Saturday, 10 August 2013

Hypnagogic imagery

Your dreams serve as a window to your subconscious mind and reveal your secret desires and feelings.Also a dreaming mind has access to vital informations that are not readily available to you when you are awake.
So,how would be like if you could recall your last night's dream?The answer to this is Hypnagogic imagery.


Scientists have designed the world's first 'dream reader', that can successfully decode your dreams with reasonable accuracy. Neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani and his colleagues at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto,Japan has been successful in monitoring the brain activities of three young people as they slept inside the FMRI scanner.This surely reminds us about the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer 'Inception',where people manipulate others dreams and steal their sleeping thoughts.This might help us to demystify the complexities of human mind by exploring the subconscious state while sleeping.
However there is also an alternate theory,which claims that an altered state of consciousness can be achieved by a practicing Wake Initiated Lucid Dream(WILD) technique.The goal of this exercise is to reach a liminal state between sleeping and waking.This state of consciousness can provide vivid hypnagogic imagery and profound insights.

The "WILD" technique 
1. Find a quiet place.
2. Lie down on your back and just be comfortable.
3. Now close your eyes and say to yourself, "I will  dream lucid".
4. Patterns in the random space might start to appear, shapes could form, let your mind be a blank canvas.Just relax and passively observe what you see.
5.The images could take life, they can change quickly and flow into each other.
6. Reach out and step beyond its surface and become part of the scene,and you'll be there, lucid  and ready to enjoy.



I think there is a whole new world of possibility, unrevealed within our subconscious state of mind.So,try dreaming lucid and rediscover your inner self. And please share your individual experience with all of us.

Magic Word “MBA”



Re-define your career!!

We are taking about business, management education, low cost MBA degree and how to get it.
If you are thinking to re-shape your career and achieve the best of success,then I am sure that being able to spare few minutes to read this article, might take you closer to the riches.Whether you are an arts graduate,or a science graduate,or a commerce graduate,or an engineer,MBA is home for you,all.
But now the question arises is, do you at all need an MBA degree.I accede to the fact that not all of us needs an MBA degree,but it won’t be very cool to announce that,one doesn’t have an MBA degree either.Most logic would be suffice to prove that playing with an MBA degree will definitely not be a pauper’s game.Actually, not just any MBA degree but an MBA degree from a premier business school is necessary. An MBA from a top B-school will help you make a quick transition from a mid-level role to a senior management position, where you will have the opportunity to take strategic decisions. If you browse through the job descriptions of senior positions across industries, you can see that MBA is the preferred degree, though perhaps not mandatory. Consulting is one profession where an MBA is mandatory to grow to an associate or higher levels. So, the lack of an MBA degree may not be a show-stopper but it will be a huge reason for career stagnation.
I am sure the colossal admission expenditures might scare you more than the childhood eerie horror recitals.This is where,I feel there is an urgent need for introspection.Indeed your point of concern is valid.In today’s ‘Value for money’ world,there is no room for such profligacy,that we spend millions for an MBA degree,no matter how big the brand of the institute might be.There are some MBA institutes like JBIMS-Mumbai(jamnalal bajaj institute of management),FMS-Delhi(Faculty of Management Studies),TISS-Mumbai(Tata Institute of Social Sciences),etc which provide extreme value for money.With economic cycles shortening rapidly and recession looming every now and then, more of such ‘Value for money’ institutes should be made available for the MBA aspirants.
To conclude with I must reverberate the value of MBA and then peacefully sign off.

Statutory Warning:-Bookish knowledge of two years MBA program would serve no food, what matters is the right attitude and instead the correct vision one aims to be along with sustained hard work ,would lead to a successful life.