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Volume #13 Issue #6
June 2006
ISSN# 1089 4284
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover & Story: Ann Sayer Wiseman
Ann Sayre Wisemans India Dream Trip
Life Changing Strategies Through
Art, Dreams and Creative Problem solving.
++ Interview: With Robert J. Hoss, MS, author of
Dream Language: Self-Understanding
Through Imagery and Color
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
"Does the Sailor Control the Sea?"
Overcoming Resistance to Lucid Dreaming
Robert G. Waggoner
++ Article: A Tale of Dream Trees
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: A View From The Bridge
Dreaming With The Ancestors
Jean Campbell
++ Dream: "Time Travel"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Column: Breaking the Rules
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ Article: Dreams and Intuition
Marcia Emery, Ph.D.
++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland
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D E A D L I N E :
The July issue will be a little late, so lets use July 1 for the July deadline.
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Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the June 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/
.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
Hi to everyone at the IASD 2006 Bridgewater Conference, this issue will be printed and distributed freely at the conference.
In this issue:
As always, Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which you can read about in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news, conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at ed-news@alquinte.com
Dreams and color. This major dream-theme has been of interests to dreamers and dreamworkers for centuries. Now Bob Hoss has brought together a wide range of research and new neurological studies to find some startling features of color in dreams and how they unfold emotionally. This research and how it relates to dreamwork is discussed in his book, The Language of Dreams. Read about this in a special interview below.
Lucid Dream Exchange editor, Lucy Gillis, regularly shares gems from her publication with Electric Dreams. This month, Robert G. Waggoner explores the question of control and ethics in lucid dreaming. Can dream control be a bad thing? If you control your dreams are you somehow interfering with the normal functioning of the dreaming mind?
Take a trip on the sea of dreams in "Does the Sailor Control the Sea? Overcoming Resistance to Lucid Dreaming,"
Global Warming, pollution, waste dumps; we are all becoming aware of the impact we have on our external environment, but what kind of dream environmentalist are we? Linda Magallón, dream pioneer and author of Mutual Dreaming, takes a look this month at how your dream garden grows in "A Tale of Dream Trees."
The View from the Bridge returns this month with news from the World Dreams Peace Bridge. Besides catching up on the groups activities, Jean Campbell also includes an excerpt from her new book on the history of group dreaming research. A percentage of each book sale will be donated to the Aid for Traumatized Children Project of the World Dreams Peace Bridge.
Stan Kulikowski II offers two selections from his unique dream journal. The first is in the article section and titled "Time Travel. " The second entry is interesting to me in that the dreamers is exploring the nature of the dream itself, check out Lithonium in the Dream Section. If you have dreams you would like published, please enter them in the form at http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
David Jenkins, PhD., the director of Berkeley based DreamRePlay, pulses online each week useful hints and techniques for dreamworkers. In "Breaking the Rules" David show why the perspective of dreams-as-stories is so effective for transformation.
In a kind of full circle, the host of last years IASD conference, Marcia Emery. Ph.D., contributes an article on the importance of intuitive guidance through dreams and gives a real life example when she was diagnosed with cancer and what happened. Be sure to read "Dreams and Intuition."
Living with a monkey in your mouth? Repeating the same words over and over, praying with John Paul II, and being drawn little by little into black space? No, you aren't bring drawn into a new Da Vinci Code Cult, its the Dream Section with Kat Peters-Midland!
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 Ann Sayre Wiseman
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Story of her India Dream Trip too!
In Memoriam: May Tung used dreams and the Internet to impact the lives of people around the world. We will all miss her.
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/baomei.htm
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:
http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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From Planet Dream,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
June 2006
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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@alquinte.com address.
Online:
- Dreaming with the Ancestors
- Dream Telepathy Contest
- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
- Update from the Precognition Games
- Dream Box
Physical world:
- Dream Meetup Groups
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Berkeley: Marcia Emery's Dream Salon
- San Francisco: Conscious Dreaming group
- USA and UK: Robert Moss
- USA: Jeremy Taylor
Books, movies, research:
- More about the DreamScience Foundation
- Jean Campbell: Group Dreaming
Reminders:
- Dreaming in Bridgewater!
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Dreaming with the Ancestors
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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. This month, in honor of the IASD conference, the Peace Bridge will be Dreaming with the Ancestors, asking the ancient beings of the planet for dream guidance.
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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- Dream Telepathy Contest
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Through the magic of Dream Telepathy Contest hosts, Rita Dwyer and Dr. Robert Van de Castle, those who can not attend the IASD conference will once again be able to participate in this year's Dream Telepathy contest, which will be introduced on Thursday evening, June 22nd, immediately following the Solstice celebration. Telepathy pictures and a photo of this year's sender will be posted to the IASD Online Bulletin Board at www.asdreams.org
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- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
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Invitation. Opens on the Summer Solstice, 2006
The Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery will officially open on the 2006 Summer Solstice and run through the Fall Equinox, 2006. Gallery sponsored by DreamGate and the Electric Dreams community.
When is that for me?
San Francisco (U.S.A. - California) Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 5:26 AM UTC-7 hours PDT UTC Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 12:26
Where is it?
The gallery will occur "only" in virtual dream space. That is, its where-ever your dream seems to show the location. We expect the gallery size, shape and location to evolve over time as dreamers contribute to the project.
Who can participate?
Anyone may participate whose art works were created or found in a dream. Perhaps you will dream that the art work was already accepted into the gallery. Perhaps you will create or find art objects in a dream that you had years ago, but now feel they could entered into the gallery. Some may participate with dreams about the gallery itself, and about aesthetic judgments regarding the art.
What is a dream art object?
The discussion of what constitutes a dream art object will evolve over the course of the show. For now, if the dreamer contributing the art object says it is a dream art object, then it is. Since the gallery is a virtual dream space, (only in our dream life) many of the objects will be entered as descriptions of the object. Objects that include the dream they came in are encouraged.
How do I enter a dream art object to the gallery if its only in our dreams?
You can enter a dream art object by posting a description of the art piece at Electric Dreams. You may also send in renditions or physical art (jpg, gif) representations or inspired pieces. Please include copyright and re-use rules for your narratives or pictures. The areas of discussion may shift and evolve over time. Please use the following form:
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
What if I have dreams about art and the gallery before the opening on the Summer Solstice?
Great, send them along. You might have even had psi dreams about the gallery some time ago. I just don't plan to publish any of them in Electric Dreams until the show starts. We can still post and discuss them here anytime.
What about dreams about the gallery itself?
Great, yes, any dreams about the gallery itself will be included in the final collection.
What about dreams about other people's dream art work or judgments about the aesthetic qualities of the work?
(I have a dream about your art piece in the gallery or somewhere else, and three people make comments....). Great, send those along.
What's the collection and gallery going to be used for?
Part of the purpose is a community project for the promotion of discussion around dreams and aesthetics. Another part is to gather data for some ideas about dreams and aesthetics. Some feel that there can't be any dream art IN the dream itself as its all subjective and so doesn't constitute a social art object. Others feel that there can be art, but it can't be judged, as no one else sees the art. So there is an overall question, can there really be a Dream Aesthetics? For this question, judgments made IN dreams will be of particular interest. In general, this first exhibition will be discussed on this bboard, and the contributions that are released by the contributors will be published in Electric Dreams. Art may go into future EDreams covers.
Will this be a contest?
There will be awards, but these are still undecided. Its not clear if a contest will be involved (best dream art picture, best narrative, best rendition, etc), but this may evolve depending on the dreams people contribute. Its very important for the developers of the project to allow the project to develop "organically" depending on the dreams and dream community involved.
What is an art object?
This is open to discussion, but we can start with a definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_object :
"An art object (or objet d'art, from the French) is any objectsuch as a painting, sculpture, book, etc.that has been made in order to be a thing of beauty in itself or a symbolic statement of meaning, rather than having a practical function."
Public Relations: Feel free to post or publish this information as you like.
Hope you will all participate!
Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@dreamgate.com
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- Update from the Precognition Games
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The Precognition Games have finished. I'd like to offer a few preliminary observations.
I found especially the results for the first task encouraging for the idea that precognitive dreams can in fact be incubated. I wrote about this task last month
Subsequent tasks either became more complicated or less personal. The number of participants decreased, and the number of remarkable results decreased perhaps even more. That makes sense in hindsight, but I originally assumed that some dreamers would do better with impersonal precognitive dreams. I haven't given up on that assumption yet. I know there are those who have big precognitive dreams fairly often, and I hope that they will eventually find their way to the Dream Registry, so we get dreams registered before they come true.
The last task asked to dream about the future of psi dreaming. The task was not specifically designed for precognitive dreaming, but allowed for a lot of speculation as well. A number of dreams made me wonder whether there could be something like common dream themes for advanced dreamers. I got that idea especially after reading an unusual but not completely uncommon dream from Kay, posted to IASD PSI Dreams. Then I looked back at other dreams, which included a more familiar teaching-others-to-fly dream from Laura. There are a few more things to say about the results of this task (and the previous ones), but I'll save that for a longer article.
All submitted dreams remain available at the Dream Registry, and the Dream Registry remains of course open for new dreams. I hope everyone will register all (possibly) precognitive dreams at the Dream Registry. Any other dreams that go beyond the mere personal are very welcome as well.
http://dreamunit.net/registry
Best wishes,
Harry Bosma
hbosma@alquinte.com
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- DreamsBox.com
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You're invited to DreamsBox.com, a dream documentation project.
Check it out at http://www.dreamsbox.com/
With DreamsBox, you can anonymously share dreams/nightmares in addition to creating and sharing your own personal dream diary with friends and family. Along with browsing and reading other people's dreams, DreamsBox offers a unique rating and search system.
