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Volume #12   Issue #12 
  
December 2005 

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C O N T E N T S  

++ Editor's Notes  
      Richard Wilkerson 

++ Global Dreaming News  
      Harry Bosma 
    
++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange 
                     Lucy Gillis - Editor 
                    Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe. 
                     Ed Kellogg, PhD 
                       

++ Article: Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams 
                   Linda Lane Magallón 
           
++ Column: The View From the Bridge 
                    What Dreams May Come 
                      December 2005 
                      Olivia Strand 

++ Dream: Subcategorization 
                  Stan Kulikowski II  

++ Article: Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams? 
                   Peter Farley  

                    
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from Fall 2005 
                                       With Kat Peters-Midland  
  
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Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: 
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple 

Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to  
Harry Bosma <ed-news@alquinte.com> 

Send Articles, news and other items to: 
Richard Wilkerson: <rcwilk@dreamgate.com> 

 
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 Editor's Notes 

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Welcome to the December 2005 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 hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.  
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.  
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm 

This has been quite a year for the Dream Movement. The Dream Institute of Northern California and the International Association for the Study of Dreams are now "living" in the same location in Berkeley, California. Many dreamwork projects have matured into full blown educational programs, certifications and international peace projects.  The online IASD PsiberDreaming conference continued its new tradition of exploring the edges of dreaming.  I'm looking forward to seeing these and the many other projects in dreamwork unfold in the next year and hope to hear from the readers of Electric Dreams about your new projects, books and events.  

This month in Electric Dreams: 

Lucy Gillis has an excellent selection from her Lucid Dream Exchange. This month you can try out the spells from Harry Potter in your dreams. You magical guide will be the experta-cala-fragil-istic lucid dreamer, Ed Kellogg, PhD. Pick up your wands and read 
"Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe." 

When discussing psi events in a dream, we usually just hear about one kind of psi power in operation. For example, the dream is either prophetic of some upcoming event, or we seen in the dream something that exists in the waking world some distance from us, or we get thoughts from someone else's mind and they enter our dreams. But Linda Magallón, author of Mutual Dreaming, would like to challenge this view and will suggest that there may be several types of psi operating in the same dream. Read her example of this in "Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams."  

"Subcategorization" by Stan Kulikowski II is a dream, recording in a unique style. 
You may wonder why I pull out Stan's dreams and put then in the articles section. I'm not really sure. At first I just wanted dreamworkers to see there were various alternative ways to recording dreams, and Stan has a unique style that seemed heuristic. But then the dreams kind of took on a life of their own and they became a regular feature in Electric Dreams. 

 If you have unique ways of recording dreams, be sure to submit those to Electric Dreams.  

Ever feel that Peace on Earth is just phrase on a Holiday card? Well then, maybe you need to join the World Dreams Peace Bridge! This month you will get the View from Olivia Strand, and hear how world class dreamers are changing the world. . 

Peter Farley has spent his life exploring life's mysteries and returning useful information and techniques.  In a selection on dreams below, Peter discusses a range of topics in dreamwork, and introduces readers to his philosophy on dreaming from a shamanic point of view. Get the full scoop and links in "Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?"  
          
Zombies in a mausoleum, black snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts...what else could it be but the Dream Section of Electric Dreams Magazine from Kat Peters-Midland! 

 
Thanks to Lucy Gillis for permission to use her photo in the current EDreams Cover! 
http://tinyurl.com/7jm8d 

 
Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues are online in an easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm 

Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which you can read about in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news, conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at ed-news@alquinte.com 

Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.  
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple 
or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com 
(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com) 

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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 

December  2005 

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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his special  
ed-news@alquinte.com address. 

Online: 
- Le Rêve planétaire 2005 
- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism 
- Beyond Your Dreams radio show 

Physical world: 
- California: Beyond Traditional Religion 
- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference 

Books, movies, research: 
- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead 
- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams 
- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams 

Recurring events: 
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace 
- Auction at Dreambay.org 

 

* * * ONLINE * * * 

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- Le Rêve planétaire 2005 
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The yearly Planetary Dream at the winter solstice is coming up. The solstice is in the night of the 21st to the 22nd of December 2005. Like previous years there will be a theme, which everyone is invited to dream on. The theme of last year was climate warming. At the moment of publishing, the theme for this year had yet to be determined.  

An information page in English should be available soon. You can send your dreams to Roger Ripert.  

Email: oniros@oniros.fr (Roger Ripert) 
French info page: www.oniros.fr/RP05.html 
News: www.oniros.fr/nouvelles.html  

 
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- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism 
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ARAS is proud to announce the perfect companion tool for exploring symbolic imagery in dreams. The ARAS Online website contains the entire Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) repository of 17,000 images and 20,000 pages of accompanying psychological and cultural commentary. Begun in the 1930's as a way of giving specific content to Jung's notion of the collective unconscious, access to ARAS was granted to only a handful of scholars until the creation of this brand new website. 

The new ARAS Online website facilitates the process of dream interpretation and amplification by making available a beautifully displayed archive of symbolic material from every culture since the beginning of time. ARAS joins the computer's unique ability to search archetypal themes to the psyche's natural process of expressing its deeper concerns through dream imagery. Far more than a symbol dictionary, this site encourages the exploration of symbolic material through a journey of active searching and unexpected meandering that allows the multivalent meaning of dreams to emerge. 

The site's home page can be found at http://www.aras.org . 
  

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- Beyond Your Dreams radio show 
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I'd like to invite you to listen to my new weekly internet radio show entitled "Beyond Your Dreams: Exploring Myth, Meaning & Metaphor", on www.healthylife.net . The show airs on Thursdays at 2:00 pm Pacific, but obviously is heard in all time zones around the world if you have Windows Media Player or something equivalent. Past shows can be accessed on the Archives pages. Also you can listen to past shows by going to my website www.mindbodypotential.com and then going to the Beyond Your Dreams area of the site. 

I am always looking for guests to have on my show, anyone who is doing interesting work in the field of dreams. Authors, analysts, & researchers --you are all welcome to contact me! 

I appreciate your comments and feedback -- all in the spirit of gaining greater knowledge and insight into the subconscious ... and beyond. 

Sweet dreams, 
Denise Rodgers, M.Div., C.Ht. 

 

* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * * 
  
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- California: Beyond Traditional Religion 
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Spirituality, Depth Psychology, and Nonduality 

This unique five-month intensive will illustrate an approach to spirituality using a synthesis of Jungian depth psychology with the tradition of nonduality. The program will have both an academic and experiential component. We will discuss the philosophy of nonduality and also focus on work with dreams at their archetypal and personal level. This work will deepen our understanding of those complexes and shadow material that form the structures of the self, which contributes to our illusory sense of separateness. Insight into this process paves the way for nondual awareness to spontaneously arise. This program will be of interest to people whose personal sense of the sacred is not satisfied by traditional religions and will be limited to 30 participants. 

The five-month intensive will be held at Pacifica Graduate Institute at Ladera Lane. Located on 35 acres in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains overlooking the Pacifica Ocean, this residential retreat center provides a unique and peaceful environment for this event. The center has lodging and dining facilities as well as a swimming pool and hiking trails. 

January - June 2005 
http://www.pacifica.edu/corbett05.html  
  

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- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference 
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Co-organised by the Danish Association for the Study of Dreams and the Swedish Dröm Grupps Forum as a regional meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. 

