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Volume #13 Issue #12
December 2006
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover : "Buddha Museum"
Laura Atkinson
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Editor, Lucy Gillis
Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace
Part 3: "Dreamspace"
Ed Kellogg, PhD.
++ Column: The View World Dreams Peace Bridge
Scrambled Contest or Outstanding
Group Dream?
Joy Fatooh
++ Interview: Dreams and Signs
An Interview with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.
Questions by David L. Kahn
++ Column: Look Both Ways
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: From November Dreams
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the December 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 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
Please note the Dec 15th Deadline for getting in
presentations proposals to the 2007 Sonoma IASD
International Conference (June 28-July3).
www.asdreams.org/2007
Many thanks to all the contributors to Electric Dreams in
2006. As a reminder, Electric Dreams is sort of a free
speech forum for dreamwork and dreaming. If you have novel
ideas in this area, feel free to submit articles to
rcwilk@dreamgate.com
Many thanks to our readers and everyone who contributed
dreams this year. We had to close down the dreamflow
discussion group (needs a moderator to keep the spam down)
but the dreamflow form is still up, so you can still get
your dreams published in Electric Dreams by submitting them
to http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
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
Lucid dream explorations are part of the daily meals at the
Lucid Dream Exchange, and I hope you will feast on the
excerpt this month from the editor, Lucy Gillis, which
showcases Ed Kellogg in an article that will open your mind
and stretch your imagination. The article, "Exploring the
Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace: Part 3 Dreamspace" uses the
notion of multiple dimensions to solve some of the most
difficult puzzles of the know universe, and offers
suggestions for exploring and experimenting with your own
dreamspaces.
"Where these ideas meet, we find the World Dreams Peace
Bridge a group brought together by the notion that we can
bring our focused intentions into our dreams, dream
together, and magnify our will to promote peace so that it
radiates throughout the web." And this group has their own
special chaotic-wisdom, which Joy Fatooh shares this month
in the View from the Bridge. Read the View, join the
Bridge. Peace, love, dreams.
David L Khan brings in an interview this month with Adrian
Calabrese, PhD., who is the author of Sacred Signs: Hear,
See & Believe Messages from the Universe (Llewellyn
Publications, 2006). Find out how Dream Signs can help in
your spiritual journey and align you to the Infinite.
Yes, dreams are ambiguous, and this month's selection from
the DreamRePlay series with David Jenkins, PhD explores the
many sides of dreams, and how to use the opposites for your
interpretive advantage. Be sure to read "Look Both Ways."
Crabs loose in the kitchen, Turkeys running around, being
chased by my father, black blood
is this still
Thanksgiving? No, it's the Electric Dreams Dream Section !
Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by
submitting at
Dreamgate.com/dream/temple
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 Laura Atkinson, read more about "Buddha Museum"
below.
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Which includes an article Dream Time and Art
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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: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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From Planet Dream,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
December 2006
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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
Online:
- Dream Video of the Month
- DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer
- A Month In Pictures
Physical world:
- IASD News: Annual Conference / Student Awards
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
Books, movies, research:
- Oldis: Lucid Dream Manifesto
- Schenk: Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams
- Mellon: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
- Gould: Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for
Children's Dreams
- Research: Expecting a child?
Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Dream Video of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before.
What are dreamers putting online?
I got fascinated with all the old tribe films, Papua,
Africa, Australia, etc. Here is a promo for a dreamtime
peace project:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UN7G5QzPE
I also thought this kid's views & musings about dreaming on
the movie The Science of Sleep was interesting. I haven't
seen the movie yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCa4f_FksDk
Strephon Kaplan-Williams reads a sexy dream he had, and
then explains.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EBA5cMZlI
Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let
us know.
Richard Wilkerson
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- DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer
---
We offer the DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer and sleep aid.
It's an all natural herbal supplement you take at bedtime
to promote lucid dreaming and dream recall. It is designed
to help relax the body while increasing the brain's
activity during REM sleep. We would be happy to send you a
free sample of DreamBoost so you can try the product for
yourself. Just send me your mailing address and we will
send a bottle for you to try.
Thank you,
Brian Engler
www.dreamboost.com
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- A Month In Pictures
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A month ago I started my personal Dreams In Pictures
project, publishing a dream a day, with accompanying
pictures. As I write, the month has almost ended, and it
has been interesting. I'll probably wrap it up in some way,
possibly creating a mandala, or perhaps a photo book at
Lulu.
Halfway the project Laura Atkinson started her own dream
blog. As a result some mutual dreams were uncovered that
otherwise may have gone unnoticed.
You're welcome to take a look, and I hope it will inspire
you to start a similar online dream project. Let me know
when you do and I'll be happy to add you to the news next
month.
http://alquinte.com/en/
Harry
ed-news@alquinte.com
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- IASD News: Annual Conference / Student Awards
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The conference deadline for submitting presentation
proposals is coming up at December 15th. If you want to
present at the 24th Annual Conference at Sonoma State
University, and haven't submitted yet, be quick!
IASD has created a form on the website for sponsors of the
conference. Vendors of dream related products can choose
from a number of ways to promote their products during the
Annual Conference.
Not available at the time of writing, but expected very
soon on the IASD website: information on the 2007 student
awards.
http://asdreams.org/2007/
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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
The Dream Institute offers the following during December
2006.
* Culture Dreaming *
Saturday December 2, 3-5 pm, $20
Culture dreaming offers a living sense of our
interconnectedness. In the first part of this experimental
forum, we tell dreams in council fashion, as people are
moved to speak. A fresh composite dream is created. In the
second part, we explore themes and imagery in it. The
"culture dream" always shows surprising relevance to both
individual and larger societal concerns.
Conveners:
Richard Russo, M.A. and Meredith Sabini, Ph.D.
* International Association for the Study of Dreams Lecture
Series *
Precognitive Dreams & The Everyday Physics of Free Will
by Craig Sim Webb
Pre-lecture social 6:30 pm
Lecture 7 pm
Admission: $15 (Members and students with valid ID, $10)
A multifaceted look at precognitive dreaming from
historical, scientific and experiential perspectives. The
lecture will also cover the fascinating question about free
will and destiny, and how quantum physics offers
interesting links between the two. Participants can also
expect some tips for discriminating between symbolic and
precognitive dream information and a lively
question/discussion period.
Craig Sim Webb, Director of the nonprofit DREAMS
Foundation, is a physicist and dream and consciousness
speaker/ author/ researcher/ inventor. He has participated
in dream and consciousness research at Montreal's Sacre-
Coeur Hospital's Dream and Nightmare Lab, and at Stanford
University with lucid dream pioneer Stephen LaBerge.
