Near Death, Near Dream

I will describe here an experience of mine which was in all its characteristics a neardeath experience (NDE) except that ultimately there was no evidence that I had been near death, and which, except for my believing I had died, was similar to a number of earlier experiences of mine which had always occurred only in context of lucid dreams, that is dreams in which I know I am dreaming. I have been a frequent lucid dreamer since 1976 and have experienced many "out-ofbody" (OBEs) both in the context of lucid dreams and between dreaming and awakening, though never with verification that I had left the body. Before this "NDE," if I may call it such, I had experienced a number of times a brilliant light in which I felt God was present. This has always been in continuity from ordinary lucid dreaming, and has occasionally grown out of an experience of darkness (see Gillespie, 1985)

Ordinary Dreams, Lucid Dreams and Mystical Experiences

It is difficult to give a definition of mystical experience that would satisfy every scholar. I use the expression mystical experience to mean an apparent experience of some reality greater than oneself that come by transcending to some degree awareness of one’s own physical and mental self and one’s physical surroundings. This reality may be understood as God or some other spiritual being, brahman, Being, the universe, oneness, the void, or nirvana. I would distinguish for my purposes here between the phenomenon that is seen as the mystical experience itself and other more incidental phenomena that precede or accompany the mystical experience, such as visions of disks of light, the feeling of levitation, or bliss

Near Death, Near Dream

I will describe here an experience of mine which wasin all its characteristics a near-death experience (NDE) except that ultimately there was no evidence that I had been near death, and which, except for my believing I had died, was similar to a number of earlier experiences of mine which had always occurredonly in the context of lucid dreams, that is dreams in which I know I am dreaming

Dream Light: Categories of Visual Experience During Lucid Dreaming

I have put into sixteen categories visual experiences associated with my lucid dreaming. The basic difference between lucid dreaming and ordinary dreaming is that in lucid dreaming I know I am dreaming, and in ordinary dreaming I do not. Lucid dreaming often has the visual characteristics of ordinary dreaming. On the other hand, lucid dreaming may lead to some experiences of light similar to what is reported in mystical or supposed mystical accounts (Gillespie, 1986). Therefore, the categories actually apply to a continuum from ordinary dreaming through lucid dreaming to phenomena associated with mystical experience

Problems Related to Experimentation While Dreaming Lucidly

Lucid dreaming offers a unique opportunity for the study of dreams. The lucid dreamer, unlike the ordinary dreamer, knows that what in being experienced is a dream, and thus while dreaming, can investigate dream content, how dreams work and how consciousness works during dreams, as well as do exploratory experimentation

Nicotinic acid, lysine, tryptophan and threonine as supplements to high protein corn

This bulletin reports on Department of Agricultural Chemistry research project 212, Food Conservation--P. [3].Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (page 14)

Who Wouldn\u27t Be Jealous Of You

Photograph of Gus Arnheim; Illustration of woman with orange and white backgroundhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/6762/thumbnail.jp

Chk1 requirement for high global rates of replication fork progression during normal vertebrate S phase

Chk1 protein kinase maintains replication fork stability in metazoan cells in response to DNA damage and DNA replication inhibitors. Here, we have employed DNA fiber labeling to quantify, for the first time, the extent to which Chk1 maintains global replication fork rates during normal vertebrate S phase. We report that replication fork rates in Chk1¿/¿ chicken DT40 cells are on average half of those observed with wild-type cells. Similar results were observed if Chk1 was inhibited or depleted in wild-type DT40 cells or HeLa cells by incubation with Chk1 inhibitor or small interfering RNA. In addition, reduced rates of fork extension were observed with permeabilized Chk1¿/¿ cells in vitro. The requirement for Chk1 for high fork rates during normal S phase was not to suppress promiscuous homologous recombination at replication forks, because inhibition of Chk1 similarly slowed fork progression in XRCC3¿/¿ DT40 cells. Rather, we observed an increased number of replication fibers in Chk1¿/¿ cells in which the nascent strand is single-stranded, supporting the idea that slow global fork rates in unperturbed Chk1¿/¿ cells are associated with the accumulation of aberrant replication fork structure

Book Reviews

Book reviews by George Norman, John Gillespie, Thomas Broden, John L. Harr, Reginald C. Harmon, and Louis C. Kaplan