UPGRADE YOUR DREAMS
What can you do to recall your dreams more often and interpret them more clearly?
Incubate an idea. Before you go to sleep, consciously think about a topic or a person you'd like to dream about. Pose a questions that's troubling you and see how you dream responds to it.
Keep track. Next to your bed, place a pad and pen, or a tape recorder or laptop, to record your dreams as soon as you wake up.
Try to awaken naturally, without the help of an alarm clock or barking dog that can disrupt your dream cycle. If your schedule doesn't allow you to sleep in during the week, begin your dream journal on a weekend or during a vacation.
Wake up slowly. For the first moment after you awaken, lie still and keep your eyes closed, because your dream may be connected to your body position while you slept. Try to recollect the dream and then store it in your memory by giving it a name like "Late for an Exam" or "My Date with Ashley Judd." When you rise, immediately write down as many images, feelings and impressions as you can.
Connect the dots. To better interpret your dreams, try to make connections between your recalled dreams and recent events. Do you recognize people from the present or past? Can you detect any themes from the dream? Look for patterns over several dreams that might help explain an individual dream.
Change the outcome. If you have recurring nightmares that make it difficult to sleep, try to change the endings. Once you awaken from a bad dream, visualize a change in the action to create a more positive outcome. If you are trapped, try to fly. In you dream, you can do what you want!
Be patient. It may take days or weeks before you're able to recall your dream in detail, but the experts advise to keep practicing. Dream memories are fragile and trying to recall all the plot twists and turns on consecutive nights seems to have a cumulative effect
Monday, April 30, 2007
Dare to Dream 1
WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR HEAD AT NIGHT, NEW SCIENCE REVEALS, IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU THINK. by Michael J. Weiss
Our Dreams may affect our lives (and vice versa) more than we ever realized, says groundbreaking new research. For 11 years, a 58 year-old anthropologist kept a journal of nearly 5,000 dreams. By analyzing color patterns in the dreams, Arizona-based researcher Robert Hoss could accurately predict certain things about the man's emotional state. Hoss correctly identified two separate years when the man experienced crises in his life.
How was Hoss able to gauge the dreamer's turmoil? "The clues were in the colors," he says. The anthropologist's dominant dream hues were reds and blacks, which spiked during difficult times. "Even without knowing the events in his life," Hoss observes, "we accurately determined the emotional states based on those colors in his dreams."
Hoss is among a growing group of researchers who, thanks to cutting edge medical technology and the innovative psychological research, are beginning to decipher the secrets hidden in our dreams and the role dream plays in our lives. A look at some of their latest discoveries can give us new insights into the language of dreams and help us make the most of our time asleep.
WHY DO WE DREAM?
Dreams are a way for the subconscious to communicate with the conscious mind. Dreaming of something you're worried about, researchers say, is the brain's way of helping you rehearse for a disaster in case it occurs. Dreaming of a challenge, like giving a presentation at work or playing sports, can enhance your performance. And cognitive neuroscientists have discovered that dreams and the rapid eye movement (REM) that happens while you're dreaming are linked to our ability to learn and remember.
Dreaming is a "mood regulatory system," says Rosaling Cartwright, PhD, chairman of the psychology department at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She's found that dreams HELP PEOPLE WORK THROUGH THE DAY'S EMOTIONAL QUANDARIES." IT'S LIKE HAVING A BUILT-IN THERAPIST. While we sleep, dreams compare new emotional experience to old memories, creating plaid-like patterns of old images laid on top of new ones. As she puts it, "You may wake up and think, What was Uncle Harry doing in my dream? I haven't seen him for 50 years. But the old and new images are emotionally related." IT IS THE JOB OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND TO FIGURE OUT THE RELATIONSHIP.
In fact, dream emotions can help real therapists treat patients undergoing traumatic life events. In a new study of 30 recently divorced adults, Cartwright tracked their dreams over a five-month period, measuring their feelings toward their ex-spouses. She discovered that those who were angriest at the spouse while dreaming had the best chance of successfully coping with divorce. "If their dreams were bland," Cartwright says, "they hadn't started to work through their emotions and deal with the divorce," For therapists, this finding will help determine whether divorced men or women need counseling or have already dreamed their troubles away.