* JFK Dream Group *
Hosted by Judy McEnroe
Dec. 7, 7-9:30 pm, $5-15
Judy will be sending you info about the details of the next
dream group.
* Holiday extravanganza *
Dec. 10, 2-5 pm
Free Open House
What a joy to see this place flourishing! We want to say a
special thanks for your interest and participation. Please
come by and enjoy music, champagne, and a dance
performance. Your family and friends are welcome.
* Solstice Ritual *
Chanting & Dream Reading
Dec. 22, 7:30-9 pm, $20
We honor this special moment when Darkness and Light are
equal. The Wisdom House, our building in Fox Commons, will
be transformed into sacred space for the evening, which
includes an inspiring dream-play and chanting by Julie
Lucchesi in Gregorian, Tibetan, Hebrew, Sanskrit, and her
own originals.
* Dream Retreat *
Meredith Sabini
Dec. 30, 12-4 pm, $60 includes buffet
Take a quiet day to be with yourself and read over your
2006 dream journal.
In this introverted retreat, you are free to use the
resources here-art materials, library for researching
symbols, and quiet space for writing. I will present ways
of understanding and synthesizing themes and figures from
the year's dreams.
This retreat is for those who have an active dream
practice. Please send a brief description of yours by
December 15. Limited to 10, advance enrollment only.
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Oldis: Lucid Dream Manifesto
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The Google book is a full, free read; so with the link your
readers may read the entire book, if they want. This is
actually a 1974 book originally published by the University
of South Dakota, and re-printed this year. My original
reviewers back then were Ann Faraday and Bob Van de Castle,
and they both noted an incompleteness in my analysis of
dream physiology and dream history, so my apologies for
these gaps.
http://books.google.com/books?q=%22lucid+dream+manifesto%22
Thanks,
Daniel Oldis
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- Schenk: Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams
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Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams: Exploring Near Death
Experiences Without the Flatlines
by Paul W. Schenk
People who undergo near death experiences often have
profound and life changing experiences. It is as if the
whole of their life has been put into focus and they can
see relationships, experiences, and their hopes and dreams
in a completely new light. Now Paul Schenk shows you how
you can help clients experience some of the life-changing
benefits of a near death experience without the life-
threatening cardiovascular crisis. With full length
annotated case transcripts, you will learn how to do this
and explore the many other things you can do with
hypnotically facilitated waking dreams.
The therapeutic usefulness of dream interpretation is
deeply rooted in psychotherapy. The Hypnotic Use of Waking
Dreams bypasses the controversy associated with past life
therapy, i.e that if reincarnation doesnt exist, neither
can past life therapy. It provides a much more traditional
approach to understanding and utilizing the kinds of
chemical experiences that occur with this interactive
approach to hypnotically facilitated dream-like imagery.
Dr. Shenk integrates classic teachings on dream
interpretation and trauma treatment with decades of
published work on near death experiences. The resulting
applications to a variety of presenting clinical problems
are demonstrated with extensive case transcripts. The
therapeutic use of waking dreams is independent of both the
clinicians and the clients beliefs about reincarnation
because the dream content can be understood as being just
good fiction as it is in classical dream analysis.
www.crownhouse.co.uk/index.php?page=productdetails&product_
id=307
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- Mellon: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
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Waking Your Dreams: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
by Emma Mellon
Dreams are as unique as finger prints no two are the same.
"Waking Your Dreams" shows readers how to use their
individuality to find the unique meaning their dreams have
for their waking life. Written by a psychologist and using
case studies from her practice, "Waking Your Dreams"
combines the most recent scientific understanding of the
dream process with psychological expertise. This
accessible, thought-provoking companion helps readers enter
and understand the rich and deeply personal world of their
dreams. In "Waking Your Dreams", active participation,
receptivity and curiosity replace the ubiquitous cookie-
cutter interpretations, as the dreamer is led to visit the
dream and return, with its essence, to waking life. The
author aids readers in developing their creative and
imaginative abilities to better understand the potent
language of dream images and symbols and demonstrates a
method for entering, as guests and learners, the realm of
their dreams. Readers will learn ho!
w to access and walk through their own unique dream
creations and use their individuality to find the unique
meaning they have for their waking life.
www.hci-online.com/Engine/Shopping/search.asp?search=Mellon
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- Gould: Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for
Children's Dreams
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Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for Children's Dreams
by Janet, S. Gould
Catching the Dream is a comprehensive evaluation of every
aspect of children's dreaming with an in-depth analysis of
each. It explains why dreaming is important to children's
physical and emotional well-being, is thoroughly researched
and uses actual dreams to illustrate each topic. The
information in this book teaches parents how to determine
what kind of dream the child has experienced, what the
dream possibly means, what could have caused the dream, and
how to integrate the dream into the child's daily life. It
also teaches parents what can affect children's dream
contents, how children can have happy dreams, when dreams
have a needed message about children's well-being (physical
or emotional), and how dreams can reveal children's
imaginal skills, ego development, and psychosocial stage.
There are chapters on nightmares and night terrors: what
causes them, what they mean, what to do if the child is
experiencing them, and how to work with them. The book
includes a chapter !
on sleep: what it is, why it is important to dreaming,
sleep disorders, and how to have a good night's sleep.
Although the title indicates that this work is oriented
towards children's dreams, there is a great deal of
information within it that applies to adult dreaming as
well.
http://www.amazon.com/product/gp/0976808358/
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- Research: Expecting a child?
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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of
the amazing realm of dreams through participation in a
short study on dreams during pregnancy!
The search is on for any woman who is pregnant, or man who
is expecting a child and is willing to offer a written
account of a dream that they have had during that time. The
only participation required for the study is a signed
consent form and the dream write up. All info will be
entirely confidential, and the dreams will only be
identified as from a man or a woman, age, and trimester.
Both consent form and dream write up can be sent over email
so the process is quick and easy. If you have any
questions, or if you or somebody you know may be interested
in participating please email.
Marena Koukis
dreaming@sonic.net
* * * 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
Victoria Rabinowe (California):
http://victoriadreams.blogspot.com
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 the new dreamwork, as reflected in his many
books over the years. Now in retirement age Strephon gives
his podcasts and continues to write new books.
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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Cover: "Buddha Museum"
Laura Atkinson
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This was an image I made based on a mutual dream between
Harry and myself. Both of our dream journals this month
are on the web
November 13, 2006 - Laura's Dream
http://dreamartist.wordpress.com/
"A museum dream. Two large rooms being remodeled. One
floor, wood
highly polished, high ceilings. The other one
was still being built. There were lots of people sitting
in chairs, waiting to get into a third room, that had a
really funky slide show / music presentation. It had
something to do with Buddhist Mystic stuff. There was a
screen that was down, and the large Buddha was in the
background. It reminds me of the 9ft tall Buddha at the
RISD Museum. The images that appeared on screen would
overlay the Buddha in the background. There was music /
multimedia presentation being projected onto to the
screen."
