E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Subscribe: electric-dreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: electric-dreams-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Subscribe Online: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Volume #11 Issue #1 January 2004 ISSN# 1089 4284 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Download a cover for this issue: http://tinyurl.com/32vyb o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ News: ASD International Conference Research requests, Web updates, and more! ++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange Lucy Gillis ++ Article: Event-Clumps and Dreams Linda Lane Magallón ++ Column: The Waves: 09. Dreaming with DNA Nick Cumbo ++ Review: Review of Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair Jeremy Taylor ++ Article: Transgressive Dreamworks: Theorizing the Exceeding of Limits and the Creation of Improvizones Richard Wilkerson +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from December, 2003 Host: Elizabeth Westlake XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX D E A D L I N E : January 21 deadline for February 2004 submissions XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Editor's Notes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Welcome to the January 2004 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreamwork online. If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, please join us on dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com and we will guide you to the resources & groups you need. To join send an e to dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Lucy Gillis has brought Electric Dreams readers a wide variety of lucid dream experiences that have delved deeply into the topic. This month she is including an except from Lucid Dream Exchange by Certified Hypnotherapist, Lee Betchley. Ms Betchley discusses the benefits of lucid dreaming and hypnotherapy. Our mind is not a camera. And so our dreams are not movies that literally represent objects. Linda Lane Magallón, author of _Mutual Dreaming_, suggests that one way of looking at multiply determined dreaming is through "event-clumps." These clumps of affect, thought, sensations and memories combine and express those things that impact us the most. Be sure to read about them in "Event-Clumps and Dreams" Nick Cumbo newsletter and column reports on the explorations of the Sea Life community. Sea Life, the main web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring together a circle of dreamers from around the globe, collaborating in dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself.' James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, reported stumbling upon the double-helix image for the DNA chain through his dream of a spiral staircase. Picking up on the theme, this month, Nick sets out to teach us more about the role of our DNA structure, and it's relationship with the conscious mind. I'm including a preliminary piece of my own on Transgressive Dreamworks. This is an essay that where I would like to call out dream theorists or dreamwork theorists and invite them to submit articles on dreaming that push the limits of old theories in an attempt to create novel alternatives. If interested, please check out "Transgressive Dreamworks: Theorizing the Exceeding of Limits and the Creation of Improvizones." Our Global Dreaming News will bring you up to date on the events in dreams and dreaming. Send Peggy news items at web@dreamtree.com A couple items I didn't get into the news: - If you would like to be on the Lucidity Newsletter: Send a blank email message to lucidity-on@mail-list.com - The BADG website is changing its address, Bay Area Dreamwork Group members please make note of this: http://www.dreamgate.com/badg Our Dream Section is edited by Elizabeth Westlake. If you have dreams you want published enter them anonymously in the form at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Or you can put them in the dream flow directly by subscribing to: dream-flow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com -------------------- For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one of the many resources: http://www.dreamtree.com http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo) http://www.dreamofpeace.net/community/electricdreams/ -------------------- See you in February, -Richard Wilkerson /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S January 2004 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, web@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/ This Month's Features: NEWS - World Dreams Peace Bridge (WDPB) - WDPB gains Aid for Children Contact - ASD Dream Calendar Available - Active Dreamwork: Discovering the Meaning of Your Dreams - Bag 'o' Dreams Application - Planetary Dream 2003 (French) - Berkeley Dream Drop-In RESEARCH & REQUESTS - Bring a Dream for the Holiday Tree - How to Apply Dream Work Survey - Dream Plane Project - Seeking CFS patients for study in Boston WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES - Dream Journals Preparing for Death - Stimson's Web - BADG site moving DREAM CALENDAR for December 2003-January 2004 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> World Dreams Peace Bridge Week-o-Dreamin : December 21 & 28, 2003 Dear Dreamers, This is an invitation to join members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge in a week of dreaming between December 21 and December 28, 2003. There are many reasons for our desire to do this DaFuMu, and if you'd like to read farther,you can see some of the discussion we've had about the subject on the Peace Bridge. Like Kathy says, the name for this season could be "Christmas/Hanukkah/Beginning of the Forbidden (Sacred) Months/Winter Solstice." She adds: Of course we could write these festivals in ANY ORDER! Several members of the Peace Bridge, from around the world, gave reasons why they feel that this time is particularly important to humanity. Here are a few of them: After hearing that Buddhist monks had been working to keep the war and conflict at an energetic level rather than a physical one, Ralf replied: I feel too, this is an important time to dream for peace. I feel it is a kind of turning point, as if international system is a little bit more unstable now that Saddam seems to be caught. A good time for playing with chance, a good time to dream the system into more peaceful directions, me thinks. Anna added: yes- and not only 'even though' we are tired - sometimes I feel as though the weariness is in response to that background 'screaming', of which we are all aware but cannot always grapple with...to bring it into the light of our awareness is actually Less stressful, to deal with it directly -sometime s I wonder if the tiredness isn't at least in part from the effort to maintain 'regular' life, while it goes on... The spirit of the Solstice twines in so well with this, doesn't it? -of the darkest day turning to the birth of the light...I have always appreciated the sense that we each have to , and get to, partake in that- by each facing up to our own inner shadows, we can work with them , move through them to the dawn...we can turn our shoulder to the great turning of the wheel, and right now it turns towards Light.. So we folks of the Bridge decided to dream world peace for a week, and to join with other groups doing some similar things. You will find a list of specific dates and events at the end of this post, but before you look, you will probably want to see some of the suggestions that members of the Peace Bridge have made. Victoria asks: What is one peaceful image you like to include? For me it is blue generally, and the idea of candles being alight around the world - particularly during the times that seem darkest. Nick wonders whether we can include general projects, that don't have a specific date for dreaming, like, " Can I make a special request for a dafumu for Chayim's Hands Across the Jordan project on a particular day of that week. I think our help could make a big difference :) My answer to this is that I would like to see a focus on the Hands Across the Jordan project, the Aid for Children project, and the Peace Train on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week respectively. More about all of these projects can be found at the World Dreams web site www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org >>> ASD 2004 DREAM ART CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE New from the ASD Development Committee is a gift which will be given to any member who pledges $250 or more, but can also be given by members to themselves or others. It's the ASD 2004 Dream Art Calendar, containing a dozen prints from some of your favoritie dream artists. Free with pledge to ASD and $19.95 from the ASD Store: View the calendar and its contents online at the ASD store http://www.cafeshops.com/asdreaming.8797286 The Association for the Study of Dreams has many projects active right now, including a pledge drive, online auctions, preparation and registration for the international conference next year in Copenhagen and regional activity as well. We don't always cover the full range of their activities, so you may want to sign up for their free e-mail newsletter at asd-enews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com >>>> The World Dreams Peace Bridge finds Aid for Children Contact Due to all the activity since the winter solstice, the WDPB moderator, Jean Campbell, will not have time to put together a View from the Bridge column this month. But she does report that they have had success in finding someone who will be able to take Aid for Children packages to Iraq. Jean wishes Happy Holidays to all from the World Dreams Peace Bridge. Major stories happening, so look for the February View. >>>> ACTIVE DREAMWORK: DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF YOUR DREAMS Saturday, January 31, 2004, 9:30 AM-4 PM Center for Lifelong Learning--Briarcliff Campus Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322 Celebrate the New Year by making a dream date with leading experts from the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD)*** at the Second ASD South Eastern Regional Meeting co-sponsored with The Center for Lifelong Learning at Emory University. Learn how to use dreams to guide and illuminate your journey through waking life. Make important connections among dream images, colors, and story lines. Discover the three core lessons essential for personal growth. Find practical answers to personal and professional problems. Explore innovative methods for extracting the wisdom of dreams. Experience a dream group and its benefits in finding the meaning of your dreams. Educate yourself further by purchasing selected dream books