ONE INTERPRETATION DOESN'T FIT ALL
No devise lets researchers probe the content of dreams while we sleep, but scientists are finding new ways to interpret dreams once we've awakened. Forget Freud's notion that dreams contain images with universal meanings. A new generation of psychologists insists that dream symbols differ depending on the dreamer. In a recent study, University of Ottawa psychology professor Joseph De Koninck asked 13 volunteers to make two lists: one of details recalled from recent dreams, and another of recent events in their waking lives. When analysts were asked to match which volunteer experienced which dream, they failed. De Koninck's conclusion: Each person understands his or her dreams better than anyone else -- including traditional psychoanalysts. In a dream, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar -- or almost anything else.
YOUR BRAIN ON DREAMS
A century after Sigmund Freud pioneered the field of dream analysis, scientists are only not decoding the biology of how we manufacture dreams. At the Sleep Neuroimaging Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, researcher Eric Nofzinger, MD, delves into the brains of sleeping subjects using PET scans normally employed to detect cancer and other diseases. (The orange color, right, signals brain activity in the cortex.) [Sorry no picture.] By injecting subjects with mildly radioative glucose, he's traced the source of dreams to the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that controls emotions. During dreaming, the limbic system explodes like fireworks with neural activity, suffussing our dreams with drama.
"That's why so many dreams are emotional events," says Nofzinger, "where we're running from danger or facing an anxious situation. The part of the brain that controls dreams also orchestrates our instincts, drives, sexual behavior and fight-or-flight response." Meanwhile, the frontal lobes of the brain that govern logic disengage, explaining why dreams are often bizarre combinations of events and people.
"There's just no evidence of universal dream symbols," says De Koninck. "My advise is to throw away your dream dictionary if you really want to interpret your dreams."
DECODING THE MEANINGS:
Today, psychologists are applying modern technology to probe the content of dreams. Hoss uses a computer based approach called content analysis to interpret the colors in dreams. More than 80% of people dream in color, he says, though only a quarter of them recall the shade the next morning. To collect data, he analyzed nearly 24,000 dreams, catalogued in two databases at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. His study suggested that specific colors represent particular emotions (for example red means action, excitement and desire; blue equals calmness, tranquility and harmony; black connotes fear, anxiety and intimidation).
But, as with symbols and action, one size doesn't fit all when it comes to interpretation. Every dreamer draws on a different palette to reflect personal associations. "Using color is your brain's way of painting your dreams with your emotion," says Hoss.
Psychologist Gayle Delaney, PhD, founding president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, believes that dreamers themselves are the best interpreters of their time in dreamland. She supports a "dream interview technique, which asks people to answer a series of straightforward questions in order to gain insights into their recollections. From her office in San Francisco, Delaney uses this process to help single people analyze and better understand their romantic relationships through their dreams.The dreaming mind is more insightful about the people in your life than your waking mind."
WHAT DREAMS CAN DO FOR YOU.
Psychologists have long known that people ca solve their problems at work and home by "sleeping on it." The challenge has always been to train yourself to dream up the solutions. Individuals are advised to ponder questions just before falling asleep (Should I take this job? Should I marry that guy?) and then let the subconscious provide the answers. It's known artists looking for inspiration who simply dream up a future show of their art and wake up with plenty of new painting ideas. More and more people are learning these techniques to control their dreams.
Some researchers believe that you can guide your dreams while you're sleeping. In recent years, Stephen LaBerge, Phd, has pioneered a way of directing the sleeping mind through "Lucid dreaming," in which a sleeping person realizes he or she is dreaming while it is happening. Lucid dreamers can experience fantasy adventures - like flying to the moon or traveling through time - while being fully aware that they're dreaming. Just being in a lucid dream is a turn-on for people.
According to LaBerge, a psycho physiologist who directs the Lucidity Institute in Palo Alto, CA, lucid dreamers can use the experience for a variety of purposes: problem solving, developing creative ideas and healing.
Lucid dreaming is great because it's free and available to everybody."
