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E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s
Volume #13 Issue #7
July 2006
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover. "DreamTrees"
Richard Wilkerson
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
"LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge."
Ed Kellogg, PhD
++ Column: A View From The Bridge
Jean Campbell
++ Dream: "Waiting for Frances"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Article: The Wheel of Life: Aligning Dreams
with the SuperConscious
Shamai Currim, PhD
++ Column: The $1,000 Dream
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland & RCW
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the July 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/
.. 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
I'm still in recovery from the 2006 IASD Dream Conference, as are some of the regular contributors. The Bridgewater conference was quite fantastic. Just before going, a site had been discovered near the college that had stone pointers to the summer solstice sun. So about a hundred of us went up to the site for solstice and participated in some drumming and summer celebrations. Read more about this in the View this month on ED.
There were tons of awards given out this year, for art, for research, and lifetime achievement awards to Stan Krippner and Montague Ullman. The Dream Science foundation is also providing seed money for dream research through IASD. For more stories, visit the IASD bulletin board. Watch for the IASD online PsiberDreaming conference coming up in mid/late September. asdreams.org
In this issue:
Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE) editor, Lucy Gillis, regularly shares gems from her publication with Electric Dreams. In December 05, Ed Kellogg began a series of lucid dream challenges for LDE readers to try. These involve exploring the bizarre physics of dreamspace. In Part 1, Ed suggests we attempt to discover the properties of dream objects. Try this out in "LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge."
Shamai Currim, PhD, offers a meditation for those interesting in aligning their dreams with the SuperConscious as understood in Psychosynthesis. Try the Wheel of Life exercise and tell us at EDreams what you experienced and what dreams you had using the exercise.
"The Wheel of Life, Aligning Dreams with the SuperConscious."
The View from the Bridge returns this month with news from the World Dreams Peace Bridge. As mentioned above, Jean Campbell (current IASD President) talks more about the solstice drumming with Mary (White Feather) Joyce, a fourth-generation Passamaquoddy medicine woman, and how this all relates to previous and upcoming events on the World Dreams Peace Bridge.
Stan Kulikowski II offers two selections from his unique dream journal. The first is in the article section and titled "Waiting for Frances" The second entry is in the Dream Section, "That Place Outside Ourselves". If you have dreams you would like published, please enter them in the form at http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
David Jenkins, PhD., the director of Berkeley based DreamRePlay, pulses online each week useful hints and techniques for dreamworkers. In this month's selection, "The $1,000 Dream", David shows the practical side of dreaming and how it can enhance our waking intuition.
Our Dream Section editor, Kat Peters-Midland, is on vacation, but the dreams continue to flow in, so I have included a selection from the last month, though not as skillfully edited as usual. If you have dreams to share, use the dreamflow form at
www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Our Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma is also on vacation, flying into the Bridgewater conference and then back to the Netherlands. He will be back with the news next month. In the meantime, I've put together some items happening in dreamwork this summer.
Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles and authors in an easy-to-access format. These articles 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
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:
http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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From Planet Dream,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
July 2006
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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@alquinte.com address.
Online:
- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
Physical world:
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Berkeley: Marcia Emery's Dream Salon
- San Francisco: Conscious Dreaming group
- USA and UK: Robert Moss
- USA: Jeremy Taylor
Books, movies, research:
- Again, about the DreamScience Foundation
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Dream Telepathy Contest Winners
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All the winners for the IASD 2006 Dream Telepathy Contest have been posted on the news section of the IASD Bulletin Board:
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005
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- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
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Registration will begin later this month for the fifth annual online PsiberDreaming Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. This year's conference, scheduled from September 24 through October 8, will provide several special events including a look at The Physics of Psi Dreaming, with a paper presented on the subject by author of the original Dream Telepathy experiments, Dr. Montague Ullman. New to the conference this year, there will be a Spanish language thread, led off by a paper co-presented by Drs. Stanley Krippner and Rosa Anwandter on Dreams and Shamanism in Latin America. Also new will be the Virtual Dream Ball. Watch the IASD web site at www.asdreams.org for further information.
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- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
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Invitation. Opened on the Summer Solstice, 2006
The Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery officially opened on the 2006 Summer Solstice and runs through the Fall Equinox, 2006. Gallery sponsored by DreamGate and the Electric Dreams community.
Where is it?
The gallery will occur "only" in virtual dream space. That is, its where-ever your dream seems to show the location. We expect the gallery size, shape and location to evolve over time as dreamers contribute to the project.
Who can participate?
Anyone may participate whose art works were created or found in a dream. Perhaps you will dream that the art work was already accepted into the gallery. Perhaps you will create or find art objects in a dream that you had years ago, but now feel they could entered into the gallery. Some may participate with dreams about the gallery itself, and about aesthetic judgments regarding the art.
What is a dream art object?
The discussion of what constitutes a dream art object will evolve over the course of the show. For now, if the dreamer contributing the art object says it is a dream art object, then it is. Since the gallery is a virtual dream space, (only in our dream life) many of the objects will be entered as descriptions of the object. Objects that include the dream they came in are encouraged.
How do I enter a dream art object to the gallery if its only in our dreams?
You can enter a dream art object by posting a description of the art piece at Electric Dreams. You may also send in renditions or physical art (jpg, gif) representations or inspired pieces. Please include copyright and re-use rules for your narratives or pictures. The areas of discussion may shift and evolve over time. Please use the following form:
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
What if I have dreams about art and the gallery before the opening on the Summer Solstice?
Great, send them along. You might have even had psi dreams about the gallery some time ago. I just don't plan to publish any of them in Electric Dreams until the show starts. We can still post and discuss them here anytime.
What about dreams about the gallery itself?
Great, yes, any dreams about the gallery itself will be included in the final collection.
What about dreams about other people's dream art work or judgments about the aesthetic qualities of the work?
(I have a dream about your art piece in the gallery or somewhere else, and three people make comments....). Great, send those along.
What's the collection and gallery going to be used for?
Part of the purpose is a community project for the promotion of discussion around dreams and aesthetics. Another part is to gather data for some ideas about dreams and aesthetics. Some feel that there can't be any dream art IN the dream itself as its all subjective and so doesn't constitute a social art object. Others feel that there can be art, but it can't be judged, as no one else sees the art. So there is an overall question, can there really be a Dream Aesthetics? For this question, judgments made IN dreams will be of particular interest. In general, this first exhibition will be discussed on this bboard, and the contributions that are released by the contributors will be published in Electric Dreams. Art may go into future EDreams covers.
