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Electric Dreams
Volume 3 Issue #3
20 April 1996
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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE:
Editors Notes
<Dream Sharing Groups - sign up here>
Questions & Answers
!!! Dream up your OWN Web Page!!!
A Dream Story by Ewa
Dream Line : : the Natural Environment
and Our Dreams - by Christopher Hicks
Interview: Joe Tucker of Dream Archive
by Richard Wilkerson
Article: Dreaming Deep & Surfacing - Group Work with
Dreams in Cyber-Space by Jeremy Taylor
Article: Quantum notes on Castaneda's Dreaming Gates
- by Vilen Galimov
Dream Poem by Allison Eir Jenks
Article: The Lucid Dreamer's Manual
Part I by Lee Holmes
GLOBAL DREAMING NEWS
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HIGH LEVEL DREAM DISCUSSIONS:
THE ASD BULLETIN BOARD OPENS!
ASD CONFERENCE XIII - JULY 1996! HOT LINE
INTERVIEW ABOUT DREAMLINK
Oniros - EASD Association Francaise Pour L'Etude Du Reve
DREAM LINKS PROJECTS(not DreamLink)
THE SANDMAN HAS MOVED! WWW
DREAM COMICS WWW - ITS FABULOUS!
THE DREAM ARCHIVE (UNDERGROUND)
JUNG on IRC
NEW LUCID DREAM WEB SITE ->LD<-
!!!ASD CONFERENCE XIII UPDATE!!!
ASD REGIONAL CONFERENCES:
-->New York - April 28th
-->Washington DC - July 26-27, 1996
-->Kootenay Bay, British Columbia - Sept 6-8, 1996
-->Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA October 11-13, 1996
JERMEY TAYLOR ON AOL - NOW ALL WEEKDAYS!
-> DREAM STUDIO on Compuserve-Donna LoCicero Campos <-
DREAMWORLD NEWS - AOL FORUM
LUCID DREAMS DISCUSSIONS E-MAIL LIST
VAN EEDEN'S LUCID CLASSIC NOW ONLINE
LINDA MAGALLON and the wonderful DREAM AHEAD PROJECT
D.R.E.A.M.S. AND COMMENTS INDEX
Comments on Dreams from Previous Issues:
Commentary on JJ's "Huecos" by Shadow (960229)
Commentary on Sarah's "Whale Dreams" by Shadow (960229)
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New Dreams and Commentary Electric Dreams Vol. 3 Issue 3:
Dream: The Unicycle and The Silver Shadow by Shadow
(960212)
Commentary from Nutcracker on "The Unicycle and the
Silver Lizard" by Shadow
Dream: The Raging Manistee by Shadow (960213)
Commentary on Raging Manistee by Cathy (960224)
Comments from Nutcracker on The Raging Manistee" by
Shadow
Dream: "Sea Monsters" by Nutcracker (960214)
Commentary on Sea Monsters by Cathy (960222)
Commentary by Narcissus on "Sea Monsters" by Nutcracker
(960223)
Commentary on Nutcracker's Dream "Sea Monsters" by Island
(960229)
Dream: Mob Funded Airborne Shoppoing Aborted by
Shadow (960214)
Dream: Invalid Relation by Kenneth (960217)
Dream: Just Ducky! by Kenneth (960218)
Dream: Tracking The All Terrain Submarine by Shadow
(9602XX)
Dream: Into The Mountain, Into The Future by Shadow
(9602XX)
Commentary on "Into the Mountain, Into the Future" by
Shadow by Nutcraker
Dream: Golden Anhk by Shadow (9602XX)
Comments from Nutcracker on "Golden Ankh" by Shadow
Dream: History Of A Parasitic Quest by Shadow
(9602XX)
Dream: "Monster Mouse" by Foiler (960222)
Comments on 'Monster Mouse' by Nutcracker
Commentary on 'monster mouse' by jay 96-02-24
Dream: Monica, My Monica by Shadow (960224)
Dream: Smoking Intimate Arrogance by Shadow (960226)
Dream: High School Cat by Kenneth (960226)
Dream: Romeo Road by Kenneth (960226)
Dream: "The Helper" by Nutcracker (960226)
Dream: "The Laundromat" by Nutcracker (960227)
Dream: Single Handed Seclusion by Shadow (960227)
Dream: Broadcasted Fool by Shadow (960227)
Dream: Found In Missouri by Shadown (960227)
Dream: The Old Man And The T-Cell by Shadow (960227)
Dream: Haunted Houses - Tue 27 Feb 1996 by Kenneth
(960227)
Dream: "Gender Bender" by Myst (960227)
Dream: Mud Help by Kenneth (960229)
Dream: "The Dance of Joy" by Nutcracker (960302)
Dream: Countdown by Kenneth (960302)
Dream: Santa Cruz Mountains by Kenneth (960302)
Dream: UK Dreams by Rob2 (960305)
Commentary by Narcissus on FROM THE UK by rob2 (960306)
Commentary on Dreams From UK by Bob C (960311)
Commentary from Nutcracker on 'From the UK' by Rob2
Dream: Herman Munster by Kenneth (960305)
Dream: Mr.Dream Jeans by Mib: (960307)
Dream: Someone elses wedding by Mib (960307)
Dream: "Walk the Walk" by Blair (960329)
Dream: "Rickenbacker or Alembic?" by Blair (960330)
Commentary on "Rickenbacker or Alembic?" by Blair by
Rosalie
Commentary on Tampa Dream by Rosalie
Dream: Xfiles by JohnJ (960331)
Dream: Nutcracker by JohnJ (960331)
Dream: "My Dream of 2 Macs" by WriTinG (960405)
Commentary on dreams of two macs by Marta
Commentary on 2 macs by Cathy (960407)
Commentary on Dream of 2 macs by Rosalie (960416)
Commentary on Dreams of 2 macs by BobC (960413)
Dream: "> Topaz <" by ** Europium ** (960406)
Commentary by Narcissus on "Topaz" by Europium (960407)
Commentary on Topaz Dream by Bob C. (960413)
Dream: The Leap by Willow (960412)
Commentary on "The Leap" by BobC (960413)
Commentary on "The Leap" by Willow by Rosalie (960416)
Dream: The Twilight Zone by Nutcracker (960413)
Commentary by Narcissus on "The Twilight Zone" by
Nutcracker (960420)
Dream: "My Daughter, Justice" by Rosanna Lee (960414)
Commentary by Narcissus on "My Daughter, Justice" by
Rosanna Lee (960415)
Dream: "many cars and a lion dream" by mermaid
(960415)
Commentary on "many cars and a lion dream" by Rosalie
(960416)
Dream: "The Mother of all Domestic Disputes" by Shadow
(960415)
Dream: "Run Away" by Milagro (960415)
Dream: "Left Behind" by Milagro (960415)
Dream: "Rigid Habits" by Rosalie (960416)
Dream: Water, Rats, Deer and Me" by Mary (960417)
Commentary by Narcissus on "Water, Rats, Deer and Me" by
Mary (960419)
Dream: Quincunx by Kenneth (960410)
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Miscellaneous Comments
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Selections from Nutcracker (Feb - Apr 96)
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Editors' Notes
We have an extremely varied and wonderful issue for you
this month. Yes, it does seem that we have moved into a
monthly cycle rather than every two weeks. To respond to
this we offer a mail list for the submission and
discussion of dreams, and offer dream groups for more in
depth attention to individual dreams. See the DreamGroups
article below for more. Dreams and Cyberspace are rapidly
changing and as the new and old mix and transform we
struggle to understand and find our place in it all.
Electric Dreams continues weaving through older forms and
producing new ones. Philosophers will enjoy Vilen
Galimov's article on Quantum aspect of Castaneda. Artists
and Web creators will be interested in Matthew's offer to
add your own dream space/page to the Electric Dreams
site. Art lovers should also check out the Dream Comic
Site. If you are interested in the dream art Underground,
see my Dream Archive Interview with Joe Tucker. By the
way, I'm trying to develop some graphic cover pages for
back issue of Electric Dreams. If you would like to help
design covers, contact me. Those of you who are political
or theoretical or social in nature or like to discuss and
debate issues will enjoy the new ASD Bulletin board
announcement. What will be discussed? Well, how about the
fate of Dream Sharing on Internet, for one! To get you
in the mood, I suggest Jeremy Taylor's article on his
observations about dreamwork in Cyberspace. As a matter
of fact , we have large News section this month to catch
you up on ALL the latest issues in dreaming. Find
something missing? Send it in. If you are more literary
minded, I recommend Ewa's Polish Dream Story, a fabulous
dream use story. For the environmentally concerned, be
sure to check out Christopher Hicks Dream Line column on
dreams of the environment. How about those lucid dreams,
having any? Lee Holmes is providing a two part series on
his collection of info and techniques in lucid dreaming.
If this not enough, see the new LD Web sites and Mail
lists.
For those of you who are planning to attend the July ASD
conference in Berkeley, or those who are planning to
connect via Cyberspace, be sure to not only check out the
new sites with tons of information and schedules, but
also Linda Magallon's Dream Ahead Project where you can
participate in a communal dreaming project.
And of course, we have the most poetic, philosophical,
political, and literary events themselves, the dreams,
dreams, dreams, from all over the globe!
Richard Wilkerson
By the way, welcome to all our new subsribers from
around the globe, include Brazil, Poland, Russia, Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway and the U.K.! Did I
miss your country? Send us an article on what's going on
in your country in dreams and dreaming and we will get
the word out.
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Dream Sharing Group !!Starts week of April 21-27!!
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Are you interested in more attention to your dreams? We
*do not* offer psychotherapy, but we do offer a forum in
which you can share and discuss your dreams with other
dream concerned individuals. While we maintain that each
individual must be the final authority on the meaning of
his or her dream, we also are aware that sharing dreams
with others increases the creative approaches one can
access to the dream imagery and enhances the intuitive
process surrounding these approaches. In other words, its
a lot of fun and everyone agrees its often very
insightful.
For more information on joining, send an e-mail to
Richard Wilkerson at rcwilk@aol.com
And say "yes, I'm interesting in the next Dream Sharing
Group sponsered by Electric Dreams!"
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Questions & Answers
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Looking for Roman Catholics Experienced in DreamWork:
I am looking for some people who are experienced with
dream interpretation and are also from a Roman Catholic
background. I was sent here by Gillian Holloway to see
if I could get some help. Do you know of any people who
could help me by E-mail. This is very important to me.
I
have had help from other Christian denominations just
recently but have found the difference in doctrine can
make a difference in the interpretation. I sure hope you
can help me. I'm using my son's address here. My
address is WJPBR@AOL.COM.