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- Dream Meetup Groups
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Meetup.com always has had groups for dreamers who wanted to meet each other face to face. Some of those groups have become quite popular, like the Soul Dreamers Meetup Group in New York, having over 100 members:
http://dreams.meetup.com/10/
Meetup.com statistics show that from the 1060 people interested in joining a dream group, 892 people are waiting for somebody to step forward and organize an actual meeting. A large part of those people are simply to spread out to reach a critical mass, but you may want to take a look at the following overview to see whether you could get a group going in our area:
http://dreams.meetup.com/about/
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- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
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The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767
Also see: http://tinyurl.com/9xv5l
The Dream Institute offers the following during June 2006.
* Culture Dreaming *
Monthly, Saturday afternoons 3-5, $20
June 3, July 7, August 5, Social hour follows
Culture Dreaming is an experimental ritual that gives a living sense of interconnection. Dreams are first told in council fashion; then we explore the composite dream co-created. Like a camera obscura that opens a window to the world, it shows surprising relevance to current societal and global concerns. Come once, occasionally, or regularly.
Conveners:
Richard Russo, M.A. and Meredith Sabini, Ph.D.
* Poetry Salon *
Monthly, Sunday afternoons 3-5, $5-15
This innovative monthly series is a roundtable format where published poets can present their own work and then participants can also read their own or favorites, for a lively sharing.
June 11: Joyce Jenkins, editor and publisher of Poetry Flash; Rhonda Morton, author of Breathing In, Breathing Out
July 16: Open salon; anyone may read
August 20: Alice Jones, editor and publisher of Apogee Press
* Art and Dreams *
Monthly, Saturday mornings, 10am-1pm
June 17, July 15, August 19, $10-30 sliding scale
This workshop provides a space to explore dreams through art-making. Not about skill, performance, or product, it invites adventure, mystery, unfolding. All levels welcome; no experience necessary. Materials are provided. Attend a single day or regularly.
Emily Anderson, former Associate Director, Lucid Art Foundation; Former Co-Director, Oakland Art Gallery. Multimedia artist with Dream Studies Certificate and M.A. in Transformative Arts, JFK University.
Nancy Isaacs has been an active dreamer for forty years; her graduate studies were in anthropology, art history, and psychology.
* Dreams and Spiritual Practise *
Sunday mornings, 11-12:30, $5-20
June 25, July 30, August 13, 27
Dreams have been central to sacred traditions throughout time. Their wisdom and guidance offers unmediated contact with "The Source," by whatever name one knows it. A presentation by the Director or invited guests highlight the wisdom function of dreaming. There will be time for discussion, sharing of dreams, and meditation.
* Dreaming With Eyes Open *
Monthly, Friday evenings: 7:30-9pm, $20
June 9, July 7, August 11
Seating is limited to 25; please call to reserve.
A dream-play . . . Back by popular demand!
A moving rendition of actual dreams based on a Culture Dreaming event. The play addresses universal themes of contacting the ancestors, receiving animal wisdom, doing ritual, and finding one's voice.
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- Berkeley: Marcia Emery's Dream Salon
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You are invited to join Dr. Marcia Emerys monthly salon the last Thursday of each month. Open Mike format so bring your questions about Intuitive Development and/or dream interpretation. In addition to the discussion, everyone will receive a five minute intuitive reading or dream interpretation. Fee for each session is $20. Date: Thursday, May 25 at 1502 Tenth Street, Berkeley 7:15-9:15pm. Space is limited so please RSVP right away to reserve your seat.
Please call 510/526-5510 or email PowerHunch@aol.com
Marcia Emery, Ph.D., has pioneered applied intuition practices for decades and has developed intuition-enhancing techniques based on her many years of experience as a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and media personality. Marcia was one of the three dream experts on the, Dream Decoders miniseries which aired on The Discovery Health Channel last November.
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- San Francisco: Conscious Dreaming group
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My Conscious Dreaming group starts Tuesday, June 6. It's a four week dream group based on the incredibly powerful and creative work of Robert Moss (www.mossdreams.com). I have space for six more dreamers to attend. If you or anyone you know could use some creative flow and exciting adventure in their lives, please pass this info along.
I greatly appreciate your support and send you many blessings.
Sweet dreams,
Elizabeth
phone: 415.447.8552
email: elizabeth_lombardo@yahoo.com
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- USA and UK: Robert Moss
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Check out two new articles, "A Mirror For the Sun Goddess", and "Dream Reentry in the Mabinogion", available at the homepage of the MossDreams.com website.
For your convenience, here are some highlights from the calendar at: http://mossdreams.com/
* Reclaiming the ancient dreamways *
Weekend Workshop at June 17, 18
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
http://mossdreams.com/2006june.htm#asheville%20weekend
* Dreaming the soul back home *
5 day Residential Retreat
June 20-25
Big Sur, California, USA
http://mossdreams.com/2006june.htm#esalen
* Reclaiming the ancient dreamways *
Four-Day Residential Retreat
Thursday-Sunday, July 6-9
Stroud, Gloucesterhire, UK
http://mossdreams.com/2006july.htm#england
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- USA: Jeremy Taylor
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June, 2006 June 2-4 - Danville, CA (San Damiano Retreat Ctr)
Weekend Workshop: "Dream Work as a Spiritual Discipline."
You may stay at the Retreat Center, or commute. Register on line at www.sandamiano.org or phone 925/837.9141. Cost is $195 (with room and board) or $165 without. Schedule is Friday night orientation and introduction to group dream work, Saturday all day experiential workshop, Saturday evening dream work in small groups, and Sunday morning further dream work in the larger group.
June 11-16 - Hendersonville, NC
Haden Institute Summer Dream Conference. Jeremy will be offering dream training, including "More Ways Than Talk - Getting at the Deeper Meanings of Dreams Through Expressive Arts-As-Meditation." This conference is focused on understanding dreams in the light of Christian faith and tradition. You will have the opportunity to learn to understand dreams as a Christian discipline, find guidance for starting a dream group in your church, and to share the community of those exploring the growing Christian dream-work movement. It is open to all. It will be held at the Kanuga Retreat Center. Register by mail (Haden Institute, PO Box 1793, Flat Rock, NC 28731-1793), fax (828-693.1919) or email (office@hadeninstitute.com). For more information you can contact The Rev Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com or 828-693.9292.
June 16-18 - Lexington, KY
Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis' 2006 Annual Conference. Theme is "Diversity in Unity; Unity in Diversity" Keynote by Houston Smith. Jeremy will do a presentation introducing group projective dream work as a psychological practice and a spiritual discipline, and also a post conference workshop on working with your dreams. For more information email to info@aap-psychosynthesis.org or go to their website at http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org .
June 20-25 - Bridgewater, MA
IASD CONFERENCE
Annual International Association for the Study of Dreams conference on the campus of Bridgewater College near Boston, MA. Jeremy will offer a workshop on June 23 and a presentation on June 24. A great opportunity to work with dream workers from around the world. Open to all! Go to www.asdreams.org .
June 30 - July 2 - Santa Cruz, CA
Weekend Workshop at Unity Temple (Friday night orientation and Saturday experiential workshop; Sunday service). All are Welcome! Contact Kathy at Kalm12@aol.com
July 7-9 - Saugerties, NY
Weekend Workshop at Miriams Well Retreat Center. All are welcome - new folks and returnees. Contact Richard at richard@miriamswell.com
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- More about the DreamScience Foundation
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Exciting news for researchers! Already announced last month, here are more details.
A joint IASD/DreamScience Foundation Grant Partnership will provide annual grants for dream research. The Call for research will be available in early July 2006 and the most promising projects will be chosen by August 2006 and asked to submit a more formal proposal.
Research Focus: The focus of the granting activity is dream research, particularly research that uses good research methodology designed to provide measurable and repeatable results. Disciplines of interest include, but are not limited to, the neuroscience of dreaming, psychological studies of dreaming and quantitative dream research in such fields as anthropology and cultural studies.
DREAMSCIENCE FOUNDATION(TM) The DreamScience Foundation is a private funding institution dedicated to stimulating research in dreams and dreaming. Go to www.dreamscience.org for more information on the organization, its founder and dream studies in general. All funds are privately donated from DreamScience to IASD in support of this granting partnership.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.dreamscience.org/iasd/
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- Jean Campbell: Group Dreaming
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The pioneer in group dreaming Jean Campbell finally wrote a book on her experiences with groups of people dreaming together. The book starts with many chapters on the Dreams to the Tenth Power experiments, that took place decades ago. That alone should interest many psi dreamers.
After the first set of chapters, the book adopts a more informal style. Jean Campbell tells about key events in the recent history of the dream movement, among others the formation of the IASD. The book ends with a series of chapters on the World Dreams Peace group. This group started soon after 9/11 and seeks to combine dreaming and group dreaming with peace work. This is still a very active group, holding a monthly DaFuMu. You may have heard of that.
Order before June 18th and get a 30% discount!:
www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/imageproject/groupdreaming.htm
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- Dreaming in Bridgewater
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23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams
June 20 - 24th, 2006
Bridgewater State College,
Bridgewater Massachusetts
Invited speakers include noted Jungian psychologist, Michael Conforti, Ph.D, dreamwork pioneer, Montague Ullman, M.D., and Sci-Fi and fantasy author, Orson Scott Card.
