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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover Sheila McNellis Asato
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++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
++ Dream: "The Clicks"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Article: The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: Dreams and Themes
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the May 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
We are just a couple months away from the IASD 2006 Bridgewater Conference, and if
you haven't planned to come yet, check out the incredible program and reconsider!
asdreams.org/2006
Virtual Dream Arts Gallery: I will have more on this next month, but I'm suggesting we
start a virtual art gallery. This gallery will not "be" in any place, but will accept any art
done in a dream, or any dream text that is about the gallery or dream aesthetics. If you
have any art dreams, send'm in. (This is not dream-inspired-art, but rather art done or
found in dreams, or dream museums in dreams). Until I get a separate form up, just use
the dreamtemple submission form for EDreams:
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucid Dream Exchange editor, Lucy Gillis offers a generous taste of ideas from her new
issue. In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views on the relationship
between lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls "ecopsychological unfolding."
The article, "Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics" has links to samples of his lucid dream
inspired artwork
Linda Magallón, dream pioneer and author of Mutual Dreaming, takes a look this month
at how flying dreams helped her be less physically stiff in the joints. "The Incubation Of
Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result" may well be the beginning of a practice that will
change our techniques in physical therapy.
Stan Kulikowski II offers as selection from his unique dream journal, " The Clicks." 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. His is a current sample, "Dreams and
Themes" explores the idea that dreams come in thematic bunches, like bananas, and one
can track these themes throughout one's life.
Dreamers discovering a spaceship and being familiar with it, being chased, and
witnessing earth changes and people suffering - What's going on? Its the EDreams
Dream section with Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland ! Be sure to read them all.
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
Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which you
can read about 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
Cover by Sheila Asato
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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 the Dream Dimension,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
May 2006
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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@alquinte.com address.
General news:
- Report on the Nordic Dream Conference
- Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD
Online:
- Update from the Precognition Games
- Dream Journal
Physical world:
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace
- California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patricia Garfield
- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
- USA: Jeremy Taylor
Reminders:
- Dreaming in Bridgewater
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- World Dream Group Directory
* * * GENERAL NEWS * * *
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- Report on the Nordic Dream Conference
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I'd like to give a short report on the Nordic Dream Conference in Copenhagen that
happened during three days late March.
The conference gave a huge boost to the formation of a Nordic and European dream
network. Most of the participants at the conference came from Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, and Finland. However, there were also participants from Germany, England,
and the Netherlands. The network includes people from many disciplines, ranging from
dreamworkers and artists to researchers and teachers.
Kate Adams offered to host the next European meeting early 2007. Kate works at the
Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln (close to Nottingham), England. The Danish
Association for the Study of Dreams and IASD offered to help with the planning.
A longer report by the Danish association is available at the website of the IASD. It
includes an extensive contact list:
http://asdreams.org/affiliates/report06april.htm
I hope to see you in England!
Harry Bosma
hbosma@alquinte.com
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- Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD
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Robert J Hoss, MS, author of The Language of Dreams, and director of the Dream
Science Foundation is planning with IASD to provide funding for dream research. IASD
will provide a committee to review research requests. Send proposals to
bob@dreamscience.org
The proposals will be considered for Foundation grants. Since full or partial funding is
not guaranteed, other organizations are invited to help support these worthwhile efforts.
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Update from the Precognition Games
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The Precognition Games are currently focused at the third out of five dream incubation
tasks. Everyone can join in at any moment. It costs nothing, and no special skills are
required.
Here are some of the more striking results for the first task. The first task asked to dream
of an interaction with somebody in the upcoming week. If possible, it had to be an
interaction with a stranger.
Ulfet from Turkey dreamt of meeting a man who came because she had called for him.
He wanted to learn her how to make magic, and looked like a magician. Later in the
week, Ulfet stayed in a hotel, where many magicians showed up for the evening
entertainment.
Kathy from Australia dreamt of a crazy old man, whom she described in the following
way: "white hair and beard, a bit stooped". Several weeks later Kathy had a very
enjoyable meeting with an eccentric old man who in many ways felt similar to the man in
the dream.
Kay from England dreamt about a man called Jim. Later that week Kay just had to ask
whether that name meant anything to a new temp worker. It turned that his girlfriend calls
him that.
Unfortunately not registered in time, but worth mentioning too: Linda from the
Netherlands dreamt about a man in the town where she lives, who for the last ten years
looked like he could use a good haircut. In the dream he appeared with a clean and fresh
haircut. Later that week, she was surprised to meet him in person having that new haircut.
To read the dreams yourself, or add your own, visit the Dream Registry:
http://dreamunit.net/registry
Best wishes,
Harry Bosma
hbosma@alquinte.com
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- Dream Journal
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Dream Journal is the LifeJournal for dreamers, and has grown to quite a thriving
community:
www.dreamjournal.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 May 2006.
* Engaging the Muse - A Poet's Journey *
Four Monday evenings
May 1, 8, 15, 22
7-9 pm, $75
Poetry arises from our unique engagement with a source often experienced as gods or
Muses. This class will explore one's initiation into this relationship and ways that
different poets stay engaged. Each class includes experiential exercises and group
sharing. Readings provided.
Kathryn Ridall, Ph.D., is a published poet, psychotherapist, and Adjunct Faculty,
Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University.
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* The Raw & The Cooked - Poetry Reading Series *
Sunday afternoons
3-5 pm, $5-15
April 30: Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas
May 21: Phyllis Stowell Travis and Elizabeth Rosner
This innovative monthly series invites published poets to present their own work and also
invites participants to bring a poem to read, their own or favorites, for a lively sharing.
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- Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace
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DREAMING AND AWAKENING: Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, and Dream Yoga,
10 days of awareness enhancement and re-creation at the beautiful Kalani Oceanside
Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii, with Stephen LaBerge and Alan Wallace,
May 10-19, 2006.
Becoming adept at lucid dreaming requires focused attention and practice that is difficult
to maintain during our busy lives. This is an ideal opportunity to devote time to
cultivating your lucid dreaming ability and enhancing your mindfulness in everyday life.
Using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Tibetan dream yoga
and Western science, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Alan Wallace, Ph.D. will co-present*
instructions on methods of developing the mental skills that foster lucidity and on
directing consciousness within both dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of
personal goals.
During this workshop, you will have an opportunity to use the NovaDreamer, and, if you
wish, participate in ongoing research on a natural substance that, according to recent
studies, has been shown to stimulate lucidity and mindfulness.
