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Filched from here….which way round do you see the dancer turning?

If you see her turning clockwise, then you are apparently right brain dominant and vice versa.

The New York Times has an interesting article on dreaming and how bad dreams are actually useful in allowing us space to work through our fears and intense emotions. Possibly nothing new there, but I did find it interesting that we have bad dreams much more often than we think:

….which works out to three hours nightly spent in a state of anxiety or frustration as we show up late for tests or walk barefoot over broken glass because our shoes have melted

Check out the original article here.

Tags:dreams, nightmares

boy, I hope I got that the right way round. The BBC website actually has a fairly nice section on complementary medicine. Nothing really groundbreaking, but I think it gives a good introduction and basic description of various therapies.

What I thought was funny though, was their introduction section, where they note:

According to research, people consistently report four negative and four positive reasons for using complementary medicine.

Negative reasons:

• Poor outcome of conventional treatment
• Unwanted effects of drugs
• Negative experience of the GP relationship
• Health views not in line with conventional medicine

Positive reasons:

• Good outcome from complementary treatment
• Being an active participant in healthcare
• Positive experience of the practitioner relationship
• Health views in line with complementary medicine

I think it is fairly amusing that there is, presumably, at least one study into why people choose to receive complementary therapy; a field in which generally accepted scientific research is often largely lacking and just as often disputed. Maybe it’s just me though.