Thank You & God Bless - Bill Richer
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Electric Dreams is looking for a volunteer Questions &
Answers editor. Are you interested in looking up answers
to dream questions, posing questions and short teaching
columns, doing interviews with dream researchers,
dreamworkers and authors? If so, this may be the
position for you! We are still a free publication and
the tasks are done out of love- so there is no direct
money in this position, but the Electric Dreams staff
will assure that you are put in contact with some of the
most amazing people on earth! Also you will be free to
develop the section as you please as a co-editor of
Electric Dreams. Contact Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@aol.com
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Do you have some ideas for the Electric Dreams Web Page?
Great! We would love to have you design an attachment
about your own dream perspective and *We'll put it up*.
That's Right - your own page. Just make it related to
dreams and dreaming.
Send that page in ascii/html to:
mettw@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
Also, Matthew is requesting that you add to the bottom
of the page:
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A Dream Story, by Ewa
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This is a dream story. I am sorry for the bizzare
language. It is not easy to translate from Polish into
English, these are quite different languages. Besides
this is an old text. I have not checked it up since the
time it was written. I hope my English got a little
better through this time.
I am walking down the park with Peter. There is an
autumnal sunny weather. On the ground and on the trees
there are host of leaves - yellow, orange, brown and
green. I see a beautiful magnificent building behind the
trees. There is also a place where a huge strange white
circle is located. People come up to this place lay down
their heads and hands on its surface to lose their
energy or to take it from the circle.
I also decided to go there. After taking some
energy, I am coming back to Piotr - to a cementery. We
are sitting on a grave together.
I had this dream just after my first meeting with
Peter, who - in a very strange way - was rousing in
myself a hope of enormous, eternal love, which would
exist above all limitations and psychological conditions.
I saw a wonderful chance to realize the idea of true
immortal love, which will last all over and let loving
souls and bodies to rise above the mundane existence,
and enter the ideal sphere of spirit.
Reported dream however brought me an anxiety state.
Why do I dream autumn at the very beginning of our
relationship? Why instead of admiring together the
magnificence and beauty of the light building, we are
sitting on the grave having to deal with death? Why do I
have to go to take some energy?
Peter was also dreaming of enormous love and - as it
turned out later - I roused the same feelings and hopes
in his heart as he did in mine. Consciously however I
tried to keep him at a distance. I felt he was very
sensitive, romantic and that he gained a big part of
so-called life wisdom. But first of all I saw a huge
never fulfilled need of love in everything what he was
doing.
At the same time however I was suffering because of his
cynicism, egocentrism, and selfishness. There was a huge
gulf between that what he was talking about and that
what he was really doing. I could not reconcile to that.
A certain night I dreamt the following image:
I had a very important aim to achieve, but was so ill
that could not move at all.
Then I saw a great red apple in my dream, but it was
rotten in the most part. Its pulp was made of
green-yellow spider's webs like. Peter was cleaning this
apple for me, but his hands were rotten in the same way.
He was ill. He disappeared somewhere and I was waiting
for him. I wanted him to come back to make this apple
eatable for me.
This beautiful rotten apple was for me an evident symbol
of the true real feeling lack, just as mine and Peter's
illness were the sign of impossibility for our love to
be born. But in spite of this I wished him (waiting in
the dream) to love me-to clean the apple for me.
Few times I had a dream that Peter was arriving at my
place very dirty and I allowed him to have a bath. He
was washing his cynicism and bitterness (which has been
a consequence of many disappointments) out having a bath
in my naivety and ever lasting belief in human being and
so-called higher values. But no longer I was able to play
a role of a purifying shower. It was really hard for me
to accept the fact that there exist such cynic and
cruel people who pay back to the quite innocent people
for the wrongs which somebody else did them in the past.
I decided to brake my relation with Peter off. I have not
had any meeting with him for a few months.
At that time I had the following dream:
I am attending a lecture with a strange teacher - master
who is going to teach us in a "different" way. He wants
us to feel the whole depth of poetry - that what is
included above words and content because the most
important message is in there. We are to experience
poetry very deeply and to gain its meaning through
intuitive understanding.
Here is the next part of the dream:
There is a blue emptiness and a fog like in the same
colour. On the right side there is a blue water enclosed
in carved marble of circle shape. It evaporates making
subtle foggy creatures from beyond which a shape of a
girl is appearing. First the head and then the rest of
her body. the girl is very resemble to me. She has dark
hair, naked arms, naked breasts and very strange, short
skirts. I think she does not suit to this surroundings.
She is too little delicate and of too strong
constitution. Her body is yellow. She is moving forward
as if she is swimming through the blue. The water
remains behind her. Now she is becoming delicate. She
has double blue wings of her arms. Now I know I am this
girl .
On the left side a small dark - haird boy is appearing.
He is wearing a black suit. He also has the double blue
wings. I know this is Peter. He is running towards me
very quickly.
I feel the presence of an invisible personage which is
saying :" Do not ring him up". The boy achieved me
however and infiltrated into myself. I
like soaked him addressing the personage who tried to
warn me: "It is too late. The boy is already inside me."
I woke up terrified. The boy's infiltration into my body
was an evident symbol for me. The whole of rational and
almost the whole of irrational part of my being I was
against this then. My inner evolution which this dream
revealed to me made me think, however. From a primitive,
immature girl I changed into a subtle winged being. What
is surprising, the boy was also soulful, but he remained
a running kid while I became a woman full of harmony and
peace. Is that so, because - inspite of his assurances -
he seemed a boy to me all the time? Will he remain such a
boy and I should accept this? Am I not to pay attention
to words and behaviour and to follow the voice of my
intuition, what the teacher from my dream was talking
about?
After a few months I came back to him. But I still had
lots of doubts and fears. My dreams were reflecting them
in the nightmare forms:
I see an unusual building , like a very high tower .
Winding stairs lead up. I did not need to go at the very
top, but I really wished to see the view from that
point. Such a wonderful blue and brilliance reigned
above. The tower was almost reaching the sky. I climbed
up the top, but I could not stand in the open space and
freely look around, because a terrible woman appeared in
front of me. I thought it was death. She was tall and
thin. She had bony hands compressed into fists and some
black and brown stains on her skin. I was horrible
terrified. She noticed that and started to explain
herself saying that she is just after an illness which
destroyed her so. I apologized to her for my reaction.
I was saying I understood and...was going away in a
panic fear. Her gaze steadfast on me was horrific. She
was approaching me. I started to escape running down the
stairs in crazy speed. How long they were... I thought
there would be no end. The horrible woman is running
behind me, she is hunting me. Once is before me, once
behind. I do not know how it happens so. Finally I am
downstairs among other people. Here the woman is no
more dangerous. I enter the church and see that a bank
department is established there.
Did this dream contain any warning? I wanted to climb up
as high as possible to be above all what is mundane and
ordinary, to be all over the commoness which is down. I
wished to enter the world of ideas and... I found a
disease and death ( of all these ideal images?) instead
of. Perhaps I am this ugly, destroyed woman? And I am
afraid of myself like this, again and again becoming
her. But down there is also a disappointment - money is
important instead of Christian values.
I rationalised my fears. I tried to understand Peter, to
explain his behaviour with the emotional rejection which
he experienced many times of women's side (sometimes,
however, it seemed very symptomatic to me). My distance
to him was increasing, but I wanted to conquer myself.
Belief that I will finally overcome my feelings and will
be able to bring love and happiness into his life, was
setting my doubts in the shadow. The world of illusion
was slowly becoming my real world.
Finally I agreed to live with him. Then I noticed that
Peter was awfully rapacious and self - centred. He was
not rousing love in myself, but was forcing me to love
him and was tormenting me in this way. He did not agreed
to leave me when I implored him to, arguing that he did
not want to lose me. My feelings were not important to
him. I was sustaining tortures listening to the love
declarations. I was desperate, disoriented, psychically
and physically exhausted. Less and less I was
remembering my dreams. Magnificent and colourful visions
-which I used to have before - disappeared. Instead of
them I dreamt darkness every night., darkness like a
black hole which was my reality and which I could not
get out of.
I had more and more nightmares:
I noticed something was growing in my head, was bursting
it. I was afraid it was a cancer. I tried to believe it
was anything else, but deeply inside I felt I would have
to depart from this world. It was terrible! I did not
want to die yet! My head was already very big and my hair
were bulging in the place where the tumour was growing
bigger. I was looking for a doctor's help desperately,
but noone was in and each door was closed.
I started to act in a very strange way - improper,
insuitable. I was singing, dancing and saying very
strange words in the places where silence and
seriousness were demanded. People were looking at me
surprised or scandalized. Sometimes I was laughing
awfully and somebody had to calm me down. Finally during
a ceremony my mother said she was afraid of me and
worried about my illness.
- Schizophrenia? -I asked.
- No, cyklophrenia - she answered.
I stood up and went to the other room.
The state of my physical and mental health increasingly
got worse at this time. Except for many physical
complaints, considerable problems with my memory and
ability to concentrate notice begun to appear. I became
helpless and defenceless. I was not able to think
logically and to disprove baseless and simply stupid
arguments, which Peter was using while talking to me (
or during his monologues rather). I was mostly down and
was working really hard to get rid this depression of,
just to fall into the next one. Peter stated that I was
psychically and mentally - deficient and it would be
good for me to undergo some psychological tests.
My parents noticed something wrong happened to me. They
helped me. I managed to escape from Peter. I went for a
few months abroad. Peter was writing letters, calling me
up, missing and anxiously waiting for me. He was saying
he loved me. I decided to take a risk again.
The following dream reflected my hesitating very
picturesquely:
I am in the States and in my beloved woods in Poland
at the same time. Peter is like near by me and like far
away. I want to write a letter to him using big
feathers as my note - paper. I am not sure, however, if
it succeeds and whether these feathers do not get lost
somewhere during mailing . But it turns out they will
go into one of my envelopes. Anyway I am still not sure
if I should put them into the envelope or stick the
stamps directly on the feathers. These are the biggest
and the most beautiful swan feathers I have ever had. One
is snow - white, the other one is darker. I do not want
to damage them (to make them dirty with ink), especially
the white one which I decided to write on. I am still
hesitating.
The swan is for me a symbol of love, loyalty and
affection. I chose the white feather - love. The second
one - darker (but also beautiful) - is friendship. I am
reflecting on the following: to give my love to Peter or
to strangle it deeply inside me (to put it into the
envelope)? I do not want to destroy this love with
needless words (to write on the feather), as well.
I came back to Poland, but there were no positive changes
in my relation with Peter. It was still vague and very
harmful for both of us. I closed the white feather in
the envelope.