March 24-26th, 2006 
Copenhagen, Denmark 

More information at http://www.ffsd.dk/ndk_2006.php  

 

* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * * 
  
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- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead 
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A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying and the Other Side 

In The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains that we have entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams, when they come visiting and we may travel into their realms. As we become active dreamers, we can heal our relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides for others, helping the dying to approach the last stage of life with courage and grace, opening gates for their journeys beyond death, and even escorting them to the Other Side. 

http://mossdreams.com 

 
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- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams 
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In order to further our understanding of the extent to which lucid dreams differ from non-lucid dreams in other ways than (obviously) whether or not the dreamer knows it is a dream at the time, we have designed a new questionnaire study, a revision of an earlier pilot study. In short, we are asking you to fill out a web questionnaire and report form four times; Two of these reports should be lucid dreams, and two should be non-lucid dreams. 

The Lucidity Institute 
http://lucidity.com/dreams4.html 
  

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- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams 
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You are invited to participate in research by Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D., psychology faculty at Grant MacEwan College examining video game play attitudes and experiences as well as experiences of various states of consciousness including dreams. 

There are three questionnaires and two small video games which you will be asked to complete. You will be asked about your video game playing history and preferences or the lack there of as well as your experiences with various types of dreams and other experiences of consciousness. You will also be asked to indicate your age, sex, education and work history. No other personal information will be requested. You will also be asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding your preferences for specific components of video games as well as another questionnaire regarding your feelings while playing video games. Finally you will be asked to play two very brief video games, pacman and missile command, which are in java script. Therefore your browser should be java enhanced in order to do that part of the research. 

More information and the consent form: 

http://tinyurl.com/7p6vx 

 

* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * * 
  
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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace 
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a 
monthly DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune: 
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace. 
  
In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace 
within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal 
level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and 
supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please 
join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to 
dream towards the mandala of peace. 
  
If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used 
within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of 
peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream 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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- Auction at dreambay.org 
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The IASD online auction has its own website - Dreambay.org! Every month it 
has new items to bid on, and opportunities to donate your books, services 
etc to support the IASD! 
  
http://Dreambay.org 
  
If you have any questions or would like to donate an item to the auction, 
you may contact Kat Peters-Midland at IASDauction@comcast.net . 

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange 

By Lucy Gillis 

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While the magic of Harry Potter is back on the movie screens and fresh in our minds, why not try some Hogwarts magic in your lucid dreams? Ed Kellogg presents some fun tasks to try in your next lucid dream. 

 
LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge 
September, 2005 

by Ed Kellogg 
[(c)2005 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.] 

(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for LDE readers with each new issue. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility for any risks should they choose to undertake these tasks, which may possibly bring about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you who attempt these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.) 

"Harry Potter and the Lucid Dream Exchange Challenge" 

Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe. 

This issue's task honors the book series of J. K. Rowling, because it promotes a positive point of view about "magic" and about "psi," and has had an incredible world wide impact among the people who really matter - the children and young adults who will make up future generations. 

J. K. Rowling's series of books (and the derivative movies) promote the following "heretical ideas" in children at the most impressionable ages, setting up a magical view of the world at deep levels: 

1. Muggles (read "skeptics" and "debunkers") do not believe in magic either because they can not do it, or because they hate and fear it. 
2. Wizards and witches (read "psychics" and "lucid dreamers" <g>) can do magic, but try not to do it or talk about it in front of muggles, to spare their feelings and to avoid societal upset. 
3. Even muggle parents can have wizards and witches as children, although of course, as muggles, they will not understand magic, and will explain away any evidence of magic when it occurs, out of ignorance and prejudice. 
4. In general, wizards and witches feel sorry for muggles, and find their disbelief in magic amusing. They do not take the viewpoints of muggles seriously. 
5. Muggles and wizards do not live in some other world, or in some fairytale, they live in today's contemporary society. 

I find it hard to imagine a better set of underlying defensive beliefs for a developing child with psychic abilities. Granted, this set of beliefs may not last, but they can give many children an extra year or two of magical childhood before societal pressures mold them into at least a semblance of muggles. But underneath it all, even in the most repressed, in the depths of the unconscious, "Harry Potter" will live on. And that, to paraphrase Robert Frost, may make all the difference. 

The Challenge 

When you next gain full lucidity in a dream, try doing one of the following HP ("Harry Potter") spells: 

1. Wingardium Leviosah! (pronounced: win-GAR-dee-um lev-ee-OH-sah) In the books this spell levitates the object you point at while saying it. 

2. Lumos! (pronounced: LOO-mos) This spell causes a light to appear. 

3. Scourgify! (pronounced: SKUR-ji-fy) This cleaning spell makes messes disappear. And finally - 

4. Expecto Patronum! (pronounced: ex-PEK-toh pah-TRO-num) This advanced spell causes a guardian animal spirit to appear. 

Clearly intone each syllable of the spell you've chosen, using the pronunciation provided above. (I suggest that you practice chanting the spell during the day before going to sleep.) Stay centered in the dream and focus your intent on tapping into and channeling your creative power.  
Repeat as necessary, deepening your intent and trying variations in your wand gestures as necessary. 

Now if by some mischance you find yourself in a lucid dream without a wand handy, in my experience you can use your hand instead with good results.  
For this task, to minimize uncontrolled variables, I suggest that you use the hand gesture known as "sword fingers" in qigong. I spontaneously found myself using this gesture for focusing intent or for directing energy in many lucid dreams. Once I discovered the qigong connection, I often used this gesture intentionally. It has proven reliable for directing lucid dream healing and psychokinetic effects. (With regard to HP spells, for example I've tried "Wingardium Leviosah" for levitation in lucid dreams, using this hand gesture in place of wand waving, and it worked quite well.) 

To make the sword fingers gesture, point with your dominant hand by extending the index and middle fingers. Curl the ring and pinky fingers against the palm, and place the thumb on top of them. Aside from pointing, you can use your hand to simulate wand movements (""Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very important too -" -- Professor Flitwick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) To get the feel of using this hand gesture, listen to classical music and do some imaginary conducting. <g> 

After your dream, record your experiences, and describe in detail what you did (especially if it differs from what I've described above), and the context - the environment and situation - in which you tried a spell out.  
If the spell results in phenomena of some sort, describe what happened in your dream journal in as much detail as possible - color, shape, movement, texture, etc. Use illustrations if appropriate. Also, if you aimed the spell at a particular target (for example, a feather for levitation, or an infected cut for healing), describe the target's condition before, and after the spell. If you get a chance to try a spell more than once, note down both similarities and differences. And of course, should you succeed at trying out any HP spells (regardless of whether or not the spells "work!"), I'd very much appreciate it if you would send your dream(s) to me (alef1@msn.com), or better yet, to the Lucid Dream Exchange! 

(Interested in trying out more spells from the Hogwarts Universe? Visit The Harry Potter Lexicon online and go to their "The Encyclopedia of Spells"  
section at: 
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells.html ) 

 
Why should "Harry Potter" spells work in lucid dreams? 

I believe that "magical words" derive their power from at least two different sources. 

