Amy Hardie Quotes

#1. I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

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#2. One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.

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#3. I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.

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#4. Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

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#5. I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

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#6. I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.

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#7. We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

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#8. I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

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#9. A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

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#10. I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

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#11. Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

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