Special note for artists: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes will be awarded by an anonymous donor for the best Dream Art in June, '06. 1st prize: $l000, two 2nd prizes of $500 each. Any medium is acceptable including photography, videos or DVDs, computer art, book art, installation or any combination of the above. The dream or the significant part of the dream must be included. The criteria for selection will be originality, integrity, universality, and relevance to building bridges. The awards will be presented during the Art Reception in June, '06.
Join dreamers, clinicians, researchers, educators and artists from all over the world for four days of workshops, lectures, exhibits, and events examining dreaming and dreamwork as presented through traditional and innovative theories and therapies, personal study, scientific research, cultural tradition and the arts. Over 100 workshops and events on all aspects of dreaming are planned, with topics and events of interest to the general public as well as professionals. Special events include an Opening Reception, a Dream Arts Exhibition and reception, a solstice visit to a Native American archaeoastronomical site, a Dream Telepathy Contest, various other social events and the ever popular closing costume "Dream Ball".
More information at the website of the IASD:
http://asdreams.org
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Ann Sayre Wisemans India Dream Trip
Life Changing Strategies Through Art,
Dreams and Creative Problem solving.
Cover: "The Dream 06" by Ann Sayre Wiseman
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11/8&9th /06
After the Conference on Naive Outsider Art in Chandagarh, and a visit to the famous Camel Fair in Jaipur, I Returned to Delhi to co-lead a 2 day workshop with our good friend Anjali Hhazarika who has often been to the IASD conferences abroad.
While Anjali was working for Oil India in Pune she introduced Dream Work to the business managers and wrote a book about it called Daring To Dream Cultivating Corporate Creativity. We had become good friends at several IASD Conferences and she was able to set up a joint workshop in Delhi where she is now Director of National Petroleum Management Training Programs. In India. Anjali reserved a hall at the Delhi Habitat Convention Center for our 2-day workshop en-titled Life Changing Strategies Through Art, Dreams and Creative Problem solving.
Corporate men and women came from companies like Oil India, National Thermal Power Corporation, Times Internet, Life Positive Magazine. We introduced them to the concept of Dreams As Metaphor; we took turns teaching the shorthand of dreams, strategies of failure and success, and my Paper Stage method of Creative Problem Solving and how this method can be useful in business management and Goal setting. This was a new way of thinking for these Indian men and women. We felt it a grand success, at least wed put them in touch with a new tool for problem solving.
Next I flew to Pune. I was met at the Pune airport by a couple that belongs to Francis Menendez dream group, an India spin-off of the Assoc. For the Study of Dreams. I was
the guest of Arvin Gupta a scientist at the University Of Pune Campus who is translating my book Making Things 125 Creative Discoveries into Hindi. (He intends to put it in all the schools of India. (He has a wonderful Educational
Website: be sure to see his books: www.arvindguptatoys.com)
Dr. Francis Minendez, lives in Pune, now retired, is another old IASD friend who has attended many of our Conferences abroad. Francis invited me to speak to his big India Dream Group. I gave my slide-talk on Art, Dreams and Creative Problem Solving. There was much interest and one woman asked to work a dream with me there and then and the group agreed. It was a dream that had been recurring and haunting her for years about giving birth to a baby girl that was perfect in every way but left her feeling dissatisfied and incomplete to such an extent that she was afraid to have a baby. . No matter how many times she inspected it she knew it was unsatisfactory. She was so distressed she was afraid when she married she would disappoint her husband or not be able to have a perfect baby. She had decided she was A LOST CAUSE It took a while for her to find the metaphor. Apparently she had not connected the fact that being a girl she was an unsatisfactory baby herself. Franciss group asked me to run a workshop the following day and Arvind Gupta offered space in his Science Lab at the University. About 40 people came. It was such an enthusiastic crowd I wish I could have stayed longer.
(Ann Sayre Wiseman will be giving her slide talk and workshop on Art, Dreams and Creative Problem Solving at the Bridgewater IASD Conference June 21st.
Her books are Dreams As Metaphor The Power Of The Image.
And Nightmare Help a guide for Adults from Children.)
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Electric Dreams interview with
Robert J. Hoss, MS, author of
Dream Language:
Self-Understanding Through Imagery and Color
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Robert Hoss, M.S., is author of Dream Language, Executive Officer and Past President International Association for the Study of Dreams, and faculty member of the Haden Institute for Dream Leadership Training and adjunct faculty of Scottsdale College. A scientist, and former researcher in the field of light energy, he was a pioneer with multiple patents and was Corporate Vice President at both American Express and IBM. He now devotes his science and management skills to dream studies, for which he has been a frequent guest on radio and TV, and an internationally acclaimed lecturer and instructor for 30 years. He has established the DreamScience Foundation for providing seed grants for dream research. His unique, simple but powerful Image Activation dreamwork approach is based on his training in Gestalt therapy and background in Jungian studies, the neurobiology of dreaming, plus his pioneering research on the significance of color in dreams.
EDreams: How did the book get the title Dream Language instead of something related to dream color?
RJH: Color is only a part of the dream language, a language of association and metaphor which expresses our inner story as we deal with unresolved emotional issues of the day. The unique state of the dreaming brain creates a language that is in many ways more complete and representative than our waking language. As the full title indicates, imagery and color are both components of dream language.
EDreams: So what exactly is dream language and how is it different than everyday language?
RJH: To use the metaphor of the Right (imagistic) Brain vs Left (discursive) Brain, waking language has a focus on the left-brain naming and words, while dreaming language has the emphasis on association, imagery, emotion and holistic processing, more right-brain like processing . In waking life we speak with words that identify things with names (example: I am going skiing!). If we listen to what is going on inside our minds, behind that statement, we realize that we are recalling past visual memories of skiing, feeling the excitement, and visualizing our anticipation. This inner part of our speech is like dream language all the associations, memories, emotions and visualizations but without the words.
EDreams: How does this language come about in a dream?
RJH: This language comes from the unique state of the dreaming brain. Much of the rational cerebral cortex, the speech centers and episodic memory is inactive while much of the midbrain and associative cortex is active, particularly the limbic system. The limbic system is involved in emotional processing, and many researchers now believe that processing of unresolved emotions of the day is a function of the dream state. Dream imagery and associations may be stimulated by the limbic system and particularly the amygdala and hippocampus which are active in dreaming and link sensory data and imagery with emotion and memories respectively. With the cerebellum and sensory associative cortexes active these associations can take on a wealth of dream sensations beyond imagery and color, including motion, sound and sometimes tactile.
EDreams: If dreams are processing emotion, then do powerful images in a dream indicate that the dreamer is processing strong feelings from waking life?
RJH: Right. According to a number of researchers dreams are stimulated by emotion, and deal with emotional processing of events of the day. Ernest Hartmann, indicates that the central image of the dream reflects the emotions of the dreamer and the intensity of that image reflects the intensity of the emotions.
EDreams: Why doesn't the dreaming brain simply represent the emotion in the same context it is found in waking life? Why doesn't the divorced woman just dream about her husband?
RJH: One theory is that flow between connections responsible for episodic memory (daily events) is reversed during dreaming, such that only the emotional memories associated with the event are accessible during the dream. Thus as we process these emotions, the associated imagery and dream sensations form a dream story that represents our feelings about the event but dont necessarily represent the event itself.
EDreams: How does this help us understand the language of dreams?
RJH: If we see a door in a dream and wonder why they dreamed of a door, that is our Left-Brain thinking. But our Right-Brain sees the image from the point of view of an associated function or emotion. One dreamer might see their door as an opening to a new place and another might see their door as a means for keeping things out. These associations are driven by the emotional state of each dreamer. The one who associates it with an new passage may be at a point of new discovery in their lives; and the other who sees it as a way to keep things out, may be in need of safety or isolation in their life. Each dream image has a deeply personal association which is why dream dictionaries (which attribute the authors associations to the dream image) dont work and are largely invalid.
EDreams: How can we understand a dream image?
RJH: Dream images are personal associations and can be decoded in a number of ways. First we can look at the metaphors in the narrative we use to describe the dream ask do any of the phrases you have used sound like they also describe something in our waking lives.
EH Dreams: How is your dreamwork approach different than others ?
RJH: There are many useful and effective dreamworking techniques, all providing different results and views on the dream and the dreamer. My approach is designed to answer two questions: 1) What does that THING in the dream mean to me?, 2) how can I use it to change my life? The procedure I use is based on a short scripted Gestalt based process by which the dreamer becomes an important dream image and speaks as that image answering 6 questions that target specific emotional states (conflicts, fears and desires). This virtually always results in statements that are obvious metaphors for emotional events in the dreamers life. Within a minute or two the dreamer can understand what does that thing in the dream mean to me. Next I look for the Jungian patterns to determine if there are clues that the dream might contain a compensating message for misconceptions that have left the dreamer stuck. If these are not obvious then I ask the dreamer to spontaneously imagine a new dream ending, in an attempt to create a new metaphor that may relate to a possible solution for their waking life situation. We check it out to make sure it is practical and healthy and then determine next steps to implement the solution.
EDreams: This seems like a very simple view, could it be so straight-forward?
RJH: Since the book was based on a course I have taught over many years, I do try to make understanding the very complex processes that go into dreaming clear and easy to grasp in Dream Language. Dream Language begins with a grounding in the latest research and psychological theories related to dreams, and converts these basic facts about dreams and dreaming to a simple set of tools that the reader can apply to their own dreamwork. Most things in nature are simple when we understand their true nature, and so it is with dreams. If we simply become the dream image and let it speak, it explains itself.
EDreams: How does your research in color in dreams fit into Dream Language?