available for sale. Bring your dreams and a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. Some highlights of presentations and presenters bios: Dreamwork for Exploring Your Personal Myth. Bob Hoss will teach a simple but powerful technique, a unique Gestalt-derived approach, that brings dream images to life, permitting them to speak, stimulating inner awareness of fragments of self that seek integration. You will be guided through imagery, color, and exploration of associated emotional memories and decisions that may have become part of your personal mythic structure, perhaps impeding personal progress. A special closure technique, using the context of the dream, will be modeled to help transform your personal myths and to provide practical guidance in waking life. A handout is provided. Bob Hoss, MS, is President of the international Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD), and Dream Psychology Instructor at Arizona's Scottsdale College. Principally trained in Gestalt Therapy, Bob has also done unique research on Color in Dreams and the works of Carl Jung, combining various disciplines in his teaching, writing, and workshops. He is the author of The Language of Dreams. Dream Mentors: Spiritual Lessons We Learn and Teach in Dreams. David Gordon's workshop highlights the experience of mentoring and being mentored in our dreams. Participants that dream mentors teach us and that we learn to teach others within our dreams. David will explore three archetypal spiritual lessons essential to our emotional and spiritual growth--the need to release control, judgment and attachment. David Gordon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and founder of the Dreamwork Institute in Norfolk, VA. He conducts dream sharing groups and dream retreat workshops, gives radio and TV interviews throughout the US and Canada, and writes extensively on dreams. His book, Dreaming the Path of Your Heart: Understanding Your Dreams Through the Mythic Journey, is pending publication. David is currently a Board member and Membership Chair of the ASD. What I Learned the Past Ten Years About Working Dreams in Groups. Bob Haden will share his experiences and guidance in this introduction to a group dream sharing exercise. He will move the participants into a time for dream sharing within groups-the ideal situation for beginning to understand the positive impact dreams can make on your life. Bob Haden, MDiv, STM, DAPA, is a Jungian Psychotherapist, Pastoral Counselor, Priest. Bob is the founder and director of The Haden Institute in Charlotte, NC which offers certified training in spiritual direction and dream group leadership on a national basis. Workshop Closure: Living the Dream Justina will lead the group in making meaning and incorporating the lessons learned during the day into daily life. Rituals will be introduced that help keep the dream alive in your life. Justina Lasley,M.A., is your meeting hostess and dream group facilitator. She has 14 years of experience in working with dreams and researching dreams throughout the U.S. and Europe. She is a member of the Board of Directors of ASD and the Moderator of an international on-line study group for dream leaders. Justina is completing a book, Honoring the Dream: Leading the Way. Fee: $80 with 15% discount ($68) for ASD members (join at ASDreams.org) or full-time students with I.D. To reserve a place, register on-line (secure) after January 2, 2004* at HYPERLINK "http://www.emory.edu/eve" www.emory.edu/eve (Master Card and Visa), by phone at 404-727-6000 from 9-4 (EST), or mail in registration form. You will be notified of conference location after registration * You may pre register before January 2 by going to DreamsWork.us and filling in the information form or by e-mailing Justina at DrmKpr@aol.com. For more information contact: Justina Lasley at DrmKpr@aol.com or 233 South Plaza Court, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 >>>> Bag 'o' Dreams Bag O' Dreams is an application for the exploration of dreams. Bag O' Dreams does not interpret dreams: instead it provides a way to search dreams for related themes and content using information retrieval techniques. You can enter a list of terms and phrases associated with a concept or theme and Bag O' Dreams will automatically identify the dreams that are most likely to be relevant to it. You can also start from a particular dream and find other dreams that closely match it in content or generate a list of common themes contained in the dream. Starting from the level of individual words, you can discover which other terms are commonly associated with it, how often it occurs and display it in the context of your dreams. Starting from a collection of dreams, Bag O' Dreams can automatically partition these into sets of dreams that are thematically related. Bag O' Dreams is a Java application that requires JavaTM 2 Runtime Environment 1.4 or higher to work http://helen7.home.comcast.net/bag/bag.html >>>> Rêve Planétaire 2003 // Planetary Dream 2003 Bonjour à tous de la part de Sunny, Les rêves planétaire reçus pour l'instant pour la session 2003 peuvent être lus à l'adresse suivante: http://psykoon.free.fr/oniroom/index.php?&act=SF&f=8 Vous pouvez bien entendu les commenter, ajouter vos impressions ou quoi que ce soit. Je vous invite par la même occasion à vous inscrire sur l'oniroom pour y participer pleinement :) Profitez-en! Sunny, Fils de Roger & Administrateur Oniroom >>>> Berkeley Dream Drop-In Drop-In Dream Group with David Jenkins, Ph.D. If you find your dreams fascinating, this is the place to go. If you have a "big" dream – one that you still remember several years later, this is a place to discuss it. If you have a recurring dream or a nightmare you'd like to go away, this will help. WHEN: Saturday Mornings. 10am – noon. REGISTER: email davidj@practicaldreamwork.com or call 510 644 2369 WEB: http://www.practicaldreamwork.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> BRING A DREAM FOR THE HOLIDAY TREE (Reviving a BADG tradition...on the Internet!) For over a decade, the Bay Area Dreamworker's Group (BADG) had a December tradition: bring a dream to hang on the Christmas tree at the annual holiday party. The custom has waned over the past few years, but I'd like to bring it back. You are invited to join the tradition. But this year the "tree" is on the Internet. Christmas tree dreams are special. Unlike dreams we may present to ourselves, these dreams are gifts to other people and thus they have the unique attributes of sociability. For instance, because a dream is often handwritten, I've encouraged folks to remember that somebody else has to read it! As a result, handwriting vastly improves. We've even had gifts of calligraphy. Of course, you don't have to worry about penmanship on-line. But you might want to review your dreams and break them down into easy pieces to read instead of one large chunk. A delightful thing happens when we shift focus from ourselves to other folks in this manner. Our dreaming selves seem to follow our example, in their own individual ways. The dreams we incubate or expect to appear (like a child waiting for Santa Claus) tend to become...more. More colorful, coherent, amazing, intriguing or story-like. Some of my favorite dreams of the year occur around Christmas time. Would you like to pin a dream to the holiday string? Simple suggest to your dreaming self that she put on her holiday best and come to the party. Then, when she responds, bring your dream gift to the ASD bulletin board to share. Here's the instructions. 1. Surf to http://www.asdreams.org/UltraBoardzzz/UltraBoard.cgi 2. Click on "Association for the Study of Dreams Discussion Board." 3. Click on "Bring a Story Dream to the Holiday Tree." 4. Read as you please. 5. To add your contribution, scroll down to the last entry. In that box you will see 4 options, 2 within and 2 below the message. Select the "REPLY" option below it. (CAUTION: Do not hit the "Post" option...this will start a whole new string and you don't want to do that!) 6. Enter the all the starred* information. Under "Nickname" you might write your full name, first name, or your Internet handle. "Symbol" is optional. Do not change the "Subject" line. (Hint: I compose my memo in Microsoft Word beforehand, then simply copy it to the "Message" box.) 7. If you want to review your message before you post it (and make sure it's all right), select "Preview your post and/or attach a file?" under the memo and the box will become an "X." Then select "Post." 8. Read your message. To CORRECT any errors, return to the previous screen by using your WWW page return button or arrow. To go ahead and post, select "Post." A reminder: ASD doesn't allow dream interpretation on its board, but you won't have to worry about that for this project. The project will be active for the entire month of December. I've already put up a sample dream and there will be more to view shortly. Enjoy! Happy holiday dreams, Linda Lane Magallón >>> How to Apply Dreamwork Survey I am exploring career applications for dream work. From your perspective and experience, have you identified areas other than psychotherapy or sleep lab research, where you see an opportunity for dreamwork to be applied? If you had the opportunity to apply dedicated resources in the form of new graduates, to open new doors for this work, where would you send us? Thanks so much. Bitsy bbroughton0024@sbcglobal.net >>> Dream Plane Project Dear Dreamers, Light Workers and Healers I am starting a Dreaming Project on the Dream Plane. I have finished my studies and am ready to begin. My 7-year cycle that has ended, after my awakening and self-healing begins a new 7 year cycle. I am grateful for the continuing guidance in my work by teachers, friends, relatives, students, God/desses and Ascended Beings. THE PROJECT AND PURPOSE: To energetically begin to remove blocked energy and clear, purify, bless and set compassion and love 'intention' of 9 specific Ancient Temples on the 'Curved' matrix line across the Earth. [Most are familiar with the 'Linear' Grid Matrix Line of the Ancient Pyramids around the globe but these are not the Temples.] This work will begin to open Portals to remove Old Systems of Duality [Pyramidal Societies] and begin to open Wholeness of the Cycular or feminine energy and the New Systems of the coming Egalitarian Societies. The list of Temples were given directly to me through the Ancient Antlantian Thoth [Djewty], as he now passes the Ancient Sword of the Sacred Masculine to the Sacred Feminine within all of us. VOLUNTEERS: I am seeking those who can work in DreamTime at night or during the day. Those who are experienced with Energetic Healing, Energetic Space Clearing in the physical realms, those working with transformational Water Healing, Sound Healers and/or