In my dreams I was often escaping from Peter and he was
looking for me. In one of such dreams I bought some
chicken tights. Then it turned out that everything in
this shop is infected with an horrid disease -
trichinosis probably - which larvas develop in people's
muscles. With repugnance I threw this tights out on the
snow, near by the rubbish heap. I noticed then that they
were no tights. I knew it was a chicken, but in reality
it was a bullied, child size body of a very strange,
inhuman shape . It was skinny and naked. At the moment I
threw it away it started to cry. It was screaming
scridently. That was a heart - rending yell of pain and
suffering. It was derelicted on the snow in death throes.
I started to scream to call people to kill it off. I was
not be able to do this by myself, although I felt how
horrible it was suffering. I was also yelling heart -
readingly and I felt this shout proceeded from the bottom
of my heart.
At once I knew this poor, strange being symbolised my
relation with Peter. The feeling instead of finding the
breeding ground for its development inside us was thrown
away on the snow (the lack of feelings), and now it is
dying on - just as our relationship which I am no more
able to save. I also cannot break it of - kill the
suffering being . And may be Peter is this ill -
treated, derelicted body? He often feels so. All the
same, I have no more power. The immense love to Peter
would signify my death.
At this time I had few dreams about falling teeth. I
understood them as my inability of self - defence
(especially against Peter's attacks) and coping with
painful ,emotions. In one of these dreams my teeth fell
out, but their roots remained. It meant for me that
everything would be OK.
In the following dreams I found the confirmation of my
suppositions:
I am far away from my home. There is also our new car and
nobody of my family to drive it. I must go home but I
cannot leave the car. I cannot drive, I do not have my
driving -licence , but anyway I decide to go home
driving this car. I am driving! And I am quite good at
it! It is wintertime and the road is covered by ice.
Besides there are a lot of hills on my way. I have a
little fear. I have been driving downhill for along
time. I wonder which brake I should use: manual or
normal. I decide to use normal one because manual could
make my drive completely impossible. I am very glad that
drive uphill is starting and I will have to use the
brake no more.
There are woods all around, but I am not alone. There are
some other cars on my way.
Suddenly I am riding a bicycle, still home through the
woods and snow. A herd of koyots attacks me. I catch one
and throw it far away. Then it changes into a small dog
and I am a little sorry for it. I manage other animals,
too, and I see they are not so dangerous. Finally they
leave me alone.
My return to home is the return to myself - strong,
powerful and in good health. This also means my coming
back to the state of well - being and the feeling of
safety. I am able to control my emotions and situations
which I am involved in like I controlled the car. I am
happy that although it will be a little difficult
(uphill) I will not have to withdraw into myself (to use
the brake) and to block my emotions any more.
This is another dream:
Any big, black birds are coming to me. They cannot fly. I
see they have bandaged wings. I judge they are already
in good health. I am putting the bandages from their
wings away and they are flying high up to the sky. It
is beautiful around, a lot of green everywhere. I see a
marvellous meadow surrounded by the virgin woods. The
sky is blue. I feel like I am flying. I am surprised
that I am able to heal birds - I am the birds' healer.
Wonderful, I am recuperating! My joyful soul will be
flying like a bird again!
I am flying in another dream:
Golden sunshine enlightens the blue of the sky. It is
warm. I see and feel a huge surface. Down under me I see
a beautiful, colourful garden where a magnificent horse
is running.
Being full of energy and optimism after these dreams I
create a new hope for my future with Peter. I think we
both will undergo some positive changes and all will be
OK. After a peaceful day without any quarrels and
misunderstandings, full of wonderful plans for the
future, I had a dream in which Peter was a monster:
He tortures me so, that I do not know what happens to me
and all around. My father is defending me passionately.
This dream shocked me. I was really terrified after
waking up. But in few hours it started... Peter drove
me into the state of depression again. I was quite
helpless and defenceless.
In the evening I met my family. I found out that during
my absence they were talking about my relation with
Peter a lot. They advised me to brake it off. Especially
my father wanted me to do that. Anyway I made a decision
about my separation with Peter before the meeting with my
family. I had really heavy heart. It was not easy for me
to make this step. So many plans fell down. And then I
had a dream that I went to the fortune - teller. I had an
appointment with her (everyday there were crowds of
people and it was taking some hours to get the
possibility to see her). I was just about coming into
her room when I decided to escape. After all this is my
life, my future and I am the only one who can have the
best knowledge about this. Especially this horrible
woman can say nothing about me and what more to thrust
her opinion upon me.
I was a little down and sad trying to abide by my
decision. After all, inspite of having lots of friends I
feelt somewhat lonely. I was walking down the street
plunged in this blue mood. Suddenly an old woman with
cards caught me up. Instinctively I wanted to go away but
she overtook me saying that she would only like to talk
to me. Oh, yes -I think - and then you will start to
fool my money out or rob me. But on the other hand are
there really no people who want to talk to other man
only? She started to foretell my future. I was afraid
that she will rob me in a moment. I wanted to escape and
the thought from my dream: "I am the only one who can
have the best knowledge about my future" (especially such
a street woman cannot have!) was rumbling in my head. In
this state of hesitating - between the wish of escape
and belief in human honesty - I was completely robbed.
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THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND OUR DREAMS
I would like to start this Dream Line with a short
relaxation exercise.
Imagine yourself in a beautiful forest with lots of
trees. Wait, most of the trees have been cut down. It
is still quite nice as you look down at the bubbling
stream. But there are empty pop cans and bottles and
paper scraps strewn around. Or maybe you are walking
along the beach at sunset. You stroll, bare footed, into
the water only to feel a thick ooze cling to your feet.
You look down to see thick, black oil clinging to your
feet and ankles. Okay, this isn't working. One of the
most traditional methods of relaxation, using imagery of
natural environments, ceases to be effective when the
reality of pollution and other environmental problems are
brought into that imagery.
In reviewing the responses to my request for dreams of
and relating to the environment I am reminded of the
rather broad definition of the word environment.
Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary defines
environment as follows:
1: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by
which one is surrounded 2 a: the complex of
physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate,
soil, and living things) that act upon an organism
or an ecological community and ultimately determine
its form and survival b: the aggregate of social and
cultural conditions that influence the life of an
individual or community.
When making the request I was thinking in terms of the
natural environment, but Webster's definition reminds me
of the awesome thought that the environment is that by
which we are surrounded. How accurate that is! There is
no escape from the natural environment; it is all around
us. Our very existence is dependent on it. Despite this
fact the daily news broadcasts frequently report stories
environmental disasters. In just the two months I have
been collecting responses for this column I have seen a
month long fire at a local used tire processing facility;
two major oil spills; and a serious leak of a toxic
chemical from a train derailment. These examples come
from watching only a few minutes of news each day.
Upon some further investigation I have found many other
examples. My primary research tool has been the World
Wide Web. There are many, many web sites relating to the
environment and the various threats to it. Scrolling
through the web pages I have seen evidence of the
continued deforestation of rain forests all over the
world. It is not, however, just the rain forests. In
the United States the government routinely allows lumber
companies to come into federal land and parks containing
old growth forests to harvest the trees. In addition to
the continued loss of forests I have seen photos and read
hypertext describing pollution of the seas and oceans, as
well as both legal and illegal killing of endangered
animals.
If the number of responses I have received can be
considered an indication of the level of awareness most
people have, then the awareness is high. I received more
responses for this Dream Line than the previous two
combined. My request for dreams of the environment seems
to have struck a cord. I have reviewed the dreams,
comments, and other responses received. To mention them
all would expand this column far beyond the restraints of
my time budget. In that light I have chosen a few
examples that I believe represent the many responses.
One dream I have received involves the dreamer driving a
car along a rural road. She pulls over to the edge of
the road and gets out of the car. After walking about
one hundred feet away she stops and notices a large oak
tree across the road from the car. Just then this oak
tree shoots a bolt of lightning at the car, destroying
it. The dreamer sees that had she stayed in the car she
would have been killed. In corresponding with the
dreamer I have found that she sensed no intent on the
tree's part to hurt her. This dream can be seen as a
dramatic warning. The large oak, representing the
natural environment, is attacking the car, which may be a
symbol of our techno-industrial society that down plays
the significance of the environment for the sake of
profit and progress.
In another dream the dreamer comes upon a structure in
the process of being built. She describes several steel
beams and wooden planks. The bases of the steel beams
are in the ground with no concrete foundation or footers.
There is no man-made concrete, only dirt. "Sometimes",
the dreamer writes during our correspondence, "there are
people walking around the beams, other times they are up
high talking about construction." It seems to the
dreamer that the work will never be completed. In
corresponding with the dreamer I have found that she
relates this dream to the "new land" that is being born
in that realm William Gibson so aptly referred to as
cyberspace. The dreamer also relates this dream to the
not-so-evident dangers this cyber- environment could
present to the natural environment. "From the dream I
did conjecture that one unhappy outcome on the
environment could be in the value we place on cyberspace.
That is if we value the information highway to the point
that we forget it is a tool not a goal, we could become
less conscious, respectful and caring for mother earth."
This dream, and the dreamer's thoughts relating to it
have brought my attention to a potential danger that I
had not previously considered. Cyberspace may not pose a
direct threat, but as the dreamer wrote, it could be a
powerful distraction, thereby allowing further damage to
occur to the natural environment.
Yet another dream puts the dreamer in a dark place that
is outside of physical space. A shaft of light comes
down from above and reflects off the edge of a sword
laying on the ground at the foot of the mythical King
Arthur. The blackness falls away as a proud native
American approaches and embraces King Arthur. The two
turn and walk into the light of the world. They are
followed by other native Americans and King Arthur's
knights. In my correspondence with the dreamer he
associates King Arthur and his knights with a positive,
humanitarian force. The dreamer connects the native
Americans with the legend of the Rainbow Warrior, which
speaks of a time when the Earth is sick and the animals
disappear. According to the legend the Rainbow Warrior
comes to save the animals. Rather than warn us, this
dream seems to be offering hope in the image of two
mythical forces joining together to battle for the
environment.
A final example has the dreamer and his waking-life
associates on trial. An important waking-life detail the
dreamer mentions is that before going to sleep he had
heard something on the radio about the struggle of native
peoples in the Brazilian rain forests to make a living.
In the dream the dreamer and his associates are charged
with the mass extinctions of all the species that
occurred as Anglo-Europeans took over and destroyed the
old growth forests of the northern hemisphere. In the
dream the dreamer acknowledges his guilt. He and his
associates are sentenced to watch the destruction of
humankind because it is not fair to ask poor rain forest
nations to save their forests for the sake of the ozone
and the health of the environment when we (those of us
who are of Anglo-European descent) had thrown ours away.
