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May 2007
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Editor, Lucy Gillis
Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
David L. Kahn
++ Column: The View World Dreams Peace Bridge:
Ebb and Flow
David L. Kahn
++ Dream: "F191"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Article: Sex and Sustenance in Dreamwork
Kurt Forrer
++ Column: Dreaming Writers
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: From Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the May 2007 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 seem 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
Dream Hunting Season is now officially open, so put on
your red caps (or get youre your hunting gear) and get
ready. From the IASD conference at Sonoma State University
to the Drum, Dance and Dance for Peace event in Washington
DC to the 2nd International Conference of Nordic and North
European Network for the Study of Dreams, to the many
channels for dream sharing online and via IASD DreamTime
radio shows and regional workshops, lectures and other
events, you are bound to bag the dream event of your
choice. If you cant find a dream event that pleases you
this season, well, dream up one of your own and send it in.
In this issue:
Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream
news and events from around the world, online and offline.
If you have dream news you want to get out, please send
those to Harry for next months publication at
ed-news@alquinte.com
Lucy Gillis travels the virtual globe in search of lucid
dreamers and their stories which go into the Lucid Dream
Exchange. This month she presents David L. Kahn and his
views on integration in lucid dreaming. Is it all a matter
of being conscious, of dialogue, of willingness to look at
the dark side? Kahn suggests that Integrity is the key
which binds these and other techniques together to make for
an integrated personality through lucid dreamwork. Read
more about this in this months excerpt from the Lucid
Dream Exchange, Integrating Lucid Dream Characters.
David L Kahn fills in for Jean Campbell on The View, the
monthly news and information forum from The World Dreams
Peace Bridge. The upcoming Drum, Dance and Dream for Peace
is of major focus, and regional participation is
encouraged. This event will open the Peace and Leadership
Day, June 25, at the World Children's Festival on the
National Mall in Washington, DC. Read about this and other
global events in Ebb and Flow.
David Jenkins, PhD., the explorer of the wide, wide world
of dreaming, reports these adventures through his weekly
online e-pulse, DreamPlay. This months selection in
EDreams is Dreaming Writers where David looks into the
dreams of authors, particularly Steven King via Naomi
Epels book on the topic. David also shows how these
dreams can be used for creative inspiration and personal
growth.
Is you dream journal a literary mess of fragments, hard to
read entries and half told stories? Perhaps you need to
apply your literary skills to these stories. Check out how
Stan Kulikowski II writes up his dream texts in F191.
Kurt Forrer may shock you at first If dreams are about
life, about survival, then an interpretation without the
sexual facet is nothing short of castrating the dream.
What can this mean? Is this a return to one dimensional
sexual interpretations, or a re-reading of Freud that may
bring juice and life back into dreamwork? In Kurt Forrers
Sex and Sustenance in Dreamwork he asks Can basic
beliefs dreamers dont know about coerce them into actions
against their better judgment?
and finds ancient formulas
that may save the modern world.
Here is a new collection of dreams with a burning building,
a meteor striking the earth, an engulfing shroud, and
floating fish.
it could only be the dream section of the
Electric Dreams! From Kat Peters-Midland.
Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by
submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
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
Cover by Richard Wilkerson. I have been thinking about the
many Is in a dream.
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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/
Electric Dreams in PDF:
Back online at a new archive
Archive Courtesy of
Nick Cumbo
and the Dream of Peace Network
http://www.dreamofpeace.net.au/electric-dreams/
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Happy Hunting,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-
news@alquinte.com address.
G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
May 2007
Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-
news@alquinte.com address.
Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Lucid Dreaming Experiment at Dreamschool
- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
- Dream Journals on the Net
Physical world:
- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
- UK: Dream Conference
Books, movies, research:
- Ashtiany: Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
- Researching Dream Experiences that Influence Your Life
Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before.
What are dreamers putting online? This month we have a
theme of dream walks.
Silent Dream Walk - André Reis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXqW2WoeSlg
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Dream
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBthooCJGHk
Walking Dream : Animation - itsjelly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPe8uTCjQo
Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let
us know.
Richard Wilkerson
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- Lucid Dreaming Experiment at Dreamschool
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Dreamschool organizes a Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment at
April 29th. The goal is to further humanity's awareness of
common Mind experiences and stimulate dialogue and further
research and development into humankind's super-normal
potential.
www.dreamschool.org/NewSite/LucidDreaming/GlobalExperiment.
html
Homepage: www.dreamschool.org
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- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
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Toko-pa Turner started a weekly column about dreams on her
blog. Find the link to that column, a great discussion
forum, workshops, dream interpretation and more on the
website.
www.herownroom.com/mainmenu.htm
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- Dream Journals on the Net
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Simon's dream log has illustrations with some of the
dreams:
www.ladytrap.org/dreams/dream_log.htm
Rob Couture has his dreams tagged so you can browse by
category:
http://xuriel.com
Maximilian in Dreamland, also tagged with categories:
http://maximilianindreamland.blogspot.com/
I'm especially looking for current dream journals that
present drawings and other pictures. Please email me if you
know one.
Harry Bosma
ed-news@alquinte.com
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
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* The Spirit Of The Dream -- June 29 To July 3, 2007 *
This is planet earth's biggest dream conference ever! Drink
in the majestic splendor of California's famous wine
country while exploring your dreams.
You can now check out the full schedule (over 200
presentations!) and list of presenters, including updated
information on the pre-conference in-depth workshops on
June 29th, continuing education (CE), and special events,
as well as transportation and lodging and much more.
Abstracts will come online in the first week of May.
Register now, enter The Spirit of the Dream, and join our
dream community on the beautiful campus of Sonoma State
University, in Rohnert Park, California (in wine country,
one hour north of San Francisco). Visit the IASD 2007
conference page for more information. Help IASD by sharing
this link with a friend or colleague.
http://www.asdreams.org/2007/
* Electric Dreamers Special *
Free 6 week online History of Dreams Course for any
subscriber that signs up for the 2007 IASD conference
between May 1 and June 1, 2007. Just send a copy of your
IASD conference registration receipt via email to
rcwilk@dreamgate.com and say "Richard, I've signed up for
the 2007 IASD conference, please put me on the next
DreamGate History of Dreams online course!" Course
materials are delivered twice a week for six weeks, you can
do the exercises as they arrive or save them up and do them
at your own pace. More course info at
http://dreamgate.com/class
* Dream Time Radio Show *
IASD's "Dream Time", an Internet radio program, is
broadcasting each Wednesday at 9am Pacific (Noon Eastern),
the show airs with a rebroadcast 12 hours later. This
series with many famous dream experts is going to end in
May.
May 2: Working in Dream Groups - Jeremy Taylor, Bob Haden
www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org
The IASD website: www.asdreams.org
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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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* May 8, 2007: Rules of the Road *
A Dreamers Deck of Divination Cards.
Are you exceeding the speed limit? Are you going the wrong
way? Should you be yielding to oncoming traffic? Should you
be proceeding with caution? What are the alternative
routes?
* May 12, 2007: The Art of the Dream *
Exhibition and Open Studio with over 100 dream books and
illustrated journals by artist/dreamers.
Guests are invited to a hands-on exhibit of one hundred
hand-crafted dream books embellished with montage, collage,
drawings and creative writings by members of the Santa Fe
Book Arts Group (B.A.G.). These intuitive and experimental
dream books have been created in response to thought
provoking universal, archetypal themes in weekly Art of
the Dream workshops with Victoria Rabinowe. Born out of
the realm of mystery and paradox, these books contain
intriguing dreamwork that is narrative, symbolic and
mythic.
* May 15, 2007: Queen of the Night *
Dreams of the Mother, In Honor of Mothers Day
The Mother is the channel for bringing our soul to life.
Like an alchemist, she transforms our spirit into form.
* May 22, 2007: Pilgrim's Progress *
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose
sight of the shore for a very long time." - André Gide
* May 29, 2007: Rememberance *
In honor of Memorial Day. Bring a dream of a Dearly
Departed One.
Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com
Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@victoriadreams.com
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- UK: Dream Conference
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2nd International Conference of the Nordic and North
European Network for the Study of Dreams
7 - 9th September 2007 at Bishop Grosseteste University
College Lincoln, England
The deadline for submitting presentations expired on April
27th 2007. So far far the countries represented with
presentations are the UK, USA, Netherlands and Switzerland.
