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++ Editor's Notes and About this Dreams and Creativity
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++ Column: Dream Trek: Sociability And The Creative Dream
Journal by Linda Lane Magall¢n
++ Article: Dreams Beyond Dreaming
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++ Article: Dreamy Writing
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Editor's Notes : Dreams and Creativity
by Kathleen Meadows, Ph.D.
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Dreams and Creativity. Do these two human experiences have
anything to do with each other? Is anyone really interested?
Well, if the response I received over the past month was any
indication, it's a resounding, "Yes!" I want to thank each
contributor for their willingness to share their experiences,
learning and insights with the world, through this issue of
Electric Dreams. One person remarked, "To generalize about the
value that my dreams have for me is that they somehow are telling
me that something went terribly wrong somewhere in time, and I must
try to fix it." I read this statement as both a personal and a
collective one, capturing the essence of dreaming and creativity.
One of the themes which has continued to surface over the past
several years (a hundred or so) is the attraction or repulsion
people experience with varying approaches to dreams. There are
people who fall in the "interpretive" category (meaning of the
dream), the "experiential" category (making changes in one's waking
life in response to a dream message), and the "expressive" category
(dancing, painting, writing the dream as it was remembered. These
various ways of approaching the dream are all exciting, valuable
and unique and all of them share a common goal of brining the dream
into waking life. One woman sent me her dream, it's interpretation
of the image, and how the combination led her to a
discovery/invention which was incredibly helpful to herself and her
community. I don't think the varying approaches to dreamwork have
to be exclusive or singular. Interpretation of a dream image to
waking life can result in the most amazing discoveries and there is
a lot of material in print to support this statement.
I see "Dreams and Creativity" as natural partners. Dreamworkers are
here on the planet to share a secret with the world. Original
creative expression is present within all of us. It exists in our
soul, it is in every cell of our being.
The soul/psyche is a part of ourselves dreamworkers are willing to
communicate with as often as possible despite the fact that many of
those communications are painful to receive. Dreams often comment
on the darkness within our souls. Ah, we can't have Eternal Light
without seeing first the Eternal Dark. To find the light, we have
to be willing to peer into the dark and trust that there is Light
in that Darkness. We are never disappointed.
Dreamworkers often refer to the term, "synchronicity", a word
coined by Jung (or reclaimed is probably more accurate which Jung
would be the first to admit), an experience that simultaneously
combines inner and outer reality. We are living in a mythic time
and dreamworkers are very "keyed" into this myth, as dreamworkers
have always been.
What about creativity then? What does that have to do with dreams?
Creativity is the vehicle that brings the unseen world into the
seen world. It is our soul's journey manifested. Creative
expression reflects the world back to itself and changes it. Let's
review a few examples. Prophesy, music, sculpture, the engine, the
telephone, etc, etc. The list is endless. Where has all that
creativity brought us? It has brought us to the gateway of sharing
our creativity with the world instantly in this medium. Creativity
is the bringer of the light that we may all collectively stay in
step as we move forward on our evolutionary journey.
When we manifest a painting, poem, or story from our dreams, we
bypass the ego which is an extraordinary feat in itself. The ego
is always busy nattering about what other people will think,
whether it's pretty, or interesting or good enough. When we
demonstrate something we experienced in a dream we don't have to
take credit for it or be embarrassed by it because, we can just
say, "Oh, this is something I witnessed in a dream."
I want to share a brief personal story that is at the heart of why
I jumped at the opportunity to be Guest Editor for this issue.
Fifteen years ago I lived in a wondrous city called San Francisco.
Wondrous to me, moving from Toronto, Canada. Presently I am living
in Kitchener which could very well be San Francisco's opposite if
the truth be known. But that's another story.
While living in San Francisco I attended M.A. courses at the
California Institute of Integral Studies and weekly ran up that
hill on Clay St. to the Jungian Institute to see Michael, my
therapist. Our work together is still emerging, and always, as
magical.
At C.I.I.S. I enrolled in two of Angeles Arrien's classes. One was
Creativity and the second one, a gift from C.I.I.S., was
Transitions. When I began my course on Transitions, I had three
months left in San Francisco. This course held special
significance for me at that time. I knew I was soon leaving this
city and time in my life, and synchronistic experiences were
abounding as they are apt to do during times of transition.
The day I began my course with Angeles I went to a Hunan
Restaurant on the Haight for a quick lunch. I was feeling sad
about leaving, having just been refreshed on why I was in San
Francisco in the first place! I wondered if I were making the
right decision to return to Canada at this time.
After lunch I opened my fortune cookie which read, "You need
a new environment, Try Canada." Since that's where I was heading,
I assumed I was on the right track.
I had a series of dreams that winter and spring that stunned
me with their intensity. When Angeles Arrien asked students to do
a project that would express a feeling of transition, I knew I
would do the dream series but I didn't know what form it would
take. I wandered around Salvation Army Thrift Stores regularly.
Gradually, the form of this dream began to grow within me and
I started buying the objects that were in the dreams. I picked up
a Barbie Doll and cut her hair the way it was in a dream, I made
her the outfit the dream character was wearing, and so it continued
until it became a wall hanging on an opened black velvet skirt.
The first time I had it all laid out, I stood back and looked
at it. I was stunned. I was looking at the unseen world with my
waking conscious eyes for the first time in my life! I was
incredibly excited. I trotted around with it everywhere, sharing it
with everyone in my life then.
After my class presentation, several people approached me at
break to say (nicely), "That was very dark, Kathleen." That's why
I loved showing it to people. It wasn't pretty. It didn't even
tell a nice story. It was shockingly powerful and I took no credit
for it whatsoever.
Over the past several years I have been facilitating dream
study groups, lecturing on dreams, teaching six- and ten-week
courses at Community Colleges, Community Agencies, senior
citizens's residences, and independently. Whenever I have a group
spanning a period of weeks I give them "the project". On the last
day of class everyone presents their project to the others, and
describing the dream the work of art was inspired by.
Typically we never have enough time. People bring the most
astounding works of art which I have ever been so honoured to see
with my waking eye. And instead of anyone else analyzing them (as
art critics and dream critics love to do) the dreamer/artist
themselves do their own analysis with their presentation.
What is that impulse that is expressed through creativity? I
believe at the core it is our spirituality. It is a prayer, sung
in a song so old we don't even venture to guess its age. It is
dreaming dreams of wonder and painting them all over our cave
walls. It is singing and dancing the expression of its message.
Sometimes we get to hear it and understand it more clearly. But
even when we didn't fully understand it, we knew that someday
someone somewhere would, and we acted with faith.
We still hear it in our dreams, our creativity and our
prayers. We glimpse our soul and the unseen world through our
dreams, and bring messages back to share in the manifested world...
which itself began as a dream.
I wish for everyone in the world to have this experience just
once. It would transform them and us forever.
Dreams and Creativity - articles
The frist article by Linda Lane Magellon, "Sociability and the
Creative Dream Journal" is a perfect balance of personal
experiences and learning and really helpful advice to anyone
journalling their dreams. Linda is absolutely right in saying
that our dream journals are the perfect forum in which to explore
the power of expressing our dreams creatively. As a wise person
once said, "The most important book you will ever read about
dreams is the one you write yourself."
"An excerpt from Jean Campbell's book, _Dreams Beyond Dreaming_
will inspire you to write stories from your dreams. For those of
you caught in the snare of a writer's block, or those of you
wondering how to find original and fresh material, Jean has some
great advice and stories to share."
I am including here an article of my own on "Dreamy Writing"
which looks at our spiritual voice at the core of creativity and
also provides a multitude of plug-in points for anyone interested
in dreams and dreaming.
In this issue I strongly urge you to read Richard
Wilkerson's article, "Dreams and Creativity in the Electric
Theatre of Cyberspace". Typical of Richard, he succinctly
captures the power of Creativity, Dreaming and massive,
instantaneous global communications. Remember to print this
article for your files, you'll enjoy it's prophetic message for
years to come.
Web Site Visits
The following are web site recommendations from people who
are creating works of art from their dreams.
www.fyuocuk.com
Click on "Publications" and go to Marie Kazalia's book of poems
which she has written from her dreams.
www.inspiritrixarts.com
Kristena West has begun an online Shamanic Art Gallery which is
as beautiful as it is magical.
www.jps.net/opposite
Jana Hutcheson has built a great site that pulls you into her
world of creativity and dreaming. Jana believes that,
"..creativity is a wonderful way to stay grounded while
experiencing all that energy and gives it a structure and
container. It becomes a boat and it is a way to survive a storm.
It gives the energy a form to express itself."
jbaylis@earthlink.net
Janice Baylis has written a couple of books (in particular Sleep
on It) which give a historical account of inventions which have
been inspired by dreams. She also provides some practical
guidelines for using your dreams as a resource for creative
expression. Janice
welcomes enquiries from interested readers.
Recommended Reading in Dreams and Creativity
Marie Kazalia provided me with a very helpful recommended reading
list on Dreams and Creativity. The first book on the list has been
recommended to me by several people - I think it's time to get a
copy!
Writer's Dreaming by Naomi Epel
Dreams & Inward Journeys by Marjorie Ford
Kerouac's Book of Dreams
My Education a Book of Dreams by W.S. Burrough
Stuff of Sleep & Dreams by Leon Edel
I would also highly recommend
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Kathleen Meadows, Ph.D.
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Dream Airing:
News, Notes and Events
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Dream Editor Needed!
Electric Dreams is seeking a dream editor. What's that? Someone
who will take all the dreams and comments that come into our
community over the month and format and organize them for our
publication. This is volunteer, public service position.
- Contact Richard Wilkerson, rcwilk@dreamgate.com and tell me why
are interested and how many month/issues you can commit to helping
out! Thanks, Richard
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Many thanks to Kat, our cover artist for Electric Dreams 6(9)
September.
Be sure to download a cover!
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers
Visit the Art Gallery of Kat Eiswald
http://home.pacbell.net/davekat
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Changing Woman Retreat- Rose Mountain, New Mexico
Ione with Heloise Gold August 22-27,1999
SUMMER DREAM CELEBRATION: Kingston NY in Ione's Garden August 15
3-5 PM
Followed by Freedom Celebration for Beverly 5-7 PM Pot Luck
<Is This A Dream?; A Handbook for Deep Dreamers> by Ione
-Forthcoming
September 1999
The Dream Sack is waiting for your dreams!
http://www.deeplistening.org/ione
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Changing Woman Retreat- Rose Mountain, New Mexico
Ione with Heloise Gold August 22-27,1999
SUMMER DREAM CELEBRATION: Kingston NY in Ione's Garden August 15
3-5 PM
Followed by Freedom Celebration for Beverly 5-7 PM Pot Luck
<Is This A Dream?; A Handbook for Deep Dreamers> by Ione
-Forthcoming September 1999
The Dream Sack is waiting for your dreams!
http://www.deeplistening.org/ione
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If you have Quicktime installed on a strong computer you can visit
Epic Dewfall's Quicktime VR Moonlight Art Gallery.
It is a virtual demontration of what my lucid dreams inspired
paintings will look like framed and shown many years from now when
I'm old and have a real world show.
http://www.storm.ca/~lucid/qtvrtour.shtml
I currently have 119 paintings but I am only showing 36 of them
in this virtual display.
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From Harry Bosma:
With some pride I can announce you that the new version of the
Alchera Suite has been released.
The Alchera Suite 3 offers a lot of flexibility to structure
your journal entries to your own needs. It also adds a page for
daytime entries. Printing options have been improved and email
capability has been integrated.
