Witch

Hi anon, here’s a couple of things you can try:

dream sachet: two sprigs of rosemary, one tablespoon of lavender, one teaspoon of course salt, an amethyst crystal. sow these into a sachet or place them in a plastic ziplock bag if you have nothing else. place it under your pillow.

smoke cleansing: you can use incense for this if you don’t want to use sage, make sure you get every corner of the room, be sure to cleanse yourself as well. 

move your bed: do your feet face the doorway when you’re in bed? This is known as the coffin position, a very old superstition says that if you sleep in this position you will not have peaceful rest. An old wives tale perhaps, but I have found it to be somewhat true.

crystals: you can grid your room by placing a clear quartz in each corner of your room. alternatively amethyst, fluorite and obsidian can be placed under your pillow. 

flip your pillow: when you wake up from the nightmare flip your pillow over, so the dream cannot then return.

dream journal: if its not too traumatic for you, write down every detail you can about the nightmares, as much as you can possibly remember. By writing everything down you will come across things that are unbelievably silly or contrived, our brains always add an element of the farcical into our dreams, always. so if you can recognise what makes these dreams impossible or not believable you may stop them from returning.

It’s something that plant lovers have long suspected, but now Australian scientists have found evidence that plants really can feel when we’re touching them.

Not only that, but different sensations trigger a cascade of physiological and genetic changes, depending on the stimulation the plants are receiving, whether it’s a few drops of rain, or a little soft pat, which is probably the coolest thing we’ve heard all week.

“Although people generally assume plants don’t feel when they are being touched, this shows that they are actually very sensitive to it,” said lead researcher Olivier Van Aken from the University of Western Australia.

“While plants don’t appear to complain when we pinch a flower, step on them or just brush by them while going for a walk, they are fully aware of this contact and are rapidly responding to our treatment of them,” he added.

But first thing’s first, let’s not get ahead of ourselves and anthropomorphise the crap out of this situation, as we humans love to do. Although this whole thing sounds super adorable and touchy feely, plants don’t have brains and they don’t ‘think’.

We also don’t have evidence to suggest that they actually ‘feel’ in any way resembling our perception of the sense.

That said, previous research has shown that plants do have pretty good awareness of their surroundings. For example, they can ‘hear’ when they’re being chewed on by insects, and release chemicals to stop it. And they’re also able to communicate with each other via a subterranean ‘internet’ of fungus.

While there’s no visible response to any of this stimulus, what this input does is help the plant stay aware of its surroundings and prepare itself for any potential danger, or get ready to take advantage of changing weather conditions.

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