those experienced with Psychopomps. If you are an advanced Dreamer without these backgrounds, you will be considered with your particular gifts of the ability to hold sacred space. These requirements above are not absolutes. Any work including Shamanism, Feng Shui, Reiki Master/Practitioner, Pranic Healing, Cranio-Sacral etc. is also helpful. The volunteer must not be associated to just one singular religion or indigenous path, but a Rainbow person who accepts and embraces all teachings and ancient teachings. Understanding of Lunar Alchemy or systems beyond basic Mayan principles and use the Lunar energy as guidance is helpful but not mandatory. Deeply Spiritual practices of Meditatation, Yoga, Prayer, Intent or Affirmation work also helpful if these are your particular path. Global Reverence of Love as the Divine Energy Foundation. PROJECT SCHEDULE: I am setting up a Schedule to visit 9 particular Temples in 2004 and 2005 on the Dream Plane in a repeated series of Healing Visits. Your work can be done at night in the Night Dream or Shamanically in the Day or in the Day Dream Awake (if you are at advanced level). Please write me personally and I will begin a list of 'dedicated' volunteers and keep in contact with you as I progress with the final schedule. If you are called to this project, I seek only dedicated, serious and committed follow through the long haul types of volunteers, who have moved into action. FACILITATORS PERSONAL NOTE: I HAVE LEARNED from my personal healing journey that: Peace on Earth begins with reaching great states of Inner Peace and self - acceptance of both personal Light and Dark Nature, and working towards wholeness with great dedication daily; Secondly awakening to personal illusion, denials, self suffering or victim consciousness; Third, into personal shadow work and integrating darkness [creation] rather than rejecting it to re-balance the chakra system for wholeness of masculine and feminine energy within and lastly Core Fear Issues that arise to push through conscious levels into the unconscious with awareness for depths of personal Clarity and Discernment. An Awakening to the Logical and Reasoning Minds Limitation. Compassion and Wisdom teachings with an integration of the Spirit of Nature within and in the physical world of Fire, Earth, Water, and Air and their Archetypes and an awakening or understanding of Mother Nature herself as she comes alive as a living and breathing spiritual energy. Energy Systems within to merge as Co-creator in the Matrix of the Unified Fields and self-connectedness to the All [Cosmic Mother Energy]. Blessings Mary Novak 13 Star Nation Shaman http://www.LilithSophia.com >>>> Participate in CFS dream research project : Boston Area A major study by Harvard Medical School on the impact of dreams on the immune system of chronic fatigue syndrome CFS patients will be taking place in the Boston area and participants will be needed. Only those with CFS should apply. Massachusetts General will screen participants. Participants should be in Boston area. Only those with CFS should apply. Mass General will screen them if they fit the criteria. If you feel you may be a qualified candidate, please contact Robert Bosnak rbosnak@mindspring.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>> Dream Journals Preparing for Death http://homepage.mac.com/ian20/iblog/C669912779 >>>> Stimson's Web William R. Stimson, The first editor of the Dream Network Bulletin, this site updates Stimson's activities in dreams, yoga and other projects. http://www.my-hope.com/Bill/ >>>> BADG site moving The Bay Area Dreamworker's Group site will be moving next month from it host of many years at DreamTree to www.dreamgate.com/badg Please make a note in your hot links list! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R December 2003 -January 2004 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Dec 21, online World Dreams Peace Bridge Week-o-Dreaming: December 21 & 28, 2003 www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org Jan 31, Atlanta, GA Active Dreamwork. Emory University. To reserve a place, register on-line (secure) after January 2, 2004* at HYPERLINK "http://www.emory.edu/eve" www.emory.edu/eve o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange Lucy Gillis o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o This month the LDE is pleased to present an article by Certified Hypnotherapist, Lee Betchley. Ms Betchley discusses the benefits of lucid dreaming and hypnotherapy. WAKE UP AND DREAM - THE HYPNOTIC BENEFITS OF LUCID DREAMING (c) Lee Betchley, C.Ht. Hypnotherapists recognize the value of dreams for revealing information from the subconscious mind and venting blockages and frustrations as therapeutic change occurs. A lesser known but highly effective aspect of dreaming is "lucid dreaming" - the awareness that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. It's an ability every one possesses, yet is dormant in most people. Therapists can assist clients to develop lucidity or increase the degree of lucidity through specific techniques and practice. As you may know, any hypnotic suggestion is most effective when the client takes some form of immediate action. This is also true for increasing lucidity. After receiving hypnotic suggestions, the client could buy a dream journal or write a personal affirmation. This reinforces to the unconscious mind the seriousness of the intention. The intention of the client is an important aspect of any hypnotic work. I discovered lucid dreaming as it occurred naturally in my sleep. It became a way to cope with childhood nightmares. While dreaming, I became aware of something that would cause me to think clearly, "This is a dream." I knew consciously that if I were to open my waking eyes, I'd find myself safe in my bedroom. I learned that in a nightmare I could face my fears, realizing that the fear was real but the danger was not. This gave me courage and created dreams that were empowering experiences. Almost everyone has experienced a nightmare. For some they can be a reoccurring scene or dream. And for others it can be a fearful experience that can cause distress. Many dream researchers agree that nightmares are unrecognized unresolved conflicts in the waking life. The most effective treatment includes dream interpretation, guided imagery in hypnosis, or dreaming lucidly. Several years ago I dreamt I was in the desert. There is a long line of people leading to a fork in the path. The line splits at that point with some people walking further into the desert and the others going into this magnificent casino. A tall dark man catches my attention. He insists I go into the casino and grabs my arm. I am hesitant to disobey him. I suddenly realize that I am not walking to the door but "floating", so I must be dreaming. I am staring at the dark man and remind myself that this is a dream. Suddenly I start to laugh and say; "I know who you are." His face changes. "You're Satan. And you're trying to trick me." I start flying around him, teasing him. In that instant he was no longer a powerful evil figure but just some man. It was an incredible feeling to know that I had the freedom to make a choice, go where I wanted to go and return if I wanted. That dream empowered me with the knowledge that as long as I could recognize fear and name it, it can never have power over me. It was as if I had bypassed years of therapy. Hypnotherapists know the power of an active imagination in hypnosis and the waking state. Think how much more powerful that active imagination can be in dreaming. Dream content is as vivid and rich as perception during the waking state - in fact, even more so. The dream world is multi-dimensional, multi-textural, and so "real" that studies have shown physiological response to take place as if the event were actually happening. Imagine developing your ability to dream lucidly. You could rehearse an important speech, ask for a raise, audition, or practice your golf swing so vividly in a dream that the brain activity would respond identically during the "real" event. How about the possibilities for problem solving, self-empowerment, healing and even personal transcendence. Clients who are currently working on increasing their lucidity have had amazing results. One woman told me her waking dentist suggested she use creative visualization to help an area he had worked on. That week she had conjured up a "dream dentist" who applied a "special bandage" on the tooth. When her waking dentist examined the area a few days later, he was surprised at the healing that had taken place. Lucid dreaming is a skill that anyone can develop with motivation and effort. The enjoyment and benefits are well worth it. What could you do with the third of your life that is spent sleeping? How could you use it to benefit the other two-thirds? Through lucidity the line between the dream world and the waking world begins to blur, providing unique opportunities to interact consciously with your subconscious mind. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Event-Clumps and Dreams © 2004 Linda Lane Magallón o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o I like to use the term "event-clumps" to remind myself that every memory is a composite. It consists of several elements, like picture, thought, emotion, sensation, instinct and intuition. I need the reminder because of the intimate relationship between memory and dream. It's all too easy to gloss over a dream when I write out the narrative and thus miss underlying clues to its meaning. Many memories have a visual component that has become associated with a non-visual element. For instance, an episode of an attack by the neighbor's dog might encode picture and emotion together in the formula, German Shepherd = fear. I can retrieve that event- clump by seeing a new dog of the same breed, which triggers a new sensation of fear. This is a common waking occurrence. However, the opposite is also true: I feel the same sort of fear when my boss "attacks" the quality of my work. While I'm in the midst of this highly charged employment situation, the picture of the German Shepherd doesn't register on my conscious mind. But the event-clump comes as a package, nonetheless. If I recall the work incident before I sleep or if its intensity has not yet dissipated, the event-clump that describes the fear-emotion in picture-form will be readily available material for the construction of a dream. The event-clump is one of the "bricks" that builds my world of sleep. A memory does not have to have a visual aspect, though. When you lose a tooth, the sensation of a lump in the mouth can be encoded with anxiety. If a bit of food gets stuck in your teeth, then loosens later (whether awake or asleep), it could trigger a tooth- loss dream. The sensation alone might