Submissions from Denmark, Germany and Sweden are also
expected, but weren't received yet at the time of writing
this news item.
For more information try this direct link:
www.bishopg.ac.uk/?_id=10136&page=1
Or alternatively, find the conferences link at the homepage
of the Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln
website:
www.bishopg.ac.uk
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Ashtiany: Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
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Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in
Islamic Lands
by Serpil Bagci (Author), Olga M. Davidson (Author),
Yehoshua Frenkel (Author), Rotraud E. Hansberger (Author),
Hagar Kahana-Smilansky (Author), Jonathan G. Katz (Author),
Leah Kinberg (Author), John C. Lamoreaux (Author), Mohammad
J. Mahallati (Author), Eric Ormsby (Author), Sholeh A.
Quinn (Author), Khalid Sindawi (Author), Mohsen Ashtiany
(Editor)
Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the
Near East and North Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed
them with a theological dimension, saying that after him
"true dreams" would be the only channel for prophecy.
Dreams were often used to support conflicting theological
and political arguments, and the local chronicles contain
many accounts of royal dreams justifying the advent of new
dynasties.
This volume explores the context of these theological
speculations and political aspirations through the medium
of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social
history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural
diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through
concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the
Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum. Some of
the current scholarly assumptions about dreams being merely
stylized expressions of social conventions are challenged
by personal reports that express individual personalities,
self-awareness, and spiritual development.
This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and
Traditions. The series explores cross-cultural constructs
without losing sight of the rich texture of local
variations of traditions or beliefs.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674021223/
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- Researching Dream Experiences that Influence Your Life
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The goal of this questionnaire is to study dream
experiences that influence your life or have a special
quality in somebody's existence. The results of this
questionnaire will be presented at the annual IASD
Conference, which will be held in Sonoma, California, USA
from June 28 to July 3, 2007.
Hermine Mensink works as health care psychologist and
psychotherapist from her office in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. She has been a member of the IASD since 1994
and became a Board member in June, 2006. Professor Bierman
supervises the project. He has worked for the Dutch
Institute of Parapsychology for many years.
www.dreamresearch.nl
* * * REMINDERS * * *
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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm
Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm
Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html
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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on
dreams and dreamwork. Now in retirement age Strephon gives
his podcasts.
http://strephonsays.com
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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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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
David L Kahn
[Lucy Gillis, Editor]
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The Lucid Dream Exchange is pleased to present a new
quarterly column by David L. Kahn. His first article for
LDE, Integrating Lucid Dream Characters appeared in LDE
42.
Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
(c) David L. Kahn 2007
The word Integrity conjures up images of a person in power,
such as a business or political leader who demonstrates
high moral values. On a personal level, to live with
integrity is something we associate as being honest to
one's self and acting in a way that we believe is in the
best interest of others. Our dreaming mind firmly but
caringly shows us that which we deny, and in so doing
guides us towards a life of integrity - if we choose to
listen. This connection between dreams and integrity can
be looked at as 1) your dreaming mind never suggests that
you act in a way that is knowingly harmful to others, 2)
dreams are there to repair, never to impair, and 3)
integration of neglected or separated aspects of your
personality is an essential part of achieving your highest
potential. Can lucid dreaming be used as a means of
integrating our lost or forgotten personality traits?
The self-integration view of the word Integrity is defined
by The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "A matter of
persons integrating various parts of their personality into
a harmonious, intact whole." This type of integration
(integrity) within a lucid dream may present itself
literally as the person merging with another person, animal
or object as seen in the following example by Ralf Penderak
of Badendorf, Germany.
I'm in the fields on the back of my house. I'm jumping
backwards, and the jumps are getting longer and longer. How
is that? I must be dreaming!
Everything fades to grey, like so often in the moment that
I become lucid.
This time I won't give in to physical awaking so easily,
but I start singing and dancing, with slowly rotating turns
around my axis. After a few seconds I see my son and my dog
(a Dalmatian) standing by a small tree. At first I don't
want to go there, but then I realize that this is a good
chance for interaction. I remember that mostly everybody
just disappears from dream scene once I become lucid. So, I
go there and start playing with my dog, at first orbiting
each other slowly, then faster and faster, until we are one
whirl with no more borders between us. We melt into each
other in ecstasy.
When we calm down, I see my skin is now white fur with
black dots. I awake physically. Ecstasy lingers and makes
my day.
Dream characters that represent aspects of your personality
are an interesting bunch. There are some that seem to
prefer their privacy, but if called upon they'll show up to
perform some function. Others are ready to be reintegrated
into the "you" of the dream, no longer choosing to remain
as a separate character. After integrating an athlete you
may find yourself ready to get back into shape, or perhaps
the integration of an artist sparks an old interest in
painting.
Robert Waggoner recently provided us with the following
example of an integration that occurred within his dream...
...Behind me, I see a tall slender black woman, who seems
to be with us. It seems the farm wife doesn't care to mix
their food with our food. We wait.
As I sit there, I look at my brother and then at the black
woman; it suddenly occurs to me, "This is a dream." I
stand up and want to know what this means. I pick up the
black woman and ask, "Who are you? Who are you?"
She looks at me, and surprises me with her response. "I
am a discarded aspect of your self." Immediately, I sense
the truth of her statement and feel the need to reintegrate
her into my being. She then energetically evaporates into
me, once I accept the truth of her statement.
Lucid dreams provide us with a unique opportunity to heal
by rejoining our fragmented personality traits with the
whole. Asking your dream characters who they are or what
they want should provide you with some interesting, and
perhaps unexpected, responses.
An interesting lucid dream experiment would be to see if
you can integrate a previously non-existent personality
trait within the conscious "you." For example, perhaps you
have been shy for as long as you can remember and you would
like more courage. If you found a courageous dream
character and asked them to join you, what response might
you get? Or, maybe you would like to play classic rock
guitar. If you invited Jimi Hendrix to become a part of
you, would your ability to understand the music improve?
Of course it may be best to simply see who shows up,
trusting that they are there for reasons that are important
to the greater "you."
German gestalt psychologist and lucid dreamer Paul Tholey
used his Conciliatory Method to make peace with dream
characters. He found that by using this approach, dream
characters would often transform from "lower order to
higher order creatures," thereby helping the meaning of the
dream make more sense. For example, a beast might
transform into a human, and from there the human might
integrate with you as seen in Tholey's own example...
I became lucid, while being chased by a tiger, and wanted
to flee. I then pulled myself back together, stood my
ground, and asked, "Who are you?" The tiger was taken aback
but transformed into my father and answered, "I am your
father and will now tell you what you are to do!" In
contrast to my earlier dreams, I did not attempt to beat
him but tried to get involved in a dialogue with him. I
told him that he could not order me around. I rejected his
threats and insults. On the other hand, I had to admit that
some of my father's criticism was justified, and I decided
to change my behavior accordingly. At that moment my father
became friendly, and we shook hands. I asked him if he
could help me, and he encouraged me to go my own way alone.
My father then seemed to slip into my own body, and I
remained alone in the dream.
The opposite of integration, of course, is disintegration -
which is a word that we tend to associate negatively. The
Cambridge Dictionary of American English defines
disintegrate as "to become weaker or be destroyed by
breaking into smaller pieces." Would you ever want to
disintegrate any aspect of your personality? Consider
this; cancer cells are part of the physical whole of a
person. In this case, the attempt to regain health is done
by disintegrating - destroying - those cells. A negative
personality trait can cause damage to the entire person,
even to the detriment of that part of the person - much
like how the cancer cells inevitably destroy themselves.
The "cancerous" personality trait may even be a physical
aspect of you, such as the smoker or couch potato. These
personality traits often make their entry into your psyche
at a point in your life in which some form of defense is
created to counter a real or imagined stress or danger. In
some cases they serve dutifully, but it is time they
retire.
For example, guilt can be a good way to prevent further bad
life choices that are harmful to yourself or others, but
when you carry guilt with you years after the event, who
does it really serve? Just as there are personality traits
that are best suited to be reintegrated into the group,
others should be voted off the island.
The trick with disintegrating personality traits is to not
eliminate one negative trait by using another. In other
words, if Judgment and Anger vote Guilt off the island, you
are still only left with Judgment and Anger.