Harry's Dream Monday, November 13
http://alquinte.com/en/in_pictures/
(Note: mutual dream)
Laaa-gen in dro-men zien
Thee laar-zen droommachien
A slow chant. First line literally translated says "layers
in dreams see". The second line must be poking fun of it.
It sounds like "tea boots dream machine". Emotionally, the
second line expressed awe of the depth that appears when
you're able to see the layers in a dream.
In other dreams, I was playing with kids from my childhood,
and looking to buy new clothes, discovering that I already
had some new dress shirts in the closet.
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis
Is your dream environment stable? Or does it morph and
transform as the dream progresses? If you change your
viewing perspective, does what you see follow physical
rules, or do you see something else altogether? How do your
dream environments compare to waking reality?
This month we continue with part 3 in the series "Exploring
the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace" of Ed Kellogg's
Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenges.
LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
June, 2006
by Ed Kellogg
((c)2006 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.)
(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for
LDE readers with each new issue. Participants agree to
accept personal responsibility for any risks should they
choose to undertake them, which may possibly bring about
mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite
those of you who accomplish these tasks to send your dream
reports to LDE.)
Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace
Part 3: "Dreamspace"
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force
which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and
holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a
conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of
all matter". Max Planck, Nobel prize winner.
"M stands for "Magic", "Mystery", or "Matrix" - according
to taste"
Definition of the "M" in M-theory by its originator,
physicist Ed Witten.
(1)
In order to come up with a consistent model of our
universe, reconciling quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory
of relativity, the Standard Model, etc., including
everything from gravity to subatomic particles, physicists
found that the standard 3 + 1 dimensions (space-time) just
won't do - that a workable model requires 10 or more
dimensions to explain how the universe behaves. When they
did this, they came up with not just one, but many
"Superstring Theory" solutions that can elegantly and
accurately model how our Universe works. (Dr. Ed Witten
found a way of uniting these variations with his much
acclaimed M-theory, but had to add another dimension to do
so.)
Some interesting consequences also fall out of such models,
including time travel, parallel universes, etc.
Unfortunately, to put superstring theory to the test in (3
+1) space-time requires such enormous amounts of energy
that scientists may not have the resources to do confirming
experiments for thousands of years. Yet, humans have
routinely experienced phenomena such as those described
above in their dreams (2), which opens the possibility that
dreams may take place "outside" of (3 +1) space-time.
Also, if this model holds, this would mean that each of us
exists as ten or more dimensional beings, to which our
(3+1) physical reality selves would be only an
infinitesimal aspect of our Higher-Dimensional Selves, of
less significance than a two dimensional square in a three
dimensional cube, which contains an infinite number of such
squares ... Similarly, even our "brains" would consist of
far more than the (3 +1) space-time component focused on by
most scientists, but could also bring into play an
additional 6 or more dimensional component, a possibility
that mechanistic models of consciousness promoted by most
neurophysiologists ignores entirely. Perhaps dreams do
occur "all in our brains" as some scientists like to
believe, but not in our (3+1) space-time brains, but in 10
or more dimensional brains.
If we do experience these other dimensional components of
self, it makes sense that we would do so in our dreams,
visions, and OBEs. We would usually 'translate'/remember
these dreams in terms of the (3+1) space-time templates
that we have built from our experiences in waking physical
reality, but I've noticed that IF people pay mindful
attention to their dreams, they report dream experiences
that do not fit in a (3+1) template, any more than a square
peg fits in a round hole
.
In his book Hyperspace, Michio Kaku wrote that according to
superstring theory, before the "big bang", our cosmos
actually existed as a perfect ten-dimensional universe. (3)
However, because of an instability of this ten-dimensional
world, it broke down into "two" universes: an inflated
four-dimensional (3+1) universe and a collapsed six-
dimensional universe.
If waking reality space-time corresponds to the physical
reality universe, to what reality might this coupled 6
dimensional universe correspond? I suggest that we
entertain the hypothesis that we experience this higher
dimensional universe in our dreams. If so, dream reality
space-time might extend through 6 dimensions, just as
physical reality space-time extends through 4, three
spatial, and one temporal dimension. Based on my own
experiences, it appears that dream reality space-time has 4
+ 2 dimensions, four spatial, and two time dimensions.
Three of the spatial dimensions would correspond to the
length, height, and depth of physical reality space-time,
but dream space-time would also have a fourth spatial
dimension, a hyperspace dimension, in which dreamers could
also move. In this fourth spatial dimension movement might
take the dreamer into parallel dream universes, most of
them differing only slightly from the ones adjoining them
(like moving up in a cube would move us through a series of
squares). Also, having a fourth spatial dimension would
also allow our dream bodies to go through things, through a
wall for example, to teleport, or even to "flip" ourselves
so that our right side becomes our left side, and visa
versa. (4)
However, even if we have the capacity for movement in this
4th spatial dimension in dream reality, dreamers don't
bring any learned navigational skills for moving in 4d from
physical reality space-time. As a consequence, one might
expect dreamers to tend to drift, and to move through,
parallel universes, as well as to teleport, and even to
occasionally reverse orientation without much control.
Perhaps this explains the apparent mutability of many
dreamscapes.
Why two time dimensions? Well, for one thing, having a
second time dimension makes time travel easy, and many
dreamers report precognitive and time travel experiences in
their dreams. In dream reality we would have the capacity
for movement in this 2nd temporal dimension, but as we
would not have learned navigational skills for moving in it
from physical reality space-time experiences, we might tend
to drift and to move through dreamtime without much
control. This would result in a two-dimensional time, where
we would experience two times, a personal timeline (what we
sequentially experience), and a world timeline. Instead of
likening time to a straight line, in DR it corresponds more
to a two dimensional plane with the forward edge
corresponding to the future, and the backward edge to the
past. (For more on this, see 5.)
If we do experience a higher dimensional universe, how
might "superstrings" show up in our dreams? How might we
perceive them? Perhaps a lucid dreamer might notice
anomalous structural elements, subtle signs of a higher
dimensional dream matrix below surface appearances.
Although computer game graphics may look realistic at first
glance, careful viewing reveals distortions due to an
underlying hexagonal or tile matrix structure. If such a
matrix underlies dream reality, perhaps lucid dreamers can
perceive underlying distortions due to that matrix, when
mindfully looking at their surroundings. How might lucid
dreamers perceive superstrings? Perhaps they have some
relation to "power lines", which many people report
encountering in dreams, often unexpectedly.