Participants in our past retreats have enjoyed phenomenal success at lucid dreaming, with
most having at least one during the program.
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- California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patrica Garfield
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At Dominican College, Corte Madera, California
Tuesdays, April 18-May 23
2:00-4:00 pm
Aegis of Corte Madera: 5555
Paradise Drive
During each session following the introductory one, participants will examine at least two
of the most common negative dreams around the world, as well as their positive versions.
We'll discuss the usual meanings of these dream themes and explore individual
variations. Discover how these themes are portrayed in your dreams, especially in senior
issues such as retirement and bereavement.
In addition to gaining knowledge about specific dream themes, participants learn some
ancient and modern cultural methods for preventing and banishing nightmares; practice
methods for inducing dreams on specific topics; and explore how to use dream content
for creative purposes, with inspiring examples from famous dreamers.
http://www.dominican.edu/academics/adult/osher/sprg06course.html
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- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
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* The Power of Active Dreaming *
Evening Workshop
Friday, May 12
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#montreal evening
* Dream Teacher Training *
Level I, Five-Day Advanced Training
Monday-Friday, May 22-26
DUVALL, WA
http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#dtt-1
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- USA: Jeremy Taylor
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May, 2006 May 5-7 - Loveland, CO
Weekend Workshop held at beautiful Sunrise Ranch in Loveland. Sponsored by Billie
Ortiz. All are welcome. Contact her at wakeuptoyourdreams@earthlink.net , or call
303/929.6122
May 12-14 - Mt Carmel in Niagara Falls, ONT
Weekend Workshop as part of the Haden Institute. Contact Bob Haden at
bob@hadeninstitute.com
June, 2006 June 2-4 - Danville, CA (San Damiano Retreat Ctr)
Weekend Workshop: "Dream Work as a Spiritual Discipline."
You may stay at the Retreat Center, or commute. Register on line at
www.sandamiano.org or phone 925/837.9141. Cost is $195 (with room and board) or
$165 without. Schedule is Friday night orientation and introduction to group dream work,
Saturday all day experiential workshop, Saturday evening dream work in small groups,
and Sunday morning further dream work in the larger group.
June 11-16 - Hendersonville, NC
Haden Institute Summer Dream Conference. Jeremy will be offering dream training,
including "More Ways Than Talk - Getting at the Deeper Meanings of Dreams Through
Expressive Arts-As-Meditation." This conference is focused on understanding dreams in
the light of Christian faith and tradition. You will have the opportunity to learn to
understand dreams as a Christian discipline, find guidance for starting a dream group in
your church, and to share the community of those exploring the growing Christian dream-
work movement. It is open to all. It will be held at the Kanuga Retreat Center. Register
by mail (Haden Institute, PO Box 1793, Flat Rock, NC 28731-1793), fax (828-693.1919)
or email (office@hadeninstitute.com). For more information you can contact The Rev
Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com or 828-693.9292.
June 16-18 - Lexington, KY
Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis' 2006 Annual Conference. Theme is
"Diversity in Unity; Unity in Diversity" Keynote by Houston Smith. Jeremy will do a
presentation introducing group projective dream work as a psychological practice and a
spiritual discipline, and also a post conference workshop on working with your dreams.
For more information email to info@aap-psychosynthesis.org or go to their website at
http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org .
June 20-25 - Bridgewater, MA
IASD CONFERENCE
Annual International Association for the Study of Dreams conference on the campus of
Bridgewater College near Boston, MA. Jeremy will offer a workshop on June 23 and a
presentation on June 24. A great opportunity to work with dream workers from around
the world. Open to all! Go to www.asdreams.org .
* * * REMINDERS * * *
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- Dreaming in Bridgewater
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23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams
June 20 - 24th, 2006
Bridgewater State College,
Bridgewater Massachusetts
Invited speakers include noted Jungian psychologist, Michael Conforti, Ph.D, dreamwork
pioneer, Montague Ullman, M.D., and Sci-Fi and fantasy author, Orson Scott Card.
Special note for artists: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes will be awarded by an
anonymous donor for the best Dream Art in June, '06. 1st prize: $l000, two 2nd prizes of
$500 each. Any medium is acceptable including photography, videos or DVDs, computer
art, book art, installation or any combination of the above. The dream or the significant
part of the dream must be included. The criteria for selection will be originality, integrity,
universality, and relevance to building bridges. The awards will be presented during the
Art Reception in June, '06.
Join dreamers, clinicians, researchers, educators and artists from all over the world for
four days of workshops, lectures, exhibits, and events examining dreaming and
dreamwork as presented through traditional and innovative theories and therapies,
personal study, scientific research, cultural tradition and the arts. Over 100 workshops
and events on all aspects of dreaming are planned, with topics and events of interest to
the general public as well as professionals. Special events include an Opening Reception,
a Dream Arts Exhibition and reception, a solstice visit to a Native American
archaeoastronomical site, a Dream Telepathy Contest, various other social events and the
ever popular closing costume "Dream Ball".
More information at the website of the IASD:
http://asdreams.org
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- 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 - to support peace.
For more information go 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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- The Precognition Games
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Experiments starting in April, running for several weeks each:
* April 1/2 - Predicting the news *
Dream about future news. Aim at something that will become known within the next
week. Something small will do, allow your dreaming all the room it needs to find
something that appeals to your interests. It can be newspaper news, or trade specific
news, or anything else as long as it can be objectively verified.
* April 15/16 - Getting involved *
Have a dream to prepare for a future situation in your immediate environment.
Suggestions for such a future situation include events in your own future, events in the
life of people you know, or events in your neighborhood.
More information available at the IASD Discussion Boards, and you're welcome to add
your special dreams to the Dream Registry at any time.
http://dreamunit.net/registry
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- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
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More participants are welcome.
In order to further our understanding of the extent to which lucid dreams differ from non-
lucid dreams in other ways than (obviously) whether or not the dreamer knows it is a
dream at the time, we have designed a new questionnaire study, a revision of an earlier
pilot study. In short, we are asking you to fill out a web questionnaire and report form
four times; Two of these reports should be lucid dreams, and two should be non-lucid
dreams.