In corresponding with this dreamer I have found some
amazing things. As a direct result of this dream he
began studying native peoples; conserving and recycling;
and, even more amazing, he has changed careers. He now
works to help organizations decrease the use of
non-reusable materials. What a wonderful example of
using dreams to make positive changes in the
waking-world!
The above dreams illustrate the ways in which the Dream
Time is communicating to us regarding the environment.
From the "Electric" warning found in the first dream to
the hopeful images of uniting forces in the third dream,
it is clear that the problems with and threats to our
natural environment are indeed serious matters. So often
our dreams guide our awareness to areas that demand
attention. This appears to be one such area. So, our
dreams have lead us this far. Where do we go from here?
A very natural and logical question. Unfortunately, many
people go nowhere. They watch the news stories and shake
their heads. Maybe they even talk with their friends and
family about how terrible the latest oil spill is. But
there has to be more! I am very glad to say that many of
the dreamers I have corresponded with do not fall into
this category. They care for the environment by
recycling, or volunteering for environmental groups, and
of course there is the dreamer who changed careers!
The dreamers have found actions to help protect the
environment that are right in their own lives. We all
must do the same. These problems with the environment
will not only continue, but will grow worse as the years
pass unless, that more people act, not only protect the
environment, but to begin to heal the wounds inflicted
thus far.
Let us all take the time to hear what our dreams might
say about the environment and what suggestions might be
offered. The range of what we can do is as great as the
range of different environmental problems. Recycling is
fast becoming something that many people must do because
their local and state governments mandate it. For those
of us who live in areas where this is not yet so we can
certainly manage at least this much. Simply being aware
of what practices occur in the work place is another
example of what can be done. If we see paper being
wasted or harmful chemicals being improperly disposed of
we need to voice our concerns. Many employers welcome
employee feedback and suggestions. Perhaps we could help
create new, more environmentally friendly policies. On a
larger scale there are environmental groups that take
more aggressive actions in protecting the environment. I
do not advocate violence or harmful destruction of
property, but most environmental groups do not engage in
such activities. Many such groups simply educate the
general public regarding the environmentally harmful
practices of businesses and governments. In some cases
these groups do take direct action in an attempt to
prevent the injury of animals. Considering these types of
actions forces us to explore where our beliefs and
convictions lead us.
The wonderfully exciting and sometimes frightening world
of dreams can be filled with messages of all kinds. Yet,
without action in the waking-world these messages may as
well fall on deaf ears.
Now, visualize yourself in a beautiful forest picking up
along a winding stream : )
--Christopher Hicks
email: shadow45@netonecom.net
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The Dream Archive - An Interview with Joe Tucker
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by Richard Wilkerson
Not for the faint at heart, nor for anyone under 18
years old, this five star Internet Underground site
inlcudes dream imagery and text under the following
categories: Wheels, Bodies, Boom!, Sundries, Nurses,
Water, School, Celebrations, Beasts and Home.
http://www.tbyte.com/people/joe/dreams/welcome.htm
RCW: Joe, how did the idea for the site come about?
JT: I evolved a fairly intense sense of intrigue and
awe with respect to dreams in college at the University
of California, San Diego where I studied Psychology. I
helped start a group of artists called Z(sub zero) or
Z-not which was primarily concerned with creating art
of a surreal nature. We got into Steve LeBerge and his
lucid dream work at Stanford (one of us left to work
with him). We also got into sensory deprivation (there
were three available tanks in San Diego) and the safer
entheogenic compounds.
After graduation, many of us kept in contact via e-mail
and shared some dreams occasionally. I saved them all
and then got the idea for The Dream Archive when I
became the webmaster at Trilobyte. I began getting
dreams from all over the place and I've included as many
as I could.
RCW: What's your own relationship with dreams?
JT: I have a tremendous amount of respect for the amount
of data contained in the body which usually lies outside
the perception of consciousness. Most of what we do
happens regardless of our "thinking" about it. I've
played with meditation and biofeedback to alter some
"easy" biological mechanisms like pulse rate and
digestion and it's really very difficult -- it's
probably impossible for most of us to alter very basic
human functions like the ability to stay awake, clot our
blood when we're scratched, or withstand a great degree
of pain without reaction, but this probably for good
reason!
Besides this lack of control over our body by our
conscious mind, and the vast number of mechanisms that
interact with our environment outside the influence or
attention of our minds, it also true that our conscious
minds may also deceive us, especially in time of crisis,
either by active cognitive error or passively by
providing too confused or overactive an environment for
us to perceive our environment accurately.
I think dreams provide a way of more accurately
perceiving things about ourselves and our environment by
providing a portal to these methods of knowing contained
in our body outside the realm of consciousness. This to
me is of prime importance. I respect oneiromancy
(divination by dreaming), especially in times of crisis
when our conscious minds are often compromised, because
of this.
I'm less interested in fantastic voyages, visiting
past lives, or Jungian interpretations if they don't
first serve the purpose of helping people to understand
themselves and the more salient aspects of their
enviroments, like coping with the death of a loved one,
how to solve familial financial troubles, etc. Returning
to the source, or listening to the wisdom of what is
both internal (a part of the self) and external (outside
waking consciousness) and bringing those together is a
very human and rewarding benefit of dream observation. I
try to remain as sensitively human about them as
possible.
RCW: What do you think about dreaming in general?
JT: I guess you're asking about Dreaming with a capital
"D"? I think there's alot of positive work going in
this area. I believe Dreaming may be a place where
science will evolve a more complex form which is able
to incorporate and quantify the benefits of listening to
dreams.
As always with dreams, there is also a great number of
"shamanic" practitioners. Generally, I can respect these
complex methods for doing this same kind of very human
listening. I'm into people improving their perception of
themselves and their environment regardless of method.
It does bother me, however, that a few of these shamans
can also be charlatans and perhaps hurt people. Then
again, there are scientists that might be misleading
people as well... ha ha!
RCW: How do you see the site evolving in the future?
JT: The design as it exists is only suitable for a
couple dozen dreams or so. I started it it when I was
very new to the web back in late 1994.
I'm thinking about improving indexing and my ability to
add new dreams by creating an index that works by using
a search engine. I'd be able to just plop new dreams in
and the engine would do the hard part.
I've got Excite!'s engine running our company's site
and it seems to work really well.
RCW: Is there an interactive aspect to the site - are
contributions accepted - if so, what considerations
should dream artists take into account?
JT: Yes! Please, send your dreams! I encourage quantity
because I think that the greater diversity of experience
people experience in reading about others'
interpretation of their dreams, the better they can take
an approach in interpreting their dreams which may at
first seem unorthodox, albeit more true to how their
whole self in perceiving reality.
Send to Joe Tucker
e-mail joe@tbyte.com
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Dreaming Deep & Surfacing
GROUP WORK WITH DREAMS IN CYBER-SPACE
by Jeremy Taylor
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A little while ago, I was approached by "America On-Line"
(AOL) to host a regular, "live", real time, "virtual
dream
group", Monday through Friday, starting at 9:00 am
Eastern
Time. I agreed to give it try, even though it means that
I
have to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in front of my
computer at 6:00 am, Pacific Time, (which up 'til now has
not been my habit.)
Initially, I had some reservations about working dreams
through this distinctly "cool" and physically isolating
medium of the internet. When I imagined as carefully as I
could what it might be like, I was particularly concerned
that the "flat" and highly compressed computer
communication format might inhibit the flow of
imagination,
relational intimacy, and mutual respect so necessary for
good dream work.
I decided to undertake a couple of "trial runs" before I
agreed to host the "show" for AOL. Barbara Viglizzo, a
colleague and former student of mine, offered to set up
trial "meetings" in cyber-space, and recruited several
interested, computer-competent dreamers. (Thanks,
Barbara!)
As we all "met" in cyber-space and began to do "...if it
were my dream" style dream work, I was tremendously
pleased
and excited to discover that my fears were, if not
groundless, at least exaggerated out of all realistic
proportion. In fact, the emotionally and physically
"flat"
format of simultaneous computer "chat" among people in
widely separated geographic locations appears to enhance
many important elements that make group exploration of
dreams so productive.
The fact that every participant appears on the
screen
identified only by his or her "cyber-handle" means that
the
sense of safety and protected anonymity so necessary for
productive dream work is completely assured from the
outset. My experience also convinces me that the
necessity
of compressing our questions and comments into to
two-line
"sound bites" in order to send them to the communal
screen
regularly serves to discourage needless verbosity. The
compressed computer screen format tends to draw us all
into
the work at a deeper level, more quickly than is
sometimes
the case in face-to-face dream groups.
I am also very impressed with the sense of emotional
equality that is created by everyone's comments appearing
on the screen in the same bland type-face, with same
spacing and "inflection". In face-to-face dream work, the
comments of participants are always "weighted", to some
unconscious degree or another, by our responses to their
physical appearance and the timbre and quality of their
voices. Different people have different prejudices about
who they want to listen to and take seriously, and who
they
tend to "tune out" and dismiss. On the screen, all that
is
gently wiped away; all comments appear initially as
"equal", and all the participants are much freer to
discover the potential "aha" of insight for themselves in
the various remarks, without unconscious pre-judging of
the
person making the comment.
This egalitarian anonymity is simply a given when
the
work is undertaken through connected computers, and that
alone makes "virtual dream groups" in cyber space a
particularly good place to explore the multiple meanings
of
dreams that always lie below the surface of appearance
and
"manifest content." As in face-to-face dream work, the
different ideas and multiple perspectives offered by the
many different people who constitute the virtual dream
group, make it even more likely that many more of the
dream's multiple levels of meaning and significance will
be
touched on and explored in the work, than would be likely
to be touched working in solitude, or even working on-to-
one with a skilled dream worker.
I regularly find myself musing more freely and
"speaking" more openly as I sit comfortably in my
computer
chair, sipping my morning coffee, physically much more
comfortable and relaxed than I sometimes am, (sitting in
metal folding chairs in drafty church basements), doing
face-to-face dream work. I can only imagine that this
"relaxation factor" has a positive effect on all the
other
participants as well. Presumably, we are all comfortably
ensconced in our own private, safe, comfy, computer
chairs,
free from the judgement of others, and thus more able to
think and intuit creatively and sensitively about our own
imagined versions of the dreams being worked.
In the virtual dream group, people are free to come
and go as their interest and energy dictates, without
distracting or giving offense to other participants. By
the
same token, people are much freer to simply watch and
listen and generate their own "aha's" of insight without
participating directly in the work. (In the cyber-world,
such people are commonly known as "lurkers", and
"lurking"
is a perfectly acceptable activity in this context.)
In the virtual dream group, the "host" has even more
influence over the process than in a face-to-face group,
since he or she has the power to determine which comments
go to the screen for all to read, and which will be
"dumped". This has both positive and negative
implications.
