Have you ever had a dream – or a nightmare – where you knew you were sleeping? Being aware that it is a dream is what defines a dream as lucid and what makes it different from ordinary dreams. See explanation from psychology and neuroscience. What is a lucid dream? Hello friends! Almost all psychology students come into contact, at ...
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Psychological time and weighing the consequences
One of the most fascinating areas of study is the study of time. I mean not the time of physics or the time that varies from culture to culture, but subjective time. As we have certain cultural agreements that there is a week, a year, a century, we come to assume that all people deal with time in the same ...
Read More »Diamond Sutra – Buddha
Diamond Sutra Adoration of the Venerable and Sacred Perfection of Wisdom!1) So I heard.On one occasion the Master was in the Garden of Anathapindaka, in the Jeta Grove, in the kingdom of Svrasti, in company with 1250 monks.In the morning, the Master girded on his undergarments, took his bowl and robe, walked through the great city of Svrasti, asking for ...
Read More »Change the meaning – 7th way
Seventh Form – Changing the Meaning – Saying a Contrary Example Ressignifying means meaning again, meaning again. Reframing is a term widely used in NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, as reframing is a very useful technique to change meanings and senses that are bad for us. In fact, we could say that this is the core of the work of every therapist ...
Read More »Teasing and Bullying: What’s the Fun in Teasing?
When I was little, I liked to tell jokes. He saw the bumblers and told what he had seen at school. At some point, it lost its fun for me and I ended up becoming a more serious kid. One day, someone told me a joke and I said “slutty that” and the person replied “but every joke is a ...
Read More »The most loving phrase you can say to your partner
Hello friends! What do you think might be the most loving phrase to say in love? Is it “I love you”? Or perhaps public declarations of affection, romantic sacrifices or love letters that, in the opinion of the greatest Portuguese-speaking poet (perhaps of all languages), Fernando Pessoa, are ridiculous? Well, before we get to the opinion of an expert on ...
Read More »Analysis of the movie “If you go crazy, don’t fall in love”
An analysis of Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach. By Bruno Ricardo Pereira Almeida Genre: Comedy, Drama Original title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story Director: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden Main actors: Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Lauren Graham, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Keir Gilchrist, Jim Gaffigan, Mary Birdsong, Zoë Kravitz, Cheryl Alessio, Aasif Mandvi Year of manufacture: 2011 Duration: 101 minutes. Trailer: ...
Read More »What is forensic psychology?
Forensic psychology is the area that brings together both psychology and law. The field has grown a lot in recent years as more and more students take an interest in this applied field of psychology. Popular movies, television shows, and books helped popularize it, often featuring brilliant heroes who solve crimes or find killers using psychology. While such portrayals of ...
Read More »Positive Psychology – Open-mindedness Character Strength
Hello friends! In this text, we are going to talk about the Strength of Character called “Open-mindedness”, literal translation for the term, in English, “Open-mindedness”. As we have already defined in another text – What is Positive Psychology and what are the virtues or character strengths studied by this new approach to psychology – I will go straight to the ...
Read More »Gossip – Why do people like to talk about other people’s lives?
Discover the 4 main reasons why people talk (badly) about each other. Psychology explains why there is so much gossip. Hello friends! I live in a city in the interior of Minas Gerais since I was a child, with the exception of some periods away for study and work. My city, for you to have an idea, is one of ...
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