RJH: I engaged in a decade long investigation into the significance of color in dreams. What I found is that colors in dreams are symbols just as any other dream image, and that color expresses emotion just as other dream imagery contains personal emotional memories. What was exciting for me to discover is that it is that dream color associations are similar to the waking human emotional and physiological response to color. The human system responds to particular colors with particular feelings, attitudes and instinctual associations. In waking life, red stimulates us, for example, while blue calms and soothes. This is a nervous system and brain response that happens at an unconscious, autonomic level, not a cultural learned response. These emotional responses are represented by the color in our dreams. Although learned associations with color can and do enter our dreams, for the most part color associations are deeper and related to feeling not cognitive process.
EDreams: How then does dream color effect the meaning of a dream image?
RJH: Just as images combine in dreams to form bizarre but emotionally meaningful combinations, color combines with imagery to add an additional emotional component.
EDreams: What colors do we typically dream of?
RJH: I performed a content analysis on about 24,000 dreams from two databases and determined that the most often reported colors in dreams are black and white in near equal proportion. The second most often reported colors are a nearly equal grouping of red, yellow, blue and green what have been called the psychological primaries. Since the eye-brain system processes color based on presence and absence of these 6 colors, it is uncertain whether there is a physical reason for this or whether it has some psychological significance, or both. Carl Jung discussed the psychological significance of the pairing of black and white as related to the integration of the conscious and unconscious. He also attributed the presence of the psychological primaries in a dream as related to a creation of a state of completion.
EDreams: Can we then interpret color in our dreams independently of culture and personal psychology?
RJH: I generally like to begin with the deeper subliminal emotional response to color since feeling has more presence in dreams than cognitive associations. Each dreamer is going to have learned and cultural responses as well or may have a cultural attitude that modulates the meaning for that dreamer. Red might excite the emotions in all humans, but this excitement may be seen as unwanted in one culture and desired in other.
EDReams: Can you give an example of how color might change or modify the meaning of a dream?
RJH: A woman might be wearing a red hat in a dream, and she might associate the color red with her desire to live life to its fullest. Here the red adds a feeling of vibrancy to the imagery of a woman in a hat that would not have otherwise been there. If the hat were gray, it might indicate she is shielding or avoidance of any emotional stimulation for example.
EDreams: You gathered together in Dream Language the responses and associations various researchers have discovered with color - but you didn't stop with just noting color associations, you went on in your research. Do dream colors tell us more than about the meaning of the dream?
RJH: I believe they do, and the preliminary research we did with a number of subjects and roughly 8,000 dream samples, indicates that we can recognize emotional events in a persons life from the color in their dreams recorded over a period of time. Looking at a lifetime of color dream records we can find correlation between the frequency of the dream colors they have reported and personality characteristics.
EDreams: How do you balance these two notions, that there are common autonomic responses to color and yet personally individual reactions to color?
RJH: Luscher made a distinction between the objective response to color (our autonomic biological response) and the functional response (our attitudes and personal emotional associations). I use this difference in the Color Questionnaire that I structured for research and dreamwork. Whereas the Color Questionnaire is a table of statements or emotional themes known to relate to our autonomic response to color, it is used in a way that is intended to trigger our personal associations.
EDreams: So you let people know the difference between dream dictionaries and good dreamwork?
RJH: Right, the color charts are not the meaning of color. They are not to be used like a dream dictionary. They were designed to trigger personal emotional associations around a base of known autonomic associations. Solid dreamwork involves understanding your personal emotional associations with the dream in context with your waking life, and allowing the dream to reveal underlying conflicts and beliefs in a safe manner. I include various approaches and suggested procedures for both individual and group dreamwork in Dream Language.
EDreams: Would you like to say anything in conclusion about dream studies and dreamwork?
RJH: I think it is very exciting to realize that understanding dreams can be quite simple and need not be the bizarre unrelated stories we may have struggled with. It is also exciting to know they have meaning for us that can help us progress and transform if we know how to speak the language. I am glad to have been able to contribute to this research and show how dream colors as well as dream imagery combine to reveal and transform our lives. We don't want us to miss the message just because we don't know the language.
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You can visit Robert's website at www.dreamscience.org or see him at the next annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, June 20-24th, 2006 in Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater MA. www.asdreams.org/2006
Robert Hoss, M.S.,
bob@dreamscience.org
www.dreamscience.org
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
"Does the Sailor Control the Sea?"
Overcoming Resistance to Lucid Dreaming
By Robert G. Waggoner
(c) 2005 - All Rights Reserved
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Can dream control be a bad thing? If you control your dreams are you somehow
interfering with the normal functioning of the dreaming mind?
The idea of lucid dreaming can bring up many misconceptions of what it
actually means to "control" your dream, particularly if you haven't
experienced a lucid dream before. Robert Waggoner hit upon an excellent
analogy when confronted with questions about lucidity and dream control.
"Does the Sailor Control the Sea?" Overcoming Resistance to Lucid Dreaming
By Robert G. Waggoner
(c) 2005 - All Rights Reserved
At a recent dream conference, psycho-therapists kept stopping me and saying,
"Oh, you're the person that I want to talk to about lucid dreams!" It seems
that another psychologist had mentioned hearing me speak on lucid dreaming
in Copenhagen - a talk where I interweaved my lucid dream experiences with
comments by Jung and Freud to suggest that lucid dreaming may be a means to
explore and acquaint ourselves with the Self, or director of the dreaming.
After my talk, the psychologist re-considered her negative predisposition to
lucid dreaming and instead, realized the potential value in lucid dreaming
as a means of psychological exploration and integration.
So now, I began to meet the assorted - and yet-to-be convinced - colleagues.
Most began by telling me that their academic training had taught them to
consider "dreaming" as a message from the deepest part of our selves. To
control the dream, as they assured me that lucid dreamers do, destroys or
pollutes the pure message from this deep part of our selves. Though they
didn't say it, the suggestion remained that only a narcissistic fool would
do such a thing.
After a few hallway encounters, I hit upon an analogy that seemed to bring
some lucidity into the conversation. I said, "No sailor controls the sea.
Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing." Then I continued,
"Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream. Like a sailor on the sea,
we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of
dreaming."
Wow, the power of an analogy!
Suddenly, I saw in their eyes the realization that my lucid dreaming
experiences were simply attempts to understand the depths of dreaming, and
by extension, my Self. Suddenly, we were on the same "team" - dreamers
trying to understand the beauty and magnificence of dreaming. Suddenly,
lucid dreaming had potential for increased awareness, instead of
narcissistic flight!
Thankfully too, I had a recent lucid dream (see "Re-connecting with a
Discarded Aspect of Myself" in the June 2005 LDE) to share with them. In
it, I become lucidly aware and ask a young black woman, shadowing behind me,
"Who are you?" She responds, "I am a discarded aspect of your self." And
then, I felt the truth of that statement and the energy of this woman come
into me. As Jung might suggest, this lucid dream shows conscious
integration with parts of our self - forgotten, ignored, abused,
misunderstood, but now consciously integrated into our awareness.
So if you happen to meet someone who has a negative opinion of lucid
dreamers because they "control" the dream, ask them, "Does the Sailor
control the Sea?" - and have a more enlightened conversation about lucid
dreams. The following prose piece, I wrote for a talk that I gave in
Alexandria, VA.
"Does the Sailor Control the Sea?"
No sailor "controls" the sea. Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing.
Similarly, no lucid dreamer "controls" the dream. Like a sailor on the sea,
we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of
dreaming. In so doing, we come to know the limited realm of our awareness
compared to the magnificent depth and creativity of the dreaming. As a
portion of our conscious awareness rides upon the surface realm of the
subconscious, we sense the support and the magnificent majesty of the
unconscious below.
Like a sailor moving towards an island or point on the sea's horizon, we
lucid dreamers "direct the focus of our intent" within dreaming to seen and
unseen points.
Like a sailor adjusting his sails, the rudder, and balance in response to
the vessel's relation to the sea, so do we lucid dreamers make adjustments
within our awareness to the dreaming and our functioning in the dreaming.
We learn that the sea feels alive and aware.
As lucid dreamers, we respond to the dreaming, learn of the dreaming, and
appreciate the beauty and immensity of the dreaming. The dreaming exists
far beyond the limited scope of the lucid dreamer, but in that moment of the
dream, the lucid dreamer experiences some portions of the dreaming directly
and develops a more aware relationship with it.
The sea has many moods, many secrets, and many purposes. We can stand back
and fear it. We can tell frightful stories of great sea monsters and the
dangers that lie beyond. Or we can venture forth, our courage mingled with
our curiosity, and discover what can be discovered.
Only by sailing on the sea will we ever know it, as it is - apart from our
ideas, theories and pre-conceptions. Only by sailing on the sea, exposing
ourselves to it, questioning it, responding to it, will we ever approach
what it is and in so doing, perhaps a glimmer of our true natures; what we
are.
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A Tale of Dream Trees
© 2006 Linda Lane Magallón
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Once upon a time there were three neighbors. Each had a dream tree in the backyard.
The first neighbor had rich soil. His tree produced a bounty of fruit.
The second neighbor had poorer soil. Her tree produced branches and leaves.
The third neighbor had very poor soil. Her tree grew short and gnarled.
One day the third neighbor chanced to drop some fertilizer at the base of her tree. The rains came and went. The tree grew leaves, blossomed and bore sweet fruit. Next year, the neighbor fertilized her tree on purpose. She also turned up some of the soil, cleared a space for the tree to grow and watered the tree. Lo, the tree bore leaves, flowers and even larger sweet fruit. So the third neighbor went to tell her neighbors of her good fortune.
