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E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s
Volume #13 Issue #8
August 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: "Picnic on the Meadow"
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
Robert Waggoner interviews Suzanne Wiltink
++ Column: A View From The Bridge
Dreaming the Compassionate Feminine
Jean Campbell
++ Article: Hope For the Dream Art Underachiever
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Dream: "Sea Witch"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Column: Dreams and Speaking the Truth
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the August 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
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.. 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
In this issue:
Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want to get out, please send those to Harry for next months publication at ed-news@alquinte.com
Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE) editor, Lucy Gillis, regularly shares gems from her publication with Electric Dreams. In this months Excerpt, Robert Waggoner interviews accomplished lucid dreamer, Suzanne Wiltink, covering such diverse topics as how to get and stay lucid, how independent and autonomous our dream characters are from ourselves, and what this means in the old sense that dreams are all about ourselves.
The world is full of a lot turmoil and violence. While for some people this is the way its been all their lives, many of us feel this violence and turmoil growing. And people are dreaming about it. Not just responses and quick answers, but deep reflections and profound insights. Jean Campbell looks at some of these dreams that have been shared on the World Dreams Peace Bridge in her column "The View."
Are you a little shy to create art? Maybe you need to draw upon your dreams for inspiration and courage to break though the self-critic and join the world creativity. Read about how Linda Lane Magallón achieved this in "Hope For the Dream Art Underachiever."
An interesting dreams from Stan Kulikowski II, "The Sea Witch" Stan often contributes selections from his unique dream journal. 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 this month's selection, "Dreams and Speaking the Truth" David explores the truth, the whole truth and the truths of dreamwork.
Our Dream Section editor, Kat Peters-Midland, says "Here the latest collection of dreams with great amount of feelings of panic, sadness, fear, and inspiration. One dreamer watches disaster, while another watches her child drown. A different dreamer is given a moving book, yet another dreamer has a dead relative visit. Another person dreams of a python-like snake slithering across their uncles feet."
If you have dreams to share, use the dreamflow form at
www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles and authors in an easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:
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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
August 2006
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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@alquinte.com address.
Online:
- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
Physical world:
- Minnesota: Healing Collage workshop with Sheila Asato
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
- Korea and USA: Jeremy Taylor
- Dream Workshop in New Lebanon, NY
Books, movies, research:
- Dreams of women trauma survivors
- Dennis Ryan: Dreams about the Dead
- Ife Chucks Maijeh: The Oracle of Dreams
Reminders:
- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- Berkeley: Marcia Emery's Dream Salon
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
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ven if you have never participated in IASD's two-week long, online PsiberDreaming Conference, this is the year to do so.
Scheduled from September 24-October 8, with an additional two weeks of read-only availability, the fifth annual PsiberDreaming Conference will bring together a stellar cast of presenters and workshop facilitators along with live chats, contests and bulletin board discussion.
Joining conference hosts Jean Campbell and Rita Dwyer will be some of the finest minds in consciousness studies, parapsychology, and dream work. The conference will feature a special discussion of the Physics of Psi Dreaming, with a presentation of Dr. Montague Ullman's paper, "The Dream in Search of a New Abode" and response by Mark Schroll, Ph.D., along with a new conference feature, the presentation and discussion of several papers and workshops in either Spanish only or Spanish and English. This feature of the conference will be led off with a paper by Stanley Krippner Ph.D. and Rosa Anwandter, Ph.D.: "Dreams and Shamanism in Latin America." This experimental approach to programming reflects the growing internationalism of IASD.
Several other new features with brighten PsiberDreaming 2006 as well. Contest Coordinator, Linda Lane Magallon, will host the first-ever Virtual Dream Ball at the conference, with special music by Passamoquoddy Medicine Woman, Mary Whitefeather, facilitator of the Solstice event at the recent IASD Conference at Bridgewater. Dolores Nurss and Curt Hoffman will serve as innkeepers at the conference Psiber Dream Inn, where weary travelers can stop by and share a tale.
Register for the conference by August 31, 2006 and receive a $5 early registration discount. New members of IASD who become members between August 1 and October 1, receive the PsiberDreaming Conference as a membership bonus.
Go to http://asdreams.org/psi2006 for full details.
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- Minnesota: Healing Collage workshop with Sheila Asato
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There will be a full day Healing Collage workshop at Monkey Bridge Arts in St. Louis Park, MN on Saturday, August 12, 2006. For more information and registration, please visit www.monkeybridgearts.com
If you are in the area, I'd love to have you come!
Sheila
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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 August 2006.
* Culture Dreaming *
Monthly, Saturday afternoons 3-5, $20
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.
August 20: Alice Jones, editor and publisher of Apogee Press
* Art and Dreams *
Monthly, Saturday mornings, 10am-1pm
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
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
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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- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
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For your convenience, here are some highlights from the calendar at: http://mossdreams.com/
* The Power of Active Dreaming *
Evening Workshop
Friday, August 4
Chappaqua, NY, Canada
http://mossdreams.com/2006aug.htm#chappaqua
* Navigating by Synchronicity *
Evening Workshop
Friday, August 25
Montreal, PQ, Canada
http://mossdreams.com/2006aug.htm#montreal
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- Korea and USA: Jeremy Taylor
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August according to the schedule of Jeremy Taylor. For more, see www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html
July 30-August 24 - South Korea
Classes and Workshops. Contact Kathy at ktaylor597@aol.com
August 25-28 - Hendersonville, NC
Dream Leadership Training Program - Haden Dream Institute.
Jeremy will lead several workshops. Contact Bob Haden at 828/693.9292 or: bob@hadeninstitute.com
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- Dream Workshop in New Lebanon, NY
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September 1 - 4, 2006
Dreams, The Imaginal Realm, and the Re-Enchantment of the World
Barbara Tedlock, Lee Irwin, Paul Devereux, Reb Zalman Schachter
Sponsored by Elixir Magazine, hosted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
(Watch for the upcoming issue on DreamLife (issue 3) Fall 2006
Conference info
518-794-7834
www.abodeprograms.org
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Dreams of women trauma survivors
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Dream researcher Ann Goelitz is looking for the dreams of women trauma survivors. "All I need is the dream and the type of trauma. Electronic format would be wonderful, but paper is fine too."