The Lucidity Institute
http://lucidity.com/dreams4.html
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- World Dream Group Directory
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Help the IASD Develop a directory of active dream groups, worldwide. Would you like
to list your group on the IASD website? The IASD would like to learn more about how
many dream groups are active, how many people are involved, and how the IASD can
help group members and leaders. Please contact the IASD Board Secretary Gary
Goodwin to learn more about this project.
Email: gegood@yahoo.com
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Cover: "Banker's Wife" by Sheila Asato
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Sheila McNellis Asato is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to the
growth, transformation and healing of individuals and the community through the arts,
dreaming and creative development. www.monkeybridgearts.com
Sheila is an artist and Japan specialist. Dreams are an integral part of her creative practice
and calling as an instructor in the arts. As a graduate student at St. Mary's University, her
work has focused on the healing and spiritual benefits of cultivating an active relationship
with imagery through dreams and art.
"Banker's Wife" is part of the Healing Collage(sm) collection. Healing Collage(sm) is a
unique process developed by Sheila Asato for personal insight, creative development and
spiritual growth. It is a creative synthesis of graphic design principals, Japanese collage
therapy, the Watchword process and Kaplan-Williams dream cards.
All forms have an underlying compositional structure which holds them together. The
dream is no exception. Through the Healing Collage(sm) process, it is possible to
observe the dream in action as it affects the placement of imagery in your own unique
collage.
Healing Collage(sm) and Dreaming
http://www.monkeybridgearts.com/X2Dreamwork.html
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
This month:
Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
(c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
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In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views on the relationship between
lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls "ecopsychological unfolding." To see
samples of his lucid dream inspired artwork go to:
http://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/archive2/shaman_art.html
Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
(c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
I am honored to be given the opportunity to share ideas in this forum, ideas that for many
years have been, exclusively, a private understanding of the interlacing between lucid
dreaming material, its artistic reinterpretation in diverse media, and these having a direct
impact on what I refer to as ecopsychological unfolding.
Many practitioners of Transpersonal Psychology are keen on the study and understanding
of psyche processes that I will attempt to describe in the context of lucid dreaming and its
artistic representation. The interested reader can go to writers in this field for further
information if you have not already.
For the time being, let the reader interpret ecopsychological unfolding as a more inclusive
process of personality individuation (non anthropocentric and embracing of all nature and
its processes), or being actively involved in the discovery and integration of as many
personality aspects as possible that are said to be the inclusive of a real "me": dark and
light, somber and gay, or evil-tending and good-generating. Thus the full integration of
SELF, even if it is an impossible task, requires that these dualities be stitched together
into a larger and seamless SELF-quilt. Because this task is extremely demanding and
difficult, due in part to the extreme dichotomizing tendencies of individual limited
awareness, nationalism, and ideology, a lucid dreamer is, on the other hand, in a position
of advantage over the regular dreamer. This is the case since dream content and the
manipulation of a dreamscape by lucid dreamers allows for a volitional returning to and
controllable dialogue with the depth of the psyche. Dreaming itself embraces ambiguity.
The simpler story is, to relate and reiterate in a few lines, that lucid dreaming can be for
many a reliable source of perceptual and cognitive data, a source of novel interpersonal
exchanges with imaginary or known dream characters, and a controlled exercise of social
and personal "deviance." By deviance it is meant that lucid dreaming allows for cognitive
and emotional free-play that could challenge comfortable and even orthodox relational
cultural patterns. This inner dreamscape "deviance" can be and is expressed via another
"deviant" enterprise, artistic expression, creating a powerful hermeneutic circle,
maximizing the potential for SELF-growth.
The Surreal
It is more common to hear about lucid dreaming and its potential aesthetic products being
defined in terms of "surrealism" than in any other way. In fact many of the personal
accounts that describe lucid dreaming begin, elaborate upon, or end by paying notice to
its surreal quality. I would argue that although this description aptly surveys the surface
presentation, the fragmented nature, and even the overall quality of lucid dreaming
experiences, nevertheless, this predominant surreal classification is less important or
useful in my art or in my ecopsychological unfolding.
Surrealism is, as philosopher Paul Shepard aptly described (1996), the antithesis of the
fully integrated-natural world and of its ecopsychological ideal: a fully embedded
humanity, inescapably, in Nature. That is, surrealism is the reification and the ratification
of components "in and of themselves" extracted from a larger original and organic
context and elevated to a polished and exclusive category (a form of fetish). The rapidly
shifting dreamscape itself makes this reification and ratification possible because,
oftentimes, even when we are proficient lucid dreamers, the fascination with a particular
and singular element of a dream detracts attention from a larger and more dynamic
scenery and meaning-content that the proficient dreamer does not pay attention to or
cannot keep up with.
When lucid dreamers recollect the vividness of a dream, it is often these surreal
highlights that are mentioned.
Film has been the artistic medium par excellence that depicts dream life as surreal
precisely because of its potential for control of temporal sequencing and image unfolding.
Directors can artistically manipulate both temporal sequencing and image unfolding in
order to create a close approximation of an original dream experience. I will only cite the
work of the famous Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmajer, who transferred the surreal work
of his equally creative wife and artist, Eva Svankmajerová, to film, here, as principal
exponents of the surreal artistic approach. (Eva Svankmajerová is well-known for her
writing and plastic arts.) But hundreds of other film sequences emphasize the surreal
quality of dreams. Even when the focus is not a single object, an entire dream sequence
can unfold in exceptionally alluring and brilliant vignettes without an apparent
connection between these frames. Surrealism is thus also deviant, intensely so, in my
earlier use of that word, since it forces a new interpretation of time and space that can
lead to unique and creative insights. Salvador Dalí made an easy juxtaposition of
mathematics, time, and his visual rendition of these advances, as he understood them.
Dream surrealism has been re-created or re-interpreted in dance, music, poetry, and
architecture.
I will not argue here that a focus on the surreal quality of dreams is not important for
other forms of artistic expression or even that it cannot contribute to ecopsychological
unfolding in its own right. But I am saying that, at least in my case, the more humble
aspects of lucid dreaming end up being the more important and pertinent messages that
invite further discovery.
More Humble Aspects of Lucid Dreaming
The more "humble" aspects of a lucid dream that I am referring to are content as opposed
to surface driven. Their lackluster "humility" lies in their often hidden and harder-to-
arrive-at semiotic aspects, as Freud and Jung discovered. Instead of the surreally
enhanced sensorial qualities that are often present in lucid dreaming, these more
fundamental elements are of great significance to me. It is their potential semiosis that
makes them more important. One word (its meaning), a face (as a mask suggesting my
behavior or an ideal), the angle of an object (indicating direction), a text read (in a larger
context), music heard (not only notes but what the song means to me or how it makes me
feel), and a complete dream story that holds together logically and provides discernable
meaning to the individual dreamers--this is the stuff of which my dreams are made.