If you want to take a closer look at the new features, I suggest
you visit the Mythwell.com site. From its main page you can both
visit the online Alchera Tour and go to the page showing screen
pictures of new features:
http://mythwell.com
Alternatively you can also immediately download the demo, though
you really should take a look at the website if you want to get an
indication of features. The demo:
http://mythwell.com/download/alch3_eval.exe
To start downloading, (double)click on the above line, that should
do the trick in modern email software. I suggest you download it to
your desktop if possible. After the file has been fully downloaded
you can install the Alchera Suite by (double)clicking on the
downloaded file.
As always, the demo is a limited version, especially in that it
only accepts eight dreams.
Thank you for your time. Have a good weekend!
Harry
Dream journaling software:
http://mythwell.com
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Coming next month, the REAL story behind Electric Dreams and how we
got the name!
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forward from Stan Krippner:
>One very useful book, often overlooked, is Scott Hughes' INNER
LIGHT: YOUR >FANTASIES AND DREAMS, 1993. Sanbro Press, Box 3555,
Littleton, CO 80161-3555. Yes, THAT Littleton!
Note from RCW: Scott now has the FULL book online! Be sure to stop
by http://IdeaPyramid.com/
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DREAM TREK
By Linda Lane Magall¢n
Sociability And The Creative Dream Journal
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I've never, ever used one of those neat, bound, blank books as a
dream journal. Never have, never would, and I'll tell you why. I'm
a creative dreamer. And I'm a sociable dreamer. Have been since
the beginning of my involvement in dream research. Sociable
creativity is the prime influence on how I keep my dream journals.
Here, in the outside of life, above the surface of existence, I
share dreams and dream for, about and with fellow dreamers. We
often send each another letters or e-mail and attachments...which
can generate or translate into the traditional paper text. But we
might also send drawings, postcards, photos and notecard
affirmations; in fact, whatever greases the interactive dream
wheel. Whether they come over the Internet or via snail mail,
there's no way, Jos, all that can fit into a bound notebook. So
I use binders to collect the papers and plastic sheet protectors
to gather odds and ends.
In the private underside of life, I write letters to my dreaming
self and dream characters. I go into a lucid dream, introduce
myself and start a dialogue. I listen to what my dream characters
say and note the most intriguing or inspiring conversation in a
special journal. I draw my dream characters and create poetry of
their lives. I use even more binders.
When the linking begins, I find repeating themes and places and
dream characters. My fellow dreamers and I compare dream reports
with an eye for similarities between one another's dream or waking
life. We discover synchronicities and psychic events. We dream of
one another's dream characters. The binders overflow into file
folders.
Once, I asked my dreaming self the incubation question, "What do
you want to do?" No, me, you. It wasn't long until a nonlucid
dream bubbled up from out of the depths of the sea of unconscious.
The response was clearer than any other I'd received. My dreaming
self stated that she wanted "to teach people how to dream big."
Given the opportunity and support, she is quite adept at producing
social, psychic and mutual dreams. My dreaming self is highly
interested in that wide screen movie from the communal underground
called The Big Dream.
So I asked myself, how can I gift my dreams to my fellow dreamers
in a way that they will most easily connect the dots of the Big
DreamTime Picture? When a partner asks, "Have you ever had a dream
like mine?" or "What were you dreaming about in mid May?" how
could I easily place my hands on that information? Obviously, I
needed a Table of Contents for my binders.
Nothing so bogs down the reciprocal pace as having to thumb through
years of journals without a clue to light your way to that dream
you can't find. And nothing so defeats the interactive process as
sharing a dream that was scratched in pencil at 3:00 in the
morning in a journal whose thick binding won't let you Xerox it
for love nor money. Clearly, I needed legible copy.
Now, I'll admit that handwriting better matches my flow of
consciousness and I'd rather record the dream curled up under the
covers with a legal pad balanced on my knees. Large margins
provide space for notes and doodles. I underline or highlight
correlating elements in the dream. In some cases, I might return
several months after the initial recording to connect my dream
with a waking event.
But even in the beginning, when I shared dreams with others, I used
a typewriter. Thank goodness for word processors and e-mail. What
may be just peachy for us as we ruminate in private, must be
reevaluated when we move into communal waters. Whether we share
and compare for scientific, artistic, practical or esoteric
reasons, we need a type of dream journal that supports such
efforts.
It really doesn't take all that much to create such a journal.
Right after you finish recording your dream, you know the main
symbols and action. Fine. Simply bring your pen back up to the top
of the page and write them down. Voila! You've got a TITLE. Then,
turn your head and look at the calendar that you have tacked to
your bedroom wall. Boom! You've got the DATE.
That night, take your eyes off the TV commercial, grab your sheet
of paper and place it in your binder (if need be, invest in a
3-hole punch). Then, once a month, during a dull TV new report,
grab another sheet of paper, list the dates and titles, and place
the list in the front of your binder. Pow! You've got a TABLE OF
CONTENTS.
Then, if you want, and only if you have the time, convert your
nocturnal scribbling into computer format. (I have so many dreams
recorded, it would take forever to type them up. In a case like
mine, Cynthia Pearson Turich, of the *Dream Journalist* web site,
suggests keeping just a Table of Contents database.)
When it comes to dream journaling, my dreaming self and I invite
you to think partnership, to think connection and to Dream Big.
Creatively, of course.
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Dreams Beyond Dreaming
by Jean Campbell
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The following material is excerpted from Chapter Six: _Dreams and
the Creative Self _
Thanks to Jean Campbell for permission to reprint.
THE EXPERIENCES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
It is interesting and revealing to notice the number of well-known
creative artists who have openly discussed their use of the dream
state and other altered states of consciousness to enhance and
explore their creative work.
Probably the best known literary products of the dream state
are Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, Kubla Kahn, written in
1798, and the ever popular Frankenstein, the story of the first
animated synthetic man, written by Mary Shelly.
Both grew directly from the dream state. Coleridge who, in
somewhat desperate straits at the time, fell asleep in a chair over
Purchas's Pilgrimage at the lines, "Here the Kahn Kubla commanded
a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto; And thus ten
miles of fertile ground were enclosed within a wall," straightway
dreamed not only the scene, but the lines to the poem itself.
As he recounts in an edition of the poem published in 1816, he
awoke and began to write. Partway through the writing, a knock
came at the door. It was a bill collector; and by the time this
unfortunate reminder of Coleridge's plight had disappeared,
frustratingly, so had the remainder of his poem.
Mary Shelley, who in the company of her equally famous husband
Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others had been reading aloud a
collection of German ghost stories, became part of a plan,
suggested by Lord Byron, that they all write ghost stories of their
own. (Interestingly enough, none of the others in the group wrote
stories which were particularly noteworthy, though Byron's
unfinished attempt, published in 1819, is thought to be the source
of inspiration for another thriller, Bram Stoker's Dracula).
According to Mary Shelley's journal of April 1817, after
listening to a long conversation between Byron and Shelley on the
speculation that, "Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated," she
retired to her bed well after midnight where, stimulated by the
evening's conversation, she could not sleep. "My imagination,
unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images
that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bounds
of reverie," and thereupon came the vision of Frankenstein. Guided
by the idea that what frightened her would frighten other people,
and encouraged by her husband to expand the tale from its original
few pages, she finished the book by the end of the next year.
Some of the best known authors of that genre of literature
known as the children's story, those books which we read as
children and live to read again as adults and read to our own
children, have also been familiar friends with the dream world:
C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.R.R. Tolkien,
to name just a few.
Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in his "Chapter on Dreams" in
the volume of essays Across the Plains that often he was aided in
the dream state by what he calls "the Little People"or "Brownies."
In time of need, Steven said, when he was stuck with a plot or
didn't know how the story would come out, these "Little People"
would help him out, often by telling him a story piecemeal in the
dream state so that he himself would not know the outcome.
After worrying for several days, Steven says, he once dreamed three
scenes of Dr. Jekyll which became central to one of his most famous
works, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
J.R.R. Tolkien, the eminently popular author of The Hobbit and
a famous ring-cycle trilogy The Lord of the Rings, felt so strongly
about the connections and the distinctions between the fairy tales
he made so popular and dreams or work resulting from dreams, that
he commented in his essay "On Fairy-Stories," published in The
Tolkien Reader that
"I would also exclude (as a fairy-story) any story that uses
the machinery of Dream, the dreaming of actual human sleep, to
explain the apparent occurrence of its marvels. At the least, even
if the reported dream was in other respects in itself a
fairy-story, I would condemn the whole as gravely defective: like
a good picture in a disfiguring frame. It is true that Dream is
not unconnected with Faerie. In dreams strange powers of the mind
may be unlocked. In some of them a man may for a space wield the
power Faerie, that power which even as it conceives the story,
causes it to take living form and colour before the eyes. A real
dream may indeed sometimes be a fairy-story of almost elvish ease
and skill--while it is being dreamed. But if a waking writer tells
you that a tale is only a thing imagined in his sleep, he cheats
deliberately the primal desire at the heart of Faerie: the
realization, independent of the conceiving mind, of imagined
wonder."
Tolkien goes on to say in the same essay that: "The tale
itself may, of course, be so good that one cannot ignore the frame.
Or it may be successful and amusing as a dream story. So are Lewis
Carroll's "Alice" stories, with their dream-frame and
dream-transitions. For this (and other reasons) they are not
fairy-stories."
It is far from the purpose of this book to make such esoteric
distinctions as the one Tolkien draws between the fairy-story and
the dream-story, but it must be seen that the dream state has
earned sufficient recognition from a large number of artists that
it cannot be denied its place either as an impetus or a result of
artistic work.
It is interesting to note that the author of another
ring-cycle, and one with which Tolkien claims his little tale of
Frodo and Bilbo Baggins has no connection, Richard Wagner, also
dreamed. Wagner spoke often of the blissful dream state into which
he fell while composing, and wrote in a letter to a friend that the
opening to his Das Rheingold came to him while he lay half- asleep
on a sofa in a hotel in Spezia.
Tolkien's ring story, which came at the outbreak of World War
II, depicts the triumph of valor and humility over the forces of
darkness. Wagner's famous work was, in many ways, the clarion call
for the German master race.
Another famous German, Nobel Prize-winning author Herman
Hesse, also recognized the importance of dreams throughout his long
writing career. Demain, the most popular of his early works (which
also bespoke the outbreak of World War II), carries a dreamlike
quality throughout, and the author's pacifist and anti-Nazi
sentiments are portrayed in the book's central figure, Sinclair.
Probably one of the most important dream scenes in all of
literature is portrayed in Hesse's novel Steppenwolf when, looking
for his anima, Hermine, at the Masked Ball, Harry Haller enters
into a somnambulistic world in which he sees the sign reading:
"TONIGHT AT THE MAGIC THEATRE. FOR MAD MEN ONLY. PRICE OF
ADMITTANCE YOUR MIND. NOT FOR EVERYBODY...."
Hesse spent several months in therapy with Carl Jung, an event
which not only dramatically altered the course of his writing
career, but was forever to impress upon him the importance of the
dream world and the world of metaphysics. Certainly, however,
the world of dreams has not claimed only those artists with as
strongly developed a sense of the mystical as Hesse, Stevenson and
Tolkien. One of America's most down-to-earth and practical, as
well as representatively popular authors, the beloved Mark Twain,
also gave credence to the inspiration of dreams, and with good
reason: he was often the dreamer of precognitive dreams. One of
these came true in a tragic way, as told by Samuel Clemens to his
official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine.