First, the personal level, where magical words have effects through their subjective associations for the user. Effective Associations: 1. On the Thinking/Focus Level - clear meaning, with no contradictory or mundane associations (why many magical spells use words from dead or foreign languages.) 2. On the Emotional/Intent Level - positive affect associations, for example words intrinsically embedded in an emotionally positive context, for example mantras/godnames, found in religious texts, or taught in spiritual or magical traditions respected by the user. And alternatively, for those who love the books, spells taken from Tolkiens's Lord of the Rings or from the J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books might work as well or better than those taken from religious tracts or grimoires, as these words have a powerful emotional appeal. Finally, "secret", or little known, "magical words" can have an added power for the individual who uses them. 

Second, the impersonal, archetypal, level. Some words may have an intrinsic power, that does not come from the user as such, but that the user only taps into. Magical words or phrases that resonate/effect the release of archetypal energies, or of energies stored in the collective unconscious.  Two possible examples. First, mantras/godnames known and chanted with purposeful intent by generations of monks, nuns, yogis, and other mystics.  Second, the Harry Potter spells - known and uncritically believed in by millions of children. 

This quarter's LDE challenge seems a kind of dream experiment, to look at the effects of Harry Potter spells when tried by different lucid dreamers from different backgrounds. Will the spells used in dreams generate effects with the kind of commonalties one might expect in a consensual reality, or will spells generate strictly subjective and different effects dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the individual who uses them? Does it matter if the person has read the Harry Potter books or if they haven't? Help us find out! 

An example: 
	 
Early in July of 2005, I unintentionally stepped on a cat and it bit me.  Despite the usual treatment, after a day the bite began to look infected, so when I came across the "Scourgify!" spell (used for cleaning up messes) when rereading The Order of the Phoenix (in preparation for the next book in the series coming out a week later), I decided to incubate a lucid dream that night, to see what effect the spell might have when directed at the wound. The relevant excerpt of my lucid dream account follows: 

EWK 7/14/05 "In a corridor, I become fully lucid and remember my task. I take off my left sock, and point my right hand, using my index and middle fingers, at the bite and emphatically say "SCOURGIFY!" A yellow-mustard colored mist comes out of my extended fingers, spraying the bite and surrounding area with a clear yellowish liquid. It thoroughly covers my ankle and foot, but does not stop spraying. . . . Finally, I say "CANCEL!" out loud while looking at my fingers and the spraying stops. I see a drop or two of yellow liquid on my fingertips. (the dream continues) . . ." 

Next morning the wound looked much better - two thirds of the redness surrounding the bite area had disappeared. "Scourgify" not only had an effect in my dream, but perhaps in waking physical reality as well. 

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Several Sorts of Psi in 
Fearless Feline Dreams 
(c) 2005 Linda Lane Magallon 

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A psychic dream presented for the public is often a clear example of a single kind of psi. Because of this practice, we might assume that clairvoyance, telepathy, empathy, precognition and mutual dreams are distinct and separate sorts of phenomena. Especially when we dream with other people, however, our dreams can provide information using more than one type of psi. It's also common to conclude that each example of these discrete types of dreampsi will refer to only one event. Nevertheless, it's not unusual for one dream to connect with several incidents, both waking and sleeping. Here's an example. 

On a night in late December, Keelin had a couple of dreams. One of them featured square-shaped earrings, a pin and a playful kitten.	 
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On the bedside table I find some earrings along with matching rectangular pins. As I examine them, sitting on the floor next to the bed, I spot a straight pin sticking in the carpet (not there in waking reality) which I place on the table. I select a pretty pair of earrings and hold them in my hand to look at them more closely. They are made from a dark bluish gem or stone with a goldish trim. This shape is small and square. Now, I'm sitting/kneeling beside the bed watching as (my partner) Rich nuzzles with a little kitten on my side of the bed. He is completely fearless of being scratched by playful claws - a very sweet and loving exchange. 
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Next evening, Rich's mother gave Keelin a gift of blue earrings that were strikingly similar to the ones in her dream. Although the actual gemstones were round, each was mounted on a small square of metal. 

The dream had done an excellent job providing Keelin with a bit of precognitive information, soon to appear in her waking life. However, there was much more to the dream than the earrings event. Where had the pin in the carpet and the kitten come from? The answer is found in the fact that this particular Saturday night was a mutual dreaming night for Keelin. She had suggested to herself that she be receptive to co-dreamers, and her intention was rewarded.  

Prior to her earring dream, Keelin had another dream in which she found herself in Mexico. This first dream was a prelude that contained a "tracer element." A tracer element is a recurring symbol that flags psychic connection. In this case, it pointed to a particular person, who happened to be me. My interest is sparked when a dreaming partner has a dream with a Mexican theme. Almost invariably, that night's dreaming will have something to do with my dreaming or waking life. Or both. 

It's not surprising that dreamers would select a symbol that is a direct import from physical reality. I'm married to a Mexican-American spouse and our home is decorated with artifacts from our travels to Mexico. The tracer element itself is not dreampsi for Keelin. Mexico is an association she already knew applied to me. For myself, it flagged the probability that psychic information would be forthcoming. In addition, this known attribute was also a piece of mutual psi. The tracer element appeared twice when, that very night, Keelin's Mexican theme wandered into my dream.  
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I wake up in one of two simple, flat beds in a room that has a door with window panes. It opens to the South. From that direction, a tiger strolls into the room. At first glance, I'm surprised and curious. When I realize she's a fully grown beast, I'm alarmed. But she keeps her head down while sniffing the ground and shows no aversion to me being in the same room. As I calm down, I decide that she must be a pet that wandered "across the line" from Mexicali into the United States. I surmise that people must be permitted to keep animals in their homes in Mexico. 
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Besides the tracer element, the most sticking parallel in our mutual dreams was the presence of a cat in our respective bedrooms. Another was more subtle: being fearless or overcoming fear of that feline. As is my habit toward the end of each December, I had pulled a card from a Tarot deck to represent the energy of the upcoming year. This time, the selection was "Strength." The Rider-Waite version of the card features a woman with her arms wrapped around a lion's mouth. It's very clear that, although the cat is large and fully grown, she has no fear of feline. 

But that wasn't all. The card was very synchronous of an actual physical event that occurred the evening prior to our mutual dreams. While kneeling on the carpeted floor of the family room, I held a handful of colored push-pins. I was picking them out of my palm to attach slips of paper to my cork bulletin board. Every so often, I sat down to pet the family's two cats. Our grey and black tiger-striped kitten, Spooky, was acting particularly playful that night. When I dropped a blue push-pin, she grabbed it in her mouth. Concerned that she might swallow it or otherwise hurt herself, I gently retrieved the pin. 

Perhaps inspired by my associations with the Tarot card, I had a dream that was a metaphoric translation of this feline incident. Keelin's corresponding cat dream was much more literal. In addition, her dreaming mind wove my postcognitive blue pin-dropping together with her precognitive gift of blue gemstones. There was more than a little fearless telepathic connection that December night!  