The Challenge: Exploring the Properties of "Dreamspace"
When you next become lucid in a dream (where you know that
you dream while you dream) pay attention to the structural
level of your dream environment. Does the dream
environment appear stable, or does it change? If so how
does it change? As you move around in that environment, how
do changes in your perspective change what you see? Does
your perspective sometimes shift unexpectedly, or even
reverse itself? Look for anomalies, distortions, or
unexpected regularities in the fabric of dreamspace such as
"powerlines" or geometric patterns. Pay less attention to
the foreground, and more attention to the background, of
experienced dreamscapes. Record your experiences and
interactions with dreamspace in your dream journal in as
much detail as possible - include drawings and diagrams if
appropriate.
REFERENCES
1. Quoted from the The Elegant Universe, a three part NOVA
series on Superstring theory first aired in 2003. Amazing
graphics, illustrating mind-bending concepts. Available on
DVD.)
2. "Psi-Perception in Dreams: Next Stop - the Twilight
Zone." (a 2003 PsiberDreaming Conference Presentation) by
E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.
http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_pdc2003_001.htm
3. Kaku, M., (1994) Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey
through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th
Dimension, Doubleday, New York.
4. Kellogg III, E. W. (1989). "Mapping Territories: A
Phenomenology of Lucid Dream Reality". Lucidity Letter,
8(2), pp. 81-97. Available online at:
http://www.spiritwatch.ca/LL%208(2)%20dec%2089/KELOG082.W50
.htm
5. To read an example of a literally mind-bending higher-
dimensional dream of this kind, and its consequences on the
dreamer, see pp. 49-50 in The Fourth Dimension: A Guided
Tour of the Higher Universes, by Rudy Rucker (1994),
Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
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Appendix 1. Just for fun: a lucid dream in which I
attempted to manifest a superstring with interesting
consequences . . .
5/26/2000 " . . . In a 'Maxfield Parrish' type setting, in
order to demonstrate that we dream to two doubtful, but
beautiful (and naked) women bathing in a small, white
marble pool, I fly across a very large, elegantly
furnished, wood paneled room. As I fly I remember my
'Superstring' task, and chant aloud the incantation 'By the
power of Alkahest / Let a Superstring manifest!'
Nothing much happens - I expected a delay - but in a moment
a 'radio' comes on, and I hear a voice that tells me that
'it does not seem a good idea to do an experiment of this
type, at this time, as you still seem too unfocused and
distracted.' The voice tells me further that 'to do an
experiment of this kind requires careful consideration
beforehand as to what to do, and clear mindful
intentionality while doing it'.
What the voice says makes sense to me - the naked young
women definitely distracted me, and still somewhat cloud my
intent. However, this remarkably stable dream environment
seems perfect for an experiment of this kind, and at this
point I can now work undisturbed.
Rather than miss an opportunity, I decide to wait and see
what happens. I go outside, and see another pristine
dreamscape view in a sort of rectangular plane like space -
unlimited in two directions, but of only limited height and
breadth - perhaps a mile for those dimensions. The whole
dreamscape changes as I watch - it becomes gray and desert
like. In the sky, dark, almost black, clouds materialize,
roiling and moving, as if about to give birth to something
awesome and terrible. From a Maxfield Parrish scene it has
become El Greco!
Reluctantly, realizing that I do not have clear intent, and
have not carefully considered the implications, I decide to
abort the experiment.
Looking up at the sky I intend/shout 'Cancel!' The clouds
lighten and begin to disappear. I intend/shout 'Cancel!'
again, and the dreamscape returns to normal.
I think of what else I might do, and decide to try
manifesting a hypercube. As I think this, three entities
show up, two 'men' and one 'woman'. One of the 'men' says
'Go ahead - if you don't mind having six or seven more of
you!' I think further, and tell the three excitedly 'I have
it!" and compose a simple chant: 'By the power of Alkahest
/ Let understanding of a hypercube manifest!'
However, just after I've completed the first line of this
chant one of the 'male' entities grabs my left hand,
keeping me from completing a gesture. As soon as he touches
me I immediately return to waking physical reality, my
experiment incomplete, even though I'd felt solidly
embedded in the lucid dream reality right up to that
moment."
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View From the Bridge
December 2006
Scrambled Contest or Outstanding Group Dream?
Joy Fatooh
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Theres a great, worldwide, multicultural tradition that
our thoughts prayers meditations focused intentions
have actual power and influence. Another vast school of
thought says were all interconnected in subtle and
profound ways; our true self is the entire web. Then there
are those of us who most readily access that web in our
dreams, transcending distance and boundaries to share
experiences while we sleep.
Where these ideas meet, we find the World Dreams Peace
Bridge a group brought together by the notion that we can
bring our focused intentions into our dreams, dream
together, and magnify our will to promote peace so that it
radiates throughout the web. At least thats the way I see
it. Our founder Jean Campbell, author of Group Dreaming:
Dreams To the Tenth Power, explains the title as reflecting
the idea that if people could dream together, we would be
suggesting that dreams can be augmented in an exponential
manner. Its a leap of faith to think we can thereby
change the world. But dream with intention, dream as a
group, share information, influence one another on the
profound levels on which dreams operate? We do that all the
time!
A remarkable group dream took place a few weeks ago,
disguised as the Psiberdream Telepathy Contest. The contest
is part of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams annual online conference. Several participants were
Peace Bridge members or joined soon after.
The rules: An unnamed person selects four dissimilar
pictures and seals them into opaque envelopes. A set is
provided to a person acting as sender who secretly
selects one, leaving the others sealed, then spends the
night attempting to establish mind-to-mind, awake-to-
sleeping connections with the dreamers participating all
over the world
. Dreamers are encouraged to incubate the
intention of seeing or connecting with the sender and the
picture, writing down all dreams they have. The next day,
all four pictures are posted online, and contestants post
their dreams and choose which picture they seem to match.
Judges award prizes for the dreams best matching the target
picture.
The contest night was a Thursday. The sender was the
renowned and talented Beverly DUrso. I wrote down a
plethora of dreams. In one I realized I was dreaming,
gleefully called out Beverly, show me the picture! and
took off flying. Below me was a snowy landscape. A bare
patch of earth opened in the center. Suddenly a very large
dog leaped into the scene, followed by another; later I
dreamed yet another dog.
Once I saw the potential targets, I zeroed in on Picture
#1, a snowy scene with a bare patch of earth at the center,
in which two elf-like characters one tall and young in a
pale, belted outfit, one short and old and bearded in a
red-orange Santa-like hat gaze up into an evergreen tree.