All the usual problems of differing levels of
sophistication and seriousness among participants that
sometimes arise in face-to-face dream work still exist in
cyber-space, but the computer format allows the host to
keep people from interrupting each other, or "hogging"
the
space with ponderous monologues, as sometimes occurs in
face-to-face dream work groups. Balanced against this, of
course, is the problem of the host/ facilitator's
"counter-
transference" issues. The unconscious biases and
assumptions of the host have even more influence over the
productivity of the group process than in face-to-face
dream work, precisely because the host has so much more
influence and control over the flow of communication
among
the participants.
Albert Einstein was fond of saying that "if you
can't
explain what you are doing to an intelligent ten year
old,
you probably don't don't know what you are doing..." This
principle of simplifying and clarifying even the most
abstruse and emerging intuitive understandings regularly
comes into play in computer connected dream work. Some of
the lyric poetry may be lost in the process, but the
"haiku" remain.
If you, or anyone you know, is interested in
participating in this fascinating new way of exploring
the
multiple meanings and possibilities of your dreams,
here's
how you can pull the group up on your screen:
- log on to A.O.L.
- go to KEYWORD: HUB
- choose ENTER
- go to CHANNEL ZERO
- go to PROGRAM GUIDE
- choose DREAM GROUP
The "dream show" also has a 24-hour "bulletin
board",
where you can leave your dreams, comments, questions, and
what-have-you, at any time. I check the bulletin board
regularly for material to work with during the regular
daily "live" dream group.
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Quantum notes on Castaneda's Dreaming Gates
by Vilen Galimov
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Zum Thema des Traumrealismus im Geiste des Don Juan
gewidmet, beruehrt dieser Vortrag das Problem
populaerwissenschaftlicher Erlaeuterung der Erscheinung
kontrollbarer Traeume.
"Everyday life just a dream"
People are used to believe that a man, while living,
either sleeps or is awake. Such a duplex approach to
human nature reflects a tendency of going to extremes.
However, science of the twenties century gave up
gradually the hegemony of dualist logic. Dualist logic
was found incomplete in principle. (The discoveries by
such mathematicians as B. Russel, K. Goedel; also Grell-
ing and Nelson...) Thus everything points to the fact
that just as a grain of sand constitutes counterpart
together with the mother-of-pearl within the mollusc
conch, in a similar manner does the modern science no
longer regard the great paradoxes as something alien to
objective cognition. Latter-day science and paradoxes are
no longer incompatible. Hypothetically, all the
prospective Achilles' heels to be digested by modern
science should proceed to body of the latter sooner in
single file than in an avalanche...
One of the vividest examples of topical paradoxes as
regards modern science is so called lucid dream. The
phenomenon obviously connected with intrusion of the
attention a la Ouspensky into the course of an ordinary
delta sleep at the moment of acme of the latter. If to
substitute now Castaneda's term DREAMING for our one
"lucid dream" then, in a few words, DREAMING means to be
awake without awakening. If to deepen into subject then
DREAMING means to regain one's self-awareness along with
sober-minded memory when remaining under in- fluence of
vivid visions experienced as before. According to
Castaneda's book 9 there are seven qualitative stages of
DREAMING. Each of such stages got the name of the gate of
DREAMING. Thus, the first stage of DREAMING is the first
gate of the latter. Let's go now into some details
regarding situa- tion of the first gate.
DREAMING ( we'll try at first to see only Castaneda's
books' own point of view for the beginning) is a branch
of the ancient system of sorcery. Accordingly, there is
a kind of practical regulation with respect to line of
conduct in DREAMING. So, for instance, the first gate of
DREAMING stands for looking at one's hands after having
applied appropriate ef- fort of one's will. Hands are
being found against the background of a certain setting.
That is the setting of situation of the first gate of
DREAMING. The setting can include e.g. a picturesque
landscape, or an astounding technological equipment et
cetera... No doubt, phenomenon of DREAMING has a direct
connection with Quantum Mechanics. The author would
spend the whole night through watching how his hands (or
the other objects of his DREAMING) change their shape
under this lines' author's standing at gaze upon.
Similarly low-energy electron is shifted all along of
desperate endeavors of an experimenter who merely wishes
to determinate the particle's co-ordinates...
Another productive conception proceeding from modern
science, and which in regard to Question of understanding
the nature of DREAMING one cannot dis- pense with, is the
multi-universed interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, ac-
cording to which not only in like manner as the Russian
doll Matreshka are immeasurable worlds successively
inserted into each atom ( Anaxagoras) but also are the
three-dimensional metagalaxies being apart from each
other in Megaworld space. One of such metagalaxies is our
universe. ( Dr. Novikov from Moscow State University, and
his transatlantic colleague Prof. Thorne ...) It should
be noted, finally, that with regard to DREAMING there
proved to be utterly irreplaceable such scientific
discoveries as mathematical self- similar sets (of
elements), or, in other words, the fraction-dimensional
fractals, and so called "strange" attractors (of a
bifurcation), like those of Lozi, Lorenz and others. No
doubt, when DREAMING one can pretty easily leave one's
own metagalaxy. We need just to drop down a Black Hole.
Thus any Terran's body of DREAMING can overcome the
three-dimensional space of our universe and turn out
itself to be in another (parallel) world... As to
fractals and attractors, they must be then nothing but
Plato's Ideas&Forms. Or maybe even Kant's
things-in-itselves. Phenomenon of the attractors, on the
other hand, oviously transforms mathematics into physics.
Of the ob- jects of ultra-low energy (plasma of lowestest
densities). While the Lorenz attractor is a
saddle-shaped one, the other ones might be definitely
e.g. flower-like or even of a human being's shape.
Actually, that's what may be happening to all of us since
our universe's Big Bang. We are just "strange" attractors
of the thermodynamic plasma of a hypercolossal explosion.
The one whose process' kinetics is of 2O billion yrs
duration... It is not surprising that after all B. Russel
sided with Plato openly. Ultimately, any sort of an
abstract may thus turn out to be no less omnipotent as
any solids are. Dreamer cannot help taking these facts
into consideration. The phantoms of one's imaginary
world not necessarily and not always should be of a less
den- sity than so called gross-material objects of
everyday life. It seems, in the light of the latest
scientific discoveries, the criteria of what's sub-
jective and what's not are losing its strength. If so,
let me relegate then aside traditional way of
pro-scientific narrative in favor of para-scientific
interpretations. After all, somebody's insight (or any
plausible thoughts at all) obviously ought to be regarded
as noosphere's prerogative, or even a manifestation of
collective unconscious ...It is well-known that there are
in nature only four fundamental forces. There are no any
others. Neither any- thing beyond their (four forces')
influence can exist. 13 years ago the two of the four
above-mentioned forces got a unified status. And so, for
already 13 years Terrans live in very special conditions
...Three fundamental forces are: 1) meson interaction; 2)
electromagnetic interaction (the four quanta of the
latter are photon, W^+ boson, W^- boson, and Z^0 boson);
3) gravita- tional field. Now examine Einstein's formula
E=mc^2. One can see here that the equation is divided by
equality sign into two parts. Left side stands for full
energy, whereas right side contains the two other
components multiplied. Unitary Field (that was at
singularity time of our universe) now disintegra- ted
into three different fields as stated above. In my
opinion, meson inter- action is now the successor of
Unitary Field. As to DREAMING (if to draw in again
Castaneda's terminology), here "E" of Einstein's formula
means meson reality and the third attention respectively.
"m" stands for mass and the dark. "m" signifys female
principle. Finally, "c^2" means light. It is male
principle. Light (electromagnetic field) correlate to the
second attention and the main factor of DREAMING. In
other words, so called body of DREAMING is nothing but
body of light ( c^2 ) i.e. "electromagnetic body" (in a
modus sense). Besides the latter, each of us also has
another two bodies. That of the first attention is the
gravitational body (so called material one, where- as
"electromagnetic one" is respectively the astral body).
Meson body, in its turn, enables one to penetrate to the
third attention. Meson body is the true spiritual
body. ...In the 9th Castaneda's book there's no informa-
tion about the remaining three gate of DREAMING. As it
seems to me, the last gate of DREAMING is the actual
entrance into meson reality that is true ( Unitary
Field's) spiritual world (of purestest emotions). Meson
realty is a reality of no return. (And of no death at
all.) That's the third attention. As to the 5th & 6th
gate of DREAMING, I think they are respectively the re-
gulated & systematic dream-serial (look what everyday
life is), and (6th gate) the ability to have a lot of
bodies of DREAMING simultaneously... But such evidently
boundless themes obviously should be discussed in another
ar- ticle.
Vilen A GALIMOFF
GPO Box 4424
Tashkent City 7OO OOO
Uzbekistan
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Dream Poem by Allison Eir Jenks
Moons In My Head
>>
>>A duel
of gingerbread voices
>>Crams up my sleep.
>>
>>Faces powdered red
>>Dictating dimples
>>Blur the rough
>>Coral reefs
>>
>>Where the water-filled
>>Skulls of Jericho
>>Scrabble like a port of
>>Grated tongues cleaving
>>Sunken oysters.
>>
>>What is the moon doing
>>beyond those wintry places
>>
>>Jaunting the center of the
>>Hairy, brassy lit sky
>>
>>Luxuriating in
>>like a face of warm bread
>>Thickening late night rides
>>
>>I left winter behind
>>Folded up those I loved into a
>>Map of white nights
>>
>>Building claw marks up the air.
>>Hiking upright
>>
>>Before the lustrous
>>bullets you stand behind.
>>
>>What has manipulated you?
>>Have you been unsinkably free and
>>Angellic without a passable heart.
>>The most victorious thing alive.
>>Treasured from a distance
>>Immune and deafened from negligence.
>>
>>Let me get there
>>to loot the light and
>>Weasel it into my eyes.
>>Parching this unchannelable distress.
>>
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Lucid Dreamer's Manual
- Inducing Lucid Dreams -
A compilation of various Lucid Dreaming techniques.
by Lee Holmes (Holmes@Cycor.Ca)
(Part 1 of 2)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This guide is designed to assist both the novice
and expert Lucid Dreamer. It is designed to get to the
heart of the matter; if you wish to learn modern theories
on dreaming or the definition of a lucid dream, one of
the many Lucid Dreaming FAQ's will be better suited to
your taste. With the earth's population nearing 6
billion, it is obvious that no single method can
work for everybody. That is why I've made this manual
multi-faceted: each section outlines several techniques,
so you can choose the one best suited to you. If you
don't believe in a method, or it doesn't work for you,
don't use it!