Well, not entirely free. Although everyone has the potential to dream lucidly, it rarely happens routinely without special training or temperament. The Lucidity Institute operates instructional workshops and retreats to spread the gospel. LaBerge has even developed a $500 devise -- called the NovaDreamer (novadreamer.com)--which helps individuals become participants in their dreams. Once the sleep-mask device recognizes wearer is experiencing REM sleep characteristic of dreaming, it emits a flashing red light that is designed to seep into the person's dream. "The cue says that you're dreaming so you can open yourself up to any kind of experience you want. After all, it's your dream."
Indeed, your dreams are like private movies where you are the star, director and writer all at once. You are also the most insightful movie critic -- without the need of a couch. The best interpreter of your dreams is YOU.
Our Dreams may affect our lives (and vice versa) more than we ever realized, says groundbreaking new research. For 11 years, a 58 year-old anthropologist kept a journal of nearly 5,000 dreams. By analyzing color patterns in the dreams, Arizona-based researcher Robert Hoss could accurately predict certain things about the man's emotional state. Hoss correctly identified two separate years when the man experienced crises in his life.
How was Hoss able to gauge the dreamer's turmoil? "The clues were in the colors," he says. The anthropologist's dominant dream hues were reds and blacks, which spiked during difficult times. "Even without knowing the events in his life," Hoss observes, "we accurately determined the emotional states based on those colors in his dreams."
Hoss is among a growing group of researchers who, thanks to cutting edge medical technology and the innovative psychological research, are beginning to decipher the secrets hidden in our dreams and the role dream plays in our lives. A look at some of their latest discoveries can give us new insights into the language of dreams and help us make the most of our time asleep.
WHY DO WE DREAM?
Dreams are a way for the subconscious to communicate with the conscious mind. Dreaming of something you're worried about, researchers say, is the brain's way of helping you rehearse for a disaster in case it occurs. Dreaming of a challenge, like giving a presentation at work or playing sports, can enhance your performance. And cognitive neuroscientists have discovered that dreams and the rapid eye movement (REM) that happens while you're dreaming are linked to our ability to learn and remember.
Dreaming is a "mood regulatory system," says Rosaling Cartwright, PhD, chairman of the psychology department at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She's found that dreams HELP PEOPLE WORK THROUGH THE DAY'S EMOTIONAL QUANDARIES." IT'S LIKE HAVING A BUILT-IN THERAPIST. While we sleep, dreams compare new emotional experience to old memories, creating plaid-like patterns of old images laid on top of new ones. As she puts it, "You may wake up and think, What was Uncle Harry doing in my dream? I haven't seen him for 50 years. But the old and new images are emotionally related." IT IS THE JOB OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND TO FIGURE OUT THE RELATIONSHIP.
In fact, dream emotions can help real therapists treat patients undergoing traumatic life events. In a new study of 30 recently divorced adults, Cartwright tracked their dreams over a five-month period, measuring their feelings toward their ex-spouses. She discovered that those who were angriest at the spouse while dreaming had the best chance of successfully coping with divorce. "If their dreams were bland," Cartwright says, "they hadn't started to work through their emotions and deal with the divorce," For therapists, this finding will help determine whether divorced men or women need counseling or have already dreamed their troubles away.
ONE INTERPRETATION DOESN'T FIT ALL
No devise lets researchers probe the content of dreams while we sleep, but scientists are finding new ways to interpret dreams once we've awakened. Forget Freud's notion that dreams contain images with universal meanings. A new generation of psychologists insists that dream symbols differ depending on the dreamer. In a recent study, University of Ottawa psychology professor Joseph De Koninck asked 13 volunteers to make two lists: one of details recalled from recent dreams, and another of recent events in their waking lives. When analysts were asked to match which volunteer experienced which dream, they failed. De Koninck's conclusion: Each person understands his or her dreams better than anyone else -- including traditional psychoanalysts. In a dream, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar -- or almost anything else.
YOUR BRAIN ON DREAMS
A century after Sigmund Freud pioneered the field of dream analysis, scientists are only not decoding the biology of how we manufacture dreams. At the Sleep Neuroimaging Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, researcher Eric Nofzinger, MD, delves into the brains of sleeping subjects using PET scans normally employed to detect cancer and other diseases. (The orange color, right, signals brain activity in the cortex.) [Sorry no picture.] By injecting subjects with mildly radioative glucose, he's traced the source of dreams to the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that controls emotions. During dreaming, the limbic system explodes like fireworks with neural activity, suffussing our dreams with drama.