Particularly since 1994, my lucid dreaming has had a dominant shamanic import, to use
that term both generally and technically. Of course this import has coincided with an
equal interest during waking reality in attempting to understand global patterns of the
human condition in mythical terms. For a given question in waking reality, for example, a
dream being was encountered who wore a particular mask. This mask was later carved to
achieve maximum approximation to the dreamt object. The dream being was also
pantomiming or acting out various dances and manners of walking or flying or
swimming. These dream manifestations and their messages were the answers I sought.
By carving them afterwards I had the extended opportunity not only to reminisce about
the dream and its message, but also to refine and elaborate further this message for
maximum clarity and understanding.
See www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/gatherings.html
Often, the depth of meaning inherent in these more lackluster aspects of a lucid dream,
echo a genuine interest in and detailed inspection of my natural surroundings. In fact the
more slowly and deliberately I walk in my woods, the more detail I see in natural objects
that catch my eye-spirit, the more vivid and the greater detail the dream object provides.
This is walking meditation at its best with the expected and often reported effect of
enhanced lucid dreaming. Thus, control of dream lucidity means more than a technical
procedure that can quickly be learned from a CD. It is instead a prescribed and intense
attentional state or movement, even a way of life, and perfecting it is the aesthetics of
which I am most desirous.
Lucid Dreaming, Artistic Expression and Ecopsychological Unfolding
The complete dynamics that I have been trying to describe makes for a circular, self-
feeding and grander aesthetics where no longer is there a distinction between the lucid
dream, the dreamer, natural embeddedness, or the artistic product. All are complementary
manifestations of a grander semiosis.
The concept of art as being separate and thus decontextualized from this circular
relationship, itself a form of surrealism, or even as a necessary but incomplete inspection
of nature when an original code is lost, is a western invention. This is aesthetics
interpreted from a "deficit" model.
Interestingly, many so-called primitive languages do not have a concept for art for they
experience and express their existential and natural relationship as a grand process or
even a cosmology, a process rather than an object.
Perhaps an imminent discovery, my view of the interplay between lucid dreaming and its
artistic representation is, to my surprise and delight, more "primitive" than western. In
this sense, I no longer follow or am interested in a western production vector that places
an interesting lucid dream on a position "a" followed by production of art piece "b,"
however hypnotic, well crafted, and commercially viable this art piece may turn out to
be.
Instead, the artist, the process of making art, and the art product itself are all fully
integrated components of lucid dreamscapes and of the original life-nature-matrix that
generates all dreaming. Paul Shepard (1967/1991) describes this existential and ideal
cohesion: "The inner world is coextensive with the outer, the natural habitat a middle
ground, lacing into each other like fingers of clasped hands."
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Bibliography
Paul Shepard (1967/1991). Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Aesthetics of
Nature. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press.
Paul Shepard (1997). The Others: How Animals Made Us Human. Covelo,
California: Island Press/Shearwater Books.
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla PhD, has a triple degree in Biology, Philosophy and Psychology
from Humbolt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author of "Wrestling With
Ghosts: A Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep Paralysis". He currently lives with
his wife in Switzerland, and works at the Sleep Laboratory at the University Hospital in
Bern. Jorge teaches Ecology, Art & Psychology of Aesthetics classes and workshops and
offers a wide range of ecological services in Italy, Switzerland, and Spain through his
organization Le Feuillou Rediscovered.
http://www.geocities.com/jorgeconesa/Ecopsychologie/newblack.html.
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The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result
© 2006 Linda Lane Magallón
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Once, during the month of May, I incubated flying dreams for two weeks straight. I
simply affirmed aloud, "You can fly! You can fly!" several times during the day. I used
this particular wording because I wanted to fly in the dream state along with other dream
characters.
In the first dream, rather than repeat the incubation phrase, I declared to a dream
character, "I can fly! I can fly!" Despite saying this, I did wonder if I really could get off
the ground. I had a vague recollection of recent difficulty doing so (in the dream state). I
made the attempt anyway and surprised myself at how quickly and easily I got airborne.
Rising, I automatically went into a sequence of loops and spins in the air, shooting off
and soaring quite high, pursuing an automobile below me. I quickly overtook the cars on
the highway beneath. I astonished and delighted myself with how fast I could soar, and
with such a smooth acrobatic style.
In the second dream of this series, I realized that I could fly because a dream character
called me a "shaman." (Not true in waking life.) I tried to get airborne by taking off
towards the top of a hill in the hope that the wind would catch me and buoy me up. It
would for just a few moments; then I'd land again on the downward slanting grassy slope.
This happened a couple of times in a row. Since I was landing closer and closer to the
base of the hill, I became concerned that I would not get fully airborne before I reached
the bottom. However, just before I arrived there, I was able to project myself mentally, so
that I did indeed seem to be soaring across the tops of fog-shrouded hills.
Despite my success, the one constant in these first two dreams was a disappointment. I
was the only one who was flying, although I was flying to do something for the other
dream characters. In the first dream, I was trying to retrieve a suitcase stolen by a couple
who were fleeing in their automobile. In the second case, I was assisting in a search for a
Native American boy. As wonderful as these flying scenarios were, they were both Lone
Ranger adventures. As delightful as the soaring felt, I was the only one there to enjoy it.
So I kept affirming that I wanted more people involved. Just before falling asleep the
third night, I thought maybe saying, "We can fly!" might do the trick. This night I had
just finished several days' battle with influenza and was taking antibiotics for a bacterial
infection. As with previous nights, the initial dreams had me on a long journey. There
didn't seem much that responded to my flying request.
Rising, I went to the bathroom and returned to sleep. I fell into deep dreaming, so deep
that the last dream of the night I could scarcely recall. I probably would not have
remembered it at all if it hadn't been so active. For my dreaming self had finally granted
my wish.
In the dream, I was one of three couples who were dancing...in the air! Flying together,
dancing together. Using very graceful movements, rhythmic actions and vigorous
acrobatics. At first the music was quite melodic. A woman with short, dark hair was
swirling around in a full skirt with a slender man who had a beard. He may have been my
partner at one point. We certainly did some partner switching, doe-see-doeing in the air.