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Step 1: Improving your Dream Recall
===================================
The first step to becoming more proficient in
your Lucid adventures is to improve your dream recall. As
common sense dictates, "If you don't remember your
dreams, how can you remember your LUCID ones?" The other
reason for developing your dream recall comes from the
school of thought that if you learn to recognize the
material that makes up your dreams, you will tend to
recognize more often (while dreaming) that what you are
seeing is dream material. This step is one of the most
important ones, and it is often suggested that if you
cannot remember AT LEAST one dream per night, then
persist with this step until you can. One essential step
to dream recall is the analysis of these dreams
afterwards. If you notice that a certain "dreamsign" is
repeating itself in your dreams, you can use that
knowledge to cue lucidity the next time you see the
symbol.
i) Make sure to allow yourself plenty of time to
sleep. If you are getting a good amount of sleep each
night, your mind will be more finely focused towards your
goals and intentions while you are sleeping. Secondly, if
you are getting plenty of sleep, you will not mind waking
up in the middle of the night as much to record your
dreams.
ii) Be verbose! While honing your dream recall
abilities, an essential step is to write down every dream
you can remember, no matter how fragmentary.
iii) Plant an auto-suggestion. Before sleep, tell
yourself to remember your dreams. One method is to tell
yourself that "In the morning, I will remember all the
dreams which I have tonight so that I may write them
down". In the morning you would ask yourself before
anything else, "What did I dream last night? What was I
just dreaming?". Once you have recalled as many dreams as
possible, pick up your dream journal and write them down.
The only thing that should occupy your mind from the time
you wake up to the time you write down your dreams, is
the recall of your dreams! This method is advantageous
for those who find that they cannot wake up during the
night, or find that their dream recall is much better in
the morning than at night.
The second method is to tell yourself before
sleep, "After each dream tonight I will wake up so that I
may write it down." Each time you wake up at night think
to yourself, "What was I just dreaming?". After you have
remembered everything possible pick up your dream journal
and write the dream down, noting the time. When you wake
up in the morning, try to recall any dreams you may have
missed by saying, "What was I just dreaming? What did I
dream last night?". Write any new dreams down in your
dream journal. This method has several advantages. One
advatange comes from the fact that your brain is spending
a greater amount of time on the subject of lucid dreaming
than it would if it slept straight through the night.
This tends to enhance the chances of a lucid dream. A
second advantage is that your dream recall is much higher
and more accurate when you awake immediately from a
dream. Thirdly, this method lends itself to planting many
auto-suggestions per night, such as the "M.I.L.D" method
created by Stephen LaBerge.
iv) While recalling a dream, normally a sketchy
storyline forms in your head. In order to enhance your
memory, try remembering what happened "just before" the
part you can remember first, and build your dreams back
up in reverse order. Try to remember colors, smells, and
sounds as well. After the dream is as complete as
possible, write it down.
v) If, in the morning, you have trouble recalling
your dreams, try to prod yourself with phrases such as "I
was walking and..." or "I was just about to..."
vi) If, during the day, you recall more dreams,
write them down and transfer them to your dream journal
when convenient.
=======================
Step 2: Reality Testing
=======================
This technique sets up a critical frame of mind;
the more often
you question reality in your waking life, the more you
will question it in your dream life. The best way to
begin reality testing is to ask yourself, "Am I
dreaming?" whenever you think of it. If you ever find
that something seems "weird", or you find yourself
thinking about dreaming, or find yourself looking at your
"anchor", then do a reality test.
i) Set up an anchor. Pick something that occurs
often in your life, such as your pager going off, or
hearing your watch beep on the hour. When your anchor
occurs, it will be your cue to do a reality test.
ii) Do reality tests. Whenever it occurs to you, ask
yourself the question: "Am I dreaming?" The secret to
asking this question is to truly think about it. Look
around for anything out of place. Try to change something
(make your watch go backwards, for example.)
There are several ways to test your reality,
and here are two that work well:
"Past Recall Method", created by Lee Holmes
In this method, when you wish to do a reality
check, or suspect that perhaps you are dreaming, attempt
to recall your actions in the past few hours. I have
always found that I do not have a past in my lucid
dreams, or I've got a past that defies reality. (Ie: I
just got back from an alien convention) In normal life,
your past makes complete sense, so it is obvious that you
are not dreaming.
"Hand Breathing Technique", created by James L. Guinn
In this method, you test your reality by
attempting to breathe through your hand. Obviously, in
waking reality this is impossible if you attain a proper
seal. In dream reality, however, one CAN breathe through
their hand, even if a proper seal is attained. To use
this method, simply squeeze your nose between the sides
of your thumb and index finger, and cover your open mouth
with the palm of your hand. With a proper seal, the only
time you will be able to inhale will be when you are
dreaming.
"Control the Unchanging", created by Lee Holmes
The purpose of this method, simply, is to change
something that should not be alterable in normal waking
reality. Two tests I use are attempting to change the
sunlight (reverse night and day), and trying to stop my
heart. When stopping your heart, place your hand on the
middle-left hand side of your chest. You can feel your
heartbeat so try to stop it by force of will. Since it is
an autonomic process, you will only be able to change it
in your dreams.
iii) If you are SURE that you are not dreaming,
then ask yourself, "what would it be like if I were
dreaming?" and visualize yourself acting as though you
were dreaming. Visualize yourself bending a lamp post,
for example. Take this chance to mess around with reality
and visualize yourself doing other things as well.
iv) After your reality-bending, pick something you
would like to do in your next lucid dream. Visualize
yourself flying, for example. You must attempt to
visualize every possible detail; the wind on your face,
the trees beneath you, and the sky above you. Say to
yourself, "The next time I am (flying, etc), I will KNOW
I am dreaming."
One reality test that works particularily well is
the process of remembering your past. In most dreams, by
trying to remember what has occured over the last few
hours, you will realize that your memory of them is non-
existant. The realization of this will trigger lucididty.
==============================
Step 3: Adopt a Sleep Schedule
==============================
In recent research done by The Lucididty Institute,
it has been determined that certain patterns of sleep
are favourable for lucid dreaming. In their studies, they
found that altering your sleep schedule so that you wake
up an hour early, read for an hour, then nap for an hour
greatly increases your chances of having a lucid dream.
In their studies, they found that lucid dreams occured 10
times more often in the early morning "naps" then they
did in the preceeding night-time sleep. This may be
partially due to the increased amount of REM activity in
the latter portions of the night, but one cannot disagree
with favourable odds! As with waking during the night,
this method also lends itself to increasing lucidity
further. If, for example, the material you read during
your wakefulness is related to lucid dreaming, your
chances of having a lucid dream will increase as well.
Additionally, the M.I.L.D technique to be discussed in
Step 4 lends itself to this method (and is reccommended).
Another sleep schedule, reccomended by Seth
(through Jane Roberts), reccomends a 2/2/4 type shift.
The sleep periods are most effective when spread evenly
throughout the day, so this method lends itself almost
implicitly to the self employed or those between jobs.
When the sleep periods are distributed this way, it gives
you two benifits: one is that your dream recall is
increased (consistant with waking up after each dream at
night), and the second is that the Lucidity Institute has
found a greater chance of lucid dreaming during naps than
during normal night-time sleep. (As mentioned above.)
Next issue - Techniques for inducing Lucid Dreaming!
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GLOBAL DREAMING NEWS April 15, 1996
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A joint project of Electric Dreams and The Novato Center
for Dreams, coordinated by the Wilkerson DreamGate, an
International Internet Dream Community Center (IIDCC)
project. Send all dream news to Richard Wilkerson,
rwilkerson@igc.apc.org
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==== I N D E X ====
HIGH LEVEL DREAM DISCUSSIONS:
THE ASD BULLETIN BOARD OPENS!
ASD CONFERENCE XIII - JULY 1996! HOT LINE
INTERVIEW ABOUT DREAMLINK
Oniros - EASD Association Francaise Pour L'Etude Du Reve
DREAM LINKS PROJECTS(not DreamLink)
THE SANDMAN HAS MOVED! WWW
DREAM COMICS WWW - ITS FABULOUS!
THE DREAM ARCHIVE (UNDERGROUND)
JUNG on IRC
NEW LUCID DREAM WEB SITE ->LD<-
!!!ASD CONFERENCE XIII UPDATE!!!
ASD REGIONAL CONFERENCES:
-->New York - April 28th
-->Washington DC - July 26-27, 1996
-->Kootenay Bay, British Columbia - Sept 6-8, 1996
-->Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA October 11-13, 1996
JERMEY TAYLOR ON AOL - NOW ALL WEEKDAYS!
-> DREAM STUDIO on Compuserve-Donna LoCicero Campos <-
DREAMWORLD NEWS - AOL FORUM
LUCID DREAMS DISCUSSIONS E-MAIL LIST
VAN EEDEN'S LUCID CLASSIC NOW ONLINE
LINDA MAGALLON and the wonderful DREAM AHEAD PROJECT
========================================
Dream Discussions Fourm on WWW
The Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) will open
their World Wide Web discussions fourm on Monday, April
22.
There is a place to put ones private e-mail address when
one posts a message so that private replies are possible.
Please help us kick off this effort in community and
communication and post a message about something that you
would like to see discussed on this forum. Also pass
along to others the availablity of the board.
The rules of use for the bulletin board are as follows:
1. The topic of this bulletin board is night dreams.
2. Dreams are NOT interpreted but are certainly part of
any dream discussion.
3. This is not a commercial venue thus no advertisements
for products for
sale should be posted.
4. Postings are expected to be courteous and as much as
possible avoid
redundancy.
URL is:
http://www.outreach.org/gmcc/asd
(Source: Jayne Gackenbach)
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Association for the Study of Dreams Conference XIII in
Berkeley, California July 9-13.
ASD Schedule now on WWW:
http://www.corydon.org/asdxiii.html
Join psychotherapist, scholars, artists, authors and
dreamworkers from all over the world for five days of
workshops, lectures, research presentations, art
exhibits, and performances that examine the nature of
dreams and the healing influence dreams present through
personal study, traditional and non-traditional
psychotherapy, and the expressive arts.
Who is going to be there?
Well, how about Deirdre Barrett, John Beebe, Fariba
Bogzaran, Robert Bosnak, Kelley Bulkeley, Gayle Delaney,
William Dement, Bill Domhoff, Patricia Garfield, Jayne
Gackenbach, Jill Gregory, Earnest Hartmann, Edward
Hoffman, Bob Hoss, Stanely Keleman, Johanna King, Milton
Kramer, Stanley Krippner, Barry Ktakow, Stephen LaBerge,
Barbara Meier, Linda Magallon, Robert Moss, Fred Olsen,
Roberta Ossana, Henry Reed, Joanne Rochon, Carol S.
