This is one of the most soothing songs I’d ever heard, that is gentle while singing of strength. I read that it was ‘written to sooth a young child who had had a bad dream about being all alone and lost’. Many sought solace in it as it seems to sing about loss of a [...]

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’
‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with his love, that he doesn’t really develop genuine affection for anyone, while he plays ‘love’ as a game. That’s right, Conner’s a playboy, and that’s wrong! So much faith does he have that romances are best [...]

In the plot of the movie ‘Ploy’, the characters seem to live their interconnected dreams as alternate but believable realities, before they wake up to actual reality – albeit not that realised in enlightenment, but the usual samsaric reality. The dreams experienced are not portrayed to be technologically fantastical in the Matrix style, but are [...]

The Myth of Pointing at the Moon?
A strange urban legend(?) of no specific origin has it that if one points at the full moon, one will wake up the next day with a fine cut behind a ear. Though a small cut, one feels the stinging pain from it for a while. This article explores [...]