Lucid Dreaming Might you know what a lucid dream is? Do you have lucid dreams? A lucid dream is not just another vivid dream in which intense images and feelings dominate your sleep. A lucid dream is one in which you are aware you are dreaming. During (or after) a lucid dream you may have an epiphany like ...‘Wait…I’m dreaming!’” In a lucid dream, the dreamer is frequently in an unfamiliar or distant location. Commonly, the dreamer is moving at great speed, like flying or in

A film by Christopher Nolan Reviewed by Lloyd Sederer MD Soon into the 3 hours of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the screen explodes with perilous ocean scenes of a Norse Sea ship on its 10-year return to home, both distant in sea miles and memory. It is returning from Troy and the Trojan War, seeking Ithaca, Greece (ca., 700 BC). Universal Pictures That’s when I had a metaphysical experience. I became quite anxious (not like me). I could not discern where I was (as in an I

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My account about the failure to solve homelessness (in NYC) Shutterstock An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer My wife and I were at an elegant dinner party on the upper west side of Manhattan on a cold, clear wintry Saturday night. The conversation shifted to the homeless men sleeping on the steps of a nearby church. It was no surprise since our hosts and others there knew we both worked to improve the lot of the homeless in NYC. My wife through her work with supported housing and

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Awarded for Direction, Rashad Frett, US Drama, Sundance Film Festival, 2025 ......................................................................................................... RICKY is the fictional story of a young black man in America, the northeast, not the south. Phillip Roth wrote, “... fiction is the closest thing we have to the truth". Convicted of armed auto theft at age 15, Ricky was sentenced as an adult to what would last 15

An essay by Lloyd I Sederer MD UFOs, the Unidentified Flying Objects in our skies are often reported by terrestrials (us) as appearing like “saucers”. Their speeds silently break the sound barrier, and their acrobatics defy the laws of physics. Accurate descriptions of pilots and engineers elude “ufologists” because of their heavenly distance and velocity. Too bad what could presumably be their informative earthen corpses are rapidly and surreptitiously removed by government

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Source: Amazon Prime Anyone, child or adult, who watches Disney won’t be surprised that sheep (among many other four-legged animals) can be charming – and talk! But until today, did you know that sheep have achieved mastery as sleuths, among the likes of the droll Sherlock Holmes? Or Inspector Clouseau, famed for his pursuit of The Pink Panther? It took the murder of a beloved man, George Hardy (Hugh Jackman), the modest, kindly shepherd of

An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Shutterstock Intention is not meant to be confused with “intending”, with its wish-washy power of deliberate action. “Intention”, has an aim, a commitment, to do (or say) something, good or bad, of value or useless, clear or vague, now or later, and so forth. Noetics is the study and dawning science of consciousness (www.ions.org). Few, I suspect, knew the term until Dan Brown, the best-selling author, popularized it in his latest book, (The Secr

Some stories are timeless... Comments by Lloyd I Sederer MD How could a cell have given life, eons ago, to the vast variety of creatures inhabiting our air, sea, land, and bodies? A cell that, with time, happened to spawn we homo sapiens, capable of communication, creativity, and consciousnesses. That has, when we pause to reflect leave us breathless? Enter Lewis Thomas... Who was Lewis Thomas, MD? He was President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and formerly