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Nightmare-awake!...oh
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banishing the dark
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Volume 5 Issue #10
NOVEMBER 1998
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
++ Dream Airing: Notes, letters to the editor
++ Column: Dream Trek: The Safe Universe of Dreaming
Linda Lane Magalln
++ Q&A: Watch Your Dreams + Tips
Nancy Huseby Bloom
++ Article: "Nightmare-awake!...oh
Nora Leonard
++Article: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dreams
Harry Bosma
++ Poem: At Home with Strange Dreams
William C. Burns, Jr.
++ Interview: with Kris B. Kendrick,
Creator of the Dreams Project
Interviewed by Richard Wilkerson
++ Nightmares - an Introduction
Richard C. Wilkerson
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Editor's Notes
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This is a kind of transition edition. Last month we really
had our scary Halloween Cover by Bryan Smith and a call for
scary dreams and articles. This month we actually have those
articles and dreams.
Trick or Treat?
What, you didn't get a cover for your Electric Dreams? We
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And you can always get covers for back issues at
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which is a treat to visit in itself. Quite a dream inspired
art gallery.
A special treat this month for those of you wondering what
to do with your nightmares. "Nightmare-awake!...oh" is a
must read article for those who think nightmares are
something to get rid of. Nora Leonard will lead you through
the personal shadows of scary dreams to the transpersonal
energies grounded in mythic vision.
I requested from Harry Bosma permission to reprint a very
useful reply to a dreamer suffering from Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome. This may not be a nightmare topic, but it can be
very scary and Harry knows a lot about the topic.
Nancy Huseby Bloom also has a dream - answer column on
nightmares this month. Be sure to read Watch your Dreams.
Linda Magallon offers a different view to the scary spaces
of dreams. Perhaps there are scary dreamwork approaches as
well dreamworkers and dreams. Read her Dream Trek column to
explore the possibilities of Dreaming in a Safe Universe.
If that is not enough for you, I have compiled a list of
resources on nightmares that will keep you reading until
next Halloween in my Introduction to Nightmares.
Also this month, a poem on strange dreams by William Burns
and an interview with Kris B. Kendrick, creator of t h e
d r e a m s p r o j e c t.
Peggy Coats has a wide variety of dream news and activities
for you. We'd like to especially call your attention to the
Association for the Study of Dreams updates, as some of the
special offers are time sensitive.
Bob Krumhansl will be telling you all about the dreams this
month, and you can see them in the DREAMS section.
If you would like to contribute dreams or comments on
dreams to the next issue there are several ways
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All dream sharing is considered anonymous unless you
specifically request a name or address.
And of course, our DreamWheel Dream Groups via email
continue as always. If you would like to join an email
dream group, drop me a line at rcwilk@dreamgate.com
OK, next month we would like to see Winter and Storm
dreams. Got any? And how do you handle your stormy
interpretations?
Keep dreaming and blowing up a storm,
-Richard
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Dream Airing
Notes, letters to the editor
Send to rcwilk@dreamgate.com
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To Early Electric Dreamers: Do you know where Chris
Beattie is? Do you have stories about the first days of
Electric Dreams or posts from the early Usenet about the
group?
If so, we would like to update our archives. Please send
those into Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com
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Last year Stephen Laberge and the Lucidity Institute offered
Electric Dreams a special re-print from
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/electricdreams/ed4-10.html
[From: S. LaBerge & H. Rheingold, (1990). EXPLORING THE
WORLD
OF LUCID DREAMING. Chapter 10, Overcoming Nightmares.
New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-37410-X]
Reprinted by permission of the Lucidity Institute, Inc.
Many thanks to Keith Garcia and Stephen LaBerge in allowing
the Chapter into the public realm via Electric Dreams.
Including:
-What Are Nightmares?
-Nightmare Causes and Cures
-The Uses of Anxiety
-Facing the Nightmare
-Practicum for Overcoming Nightmares
-Exercise: Dialoging with Dream Characters
-Prescriptions for Nightmares
-Recurrent Nightmares
-Exercise: Re-dreaming Recurrent Nightmares
-Children's Nightmares
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I am a student at Bastyr Univ in the Seattle area. I live
on Vashon Island and am looking for a dream
workshop/group/class to be part of. I am doing a reasearch
paper on dreams. Any ideas? Lanae
Toomie1@aol.com
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DREAM TREK
By Linda Lane Magalln
The Safe Universe of Dreaming
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Is dreaming dangerous? Lucid dreaming? Out-of-body dreaming?
Psychic dreaming? Shamanistic dreaming? Jungian dreaming? At
the beginning of my trek, I would have answered a unilateral
"No" to the question. Now, older and wiser, I would revise
my reply to say, "I don't believe that dreaming is
irreparably dangerous, but I have learned there are
certainly approaches that are user- unfriendly to me and now
I avoid them."
Human beings are not perfect. We're not all built the same,
physiologically and psychologically. We don't all come to
dreams with the same belief frameworks and personal support
systems. We aren't all equal in natural talent and we
certainly aren't equal in the time and effort we've taken to
develop our dreaming skills. What we need to learn and the
pace at which we learn it differs, one from another.
I consider most dreaming to be like playing in a mud pile or
wading pool. Some neophytes to unusual (for them) types of
dreaming might dip their faces into the water, freak out and
start sputtering and gasping for air. But this is a
temporary situation, due to lack of experience. As you
acclimatize yourself to the nature of the dream, as your
dreaming self practices using her latent abilities, your
reaction to strange dream events will transform from
knee-jerk fear to confidence in your ability to find
resolution. And please understand: courage does not mean
that all fear goes away forever. We still need it as a
warning mechanism. Courage means that we face discomfort and
don't give it the power to stop our growth.
If I really stretched my imagination, I could suppose that I
could picture that a few people might engage in substance
abuse and wind up face down in the wading pool water. But
they'd have to be awfully drunk to stay there. For the great
majority of us, common sense makes the dreaming experience
at least tolerable and even fun.
Actually, I think most problems don't stem from the nature
of the water-dream itself. A few have roots in the field of
dreams. Some of us are allergic to the grass around the pool
(we have different reactions to the ideas in the books we
read). We need to pay attention when strange notions make
our dreams hiccup or sneeze.
It's the other kids in the wading pool who can muddy the
water the most. I've decided to steer totally clear of.
Dream guides who take you on a trip straight into those
nightmare worlds of dream (which they think is a universal
reality, rather than endemic to their personal belief
system).
Intruders who poke their nose into your business without
asking permission. Intrusive dream guides might be
dreamworkers, psychics, medical doctors, shamans, sorcerers,
channeled entities, the author of the book you just read or
(unfortunately) your dreaming colleague.
And I also find highly problematical, those folks who claim
to heal but don't do the psychic equivalent of washing their
hands. I mean, really digging deeply to dredge up their own
shadow-influences, rather than gloss over problems with the
phrase, "I'm a light worker."
Most people with muddy hand or dirty boot "vibes" are simply
ignorant when their influence tracks through your psyche and
shows up in your dreams. It can be uncomfortable, even
distressing to have to deal with inner or outer- generated
garbage, but environmental clean-up is part of the dream
hero's journey. (I just wish other people would do their
fair share!)
The real question is: Is there safe dreaming? Is there a
safe, sane, comfortable, even pleasurable universe in
dreamland? Yes there is, if you want to affirm, seek and
co-create it. There's lots of dreaming-friendly approaches.
I suggest the Jane Roberts/Seth material be one of those you
try out. A good place to start: "Dreams and Projection of
Consciousness" by Jane Roberts (Walpole, New Hampshire:
Stillpoint Publishing, 1986).
Then, come visit the Fly-By-Night Club web site and you'll
have the opportunity to practice what you've learned.
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm
(Fly-By-Night Club)
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Watch Your Dreams
with Nancy Huseby Bloom
dream@icehouse.net
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Week of October 18, 1998
Dear Nancy,
I have had this recurring dream since I since I was 5 years
old. As a child, sometimes I would sleep walk and
physically move heavy furniture in front of my bedroom door
to keep this dream intruder out. As the years have gone by
I find I have these dreams less often but they still upset
me tremendously. Tamara
I am in the home where I grew up. (I still live there.) I
am being hunted down by an evil and violent man who is
trying to kill me. I run away to the house next door but he
finds me and kills my neighbors. I keep running. There is
no one to help me. I try to call 911 but no one answers the
phone. I wake up terrified.
Dear Tamara,
Nearly all of us will experience nightmares at some time
in our life. Sometimes they are so disturbing that they
play havoc with our waking life, causing anxiety and
exhaustion due to lack of sleep. When they are recurring,
it is especially important to pay attention to them.
Whether these dreams are addressing a particular situation
in the life of the dreamer or reliving past events, they
always come to teach us. Knowing the truth about ourselves
and our lives is always healthy.
When we spoke on the phone you shared that although you
were close to your father, he was an alcoholic and often had
friends over. Since these dreams started at such a young
age, possibly something happened in those early years that
really frightened you. Nightmares are often the result of
past traumas that have been consciously forgotten.
Bob Coalson, a therapist specializing in Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder states, A nightmare may be a re-enactment
of an actual experience, a total fantasy experience, or an
actual event portrayed in combination with fantasy. A
marked increase in nightmare activity may be more prominent
around anniversary dates.
In other words, if you had a traumatic experience in the
month of July, you would tend to have nightmares about it
each year during that time.
Nightmares can also be a signal that some issue or
situation has become a serious problem. Is there an extreme
conflict or a great amount of stress in your life? In your
dream, Tamara, you are always running, trying to get away.
What do you want to avoid in your life? Is there someone
who is cruel to you, who is murdering your spirit or could
you be running from a part of yourself that you don t want
to face?
Tending our dreams requires questioning our lives,
values, and beliefs. Nightmares demand our attention,
especially recurring ones. One of the most frustrating
problems with nightmares is that usually there is no
resolution- we just wake up screaming and terrified.
I would suggest a technique called dream re-entry to
bring some resolution to this dream, with the hope that it
will stop. Before you do this, be sure to ask yourself the
questions that I have asked above. For your own
understanding, it s important to glean as much insight about
yourself from the dream as you can.
Then sit quietly and visualize yourself going back into
the dream. Stop running, turn around, and face that man.
Ask him who he is and what he has to teach you. Create a
new ending, one that takes you out of the role of victim and
into one of strength.
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"Nightmare-awake!...oh
by Nora Leonard
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Nightmare-awake!...oh
Moonbeam on my windowsill
banishing the dark
Nightmares have many purposes-at the time the primary one
seeming to be to frighten the bejezzus out of us. Many
dreams are scary, but we don't necessarily consider them
nightmares; there are also dreams which depict real-life
dangers to the psyche which unfold without attending
emotion, only to become truly terrifying when we begin to
consciously understand them. Some nightmares are evidence of
internal "spoilers", attitudes which seem to rise up to
knock us down just at the moment when we are finally
beginning to make progress. And then there are repeating
nightmares in which an actual trauma is relived in all its
gory detail-until, that is, we are able to consciously
confront it and deal with its repercussions.
The nightmarish dreams I wish to address in this article are
those I call "visitations". These are dreams when a door
seems to open in the psyche flooding us with dread and
heralding the arrival of a most unwelcome guest: a ghost, an
intruder...an alien.
A few years ago, when I was working in an administrative
position at a London university, I arrived at the office one
morning to find my co- worker in a state of considerable
agitation. She had woken in the night to find a stranger
standing by her bedside. She was absolutely terrified, but
all he did was eagerly proffer to her one-half of a golden
spiral notepad.
Knowing my interest, this woman had often discussed her
dreams with me, and so I was aware that one of her recurring
themes was her failure to fully develop her potential. She
had not had the opportunity to go to college, and now, at
the age of 55, she was taking an extramural course as part
of an adult education program. Although her financial
situation was not particularly strong, if she applied to do
a degree course and got accepted she would not have to pay
the fees because she was a member of staff of the
university. I asked her about the stranger-what he looked
like, etc.-and the way she described him suggested that he
represented her intellectual potential. I suggested to her
that perhaps the "half" notebook might mean that he was
attempting to meet her half-way, e.g. to merge the unlived
intellectual potential he represented with her desire to
study; not only that, the notebook was gold, suggesting,
perhaps, a golden opportunity. I encouraged her to apply for
the university course (instead of extending her extramural
course for another year, which was also a possibility), as
it seemed to me that the eagerness of the stranger suggested
she was more than ready to do this.
