Sentences with phrase «not lucid»

Elderly and / or sick residents are particularly at risk for becoming victims of nursing home abuse or neglect because many of them are too weak or not lucid enough to know that they are being abused.

But his son said he wasn't lucid, so come if I wanted, but he would likely be unconscious.

There isn't a lucid moment in it (and much of the dialogue is rendered unintelligible by Russell's subversive direction), but it has dash, style, and good looks, as well as the funniest curtain line since Some Like It Hot.

At best, Hoke feels sorry for Miss Daisy's deteriorating mental state; at worst, Stockholm syndrome keeps him in the orbit of someone who could only appreciate him when she wasn't lucid.

Not exact matches

Orwig: Those who can already control their dreams with ease say lucid dreams aren't only for entertainment but can also be used to expand one's conscious boundaries.

But why do some people have the ability to lucid dream but not others?

And until recently we lacked the technology to prove if lucid dreaming was real or not.

I find that a goal of «becoming lucid» does not work as well as a goal of doing something fun in the limitless world of dreams.»

Lucid doesn't offer a trial period, either, so you'll need to be pretty sure that this is the mattress you want before you buy it.

Neurotransmitters & Lucid Dreaming There are lot of mental and psychological methods to induce lucid dreams (e.g. reality checks, the Wake Back To Bed Method) but there isn't a whole lot of information on the neurochemical apprLucid Dreaming There are lot of mental and psychological methods to induce lucid dreams (e.g. reality checks, the Wake Back To Bed Method) but there isn't a whole lot of information on the neurochemical apprlucid dreams (e.g. reality checks, the Wake Back To Bed Method) but there isn't a whole lot of information on the neurochemical approach.

Do not eat anything (lucid induction supplements are fine) or do too much exercise.

Let's not forget that the main reason for keeping a dream journal is to have lucid dreams!

I already know what I'm going to say if I'm lucid - «You can tell your Mother - in - Law «Heaven is not having to hear your voice anymore.»»

I have it clearly stated in my Living Will that no attention is to be paid to any blathering done by me when I am not of lucid mind, therefore no minister of any form is to be brought in.

But actually, in the mirror I'm a heart of darkness: narcissistic solipsist sealed - in to my ego - conscious lucid schemes, aims, desires, jealous and envious, manipulative, controlling, fearful and anxious, hateful and yet wanting to be seen, heard, touched, fed and certainly liked if not loved even as mean spirited as I am. . .

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image... Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he can not find within the narrow confines of swirling, personal experience.

The explanations are clear and the book is not afraid to give lucid definitions.

Thus the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote with lucid distaste: Christianity would not exist without Paul, i.e., without «the confusions and thunderstorms of such a head; hardly would we have heard of a small Jewish sect whose master died on the cross.»

Buckley quotes from an essay by Irving Kristol published three years ago in the National Review, because, he admits, Kristol is Jewish, and because «I can not surpass him in lucid social analysis.»

That being said, I believe partnering up can be great if you find a good match — but people need to be lucid — eyes wide open and keep their expectations low so as not to be disappointed.

If God decides Robertson is sane, lucid, does not have alzheimer's, and has a some reasonable degree of intelligence, he will send us a sign.

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

Whereas in Isaiah, Ahaz is merely told about the extraordinary sign by which God would redeem the people, in Matthew 1:18 - 25 the sign comes as a lucid dream of instruction to Joseph, who had not asked or been prepared for one.

Then the lucid addition of «So Satan may not tempt you with your lack of self control» I mean one can easily make the rational assumption or argument that masturbation is a good remedy in this regard as well to help relieve the desires of the flesh that might other wise lead a married person to adultery.

However, the fact that Suchocki's opinion is not fully lucid with regard to this point encumbers its assessment41 Yet a number of evaluative remarks can be made.

Here I was, getting ready to write an insightful and lucid piece on the positive influence one Andre Clarindo dos Santos has had on our beloved Arsenal and, wouldn't you know it, he plants his foot wrong on a nothing play in a nothing game and is out injured.

Among the group of 47 people who combined all three techniques, participants achieved a 17 % success rate in having lucid dreams over the period of just one week — significantly higher compared to a baseline week where they didn't practise any techniques.

The prose is so lively, the thinking so lucid, and the use of such devices so artful, one might not notice it all adds up to a 500 - page systematic analysis of a massive, dry, sometime jumbled philosophical corpus from a profoundly alien society.

«Importantly, those who reported success using the MILD technique were significantly less sleep deprived the next day, indicating that lucid dreaming did not have any negative effect on sleep quality,» he says.

Even when dreaming that they were clenching their hand, the lucid dreamers did not clench their hand in reality.

In this lucid road map for the nascent discipline of «de-extinction,» Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist, examines not only how we can resurrect long - vanished species but also when we can not or should not.

In this a splendidly lucid and wide - ranging account of our scientific ignorance, Maddox revels in highlighting fundamental problems that don't appear to be readily soluble in terms of the science we already know.

Some of the psychosis depicted is not as florid and as lucid as some people see, but it helps you realise what a person with mental illness is going through,» says Peter Darling, president of the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Queensland in Brisbane.

Thank you so much for the lucid advice... I'm actually having quite a hard time «eating back» those calories, sometimes even pushing food in, which I think is not OK.

Splat by Lucid Dreaming on Apr 6, 2013Being the lazy kid I am, I didn't wake up as early as I usually do this morning so I didn't have time to dry my hair and take outfit shots.

It wasn't until I got even older that I knew that there was a term for lucid dreamers.

«A Good Woman» above all lacks the joyful, lucid anger that lights up Wilde's plays — the sense that beneath the witticisms he's telling it like it is to people who aren't used to hearing it.

The navel - gazing tenor doesn't always obscure Parenthood «s thought - provoking moments, which often also showcase clipped, witty scripting, and lucid acting.

But those very defects give the film a special mood, lucid in its nastiness, but not too far from black surrealism.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

Clearly what is here is lucid, controlled and ultimately brilliant, but I wasn't able to find a way into the story.

Hole drummer Patty Schemel's feisty personality infuses this fast - paced film, which not only documents her rollercoaster experiences with drug addition but also provides a lucid exploration of the Seattle grunge scene.

All of this is stated as a way for the man to have lucid dreams — the kind in which you are an active participant, controlling what happens — which may or may not help him escape.

That didn't stop ex-staffers from forming a brand new company, Lucid Games.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Lucid is well acted and certainly well made - director Sean Garrity imbues the film with an appropriately off - kilter sense of style - but ultimately, it's just not terribly interesting.

The difference is that Waking Life concerns itself with lucid dreams, not emotional dreams.

Sifting through the several thousand articles on the site, a reader can't help but feel nostalgic for the days when Rosenbaum was producing his lucid, erudite prose on a regular basis.

Evincing many lucid and extemporaneous qualities, Linklater doesn't do catching up though, as «Boyhood» feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment, watching the sprawling, occasionally dull home videos of family over more than a decade's time.

To be sure, multiple - choice items can not expose a student's ability to write lucid prose or engage in original research, but they can go a long way toward revealing the sorts of things we want youngsters to know and be able to do.