Will this be a contest?
There will be awards, but these are still undecided. Its not clear if a contest will be involved (best dream art picture, best narrative, best rendition, etc), but this may evolve depending on the dreams people contribute. Its very important for the developers of the project to allow the project to develop "organically" depending on the dreams and dream community involved.
What is an art object?
This is open to discussion, but we can start with a definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_object :
"An art object (or objet d'art, from the French) is any objectsuch as a painting, sculpture, book, etc.that has been made in order to be a thing of beauty in itself or a symbolic statement of meaning, rather than having a practical function."
Public Relations: Feel free to post or publish this information as you like.
Hope you will all participate!
Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@dreamgate.com
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
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The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767
Also see: http://tinyurl.com/9xv5l
The Dream Institute offers the following during July 2006.
* Culture Dreaming *
Monthly, Saturday afternoons 3-5, $20
August 5, Social hour follows
Culture Dreaming is an experimental ritual that gives a living sense of interconnection. Dreams are first told in council fashion; then we explore the composite dream co-created. Like a camera obscura that opens a window to the world, it shows surprising relevance to current societal and global concerns. Come once, occasionally, or regularly.
Conveners:
Richard Russo, M.A. and Meredith Sabini, Ph.D.
* Poetry Salon *
Monthly, Sunday afternoons 3-5, $5-15
This innovative monthly series is a roundtable format where published poets can present their own work and then participants can also read their own or favorites, for a lively sharing.
July 16: Open salon; anyone may read
August 20: Alice Jones, editor and publisher of Apogee Press
* Art and Dreams *
Monthly, Saturday mornings, 10am-1pm
July 15, August 19, $10-30 sliding scale
This workshop provides a space to explore dreams through art-making. Not about skill, performance, or product, it invites adventure, mystery, unfolding. All levels welcome; no experience necessary. Materials are provided. Attend a single day or regularly.
Emily Anderson, former Associate Director, Lucid Art Foundation; Former Co-Director, Oakland Art Gallery. Multimedia artist with Dream Studies Certificate and M.A. in Transformative Arts, JFK University.
Nancy Isaacs has been an active dreamer for forty years; her graduate studies were in anthropology, art history, and psychology.
* Dreams and Spiritual Practise *
Sunday mornings, 11-12:30, $5-20
July 30, August 13, 27
Dreams have been central to sacred traditions throughout time. Their wisdom and guidance offers unmediated contact with "The Source," by whatever name one knows it. A presentation by the Director or invited guests highlight the wisdom function of dreaming. There will be time for discussion, sharing of dreams, and meditation.
* Dreaming With Eyes Open *
Monthly, Friday evenings: 7:30-9pm, $20
August 11
Seating is limited to 25; please call to reserve.
A dream-play . . . Back by popular demand!
A moving rendition of actual dreams based on a Culture Dreaming event. The play addresses universal themes of contacting the ancestors, receiving animal wisdom, doing ritual, and finding one's voice.
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- Berkeley: Marcia Emery's Dream Salon
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You are invited to join Dr. Marcia Emerys monthly salon the last Thursday of each month. Open Mike format so bring your questions about Intuitive Development and/or dream interpretation. In addition to the discussion, everyone will receive a five minute intuitive reading or dream interpretation. Fee for each session is $20. Date: Thursday, July 27th at 1502 Tenth Street, Berkeley 7:15-9:15pm. Space is limited so please RSVP right away to reserve your seat.
Please call 510/526-5510 or email PowerHunch@aol.com
Marcia Emery, Ph.D., has pioneered applied intuition practices for decades and has developed intuition-enhancing techniques based on her many years of experience as a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and media personality. Marcia was one of the three dream experts on the, Dream Decoders miniseries which aired on The Discovery Health Channel last November.
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- UK: Robert Moss
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For your convenience, here are some highlights from the calendar at: http://mossdreams.com/
Four-Day Residential Retreat
Thursday-Sunday, July 6-9
Stroud, Gloucesterhire, UK
http://mossdreams.com/2006july.htm#england
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- USA: Jeremy Taylor
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July 7-9 - Miriam's Well Retreat Center, Saugerties, NY
Weekend Workshop at Miriams Well. All are welcome - new folks and returnees. Contact Richard at richard@miriamswell.com
July 11 and 12 - Moraga, CA
St Mary's College Summer Class: COUN241, "Psychology of Dreams and Symbols." July 11: 9:30-3:30 and July 12, 9:30-4pm. Contact Laura, Program Director for the Graduate Counseling Program at lheid@stmarys-ca.edu
July 14-16 - Tara Mandala Retreat Center, Pagosa Springs, CO
"Dreams, The Magic Mirror That Never Lies" - workshop.
Friday at 8pm to Sunday at 1pm. Contact Tara Mandala at 970/731.3711 or email Charlotte at charlotte@taramandala.org.
July 21-23 - Portland, OR
Private Group
July 24-28 - Oakland, CA
Cisdom University Doctor of Ministry Intensive (open only to doctoral students in the program). Art as Meditation class "Dreams and Liberation." Meets 1:30-4:30 each day. Contact Carol at cvaccariello@wisdomunivesity.org
July 30-August 24 - South Korea
Classes and Workshops. Contact Kathy at ktaylor597@aol.com
August Schedule at
http://www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- More about the DreamScience Foundation
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Exciting news for researchers! Already announced last month, here are more details.
A joint IASD/DreamScience Foundation Grant Partnership will provide annual grants for dream research. The Call for research will be available in early July 2006 and the most promising projects will be chosen by August 2006 and asked to submit a more formal proposal.
Research Focus: The focus of the granting activity is dream research, particularly research that uses good research methodology designed to provide measurable and repeatable results. Disciplines of interest include, but are not limited to, the neuroscience of dreaming, psychological studies of dreaming and quantitative dream research in such fields as anthropology and cultural studies.
DREAMSCIENCE FOUNDATION(TM) The DreamScience Foundation is a private funding institution dedicated to stimulating research in dreams and dreaming. Go to www.dreamscience.org for more information on the organization, its founder and dream studies in general. All funds are privately donated from DreamScience to IASD in support of this granting partnership.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.dreamscience.org/iasd/
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Cover: DreamTrees by Richard Wilkerson
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What I thought initiated this cover was an old childhood dream I had about the trees in the Wizard of Oz. But a few days ago I realized that was the title of Linda Magallon's article last month. hmmm.