provoke such a dream, but such an event-clump is far more likely to become available for dream production if several of its components are repeated in the current scenario. If you eat popcorn in a darkened theater while watching a horror movie, both sensation and anxiety are felt. Same feelings, different environment, different thought context. A dreamer I'll call Kimara recently shared a dream with me. In the dream, Kimara was walking though a maze of streets, in and out of and around buildings, passing other people along the way. Finally, she walked into another woman's apartment and became very concerned that she was in the woman's private space. As Kimara was trying to decide whether to go or stay, a man walked right into her apartment, too. When awake, Kimara recognized some of the buildings that had appeared in her dream. When she was younger, she lived in a war zone, although not in the line of fire. The buildings were part of an event-clump from that period in her life. The event-clump consisted of the image of her environment plus a certain level of anxiety and fear. But the dream was not about Kimara's childhood; it was about a current occurrence that had triggered the same sort of anxiety. Kimara is a saleswoman. She travels to various businesses to make presentations and talk to company representatives. The offices that she visits often consist of a maze of cubicles she must circumvent in order to get to the person she will meet. So I asked her, "Where have you been lately - where you had to walk through halls or past cubicles to get to a woman's office - where you were nervous about intruding into her space - but where her fellow employees had no problem barging in?" When I described her dream by stripping away past imagery and concentrating on its underlying elements, Kimara had no trouble recalling the recent daytime event that had invoked her dream. The sensation of motion, the shape of structure, the number, type and positions of dream characters, the thoughts and feelings - these were the component parts of her office visit. So, why didn't she just dream up a literal repeat of that visit? Because Kimara is not a video camera or a robot. She's not just a pretty face! She's a thinking, feeling, active organic being. Her waking drama wasn't our movie, it was her life. It contained all the layers of human experience, including those that would not be visible to an outside observer, who can only view the surface of her physical reality. Kimara was nervous in an environment that she doesn't usually associate with such fear and anxiety. So the event-clump that was triggered by her feelings and sensations referred back to an environment that was far more dangerous than her current one. Small wonder. The event-clump of her childhood is so potent that she will probably continue to access it, unless the connection between image and emotion is severed and the anxiety-plus-picture is rewritten with a new formula. If a new, more intense event comes along, that picture might replace the old buildings. Or, through cognitive therapy, Kimara might reprogram herself to associate anxiety with another picture: one that will help dissipate it. For instance, fear = a dragon. A dragon can start as a terrifying monster that morphs over time into a colorful legend that morphs into a cartoon playmate. I'm not suggesting that Kimara get rid of fear altogether. Fear serves a very usual purpose, warning us of real potential and imminent danger. I'm suggesting that Kimara practice techniques to turn down the volume to a level she can more easily handle. Spontaneous life occurrences will program potent event-clumps and some may recur as repeating dreams for years. They are still potent, still active, if circumstances with the same feeling tones continue to be a factor in our lives. Sometimes we can change life circumstances so that they, and the negative feelings that accompany them, become less and less frequent. Sometimes we can change the images associated with those non-visual elements, so that they are easier to cope with, or even become a source of amusement and entertainment! Kimara may not have much say about war in the larger world, but she has a lot to say about her own private space. There, she can try out new ways to face up to fear. There, she can come to appreciate the creative ways in which her inner mind paints the components that are hidden to our sight. |+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o The Waves: 09. Dreaming with DNA Overtone Moon (October 18 to November 14, 2003) © 2003 Nick Cumbo o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations of the Sea Life community. Sea Life, the main web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring together a circle of dreamers from around the globe, collaborating in mutual dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself' Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, reported stumbling upon the double-helix image for the DNA chain through his dream of a spiral staircase. Picking up on the theme, this month, we set out to learn more about the role of our DNA structure, and it's relationship with the conscious mind. It's commonly accepted that DNA is in some way responsible for the course of our evolution, and the workings of consciousness. What if it were also possible for consciousness to alter the structure of DNA? "Studies by Glen Rein, Ph.D. and Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., have demonstrated that the quantum fields generated by our human feelings can influence neurological and immunological functions at the cellular level. These studies also determined that the strongest "energy generator" in our bodies is our heart. Furthermore, the energy the heart produces is directly correlated to what we are feeling. When we experience deep feelings of love, compassion or appreciation we align ourselves, that is become coherent with Divine creation. In feeling these divinely aligned feelings, we radiate these coherent frequencies throughout the body, which promote health and vitality. Conversely, when we experience feelings such as anger, anxiety, fear and rage, we directly affect the body in harmful and damaging ways. Other experiments have shown that the very molecular building blocks of our body--the DNA--is directly affected by our emotions. When angry/fearful/anxious, our DNA twists tightly onto itself forming what I call a "DNA cramp." The molecule takes a shape that is somewhat like a rope ladder twisted into a knot. Why this is important is that the crossing of the DNA strand onto itself determines what genes are turned off or on. The tighter the "cramp" the less of our DNA--the less of our potential--is accessible. This scenario is played out in the brain as well. When stressed by "DNA cramping" emotions, our body produces different hormones than during periods of inner harmony. These stress chemicals such as adrenaline and cortisol flood our body. This has the effect of chemically denying us access to the upper, reasoning functions of our brain and increasing access to the lower fight/flight mechanism. We become limited in our ability to respond from our full selves. Our body clearly desires to be in harmony and functions best when in a Divinely-aligned emotional/feeling state." http://www.spiritpassages.com/newsletter.html Inspired by this knowledge, I decided to venture into dreaming with the intention of learning about upcoming changes/mutations in the structure of my DNA. I was impressed with the results: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- A LITTLE BIRDY TOLD ME I'm in a small room. An animal is also here with me. It might be a bird. For some reason, I immediately become sympathetic towards it. Why, I'm not entirely sure? Perhaps it has been trapped here? The bird somehow picks up on my thoughts; and immediately sparks up a conversation; telepathically! The birds 'speech' is fluent, it's words being 'heard', as though we're having a conversation in English, only without the need for our mouths to open. The process in itself is remarkably natural; yet as we continue speaking, I realise there is a feeling of nervousness/fear, which accompanies the rather direct conversion of my thoughts to conversation. I begin to worry that the bird will be bewildered by the strangeness of my thought processes. Surrounded by its gentle reassurance however, I realise that this is a mental block built throughout the course of my life, to which I must now adjust. Letting my feelings about these difficulties be 'spoken', our communications take on a whole new level of honesty and trust. At one point, the bird looks on directly into my eyes. Gentle, but also remarkably intense. I hear another voice, which tells me that the intensity of staring at it's gaze, disturbs the rational mind of humans, and puts us in a more spontaneous mental state. Apparently, for the next 15 minutes, or so, it will be easier to shift directly into conscious dreaming. Soon after, my younger sister arrives into the room. I find myself communicating telepathically with her also; not through any conscious effort on my part, but because I'm now used to this shift in attention. I can feel the thoughts just roll on into her mind. I'm rather stunned to discover that she repeats them back exactly as I 'spoke' them, only pausing to clarify the final word, which indeed she had mistaken. My sister finds herself taken aback by these new abilities, and promptly asks me if I can teach her more about telepathy. I think for a moment; letting her know that resting the attention on the third eye is probably important, but soon after decide on a much more valuable piece of wisdom, "Animals are the best teachers". ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- In The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby writes of his conversations with the Ayahuasqueros from the Peruvian rainforests, who have praised the Serpent (sometimes appearing in the form of the dragon) as the symbol of Life. Celestial, a dreamer from Sea Life, described the key themes of the book for us all. " All across the Peruvian jungle there have been found extensive, detailed wall paintings, and decorative art, featuring images which profoundly resembled today's diagrams of molecular biology, (diagrams which describe the beginning of life on our planet). These pictures are often painted with two identical snakes, entwined in each other, who the tribes repeatedly talk about being the centre of all creation, the DNA of life. The Ayahuasqueros claim to have received this knowledge from two giant snakes, who appear to them while they are under the visionary influence, of Ayahuasca (an incredibly powerful hallucinogenic brew). In a fascinating and seemingly strongly related series of events, Morpheus, found himself visited by a number of dragons, who appeared to him across a series of nights, offering to show him and another 5 warriors "the way of the dragon"; each time beginning where they left off. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- THE WAY OF THE DRAGON. I am on an Island, alone, but not afraid. The air is dark, the sky riddled with electrical storms. I hear the beat of wings, growing ever louder and louder. Looking about me I see no one, and no thing. Suddenly a voice says, "See; but not with your eyes, see with your ears and mind". I concentrate and the Island is transformed into a new place, a training hall of some kind. A voice behind me says, "Welcome". I look behind me and there stands the Dragon, "I will teach you the ways of my people". Before, I can speak I'm bathed in Dragon breath fire. It doesn't hurt me. I'm not burned. Instead all of my chakra points light up with incredible brilliance. My body becomes transformed too. More muscular, stronger. I'm a warrior. We begin to fight with swords and with inner powers. I'm exploding with power from within. "This is the way of the Dragon" and soon it will be your way too. Suddenly we stop fighting and he turns away from me, mumbling something to himself. 5 other warriors appear seemingly from nowhere. The Dragon shouts to the sky, "these five warriors are worthy of our ways lets us reveal to them the secrets of the ages". The sky is filled with Dragons. I'm too amazed. I awaken. -------------------------------------------------------- THE POWER OF THE SHAPE-SHIFTERS We sit atop an emerald green rock, the wind blowing softly. I can hear the wind saying something, but I'm not sure what exactly. The atmosphere has a "Lord of the Rings" type of feeling. A loud voice says "within the seeds of all of us lay the seeds of all of us". In this instance a glass of liquid appears before me and the liquid begins spinning very quickly. Suddenly it stops spinning. As soon as it does, I see it is a DNA double helix. As I do the 5 appear and I see a female among them as before. We all drink of the DNA liquid. The voice says, "It is done". I look at the 5 and they are all ME!! Then WE are all the WOMAN!! Then we are changing into each other, experiencing experiences of each other, and becoming each other. The voice says "and now you know from the same seed you were made, created and maintained, what separates you is the illusion that you are separate, your body in the world is too an illusion of solidity or separateness. Soon you will know the power of the shape-shifters for the 5 and the explorer (explora??) are worthy".... -------------------------------------------------------- I AM LIGHT I am in the Land of the Dragons; I can see the landscape before me. It is lush green and very beautiful, the wind is blowing softly as if speaking to me, "come, come, we are waiting" Suddenly now I am on water, standing on water, I look down at my feet and I see the ocean filled with life, creatures never before seen in my physical world. A sea Dragon comes to me and through telepathy it says, "welcome one who has chosen the name, we have been waiting for you" the creatures are light up with an incredible brilliance. I find my self dissolving into the light merging with it, becoming one with it. I am transported to another place now, underwater. The five are here with me we are all being taught to change our shape at will; a bird, a stone, water, fire, a tree and I become light. My consciousness expands exponentially. I am at once everywhere flowing with each moment. I slowly become more focused in my light form, as a laser beam is. "I am Light", this chant resounds in my mind "I am Light, I am Light". I am guided down the earth now as if to join my "friends" we, in each of our forms "stand" atop a large cliff. There are lights all around us and in the sky there are circling 3 large dragon-like creatures. "It is time", I hear these words in my head and yet also in the space around me. I think we all do, because we all hold "hands", when the last link is made. The 3 Dragons stop circling above and descend upon us, breathing hot flames. At first I am afraid, but I soon realise that the fire is not harming any of us. I being to hear thoughts that are not my own. The dragon's fire is causing us to merge into one being (it is hard to explain how this creature looks, made of fire, light and water and clothed in earth). We speak to the dragon. Its as though a huge chorus is speaking, not one voice or five voices but hundreds, perhaps thousands. With a "smile" and a look that says, "I am pleased" the dragon says "it is done, you are now one". -------------------------------------------------------- It seems appropriate then to end with a quote from another site, Star Knowledge, which also brings together the concept of changes in our DNA, leading to a shift in consciousness resulting in awareness of our oneness, and the activation of the light body. http://www.star-knowledge.net/ "It is time for the Star Knowledge people to emerge. Their timeless chunks of info are relative to the now. Star Knowledge people are seed bearers of the Light coming through the planet at this time. These Light Bearers or B'nai Or (Hebrew - Sons of the Light) are message carriers at the cellular level. The DNA codes are being restructured and this will allow the Light Body to connect with the physical body. This is necessary for us to use this body as a Light vehicle for travelling to other dimensions. This is the millennium's new way of travel. It is activating now." Grandmother Chandra ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Stay tuned next moon for the results of our 'Dreaming with the Departed' project. We welcome new dreamers to join us in our adventures. Email: explora@dreamofpeace.net Forum: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Review of Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair Reviewed by Jeremy Taylor o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Reprinted with permission of Jeremy Taylor Originally prepared for a manual for students at the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work I have just finished reading the new biography of Carl Gustav Jung by Deirdre Bair, JUNG - a Biography, (Little Brown, New York, 2003), all 880 pages of it. I also read Troy Jollimore's review from the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle of December 7th, in which he praises the book (with faint damns), and reluctantly admits it, "...is a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in Jung, or inn any of the fields and disciplines in which he played an important role." I agree completely, but rather than trashing the book for its voluminous detail, (the way Jollimore and others have done), I would say it another way: Bair's book is just NOT the biography to read first. If you are not already familiar with the broad outlines of Jung's life and work, or of the seminal importance of his ideas in a startlingly wide range of academic disciplines and popular arts, then I would suggest starting off reading Claire Dunne's brief biography, Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul - An Illustrated Biography, with a (charming) introduction by Jean Houston, (Parabola Books, New York, 2000), and/or Laurens van der Post's wonderful work, JUNG and the Story of Our Time, (Pantheon Books, New York, 1975.) Prior to reading Bair's book, the van der Post biography was my pick as "best full-length biography of Jung", and it's still the best one to read first. Gehard Wehr's, An Illustrated Biography of Jung, (Shambala, Boston & Shaftsbury, 1989), is also worth your attention. 202 of the book's 880 pages, (that's 23%!), of Bair's book are devoted to footnotes, (in tiny print.) Most of them are elaborate references to the multiple sources that she uses to verify the details of Jung's life that she provides in the text. I wish I could tell you all to just ignore them, but for me, some of the most important information in the book appears in the occasional substantive footnotes that are scattered among the references. The index is excellent, but alas, given the fascinating and important information that is hidden away in many of the footnotes, the index does not cover people or events that appear only in the notes and not in the text. For example, it is only in the notes that I discovered that Jung "...said he read seven volumes of Swedenborg's writings." (p. 665) Emmanuel Swedenborg was a scientist in the dawning age of modern science whose researches took him past the physical/phenomenal world into the realms of psychological and spiritual experience with a totally fresh and compelling perspective. Swedenborg was a contemporary of, and a tremendous influence on William Blake, and Swedenborg's influence on Jung is very important, in my view. Had I ignored the footnotes, I would have missed this indication of the depth and breadth of Jung's spiritual research, and his kinship not only with the Gnostics, but also with the Romantics and the roots of liberal, non-credal religion. It was also only in the footnotes that I discovered that another of my great intellectual and artistic heroes, the American poet Charles Olson, had an extended public conversation with Jung at the close of a lecture Jung gave at Harvard in 1936, in which Olson "...questioned Jung on the mandala figure in Moby Dick." This information is as important to me in my pursuit of influences on Olson's life and work, as the Swedenborg connection is to my interest in the influences on the life and work of Jung himself. Alas, neither Swedenborg nor Olson appear in the index. Bair also offers many of her most important opinions and conclusions in the footnotes. After giving Richard Noll, (perhaps Jung's most vocal and determined detractor at the beginning of the 21st century), extensive credit for his scholarship and research, Bair finally rejects the implications and conclusions of Noll's work, in a footnote : "Noll's thesis is so submerged in bile and damnation-by-analogy that his considerable scholarship (for which I have great respect, and from which I have benefited) must be called into question." (p, 741) Perhaps the greatest service that Bair's biography provides is that she gathers the verifiable data that answers so many of the distressing accusations and rumors that still swirl around and surround Jung's life and work, as they have for more than 70 years. Was he a compulsive womanizer? He most certainly was, as documented in many journals and interviews with the descendants of many woman who were in analysis with him. Was he a Nazi sympathizer and/or an anti-Semite? Clearly not, as demonstrated by his indefatigable struggles with the Nazi psychiatric and mental health establishment, his continuous efforts on behalf of Jewish refugees, and his work with Alan