{"id":1140,"date":"2009-04-09T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:48:00","slug":"geomagnetic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Geomagnetic Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about your “earth energies” \u2014 based on his own dream records, a researcher believes that the solar wind<\/a> might influence dreaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Looking for an explanation for recurring nightmares of leaving the house without your trousers on or losing your teeth? New research suggests you can blame the Earth’s magnetic field, rather than a repressed childhood.<\/p>\n

Darren Lipnicki, a psychologist formerly at the Center for Space Medicine in Berlin, Germany, found a correlation between the bizarreness of his dreams, recorded over eight years, and extremes in local geomagnetic activity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Commenters are skeptical about his methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about your “earth energies” \u2014 based on his own dream records, a researcher believes that the solar wind might influence dreaming. Looking for an explanation for recurring nightmares of leaving the house without your trousers on or losing your teeth? New research suggests you can blame the Earth’s magnetic field, rather than a repressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dreams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-io","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6345,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6345","url_meta":{"origin":1140,"position":0},"title":"Animist Blog Carnival \u2014\u00a0Dreams","author":"Chas S. 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