Compassion and Understanding, on the other hand, may help
find Guilt an appropriate place to take residence. The
following is an example that I used in my book, A Dream
Come True, and shows the results of a fear being
disintegrated.
I am in the living room of one of my childhood homes. I
hear my father yelling very loudly. He sounds very angry
and I am afraid. I try to find him, but I don't know where
he is. Now I see him. He is coming down the hallway into
the living room. He looks to be about eight feet tall. He
looks angry. I realize that this is a dream and I remember
that I should try to show him love, rather than run away or
fight. I walk up to him and hug him. He turns into my
childhood dog, who I loved very much.
The disintegration appears in the dream as the scary
personality trait shrinking and reducing itself down into
something small, harmless, and loving. The result of this
disintegration is transformation, and ultimately that is
the intention behind the dream.
With all of this adding and removing of personality traits,
should you be worried about the mind conducting experiments
like a mad scientist mixing ingredients with potentially
disastrous results? I think not. Our dreaming minds have
earned our trust. This inner self wants only what is best
for you, in a way that is also best for others. That is
what integrity is all about.
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Ebb and Flow
May 2007
David L. Kahn
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This past month has been a busy one for many Peace Bridge
members. This edition of the View was put together last
minute due to time constraints, but it is these kinds of
busy projects that represent who we are as a group.
Drum, Dance and Dream for Peace occurs just prior to the
IASD conference. This major event is the opening ceremony
for Peace and Leadership Day, June 25, at the World
Children's Festival on the National Mall in Washington. It
is filling Jean's schedule for much of the next couple of
months, along with the schedules of Valley Reed, Jeremy
Seligson, who will be conducting workshops at the event.
Even if you can't get to Washington you can participate in
this global event by forming a drumming circle at home.
Whether or not you will be able to attend, I encourage
everyone in our group to support this project. Please
visit www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/drumming for
information. There have been several recent changes.
You may also print flyers from the website for you to
distribute.
Peace Bridge discussions and events of this past month
ranged from poetry to the Virginia Tech shootings, from
organized volunteer work to more suicide bombs. Despite
the constant stream of negative news, we are busier than
ever doing what is within our ability to make a difference.
Robert Waggoner, co-editor of the Lucid Dream Exchange,
describes lucid dreaming not as the ability to control the
ocean, but to take control of the ship. This same train of
thought can be seen in contributions from Peace Bridge
members.
Ebb and Flow
Elk Looks Back to the Bridge:
I have watched the ships laden with gifts pitch and quake
while
high seas did shutter the bounty into the deep
and those whose steady hands guided by prevailing winds
into villainous
harbors
sang no more
a watcher, a twinkling star, a candle in the window
and tears a plenty given back to those high waters and even
further to
the moon.
Hermine to the Bridge:
I dreamt yesterday morning I was on a ship and in the
position of being the captain on board, using my compass to
know in which direction I was going and that felt really
good! It was on the ocean with big sails and for a longer
journey. The compass as a symbol gave me strong and
compassionate feelings and more self confidence.
Jody to the Bridge:
Hermine, beautiful strong dreamer: your compass gives you
and us the direction to encompass all that we experience
and feel, with compassion and courage to create a positive
community future.
Ken to the Bridge:
I was in a semi lucid state and had been pondering on
ancestors and how we must all have shared ancestors if we
go back far enough, and how if we remember back far
enough we must all share the same source light of life and
then a huge wave suffused every cell in my body and swept
me up into the sky, yet the sky was like a liquid
power...it was like being tumbled in a cosmic sea by a huge
wave, I felt tiny but made of it and was not sure if I
would survive (looks like I did though)..
Peace Bridge costume for Sonoma:
A number of Peace Bridge members have confirmed plans to
attend at the Sonoma conference, coming from South Korea ,
Minnesota , Texas , California , Ohio , Jordan , Mexico ,
Virginia , Australia , Pennsylvania , and The Netherlands.
Jean to the Bridge:
If you're not on the list, and you're planning to come to
the IASD conference, sing out :))
Jody to the bridge:
Shall we dream it, our Bridge costume?
Shall we BE a bridge?
A net?
A flock of Monarch butterflies?
Kotaro's flowers, all flower children of the world?
What do we dream together?
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Dream: F191
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE: 1 may 2007 09:19
DREAM: F191
=( yesterday was a monday. i finally got my motorcycle
back from the shop but i do not think the repairs fixed its
charging problem. when i rode it around town, it showed
signs of still getting harder to start with every stop and
the battery went on hard charging again when i got home. i
did not get out to the metal fabrication shop to pick up
the metal plate i need to repair the squirrel cage fan in
my dryer. the laundry is really piling up after two months
with the washer dryer down. evening went as usual and i
got to sleep just after 01:00. )=
the meeting has been long and i am glad that it finally
over. the final formation is held and dismissed. i wait
for my friend to come get me in the parking lot. i am in
my cadet uniform. everyone has left but me.
it is late afternoon.
finally i hear the loud noise of a jet aircraft and turn to
see a sleek modern aircraft taxi up to me. the cockpit
canopy pops up and my friend, jr arthur leans out and waves
to climb aboard. the plane is low enough to the ground
that i can just jump up to where the foot grooves for the
ladder are recessed when the canopy is up. i climb inside.
once inside the jet, in the back copilot seat, i find the
spare helmet and put it on so i can use the intercom to
talk with jr.
"are you strapped in?" i hear jr say in the helmet. "we
have a long way to go, but this should get us there rather
quickly."
"i am fine." i tell him while buckling on the various
safety belts over lap and chest.
we taxi out the main gate of the air base and onto the
highway.
apparently, jr does not have his pilot's license yet so we
are just going to taxi all the way to columbus which is
about 50 miles away. the jet is a little large for the
roadway, but he keeps off the main interstate, using access
roads that parallel it. whenever there is a break in
traffic, which is often on the side road, he can open up
the engine and we move very fast. sometimes up to 200
miles per hour while still on the ground. in this way, the
trip to columbus slips by very quickly. i must keep my eye
open for police cars as they would stop us for going so
fast, but we manage to evade detection.
finally we arrive at our destination. jr parks the jet in
a nearby parking lot and we go into the house which is just
down the street on a residential block.
inside the house there are quite a few people already
assembled. there are many folding chairs set up and most
of them are taken. the host comes up and notices that jr
is wearing his flight suit which has a lot of technical
gadgets on it and wide dark pants which flare at the sides
like an equestrian costume.
"you came in the F191?" our host asks.
"yes, it just outside. you want to see it?" he responds
and the two of them leave by the door we came in. i am
left alone with a bunch of unfamiliar people and little
idea of what is going to happen. i sit to wait.
soon the hostess comes over to me. "we do not wear rank
and insignia here." she says, indicating my civil air
patrol uniform.
"i was just at another meeting and did not have time to
change." i tell her. "i as comfortable in uniform."
"well could you remove the rank and shoulder boards?" so i
unpin the colonel diamonds from my collar and unsnap the
shoulder boards. i think it looks a little weird with just
the black snap buttons above my selves. some people are a
somewhat uncomfortable with my rank since i was appointed
to it when i was wing commander rather earning it in the
usual way.
it is time to begin the evening activities. everyone gets
up and forms two long lines around the walls of the rooms.
then we all start walking very slowly so we tour the entire
building and introduce ourselves to various people we meet
in another line moving in the opposite direction. every
now and then, someone is selected for show and tell,
demonstrating some talent or curious object they have
brought.
"what did you bring?" the person behind me whispers.
"some frozen strawberries." i tell him. "you want to try
some?"
when he says yes, i get out of line the next time we are in
the kitchen. i pull open the top freezer section in order
to get the strawberries. each one is frozen in its own
plastic section, but first i put a small frozen crepe in
the microwave for a minute to warm it up, then put one
strawberry on it and nuke it for another minute. when it
is done, i give the hot pastry to the other person for him
to eat.
several other people from the lines say they want one too,
so i prepare a few more.
it has been a long time since i have seen jr and i am
worried that he left and forgot to take me home. in the
corner of one room i see that my shoulder boards and rank
insignia are still were i left them, so i get them before
they get lost.
i go outside and see that some children have gathered near
the garage.
jr is there with a large plastic model of the F191. he
explaining the various features of the aircraft to them.
next to him is a model of recent military tank with a
uniformed driver talking to some other children. next to
him is a helicopter with its pilot and finally another
airplane, a painted naval airplane rather like a gunship.
it is not nearly as sleek as the F191.