Rupprecht, Linda Share, June Singer, Alan Siegel, Jeremy
Taylor, Robert Van de Castle, Richard Wilkerson, Fred
Allen Wolf and many, many more!
This year your can get 21 CE and MCEP Credits!
The conference site is the sumptuous Claremont Resort
which is complete with pool, tennis courts, and a newly
remodeled spa. The Claremont sits in the Berkeley Hills
like a white castle with a magnificent view of the Golden
Gate and overlooks San Francisco with its natural beauty,
cultural monuments and artistic diversity.
Special rates starting at $95.00/night on rooms if you
register before June 6, 1996. Claremont (800) 551-7266
For information or brochure, contact The Association for
the Study of Dreams
WWW URL: http://www.outreach.org/gmcc/asd/
PO box 1600-P Vienna, VA 22183 (703) 242-0062 or (703)
242-8888
ASD Conference XIII Hotline (510) 869-4066
(Source: Alan Siegel)
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DreamLink in the News:
Here's an interview with Becky Hutchison
and others from The Medina County Gazette:
http://www.ohio.net/gazette/news/apr/0413a.htm
(source: Linton & Becky Hutchison)
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Oniros - EASD Association Francaise Pour L'Etude Du Reve
(Loi 1901)
Siege social: BP-30 - 93451 ILE ST DENIS cedex France
Tel: (1) 48.20..21.36
BUTS:
L'histoire est fertile en recits et temoignages a propos
du reve: activite psychique dont l'humanite a toujours
reconnu la valeur.
Si au cours d"une longue eclipse, l'homme s'est coupe de
sa vie onirique, le courant qui s'amorce aujourd'hui
revele un besoin primodial de tirer parti des richesses
meconnues qu'elle recele.
Pour resnuer les fils unissant les deux faces de notre
existence - diurne et nacturne - it donner au reve sa
juste place au sein d'une vie a part entiere, en prise
avec ses sources profoundes, l'association ONIROS s'est
fixee comme but l'exploriation et la mise en valeur de
l'activite onirique, a savoir:
- Revaloriser le reve dans l'opinion publique, de meme
qu'au sein de la communaute scientifique;
-Partager regulierenent avec les membres de l'association
et le public nos decouvertes sur le reve et les
nombreuses facons de l'explorer;
- Mettre en oeurve un ensemble de projcts dt de
recherches sur le reve, dans une prespective
interdisciplinaire et dans le respect des droits de la
personne humaine et des animaux.
ACTIVITES:
L'association ONIROS regroupe un large eventail de
personnes s'interessant ou se consacrant a l'etude du
reve, professionels ounon: analystes, arties, chercheurs,
educateurs, ethnologues, psycholgues, reveures lucides et
ordinaires, theraputes, ect.
Elle propose les activities suivantes:
-Enseignement:
formation a l'onirologie: connaissance eit maitrise des
reves.
-Groupes d'etude du reve (se renseigner aupres des
delegues/correspondants de l'associaton).
-Ateliers, seminaires, conferences (organises de maniere
ponctuelle ou dans le cadre de ses autres activities):
->Interpretation des reves (selon differentes techniques:
analyse de contenu, gestalt, analyse symbolique, ect);
-> Induction et maitrise des reves (les reve lucide);
->Le reve eveille dirige;
-> Psychophysiologie du reve (recherches en laboratoire);
-> Psychosociologie du reve (la valeur des reves au plan
social, les reves psi);
Psychotherapie onirique (le traitement des cauchemars et
autres troubles du sommeil);
-> Creativite onirique (generale et artistique).
-Service d'aide a l'interpretation des reves
(au telephone ou par ecrit)
-Congres bisannuel eurpeen de l"EASD
-Publication del la reve ONIROS
FF a l'orde d'ONIROS - BP 30, 93451 ILE ST DENIS Cedex,
France.
(Source, Oniros #44 )
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The Dream Links Project (not DreamLink)
http://www.noord.bart.nl/~har2312/english/drmlinks.html
A new graphic index to dreaming on the net. I found some
really nice sites here that haven't been mentioned
elsewhere.
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The Sandman has moved!
Who is Neil Gaiman, and what is "The Sandman"?
Well, Neil is a (fabulous, magical, wonderful) writer,
and "The Sandman" is his (almost)monthly comic published
by DC in their Vertigo line. Neil has done much more than
"just comics" - he has co-written "Good Omens" (with
Terry Pratchett), and "Angels and Visitations" a
miscellany of poems, short stories and other tidbits he
has done. It is available from Dreamhaven Press.
MOVED TO NEW:
http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/
OLD ADDRESS:
http://haven.uniserve.com/~puck/sandman/
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DREAM COMICS WWW
Greetings Electric Dreamers!
A fabulous weekly comic strip of illustrated dreams
called
Slow Wave on the web:
http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi
Jesse Reklaw has created illustrated interpretations for
the following
dreams from Electric Dreams 3.2:
"Headless" by Vittorio (4/6)
"Return to Sender" by Nutcracker (4/13)
"Prozac" by Kenneth (4/20)
(no dream chosen for 4/27 yet...)
"Return to Sender" is currently online for the week
4/13-4/19.
I put a new dream up every week, and the month of April
will
contain all dreams from ED. If you want to just see the
dreams
illustrated from ED, wait until April 27 and go to:
http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi?apr96
(Source: : Jesse Reklaw <jreklaw@guarneri.curagen.com>)
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The Dream Archive - Underground Delight
Not for the faint at heart, nor for anyone under 18
years old. This five star Internet Underground site
inlcudes imagery and text under the following categories:
Wheels, Bodies, Boom!, Sundries, Nurses, Water, School,
Celebrations, Beasts and Home.
See the Interview with Joe Tucker in the April 1996
Electric Dreams vol. 3 # 3
http://www.tbyte.com/people/joe/dreams/welcome.htm
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JUNG on IRC
Just a little message for telling you that
anytime you want to discuss live on Jungian psychology,
you can reach the channel #jung-on-irc on irc. If you
want more info there is a web page about this group:
http://www.cgjung.com/cgjung/ircproj2.html
Jean-Francois Vezina
aaa198@agora.ulaval.ca ( President of the Jungian Circle
of Quebec)
Tel and Fax:(418) 688-JUNG
C.P. 38018, Co.P. M.Bourgeois
Quebec,Canada G1S 2N0
(Source: Jean-Francois Vezina)
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LUCID DREAMING INFORMATION WEB SITE
A new, democratically formed and operated site on
lucid dream information just went online:
http://www.york.ac.uk/~socs214/ogld/
The On-Line Guide To Lucid Dreaming
The Web space is provided by The University of York
Psychology Society
From the
site:
"These pages came about after a vote on the usenet
newsgroup alt.dreams.lucid that decided there should be a
central web site to collect, collate and make available
all of the useful bits of information that are generated
by the group, and to act as an FAQ by cutting down on
newbie questions on the group. The lucid dreaming mailing
list, run by this bloke, was created at almost exactly
the same time."
"Since I already maintained The Lucidity Pages (a small
set of pages which had lucid dreaming software available
for download) and I'd been on the group a while, I
volunteered to set something up and... well, here it is!"
Phillip.
The site includes: discalimer, Administrative
Information, FAQ, Methods, Things to Do In Lucid Dreams,
Scientific Research Papers, Psychological Research
Papers, Amateur Research
About alt.dreams.lucid Newsgroup Other Resources.
(Source e-mail from Phillip, pjm100@unix.york.ac.uk )
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ASD REGIONALS
(New York)
Dreams: An Introduction for Clinicians Who Would Like to
Use Dreamwork
Join Yoram Kaufmann, Ph.D. and Montague Ullman, M.S.
presenting an introductory overview of their approaches
to the use of dreams in clinical practice and
self-discovery. The meeting will be held on April 28,
1996 (Sunday), 1-4 PM, at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28
East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Fees:
General Public $25
ASD Members $20
Students and Limited Income $15
For more information, contact Pia Wigren, Local Host, at
212-627-5112, Mon,
Tues, Thurs, 9-10 am or leave a message.
Or call the central
office at 703-242-0062.
(Source: Rita Dwyer, ASD home office)
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ASD REGIONALS
Washington DC - July 26-27
Dreams, Mining and Minding their Meaning
co-sponsered with The Smithsonian Institution
for more information: Contact the ASD Central Office
703/ 242-0062
e-mail asdreams@aol.com
(source: ASD Newsletter 13(1))
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ASD REGIONALS
September 6-8 1996
Dreams in the World's Family
Kootenay Bay, British Columbia
for more information: Contact Jayne Gackenbach
e-mail: JGackenb@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
(source: ASD Newsletter 13(1))
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ASD REGIONALS
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA October 11-13, 1996
Co-sponsered with the Association for Research and
Enlightenment (ARE) and the Tidewater Jungian Society.
for more information: Contact the ASD Central Office
703/ 242-0062
e-mail asdreams@aol.com
(source: ASD Newsletter 13(1))
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Daily DREAM SHOW with Jermey Taylor on America On Line!
Start your moring with cyberdreamwork!
Former ASD president Jermemy Taylor has expanded his AOL
dream show to Monday-Friday.
Show time 6:00 am Pacific or 9:00am Eastern. Share a
dream or tune into his comments about working with
dreams, If you can't be there in person, you can post
your dream on his electronic bulletin board.
Sign on to AOL, use Keyword: HUB chose Enter and to to
Channel Zero, go to Program Guide and pick DreamShow.
Sometimes the show is in the main auditorium. Go to the
main chat area, look in the program guide for daily
events and find the schedule of who is on.
Have questions? You can e-mail the Taylors at
ktaylor597@aol.com
(Source: ASD newsletter 13(1) and Jermey Taylor)
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The Dream Studio is a live online discussion group in
Compuserve's New Age Forum. Hosted by Donna LoCicero
Campos and Paul TMB, the Dream Studio meets each Monday
night at 10:00pm Eastern Time and 7:00pm Pacific and
looks at a variety of dream-related topics.
This is a wonderful forum to get to know a wide variety
of dream personalities.
Donna LoCicero Campos
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Monday, April 15: Honoring Dreams . . . with Therese
Monday, April 22: Dreaming . . . with Bob Krumhansl
of Electric Dreams
Monday, April 29: Lucid Dreams and Ethics
Monday, May 6: Waking Dreams . . . with moonglo
Monday, May 13: Reincarnation Clues in Dreams . . .
with ECL Robin
Monday, May 20: Janice Tells All She Knows About
Lucid Dreaming So
Try to Keep Up . . . with
Janice Christine
Monday, May 27: Memorial Day
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DreamWorldNews
Is the "real" news getting too unreal for you? Then try
this from DreamWorldNews instead: Plug-ugly Republicans
shower in gushing freon. Frank Sinatra drinks gasoline
from a measuring cup. And the Messiah is carted around in
a Chevy Impala.