One night Clemens, who was then a junior pilot on the
Mississippi River steamboat Pennsylvania, dreamed about his younger
brother Henry, of whom he was very fond. In 1858 Sam had been
able to secure for Henry a position as clerk on the Pennsylvania,
and the two had great times together.
On the night of the dream, the Pennsylvania tied up at St.
Louis. Sam spent the night with his sister Pamela who lived in
that city. Clemens reported that in the dream he found himself in
the sitting room of his sister's house. Resting on two chairs was
a metal coffin. Looking inside, Clemens found the body of his
brother Henry with a bouquet of white flowers, a crimson rose in
its center, lying on his chest.
When Clemens awoke the next morning, the dream as is often the
case, seemed so real that he believed it to be true. He thought he
would go downstairs and take one last look at his brother's face,
but then, changing his mind, went out for a walk. It was not until
Twain reached the middle of the block that he realized he had been
dreaming. He ran back to the house in a state of joy, told his
sister about the dream and then seemingly forgot about it.
In the meantime there was friction on the boat and Sam left his
job to go aboard another steamer, the Lacey. Henry remained on the
Pennsylvania as a clerk.
Clemens remembered that the night before the Pennsylvania
started up river, the first time they were apart, he gave his
brother some advice about what to do in case of a river accident.
Two days later, the Lacey touched in at the port of Greenville,
Mississippi, only to hear from the wharf, "The Pennsylvania is
blown up just below Memphis at Ship Island. One hundred and fifty
lives lost!"
Although it was hoped that Henry Clemens would recover from
the burns he sustained in the fire, he died six days after the
explosion in an improvised hospital in Memphis. Most of the
victims of the disaster were laid out in plain pinewood coffins;
but for Henry, whose handsome features had particularly attracted
the attention of the Memphis ladies, a collection had been taken up
to purchase a metal coffin.
When Clemens walked into the room, everything was as it had
been in his dream with the exception of one detail. As Sam Clemens
stood looking at his brother's body, an elderly woman walked into
the room carrying a bouquet of white flowers at the center of which
was one crimson rose. She laid it on Henry's breast.
TEACHING WRITING THROUGH DREAMS
Fortunately for all of us, the creative process does not end
with the very famous, but can be equally helpful to the struggling
artist or the ordinary individual who wants to explore creativity,
which is a gift to all of us.
When I began teaching writing classes at a Virginia Beach high
school in 1973, I had no real idea of developing my own techniques
for teaching writing. What I did know was that I enjoyed teaching
writing more than anything else, because it seemed to me to be one
of the few places in which the public school system made allowance
for natural creativity.
What happened the day I walked into the first high school writing
class was a surprise even to me. I gave the assignment which I had
intended as a loosening-up technique, something geared to teach the
fact that true creativity comes from within: "Write a dream," I
said, "a dream you've had recently, or one you remember from your
childhood. Write an interpretation of the dream and then write a
short story from it."
It was as if I'd said the magic word. When I said the word
dream, a dozen bored faces came alive. "You know how to interpret
dreams?" one girl said.
"What does it mean when you sleepwalk?" another asked.
"What does it mean when you dream you were someplace and your
friend dreams he was the same place and you both remember it?"
The class began an adventure into the exploration of the
unconscious mind that intrigued one group of students after another
for the three years I taught in Virginia public schools and
continues, for some of them, even now. It produced that year the
second-place award-winning short story in the state student writing
competition, and two years later, both the first-place short story
and first and third place poems in the same contest.
What happened? It is my belief that something in the magic of the
class unleashed the creativity of some extraordinary and even very
ordinary students.
It started, naturally, from my own interest in writing. No
subject, I believe, can be taught effectively by someone who
performs the act of teaching as rote exercise, without enjoyment of
the subject itself. And I had loved writing from the time I could
first hold a pencil. Yet an interest in writing was certainly
not the only thing that sparked the first class or the classes
after it. I had been teaching writing off and on since the first
teaching job I took the year after I graduated from college. Quite
probably my maturing understanding of people and their individual
problems played a part, since I was more willing to help students
learn to let the words flow freely from their minds to the paper
without having to judge them. Yet there was something else.
Drawn almost unwillingly from that first class session into
subject areas that I knew from past experience could "get me in
trouble" in the ordinary teaching world, I began very cautiously to
explore the depths of a knowledge for which these young people did
not even have a vocabulary, but which they surely possessed.
I moved very cautiously at first, already concerned with the
disapproving look I had received from the vice-principal when I
told her I was involved with an organization which studied
psychics, yet feeling pushed by the questions my students began
bringing me daily about their dreams. They even began bringing
their friends around between classes for lessons in how to
interpret their dream symbols. I pushed caution aside and devoted
one class exclusively to understanding how to interpret dream
symbology, pointing out to them how writers down through the ages
have drawn on the same universal symbols to develop allegory and
fiction which has struck chords deep in our souls. The dream
teaching spilled over into my regular English classes at the
request of students there, making the teaching of fiction and
poetry more of a challenge and less of a chore.
One day early in the fall, one of the writing class students,
a pale, shy girl named Christie who was living through the breakup
of her parents' marriage, came into the classroom early as I was
hurrying to correct some papers.
"God spoke to me for the third time last night, she said
confidentially as she walked up to my desk.
Trying not to look too surprised, I asked in the same manner,
"Oh, what happened?" She proceeded to report a dream in which
she found herself atop a large cross. "On the first day, there was
nothing," she said, nothing, just gray. On the second day there
was a huge storm, thunder and lightning and huge waves. On the
third day, the sun came out and God spoke to me. He said, 'You
have done good."'
From her hushed tones it was obvious to see that she had had
what one might call a mystical experience. Life had been tough for
this girl. From what was apparently a strong Christian upbringing
she had lived through having her mother walk away, the remarriage
of her father to a woman whose morals she could not condone, and
having to care for a fairly large group of younger brothers and
sisters, step-brothers, and step-sisters.
I hesitated to ask her what God had said to her the other two
times He talked to her, but said, "Why don't you write about it?"
as the rest of the class was coming in. She wrote a poem of great
beauty and maturity which I wish to this day I had kept since she
dropped out of school soon after that and I lost contact with her.
Christie was not the only one whose writing seemed to grow as
the members of this class were allowed to explore their thoughts
and abilities.
In an earlier chapter, I told the story of Susan, the
cheerleader whose grandmother had died. In the five years since
her grandmother's death, the experience had obviously run like an
undercurrent in this girl's life, unheeded by her parents or any of
the others around her. It was to her grandmother that Susan often
took her concerns under the guise of dreams, yet obviously the
question nagged at her as to whether this was a "sane" thing to do.
When her question about whether any of the others ever dreamed
about anyone who had died was received by her peers not with scorn
but with sympathy and interest, she obviously took comfort from it.
Asked to write a story about her experiences, she produced a
rather magical little children's tale about a little girl whose
grandmother kept an eye on her even though death had separated
them. Once again, here was a young person who made rather ordinary
grades, who did not come to class with any particular writing
ability, but had taken it because it was not a science class and
fit into her busy senior schedule. The amount of creativity in the
story was attested to by the warm response it received from other
students.
Some of the stories they wrote had an obvious science fiction
quality as they began to explore their own experiences with time.
The boy who asked, "What does it mean when you and your friend both
dream you are at the same place at the same time and you both
remember it?" had had a personal experience with non-linear time
which led him to explore the subject even further.
After some of the class members had experienced lucid dreaming
(which they accomplished with a rapidity even I found alarming
after knowing adults who had spent months with no success) one of
the girls announced to the class a problem which has puzzled
philosophers for centuries.
"If David is at home and I call him," she said, "he exists,
but sometimes if David is at home and I don't call him, he doesn't
exist."
Egged on by this outrageous statement, the class (including
David) gave her argument after argument while I listened with
growing amusement. Finally, in what appeared to be anger, she got
up, walked out and slammed the door behind her.
I always tried to give my class as much freedom as possible
without disrupting anything in the rest of the school, so I let her
go, thinking it would be good to have a cooling-off period. We
went on with a discussion of other matters until almost the end of
the period. Attention shifted and everyone, including myself,
forgot about this girl and her exit. About one minute before the
bell rang for class change, the door opened again. We all looked
up from our discussion. There stood our recalcitrant class member
with a mischievous grin on her face. Dramatically she paused in
the doorway. "See, I didn't exist, did I?" she announced to a
round of laughter and applause. If a tree falls in the forest
without anyone to see or hear it, has it really fallen? What
teacher has not been delighted when a student comes up with a
fresh-faced discovery unaware that textbooks have discussed it for
years.
The question of time was not so easily dismissed, however, by
a few of this group. One boy, Steve, had dreamed repeatedly as a
child about lying in the bottom of a boat watching the bank go by
on either side.
Though he lived near the water all his life, he had no
conscious recall of an experience to match this one until he was
much older. In the first "write a dream" experience, I encouraged
him to explore this dream, extending the travel in his imagination
until the boat reached its destination. By the time he
finished this exploration, I was confronted by a student who
insisted that the child in the boat was not Steve as he knew
himself today, but another boy, Joshua, who lived in frontier
America and was escaping from the Indians. Was there, he asked me,
really such a thing as reincarnation?
How can we argue with someone's experience? I find that I can
argue all I want that something did not happen or that the facts
were really different, but people's perceptions seldom change.
I told him what I knew about reincarnation and led him to some
books on the subject, feeling that at any moment I might get
expelled for teaching inflammatory subjects. (Even though, while
teaching my American Literature classes, I found it very hard to
teach Transcendentalism without approaching the question of
reincarnation, which was already known to some.)
The adventure for Steve did not end there. A serious student
of any subject which interested him, he began to ask questions
about symbolism, about yoga, about meditation. One day he came to
class asking whether anyone ever heard voices.
Asleep in his room for an after-school nap, he said, he heard the
telephone ring and had tried to answer it but no one was there.
This event recurred. Then going back to sleep, he heard someone
calling his name. He thought it was his younger brother, but going
downstairs, he discovered that he had been alone in the house and
that his little brother, who was just coming in the door from
school, had not called him.
Not long after this incident, he came to me before class and
said in an urgent tone, "I really have to talk to you." I invited
him to stay after class a few minutes since I had a free period.
The story which unfolded would have made anyone a little
nervous. On a class field trip that weekend, Steve said, he had
been riding on a bus crowded with other students and, since he
hadn't had much sleep, he decided to try to meditate and clear his
mind. Almost immediately, he said, he found himself swimming in
the ocean (in fact he was a strong swimmer and this was an
oceanography field trip) talking, or being talked to, by a porpoise
who called himself Thonar. The porpoise explained why, as an
intelligence, porpoises had left the land and many other things.
"If I told this to anybody," steve said (telling it to me),
"they'd think I was nuts!"
Well, I am sorry to say he was probably right. His experiences
of extraordinary phenomena had by that time so transcended the
experiences of his contemporaries that had he explained them even
to a school counselor, he might have been carefully examined an
persuaded to drop his delusions. However, he did not seem to be
attempting to use his experience to compensate for any other lack
in his live so I agreed to keep what he told me confidential.
In the meantime, he went on to write a prize-winning short story
incorporating some of what he had learned in his dreams.
I must add that, in the case of some of the other students who
came to me, I was not so confident of their ability to handle their
dreams without help. As a teacher, I could only go so far in
taking time to help individuals understand their problems, and when
one of the girls in writing class brought a friend who had been
consistently dreaming vampire dreams, both where he was pursued by
vampires and where he himself became a vampire, I recommended that
he contact one of the best counselors I knew for an intensive
examination of his attitude toward himself and others.
When school was almost over that year, some of the students
began to say that they didn't want the class to end, and asked me
to go on teaching them over the summer. I laughed at the
compliment, thinking it was a piece of nostalgic madness that
sometimes gets into students at the end of a school year. And
finally, to humor them, agreed that if they would appear at my
house at a particular day and time, I'd teach a summer writing
class. I expected they would forget about it when school was over.
Instead, ten students showed up at the appointed time. Others
sent word that they were sorry they couldn't make it, but summer
jobs were keeping them away. Feeling surprised and honored, I
began then seriously to think about developing techniques for
teaching writing which extended beyond the methods by which I
myself had been taught.
I was not too surprised when I returned to school the next
fall to find another group of writing students as interesting and
as interested as the first. The thing that did surprise me was
when those students, and again the students from the year
following, began to become friends with one another and to form a
chain of friendship which extended far beyond graduation and even
into the present, and that each year, with new additions, the group
would ask for the class to go on into the summers.
It is my opinion that there was no magic used here, no special
charisma or anything of the sort. These people came to know each
other and respect each other through the language of dream--perhaps
the deepest, most honest language we have. And they liked it,
found it meeting a need unmet elsewhere in their world, and wanted
it to continue. At present these former students are college
students, young business people, housewives, working mothers, and
a variety of other things which cover the occupational field. The
thing which they have in common, and which binds them to one
another, is their continuing interest in dreams and creativity.
One last amusing incident, and one whose creativity cannot be
denied, is that of Joe Fredd. Joe Fredd was the creation of one of
the students as the result of the first dream assignment, obviously
an alter ego. In the assignment, which asked the students to allow
their characters to interact, Joe Fredd interacted with the
characters of many of the students in the class - an alternately
awkward and suave ladies' man.
As the class went on, Joe Fredd took on a life of his own.
Through his mischievous creators, he obtained a library card,
signed hall passes, took exams, and traveled to other classes. he
became known to half the senior class (and puzzled one or two of
their teachers who received papers or exams from this invisible
student).
Today, several years later, Joe Fredd still exists and
occasionally, via letter or word-of- mouth I hear of his exploits.
He entered the army, traveled to foreign lands. I hope he never
dies.
Jean Campbell is the host of the ASD Bulletin Board and you can
visit with her online every day at
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
or E-mail JCCampb@aol.com
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Dreamy Writing
by Kathleen Meadows, Ph.D.
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This article is an exploration of the relationship between
dreamwork and creative expression, with a focus on writing as the
medium. The struggle is with my temptation to be evangelical about
this subject because I believe so strongly in the dreaming mind's
ability to inspire, guide and enliven written art. Robert Louis
Stevenson counts among the many writers who have written stories
directly inspired from their dream material.
A good place to begin is attempting to answer the question,
"What are dreams?" Dreams are images, typically presented in story
form about our emotions, if we are sighted in our waking lives. If
we are blind, they will be less visual, and more sensation, but
hold the same fascination and tell us about ourselves in the same
way that they do for us sighted folks.
Dreams are always about something we don't know consciously
and they are always about ourselves. Our dreaming mind takes
several waking life experiences and feeling reactions, and
condenses them to one image. This is one of the reasons why they
must be decoded to be understood.
Dreams are fresh material, unfettered by social expectation
and convention. They are a gift from nature, original, complex,
unaffected, real, and unencumbered with artifice. They are
emotionally intense, and honest which is why using them for story
inspiration will give your writing that special ring of truth,
infused with passion.
Dreams come naturally to us as well-constructed stories. They
have a beginning, a middle and a conclusion. This is why we often
ask dream explorers to discuss the "theme," or "plot" of their
dreams and give them a "title." Identifying and naming these
aspects of the dream can help tremendously in translating its
message. Furthermore, dreams follow a series. Part I might appear
to us tonight and Part II might not appear for a week, or a year or
even a decade but inevitably there will be a follow-up. We know a
dream is a part of a series when similar characters, plots and
settings appear again.
Dreams demonstrate for us both sides of an issue. Some
believe dreams are helpful for problem-solving which is true, but
not in a way you might imagine. They don't suggest, "You should .
. . ," rather they suggest, "This might happen if you choose this,
and this might happen if you do that." You must decode this
information and decide consciously for yourself (the bane and glory
of free will!) which path you will ultimately take. That is
another reason why they are so fresh. They don't condemn,
moralize, or pontificate! They simply present you with the story.
The other story of your life.
Writers are routinely admonished to write what they know which
has always struck me as wise advice. The dreaming mind will offer
you more experiences, more travel, and more exotic adventures than
you are ever likely to have in your waking life. In our waking
lives we only have so much energy, resources and choices available
to us at any given time but in our dreaming mind these are
unlimited.
There is a process which is referred to as "incubation" which
is simply asking your dream self for a dream on a specific topic.
Before going to sleep put a recording device by your bedside and
ask for a dream about something that's bothering you or for an
experience you would like to have. You might have to ask three or
four evenings in a row, but I guarantee you will have the dream you
need by the end of a week.
In my experience most writers are introverts by nature. (It's
difficult for extroverts to write extensively because they are
energized by being around other people. Time alone for an
extrovert can be a depressing experience.) Developing depth in your
characters however can be a challenge if you have limited your
access to a variety of people. Your dreams will provide you with
an amazing array of characters to further develop in your stories.
The characters in our dreams are typically complex, unpredictable
and unique. They certainly are a contrast to stereotypes which can
be a temptation when you have developed an interesting and complex
plot. Characterization development is a powerful strength in an
aspiring writer's work.
Dream material is universal. Your dream will be as helpful
for you as it is to me. Our problems, worries and aspirations are
not so very different. When you write from a dream, you will be
appealing to a vast audience which is not only relevant for now but
for many years to come. Your writing will possess collective
appeal, contain universal messages, yet be unique and timeless.
Your stories will be rich, deep and expressive. And most
importantly it will be written by someone who is unafraid to know
themselves.
As we honour dream material in our waking lives, we become
more whole human beings. We learn to accept those parts of
ourselves that we may regard as unsavory, or very grand. We open
ourselves to a rich and uncontrollable universe within ourselves
that is the generator of not only our greatest and lowest thoughts,
but profoundly our most creative.
We learn to walk the path of the initiated, the brave and the
receptive. Dream exploration takes us to a realm of the
individuated. We begin to understand our calling, our purpose and
we burn with the desire to bring our passion into the world. It is
one of the paths to enlightenment. It is within you and available
every night for you to explore. You don't have to go to a special
place to find it, you don't need a guru to teach you the way, and
no book on the subject will be as valuable as the one you write
yourself. Your own dream journal.
To begin I suggest you begin by writing down your dreams.
Title them, identify the theme and the plot, describe the
characters and pay attention to the action and reactions of your
characters. For a really beneficial exploration, invite a group of
kindred spirits to bring their dreams to a dream group meeting
every couple of weeks. Share your dreams, explore them together,
and encourage each other to write about your dream experiences. It
will change your life in ways you can barely imagine.
Kathleen Meadows, Ph.D. Biography
Kathleen lives in Kitchener, Ontario Canada with her life partner.
She trains and supervises in a Mentorship Program for the Boards of
Education. Kathleen is a feminist, and strong believer in community
economic development through her involvement in Barterworks. She
is the co-author of the DreamQuest cards with Gloria Nye, and a
private therapist working with artists who draw from their dreams
to deepen their self-awareness and develop their creative
expression. Kathleen and Gloria have just completed another piece
of work which is a dream symbol dictionary, and quite different in
content and structure from most of the dictionaries presently
available on the market. She can be reached at jane@golden.net, or
dream-quest.com.
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Dreams and Creativity in the Electric Theater of Cyberspace.
Richard Wilkerson
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Rising from a DreamTime before time began, dreams have provided an
underlying matrix of creative inspiration to individuals and
cultures for hundreds of thousands of years. These nocturnal
inspirations have been revived in the modern dream movement. The
new techniques and practices have led to an outpouring of dream
inspired drawing, painting,, sculpture, collage, poetry, stories,
myths, tales, theater, drama and other presentations. As soon as
culture went online in the late 20th Century, it began presenting
these dream inspired forms on the global digital theater.
The Global Digital Dream Theater
A new paradigm, a new consciousness, is needed to understand &
create the world about to open in the 21st Century. Archetypal
psychologist Stephen Aizenstat recently noted that all our attempts
to create a rational world based on even the simplest notions
cooperation and ecology have failed. What we may need to turn
things around. Instead of imposing our values on the World, we may
need to listen to what the World itself is saying, what the World
itself wants. He suggested at the 1999 Association for the Study of
Dreams Conference in Santa Cruz that Dream Movement may be in just
the right position to teach people how to listen. People who attend
to dreams know how to create something new and unexpected from a
power that lies beyond the individual ego and the individual will.
In pushing interpretation to its limit [imposing one expression
upon a content] creative dreamers have also learned to not-
interpret [allow oneself to become the content of the dream's
expression]. This dance of creative cooperation allows a play to
unfold that is often unexpected and novel, dramatic and significant
to more than just the single dreamer. As this dance moves onto a
global stage, new kinds of theater emerge and the classical
boundaries of stage, theater, gallery, art museum, journal, book,
person, village, community and place change. We now have place
without location. Anywhere is everywhere. Distance collapses, and
horizons merge. Dreams speak, write, dance and form part of the new
digital matrix.
Dream Inspired Art Galleries
Dream inspired artists have taken to the Internet creating
traditional galleries with pictures on the wall, and interactive
pictures that talk about themselves and allow chat with the artist.
Dreams and dreamer artists like feedback and engaging others. E-
mail responses can be imbedded directly into an art piece, so that
viewers who wish to write to the artists can do so immediately.
Others have set up message boards that allow the viewer to post a
public message or join an ongoing written discussion of the art.
The Granny Gallery, a project by Nancy Richter Brzeski, includes
several works that focus on the evolving relationship between
dream, artist and family members. The evolution of Brzeski's work
can be seen in a brief glance on her index page, or in more depth
in larger graphic reproductions. The viewing public enter into
something between a catalog and a gallery. Brzeski
includes a dream
about her Hungarian grandmother, Dora Graubart, who inspired the
many "Granny" pieces. Also included are biographies and notes about
the art work & the creation process. A feeling of ancient
rootedness occurs, offering a sense of deep insight into how the
creative process emerges and grows from our dreams.
[http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/granny/]
Alissa Goldring's Dream, Life, Art Gallery uses a revelation-
across-time approach. With each new month a new gallery room
focusing on a specific piece is opened. Each art piece is connected
to a specific dream or dream series, as well as a life lesson. Each
month a new article and graphic appear. Does the dream art
illustrates the text, or is the text part of the graphicness of the
presentation? Like a meditation on life itself, one can sit at this
site, gain decades of perspective and at the same time achieve a
quiet mind. [http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/goldring]
Epic Dewfall travels at night in his lucid dreams and searches for
pictures on the dream walls. With some concentration he will
remember a few of these upon awakening and then reproduces them on
paper. The pictures then get scanned (digitally copied) and put in
his online gallery. The background gallery itself is clearly an art
piece as well. The World Wide Web gives Dewfall ability to work
more closely with the staging environment and to change the set
more often with less expense than a traditional gallery. Dewfall
also happens to be a poet as well as graphic artist, and the text
is mixed in as hypertext, meaning that a viewer may jump to a page
with an entire poem. Dewfall's pictures and poems bring about an
intuition that what is material shimmers in the foreground of a
larger story, one that can be accessed best during a dream.
[http://www.storm.ca/~lucid/]
The Dream Wave Theatre (not the same as Slow Wave) mixes text and
graphics in a unique way to explore mythological archetypal
mysteries of dreams. There is no attempt to categorically exhaust
the possibilities, but rather a deep respect for those dreamy
things that neither text nor graphics can circumscribe, but only
celebrate in wonder. In a traditional gallery this is usually done
by having a labyrinth of rooms. On the Web this is accomplished by
turning graphics into buttons that, once selected, reveal a whole
new area. On Dream Wave these new areas are meant to lead one more
deeply into a particular theme.
[http://www.dreamwv.com/uworld/theatre/index.html]
A creative approach taken by Jesse Reklaw has been to illustrate
contributors' dreams in comic form and then add them to one of the
galleries. The Slow Wave gallery includes weekly additions, a
short dream strip each week plus weeks past. The Concave Up Gallery
is more involved and connected with the offline publication of the
dream comic Concave Up. With this approach, Reklaw has developed
an interactive cyber-site that both feeds the Net and draws
sustenance as well.
[http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi]
Linton and Becky Hutchinson's DreamLynx is one of the original
feedback dream sites. They also accept dreams and distribute them
to various artists for illustration. Those Illustrations are then
put on the Web with the dreams. The dreamer remains anonymous, when
they wish to, and the dream may also be put on a message
board/bulletin board for others to comment. Joint projects between
DreamLynx and Electric Dreams have expanded the simple post-and-
comment into dream groups much like the ones researched by John
Herbert. The dreamer may, during the course of the group, produce
more art which can then be returned again to start the process
over. [http://licensure.com/.dream/]
Dream galleries will be expanding and becoming more popular as
people realize the low development and maintenance cost, the
potential audience and the exciting new possibilities in multimedia
presentations. And of course, these galleries are on Web sites that
host a wide variety of dream sharing information, education,
contacts and links to other sites.
[http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources Select "Online" and
"Dream Art"]
The Digital Oracle
One morning I woke up and had the following dream: "I was with a
dying friend. I was sitting by his bedside and he told me a dream
[in the dream]. He said "I was in a room like a museum, except you
could play with the art. I found some masks in there and realized
I had donated them many years ago. I tried a few on and was
concerned about how they might fit. " I asked my friend in the
dream what he wanted to do with the dream. He said "I want to dance
the dream."
This notion of dancing the dream struck a deep cord in me and I
began a several year journey exploring dreams and their connection
with drama. This eventually led me to Greece, where I visited the
dream temples of Apollo. So much dreamwork is Apollonian, seeing
from a distance. Even the techniques of dream incubation, of
dreaming the proper dream to get in to see the oracle, were around
seeing and vision. I found that part of the year, Apollo's dancing
brother Dionysos was the ruler of the temple. At Delphi, we traced
this switich back into the distant past. Apparently, before the
Greeks were at Delphi (and before Apollo slew the dragon to take
the temple as his own) there was an earlier culture. In this
culture they had an oracle who lived high in the mountains of
Parnasos, above Apollo's temple at Delphi. With the help of locals
in the area we found the cave in these hills where the oracle was
said to have been taken from. She was imprisoned at Delphi,
surrounded by priests who interpreted her visions. The Greeks also
gave names to the other deities found in her cave, which included
among them one called Pan. Interestingly, Pan is said to have
taught Apollo dream interpretation. The cave seemed to be the
stronghold of a Dionysian like cult, with maenads that roamed the
hills in groups and centered around the oracular grotto [korikian
cave, Corician in Latin]. Apparently, dreams were first danced.
Some of these became myths. But the Greeks separated the dance and
turned it into a theater, splitting audience and participant. The
mythic dream dances could then be controlled, but eventually lost
all their juice and power. This is always a struggle in dreamwork
as well. I found that my own dreamwork began to take on more
drama, more enactment and less abstract interpretation. But it
wasn't until the next year and I went online that the real theater
for dreams I was looking for began to emerge. For more on Delphi
and Dreams, see my Songs of the Oracle site at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/oracle
Start your own digital dream theater
One of the aspects of shifting from the abstract interpretation of
dreams to more theatrical interpretations is the loosening of the
demand for the dream to be what I want it to be. That is, it no
longer has to represent what I want it to. The dream-as-
presentation takes on a life of its own. This is no where so true
as the Internet. Dream images hyperlink to worlds without end.
Dream texts are returned from the cybersphere with notes. Dream
poetry floats in Cyberspace and inspires and provokes thought and
action. Dream pictures shift through the electrosphere and mix, one
moment a gallery, the next a cover for an e-zine, the next a
downloaded poster for a protest march on the other side of the
world. Soon you will be able to type in your dream and get a
quick movie in return. The first movies will be awful, but funny
and amuse us. Later they will be profound and amaze us. The flow of
the dream will no longer be crushed by the morning sun.
Some places to get started:
Build a web site and post your dream with a drawing or
photograph. If you don't like building sites, ask a dream web site
owner to post your dream and picture. You will be amazed how many
are willing to do this.
Send a dream into the Cybersphere. Post it on alt.philosophy or
alt.dreams or alt.dreams.lucid
Share your dream as a valid piece of literature to an online e-
zine or literary magazine.
Join the ASD DreamArts ezine and submit a dream inspired art
piece.
Take a trip to Kinkos or your local copy center. Learn how to
scan your art onto a disk in jpg or gif format so you can upload
them into Cyberspace.
Find a magazine or e-zine online that doesn't have cover art.
Offer them a graphic.
Get familiar with a graphics program. Some are free! Download
Paint Shop Pro from www.tucows.com and illustrate your dream!
Take a dream graphic and "hotspot" it related sites. Different
parts of the picture will send the traveler to different parts of
the world, or perhaps another graphic that more deeply expresses
that part of the dream. Build a dream dungeon online!
Take a picture of a dream inspired piece of dream sculpture. Take
pictures from many sides and build a web site that allows the
visitor to explore all the sides. Perhaps some of the side lead to
journal entries about the dream as well.
Start a dream series, post a dream a week and allow others to
connect their own dreams.
Record your dream and add ambient background. Turn this recording
into a .wav file
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This Month's Features:
NEWS
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RESEARCH & REQUESTS
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DREAM CALENDAR for February-March 1999
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>>> "You Are a Psychic in Your Dreams"
Evening lecture with Robert Moss, Friday, September 10, from 7-9 pm,
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In your dreams, you are a gifted
psychic. You dream future events before they happen. You can use your
glimpses of the possible future to make better choices and create a
better future. Dreaming, you meet spirit guides and journey beyond
the body and spacetime. Learn how to develop your natural ability to
be your own psychic counselor and bring life-supporting messages
through for yourself and others -- in your dreams! For information
and reservations, call The Learning Annex: (416) 964-0011.
>>> Dreamwork in Santa Cruz
Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts is offering an in-depth
training in dreamwork for people who want a professional practice in
dreamwork, professionals who want to integrate dreamwork into another
practice of the healing or educational arts, and for those who just
want to learn
more about how to work with their own dreams. Training is oriented
towards Jungian based dreamwork, while integrating other cultural and
theoretical perspectives. Students will learn a process of working
with dreams called Dream Interviewing, a powerful contemporary
approach to entering into the rich messages of the dreamscape.
Classes will include lectures, experiential dreamwork, group
discussions and supervised practice. A Dream Studies Certificate will
be awarded upon the successful completion of this program. Begins
Sept. 24, 1999, Fridays 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. For more information,
contact: Dreamwork Training Program, Twin Lakes College of the
Healing Arts, 1210 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, CA 95062, (831) 476-2152
>>> Dream Workshop with Jean Raffa
The Jung Society of Atlanta will host author Dr. Jean Raffa at its
fall retreat, Friday through Sunday, October l5-l7. Dr. Raffa,
author of "Dream Theatres of the Soul" will conduct a workshop titled
"Dreamwork" at the Simpsonwood Conference Center in Norcross Georgia.
Non-members are welcome. For more information, call (404) 634-6350,
or contact the web site http://www.jungindex.net/society/raffa.html.
>>> "Dreaming True: How to Dream the Future and Create Better
Futures"
A one-day workshop with Robert Moss, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1999, in
Saratoga, NY and Saturday, Sept. 25, 1999, in Chicago, Illinois. We
are all psychic in our dreams. In dreams, when our left-brain
inhibitions are down, our natural intuitive radar comes richly alive
and we track forward through time, scouting out challenges and
opportunities that lie in the future. The futures we perceive in
dreams are possible futures; by learning to recognize and work with
our precognitive dream messages, we can change the future for the
better, for the benefit of ourselves and others. In this high-energy
workshop, we'll learn how to dream the old-fashioned way the
shaman's way and how to bring the energy and insight of dreams into
everyday life. You'll be able to work in depth with your own
experiences and to seek guidance on personal issues. Learn how your
dreams can help you stay well by showing you how to take care of body
and soul and follow the natural path of your energy. Learn to embark
on conscious dream journeys to step outside time, contact sources of
insight and healing, and become the active co-creator of your future.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Learn how to create your dream
house, your dream romance, your dream job and then make it come
true! For more information on the New York workshop, call Stillpoint:
(518) 587-4967. For more information on the Chicago workshop, contact
Transitions Learning Center (800) 979-READ or (312) 951-7323; fax
(312) 951-5595.
>>> New Version of Alchera Journalling Software
The final release of the Alchera Suite 3.0 is here. Take a tour. For
an impression if what is new features, take a look at the
screenshots page. http://mythwell.com/
>>>Dream Group for Artists and Writers
Conflicts between doing creative work and making a living, fear and
inertia around the business part of art, and creative blocks are just
a few of the issues that artists and writers are often faced with.
Dreams are a powerful resource for gaining insight, shifting
perspectives, moving through limiting belief systems and igniting the
creative spark. Learn how to tap into the wisdom of your dreams, in a
supportive dream group facilitated by Gina Pearlin.
For more information and registration, call Gina at (831) 427-2957,
or email gpearlin@cruzio.com
>>> Dream Work Class Online
By Kristina West
Dreamwork is the language of the Soul. Every night we are given
personal soul gifts- which if listened to-will give direct guidance,
offer creative solutions to our life questions and open the doors of
opportunity. Develop the skills and learn the tools necessary to
begin the adventure of dreaming. Class covers basic dream tools;
incubating, recall, journaling, and interpretation. Includes advanced
skills of conscious, lucid and shamanic dreaming, and much more. On-
line classes are also available--for more information please e-mail
to: onlinedreams@inspiritrixarts.com Sept. 16-Dec. 15 Ongoing group-
3 month commitment Thursday Evenings 6:00-9:00pm Cost: $ 135 per
month Deposit: $50
http://www.inspiritrixarts.com/dw.html
>>>> Shamanic Dreaming Workshop, Circle and Potluck Dinner
On Saturday, October 16, from 1-5 pm, this experiential workshop
will feature:
* a class on Shamanic Dreaming, * shamanic journeying to meet your
Dream Spirit Guides; and
* a dream sharing circle utilizing shamanic dream interpretation
methods in addition to standard psychological techniques. Other
topics covered will include Healing Dreams, Shamanic Initiation
Dreams, Psychic Dreams, Awakening in Both Worlds (a.k.a. "Merrily,
merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream"), and Dreams and
Creativity. Participants will also learn over 30 methods for
improving dream recall, how to handle spiritual attack in a dream,
and how to deepen your relationship with your dream spiritual guides.
Live drumming and ritual are
integral parts of this powerful dream circle. Only $30-60 sliding
scale. Takes place in Emeryville, CA
Limited to 15 dreamers, so call to preregister and save your spot.
Call Taylor Kingsley at (510) 653-7293.
Followed by a community potluck dinner (optional), 5 p.m. til ?. Our
goal is to cocreate an ongoing community of dreamers who honor the
sacredness of dreams and support one another in personal and global
healing
via dreaming. This is the first of many monthly Shamanic Dream
Circles, some of which will include all-night community dream circles
so we may benefit from the synergistic effect of group dreaming and
begin the day
Sunday morning with a shamanic dream circle as many indigenous
peoples do worldwide. Blessings to you.
>>> The History of Dreams with Richard Wilkerson
http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/psychology3.html
This delightful six weeks class gives you both e-mail essays on the
history of dreams and dreaming, as well as interactive labs and
online dream groups to teach you ways of exploring and understanding
your dreams.
From Robert Van de Castle, author of OUR DREAMING MIND,
"...It is a GREAT course!"
From Roberta Ossana, editor of The Dream Network journal
"Extraordinary and thorough coverage of dreaming from Day One and
Multiple
Perspectives. Truly!"
Course includes dream groups on line plus:
1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations Approach
2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
5. Other Pre- 1960's Dream Theories
6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
7. Mindell and Gendlin: The DreamBody
8. From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork Movements
9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal & Pro-active
Dreaming.
10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the
Internet.
For the extended Syllabus:
http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/dreams/dreamhx_intro.html
Class Cost: $29.99 (US) All Major Credit Cards Accepted
Registration Online
http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/psychology3.html
Questions? You can e-mail Richard Wilkerson at rcwilk@dreamgate.com
>>> ASD Bulletin Board Announcement
As of Monday, August 23, 1999, the ASD Bulletin Board will change
format to UltraBoard, allowing several new features like sorting and
researching specific threads. Don't be fooled by the changes though.
We're still the
same, old friendly folks. http://www.asdreams.org Select
Discussions, Then follow Bulletin Board. You may have noticed, if
you've visited the Board lately, that there's been an upsurge of
interesting conversations relating to dreams and other states of
consciousness. I'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks to
those of you who make the Board such and interesting place, and
invite anyone receiving this announcement who hasn't visited for a
while, to drop on by.
ASD Membership: What would this be without a plug? If you're not a
member of ASD, and you like what you see on the ASD website, you
might like to become a member. Information about membership is
online at the site (asdreams.org). Some of the benefits of
membership include the quarterly newsletter *Dream Time* and the ASD
Journal, *Dreaming*, both filled with interesting articles, art and
information about dream work.
Conference: If the online community is a way to meet people, world
over, who share an interest in dreams, the annual ASD Membership
Conference is a way to encounter the faces behind the screen names
(as well as to hear well-known dream experts and attend dynamic
workshops). The next conference asd2000 will take place July 4-8 In
Washington D.C. You can register now, online.
Please, if you have any trouble with the new UltraBoard, let us know.
You can post a note on the board or send an email directly to
Richard Wilkerson, Webmaster at <rcwilk@dreamgate.com> or to Jean
Campbell, Board Host,
<JCCampb@aol.com>
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>>>Universal Dreams Survey
A look at the dream themes and motifs that all people and cultures
have in common. Here's your chance to contribute something valuable
to the study of dreams, and learn what your own dreams mean at the
same time. Visit the website for a complete description:
http://www.patriciagarfield.com/idx_udreams.htm
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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.
>>>New Lucid Dreaming Website
http://members.aol.com/aarenka/lucidintro.html
Run Erin J. Wamsley , this site contains background and information
on lucid dreaming, some of her own personal research, a program for
the induction of lucid dreams compiling various techniques, links,
documents, and an active message board.
>>>The Dream Flow Adds New Members
The Dream Flow is an Electric Dreams project to create a circulation
of dreams through cooperative sharing between mail lists (listservs,
majordomos, eLists). Dreams submitted to Electric Dreams Dream
Temple
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple are send to all the lists on
the dream-flow. Comments are welcome and can be discussed in private
on the individual mail lists, or send back to Electric Dreams at the
Dream Temple for publication in Electric Dreams. The Dream Flow
would like to welcome several new members this month from the
www.onelist.com mail lists group, including
dream-flow@lists.best.com
DreamingWorld@onelist.com
dreamsandvisions@onelist.com
dreamz@onelist.com
dreamstream@topical.com
DreamsRus@onelist.com
You can find out more about these dream group eLists by visiting
www.onelist.com. To connect *your* list to the dream flow, simple
send a note to Richard Wilkerson, at rcwilk@dreamgate.com
>>>> The Dreams and Visions Mailing List
This is an Internet community dedicated to the sharing and joint
exploring of dreams, dream interpretation and dream messages. From
Dreams and Visions "If you've ever had a dream that has puzzled or
troubled you, you
might be suprised to find that the keys to unlocking that dream's
meaning may have been yours all along! This list exists to provide a
compassionate and thoughtful forum for the examination of all dreams,
lucid or sleep
state." Join by directly subscription at
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/dreamsandvisions
or the HomePage: http://members.xoom.com/WVGargoyle/dreamsvisions.htm
>>> Lucidity Institute FTP Site
While you may be aware of the vast resources, bulletin boards and
research that is available on the Lucidity web site www.lucidity.com,
you may not be aware of all the articles available for quick download
at the FTP site:
ftp://ftp.lucidity.com/ These quick text files include : Nova Dreamer
information, the lastest FAQ, the earliest research and more.
>>> Ban de lars Bandelars
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Bistro/5250/
Dreams and poetry of young Dutch artist Bandelars.
MOVED Sarah Strachen, creator of the Whale Dream Art Gallery has
moved:
http://www.sitdogsit.com/
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D R E A M C A L E N D A R
September 1999
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Sept 10-12 in Humboldt, CA
Workshop with Jeremy Taylor at Humboldt Unitarian Church. Contact
Tracy: 707.839.8689 for more information.
Sept 10 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"You Are a Psychic in Your Dreams" , lecture by Robert Moss. 7:00-
9:00 pm. For information and reservations, call The Learning Annex:
(416) 964-0011.
Sept 12 in Berkeley, CA
"Birds, Creatures with Wings" dream and art workshop led by Ellie
Fidler. RSVP (510) 649-1971.
Sept 17-19 in Boone, NC
Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact: celtway@boone.net or call Kathy
Taylor at 415.454.2793 for more information.
Sept 17 in Pacifica, CA
Concert and Art Exhibit of The Opposites, dream-inspired art and
music by Jana Hutcheson. BLACK FOREST CAF, 7 p.m. 220 Paloma Avenue,
Pacifica, California 650-355-2730 www.jps.net/opposite
Sept 18 in Saratoga, NY
"Dreaming True: How to Dream the Future and Create Better Futures",
one-day workshop with Robert Moss. For more information, call
Stillpoint: (518) 587-4967
Sept 26 in Chicago, IL
"Becoming a Dream Shaman" , one-day workshop with Robert Moss.
Contact: Transitions Learning Center: (800) 979-READ or (312) 951-
7323; fax (312) 951-5595.
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Association for the Study of Dreams: August Update
http://www.asdreams.org
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For more information, see the ASD "What's New?" page at:
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxshownew.htm
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Dreaming 2000
ASD's seventeenth international conference, Dreaming 2000, will
take place
in Washington, D.C., in July. Make plans now!
http://www.asdreams.org/asd-17/index.htm
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Become a Member
ASD members contribute to the dream movement as well as research in
dreams
and education in dreaming.
Member benefits also include discounts on regional and
international
conferences, a quarterly magazine _Dream_Time_, and a peer-reviewed
journal
_Dreaming_.
ASD offers members a wide variety of activities through
participation in groups that focus on dream-inspired art
shows, education in dreamwork, development of research skills,
international relations, journal-keeping and dreams,
online discussions, conference development and planning, and much,
much more. You will be working with the world's
leading authorities on dreams and dreaming, including Alan Siegel,
Patricia Garfield, Jeremy Taylor, Gayle Delaney,
Kelly Bulkeley, Stanley Krippner, Jayne Gackenback, Ernest
Hartmann, Milton Kramer, Deirdre Barrett, Carol S.
Rupprecht, and hundreds more!
http://www.asdreams.org/idxmembership.htm
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New Bulletin Board Format
As of Monday, August 23, 1999, the ASD Bulletin Board (hosted by
Jean Campbell) changed format to UltraBoard,
allowing such new features as sorting and researching specific
threads.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
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_DreamArts_ Online Newsletter
Keep up to date with dream-inspired artists through the _DreamArts_
Newsletter. Learn how to get your
dream-inspired art into international shows. Read interviews with
the top dream-inspired artists throughout the world.
http://www.asdreams.org/asd-arts/index.htm
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Research Requests
Participate as a subject in the latest study on dreams. Or, if you
are an ASD member, you may place requests for
subjects, dreams and other material.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxprojectsresearch.htm
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_Dreaming_ Articles Available Online
Two articles from _Dreaming_ recently have been posted for online
access.
"Why Study Dreams? A Religious Studies Perspective," by Wendy
Doniger and
Kelly Bulkeley.
"The Experiential Dream Group: Its Application in the Training of
Therapists," by Montague Ullman.
http://www.asdreams.org/journal/articles/subidxjournalarticles.htm
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Volunteers Needed
Whether you are interested in the next conference, would like to
join a committee project, or are willing to help out
online, the Volunteer Page has the information you need!
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxprojectsvolunteers.htm
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Graduate Dream Studies Project
Find Graduate Studies programs in dreaming, and list programs you
know about, at ASD's Graduate Studies Project
page.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxedugraduatestudies.htm
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Association for the Study of Dreams
6728 Old McLean Village Drive
McLean, VA 22101-3906
Phone: 703-556-0618
Fax: 703-556-8729
E-mail: asdreams@aol.com
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Selections from the Dream Flow. For the full month's listing,
see
http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow%40lists.best.com/
The Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION includes dreams and comments
from the DREAM FLOW, a project to circulate dreams in cyberspace.
Many mail lists participate, including
dream-flow@lists.best.com
DreamingWorld@onelist.com
dreamsandvisions@onelist.com
dreamz@onelist.com
dreamstream@topical.com
DreamsRus@onelist.com
The Dream Sack : http://www.deeplistening.org/ione
If you would like to send in single dreams for the flow, you can
leave them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
If you have a mail list or would like to contribute dreams and
comments on a regular basis, you can subscribe to the dream-flow
by sending an E-mail to:
TO: dream-flow-request@lists.best.com
In the body of the E-mail put only
subscribe your-email
please substitute your real email address with "your-email"
You may get a note back to verify the subscription. Simply hit
the return or reply key, change REJECT to ACCEPT in the subject
field and send the note back.
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From: Heratheta
4 drms-peace had alin to the right of the place if you had
avoided becoming"very' peace had lain to the right
of the house if you had avoided becoming "apparently"
peace had lain to the right of the area if you had avoided
becoming "dreary" peace had lain to the right of the
house if you had avoided becoming"similar"
spiritual tour drm-peace had lain to the right of the experience
if you had avoided becoming"very"
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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Dream Title Mr. Witchcraft
Mr. Witchcraft by Pelops
Date of Dream 8/20
Dream A clown is in the basement of my house.
(In reality I never saw this house before in ever lived in one
remotely like it.) He is dressed like a banker from the 1930s:
jacket, pants with suspenders, button-down shirt. He is
middle-aged, his hair is thinning at the top. The only thing that
makes him a clown is the white face make-up and red-painted eyes,
nose, and mouth. This is not a jolly clown, but rather a staid,
no-nonsense middle-aged man who dresses like Babbitt.
I come down to the basement and see the clown doing what looks to
be light fix-it work in the basement. I say to him, "What are you
doing Mr. Witchcraft?" And he replies, "Just holding these power
lines." And then he shows me two live, exposed electrical wires
he is holding in his hands. Then I notice that the clown, Mr.
Witchcraft, had let water from the sink run over the basement
floor so that there was an inch of water covering it, and that
Mr. Witchcraft was going to throw the wires into the water. This
would not only have started a fire, but would have electrocuted
us both as we were standing in the water.
I knew then that Mr. Witchcraft was crazy. I ran out of the water
and up the stairs. Mr. Witchcraft throws the wires into the water
which lights the basement stairs on fire. I am at the top of the
stairs, pounding on the basement door which will not open.
I don't know how I got out of that but I did and for the rest of
the dream Mr. Witchcraft, who had become an unstoppable killing
machine from right out of a slasher movie, chased me. Comments
by Dreamer Scared the hell out of me
Permission to Comment yes_share_comments
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Dream Title 4 dreams - LEG1999
Date of Dream Aug. 17, 21, and 22 - time unknown
Dream #1. (August 17)
I was in a very oppressive place. It was ugly, muddy and dank.
I was being held captive and was to be killed.
In the beginning of the dream, I was laying under a cot in a
small room. I knew that guards were walking around outside to
prevent me from escaping, although I couldn't see them. The
guards reminded me of Nazis and were dangerous.
I managed to slip out of the room and building that I was in
through a crack in the wall behind the cot. Then, I was
COMPLETELY buried in mud under the floor of a building, hiding to
prevent being detected by the
guard above me.
A person snuck into the muddy area where I was hiding and helped
me slide out to escape. This person led me to a small wooded
area. We began running, carefully, to get far away from the
guards, who we knew would follow when they found I was gone.
As I went through the woods, I came upon people hiding. They
were frightened and cold and their clothing was dirty and torn.
I stopped to try to help them, even though I knew it placed me in
great danger of being captured.
The next thing I knew, I was back in captivity and the entire
thing started all over again.
(I am not Jewish nor have I ever been in danger of being killed
-- that I know of.)
#2. (Aug. 21)
I was in a house which was apparently a psychiatric setting. I
know I was being held there. I had been placed there but I
didn't know why. I wasn't frightened, but I didn't want to be
there just the same.
I wondered around and saw many people on different floors. The
house was very large with many levels. I would climb the large
staircases from floor to floor and find something dfferent on
each. I remember walking up and down the staircases freely and
often, when coming down, would be met by an individual who worked
there, like a "caretaker for people".
On one floor, there was a train track where fairly
"sophisticated" people sitting in an area that clean and "fancy".
The train approached and some got on. I ddn't know where the
train went.
On another floor, I met people who seemed to be in dire
circumstances. Poor, clothing worn or torn and afraid to do
anything for fear of retribution from the people in charge. I
remember speaking with someoneone there but do not recall the
conversation.
I then found myself on the ground floor. I wanted to get out. I
knew that leaving was forbidden and that there were "watchers"
everywhere to prevent me from leaving.
I managed to go through an opening that lead me to a barn-like
setting. There were animals, like bulls and other farm animals,
in pens. Some of the bulls/cows were roaming free and began to
act as if they were going to charge or fight each other.
I spoke with a man, who was dressed like a farmer or cowboy, and
then went into one of the pens to get away from the potential
danger of the bull/cow fighting. The pen lead me to an outside
area, but there was no way to leave the house through there.
I then found myself in another place, a garden area, and near the
large fence that surrounded the entire house. From this place, I
was able to slip through an opening and I started down a road. I
had to be careful as the "watchers" would see me walking away and
come after me.
I tried to hide myself in the dark and trees as I walked.
I then came upon a run-down house along the road. I entered the
house and found other people inside. The people seemed to be
somewhat unkept, but not dangerous or in trouble.
I wandered through different rooms of this house and in one room
found children. It didn't seem to be a bad situation but there
was a tenseness about the place and people.
While I was outside of the house, someone saw people (like police
or some other law enforcement-type) coming down the road. All
the people in the house began to scatter to get away and not be
caught.
I was confused as to what was happening and don't recall what
occurred after this.
#3 (Aug. 22 -- first dream)
I was in an area that was dreary and gloomy. I found myself
entering a place that was underground or in a basement. Inside
were little defenseless animals and other creatures. There were
tiny newborn kittens all clustered together. I tried to help
care for these little creatures and kittens.
Later, I found myself outside in the dark and dreariness. It was
raining and oppressive.
I returned to the underground area/basement only to be told that
all the creatures and kittens were dead. I held one of the dead
little defenseless newborn kittens. I was told "they" had killed
them (I don't know who "they" was.) I had the sense that the
"they" who had killed all the creatures and kittens were
dangerous.
# 4. (Aug. 22 -- second dream)
I was living in a house, similar to the former home of my
grandparents that my husband and I bought when we were married.
The kids were also in this dream and were back to being school
age. Like the real home we lived in, the house sat on top of a
hill where you could see the valley below for miles.
I was outside and saw a tornado approaching. I told the kids and
my husband who, in the dream, worked at a service station down
the hill. I felt the tornado pass over us while I was in the
house but there was no damage to the house. I then saw more and
more tornadoes, each passing over and around the house.
Eventually, I saw a large crack in the house wall and then
another crack on the other side of the house. Each time a
tornado approached, I sent word to my husband. On one occassion,
I went to the service station where my husband worked and the
other person there directed me to the back room.
Back at the house, I went outside and saw a great many tornadoes
forming in the distance, first as black clouds and then the
funnels lowered from the clouds and approached over the fields
and hills. I was counting them 1, 2, 3, ...37, 48, etc., and
they were all coming toward the house at once.
There was an overwhelming obsession for me to see these tornadoes
approaching and then passing by and around me, the house and the
kids.
(My ex-husband divorced over 10 years ago and do not keep in
contact. My kids are grown. I live alone and 2100 miles from my
ex and children.) Comments by Dreamer I feel as if my mind
is trying to tell me something or "sort things out".
Most all of the dreams I remember are of me being held captive in
some way and that I am trying to get away from something.
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Dream Title Monster Freeze by DH-176
Date of Dream Aug 21, 1999, after midnight.
Dream Since sophomore year I have had strange
night experiences characterized by the awareness of a malevolent
presence in the room with me, and then...the sudden freezing of
my body and the inability to voice words or even yell for help.
Last night this happened again, and there was a growling next to
my face, as if a dog or something else was right next to me. I
seemed to have banished it with a quick prayer but the presence
only seemed to have retreated to a corner of the room, waiting.
However, it left after a time and I went back to sleep.
Comments by Dreamer
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Dream Title The Spiritual tour
Date of Dream 1997
Dream I had this dream a couple of years ago &
it has haunted me ever since. I'll try to be brief. It was very
REAL and I awoke with the sensation of having actually
"experienced" my dream. There were many of us (people/spirits)
being taken from place to place. At each "stop" we were shown
something very important or enlightning. Somehow in the dream I
knew I would not be allowed to "remember" these things, but
somehow they would still benefit me on a level I could not fully
understand. I found one "stop" particularly profound and asked
one of our "guides"(anangel?), telepathically, if I could please
remember just this one stop. In the morning I remembered that
one place but not what we were shown there. I also remembered
going to and from several other stops but not the actual places
themselves. It haunts me. I have tried to paint the remembered
"stop" twice with little success.
Anyone else ever been on a spiritual tour of sorts??
Comments by Dreamer
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From: "Jay"
> Comments by Dreamer I feel as if my mind is trying to tell me
> something or "sort things out".
>
> Most all of the dreams I remember are of me being held captive
in
> some way and that I am trying to get away from something.
if these were my dreams, i would feel that there is a part of
myself which is trying to escape from the dominant part of
myself. part of me wants to change, but i'm not quite ready to
yet.
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Dream Title Empty Future, Joshua
Date of Dream 8-21-99, 6am
Dream After 10 years of marrage, the dream
shatters all I hold dear. We start at a public event. It's
neither cold, nor hot, it's just there. There's no sound, except
for my wife's voice and mine. People are looking at us, but
really not paying close attention. Then, from out of the blue
there appears a hugh desk, with my office supplies on it. From
there it get's darker. Then when the light reappears, we're up in
my work office. My wife of 10 years then said she was leaving.
This sent me into a personal panic. I began running, from one
building to another. Opening doors, going through and closing it
behind me. While I was running, people would ask if something
was wrong, but through the tears, I could not respond. I really
never stopped running until the real phone rang, it was my office
saying they had a problem.
Comments by Dreamer This was the most real dream I've ever
had and
really just don't understand the reason other than that the
studio was
having a problem.
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From: Victoria
Subject: candle circle dream
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:47:30 +1000
I got too busy with daily things this morning to write down my
dream but its imagery has stayed with me for the day.
Firstly I was trying to visit a former neighbour on whom I once
had a crush. He wasn't home and his dog was dead.
I walked away from the house and in his yard there was a circle
of people in "white/cream choir robes" each with their left hand
on the next person's shoulder and each holding a lit, white
candle in a gold candlestick with a handle.
I was watching them with interest, but couldn't quite hear what
they were singing.. if they were quite ready to begin singing.
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Dream Title Stuck with Autum's car
Date of Dream 8/15/99 3AM
Dream I borrowed a married lady friend's car -
an SUV, then she went to pick her dad up from then airport. Late
that night, I drove down a dark, filthy street to the back of her
house to return the car. Her garage has 3 cars too big to fit in
it, a station wagon,van and another car, sticking out, and the
garage door not closed. One of the cars is my cousin's van. I
parked her car behind her dad's, outside the garage, locked the
doors and went to my cousin's van. But it's wedged in with
lumber and debris all around it. I go back to her car, but
it's wedged in too behind her other car, with the back of her
dad's car blocking it. I walk back and forth looking at both cars
and see I can't get either of them out of the garage without
waking somebody up - it's late. So I stop a lady in the street
and ask how to get home. She points in the right direction,
tells me to make a left at 60st and walks away. I walk down the
block, and realize it's a long way home, so call a cab from my
cell phone. I have hers and my cousin's car keys.
Permission Comments All interpretations welcomed.
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Dream Title axe
Date of Dream 18/8-5:00am
Dream Me and my mum were driving in our
diamond blue mercades when we turned in to a dead end street
andthen these men popped out from behind these cars the three men
started to axe our car and smashing the windows and the rest of
the car. My mum drove futher up the dead end street and i told
her to turn the car and drive away fast but the car couldnt drive
fast then one of the men smashed the drivers side of the car and
cut my mums tounge off with a smaller axe( the three men had all
differnt size axes) and i had to help her drive to the hospital.
Comments by Dreamer help me figure out what this dream means
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From: Heratheta
flight drm- peace had lain to the right of the building if you
had avoided becoming familiar. visit drm-peace had lain to the
right of the foot of your bed if you had avoided becoming like
the figure reaper drm-peace had lain to the right of the street
if you had avoided becoming abnormal
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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Dream Title "Flight From Destiny" by BabyBlue38
Date of Dream 8/16/99
8Am
Dream In my dream I find myself in a large
building with many people, with no idea how I arrived until it
was time for my escape. I see a familar *man and I know that I am
in danger. This man tells me that I am destined to be apart of
his plans. Suddenly I hear birds and people screaming. I see my
*Father dying, when I try to help him, I see that he is a
stranger. When I reach the parking lot, two people are there to
help me, people who know me and I have no memory of, only that I
sense they are good people. The two people help me find the *car
I arrived in, it is old and has expired plates. I'm at a strange
house, I think the two people are there with me when I phone my
only sister Darlene to explain that I am stranded with no car,
she sounds distant and I ask her if anyone is there with her. A
moment later, Darlene is standing in the kitchen in front of me,
but before she speaks, I tell her that her eyes are brown and not
the true color. I know that there !
!
will be a *struggle and sense the two people with me will *help,
my thoughts are that this time the battle may be too great.....I
wake up. *Dejavu
Comments by Dreamer *These things seemed to have been in
another dream
in another time.
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Dream Title Visit
Date of Dream 17/7/97
Dream I awoke to see a figure at the end of my
bed with glasses who threw a black blanket over me then
dissapeared slowly fading away. The figure reapeared and laughed
whilst staring straight into my eyes, i could not move or shout.
I now get reoccuring dreams of dark backgrounds with symbols in
ancient writing in which i see up side down. Comments by Dreamer
Any comment would be helpful as this dream is making me
nervous anxious and edgy
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Permission Comments Any help is greatly apreciated
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Dream Title 'the reaper chase' by the naked drummer
Date of Dream last year
Dream i remember being stood in a street and
seeing this man dressed in a black tracksuit running abnormally
fast in my direction and even though he was way away i was really
scared.
As he ran past people he knocked them over and smashed shop
windows and stuff. so even though he could have been after anyone
i felt he was after me. i started to run away off the street and
was in a graveyard running as fast as possible and suddenly he
was chasing me alone and gaining fast.
i came to this wire fence of the gardens near my house where
there is a gap at the bottom and i dived for the hole as i knew
it i got home i'd be safe. but i caught my jacket in the wire
fence, turned round and he had a hold of me and as i looked him
in the face i saw he had no facial features. then i woke up. the
next day i was badly ill and shaking. Comments by Dreamer It
sounds really cliche and all the event in it: black
tracksuit/chase/graveyard/man with no face all added up to the
grim reaper, but more modern and youthful since he was in a
tracksuit and was a fast runner.
At the time it really freaked me out and it made me act strangely
for ages afterwards. i think maybe stress was a factor since it
was near exams. but does that explain the presence of death? i
heard that death represents change in dreams and i was changing
friends at the time, could that be it too?
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Permission Comments i don't mind who knows, i just want the
dream interpreted by whoever can help as it's been annoying me
for a while now.
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From: Heratheta
table cloth dream-peace had lain to the right of the table if you
had avoided becoming "never been used" survey drm-peace had lain
to the right of the survey if you had avoided becoming "like"
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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Subject: looking for examples of famous dreams
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:59:56 -0700
Dream Dear Dreamers - I am looking for
examples of famous dreams. For example - Billy Joel has dreamed
of many of his songs before he pens them. I have found many
propheic dreams relating to death - i.e.e Amraham Lincolns dream,
but am seeking positive examples of dreams by famous people.
Can you help?
Send replies to the editor of Electric Dreams, Richard Wilkerson
at
rcwilk@dreamgate.com
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Dream Title CONFRONTATION/DENISE0708
Date of Dream 8-9-99@400AM
Dream HI I AM ENGAGED AND HAD A DREAM OF MY
FUTURE? DINING ROOM WITH MY NEVER USED CHINA LAID OUT BY A WOMAN
NAMED KATHARINE (STRANGER) WHO WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH MY
FIANCE AND THERE WAS A RED ROSE ON BOTH PLATES. I THREW UP THE
TABLECLOTH AND EVERYTHING FELL ON THE FLOOR..END OF DREAM
Comments by Dreamer
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From: Heratheta
house drm-peace had lain to the right of the house if you had
avoided becoming 'big'
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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From: IONE <iodreams@deeplistening.org>
RE: Counting from 1 to 100
[see dream-flow.v001.n133 " Counting from 1 to 100"]
Yes, it sounds like a good dream joke- but at the same time feels
like you're getting more and more aware- and that your techniques
are working. Also interesting are the purification themes of
bathing. I love the concept of the queue of bathers- as if they
themselves were your counting- and a love the "morning gown"- it
makes me think somehow of the cloak of sleep and dreams - upon
removal the dream warrior awakens - ( in the dream?) Keep up the
good work. Ione
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Dream Title Finding my Studio by Donna
Date of Dream reaccuring
Dream I have this reaccuring dream - at times
it is frantic. I am in a large building - almost like a museum -
but abandoned (like where you would find a studio for an artist).
I can't find my spot. Either it's been taken - someone is there
already, or someone is nearby that I don't want to see ever. I
keep searching, the dream is all about searching, cubby holes
getting to that spot whichever way I can - it is like a movie - I
crawl through things to try to get to the magical room that is
mine & I never get there. I have been having this dream for over
a year at least - and it is the one dream I remember most.
Comments by Dreamer I am a painter by gift from God - I have
three small children 4,3,2yrs old and haven't "regularly" in
years.
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Dream Title The Third Floor - Leelu
Date of Dream Aug 2 1999 - 5am
Dream I cannot count the number of times I
have had this same dream. I am in a big old house. It is on a
point of land, on the water. I cannot see the outside of the
house in detail. I always start in the hallway inside the front
door. There is a winding staircase in cream and dark polished
wood. The livingroom area is sunken and you have to go down 3
steps to it. On the main level I always discover 3 bathrooms no
one else knows about. All done in different colours, yellow,
green and blue. The yellow and green bathrooms are in dis-repair.
The second floor is open and appears to sleep many people. In my
dream there is a door inside the closet with stairs that lead to
an upper floor. Once there I am always overwhelmed by it's
beauty. The walls are either green or blue silk with heavy velvet
draperies adorning the openings of the bedrooms. The drapes are
always open inviting me in. The first bedroom at first appears
quite bright but when you enter you have to !
!
turn an old hurricane lamp on to see in it. It then appears quite
dingy and old and smells musty. I don't feel comfortable here and
leave quikly. I only have ever glanced into the other 2 bedrooms
which are quite beautiful with hanging chandaliers and expensive
furniture and bedding. There are lots of chandeliers on the
ceilings in the hallway. Each time I seem to be explaining the
place to someone and then I pry off a piece of square plaster off
the wall, some type of plaque, and inside there is money...tons
of it...confederate money! How do I know it's confederate? I have
no idea since I am Canadian! At this point, everything is
beginning to be covered by a green mist, which gets so dense that
I can hardly make out the money in my hand or identify the people
I am with. A man's outline is visible. He is tall, thin and
walking towards me. This is how it ends each time. Comments by
Dreamer I would really like to know what this dream means.
Each time I have it, I always tell my husband. He doesn't have
any answers but isn't concerned. When I have the dream, I know
this house...I've been here before..but not in this life I can be
sure. Permission to Comment yes_share_comments
Permission Comments Please write me back if you can. Many
thanks
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From: Heratheta
wave drm-peace had lain to the right of the air if you had
avoided becoming extreme finding dream_peace had lain to the
right of the building if you had avoided becoming "almost"
more at www.dreamgaie.com./dream/dubetz/
--------------- MESSAGE dream-flow.v001.n133.3 ---------------
From: Heratheta 1 to 100 drm-peace had lain to the right of the
bath if you had avoided becoming "until'
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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Dream Title Counting from 1 to 100
Counting from 1 to 100
Counting from 1 to 100
Counting from 1 to 100
Date of Dream August 2.1999
Dream Tonight a dreamed that I am counting
from 1 to 100. I am doing this until I am going to a bath. In
every step I count 1,2 100. And in the end I appeared to the
bath. There is a queue of people waiting to come in. There I see
my old friend that I haven't seen from about 15 years. I undress
my morning gown which looks like soldiers dress. My friend, that
I saw in a queue of people says to me to bring the morning gown
with me and not leave it here but I don't want to take it with
me. Comments by Dreamer The thing that makes to me the
strongest impression is the counting. It is because I know that
it is one technique which I know from the book of Stephen LaBerge
'Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming'. That is a technique to
get into a lucid dream, but in my dream I count and don't aware
that am dreaming. In another dream I dreamed that I read books of
awaring dreaming but at the same time I DON'T AWARE that I am
dreaming. What is this a joke of my unconsciousness? Permission
to Comment yes_share_comments
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Dream Title Waverunning
Date of Dream Long time ago
Dream In most of my dreams that involve me
flying or falling, I feel emotions of fear and panic. However,
in one memorable dream I was flying in the air on a waverunner,
and the experience was extremely enjoyabel rather than
frightening. Although I was falling at an incredible rate, I
felt a sense of exhiliration, and was free to cartwheel and spin
as I pleased. At one point I remember flying towards a tree, and
a friend of mine (who was also on a waverunner) began shouting to
me to move out of the way. However, rather than flying around
the tree, I flew INTO a hole in the tree and upwards out of
another hole in the tree. I then sailed towards a lake and
landed calmly. Comments by Dreamer
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Dream Title Finding my Studio by Donna Kane
Date of Dream reaccuring
Dream I have this reaccuring dream - at times
it is frantic. I am in a large building - almost like a museum -
but abandoned (like where you would find a studio for an artist).
I can't find my spot. Either it's been taken - someone is there
already, or someone is nearby that I don't want to see ever. I
keep searching, the dream is all about searching, cubby holes
getting to that spot whichever way I can - it is like a movie - I
crawl through things to try to get to the magical room that is
mine & I never get there. I have been having this dream for over
a year at least - and it is the one dream I remember most.
Comments by Dreamer I am a painter by gift from God - I have
three small children 4,3,2yrs old and haven't "regularly" painted
in years.
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Dream Title Sky of joy...Bremen
Date of Dream # years ago
Dream The dream begins. I find my self in a
beautiful blue cobalt sky ( drifting )
I did not see my arms, legs ect. but I could feel my whole body.
Then I remember this pure joy ( child like joy) start to flow
through me. It was a feeling long forgotten till then. As the
flow of feeling increased my arms drew inward. All of the sudden
a surge of happiness flooded me to the point i could not contain
it no longer... my arms drawn in completely....then i exploded
arms down and back i shot through clouds into a warm bright
light. then I awoke wishing to continue the dream i tried to
fall back asleep ( sometimes it works for me) to no avail.
Comments by Dreamer
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Permission Comments I permit you to post the above text
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From: Heratheta@
spider drm-peace had lain to the right of the couch if you had
avoided becoming giant, and of course you could smell the spider
even though you were sleeping and could even hear it a little
bit. car wreck drm-peace had lain to the right of the mountain if
you had avoided becoming curvy
i just returned from the donner pass between sanfrancisco and
reno nevada. the number of problems on that road was much more
than usual for the area and i'm convinced it is a jinxed area.
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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From: Heratheta@
matches drm-peace had lain to the right of the man if you had
avoided trying fishy drm-peace had lain to the right of the bag
if you had avoided becoming contained falling house drm-peace
had lain to the right of the house if you had avoided becoming
most.
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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From: Heratheta@
furniture drm-peace had lain to the right of the friend if you
had avoided becoming "began" england drm-peace had lain to the
right of london if you had avoided becoming "about"
more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/
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From: Heratheta@
betrothall drm-peace had lain to the right of the reunion if you
had avoided
introducing
more at www.dreamgayte.com./dream/dubetz/
i found the number to the artists of the dream mural at
northpoint and polk in sanfrancisco. they were very kind and
invited me to meet with them however i got lost in the
sanfrancisco night trying to find 2981 24th street. does anyone
know this area of the city and or the kind of place this address
is?
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