Bits and pieces of my other dreams fell into place: Two
figures, one tall, one short. A figure in a pale belted
outfit. An evergreen tree. Boys or young men looking up at
what Id described as something like a pickle?! which in
fact resembled one of the branches. Asymmetrical apples and
carrots, the color and shape of the red-orange hat. My
white cat leaping toward a little animal, which I related
to a white snow-shape curving toward a small oval hollow
that could be an animals burrow.
One convincing bit for me was that I twice dreamed a stair-
step line from lower right to upper left, which
corresponded to the implied line created by the elves
heights and direction of their gaze something only an old
art sudent might care about!
But there were no dogs in the picture. And I didnt dream
of an elf or gnome the main subject, really.
But Dolores did! She dreamed of two dwarfs in tall red
caps, sitting on a shelf with downcast eyes, hands on their
knees and their white beards flowing over their knees
between their hands. They looked like the red-capped fellow
in picture #1.
Sonia D. matched the taller, younger elf when she dreamed
My [teenaged] son is wearing a drab gray one piece-suit
and looks something like a jester. Beverly A. reinforced
the little old dwarf and his cap, dreaming of a boy who
was orange and very wrinkled, and a red triangular shape
that doesn't seem related to anything. It's just there.
Ilkins brief dream notes concisely interpreted the
expressions on their faces: "Grumbling/curious.
Waiting/looking the way for something. Afraid from
precognition. Snow."
Patricia wrote her dream in haiku form:
tiny elves shelter
in the hollowed out birch tree
massive storm
----
the dog alerts them
one by one scruffy elves leave
the hollow log
Maia contributed, First, a dream of placing a child into a
small oval hollow in the earth
. Second, images of caribou
and snow, ice, a few patches of bare earth. Mary Pat, like
me lucid and actively seeking the target, dreamed of woods,
cold, and a landscape full of snow and ice plus red-
harnessed reindeer hung with bells.
And a Husky dog.
Two non-competing contest facilitators couldnt resist
reporting. Bob Van De Castle wrote, The most compelling
aspect of my dreams last night was that there was a scene
where I had my hands in snow, which is something I can't
previously recall ever experiencing! Rita Dwyer dreamed of
snow and evergreens and Christmas in the air.
Suzanne dreamed about seeing Beverly eating an ice cream.
Curt dreamed a black sphere on the upper left of my visual
field I look up to see it
. What I notice about Picture 1
is that there is a black patch in the upper left of the
picture about the same size as the sphere in my dream, and
the two figures seem to be looking up at it.
We excitedly compared notes online. As a group, wed
dreamed up every bit of Picture #1. But we were also
impressed by the group hits on the other three pictures,
especially #3 and #4.
Picture #2 showed a family of apes in loving interaction.
Bob V. thought two of his dreams related: In the first I
was on a bed with a dog's head on my lap and I was petting
him. In the second, a different dog was on the bedroom
floor on its back and sort of rolling around. More dogs!
Picture #3 showed a dark-haired, bare-footed, bare-breasted
dancer in a yellow skirt, dancing for an audience in a
darkened room. Liz described her perfectly, aside from hair
and costume colors:
dancing with her arms in the air. She
has light hair with streaks and a bare top. She is moving
her hips back and forth and she has a thin figure. From
about the middle of her back down she is wearing a see
through white garment. She has a smile on her face and
appears to be enjoying herself. She is acting as though she
is dancing for an audience. Peggy dreamed of happily going
topless, plus bits that filled in what Liz missed: a pretty
woman with dark hair; the color yellow; a bare foot. Val,
who loves jewelry, keyed into the dancers earrings and
bangles. David L. K. modestly converted the audience
passively watching the central dancer into several turned-
off televisions in a darkened room surrounding one that was
on which he blocked from the view of his young daughter,
as he assured us he would have done if Picture #3 were
being broadcast!
Liz later in the night seemed to dream the Amish barn-
raising in #4: Themes: Busy working, building. Emotions:
frustrated, trying to work Major structural elements: wood,
very large arch shape. I am standing on a high ladder with
many people below me
. Ed described the same scene in
table-top miniature, adding the colors: Themes:
Construction, putting pieces together. Emotions: Mental
focus, annoyance at having someone telling me what to do.
Major structural elements: Edges, lines, geometrical
shapes. Manipulating pieces, building. Blue, white and
beige
. Geometrical puzzle
lots of wooden pencils. Dale
dreamed of an assembly/disassembly project, a crowd of
people and something that resembles a barn or a shed.
Janet saw a tall, empty house made of unfinished light
brown wood; Bob K., a house with no walls, roof or
furniture. Gosh dreamed of wooden frame structures three
nights in a row. Terri dreamed she tried to climb up a tall
stage at an outdoor concert. Mary Pat dreamed of a large
building in a scene that looked very much like the picture,
especially the bright green sloping lawn. Sonia D. dreamed,
I receive a gift
. a child's playhouse. I open the door
to the house to discover that it is not fully assembled.
But although four of us dreamed seven dogs total, there
werent any dogs in any of the pictures. Whered they come
from?
On Saturday Beverly revealed the target: Picture #1. The
thoughts shed generated in sending it included Santa and
reindeer along with elements of the picture itself. Next
she posted descriptions of her dreams on contest night.
Ordering ice cream, but not eating it. Open-walled
houses was she dreaming of #4, still in its sealed
envelope? Or dreaming of the dreams of the contestants who
dreamed of #4? She also dreamed of visiting Ashland, Oregon
where shed recently travelled with Ed in an old car
that turned out to be a near-exact match with an old car Ed
dreamed, completely unrelated to any of the pictures.
And whats this? She dreamed an extremely large dog
tried to get into bed with her!
At this point Suzanne confessed, Gosh! I'm so confused!
You see, Robert Waggoner and I are doing some dream games
too. The last time it was his turn to do the sending, and I
was a bit disappointed to find out that this dream
telepathy contest had the same target night. Since I wanted
to participate in both, I didn't know what to do
. Maybe
its interesting to share what he was sending
?
Turns out it was a photo of sled dogs on an icy river!
The judges labored for an extra day, reporting, Choosing
winners is very difficult. Extra awards may be added to
cover the strange and wonderful things that happened during
this PDT contest of 2006. While we waited we talked about
how wed contributed elements adding up to the whole, each
according to our own way of seeing. I wrote that it was
difficult to evaluate my own dreams relation to the
target without looking at everyone elses. Think how fun
and rewarding it would be if that were the object of the
game
treat it as a group dream and say, for instance,
Wow, there's a lot of snow in here! A lot of dancers too,
but even more snow. And look at all the elves
.
Finally the judges stated that collectively the 2006
contest had the best results ever, and named ties for
first, second and third place plus several honorable
mentions for matches with non-target pictures and Beverlys
dreams. Clearly they werent entirely comfortable with
reducing this intricate network to a linear hierarchy. And
neither was I. The initial ego-thrill of being named a
winner was quickly replaced by a feeling something like
loneliness. The experience of meshing minds in the night
with people all over the world was far, far more rewarding.