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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In December 05, Ed Kellogg began a series of lucid dream challenges for LDE readers to try. These involve exploring the bizarre physics of dreamspace.
In Part 1, Ed suggests we attempt to discover the properties of dream objects.
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LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
December, 2005
by Ed Kellogg
((c)2005 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.)
(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for LDE readers with each new issue. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility and all risks should they choose to undertake these tasks, which may possibly bring about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you who attempt these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.)
Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace Part 1: "Dreamstuff"
"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep."
Prospero, in William Shakespeare's (1564 - 1616), The Tempest
Over the years I've found myself increasingly interested in the "bizarre physics of dreamspace." In this first of a series of challenges I invite participants to do basic research in this area.
To begin, let's entertain the question: What makes up "the stuff" of dreams?
In our culture many people would say that dreams seem purely imaginary, that they have no substance as such, that "dreamstuff" has no intrinsic properties as such, but only those properties that dreamers impose on them.
Oddly enough this point of view does not differ all that much from how some physicists see the physical universe. For example, consider this statement of Nobel prize winner, Max Planck:
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as the result of my research about the atoms this much:
"THERE IS NO MATTER AS SUCH!"
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter".
Of course, historically many cultures taught that in dreams we experience another universe, made of "dream matter" just as real as the matter of the physical universe, but far more subtle. In some ways this view seems compatible with M- theory (the latest form of Superstring theory), in which physicists propose that the standard 3 + 1 space-time dimensions just won't do - and that we need 11 dimensions to understand how the physical universe behaves. But if true, this would mean that even our "brains" would consist not only of the (3 +1) space-time component taken into account in the modern neurophysiological model, but an additional 7 dimensional component, which this model fails to include in its mechanistic model of consciousness.
Perhaps dreams do occur "all in our brains" - but not in our (3+1) space-time brains, but in our eleven dimensional brains! And if we do experience these other dimensional components of self, it makes sense that we might do in our dreams, which often contain bizarre and hard to describe elements.
Also, for theories on the nature of dreaming, the validation of dream-psi
(1-2) has made strictly subjective, solipsistic, theories of dreaming outdated and untenable. We need to change how we think about dreams, and to understand that dreaming involves a kind of perception.
For example, one can describe 'visual perception as process' as follows:
1. Object/event in the "external world"; 2. Your visual sense abstracts/represents that object/event; 3. You see an abstract pattern of light, shapes, colors, etc.; 4. After a 'best fit comparison match" with stored templates of previously experienced object/events, functioning intentionality automatically identifies this pattern as X. You perceive X. or:
5. Discrimination. No match, or too poor a match. Back to stage 3.
This process distinguishes between what one sees, and what one perceives.
Even if two individuals see "the same" ink blot, they may perceive it quite
differently. In dreams, much more so than in waking life, we identify what
we experience in terms of those objects and processes familiar to us, even if the match seems very poor. To the dreaming mind, "similar to" often becomes "identical to." I wrote about this "The Substitution Phenomenon" in
1985 (3) and have developed this concept in subsequent papers (4-8).
If you look under the hood of a "dream car" will you find a "dream engine"
that needs "dream gasoline" to run? Does your "dream body" have a "dream heart" that pumps "dream blood"? Do "dream lungs" breathe "dream air"?
When we identify objects in dreams, we typically do so based on a superficial visual resemblance of the dream object to a physical reality object. In ordinary dreams, where we don't realize that we dream, we incorrectly identify experienced objects as physical reality objects, while assuming they have all the characteristics of physical reality objects. But how closely do dream objects correspond to their physical reality counterparts?
If the properties of a dream object depends entirely on our subjective expectations for it, than a closer look at the object should satisfy those expectations - e.g., if I break open the shell of a "dream walnut", I will find a brown "brain-shaped" nutmeat inside. If I eat the nutmeat, I will experience the familiar walnut texture and flavor as I chew on it. If I chop down a "dream tree" with a "dream ax", I will see a ring of bark on the outside of the trunk, and a series of light and dark rings in the "dream wood".
On the other hand, if the properties of dream objects do not entirely depend on the dreamer's conscious/unconscious expectations for them, dreamers might experience a variety of surprises when they inspect dream objects more closely, looking at the objects from all sides, looking at their "insides after breaking them open, etc.
Through observation and experimentation human beings have observed regularities in the behavior of the physical universe that has allowed us to deduce "the laws" of physics, chemistry, and biology, and to apply this knowledge in practical and beneficial ways. I suspect that a program of observation and experimentation by experienced dreamers, and especially lucid dreamers, will reveal that the dream universe also operates under certain laws that will go beyond the merely subjective. Unfortunately, observation and experimentation in the dream universe requires certain still rare skills - in lucid dreaming, and in the ability to critically observe - and to record - ones dreams. To the best of my knowledge, research by a group of experienced lucid dreamers into the basic properties of the dream universe has never before taken place. If you possess the required skills, please contribute to this group research effort - "to boldly go where no one has gone before!"
The Challenge: Exploring the Properties of "Dreamstuff"
When you next become lucid in a dream (where you know that you dream while you dream) look around the dream environment and focus on a specific dream object - an object that you have automatically identified as the dream counterpart to a waking physical reality object.
If you find yourself in an "outside" environment, you might choose a "dream stone", or a "dream tree", if "inside", you might focus on a "dream chair", a "dream book", or some kind of "dream food". Look at the object closely, and from different angles. Touch the object - what kind of texture does it have? Does it feel hard or soft, heavy or light? If you can open the object and look at its "inside" do so. As you do this, notice whether the experienced properties fit the expectations that you would have for a physical object of this kind. Does a "dream rock" have a rough texture?
Does it feel heavy and hard? If you drop it, or strike it against another object, does it make a sound? What does it taste like if you chew on a piece of it? Does it have a smell? If the dream object changes as you interact with it, how does it change, and what does it change into? How do its properties compare with the waking physical reality object with which you had earlier identified it?
Record your experiences and interactions with the dream object in your dream journal in as much detail as possible - include colored drawings and diagrams.
Although I've found it rather difficult to bring over reliable scientific instruments into the dream universe, one can perform meaningful experiments using one's dream body as the instrument and one's lucid dreaming mind as
the recording device. Even simple experiments of this kind can yield
intriguing and fascinating results.
As always, we invite those of you who accomplish this quarter's challenge to send your dream reports to LDE!