"That's why so many dreams are emotional events," says Nofzinger, "where we're running from danger or facing an anxious situation. The part of the brain that controls dreams also orchestrates our instincts, drives, sexual behavior and fight-or-flight response." Meanwhile, the frontal lobes of the brain that govern logic disengage, explaining why dreams are often bizarre combinations of events and people.
"There's just no evidence of universal dream symbols," says De Koninck. "My advise is to throw away your dream dictionary if you really want to interpret your dreams."
DECODING THE MEANINGS:
Today, psychologists are applying modern technology to probe the content of dreams. Hoss uses a computer based approach called content analysis to interpret the colors in dreams. More than 80% of people dream in color, he says, though only a quarter of them recall the shade the next morning. To collect data, he analyzed nearly 24,000 dreams, catalogued in two databases at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. His study suggested that specific colors represent particular emotions (for example red means action, excitement and desire; blue equals calmness, tranquility and harmony; black connotes fear, anxiety and intimidation).
But, as with symbols and action, one size doesn't fit all when it comes to interpretation. Every dreamer draws on a different palette to reflect personal associations. "Using color is your brain's way of painting your dreams with your emotion," says Hoss.
Psychologist Gayle Delaney, PhD, founding president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, believes that dreamers themselves are the best interpreters of their time in dreamland. She supports a "dream interview technique, which asks people to answer a series of straightforward questions in order to gain insights into their recollections. From her office in San Francisco, Delaney uses this process to help single people analyze and better understand their romantic relationships through their dreams.The dreaming mind is more insightful about the people in your life than your waking mind."
WHAT DREAMS CAN DO FOR YOU.
Psychologists have long known that people ca solve their problems at work and home by "sleeping on it." The challenge has always been to train yourself to dream up the solutions. Individuals are advised to ponder questions just before falling asleep (Should I take this job? Should I marry that guy?) and then let the subconscious provide the answers. It's known artists looking for inspiration who simply dream up a future show of their art and wake up with plenty of new painting ideas. More and more people are learning these techniques to control their dreams.
Some researchers believe that you can guide your dreams while you're sleeping. In recent years, Stephen LaBerge, Phd, has pioneered a way of directing the sleeping mind through "Lucid dreaming," in which a sleeping person realizes he or she is dreaming while it is happening. Lucid dreamers can experience fantasy adventures - like flying to the moon or traveling through time - while being fully aware that they're dreaming. Just being in a lucid dream is a turn-on for people.
According to LaBerge, a psycho physiologist who directs the Lucidity Institute in Palo Alto, CA, lucid dreamers can use the experience for a variety of purposes: problem solving, developing creative ideas and healing.
Lucid dreaming is great because it's free and available to everybody."
Well, not entirely free. Although everyone has the potential to dream lucidly, it rarely happens routinely without special training or temperament. The Lucidity Institute operates instructional workshops and retreats to spread the gospel. LaBerge has even developed a $500 devise -- called the NovaDreamer (novadreamer.com)--which helps individuals become participants in their dreams. Once the sleep-mask device recognizes wearer is experiencing REM sleep characteristic of dreaming, it emits a flashing red light that is designed to seep into the person's dream. "The cue says that you're dreaming so you can open yourself up to any kind of experience you want. After all, it's your dream."
Indeed, your dreams are like private movies where you are the star, director and writer all at once. You are also the most insightful movie critic -- without the need of a couch. The best interpreter of your dreams is YOU.
The Best Books of 2006
Do you like to read? Looking for a good book? I will post an award winning book whenever I can from a book I bought called "A Pocket Guide to the Best Books of 2006" from the Editors of Doubleday Entertainment.
Happy Reading:
Drama is her Middle Name (The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Book 1)
by Wendy Williams and Karen Hunter
Radio personality and shock jock Wendy Williams has one of the most highly rated radio shows on the air and "drama" is the order of the day in all her broadcasts. Her coauthor, Karen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is best known as the "biographer of the stars" in African-American literary circles. Their debut novel, Drama is her Middle Name centers around Ritz Harper, an over-the-top daily gossip and damaging information about celebrities and celebrity-types while on air. Ritz winds up shot, lying in a pool of blood. Who shot Ritz? We'll have to wait until the next book in this exciting series (Harlem Moon, 224 pages.