DreamWorldNews reports real people's real dreams using
the same journalistic approach and style that mainstream
newspapers do. We don't make this stuff up--all articles
are guaranteed 100 percent dreamed. Read uncensored
ACTUAL DREAMS, reported in newsspeak. Send us your own
dreams, using our handy-dandy questionnaire. We'll write
them up and send them out in next week's edition.
No reputable news syndicate has dared apply to dreams the
harsh, cold light of objective journalistic
standards--until now. Our reporters plumb the depths of
drowse to make you feel the sandman's grit in your own
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SIGN ON TO AOL, KEYWORD HUB
SELECT CHANNEL ZERO
Click on "Today's Report" for hot-off-the-presses
headliners.
Click on "The Dream Files" for more DreamWorldNews
stories.
Cub reporters: Click on "Report Your Own Dream" to have
your own dreams published. We want to get inside your
head. We know it's groovy in there.
Click on "Who Are the Editors of DreamWorldNews?" to meet
the editors.
Dream On.
Editors: Luke Jaeger and Shoshana Marchand
(source: Special interest group , AOL)
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Frederik Van Eeden's classic article "A Study of Dreams"
is now available
at my Web page. Written back in 1913 (and therefore
public domain now), it
was in this very work that the phrase "lucid dream" was
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I have typed and proofread this etext myself as my
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Dream Ahead '96 Linda Magallon
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Communal Magic is the name for this year's group dreaming
project of the Fly-By-Night Club. If you link your dreams
with those of your fellow dreamers, you can help the FBNC
incubate an upcoming waking state event and an ongoing
dream continuum as well.
Follow the suggestions in this newsletter and you will
aid in the preparation, seeding and watering of a special
field of dreams which will flower in the summer. The
culmination of our efforts will occur at the 1996 ASD
conference. The Association for the Study of Dreams will
be meeting at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California
from July 9th-13th. But you can play along, whether you
will be physically present at the conference or not!
Communal Magic has several phases.
Dream Ahead '96 gathers psychic and
create-our-own-reality archetypal dreams, prior to July.
In this newsletter are tips and goals to help hone your
incubation, precognitive and social dreaming skills.
The Magical Mutual Ballroom is the focus for shared
dreaming. The goal is to dream of meeting your fellow
revelers at the Dream Ball (which occurs in waking
reality at the Claremont Hotel Ballroom on Saturday
evening, July 13th).
The Flying Carpet will be a mural on the wall of the
Claremont Hotel conference Communal Dream Room. This
homebase will be the collection point of our social
collage, the framework for our group dream "painting."
And you help can "paint," literally, by contributing
pictures, drawings, and the like. Or you can "paint" word
pictures with written dream reports, poetry, comments and
graffiti.
The Flying Carpet will include the entire Dream Ahead '96
collection as well as dreams dreamt during the conference
period. Because there will be computer connections at the
Claremont, if you are at a distance, you will be able to
send in dreams via modem to CaseyFlyer@aol.com.
Bit and pieces will come together and form our visual
record of the gathering, before it literally happens and
while it is symbolically unfolding. It will be
interesting to see how much preconference dreaming
incubates the actual waking event. How much magic will we
invite into our lives?
Select dreamlets and artwork received from Dream Ahead
'96 will be published as a Dream Ahead '96 Sampler in
the Spring NightFlyer (newsletter of the Fly-By-Night
Club). A synopsis of the events, as well as corresponding
dream elements, will be published after the conference in
the Summer NightFlyer.
A title, date and your full name or pseudonym on your
dream reports will help distinguish each special dream.
Typed records are easiest for your fellow dreamers to
read. Remember-all dream-inspired artistic productions
are welcome, too!
Send to Dream Flights, 1083 Harvest Meadow Court, San
Jose, CA 95136 or to CaseyFlyer@aol.com.
The Two Dream Programs
Once upon a time in the future there was, is and will be
a communal gathering. This gathering takes place in that
creative region where intuition turns into imagery, ideas
become symbols and from which the known universe arises.
The communal gathering plays in the theater of dreams in
two forms. One is literal, the other symbolic. Both
programs feature celebration, social connection and
merrymaking in The Magical Mutual Ballroom.
Literal Dreaming
If your dreaming mind selects the program marked
"literal," then your Communal Magic dreams will
correspond to the actual event in the Claremont Hotel
Ballroom. In this case your magic will manifest itself in
those traditional psychic dreams called precognitive,
clairvoyant or telepathic. Because the Dream Ball is
already in the planning stage and because it already
exists in the minds of folks who will attend in the
waking state, the psychic blueprints are available now
for dream viewing. Your own dreaming self can serve as a
roaming reporter. Whether using video camera or still
shots, your dreaming mind can reveal one piece (or
several!) of the giant Dream Ball picture puzzle.
Perhaps you might picture a winning costume for the Dream
Ball. Or maybe you'll see a fellow reveler who will be
there. Or maybe you'll dream of the Claremont Ballroom
itself.
What happens at a literal Dream Ball? Music, dancing,
talking. Drinks and often food munching. The awarding of
ribbons for the dream telepathy contest and for the best
costumes. A social, fun gathering at the conference end.
Archetypal Dreaming
But do you have literal-mundane dreams all the time? Does
your dreaming self ever shape shift, scene shift, go
through walls or travel through time? Do you want to find
out? Then target the Magical Mutual Ballroom in the
archetypal conference.
If your dreaming mind selects the tape marked "symbolic,"
then you will unwrap the surface facade to reveal the
magic within. For symbolic dreamers, the hall does not
have to comply with physical attributes. The activities
or appearance of the dreaming selves are not limited to
what is possible in the waking state.
Other mutual projects have already provided a sneak peek
into this ongoing Big Dream communal gathering. A
synopsis of past archetypal dreams will be posted on the
Flying Carpet. Past projects revealed that each symbolic
dreamer paints an inner picture which is an individual
variation on the main theme. But over time, some elements
of this long-playing theater of the mind are found to be
held in common:
Scenery and props (color, furniture, hall attributes)
Characters (hair color, costume)
Story line (activities)
I'll give you a hint about one favorite activity at this
level of existence. The Magical Mutual Ballroom is where
the super selves gather. In the archetypal version of the
Magical Mutual Ballroom, it is possible to fly.
Dream Ahead Goals
These are suggested goals to give you the flavor of the
event. Try as many or few as you wish or come up with
some creative variations or combinations of your own. Do
them any time. (Consult your dreaming self for the best
results!)
#1: Invite The Dreaming Self To Step Forward
Ask your dreaming self, "Will you let your magic shine?"
This goal might give you some ideas for a literal outfit
to wear to the Dream Ball. But you can also use a
variation to preview either the costumes or inner selves
of fellow revelers.
#2: Dream Up The Magical Mutual Ballroom
Ask your dreaming self, "What's your favorite social
arena?" Use this goal to see if you picture shared space
similarly to fellow symbolic dreamers. Or incubate a
precognitive dream to preview the literal ballroom.
#3: Greet Your Dream Companions
Ask your dreaming self, "What type of friendly
interaction do we prefer?" Dream up a scene in which you
socialize with the folks in your dream. Say hello, hug,
shake hands, wave, smile, talk.
#4: Practice Flying!
Need we tell you why? Try dual flying or group flying for
a change.
ALERT! April 20th is the due date to send in your dreams
and drawings for possible publication in the NightFlyer
Dream Ahead '96 Sampler.
The Magical Mutual Ballroom: Dated Goals
Now that we've learned our parts and created the scenery,
costumes and props in the dream theater, it's time for
dress rehearsal. Mark these dates on your calendar.
#5: Dress Rehearsal of the Flying Dreamers: Saturday, May
18th
This is the in-dream meeting at the Magical Mutual
Ballroom of the Fly-By-Night Club to practice antics for
the final event. What shall we do? Sing the FBNC anthem?
Dance in the air? Tell jokes? Discuss dreamwork? Nah, too
boring.
#6: Dress Rehearsal of the Participants at the
Conference: Wednesday, July 10th
This is the date when ASD conference attendees will be
first introduced to the Communal Magic group dreaming
project in a conference presentation at the Communal
Dream Room. They will view the Flying Carpet and be
invited to dream together that night. You can dream along
with them, too, if you wish.
#7: Grand Finale-Dream Ball at the Claremont Hotel:
Saturday, July 13th
Meet in the waking state; meet in the dream.
Dream Ahead Tips
Incubation Exercise
(This exercise is inspired by the work of Alan Vaughan
(author of The Power of Positive Prophecy, HarperCollins,
1991) and Marcia Rose Emery (author of Dr. Marcia Emery's
Intuition Workbook, Prentice Hall).
Write out or dictate on a tape recorder instructions such
as these before going to bed:
"Hello, dreaming self. Please show me a simple picture I
can understand. I will arise early in the morning with
the dream picture fresh in my mind. I shall be able to
remember it easily and write it down. Its meaning will
become clear to me. I will honor your opinion, dreaming
self."
About Time Shift
Remember, time is loose in dream reality! You know about
precognitive and retrocognitive dreams. Also recall that
an incubation can take time to manifest a dream response.
Then realize that a dated goal is an incubation.
Mutual goal dates mean that on a particular night, group
intent will provide a strong synergistic shot of energy
to be "sent" out into the universe. But just as there can
be a time delay in receiving mail, so your own mind
receiver may not turn on and tune into the energy until
you are psychologically prepared to receive it.
So if you do not get a dream on a specified date, don't
give up! Try again. In mutual dreaming, the most
important question is not, did I time it right? Your best
clue is to ask yourself, does this dream have that
special social flavor? That's the dream you send in to
Dream Flights
1083 Harvest Meadow Court
San Jose, CA 95136
CaseyFlyer@aol.com
* Cynthia Pearson reports that the Friends In
Pennsylvania have agreed to write the lyrics to the
Fly-By-Night Club anthem! The melody, you already know.
It's the theme from the "Mickey Mouse Club." Tune up your
windpipes: the song should be ready for our first waking
state Fly-By-Night Club Meeting in July at ASD '96.
* There are plans for a Costume Creation and Assembling
event at the '96 ASD Conference in preparation for the
Dream Ball. It will take place in the Communal Dream Room
on Saturday afternoon, July 13th. Linda Lane Magallon is
collecting costumes, cloth and sewing material and art
materials for this event.
* For more information about the Conference, contact The
Association for the Study of Dreams, PO Box 1600, Vienna,
VA, 22183.
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