The first neighbor could not understand why the third neighbor had to do so much hard work. He pointed to his tree in the backyard. "See?" he said. "I do not labor, yet my tree bears fruit." He did not realize how fortunate he was. His house had been built in a naturally fertile part of the valley.
The second neighbor could not understand why the third neighbor would want to do so much hard work. She pointed to her leafy tree in the backyard. "My tree is just fine as it is," she said. She could not comprehend the joy of eating sweet, juicy fruit. She had never had a taste.
The third neighbor went home to contemplate. She wondered what might happen if her neighbors bothered to clear the ground and feed their own dream trees on a regular basis. What if, like her, each became a dream environmentalist?
Now, dreams reflect our feelings and emotions. They display our mental and physical attributes and attitudes. The sorts of dreams we produce are clues to our overall health. Towards the base of the dream tree, dreams highlight trauma, conflict and other evidence of stress or psychopathology. Further up the trunk are the so-called "normal" dreams. Growing in the treetops are some rare fruits: the delightful, wonder-filled dreams.
Basic level dreams are the raw material of psychotherapy. A serious approach to dreamwork can help diagnose the problem and fix the flaw. And there are practical ideas for waking life that can be plucked from the lower branches of the dream tree. But if you are going to bother to do gardening work at all, why not enjoy all the fruits of your labors? Why not climb to the top and reap the sweet rewards of a growth level dream?
Growth level dreams are creative, humorous and playful. They are flights of fantasy, imaginative creations, and story-like epics. They are archetypal, spiritual, visionary. They are also sociable and psychic, in a positive way. Most of all, they are enjoyable and fun. A growth level dream is the product of a healthy and nurtured psyche.
In the field of dreams, growth level fruits and flowers can sometimes find it hard to coexist along with the ragged leaves, twigs and broken branches. A stunted dream tree is fed with thin soil and beset by storms. But there is nothing to stop you from becoming a dream environmentalist.
As a dream environmentalist, you combine old ideas and new explorations to bring forth a robust crop of dreams. You root out the weeds, clean up the toxins, feed the soil and plant new flowers in the garden. Should you bother to nurture your entire dream plot, it can gift you with growth level dreams as a reward for your extra attention. But you can't wait until harvest time at break of day. You must start prior to sleep.
Healthy dreams are not healing dreams. They are the product of the latest medical wisdom: a fit and dynamic life means you do your best to avoid dis-ease in the first place. Your nightly repertoire benefits from a large dose of preventative medicine. Once a week or so, you take a bit of time to process the day residue scattered all over your backyard and turn it into a compost heap. You prepare the ground with supplemental images and ideas just before sleep. And then you drift into slumber with the expectation that all your good work will grow sweet, juicy fruit.
What dream content describes the optimal or detrimental conditions of your psyche, the needy or growth level dreams? That, you can only determine by watching your dream tree through all its seasons of dreaming. Set up your dream journal as a farmer's almanac. By tracking themes through a series of dreams, you will find what indicates problems and what highlights your potentials. Whatever criteria you use, the process is the same: discover what hinders, what helps and act to encourage or discourage. Before you go to sleep.
As a gardener of dreams, you can cultivate a rich crop to fruit and flower throughout your entire tree. When you bring intention to the realm of dreams, your dream environment opens up to the extraordinary. Energy, action and emotion stir up your hidden possibilities and allow them to burst into blossom.
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http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
DREAMING WITH THE ANCESTORS
June 2006
Jean Campbell
DaFuMu Dreaming in June
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Apologies to all readers of the View for several months of silence. Dreaming on the Peace Bridge has gone on, but the author of the View from the Bridge has been writing a book (See below.)
During the month of June, however, the Peace Bridge invites your participation in a very special event. On Thursday, June 15, members of the Peace Bridge will be "Dreaming With the Ancestors" on the day of our regular DaFuMu Dreaming for World Peace. Dreamers worldwide are invited to join us as we ask the ancestors for assistance in solving, at an individual and global level, the need for peace and a sustainable future for the planet.
This theme was suggested by Mary (Whitefeather) Joyce, who will facilitate a special summer Solstice ceremony on Thursday, June 22 at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Mary, who is a member of the Peace Bridge online discussion group, as well as IASD, invites all dreamers, whether or not they can attend the conference, to join in the celebration online at http://www.asdreams.org/ at the IASD Online Bulletin Board. During this time, there will be dreaming for IASD as well as for the planet, and people are invited to record their dreams and comments on the Bulletin Board.
The Native American theme for this entire event derives from the fact that the Solstice Celebration will be held on Indian Hill on the Bridgewater State campus, where Conference attendees will be invited to watch the sun set through an ancient Algonquin sighting stone, discovered by Conference host Curtiss Hoffman last summer during his regular archaeology field school. For more on this interesting story go to http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
Mary Whitefeather will lead a drumming meditation at the Solstice Celebration with her pau wau drum. All Conference attendees are invited to bring hand drums, and those at home can join in the meditation by either drumming alone or with their drumming circles, or simply by meditation on planetary peace between 7 and 8 p.m. EST. Twelve Native American drumming groups will join the event at various locations on the North American continent.
Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power
The following is a brief excerpt from Jean Campbell's new book on the history of group dreaming research. An entire section of the book is dedicated to the accomplishments of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, and a percentage of each book sale will be donated to the Aid for Traumatized Children Project of the World Dreams Peace Bridge. For more on the book, including a special prepublication discount offer, good until June 18, 2006, go to http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/.
Chapter 11
In the Wake of 9/11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I awoke from a strange dream:
I am standing in the doorway to an air traffic control tower. This is a major airport, maybe Kennedy in New York, and there are a number of employees monitoring air traffic. One African-American man stands up from his chair with a microphone in his hand. He is obviously shouting and agitated.
This was at 5:30 a.m., my usual wake-up time. I rolled over in bed, took a look at the clock, and thought, "Strange dream. I never dream about airplanes." Thinking no more about it, I went on with my morning routine. I walked in the park near the river down the street from my house, had some breakfast, then sat down at the computer to check the messages on the IASD Bulletin Board, as I did every day.
This morning, I had barely sat down when I received an email from a friend. "Turn on the television," was all it said. Given such a cryptic message, who could resist? I quickly stepped over and turned on the television, to see a twenty-one inch image of what looked like the World Trade Center towers in New York City. An announcer was saying, "There has been an explosion at the World Trade Center. An aircraft, maybe a private airplane, seems to have flown into the...."
As he spoke, the commentator's voice trailed off. We all watched in horror as a second plane, obviously a commercial jet, flew into the other World Trade Center tower, shearing off parts of the building, creating a fiery explosion. The stunned commentator was saying, "Its another airplane. A second airplane has flown into the Tower."
As the story of the day's tragedy began to unfold, I heard in my head, as clearly as if someone had said it out loud, "This day will change the world." My next thought was about the Boarders on the IASD Bulletin Board. What would they think? What would they be hearing? And then, oh my word! I wondered how many hundreds of people around the world had dreamed precognitively about this event, and how they must be feeling, seeing it unfold before their eyes. I knew I needed to back online to tell people they could discuss their premonitions on the Bulletin Board.
Precognitive dreams are not synonymous with group dreaming. However, we have seen from several cases how precognitive dreamers will tune in on mass events such as the O.J. Simpson trial. In these cases, the group focus seems to produce the immediate appearance, in the dreams of multiple dreamers, the upcoming, emotionally charged event. Watching the events of the Twin Towers on September 11, I had a feeling for what might follow.
If you would like to download and read the rest of this chapter, and the following chapter about the creation of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, go to http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
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Dream: Time Travel
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 13 may 2006 11:13
DREAM : time travel
=( yesterday was a friday, not a very eventful day. i did not get to bed until 02:00. mother wanted to watch two late night movies which is unusual for us. i was running some old black and white films from the 1930s which she enjoyed. i was rather tired when i finally got the bed and went right off to sleep. )=
i have come to the meeting which is gathering outside the campus buildings. about twenty five people have collected here to watch me take their intervention team back to the past to fix some problem they have. time travel like this is done only for small but important issues and this one does not need very deep insertion into the past.
the leader of this group takes me onto a small wooden stage that has been built under some trees beside a classroom building. it is late afternoon in the autumn and the sunshine coming low through the trees has
that golden color of indian summer.
i am introduced to the three other people who are going with me. i am a stranger to everyone here but my work with similar operations is well known. first i shake hands with the man who is a little shorter than myself, then the two women. one of them is a black woman and the other is a very short woman with straight blonde hair. she looks almost too young to go with us.
the short woman looks very skeptical about me. i understand that it is difficult for some people to believe that time travel can be done without any technology at all, but she will just have to get over that if we are to succeed today. she takes a piece of jewelry off her blouse and hands it to me. it is a broach with a ruby about the size of a small strawberry. i turn it over in my hand to examine the back of its heavy gold setting.
when nothing else happens, she looks at the other man with even more doubt in her eyes. "are we certain that he is a time sensitive?"
she asks. i do not reply but i stick the gold pin through my shirt so the broach is mounted on my chest.
i take the hands of the smaller woman and the man while he holds the hand of the black woman on the end. "let us begin." i say loudly to get the people gathered here to settle down.
we are left alone on the small stage. i close my eyes and begin to
concentrate on the past just a few years back. i try to remember all the events that happened and where i want us to go among them. i begin to feel the time line begin to loosen, but there is too much interference from both of the women in our group. i try to overcome their resistance to the process but eventually i have to stop. with a small jerk to my consciousness, i plop down into the present without further ceremony.