I have not read this book so I can not comment on it. It was chosen out of the countless manuscripts read by the Editors of Doubleday Entertainment. It should be good. If you read it...please comment on it on this blog.
Thanks,
Marie
Happy Reading:
Drama is her Middle Name (The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Book 1)
by Wendy Williams and Karen Hunter
Radio personality and shock jock Wendy Williams has one of the most highly rated radio shows on the air and "drama" is the order of the day in all her broadcasts. Her coauthor, Karen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is best known as the "biographer of the stars" in African-American literary circles. Their debut novel, Drama is her Middle Name centers around Ritz Harper, an over-the-top daily gossip and damaging information about celebrities and celebrity-types while on air. Ritz winds up shot, lying in a pool of blood. Who shot Ritz? We'll have to wait until the next book in this exciting series (Harlem Moon, 224 pages.
I have not read this book so I can not comment on it. It was chosen out of the countless manuscripts read by the Editors of Doubleday Entertainment. It should be good. If you read it...please comment on it on this blog.
Thanks,
Marie
List of Unique Gifts #1
I am starting a list of unique gifts for those of you that are clueless when it comes to choosing something for that someone with a birthday, anniversary, x-mas, or any other occasion. I got this first set of presents from www.needapresent.com: (I think it is a foreign site but you can have the funds converted to dollars.) (BE AWARE OF WHAT THEY COLLECT, THEIR COLORS AND THEIR SPORTS TEAMS.)
Name a star after person. - Give them a sparkle in their eye
Adopt a vine - A wine lover's dream
Message to Space - Have your own message beamed into space
Aerial Photo Gift - Give them an amazing aerial photo of where they live
Acre of Mars (men) - A perfect gift for the man who has everything...their very own acre of land on Mars
Acre of Venus (women) - For the woman who has everything...their very own acre of land of Venus
Acre of the Moon - We all want that!!
USA Land - Own land in all 50 states in the US
Adopt a tree in a Rain Forest.
Dedicate a tree - Have a tree planted and dedicated to the recipient.
Name a Rose - A touching gift for someone special
Pet Trees - The latest and cutest keyring craze
Reflexology socks and gloves
Space Writer - Amazing gadjet writes message in the air.
Street Mouse - Computer mouse in the shape of a car
Quattro Pen - No more fumbling around for a pen, highlighter, pencil or PDA stylus - as this Quattro pen has
them all.
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GIFT CARDS as presents:
manicure, pedicure, facial and/or makeover, spa treatment, massage, restaurant, clothing store, Bath and Body Works, Blockbuster, Home improvement store, Scrapbook Store, Hobbie store, Computer Store, House Cleaning Service, A Book Store,
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SERVICE COUPONS: Do someone's Dry Cleaning for a month, Watch someone's Animals when they go on Vacation, Coupons for Dishes, Laundry, Cleaning other parts of house, Spring Cleaning, Coupon for thourough Vacuum of entire House, including stairs, against floorboards and under all furniture, Cook Supper for a Month, Coupon to mow the grass, Coupon to the Family you Babysit for to babysit for 8 hours Free, Do the grocery shopping, go out and do her errands, plant flowers in the yard, Wait on someone hand and foot for a day, Coupon to walk neighbor's dog for a week. Coupon to do the ironing, Detail non-carpeted floors, Clean Car (Detail) Inside and Out (armor all, clean inside and outside windows,dry and wax, Watch the kids for a Girls night out, Guys night out. Read a book to an elderly person as a gift.
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VACATIONS: (PLAN DATES WITH FRIEND OR FAMILY, ETC) Day trips (local areas of interest. Get to know the area you live in), Disney World, Visit a relative, go somewhere you never thought you'd go. Go to a National Park and go Hiking.
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OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST: Lottery Tickets, nice sweater, wine glasses, wine, umbrella, nice watch, jewelry, CD Music, DVD Movies, Computer Software, exotic chocolates, New 12 piece glassware, teapot and a variety of teas, add to their collection, Sports tickets, Theatre tickets, juicer or anything for health, Beenie babies are still out there (capture their personality!), grill, lawn furniture, purse, shoes, wallet, leather gloves, decide on something of the season
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MEMBERSHIPS/SUBSCRIPTIONS: Gym, weight loss program, new tennis shoes, magazine subscriptions, a years worth of Scrapbook classes, photography classes or books.