REFERENCES
1. Ullman, M., Krippner, S., and Vaughn, A.,(1973) Dream Telepathy:
Experiments in Nocturnal ESP, Penguin Books, Baltimore.
2. Sherwood, S. J., & Roe, C. A. (2003). "A review of dream ESP studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme" Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 85-109.
3. Kellogg III, E. W. (1985). "The Substitution Phenomenon" Dream Network Bulletin, 4(5), 5-7 4. Kellogg III, E. W. (1989). "Mapping Territories: A Phenomenology of Lucid Dream Reality". Lucidity Letter, 8(2), 81 - 97. Available online at:
http://www.spiritwatch.ca/LL%208(2)%20dec%2089/KELOG082.W50.htm
5. Kellogg III, E. W. (1992). "The Lucidity Continuum", a paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Lucidity Association in Santa Cruz, June 28, 1992. (Published in the October, 2004 issue of Electric Dreams, Volume 11, Issue #10.) http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/kellogg/ ) 6. Kellogg III, E. W. (1997) "A Mutual Lucid Dream Event", Dream Time, 14(2), 32-34.
7. Kellogg III, E. W. (2001) "ASD 2001 Telepathy Contest: A Precognitive Approach", Dream Time, 18(2-3), 20, 41. A longer version appears online at the ASD Website: http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/contest2001/kellogg.htm
8. Kellogg III, E. W. (2003) "Psi-Perception in Dreams: Next Stop - the Twilight Zone." (a 2003 PsiberDreaming Conference Presentation):http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_pdc2003_001.htm
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Drumming Into Dreaming
Jean Campbell
July 2006
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The experience of combining the June DaFuMu Dreaming for World Peace, which is the monthly peace dreaming of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, with the Drumming Into Dreaming Solstice Ceremony at the Bridgewater conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams last month produced a wide range of immensely powerful dreams. In this View, I'll talk about only three of them. These three dreams, however, can be seen as an example of the amazing things that happen when groups of people dream together.
Mary (White Feather) Joyce, a fourth-generation Passamaquoddy medicine woman on her father's side, and from a line on Irish psychics on her mother's side, is a member of the Peace Bridge. She is also the person who created the Solstice Celebration at the Bridgewater Conference. The day after the conference ended, Mary wrote to the Peace Bridge that the drumming ceremony, a sunset gathering of over 250 people at the site of an ancient Native American sighting stone, "Woke up the ancestors for miles around!"
For members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, however, the group dreaming began at least a week earlier, even before the scheduled DaFuMu Dreaming date. On June 13, Mary dreamed:
"People everywhere were coming out of their houses. We are all standing out on the street and all of us were holding hands, miles and miles of people holding hands. The sky was stormy dark blue & black clouds and so windy. We were feeling the groundshaking, trembling, separating and sinking in different areas." This is only a segment of Mary's dream, which spoke of shifting ground and political deceit. Her dream was echoed by the dreams of several other Peace Bridge members.
"When I woke up," Mary said, "it was because I was feeling the earth sinking below us all and thought while waking up hearing my voice say, 'Wake up Mary. It's a dream. You are all ok, but it's a warning, but wake up!'"
On June 15, after two weeks of pre-conference, total lack of dream recall, I stumbled to my computer at 5:30 a.m. Nick, a college student who lives in Australia, was at the other end of his day. He had written a most surprising dream...and one that I immediately could feel was mine, just like he said. I thanked him for remembering what I had not recalled.
"I am inside the heart and mind of Jean Campbell - the moderator of the World Dreams Peace Bridge," Nick wrote. "Or at least in a state where my observations seem to be in sympathy with what she is feeling."
"I find myself absorbed in vision - an A4 sheet - clear, white, paper. Within it - a dark, black circle, which stretches almost to the edges of the page. I am brought into immediate identification with this gaping hole, this abyss, as though for a moment I am present within
the energetic space it represents. The air here is constricted, greatly so. My breath becomes tight, I surge into deep achings for gasps of air. These come, but only for a moment. A Moment! And then it's back to the same.
"Breathe' speaks my inner voice, part mocking, part warning. I know this black space to mirror the conditions of those living in Iraq. I feel Jean's pain as she tries to work out how to direct more of her finances into this project."
"Comments: I woke - restless for breath. It was as though the dream's message had carried itself, within my body, not just my mind. I was reminded of Jean Campbell's new book - *Group Dreaming, Dreams to the Tenth Power*, and my reading about how a percentage of profits would be donated to the Aid for Traumatized Children Project in Iraq. The dream gave to me, a real "felt" understanding of the situation there. I am grateful for this dream, and it's invocation of a greater sense of compassion within."
Later, at the conference, to my surprise I found myself in the center of the group at the workshop on Mindful Dreaming conducted by David Gordon, Ph.D., telling this dream of Nick's. I wrote to the Peace Bridge the day that I returned: "I cannot even begin to describe the experience of telling this dream in a circle of dreamers, how most of the people in the circle incorporated this dream as being their own. But I can tell you that David masterfully (and I mean masterfully) directed the work of this group to the end in which, as one person commented: "The group is holding Jean, who is holding the dream, and Jean's dream is held by Nick, who is held by the children (I told them how you changed your major to education because of Micah and your dreams, Nick.), and we are all held by God. I was sobbing by the end of the work...as were several other people in the room. It was good to release the tensions into that space, and good to be able to say into that space that my real, deepest work is to end this horrible war."
The final dream of this set came to the Peace Bridge discussion list from Rita on June 21:
I am walking into this man made cave with other people. There is a deep pool that meanders through the cave. Everything is covered by cement and there is a very narrow path next to the water. The pool is teeming with wild animals, most of them from Africa. There are lions, cheetahs, crocodiles swimming in the waters. I notice this barge on the water of two old, homeless man. They look like Robinson Crusoe and are smoking a pipe and seem comfortable as the barge moves by itself on these animal infested waters. Then my eye moves to another boat - one that is overloaded with westerners. The boat tilts and everybody falls into the waters. I won't look as the animals now swim to the place and begin eating up everybody. I am so frightened for these people and all I can see in my peripheral vision is this tall loving stranger who is a volunteer helping as he can, but he gets dragged down into the water and wild animals also.