For more information, please email Ann, agoelitz@yahoo.com
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- Dennis Ryan: Dreams about the Dead
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Selected from more than 1,000 interviews, Dreams about the Dead presents edited interviews with individuals who had dreams about dead relatives or friends in an attempt to show the importance of dreams to the grieving process. With extraordinary detail, this book examines the dreams and the impact of various factors-such as the relationship between the dreamer and the deceased, the dreamer's age and gender, and the cause of death-on the bereaved and their grieving process.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761834966/
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- Ife Chucks Maijeh: The Oracle of Dreams
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Subtitle of the book: Inspiration and Interpretation of Your Dreams distilled from the Wisdom of Millennia of African Elders
"For many years I did not understand what was going on with me. However, I knew I had some kind of power, but I was uncertain what this power entailed. Now I am fully able to understand the power within me. Not only do I have the ability to interpret dreams, I can give advice that will guide others on a path of enlightenment. I can also provide readers with remedies that will provide understanding and solutions to day to day life situations. You will learn how to tap into ancient numerology. This will help you to understand your relationship status, financial status, and your overall health. In addition, you will learn how to use the quick reference guide for dream symbols and meanings. You will understand the origin of African ancient numerology. With this method your ability to ask the necessary questions associated with your dreams will be revealed for better dream interpretation."
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595371051/
* * * REMINDERS * * *
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- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
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Invitation. The Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery opened on the 2006 Summer Solstice and runs through the Fall Equinox, 2006. Gallery sponsored by DreamGate and the Electric Dreams community.
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
Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@dreamgate.com
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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly DaFuMu - a collective dream of good fortune - to support peace.
For more information go to:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm
To join the World Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
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- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
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1502 Tenth Street, Berkeley 7:15-9:15pm.
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.
Please call 510/526-5510 or email PowerHunch@aol.com
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Cover: "Picnic on the Meadow"
Linda Lane Magallón
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One technique I especially like is collage. It uses magazine pictures like those in my scrapbook, but these are cut into pieces, then mixed and matched with others to form an altogether new scene. Sometimes I depict an old dream; sometimes the picture I create incubates a new one. I've practiced until I can create images credible enough to be used in dream telepathy experiments. One of them doubles as the cover art for this month's issue of *Electric Dreams.*
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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In this months Excerpt, Robert Waggoner interviews accomplished lucid dreamer, Suzanne Wiltink.
Robert: I met lucid dreamer, Suzanne Wiltink, at the IASD conference in Copenhagen two years ago, and was very impressed with her lucid dreaming skills and thoughts about lucid dreaming. Suzanne is on break from her study of clinical psychology at the University of Nijmegen, where her fields of interest are traumatic experiences and consciousness.
Robert: So Suzanne, how long have you been lucid dreaming? Please tell us about your first lucid dream.
The first lucid dream I had that I can remember was in 1994. At that time, I didn't have any special interest in dreams whatsoever, though I did write down a few of them, including this lucid experience:
I dreamt that I was walking down a street in my home town, and that I saw a man running towards me, suited in black with two white stripes on the side of his pants. I was afraid and was thinking about the warning words my mother used to say to me. "Don't go alone on the streets at night...you might get kidnapped, raped or murdered!" So I turned around to rush home, but suddenly out of the blue, I realised I was dreaming.
I decided to use my imagination and creativity, I wanted to confront and overcome this fear that my mother had instilled in me. So I turned around.
The man was already out of sight. I shouted 'Joehoe!!!' and started to wave with my hands in the direction in which the man had vanished, completely sure of myself. But...the man in black didn't appear, so I started to wonder...what was wrong? Didn't I create this scary man? Isn't he part of my thoughts? If I 'dream' that he will reappear to talk to me, than that should happen - right?
I thought I might have acted a little bit too impulsively and the fear came back...this time much bigger. I started to run like crazy to my house, thinking, "You're not dreaming at all, silly!" I went into the house, closed the doors, windows and put the curtains down. I didn't speak because I was afraid the man might hear me. I was lying down and falling asleep when suddenly my sister said, "Dad there's a man in front of the door!".
In reality I then woke up and was relieved when I saw my sister sleeping, but also astonished that I fooled myself in the dream.
Robert: Did that lucid dream change how you viewed dreaming?
>From that moment on, I became more interested in writing down my dreams and occasionally I would talk to friends about them. One of them, Marco, told me that this was called a lucid dream. Although it was a new experience for me, I didn't have a clue that I could actually do something with it. But the concept of a lucid dream stayed in the back of my head. Then, in 1999, it popped back into my life. I had a lucid dream that made a great impact on me:
I was having a dream of some friendly people in a room, which had a kind of 'tent' in the middle. Oddly, the tent was fluorescent green, and light was coming out of it. There was a nude young man inside, I could see the shape of his body, and there was the sound of electricity coming from this tent and it smelled like ozone. The young man shouted, "It's amazing!"
I was quite curious and the people asked me if I would like to try it also. I was enthusiastic and approached the tent, which suddenly seemed more like a box with some sort of screen that looked as if one could go through it. I was told to undress and put on a special suit in order to protect me. I noticed I had these strange tattoos on my foot with triangles and a stripe, which would light up if I would go inside, so my foot had to be covered as well.
I asked what I should do then, and they replied that I could create anything that I wanted. So I jumped into the screen and shouted, "I'm going to have a lucid dream!!" I jumped through the screen and my body 'vanished', meaning that I could feel my 'body' but it was different than how it feels to me in real life, and I could see it if I wanted it, but if not, it was invisible. I remember that it all felt very real and vivid, as if my senses were more alert. At first I tried some Kung Fu and Jiu Jitsu, fighting some Chinese guy for fun. But it wasn't as spectacular as I'd hoped for and I got bored, so moved on. I thought I could try to have sex, but I didn't know who to think of having sex with, because I thought it wouldn't be fair to this person in real life if I would try that without asking permission. I moved on and I went to an open area where there was a music festival but I thought there wasn't much to see, so I asked a person walking there were I could find '(dream) space'. He evaded my question so I went on.