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MAKE OR HAVE MADE: themed scrapbooks, blanket (material or yarn), porcelain doll, cards, 8x10 framed picture layout for their wall. Check out craft malls for items or idea. Have professional portraits done as gifts, have their photo drawn in pencil, or some other medium by someone who has the talent.
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GO FOR IT: Buy 1 - 10 shares of Disney stock, (Harley Davidson stock for him, Champion Enterprises stock for us women) Have the stock certificate issued and when you get the stock certificate, frame it for your loved one. Disney is a very colorful stock certificate and would look great in the kids room.
*****************************************************************************
WELL OF COURSE: MONEY IS ALWAYS GOOD.
Name a star after person. - Give them a sparkle in their eye
Adopt a vine - A wine lover's dream
Message to Space - Have your own message beamed into space
Aerial Photo Gift - Give them an amazing aerial photo of where they live
Acre of Mars (men) - A perfect gift for the man who has everything...their very own acre of land on Mars
Acre of Venus (women) - For the woman who has everything...their very own acre of land of Venus
Acre of the Moon - We all want that!!
USA Land - Own land in all 50 states in the US
Adopt a tree in a Rain Forest.
Dedicate a tree - Have a tree planted and dedicated to the recipient.
Name a Rose - A touching gift for someone special
Pet Trees - The latest and cutest keyring craze
Reflexology socks and gloves
Space Writer - Amazing gadjet writes message in the air.
Street Mouse - Computer mouse in the shape of a car
Quattro Pen - No more fumbling around for a pen, highlighter, pencil or PDA stylus - as this Quattro pen has
them all.
****************************************************************************
GIFT CARDS as presents:
manicure, pedicure, facial and/or makeover, spa treatment, massage, restaurant, clothing store, Bath and Body Works, Blockbuster, Home improvement store, Scrapbook Store, Hobbie store, Computer Store, House Cleaning Service, A Book Store,
****************************************************************************
SERVICE COUPONS: Do someone's Dry Cleaning for a month, Watch someone's Animals when they go on Vacation, Coupons for Dishes, Laundry, Cleaning other parts of house, Spring Cleaning, Coupon for thourough Vacuum of entire House, including stairs, against floorboards and under all furniture, Cook Supper for a Month, Coupon to mow the grass, Coupon to the Family you Babysit for to babysit for 8 hours Free, Do the grocery shopping, go out and do her errands, plant flowers in the yard, Wait on someone hand and foot for a day, Coupon to walk neighbor's dog for a week. Coupon to do the ironing, Detail non-carpeted floors, Clean Car (Detail) Inside and Out (armor all, clean inside and outside windows,dry and wax, Watch the kids for a Girls night out, Guys night out. Read a book to an elderly person as a gift.
****************************************************************************
VACATIONS: (PLAN DATES WITH FRIEND OR FAMILY, ETC) Day trips (local areas of interest. Get to know the area you live in), Disney World, Visit a relative, go somewhere you never thought you'd go. Go to a National Park and go Hiking.
****************************************************************************
OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST: Lottery Tickets, nice sweater, wine glasses, wine, umbrella, nice watch, jewelry, CD Music, DVD Movies, Computer Software, exotic chocolates, New 12 piece glassware, teapot and a variety of teas, add to their collection, Sports tickets, Theatre tickets, juicer or anything for health, Beenie babies are still out there (capture their personality!), grill, lawn furniture, purse, shoes, wallet, leather gloves, decide on something of the season
****************************************************************************
MEMBERSHIPS/SUBSCRIPTIONS: Gym, weight loss program, new tennis shoes, magazine subscriptions, a years worth of Scrapbook classes, photography classes or books.
****************************************************************************
MAKE OR HAVE MADE: themed scrapbooks, blanket (material or yarn), porcelain doll, cards, 8x10 framed picture layout for their wall. Check out craft malls for items or idea. Have professional portraits done as gifts, have their photo drawn in pencil, or some other medium by someone who has the talent.