 
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Dream: Subcategorization 

Stan Kulikowski II  

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DATE : 6 nov 2005 09:19 
DREAM : subcategorization 

=( yesterday was saturday, a rather uneventful day. julius came over to help replace the ribbon cable on mother's television antenna which had broken last week. it did not take long. the evening we just watched blockbuster movies, but nothing first run was available so i just got some b-movies that were not very good. got to bed around midnight but it took quite a while for me to get to sleep. i often read or work late in such situations, but i did not feel like it. it was probably too warm for the window fan, but eventually i managed to drift off after 04:00. )= 

 
it is early evening and the students are arriving for my night course in language theory. there are not many students in the class, maybe five or six and i do not enjoy teaching small groups like this but i still have to do the curriculum preparation. i am going over my notes from previous lectures, taking the examples we used and placing the words into categories of noun, verb or adjective. i note that the lexicon is particularly odd since many of the examples were selected for odd syntactic features or ungrammaticality. perhaps i should exercise a little motherese and simplify the language so this lesson will be easier to learn. 

when the clock on the wall says it is time to start and the last student has come in, i begin my lecture. "tonight we are going to study the issues in first language learning. oddly enough, the principles here are not much at all like bilingual or second language learning. in those cases, you already have the basic structure of one language mastered and translation into the new language plays a major role. first language acquisition is a unique discovery process in which structure is learned for the first time." 

i explain the process of taking examples from the rest of the course and using them to create a simple phrase structure grammar with simple generative rules. i write some of the example sentences on the board and show how the words are parsed into the three categories of substantive words with a few left over like the determiners and copular words. these we place into an undecided category of possible counterexamples. there are about eight or nine nouns, fewer verbs and still fewer adjectives from about two dozen sentences. there are more counterexample words than i would like for this exercise. 

it takes some time to go over each example sentence and to explain the simple process of how the words are parsed into various categories. just before we get to the break, one of the students, a pretty graduate student who always sits in the front row, raises her hand. "i understand that we are born with grammatical structure already wired into our brains from genetics and the process of language acquisition is just eliminating possible structures from the one you are born into." 

very good, i think. she has leaped into the heart of what comes next in the lesson. 

before i can answer, another student speaks up. "oh, that has been disproven. we all start tabula raza." this is tom baker, the actor who played the fourth doctor on doctor who. he does not have the curly wig but his natural wavy hair which is always a let down to see. 

before i can respond again, the rest of the students get up to leave for their break. i catch tom baker before he gets out into the hallway. "you know, noam chomsky and his followers do say that universal grammar is inherent in language acquisition." i realize that tom is an advanced graduate student in the linguistics department and i wonder how he could come to believe this tabula raza hypothesis. 

"stuff and nonsense." he replies. "there are no real chomskyites left anymore." this is news to me, but i have been out of that field for a long time. still, universal grammar is a major theory in more linguistics than the generative grammars and clean slate is one of the most difficult theories to justify with data. 

after the break when the students return, i start with an explanation of what we can do with new structural data that comes in. i point out that our current phrase structure generates some sentences with two elements and others with three. now we notice that some verbs only show up in the two element sentences, and a different set of verbs come in the sentences with three components. 

"this is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs"  
the pretty graduate student says, again anticipating the point. i find that i like her which is hardly a surprise. 

"yes, good. but how to we formally handle that? do we just put a mark on some of the verbs that they show a different behavior, or do we break the verb category into two new ones, transitive and intransitive?" 

"subcategorization." she smiles back at me. it is easy to teach when you have a really responsive student who correctly anticipates what comes next in lecture. i wonder why i am bothering to teach at all except all the others may not be so well prepared. 

"piff and piddle." says tom baker. he has come up to the white board and has drawn a phrase structure diagram on it. it is a left regular structure with four branches. at the terminal leaf of each branch he has written a phrase, each begins with a phonetic symbol which he pronounces as 'tuh' so the diagram he reads as "tuh women", "tuh dogs", "tuh swim", and "tuh lake". 

i think his point has to do with determining the subject or object status of 'tuh women' or 'tuh dogs' but i can not see how 'tuh' can mark both noun and verb phrases. english is a right linear grammar, not leftward like this, so i do not see how our intuitions about the language examples can be applied here. also, we have not allowed for recursion in our phrase structure rules, so four element sentences are ruled out. they would be parsed as two run-on intransitives, not nested structure as this diagram. 

the teacher from the next class sticks his head in the door. "could you leave the foot shelves tucked in front of your seats when you leave?" on the front legs of each student desk there is flat, beveled plate that is hinged and pivots into different positions, probably as a foot rest. i did not know there was a courteous position to leave them for the next group of students to use the room. 

=( awake at 08:37. i have started last week into the first video tapes of tom baker's doctor in my conversion process of my doctor who collection from vhs to dvdr. for two and half years i have been doing this task and this is the last stretch of 30 or 40 videos before it is finished. i would expect the doctor, especially his, to be an unruly student in any class. i have only gotten to teach language acquisition once at the westfield community college in massachusetts, to a group of bilingual spanish speaking teachers for a special project of the springfield city school system. my doctoral studies were in generative grammars and child language, but this was the only time i got to use it direct many years ago. i suppose there may a cosmic dilemma symbolized here, the clash between good and evil on some level, but the experiences of responding evenly to the good student and the disruptive one is always a part of the professional skills of teaching. i do it enough in class that it must be natural to dream about it. i wonder if the sex roles of good and bad students are reversed for female teachers? in waking life, the genders of responsive students are usually randomly mixed. )= 

 

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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE 
What Dreams May Come 
December 2005 
Olivia Strand 

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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org 
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Olivia Strand 

Conversation on the Bridge seems to have turned more inward in the past few weeks, placing our dreaming, individually and as a group, more in focus again. Although some of the people in the Bridge group have been as busy as ever! 

Jean Campbell is, among other things, organising a Peace Film Festival in southern Virginia, along with Bridge members David Gordon and Valley Reed. This festival seemed to grow from the screening of ‘a peace film’ to filling a three-week programme of films, talks and other events, all but in the blink of an eye! Next month’s View will have a re-View of the festival; in the meantime, if you, or anybody you know, live near Norfolk, VA, and would like more information – please email Jean at jccampb@aol.com for a programme. 

And Jody tells us from Ohio that she has been too busy to even tell us much of what she has been up to! But you may recall from last month’s View that Jody had been interviewed for a CNN programme, “Voices from the Homefront”, together with veteran Paul Hackett who will be running for the US Senate in 2006. No doubt we will hear more about this, too, next month! 

 
A Soul Family of Dreamers 

One of the past month’s highlights came in the form of the return of Rita, who together with her partner Bob used to be active members in the early days of the Bridge discussion and dream group. This time Rita has joined us on her own as Bob sadly passed away earlier this year. 

The conversation that followed made me personally reflect on how I have begun to feel that even while I have met only two people from the Bridge in person, this group of dreamers have become something of a soul family to me. On the Bridge I can share thoughts and dream experiences and know that they will be received with both kindness and understanding, and with interest! And I have found it strangely grounding to have such a wonderful group of dreamers to turn to, and share with. And yes, I said grounding and I meant it. Because our collective wisdom seems practical as well as compassionate and, above all, grounded in personal experience. In the context of loss and of belonging, Jody put it very well: 

“Doesn't it seem that this IS the Bridge: the improbable but very real creation of a space that spans our life and death, alone and belonging, conflict and harmony, despair and hope experiences?” 

 
“We Create A New God” 

Because of a shift in when we ‘go to press’ with the View, we have a ‘shorter’ month this month, that doesn’t feature a DaFuMu dreaming. Not that this stopped us from dreaming, and sharing many of those dreams. 

Ilkin, a powerful, and often lucid, dreamer from Turkey, shared a number of dreams with us, and in response to an observation that her dreams seemed to have the finding of solutions and a sense of being in control as a common theme, she commented: 

“I thought you want any dreams related or not with peace work and the Bridge. I don't think these dreams are related with both directly. But they may have relation with some of my interest areas including peace etc.  
  
