The difference between imagery and hallucinations has to do with intentional awareness. (Creativity and The Brain, Heilman 2005)
Intentional Awareness As Port of Entry
The Conscoius Mind of Dreams
During REM sleep the back of the brain is relatively inactive and memory recall is poor. But part of the cerebral cortex across the middle of the head is very active. This area deals with complex associations(including visual associations) and has close ties with coordinators near the brain’s center , which are also very active.
Companioning in Psychotherapy
“The ART OF LIVING is, in its essential meaning, a development and transformation of the power of inward choice. It is of all the creative arts the most difficult and the most distinguished.” (Wickes 1963) To be invited into another person’s deeply personal terrain is humbling to me. Initially I cannot know where we will
Knowing Centered On The Self
“Wakefulness and consciousness tend to go together,… One exceptions occurs when we are in the state of dream sleep. We are obviously not awake during dream sleep and yet some consciousness of the events are taking place in the mind. Wakefulness is not the same as consciousness. In wakefulness the dream and mind are “on”
Tigers Composing
I am playing with this notion of mind that creativity is one realm where varied levels of consciousness are necessary. Sometimes we depend on that upright alertness, that mental acuity which relies on good access to working memory which is seated in the prefrontal lobe. These are the times when all the senses are enlivened