=( awake at 09:09. when i was a teenager i was a cadet in
the civil air patrol and did wear military uniforms like
the summer khakis in this dream. i was promoted to colonel
for a year when i was a wing commander in ohio. jr arthur
is someone i know from down here in pensacola. he worked
with me in computer science and we were in a training
project for the navy security group for about ten years. i
have not seen him in several years since the project ended,
but i did notice him in his bagpiper costume on a recent
pledge drive for the local PBS station. i believe he had
been a pilot in the navy but he was retired for many years
when i knew him. i doubt that there is an F191 in the air
force, but it looked rather folded and flat like stealth
aircraft. it was painted mostly white with some panels a
green color. my last couple dreams have had strawberries in
them. i have some out in the garden but the berries keep
getting eaten by something. i have tried to put a
scarecrow statue of an owl near them, but they still keep
disappearing.
i suppose there must be some significance in the peaceful
use of fighter aircraft as just basic transportation on
common highways yet there was some concern for avoiding
police detection. needing to strip off my rank to be
sociable is a form of humiliation that seemed more
reasonable at the time than it does now. it seems that i
can still do technologic interesting things, but need to
keep a low profile in doing them. )=
--
stankuli@etherways.com
.
=== you can't give it, can't even buy it,
| | and you just don't get it.
--- -- aeon flux
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Dreaming Writers
DreamRePlay
(Copyright 2007) David Jenkins, PhD
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ANNOUNCING THE 1-PROBLEM-AT-A-TIME DREAM GROUP (Berkeley,
CA)
When you have a waking-life problem that you have attempted
to resolve over and over but never achieve satisfaction
it's time to take a look at your dreams.
I will be starting a new dream group in which you will work
on solving one particular waking life problem. Although my
usual approach is to follow the dreams wherever they lead,
in this group you'll be using your dreams to tell you about
one specific problem (money, weight-loss, career change,
sleep improvement etc). The most difficult problems are
typically much easier to resolve when we look at them from
a dream perspective. Interested? (The group will include
local and telephone meetings.) Send me an email:
davidj@dreamreplay.com.
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Dreaming Writers
In a previous column, Power Dreams, I looked at some great
contributions and inventions that happened in dreams. In
this column, and future ones, I will examine the ways in
which creative people make use of their dreams. In
particular I'll look at how novelists and screenwriters,
the people who spin out stories, use their dreams.
We acknowledge novelists as creative people but the real
point, from my perspective is that we are all creative
people and the creativity of dreams is available to all of
us.
This week's column is based on the book, Writers Dreaming
by San Francisco author Naomi Epel. Naomi interviewed 26
writers about the connections between their dreams and
their writing. This week, we'll look at her interview with
Stephen King, the author of many great horror stories
including Carrie and Salem's Lot. King is a master of
taking our worst fears and turning them into stories that
makes your spine tingle with excitement as well as fear.
That's a lot like dream work.
This column looks at two potent ways in which King uses his
dreams. The first is how he uses a dream to give him a
critical moment in a story. The second, a more everyday
kind of use, is how he treats a particular recurring dream
as a warning signal.
A Creative Use of a Dream
_It_ was King's longest novel. The story was already eight
hundred pages long when he became quite stuck and could not
think of what to do with one of his characters, Beverly.
"When I'm working I never know what the end is going to be
or how things are going to come out. I've got an idea what
direction I want the story to go in. But with It I got to a
point where I couldn't see ahead any more.
"I remember going to bed one night saying, 'I've got to
have an idea.'" That night he dreamed:
I was in a junk yard, apparently I was the girl. And there
were all these discarded refrigerators in this dump. I
opened one of them and there were these things inside,
hanging from the various rusty shelves. Then one of them
opened up these wings, flew out and landed on the back of
my hand. I realized it had anesthetized my hand and it was
sucking my blood out.
"I woke up and I was very frightened. But I was also happy.
Because then I knew what was going to happen. I just took
the dream as it was and put it in the book."
As best as I can tell, you can read it in Chapter 17,The
Death of Patrick Hockstetter.
What Stephen has done here is incubated a dream. The dream
told him, so to speak, how to handle his waking life
problem.
When you are stuck in some aspect of your life or need an
answer that has defied your rational powers, try dreaming
up a solution (see Sleeping Solutions).
If you have ever started a project and become bogged down
when it was nearing the end, check out your dreams. Of
course you may not be able to use a dream so directly
(although it is not uncommon), but you will often find
answers to your needs, your questions and requests in your
dreams.
What makes dream work so special is that you get answers
you would never arrive at if you applied your rational
thought to the problem. King uses that creative aspect
successfully.
A Practical Nightmare
Regardless of how unpleasant they are, some bad dreams are
functional. Here is a nightmare and King's explanation of
how useful it is for him.
"I don't have a lot of repetitive dreams but I do have an
anxiety dream:"
I'm working very hard in a hot little room and I'm aware
that there's a madwoman in the attic and I have to finish
my work. I have to get that work done or she's going to
come and get me. At some point in the dream that door
always bursts open and this hideous woman jumps out with a
scalpel.
"And I wake up."
"I still have that dream when I'm backed up on my work and
trying to fill all these ridiculous commitments I've made
for myself."
Nightmares can act as warning signals. They remind us,
sometimes very loudly, that we are neglecting something.
King' understands that his dream tells him that he's got to
get the work done. Otherwise he'll get scalped.
We Are All Creative People
It might seem that writers have a special relationship to
dreams because their work is creative, but each of us is
creative in every dream. Dreams start from a creative
place. They tell you something in a fresh, different way.
For all of us, that different view is the key to utilizing
them. The dream - or the dream work - will indicate to you
a new way of seeing your waking life.
Writers Dreaming
Writers Dreaming is a terrific read for dream aficionados.
It shows how famous authors (Elmore Leonard, Isabel
Allende, Art Speigelman, Maya Angelou, and others)
incorporate dreaming into their work. When you see how
other people use their dreams, you'll develop ideas about
how you can use your own. This is the most practical book
on dreaming that's ever been written (excerpts).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Over the coming summer months, I am going to publish this
column less frequently. Starting in May, you can expect to
receive Dream of the Week three or four times during the
summer months. I'll be back to my weekly schedule in
September.
ANNOUNCING A NEW DREAM GROUP
When you have a waking-life problem that you've attempted
to resolve over and over but never achieve satisfaction
it's time to take a look at your dreams.
I will be starting a new dream group in which you will work
on solving one particular waking-life problem. Although my
usual approach is to follow the dreams wherever they lead,
in this group you'll be using your dreams to tell you about
one specific problem (money, weight-loss, career change,
sleep improvement etc). The most difficult problems are
typically much easier to resolve when we look at them from
a dream perspective. Interested? Send me an email:
davidj@dreamreplay.com.
DREAM GROUPS
The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at
2315 Prince Street in Berkeley. The nearest major cross
street is Ashby and Telegraph. Please let me know if you
are coming.
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Sex and Sustenance in Dreamwork
Kurt Forrer
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Can basic beliefs dreamers dont know about coerce them
into actions against their better judgment?
Dream Sight News is a site on the Internet. This month
the editor, Jane Teresa Anderson, offered some dream
samples furnishing apparent evidence that demonstrate that
certain basic _beliefs_ dreamers may hold will force them
to act on them blindly with consequences that often are, in
the editors opinion, failing to reach the goals the
dreamers have set themselves. Such beliefs, she suggests,
take root in our unconscious mind often in early childhood.
They often may be the result of traumatic experiences. She
then continues by saying that when it comes to _beliefs
you dont know about, your actions are automatic, with no
chance of being vetoed by your wiser judgment_. In the end
she asks the question, _if an unconscious belief is not
creating the results you want, how *can you change it?*_
There are two presumptions and one inaccuracy in what the
author is saying in all this. I have printed these three
contentious points that need to be questioned in bold
letters. (Astericks)
I want to begin this questioning with the inaccuracy.