Joy
(P.S. Jean has reminded me that she wrote last month of my
Albuquerque mystery and suggested I might tell how it
turned out. Bear with me: its still unfolding, with the
help of my dreaming friends on the Bridge. More soon! jf)
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An Interview with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.
Questions by David L. Kahn
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Adrian Calabrese, PhD., is the author of Sacred Signs:
Hear, See & Believe Messages from the Universe (Llewellyn
Publications, 2006), 10 Spiritual Steps to a Magical Life
(Llewellyn Publications, 2003), and How to Get Everything
You Ever Wanted: Complete Guide to Using Your Psychic
Common Sense (Llewellyn Publications, 2000). Dr. Calabrese
is a member of the American Association of Journalists and
Authors, the National Speakers Association, and the
Author's Guild. She is currently in private practice and is
director of the Metaphysical Center and pastor of the
Metaphysical Church of the Spirit.
Website: www.AdrianCalabrese.com
David L. Kahn [DLK]: Tell us about Sacred Signs. What do
you most want the reader to take from it?
Adrian Calabrese, PhD., [AC]: The book is the result of my
own experiences with signs as I indicate in the first
chapter. My fathers illness was the motivating force, as
well as signs my clients/students/church members shared
with me over the years. I want the reader to know most
importantly that signs are real and extremely significant
as direct guidance from God/The Divine.
[DLK]: What similarities or differences have you noticed
between signs that show up in waking life versus those that
show up in dreams? Do signs appear large or exaggerated
while awake as they do in dreams?
[AC]: Dream signs may be partially allegorical, as opposed
to waking signs, which are direct and literal. They both
are direct guidance from God. I find waking signs to be
mostly subtle and significant only to the person asking for
the sign. At times, they may be exaggerated, but not often.
[DLK]: Can you give us an example of a dream sign that had
a major impact on your life?
[AC]: I dreamed my uncle had died, and he did several days
later. He was ill and I had been concerned about him.
Before I went to sleep I programmed,
"Please let me know in my dream what's going to happen."
Then I went to sleep and I saw him in a coffin. It was
really astounding. I saw all of the family there. That
morning I knew it was a literal dream; it was not an
allegorical dream. I told my folks the next day, "You know,
I think he's going because I had this dream." He had been
sick on and off his whole life. He had several heart
attacks. Why this time? He had survived it so many times.
This is the only time I had that dream, and then sure
enough about three days later he made the transition.
[DLK]: Do you frequently experience precognitive dreams?
[AC]: For me it's kind of rare. Usually when I have a
precognitive dream it is something that is major. It's not
just sort of an everyday occurrence. It would be something
major, something life changing or challenging. So, for me
it's kind of rare. I get most of my information through
light trance, but when things are huge in my life they tend
to come through in my dreams. When I'm conflicted about
something and the human part of me just can't figure it out
or if I can't open myself up enough to spirit to get the
information, then I turn to my dreams when I can be clear.
Even though the information is allegorical, and not
necessarily literal, I still know what to do. My mom is
amazing about it. My mother is psychic as well and she gets
all of her information in dream time. She's closed to any
kind of psychic perception generally. She's a little afraid
of it, but she trusts her dream time. She will just think
of a situation or a question and then she goes to sleep.
She wakes up the next morning with the exact answer that
she needs. She doesn't necessarily remember the dream, but
she knows the answer when she wakes up.
[DLK]: What are your thoughts about the deceased showing
up in dreams?
[AC]: I see a lot of people in dreams. I've often seen
family members that have come back in dream time. That's
pretty regular for me. It's my belief that when a loved one
appears in a dream, it is not really the dream. The loved
one is making the communication. For whatever reason, we
may not be aware, but there is definitely communication
going on and sometimes the spirits are able to make the
contact much easier when we are in that alpha state.
[DLK]: What can you share about your early years,
religious or spiritual upbringing, and what brought you to
the field of metaphysics?
[AC]: I was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic schools
through my undergraduate degree at Fordham University. I
began my studies in the field after having a deeply moving
spiritual experience. I heard the voice of my Spirit Guide,
Roger.
[DLK]: What is the story of you discovering your spirit
guide, and what did he have to say to you?
[AC]: I was on a weekend vacation in Seaside Heights, New
Jersey. A friend and I had decided to go down there, and at
the time I was a starving actress. We had planned to be on
the beach, but it rained and we were forced to entertain
ourselves. Instead we went to a bookstore. My friend was
very much into new age and psychic phenomena and I was not.
The most I did was read the horoscope in the daily news.
But, she had talked a lot about it and I was in the new age
section, and there was one book that was not aligned in the
shelf. It was sitting on top of the other books. I'm a
little neat nick and went to put it back inline.
I picked it up and it said, "Spirit Guides." I looked at it
and I said, "Wow." I've heard about these things and it was
very affordable. I only had a few bucks, but I thought I'd
treat myself. My friend had an armful of books and this
gypsy fortune telling game, and I said, "What are you
buying that for?" She said, "I don't know why." We got back
to the room and it continued to rain. We only had two days
on this weekend that we thought we were going to spend on
the beach.
That evening I said, "Let's play that fortune telling game
that you bought" and she said, "Oh all right." It consisted
of a scarf that you laid down on a surface that had an
outline for cards. It was almost like a tarot thing that
you kind of place the cards on each one of these outlines
on the scarf and then read in the book what it means. In
the center there was a circle and you're supposed to put in
the circle an article from the person that you're reading -
a ring, a watch, something to get their energy. So she did
mine and told me all these wonderful things that are going
to happen to me, and then I said "I'll do yours" and she
handed me a ring. When she put it in my hand, I couldn't
open my hand and I started to panic. I said, "I can't open
my hand." Then the ring began to move in my hand, and I
said "It's moving" and it really, really scared me to
death. I couldn't release it.
All of a sudden, at that moment, I heard a voice say
"Hello" as though it were another person in the room. I
said, "What?" I thought she said it. She said, "What? I
didn't say anything." I said, "I just heard some guy say
hello." She said, "Uh oh, I think I know what's happening.
Close your eyes and just see what you hear." I closed my
eyes and I heard, "Hello." I said, "I heard him again" and
she said, "Ask him who he is." I said, "Who are you?" and
he said, "I'm your spirit guide."
I asked him his name and he said, "Roger." I told her,
"Roger" and then I said to him, "Roger?" I expected a
spirit guide's name to be very exotic. He said, "Roger for
Christ's sake. I'm here to help you do your work" and I
said, "What work?" I'm speaking out loud because I don't
realize that I can communicate just with my thoughts.
It was astounding because my friend was witnessing this
thing happen to me and she began to ask me questions. When
she asked me a question, I'd ask it of Roger and he would
answer it. He was giving us predictions. He was giving us
information that I could not possibly know about my
friend's friends and things that had occurred in her life
that I didn't know about. We knew for sure from that kind
of evidence that this was the real thing. He stayed with me
all night.
I was terrified. I didn't want to go to sleep. I was up
all night because he talked to me the entire night. Finally
I said, "You have to stop." The whole weekend he was in my
head. He said, "Oh, just tell me when you've had enough."
It was so simple, and he said, "Call me when you want me."
From that moment on my entire life changed. I began to be
able to heal. My friend that weekend had a problem in one
of her legs. She said, "Ask Roger what to do" and he told
me to put my hand on our leg, and I did and the pain went
away.
It was as though someone flipped a switch and all of a
sudden I could do all of these things that I never even
knew I could do. From that moment my life has taken quite a
turn.
[DLK]: Share some concepts from your earlier books,
including where dreams may be a part of the book or have
given you ideas when writing them.
[AC]: In previous books, I have mentioned dreams as
significant tools in understanding our needs, desires,
motivations, guidance from God, and that they may be used
as tools to program the subconscious mind for manifesting
our desires.
[DLK]: Do you often use your dreams for guidance, or
incubate a question to receive the answer in a dream?
[AC]: I actually do both. If I'm having an emotional
dilemma, in dream time they'll come more clearly for me. If
I know that a situation is far too emotional for me to
handle, I will definitely do the programming and try to get
the information through the dream state.
[DLK]: Are any of your clients particularly adept at
finding signs in their dreams?
[AC]: In Sacred Signs I talk about the dream signs. Many
times we will get them in dreams. My client Garth is the
best at it. He goes to sleep and he gets the literal. He's
the most amazing person. He wakes up and he records it in
his mind, and he goes back to sleep and he continues,
getting the answers that he is looking for.
[DLK]: The word "coincidence" doesn't seem to be a part of
your vocabulary. Do you have any thoughts about the timing
of this interview, and how it may prove to be a sign either
for you or someone reading this?
[AC]: I dont believe in coincidence, only in
synchronicity. Yes, this interview is a sign for both of
us, you and I, and possibly for a reader. For me, it is a
sign to continue my work. Only you and the readers will be
able to determine what significance it has for you.
[DLK]: Thank you, Adrian, for sharing your thoughts and
experiences with us. What do you see for yourself in the
future? Another book? Any parting thoughts or words of
wisdom?
[AC]: Youre welcome. I am working on my next book, Single
and Happy! What to Do for Your Soul While Youre Waiting
for Mr. Right, as well as two other titles. Im speaking
and doing workshops around the country, and just returned
from a 5-city book tour for Sacred Signs. In parting, it is
my wish that all of us come to know the Spirit within and
learn to have a life-long, positive, loving, joyful
relationship with the Divine. Blessings to all!
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David L. Kahn is a member of the International Association
for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and the World Dreams Peace
Bridge. His book, A Dream Come True: Lessons in Current and
Precognitive Dream Interpretation, can be ordered online.
The Lucid Dream Exchange has chosen David as their
DreamSpeak interview for the next quarterly edition, and he
will be starting an on going quarterly column in that
publication.
Book orders: http://stores.lulu.com/lucidreverie
Email: lucid.reverie@yahoo.com
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DreamRePlay
David Jenkins, PhD
Look Both Ways
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Dreams and Ambiguity: There are Two Sides to Every Dream
Whatever you think your dream means, don't forget to
consider the exact opposite. If you are sure your dream
means just one thing, stop! Take another look.
Almost all methods of dream work have a built-in "warning"
system to remind you to consider the alternatives. In
ancient Greece it was believed that dreams were sent by the
gods. On their way to you they passed through one of two
gates, either horn or ivory. True dreams passed through the
gates of horn; false dreams passed through the gates of
ivory.
In other words, dream meanings are always tricky; they can
flip flop.
This is particularly important when your dream "suggests"
taking some critical action in the waking world. If your
dream seems to clearly tell you to change your job, or that
your boyfriend is having an affair, think carefully before
quitting your job or accusing your boyfriend.
I dream that I wake up and find that I have got a terrific
new job to go to.
That's nice but, flip it around, and it may well mean you
had better wake up if you want a terrific new job.
Calpurnia's Dream
Shakespeare offers a perfect example of the way in which a
dream can be understood in two different ways. In the play
"Julius Caesar," Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, dreams that a
statue of Caesar was flowing with blood and many Romans
wash their hands in the blood. She is sure it means Caesar
will be assassinated.
Caesar tells the dream to Decius. But Decius (who is part
of the plot to kill Caesar) says it means Caesar is so
great that Rome shall be nourished by his blood; that Rome
will be revived by Caesar. He adds that it would look bad
if Caesar gives in to Calpurnia's fears.
Both interpretations are feasible. Calpurnia's judgment was
good. Decius was lying. But Caesar, swayed by his own
pride, followed Decius' interpretation. He went to the
forum and the rest is history.
The problem with all dreams interpretations is that they
have this ambiguity. There is no final way to resolve the
matter.
The Moral
Interpreting dreams always leaves room for opposite
conclusions. Pride and vanity will often push you in one
direction. "Bad" dreams can have a "good" interpretation
and vice versa. If you are dealing with practical matters
in the waking world, be wary of simply taking action based
on a dream.
By and large, Dream RePlay avoids this issue because we
wait for the next dream and watch the progression. A good
rule of thumb (unless you have to go to the forum today) is
to wait for two more confirming dreams.
In next week's column we'll discuss dreams of infidelity:
what do you do when you dream that your lover is cheating
on you? You'll see that there are many possible
interpretations.