When she had first described the apparition, the dread
surrounding his appearance had been palpable. But by the
time we had talked it through this had gone; not only that,
she marched straightway to the Registry Office and picked up
an application. Even though it is one of the most
sought-after courses, her application was accepted; I am
happy to say that she is now in her second year of study and
is enjoying it immensely.
It has long seemed to me that certain incursions into the
inner circle of the ego's realm bring with them a measure of
dread regardless of their content-like the goddess Inanna
arising from her stay in the underworld surrounded by the
demonic minions of her sister Ereshkigal. Thus any potential
that we-for whatever reason-have banished to either the
basement or attic of our own psychic domain can become a
bogie or a madperson.
Or even a species of zombie. A zombie is a person who has
been deprived of their will and their power to speak-and the
silent screams of the dispossessed can often be the most
haunting.
>I am with some man who I love, a man called Will? We are
out and
>we meet Bill Hunter, who recognizes me. He's with his wife
and all
>his children, and he introduces me to all of them. I forget
to introduce
>my lover, and I apologize for this afterwards.
>
>Will and I are going back, he to his place, me to mine. I
get to my flat and
>realise I am wearing Will's soft leather coat, a kind of
reddish suede.
>I'm touched that he made me wear it because I was cold, but
then I
>realise I've got his keys in the pockets. I'm thinking I
can't even get
>into my flat to phone him (somehow I assume he has my
keys). It is a bit
>unclear, the next bit, as I may then find I do after all
have my own keys.
>Nevertheless I decide to go out and meet him, as I know
he'll be coming my way.
>
>I'm out on this bit of wasteground, and I see him rush past
getting
>way ahead of me. Then I bump into this zombie woman. She is
quite
>threatening, and I'm flooded with dread. I am trying to
push her away,
>and trying to scream his name for help. But I can't seem to
speak. And
>then I wonder whether the zombie has got to him, and that
really
>puts me in a panic. I wake up, absolutely terrified.
The day I had this dream I had managed to overcome
inhibitions that had previously kept me from enquiring about
the possibility of teaching an adult education course on
astrology; I had called the local council, spoken to the
relevant department and arranged to send in my CV and a
course proposal. On a roll, I then phoned a local Positive
Living group to see about giving a talk on dreams; the
moderator wasn't there, but I left a message on his
answering machine.
My subsequent nightmare pictures the terrifying threat of
finding one's willpower only to lose it again. In this
instance, my dreamweaver heightens the horror by using the
real-life figure of a childhood schoolmate (Bill Hunter);
although undoubtedly chosen for the symbolism of his name,
his presence might suggest that the part of my psyche
predatory to my ability to assert myself is both known to me
and someone I was once comfortable with. Not only that, he
now has a large family.
In the dream I assume that it is the zombie who is the
threat to my "will", but it is far more likely that she is a
portent of what I might become in the absence of will. There
are many ambiguities surrounding this dream, but I cite it
as an example of my ego being visited by a side of the
psyche-the zombie-that I go to great lengths to defend
against; I needed this dream in order to confront the fact
that it is not the outcast zombie but a more familiar part
of my psyche that stifles my determination.
The story of the Annunciation as told in the book of Luke is
another example of a visitation; someone experiencing a
similar scenario of inspiration/impregnation today would
perhaps be more likely to perceive it as a form of alien
abduction. The author of the gospel describes Mary
responding initially with the fear and dread typical of such
an appearance-the angel Gabriel actually tells her not to be
afraid. That Mary goes on to listen and then willingly
submit is all to her credit-regardless of whether you take
the story literally or as a myth.
Forget for a moment the human Jesus and think instead of the
archetypal image of the Christ which Jesus carried. This
"chosen anointed one" brought with him the type of new world
view that the tarot card of the Ace of Swords represents. It
takes considerable courage to nurture and protect the type
of radical vision symbolized by such a child, and there is a
whole genre of nightmarish dreams which deal with the trials
of looking after such creative-but potentially dangerous or
threatening-offspring, and their occasional abandonment.
That this is not a straightforward "moral" issue can perhaps
be illustrated by the following dream sequence.
>There has been an alien invasion which may be a great
threat
>to all of us. There is much panicking and trying to escape.
>
>Something about June Ackland. One of us may have a bomb
>hidden inside a leg. The person may or may not be arrested,
> but it appears that no bomb is going off.
On the day of this dream, I had spent the afternoon
collating haiku to send to some poetry magazines. Later I
had gone for a walk, and at sunset I was near some
allotments. Seeing two women digging in their plot, I had an
inspiration for a poem about the burying of dead year gods.
I had also been thinking about a meeting I had had with the
owner of a nearby bookshop. I had asked this woman about the
possibility of giving a seminar in her shop on dreams. She
had replied that she was interested, but that there was a
powerful contingent of Methodists in the area who were bound
to object. This encounter had brought back my childhood
experience of being discouraged to question anything
regarding my family's Presbyterian upbringing, whether at
home or in the church to which we belonged.
I woke up from this dream just flooded with dread. But then
I remembered having had the idea about the poem and I
decided that I needed to sit with these feelings at the
computer. Which I did, working first on the dream and then
on the poem (which eventually came to be called "an
unforseen planting").
In the dream, June Ackland-a police officer on the British
television series "The Bill"-represents the side of me who
is still concerned with "keeping the peace". There is also
this fear of a bomb in a "leg", which perhaps we can
translate as a fear I have that the standpoint I want to
present in the poem may be explosive.
The dream has no tidy conclusion; its ending is ambiguous.
Sitting at my computer, I realized that, although there had
been enormous fear, the alien invasion had not, in fact,
been portrayed as harmful. Because of this, I worked
determinedly on finishing the poem. In this instance, the
feelings of dread that the nightmare left with me proved to
be a kind of alchemical "prima materia", a chaotic mass out
of which I was able to extract the inspiration to produce a
poem.
But that wasn't the end of the story. Several months later,
I had the following dream:
>I'm in an advanced state of pregnancy, but I realize I
haven't felt
>the baby kick in some time. I'm worried it might be dead,
but
>another woman insists she's felt it kicking.
>
>I start to give birth. There is a young girl there also
giving birth: we
>are somehow jointly birthing the same baby. The labour
pains are
>intense and it is a great struggle to push the baby out.
>
>Contrary to my fears, the baby is still alive, although
there do appear
>to be some things wrong with her. There are sores or gaps
in her skin,
>as if she hadn't quite finished her development. The blood
hasn't been
>wiped from her eyes, so it isn't clear whether there is
something wrong
>with her vision-at the moment, all I can see is the blood.
>
>They've put her in this ziplock bag, but I can touch her.
Her skin is
>hot to the touch, almost as if she were "cooking", and I
make sure
>she isn't being suffocated.
>
>Everyone leaves and I see the child sitting on a shelf in
the ziplock bag.
This dream woke me up with such a fright, and a sense of
being shocked at the state of the infant and her being left
in the baggie. I found myself wanting to comfort her; I also
remembered reading the day before about finding a way to
reconnect with the creativity of the inner child, and
wondering whether this was indicated by the girl in the
dream who was giving birth in tandem with me.
I had many thoughts about what this nightmare might
signify. But it only became clear several weeks later when I
came across an entry form for a poetry competition. At first
I thought I had nothing to enter, but then I remembered the
poem I had written the day of the "alien invasion" dream.
I got out that poem, along with two others, and started to
revise them. The child in the above dream was bloody,
unfinished and hot, and I imagine that she is contained in
the ziplock bag so she can keep on cooking. This was
certainly the state I found myself in for the next couple of
weeks. Working on the three poems as a group, I came to
realize that they embodied my experience of what is often
casually referred to as the return of the Goddess [1].
This was a hugely intense period, during which I struggled
with my entire religious upbringing. Here is the dreadful
"divine" child who carries as big a threat to my inner world
view as any other sword bringer; contained in the finished
poems is the passionate standpoint pictured in my earlier
dream as potentially explosive.
The Mexican god Tezcatlipoca occasionally manifests in a
particularly nightmarish form as a bogie known as the Night
Ax: "a headless man with a dreadful wound in his chest which
kept opening and slamming shut, each time with a
spine-tingling thud like that of an ax hurled into a tree"
[2]. Anyone confronted with the god in this form seems to
have had two choices; either to die of fright on the spot or
to reach into the monstrous wound and grab hold of
Tezcatlipoca's beating heart, in which case it was incumbent
upon the god to grant the person a boon.
This, to me, sums up the essence of nightmares. At times we
merely "die of the fright of them", which is to suggest that
perhaps something might have lived, had we been able to
stand firm to the fear. And then at other times we do seem
able to grab hold of their boon-giving component.
In the summer of 1976 I returned to my family home for two
months rest and recuperation following the trial of writing
up a PhD dissertation. During the preceeding year I had
suffered from a combination of insomnia and night terrors,
which culminated in a series of life-changing death dreams.
These dreams led me to the works of Carl Jung, and also to a
complete change in direction away from an academic life of
scientific research into a lengthy private study of dreams,
shamanism and comparative religion.
In the two months I spent at home, I was plagued by a
procession of ghostly visitations. My mother's Siamese cat
had grown senile, and as frail as a will-o'-the-wisp. Yet
she was possessed by an uncanny voice that would caterwaul
through the night at unbelievable intensity and volume.
One night I lay in bed in stark terror, listening to Pookie
out in the hallway fighting with a poltergeist. It was only
many years later, after years of work on myself, that I
realized that this had been a visitation experience, that
the spirit in the hallway "scaring the cat" had been an
ancestral madwoman-a numen of creativity that had been
outcast and locked away by generations of my family
inhibited by societal constraints.
A banshee prowls our house at night-
She wakes the dead
sleeping behind
the photos yellowing
on the wall-
I can hear them muttering in the hall
She howls at all the battened doors
that will not let
her anguish in,
that shutter out
her tourquoise rage
bewildered by the crunch of age
A creaking hinge lets in this fetch:
she glides along
the sword of light
cutting the dark
enfolding me-
Who gave this ghost the coffin's key?
A Siamese cat leaps on the bed-
all fur, and bones
as frail as birds
who cannot fly
the height they knew-
her sightless eyes of shattered blue...
A velvet paw across my face-
a warmth so brief
fluttering soft
within my heart-
it draws the tears
that mourn the loss of stifled years
A banshee prowls my dreams at night!!
As wild as wind
that bears the dead
beyond their pain:
their silent screams find voice in me
and now, at last, the cat goes free
All Hallows Eve (October 31) is traditionally a time when
the boundaries between worlds buckle and bend and all manner
of uncanny visitors attempt to cross the ford into our
so-called "reality". Perhaps the side of us attuned to the
needs of these outcasts-and possibly even dimly aware of our
intimate relationship to them- developed the rituals of
laying out food and other offerings to welcome these
"visitations from the dead".
So perhaps now would be a good time to look back at some of
our old nightmares, and to reconsider what-amidst the dread
and terror- they might have been trying to bring to us.
[1] For a real sense of what the return of the Goddess might
feel like, I encourage you to read "Descent to the Goddess"
by Sylvia Brinton Perera, Inner City Books, Toronto 1981.
[2] "The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World", Burr
Cartwright Brundage, U of Texas Press, Austin1983, p 84.
Nora Leonard
(nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com)
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dreams
Harry Bosma
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The Dream Healing Room:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hbosma/healing_dreams/drmwelc.html
Note from editor: I received the following note from "K" a
man suffering a sleep disorder and forwarded this to Harry.
His response was so generous I asked him if we could publish
it on Electric Dreams. - Richard
From "K"
Constant Dreams and Sleeping Disorders
I've been interested in dreams for a very long time, as I
usually remember them in great detail, and have had
precognitive dreams. I have health problems, and have been
diagnosed as having a sleeping disorder. I have problems
falling asleep, then seem to dream constantly, I'm often
exhausted when I wake up. I may have fibro myalgia, and have
read that sleeping disorders may be a cause of the
condition, or just a factor of it. I would like to know if
anyone has any research studies or information on people who
dream too much. I don't seem to do very much deep sleep, my
husband says most the time I appear to be dreaming. Any info
or feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
Reply from Harry Bosma:
I'm a CFS patient who initially got diagnosed with a severe
case of mono in 1994. Like you I've been interested in
dreaming for a long time so when I finally had some energy
returned I published a homepage called Healing Dreams,
looking for other CFS patients also interested in dreaming.