when i let go of their hands, the others here on the stage with me are somewhat surprised by how tired they suddenly feel. the twenty other people who had been watching us are still sitting in various folding chairs scattered around in the grass. we did not manage to go this time, but as soon as we regain our energies, we will try again.
during the early evening we try four or five more times, but each time there is still too little cohesion in our group to focus our efforts successfully on the temporal matrix. i have been through this before with inexperienced group members. it will just take some practice until i can get the right combination to happen. most of the audience that have come here to watch us has given up on the process and have left. it is better not to have the disruption to inexperienced time travelers which an audience may bring with their expectations.
it is getting late when i finally feel the right elements click into order. i am holding the hands of the man and the black woman this time. the younger blonde has finally held onto the other man's hand with the right determination. both women on each end of the hand chain are acting as reflective buffers which allows the energy cycles to build properly. i can feel the spacetime matrix around us begin to stretch and deform. i point us into the direction of the past.
with my eyes squeezed closed, i hear the man moan beside me whose hand i hold tightly. both woman are frightened and let out with involuntary cries but they manage to keep their connection to me. i am the generator which takes hold of the inside of the funnel cloud of swirling vapors around us. i can feel the ruby jewel pinned to my chest glow bright like a piece of the sun.
after a while of this, i finally let go first with my mind then with my hands. all of us suddenly thump down a little hard on the ground which has somehow slightly slipped from under our feet. both women on the ends fall down, their legs completely weakened at the knees.
the young man lurches away to puke up some of his nausea into the grass. the stage under us is gone. the group of folding chairs and the few viewers that remained are also vanished. it is now late afternoon in a springtime a dozen years earlier. the nearby buildings and large elms are still in their place, but there are a few more of the smaller trees here and there.
these other three have now made their first time jump. it will be easier from here on since their doubts will be gone and they will become a functional team which can contribute more easily to the process. after they have regained their composure, we had better get to fixing whatever they came back here to do so we can return to our future.
=( awake at 10:45. i do not have many associations with this content. i did not recognize any of the people in this dream. the school campus had somewhat the feeling of antioch college in yellow springs ohio. i did not really recognize any of the buildings, but i am not that familiar with that college having been there only a few times. i do not know what to make of such a dream. it seems rather pointless without any plot conflicts to reveal any character decision issues. i suppose this may just show a certain mild dissatisfaction with the present and a wish to be able to undo some of the past, but i never understood what this time travel was to change. the lack of a proper time machine seems odd to me. i wonder if there is any history of dreaming that includes notions of time travel. would this be something newer to our culture, say from the 19th century when multidimensional mathematics were worked out and the first time travel novels and stories appeared? could romans or the middle ages also easily conceptualize the desire for temporal alterations of past history? )=
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DreamRePlay
with David Jenkins, PhD
Breaking the Rules
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The Dream and the Story
Why Understanding Story is a Great Way to Work with Dreams
The dream is one of the very few forms of story that is allowed to break the basic rules of story telling. When you think of the dream as a badly told story and improve that story, your dream life changes. This knowledge is key to working with dreams.
About Story
There are rules about how you tell stories. Nobody needs to actually spell them out; by the time you are reading books or watching TV, you have an instinctive sense of when a story is badly told or is missing some key elements.
To understand the importance of story telling to dream analysis, we need to take a crash course in narrative studies.
Here are the core rules and key elements of a story:
a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end
the story has a subject
the story comes to a climax and then passes to a resolution
When you watch a movie, you intuitively expect these things to happen. You know that characters get introduced at the beginning, things happen to them in the middle and everything is explained and sorted out in the end. Every episode of the Sopranos follows those rules. Every item on the national news follows these rules too.
There is a subject the story. Someone or something is the center of attention. It is usually the hero, as in Terminator 2, but it might be the villain, as in Terminator 1.
You know that at some point in a thriller, it will look as though the bad guys are going to win and the good guys are down and out. Thats the climax.
Thats pretty much everything. From Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, to your local newspapers description of a town hall meeting, to your neighbors description of her day at the beach, these are the basic elements.
Dreams and Story
When you tell a dream, you are telling a story. My dream about going to my sisters wedding is just as much a story as My visit to the East Coast to attend my sisters wedding.
Remember that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end. It has drama, climax, and tension. But the dream usually ignores these rules.
No ending: Someone had stolen my keys. I shouted Stop Thief but no one heard me.
No tension: My mother and I are on a shopping trip. Nothing is happening.
No resolution: The maniac was in the house, he came at me with an ax. I knew I couldnt get away and I woke up screaming.
Script Doctors
There are people in Hollywood known as script doctors. They specialize in adding pizzazz to lackluster stories.
Robert Towne (Chinatown, The Two Jakes, and The Last Detail) is famous for fixing scripts. Francis Ford Coppola called him in to work on the Godfather when the studio was considering canning it. Towne took the garden scene between Vito (Marlon Brando) and Michael (Al Pacino) where Brando tells Pacino that, after Brando dies, the other mobs will try to assassinate him. Towne weaved into this Brando telling Pacino how much he loved him: "I never meant this life for you." It transformed a necessary scene into a great scene, and at the Oscars, Coppola thanked Towne.
Fixing Your Dream Story
Your dream is the initial script. It is almost always raw and rarely complete. You are the script doctor. You may not be thanked at the Oscars but, your dream work will have a profound effect on later dreams.
The Method
Use your story telling abilities to improve the story, especially see if you can continue the story and bring it to completion.
I dream that someone has stolen my keys. I shouted Stop Thief but no one heard me.
Theres tension here but no resolution. What would you do next? How would you deal with the loss of the keys? Would you report this to the police? Should you change the locks on your doors?
I dream there is a maniac in the house. He is coming at me with an ax.
Thats a nightmare that needs resolution. How would you be the hero of the story? Perhaps you would call in a friend and together the two of you would outwit the maniac. Remember, you are the hero/heroine of your dreams.
I dream that my mother and I are on a shopping trip. Nothing is happening.
We might uncover plenty of tension if we asked, What do you really want to say to your mother in this dream situation? Where would you rather be?
By reworking the dream into a better story, you have a profound effect on the next dream. Thieves will stop preying on you, maniacs will calm down, your mother and you will deal with your problems. Its a big claim but try it and see for yourself. Its also a lot of fun.
Summary
A dream is like a badly told story. Forget psychology, just make a better story and your dreams will change accordingly. Thats a big claim, it defies 100 years of psychoanalysis, so let me repeat it:
You will have more fun, be more resourceful and create better outcomes when you fix the story in your dreams.
Learning to Think Like a Script Doctor
If you would like to know more about dreams and story, read Chapter 2 of my book, Dream RePlay (autographed copies available from me for $20, or you can buy via Amazon.com).
DREAM ANALYSIS BY TELEPHONE
David is available for dream consultations by phone. The current cost is $50 per hour. A typical dream analysis might last 30-45 minutes with a follow up conversation after the next dream.
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DREAMS and INTUITION
Marcia Emery, Ph.D.
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Dreams can be a very important source of intuitive guidance. They often provide a preview of upcoming events and advise you as to what step to take next. Often I dont hear my intuitive voice during the day, but rather in the still of the night, when I am receptive. Then my intuitive voice may speak through a dream to provide direction, guidance or a warning. A dream can put me in direct touch with my subconscious, the source of intuitive wisdom and home of my inner physician. The relationship of dreams and the intuitive mind has always fascinated me. Ill never forget a story I heard at a dream conference in Virginia Beach. A woman with stomach cancer had exhausted all the traditional remedies. One night during a dream, she was visited by a long-deceased uncle who came to give her a healing remedy for her cancer. He simply said, Eat a can of hearts of palm for the next thirty days. The woman was amused and bewildered, as she had never even heard of hearts of palm. However, she followed her dead uncles advice and astounded everyone thirty days later, when her cancerous condition slipped into remission.
Heres an example of how my inner physician alerted me to a potential crisis through my dreams. I dreamed that a doctor gave me a diagnosis of cancer. In my dream I was astounded by the cancer pronouncement, and I called the doctor a fake and quack for trying to make me believe I had this dreadful disease. Months after the dream, I made an appointment with a skin doctor to have him a red bump on my nose examined. As I lay on the table, I felt a surge of pain in my nose from a deep incision. I looked up to see the doctor sewing my nose with a needle and thread. I was appalled! After all, I had just come for an opinion about the bump. The doctor explained that he needed to cut a piece out of my nose for a biopsy to ascertain if I had skin cancer. He was already convinced I had it, and urged me to prepare myself for a series of cancer treatments.
My head was spinning. Then I recalled my dream and realized his pronouncement mirrored the dream scenario, suggesting to me that this doctor's claim was erroneous. As it turned out, the bump was benign, yet the doctor insisted I have the series of cancer treatments anyway. My intuitive mind told me the doctor was wrong. Guided by my inner physician, I refused the treatments despite the doctor's recommendations. Weeks later, I received a second opinion from another doctor who gave me a clean bill of health. This dream alert from my intuitive mind foreshadowed the first doctors fraudulent diagnosis, and prepared me to choose wisely in the face of misguided medical authority. And it brought home an important lesson: no matter what any outer doctor says, get a second opinion from your inner physician.
Heres another example about intuition and healing dreams from Nancy, a woman in mid-life, who recently had her uterus and ovaries removed after doctors spotted a cancerous growth in that area. Still alert to any vestiges of cancer returning, the doctors kept Nancy under strict observation. This vigil was enough to agitate anyone, but Nancy managed to calm herself after her inner physician came to her in a dream in which she received a gift certificate for a tank of gas. In her dream, she drove over a hill, and at the bottom on the other side, noticed her gas tank was empty. She filled up the tank in the nick of time. The meaning was obvious and reassuring to her. She literally felt like she was over the hill with her health crisis and was once again going through life with a full tank.