Dulles, the prime American OSS agent stationed in Switzerland. At Dulles' request, Jung prepared regular and extensive analyses of Nazi propaganda and German culture for Churchill and Eisenhower, and even recruited secret agents to work for Dulles from among his friends and analytic clients. Were his formulations of the archetypes associated with masculine and feminine a reflection of the unquestioned institutional sexism of his time? Very clearly they were, as evidenced by the ways in which he treated the men who wanted to become analysts differently from the way he treated the women, demanding that the men all acquire medical degrees and training, when he made no such demands on the women, whom he discouraged from medical careers. He also actively prevented his own daughters from attending university, or receiving any higher education, while at the same time urging many of his closest women clients and associates to devote themselves to scholarly research on obscure topics, research that he then made extensive use of in his own writings, most often without giving them any public credit for their scholarly work. Bair also clarifies a situation that has distressed me personally since I first read Jung's "so-called autobiography" (his own words), Memories, Dreams, Reflections, many decades ago - namely that Jung's actions and opinions during World War II are all but totally ignored in that work. It turns out that Jung did write an extended chapter on his experience in that era, but since Jung died before that book made it into print, his family heirs all insisted that his revelations about that period of his life be stricken from the text. The final chapters of Bair's book make it very clear that the struggles between Jung's heirs, who wish to keep the details of their family history completely private, and the needs of a larger world who require the best information we can get about the life and times of this important shaper of world culture, continue with undiminished vigor, partisanship, and venom, even today. There is also an indication, (also hidden away in a foot note), that the heirs are "in negotiation" to allow Jung's famous and stunningly beautiful Red Book, filled with his psycho-spiritual explorations and his exquisitely beautiful paintings, to be published in their "entirety". Once again, what constitutes "entirety" is apparently being hotly contested... Jung's "feet of clay" throughout his life are made abundantly clear in Bair's research, along with constant indications and intimations of his genius. She concludes, correctly in my estimation, with a sentiment given shape by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Notebooks more than 100 years earlier: "He looked at his own Soul with a Telescope. What seemed all irregular, he saw and shewed to be beautiful Constellations: and he added to the Consciousness worlds within worlds." The Rev. Dr. Jeremy Taylor is the founder/director of the 'Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work', a co-founder and a past president of International Association for the Study of Dreams. More information about his training and certification program for dream workers can be found at: http://www.jeremytaylor.com o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Transgressive Dreamworks: Theorizing the Exceeding of Limits and the Creation of Improvizones Richard Catlett Wilkerson o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o "This may frighten us a little. Dreams are often socially transgressive. They chafe at boundaries, championing the rude, lewd, and wholly unacceptable." Marc Ian Barasch - Healing Dreams Transgressive: Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability. Creating an opening between or at the limit of dominant powers for alternatives. Dreamworks: Approaches to dreams before, during and after the actual dream. Improvizone : A temporary space or clearing where as sense of improvisation and creative freedom take precedence over plans and structures. The abstract world of improvizones may be called the Improverse. Transgressive Dreamwork Transgressive dreamwork seeks to pass beyond prescribed limits and boundaries without define itself against or in opposition to these boundaries as necessary conditions. Transgressive acts are often seen as "against" established social values and norms, but this is only because of the tight control that the dominate powers exert over all time and space. The particular and even general 'how' and 'why' transgressive dreamwork might take place vary according to a wide variety of contexts, situations, events and their informing values. These transgressions can also open up a kind of improvised universe, novel zones of semi-autonomous creativity, improvizones. This may be a simple as a musician veering from the planned musical score or as complex as the social spaces opened in ritual dance ceremonies of tribal peoples. Dreamworks (approaches to dreams) that subvert repressive powers and create spaces where improvisational activity dominates may be considered as transgressive dreamworks. Transgressive dreamwork's most basic level is the act of dreaming itself. The actions in dreams may at times themselves be seen as transgressive acts and dreaming itself subverts dominate cultural attitudes about consciousness and waking. There are many ways that dreaming and dreams seek out or encounter limitations and pass beyond them, seek out repressive structures and destructure them, seek out fixed representations and loosen them, encounter attitudes, beliefs and values, and question them, display ideologies, biases and prejudices, and expose them. Transgressive dreamwork appears in most forms of dreamwork, though not always in the service of subverting repressive authorities and producing novel alternatives and improvizones. A quick survey of Twentieth Century dreamwork may give some weight to the first part of this statement, that it appears in most forms of dreamwork. Psychoanalyst Paul Lippmann [1] , notes that the early pioneers of psychoanalysis were very excited by the new notions of the unconscious and in constant discussions around the possibilities presented by dreams. Patients with psychological disorders might exhibit strange configurations of behavior opening up the inspection of the person out of control, but everyone had dreams that transgressed the consciously controlled system. Freud's "dream-work" became the first model of how transgression works at the level of primary process, and the processes are now part of our general language system; displacement, projection, condensation, substitution, symbolization, substitution and so on. Carl Jung[2] was not to be outdone in the area of transgressive dreamwork. At each level of work, the analysand finds that all they have acquired must make way for new forces that need to come through. Rather than stopping at the personal unconscious as Freud did, Jung found that there were deeper forces attempting to transgress stodgy aspects of the personality that hinder the integration of rejected parts of the self. At each point in the movement from personal to archetypal, the dream functions as an index of transgression, providing just-barely-conscious symbolic presentations of new plateaus supported by the tension of irreconcilable opposites. These are gains that consciousness can barely tolerate. And further, it enacts and constructs these mesas of the soul in the crazy wisdom of dreams, in deterritorialized area where the known and unknown form limits past which only the partial sane, and the dream mind, can maneuver. That is, reason is given its due as a partner, but is not at the center of the development. While these Depth therapies served to liberate the few who could afford their time and expense, the group therapies of the Sixties brewed a transgressive dreamwork available to everyone, and is now disseminated across the globe through grassroots dreamwork movements. Here, there is an implicit understanding that the king has no clothes and authoritarian forms of control and interpretation are as suspect and undesirable in larger political arenas as they are in the individual psyche. There is no one technique or school. These newer transgressive dreamworks form a collage, a pastiche, a bric-a-brac collection, a kind of hypertexted inter-net that resist any singular characterization. Even calling the collection "grassroot" is stretching that category beyond what it can reasonably be asked to hold, as many of the new transgressive dreamworks combine with and emerge from institutions and traditional therapies and spiritual practices. Many of these dreamworks rely heavily upon Freud and Jung, providing techniques for transgressing the superficial, breaking down the mundane, and running rough shod over the inauthentic. Others shift the attention from interpretative techniques to methods of encounter, transgressing the whole subject/object dichotomy (as in my dream and its objects) and thereby transgressing the tendencies to treat the world as an object altogether. Still others transgress the notion of work in dreamwork and undermine the representational approaches by making dreams an existential encounter with the imaginal, whether as a conscious or lucid encounter with the dream, or in using the dream as a recreational vehicle, subverting all notions of "work" in dreamwork. Transgressive dreamwork appears in most forms of dreamwork, but not all dreamwork is subversive of authority and productive to creative alternatives. Some tribal dreamwork, for example, has tended to be in the service of the tribe. Tedlock[3] relays the story of a young Hopi who tells his dream to a village elder. She shows him how the dream is about changing his behavior, and in ways that support the tribe. There is a value of living in scarcity, with little water and food, and the dreams are interpreted to bring the members into alignment with this value. True, the dream is used to transgress the wasteful pattern of the dreamer, and a case could be made that this transgression was to open the dreamer to a more creative pathway, but this misses an essential point in transgressive dreamwork as I am following it here. Transgression has its own inner value, and when it is picked up to be used in the service of some other value, this "other" value needs to be made transparent, or else the transgression is just another brick in the wall. Freud, though he elaborated the basic wheels and cogs of a transgressive primary process at work in the dream, then turns and abandons his project for one singular transgressive; sexuality. Freud may be credited with having most clearly articulated and studied and having brought into the cultural sphere the concept of a transgressive libido. But just exactly at the moment he does so, he restricts this libido to a narrow channel that follows a predetermined path of development. Transgressive dreamwork employed in the 21st Century is likely to continue acknowledging and developing sexuality theory, but to have this particular Freudian representation of the libido as only one among many. Perhaps the libido will be seen, as Deleuze and Guattari[4] say, in Freud's pre-genital child, the notion of perverse polymorphism, where the whole body is an erogenous zone and makes direct connections, not with an object of desire, but in waves and swarms of connective networks of partial objects. Transgressive dreamworks finds it hard to swallow the whole Jungian system as well. Even though a close examination of Jung reveals that dream symbols are not simple representations, the tendency to eschew the temptation to say, "This represents that myth" and, "That is the so and so archetype" is just too great to resist. One post-Jungian psychology has attempted to subvert this tendency by always using the work "archetype" in its adjectival form "archetypal" and never a noun, so that one may have an archetypal encounter, but never define some-thing as an archetype.