The concept and idea of "dreams" has been getting very popular nowadays with movies like Inception and psychological brain teasers like Requiem For A Dream.  Dreams have always interested me, and I pursued to broaden my knowledge on it by watching NOVA's "What Are Dreams?", by starting to read Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", and by contrasting other culture's ideas on dreams to what mine are.

Fascinating

In history, people who have created things like Henry Ford claim that the finalizations on their creations came to them in a dream.  Many other cultures claim that gods bring "visions" to them about something in the future and there are cases where people do dream things and they actually happen.  The idea of living in a false world, like in the Matrix, triggers many philosophical branches that always keep us wondering, what if?  Dreams have always captured our imagination and kept us questioning exactly what they are.  Why do we dream?  What are the benefits to it?  

 I'll keep everyone posted on what I learn as I progress, but for now let me hear what you guys think of dreams and why we have them.  I recommend keeping a dream journal, where you record what you remember in your dreams, as I have for the past three months.  It is truly astonishing as to what your mind is really trying to tell you.  Happy dreaming!

Minecraft

So, the new update of Minecraft 1.8 came out, and it's pretty amazing.  It's interesting to see new randomly generated villages and strongholds, as well as smoother lighting and a more beautiful sunset.  There are new mobs like "Endermen" which scare the shit out of me when I play the game.  I did notice on the list of updates that Notch mentioned he "removed Herobrine" which means that he actually existed..?

Now that he's gone, our gain in sleep will help us defeat Israphel

As I spent time playing this game with my friends I wondered, what makes this game so grasping?
Is it the fact that your creativity has no limits?

Holy shit.

Is it the feeling of solitude with the combination of soothing music and the instinct of survival?

Ssssssssst

Or is it the idea that one man known as Notch created it?  I think its fascinating how one man's passion could go so far!  Minecraft now has over 13 million people registered, and over 3 million have bought the game.  Those numbers show how interesting a game like this really is, how it started as nothing and became even a passion for some celebrities. 

Yeah you, Joel.

Either way, this game is fantastic and the new update (with it's many perks) makes it even a greater pleasure to play.   If you love it or hate it, let me hear your opinion.  What resonates more from this game in you that makes you play it or what makes you stay away from it?

Poltergeists

When you hear the word "poltergeist", you probably think of that one movie that has ghosts in it and a girl touching a TV because "They're here."  It's just another one of those movies that parents make their kids watch so that the little critters go to bed early, right?

Wrong.

Poltergeist literally means "noisy ghost" in German.  A poltergeist is catagorized as a type of haunting, where the actual entity has a tendency to move things and slam cabinets shut or leave them wide open.  You may think it's your cat trying to get you back for leaving it without a pet sitter while you went to summer camp, but it actually is and never was a living thing.

Don't bury that mother fucker in the Pet Sementary

According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, simply just converted to different energy.  Most poltergeists are reported in houses with family problems or recent events that have really caused them to hurt. Our brain is a powerful organ, and we still have yet to understand it. 

Gentlemen's Brain.

So, in all reality, a poltergeist is nothing but the energy left behind by another living thing.  Perhaps the energy could be positive if the organism was happy with itself, or perhaps the energy could be negative where the organism was filled with anger (dark side).  Science can't explain everything, yet.  The future has much to unfold on poltergeists, let me get your guy's output on what you think they could be/if ghosts really exist.