As we continue walking there is only a spot left where all these people lost their lives. There is nobody in charge in this cave - everybody on their own. I am hurting and continue walking when I notice there is another boat on the waters, this is a wider one, not like the small canoe that had too many people in them. In the wider boat is a woman, bleeding and deeply injured, very soulful eyes looking at me and next to her there is somebody younger also injured. I take charge and ask the young woman next to me to call for help. She has a cell and makes the call. Somehow I know that the life of these two people will be saved. There is another young woman standing there, grieving. She just lost her mother in the canoe and was still grieving for her dead father who died a year ago. My heart goes out to her. EOD
The dream, which struck such a deep chord in Kotaro that, after carefully asking questions about the dream content, he created a series of water color illustrations (see The View at www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org) is clearly a part of the energy raised by the combined DaFuMu and Solstice peace dreaming.
At the Bridgewater Solstice ceremony Mary Whitefeather announced that if one person dreamed of the rainbow afterward, it would secure peace for the coming times. The next morning, Sr. Mary Rivkah Rogacion from the Philippines told a beautiful dream of the rainbow to the morning dream group I led.
The messages that these dreams hold for us all can easily be seen. The work of honoring the dream is the challenge.
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The Wheel of Life: Aligning Dreams
with the SuperConscious
Shamai Currim, PhD
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Here are either 4 night dream exercises, or a guided meditation. Typically as a dream exercise, a mobile is created and hung over the head, or by the bed using evocative words, such as who am I? Where am I going? What do I need to get there? etc, etc. to entice the un/super conscious selves to get involved. Or, colored wheels/circles with opposite colors on back and front. As a guided imagery - time and space need to be built in for both movement, journaling, and/or sharing.
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If one can think of the Wheel of Life as the place from which we birth, grow, and ultimately die, then we can begin the journey from the center of our Universe. Take a moment to center yourself, and then, with eyes slightly lowered, allow yourself to come to a place of empty, surrendering to all that has taken you to this point. As you become aware, become the observer of your awareness.....and then, let go. You are now in the center of your Universe, where there is neither do'er nor be're, neither coming nor going, no longer the observer, and no longer one to be observed. Breathe into that space, and then....look forward, ahead of you. This is the East, the birthing of the new you. Observe, see what/who is coming to take you forward and allow them/it to show you, to teach you, to guide you to your new form. Create a space of welcome, and take as long as you would like to get to know this new form.
From the East, we travel to the South where your form will grow and develop, and a new guide may come to join you. Observe the changes, and ask any questions that may come to mind. This is a time of questioning and trying out new ideas. You may feel that your body is now involved in this quest and you are welcome to move around and do whatever it is that your body feels it needs to do. Enjoy this time of plenty, and then, when you feel ready, quiet your body, and prepare for the next step of the journey.
The West is a space of depth. It is the 'dark night of the soul' where we are able to move from wounding to knowing. We come out of here more enlightened and aware of our purpose in life, and our journey is guided by a being of a higher order who can speak without words, and think without thoughts. Allow the experience to envelop you and become all of you.
From the north we are guided by those who have come before. We reach the pinnacle of what/who we are, and suddenly understand the what, where and how's of life. Suddenly we are aware that we have always been here.....drink in that understanding and then, allow yourself to let all of this go, and return to center.
From the center of your being, observe all that you have become and all that you will be...and then, let it all go....for you are already there.
Shamai Currim PhD
May 12, 2006
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Dream: Waiting for Frances
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 16 jun 2006 06:23
DREAM : waiting for frances
=( yesterday was a thursday. my dvd video project has stalled, the software has stopped capturing the digital video from the camera after the first 24 scene clips. i sent email to experts in the local macintosh user group to see if they have any suggestions why my mac is acting like a pc in being so unstable. my mother was behaving strangely all day. she got up early, around 08:00, and forgot to eat her breakfast, going to work on her sewing machine. but she had broken her last needle and came to get me around 09:30. usually she does not wake up until about 11:00 each morning. later in the afternoon, she was wandering the hall and asking what happened to 'the kids'. i told her that we live here, just us. she said she thought that some kids were around. during the evening when watching television, she suddenly asked me if we had brought all the plants in. i wondered what plants, and she said those that we needed for the recipe book. these mental lapses all day worried me, but i figured that there is nothing i can do about them. i had gotten her some new sewing machine needles during the afternoon, but she was unable to get her machine working. she remembers that she used to sew but has forgotten how to operate the machine for her endless modification of clothes she never wears anywhere. i got to sleep around midnight as usual. )=
it is early evening by the time that the gallery dealer arrives. he is a tall man, a little overweight, wearing a colorless gray suit that hangs a bit baggy on him. i have invited him over this evening to ask his opinion on framing a piece of artwork that frances has sent for me to keep for a while.
the painting is about twenty centimeters wide and maybe four times that length, a small thin wooden frame with stretched canvas. the painting itself appears to be an abstract, mostly grays and shades of white with a mass of dark dots and short lines. there is one small section that has a little red worked into the texture and another area where some blue shows through, but mostly it is grays and whites mingling.
i generally like this piece of work. the dots and short lines are just close enough that your eye wants to see figures and images with them, so at different times and different perspectives i see different things in the work. the problem is that when it hangs on the wall with anything else near it, it appears to be lackluster given the overall grays. it becomes hard to see and pay attention to it. i suspect that it might be downgraded in a show or art competition because of this feature.
so i have summoned the gallery dealer to ask his opinion on framing the work to be assured that it has enough space around it so as not to get lost. frances has continued the paint around the sides of the canvas as she often does, but she has told me that this is just to avoid the expense of framing every piece. i figure that i will pay for framing this one, and she can always discard the frame if she does not like the effect of it. i wanted the assistance of this gallery dealer in deciding the size and color of any matting, whether glass should cover it and any other decisions about adding a frame to the piece. i have never been very good with color and he obviously does this kind of work all the time.
it does not take very long for him to see the problem and he insists that we get in his car and go to the shop where his framing is done.
it is a sunday evening so i wonder if the shop is open, but he calls ahead on his cell phone to meet someone there. apparently there is just about always someone working. it takes us about half an hour to drive into the city.
the outside of the building that we arrive at looks like a warehouse, but as soon as we are let inside the doors i can see it crowded with a few people, artwork and many projects going on. this will be a good place to test the little painting's ability to hold its own with all the other work around.
soon the dealer introduces me to one of the framing workers. we go off into a cubby partition to examine the painting and decide about its framing. i mention that framing should be omnidirectional since turning painting in different perspectives gives it a different gestalt. i show that with one side up i can see a long table with nondescript people huddling over some meal, but turning it ninety degrees and i see an eighteenth century man dressed in rawhide
buckskins. the effect is strong enough that each of us generally
sees the same figures in the abstraction background. frances has put her signature on one side of the work which gives it a preferred direction, but it is small and does not detract from multiple orientations. it is rather cool how the viewer's eye contributes figurative content to an otherwise abstract work.