[5] More broadly, transgressive dreamworks are suspicious of any system, group or organization. That doesn't mean that systems, groups and organizations are never used, only that they are taken up with a more transversal purpose in mind, with a sense that they are a boat to get to the other side, a coat wore lightly and a project taken on temporarily. As Plato noted, Eros sleeps naked in the doorway. Transgressive dreamwork in Psi and Lucid dreaming One of the emerging transgressive dreamworks is dream psi and all the related paranormal theorizing that transgresses our current rational view of the world. As the Maimonides Project showed,[6] dreams and psi are closely connected and all sorts of psi phenomenon are amplified or more noticeable in the dream state. To the degree that there are connections from the dreaming state to remote places, remote times and previously designated subjective states and private psyches, psi dreaming presents itself as a transgressive act and theory. This recently (last 20 years) happened with lucid dreaming.[7] There was a great deal of sentiment before the empirical validation of lucid dreaming that there were only two natural states, conscious and unconscious. Some scientists rejected the notion of lucid dreaming based on this model, claiming that being conscious in a dream was contradiction in terms. Now the privacy of the act of dreaming is being challenged by psi and mutual dreaming, were two or more people inhabit a single dream. If we are in fact in contact with other being and objects during sleep, a whole host of new ethical and social issues arise. The notion of ownership of one's own mind comes into question. These theorists are now developing their own topical conferences (PsiberDreaming Conferences) within the larger organization for dreams, the International Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD).[8] Postmodern dreamworks Touted as the transgressive literature and philosophy par excellence, the body of postmodern work seems as if it would be a natural fit with dreamwork. After all, they drew heavily upon Surrealism. Surrealism in the 1920's- 1930's Paris was a vast cultural movement like the Sixties in America.[9] They questioned authority, they re-examined taboos, they challenged norms and they produced alternative lifestyles. They valorized dreams as a transgression of the humdrum everyday world of mechanized trance and social niceties, and an opening to the Surreal beyond the mundane. One would think the poststructuralists of the 50's and 60's who inherited these values would rely heavily on dreamwork, but they didn't. The story of how dreamwork was missed by the French Poststructual theorists has not really been very well researched or studied. Whether we talk about Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Deleuze & Guatteri or Lyotard, we find they each avoided dreamwork for their own reasons. But a few generalizations are possible. I find it interesting that these postmodern writers learn psychoanalysis through Jacques Lacan. Freud's followers abandoned dreamwork very early, and Freud laments this move later in his life. "Abandon" may be too harsh a word, but once the games of transference and defense analysis took root, work with dreams took a very back seat. This means that by the time psychoanalysis is taken up by Lacan, dreamwork is not a major player. And Lacan has little to say on the issue as a Structuralist who feels interpretive dreamwork is just burdening the already intertwined sign system of a reported dream with a socially constructed Symbolic overlay. Yet Lacan brought psychoanalysis to France in a way that could be accepted as French. Freud's theory was often seen as an exploration of the conflict between instinct and culture, and that this conflict found various compromise solutions. For Lacan, the psyche itself was the conflictual intrusion and the fracture it created eternally irresolvable. Our contact with universal instincts is forever barred the moment we take on language. Dreams, associations and slips-of-the-tongue are as much impacted by this representational language system as they are by repressed desires. In fact, those desires become characterized as an absence around which the structures revolve. The dream no longer represents some hidden thought, but rather becomes an intrusion between the real we cannot know and the imaginary we can never have. While appetites can be filled, desire cannot and must be held (or the patient falls into the illusion and dances out the unconscious). One sacrifices the illusion of wholeness to gain the world. This is another way of saying that the postmodern style is that of collage, and if there is a "whole" it emerges indirectly from the interaction of the pieces. On the other side of the equation, the American dreamwork movement drew heavily upon Jung, not Freud. The whole notion that a dream is telling us something and producing a positive product is pure Jung. The idea that the dream can be situated in our value system by locating its themes in religious stories, myths and fairytales is pure Jung. Further distancing dreamworks and French postmodern theorist is language. The texts of the postmodern writers have been all but unavailable to the general American public. Most Americans will, when asked about Surrealism, respond that it has something to do with melting clocks. And not only did poststructuralism pass by non-academic Americans, but structuralism as well. There wasn't a single Lacanian institute before the 1990's and graduate students are hard pressed to find a single course on his psychoanalysis in a university or state college. Postmodernism entered the US universities in the late 1960's, but Derrida and Deleuze are taught in the Language and English departments, not in philosophy departments. Translations of their work before the 1980-1990's were difficult to come by. And so the two, dreamwork and structuralism/poststructuralism, passed each other in the night without meeting. Perhaps to the relief of many. I asked a University of Davis professor about Derrida (Who recently had his archives installed at that site) and he was very unhappy with Derrida being at the campus and said he had just tried to ruin everything. Other have characterized postmodern writers as "Men with hammers." But here, we are going to look at them more as people with screwdrivers that fit the bonds that keep various social and personal prison doors closed. Instead of destroying structure, transgressive dreamworks may be see as loosening the structures just enough to slip through. Since these two traditions share strong transgressive attitudes, they may complement one another by being read together. Dreams and dreamwork offer postmodernism a channel that is universal but still poly-channeled, multidimensional, heteromodal and off- center. Postmodern theory offers dreamwork an opportunity to situate itself politically, globally, philosophically, and culturally as well as just being an inward journey for personal psychospiritual growth. Theorizing transgressive dreamwork using the tools of postmodern writers One of the grandfathers of the postmodern theorists and masters of transgression, Frederich Nietzsche,[10] was a sworn enemy of nihilism on one hand, and totalitarianism on the other. And yet, many think of him as a nihilist, focusing on the first task of transgressive work (subverting repressive structures) while ignoring the second (opening to alternatives). In the second part of Nietzsche's transgressive task, he worked to develop a path through which new heights of freedom could be reached. This leads us to his notion of power and will. Typically, we confuse power and will with effort and brute force. But for Nietzsche, forces took two forms, one active the other reactive. Reactive forces might be called inauthentic forces, forces that withhold their essence for secondary gains. Active forces are deeply in touch with the source that generates an endless flow of power related to that force or set of forces. I think of Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek[11]as a kind of model of this Dionysian fountain of power, a character that lived fully his own essence in the moment and could give continually from this source, always overflowing in its own abundance. Often we are left with this fascist view of the Overman, as if Nietzsche's superman was modeled along the lines of a Nazi. Rather, his Overman was yet to be achieved, and more the continual enactment of freedom and choice. The test was the eternal return, the ability to live in this moment as if it were to repeat eternally. And, as Deleuze suggests, the repetition is from a source that continually differs from itself, not one that is self-identical.