When you check the word _belief_ in the Collins dictionary
for instance, you find that it is defined in this way: 1.
a principle, idea, etc., accepted as true or real, esp.
without positive proof. I have written the word
_accepted_ in italics (_ underline_) in order to
highlight the fact that belief hinges upon this very word.
It hinges on it because acceptance is an indispensable
prerequisite of a belief. Put another way we can only say
that we believe something if we are *fully aware of what it
is about*. It is therefore by definition impossible to have
*beliefs you dont know about*. That being so, it is not
making any sense to say, as the editor does, after having
listed the various dreams, _Dreams reveal your unconscious
beliefs_. Clearly, _unconscious beliefs_ is a
contradiction in terms. From this follows that we must
look for a term in place of _belief_ that withstands the
test of the dictionary and at the same time fulfils the
functions of _unconscious motivation_.
The two presumptions are 1. That our wisdom may be
greater than the dreams, and 2. That we can change what
the editor calls unconscious beliefs. Since the latter is
a misnomer it is perhaps best if we begin by proposing a
more appropriate term for it. We know from what has been
said so far that by this is meant a motivational force the
source of which we do not know. Because of the fact that
the source of it remains hidden from our eyes, psychology
has adopted the nineteenth century concept of the
Unconscious. This is wholly unfortunate since it _may_
suggest that this realm is utterly devoid of consciousness.
If that were the case, terms like the unconscious mind
which the editor has adopted, would be sheer nonsense, for
anything that is devoid of consciousness is simply non-
existent. What psychology means to highlight here is of
course the fact that there could be something in our
consciousness of which we are not directly aware because of
our focus being temporarily directed elsewhere. Unaware,
being the operative word in this context, it would be more
appropriate to speak of incognisance than of
unconsciousness. Thus the term _unconscious belief_
that forces us to act upon it blindly would best be
replaced by *incognisant promptings*.
Whether or not we can actually change such incognisant
promptings by means of _dream alchemy_, as the writer
suggests, and thus replace them by means of wiser
motivations than the dream can offer, will be examined in
course of and subsequent to the discussion of the dreams
the author has listed for us. Each of those dreams hides
what she has called an unconscious belief which term I have
now substituted with _incognisant promptings_.
Jims Dream:
I was waiting in line to buy a theatre ticket, but people
kept pushing in front of me. Finally I got to the front,
but then the ticket office closed and I was directed to
join a long queue at another counter.
The author comments by saying that this dream reveals the
belief of my needs are less important than other
peoples. While this summary has a certain substance to
it, it does not ring absolutely true in the context of the
dream. To be fair, she offers some alternative answers we
might consider in this case such as: I always seem to be
kept waiting; just when I think I have made it, Im right
back to where I started, or worse; patience doesnt pay;
youve got to be pushy to get what you want in life.
The writer also sees this dream as an example of a
possible belief complex that might make Jim act in a
similar way in similar situations. That might well be true,
but since I have no evidence of this I will have to treat
this dream like the rest on the writers list as a one off
case. Thus I shall confine myself to demonstrating that
this dream is actually nothing more serious than a classic
example of a very common occurrence within every
relationship with a female partner.
You will wonder where I saw a possible wife or a definite
female companion in Jims life at the time of this dream.
Dreams speak in symbols which may be translated into
associative items and parallel plots. In the present case
we detect an object that is decidedly female. It is the
ticket office. Another word for ticket office is box
office. A box is a distinctly feminine object, thus it
stands for a wife or sexual partner. Under such
circumstances it is clear that the dreamer, in order to
attend the show, must first obtain the OK from that very
feminine office. Without this permission he wont gain
entrance to that nocturnal play he covets so much. From the
dreamers strenuous efforts to obtain this permission we
may infer that he will be equally determined in his waking
hours to do the very same. The fact that Jim is prepared to
pay for the entertainment suggests that he may even cajole
his partner with some kind of present. Maybe even a ticket
to the theatre. But that does not need to be so. What is
certain from the word theatre is that he wants to perform
and have his partner in on the act! Alas, she rejects him.
Perhaps she even elbows him back into his place.
Incidentally many people in dreams need not manifest as
many people in waking, but simply as many rebuffs from one
single person as in this case.
Jims burning libido is not allowing him to give up easily.
He is given sufficient patience to keep his hopes alive.
But just as he finally gets to the front, the ticket office
closes. As I have said, a more telling word would be box
office. Yet he persists. His hormones are giving him the
patience, tenacity and humility to join a new queue. Now
this is interesting. First it is a frontal attack, now he
tries to come in the back door. How did I extract that?
Well, queue is a French word for tail or butt. So the dream
with its image acrobatics manages to put him in a waiting
queue while at the same time teasing him with his partners
queue. Oh God, this is such a common bedroom scenario,
what married partner could miss its meaning? No doubt, the
last words that poor Jim probably heard on the night that
followed his dream were: Ive got a headache. But the
rebuff could have been quite physical, for after all his
dream tells us that he was being constantly pushed to the
back. Again, the dream shows its genius for double
entendres: it says that Jim was being pushed to the back
when it was really his dearest wish to do the pushing.
The Freudian interpretation of the dream is of course not
the only one. There is also a non-sexual meaning and
manifestation or indeed several of them that are as valid
as the sexual one. Indeed, from my perspective there are
invariably no less than two waking outcomes of one single
dream story: one is sexual while the other is innocent as
Freud used to put it. This innocent version, as I have
suggested, could actually have had something to do with the
intention of buying a theatre ticket or more generally,
going out for the night. But that version or versions would
not be as compelling as the sexual interpretation when it
comes to demonstrating the power of incognisant promptings.
The sexual context makes it far more convincing that there
is a force at play in a dream scenario that is well outside
the dreamers control. It does so because it is known to
all sexual beings just how powerful their libido can be. It
is for this very reason that I shall examine all the other
dreams that this writer offered for spotting the
unconscious beliefs of the dreamers from the sexual point
of view, although there is always also the non-sexual
one/s.
Incidentally it would be of interest to know what Jims
partner had dreamt on that same night or early morning. If
we had access to such a dream, we could then obtain a truly
scientific verification or falsification of my
interpretation. It would then become clear if it was really
Jims belief that made him fail, or if it was nature
herself. Only by means of such double checks can a dream
interpretation be regarded as more scientific than
speculative.
Here I have of course speculated in the same way as Freud
used to do it. But unlike Freud I am never satisfied to
leave it at that. I always seek confirmation for my
interpretation whenever possible. The questions I would ask
in this case would be: 1. Does Jim have a wife or sexual
partner? 2. Did the wife or partner reject Jims advances
on the day that followed the dream?
Gretas dream:
I was climbing a hill and decided I wanted to go back down
again, but there were too many rocks and precipices below
where I was standing. I thought that if I walked along one
of the precipices I would eventually find an easy way down.
The trouble was, even the precipice path led upwards, so in
my endeavor to find an easy way back down I just kept
climbing higher and higher. I ended up feeling stranded
with no way back down.
The writer epitomises this dream by saying it expresses the
belief that backing down is not an option. She has picked
up the dreams language nicely for it ends with no way
back down. There obviously wasnt an option as she writes.
To me this is a splendid example that shows that we, as the
ego, want to go in one direction, while some stronger force
nudges us in another direction; in this case in the direct
opposite. Put another way it pictures the battle of wills,
the will of the individual against the will of nature in a
classic manner. It does this to perfection since this
inability to surrender to the greater forces always
engenders a conflict that will leave us, as it did Greta,
feeling stranded with no way back.
Freud would have seen in this dream a substantial sexual
conflict; one that leaves a dreamer stranded on the shores
of social mores and natures urges. This very imagery I
have just used to describe the location of Gretas conflict
shows that we readily project our feelings into the outside
world. The shore I had in mind is the embankment that
borders on the ocean of libidinous urges which is held in
check by the ethics of social taboos. The dream, as are
poetry and everyday metaphor, is doing exactly the same
thing. While in everyday language the metaphors are often
veiled to a greater or lesser degree due to the fact that
they are presented to us in a code of sound, the dreams
metaphors loom large because of their energetic pictorial
imagery. But curiously enough it is this very intensity of
expression and often realistic imagery that prevents us
from seeing the metaphor and its meaning just as we miss
the forest for trees. The important thing in Gretas case
is to realise that the dream projects not only her feelings
into the mountainous landscape, but also some of her own
anatomy.