Then I was somersaulting with a young, dark haired man who was dressed in a black
tuxedo with longer-than-usual tails. After flipping over, I raised my knees and playfully
bumped against him, in time with the music, which has shifted into a rumba tune. The
whole affair was very joyous.
For the past year or so I had been experiencing a slowdown in my physical ability to get-
up-and-go. In the morning it would usually take 10 or 12 robot-like steps before my body
would loosen up and begin moving in its normal free-flowing manner. This morning I
awoke at 6:28 A.M., two minutes before the alarm was due to go off. I reviewed the
dream, reveling in the feelings of swirling and the joy of being with the other people.
At 6:30 the radio came on with a rollicking rock-and-roll tune of the type of rhythm that
always sets my toes to tapping. I just could not ignore it. Throwing back the covers, I
leapt from the bed and starting bugalooing around the room, jerking and turning in time
with the music. I ended up on the other side of the bed, where my husband was lying.
He opened one eye, looked and me and said, "I guess this means you're feeling better." I
kept flinging out my arms and legs, hopping and swirling around, all the way to the
bathroom. It was then that I suddenly realized that my body had been demonstrating a
degree of flexibility unlike any I had experienced in a long time. There was simply no
problem of stiffness at all.
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)
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Dream: The Clicks
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 5 apr 2006 06:22
DREAM : the clicks
=( yesterday was a tuesday. i had to take my car out during the afternoon since my
motorcycle broke down. i needed to order a new battery since my bike is too old for the
retail shops to keep it in stock. i started the diagnostics. at least the charging system
seems to check out, the stator and regulator continuities are as expected. i suspect that
the short may be in the dashboard as i have had to replace it several times before and
keep a spare in the toolkit. tomorrow i will start checking up on the handlebars. the
evening goes as usual with mother. i got to bed around midnight but it was a little too
warm to sleep easily so i read a novel until 01:30 when i finally got the sleep. )=
i am one of three weekend guests at the sumptuous spanish mansion of a friend named
john. he is the younger son of the wealthy family of latin america. this house is found in
a suburban somewhere of a tropical country. the architecture and furnishings are very
lavish with many antiques probably handed down through the family for centuries, the
feeling of comfortable fortune accustomed to the many servants who scurry between the
major figures of the family who live there.
i have been given a small suite of rooms in the guest wing. it is late afternoon, a slow
time of day waiting for the evening meal, time off to be alone, maybe take a nap so to
refresh from the heat of the season. i have taken advantage of the siesta time by
stretching out under the clean white sheets of my small bed and have just awakened.
there is a slight knock on my door and marcia marks slips past the door and lets herself
in. she smiles as she comes over to the bed to sit down. "have you heard?" she asks me.
"john wants us all to watch a science fiction movie tonight?"
"no, i have not been told." i sit up in bed wiping the sleep from my eyes. "that is better
than having to sit with the older generation of the family who do not quite know what to
do with us." they have been formally polite but stiff in their understanding of us
foreigners.
"oh, i got a sunburn at the pool today." marcia stretches out like a cat on my bed. i can
see that her skin is somewhat red but not painfully so yet. i take her in my arms to
comfort her if i can.
"you can spend the night here with me if you want." i whisper hoarsely in her ear.
"i would like that." she replies. so, i have some hopes for a better night.
the door opens again and in comes john, our immediate host for this weekend. "movie
tonight." he says right off. "i thought we could see in one of our rooms rather than the
screening room. more intimate that way." marcia sits up quickly and takes a seat in the
stuffed chair next to the bed. she is not exactly shy in her relations with me but propriety
seems of some import with the elegant surroundings.
john comes over and tugs strongly on the sheet that is covering me.
everyone knows that i always sleep naked in bed and he is playfully threatening to expose
me. i pull the cover from my waist back up to mid chest and clamp it under my arms.
marcia leaves the room, not wanting to increase some social tension that seems to be
evident. i wonder if she has had some flirtations with our host but think little of it. she
tends to get herself in over her head with men without hardly thinking about it. perhaps i
should be more discrete while i am a guest here.
i get dressed while john fiddles with doilies on the arm chair that marcia has abandoned.
"i thought i would invite leto to join us."
he says casually. leto is his older brother, heir to the estate, a thick necked bull of a man
with about the same level of sensitivity.
he seemed uncomfortable with us american guests but made an effort last night to
accommodate us.
"and i think we stay in here." a strong voice interrupts a little too loud. i see that the
brother leto and a young blonde woman, the other guest, have come in the open door.
i do not know why he would prefer this small room, but there is a large television with a
dvd player in the corner, but hardly enough seating for five of us. leto pushes my bed
against the wall and turns another chair against the wall toward the television.
"i need a leg rest to be comfortable." leto says in his heavy accented english. "you will
come to help me get from downstairs."
john and i leave with him. i have not been down in the servant quarters of the house. we
soon find a service elevator and quickly descend.
when the doors slide open i can see a workroom. there are two men and a woman
carving some wooden figurines that are a little more than knee high on the floor.
although the sculptures are still rough with chisel marks, i can enjoy the baroque textures.
i especially like the sitting lion that taking form with the female worker.
"do you sell these on the estate?" i ask.
"no, they are just replacements for the household." leto tells me.
"the weather rots the wood rather quickly."
leto starts toward one of the doors, but midway there he stops. his face makes a peculiar
twitch. "you and john go over there and look for whatever it is we are here for." he
points to hallway that has some sort of metal railing along the wall.
john looks a little worried but we go down the hall. there is no furniture stored in here at
all. i thought we were here to get a stool of some sort, but now i am not so sure.
"my brother has the clicks, erratic changes in temperament." he tells me when we get to
the end of the hall. "it is best to just humor him. usually he does not get violent."
usually? suddenly i feel rather uncomfortable being here.
when we get back, leto has wandered off somewhere. in a side room that seems to be an
infirmary, i see a black wicker magazine rack that is empty. it is about the right height to
use as a leg rest so i take it over to the elevator. if we do not find anything more suitable,
this might do the job. i quickly take it up to the main floor and leave it off in the main
hall leading back to the guest rooms.
i intend to take the elevator back to john on the lower floor, but an older man steps up to
me. he is the main patriarch of the family.
"i have heard that you saw one of leto's fevers." he says to me.
apparently news of this condition travels fast in this house. "he did not mention anything
about the young lady last summer, did he?"