*****************************************************************************
GO FOR IT: Buy 1 - 10 shares of Disney stock, (Harley Davidson stock for him, Champion Enterprises stock for us women) Have the stock certificate issued and when you get the stock certificate, frame it for your loved one. Disney is a very colorful stock certificate and would look great in the kids room.
*****************************************************************************
WELL OF COURSE: MONEY IS ALWAYS GOOD.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER??
Have you seen the new game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th grader? It is a new game show on television. Wow, they put those "older" contestants through agony over the simplest 5th grade questions. But little Miss Anne, the 5th grader, answers quickly and easily and of course she is right. The kids laugh at the adults!!! When I was in school, I remember saying, "I don't know why I have to study this, I'll never use it in my life!!!" UNTIL NOW. Iit is required knowledge if you want to play this new game.
I go over to my best friend's house about every month. We just started playing a game called, Brain Quest. It has a board where you roll but you can't move unless you answer the question correctly. There are questions for 1st through 6th grade. You answer the question that is equivalent to your grade level. If you are in 7th grade or an adult, you answer the 6th grade question. This should be no problem, Right?
The subjects are Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Grab Bag. I hate Social Studies questions, so what do you think I continually got? Social Studies!!!
My friend, her son and I start playing this game. We are smarter than we think. The kid knows all the answers, for example: Who was Timmie's father in the book, Old Tom's Cabin? Which triangle has the widest angle: obtuse, right, or acute??? The answer is obtuse. But doesn't acute sound more correct. Acute means: sharp pointed, sharpen, sensitive (acute hearing), keen of mind. It just sounds more important and more immediate, like it HAS to be the correct answer. (It also means less than 90%) Obtuse is the correct answer and means: blunt, slow to understand. See it just sounds wrong. (It also means greater than 90% and less than 180%.) I think we should look at a 360% angle!!!
I was holding my own until I got this question: What island in the British Isles is made completely of limestone? It gave me no choices or no clues. I am sitting there trying to think of where the British Isles are!!!! There was no way I was going to get this one right. Basically, I had no luck because I have no idea what the answer is. My time is almost up and I try to give an answer; anything. I spouted, "The Rock of Gibraltar" Sam checks the answer and it's right!!! I say, "No way," not believing until I see the card. I was right! How could I possibly pull something out of the air like that and get it right???!!!
Well, I was proud of myself, enough to Blog about it!!!
Sam won the game, the youngest of us all, as expected. OH WELL. Cool Game.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER? QUESTION OF THE DAY:
What is 0.868 rounded to the nearest hundredth?
I go over to my best friend's house about every month. We just started playing a game called, Brain Quest. It has a board where you roll but you can't move unless you answer the question correctly. There are questions for 1st through 6th grade. You answer the question that is equivalent to your grade level. If you are in 7th grade or an adult, you answer the 6th grade question. This should be no problem, Right?
The subjects are Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Grab Bag. I hate Social Studies questions, so what do you think I continually got? Social Studies!!!
My friend, her son and I start playing this game. We are smarter than we think. The kid knows all the answers, for example: Who was Timmie's father in the book, Old Tom's Cabin? Which triangle has the widest angle: obtuse, right, or acute??? The answer is obtuse. But doesn't acute sound more correct. Acute means: sharp pointed, sharpen, sensitive (acute hearing), keen of mind. It just sounds more important and more immediate, like it HAS to be the correct answer. (It also means less than 90%) Obtuse is the correct answer and means: blunt, slow to understand. See it just sounds wrong. (It also means greater than 90% and less than 180%.) I think we should look at a 360% angle!!!
I was holding my own until I got this question: What island in the British Isles is made completely of limestone? It gave me no choices or no clues. I am sitting there trying to think of where the British Isles are!!!! There was no way I was going to get this one right. Basically, I had no luck because I have no idea what the answer is. My time is almost up and I try to give an answer; anything. I spouted, "The Rock of Gibraltar" Sam checks the answer and it's right!!! I say, "No way," not believing until I see the card. I was right! How could I possibly pull something out of the air like that and get it right???!!!
Well, I was proud of myself, enough to Blog about it!!!
Sam won the game, the youngest of us all, as expected. OH WELL. Cool Game.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER? QUESTION OF THE DAY:
What is 0.868 rounded to the nearest hundredth?
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