This projection of the body and or some of its parts
follows the same principle that is called as above so
below. Within the framework of the dream this means that
our physical body is projected into the landscape. Twin
hills out there for instance may refer to a womans
breasts. In poetry this is an easily recognised device,
but when it comes to dreams, most of us miss the meaning.
We find such poetical projections of erotica even in Songs
of Solomon which has been modeled on the ancient Sumerian
poetic cycle of the Sacred Marriage Rite. Thus in Solomon
8:10 the beloved says of herself I am a wall, and my
breasts like towers
In 7:7 the lover exclaims: This thy
structure is like to a palm tree and thy breasts to
clusters of grapes. In 7:3 he says: Thy two breasts are
like two young roes that are twins. And in 4:12 we get as
close to dream language as is possible: A garden enclosed
is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain
sealed.
We need not call for Dr. Freud to help us see the meaning
of such projections into the landscape. Water is clearly
feminine and consequently women dream far more of water
than men, so far as I can assess; after all they are the
ocean of life, they carry the amniotic fluid and thus
whenever the dream wants to feature things feminine, water
will often play a part. The womb of a woman could well be
presented as an indoor swimming pool. But that is more
likely to happen when there is a pregnancy underfoot or an
impending illness of the womb because such a pool is more a
reference to the internal reproductive organs than the
attached exterior anatomy. With respect to the latter an
outdoor pool is featured, a lake, the ocean or a river, or
a flood plane.
I realise that it would be far more appropriate now to deal
with Nelsons or Bronwyns dreams that feature water very
strongly than returning to Gretas mountaineering feat
which is devoid of water. Indeed, her dream seems to
contradict what I have just said about womens dreams. We
shall see that it does not. The first thing I felt about
Gretas dream was that there is no male entity around.
There is a hill, a path, rocks and precipices, but no forms
that would suggest the presence of the opposite sex.
Earlier I have suggested that hills may refer to breasts.
But there is only one hill in this dream, so it cant mean
that. This one hill, if it is a projection of Gretas
physique, can only be Mons Veneris. Pathways, streets etc.
according to Freud are a reference to the anatomy of the
vulva and so would be the precipices. Looking down a
precipice in a mountainous region engenders vertigo and
great anxiety. The higher we climb, the greater will be
this feeling. There are two kinds of anxiety: unpleasant
and pleasant. The unpleasant one is shunned as much as
possible while the pleasant one is sought fervently and
frequently. Climbing a mountain clearly engenders increased
anxiety and thus Greta climbing her dream hill becomes a
perfect analogy to increased anxiety of the libidinous
kind.
But in Gretas case things go awry. She gets herself into a
situation where climbing the hill suddenly becomes
unacceptable. She wants to return. But the forces of nature
push her onwards and upwards. But because she isnt
comfortable any more with what she had begun probably
willingly, the journey ends with her feelings of being
stranded with no chance of redress.
Stranded is a telling expression. The literal meaning of
strand is the shore of the sea, the sands and the rocks.
It shows that Greta was left high and dry on her hill climb
and for this reason there are no water features in the
dream. Her erotic encounter was one of total frustration
and regret. And indeed backing down in the sense of getting
out of the dilemma was no option. Nature takes its course
whether we are with her or against her.
Nelsons dream:
I am standing waist deep in water when I notice a shark
coming towards me. I am so terrified, I freeze. I close my
eyes and hope it will go away. All is quiet for a while and
I think the shark has gone, but when I open my eyes I see
several more sharks lurking in the water.
The writer maintains that this dream expresses the belief
that ignoring my fears and hoping for the best works for a
while and then things go from bad to worse.
Although this is a mans dream, water is most prominent in
it. It is there not because it refers to the dreamer
himself, but to his sexual partner. I suggest this because
if a man dreams that he is standing in water it refers to
him being sexually connected with a woman. But in this case
there are problems as is all too obvious. The water is not
warm and inviting, it is not welcoming as the dreamer would
expect, on the contrary. It houses that almost universal
icon of terror, the shark. This icon is so widespread and
common that it must be seen as something of an archetype of
terror. No doubt it was because of this that Jaws was
such a huge success that it spawned Jaws II. Yet the
story is still about sex, about the man wanting it, but
unable to obtain it. I can almost guarantee that this man
had an almighty domestic with his partner on the
dreamday. This domestic may not have revolved around the
subject of sex explicitly, but most definitely implicitly.
When the dream says that Nelson shut his eyes hoping the
shark would go away, it simply means that he did not want
to acknowledge that he was no longer in friendly waters,
but that his relationship had deteriorated dangerously. The
fact that he would possibly be in an ear-shattering row the
next day my assertion based on personal experience after
such a dream- instead of in his partners loving arms is
not something that he would want to contemplate. So he
closes his eyes hoping that his assessment is wrong. He
closes his eyes clinging to
the hope that things will not
fall on a heap, but will get back to the way they were at
the beginning of the relationship. Alas, when he opens his
eyes to the stark and unadorned reality of things, he sees
that there is little hope of improvement since the waters
are swarming with sharks. He could have dealt with one of
them, but not a whole school. _So the author of Dream Sight
is quite right in her assessment that things could only go
from bad to worse_. But the reason for this is not the fact
that Nelson did not face his fears. Closing his eyes meant
that he did not want to believe that his sexual
relationship was on the rocks, or more precisely, that it
would be devoured by the predators lurking in the waters.
It meant that once he was courageous enough to look the
matter in the eyes he would realise at last that forces
greater than his would swallow up the last vestiges of his
sexual relationship. Nelson might stay in this relationship
for years yet, but it will never get back to where it was
and in the end the sharks will rip the bond of the two
lovers to shreds.
Bronwyns dream:
I am standing waist deep in water when I notice a shark
coming towards me. I am terrified but try to make friends
with the shark to stop it from biting me. I look into the
eye and begin to talk and, amazingly, as I do this it
changes from a shark into a huge playful fish. We end up
playing swimming games. I am aware it is strong and
powerful, but it doesnt frighten me any more.
The author of Dream Sight extracts from this the belief
that when I face my fears I overcome them. Obviously
Jims and Bronwyns dreams have much in common. Interesting
is that in both cases the dreamers stand in water up to
their waist. It means that their genitals are immersed in
water thus demonstrating that here too the dream centres on
the sexual relationship of a couple. Bronwyn is luckier
than Jim for her efforts to defuse an obviously explosive
situation succeed. But was this happy outcome due to the
fact that Bronwyn faced her fears? After all Nelson too
opened his eyes in the end which could be interpreted as
facing his fears. But that was to no avail. So did
Bronwyn win over her angry partner by facing her fears or
because the dream would have gone that way in any case?
To me the plot suggests the latter. Again I see in the
opening scenario of the shark coming towards Bronwyn a
sure sign of an impending domestic upheaval. If it wasnt a
full-blown row that resulted from this dream on the
dreamday, there was at least a distinct and unmistakable
threat of one. But I go for the full-blown thing which, as
it subsided, had the typical making it up in its train.
The making it up was of course full-blown sex as the
swimming games clearly intimate. The terror of the shark
ended up becoming a strong and powerful connection with a
fish which latter in this case firmly manifested as the
partners penis. Fish and fishiness are generally well
recognised sexual symbols which have been incorporated of
old in the iconography of myths and religions. Isis for
instance, the Egyptian goddess as the swallower of Osiris
penis became Abtu, the Great Fish of the Abyss while Kali,
the Indian goddess changed to the fish-eyed Minaksi after
swallowing the penis of Siva.
Karens dream:
I keep having dreams involving babies aged about one
year old. The dreams are different, but it always turns out
that the babies fail to thrive after their first birthday.
They become weak, or sick, or I lose sight of them.
The author comments like this: Things go well for about a
year, and then they stop thriving. This is of course
absolutely correct. Babies are after all personifications
of projects, of new ventures and of new jobs. We have many
metaphors that are about babies like I was left holding
the baby, or dont throw the baby out with the bath and
so on. But here again we have to ask if Karen fails because
it is her belief that things will go awry after one year or
if there is a factor at work that has nothing to do with
belief? As you will notice I have not yet committed myself
to a sexual interpretation. If you were inclined to coerce
me into such an interpretation I would say it was possibly
connected with Karens inability to hold onto a partner
with whom she could make a baby. She said these baby
dreams were all different. It would be most interesting to
know in just what way they presented themselves. With that
sort of knowledge it might be easier to determine whether
or not this was really about failing relationships or just
about jobs or both.