Do you want to read more about intuitive dream interpretation? You can go to any of my books: Dr. Marcia Emerys Intuition Workbook, The Intuitive Healer, and PowerHunch! Or, you can come to my workshop on Intuition and Dreams at
the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, June 20-24,2006 at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. For more information log on to www.ASDreams.org/2006.
Marcia Emery, Ph.D., has pioneered applied intuition practices for decades and has developed intuition-enhancing techniques based on her many years of experience as a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and media personality. Marcia was one of the three dream experts on the, Dream Decoders miniseries which aired on The Discovery Health Channel last November. Her website is www.drmarciaemery.com
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From the Dream Section editor Kat Peters-Midland :
This is the latest offering of dreams that have the dreamer living with a monkey in their mouth, repeating the same words over and over, praying with John Paul II, and being drawn little by little into black space.
Dream title: The Three Ladies of the Cosmos
Dream date: October 20th, 2000
Dreamer name: JMJ
Dream: For some strange reason, I had the ability to sleep soundly, yet I also had the uncanny ability to consciously observe myself from outside this dream state as if I was commanding my own body to sleep. I recall feeling like I was in another dimension of thought and time, and my ability to perceive reality and the universe became as easy as opening a door and entering another room. As I experienced this altered state, an experience that would forever change my perception of the universe began to take shape around me.
As my perceptions soon began to establish order from the supernatural shock that my mind and senses were experiencing, the room in which I was sleeping slowly began to shape change and the walls become actual three-dimensional doors. As I recall, the geometric structure of the room became the center of a four sided cosmic tunnel system that spiraled upward and connected into a bright light. At this point, and strangely as it seems, my mind was rather calm and somehow aware of the meaning behind this like Ive done this before. This comfortable feeling was in direct conflict with my awareness of the event and my subtle fear of what was taking place. I felt as if I was in a state of absolute numbness where everything felt normal but at the same time it was completely foreign to the reality I know of here on earth. My built in perceptions of reality became completely blind sided by the surprising beauty and perplexing grandness of what I was experiencing. The room became a hub for central cosmic activities that filled my soul and senses with an overwhelming feeling of exhilaration. As my body remained somewhere between consciousness and sleep, the tunnels of light and energy began to create a sensation within me that resembled that of a crowd of people, but with a much more subtle effect. I recall this power drawing me inward to the tunnel and light. As I hesitantly entered the tunnel like doorway that led up to the large ball of white and colorful light, I felt a warping sensation that transported me to the front of a cage like doorway. I was transported so quickly it took my mind and senses time to adjust to this mysterious world I was observing.
As I stood in an exasperated bewilderment, the cage that led through a tunnel was slowly vanishing a reappearing in a liquid like state of shape change. I felt like I was in a vacuum of glass and water as the objects appeared as if they were a mirage in front of me. As my senses and mind became increasingly heightened and curious, I courageously attempted to reach out and touch the cage but was in a state of numbness and could barely move. It was at this moment that I saw partial liquid like glass forms coming towards me from the back of the tunnel inside the cage. Since the forms were in a liquid like state of shape change, I had absolutely no clue what they were. The adrenaline throughout my body rapidly made my heart beat faster and louder as I was unable to move much in my state of equilibrium. As the forms moved closer I was able to remotely make out that they were the figures of three women. As they got near the front of the cage like tunnel, their bodies became vividly clear to me as they slipped through this liquid wall of glass. At this point, a myriad of spheres, squares, and cones slowly appeared from below and above the cage and the three women stood on these pointed cones as their bodies infused the shapes within their scientific like structures. As I stood there in awe of this remarkable scene, I watched as their bodies, each one more unique and fascinating than the other one was taking on a metamorphosis that appeared to work like an atomic structure or engine. Each shape, coil, and fragment that made up the legs, arms, and bodies of these women was growing and moving as if they were made up of just energy and matter. Even though I was still in a vortex in between consciousness and sleep, my mind quickly tried to decipher all the intricate patterns and objects and I saw that the lady on the left was nothing more that small particles of energy that moved around and turned like the energy of a galaxy. As I slowly turned my head to view all the ladies, it immediately caught my eye that the woman in the middle had the uncanny resemblance of a DNA molecule as the surrounding geometric spheres moved in and out of this spiraling coil. Finally, as I ended my quick analysis of the figures trying to make sense of the whole manifestation before my eyes, I saw that the woman on the far right had a slight association with humans as skin was beginning to form on her outer shell. My resulting sensation was a quick association with human life yet they seemed so alien to our world on earth. The strange thing about this vivid scene that came to me one night after struggling on an abstract and surreal piece is that the middle woman had her right hand up in the air in a similar manner as to images Ive seen of Jesus. Her pointing finger was up and slightly bent in the exact manner as an image I have seen of Jesus. I still question whether this connection with these three women had some sort of divine and cosmic link to another dimension of spirituality.
Dream comments: After carefully cleaning up my studio one night after beginning a new drawing, my mind was in a constant state of perpetual flow. During the session in my studio I felt as if I was connecting with a divine energy and this union felt strong. There was a subtle yet strong vibration of energy I was feeling within my entire being. This vibe was like being in a clairvoyant state where the entire world opens up to my senses and an immense amount of knowledge and intuition is presented before you. Although this connection made my initial ideas flow naturally and intuitively, I was still struggling to manifest the surreal vision I had imagined a few days earlier of three figures in a complex state of creation. This complicated task of recalling this vision within my mind started to make me extremely tired and weary and I decided to call it a night. As I eventually made it to the bedroom, I recall immediately falling asleep, which is very rare for me. This sleep state was unlike anything Ive experienced before because the state I was in was somewhere in between consciousness and sleep.
This entire experience was one of huge significance to my self and to my art. This direct contact with another dimension was one that I believe was in many ways real and not just a dream resulting from an association with my imagination. There are many reasons I feel this way and after careful contemplation as to what happened and why, I have come to the conclusion that the experience was so rare to me and the fact I could see myself sleeping as this experience took shape around me. The resulting verdict can be nothing less than an out of body experience that somehow spoke to me on many sensory levels. After this event took place, many changes occurred within my subconscious and consciousness that has inspired and guided my art approach even further. This event also inspired me to immediately finish the abstract work I struggled with that very night in my studio and the resulting drawing is illustrated within this article. The name of the piece, The Transcendental Junction of a Cosmic Grotto, is my precise visual interpretation of that very manifestation that took place in my bedroom after I went into a state of conscious sleep. This dream drawing reveals, in my opinion, the connection between the universe and life on earth with scientific symbolisms and a spiritual feeling as well.
Dream title: none given
Dream date: 05-13-06
Dreamer name: dreamer
Dream: I walked into an unfamiliar bedroom, looking for privacy to cover a part of my body. This room had three beds in it and with windows all way across the room. The curtains were open. A man walked up to the window from the outside looked in and noticed that I was trying to cover myself. He reached his hand inside the window from the outside and closed the curtains to give me some privacy. Eventually he came in and said this is our guestroom. It appears that he was referring to him and his wife. The man didnt appear to be flirting nor was I attracted to him.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: She comes and takes what she wants
Dream date: 8th May 2006 3:30a.m
Dreamer name: Arcadia
Dream: I am living in a house with a male that appears to be my husband, and a pubescent young girl who seems to be my daughter. We are being terrorized by a young(ish) woman who stands out in the gloom and continually seems to desire to gain access to the house. She doesnt actually try to force her way inside but rather just stands and watches the house but I know she wants to come in. My husband (?) attempts to drive her away to no avail. He uses clubs & sometimes a gun. I have nothing to fight with but, when I can, try to bite her.
This scenario is repeated many times. Finally we seem to have won and she seems to be gone. We go around the house turning off the lights preparing for bed. I go into a room and find my husband watching the street through the curtains. I look and see she is back. I am afraid. No, he says, she is no longer to be feared, she is harmless. With that he goes and opens the front door and lets her in. As she comes in the door she is accompanied by lilting, lovely music which seems to float out of her. My husband takes her and our daughter (?) into another room. I am still terribly anxious and to try to take my mind off things go to the kitchen and start to mix a cake.
After a while he returns and tries to sooth me. Suddenly the music stops. I awake with cold shivers because something tells me the young woman and my daughter have gone - she has got what she came for all along.
Dream comments: I have had a passionate interest in dreams for over 35 years but just of late have started to really interpret them through Jungian analysis. I still have a long way to go to fully understand the technique
Dream title: Repeating like a glitch on Xbox
Dream date: 5/4/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: I was looking at the floor and kept on repeating the same words over and over until I was stuck in a glitch doing the same thing as it just repeated itself faster and faster.
Dream comments: I feel as if I had gotten brain damage or some crap like that.
Dream title: Monkey in my mouth
Dream date: 9/19,/2005
Dreamer name: kaew
Dream: I have a dream that a spider monkey lives in my mouth. When I try to get him out he holds on to the sides with his hands and feet so that when I try to pry him out he wont move.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: child drowning
Dream date: 4/15/05 and 05/02/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: One year ago I dreamt that my 2 year old son had drowned. Two days ago my 5 year old daughter had the same dream.
Dream comments: She never heard me sharing that dream.