I went down a street and saw a really strange creature, which I accidentally touched when I moved by. A very nasty feeling went through me when that happened, and I concluded that it was an evil being. He reminded me of the bodiless creature called 'Azazal', from a movie I once saw, starring Denzal Washington. In my dream he looked like a strange dark cloud and he had a muilkorf (muzzle) over his head. This being spotted me and was going after me. It somehow forced me to go down a set of stairs, I walked backwards, the stairs ended up in some sort of bar with hazy people, criminals and hookers. When I went down, other people were going up and down the stairs and I was surprised that some of them noticed me, others did not. I also had the feeling that I had been there before. The creature didn't follow me any more, but two of his helpers did. One of them came really close to me, and 'touched' me; it felt like an electric shock, extremely unpleasant, which made me decide to create another dreamscape, because I didn't have to be there. Then another dreamscape appeared and the lucidity vanished.
Robert: Amazing! So what was it about these early lucid dreams that intrigued you?
I think my dream life has evolved gradually because of experiences like these. As I said, the first lucid dream made me interested in keeping up a dream journal, because I had the feeling that something more was going on there. When Marco told me about the existence of lucid dreams, I had some understanding of what he was talking about, because I could relate it to my dream about the man in black.
The second lucid dream feels like a gift to me, which pointed the way to this 'new world' I was entering. It raised many questions, that later turned out to be a drive or intention for me to have more lucid dreams and explore the potential of them. Questions like how can I get lucid the next time, why did it end, and how can I prolong it? What kind of body was I experiencing when being lucid, what is that body made of and what can I do with it? Does there exist other worlds or dimensions, or is it purely imagery from my own mind? How could it be that some dream persons were aware of my presence and others not; what does this say? Are there moral and ethical boundaries when being lucid?
Robert: In the beginning, how did you become lucid? Did you have any special techniques? Has that changed over the years?
I surfed the internet and looked up some books to find out about techniques that other people use to induce lucid dreams. For instance: I tried to ask myself a few times a day, "Is this a dream?" - hoping that I would encourage that critical observation in my dreams, too. I tried to re-enter a dream when I woke up in the morning, telling myself I would dream the same thing, but now knowing that I was dreaming. I tried to look at my hands as a signal that I was dreaming (as in Casteneda's book). None of these things worked for me.
Then I read somewhere that if lucid, I could ask a dream character to alert me the next time I was dreaming and that they would usually be loyal to their promises. I had a funny lucid dream about this:
I was lucid and saw this man, I asked for his name and he replied "Otto". As planned I asked, "Can you warn me the next time I'm dreaming?" He immediately replied, "No!" I was really surprised and asked him, "Why not?" Then, Otto said, "Because this is real...."
Whether or not the response is true, I saw my own ambivalent thoughts about the reality of lucid dreams reflected in it. Though I call them 'dreams', to me, they ARE real.
I also tried reality checks like jumping in the air. If I would float, this would assure me that I was dreaming. This works for me, but only when there was already some lucidity, otherwise I couldn't even come up with the idea of jumping. I also created my own reality checks while dreaming, but my mind is good in fooling me. One time I became a bit lucid and stated, "If this is a dream, then in 10 seconds a dream character will appear." I started counting, but it was extremely difficult to do so; I never got to 10! Another time I asked a dream character, "If this was a dream, what would you do?" But this person couldn't come up with anything either, and 'poof!' my little bit of lucidity was gone. This is why I always keep a list of things I want to explore when I might get lucid. It also told me that I have to be careful and specific about how I formulate my goal or intention.
Another reality check I read about was turning on the light switch; if the light doesn't turn on, this would be a signal that I'm dreaming. Well, just like Otto, I think whether or not reality checks work for you, depends on the way you define reality. In my real life, it happened often enough that a light got broken. It didn't help me to discriminate between different states of reality. And here lies the key in the way I become lucid nowadays. And as a matter a fact, it is in exactly the same way as my second lucid showed me already, but what I hadn't grasped at the time. There was this screen which appeared as a border between the dream I was in and the lucid dream I was entering. Going through this screen gave me a bodily sensation or transition, if I might say so. The sensation of going from 'thick and dense' into something 'lighter and elevated', or in other words from a state of 'form' into a state of 'formlessness/'shape-able' became my trigger. Now, I can 'feel' in my dream in the imagery, whether or not there's the possibility to 'shift'.
In my dream journal, I would write, "I feel that I can become lucid" or "it feels permeable." In waking life I think there are also many states of consciousness, and that it is possible to find a suitable way for each person to learn to alter between these different states. I use meditation and shamanic journeys to become more aware of transitions in my consciousness. Practicing this way of discriminating between states, automatically increased the number of lucid dreams I had. I think that our 'dreambody' can also be aware in waking life.
Robert: For me, I often visually can tell that the dream looks "dreamy" and become lucid, but you might be the first person to mention kinesthetic feelings prompting lucidity. As you had more lucid dreams, did you have any surprising lucid experiences?
When I write down a lucid dream, I also try to formulate statements about what I've experienced. Even though the lucid dream is short, or seems insignificant at first. I use these statements as hypotheses when I look over my lucid dreams and think about the lucid dream state. If I can, I try to test them or use them as an affirmation in future lucid dreams.
In one dream I was lucid and wanted to visit a friend, he lives 100 km away. I was flying through the sky and it took a long time, so I decided to land on a house and affirm that this house would be the place where he would be. And it was. The statement that I wrote down was: "There is no distance, you must imagine it and you're there." This way I have collected a bunch of statements (or lucid dream hypotheses), and the main thing that I took from them so far is that for me, belief and intention seem useful ´tools´. If I firmly believe something to happen, the effects seem more manifest in the lucid dreams. Having a clear intention seems to give me a kind of confidence that I'll become lucid if I want to and can learn something in the lucid dream world, and that it will unfold in the direction of my intention.
Robert: I like that idea of really looking at one's lucid dream and trying to pull possible meanings about lucid dreaming and the dream state from that experience. For example, we normally assume that our dream characters are the products of our dreaming mind - as you did in your first lucid dream. Have you ever had an encounter, where the dream character seemed to be independent of you?