"no, john just said it was 'the clicks'. it looked like a mild nervous condition." i reply. i
avoid saying anything about epilepsy or the sinister mention of a young lady last summer.
i make a mental note to warn marcia about leto's clicks. i notice that one of the servants
is filling the magazine stand with magazines since it has appeared up here on the upper
floor.
=( awake at 06:05. marcia marks was a woman i was intimate with for a while when i
lived in massachusetts but she was always too busy with her life to take much notice of
me. i tried to keep touch with her for a while but she hardly noticed. she became a
surgeon and seemed to lose contact with humanity in medical school. at least she lost
interest in me. none of the other people in this dream are known to me. there seems to be
a rather elaborate texture to this dream as if building up to some plot conflict that does
not quite happen, my sleep being too short to sustain this kind of story. )=
--
. stankuli@etherways.com
=== qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
| | who not is today, tomorrow less suitable will be
--- -- Ovid _Remedia Amoris_ i 94
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DreamRePlay
with David Jenkins, PhD
Dreams and Themes
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Dreams are like bananas, they come in bunches As you explore dreams over time, you
discover that certain issues and people keep coming back. Even though every dream is
unique, with experience you realize that themes are recurring. You can detect these
repetitions in your dream life even after a few dreams. As a wealth of evidence builds
up, you will begin to see a bigger picture and that changes how you see each individual
dream.
Dream Themes
At first it is unclear what the connection is. There are no fixed rules to follow. Sometimes
it is obvious: your mother is in most of your dreams. Sometimes it is more subtle: the first
dream may be about two kittens and the next dream about two children. The next dream
will always be different. It will probably happen in a different location, with other people
and unique circumstances, but there will be a common strand. If bandits chase you in one
dream, its likely that youll be chased by a bear in another.
By looking carefully, youll find that you have just a few themes, maybe five or six,
going on in your dream life. For example, you might have many dreams about being late,
finding yourself lost, getting chased, or falling down. Regardless of how different the
context is, the theme will remain the same.
Each persons themes stay constant over many years. G. William Domhoff, a professor at
the University of California, Santa Cruz, reviewed the dreams of a woman, Dorothea,
whose dream journal spanned fifty years; thats a long dream journal. Six themes
regularly appeared throughout the fifty years. Here they are:
Eating or thinking about food (1 in 5 dreams)
Losing an object, usually her purse (1 in 6)
In a small or disorderly room or her room was being invaded (1 in 10)
Dreams about her mother (1 in 10)
Toilet dreams (1 in 12)
Late or missing a bus or train (1 in 16)
Whats more, these six themes cropped up in three quarters of all her dreams!
In other words, the matters that dominate your dream life now are for keeps. They are not
going away. When you examine a number of your own dreams, 20 or more, you will see
some common issues. This is the bigger picture: the life you are really living in your
dreams.
Waking Life
To put this in perspective, waking life is also divided into themes. Most people have a
work theme, a family theme, perhaps a few hobby or pastime themes, a childhood theme
and so on. And, like dream themes, thats how most of our time is taken up. Of course, in
the summer you will have a vacation theme, in November therell be a Thanksgiving
theme, in December a Christmas or Chanukah theme and so on. Sometimes a unique
event will happen but then things go back to the regular themes.
Living with Themes
It's a big deal to me that you are going to be dreaming about the same matters for the rest
of your life. It is like a career or a marriage without any of the choice. Even worse, most
people are unhappy with their choice of dream life. Domhoff has estimated that 80% of
dreams contain something negative or stressful in them. You dont need nightmares to
have a seriously sub-standard dream life. The bottom line is this: Do you want to go
through the rest of your life dreaming the same old thing?
You Can Transform Your Dream Self
The news is not all bad. Even if the themes are lifelong, you can change your role and
your situation in your various relationships.
If you are always arguing with your mother, that can change so that you enjoy your
mothers company even if your mother-theme continues for the rest of your life. You can
educate your dream mother and show her better ways to behave.
If you are always looking for food, you can turn that around so that you have food in your
dreams.
You might be a man who continually dreams about conflicts with other men. When you
work on these dreams with Dream RePlay, you will typically find that the fighting
diminishes, instead of guns and knives, opponents use fisticuffs and, as the intensity
diminishes, they simply argue with you until finally you will encounter cooperation with
men in your dreams.
If you are fearful of flying, the fear can be converted into pleasure.
The task of Dream RePlay is to transform your dream life and that means enjoying your
themes rather than being overwhelmed by them. I want to change your dream life so that
you continuously place yourself in the role of hero or heroine. The desired result is that
the dream-You has more confidence in difficult situations and is more present to the
dream thrills.
The Gift of a Dream Group
To truly transform an issue, it is best to give yourself at least three months. I strongly
recommend weekly participation in an ongoing dream group. It is harder to achieve major
changes on your own. One of the special benefits of being in a group is that the
participants are great at holding each others dreams in their memory banks. Often
someone will tell a dream and other people will make connections to previous dreams.
You can then see the progress you are making and you become highly aware of the core
issues that still dissatisfy you. My own clients have had amazing success in dealing with
issues about romantic relationships, relationships with their own self-care, relationships
with family members, etc.
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email: davidj@dreamreplay.com
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Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland
Here is the latest collection of dreams with dreamers discovering a spaceship and being
familiar with it, being chased, and witnessing earth changes and people suffering.
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Dream title: The Letter S
Dream date: none
Dreamer name: Where's Birk?
Dream text: I'm standing in a garage attached to my house, and it's filled with people that
I don't really know, but I know in my dream. Their faces keep changing. My family is
there, and a few of my friends, but they keep on switching roles. For instance, my
boyfriend becomes my friend and my friend becomes my boyfriend. We're all watching a
bunch of kittens, mostly white, but some are calico or orange. The kittens are running
around a white statue of an angel that only moves occasionally. But there is a fairy
dressed all in green with red hair, which is waving a wand around. The cats seldom pay
attention to her. One of the cats runs up to the open door of the garage and says, "The
white one will grant all of your wishes." Then, all of a sudden, I'm in my kitchen, and the
cat has turned into this girl who sits next to me in biology, and she says, "We don't know
what the green one's name is, but we like to call her The Letter S."