Dream title: Fiancé that died 10 years ago
Dream date: 02/05/2006
Dreamer name: Lisa
Dream: For the first time in ten years after my fiancé died I was dreaming of him the whole night even after waking up and going back to sleep. I saw him first lying on a bed frozen in ice. Later I saw him awake and talking. Next we were walking together with my son (now 6) walking around in the distance. I felt my fiancé clearly; I touched him, kissed him and heard his voice very clearly. His face was as clear as daylight. I remember making comments to people in my dream that enough "ground" between us for a long time. He wanted to avoid going to places because people would not believe he is alive. He thought he was murdered but I told him that he died due to a vein that burst in the brain. Then we were in a pub looking for people. I touched him from behind and told him they were not there. When we got outside they were all outside. A car pulled up with a woman lying inside who had drowned. Her body was not covered up but I did not see the face. I remember someone saying she was an elderly woman. We then left and drove up the road with a motorcycle. He got upset because the handles were not working.
Dream comments: After all the sections in the dreams and waking up a few time I continued to dream of him. I am in a state as I dont know if he is trying to tell me something. I have always felt him close to me at different times, but this was just to close for comfort! The touch and the sound of the voice and the clarity of the face were just so strange. There was no smell just the clear feeling of touch.
Dream title: Paradise Lost & Found
Dream date: 3/13/06
Dreamer name: showmetheway
Dream: A person I had not seen in a long time came to visit me unexpectedly. He looked like himself and told me that he had a gift for my mother (because she doesn't like him anymore). I didn't want to open that chapter again, but he insisted. He said he was going to give her a dictionary. I thought was funny because I carry a dictionary with me and always in the car. When he came back to where I was, he was wearing a white robe and sunglasses and he was grinning. I looked down and I was wearing a white robe, too (looked like the big fluffy bath robes you wear at a hotel or beach). I knew the book that he gave me to give to my mother wasn't a dictionary, but Milton's Paradise Lost & Found (although I have not read this).
Dream comments: I have known this man for a few years. We have had a relationship that is now strained to non-existent. I live at home with my mother who is extremely outspoken. As I was waking up I wanted to see his smile one more time. A few days later I was making the bed and straightening the headboard bookcase. There was a book with a menorah setting on top. Then I noticed it was Norton's Anthology and I opened the book to find Milton's work. My friend is Jewish. I am not.
I was surprised and somehow comforted. Now, I don't know what to make of it.
Dream title: War
Dream date: October or September
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: I dreamed that I was a general in the war; I was wearing all black with a black hat. I'm a girl by the way and all the men were 15-18 and were asking me what to do. I looked out to see our enemy in all red. The battle was in our neighborhood. Suddenly I saw many battles with people who were demonically controlled and killing each other. I walked through a door to see a boy near his dead mother and ordered my men to take the boy away from the scene. Suddenly I appeared in front of a man wearing all red and he stabbed me and I fell to the ground. I saw a pair of black boots like one of my comrades had worn and someone healed my wound. It was a man and he hugged me tight. And told me he loved me.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Praying
Dream date: 15.04.06
Dreamer name: SC
Dream: I was in this strange house with this man that didnt speak English. I understood what he was saying to me. I received a letter in this guys language as he was reading the letter. He said to me "I wish I was you, you will become a very powerful person and that you will rule the world". I started to laugh at what he was saying and left the house. As I was walking, this strange not very good-looking man picked me up with one hand and put me into his black shining horse. He was so gentle... He dropped me gently in front of Pope John Paul II. I was shocked and we said nothing to each other. We just got down on our knees and begun to pray in front of the people. When I looked at the crowd, all I could see was my dad looking at me. I realized that I was in Madeira that is where I was born.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Black space
Dream date: few months ago
Dreamer name: PL
Dream: In my dream I only saw dark space, like in outer space. I saw the stars, and blue objects appeared. I was being drawn little by little into space; I felt very light felt a cold chill. The more I was lifted up into space, the more joy and happiness I felt. I continue going up and I was experiencing joy and happiness like I had never known. The joy and happiness became so great I could not handle it any longer and called out my son's name and I woke.
Dream comments: My son, Joe, passed May 24, 2002
Dream title: Linked Dreams?
Dream date: January 2006
Dreamer name: Tom B. Raider
Dream: Earlier this year I had a very detailed dream, and later discussed it with my girlfriend, who had a dream that night very similar to mine, even in the same setting, but from a different perspective. In my dream, I was outside of a large building that resembled a hospital, during a blizzard. There were lots of generic faceless people in the dream, and they were divided into two groups. One group, my group, was trying violently to get in to the hospital-type building. The other was defending it. My side had a more military feel to it, more professional and disciplined, while the other was the opposite - with more primitive weapons and less orderly. The other group was successfully fending us off, until I arrived (in the dream I had an important ranking I think) and personally piloted a very large tank-like machine toward the building. As usual, I woke up at that point - the dramatic turning point. In my girlfriend's dream, she was instead defending the building. She says she went out the doors with a group, and attacked a tank, but apparently could not stop it. She says she then blacked out and woke up (still in the dream) in a rather plain room in a hospital gown. She then also woke up before the dream ended.
Dream comments: none
DATE : 27 may 2006 07:14
DREAM : lithonium
=( yesterday was a friday. i finally got my motorcycle back from the repair shop and rode it around town. i have been missing it for the last couple weeks so it felt good to be out on it again. mother's television in the evening was rather poor since the ratings sweeps are over and there was just reruns all evening. i made a really good fettuccini with a new tomato pesto sauce i found in the store. i did not get to sleep until rather late, around 03:00, as i was rather wound up all evening. )=
the conference is winding down. most of the presentations are finished and the scientists who attended are mainly now just gathering with a few libations to discuss what they have seen and heard over the last few days. i seem to know a quite a few of these distinguished people but none of them very well. i try to mingle and contribute to the clever conversations, but i keep moving rather than settle into a lengthy interaction with anyone in particular.
the series of rooms where this gathering is happening seem to a slightly disorganized laboratory or workshop of some museum.
curiosities of all sorts lay scattered about on tables or workbenches. i find some of the things very interesting in themselves, so i spend some time looking over the oddities, many of them are covered in dust from years of disuse. some of the things are manufactured devices of unknown purpose while others have an organic appearance like something that was grown somewhere.
on a table in the corner of one of the rooms there is a small rubble pile of something that looks like irregular chunks of yellow glass.
most are a few decimeters wide, large enough to pick up individually.
they are neither warm nor cool to the touch and do not weigh very much for their size. i suspect that they would float in water, not having much density. i tap a few of them with my finger nail. most of them just produce a heavy dull thunk like they were made of a plastic substance, but i find one that makes a bright tink like it was made of a metal. this puzzles me since it looks exactly like the other angular hunks of glass or crystal on the table.
i take the metal sounding one over to a nearby workbench where i find a short steel rod to tap on the glassy chunk. by striking a few times very quickly the metallic clinking resonates into a constant tone, rather like a tuning fork produces. this hum continues for a few seconds after i stop tapping it.
i strike it a few more times, harder and faster, to produce the resonating tone. if i keep it up long enough the tone does not change or get any louder, but a slight blue glow appears in the center of the yellow glassy core and the chunk begins to change its shape. at first it was a rough squared shape with angular corners and flat faces resembling a piece of quartz, but as i keep the tone going it slowly begins to change into a more rounded blob rather like a melting gelatine. i am not reshaping the substance with the minor force of my blows upon it. rather it looks like it must have some internal motive forces so it squirms rather like a giant amoeba.
when i stop the tapping with the rod, it eventually goes back to its angular form, but not exactly the same as the original, just similar in sharp angles and odd flat faces.
i start going around with the amorphous hunk of crystal and my steel rod to show various groups how this substance will make a resonate sound and alter its form. i ask everyone if they can identify this material, but no one seems to know any more about it than me. i notice that over time, with repeated demonstrations, the shapes that the material takes when stressed by the steel rod become increasingly symmetric and anthropoid rather like a doll. apparently it can sense something about my appearance and is taking on shapes more similar to the source of these beatings i have been giving it. i begin to suspect that this substance is somehow alive and the resonating tones it makes are cries of some distress. how can a chunk of glassy stuff be alive? surely it does not eat nor respire but it can move if stimulated.
the more i handle the substance, the more curious i become about it.
i done the demonstration half a dozen times when i come back to the original table with the other hunks. i thunk on several of them with the steel rod but they just remain dull slightly sticky lumps. only the one i hold is reactive. although they look almost the same, they seem to be a completely different composition.
there is a small man with a tweed jacket nearby. when i show him the glassy lump i am holding he nods. "yes, that is called lithonium.
it means 'happy stone'." he tells me. "it was discovered around 1845. there are only a few pieces of it in the world."
"really? this was just found somewhere like a mineral? i thought that it might have been manufactured like a glass."
"those other chunks on the table were attempts to duplicate its composition. you see they look similar but do not react the same.
they were found to be useful in the manufacture of cellophane tape, but no one could discover how to make a real lithonium."
i had thought i might take this chunk home with me to study it further and assess its properties in a more systematic manner, but if it is truly rare i suppose it must have some value that would prevent me from just taking it. i feel a little guilty about tapping it so often with the steel rod, as if the substance were uncomfortable.
the last time i got the tone going, it morphed into a uneven cylindrical doll shape with an angry tilt to its two eye blobs. i think i should treat it more gently.
=( awake at 07:05. the word 'lithonium' is a neologism, unknown to me, but i doubt that it means 'happy stone'. in the dream this seemed like a reasonable etymology but awake it is clearly not proper latin. i did not recognize anyone here from waking life. the substance itself would be very interesting to me if i found something like this. my approach of testing its various properties is rather like i would normally do. the notion that this crystalline material was living in some way that was not biologic grew throughout the dream. )=
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