In my second lucid dream where I was confronted with this Azazal and his helpers, I assume that the characters were independent of me because of the bad feeling I got when I passed by and the electric shock that I got. It's hard for me to explain, but it didn't feel as if it is was generated from within myself, it didn't feel like the same 'substance' as the images I was creating and the characters that dwell therein (which I consider to be a product of my own mind).
Also, I had a very strange lucid dream once where there appeared a being with three wings on each side with eyes upon each wing, who spoke to me with a very penetrating voice. It felt like the words that it spoke were loaded with energy that is not mine. It said that I haven't been in touch with real evil. Which I interpreted as meaning that it is watching me, but that I will know it, when it is really there. This raises questions to me about 'protection' while dreaming lucid. Although I think that good and bad are relative, it is not to say that nothing unpleasant can happen in lucid dreams, just as in real life.
Robert: This issue of the "independence" or independent agency of some dream characters encountered in lucid dreams seems to come to all experienced lucid dreamers at some point. It's a complicated issue. Have you ever had any interesting lucid dream encounters with dream characters that gave you advice?
I have tended to see dream characters as aspects of myself that somehow relate to my 'core (sense of) self'. I once had a dream in which a girl committed suicide, and when I became lucid later on, I wanted to comfort a friend of this girl who died and told her that it was a dream so she wasn't really dead. This friend shouted, "No", then started crying and ran away. I think this might have something to do with a suppressed aspect of myself. So in that sense, it doesn't really surprise me that dream characters have knowledge and independent action.
I think aspects can be more or less conscious in our-selves and there's a diversity in the way these aspects can be integrated. I had a series of lucid dreams in which I kiss a dream character. I thought that kissing a dream character would be some kind of integration of psychological aspects/contents of my mind, and wanted to see what effect kissing dream characters would have on my lucidity. I expected it to increase. But the opposite occurred mostly. What this might say is something that I want to explore further, perhaps in exploring what different characters stand for. But perhaps there isn't really a connection between assimilation and absorption of dream images/energies and different levels of lucidity one can experience.
Robert: Your point that a suppressed aspect of our selves in the form of a dream character could seem to have independence is a good one and shows how complicated the lessons of lucidity might be. Have you tried any experiments in lucid dreaming? What did you learn?
I tried to visit people from real life, with different outcomes:
I wanted to meet S. I didn't know were to look, so I decided to enter the first house I saw. I was in a street and saw a house with a green wooden door and decided to enter. It's an old house which reminded me of an orphanage, around 1800-1900's. There are stones on the floor, a fire place, and wooden chairs. It's small and sober. There was no one downstairs so I went upstairs. Upstairs it was 'the current time'. I came in a room with a lot of beds next to each other with all kinds of men and women sleeping in them. Between these beds was no bed left for S. I was allowed to lie on a bed next to a tall man with dark hair and a Slavic appearance.
When I woke up I had several associations, the first floor reminded me of the first chakra and it made me think of loneliness, the second floor made me think of the second chakra and of sexual confusion. When I told S. about this dream, he said that he and his wife at one point in time were going to a meeting about Tantra, it was given by a man that fit the description I gave, and it was indeed in a former orphanage and had a green wooden door. He said that there were orgies taking place, he felt embarrassed talking about it, and that he had felt awful about it and didn't want to sleep there. I was astonished by these resemblances.
Also, I tried to visit you, Robert, several times. (Note: Suzanne and I had some interesting lucid dream experiences in which she sought to contact me, and I tried to learn unknown things about her, while lucid. -RW)
In other lucid dreams where I tried to visit people, it wasn't such a "hit" like the dream I just described. But the images did contain symbols that more or less meant something to the person I tried to visit. Although I must say, to some extent, they also applied to me, as well. So maybe I was picking up on something that we had in common.
Robert: Thanks for agreeing to an interview about lucid dreaming, your experiences and ideas. I have to say that when I saw you for the first time in Copenhagen, an inner sense within me just knew that you were an excellent lucid dreamer. Any parting thoughts or comments?
I underestimated the time I needed to translate from Dutch to English, but I really enjoyed answering these questions, since it made some of my ideas more insightful for me while writing about them.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Dreaming the Compassionate Feminine
Jean Campbell
August 2006
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With events in the Middle East turning to Israel's attacks on Lebanon while war in Iraq continues, members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, like people all over the world, have been asking themselves what can be done now? How can we deal with this new crisis?
One answer has been coming through very strongly in a series of dreams about the compassionate feminine, which began during May Tung's trip to China immediately before her death at the end of May.
On May 15, May, who originally dreamed of the Reservoir which is part of the Peace Bridge (see http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/) wrote:
"Ah, now I know why I had to come here. It is really another world. After flying over a long stretch of sand, we got to an Oasis, another world. It is surrounded by the Gobi Desert with the hotel -- like an old palace, layer after layer of courtyards. We are all out here so it's very quiet.
"We went to what I call it the MIRACLE LAKE way up in the sand which surrounded us like a bowl. Up there, there is a small, crescent moon shaped LAKE. As you can guess, it is full of mythical tales about how it came about. "Basically" the celestial beings created this lovely like lake so the mythical Queen Mother could have a place to wash her face. Naturally! The purity, the dignity, dwarfs the human world."
The Queen Mother to whom May refers is the goddess the Chinese call Kuan Yin.
Jody responded on May 16:
"In the desert, the Oasis. The reservoir where the waters of life collect. And of course for the Queen Mother! She must have pure water to wash to show forth her beauty. How this soothes the soul!
"I remember a wonderful book by Jon Blofeld called the Bodhisattva of Compassion, about Kuan Yin or Kannon or same figure by other names. But always the Great Mother of Compassion, She who hears our cries and comes. One chapter tells of a mythic tale of a lake where the figure of Kuan Yin emerges. I wonder as I read your letter if this might be the lake of your experience that Blofeld writes about. In any case it connected for me. I feel Kuan Yin is with you, healing and comforting you."
Having recently joined the Peace Bridge, and not knowing what was happening with May, Mary Whitefeather wrote to the Bridge that same week on May 23 that she had been in meditation and was guided to send the message to the Bridge that Tara (another name for the goddess) should be remembered. "A reminder," Mary said, "that we are all really connected when we pray, meditate, call on, or dream for Peace."
She sent along a beautiful description of the goddess Tara, which reads in part:
"The goddess Tara originated as a Hindu goddess, the Mother Creator, representing the eternal life force that fuels all life...In Sanskrit the name Tara means Star, but she was also called She Who Brings Forth Life, the Great Compassionate Mother, the Embodiment of Wisdom, and the Great Protectoress.
"A version of the Goddess Tara exists in virtually every culture. Indeed it is said that the Goddess Tara will assume as many forms on Earth as there are needs for her by the people."
This message from Mary was met by several members of the Peace Bridge discussion group with dreams they had had about Tara, Kuan Yin, or another embodiment of the Tara figure, the Black Madonna. These dreams were seen as interesting, but it was not until the Israeli attacks on Lebanon began, and the July DaFuMu Dreaming for World Peace had taken place, that they came fully to our attention.
On July 21, Rita wrote:
"Various times during the night I was shown this image: A mother with multiple arms (her head, face, many arms and torso) holding babies and toddlers in the many arms, embracing them in safety. She seemed like a physical mother but her face reflected spiritual peace. For some reason what comes to me when I see the dream image in my mind is the sculpture of Mary and Jesus in "La Pieta" even though what this mother was holding in her arms were live children. Another association I have to the dream image is a painting a woman from Montana did of the Black Madonna surrounded by children and crying people. I will see if I can forward it to you under separate cover."
From Del on July 23, came this dream:
"(A bit later on--I was not quite awake or asleep) I stand with many rows of wonderful birds before me. They are waiting to be sent out on my command, and I am swinging a metal (??) thing full of incense over them. In their talons they hold numerous coloured crystals, and I am to send them out to the war-affected areas: to the vulnerable people, to the wounded, and to those with the most hatred in their hearts."
The question of the meaning of these dreams and what to do with them was asked. Jeremy, who was at the time traveling to the World Peace Conference, replied that he had heard once from an elderly woman in Romania that the way to pray to the Black Madonna was to imagine her alive in one's heart, and talk with her out loud. "This also works," Jeremy said, "with the Compassionate Buddha."
During this time of worldwide pain, those of us on the World Dreams Peace Bridge invite all of the world's dreamers to join with us in this act of holding the goddess of compassion in our hearts, and praying aloud to her.
A final, delightful dream that seems to be part of this chain of dreams came from Kathy on July 24.
"My DaFuMu was a simple wish called up from a memory deep in my mind. It was so simple it just came in the form of a little childhood rhyme:
Middle East Wish
"Philbet Tan Philbet Tan
Where are you?
Philbet tan, Philbet Tan"
EOD
"I woke puzzled with the rhyme still playing in my head - why this?
"Then I remembered: Philbet Tan is a tall handsome intelligent cultivated physiotherapist who has mixed western physiotherapy with Chinese acupuncture. Why him in my dream???? BUT then I remembered: Philbet Tan is a "Baba" a person from the Straits Chinese culture in Malaysia. This is an amazing culture. The Chinese came originally from China (as part of some desire for Chinese influence in the area) but they then mixed with Malays in marriage (perhaps) and then married within their own group of Babas (men) and Nyonyas (women) and produced a wonderful new culture - combining old Chinese customs and language with the customs of each successive group of invaders of their country as well as those of the native Malays. They have their own language (a combination of Malay and Chinese); their own food (Nyonya cuisine - a combination of Malay heat and Chinese styles); their own dress (a combination of Chinese and Malay).They are rightly proud of their distinctiveness - and yet it came from taking in and using and adapting to what is around them.
"It is this I wished for the Middle East: to keep what is valued and to use and adapt to what is valued from outside. i.e. to see others who are different, not as a threat, but as source of interesting new possibilities within your own culture. This allows different cultures to live together in harmony - in fact it encourages differences in cultures BUT within the context of an understanding that difference is a source of growth."
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
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Hope For the Dream Art Underachiever
© 2006 Linda Lane Magallón
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Is displaying your dream art for all to see as intimidating for you as it was for me? I used to be very hesitant about sharing my creative efforts. Our local dream group included several professional artists and I feared my art wouldn't measure up to their standards. It took a while to feel comfortable enough to place productions under public scrutiny. In the meantime, I could encourage my fellow artists by admiring their compositions and listening to the dreams that inspired them. Then I took this supportive attitude one step further. I bought some of their art. Paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil now grace various rooms in my home. Perhaps such high quality works serve as subliminal models for my Inner Artist. I hope.
My first artistic attempts were simple sketches in the margins of my dream journal. Other dreamers might make intricately embellished journals with pages ringed in lovely, ornate borders, but mine was more along the line of stick figures in a well-worn spiral notebook. Because these minimalist black and white shapes didn't satisfy a fondness for color and detail, I began clipping photos out of magazines. The photos weren't an exact match with the productions of my sleeping mind, but, then, neither were my drawings. After years of washed-out hues, I was now dreaming in vivid Technicolor® and I liked to look at the magazine pictures to celebrate the fact. This practice led to even more colorful dreams. Gazing at pictures prior to sleep turned out to be a successful form of dream incubation.
I put the magazine photos into a scrapbook and brought them to a group meeting to share while I related my dreams. It soon became evident that some elements in dreams were better understood when the dream group had something to see. Other commercially constructed products were useful visual aids, too, like plastic stickers and stamps or the black and white clip art I could fill in like a kid playing with a coloring book. Once I designed with Colorforms® (these small plastic geometric shapes can be peeled off and relocated anywhere on a board). Maybe nobody else was very impressed with the results of my hard work, but I was happy to create something bright and vivid.
When I published *Dream Network Bulletin*, I solicited drawings from the dreamwork community to make the newsletter visually appealing. One of our most consistent contributors was Suzanna Hart. Her expertly drawn dream cartoons were quite humorous. I noticed that, synchronistically, a few of her drawings strongly resembled my own dreams, and asked if she wouldn't mind if I matched them up. She readily agreed. Then I asked if she would illustrate one of my dreams specifically. This, she found much harder to do because it required more concentration. Suzanna told me that some of her drawings were doodled while she was talking on the telephone. Amazing. My doodles were more like firework explosions in the midst of dark smudges.
I was also pleased when a dream I submitted to another newsletter was sketched by yet a different artist. This was fun: having other people draw my dreams. It was extra flattering when other folks had dreams about me and decided to illustrate them. I was surprised to be pictured in pencil and computer graphics software. I also commissioned more elaborate artwork: plaster cast masks of my dream characters and a silver pin depicting a flying dream.
As much as I appreciated the gifts and admired the purchases, they all had the same drawback. They were based on other people's inner pictures, not mine. No matter how much detail was in the dream I related, the imagery it inspired was not my own. Nobody has invented a dream machine to print out exact copies of our visual recollections, so artists have to rely on their own memories to fill in the blanks. Their interpretations varied from my remembered dreams, sometimes a little, often a lot. Even my crude contours could be more accurate representations.
My inhibitions finally crumbled when the dream group began making art during our meetings. Guess what? Even a trained artist could be awkward when dealing with new media. It was important for all of us to realize that dreams held center stage, not artwork, so we didn't have that sort of pressure to perform. Instead, our focus was on experimentation. Over time, we tried a variety of mediums including charcoal pencils and Cray-Pas®, watercolor and poster paint. Most was done on regulation sized art paper, but I especially enjoyed the time we used sheets of butcher paper as big as we were. A visiting dreamworker took one look at my oversized production and said, "Oh, I had a dream like that." I doubt he would have recognized our dreaming parallels from a verbal description, because the similarities were of color and form.
We also tried 3-D art: milk cartons, egg cartons, colored paper, bits of felt, yarn and plenty of white paste. Plus wire and glitter, Popsicle® sticks and toothpicks, Play-Doh® and modeling clay. These elementary school supplies can tempt the Inner Child to come out and play. Children's art doesn't have to be professional, does it?
One technique I especially like is collage. It uses magazine pictures like those in my scrapbook, but these are cut into pieces, then mixed and matched with others to form an altogether new scene. Sometimes I depict an old dream; sometimes the picture I create incubates a new one. I've practiced until I can create images credible enough to be used in dream telepathy experiments. One of them doubles as the cover art for this month's issue of *Electric Dreams.*
None of the commercial underpinnings produce precise counterparts of my dream characters, though. I'd like to upgrade from cartoons and stick figures but I haven't taken art courses to learn how to illustrate the physical form. So, I cheat. I'll find a picture of a person with the correct general features and trace it. This serves as a template while I attempt to change the details to more closely resemble the image in my head. If I make mistakes, I can either erase the minor errors or trace the picture over again. I still can't draw correct human proportions free style, but my renditions are improving with this copycat practice. Maybe some day
If you think you have a dream art black thumb like me, here's my advice. Try finger-paints. We dreamers can so easily limit ourselves with the expectation that we must create serious adult masterpieces, because, of course, we're such serious adults. (Ha!) But if we invoke the Inner Child, instead, we'll have a lot more fun. And, we might even learn something new.
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)
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Dream: Sea Witch
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 14 apr 2006 08:31
DREAM : sea witch
=( yesterday was thursday. i spent a couple hours in the repair shop at tech advanced. third time in as many weeks that the crappy windows XP machine was there. the repair tech needed to see how i operated the software to get the crash. it happened there just it does at home. the dvdr drive has stopped burning disks, probably because the operating system got updated so the old software stops working and we have to go buy the newer versions of the same programs doing exactly what they used to do. this has happened to me several times in the last few years with the microsoft products. when i finish burning my dr who collection from VHS tape, i will be glad to see the end of this expensive unstable system. i got to bed around midnight and read for an hour before going to sleep. )=
and so we make ready to put out to sea in iron ships. this one is called 'sea witch' and her crew is carefully selected. the first member is the handsome greek. he is chosen for his skill with history and in case we need to know about the shallow seas, mainly the mediterranean or the gulf of mexico. next is the young naval officer fresh graduated from annapolis. he is to keep continuity with the traditional naval command. the diver is selected for contact with the deep and the gunner is needed for defense from air forces. a couple girl scouts complete the basic crew. they will carry water when we need it.
my first assignment with this crew starts from the port of boston, so i am back in massachusetts. it feels like coming home. the waters here are shallow and cold but the fishermen quickly go out into the deep atlantic.
the video wall of my quarters is in full use by two teenage boys.
one of them cuts back the room lights to just a pink glow which causes all the white areas of the LCD display to resemble a sunset.
the screen saver here is a video game similar to mario or donkey kong showing cartoon creatures in close up. there is a ground line with a couple dips and elevations that moves at a usual constant rate. the dilemma is a huge brown soil mass that descends from the top of the screen to crush any of the cartoon creatures still on the ground line. the player can adjust the movement of the ground line so some of the creatures can escape before being mashed by the soil mass.
one of the two boys is rather well skilled at clearing the ground line before the grinding soil mass can get to the creatures.
the water is still shallow where i have to wade out to test the first solutions. it seems that there is an attack upon our evolution, causing some of it to unravel. survival of the fittest will no longer operate as it should due to the intervention of angels and demons brought into our dimension through the rites of religious fanatics. they feel that these intercessions will put our world back to the conditions they believe it has always been. they are wrong, of course, but there are no proofs possible with superstition.
the first angel that i meet moving on the face of the water quickly converts its body of wispy vapor into a clear plastic rectangle. if i had not been looking directly at it, i would have missed its conversion and assumed that a slight fog had evaporated. i fetch up the lime green floating plastic piece and keep it to prevent its escape. soon i find another piece of flotsam that fits with the first like a locked puzzle. this should not be too difficult if they all join together into a coherent whole, but i can not rely upon such good fortune. i shall have to take these back to the sea witch for a conjuration in order to discover what the sea waters around here can tell us.
i go back to the narrow dirty beach of the harbor with my two trapped angels in their plastic shapes. on shore i find ann marie, my former girlfriend from here, waiting on me. it is good to see her again.
she has the left side of her face painted bright cosmetic colors in an abstract pattern of modern art, resembling kadinsky or paul klee patterns. it looks nice but the thickness of the paint on her face gives a slight metallic taste to her lips when i kiss her.
we get aboard a passing bus which will take us back to where the sea witch is docked. ann marie sits close to me, leaning into me to keep an intimate contact which surprises me a little, but i am grateful for the touch. she whispers in my ear that she hopes to spend the night with me, but i am not certain if the conjuration with the angels will allow that. evolution can not be allowed to be replaced with any psychotic abominations that the deranged imaginations of zealots can arbitrarily dream up. i tell her that i would like that too if it can be arranged. ann marie seems happy with that.
some soldiers have gotten on the bus. they are thick necked marines dressed in olive drab fatigues. seeing us, one of them makes a rude statement about the subordinate role that women ought to assume in military operations. he is obviously eyeing annie's well turned body which she has pressed up against me. i can tell that she is not going to take this. she pulls away from me and moves up to some empty seats a few rows up.
when she gets there, she turns slowly back toward the marines and stretches out with a sinuous provocative luxury. "there is nothing about a woman that is subordinate." she says to them. i hope she does not get them too riled up because four or five marine grunts would be rather difficult to subdue. still, she appears confident of herself. i admire the way she looks even if her actions are not that wise just now.
=( awake at 08:15. ann marie was not the last woman i knew in massachusetts, but i never really understood why she ended our relationship. it probably had something to do with uncertainty and her inability to commit to anything permanent with me, but i shall never know about that. she always insisted that her family liked me and that probably sustained us longer than otherwise. i have no other associations with the rest of the content of this dream. it was somewhat challenging to get the dense layers of understandings woven together in the manner in which they crowded together in my mind, but i think this is about the proper description of what happened. it seems that 'sea witch' was the name of the small ship but that there was actually a witch hidden somewhere, not listed in the initial roster of crew, to do the conjurations needed to defend evolution from the supernatural intrusions. i suspect that if ann marie and i had gotten back to the ship with the trapped angels, we would have seen her. )=
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. although fate may defeat the efforts of virtue to avert misfortune,
=== it cannot deprive us of the power to endure it with equanimity.
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DreamRePlay
David Jenkins, PhD
Dreams and Speaking the Truth
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In waking life it is often easier to settle for less than the whole truth. Convention, politeness, diplomacy, ambition, obligations and other issues take priority, making half truths, or even fibs and falsehoods more likely. The ability to say something in a way that avoids revealing our true beliefs is a skill we all must learn.
The danger is that we start to believe our own half truths.
Truth is an issue in dream work when your dream self is too constrained to say what he or she really wants and needs to say. The great benefit of dream work is that you have no reason not to speak truthfully to dream characters. You are totally free to work out what you really believe and then practice how best to say it in a clear and non-threatening way, which will support you in your waking life.
Sissys Dream
I dream I am walking down the street on my way home. I see a cute little school girl. She is selling kittens and asks me to buy one. I tell her that I am in a hurry to get home.
In fact Sissy felt like saying, No way. Potty training a cat is that last thing Id want to do. Sissy didnt want to hurt the girls feelings but she hid her own feelings by implying that, if she were not too busy, she would have taken a kitten.
I asked her how she could tell the whole truth to the girl without hurting her feelings. After some experimenting, Sissy decided to say: I would not be a good person to look after a kitten because I dont really like animals and you need to find someone who would really enjoy your kitty. That answer allowed Sissy to be true to her own feelings as well as kind.
Toms Dream
I dream I am with a group of people from work and an old acquaintance, Dan, comes up and says hello. We are all going to a conference. Because he is friendly, I feel I ought to be friendly back. I give him my business card. But I have a funny feeling that I shouldnt. I say, Call me, lets have lunch sometime.
When Tom woke up, he felt hopping mad at himself. In waking life, Dan had stolen money from his friend Jane when they were all in graduate school. Tom was so strongly influenced by convention that he was outwardly friendly even when he didnt feel that way.
We first explored what Tom really wanted to say to Dan (on the lines of You louse! Give back the money.) The problem for Tom was that he and Dan were not alone. That dream context was not the time or place to show his anger at Dan. Tom tried saying, Nice to see you again but realized that was completely untrue. Then he said Have a nice day. That was acceptable because it was meaningless. Then Tom said, It brings back memories to see you again, which was far closer to his real meaning. Both he and Dan would understand the implication.
Summary
In waking life we are under a great pressure to avoid the truth. We fear that the truth will hurt other people or that the truth will be used against us. Looking good is often easier. But, over time, we can lose sight of what it is we truly believe.
Saying what you believe in a way that is acceptable to the listener is a skill that needs to be learned. You can start learning this process in your dreams. Even though these examples might seem simplistic, they were powerful experiences for the dreamers and helped them to speak up for themselves in waking life.
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From the Dream Section editor Kat Peters-Midland :
Here is the latest collection of dreams with great amount of feelings of panic, sadness, fear, and inspiration. One dreamer watches disaster, while another watches her child drown. A different dreamer is given a moving book, yet another dreamer has a dead relative visit. Another person dreams of a python-like snake slithering across their uncles feet.
Dream title: Don't take me away
Dream date: Oct 2005
Dreamer name: MK
Dream text: I was in a library and I noticed a little girl. I wanted to help her with her studies. Then I found the librarian screaming. While I helped the little girl, the doors burst open and an Aryan man approaches me. He aims a gun at the little girl but I stop and say, "Please don't shoot her! Shes only a little girl!" He said, "ok, well I have a message for you....tell your grandfather to go back home to the river." Then he aims at me with the gun and I wake up in a cold sweat.
Dream comments: the rally of illegal immigrants happened on May 1st 2006 only 7 months after this dream. My grandfather is legal!
Dream title: Not Your General Hospital
Dream date: 6-27-05
Dreamer name: MK
Dream text: I am pushing someone in a wheelchair. I don't know who it is. I start to notice that it is my grade school, but we are actually in a gym. I see my friends mom and I start to run away and run through the doorway. The doors close and I end up in a hospital lobby. The chairs are very bright and I look out the window. The lobby is not on the main level. The nurse tells me that there is a restaurant /theatre on the other side of the doors. I walk and hear my footsteps
and I am attracted to the bright red neon lights in this theatre. The statue of a woman holding a flag looks familiar. This isn't a movie theatre; it's more like a Broadway theatre. I am seated and I notice my clothes change and I am instantly a flapper. The play is a musical dance number and the girl is singing, "youre out of grade school now...and New York is getting closer to you now...." I join them on stage and dance my cares away. The year 1929 becomes 2005 and I walk out of the theatre. I see my grandma and I tell her that my shoes are new.....I don't understand why I said that. But then this soccer girl wearing purple asks for my autograph and I say, "Ill give it tomorrow..." and then I woke up.
Dream comments: There was a tremor the next morning. And I was greatly inspired.
Dream title: lucid dreaming
Dream date: none given
Dreamer name: Mr. Muse
Dream text: Shortly after my grandma passed away I had a very intense lucid dream...a dream visitation. I was skating down her street on a very beautiful evening; I could feel unusual warmth from the sun and breeze from the sky. I was in a depressed mood but at that time but I was enlightened by the evening. As I was passing her house I knew my Nana was gone and not to look at the house, I was to just keep on skating. At first I glanced over and saw her roses in the front yard then Nana standing to the left waving me over. I fell off my board and boogied over to her as fast as I could, in tears. I was crying hysterically and she put her arms around me and I could feel exactly what her arms felt like when she hugged me. She said," dear, you need to let me go, Im where I need to be." I kept saying this isnt real youve passed away how can this be? She told me that she loved me and the family. Then she told me to wake up. I woke as if I just had a dream; I was falling.
Dream comments: I frequently have strong visitations from elders, loved ones, faceless archetypes, and some others which at the present moment are indescribable. These usually occur in REM or when Ive smoked herb or have taken a psychedelic.
Dream title: Snake at his feet
Dream date: 7/23/06
Dreamer name: princessT
Dream text: We were at a bar-b-q of some sort. The first person I see is her sister who made herself to look like the one who has passed. But I knew who it was and found this awkward but not frightened by it.
I kept asking for my uncle (the father of the one who passed). My cousin pulls me in his direction and points over to a tree and says "there he is". As I look in his direction I see him by the tree and down by his feet I notice a large python-like snake slithering across his feet. No one seemed concerned of this nor was I. My father (my uncle's brother) stood next to me. We commented on the snake as it buried itself into the ground through a hole. My father merely made comment how the snakes burrowing did not affect the green grass around it. All kept saying is why is it there? Why across uncle Tony's feet? Why don't we feel threatened? I woke up or went somewhere else I don't remember.
Dream comments: my cousin has passed in recent weeks. I think I'm worried about my uncle and the snake represents the worry but by it going away and not being threatening tells me he is going to be alright. My fathers comments tell me life goes on. I just don't get my cousin wanting to be her sister...
Dream title: Book
Dream date: July 21, 2006
Dreamer name: sojourner
Dream text: A book was suddenly in my hands. It seemed based on most secret power of words. I had a true feeling of virginal awe as I read through it. Word by word the book was very clear. I HAD to share it.
The title was an analogy, one that connected powerfully. I tried to memorize it. A little panic started, why? Suddenly I was trying to hold on to what I remembered.
I knew I could keep the title by heart...that would give conscious minds something to start with. The letters fell away. The whole analogy slipped. Wah! Almost in a panic, I asked a woman if I had the title right.
"No, you are off on the whole second part of the analogy."
I looked fast for an author's name, to find that book. Were there several contributors? All the pages got harder to read. I did talk to someone I thought was an author.
I must have cheered about his work, because he was suddenly adamant the book was a compilation of other minds, certainly not just his.
Did I still think he put it together so well? He was inspired. I must have asked him again why he wouldn't present himself as the primary author. He said he didn't play with stuff like Theology.
Dream comments: none given
Dream title: How did I get this way?
Dream date: month of April
Dreamer name: none given
Dream text: I had a dream I was pregnant. I had no clue who was the father was, and I had no recognition that I'd even had sex. I'm keep thinking that I'M still a virgin!
Dream comments: I am still a virgin, to this day, yet I have had the same dream three times within a month. Every time I am in a different part of my home and I never interact with anyone. I asked a friend about these dreams and he told me that it could mean rebirth.
Dream title: Avoiding disaster
Dream date: various
Dreamer name: Mike6147
Dream text: I don't like heights but either find myself in, or risk (dare myself) traveling. In one or more aging, clearly unsafe, elevators, going to the upper floors of a very tall building; on at least one occasion, I have gone right to the top of the building and outside, then experienced vertigo.
The elevator(s) swing, stop between floors and generally exhibit all the tendencies associated with elevator fear, but until this morning's dream, I have never experienced an actual fall.
This mornings dream:
I'm traveling in at least two elevators, same familiar style, building and emotion (sometimes daring). I'm with someone I meet weekly at a Prayer Group meeting, an elderly woman. At one point I fool someone into thinking I'm taking a short journey down, but instead I 'dare' to take the elevator up. The elevator(s) break down.
Next scene: I'm entering the lobby and sit at the bar with an (unknown) familiar person. I ask the bartender if the elevators are still out of service. He says yes. Next there's a rumbling, getting louder. I know the stuck elevator is falling to the ground. Several elevators crash to the lobby, one on top of the other. I see the occupants (many) of one falling elevator, floating in the car as it falls. I see (fairly sanitized, no blood and guts) crushed bodies in the wreckage. I wake up (not suddenly, no sweating).
Dream comments: I rarely remember dreams (and almost always sleep well) but this morning I had a dream which I realized was related to an occasional recurring dream I have had over the years.
Dream title: child drowning
Dream date: 4/15/05 and 05/02/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: one year ago I dreamed that my 2 year old son had drowned. Dream comments: Two days ago my 5 year old daughter had the same dream. She never heard me sharing that dream.
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