“In fact my dreams about disastrous events begin to repeat again but this time accompanying by some powers I may have. It may or not be related to the topics we discuss here but I am very much concerned about the climate change, world changes, ecology etc too and want to direct some of my energy to these areas. I feel that I must interested with the future of nature and changes in front of us, as much as I am interested with politic, social, economic etc issues where we stand as humanity. These may be reflecting in my dreams though the ones I sent you were not very special.” 

Ilkin says something that I find very interesting here, when she speaks of the return of her disaster dreams, many of which have seemed precognitive in the past, but how they this time allow her to draw on her powers, in the dream. To me, this suggests that as we become more aware of our dreams, not only after we had them, but also while we are still dreaming, inside the dream, we begin to learn to change things in the dream. And by extension, learning to change our dream realities may allow us to change our waking reality world, too. If you are familiar with the World Dreams Peace Bridge then you have probably also heard our mission statement: “There can never be too many people dreaming of peace.” 

 
Jean too submitted a dream that evoked the imagination of many in the group, judging by the response. She called her dream “We Create A New God” and I have included it here: 

“In the dream we (and I mean us folks of the Bridge) are standing in front of a group of gods. We have just created a new god. But this new god looks curiously like Ernie from Sesame Street...same flat face, same somewhat awkward, floppy character.  
  
“I am both observer and participant in this dream, so I can see and hear from above the crowd our dismay as we look at this new god of ours. Someone, maybe me, says: "Awwwwww, now we'll have to live with him forever!" EOD 
  
“There is a playful quality about this dream, an irony. While I was walking this morning, I reentered the dream, and let myself be the god Ernie. What he said was that, even though he represented television and the impact of technology on the people of this planet, he was also an extremely lovable god. He said the reason kids love Ernie is because he can make mistakes, and knows how to laugh at himself.” 

It turned out that as well as having enjoyed Sesame Street with their own children, members of the group had experiences of Ernie to share, ranging from working with children in therapy, to dreams of their own about him. In response to a question about the “group of gods”, Jean commented: 

“In my dream, at least, the other gods were more like the traditional image of ghosts...pale, silvery, almost see through. And a little shocked to see such a new and colorful god as Ernie.” 

I, myself, wondered about the "Ghostlike gods... hmmm... What does it mean if our archetypal gods have grown wan, silvery and pale?" to which Anna responded: 

”There is a lot of lore from many traditions that says the god/desses create us and we create them in never ending circle...the native American animal spirits who ask to be danced into material experience; the orishas who inhabit human riders' in voudou ceremony; all the way to the immanent spirits in our earth, who it is clear, we have not tended and they fade… 
  
“So much wisdom which tells us that it is our human calling, between heaven and earth, to heed the spirits, to admire them and invite them, to ASK for their help which they so willingly hold for us but must wait to be asked. 
  
“To wilfully dream is a part of this, I think.” 

 
Perhaps it does not seem too much a leap of the imagination, to see Ilkin’s concerns about the changes in the world and the climate that affect the Earth’s delicate eco systems reflected in Jean’s dream of the god Ernie, and the fading gods of old? 

 
DaFuMu dreaming in November and December 

Join us in our Dreams of Great Fortune – DaFuMu – on the 15th each month! 

The November DaFuMu will continue the theme of awakening to the world, and with the addition of dreaming for the youth of the world – a request that arose as France has seen almost two weeks of urban rioting. We hope to have an update on this in the next View. 

The December DaFuMu is open to anyone who care to join us – please visit our website for more information on DaFuMu-dreaming, and on how to submit dreams. 

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org 

 
And we shall see, what dreams may come. 

 

 
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Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams? 
by Peter Farley  
www.cosmologies.com/treeoflife 

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 Man will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.  

                                                     --- Carl Jung  

 How do waking dreams differ from the dreams we have at night? This is another of the most commonly asked question about waking dreams. This time there is a simple answer: There is no real difference. In fact, there is only a hair’s breadth difference between the awakened state we call living, and that which we experience at night and call the dreamstate. 

Waking dreams and night dreams can merely be thought of as two different settings of the same program. And, just as we might access the same program on our computers through two different methods, so to do we access the different kinds of dreaming. The night dreams require our physical eyes to be closed and our conscious mind shut off from the outside world. The waking dreams require that our physical eyes be open and our conscious mind alert to the things going on around us. 

Very few people understand the true nature of dreams and the importance dreaming has to our life and the state of balance we need to try and maintain. Dreams are arguably the most important part of our lives because they are a direct method by which we can realize our existence as divine spiritual beings. And, once again, it is we ourselves who are best equipped to interpret our own dreams, and then gauge their subsequent importance. 

Most everybody dreams at night, but not everybody remembers their dreams. Just as with waking dreams, learning to remember our dreams is a skill which comes with practice and attention. When we consciously set out to remember our dreams, it is amazing how quickly we can learn the ways to do it which best suit our own individual needs. As we come to see how important understanding our dreams can be to our daily lives, they will also become a nightly gift we simply cannot wait to unwrap come morning. 

Keeping a dream journal in which to record our dreams and their interpretations is the most important thing we can do to help ourselves receive the wisdom and guidance being offered. Not only can this dream journal be used to record our dreams, it can also be very helpful to use as a daily diary in which to release the worries and frustrations of the day by writing them down before we go to sleep. 

The one area in which night dreams may vary slightly from waking dreams is that our night dreams are normally exaggerated in size, shape, and the kind of problems they project. The pictures or symbols the unconscious and superconscious minds present to us in night dreams are exaggerated specifically to help get them past the censor and on to the conscious mind. Much like their waking dream counterparts, night dreams will often come in a series, and not so much as the individual, stand-alone kind of dream. Even though the characters and events in one dream may vary totally from the dream that precedes or follows it, the connection between the various dreams will usually come out during their interpretation. Sometimes a series of dreams will continue over the course of more than one night, so we must be sure to review the previous day’s dreams in order to get the bigger picture. The earlier example of the baby that was first miscarried and then born again in a new and larger form, is just one example of dreams coming in a series. 

Just as waking dreams have a variety of messages and ways in which they can be conveyed, so to do night dreams come in different types based on their intent or on their purpose. In broad categories, these types are:  

      

1. “Physical’ dreams: These are dreams where a physical need or intrusion from the outer world such as an alarm clock, sets up similar conditions in our dreams to mirror the outer conditions. A person who goes to bed thirsty will often dream of satisfying that thirst during their dreams. An alarm clock ringing in the bedroom may translate into a telephone or some other kind of bell, ringing in the person’s dream. A physical urge to go to the bathroom will manifest itself in exactly the same way in the dreamstate. 

 
2. Prophetic dreams: These are the most common form of dream to be found in many of the world’s influential sacred texts. Prophetic dreams may relate to situations as they appear in a person’s life at the present, or they may be an actual vision of some future time or event. In this case, the prophetic dream will often form the basis for a later deja vu experience in life. (See chapter 11).  

People will often have dreams about great cataclysms or changes happening on the planet Earth. Occasionally these will turn out to be actual predictions of what is really to happen in the future. Although this is a difficult responsibility for the person who has such dreams, it is helpful for those people to remember that each and every one of us is led to be in the exact place in which we find ourselves if we are listening to our inner guidance. The more each one of us learns to listen to and rely on this guidance, the more we can be sure that we are never in a place where we are not supposed to be. 

Often prophetic dreams will fall into the category of a past-life dream where the person is actually remembering an earth change that has already taken place upon the planet at some earlier time in history. This event has then become incorporated into what is called cell or cellular memory, the greater part of what constitutes the strands of our DNA. The person experiencing such a phenomenon has simply tapped into his or her cell memory during the unconscious state we call dreaming and is then experiencing, for all intense purposes, what we like to call a past-life dream. 

What many people fail to realize with regard to prophetic dreams is the symbolic nature of their dreams. Since most dreams relate to a person’s own life or state of being, the major upheavals people see and think to be prophesying changes on the Earth, should actually have been translated as being major upheavals that are about to occur in their own lives and not necessarily on such a grandiose level. Remember the exaggeration aspect of night dreams which is used to slip them past the censor. Although these upcoming events may seem “earth-shattering” to the person involved, the dream has had just that kind of intention. By portraying an event as “cataclysmic,” a person will be much more likely to stand up and take notice of its possible implications in their life.  

Not all of us can be, or would want to be, seers for the rest of the people on the planet. We can, however, be seers for our own lives if we consciously allow it to happen. Since our inner guidance works with all the potential causes and effects in a person’s life, it does not necessarily read the future as such because we are constantly in the process of creating and changing that future. This is especially true when we choose to make decisions which break the traditional mould or pattern of our past thoughts and actions. Our inner guidance is simply working on the situations we have already set in motion through the decisions we have already made. 

 
3. Past-Life Dreams: Past lives dreams do happen, to some people more frequently than others. Whether we attribute them to having lived a prior existence, or to some kind of genetic or cellular archetypal memory, doesn’t really matter. There is a lesson to be learned from the dream and it usually relates to something which is currently going on in our lives. In being given a past-life dream we are being asked to look at a cause to which we are currently living the effect, or to a pattern of behavior which is still holding us back in this lifetime as it has done in another. All we need to do to deal with these dreams is to realize their connection and the problem that is at the core of our behavior. Once we have recognized the problem we can deal with it, or simply move beyond it. 

Human traits such as an uncontrollable temper or frustration are often products of the unconscious mind which started somewhere back in a past lifetime. They tend to surface again in our dreams as reminders of the trouble they have caused us in the past, while also asking us to take a closer look at the negative effect they may be having in our lives currently. While being a fictionalized account of just such an emotional trait passed on from one lifetime to another, Jack London’s novella, The Star Rover, has much to offer on this subject for anyone who takes the time to read it. 

Past life dreams are easy to tell because they have a real movie-like quality to them, usually as if we are acting in the movie rather than simply watching it. The action is often straightforward, with very few if any symbols that seem to stand out above any others. These kinds of dreams are also the easiest to remember since they seem to stay with us longer whether we normally remember our dreams or not.    

       

4. Dreams of Intrusion: These are dreams where another person or being is trying to influence or control us while we are asleep. This can be anyone we have had in our lives who may, even subconsciously, wish to do us harm. These dreams are characterized by a person who we normally think of as being trustworthy in everyday life, appearing in our dream doing something which is very uncharacteristic of them. It is helpful to learn to recognize this kind of dream, and then to practice visualizing a blue or white light surrounding ourselves through which nothing wishing to harm us can penetrate. We must also try and be aware of when there is a potential hostility we might carry for someone which will then cause us to intrude on their dreams as well. 

 
5. Lucid Dreaming:  Lucid dreaming is a technique by which we can eventually learn to wake up in our dreams to realize we are dreaming. By being able to do this, we can then control the direction in which the dream flows, or change any parts of the dream we feel we do not like. This is sometimes easier to do when we return to the same dream after having awakened sometime during the night. By using our conscious will, we can return to the dream and change the direction in which it was heading, or re-run the part of it we did not like, but this time make it come out the way we want it.  

This technique comes in very handy when we are experiencing one of the many types of phobia which often haunt our dreams. By understanding the source of the fear and subsequently facing it, we can then free ourselves from the often debilitating effects these phobias can have on the moment-to-moment living of our life.  

Many inventors and artistic people have used this technique to bring back ideas and works of artistic form from the higher planes of existence. 

 
6. Problem-solving Dreams: Have you ever heard someone use the expression, “Let me sleep on it?” The problem-solving dream does just that. If we take a problem we cannot find a solution to with us into our dreamstate, it is more than likely that we will awaken in the morning with the answer virtually exploding from our conscious minds into the world around us. Our inner guidance works for us and is always honest in what it says. When it is given an important decision to make or faced with a difficult problem, it will always reveal the best possible solution given the circumstances and conditions under which it operates. 

The exercise involved with this technique is as follows: Write down on a piece of paper a goal you are trying to achieve or a problem you are trying to solve. Then put it beside your bed where you will be sure to see it first thing in the morning. Secondly, write down what it is that is the greatest obstacle or opponent to achieving your goal or finding a solution to the problem. Ask for help from your source of inner guidance or from the Dream Master before you go to sleep. Then be sure to consciously try to retain whatever it is that comes through to you as an answer in the morning. Write it down! There should be an answer there somewhere. 

       

7. Burning-off karma or payment-due dreams: Often it is easier to work out in the dreamstate any of the more difficult lessons we have given ourselves or been given to learn in this lifetime. Again, this is especially true for those kind of experiences which would create considerable havoc if they occurred in our ordinary physical lives. Car accidents or other situations of extreme physical danger would often be too traumatic for us to experience during our waking state. If we do not necessarily need these experiences to happen in our external physical life, our inner guidance can often arrange for us to have these experiences in our dreams. This will still allow us to get the “experience” and the learning that would come from it, without putting our lives or balance in jeopardy.  

       

8. Dreams of release from fear: “To sleep, perchance to dream. Aye, there be the rub.” Shakespeare was obviously talking about the possibility of having Hamlet face a nightmare when he gave him those immortal words to speak. But dreams do not have to be a source of fear. On the contrary, they can be one the best methods of dealing with our fears.  

To protect ourselves from the punishment and shame associated with the repressed desires of the unconscious, we have established the censor as a guard to stand over it so that none of these desires can escape into our outer world. When something is repressed in the unconscious, however, it will often come forward as a dream. Even though the memory of the dream might disappear in the morning, the psychic energy of the dream will sometimes remain with us, causing us to feel fear or to have a bad attitude, without really knowing why. The pressure built up within us by these lingering fears, and the guilt attached to them, can often be relieved by correctly interpreting the dream’s symbols before the dream becomes too much of a psychic danger to our physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual balance.  

Often understanding the source of these fears will help to eliminate them. If we can practice lucid dreaming as was described above, we can also recognize the fear which may haunt us in our dream and instead of running from it, we can turn and face it. By doing this we will find that it is simply a fear we have created in the darkest recesses of our own mind. This single act can break the fear’s hold over us and bring a freedom and peace of mind to us that we might not have previously known.  

Often our fears or phobias will stem from a “past life” trauma which, when re-experienced in the dream state, gives us an understanding of the source of that fear, and also helps diminish or totally erase that fear’s hold upon us. 

 
9. Dreams with the Dream Master: The one aspect of our inner guidance which can be of most help in our dreams is the Dream Master. During some dreams, a being will appear who we can tell cares deeply about us and our struggles to learn the often difficult lessons of our life. This being will radiate perfect love, and he is there to help us. Occasionally we can find ourselves taking trips to strange lands, meeting various teachers, attending classes in various temples of higher learning, or having all kinds of adventures in our dreamstate while accompanied by this wonderful being. In whatever form this being appears, it is the feeling of perfect love that will tip our hand to the fact that we are indeed working with our own Dream Master. 

Once again, the Dream Master is an aspect of our guidance which has only our highest good at heart. If, before going to sleep, we ask for his help and guidance with any particular problems , anxieties, or fears with which we are struggling to cope, then we are likely to find the fears relieved, the problems resolved, or the solutions well at hand upon awakening in the morning.  

 
10. The tag dream or “zinger”: This last kind of dream is not really a dream. Instead, it is an urgent-telegram service which attaches its message to the end of a dream in order to slip it by the censor without having to disguise it. Most often these zingers will come in the form of words we hear just upon awakening, just at that time when the censor is “changing guard” from night duty to the daytime shift. If we can catch the gist of

  
these zingers and retain them, we will find their words contain some of the most important messages we can receive from our inner guidance. 

Sometimes these zingers will take the form of words or lines from a song, sometimes a song which we have not heard in years. If we can trust enough to take the message in the words as a personal message for us, then their significance will easily be revealed. 

Tricks to help remember our dreams 

1.    Before going to sleep, clear the head of the day’s events. If necessary, record them in your dream journal. Problems and frustrations of the day will often be ‘worked on’ during our dream state, and therefore will tend to take up the bulk of our dream time if we do not clear them from our heads before going to sleep. 

2.    Remember to write in the journal why it is you want to remember your dreams. This serves as a positive reinforcement to the mind as to the benefits which can be gained from remembering your dreams. The more we clarify our desire to remember, the more our inner self will find a way to bring that request to fruition. 

3.    Write in the journal the questions that are currently in the forefront of your mind, or problems which still remain unresolved. This will help clarify the issues that most need to be dealt with. It will also give you a source of reference with which to begin relating the dream symbology to the particular problem it addresses. 

4.    Keep a small tape recorder, or a light, a pen, and a journal, ready and within easy reach. Date the journal, or include the date of the recording on the tape before going to sleep. 

5.    As you go to sleep, give yourself the intention of recording or writing down your dreams throughout the night and/or the next morning. This is the same “set to recall” faculty that many of us have already experienced which awakens us five minutes before the alarm is set to go off. This brings up perhaps the most common blockage to the remembering of our dreams—the alarm clock. The most conducive atmosphere for remembering dreams is to wake up slowly out of our sleep so that we can remain for a period of time with one foot in the dream state, and one foot in the conscious or awakened state. This forms a bridge, as it were, between the two states of existence. Being jerked out of sleep by a noisy alarm is the worst thing we can do in trying to remember our dreams. The best way to deal with this is to preprogram ourselves to wake up five minutes before the alarm goes off. This will give us time to recall sufficient details from our dream that can then be useful in triggering other details we may not yet have remembered. Another way to allow ourselves ten more minutes to go in and recapture the basic details of the dream which can then be used to recall the rest later, is to use the snooze button. 

6.    Don’t say “I want to remember my dreams,” say “I am going to remember my dreams and write them down in specific detail.” Set an appointment with the inner self to remember your dreams. Set an affirmation; make an agreement. We may need to write it out or say it over and over again to ourselves to make it work more effectively. 

7.    Don’t get up, don’t exercise, and don’t think about other things until you have successfully captured your dreams before they begin to fade. If for some reason your supplies are not close at hand to record the dreams, it will help if you can remember one or two important details which can be used to trigger the rest of the dream later. If some details of the dream can be brought into the conscious mind during the night, then the rest of the important aspects of the dream can also usually be brought forward. 

8.    Doing a contemplation or meditation upon arising will often bring back a remembrance of your dreams, or other details from the dreams which you might otherwise have overlooked. Using the “remember backwards” technique often brings out more details. If we can remember the last thing that happened in the dream, or the last thing we saw before we woke up, we will usually be able to trace backwards and find out what it was that happened up until that point. 

9.    Record or write down whatever comes through. Anything, whether it be a dream or not. You can worry about finding out its significance later, but only if you can remember it because you’ve somehow captured it physically on paper or on a tape.  

10.  Write down the first thing that comes into your mind upon awakening. This will bring together the dreaming and the waking state, and also it will help to support the remembering of dreams later in the morning. Sometimes it will be the words or title of a song which contain within them a message from our inner guidance.  

11.  Write down all the fragments of the dream that can be remembered (the people you see, sounds, lights, spoken words, colors, feelings, song lyrics etc.). Any aspect of the dream may be important to its meaning, especially if it stands out in our memory for one reason or another. If it helps to make a small drawing of some aspect of the dream, this will help you visualize the circumstances later, and also might make the dream easier to find in your journal when needing to refer back to it. 

12.  Try to capture in a few words the main mood or feeling of the dream? This may help relate the dream to a certain situation in your life. 

13.  Give the dream a title or a word which describes the main symbol or symbols of the dream. This may be an instance of Golden-Tongued Wisdom that can provide some clue to its interpretation (see chapter 11). 

14.  If an explanation for the dream or for a symbol comes during the writing process, jot it down. Leave enough space under the transcription of the dream to write down its interpretation.  

15.  Write down all the dreams that can be remembered. Be honest, straightforward and sincere.  

15.Even if our actions in the dreams do not seem to be what we would call “nice,” no one else is going to read the journal, and the actions most often do not mean that we would or could do these things in our normal daily life. It is, however, important to release them through the vehicle of our dream journaling. If something hurts, writing it down will help make it resolve more quickly. 

  

Common Tricks of the Mind 

1.    One of the more frequent pitfalls in doing dreamwork is the belief that the dream is not important, or that we will write the dream down later upon awakening. When this happens the dream is more often forgotten than remembered. 

2.    It is often easier to think that we are too tired and need our sleep. This is like paying to go to college, and then sleeping through the lectures which are only there to help us. 

3.    Thinking we have to go over the dream in our mind before it can be written down usually leads to us drifting back to sleep with the dream unrecorded, and usually unremembered. If it is down on tape or in our journal, then we can go over the dream at our own leisure. 

4.    We interpret the dream while asleep or during some short time in which we wake up during the night. We think that we will remember it so we don’t have to write it down, but usually it is forgotten upon awakening. 

5.    Sometimes we think that we have already recorded the dream, only to find in the morning that we haven’t. We may often see ourselves in the dream writing it down or recording it, especially after we’ve been doing this for a long time. We need to make sure we have recorded our dreams, even if it means recording them again. This may be a blessing in disguise if it leads to us getting more of the details of the dream recorded.  

6.    It is not uncommon for us to mistake our finger for a pen. When we have one foot in the inner worlds and one foot in the outer world, things like this can happen. 

7.    If blocks occur in remembering our dreams, we need to ask ourselves, “What are some of the blocks I might have to vividly remember in my dreams?” One of the most common is an attitude of ‘I don’t remember my dreams. So why bother trying?’ The best thing to do in this case is to restate this picture, that is, change the viewpoint from which we look at the blockage. Then we need to adopt a positive attitude that we can do whatever it is was that we felt was blocking us. 

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"Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?" by Peter Farley was excerpted from Waking Dreams and the Waking Dream Cards: Finding Answers to Life's Questions, a work on dreams and waking dreams co-authored with Sharon King, a former counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. 
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Here’s another interesting dreams section with zombies in a mausoleum, black snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts.  

 
Dream title: Where Art Thou Teeth? 
Dream date: 11/17/05 
Dreamer name: Underkill 
Dream: I was sitting in this hotel room, it was a nice hotel. I was there with my boyfriend. We were watching T.V. We were talking and everything seemed fine. Then my teeth started to feel loose. I knew I'd been having dreams where my teeth would fall out one by one. So I quickly ran to the bathroom before my boyfriend could see. I started to pull at my teeth when all of a sudden they all came out like dentures. Under the false teeth were these little withered teeth. They started high up in my gums and were crooked. At the bottom of my gums they were very short and were like little baby teeth. I put the false teeth back in and ran out the door. When I ran out the door I was in my kitchen. My parents were both sitting around the table. I came in horrified. My mom asked “my, what was the matter.” I started to pull out the denture-type teeth. I screamed “why you didn’t tell me about this!” She said “Oh my God why didn't you say anything about this?” I was scared out of my mind. I immediately woke up and felt my teeth. They were still intact. 
Dream comments: It always feels so real at the time. I just want to know why my teeth are falling out. I wake up and I'm so upset. It's so ugly. I feel like my teeth are really going to fall out. 

Dream title: Black Snakes 
Dream date: 11/16/2005 
Dreamer name: JF 
Dream: I was lying in bed on my back naked, I was surrounded by thousands of very fat black snakes about 18 to 24 inches long, suddenly a very large one appeared in front of my face, I remember using both of my hands to grip it because it was so huge even then I was unable to get my hands all the way around its body, it was working its way through my hands trying to get in my mouth. At the same moment I could see two more snakes one moving down my stomach and one coming up from underneath me both of these snakes were going between my legs where they met head to head and started forcing themselves inside of my body, by this time the snake that I was holding in front of me was working its way slowly toward my mouth, as it slid through my hands I could feel my mouth being stretched wide open as it was working its way in I could feel it going all the way down my throat, I could also see and feel the other two snakes wiggling between my legs as the forced themselves inside of me, I remember seeing the tail vanish as I swallowed the snake in my mouth and seeing the tails of the other two coiling back and forth before as the slid inside me. My dream continued that way, I had snakes entering my mouth one by one and entering between my legs two by two. The snakes were expressionless their mouths never opened nor did they ever try to bite me, In my dream I was trying very hard to count and remember each one of them also each snake had numbers on their skin most of the snakes had two separate numbers one number toward the head of it and one number further down toward the tail there were a few dozen snakes with just numbers toward there head only. The majority of the snakes had two simple sets of numbers like 23 /18 or 7/ 4 83/106 29 /25 183/180 marked in the two different locations as described, however there were a few dozen with larger numbers like 1,432/1,398, 1,107/1,024, 673/589 and again one number was close to the head the other close to the tail and there was about a hundred or so snakes with only one number toward the head and this number was always a small number either 1 or 2 nothing larger and those particular snakes always entered in my mouth. 
Dream comments: none 

Dream title: Dangerous Water Slide  
Dream date: 15/11/2005 
Dreamer name: Maka 
Dream: My boyfriend and I are sliding down a natural springs waterslide, the water is clean and clear, beautiful tropical scenery surrounds us. We are water sliding down very fast, taking sharp turns, and we seem to be enjoying our selves. We take a sharp turn which takes us to a large round waterfall opening; as I look down I can see a small pool full of sharks. As we leap down we do not land in the pool, we land on our feet on the edge of the pool. We proceed to walk away, but as we are walking away a few sharks manage to bite my legs and feet.  
Dream comments: 

Dream title: House with ghosts 
Dream date: 11-12-05 
Dreamer name: Renee 
Dream: I was in a large house with 3-4 other people - I didn't recognize them but in the dream I knew them. Then {I realized the house was a house I lived in about a year ago, we had a tragic house fire there.} We were in the house to get something. There were ghosts there. I was with a man, whom in my dream was my spouse, we were in the bath room there was a ghost face on the wall and I leaned his head toward the wall the ghost ate him like a horror movie. Then the ghost face disappeared. I went to be with the others we were all frightened a lot and want to stay in the same room for safety. The next morning we all got on a bus. The bus seats were all black and towards the front there was a stack of black boxes or coffins that frightened us a lot also.  
Dream comments: none 

Dream title: Drinking water  
Dream date: a month ago  
Dreamer name: zunny  
Dream: I dreamt that I was drinking a lot a lot of water bottles nearly 30 bottles and still feeling thirsty!!  
Dream comments: By the way this dream was repeated several times all over the past 5 years!! 

Dream title: Zombies in the Mausoleum 
Dream date: 11/7/05 
Dreamer name: dsmivjade 
Dream: In this dream, I was in a mausoleum or funeral home with a friend whom was visiting a dead relative. I remember it being dark, in other areas there were beams of moonlight lighting areas from a glassy ceiling directly above us. I remember vaguely my friend pointing out a bunch of coffins lying around just outside the crypts open spaces. The coffins were very visible in the exposed areas of the moonlight. I thought it was quite strange because my first thought someone had stolen the corpses for some practical joke. Then my friend pointed to a huge cargo elevator and said he was going to go in and check it out to see if it was still operational. I heard a slight bumping sound coming from inside. Suddenly I was overcome with stark terror, it was too late he had already gone in and was actually pulled in and then he screamed and then silence. It suddenly started to get darker so I turned around and saw people shambling and running in my direction. One guy I could make out was running after me with his eyes closed. I saw him and a hundred or more behind him. They made no noise it was just flat and fast.  
Dream comments: I woke up before I could experience the inevitable. 

Dream title: Symbolic Confusion 
Dream date: 11/4/05 
Dreamer name: Gemini 
Dream: There is a panther (my favorite animal) with an Egyptian crown around its head that has a cobra (my Chinese horoscope) around its head. They are looking into a mirror and the reflection is me. The panther has a sad face and the cobra is angry. In between the panther’s chest is the sign of a Gemini (my horoscope) that is burning on fire. 
Dream comments: I woke up crying yet in a vengeful mood. 

Dream title: Massive Colors 
Dream date: 09/09/2001 
Dreamer name: poohbr 
Dream: I had a dream of massive ball of colors. It was huge and full of every emotion you could think of. There were no dark colors at all just the most beautiful colors you will ever see during the wake hours. When I tried to look away my face was gently turned back to the middle of the massive ball of colors and I could not look away. I can still see the colors and fell the emotions. The emotions ran wildly in my dream. The colors just got brighter and brighter. I felt very safe in my dream and that I wanted to go into the Massive ball of colors.  
Dream comments: none 

Dream title: Recurring dream about Mick 
Dream date: Twice a month 
Dreamer name: LA 
Dream text: I have a recurring dream that I am visiting Ireland (where my husband is buried) and discover that he is alive. (He had been ill for the last five years of his life with AIDS. I was lucky and never contracted the disease).  In my dream I find him alive, with AIDS but surviving and staying well. He seems reluctant about me seeing him again and I can't understand why he never contacted me. I very much want to be back in his life but he is very hesitant. He doesn't tell me to go -- but he doesn't ask me to stay either. 
Dream comments: Mick's death occurred 10 years ago. We had a rocky relationship in the very beginning of dating but by the time we were married we were very comfortable with one another. I met someone 2 years after his death -- we did not marry but I had a child with him. The relationship didn't last (my choice to end it). My daughter is now 7.  I am currently in another relationship with another very nice man but I am not quite sure if this is a forever deal either.  

 

 

 

 

 

 
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