[12] That is, the eternal return is a vibrant repetition of difference rather than a mechanical repetition of the same. Monet creates a water lily and then repeats these lilies across the canvas and across many paintings. But it's not the same water lily. The second and third repeat the first, but their beauty is in the repetition of the difference of the first. The Festival is not a new festival each year, but repeats the first festival over and over and celebrates not through the repetition of the same, but of the different. We see this play out in dreams. Combat trauma and many PTSD sufferers often report nightmares that repeat the same, over and over. The dream gets stuck in a mechanical repetition of the same. Therapy that brings imaginative play to the dreamer, such as re- entry techniques, allows the dream to repeat the essential differences. That is, the dream begins to morph. The Dionysian quality of the dream returns and its generous abundance overflows the reactive forces that seek to sap its novelty. Transgressive dreamworks may wish to note both aspects of Nietzsche's project, undermining dictators full of reactive forces and the location of active forces that withstand the test of the eternal return and open the pathway to a humanity that can exceed itself. From this general idea, one could formulate a transgressive dreamwork developed by postmodernism. The first part is that dreams are often already full of active forces and reactive which question, tease and play with authority and beliefs, and that a dreamwork which assisted and cooperated with these active forces will be more naturally transgressive than one that caters to reactive forces. However loud one may proclaim with Nietzsche that the ideologies and powers above us are now gone (Nietzsche's famous "God is dead"), the tendency of humans to remain somewhat less than supermen persists. And while the world has grown tired of dictators and totalitarian leaders at the level of state government, there are plenty of states of mind left that are still reactive, that withhold themselves in deference to another power, that undermine their own authenticness in favor of an imposed value. Transvaluation; this is the process where forces create their own values rather than being saddled with those imposed upon them. But before we start talking about creating new values, we need to understand the ones which imprison us now and to be transgressive rather than reactive. Jean-Francios Lyotard[13] writes that we live in a world of story telling and narrative, each of which makes some claim to the truth and claims some proximity to the truth. Lyotard notes that each story is situated in the context and language of a particular discipline. Science stories are from the institutions of Science, Religious stories couches in the language of Religion, Political stories in the language of Politics, Psychological stories in the language of Psychology and so on. Its like a bunch of virtual realities, each governed by the protocols of that particular game. And so, the way we can talk about anything becomes governed by the narrow rules of any particular game. Of course, these disciplines don't like to see themselves as limited and just telling stories. So they come up with a metanarrative, a grand story that applies to or comments on the validity of all other stories. Note how one's life story or a set of scientific experiments might judged by their relation to progress, truth, and justice. Might be, but can no longer be. There is no Grand Narrative that mediates between all these different stories and values. There is no globally agreed upon basis for any singular viewpoint. But if power is not imposed on us from above anymore, don't think it's missing in how it's imposed on us from below. Media bytes and society bits are everywhere. Commercial infestations and shopping choices. Yet if everything can be oppressive, then one can find transgressions in the simplest of everyday experience, what is referred to as micropolitics. This leads to the notion in transgressive dreamwork that we are engaging these imposed values in our dreams. And in fact, much of dreamwork has been about engaging values and beliefs and challenging them. This is perhaps the reason that dream sharing is found at the beginning of every major religion, and then later banned by the hierarchical authorities.[14] The vibrant, novel visions that both predict and create the authority for a force to express it own power, then are judged to be too radical and antithetical to a hierarchical structure. What Lyotard adds to Nietzsche that may help a transgressive dreamwork develop is his theorizing around the many tiny ways in which reactive powers attempt to control the scenes we inhabit, and the ability and freedom this gives us to find appropriate transgressive acts at micropolitical levels. Since dreams contain many of these acts already in relation to society, it's just a matter of cultivating these active forces, both in and outside of the dream. If we don't appeal to general moral universals as an index of transgression, what can be used as a guide to the limit? One model employed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari[15]is the limit created between coded and decoded flows. Most of our conscious life is involved with coded territory. This includes not only all the social rules, but also genetic and physical organization and codes. Deleuze and Guattari see everything in flux, in a flow and in flow-breaks. Even mountains dissolve into the sea. Organizations attempt to code the flows into particular channels rather than allowing deterritorialized movement. That is, they attempt to turn all forces into reactive forces. Most of the time, we passively accept these codes and stay away from the wall, the wall outside of which flow is not coded. Neurotics become so sensitive to this limit that their own inner walls become tighter and tighter, until they can't even leave their house. Others more perverse know where the limit is, but stay just inside the wall and pick off vulnerables who get too close to the limit. We can see this in those who love lunar societies and who hang out at the edges of the school-yard. Many dreamworkers learn this game. Then there are those who just run smack into the limit without realizing it and find themselves in decoded territory and get tossed back. The schizophrenic comes apart at the seams here as the abstract and the real change places. There is no proper place in relation to the limit. We can't abstract a position. But we can note where and how the coded and decoded flows are distributed, subverting the more repressive codes, breaking into them and creating new flows. What Deleuze and Guattari offer as theorists is an approach to this project that undercuts any conscious attempt to reconstruct another dictator in place of the ones overthrown. This is always the risk and chance we take in subverting local and distant authority. Guattari's response is soft revolution, where there are no rules, just a continual chaosimosis, where free spaces can only last for a short time, long enough to do their thing, but not long enough to start self- organ-inzing. Deleuze's response is to generate concepts; partial-object desiring machines, bodies-without-organs, repetitions of difference, planes of immanence across which nomadic forces traverse rhizomatic deterritorializations. Perhaps all this work would have been easier had Deleuze & Guattari been more engaged with their dreamlife. Again, the point is not so much to take up Deleuze's concepts and apply them to dreamwork, but rather to suggest that picking up the spirit of the work and move into temporary autonomous zones[16] where the forces have a chance to directly and actively overflow their own inner differences. What is the purpose of pursuing an alignment with theorists, many of which are now dead, and the point of backtracking into postmodern theory, when a transgressive dreamworks will by nature seek out its own limits? Pomo theory may not be able to offer anything more than the positive process of enhancement, which doesn't sound like a transgressive value in itself. But for new dreamworks to emerge, old theories need re-working and postmodern theorists offer a wide assortment of theoretical tools. Just to mention briefly again a few of the shared issues: Representations. At one time, representations were objects in the service of true copies of reality. As copy theories of reality began to erode, so did representationalism. Now the representations are acquiring their own autonomous status and no longer find themselves in the service of accurately reproducing reality. In transgressive dreamworks, dream images are acquiring their own existential status. The Self. Once the battle cry of individualism, the unified natural self is now in question and the polyvocal soul is in emergence. But freedom from the hierarchy on high has led to suffering the infestation of the viral from below. Breaking free of the torments of the One and the Many is as much an issue for transgressive dreamwork as it is for postmodern culture. Reality. Both postmodern theory and dreaming continual play with reality and questions about reality. Western philosophy still struggles with Descartes' dream question, how can we know this is not a dream? Postmodern theory and transgressive dreamworks not only question our concepts of reality, but produce transgressions that undermine the whole concept. Minority Reports. Both transgressive dreamworks and postmodern theory continually give voice to and speak for the marginalized, the repressed, the minority. This is not so much because they are repressed and marginalized, but that this is the site where repression and marginalization appear the clearest and transgressive acts are possible. Stories. It is clear we live in a sea of stories and coming up with more to avoid this fact is not at all as interesting and productive as looking at how stories are constructed and producing them ourselves. The other part of this is continually realizing the stories of which we are only partially conscious. Postmodern theory and transgressive dreamworks delve deeply into these ideologies, metanarratives and personal fascisms. Self-humor. Transgressive dreamwork is always self-destined to self-destruct as it transgresses itself. That is, if the true production of transgression is the production of difference rather than the repetition of the same, each act undoes the last. Suggestions about how it has developed or how it is going to develop drag the project back into the geometrically abstract structural world of the ideal rather than the world of real contact. Again I would remind you of Zorba the Greek. Every project he was involved with seemed on one level a disaster. And yet there was so much authenticity in stumbling, it began to take on its own rhythms and became a dance of life. In the end, the protagonist (Basil) who comes to the island and encounters Zorba as a kind of force of nature, fails at all his attempts to commodify the island, but learns more about life than he could have ever dreamed. Or perhaps, as he could have dreamed had he practiced more transgressive dreamworks. -Richard Wilkerson January 1, 2004 Postmodern dreaming theorists' essays can be found on the Postmodern Dreaming Page http://www.dreamgate.com/pomo REFERENCES 1. Lippmann, Paul (2003) The Canary In The Mind: On The Fate Of Dreams In Psychoanalysis And In Contemporary Culture. Presentation at the Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, CA, June 28, 2003. 2. Jung, C. G. (1953) The Collected Works. Translated by R. C. F. Hull. Bollingen Series XX, vol.s 1-20, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 3. