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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News Harry Bosma
++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Editor, Lucy Gillis
Thought-Forms, Automatons, and Active Initiators:
Residents in Lucid Dreaming
Robert Waggoner
++ Article: Identifying The People In Our Dreams
Linda L. Magallón
++ Column: The View From the Bridge
How do your do a DA-FU-MU?
Jean Campbell
++ Article: Whitehead and Psi :
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from January, 2004
Host Kat Peters-Midland
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D E A D L I N E :
February 15th deadline for March 2005 submissions
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the February 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and
dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few lists where Electric Dreams
people seems to congregate. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by sending to:
dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted here, just
discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucy Gillis, always on the edge of what is happening in the world of dreams and lucid
dreaming, has once again found that edge and will be sharing that this month with
Electric Dreams. This is one of the newest and most controversial issues in dreamwork,
the status of Others in our dreams. Robert Waggoner's Dream Residents presentation was
a smash hit at the 2004 PsiberDreaming Conference and one of the best ways to jump
into this issue of the autonomy of dream entities. Be sure to reach this months selection
from the Lucid Dream Exchange, "Thought-Forms, Automatons, and Active Initiators:
Residents in Lucid Dreaming."
Linda Lane Magallón (author of "Mutual Dreaming") explores how other people show
up in our dreams and how to recognize them. Its not as easy as you would think, since
they can appear in various guised. Linda offers a system of Consistent Cues to allow to
see through the masks to your favorite dream partners. Be sure to read "Identifying The
People In Our Dreams"
Jean Campbell founded the World Dream Peace Bridge to allow people to join together
to dream about subjects for particular goals in the world. Jean looks at some of the
projects, particularly the DaFuMu projects to see if these individually shared dreams
form a message or gestalt that unifies these individual dreams and can itself be seen as an
individual dream. Be sure to read all about this in the View From the Bridge.
I'm including a second essay on the process theory of Alfred North Whitehead. This
article, "Whitehead and Psi : Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception." is
pretty much just what the title says. Its about how Whitehead's metaphysics can be used
to theorize psi phenomena, what the theory suggests for increasing psi awareness and
control, and how dreams provide a great laboratory for this work. It is pretty rough, so
I'm going to call it an 'exploration' rather than an essay.
Janet Garrett, who keeps up the wonderful collection of Electric Dreams articles, is now
adding some of the older columns to the collection. These columns contain a wide range
of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view
hundreds of article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm
Harry Bosma has collected dream news, web updates, conference announcement and
other events in the world of dreaming and you can read about those below in the Global
Dreaming News. If you have any dream news, conferences, books, workshops, and
especially any online meetings or events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the
15th of each month at ed-news@alquinte.com
Talking dogs, attacking lions, playing squirrels, flying Orioles, attacking owls, and a
roaming lioness
but no tigers or bears
what else could it be? Dreams in the January
dream section! Kat Peters-Midland has collected the finest from the month to read.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com
(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
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For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one of the
many resources:
http://www.dreamtree.com
http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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Wishing you the best of dreams,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
February 2005
If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his special ed-
news@alquinte.com address. I can also publish especially European and Asian dream
news on the Dreamers United web log, see www.dreamunit.net if you're curious.
Online:
- A Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- IASD Online Auction
- Results Planetary Dream Year 4
- Online Dream course from Gayle Delaney
Physical world:
- January: Stephen LaBerge program, Brazil
Books, movies, research:
- Sleep, dreams and spiritual reflections by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
- After-Death Communication Study
- Book translation dreaming classic
- Dreams - The Gateway, novel by Louis Poessel
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- A Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly
DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.
On the weekend of 15-17th of March, 2003, there was the largest ever world wide
outpouring of a desire for peace ( http://www.globenet.free-
online.co.uk/reports/antiwarprotests.htm). On the 15th of each month we can remind
ourselves of the enormous potential within people, and call upon the global energy, so
clearly displayed on that weekend.
In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace within the
universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal level, how to act in a
peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and supporting the general mandala of
peace available to all people.
A mandala is an image that holds together opposites. It is the image of our human
condition in which dark and light both play together. In dreaming towards, and in
creating "our" mandala of peace, we are learning how to move with grace in this world of
opposites: how to be at peace and how to act with peace.
As Valley says of the mandala of peace:
A dream hologram interweaving the fabric of time with auspicious action. In rythmn with
the creative intelligence. In balance with the pulse of life.
Our aim is to use our DaFuMu to help heal the destructive energies so rampant within the
world at the moment (see Harry Bosma's mandala being created as a process of personal
healing from dream images: http://alquinte.com/en/healing_dreams/mandala.shtml). The
construction of a peace mandala may flow from our dreams.
So, please join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to dream
towards the mandala of peace.
If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used within the
mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of peace, please let us know.
Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World Dreams
Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to worlddreams-
subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
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- IASD Online Auction
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Great news Dreamers! The IASD Online Auction resumes in February! We have many
items to bid on donated by generous dreamers and friends - a number of books, a CD, a
Dream Journal Kit beautiful artwork, a magazine subscription, and three telephone
dreamwork sessions.
The books that are up for bid are: Robert Moss's newest book "Dreamways of the
Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul", Justina Lasley's new book "Honoring
the Dream: A Handbook for Dreamgroup Leaders", Wanda Burch's "She Who Dreams",
Ed Bonapartian's book "The Stories of Our Lives", and Carolyn Bartlett's "The
Enneagram Field Guide: Notes on Using the Enneagram in Counseling, Therapy and
Personal Growth". All wonderful books for interested in dreamers!
Check out Marjorie Miles' DreamARTs: Creativity and Intuition Through Your
Dreaming Mind CD and booklet, an inspired CD of meditations to reconnect your
creativity and your Inner Dream Artist.
Looking for a dream journal to record your dreams? The Dream Journal Kit includes a
quality leather bound journal, unlined and ready for you to write and sketch your dreams.
It also includes colored pencils and light pen, so that you can write your dreams in the
dark and not disturb your household. The light pen can be quite the relationship saver!
Art, the language of the soul. Don't miss your chance to bid on Katherine Skaggs' limited
edition print of "Guardian" and Brenda Ferimanni's print of "Enlightenment". Don't let
these beautiful prints get away!
Consider bidding on a year subscription of the Dream Network magazine! What better
resource for inspiration & education to help you better understand the symbolic language
and metaphors in your dreams?
So far, three very talented dreamworkers have donated a telephone dream work session
each: Beverly Kane, M.D., Gloria Coelho, and Billie Ortiz. What an opportunity to delve
into your dreams and explore the symbols and metaphors of your deepest self!
The donations keep on pouring in, so I'm sure there will be more to bid on starting
February 1st. How to find the IASD Online Auction you ask?
You can find the auction on the discussion board of the IASD website:
http://www.asdreams.org/UltraBoardzzz/UltraBoard.cgi
Remember, all dreamers are invited to have fun and join in the bidding!
I hope to see you there!
Kat Peters-Midland
Director
IASD Online Auction
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- Results Planetary Dream Year 4
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I started to install the dreams incubated for the planetary Dream of year 4, placed under
the sign of climatic heating and the greenhouse effect (a vital question well on the agenda
when one sees the temperatures which prevail in Europe in this moment). See:
http://www.oniros.fr/reves04.html
http://www.oniros.fr/dreams04.html
With my thanks to the participants, although very few, which I regret:
- Richard Wilkerson (the USA)
- Nick Cumbo (Australia). Not received dreams?
- Catherine Vander Cammen (Great Britain)
- Roger Ripert (France)
It should be noted that Catherine addressed the dreams of 3 other participants, but they
are not personal. I could thus install them only as "associated dreams". One of the two
dreams of Catherine, entitled "the storm", seems to comprise an astonishing premonitory
dimension, considering the tidal wave which prevailed on December 26. For my part, I
noted 8 dreams but I only installed the first of them. For the continuation of the
installation of the Dreams, I await your corrections, further information, comments and
analyses.
Cordiales salutations oniriques
Roger Ripert
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- Online Dream course from Gayle Delaney
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All About Your Dreams
All About Your Dreams will help you learn to be a Dream Interviewer, someone who
knows how to ask the right questions rather than relying on the standard "one-size-fits-
all" dream dictionary. You will liberate yourself from psychological dogmas, and learn to
look before you leap to an interpretation. When you know how to look and listen
carefully, your dreams will become clear statements of your deepest insights. You will
see how Dream Incubation can help you target and solve particular problems in your life.
By using the steps and questions provided in the textbook and the course exercises, you
will learn to take advantage of the highly personal meanings of common dream images as
well as those of recurring dreams and nightmares. You can practice Dream Interviewing
and Dream Incubation by yourself or you can form "dream partnerships" with other
classmates. What a great opportunity to meet others who are just as fascinated by
dreaming as you are!
This course is great for artists, writers, lawyers, and scientists who would like to tap into
their dream-generated inspiration to problem solve more efficiently. Therapists and
dream group leaders and members who want to hone their interpretive skills are also
welcome.
For more information, see the website of Barnes and Noble:
http://educate.barnesandnobleuniversity.com/
educate/bn/home/catalog/overview.jsp?productId=8559
In case the above link doesn't work, copy and paste it so it reads as one line.
Alternatively, Gayle Delaney has her own website at http://www.gdelaney.com/ .
Gayle Delaney, Ph.D., is a pioneer in modern dream work. She is the best-known author
in the field of dream interpretation and incubation. Founding president of the Association
for the Study of Dreams, and co-director (with Loma K. Flowers, M.D.) of the Delaney &
Flowers Dream Center in San Francisco, she is the author of many books and is a popular
guest on such shows as Oprah, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and Good Morning
America.
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- January: Stephen LaBerge program, Brazil
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ONEIRIC VISIONS: Ayahuasca, Lucidity, and Dreaming in the Amazon A 13-day
residential program with Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D. January
23-February 5, 2005, Manaus, Brazil.
Stephen LaBerge will discuss the art and science of lucidity as a special guest of Luis
Eduardo Luna during a two week workshop exploring visionary sacred plants of the
Amazon. The program is sponsored by the Wasiwaska Research Centre for the Study of
Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Arts and Consciousness, and will include several
opportunities for guided personal experience with the shamanic brew ayahuasca, known
for producing powerful visionary experiences.
http://www.lucidity.com/manaus/index.html
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Sleep, dreams and spiritual reflections by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
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Available as a free download is the book "Sleep, dreams and spiritual reflections", written
by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya. Get it here:
http://www.awgp.org/english/books/books_english.html
Or immediately download the book in PDF format:
http://www.awgp.org/english/books/sleep_dreams.pdf
For more information you can also contact Vipul Patel, email him at patelvipulk [at]
indiadivine.com. Vipul told us to "please feel free to copy/distribute these books as the
Author intended them for public use and did not want to have any copyright on his
writings. Please feel free to use any part of this book with proper reference on your
website if you find the book informative."
What follows is the preface of the book, written by Dr. Pranav Pandya, MD.
[...] The reality, origin, reflections and implications of dreams are discussed in great
detail in this book, which is compiled from the translation of the Chapters 4 and 5 of the
volume 18 of "Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya Vangmaya" series [...]
The current status and future scope of research on dreams is discussed with substantial
references. Special attention is focused on dream based early detection, diagnosis and
therapies in the context of reported scientific experiments.
The readers will also get to know how the decipheration of dreams could help resolving
the complexities of psychosomatic disorders and elevating one's psychology. Sleep is an
integral part of life. The variegated experiences of dreams also become possible in this
phase. In normal case, for most of us sleep is almost an automatic, mechanical, or routine
process. We do realize its importance in relaxing and recharging of the body and the
mind but hardly pay any attention to its significant role in harmonizing the brain
functions, mental stability and self-development. The present book unfolds the multiple
facets of this natural and crucial process of daily-life.
Interrelationship of sleep, dreams and the limitless potentials of the conscious,
subconscious, and the unconscious mind are lucidly focused here in great depth. The
causes, pernicious effects, and remedies of insomnia, somnambulism, and other disorders
of sleep are discussed with substantial examples. Live examples of mysterious cases of
sleepless healthy and normal life for several decades and those of decades long natural
sleep are also reported with details on the ancient and modern research findings on such
wonders of human brain. The trenchancy of mind and its improved learning capabilities
during deep sleep is given special mention here and the results of recent experiments,
research trends, and scope of the techniques like hypnopaedia is discussed together with
the specific "yoga sadhnas"of relevance.
It is said that the 'time-capsule' existing in the inner cores of unconscious mind contains
the key to realization of supernormal faculties like clairvoyance, telepathy,
premonition, intuition, audio-visual perceptions beyond the constraints of time and space,
complete knowledge of the past and future and of the esoteric features of nature.... The
false convictions, illusions and the truth of the transcendental realities of dreams and the
subliminal world of the unconscious mind are brought out trenchantly by the author with
discussions on a wide varieties of live examples of dreams collected from authentic
reports and research documents. The list of examples includes the dreams that led to great
scientific discoveries or masterpiece creations of literature, art and music in the modern
age, as well as the significant dreams of the architects of world history.
The book presents the invaluable pearls of ancient knowledge in terms of elucidation of
the five levels of dream vis-à-vis the five subtle sheaths of consciousness and the deeper
aspects of creative conjugation of mind with the inner impulses of the soul. It is up to us
how best we make use of this rare guidance on spiritual evolution and opportunity of
epoch-making research bestowed on us.
It is hoped that the book would be interesting and informative to all those who would
read it out of sheer inquisitiveness about dreams. It would, at the same time, motivate and
effectively guide the researchers of the hidden domains of human mind.
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- After-Death Communication Study
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Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., a college teacher in Vancouver Washington, is collecting stories
of people who have been moved by dreams or sleep state encounters with the departed.
The stories will be included in a research presentation on the phenomenon of sleep
ADC's and will likely be included in an upcoming book. Participants may request
anonymity if desired. If you, or someone you know has experienced such a dream, please
contact Gillian at gholloway@lifetreks.com .
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- Book translation dreaming classic
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Project: Translate the classical 1867 book of Le Marquis Saint-Denys from French into
English.
Carolus M. den Blanken, who just finished a French to Dutch translation, asked me to put
this out to the dream community. Den Blanken has a desire to see the works translated in
full. He also adds that "My understanding is that the text and also the photo's are
copyright free since the book was already published in 1867."
Le Marquis Saint-Denys is famous for his association experiments with dreams as well as
lucid dreaming. For example, he once had the ladies he danced with wear different
perfumes. Then upon going to sleep, his servant would place those scents upon his
pillow. He noticed an increase in the number of dreams about that woman connected with
that scent. Anyway, there are many other precious experiments and work with lucidity as
well in his Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them; Practical Observations.
Why would someone take this on without pay? Den Blanken says he hopes for more
people who just like him would do it for the "satisfaction to work on the legacy of the
first western researcher on lucid dreams."
If you read Dutch then visit the Dutch website for more information:
http://home.casema.nl/carolus/
Richard
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- Dreams - The Gateway, novel by Louis Poessel
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What are dreams? Does everyone dream? Are dreams the portal to alter dimensions? Do
dreams contain a secret gateway that may lead man to another dimension? Can dreams be
used as the ultimate weapon? Dreams-The Gateway is the first book in a three part dream
series. The story, a new twist for science fiction fans, deals with all of these possibilities.
Follow the professor who is taken from his safe and protected college research laboratory
to a secret government base where new technology truly becomes a nightmare for those
who transverse into "Dreams-The Gateway".
The author can be contacted through his homepage at:
http://users.wcnet.net/louispoes
Or order the book online:
http://www.publishamerica.com/books/5911
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
Have you ever wondered about the reality of your dream characters? Do they
perhaps exist "somewhere" in another dimension of reality a "place" we
simply call "the dream state?" Could some of them be more than just images
conjured up by our minds? Do they have minds of their own? How could we go
about finding out?
In LDE 33 co-editor Robert Waggoner asks "Are all dream residents merely
thought forms?" and provides some very (if you'll pardon the pun)
thought-provoking examples.
THOUGHT-FORMS, AUTOMATONS, AND ACTIVE INITIATORS:
RESIDENTS IN LUCID DREAMING
(c) 2004 Robert Waggoner
(This article was initially presented at the 2004 PsiberDreaming
Conference.)
In a lucid dream years ago, I found myself having sex with an attractive
dream resident. While part of me enjoyed the physical thrill and building
passion, another part lucidly wondered, "Is she merely a thought-form?" To
resolve the question, I authoritatively announced, "All thought-forms must
now disappear!"
Suddenly, she was gone.
As I lay there in the semi-darkness, hanging in a missionary position that
had seemingly lost its mission, I wondered how someone apparently so real,
so tactile and so responsive could be nothing but a thought-form.
Before I could ponder too long, another woman had taken her place! While
not as captivating as the first, she seemed to know the part quite well, and
we continued the scenario with passionate gusto. Again, I consciously felt
her skin, touched her hair and pressed her lips, yet I had to wonder, "Could
she be a thought-form?" With that, I declared that all thought-forms must
disappear. Poof! She too vanished.
In the semi darkness of the lucid dream, I became alarmed. She had "felt"
real, as real as my body felt in the dream. But she too disappeared. How
could one tell then? How could one distinguish between a dream resident as
valid as one's self and a thought-form? Or are all dream residents merely
thought-forms?
Before I could finish the questioning, a third woman lay underneath me now!
Not as engaging as the first two and with a bit of an "attitude," she seemed
intent on fulfilling the mission. But as I felt her skin, her bones, her
muscles, seeking some imperfection that would clearly indicate her status in
the dream state as either equivalent to mine or just a thought-form, I
realized my sense's record of unreliability. Formulating the dreaded
question, "All thought forms must now..." - she was gone before I could say
- "disappear."
Shall we dreamers assume that all dream residents are simply thought-forms?
That seemed my unspoken assumption 29 years ago when I began lucid dreaming.
The dream characters (note: I no longer prefer the term, dream character, as
it suggests a pre-judgment that those who reside in the dream are merely
"characters" in a drama or book), or dream residents seemed to exist only as
projections of my dreaming mind. So in my early lucid dreams, I interacted
with the dream residents with complete confidence in my primary validity and
their secondary status. They were projections, play things, automatons of my
aware dreaming. In the lucid dream, I alone existed within a playground of
dreamed imaginings.
That assumption began to change one night, as I lucidly flew above a crowd
of dream residents. Laughing as I swooped down and knocked off the men's
hats, a hand suddenly shot up and grabbed me in mid-flight. Shocked by this
unimagined act, I wrestled free of the dream resident's grip, and continued
my lucid activities.
Awake, I now wrestled with the meaning of a dream resident's apparent
volition within "my" lucid dream. Can a mental projection possess volition?
Purposeful action? If so, does this suggest an awareness apart from the
lucid dreamer's? Can a dream resident be volitional, purposeful and aware?
If the actions run counter to the lucid dreamer's expectations, what then?
Over the years, other incidents have fueled my wonder about the nature of
dream residents. These are some abbreviated examples:
1) Driving down a mountain road, I realize I dream, and let go of the
steering wheel. Coming to rest in a mountain stream, I lucidly laugh and
call out to the night sky, "Pull me up stars!" Suddenly, I feel a firm grip
on my wrist, pulling me up. A young woman dream resident introduces herself
and tells me that she watches me in my dreaming and helps me. She explains
various things about dreaming and tells me how to reenter the dream.
2) Aware in a dream, I recall my goal to get precognitive information.
Seeing my brother, I lucidly ask, "So, D, a year from now, where will you be
living?" Hearing his response, I then ask, "A year from now, will you be
married?" Again he responds, but as he does so, a curious thing happens -
behind him appears a virtual duplicate of him with a bit of a worried
expression! (A year later, the answers are confirmed as correct.)
3) In a gray setting, I see A, a post-doctoral student from a foreign
country. He tells me that he would like to introduce me to his wife (whom I
have never met). She steps forward, and I am very surprised, since she looks
nothing like what I had expected. (A week later at a dinner party, some
graduate students tell me that they finally met A's wife. I stop them and
tell them that he introduced me to her in a dream! I describe her. One says
that I'm joking and have obviously met her. Another says that she probably
weighs 130 lbs. and not 125 lbs. as I estimated. The other says that it is
simply impossible. A month later when I meet her in waking reality, she
wears the same dress as in the dream.)
4) In a lucid dream, I announce that I want my higher self to take me to
some place important for me. Immediately, the dream scene changes to a
desert environment. I drift down to the ground, touching the waxy leaf of an
unfamiliar tree. Two women seem to wait for me. As I come to them, they
begin to ask me a series of thoughtful questions. Lucidly aware, I respond.
Finally they conclude, "You are not ready yet." I'm shocked to be judged by
these dream residents.
5) In a gray setting, I see a golden wood ladder. I watch as someone comes
down the ladder - it's my deceased father! I realize that I dream, and
laugh at his inability to get a good haircut in the after-death state.
Thinking that he may be a "thought-form", I decide to ask him questions
about future events. He responds. Then he informs me that he has come "to
tell me things." He suggests things to prepare for and then suggests that I
quit judging a certain person, since I have no understanding of the trials
in her life.
In these examples, one sees a sampling of lucid encounters with dream
residents. In the first, an unexpected dream resident announces that she
watches and helps me! She seems to possess knowledge that I do not. In the
second, a dream resident responds correctly to questions about precognitive
events. Oddly however, behind the dream resident appears a virtual copy; so
is the first, the second, or both, a "thought-form" of mine? Does the
apparently precognitive information come from a source like the collective
unconscious, or from the mind of dream resident #1 or #2?
In the third example of being introduced to A's wife, shall one assume that
A and his wife are thought-forms? Or have I met their equally valid dream
selves in the dream state? Is the lucid dreamer the only valid self in the
dream? In the fourth example, what can one make of a lucid dreamer being
judged (and in this case found wanting) by dream residents?
In the final lucid dream of meeting my deceased father, does it matter if he
responds correctly to my questions seeking precognitive information? Does
that prove that he is something other than a "thought-form"? How can a
lucid dreamer prove the status of a dream resident? Even if a dream
resident feels real and provides knowledge beyond the dreamer's capacity to
know, does that provide sufficient evidence to give them validity equal to
the dreamer's?
One of the beauties of lucid dreaming involves one's ability to question
assumptions, conduct experiments and act creatively. My initial assumption
that all dream characters are simply projections of my dreaming mind, now
seems simplistic.
What do you think about the nature of dream residents?
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Identifying The People In Our Dreams
©2004 Linda L. Magallón
(From "How To Fly")
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Let's say you want to dream with a friend. You agree to meet in-dream, and then look for
evidence of success. What sort of evidence will you be seeking? Do you think that people
will appear in dreams just as they do in waking life? Well, they might, but I wouldn't
count on it.
Have you ever had a dream in which you weren't quite yourself? When your hair was
another color? When you were older or younger than your current age? When you were
the opposite sex, a member of a different ethnic group, an inhabitant of another century?
Maybe you were a different species altogether: a bird, an alien, a pixie. Or something
animated, like a cartoon character. Perhaps you had no form at all, or were just a point of
light. All this is possible in the dream state. And, if it's possible for you to have an
alternate image, doesn't it stand to reason that it is possible for your dream companions to
undergo such magical transformations, too?
In some cases, the dream psyche is giving you an outfit to wear to the costume ball. It's as
though the psyche sees something in material word, like a crawling insect, and says,
"Wow, I wonder what it would be like to be a cockroach?" And that night, it tries on the
cockroach persona and image for size. This sort of costume is a rental, to play-pretend,
and not an actual affirmation of you.
In other cases, the dream is allowing you to picture an aspect of yourself that truly is you,
but another side of you. Suppose I ask the question, "If you were an animal, what animal
would you be?" and you answer, "A buffalo." You feel a kinship with the beast, perhaps
because of its mannerisms, perhaps because of what it represents to you, or perhaps
because you like to think of yourself as a "buff dude." Whatever the reason, you associate
yourself with the image of a buffalo. And when your partner tries to dream with you, and
has a dream about a buffalo, he may actually be perceiving you. Not the "you" that looks
like that buff dude in the bathroom mirror, but the "you" that thinks of yourself as a
buffalo.
The truth is that the dreaming self is quite capable of "X-ray" vision and can see beneath
the surface of our outer personas, if it so chooses. It can see below the outer facade to all
those secret selves that live within us. That's why, when we try to identify the people in
our dreams, we really have to put on our detective hats and probe deeply for clues to the
people we know in the waking state. Because they just may be appearing in disguise.
Verification
It's no easy task for your partner to discover that his dream buffalo points to you, even if
he's lucid. Identification while dreaming is a tricky business. It's to the waking state we
must return for solid confirmation. There are basically 2 ways to verify that your partner
has picked up some information about you.
The first is to get your feedback. For this, you need to be able to recognize and tell him if
he's perceived the "inner you." Of course, this requires that you have a good working
knowledge of all the layers of yourself, and not everybody does. Nor can we, if we are
growing, developing individuals. All life long, we still discover and uncover new aspects
of ourselves.
The second option is for your partner to compare his dream with your dream or waking
life (including life of your imagination). The likelihood that he will have a dream that
exactly matches yours is very small. The chance that he will dream a carbon copy of
either your physical or imaginal environment is also very low. But there are portions of
his dream that can serve as clues to unlock the mystery of how psychic perception works.
I call them "Consistent Clues." They are the skeletons, the "bare bones" of dream
structure. While they are not guaranteed to appear in every interactive dream, they appear
often enough to make us stand up and take notice.
My advice is to begin familiarizing yourself with the Consistent Clues, in order to get a
sense of dream coding and decoding in general. Even if your symbols differ, it'll be easier
to crack the case, to solve the mystery, after you get a general feel for how coding works.
Consistent Clues aren't limited to dream character identification. They work for all sorts
of dreams. If you use them to compare your dreams and your waking life, they just might
work for the dream you had last night.
My examples come from one of my mutual dreaming projects, called Nexus. Here's some
Consistent Clues to look for as you read along.
Consistent Clues: COLOR, LIGHTING, FORM, TEXTURE, PERSPECTIVE, MOTION
Some dreamers have a tendency to see each other with different colored hair when they
dream together. This may be just a reflection of their self-image. It's not uncommon for
folks whose hair has turned grey to still picture themselves with the black, blonde or
brown hair of their youth.
When the goal was to "dream for Kyla," one of her Nexus team members reported this
dream: "I see a woman with long, bushy, curly red hair. I tell her she'd look better with it
cut. No comment from her. She collects all kinds of sacred objects. There are about 20
saber toothed tiger heads mounted on the walls and crystals and rocks hanging on cord
hung from the ceiling."
Kyla responded, "I see myself with red hair sometimes in dreams, and a friend once saw
me shift to this aspect in wake-time. I recently dreamed of entering an old wild road
populated by tigers, among other beasts. In my dream, I retreated from the tiger, but you
saw the deeper part of me who knows no fear." The tiger heads were props attached to
the wall; they were the artifacts of Kyla's dream.
Color became the chief indication of one another's presence, not only in terms of dream
actors, but also as regards the scenery and props. In one case, the goal for the Nexus
group was to meet at the Great Pyramid. Team member Barbara Shor dreamt of a purple
heart and a pyramid while I combined her two dream elements and dreamt of a purple
pyramid.
By itself, color may not be enough of a signifier, but the case for telepathy is
strengthened when other elements of similarity appear. For instance: texture or substance.
Barbara's pyramid had a tip of clear crystal whereas I held between my fingers a clear
crystal of pyramidical shape. Both of us had an extraordinary amount of light in our
respective dreams, too.
This is a portion of Barbara's dream:
_____________________________
"The Pyramid is towering before me. I'm coming up on its lower right-hand edge,
climbing up the steep hill toward where it stands. I know I'm really there because it looms
over me with that strange, huge, but foreshortened quality that it has. Its energy is so
powerful that it shimmers in the air. Yet its shape is so perfect that it somehow doesn't
seem real. It's like an energy silhouette blanking out the sky, rather than a solid three-
dimensional object. It's an almost-solid multidimensional object.
"As I look up I see that, real though it seems, this is a dream version, for the Pyramid is
complete. It has an enormous, water-clear quartz crystal tip, and the sun rising behind it
ignites the crystal in a blaze of light. Suddenly, the tip swings back to the right, as though
it were hinged to the top of the structure. And I see a crowd of human-like golden winged
beings flying in and out of the interior. From this perspective, and in the dazzling light,
they seem more like a swarm of golden bees with vast wings made up of strands of
golden energy filaments."
_____________________________
And here is a part of my dream:
_____________________________
"Unlike most of my dreams, the scenery is brightly colored and finally I become lucid--
There's a store counter with things hanging on strings from a display rack. I handle them
to prepare myself for the goal of the night. Talking to an unseen woman to my left, I
describe, "The bottom has four sides and it comes to a point." With this, I "image up" a
clear crystal pyramid, about an inch high. Holding it between left thumb and index finger,
I can feel the sharp point pressed against the middle of my finger.
"Satisfied that I've got a good "feel" and image, I place it on the counter and walk to the
middle of the room. "Excuse me," I tell the woman, "I've got to go to the pyramids." I
hold out my arms and spin to wipe out the scenery, calling out, "Pyramids! Pyramids!"
When I open my eyes, success! I'm in a brightly colored restaurant where the men wear
fezzes. I hurry outside and turn my gaze up, up, almost straight upwards. It's the
pyramids!
"The sight that greets my eyes is vibrantly tinted. The facade of the building is a bright
purple, against a bright blue, against a bright green pyramid. But they're multilayered and
flat on top. I grin at the ironic realization that the only pyramids I've ever traveled to in
waking life are the ones south of the border. So my dreaming mind has conjured up
Mexican pyramids!"
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The form of the pyramid is one of the Consistent Clues. I dreamt of flat-topped Mexican-
style pyramids. When the tip of Barbara's swung away, it left a flat-topped pyramid, also.
And yet another clue is viewpoint. Barbara's pyramid was looming over her. In order to
see my pyramid the first time, I had to look almost straight upwards, since I was so close
to its steep sides. "Looming over" me is a good description of my perspective of the
pyramid, too. More oblique were the long, thin forms, suspended in the air. I dreamt of
things hanging on strings, whereas Barbara dream of vast wings made up of golden
filaments.
In my dream, I spread my arms and spun to go to the pyramids, then exited the interior to
the outside; in Barbara's she sees human-like winged beings exiting the pyramid to the
outside. So, did Barbara see me, with arms extended, as a winged being? I'd like to think
so. Other dreamers have dreamt of me with wings. Not surprising, I love to fly!
Consistent Clues: COLOR, LIGHTING, FORM, TEXTURE, PERSPECTIVE, MOTION
(Dream Flights)
© 2004 Linda Lane Magallón
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HOW DO YOU DO A DA-FU-MU?
The View From the Bridge
January 2005
Jean Campbell
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Almost exactly two years ago, back in March of 2003, Kathy Turner of Australia asked
members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, "Is there a name for this type of focused,
intense, peace dreaming we are doing?"
It seemed that there was. There ensued a week of conversation on the Peace Bridge,
tossing words around from various languages. The word that came up as the favorite of
all the Peace dreamers was Da-Fu Mu, which is a combination of Japanese and Chinese
meaning "Big Dream of Great Fortune."
Now the Peace Bridge has pledged to conduct a DaFuMu dreaming for World Peace on
the 15th of each month, and invited the participation of anyone else who wants to join us
(see http://worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm ). But, as a result, the
question has come up of how would one interpret a group dream, or utilize its function?
This seems to me like a good question to address, as personally I would love to see all of
us considering the World Dream, of which our individual dreams are a part. Pacifica
Institute director, Stephen Aizenstat and others have pointed out what could be
considered an extension of the Jungian concept of the archetype, that the World may have
dreams of its own.
As founder of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, I came to the group with considerable
experience in group dreaming. Beginning in 1978, I conducted a ten year series of
experiments in group dreaming called, "Dreams To the Tenth Power," in which we asked
groups of ten people from around the world to dream together on a particular series of
nights, with a particular goal to be met.
What we discovered in that experiment was that people did appear to be able to dream
together when asked, and that they often exhibited dreaming skills in telepathy and
precognition while doing it.
So I came to the Peace Bridge suspecting that these potentials might exhibit themselves
within the context of dreams of world peace.
There is another question to be considered though. If it is true that people can join
together to dream *about* a particular subject or *for* a particular goal. Do the
combined dreams of these people form a message or gestalt which can be interpreted in
the way we interpret individual dreams?
To explore that question, I would like to take a look at five of the dreams that came in
response to the night of DaFuMu dreaming this month.
On the surface of things the dreams don't seem to hold much relevance to World Peace,
and several of the dreamers questioned whether they should even submit them.
Gina
My dream from last night doesn't seem to have any clear connection to the Dafamu, but
I'm offering it anyhow, just in case it resonates with anyone:
There were two clips on the hood of my car, one on each side of the hood close to the
windshield. They were made of thick wire. One was missing and the other was broken. I
was in a large warehouse where I knew there were two auto parts dealers. I first went to
the one I had dealt with before, which was in the back, and found that it had gone out of
business, presumably because the other dealer had moved into the front of the building
and taken all of its customers. I went back to the front just as the owner or manager of
the other business was pulling down a metal security screen in front of the business to
close for the day. I persuaded him to sell me the clips I needed. I was afraid that if I
didn't get the clips before I left, the hood of my car would come up while I was driving
and block my vision.
Ilkin
I am climbing to a building, where there are people I dint see for a long time. They are
working for Freedom and Solidarity Party. I have a backpack in one hand and white
papers in other. There are questions and answers I prepeared to lighten them on the
papers. I am asking a young woman to take their photocopies for me. An old friend says
the people I am looking for are in the next room. I am feeling happy that I will give them
the answers I prepeared. I am thinking that they are important for their work for
peace.The buildings (the one we are in and others) begins to slide paralel and with a little
angle to the earth. But it doest effect us physically or emotionally. We are hopefull and
smiling. I am sitting in font of a wall and leaning to an old friend. The dead ones are also
with us. I feel that we are in a different kind of place where the dead and alive can be
together for good things.
Liz
I had dream of you last night (Jean)... we were at IASD Conference and you were
presenting a new presentation to everyone with Power Point. I was in charge of making
the changes with this new 3D software... but I had not realized all the pages were done,
when I was making changes to the first screen. Rita D. was there too... there was quite a
crowd. But we got it all together... and the new software was really neat and I was going
to learn how to work with it so that you (Jean) could have a monthly newsletter to
everyone later on. That was just part of the dream..
I wonder why I dream of IASD so much. I don't think in all my life I've dreamed of one
particular thing as much as I do the organization -- other than my returning to my old
college (Occidental).... goes to show you how much IASD touches me maybe or how
much a part of dreams it represents for me.
Jean
I am walking in bright sunlight in a bazaar (See why I want to call the Silent Auction an
International Bazaar? I keep dreaming about them.) I am a man, a priest. I am wearing a
black cassock, and one of those nifty red, wide collars that some priests wear, particularly
in the Greek Orthodox church, I believe. I am carrying a big basket over one arm for
groceries. I am holding in my right hand a couple of lamb shanks, trying to decide
whether to buy them or not. I am followed by a crowd of children, both boys and girls,
mostly between the ages of eight and twelve. They are barefoot, dark haired, middle
Eastern, but dressed in Western clothing. They are from an orphanage or are street kids I
work with.
In my mind I hear the words, "It's amazing how many different things can be done with
the money" (meaning money we raise here on the Bridge). At first the priest is saying
that to himself as he looks back over his shoulder at the crowd of kids, catching the eye
of a beautiful little girl with tangled curls, wearing a brown and cream plaid dress. Then
it is me saying it to the priest. And then I am fully lucid, realizing that this is a dream I'm
sharing with the priest and the kids. And then I am awake, hearing said to ME, "Feed the
hungry."
Diana
My dream was of a pair of tap dancing children. I could only see their feet. They had a
little box with them, that sent some signal as to what routine they should shift to. This
went on for awhile, and as I watched their shoes, I could tell that they weren't
professionals, but they weren't about to give up, practice...practice.
I've never been a dancer of any sort. Peculiar dream.
But now I am going to suggest that we look at these dreams the way that I most often
initially perceive my own, personal, dreams. When I recall a dream I have had on a non-
group dreaming night, I usually feel around immediately for the "message" of the dream.
I know that all dreamers don't do that, but I tend to be among the "an unexamined dream
is like an unopened present" school; so I am always eager to open my presents, even if
there is sometimes an unpleasant surprise inside.
Let's take a look then at the messages the five DaFuMu dreams for World Peace seem to
present. In some cases, the dreamer has stated the message; in some cases I am making
an inference.
Gina
Take precautions now so you won't be blinded later.
Ilkin
I have some answers which can enlighten my friends in their work for peace. We can all
joyfully work together on this, both the alive and those who are "dead."
Liz
My dreaming friends and I can use PowerPoint to communicate about World Peace.
Jean
Feed the hungry, particularly in the Middle East. It can be a pleasure.
Diana
Don't give up on dancing, even if you're not a professional. Practice, practice.
When considered in this manner, the dreams link together to carry a powerful message
for attainment of World Peace: "Take precautions now, so you won't be blinded later. I
have some answers which can enlighten my friends in their work for peace. We can all
joyfully work together on this, both the alive and those who are dead. My dreaming
friends and I can use PowerPoint to communicate about World Peace. Feed the hungry,
particularly in the Middle East; and don't give up dancing, even in you're not a
professional. Practice, practice."
Is this way of looking at DaFuMu dreaming something like reading an oracle? Maybe.
But probably no more than the way many of us use dreams at a personal level.
Interpretation of dreams always needs common sense and a clarity on the part of the
dreamer that there is a real "ah-ha" connection with the meaning of the dream.
Over the months between now and the IASD conference in Berkeley in June, members of
the Peace Bridge (and their friends, which could be you) intend to begin to create a
mandala for World Peace from the images individual dreamers present from their dreams.
During the conference, we hope to present a living mandala. And, just for those who
love the precognitive and telepathic elements of dreaming, there's an additional aspect of
the "instructions" from these dreams.
Prior to January 15, I was very busy with the fundraising being done for the Aid for
Traumatized Children Project conducted by the Peace Bridge. So I didn't have time to
verbally explain to Liz that I had been thinking how nice it might be to have a
PowerPoint presentation about the Peace Bridge work, and have it ready for the
conference. No problem there though, her dreaming self had not only gotten the message
already, but also completed the presentation. Hopefully it will be as easy a job in waking
state as it was in dreams.
Next month again, on February 15, The World Dreams Peace Bridge will hold a DaFuMu
dreaming for World Peace. We hope you will join us. If you would like to know more
about the work of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, take a look at our web site at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org , and if you would like to join us in discussion,
just send a post to worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Whitehead and Psi :
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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An illustrated version of this article is available at:
http://dreamgate.com/pomo/whitehead_and_psi.htm
KEY:
AI = Adventure of Ideas
MT = Modes of Thought
PR = Process and Reality
PRr = Process and Reality, revised edition
SMW = Science and the Modern World
Glossary: Please use:
http://www.hyattcarter.com/glossary.htm
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
As the title indicates, there are three items being brought together in this essay, which
may be restated as how process theory, as it was developed by Alfred North Whitehead
and his followers, might be applied to extrasensory perception and other psi phenomena,
particularly in dreams.
Alfred North Whitehead [18611947], said very little about dreams and telepathy. He did
belong to a society at Cambridge which kept votes on the topics of discussion, and
according to his main biographer, Victor Lowe, Whitehead always voted yes on
questions of psi phenomenon being possible. But no record from these meetings reveals
any developed opinions. Still, his process theory, which attempts to encompasses
science and non-science, provides a theoretical basis for nonsensual perception and action
at a distance, which may be seen as the core elements of all psi phenomenon.
Whitehead developed his process theory at Harvard, after two other full and distinguished
careers as a theoretical mathematician at Cambridge, and educational reformer and
administrator at the University of London. Instead of retiring in 1924, he moved his
whole family to America and became a philosopher at Harvard, where he developed his
unique ideas that brought subjective experience back into science, a brought science into
the new world of subatomic processes.
Core Theory
In Whitehead's process theory world, there is only one thing in the universe, Creativity.
That is, the universe is a "creative advance into novelty." [PR 222]
Just to get a picture of this in our minds, think for a moment of all things being conscious,
but only for a second, and without any memory. As we look around the room, everything
we see is aware, but in the next moment, a new awareness arises as the previous one
perishes.
The table is aware? Well, ok, no. Only individuals are aware, and the table is an
aggregate of individuals. For now, think of the table as a swarm of processes, of
individual atomic and subatomic processes, that can experience. However, their
experience is very short, on the order of a millionth of a second. On the other hand, some
things, like you and me, can remember our experiences. This allows us to build up
contrasting views and options, to add more creativity to what we receive and what we
pass on.
What's the Matter with Matter?
Whitehead was unhappy with the material stuff in science. He felt that the notion of
matter was inherited from an ancient time when there had to be a container for the stuff
of the world. The stuff might vary, green stuff, hard stuff, soft stuff, gold stuff, granite
stuff, gaseous stuff, but it was all matter. Yet the very sciences that rely on this view are
the ones that have dissolved this view. The more we poke into matter the more ghost-like
the stuff becomes.
This is not news for 21st Century people. We have been comfortable with E=MC2 for
generations and easily convert matter into energy in our theoretical minds. Yet the
ancient concept of matter as a container linger on.
Everything (individual) has Experience.
However, Whitehead was also not happy that experience had been disconnected from
energy, and that energy had, like matter, become a vacuous concept, devoid of experience
and fully determined. For Whitehead, the energy units of the universe were instances of
the creativity of the universe, and better characterized as feeling. Feeling captures for
Whitehead the sense that the basic instances of the universe-as-creativity are both body
and mind, both sensitive and sensor, influenced and influencing, experiencing, creative
productions that take in the universe in its multiplicity and add to it their own view, so
that there is always an all plus one. Feeling is a unification of the universe, plus this new
addition. Its an actual process in transition that includes a self-evaluation as well as an
evaluation of what it receives and what it passes on. For now, think of these feelings like
as quantum energy units, with limited sentience.
Everything is in a Feeling.
"
apart from the experiences of subjects, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, bare
nothingness." [PRr 167.]
It is one of the tenets of Whitehead's theory that there is nothing beyond the experience
of these feeling individuals. This experiential creativity is the final thing at the base of the
universe, and there is nothing underneath this primitive feeling. All potentials, all sense
and nonsense, all real and actual, unreal and partial, are "in" so to speak, some experience
or another.
Yet note clearly that experience for Whitehead is not the same as consciousness. Object
consciousness for Whitehead is a very highly evolved process synthesized from these
more primitive experience/feelings, and consciousness is deeply swamped by sensual
perceptions. I will separate these out more below as the difference is crucial for
understanding nonsensual perception. For now, think about primitive experience more
like "The Force" in Star Wars, as a direct connection of feeling to the whole universe. It
connects to us by levels of intensity, depending on its relevance. At one moment, a blind
Jedi feels more intensely the room around them and the swirl of her opponent's light
saber. The next, she may be in closed-eye meditation and feel most intensely the torture
of her friends a million light years away on the planet Harth-Vedra.
Prehension
At higher levels of synthesis where we are conscious of the world through our senses and
reason, the word 'apprehend' is often used. We take the world in and understand it in
some particular way or another. Since Whitehead attributes a kind of pre-conscious
understanding to all individuals, from sub-atomic particles to humans to God, he uses the
term 'prehend,' which might be initially characterized as apprehension without the ape,
prior to sensual perception, prior to object consciousness, prior to human identity.
Primitive feelings, or prehensions, are then both subjects and objects. They are what
feels and what is felt. As they are real, actualized processes or instantiations of creativity.
Whitehead's technical terms for these primitive feeling/experiences are actual occasions,
and actual entities. An actual occasion begins its creative process in feeling the past or
prehending the past. An actual occasion feels the past from its own present. It feels the
past as efficient causation, just as I feel the pressure of life pushing upon me. However,
the cause is felt or prehended by an actual occasion as an aim from the past, and not just
as an object of empty force. It is not fully determined by these past causes, but does
directly feels them in its initial phase of becoming. Whitehead calls the process of actual
occasions becoming, 'concrescence', meaning becoming actual or concrete, a growing
together, coalescing. They are 'actual' because they are both real, and actualized.
The actual occasion in its initial physical phase receives the influences of the past, but
then in a conceptual second phase begins forming a subject from these influences, and
from the pure potentiality of the universe. Finally the occasion forms it's novel subjective
aim, a primitive purpose one might say, from its unique view of the universe. As it passes
out of the present, this subjective aim becomes an objective cause for actual occasions.
Note the radical view of subject and object here. In the present, we are subject, but in the
next moment we pass this present on as an objective datum that can be prehended by
other present/future actual occasions.
Also note that the subjective aim includes an anticipation of future occasions. Peter
Mutnik [2005] says this anticipation is what separates classical from quantum physics.
This anticipation does not become a hard cause, but does align the occasion with larger
sets or groups that can be quite distant, spatially and temporally. We will look at this in
more detail later in the work of David Pleasant.
If we looked at the life of a single atom from a Whiteheadian view, say one in a wooden
table, we would see the that this atom endures over time like a string of beads, with each
present moment the atom coming into being and perishing into the past. This creates a
kind of temporal society. This singular society will be part of other larger societies
(molecules, macromolecules, organisms) and constrained to some degree by them.
So we might say that the actual entity is a microcosmic entity, while the macrocosmic
entities of everyday experiencemen, trees, housesare groupings of entities termed
nexu/s (plural of nexus has a line over the u, written here as nexu/s ), or societies. We
have already said that tables and houses are not individual, but aggregates of individual
societies. Yet there may be, as in a stone, properties objectively shared by the
components of the aggregate. In this case, Whitehead will refer to the object as a non-
indvidualized society. On the other hand, to the degree our body/mind or any individual
responds to the world in a unified way, the society is said to be an individualized society.
Non-individualized societies are swarming with experience, its just not unified.
Note that Archetypal Psychology has challenged the notion that objects cannot have soul.
This might be seen as the first step in acknowledging this. However, in Archetypal
Psychology, objects *sometimes* have soul and sometimes do not. The animist position
that
tribal peoples attribute a continued presence in a stone is incorrect. The stone is
sometimes inhabited, and other times not. I will discuss the status of semi-autonomous
entities in a later essay on Whitehead. For now, I simply want to note that 'objects',
while not always conscious, always have primitive experience. In this way, the
mind/body issue is not, as Griffin [1989] says, an ontological dualism, but simply an
organizational duality. We put primitive experience together in one way and there is only
unconscious micro-mind, we put it together in another way and we get consciousness
awareness.
Consciousness, finally.
"Consciousness is how we feel the affirmation-negation contrast" [PR 372].
In general, more complex occasions will cycle within themselves between the physical
and conceptual phases, and synthesize more complex subjective aims, and object
consciousness. That is, more freedom, and consciousness. Not all actual occasions will
vibrate in this way and so most will not reach consciousness.
For primitive experience to be synthesized into consciousness, a contrast or unity of
incompatibles needs to occur. This will be the feeling of a set of feelings on one hand,
and the feeling of a proposition about those feelings on the other. At the primary level of
experience, there is only direct perception, and no issue of proposition truth or falseness.
Just as an illustration, when we hit our foot with a hammer, there is no question in our
mind whether we are feeling pain or not. We don't ask, "Hmm, I wonder if that hurts, or
could I be wrong?" We might, however, be wrong about what hit us and why. This is just
an illustrative analogy, not an example, since consciousness is involved in the sensory
awareness of pain.
Contemporary Separation
Contemporary actual entities are actual entities that occur in causal independence of one
another. "Actual entities are called contemporary when neither belongs to the 'given'
actual world defined by the other" [PR 102].
Actual occasions cannot experience other actual occasions in its same present. Everything
in the present, including your own subjectivity, is not available for another coalescing
prehension. A microsecond after the subjective present perishes into the objective past,
then all these occasions become available for experience. As an occasion perishes, it
passes on its subjectivity as its subjective aim, felt as efficient causation in the present
occasion.
As an analogy might be like the experience of your room, what you are experiencing in
the room now, as being the product of experience that occurred a micro-moment ago.
Note that in Whitehead, some of this was your own personal experience, now objective
(like your memory and visual field), and some is the experience of other actual occasions,
which have now become relevant to you, but may not have been before. That is, I turn my
head and now the relevancy of the table declines, and the bookcase increases.
The table and bookcase (its individual occasions that make them up, that is) are both in
the present as a subject (which you can't see) and in the immediate past as an object
which you can see. A better model of this is saying that as the moment passes, objects
shift from a subjective phase to an objective phase. Once it has shifted, an occasion is
objective or available for all to see.
Mutual Immanence
That one actual occasion, once it has perished, is available to all other actual occasions,
has been implied in this essay, but not specifically stated. Once an actual occasion
perished and becomes objective, it is theoretically available to all other new occasions in
the universe. Due to their low intensity and relevance, distant occasions may not rise to
awareness. Still, there is at the core of Whitehead's process philosophy this very key
factor of each occasion adding its own uniqueness to the whole universe upon each
concrescence, and this uniqueness being potentially available then to all other occasions.
Time and space do not impose limits as the occasion, once available, is available to the
whole extensive continuum. Just like a dream, where the occurrence of a seemingly
distant event is available material for all other parts of the dream immediately, so to the
extensive continuum is like the dreamer who dreams our dream and all parts are
immediately influenced.
Occasions are not overwhelmed by this influx of all other occasions as each actual
occasion acts as a filter as well as a reception to other occasions. Whitehead refers to this
filtering as Negative Prehension, and this is generally a process available only to the
second phase of conceptual prehension, where valuations are made. In other words, an
occasion has influence on future occasions depending on its relevance to the subjective
aim of the future forming occasion. Actual occasions on Alpha Centauri are as available
as actual occasions in front of my nose, but their relevance and intensity are minimal.
Mutual immanence is not so bizarre if we return to the notion that life if basically strands
of energy feelings. To the degree that these feelings are semi-sentient energy events in
motion, then all types of events can arise through the transmutation of the energy inherent
in actual occasions. Once actualized, that particular transformation is more likely to
occur again. In this sense it is easy to see that all possible forms are in all other possible
forms, and that those forms which are brought into actuality are more relevant to "the
force" in general.
Sensory and Nonsensory Perception
Sensory perception for Whitehead is built up out of two more primary forms of
perception, of time and of space. Perception in the mode of causal efficacy is a basic
perception of time and perception in the mode of presentational immediacy is a basic
perception of space.
However, we can't confuse this with Kant's notion of consciousness through the intuitive
modes of time and space. For Whitehead, perception initially occurs pre-consciously as
casual efficacy and presentational immediacy, which may or may not rise into the
propositional symbolic relations of consciousness and conceptual understanding.
Causal efficacy is a direct, nonsensory perception of change. This is the Jedi
"disturbance in the force." It is about positively prehending trajectories of the past and
their future aims. In other words, it is a direct grasp of causes. Though experienced by an
actual occasion, they are vague and initially unconscious. Causal efficacy "
produces
the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future
a
sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past." [PR 178] Cobb
refers to this as our "non-local, non-conscious interaction with the world as quantum
organisms, a form of direct 'perception.'" [Cobb, 1993] .
This mode of perception is core for Whitehead, and probably the most controversial.
Whitehead felt that Hume and those who base their reasoning on conscious perception of
the immediate objects of the environment, tend to end up not being able to find any
evidence of causality in perception. Causality is relegated to being a constructed idea
rather than a mode of perception. Whitehead's causal efficacy holds that causal influence
permeates normal perception, and sees persisting entities with a past and an efficacy in
the future. Perception is not limited to our typical spatialized present, but includes more
fundamentally a temporal perception of the massive past.
Presentational immediacy is the perception of space in the sense of the relationships of
space or the way space is structured in the present.
Both of these are perceptions of the extensive continuum. The extensive continuum is
the way the many and the one can communicate with one another in the sense of general
relationships before they acquire temporalization and spatialization. Its not *what* gets
transmitted, but the conditions. An occasion may or may not conform to these conditions,
but to be part of the continuum, they must conform. There may be other extensive
continuums than the ones in which we participate, and participation is part of the
definition of being part of that continuum. Some have attempted to define these
conditions specifically and have succeeded and failed in various degrees. Note for
example Kant's Categories, where the conditions for Understanding were attempted,
(Quantity, Quality, Relation, Modality) and previous to Kant, the a-priori conditions,
such as a=a and all bodies have extension. Whether or not these particular categorical
truths hold is not the issue here. Rather, here we can just say that in particular Epochs,
such as our own, particular laws (or persistent habits) hold sway over the way time and
space unfold for experience.
As an actual occasion concrecses, it absorbs into its becoming the objective aim of the
whole past and the past's space/time continuum. There is pressure to conform to the
received continuum as well as pressure to unfold a novel continuum.
In presentational immediacy, there is just the presentation of a cross-section of the
immediate present as a potential of extensive relations, without any causal concerns. As
an illustration, we see a patch of color/space, and we don't know where it came from or
where it is going. When combined with our senses, we can say this is about the geometry
of life, how its all divisible, (how we can chop up perception into spatial segments).
Presentational immediacy is the perceptive mode "in which there is clear, distinct
consciousness of the 'extensive' relations of the world. . . . In this 'mode' the
contemporary world is consciously prehended as a continuum of extensive relations" [PR
95].
When combined with sensory data, presentational immediacy sharpens causal efficacy.
"But we all know that the mere sight involved, in the perception of the grey stone, is the
sight of a grey shape contemporaneous with the percipient, and with certain spatial
relations to the percipient, more or less vaguely defined. Thus the mere sight is confined
to the illustration of the geometrical perspective relatedness, of a certain contemporary
spatial region, to the percipient, the illustration being effected by the mediation of 'grey.'
The sensum 'grey' rescues that region from its vague confusion with other regions"
[PR 185].
Given that the primary mode of perception is the direct prehension of one or more actual
occasions by another actual occasion, sensory perception finds itself as a later synthesis
of experience. Sensory perception is called symbolic reference, and is derivative from
two earlier modes of experience, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy .
The mixed mode of symbolic reference is only found in conscious perception, and
perceives objects both as located in specific regions of space, and as a persisting entity
with a past and the power to act in the future.
These modes of perception present no inherent theoretical problems with psi and its
acquisition of information at a distance. The main problem will be how distant events can
rise to consciousness, as consciousness tends to be overwhelmed by the senses and their
impact on what is relevant. So before discussing the various ways in which process
philosophy might handle psi, we need to make a side trip into the how dreams may
provide the very conditions and prove a good model of the type of state that will be most
conducive to psi phenomena.
Dreams and Psi
"While awake, our view of ourselves is one in which we see and stress our autonomy, our
individuality, our discreetness. We define our own boundaries and we try to work with
them. What I'm suggesting, and which is not at all novel, is that our dreaming self is
organized along a different principle. Our dreaming self is more concerned with our
connection with *all* others." [Ullman 1989, 217]
It shouldn't really be a surprise that dream states are more conducive to psi phenomena.
Written records of dream prophecy and strange phenomena occurring during dreams go
back to the beginning of writing itself, in early cuneiform and Egyptian texts. And who
hasn't heard of someone in the family predicting the future in dreams? Still, it was
sometime before these claims were carefully studied. In the 1960's dream psi research
began at the Maimodides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which produced more than fifty
articles, summarized both in a technical monograph [Ullman and Krippner, 1970] as well
as two editions of the popular book _Dream Telepathy_ with Ullman, Krippner and
Vaughn, [1973, 1989].
Ullman was the chair of the Psych Department at the Center and after some preliminary
studies with Parapsychological Foundation in 1960, the lab was established [1962]. The
basic procedure was to have the participant hooked up to an EEG and sleep in a
soundproof room. After going to sleep, the target picture was revealed, usually an art
piece selected by random and given to an agent 32 to 98 feet away (sometimes longer).
When REM began, the agent began "sending" the picture, and after 10-20 minutes the
sleeper was awakened and the dream recorded. The next morning the sleeper was shown
8-12 pictures and asked to rank them in terms of how closely they matched the emotions
of the dreams. many variations and subject combinations were used. Some experiments
were as exotic as having the 2,000 dead heads from a Grateful Dead concert see and send
the picture 45 miles away to Malcolm Bessent in the lab.
It became very clear, that while the replication of these experiments would prove
challenging, the dream state seemed particularly favorable to psi. The dream state may
also be seen conductive to the construction of types of consciousness from experiences of
feelings whose relevancy is typically overwhelmed by waking consciousness.
Dream Psi and Whitehead
It is almost a definition of psi to say that it is nonsensory influence at a distance. And the
primary question is how non-contingent force, information, and pattern are transferred
and received? How is a mind in New York able to read a mind in London?
The primary core of prehension, is exactly this, the nonsensory reception and
transmission of influence. As mentioned before, an occasion receives at beginning of its
formation the whole of the past, and adds to this whole past selections from the realm of
pure possibilities. "From Whitehead's point of view," states David Ray Griffin, "the only
thing extraordinary about extrasensory perception
is that the information in question
has risen to consciousness." [Griffin 1989, p.29] Process philosophy, at its core, is all
about nonsensory perception. However, the datum from a prehension in London finding
its way to consciousness in a mind in New York City will require some explaining. In
theory, there is no barrier to this occurring.
The first item to note is that the nonsensory perception of actual occasions means that
causality is retained, but separated from both the rule that the events must be contiguous
and that causality implies full determination. There can be causal influence at a distance,
and that influence needn't be fully determined as each occasion has a chance to alter its
own course. Thanks to quantum physics, this is now not as much a stretch of the
imagination as it once was. [Pleasants, 2003].
Given this paradigm, we are getting psi information all the time in the background of our
perceptual flow. In fact, given this paradigm, we are getting more psi information than
any other kind of information, as we are immediately prehending the past of all other
occasions in any extensive continuum we might share with them.
There are some problems. Perception in process theory is guided by relevancy as much as
anything else, and sensory data tends to force its relevancy upon consciousness. Given
that sensory perception overwhelms our more basic sense of "The Force," sensory
reduction is needed. This is why psi experiments need for people to block out extraneous
stimuli through meditation, concentration and dreaming. Dreaming has an added
advantage of providing a reduction in sensory input by raising the threshold which allows
or block out a lot of sensory information to our senses.
The next problem is that one of the ways an occasion restricts the relevancy of new
possibilities is through negative prehension. In negative prehension, pure potentiality is
excluded from entering into the synthesis of the uniqueness and definiteness of the
forming occasion. However, the exclusion is itself a relational tie to that which has been
excluded. Even negative prehensions maintain a thread of connection to that which they
have rejected. Altering the filters of negative prehension is a way to change the relevancy
of how a moment is formed. Speaking of how this might be done at the level of human
consciousness, we might consider developing types of meditation that relax the typical
filters and level them all out, as in vipassana. Of course, being open to what is, may not
favor one's experiment any longer. Alternatives would be meditative stances that allow
us to hold intensions in mind while generally remaining open to wider and wider
influences.
Finally, there is the issue that the targets and re-construction of the targets in psi
experiments and actions, to make any sense to us, need to be reconstructed in
consciousness. This is going to involve the senses at several levels. If Charles sees a red
apple on his table in London, and has asked me to guess what he is looking at, I will have
to make a guess about a target that is essentially a sensory construction and symbolic
reference. The target may be, like an apple or table, an aggregate object that doesn't even
exist as unified object of any relevancy at the level of an full actual entity or the sets it
participates in. The target might be just an abstraction in Charles conscious mind. Charles
and I do share a similar culture and both have apples and tables as shared signifieds or
concepts. At the level of prehension, what is going to be immediately grasped, will have
to be the extensive relations behind these abstract concepts. In Whiteheadian
terminology, the nexus of societies is what will be passed in nonsensory perception, not a
picture of an apple or table, if the focus is on the thing on the table. What might increase
relevancy is to focus on the object in Charles mind, not what he might be seeing as some
object separate from his thoughts. A 2002 paper by E. W. Kellogg discusses this issue of
reconstruction in some detail, where a psi target appearing like a cornucopia ends up in
his dream as a helicopter.
Besides the perception of distant minds and objects, (which we have explained as being
the nonsensory perception of actual occasions) there is also psychokinesis, or changing
things at a distance through non-contiguous means.
In Whitehead's process theory, the other side of nonsensory prehension is causal
influence, which then also acts at a distance, as well as upon contiguous events. Griffin
[1997] feels that just as perceptual data overwhelms our consciousness of nonsensory
perception, contiguous causality overwhelms our perception of influence at a distance.
But from the viewpoint of the object influenced, this is just another case of nonsensory
perception. We *will* the spoon to bend, but the spoon (the society of occasions making
up the spoon) prehends the intensions of past occasions and change accordingly (or not).
The physical and the mental just two poles of the same occasion, and so psychokinesis
can be seen more as a communication than the will as brute force. Taken as such, a
common form of psychokinesis is the impact of the mind on the body. Griffin [1989]
feels that just as sensory perception presupposes a more primitive nonsensory perception,
so bodily actions presuppose a more primitive psychokinesis. The real question in this
system is not whether or not it can be theorized, but whether or not it can be brought up
from inconspicuous to be conspicuous.
I would speculate that for psychokinesis to work more effectively, the shift from willing
to communicating is going raise the relevancy of the suggested change to target.
However, it is difficult to know just what it means to communicate going down the ladder
of synthesis instead of up. That is, we are talking about wanting a highly constructed
intention, such as wanting the spoon to bend, and hoping this conscious intention can be
broken down into a coherent message at the level of causal efficiency or subjective aim in
an actual occasion. However, if one could succeed in such an endeavor, then this would
make the effort much easier.
Kellogg [2004] has suggested a work-around by drawing upon the minds and the
abilities (psi or otherwise) of one's alternate selves in alternate universes. In
Whiteheadian terms, we could say that when something actualizes itself, it is now
objectively available to everyone, and therefore more likely to occur again. So why try to
invent the wheel again? Just tune into those that have already been able to make
psychokinetic contact.
Prophecy and precognition are initially difficult for process theory to address, as mutual
immanence reveals to the present occasion all of the past, not the future. Griffin notes
that there are many kinds of seeing into the future. If the Titanic springs a leak in the
basement, that information is now "present" temporally to all, and so those on the top
deck might get it, even if not sensed. Or one might intuit consciously or unconsciously
the trajectory that is most likely through the accumulation of subjective aims. But the first
is distant seeing, not seeing into the future, and the second is simply making a good
guess. Griffin's other alternative is that visions, particularly dream visions, may
CREATE the upcoming event. This too may be, but is not seeing the future.
Dave Pleasants [2000, 2003] has suggested a different solution by reading Whitehead via
quantum physics. Pleasants has been fascinated by the Radin/Bierman effect [1998].
They were studying responses of subjects to various pictures and found that subjects
bodily responses to evocative pictures occurred several seconds before the pictures were
presented. How to explain this?
Condensing his quantum theory explanation here beyond what is fair, a series of
alternative universes spread out before us in all directions of time and space. Once we
experience them, they become fixed, for us. But for some theorists these paths are all
valid and real alternative universes, not just potentials that become actual. The parallel
lines are fixed, but the path any individual takes between them is not fixed. One may see
an event that looks like a fixed future event, as it is in one universe, but choose not to
take that path.
Pleasants feels that by combining Whitehead's feeling processes with parallel universe
theories, we can come to the view that "future events are not only real and capable of
interacting with each other, but are also conscious of themselves and their interrelations
with other events on a very basic level" [Pleasants, 2003].
Whether or not these parallel universes are part of the mutual immanence of this
particular extensive continuum is problematic. But perhaps its better to proceed with the
theory that they are, and the key (to seeing the future) is to focus on what might make
these alternative universes more relevant.
Whitehead's process theory seems well suited to the theoretical discussion of many
aspect of psi. The issues of cause at a distance, mind and body, distant knowledge and
transmissions exceeding the speed of light in temporal and spatial directions are all easily
handled. What seems just as promising, is that Whitehead's insistence on the creative and
subjective pole of all events, which brings into play the issue of relevancy. Relevancy is
important in developing psi theory, but also in developing psi pragmatics. With
relevancy as the main filter and amplifier, it may be that the desire to use psi to further
control and manipulate the world will have to give way to psi as a way to communicate
with the world, and the world with us. In particular, a way of communicating below the
level of conscious abstractions and with the thing itself. For Whitehead, this thing itself
is the creative universe.
And it appears that dreams are going to be one of the best laboratories for this
experiment. This is true not only because of sensory reduction, but because dreams
unfold the truths of subjective creativity. Each dream is its own space-time continuum,
both developing new alternative multiplicities while synthesizing distributed unity. As
Ernest Hartmann [1998] has said, dreams contextualize emotion. They are already clearly
an intelligent feeling, a creative advance into novelty.
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Dream title: Unfamiliar surroundings
Dream date: 12/15/04
Dreamer name: men
Dream text: My dreams have recently been where I find myself in unfamiliar
surroundings. I am not afraid because I sense that someone I know is with me. In my
last dream I am flying in an airplane, again with someone else, and looking down at the
surroundings. I don't know who is with me as I never see that person in my dreams. The
people in the different surroundings are also unfamiliar. I sense that I know some of
them, but again I don't know which of these characters I know.
Dream comments: I am a school teacher and the district is building a new elementary
school. There will be changes in that some of us will remain in the same building while
others will be shuffled around. This happened about five years ago when a lot of staff
shuffling took place. I do not feel or am afraid if I have to move. I go where I am
needed, and being separated from my co-workers does not bother me. I like changes in
my life. This dream has been going on for about two weeks. I try to remember my
dreams but have not had any success.
Dream title: Talking dogs
Dream date: 12/16/2004
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: These dogs don't bark at all, they talk to me. Something between growling
and a human speech, but I understand them perfectly, although I wish I didn't.
Dream comments: They have been the same since I was 8 years old.
Dream title: Falling
Dream date: 121604
Dreamer name: loveydovey
Dream text: Someone was pushing me down and I get sucked into a black hole. Then my
ex-boyfriend appears and then I go to tell him I'm sorry. Then I'm stuck in total darkness
again.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: The boy next door
Dream date: 12/14/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was picking up my new boyfriend's daughter from school.
Dream comments: I never met his daughter, and we had said that we would not get kids
in the middle.
Dream title: Locked up
Dream date: 12/03/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: My boyfriend came home from being in jail for 2 years. He is thin and ugly;
and I don't like him anymore.
Dream comments: My boyfriend has been gone for 2 years and he writes me telling me
that he lost a lot of weight.
Dream title: killer
Dream date: 12/19/04
Dreamer name: Ap
Dream text: He was stalking me and trying to kill me.
Dream comments: I wasn't scared
Dream title: Big Dog
Dream date: 12/8/04
Dreamer name: DD
Dream text: I am driving slowly down a one-way street, lined on both sides with parked
cars. It is nighttime, perhaps during the summer. As I glance up the road, I notice a figure
about a block away. My first glance gives me the impression that it is a large dead
animal, left in the wake of a reckless car. As I drive up, and the image is revealed in the
headlights, I realize that the animal is a dog - a huge, white dog. It is lying down in the
road, its body spanning the entire street across. Contrary to what I had thought, the dog is
alive and breathing heavily. I then woke up.
Dream comments: When I awoke after this, I felt that it was vaguely prophetic in
relevance to my life. I wondered what sort of symbolism might be woven into the image.
Dream title: Bizarre Turnouts
Dream date: 12/20/04
Dreamer name: CF
Dream text: I wake up in the dream; I walk downstairs to my living room towards the
Christmas tree. All of the presents were gone and I was totally confused. The presents
were all outside all ripped apart and messed up. Then I started crying because everything
was gone and my dad was saying it was my fault for putting the presents near a power
bar, or something which got hot. Some people came in and helped save us by throwing
the presents outside. I am still crying because I was getting blamed. Then we found some
of the presents in the cupboard. Then the scene changes and I'm sitting in class at school,
which suddenly changes to sitting in the auditorium. I was singing in this funny high
pitched voice, and this girl came up to me and said she liked me and I said she was nice.
Suddenly she started taking off her pants and I was like
um you better look behind you,
because the vice principal was behind her. The VP pulls her and points to me and says
come with me. Then I found out I'm suspended for so long and I have detention. I just
start crying because I've never been suspended and this is going to make me look bad
with my reputation etc. So I'm just crying then I'm sitting in class and the VP tells me to
follow her through the cafeteria. So we're walking through the cafe and some kid spilled
juice all over, so she had to deal with that student first. Then as I'm standing there I see
an old lady who slipped and fell on the ground, I help her up and realized this lady looks
sort of like my grandma who just died. Then I called the old lady the name that I called
my grandma that no one else did. And she said something like "I used to have a grandson
or granddaughter who called me that". But I didn't really hear that part well. Then I told
her my grandma had just died and I started crying and crying. Then I woke up
completely confused.
Dream comments: This is my friend's dream and he really wants to know what it means
and I really want to help.
Dream title: Car crash
Dream date: no clue
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was riding with one of my close friends and he got into a crash with me in
the car.
Dream comments: It was scary because I got killed in it.
Dream title: Teeth dreams
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: GDz
Dream text: I have the teeth falling out dreams.
Dream comments: These dreams are so real that I can feel them and have to look when I
wake up to see if they are still there, I have had them ten times or so...sometimes nights in
a row even. Please post this so others who had their teeth dream can see this so that they
can see that someone else has had something similar!
Dream title: None given
Dream date: 12/23/2004
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: Boyfriend in the house arguing with mom
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Never ending
Dream date: 12/21/04
Dreamer name: Heather
Dream text: Continuously falling over and over nothing but a light at the end. I can't
reach it. I see it; I keep falling towards it ... but seems like it getting closer. I just keep
falling over and over again.
Dream comments: I'm scared that one day I'll reach the light and I'm scared that one day
I won't see the light
Dream title: Vampires
Dream date: 12/20/04
Dreamer name: JJ
Dream text: I was at this restaurant with my 3 friends. We left after seeing my 2 sisters I
haven't seen in a while. My three friends and I were walking down this street and saw
this place that looked kind of like a skate park but it was haunted. Vampire people were
walking down there. We all decided to go down there and see what was going on. I
turned around after we got down there and they left. The vampires tried and tried to
change me into a vampire but they couldn't because I didn't have fear for them. So
finally they made me half-vampire half- human; and I could change any time I wanted to.
I left and it's daytime now. I saw my boyfriend and I stopped him and told him what
happened. He got mad at me and walked off. One of my friends thought he was me so
she shot him and killed him.
Dream comments: I feel that I'm scared of losing my boyfriend even though we love
each other very much. I just wanted to see just in case I'm very wrong.
Dream title: Love
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: Dl
Dream text: In my dream I was talking to the girl who I love. In the dream she sent me a
text message to my phone even though we were next to each other. Other people were
there but we wanted it to be private. I couldn't see it on my phone so she printed it out
and it said that she wanted to be with me. One weird thing is that she gave me exact
dates. She said something about discovering she loved me on a Saturday 12.
Dream comments: We are currently not together and this is why I wish to know what it
means. Is she going to say yes?
Dream title: Turtle
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream text: The people at work were making me cook live turtles. They kept telling me I
had to do this until all the turtles were gone. They made me stir them to the bottom. Then
all of a sudden one came to the top, just laying there and was staring directly at me.
Dream comments: What is even more strange is that the same night my nephew was
awaken by screams from his two year old that said their was a turtle in her crib trying to
bite her feet.
Dream title: A wild pig
Dream date: 12-25-2004
Dreamer name: bp
Dream text: I had a dream about the black wild pig which is coming to me. I saw a guy
trying to kill the wild pig.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Unknown
Dream date: unknown
Dreamer name: Tee
Dream text: Father walks in to the house appearing to be drunk with his private part in his
hand. He walks to the bathroom and begins to pee. Blood is coming from his private part
and he says "Daughter it won't stop".
Dream comments: What does this mean? At the time I was dreaming this I remember
feeling frightened during and after I woke up.
Dream title: my friend
Dream date: every night
Dreamer name: Cy
Dream text: A guy is going 2 kill everyone in the world. Then my boyfriend in the dream
gets pissed at me and we break up. So then my friend comes up to me and asks if we can
make out and I say yes.
Dream comments: does this mean I like Carl?
Dream title: My boyfriend
Dream date: 12/26/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: At school at the end of the day, my boyfriend was taking me home. I live in
a big house and no one was home. I was scared to be alone so he stayed. Then we did a
little kissing, then it moved to the bed and we did it. My mom came home and saw us
and I got in so much trouble. I got my car taken away and I had to break up with him, but
I really didn't break up with him.
Dream comments: Nothing
Dream title: Moon
Dream date: 12/25/4
Dreamer name: SA
Dream text: I saw a moon in my dream along with rain
Dream comments: It is good or bad?
Dream title: A Dream That Made me go hmm
Dream date: 12/27/04
Dreamer name: SA
Dream text: I dreamt I worked for a television station and we were up for an award. I
needed to be on my way to my mother's but I had to go to the ceremony because I was up
for an award even though I only worked as a clerk.
They were being held at an ancient airport on the banks of a huge body of water. It was a
dark blustery day. There was a tin sign, green and white, kind of rectangular with black
writing on it. I don't remember what it said but it named the airport. It was fluttering back
and forth in the wind. I was very anxious because I'd not called Mother to let her know I'd
be late. Someone said the ceremonies would be over by 3 p.m. and I thought that would
be fine, that's not too late. I went up some stairs into a paneled and carpeted area where
the ceremonies were going to take place. There were fewer than a dozen people there, I
was with a woman, a blonde young woman who was giving me the dirt on all the people
that came up to the podium. I started getting fidgety because the ceremonies dragged on
and finally she told me I could go so I started to leave. I got out to where my car should
be and I put my key into the lock of a gold colored car and an alarm went off. I
desperately looked around for my car and there was a litter of really tiny kittens scattered
around the lot and the grounds. I knew Mother was going to be furious with me because
I was going to have to take some of the kittens home. I started up a sidewalk and one
horribly deformed kitten, one really cute black and white kitten ran up to me and I knew
those were the ones I'd take. I went into a building that resembled a library and I think I
was looking for a phone. There were men just wandering around, and there were a couple
of policemen there. I fretted when I saw them because of the alarm I'd set off on the car.
I ended up in a bathroom. I had an overnight bag or something similar and the kittens
were in there with me. I was looking for a place to hide them. At that point I think I was
awakened.
Dream comments: This was a particularly vivid dream and the area of the airport gives
me pause ...I've never seen it before I'm sure. But it was very real. Very strange.
Dream title: None
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamed that I was being smashed under some spiky wheels on a monster
truck.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Lost
Dream date:?
Dreamer name: Seer
Dream text: I was walking in a field of purple flowers and they were the only color in the
dream. I saw this man walking towards me.
Dream comments: This dream occurred about 5 months ago and I moved down here 3
months ago. I am now very close to my boyfriend who was in that dream - it's cool.
Dream title: Glass Lid Casket
Dream date: 1995
Dreamer name: Se
Dream text: I was down in the earth, about 10 stories below the surface. Above me I
watched as a casket slowly floated downward with no straps securing it. I knew my
Mom was in the casket but I felt detached rather than a feeling of curiosity. The earth
beneath where I stood was hard and well worn and large, somewhat like a very small
cave. Once the casket rested quite softly, and without creating any noise, I saw it had a
glass cover. I stepped forward and when I saw my Mom I was suddenly overwhelmed
with enormous grief. I fell to my knees and cried out to God, "Please, do not let this be!"
And my heart was breaking and the pain ran through the marrow of my bones.
My husband woke me up from me crying in my sleep as I was in my dream.
Dream comments: This is an old dream but I thought it would be interesting for others to
read. I felt I knew what the dream was forewarning me about, but not as nearly as how
painful it would be once the reality set in. The dream had nothing to do with my Mom.
She is still very healthy and active. It was what she stood for and represented me, the
mothering aspect of my *self* that I was being shown.
Dream title: The Lioness
Dream date: 12/31/04
Dreamer name: Se
Dream text: My husband and I were cleaning a funeral home along with another couple.
(I do not know this couple in real life). Behind the funeral home was a veterinarian who
owned and operated both businesses. We only cleaned the funeral home. I knew there
was a pair of lions that were allowed to roam free about the funeral home. I only saw the
lioness 3 times. Each time I was sitting in a chair and across the room to the right of me
was an identical chair. She was behind it and was grooming herself. I felt no fear...just
observed.
The second time I was in the same chair and she had one of our cats. She was carrying it
in her mouth to take it to her mate for a feed.
The third time the same thing happened, only this time with our cat we have in real life. I
went to the vet to complain about his lions eating my cats and his attitude was basically
like, "Tough, you'll get over it."
As we left I turned to my husband and said, "He has $125,000 in insurance here but no
way could any amount of money compensate for our loss."
We stepped out into the sun and started climbing a hill made of sand. The hill was not
steep but the climb was arduous. I then said to my husband, "We have lost everything we
dearly loved. We have nothing."
He was a few feet in front of me. Suddenly I was overwhelmed by the loss of our cats. I
fell to my knees bawling and then the weight of this sadness was so overwhelming it was
tangible and I was prone as I tried to continue to climb the hill by crawling, still bawling.
My husband woke me up because I was crying from the dream.
Dream comments: Normally I understand my dreams very well. What kind, the message,
etc. This one has me a bit befuddled because I've never dreamed of a funeral home or
lions. I sense this contains a very strong message, most likely prophetic.
If I do not get the full message, I will get another dream OR if what this is telling me
comes to pass quite soon, I will recognize its meaning while in the midst of the situation.
I've considered the possibility it may be a teaching/prophetic combination dream. All I
know for sure is it had me extremely upset and I could not shake off the residual effect it
had on me for a couple of hours. That is how strong this dream was.
Dream title: Chase
Dream date: on going
Dreamer name: Isis
Dream text: I am in a fun park at a ride that spins around. I can not get out. Someone is
chasing me and I am terrified. I run and run and try to hide. I get to the doors and they
slam shut. Then I wake up.
Dream comments: I am an elderly lady. I feel like I might be dying in the dream. I am
trying to control the dream so I never have it again. It has been on going for years. This is
an on-going dream. It is so real that I am afraid I am going to get stuck there and can
never come back. I would like it to go away.
Dream title: an owl
Dream date: 12/27/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I had a dream about owls attacking me and dogs too.
Dream comments: I felt really scared but every time I would pray they will go away once
I stopped they kept coming back.
Dream title: Finding an unexpected restaurant
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: PL
Dream text: My friend, Dolores sent me to where she used to live to look at something (a
house?) I can't remember. I drove quite a long way down a road at night, even as far as a
highway that I knew connected to a highway on the far western side of the city (even
though I was in the east). I saw the street I was looking for but missed the turn. I'd also
passed some nice restaurants I hadn't expected to see out here in this somewhat rural area.
Dolores had told me there were no restaurants worth eating at out here but these looked
good. I made a left turn into a drive way that looped back out to the street in the shape of
a U but it was blocked so I had to back out of it anyway to turn around and go back to my
destination, but once again I drove past it and then past the really nice looking restaurant
that had many tables tastefully displayed in a long row next to a long set of nice
windows. I remember something similar to black chopsticks as part of the decor. I
pulled into this driveway and decided I may as well go in the restaurant since I'd already
missed my destination twice. It was nice inside. Just as I walked in a woman running it
recognized me (we knew each other) and said, "What a coincidence you should walk in
just at this moment; I was just thinking that I wanted to redecorate the restaurant and I
know you are a really good decorator. Maybe you can help me!"
Dream comments: No clue about the dream except that it seemed to be a very good
dream. One goes out looking for one thing, misses it but then finds something
unexpected and delightful. (Or: one goes out looking for a house but ends up finding a
job because one keeps missing what one is looking for.) Perhaps it has to do with finding
nourishment in places where one doesn't expect to find it and where people say it doesn't
exist. Also when you spontaneously follow things you like you find good opportunities.
Like attracts like. Otherwise don't yet know the meaning of the dream.
Dream title: Gave birth in rapid succession
Dream date: 12/20/05
Dreamer name: JL
Dream text: I dreamed I had just given birth to a little baby - it was adorable. It is in a
little papoose and I could hold it with one hand. Then I realized I was about to give birth
to another baby right away even though I had just given birth and one usually has a nine
month minimum waiting period. It seemed amazing.
Dream comments: A few days later I heard news that one of my stories would be
published in a book. I was very excited. Then when I read the editors comments more
carefully about twelve hours later I realized they also wanted to see a very long book I
had written too! This was like giving birth twice in rapid succession, so the dream
seemed like a mild form of precognition.
I am in my forties, have 2 children and cannot have any more children in reality.
Dream title: Whoa! Freaky!
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: TD
Dream text: I dreamed that I was at this really old, musty village house with my dad and
an old woman. She was very sweet and let me eat some stew. I was confused so she tried
to explain that I was in the 19th Century in Lancelot, but I was still in my normal clothes.
I walked into the back room of the house and was pounced by a huge gray dog (like Fang
off in Harry Potter). I tried to push him off while I was giggling, but he turned into a boy
(a very cute boy!). I just looked up at him until he got off. I walked out and into an
ordinary gym locker. A bunch of girls came in talking about basketball. I was listening in
on their conversation and heard one say they got an e-mail from their dad. He was very
rich, supposedly. I came in because I knew (I don't know how) she'd changed the name
and taken my e-mail from my dad. I yelled at her with the boy right behind me. "I can't
believe you did that! I haven't seen my dad in a year and a half and you just took his e-
mail from me! I hope you're proud of yourself!" She began to cry and I took her laptop
away and read the e-mail. I saw myself read the e-mail. I went out the other door and was
walking out of a castle. There was a goblin on top of the tower looking at me. He jumped
down in front of me and said he was taking over the village. The sweet woman ran away
screaming and I began to run in the other direction, the boy transforming into a dog and
following me. Then I woke up!
Dream comments: I really haven't seen my dad in 1 and 1/2 years and I am (currently)
single.
Dream title: None given
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: My aunt called me from a pay phone and my mother was sitting on the couch
next to me when I answered the phone. I was so excited that it was her and told my mom
it's Aunt Sandy. She got up and looked at me and disappeared into the kitchen. I then
went back to the phone and said "Sandy how am I talking to you? You are dead." She
said "I'm calling from a pay phone in a different dimension". I said "Why aren't you in
heaven?" She told me that it takes a while and in the mean time this nice old lady is
showing her around. I asked her if she was alright and if she was in any pain when she
died. She told me no she was not in any pain that she did not even know that she died.
Then the dream turned to my grandmother's house where she lived and no one would
listen to me that she was on the phone and that's where my dream ended.
Dream comments: A very vivid dream after my aunt passed away.
Dream title: Imaginary Pony
Dream date: 1-05-05
Dreamer name: Aniv
Dream text: My dream starts off in a darkened and shadowed apartment complex. I walk
down a hall toward my boyfriend's room, but instead turn into a room just before his. It
is my boyfriend's friend, R., and he wants me. I am sitting on his bed looking out of a
window onto a bleak and rain speckled landscape. R., half naked, leans into my ear and
says, "You can stay. It's not like you care. I mean, how you can be here when your
boyfriend is right next door." I stand up, upset, and answer, "I don't know why I'm
here..." I leave, and run into my boyfriend's room, lay down in his arms, and sleep.
When I wake up, I am on a basketball court with a number of foreign orphans. It is
sunny outside now. I find one sports glove on the ground, the kind with a leather sole
and fishnet fingers with the tips cut off. I put it on, and suddenly, I can shoot basketball
like a pro. I'm playing with the kids with this glove on, and then my mother calls out to
me. "Why don't you show them how to lasso?" So I do, and as I go to throw my rope out
along with the children, I reign in an imaginary pony! It is black and beautiful, but very
skittish. It rides me around, and no one can see it but me. The dream ends with me
trying to calm the pony down.
Dream comments: Oh my gosh... I don't even know where I pulled this from. This has
got to be the craziest dream ever.
Dream title: Having a baby, but not really.
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: Baby
Dream text: My sister and I were both in the hospital both about to have our babies (we
were both pregnant at the same time). I kept on having contractions, so I got up to go the
bathroom and by the time I came out she had her baby already. I kept on having
contractions, but by the time I was ready to push no baby came out. As it turns out I just
had to pee badly.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Big truck, big teeth, bad breath with a hint 'o' vomit...
Dream date:?
Dreamer name: Snaggle lip ring on a punk chic
Dream text: I was running from a BIG, very FAST truck; it was a semi-truck. It would go
from me running against a purple sky into nowhere... and back to the semi-truck and then
to the scary man driving the truck. I remember his breath STUNK! It was HORRID! I
was extremely scared! The truck and the man in the truck were chasing me... I was
running for my life! I was going to die and all I could smell was vomit. In the dream it
wasn't just the man and the truck I was afraid of...it was the smell, (vomit) the smell was
DEATH. Everything in the dream was death...I felt I was going to die. Occasionally I
would fall and get hurt...I awoke in a panic. I awoke in a sweat. I AWOKE IN VOMIT! I
had thrown up all over myself...
Dream comments: I was around the age of 10 maybe 9 years old... I was sleeping on the
top bunk of my bunk bed. I suppose I had a nightmare. I was sleeping...I was sick...I was
dreaming. Dreaming a delirious dream... This dream has always stuck with me.
Dream title: Calling for help
Dream date: 10/31/04
Dreamer name: Carrie
Dream text: I was on top a lighthouse admiring the view; the ocean was calm and
beautiful. In the distance I saw a very large boat. On the road I saw a contingent of very
impressive vehicles associated with a motorcade and hundreds of cars following. I heard
the sounds of sirens and saw people lining the street. Suddenly, I heard a very loud sound
like an explosion. The building I was in rocked violently and I saw a huge wave (but it
was red as if on fire). I saw the wave coming to land and I knew all the persons on the
motorcade would be right on the path. I tried to call a friend who can warn the lead cars
to take a different route. I could not get the help in time and everyone perished.
Dream comments: I had contacted my friend on November the first 2004 by email and
related the events. The comment sent to me was that the number was changed and
forwarded a new phone number to me. Is this a premonition of the tsunami?
Dream title: My totem dream
Dream date: 1/2002
Dreamer name: cr
Dream text: My totem dream has a beginning some months before and goes on today.
This dream began with what first seemed like a small flock of red-breasted birds. When
they landed I was clear they were Orioles. They landed in a particular formation, their
black wings outstretched like an ominous cloak, but in an instant felt at ease. Almost
unnoticed a little to their right, and just below, was a small turquoise owl. This part ends
there.
Next I was standing somewhere not sure where though I remember leaves on the ground.
Playing in those leaves were 3 or 4 squirrels. In an instant one scurried up my pant leg up
to my face. It looked right into my eyes. In an instant I was startled but didn't flinch and
it didn't bite me. Dream ends.
Dream comments: I rarely if ever remember my dreams that are why now nearly 3 years
hence I remember I remember it vividly and is the only dream I have remembered since
then. Also just after I had a lucid dream related to the first. And to make this even more
of interest, a very important component of it all is with me every day.
Dream title: A HUGE RATTLER....
Dream date: 1/06/2005
Dreamer name: dt
Dream text: I was standing on a square platform that had a lot of water in the center of it.
There were many people there. All of a sudden this man walks out with the biggest rattler
I had ever seen. He was carrying it with a long bar/hook (wraps around snake). The snake
got loose and it was "known" that if the snake came towards you that you had to get the
bottle off a shelf and shoot water down its throat until it left you alone or died. I watched
a lot of people who tried to defend themselves but couldn't do it so they jumped in the
water to get away. That's when I saw the snake coming towards me. I desperately got the
bottle of water and began to shoot it down towards the snake's mouth. I couldn't get it
done either. I knew I was gone. Then the snake stopped - looked at me and began to talk
to me like in the devil's voice. The snake eyes turned red too. Then the snake just...died.
Dream comments: Thank You for this!! It was very disturbing and it has been a crazy
year for me as well- Really a few years! Thanks Again!
Dream title: Blown off the towers
Dream date: 9/2000
Dreamer name: sr
Dream text: I am on top of one of two huge towers- I know I am in New York, and a
voice tells me I am 110 stories up. Huge gusts of wind are blowing up there, and I lay
down, afraid that the wind will blow me off. I am also afraid of being up so high, and try
to focus on the roof of the tower next door so that I won't realize how far up I am.
Suddenly huge gust of wind blows me off the tower, and as I begin to fall, the voice says
in my head "When the soul sees that there is no hope left for the body, it lets the body
go."
Dream comments: It felt very profound at the time and I remember telling it to two
friends over dinner who were equally impressed with the odd quality of the dream.
Dream title: None given
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I am having dreams about having a child.
Dream comments: Does it mean I am pregnant or will be in the future?
Dream title: My husband is my boyfriend again
Dream date: 08/01/2005
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamt I am born again & my husband is my first boyfriend. He loves me
too much & is very possessive of me.
Dream comments: Can this be true?
Dream title: None given
Dream date: 1/11/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was in my Catholic church and I crossed over to my boyfriend's church
very easily. After the mass in my church I went over to his church looking for him and
everybody was crying because of what the pastor was preaching. I was saying hi to
everyone and he disappeared. I was mad and crying because he was acting like an ass.
Then I saw him he came back in his car outside the church and he was laughing. When I
ask him why he was being like that, he started laughing in a weird way so I got mad.
Then I found out the he had just found out he had a incurable disease in his ear or some
part of his ear was broken; he was going to lose the hearing sense forever or die.
Everybody was sad and it was raining then I woke up.
Dream comments: It was a weird dream and when I woke up it was really raining. I am
in Ohio, away for college, and my boyfriend is back in New Jersey. We are having some
problems now that we are trying to solve, but it is mainly on my part. I am very
confused. I always ask God for signs to help me make the correct choices but this dream
I really don't get it. I am concerned because when I have dreams they are never good and
after those dreams bad things happen relating to it. I don't get it until everything is over
and there is nothing I can do. So I am always worried when I get dreams.
Dream title: Flying Saucer
Dream date: 1/10/05
Dreamer name: Ct
Dream text: I dreamed I walked outside my home and saw a large flying saucer flying
around back and forth, then disappearing behind the house and crashing. I walked around
the house not really expecting to see the saucer but there it was embedded into the side of
my home. I woke up shortly after.
Dream comments: I have been dreaming a lot lately about flying objects in the sky and
falling down to the ground. Is there any logic to this dreaming?
Dream title: Cosmic Orgasm in the Void
Dream date: a year and a half or 2 years ago
Dreamer name: a guy
Dream text: I was meditating with someone in a dream. We were floating in a black
void. We were one person. The dream was based on feeling. It was if a cosmic energy
streamed through both of us. It was the most amazing feeling I ever had.
Dream comments: I think twice about this guy, I feel this dream was spiritually
connected and/or cosmically
Dream title: lions
Dream date: 10/19/04
Dreamer name: lions
Dream text: lions attacking
Dream comments: frightening
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interpretive approaches to dreams, including verbal, dramatization, and mixed media
approaches. Send to:
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