Dream comments: none
Dream title: None
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: Mariachis were killing people and when I would try and tell my friends and
family they didnt' believe me. All of a sudden I was by my self in downtown El Paso,
and I felt scared because if the Mariachis saw me they would kill me!!!!!!!!!!!
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Will I or Will I Not?
Dream date: 2 weeks ago
Dreamer name: Niqua
Dream text: I was 2 months pregnant by my current boyfriend. But we had broken up
and he didn't know. He was going with someone new and I didn't tell him I was pregnant,
so no one knew. Then when I told my cousins and confirmed their suspicions, I woke up.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Discovering Im really an alien
Dream date: 9th April o6
Dreamer name: Kochavah
Dream text: I dreamed that somehow, in my local area I discovered some kind of
spaceship, nothing huge or particularly high tech. Its more like a capsule, smooth,
streamlined, about the size and height of a large car and dark golden in color (something
that really stood out).
I had a real sense of pre-knowledge and familiarity of this thing. I knew how to open it
and how to get inside and what to do when I was in there. The next thing I know Im
flying through space, visiting other worlds. I had the impression of being with at least
one other person, who seemed to be distinctly male,-although I cant clearly recall a face.
Despite visiting all these worlds - there was still something I couldnt quite figure out
about the ship. It had something to do with how it worked and how to get to a particular
destination.
The ship worked by some kind of mind control thing. The space was confined, though
not claustrophobic. I could lie down inside it and somehow navigated through space by
controlling some kind of interface that worked the ship. Again - the color and shape of
the ship, as well as the image of flying through space are extremely strong.
The last thing I remember was somehow making some kind of writing appear on the
ships interface, I realized then what it meant(again-a sensation of intense familiarity and
clarity- I can draw the symbols I saw) and how it was the key to getting to the place I was
trying to go to. This other presence was with me the whole time, but it did not try to help
me. The last image is me flying through space with theses symbols on my screen.
Dream comments: This is going to sound like Ive watched too many scifi films but this
dream i had has left me shaken up for days. I cant seem to figure out what it might mean,
it seemed so real that at the time it felt as though it had really happened and so couldnt
have had any meaning- if that makes sense? This is just one of a series of intensely real
dreams- all with a similar theme. I wake up shaking with the intensity of it and it often
takes me several minutes to realize they arent real, I can also remember them vividly for
weeks afterward. The colors and images are all extremely familiar and vivid to the point
that they seem even more real than reality- if that makes sense. Other than an ongoing
fascination with the sky, e.g. birds, the sun, moon etc, I can think of no reason why I
would suddenly have these dreams or what they might mean.
Dream title: My Father
Dream date: every night
Dreamer name: imabeachinit
Dream text: Every night I dream of my dad, and he passed away 1-23-06. We were never
close, and in my dreams he is not trying to tell me anything - he is there. Last night I told
someone that my dad was literally dead for 3 days (and was even frozen) and now he is
back alive. It all seemed normal. When he is in my dreams I know that he supposed to
be dead. When I look at him, it doesn't seem to be an odd thing that he is there. I go
about doing my different activities in my dream and that is all.
Dream comments: I cant figure out why is he there in my dreams.
Dream title: The Baby
Dream date: 04 April 2006
Dreamer name: toocute
Dream text: I had a dream that my husband conceived a child with some female. He
didn't deny sleeping with her or that the child was his, but he still wanted to be with me.
Dream comments: My husband is on a 6-month deployment and we've only been married
for almost 3 months.
Dream title: Being chased, wallet stolen
Dream date: recurring dreams for about two months
Dreamer name: Curious
Dream text: In one dream I am being chased. In other dreams my wallet gets stolen.
There are dreams that sometimes an article of clothing gets torn off.
Dream comments: on one occasion I woke up crying.
Dream title: Man in the trees
Dream date: 9-9-05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was walking down the street, when suddenly....a man grabbed me around
the neck! I tried to run when I realized it was my dead grandmother back from the grave.
I wanted to hug her, but she kept trying to stab me with a meat cleaver. Suddenly I
tripped over a curb and was run over by a Mack truck. Then my grandmother's spirit
caught up to me. She killed me; I moved to Texas.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Pervert!
Dream date: 1995
Dreamer name: cbaby
Dream text: I was in a dark road, running, and running. I was in my pink Dukes of
Hazard nightgown (my favorite) and all I can see is me running from my music teacher.
He was yelling, "I'm going to hurt you!" "I will kill your family!" I continue to run and
run. I run past what looks like metal sheeting for walls, which is rust colored but some
are black. Red clouds and smoke. I keep running, thats all, running and crying and
hearing him yell! Then I wake up screaming.
Dream comments: Honestly, this is new to me, my mother has told me all my life that
when my dreams seem like coincidences that they are normal. I have had the same dream
approximately 5 times in the last 11 years. What I want to know is why?
My dream started when I was in the 5th grade, we just got our new music teacher and I
really did not like him. He was so mean, mostly to guys, slamming chairs, throwing stuff
when the boys got out of line, but honestly, I can remember him spending more time with
the girls. Well, after one incident with a boy in a chair in the class room, I went home like
normal and everything seemed ok, a normal day for a 12 year old. I went to bed normally,
but somewhere along the way my dreams went totally wrong. I woke up in the living
room screaming and crying "LEAVE ME ALONE" My mother was on the couch beside
me crying. She was so upset and she told me that I had walked into the living room and
let out a horrible scream. But I didnt remember even getting out of bed. SO here I am in
the living room floor hysterical and my mother is of no help, she told me later I scared
the heck out of her. It is still just as vivid as it was 11 yrs ago. The end result was that
my mother was so scared when I told her what it was about, that she contacted the school
and put me in counseling, and out of music. Less than a month went by and then we got a
phone call from the school counselor that the music teacher had been caught taking a
high school girl into a custodians closet and sexually assaulting her. When my mother
was told, she and the counselor made an appointment with the principal and we all set
down and talked. They asked me if I had ever been touched inappropriately and so on,
and of course he never touched me. He did get charged and served jail time for sexual
assault and something to do with having sex with a minor. I believe he is on the Sexual
predators list at the local sheriffs office. I am now 23 and honestly that dream still scares
the hell out of me. I hate to think that it could have gotten worse if it had not been for the
sudden attention he was receiving from my dream, but I almost feel guilty, like maybe I
shouldnt have told. I am a grown woman and still feel like a little girl when I think
about him. I have only trusted 2 men in my life, one my father and the other the man I
married. I was friends with the boys at school, but it seems to be older men I can seem to
trust and I want to know if maybe that dream is the cause of it? Thanks for the time,
RCC.