Be that as it may. I would now like to look at the
differences and congruencies between authors view of these
dreams and my own. There is no doubt that we concur totally
in regard with the dreams influence on the waking life. In
short we agree that the dream is a kind of blueprint of the
future. But the writer of the article obviously holds to
the Jungian notion that our dreams are more about
reconnoitering the future than determining it. This Jungian
perspective leaves the possibility open for the dreamers to
change those dreams that threaten the goals they have set
for themselves.
I am surprised that Jung never realised that he often
said at the end of an unsuccessful treatment of a patient
things like: The fate depicted by the dream ran its
course. (C.G. Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy 142;
Bollingen Series XX, Pantheon Books, Tran. R.F.C Hull). Had
he done so he might well have revised his view of the dream
as a prognostic tool in the medical sense and considered
that it might be more like a prophetic instrument in the
Josephian sense. We shall see at the end that Jung had an
experience that must have made him change his long held
view ultimately realigning himself to the ancients who saw
the dream as an unalterable prediction of things to come.
Before coming to that I would like to quote and
discuss a line from the authors article I have already
cited at the beginning of this review. Here it is: when it
comes to _beliefs you dont know about, your actions are
automatic, with no chance of being vetoed by your wiser
judgment_. Apart from the word belief this sentence might
well serve as the perfect basis to my argument that dreams
cannot be changed for the better and that our wiser
judgment is nothing more than self-deception.
There is a perfect experiment that will demonstrate
this. It is called post-hypnotic suggestion. For this a
subject is put under deep hypnosis. I would like to point
out at this very juncture that true deep hypnosis evidences
REM exactly as does the dream state. Furthermore I want to
add to this that the brain frequency in the dream state
produces theta waves of 4-8 cycles per second or 4-8 Hz,
which is also the case in the state of deep hypnosis. As
well as that this same frequency is also observed when the
channels are opened to intuition and past memories,
including dream memories (!) that are stored in the so
called subconscious mind.
The post-hypnotic experiment is simple. After the
subject has been put under deep hypnosis he or she is told
to perform a certain task at a given time after waking up
from the trance. Added to this command is another, namely
that he or she will not be able to recall what happened
during the trance state.
Thus the hypnotist might suggest to his subject that he was
to get up off his chair five minutes after waking up from
the trance, go to the table and grab the vase of flowers on
it and tip it over the hypnotist. Five minutes precisely
after waking up the subject that has no memory whatever of
the given command will get up and do exactly as he was
told. He will think that his actions were his own idea.
When asked why he did this strange deed he will find
several good excuses. Yet they are nothing but
rationalisations. He might say: You looked feverish and I
felt I needed to cool you down. Just as in the case of our
dreams that prompt us to act in a certain way although we
have forgotten them upon waking and thus believe that our
doings were our own idea, he too will never know that he
was prompted by an incognisant memory.
Clearly the dream is no different to a post hypnotic
command which we will promptly execute it in much the same
way as the writer of Dream Sight suggests we as the
dreamers do with regard to our beliefs we dont know
about. It is plain to see that what she calls beliefs you
dont know about fits perfectly into the framework of the
post-hypnotic suggestion given to the subject with the
added command that the suggestion be forgotten.
And speaking of forgetting: do we not forget most of our
dreams? How many minutes, if we are lucky, do we remember
of two hours or more of dreaming of one night? How can we
step in and profess that we know better than our dreaming
when we at best snatch a tiny fragment of countless hours
of dreaming in course of our life? Is this not like some
layman remarking on procedures of genetic engineering of
which he knows no more than that there are test tubes and
Petri dishes involved? And yes, isnt it interesting that
Freud who claimed to have cured the neuroses of many
patients wrote: The actions we ascribe to coincidence or
free choice are in reality subject to unconscious
mechanisms implying a determinism that rules both the
conscious and unconscious life absolutely. (Freud,
Octave Mannoni, Rohwolts Monographien, August 1975,
Rohwolt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, page 80-1; my
translation).
And no less interesting is Jungs experience of the
mysterium coniunctionis of which he says: I can describe
the experience only as the ecstasy of a non-temporal state
in which present, past, and future are one. Everything that
happens in time had been brought together into a concrete
whole. Nothing was distributed over time; nothing could be
measured by temporal concepts. The experience might best be
defined as a state of feeling, but one that cant be
produced by imagination. How can I imagine that I exist
simultaneously the day before yesterday, today, and the day
after tomorrow? There would be things which would not yet
have begun, other things which would be indubitably
present, and others again which would already be finished
and yet all this would be one. (C.G. Jung, Memories,
Dreams, Reflections, 327, Collins, the Fontana Library,
9th Impression, 1971, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe,
translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.)
In view of this Jung must have changed his mind about his
understanding of the dream as a mere reconnaissance flight
or medical prognosis with possible input from the dreamer.
When all exists now, how can we add or subtract anything?
POST SCRIPT
Freud was right when he maintained that absolutely every
conceivable object and situation could be used as a stand-
in for your sexual organs and their encounters. This fact
alone is massive evidence of the all-pervasiveness of sex.
But the dream has some favourites as it were, images which
occur more often than others, and so are more typical. This
sort of thing is socially conditioned. In a culture where
there are no stairs people wont dream of going up stairs,
and in a society where there are no locks and keys such as
among the natives of Australia before white mans arrival,
there will be no dreams of locks and keys. Locks and keys
however, as Freud had pointed out one hundred years ago,
occur very frequently in dreams of people of our own
culture. With regard to such regular images it pays to take
notice of their occurrence in your everyday speech. As I
have said elsewhere, the dreams metaphors are also our
waking metaphors. In fact I argue that the metaphors in
everyday speech are copied from the dream. In view of the
fact that the dream is a pregram of waking, it could hardly
be any other way. The difference between waking and dream
metaphor is merely one of presentation. While one is
pictographic, or made of dream pictures, the other is
abstract sound, or acoustic code, spoken language that
refers to pictorial images in other words.
You may be aware that it was the sexual interpretation of
the dream that rent the association and friendship between
Jung and Freud apart. Freud insisted that the deeper one
delved into the dream, the clearer it became that its
bedrock was pure sexuality. Jung on the other hand objected
saying that it was not justifiable to take the sexual
language of dreams absolutely concretely. Indeed, Jung
believed Freud was obsessed with sex, regarding it as
something numinous. If Jung meant this to be a reproach it
failed miserably. It failed because _numinous_ really
relates to something _divine, to something mysterious,
arousing religious or spiritual emotions_. And that is
precisely the way our ancient forebears, the bedrock of
later generations, saw sex.
For them it was not something that should be hidden,
something to be ashamed of and denied, but something to be
venerated (this word comes from Venus and is related to
venereal), for after all it forms the basis of our earthly
existence. Indeed, if it were not for the fact that our
parents and their parents back to Adam and Eve had sexual
congress, we would not be here to discuss this.
*Survival on this planet depends first and foremost on the
s-twins: sustenance and sex. The formula is simple s + s =
S: sustenance plus sex equals Survival.* The two Ss are as
inseparable as Siamese twins. Indeed if one of them should
die, the other would follow on its heels. This of course
has to be understood in the larger context of life in
general where sex is also the fertilisation of plants.
http://tinyurl.com/3b84s6
If dreams are about life, about survival, then an
interpretation without the sexual facet is nothing short of
castrating the dream. Only the dual interpretation of the
dream will yield a precursor of life perpetual. Our ancient
forebears were only too conscious of this simple fact of
earthly existence. They realised that the earth by itself
was like a woman without a husband. If the earth was to be
_Mother_ Earth and thus capable of bearing and nurturing
mankind and other life, impregnation was paramount. This
boon would come from the sky which was also heaven where
_Father_ God was at home. In their eyes he rode at times in
the storm clouds, struck the earth with orgasmic lightning
bolts and impregnated it with gigantic ejaculations.
In Sumeria, the cradle of human civilisation, rain was not
just water, but it was also strong water which meant
semen. We need go no further to see what our forebears did
when they spoke in such terms. It is all too obvious that
they projected the human condition into their surroundings.