we do not get very far into deciding about the framing issues when the framing worker leaves us. he comes back and says that he has called frances about something and she wants us to wait until she gets there. i did not even realize that she was in the state. so we have to wait.
and wait and wait. the gallery dealer says it is nice of me to wait.
i get fidgety and go for a walk around the framing shop to enjoy the other artworks. there are many, some sculptures but mostly paintings and prints stacked everywhere. there are more people around for what is getting to be a late sunday evening. i find an empty back storage room which has some fresh picked ears of corn stacked with the art supplies. i take a small ear of corn and peel back a bit of the husk as i walk around looking at art.
the gallery dealer comes up to me and asks where i found the corn. i take him back to the empty storage room and he takes about half a
dozen ears of corn from the stack. apparently he will take some
home with him. on our way back, there is a large crowd of people blocking the hallway, so we have to climb up on some long carpet rolls to get around them.
we are still waiting for frances to arrive. i take another tour of the facilities, but i have seen everything by now at least twice.
where can she be? i have been here already at least an hour longer than i thought this should take.
the front door opens and a man dressed entirely in white comes up to me. he speaks to me with a high pitched voice but i can not understand a single word he says. i am fascinated that he has no face. his hair and skin are just as white as his spotless clothing.
i can not tell if the blank area where his face should be is just a tight white cloth mask or if he truly has no features at all.
when i do not respond to whatever he has said, he slows down and
begins again. this time i can just understand his warble. "i am
here to help you. mister dijini had to leave and he did not want to leave you alone."
i believe that mister dijini is the gallery dealer who brought me here. i am a little displeased and wonder how i am to get home since he drove us. i wish we had just gone ahead with the framing and not wasted our time waiting for frances. she could always discard the frame if she did not like the result.
=( awake around 06:00. in waking life i know none of the people or places in this dream. the name 'dijini' means nothing to me, indeed it was difficult to distinguish the word, given the odd voice of the faceless man. frances barrineau is a friend of mine, her husband and i met when i first got here to pensacola. when they moved away, she had a lot of her artwork which she did not want to haul with them, so
i offered to keep much of it in my house. i had a lot of empty
walls and enjoy her various history of painting and drawings. most of her work is semi-abstract with some figurative associations. this dream has much feeling of the existential angst in the play _waiting for godot_. i suppose that worrying over my mother's deteriorating condition is the concern for our mortal situation which inspires all this seemingly endless waiting. )=
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DreamRePlay
with David Jenkins, PhD
The $1,000 Dream
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The dream that found $1,000
I constantly struggle to find ways to explain the remarkable value of dreams to my friends. Many of them, if the truth be known, cannot understand why anyone would want to look at their dreams. For me, and others, dream work is fascinating in its own right as well as -- believe it or not -- having many practical uses.
Here is a clear example in which dream work solved an urgent, practical problem. Even my doubting friends, could benefit from this kind of help from their night life.
The Missing $1,000
Philip and his wife, Helen, come to my groups regularly. For the first year Philip almost never dreamed. After about a year, he started to dream more frequentlyabout two or three times a month.
In his waking life, Philip's mail-order business receives many checks in varying amounts, mostly less than $50 One day he received so many checks that they totaled around $1,000. That evening, he went to deposit them but the ATM was broken and the bank was closed. He took his checks home. The next day, when he went to look for them, they couldnt be found. Philip had already endorsed them, so if stolen, the checks could be cashed.
Philip searched the house several times, but nothing. He even cleaned, creating a pile of general trash as he searched. He was at his wits end. He decided he had to ask all these people to stop their checks and he would pay their bank charges. He would probably not get new checks from some of them. It was a waking-life nightmare.
Philip's Dream
Philip had a sense that his dreams might know where the envelope could be.
"On the day before the dream, I unintentionally recalled several times while I was searching how David had told us that dreams can help people solve practical waking life problems."
That night he had a dream:
I dreamed that I was looking in the mailbox. Only it wasnt really a mailbox. Funnily enough all the letters along with the trash I had collected and a crumpled old ATM envelope were stacked neatly and vertically side by side like books in a bookcase.
When he woke up, Philip started wandering around the house.
"I didn't actually realize there was a place I hadn't searched; at first I didn't realize anything at all. Instead, I just felt the urge in my early morning stupor to walk to my office. I looked at the shelf in my bookcase where I keep spare ATM envelopes.
Philip keeps a quantity of empty ATM envelopes in his office bookcase because he hates standing at the ATM machine stuffing his checks into the envelope there. They are neatly stacked and vertical - as in the dream. One was far from emptyit was stuffed with the checks.
Philip's dream didn't exactly say "Look in the bookcase where you keep your empty ATM envelopes," but it conveyed that idea so powerfully that he just walked over there on autopilot and found his checks.
Philip credits my dream work with saving him $1,000 and a whole lot of hassle. He wrote to me: "Please share this experience with your readers as a token of our gratitude to you for the enjoyment and insights your classes have given us and for your dream-based help with waking life issues.
Summary
Philip's experience is not unusual. Because dreams follow a different logic from waking life, they seem divorced from waking life but often they are commenting on it from an unusual perspective. Sometimes that unusual perspective cuts through and tells you what you need to know.
When you have a problem that has exhausted your daytime skills, pass it over to your dream self to do the thinking. You can read more about techniques for using your dreams in this way in my column on Dream Incubation.
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From the Dream Section editor Kat Peters-Midland :
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DATE : 8 jun 2006 10:03
DREAM : that place outside ourselves
=( last night was a wednesday. during the evening my mother did not feel very well. she only ate about four bites of her dinner and left the rest. this is not like her at all since she usually eats everything. i had made an olive pesto over fettucine florentine with italian sausage and fresh tomatoes from my garden. a little later when she got up to go the bathroom, she could not stand and fell back into her chair. i had to help her get into the bathroom. i was frightened then but mother said she would be alright. around 22:00 when she usually does the dishes before our late movies on the dvd, she was disoriented and did not know where the kitchen was. i convinced her to go to the emergency ward and had to help her slowly to get into the car so i could drive her the four miles to the hospital. we were there until 03:00. a doctor only spent about ten minutes with her and she slowly got better. they could not find anything wrong with her cat scan, blood or urine tests. i had to remind her many times why we came to the emergency ward and around 02:30 she got really angry with me for bringing her there. she was acting normal and happy again when we got home and went to sleep. )=
it is a cold morning outside, like late autumn that is almost given over to winter. i have woke up to begin the day. i have given promises to help in the street fair but i am a little sleepy to go just yet.
i meet my sister and susan at the wooden picnic table on the stone patio. the paving stones are large flat flagstones of reddish gray color. they sit down on the bench across from me as i swirl the large bowl with the pancake batter. there is an old heavy frying pan into which i put a little oil then pour the batter which makes a nice warm sizzle when it spreads out. there is just enough room to cook two large pancakes at once. i have enough batter to make six in three batches. when each of the pancakes have cooked to a fluffy dryness and rich golden color, i scoop them out with a spatula onto a platter nearby.
when i am done with the six pancakes, i take two each off the serving platter and put them onto small plates which i give to one each to my sister and susan. before i can get the last two for myself, the flames explode outward around the frying pan. at first i try to blow them out but they are too energetic. i turn the gas on the grill off and the flames die away quickly once their fuel is gone.
the thick sweet maple syrup saturates into the pancakes just right.
it is a delight to eat them while they are still warm from cooking.
each tender mouthful tastes just right, the perfect way to start a day like this.
now i must make right about going to help at the street fair. as we pile our dirty plates and forks up on the picnic, i become aware of the reality surrounding each of us here. there is a place in which we all exist and that zone usually extends a small distance outside of our bodies. this is called the aura and just outside of this place there is another self. mine looks like a small sparkling comma that swirls and twists, probably in more than three dimensions so i can not properly see all of it at any one time, just the sides of it that intersect in our spacetime. this extra self eats reality. it consumes from the edges of our aura and most of the time we are not aware of it. but this morning i can see our other selves doing their work of trimming away the edges of conscious existence, keeping us clean. mine looks like a comma, susan's a small star, and my sister's is a flattened disk.
i feel a little flattered and humbled by actually seeing those small extensions in that place just outside ourselves. we are now fortified with the breakfast and ready to begin the day. the other two go on ahead while i tidy up the table a little before leaving.
agamemnon, my great dane, comes bounding up to me, eager as always.
i pet his head and tug at his ears in a playful manner. i find a piece of cheese on the table and give it to him to eat. he wolfs it down and turns to run on ahead. there are many layers of stone stairs which descend away from the patio. i worry a little that my dog might stumble on them and hurt himself in his hurry, but he manages the stairs just fine, getting to the parking lot the bottom before i even get started down after him.
i look up at my comma in that place a little outside myself and am glad of this morning and whatever this day will bring.
=( awake at 09:30. this dream seems to have some mystical significance to me, but i just can not exactly articulate what it is.
perhaps that is the way it should be. seeing those multidimensional parts of ourselves, sparkling nearly transparent and constantly turning over, are somehow not meant to be in our usual perceptions, but just at those brief times when everything in nearly perfect. it feels a little refreshing to have been there, even if it is just in sleep and dreams. each of the three characters in this dream lived with me, but at different times in my life that never overlapped.
the pancakes were perfect and agamemnon enjoyed his slice of cheddar.
all in all, it seemed like a excellant morning, and waking up into reality seems a little encouraging even without the visual confirmation of those multidimensional aspects of ourselves. i do not get many days like this. )=
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dream_title: Scary
dream_date: 7/5/06
dreamer_name: Logie
dream_text: I was pulling clumps and clumps of hair from my mouth and I was choking! I woke up so upset and disoriented.
There were also other scary things going on, my boyfriend kept saying "listen!" listen! to a noise that was scaring him, the whole dream was so upsetting!!
dream_comments: I believe that pulling hair from my mouth means something!
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subject: Dream Flow Dream Input Form
dream_title: "I Slept with a Bear"
dream_date: July 3, 2006
dreamer_name: gia
dream_text: I fell asleep on my couch, but I kept coming in and out of consciousness. On one of the occasions, I realized that some animal was sleeping on my chest. At first I thought it was my dog. I have a Yorkshire Terrier, however, this animal was much bigger. He was half my size. Turns out, this animal was a baby bear...I think. Like I wrote previously, I was too petrified to turn my head. I was afraid to flinch, because I thought the bear was sleeping and I didn't want to wake him, for fear he would tear me limb from limb. The thought of this predator sleeping on me gave me the chills. Don't get me wrong, I like animals, but not life threatening ones. Anyway, I kept trying to go back to sleep, because I was so tired. Unfortunately, the bear was in every dream, drooling on my chest. I was so scared.
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dream_title: My Father's Car In The Snow
dream_date: June 2006
dreamer_name: Princess
dream_text: I found myself standing on a level road covered in snow. It was nearly dark outside. There were several cars parked in a row, each behind one another. In the front of the line of cars was a car much bigger than the others. I felt like the other cars were being blocked by the one in front. I thought it was my Dad's car. He passed on several years ago. On the side of the road back a little ways was a large house. I felt as though all my Family was in the house. I was the only one standing on the road. I looked back at the big car and inside of it I saw my Dad. While it was nearly dark outside, inside my Dad's car it was daylight. He was sitting at the wheel looking straight ahead. He did not look at me. Slowly, he began to move forward. As he did, it began to pour down snow. Then I woke up.
dream_title: The Divided House
dream_date: June 2006
dreamer_name: Princess
dream_text: I found myself driving. I was at the bottom of a hill stopped. There was a red light at the top of the hill. I kept waiting for it to change to green. The red light did go out, but there was no green light. I felt it safe to go on. I found myself entering a small house that was divided into two rooms. The entry door was on the right side. When I entered the room, I saw three people (who are all still living). My Mother and my Aunt were sitting on a sofa. My cousin was sitting in a chair reading a Cookbook I have not yet finished. Both my Mother and my Aunt were shaking their heads no to me. I didn't understand what they were referring to. I walked over to my cousin and got hold of both her hands and walked backwards leading her to the other side of the house. In the other room, I saw my Dad and his Father (both have passed on). My Dad looked so sad but my Grandfather was smiling as if his face was frozen. He looked like he does in a picture I have of him. I felt for some reason compelled to bring my cousin into that room. My cousin leaned over to my Dad and ask him why he was so sad. I woke up. A week later my cousin's husband died.
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dream_title: cats everywhere
dream_date: 06/30/06
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: i was driving around and my male cousin was with me. i purchased a car there where cats in the car and he put them out. i don't like cats. we drove further and there where double the amount of cats and they where all over . i stood up and he was puttting them out and they came to me.
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dream_title: Electric mountains
dream_date: 26/27 june
dreamer_name: mademoiselle marquee
dream_text:
I looked from my window..over the mountains which catch my view everyday... I was hypnotized by a
ring of clouds which started to form..I felt the energy surge throughout my soul..and then pink lightning began to strike over the hills...So spectacular...Overworldy powers...the lightning grew...and fire begin to rise from beneath and behind the mountains...the ground erupted everywhere..Fire burned over the landscape...the pink flashes continued to catch my gaze..I felt overwhelmed... lava ran across the scene...and I walked downstairs to where my father sits with my sister and friends... I look from the door...and see the lava approaching closer..I turn to my family and friends and step out of the door...the lava grows closer still..across the earthly greens of ground... I step out into the garden and step over the lava flow..I look to the house and a feeling of the end comes over me as I watched the lava cross the path between the house and I...It is the end...And I awake.
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dream_title: Father
dream_date: on going!
dreamer_name: Jersey
dream_text: My father passed away March 22 of this year ( 2006). The day he passed away ( he was in Jersey , I am in ND) I told hubby i wanted to take a nap, I never take naps , I just had a feeling something was wrong! So i laid down to take my nap when all of a sudden my bedroom door opened up, there was my dad! he said " Hi baby I need to tell you I love you but i have to go". I was like where you going dad? He then said " just know I love you kiddo". I woke up and turned to my hubby and said , " My dad is dead"! I looke dat the clock it was 10:30 am . My aunt emailed me and told me my dad passed away 11pm his time so 10 my time. I was crushed! Well I went to his funeral and stayed in jersey for a week or so , each night I was at my aunt shouse i had a dream of my dad dancing with my grandma he looked so happy ! In th edream he was wearing a blue ring I never had seen before , so i told my aunt about it and she said yes he had had a ring like that she showed me. Well now i am having a dream that i am sitting on a stool and my dad walks up to me and says " Hi kiddo , " ( his mouth does not move but i can hear his words!). I then tell him hi daddy do you know i miss you and i love you and pray for you at night he then turns all gross looking and says " kiddo you are praying to th ewrong place". then he says " I laided my head on the devils lap and he took me in as his own". " And someday you will be ..... and before he finishes I tell him oh no i am going to heaven ." I then wake up . But i am having this devil dream for like a few months . what does this mean???
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dream_title: your too late
dream_date: 13/05/06
dreamer_name:
dream_text: i usually have many dreams that i can remember during the nyt, jus different silly odd things, but this one scared me slightly.
It started with my oldest sister fighting with anither girl, and tumbling down a hill which was under a cliff, while she was struggling with the girl, she disappeared out of my sight. i presumed her seriously hurt or dat smfing was wrong
my mother hu cares deeply for my elder sister because she has 'probelms' was turned blank, zombie lyk for a second and jus flung herself over the cliff in order to save my sister from ne harm, and she ends up falling smwer, i dont know wer, but far away lost in this forest at the bottom of the hill.
surprisingly guess hu jus turns up, my boy friend,(of at the time bout 3 months) hu i love deeply, jus have worrys and concerns bout him smtyms, it's been a up n dwn relationship. he jus wat it seems floats dwn the cliff side aswell into the forest, he slowly floated and lay there,
i panicked and tryed to float after him, but i slowed dwn, n couldn't follow him all the way through to the wer he was, i fell short, n for a second i felt blank, i woke up for him to save him, i was rly hurt but i strugled up n ran forward over to him, once i got near i realised his m8 ran over to him, n he said 'i got here first, u didn't get here in tym, he's fine with me', then i started to cry or smfing n woke up.
dream_title: the cow and the witch
dream_date: i dont remember
dreamer_name: Sarah
dream_text: ok, so im dreaming. Im at this place were I dont recognize anything, theres a lard hill. and a meadow, it looks like im at a farm. I see a larg croud of people walking towards me. I seem to have no emotional feeling what so ever. Then i see a cow, the croud of people grab the cow by a rope that is tied around its neck. I see a woman and somehow know she's a witch. I follow the croud of people who are folowing the witch and th cow. We all walk up the hill and i start to sence tremedous fear from the cow. When we get to the top of the hill, there is a large tree with two long ropes. I also see a realy old house, but it looks like its been abandoned for a while. Anyways, I start feeling extremely scared, and then i realize why. The witch took the cow and hung it to the tree. I started screaming "no!" while the witch starts pouring gasoline all over the cow. She then lights the cow on fire. I felt a tremedous loss when the cow started to burn. I couldnt do anything about it. I remember feeling as though the emotional greif was so great that i could feel the cows pain of being burned alive. Then i woke up.
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dream_date: last year
dreamer_name: charlotte
dream_text: we came back from the cemetary to find my husbands mother and it was a hugh cemetary and me and daughter was splitting up and we did it several times and we would always meet at the same place no matter which was we went and then when we got home i took a nap and a woman came to me asking for pearl she was poking my shoulder and i woke up my shoulder was sore i dont know what she was looking for pearl or was her name was pearl
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dream_title: Traveling to Egypt
dream_date: dont remenber date
dreamer_name: charlotte92
dream_text: I had to get my sister i had to show her something very important to me and i got her and we went on a plane to egypt but when we got there she wasnt my sister anymore she was gone and i said im finally home and was happy
dream_title: Relationship with a Ghost
dream_date: 3/16/2006
dreamer_name: Slicshoe
dream_text: I was living in an apartment that faced west in Colorado. Some gal was tagging along with my friend Alicia when she and her friend from CA came to visit me. She was about 5'2" with shoulder-length blond hair and brown eyes. She was an avid runner. We got along well and I became interested in her. As it turned out, she was deceased. I was hoping for a live one, but she was cool. She was concerned I wouldn't want to date her because she was not alive, but we had a good time together. I had just told her I was ok with us seeing each other- regardless of her current life ststus. She gave me a big hug and wrapped her legs around my waist. As she was hugging me, we heard a gong or bell (kind of like church bells). She looked concerned so I asked if she had to be home by midnight. She didn't answer so I told her she better go. She ran right through the front steel door. After she passed through, I felt this unbelievable force of energy that nearly threw me against the wall next to the front door. It felt like other ghosts were running through me, although I could not see them.
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