Dream title: EARTH/SUN
Dream date: March 13 2006
Dreamer name: Juno
Dream text: I awoke in the middle of a great desert, on the planet earth and it was
beautiful, the sky was all sorts of iridescent colors and it seemed like I was somewhere
like Egypt or northern Africa. As I stood looking at the stars, as the sun was rising on the
horizon, I saw a seed, flying and hurling from space which was coming from our Sun. It
burst through the earths outer layers of our blue sky, as it sped through the earths
protective ozone layers. It was like it was the Suns seed fertilizing the Earth as if she
were to become pregnant. Then as this white light seed burst through it made a crackling
and sparking sound, like an electrical transformer that would be exploding. There were
flashes of great light and sparks flying everywhere. I had to put my arm across my eyes a
bit because it was so bright. Then the scene shifted and I saw the beginnings of the North
Pole ice caps starting to melt. Water was rising everywhere, where there were rivers and
oceans. The scene immediately changed again and I witnessed millions and millions of
people starving, being homeless all across the world, including
children becoming
homeless and orphans. It was so intense I started to cry in the dream.
Dream comments: It was so sad that I made myself wake up from the dreaming.
I am a prophetic dreamer.
Dream title: Ghost of Love Past
Dream date: 03/12/2006
Dreamer name: N.D. Lawrence
Dream text: I dreamed I was back at college. I was not to attend school, but the reason
for my being there was not revealed in the dream. Nothing looked like I remembered.
The buildings were smaller, the campus was more isolated and there were many tall trees
on the grounds. The buildings also looked older than they had when I was in college.
The brick foundations of some buildings looked to be crumbling slightly. Outside the
front of the building where most of my classes had been held, there was a large new
gutter that had been dug out of the red clay dirt. There was a small walkway stretched
across it so that you could get inside.
When I went inside, I discovered that it was no longer a building where classes were
held, but had been converted into apartments. I was going to be staying here. I learned
that one of my former History Professors was also living inside the building, which was
the same building where his office had been before.
I went to see him in his apartment when I learned he was living there. I found that he
was sick and he looked older than I remembered even though only a few years had
passed. The nature of his illness was unclear. I didn't ask, but somehow I knew that he
was dying. We resumed our regular evening conversations as if no time had passed at all.
Despite his illness, he seemed to have the same intensity and depth I had found as
attractive as a student. Though the friendship we renewed did not involve physical love,
I began to feel guilty because I was now married. My spouse was not staying with me,
which was not explained in the dream. I realized that I did still love him, but I no longer
had any desire to become physically involved with him. I realized that it was not the
same love and attraction I had for my husband, though it was just as intense. Resolving
that having a deep friendship was not cheating, and that my friend needed me now that
his life was ending, I decided to take care of my friend until he died.
Each time I visited him, he seemed more and more frail and shrunken. One day, I found
him outside on a cold snow-covered day in the trunk of his car. I thought he had been
trying to commit suicide. I was angry at him for not only throwing what was left of his
life away so carelessly, but also because I felt this was an indication that he had little
regard for our friendship. Though I had not interfered in his life until then, I immediately
wrapped him in a blanket, picked him up and carried him inside the building to his room.
All I said was "I'm going to take care of you now."
I was shocked at how tiny he had become, and how light he was as I carried him inside.
Somehow I had not realized how far his illness had progressed. We had no conversations
after that, and I started sleeping on his couch so I would be there if he needed me. I
didn't ask - I just did it. One night I was up late, and I looked up to see that the door of
the hall leading to his room, which was usually cracked so I could hear if he got up in the
night, had been closed. At first I thought perhaps the light in the living room had
disturbed his sleep. When I cracked open the door, I saw that the door to his room was
still open, and his light was also on. So I closed the hall door again. I suddenly felt like a
great black mysterious hole existed between us, made up of all the years we had been
apart. I wondered why he was not married, and where all of his other friends had gone.
It occurred to me that I may have assumed a friendship when in reality our relationship
amounted to a few good conversations between strangers. Perhaps he just wanted to be
left alone.
The next morning, I went outside alone for a walk in the snow. It was the first time I had
left his apartment since his attempt at suicide. The campus seemed abandoned, and I felt
a deep sadness and regret envelope me. If I had come back after I graduated, what might
have happened? Why had I not? Was it because of my fear that our relationship was one-
sided after all? Would it have changed anything? Had my romantic attraction to him
back then made me reluctant to pursue a pure friendship with him because I was no
longer single? If so, why? Was this fear unfounded? So many questions flew through my
mind. I paused on the walkway between the edge of the rain gutter and the building,
staring into the gutter as it slowly filled with snow. I stepped off, and walked along the
steep edge of the ditch. Then I heard my friend. He was in a wheel chair, on the
walkway watching me. He hadn't spoken to me since his suicide attempt. He said, "Be
careful, you might fall". I looked at him, directly into his eyes, and felt the familiar
unspoken sense of understanding between us which had filled me with infatuation so
many years ago. I answered "I'm good at standing on the edge of things without falling.
Its my gift." I sounded bitter, and I knew both he and I understood this statement as a
metaphor for our relationship. He looked so deeply into my eyes that it almost hurt but I
didn't look away. He shook his head in silent acknowledgement. His sad eyes looked at
me then to the gutter. He slowly turned and went back inside. I felt a wave of intense
anger at the unspoken words neither of us had been able to say to the other. I was no
longer in doubt that the love I had felt for him was mutual. I suddenly leapt into the
gutter. I landed squarely on my feet with my knees bent. I stood up slowly and stepped
back to see my two deep footprints in the snow. It made me smile and I started to dance
around playfully kicking the snow and laughing. I looked up to see the sun rising
through the tall campus trees. That was the end of the dream.
Dream comments: The man in the dream was really one of my former professors. I had a
serious crush on him when I was a student. I took every class he taught that I could fit
into my schedule, and we talked often outside of class. I felt a strong connection between
us, and I always suspected that he felt attracted to me as well, but due to our circumstance
as student and teacher, neither of us ever did anything about it. I have had other dreams
about him, but this was the first which directly addressed my feelings for him. I am
happily married, so I found the dream somewhat disturbing. Though it was very realistic
in many ways, it also seems full of vivid symbolism.
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