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Crabs loose in the kitchen, Turkeys running around, being
chased by my father, black blood
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dream_title: messy drama
dream_date: 11/28/06
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: it was me, my boyfriend and my mother, was @ my
grand mothers house i walked in my grandmothers house gave
a kiss to my grandmother greeted my mother and gave a kiss
to my boyfriend, my boyfriend comes up to me calling me a
bitch a hoe he said that he neva loved me that he's always
cheatin on me, he made waterfalls run down my cheeks i was
crying and crying i felt the worst pain ever like my heart
doesn't exist he would keep repeating himself not knowing
what i did wrong i went to the kitchen grabbed a knife went
to the living room then i did a cut on his leg then another
one on his other leg and another on his shoulder i told him
that if he wants to feel the pain im feeling right know i
said it over and over until we went outside then he would
say "u a bitch a hoe i never loved u etc" then he didn't
care that i was crying he just would keep making me feel
like shit then after that i couldn't take it no more i took
the kitchen knife then ran it across his face and made a
big cut he was still alive he just stood there in shock i
told him "every minute i cry every minute u say u don't
love me the pain ur feeling right know is what im feeling"
and i keep repeating "why why"
dream_title:
"Paralyzed"
dream_date: 11/14/06
dreamer_name: dreamswimmer
dream_text: like always, there was no true plot, just
feelings and images clearly remembered. it is long...i was
dreaming i was laying on by bed motionless just waiting for
a friend to arrive, resting after a rough morning. we had
planned for the day to film a documentary about rape at a
near-by college.(Still in my dream) i had fallen asleep by
the time my friend arrived and she woke me up with a honk
of her horn urging me to welcome her in my home. i couldn't
move. i was anxious to see her, but to my surprise i was
paralyzed. she let herself into my house and came into my
room and immediately asked what was wrong. then did i
realized that i couldn't talk because it consisted of
movement in the mouth, so i groned. it was the most
uncomfortable feeling knowing i couldn't even lift a
finger. i had no control. she assumed i was just tired so
she said i could rest awhile and she would go get some
lunch. by the time she got back i was entirely angry. not
at her but i wanted to take it out on her. i couldn't take
it anymore. as time went on minute sounds got louder and
light gotbrighter and my vision became disturbed and
blurred. when she came back up she had become a tornado in
my eyes. in the presence of my own room, i could see all
the furniture ruined and decorations broken so i became
more mad. i finally gained enough energy and adrenaline to
rage up off my bed long enough to kick her out of my house.
little did she know she was a threat to me and my
belongings, so i knew my words would confuse her, hurt her
and ruin our plans for the day. i needed a companion but no
matter how hard i tried to explain my fatigue, she would
never understand until i was healed. i passed out the
moment i got my words out at the edge of my bed. i didnt
even make it on my bed, so now i am laying uncomfortably on
the floor. i was laying on rubble of a tornado which was
painful, but again i had no control. i was left for hours
alone on end until finally i went on a walk covered in
layeres and layers of clothes, dark sunglasses and warm
shoes. i was sensitive to the world like i had just woken
from being in acoma.the air was cold, the sun was too
bright, my eyes were swolen, i was lost and sad i had no
idea where my friend went. as i was walking i saw my
boyfriend. what a relief, like clonopin on a manic day,
like water when your thirsty, he had saved my from my
confusion. what day is it i asked. i do not remember what
he responded, but then i saw my mom and little sister at a
neighborhood pool. i asked if i could join them but they
said no and i felt rejected and confused why not and when
the last time i saw them was. my dream ended with the honk
of my friend outside my house. it was a trip i thought it
started all over. but then i looked around. my room was all
clean and all protraits still hung. this dream has meaning
and i will never forget it.
dream_title: flying
dream_date: 2006
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: i dreams that i can fly i can control my flying
and it feels as if it is real.i began to run on a green
grassy hill,then suddenlly i jump and lift off into the
air,i mostly hover around corners of my house,i feel a
tickle in my stomach at times
dream_title: Teal Turkey, Yellow Rattle Snake & 9mm
dream_date: 11-21-06
dreamer_name: Cairns
dream_text: It was thanksgiving night and i wasn't to happy
with the whole thing so i went out in my front yard and
started shooting my dads .22 rifle and after a little while
he came out and brought me a flash light so i could see
were i was shooting. It was sort of like it was raining
were the sound was muffled but it wasn't so i went into the
back room in out garage and reloaded the .22 rifle and i
also took our Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol and i loaded it
and i remember walking out in the driveway and their was
these two turkeys and i was trying to catch them so i had a
piece of PVC that was broken at the end and i was trying to
hit the turkey over the head and i just couldn't keep up
with them, one of the turkey's was looking more like a dog
sort of like our 2 year old male dog astro that we have and
the turkey/dog bit my hand but didn't do any damage and i
remember yelling if i had my 9mm i would have blown ur head
off and then my family was their and my dad had caught the
turkey that was still a turkey and i remember saying wow
its a teal turkey and my dad took it off and the turkey/dog
was gone but their was this giant yellow rattle snake
laying belly up and i remember thinking i need to pretect
everyone from it so i took out the 9mm and started shooting
at it but the gun had such a kick i couldnt get close to
hitting the snake and i was hitting my neighbors yellow
barn thats a good 100 or 150 yards behind it... the dream
sorta faded out from their and turned into a bunch of mush
i cant remember...
dream_title: 13 years older than me
dream_date: 11/20/06
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: Im in love with this guy but we r 13 years
apart.He is a karate instructor and is very successful
don't no if he likes me back so i talked to god not in
person but in my prayers. I asked god to tell me weather or
not i should give him up, i also asked him if he could tell
me in a dream or something if i should give him up.So last
night i had a dream about him, i had a dream that i went to
karate and i said "hi" to him he was talking to someone and
he said "hi sugar lips im kindda busy right now but i'll
talk to u later". So i said ok and started to watch the
karate lesson when it started then we kept looking back and
forth at each other then this one girl came up to us and
started saying "oh u like each other its so ovbeuse" then
we looked at each other in a weird way and it was like she
was jealous or something!
I really don't no if i should give him up or not,i asked my
best friend she said not to give up but i need to no if i
should or not and i need to no wut my dream means!
dream_title: snake in a box
dream_date: 16.11.06
dreamer_name: nur
dream_text: my friend has a small box in the top shelf with
a small snake in it.she tells me to look after it.its very
high on the shelf. i take it ans some how i open it, but
i'm so afraid of the snake so i clost it too strongly that
i harm the snake. i forget my mobile phone inthere.the
snake cant move and going to die.i feel sorry for him.and
than somhow the box is opened.i'm happy i got my mobile
phone back and that the snake now will be ok.i wonder how
she didnt mind having a snake and i managed to mess it up
dream_title: Running from father and guts hanging out
dream_date: 11/11/06
dreamer_name: Black blood vomit
dream_text: Well I was with this friend and we were in the
grocery store running away from my dad who was chasing us.
Finally I was in my dads car in the parking lot, all of a
sudden I was in my friends car. So me and my friend are
planning on seeing each other again without getting caught
and he lifts his shirt up all of a sudden and shows me that
his guts are hanging out. I'm pretty freaked out about it
but he acts normal about it, and finally I go home.
dream_title: many crab walk around me
dream_date: 11-13-2006
dreamer_name: dreamer
dream_text: I dreamed many crabs appeared in my kitchen. It
was walking into my bedroom and around my pillow. and it
became more and more around my kitchen and bedroom
anywhere.and It was with some long shape fishes looks like
snake.
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