When they saw in the thunderstorm the same phenomenon as in
sexual intercourse, they did exactly what the dream does
every night. Indeed, if we observe the dream attentively,
we will see that it constantly identifies the human body
with the body of the earth. For example it will feature
twin hills when it wants to draw attention to a womans
breasts. A minaret or the steeple of the church will be an
unmistakable reference to the penis. On the other hand a
terrestrial cleft, a hole in the ground, a pit, a cracked
rock will just as surely point to the female genitals. And
so does the door. And why not? After all the vagina is the
door into this world for most of us, the exception being
those lifted from the womb as the babe in Macbeth by
Caesarean birth.
For the ancients there was no distinction between the
sacred and the secular, between the physical body and
spiritual realities. Indeed the body was the icon for
things spiritual just as the sky was the icon for heaven
beyond the sky. For our forebears the bodies of their women
were no less sacred than their temples. Indeed in the Near
East all temples were modelled on a womans reproductive
system. The lower end of the vagina up to the hymen was the
template for the porch of the temple. The hall was
fashioned after the vagina proper, and the uterus provided
the pattern for the holy of holies, the inner sanctum. (See
Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross page 25).
When you reflect on this you suddenly realise that as a
foetus you developed in the inner sanctum of a living
temple. At the same time you realise that modelling the
temple on the vagina does not vulgarise this sacred
structure, but instead ennobles its fleshly counterpart.
It is only through the separation of the sexual from the
sacred that sex becomes something other than a divine
union, something other than the two aspects of one and the
same divinity finding reunion in the heavens of ecstasy.
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From Kurt:
"When I moved to the present domicile I was approached by
one of the local ladies who discovered that she was in
possession of my dream book entitled 'DREAMS, Pre-grams of
Tomorrow, a Path to a New World Perspective'. Being a
prolific dreamer she suggested that we run a dream group
here. This became a reality in May 2003. Ever since then we
met on the last Sunday of the month. We begin at 10:00 a.m.
with a cup of coffee and small talk. Then from 10:30 on to
midday I give a talk about a particular subject.
The last one was centered around the [article above]. We
have lunch on the premises and then, at 1:00 p.m. we have a
session of interpretation of everyone's dreams. At the
beginning of these workshops I was the one who did most of
that, by today all members have become proficient and they
all offer their view of the dreams to be analysed."
My book had been published in 1991. I wrote it twenty-one
years after an experience that shook the foundation of my
very existence. I could see from then on how dreams would
translate to waking experiences. One of the most
fascinating things of that experience was that I saw that
the Freudian interpretation was as valid as the Jungian
one. Both interpreters have a point, but where they both
miss out is in the fact that dreams are of the 4th
dimension and are able to foresee tomorrow and beyond. In
my book I show how this fact can be realised by anyone who
can recall their dreams and has sufficient diligence and
stamina to follow my instructions and record their dreams
meticulously and watch for their waking manifestations.
Kurt Forrer
forrerk@bigpond.net.au
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Here is a new collection of dreams with a burning building,
a meteor striking the earth, an engulfing shroud, and
floating fish. Kat Peers-Midland
Dream title: Getting beat up
Dream date: March-April
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream: One of my friends she punched me. This was during
school and for some reason the teacher wasn't there. And
she started beating me up. But I didn't do anything at all.
Just blocked myself.
Dream comments: My friend and I are competitive.
Dream title: Getting pushed off
Dream date: March-April
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream: One night between March and April I had a dream that
all of a sudden someone pushed me off a cliff.
Dream comments: I sat up and gasped as I woke up
Dream title: Fire Rescue
Dream date: 3-23-07
Dreamer name: Wisper
Dream: I was walking down a street in NYC, (it looked like
a street in Brooklyn) with a co-worker and we were just
walking and then all of the sudden I heard screaming from
kids in a Brownstone. When I looked up the building was on
fire and the kids were yelling out the window "HELP ME".
The co-worker just looked at me and then I started running
up the stairs to rescue these kids. When I reached them, I
could feel the fire, smell the smoke and it was actually
burning my eyes. I took both children and ran down the
stairs. When I sat them on the porch I looked into their
eyes and I recognized them; there were 2 children I knew.
Then all of the sudden the father of the children came
running out of the house and came down stairs in his
underwear sobbing and telling me he was so sorry!!! Then he
embraced me and did not want to let me go!!! Then I woke
up.
Dream comments: When I woke up it was the middle of the
night and the light of Grandmother moon was on my face. I
was totally wiped out from this dream.
Dream title: unknown
Dream date: 4/10/07
Dreamer name: Lilac
Dream: It was a white area with one or two desks and a
couple of chairs. I was the only person in the room. I have
a boyfriend, I accidentally dropped his ring and it kept
rolling and I couldn't catch it. I finally lost it.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: unknown decision
Dream date: 14th April 07
Dreamer name: Astralwolf
Dream: I'm wearing a black monk-like robe, walking in a
dark forest, where only a few patches of light that shine
through. The hood is over my head and it shadows the top
half of my face. As Im walking, a fallen angel lands in
front of me. He seems familiar, but I can't recognize him.
His mouth moves and it looks like he's shouting, but
nothing comes out of his voice. He points behind me and I
look around, a black shroud engulfs me then I wake up.
Dream comments: everything seems to be in slow motion, from
his mouth moving, to the black shroud.
Dream title: Floating Fish
Dream date: recurring dreams in past 5 months
Dreamer name: AD
Dream text: I walk into a room, sometimes at my parent's
house and sometimes its at my home. It's like the front
of their tank is let down like a tail gate of a pickup
truck and either one or all of them are floating in the
air..just floating!!
Dream comments: I've had this dream 10 times in the past 5
months
Dream title: none given
Dream date: none given
Dreamer name: Sal
Dream text: I was at this house and there was a butler. I
was putting bouncy balls in a closet in the basement of the
house; then there was a party at the house basement. I
went into the closet and grabbed a bag of weed out of the
closet and when I turned around there was a bunch of
parents just staring at me with mean looks on their faces.
I ran out of the house and behind a shed (with a porch on
it) and hid the weed. Then later some friends and I were
smoking cigars on the porch.
It switched over to me at basketball practice, and my
friend was smoking a bowl, then he passed it to me. I hit
it and then I threw it and said "oh crap man, Im on
probation. Im going to be positive now." He said "no, its
ok I have smoked on probation too, and I was fine, so
you'll be ok."
It switched over again and I was at basketball tryouts. I
went into the bathroom before tryouts and there was poop
everywhere and it got on me. I asked to use my friends
cell phone and when I tried to make a call, the phone
didnt work. So I was going to ask if I could use it
again, but he walked out of the bathroom too fast. So I
walked out of the bathroom and started to walk through the
gym to get to the locker room. Then an evil man and woman
were setting traps to try and kill me (like burn me to
death and drown me. Somehow I kept getting away and made
it to the locker room. I told my coach that I had shit on
me and I needed to call my parents to get new clothes. He
said "shit happens and no one will care, so just keep on
playing". Then BAM - people started dying everywhere;
blood squirting. I told my friend that we needed to get
out of there, so we ran out of the gym, using the back way.
We ran through the school parking lot, found a car with its
door open and keys inside, so we stole it. I started
driving away, heading for the city. Then I heard this
whistle from an unknown source and I didnt know if it had
any significance.
The dream then switched over to the evil lady (who set the
traps) was on a desert road, dancing around a fire, I could
see a car (like the one we were in) driving off into the
distance until it disappeared.
Dream comments: I have no idea what this dream was about.
dream_title: Black Winter
dream_date: 07/15/97
dreamer_name: JK
dream_text: A meteor had struck the earth. I was searching
for my dad in the aftermath. When I finally found him, the
shockwave from the impact was pushing me away. He was
scared out of his mind, and frozen with fear. I could see
the reflection of the explosion in his eyes, glowing bright
red. In the end I couldn't reach him, and I woke up in a
cold sweat...
dream_comments: This is a story of a dream I had 10 years
ago. My father was a double Vietnam Veteran who died a
year later on his Birthday. I wrote a song about that
dream called 'Black Winter'. You can listen to it at this
link, or type my name in 'Google' along with the song
title.
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=141312
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