Sleep problems are a factor in CFS and especially in fibro
myalgia. From what I hear from other patients there isn't
just one single type of sleep problem, but all kinds of
problems: sleeping over 12 hours a day, barely sleeping at
all, interrupted sleep and more or less normal sleep that
however isn't refreshing at all.
Two years ago somebody published rather preliminary research
results that suggested that fibro myalgia patients have a
flaw in the quality of their sleep similar to eldery people,
skipping the parts of the sleep that produce growth
hormones. I never heard anything from it since.
I think you have to be very careful with experimenting. Some
people suggest to use melatonin. Recent British research
suggest that CFS is caused by too high levels of melatonin.
At the Dutch CFS mailinglist this naturally upset quite a
lot of patients who thought it was a innocent miracle drug.
At my homepage I also warn patients complaining about vivid
dreams for melatonin, because this same melatonin is used by
(aspiring) lucid dreamers to get more vivid dreams.
To prevent sleep problems I can only give the usual advice:
don't be overactive just prior to sleeping. By the way,
"just prior" can mean hours to most of the day for us
because it takes so very little to get our bodies stressed
and so very long to calm down again. Use some kind of bed
going ritual, etc. You probably know all these things
already.
As to too much dreaming, I doubt if that is really a
problem. It is sometimes suggested that too much dreaming
can be exhaustive, but I have never seen any research
results to back that up. (I've sent Richard a CC so perhaps
he will correct me here). Actually, I personally tend to see
it as a good sign because during the early period of my CFS
history I went straight into a black coma, only to come out
of it 10-14 hours later and even then with great difficulty.
It was more like the stories you hear about near-death
experiences, but then without the tunnel, the lights and
everything else.
You say you're interested in dreams. You could consult your
dreams for more information on your current state. Though
usually dreams volunteer information when it somehow seems
necessary to correct your daily view or approach of your
situation. If you're interested in this I could tell you a
bit more about it. In the meantime I hope I've answered a
few of your questions. If you want to take a look at the
Healing Dreams homepage, you're welcome. The URL is in my
signature.
Regards,
Harry
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hbosma/healing_dreams/drmwelc.html
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At Home with
Strange Dreams
William C. Burns, Jr.
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Try as I might
To set my hand against the sky
I could not stop the sun
I could not hold back the darkness
Silent
The gathering dusk
flows into the room
Pooling on the floor
Flowing beneath
and around the familiar
Furniture
Filling the nooks . . .
Silent
In a silent house
Relenting at length
Fuzzing along the edges
I relinquish the Day
The scrunched pillow
The flowered throw
knitted by Mom
I reach into the cool dark water
and draw a handful into my mouth
The night air opens
the bow of my dream ship
slices through the hours
in search of dawn
Strange dream angels
come softly across the lake
The lights in their eyes
dance like tiny fires
upon the water
A breeze breaks the reflection
into a field of rubies
Night follows day
Day follows night
I am dreaming
Or am I waking?
I'm screaming through the night
at the speed of sound
Lost somewhere between the Earth and Sky
in a dream of steel and glass
The clouds water colored
in hues of pewter and white
The city lights sparkling
like diamonds strewn on black velvet
I am falling
I am swimming with
Fishes
Fishes in hobnailed boots
Stomping the cobble stones
In the harbor mists
Gasping
Cursing their foul luck
The whirling ebb of the tidal waters
carries many things onto the sand
Leaving them like offerings
leaving them like verses....
A shell
incomplete and broken in places
A piece of coral
a piece of leaf
A bottle without a note
Driftwood rubbed smooth
by the hands of time and tide
Sea weed flecked with foam
Rocks and sand
Streams of light
pierce the draperies
Is it morning already?
William C. Burns, Jr.
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An Interview with Kris B. Kendrick,
creator of t h e d r e a m s p r o j e c t
http://www.gobox.com/dreams/
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Richard C Wilkerson (RCW): When I log onto the Dreams
Project
http://www.gobox.com/dreams/
I have to slow down to see what's going on, like when I walk
into a dark room and have to let my eyes adust. This seems a
perfect mood an pace for dreams and sharing dream images.
Was this intentional?
Kris: Well, in the beginning, I wasn't really sure what kind
of imagery I was looking for with this site. I found a scan
of my own hand that I had done a few months before, and
fiddled around with it for a while. The result was a
diembodied hand, which seems to be touching the surface of
some type of thick, clear liquid. It really affected me, in
a disurbing way. I'm always intrigued when my own artwork
disturbs me. The sepia tones came later. I was worried, at
first, that they might be too oblique, and sleepy looking --
but I just kept coming back to that blurry, low-intensity
amber and black look. I couldn't get away from it.
RCW: What gave you the idea or inspiration for a site
involving dreams?
Kris: In the 6th grade I did an extensive term paper on REM
sleep and dreaming, and I've been fascinated since then. Of
course, I have my own, bizarre dreaming history to fuel that
fascination. The site was born from a fresh dream, emailed
to me by my good friend, and mentor, Steven Champeon (this
dream, 'undone', appears at The Dreams Project). In turn, I
responded with 'shoes'. I started thinking about how well
written accounts of people's dreams were such an interesting
mirror of their personalities, and that this might be an
interesting thing to focus on.
RCW: There is often talk about the "Dream Movement", which
as I understand it, includes bringing out the significance
of dreams in all fields of study, in clinical and
non-clinical settings and in the general populus. It also
includes dream inspired art, writing and other forms of
dream inspired creativity. How do you see yourself in this
view of the dream movement?
Kris: Dreams are very powerful, and I sincerely believe that
there is much of our emotional makeup that can be revealed,
and altered in a positive way, by a consciousness of our
dreamstates. As for a movement, I have no feeling about
that. I am merely publishing people's written accounts of
their own dreams in a visually pleasing manner.
RCW: Your Web presentation tends towards depth rather than
clarity. Is there a particular theme you are heading
towards, or are you allowing things to evolve
organically?
Kris: Oh, I like the organic method for this project... I've
designed websites for years. I'm going to let this one
design itself. Be aware that I've been known to redesign on
whim, however...
(RCW): The issue of who the authority is on a dream's
meaning has been prevalent the last few years. When you
approach dream interpretation, how do you decide who the
authority is?
Kris: I never try to interpret the dreams I publish, and
feel that this would be an invasion of privacy, somehow.
(RCW): In Gestalt and much Jungian dreamwork, the images
are subjective, about the dreamer himself/herself. Other
explorers feel the imaginal realm is independent of the ego
and these personal dream images are only cloaked in personal
garb, but really live in the imaginal realm independent of
the ego.
Do you have any thoughts the ownership of the dream image?
Kris: I don't buy the theory that all dream imagery is an
ego trip. Obviously, a great deal of what happens in our
dreams revolves around the dreamer, but there is pretty
strong evidence that dreams are as necessary for our mental
health as physiological processes, like digestion, are for
our bodies. We use dreams to work out conflicts and
traumatic events. I think dreams are very often like waste
products from our minds.
RCW: There has been more than a little concern within the
Association for the Study of Dreams on the issue of dream
sharing in cyberspace. Some feel that cyberspace is not the
place to share dreams, that sharing dreams leaves us too
vulnerable to those who might take advantage of us for their
own purposes. Do you have any thoughts on dream sharing and
the Internet?
Kris: I think that the Internet is the perfect tool for
publishing or continuing ones' studies of any subject.
Whether publishing dreams on the Internet leaves people open
and vulnerable is clearly a personal decision for each
dreamer.
RCW: Do you have some favorite books on dreams and
dreaming?
Kris: I don't read about dreaming. I don't really persue
what people are saying about dreaming as an activity.
RCW: Do you have a favorite dream?
Kris: <smiling> Yes, but I can't, and won't, discuss it in
an interview.
RCW: How has this dream influenced you?
Kris: <smiles silently>
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Nightmares - an Introduction
Richard C. Wilkerson
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from the cyber-dream Library, topics area.
Www.dreamgate.com/dream/library/
There are a wide range of events during sleep and wake that
are often referred to as "nightmares" and it is wise to
learn to distinguish between them. Most of what we call
nightmares are simply extreme reactions and fear that
accompany uncomfortable dreams that occur from time to time
in most everyone, usually towards the end of the sleep
cycle. Often we are awakened by a nightmare and there can be
strong feelings of sadness, anger or guilt, but usually fear
and anxiety. Often we are being chased, and its not unlikely
for children to be chased by animals and fantasy figures,
while adults are often chased by male adults.
Night terrors usually occur during the first hour or two of
sleep. Screaming and thrashing about are common. The sleeper
is hard to awaken and usually remembers no more than an
overwhelming feeling or a single scene, if anything.
Children who have night terrors also may have a tendency to
sleepwalk and/or urinate in bed. The causes of night
terrors are not well understood, though it appears that
night terrors are from a distinctly different stage of
sleep. Children usually stop having them by puberty. They
may be associated with stress in adults. A consultation
with a physician may be useful if the night terrors are
frequent or especially disturbing.
Why do we have nightmares?
Nightmares may have several causes, including drugs,
medication, illness, trauma or they may have no related
cause and be spontaneous. Often they occur when there is
stress in one's waking life, and when major life changes are
occuring.
What can be done about nightmares?
The Association for the Study of Dreams notes that "It
really depends on the source of the nightmare. To rule out
drugs, medications or illness as a cause, discussion with a
physician is recommended. It is useful to encourage young
children to discuss their nightmares with their parents or
other adults, but they generally do not need treatment. If
a child is suffering from recurrent or very disturbing
nightmares, the aid of a therapist may be required. The
therapist may have the child draw the nightmare, talk with
the frightening characters, or fantasize changes in the
nightmare, in order help the child feel safer and less
frightened ."
Nightmares also offer the same opportunity that other
dreams do, to investigate the symbols and imagery for life
enhancement. The challenge in the last few decades for the
dreamwork movement has been to teach a variety of methods
that replace the old phase "It was just a dream." In
American schools, people like Jill Gregory and Ann Wiseman
teach children coping mechanisms that allow the child to
come into relationship with the dream monsters and fears in
a novel and related manner. Ernest Hartmann and other
researchers are finding that those who have "thin"
personalities, or sensitive, receptive individuals, are more
likely to have nightmares than "thick" personalities.
Pioneers like Linda Magallon, Stephen Laberge and Jayne
Gackenbach are teaching people to take control of their
dreams and have the outcomes they wish rather than becoming
the dream's victim.
The Association for the Study of Dreams offers some advice
and books on nightmares and you will find among its members
the top researchers in the field.
NIGHTMARE BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY ASD
Special Issue of Dream Time, with many researchers articles
on Nightmares and Children. Much of the work is applicable
to adults. Volume 15 numbers 1&2 Winter/Spring 1998
Available via ASD www.asdreams.org $7.00
Wiseman, Ann Sayre (1986, 1989). Nightmare help. A guide
for adults and children. Ten Speed Press.
Krakow, Barry, and Neidhardt, Joseph (1992). Conquering bad
dreams and nightmares. Berkeley Books.
Hartmann, Ernest (1984).The Nightmare: The Psychology and
Biology of Terrifying Dreams. Basic books.
(New - I haven't reviewed this yet):
Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and
Meaning of Dreams. A new book by Ernest Hartmann,
M.D. is now available for ordering through Plenum
Publishers.
MORE ON NIGHTMARES
Cushway, Delia, and Sewell, Robyn (1992) Counseling with
dreams and nightmares.Sage publications.
Kellerman, Henry (Ed.) (1987). The Nightmare: Psychological
and Biological Foundations. Columbia University Press.
Lazar, Moshe (Ed) (1983). The Anxious Subject: Nightmares
and Daymares in Literature and Film.Undena.
Downing, J., and Marmorstein, E. (Eds.) Dreams and
Nightmares: A Book of Gestalt Therapy Sessions. New
York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Do you have some favorite Nightmare Books? Send them to me!
Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com.com
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October-November 1998
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If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats,
pcoats@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at
http://www.dreamtree.com/News/global.htm.
This Month's Features:
NEWS
***** ASD Membership Discount offer until November 1
** Join now!
***** California Dreaming - ASD Conference in Santa Cruz
** Note the Cyber-Cafe!
***** DreamGate and Canadian Learning TV Dream Course
** Online via email!
***** Jungian Winter Seminars in Switzerland
** Include Dream Work!
***** WOMEN'S DREAM GROUP
** Dream Group for Goddesses!
***** Global Dreaming News now available on AOL
** Visit GD news at AOL AltMed Dreamwork
RESEARCH & REQUESTS
***** Life-Altering Dreams for Television Pilot
** Male Bereavement Dream Series
***** Dreams, Visions and Their Effects on Art
WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
***** The Daily Analyst
***** Myths-Dreams-Symbols - New Web Interface.
***** "Through Dreams into Healing"
***** Bobbie and Brandy Phillips Dream Interpretations
***** Dream Inspired Art Gallery
***** Postmodern Dreaming
***** Nocturnal Postings has moved
***** ASD Oahu Art Exhibition Online
DREAM CALENDAR for November 1998
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***** ASD Membership Discount offer until November 1
http://www.asdreams.org/membership_offer98.htm
The Association for the Study of Dreams will be raising its
membership fees as of November 1, 1999. You can still get in
and join or renew you membership at the old rates if you act
FAST!
Stop by the online registration site and/or download a form
and send it in my NOV 1 to get these special rates.
***** California Dreaming - ASD Conference in Santa Cruz
he Association for the Study of Dreams
16th International Conference
July 6-10, 1999
University of California, Santa Cruz
www.asdreams.org
IMAGINE walking down a curving path through the redwoods,
emerging into a meadow just in time to catch the sunset
flaming across the Pacific. As you pause to watch the sky
darken and the stars emerge, you hear only bird calls and
the sound of the breeze through the tall grasses. The
presentations you heard today were fascinating, and you
reflect on each of them, smiling as you make connections
between what you've heard, your own dreams, and the dreams
of those you know. Breathing in the clean scent of sea and
woods, you make your way back to rejoin the community of
dreamers, friends old and new, just now settling down for
dinner and lively conversation.
PLAN NOW TO ATTEND the Sixteenth Annual ASD Conference, to
be held July 6-10,1999 in Santa Cruz, California, site of
two past ASD conferences. The meeting will be on the
stunning campus of the University of California, with its
miles of hiking trails, tranquil redwood groves, and meadows
providing 180 degree views of the Pacific. Accommodations
will be in recently built apartments a short stroll away
from the hustle and bustle of the conference, a lovely place
to relax, socialize, and take in all the natural beauty of
the setting.
WHO'S WHO? Conference Host Veronica Tonay will reprise her
command performance, as she played a crucial role in the two
previous Santa Cruz conferences in 1988 and 1992 which were
highly successful. A triumvirate of visionary Program
Co-chairs: Deirdre Barrett, Johanna King, and Richard Russo,
will be orchestrating a cornucopia of dozens of fascinating
workshops, symposia, presentations, and events. For the 1999
Conference , the ultimate continuing education track is
being planned by ASD C.E. Maven, Alan Siegel. And, an
outstanding internet salon will materialize simultaneously
in Santa Cruz and Cyberspace with the help of of ASD
Webmaster Richard Wilkerson. Fariba Bogzaran will return to
create another art show extraordinaire. Plus, we will have
the latest research findings, networking with regional dream
organizations, book signings with world-famous authors, lots
of time to schmooze with experts and old friends, and as
always, the Masquerade Dream Ball conference finale.
SPECIAL CYBER CAFE: Peggy Coats will be hosting a special on
campus that will be linked to the global dream community. If
you are not familiar with the Internet, there will be
friendly assistance to help you understand the basics. If
you are a web master or information provider, you can learn
how to link into the dream community and draw more traffic
to your site. There will be many special events and
meetings with famous dreamers from around the world as well
as demonstrations of the latest technologies and dream
software. If you already have a site online and would like
to know how to participate, contact Peggy at
pcoats@dreamtree.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION on the conference program or a
brochure, please contact ASD:
The Association for the Study of Dreams, Box 1600, Vienna,
VA (703) 242 0062 or (703) 242 8888. You can Email us at
ASDreams@AOL.Com or for the latest conference details,
please:
POINT YOUR WEB BROWSER TO: www.ASDreams.org for an update.
***** DreamGate and Canadian Learning TV offer Online Dream
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This new dream group begins Oct. 26 and meets bimonthly in
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our personal Dream Spirits, and re-entering our dreams for
greater clarity and empowerment. Whatever your spiritual
path, you will be supported among your dream sisters. This
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more, to explore healing, lucid, creative, psychic, and
divine dreams. (510) 653-7293 for more info.
Sage Healing Wolf provides shamanic empowerment and healing
sessions. Sage facilitates the DreamJourneys shamanic dream
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intensive chakra healing. Author of the upcoming book
Dreamjourneys: Dreams of Spiritual Awakening, Sage can be
reached at (510) 653-7293 or shaman@sirius.com.
***** Jungian Winter Seminars in Switzerland include Dream
Work.
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Get together with Europe's best Jungian analysts and
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Zurich Switzerland location with travel arrangements for
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- Getting Started
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>>>>> Life-Altering Dreams for Television Pilot
I'm looking for people who have had bizarre, fascinating, or
life-altering dreams for a television show pilot I'm
producing. These are dreams that woke you in a cold
sweat...dreams that frightened you, shocked you, or had a
lasting impression on your life. The show will re-enact
your dream with actors and give you the opportunity to meet
with dream experts and find out what those dreams really
mean. Please visit my web site at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~davegardner/ or e-mail me at :
davegardner@earthlink.net
>>>>>Male Bereavement Dream Series
Men who have suffered a tragic loss by death of a child,
spouse, or lover and were recording their dreams at the
time, are being solicited for a publication in progress on
bereavement dreams, transcendence and the healing process.
The recorded dream period should be 6 months or longer
following a death that occurred at least two years ago.
Research is being conducted by Geri Grubbs, Ph.D., Jungian
analyst. She would like to work closely with the
participants, which will involve gathering the dreams
together, copying or recording them with associations, and
some telephone discussions. If you think you may be
interested in participating, please contact Geri Grubbs by
telephone at (408) 867-9019, or through e-mail at
gegrubbs@compuserve.com.
>>>>>Dreams, Visions and Their Effects on Art
My name is Margo and I am a year twelve student at Cardijn
College, South Australia. As part of my Art course I am
required to complete a year long study to acquire the
necessary marks. The topic I have chosen to research for my
special study is "Dreams, Visions and their effects on art."
My study involves collecting as much information as possible
on the topic, research, conducting surveys, questionnaires
and to become an "expert" on the subject. I need as much
information as possible. I would be most grateful if you
could send any information on any thing that links dreams,
visions and art together. An interview, if appropriate would
also be very helpful either by phone or in person. If you
are unable to help me maybe you could to refer me to someone
who could. Any information on anything to do with art,
dreams or visions would be of great use to me. Thank you
for your help Margo Clark, 14 Geoffery Ave., Pt.
Noarlunga, S.A. 5167. Telephone: (08) 8384 8317. Email:
mclark@cardijn.net.au
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Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share
with others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help
spread the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page
www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. This is
really a public projects board and requires that everyone
keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a
point to send changes to the links page to us.
***** The Daily Analyist
http://callisto.worldonline.nl/~cb008448/
Free Association in Everydaylife . . . Vrij Associren in
het leven van alledag . . .Explore your dreams, fantasies
and anything else on your conscious mind . . . Onderzoek uw
dromen, fantasien en al het andere in de geeste...
<subscribe to dream interpretation by free association> your
co-explorer is Willem Linschoten, psychiatrist.
psycho-analyst (and.... Sigmund Freud is at the Freudmuseum
in Vienna!!!) The Daily Analyst's old and new items daily on
work-days. Languages: Dos, Dutch, English, French, German,
HTML, Italian, Latin, Windows95
***** Myths-Dreams-Symbols - New Web Interface.
A Jungian Psychology Based Interpretation Where Science And
Spirit Come Together. Free dream interpetation is offered.
All New Pages-Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary,
Astrology, Tarot, Depression, On-Line Dream Interpretation,
And More.
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/MythsDreamsSymbols/index.html
Jerry Gifford <jgifford@bellsouth.net>
***** "Through Dreams into Healing"
(Article) is now published on the Elevated Therapy website.
Elevated Therapy - Live a Different Life
http://homepages.which.net/~michael.millett
Michael G Millett <michael.millett@which.net>
***** Bobbie and Brandy Phillips Dream Interpretations
A daughter and mother offer a join effort to bring you their
insights on dreams and dreaming.
http://www.telalink.net/~brandee/
***** Dream Inspired Art Gallery
Photocollages by Kathleen Eiswald and David Wells
http://home.pacbell.net/davekat/gallery0.htm
***** Postmodern Dreaming
Collection of articles by Richard Wilkerson on how dream
work might look when using run through postmodern concepts.
Some notions include the attempt to create a non-
representational dreamwork, how the missing center at the
heart of the universe produces dream narrative, the effects
of simulated reality in dreaming and more.
Http://www.dreamgate.com/pomo
***** Nocturnal Postings has moved
Nocturnal Postings is an electronic publication
specializing in fiction. It focuses on, but does not
necessarily limit itself to, the hours between dusk and
dawn; this might include stories written at night, works
inspired by dreams, things involving the night as a central
element to the work, etc..
http://www.servtech.com/~juliak/NocturnalPostings/
***** ASD Oahu Art Exhibition Online
Each year the Association for the Study of Dreams hosts a
juried art show. Many of the chosen pieces are available for
viewing online. This year, Richard Russo has prepared
several beautiful selections at
http://www.asdreams.org/galery98/subidxshowart98.htm
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D R E A M C A L E N D A R
November 1998
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Oct 26 Bay Area, SF California
Goddess Dream Groups
(510) 653-7293
Nov 1 online
History of Dreams
http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/psychology3.html
Nov 6-8. Gore Mountain, NY.
Advanced shamanic workshop with Robert Moss, author of
Conscious Dreaming. Call Laurel Masse-Palestri (518) 251
4135.
Nov 6-8 in Salt Lake City, UT
Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Peg Hunter at
801.364.9854
Nov 11 in Pittsburgh, PA
ADream Workshop@ meets at 7:00 pm at 4836 Ellsworth Avenue
(Friends Meeting House). Call 412.241.7885 for information.
Nov 13 in Concord, MA
Icon of the Black Madonna
A Slide Show and Meditation with Deborah Rose.
Friday, 7:30-9:30PM $15. Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road,
Concord, MA 01742-3423. E-mail:
Dreamwheel@compuserve.com; Tel & Fax: 978-369-2634
Nov 13-15 in Portland, OR
Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Diana Clark at
503.657.1331 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor. com
Nov 14 in NJ
APraying with Dreams@ workshop at the annual Diocese of
Trenton Spirituality Conference held this year at Georgian
Court College. The featured speaker is Sr. Joyce Rupp and
Sr. Carol Teodori. For more information, contact Carol
Teodori at wellcare@nb.net.
Nov 20 in Chicago, IL
ADream: Pointing Finger at our Dream-like Existence@, Jung
Institute of Chicago 800.697.7679, Jung@jungchicago.org
http://www.Jungchicago.org
Nov 21 in San Jose, CA
Jeremy Taylor lecture at Holistic Arts , 12 noon. Contact
Eric at 408.448.6726 for more information.
Nov 29 in Santa Cruz, CA
Service and Afternoon Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Call
Cathy McCall at 831.662.8930 for more information.
Jan 4 - 15 1999 C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich
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== D R E A M S S E C T I O N == ED V5 N10 ==
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
D R E A M S SECTION INDEX BY BOB K. (For ED V5 N10)
Hi there! Welcome to ELECTRIC DREAMS - DREAMS SECTION for
Vol. 5 Number 10 - November 1998
Hello dreamers! This month we have some special treats-
Nora (on a previous issue death theme dream), and Island
(on her House Arrest trapped theme dream)) share their
unique special insight with extended commentary, Stan
K.(buying the farm) brings us into a farmhouse world with
a dream economics country store,the repetitive dreams
section repeats a relationship theme in varying degrees
of intensity, Baby Spice graces our pages (stomach-
less?!?), Alien's reappear, a Bomb goes off- then
doesn't (who's in control here?), Danger abounds in blank
screen TV static-a rocky shoreline- giant french oysters,
and problems arise when it's time to take the music class
exam (I know the answer, but it won't come out!!!). A
French version (care of Alta-Vista)of the Giant Oyster
Dream is included in case any of our French readers can
help notice some "hidden messsage." Enjoy your journey.
NEW CATEGORIES:
[NONE]
EDITORIAL:
HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING
To get to the Thanksgiving holiday, we first must go
through the Halloween celebration. As all kind of young
masked creatures populate the early evening hours on
October 31 throughout the United States, a sense of the
unreal comes into sight. As humorous and grotesque masks
disguise the children seeking candy (trick or treat!,)a
fantasy world of sorts surfaces in many lives. I remember
so clearly the image of ET, the extraterrestial from the
Spielberg movie, joining the children on Halloween eve
blending into the crowd. For one short period of time,
the outsider fit in with the group.
As Thanksgiving approaches, I am thankful for the masked
dream images which arise from the depths of our being and
bestow a gift of wonder on those who can remember, and
food for thought to those who accept the challenge of
befriending the sometimes frightening images to feel and
penetrate new levels of meaning. Thanks to those who
have shared their dreams and commentary with our
community.
Enjoy your visit to the pages of Electric Dreams.
Bob Krumhansl
FEEDBACK FROM THE DREAMERS
== General Comment & Question from krisP (980927) ==
== Response from rcwilk on How to unsubscribe from
ed-core (980928) ==
COMMENTARY ON DREAMS FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES
** Dream: Never ending dreary dream by Kos (980924) **
== Commentary by Nora Leonard on Kos's dream (980924) ==
NEW DREAMS:
PRECOGNITIVE/FUTURE DREAMS [Stories from past
experiences, or send them in before it happens, if you
can]
REPETITIVE DREAMS [Significant by nature]
** Dream: X by ?? (981006) **
** Dream: NUrules by ?? (981005) **
** Dream: the past by ?? (981006) **
DREAM TRACES IN WAKING LIFE [The effects of external
stimuli on our dreams or is it the other way around - our
dreams leaving a trace on our physical reality?]
DEFYING CLASSIFICATION [Your stumpers may not be so
mysterious to others]
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
LINKS TO STAGES OF LIFE
BIRTH [Starts]
CHILDHOOD [Early development]
ADOLESCENCE [Maturing, testing]
ADULTHOOD [The main event for most]
OLD AGE [Wisdom, Approaching the Journeys end]
DEATH [Endings]
See the REPETITIVE DREAMS and SOLUTIONS sections
COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD [Beyond our terrestrial
limits]
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AGGRESSION [By us or against us- crossing others paths]
ALIENS [Visitors or visited - creatures from other
dimensions]
** Dream: Truly Electric by DW (981005) **
AMUSEMENT PARK [A place to relax and enjoy, another
reality]
ANGELS [Visitors from Spiritual dimensions]
ANIMALS [Basic Instincts- This month brings us an animal
zoo... ]
(Check out Baby Spice and the Animal Zoo in CELEBRITIES)
BATHROOMS [Maintenance, Cleansing and Elimination]
BELONGING [What we are associated with or wish we were]
BOOKS (Extensions of our memory and imagination, our
permanent records)
BRIDGES [How we get across an obstacle or go from here to
there]
CELEBRITIES [The well known - famous and infamous]
** Dream: "No Stomach" by au? (981019) **
CLOTHING [What we wear tells us about ourselves and the
events we participate in]
COMEDY [With an accent on puns, funny situations or
jokes]
COMMUNICATIONS [From telepathic to devices to signs &
symbols]
COMPUTERS [Extensions of our minds, mind tools,
communication]
CULTS [Somewhere out there ...]
DIRECTIONS [Ever stop and ask for directions? North,
South,
East, West, up, down, ahead, behind, straight, turn,
right, left, make a circle, cross, go through, open,
close, mix, add, boil, cook, simmer, but most of all -
follow these instructions carefully...and don't be shy
about asking someone else down the path, except, of
course, for the Big Bad Wolf!!!]
== Commentary from Heratheta on Old House (980926) ==
== Commentary from Heratheta on Static Dream (980929) ==
== Commentary from Heratheta on Bomb Dream (980930) ==
== Commentary by Heratheta on Dancer (981007) ==
== Commentary by Heratheta on X dream (981010) ==
== Commentary by Heratheta on Oyster/beach/chip
(981010)==
== Commentary by Heratheta on Zoo (981020) ==
DISCOVERY [New insights and unexpected developments]
** Dream: The Bomb (Twice) by ?? (980929) **
DREAMING [Dreams about dreaming]
DRUGS [Healing or Hurting?]
EATING [Getting nourishment for maintenance, growth and
pleasure]
ELEVATORS [Going UP or DOWN - Push the right button or
else...]
ESCAPE [Get me outta here!!!]
** Dream: Treacherous rock formation by MG (981009) **
EVENTS [The activity defines or dominates the story - a
convergence of people at a place and time for a special
purpose]
EYES [The organs of sight...the window to the soul...]
FEAR [What scares us]
FOOD [The source of our physical nourishment]
FIRE [Flames bring light, heat and
destruction/transformation]
FLYING [Confidence, Power, Freedom & Perspective]
GIFTS [Offerings to or from others]
HOBBIES [Our interests and desires]- COLLECTING THINGS
HOLIDAYS [Time off to ...]
HOSPITAL [A place for treatment, healing and repair]
** Dream: Dr. Salt by Joe (981010) **
HOUSE [Where our lives take place]
** Dream:"House Arrest" with Comments(98.10.16)by Island
**
** Dream:"buying the farm" by stan kulikowski ii (981020)
**
HOTELS [Temporary Dwelling or Special Event location]
JOURNEYS [Missions away from our home base -explorations]
LOST [Disorientation or abandonment]
LOTTERY DREAMS [Sudden Wealth - Randomness favors the
dreamer]
LOVE [All around us, yet so hard to find and keep]
LUCID DREAMING [Knowing you are Dreaming when you are
Dreaming]
MEMORY [Remembering ...In dreams we often struggle with
the issue of memories and remembering a dream which by
definition involves the process of recollection.]
MIRRORS [Reflection of Self]
MUSIC [Melodies of the land within]
(See Music Lessons in SCHOOL THEMES)
NUDITY [What you see is what you get]
PERFORMERS [Entertainers]
PROBLEMS [Situations or difficulties sometimes present
choices]
POLITICAL SCENE [Public issues through positions of
power]
RELATIONSHIPS [Other parts of ourselves including family
which constitutes the first and earliest of our
relationships, often influencing how we relate to the
outside world]
(If you didn't read X and The Past in REPETITIVE DREAMS,
they are about the theme of dealing with past romantic
relationships)
** Dream: sun chips by poppy (981009)**
RELIGIOUS RELATED [The Ritual and the Spiritual]
ROMANCE [Thrills and Chills, lost in another]
SCHOOL THEMES [Learning and learning related trials]
(Check out NURules in the REPETITIVE DREAMS section)
** Dream: Music Lessons by Jazz(981010) **
SOLUTIONS [The answers to problems or quandaries]
STAIRS [Bridges between levels, between the upper and the
lower]
STRANGERS [Who and what we don't know yet]
TEETH [Ok, losing teeth is one of the top ten dreams
people have questions on. Theories on what they mean
range all over the spectrum of possibilities.]
TORNADOS [Pretty well defined destructive power of
nature]
TRAPPED [Temporarily helpless- Sometimes we are paralyzed
or imprisoned by jobs, relationships or expectations]
** Dream: Static Nightmare by ?? (980928) **
** Dream: Attack of the Giant Oysters by cathy(981007) **
== Attack of the Giant Oysters-French Translation
(981014)==
VEHICLES [Means of transportation, reflection of
lifestyle]
WATER [A magical earthly fluid, nourishment, cleansing]
WORKPLACE [Where we make a living]
WRITING & WRITERS [Communication and creativity]
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DREAM SERIES
(None this month)
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FEEDBACK FROM THE DREAMERS
== General Comment & Question from krisP (980927) ==
> Would you please remove me from this list?
I have tried to reply to things in the past, and it does
not seem to work. There are comments in reply to dreams
that I have not previously seen, and some of the dreams
seem more like amature pornography stories than actual
dreams, and I'd wager that the writer made them up rather
than really having had dreamed them. As for myself, I see
nothing that I can help with here.
Thank You,
KrisP
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*** Remember always, that all power comes from the
creator
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== Response from rcwilk on How to unsubscribe from
ed-core (980928) ==
How to unsubscribe from this mail list:
Send an email to: ed-core-request@lists.best.com in the
body of the email put only
unsubscribe your-email
COMMENTARY ON DREAMS FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES
Dear Bob
This is the first time I've sent comments, so please let
me know if I am doing anything wrong. I would like to be
known by my real name (i.e. Nora Leonard).
Thanks, Nora
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** Dream: Never ending dreary dream by Kos (980924) **
My dream started when I was a teenager. It has been
with me for 25 years now. I have lived a very good life,
I'm married with children and grandchildren. My dreams
goes like this: I am in my house alone, suddenly a black
shadow stranger appears. I dont know who he is, nor what
he wants of me. I attack him . I kill this person (who is
a man), well not only do I kill him, but I bring him to
my basement and dig a hole, put the body in it and fill
it with cement. This dream is so traumatic to me, that
when I awaken I am about to vomit. It has me upset for
the next 2 days before I feel better. I get an awful
feeling in my stomach that will stay with me for a day.
It's almost like a feeling of deep fright. I feel that
after the dream I actually did this to someone. This is
weird. If any one can help me to understand this dreams,
please feel free to email me. thanks, please
help........Kos
== Commentary by Nora Leonard on Kos's dream (980924) ==
If this were my dream I would wonder what unlived
potential or character trait the shadow man represents
which I keep "killing off" and burying in the basement. I
would also want to think back to any change in my
behaviour during my teenage years (when the dream first
appeared), for instance any fledgling rebellious traits
or assertiveness that I might have subsequently squashed
when they met with disapproval by my parents and/or
teachers. Any aspect of my character that might have
proved difficult to integrate into the life I hoped to
lead, or the community to which I wanted to belong.
The fact that I have to cement over his body suggests to
me that he might represent a very strong side of my
character that I am not allowing to live, whose presence
in my life I perceive as so threatening as to require his
constant suppression.
Yet still he comes back, and his persistence in my dreams
and in my psychic basement suggests he is determined to
find a way into my life. In the dream I don't know what
he wants of me; waking from the dream, I might want to
try and have an imaginary dialogue with him, to find out
what it is he actually wants. I am now an adult and
perhaps more able to deal with the reaction I might get
from expressing that side of my character.
Thank you, Kos, for allowing me to comment on this dream.
It actually could be mine: I have had several dreams very
like this one, and I found it very painful, coming to the
realisation that I might have been killing off unlived
potentials in this way. The pain and grief attendant to
this realisation is the bad news: the fact that these
dream figures keep rising from the dead, ever hopeful
that we will let them out of the basement, is the good
news, as it means that all is not lost: there is still
time to resurrect an unlived bit of oneself.
Nora Leonard (nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com)
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shadows tumble, swerve across a square of sunlight:
kick-boxing crows
Nora Leonard
nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com *Accessing the
Inner Oracle: astrology, tarot, dreamwork*
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** Dream:
== Commentary by
NEW DREAMS:
PRECOGNITIVE/FUTURE DREAMS [Stories from past
experiences, or send them in before it happens, if you
can]
REPETITIVE DREAMS [Significant by nature]
** Dream: X by ?? (981006) **
I have dreamt this dream 2 times and each time it
changes. It's about my ex-girlfriend and I getting back
to gether. I leave my current girlfriend whom I love, and
go back to this previous one because she is trapped by
her parents in this terrible life.
Comments by Dreamer : I hate this dream very much and it
disturbs me. I love my current girlfriend very much so
why does this dream about my ex bother me and why has it
happened 2 times in the last 6 months?
** Dream: NUrules by ?? (981005) **
Reoccuring dream that I'm in the hallways of a
school that seems familiar to me...like my jr. high. I'm
looking for my locker and am having trouble finding it. I
find it...but can never remember my combination. (I've
been out of h.s. 8 years). I feel afraid and
anxious...not remembering which class I'm supposed to be
going to next or what books I need. I wake up dazed and
confused. What do you make of this?
Comments by Dreamer: I'm new at this...and am very
interested in the opinions of what the dream is
signifying since I keep having it over and over.
** Dream: the past by ?? (981006) **
I keep having these recurring dreams about my
ex-boyfriend from high school. I am now very happily
married to someone else, and I live 2,000 miles away from
my ex. We had a very intense, and usually unhappy
relationship off and on for 3 years, we were very wrong
for each other and very much in love. When I was 15 he
got me pregnant and I had an abortion, something that I
regret every day, but at the time it was the best
decision even though it went against my beliefs. Anyway,
the past week I have been dreaming about him and his
current girlfriend, whom I have never met, but she is
close with other friends of mine that I still keep in
contact with.
The other night I dreamed that we were at our
mutual friends' wedding and I wanted to try to be friends
and he didn't. I looked fabulous, he looked just like he
did when I met him when we were 14. The next night I
dreamed that I met his girlfriend and he had left her and
I was helping her get over him and we became really close
friends. Then last night I dreamed of him again. He
wasn't in the dream per se, but there was a newsletter in
the dream from my high school group of friends, and in it
was an editorial from him stating how much he hated me
for not inviting him to my wedding. (I didn't invite him
in reality, I was afraid of and he was bitter - he
almost came as my other friend's date).
I have these dreams every few months or so,
sometimes I am getting back together with him, sometimes
I am telling him off, sometimes we get along just fine in
our new lives. I don't want to think about this person at
all, it just brings back painful memories. I never think
about him at all if I am not dreaming about him, but when
I do, I can't stop and I feel miserable. I know I do not
want to have him back, and I have not seen him in over 3
years.
DREAM TRACES IN WAKING LIFE [The effects of external
stimuli on our dreams or is it the other way around - our
dreams leaving a trace on our physical reality?]
DEFYING CLASSIFICATION [Your stumpers may not be so
mysterious to others]
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
LINKS TO STAGES OF LIFE
BIRTH [Starts]
CHILDHOOD [Early development]
ADOLESCENCE [Maturing, testing]
ADULTHOOD [The main event for most]
OLD AGE [Wisdom, Approaching the Journeys end]
DEATH [Endings]
See the REPETITIVE DREAMS and SOLUTIONS sections
COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD [Beyond our terrestrial
limits]
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AGGRESSION [By us or against us- crossing others paths]
ALIENS [Visitors or visited - creatures from other
dimensions]
** Dream: Truly Electric by DW (981005) **
Dear Electric Dreams,
I was given your wed site by someone on the Deepak Chopra
forum, where I had submitted a dream experience I had as
a teenager. I was hoping someone there could direct me to
a source that could maybe explain what happened to me.
I was 16 or 17 years old and I was in dance class when my
dance teacher brought up experiences she's supposively
had with aliens. I was really enchanted by the idea. I
was already looking into the New Age, but hadn't quite
grasped the concept of extraterrestrials.
That night, I was dreaming that my dance teacher and I
were on a mountain. The moon began changing shape and
color. I asked my teacher what that meant, and she
replied,"That means they are coming." The next second I
awoke having the sensation I was being electricuted. It
didn't hurt, but I remeber my back arching, I couldn't
open my eyes, nor scream out for help. I felt a presence
calming me down. I don't know how long it lasted, but
when it stopped, my body tingled all over. I laid in bed
trying to figure out if what happened really occured. I
finally fell asleep, but then awoke a few hours later,
once more going through this strange experience. A
couple of nights later, I would awake with just a
tingling sensation.
Now, I did have an electric blanket on my bed, BUT it was
not turned on, AND it only happen this one week, when my
blanket had been on my bed many, many nights before this
occurance and after.
I went to a phychic fair a few months later, and I was
told extraterrestrials were raising my vibrations. I
don't really know what I believe. Was it my blanket or is
there an another explaination?
I'm hoping someone else has written you with a similar
experience or if you know of another source I can look
into. At one time, I read in OMNI magazine, probably, 5
or so years ago, a small mention of such occurances, but
not much detail.
I'd truly appreciate anything you can think of to have me
look into, or direct me in your web to a similar
experience someone e-mailed.
Thank you,
Truly electric
AMUSEMENT PARK [A place to relax and enjoy, another
reality]
ANGELS [Visitors from Spiritual dimensions]
ANIMALS [Basic Instincts- This month brings us an animal
zoo... ]
(Check out Baby Spice and the Animal Zoo in CELEBRITIES)
BATHROOMS [Maintenance, Cleansing and Elimination]
BELONGING [What we are associated with or wish we were]
BOOKS (Extensions of our memory and imagination, our
permanent records)
BRIDGES [How we get across an obstacle or go from here to
there]
CELEBRITIES [The well known - famous and infamous]
** Dream: "No Stomach" by au? (981019) **
I was out in a hut in a "jungle"(possibly more like an
"Open Zoo") with friends. It was set up to be
"educational" - there were many animals around, including
giraffes, cheetahs, monkeys and rhinoceroses. The main
detail I recall is that Merril Bainbridge, or Baby Spice
(a stereotypically cute blue-eyed blonde in either case)
returned from her own adventure, and as she began telling
the rest of us about it, she realized that the rhinoceros
she met had ripped out her stomach while she was reading
at one of the lecterns of information. The dream ended
with us wondering what we could put in place of the
stomach.
CLOTHING [What we wear tells us about ourselves and the
events we participate in]
COMEDY [With an accent on puns, funny situations or
jokes]
COMMUNICATIONS [From telepathic to devices to signs &
symbols]
COMPUTERS [Extensions of our minds, mind tools,
communication]
CULTS [Somewhere out there ...]
DIRECTIONS [Ever stop and ask for directions? North,
South,
East, West, up, down, ahead, behind, straight, turn,
right, left, make a circle, cross, go through, open,
close, mix, add, boil, cook, simmer, but most of all -
follow these instructions carefully...and don't be shy
about asking someone else down the path, except, of
course, for the Big Bad Wolf!!!]
== Commentary from Heratheta on Old House (980926) ==
old house dream-peace laid to the left or right of half
way down the block where there was no "realizing
something was forgotten" to yourself or others
== Commentary from Heratheta on Static Dream (980929) ==
static dream-suggested "avoid making yourself or others
sick" and seek peace to the right or left of the tv until
the next dream
== Commentary from Heratheta on Bomb Dream (980930) ==
bomb dream 1-showed you peace to the right or left of the
building if you traveled without "but" bomb dream
2-showed you peace to the left or right of the building
if you traveled without "wasn't distracting"
== Commentary by Heratheta on Dancer (981007) ==
dancer dream-gave you the chance to find peace to the
right of the mountain if you can avoid becoming "next".
as for reality, it's all real but some more real than the
rest. the most real peace is what i seek. the most real
conflict is in the direction of the dream. there is
lesser conflict in where the dream is headed with the
lesser still conflict to the left of the dream and peace
lies to the right of the dream until the next dream. it
has come to my attention that we reflect light to the
left so turning toward the right of the dream after you
dream it lets the dream show us where the most peace lies
knowing dreams are a future reality of stress. as for
when i believed this to be true, it was when an alien
carved a line in my face in a dream and i woke to find it
there standing wide awake befor a mirror. i understand
further that aliens have the same urge for peace and that
their urge is neither superior or inferior to ours. it is
that urge which makes us equal while what may direct that
urge for peace is what makes us different.
== Commentary by Heratheta on X dream (981010) ==
following x dream-peace was to the right of the parents
if you "trapped" no one following nurules dream-peace was
to the right of jr high if you did not "seem like"
following the past dream 1-peace was to the right of the
wedding if you were not a "didn't want to"
dream2-peace was to the right of the
girfriend if you did not "leave" anyone
dream3-peace was to the right of the
newsletter if you were not an "editorial" -----------
why is one side of the answer
see www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
== Commentary by Heratheta on Oyster/beach/chip
(981010)==
following oyster dream-peace lay to the right of the
french town if you could not be "somehow" following beach
dream-peace lay to the right of the bay on lake michigan
if you could not be "very" following sun chip dream-peace
lay to the right of the light if you could not be "only"
why is also the answer
see www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
== Commentary by Heratheta on Zoo (981020) ==
peace was to the right of the zoo if you gave no wonder
to yourself or others.
DISCOVERY [New insights and unexpected developments]
** Dream: The Bomb (Twice) by ?? (980929) **
Date of the dream: 1st-5/98 2nd-6/98
The first bomb dream occured in a shopping centre. I was
there with my boyfriend and we had been looking around
for food. Then when we came to leave (without buying
anything) we went into the exit area and someone shouted
that there was a bomb. Then the bomb experts came in
(everyone was panicking but still staying in the
building) and they were trying to disarm the bomb, but me
and my boyfriend started having an argument and we
distracted them and the bomb went off.
The second dream was exactly the same up until someone
said there was a bomb. At this point I sneaked out of the
building and avoided my boyfriend thinking that I would
stop the bomb going off because I wasn't distracting
them. Then I drove past later and the buiding was still
intact.
Comments by Dreamer: It happened around the time of the
Omagh bomb in Ireland.
DREAMING [Dreams about dreaming]
DRUGS [Healing or Hurting?]
EATING [Getting nourishment for maintenance, growth and
pleasure]
ELEVATORS [Going UP or DOWN - Push the right button or
else...]
ESCAPE [Get me outta here!!!]
** Dream: Treacherous rock formation by MG (981009) **
This morning, I dreamt that I was walking over some very
treacherous rock outcroppings along the beach near my
childhood summer home on a bay of Lake Michigan. I had to
choose my route very carefully or risk falling onto the
sharp rocks. Someone was walking ahead of me. I remember
having an emotion about this person, but now I cannot
remember what that emotion was. We came to the end of the
rocks, just a few hundred feet north of the cottage. I
looked down and thought how dangerous it would be to
climb down the rocks and onto the beach. Then I blacked
out for a moment, and the next thing I knew I was in the
air, having jumped. I landed ankle deep in the water. I
was safe. Then I woke up.
MG
EVENTS [The activity defines or dominates the story - a
convergence of people at a place and time for a special
purpose]
EYES [The organs of sight...the window to the soul...]
FEAR [What scares us]
FOOD [The source of our physical nourishment]
FIRE [Flames bring light, heat and
destruction/transformation]
FLYING [Confidence, Power, Freedom & Perspective]
GIFTS [Offerings to or from others]
HOBBIES [Our interests and desires]- COLLECTING THINGS
HOLIDAYS [Time off to ...]
HOSPITAL [A place for treatment, healing and repair]
** Dream: Dr. Salt by Joe (981010) **
I am in a Doctors office. A young male Doctor enter's. I
do not know him. He looks at my chart and ask's "are you
still eating Salt?'. I am confused. I think I must not
have heard him properly. I say "pardon?' He repeats "Are
you still eating salt?' . I am confused and think, what
has salt got to do with anything?
I'd appreciate input. Thanks, Joe
HOUSE [Where our lives take place]
** Dream:"House Arrest" with Comments(98.10.16)by Island
**
Dreamed that somehow I am with a young man and young
woman in his house. Somehow he learns that I have several
hundred dollars on me, and he tells the woman that I am
not allowed to leave the house because the next day he
will rob me of my possessions, then kill me.
He leaves the house for a time during the day, and I am
living in the heart of terror in the meantime. There is a
sense that she may be a prisoner there as well somehow,
for she is a willing helper in my behalf and opposed to
his plan of action. The dream takes on a nightmarish
intensity for a time as I live with feelings of having
been betrayed, the treachery of the man, and knowing my
death was planned in this manner.
While under "house arrest," I stumble on a stairwell
that leads into a basement. In the basement are many
rooms with many openings onto the outside world, though
the latter was not immediately evident. It is as if there
is another, even larger, house built underneath the house
on the ground. The female is with me, and I elicit her
cooperation. I am excited by the possibility of escape.
First, I wonder if I might hide in one of the rooms in an
area where he might never discover me. He wouldn't even
think to look in the basement. Slowly it dawns on me that
I don't need to hide in the basement; I can actually
leave the house through one of the openings, I believe a
window. But I am stumped because, if I leave, I won't
have any possessions with me, and must then deal with the
world, and I imagine in my dream other encounters with
people whose character is as treacherous as this man. I
imagine being preyed upon by others, especially without
possessions. So I debate on how I might leave the house
with possessions intact, then another plan dawns on me. I
might leave the house, immediately go to the police, and
report this man's intentions.
The dream ends vaguely, and I have left the house and
enter the world without money. I do not know if I have
imagined this step clearly while in the basement so that
it seems as vivid as reality, or if I actually have done
so. But the feeling accompanying my being in the world
without money was surprisingly one of pure freedom from
burden.
The masculine side of my personality, represented by the
man who has me under "house arrest," is treacherous,
suggesting my anger (because treachery is a monstrous
act) toward all that represents masculinity for me --
sense of purpose, strong will, decisiveness, active and
powerful in the world -- perhaps because I feel I have
none of those qualities at present? While I am imprisoned
in this house, symbolizing my
personality/psyche/intellect, I stumble upon an entirely
new area, the basement, which suggests that I am in
search of a solution to a dilemma -- entrapment,
confinement, imprisonment -- which could be resolved in
the basement (subconscious). Because the house is
unfamiliar to me, and the man owns it, the suggestion is
also that I am a stranger to my masculine side (or
animus).
The young woman, though in relationship to the man,
doesn't appear to be in close partnership, suggesting the
male/female sides of my personality are not well aligned.
In fact, if I consider the possibility that she may
represent a shadow component of my personality, I may
conclude that there is a part of me that is an accomplice
to the masculine side that would destroy me by robbing me
of $300, then killing me.
The money, symbolic of my emotions, the energy I have to
give, what I value and cherish most, is interesting. I
have it on my person but I am not doing anything with it.
Further, the number "3" with two zeros following may
emphasize these values: Creativity -- mysticism,
spirituality or triangular relationships. It also
represents the body, mind and spirit union. So as a man,
woman, and dreamer are involved, then there is the
suggestion that the relationship of body/mind/spirit may
be at cross purposes and in a state of confusion.
Further, not only am I trapped inside the house, but my
possessions are on my person and, in a sense, trapped.
The question evoked is what should become of them? Should
they be usurped by the male -- that would mean death as
my "identity" would be diminished. Should I enter the
world, relieved of my possessions, with only mySelf?
Because one solution I think of in the dream is to go to
the police, report the man, thereby reobtaining my
possessions, but the dream ends with my not choosing this
solution, then a further implication is that I may be
deliberately abandoning my possessions, my talents. Why
would I do that? For growth? Am I afforded the
opportunity to make decisions about myself and my future
life? Because I feel liberated when I either enter the
world without possessions, or imagine doing so, the sense
is that my $300, and all that it implies -- my own
preconceived notions about my talents, my values -- could
benefit from reevaluation. Regardless, leaving the house
suggests I am looking for other possibilities to solve
the problem presented by my "house arrest."
Because the man wishes to steal the money from me in the
dream, implied is a sense of cheating, dishonesty,
inability to commit, on the part of my masculine side. In
other words, the masculine part of myself may feel
completely powerless and without talents or gifts of his
own. Because I am to be murdered, though I'm not certain
how I will be murdered or how violent the murder will be,
the suggestion is intense feelings of aggression will
accompany separation of the male from the female. This is
the most curious part of the dream to me -- if he has
what he wants from me, why must he kill me, too? That's
where the feelings of betrayal and treachery come in to
play. The only answer I can come up with is, if what I
value is the feminine side of me, and all that that
implies, should the male part of me take it and use it,
then the female side should be annihilated because my
values have been desecrated by maleness. The dilemma is I
cannot at this time fathom how the male/female works in
harmony. Primarily this relationship is jeopardized, I
feel, because I am under "house arrest" when males are
around, due to the fact that they are stronger than
myself, more dominant, and controlling -- in fact,
tyrannical, leaving me little choice except to meander
through the house and stumble upon a stairwell to a
basement -- wherein lies my freedom.
Another question arises: since death suggests
transformation, is my avoidance of being killed the next
day an avoidance of transformation? Part of me wants to
believe that death, violence, war, though frequently
chosen by humanity as a solution -- these paths are not
necessary to transformation and are a poor choice.
Rather, implied that placing Self in the world as a clean
slate (with no possessions) is a better alternative to
bring about transformation.
Time is an element here. I am acting under great
pressure, having only a day, for "tomorrow I will die,"
unless the problem is resolved.
The fact that I am under house arrest by my male side --
this may imply my femininity evokes guilt, paranoia or
even justifiable fears. Moral judgments or questions of
right or wrong may limit self-expression.
Because I do not recall in the dream precisely how I find
myself in the world, only that I was first in the
basement, next -- after considering alternatives --
suddenly in the world, the suggestion is a dramatic, or
magical, leap of some kind. The implication is a set of
uncomfortable factors may converge at once so that I
quite suddenly find myself elsewhere -- out of the house.
I prefer seeing clearly the way as I go, making my
choices, with clearly apprehended transitions.
Regardless, in the basement are more than one opening,
and more than one type of opening, I believe
(door/window). This suggests that a variety of new
influences will open up, allowing me freedom from
entrapment.
The fact that I at first want to hide in the basement
from the man on the ground floor because he would not
think to look in the basement may suggest a number of
things: my perception of my masculine side is that of
unconcern and indifference with the unconscious, feminine
aspects -- grounded in practical, every day life. This is
where I am thoroughly confused because part of my
dissatisfaction with a woman's role is that she has no
time for the deeper mysteries, even her femininity is
often at stake, because none of that seems valued in
reality. What does the feminine side want to do? Hide in
the unconscious. Not live its life on the ground floor.
This dream and the dilemma it represents suddenly reminds
me of a poem from a play to appear on Broadway some years
ago that I committed to memory because it rang so true
then, and now --
[From For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When
The Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange]
somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff not my poems
or a dance i gave up in the street but somebody almost
walked off wid alla my stuff like a kleptomaniac working
hard & forgettin while stealin this is mine / this aint
yr stuff / now why dont you put me back & let me hang out
in my own self.... [6 lines omitted] hey man / where are
you going wid alla my stuff / this is a woman's trip & i
need my stuff /.... [49 additional marvelous lines
follow]
Maybe a part of me feels that the feminine has become so
trashed by the Western world, as I have seen it in the
history of my personal life, though not so much lately
(because I have hidden myself?) that the only recourse is
to let the males just take it, by God, go ahead, just do
it your way, I'm tired of fighting it out, I'm sick of
this constant battle, just grab it and do away with me,
and then you'll see how far you'll go with it -- because
the odd thing about it is, if what I possessed wasn't
valuable, then why would anyone want to steal it from me,
then kill me? Obviously, the masculine side of myself
wants to have what I have -- take possession of my gifts,
my values, but never acknowledge where they came from --
sort of like the Borg in the Star Trek episodes -- I AM
THE BORG...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Maybe, too, why I didn't go to the police, report the
man, have them arrest him and reclaim my possessions is
because the police represents male authority. Perhaps I
fear running up against the same restrictive wall, also
suggesting implicitly that the masculine part of myself
is in the wrong, something that the feminine side doesn't
really agree to, because so ashamed and guilty of the
feminine?
In the dream, the female who is with me is a friendly
helper (or part of my shadow, a positive, supportive part
that I have not yet acknowledged?), who lets me know that
she would help and support me in my aim of escaping
tomorrow's fate.
At the dream's conclusion, I find myself in the world,
without my possessions. I feel oddly liberated; a blank
slate. The question I must ask myself is, am I hiding in
the world, like I wanted to hide in the basement? It
seems that my ultimate solution in the dream is not to
give over my values, my identity, to my masculine side,
nor to continue ownership (disowning my identity, values)
as I am released into the world without possessions. Why
do I feel that the dream doesn't really shed light on
choices directly before me, rather revealing the
inevitable conclusion to the double bind dilemmas (Damned
if you do; damned if you don't) that are a part of my
current life perspective.
I welcome comments.
Island
** Dream: buying the farm by stan kulikowski ii (981020)
**
=( i have been falling behind in my coursework as four
of them are running now for these two weeks and the
storms last month threw off the working cycle a lot. at
least we are past that now, and the navy course ends for
me tomorrow. perhaps i can catch up again. i have spent
the last several nights working, trying to get caught up
but am still way behind. i spent most of the evening
archiving some newsletters. i got tired around midnight
and went to sleep early after getting my java grading
program to work for the network course, but a student in
the web course complained that the gradebook there was
showing all the grades. i fell asleep early thinking i
might wake up early enough to get some web design done.
)=
bill griffin is driving me up the bumpy, rock strewn
driveway to the farm house. it is an old, slightly
tattered farm house, layers of white paint flaking away
in big chunks. the lands around the building have that
bleak, wet wasted look that worn out farm land gets after
a series of hard frosts. the scraps of vegetation, brown
and withered, still clings here and there to branches and
bushes, but the rich harmony of life seems broken and
flat. everything has a streaked dirty brown color, the
stalks of weeds mashed and lifeless.
as bill's truck climbs the small rise up and turns
around the corner of the house, i see frank wittwer is
already here. the worn out barn comes into view, a few
vertical siding boards missing. as bill parks the truck,
i get out to meet frank inside the kitchen.
"well, what do you think?" asks frank as i step inside.
even though i bought this place with what little money i
had, i was buying this totally on bill and frank's word
of its value. they had said it was a fixer upper that
would need a little sweat equity. they were certainly
not exaggerating.
the inside of the farm house is empty and hollow, dirt
packed in the corner of the floors. still, dirt can be
scrubbed away, eventually replaced by my own dirt i
suppose. the hardwood floors look to be in good enough
condition. the kitchen seems dominated by massive white
porcelain surfaces: sink, refrigerator, stove, washer and
dryer. all them slightly nicked and chipped. this is
probably where i will start cleaning as i move in.
i quickly tour the rest of bottom floor of the house.
all the rooms are empty except the back bedroom where my
stuff has been delivered and sits in piles of brown
cardboard boxes. in this huge house, my things will
disperse quickly, but that is hardly any worry. space
seems to fill up when you live somewhere no matter what
the initial condition of relative volumes.
i find agamemnon in the bedroom, apparently guarding all
the boxes for my appearance. he seems happy to see me
since all his life was suddenly boxed up and transplanted
to this empty building. one of the my main reasons for
deciding to buy this property is the 20 acres of land
that surround it and the empty fields and woodlots
beyond. agamemnon will be able to run freely over the
area without worry of bothering neighbors. the space
around the buildings seems more important to me than the
actual architecture itself.
frank wittwer is getting ready to leave now. i never
met the previous owners, but settled on the purchase
through him. he wants to show me the barn before he
goes. i doubt i will ever see him again once he leaves.
when frank pulls the creaking barn doors open i have
pleasant surprize. unlike the house which just contains
dirt from the previous occupants, the barn is filled with
things all arranged in neat order around the walls.
there are transmissions and engines from unknown vehicles
laying on steel shelves. ropes and chains dangle on the
walls. i see at least three inflatable boats of
different colors and a couple outboard motors that look
recently used. on one wall there are several fiberglass
satellite dishes lined up, partly buried in the earth
floor for support. i had not expected all this stuff to
be left here. especially the satellite equipment will
make things more pleasant once i set it all up.
frank has to leave and shakes my hand before he goes.
his dealings with me never seemed quite to connect to any
success, just enough substance to exist but never enough
to shine. this farm seems to be an example of that.
bill is about to leave too, but i ask him to take me
into town for some groceries before he goes. until i
assemble some vehicle from the parts in the barn, i will
have no means of transportation for a few days. a supply
of food will be the minimum i need to get by. he says he
will wait.
i go back inside to make sure that agamemnon will be
alright by himself while we are gone. i see that he is
already poking into something over in the corner of the
living room. he is pulling on some rope or cord it looks
like. i go over and take the cord from his mouth and
then i see that it is actually the naked skin tail of
some animal. as i tug on it, an opossum all gray and
shaggy comes out of a hole in the wall. it is a large
male. he is not really angry or hissing, just looking
around in a stupid befuddled way.
holding him up by his tail, i take him out through the
kitchen to release him into the barkyard. on the way i
see a female opossum just by the door and i put the male
down near her. he immediately trys to mount her from
behind, so i decide to leave them if they want to mate
before i toss them both out into the yard.
over in the corner i notice a round wooden cover over
what a hole that once may have been a well for a hand
pump. i am a little surprised to find one inside the
house. i lift the lid and look inside. the small area
between the floor and soil is packed with mud turtles of
all sizes. they seem torpid and slow as if hibernating
in a colony. a few of them turn toward the light and
open their jaws in defensive threat. there is a thick
slime dripping everywhere from them. yuck, i will have
to clean these out someday soon. i think there is small
pond nearby where i can dump them. some of the turtles
are no larger than a quarter, most are the usual four
inch size, and one is maybe three times that size. i put
the wooden cover back and get ready to leave.
before i go, i reach over to grab the male opossum by
the fur on its neck and toss him out into the yard. the
female was not be seen, but when the male is out i see
her laying on the floor under him. she has been bitten
in two pieces. i can not tell if she was dead like this
before or not. i pick up each piece and throw them out
into the yard next to foundation. i will have to bury
the parts later. not a very auspicious beginning for the
new house.
bill drives me in his pickup truck to the town. it
takes about five minutes to get there through the drab
woodlands. "wow, this really is a country store" i say
as we get there. the store is freshly painted up bright
red with white trim, really bright in the otherwise flat
brown territory. bill goes somewhere, leaving his truck
waiting for me as i go inside the store.
i am greeted right away by a girl, maybe she is twenty
years old or less. i look around and do not see any
isles or shelves of merchandise, just empty counters and
scales and such. "i am here to buy some groceries." i
tell her, looking around. "how does this work?"
"you tell us what you want. we go in back and bring it
out for you." she is joined suddenly by half a dozen
younger sisters.
"ok, i will need some cleaning supplies. a broom, a
mop, buckets, bleach, cleanser, some detergent." the
younger girls all scurry off to find things in the back
room. i am not sure how they price the items as the pile
of them begins to grow on the counters. obviously i do
not get to select any item, as the store has but one kind
of each.
"now, what about vegetables?" she asks. "we have a good
supply just picked from the harvest." two of her sisters
bring out what looks like a giant ear of corn, maybe six
feet long. they each take an end and start to shake it.
i can now see that the thing is not a natural corn husk,
but some sort of basket woven to resemble one. when the
girls shake it, out fall large clumps of broccoli,
cabbages and cauliflower. after two or three shakes
there are more vegetables than i can use, so i tell them
to stop. i wonder if there was a freezer back in the
house to store this much produce.
the girl who had been my salesperson now hands a slip of
paper over to a young man, probably a brother. they both
have a similar dark hair appearance. i get the feeling
of an inbred family here. "now, how about some meat?" he
says with a gap tooth smile. i do not feel much like
buying any meat, although agamemnon would probably
appreciate some. "i got a really good buy on some fish
just caught today in the river." i get a look at the
bill, it says $74.75 which is not a bad price considering
the large volume of groceries sitting on the counter. it
will take bill's pickup to haul all this back.
"i just moved into the parker farm up the road, and i do
not know if there is a freezer to store all of this. i
think i better pass on the meat until i see what i have
in that kitchen." the boy looks at me with a slightly
menacing look, but i do not feel threatened. he shakes
his head and walks off, unable to make the sale and i
presume he is disappointed. is there something about
inbred families that seems to make them deliberately
ineffective?
i step out the door onto the porch of the country store
while the nameless girls scurry around to load the
produce into the truck. i look down the street to the
rest of the town. i realize that i do not even know the
name of this town, now my home, or how to drive back to
my house. i see many of the buildings are boarded up,
hollow red brick exteriors from the last century waiting
for eternity. even the property they stand on is of so
little value that demolition is unprofitable. a thin fog
moves through the streets like
ghosts marching without
anyone to haunt. does this town need a computer
programmer? i think. it does not matter. the internet
diaspora has begun, returning its high tech offspring to
the postindustrial wastelands for renewal.
=( i wake at 08:25 having slept all night in one
stretch. i look at clock startled, but see that i have
plenty time before i go into to teach again today. this
dream reminds me a lot of the beans of egypt, maine in
its feeling. my mother and watched a video with rutger
haur a couple weeks ago based on that novel. i suppose
that is where the content came from. the feelings about
frank and bill are true, their working effectiveness with
me was not much greater than the inbred country people.
)=
stankuli@gulf.net
=== qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
| | who not is today, tomorrow less suitable will
be --- -- Ovid _Remedia Amoris_ i 94
HOTELS [Temporary Dwelling or Special Event location]
JOURNEYS [Missions away from our home base -explorations]
LOST [Disorientation or abandonment]
LOTTERY DREAMS [Sudden Wealth - Randomness favors the
dreamer]
LOVE [All around us, yet so hard to find and keep]
LUCID DREAMING [Knowing you are Dreaming when you are
Dreaming]
MEMORY [Remembering ...In dreams we often struggle with
the issue of memories and remembering a dream which by
definition involves the process of recollection.]
MIRRORS [Reflection of Self]
MUSIC [Melodies of the land within]
(See Music Lessons in SCHOOL THEMES)
NUDITY [What you see is what you get]
PERFORMERS [Entertainers]
PROBLEMS [Situations or difficulties sometimes present
choices]
POLITICAL SCENE [Public issues through positions of
power]
RELATIONSHIPS [Other parts of ourselves including family
which constitutes the first and earliest of our
relationships, often influencing how we relate to the
outside world]
(If you didn't read X and The Past in REPETITIVE DREAMS,
they are about the theme of dealing with past romantic
relationships)
** Dream: sun chips by poppy (981009)**
early morning/ about one month ago
There is this guy at work that I dream about every
night. Every other night he is being a real sweetheart,
but on the other nights he is being a complete jerk. One
dream I had featured him in a black room with light only
on him and he was eating a bag of french onion Sun Chips.
That was all he did in the dream, and finally I woke up
wondering why I dreamt of this because I don't even like
sun chips, but I do have a huge crush on this guy who
also works with me. Please advise.
RELIGIOUS RELATED [The Ritual and the Spiritual]
ROMANCE [Thrills and Chills, lost in another]
SCHOOL THEMES [Learning and learning related trials]
(Check out NURules in the REPETITIVE DREAMS section)
** Dream: Music Lessons by Jazz(981010) **
I'm a teenager at college in England and I'm just
finishing my A levels and then hope to go on to
university to study music. In the last week or so, I've
had two dreams which seem to me to be connected, and I
reckon they're pretty important to my future.
In the first dream, I am in my A level music class.
Everything in the classroom is as it normally is,
everyone who is normally there is there and the teacher
in the dream is my normal music teacher. In the dream, I
am asleep at the desk, although I am completely aware of
everything that's going on around me. I feel absolutely
tired and can't open my eyes, and when I wake up briefly,
my music teacher asks me a question which I think about
for a second, then go back to sleep again. I can hear him
trying to get me to wake up but I won't. I don't even
want to wake up, I can feel myself thinking "I'm not even
going to bother waking up".
In the second dream, I am again in my normal music class.
This time, my music teacher has set us an exam that he
didn't warn us about. I read the paper, and I know the
answers to the questions. I start to write, but I can't
seem to find the words that I need. I keep rewriting the
same first paragraph and then scribbling it out.
Eventually I scribble over the whole page, then I tear up
the page and storm out yelling something.
SOLUTIONS [The answers to problems or quandaries]
STAIRS [Bridges between levels, between the upper and the
lower]
STRANGERS [Who and what we don't know yet]
TEETH [Ok, losing teeth is one of the top ten dreams
people have questions on. Theories on what they mean
range all over the spectrum of possibilities.]
TORNADOS [Pretty well defined destructive power of
nature]
TRAPPED [Temporarily helpless- Sometimes we are paralyzed
or imprisoned by jobs, relationships or expectations]
** Dream: Static Nightmare by ?? (980928) **
Date of Dream: unknown; several years ago
I am in a typical two or three bedroom house at
night. There are no furniture or lights in the house,
except for a television set tuned to a static channel,
and the grey light coming from the screen. I can't go
outside; I know that *something* is out there, and it
will get me if I leave, but the buzzing of the static is
starting to make me feel sick. Gradually, as I pace
around the house, trying unsuccessfully to see what it
menacing me outside, I feel more and more anxious and
ill, until the feeling of dread starts choking me...
Comments by Dreamer: This nightmare was first related to
me by a friend. He described it just as I did. Less
than a week later, I had the same nightmare. Be
warned--this nightmare may be contagious.
** Dream: Attack of the Giant Oysters by cathy(981007) **
I dreamed I was in France, very excited to be there as I
never have been. After some assorted adventures involving
shopping, currency exchange,looking at odd houses that
went up the side of a hill like stairs, and taking a bus,
I was wandering in a poor section of a city with a dock
area.
I was walking in a dried up small docking bay, when a
large oyster--about 5 feet in diameter started to roll
over to attack me. I fled up onto the dock and into a
long narrow street of the town.There were very old brick
townhouses and buildings lining the street. The giant
oyster was known in the town to attack strangers. It came
up the dock and street after me. I went around the back
of a brick building and climbed up to the top floor, so I
could look down out of a small window at the oyster and
the street. It was somehow catapulting rocks up at the
building at me.
I somehow knew it was evil, an evil generated in a big
green industrial dumpster down in the docking area. I
took a sword, went to the dumpster and started chopping
up the inside of a large two to three foot in diameter
oyster in the dumpster. I knew the large oyster and
other large ones were coming to prevent me from destoying
all the smaller oysters in the dumpster. I felt a
darkness come over me, and the sword was gone and the
dumpster behind me. I could see strange little cartoon
figures and weird colors, and I felt trapped in an
alternative world because of the oysters.
I have no clue what this means! It is totally unusual.
I've never dreamt of France before or oysters.
== Attack of the Giant Oysters-French Translation
(981014)==
-Richard
<< L'attaque des huîtres géantes la nuit passée (10/7/98)
que je m'ai rêvé était en France, très passionnante pour
être là comme je n'ai jamais été. Après quelques
aventures assorties comportant des achats, change ,
regardant les maisons impaires qui ont monté le côté
d'une colline comme des escaliers, et prenant un bus,
j'errais dans une section faible d'une ville avec une
zone de dock. Je marchant dans étais séché vers le haut
du petit compartiment d'amarrage, quand une grande huître
-- environ 5 pieds de diamètre ont commencé à rouler plus
de pour m'attaquer. Je me suis sauvé vers le haut sur le
dock et dans une longue rue étroite de la ville. Il y
avait les maisons urbaines très vieilles et les bâtiments
de brique rayant la rue. L'huître géante a été connue
dans la ville pour attaquer des étrangers. Elle a monté
le dock et la rue après moi. J'ai circulé le dos d'un
bâtiment de brique et me suis élevé jusqu' au plancher
supérieur, ainsi je pourrais regarder vers le bas hors
d'un petit Window l'huître et la rue. Il catapulting de
façon ou d'autre la roche vers le haut au bâtiment à moi.
J'ai su de façon ou d'autre qu'il était mauvais, un mal
produit dans un granddumpster industriel vert vers le bas
dans la zone d'amarrage. J'ai pris une épée, suis allé
au dumpster et ai commencé à couper vers le haut de
l'intérieur de grand deux à trois pieds dans l'huître de
diamètre dans le dumpster. J'ai su que la grande huître
et autre grande venaient pour m'empêcher de destoying
tout les huîtres plus petites dans le dumpster. J'ai
senti une obscurité venir plus de je, et l'épée a été
allée et le dumpster derrière moi. Je pourrais voir de
petits chiffres étranges de dessin animé et de couleurs
étranges, et je me suis senti emprisonné dans un monde
alternatif en raison des huîtres. Je n'ai aucun indice ce
que signifie ceci! Il est totalement peu commun. Je n'ai
avant jamais rêvé de la France ou des huîtres.
VEHICLES [Means of transportation, reflection of
lifestyle]
WATER [A magical earthly fluid, nourishment, cleansing]
WORKPLACE [Where we make a living]
WRITING & WRITERS [Communication and creativity]
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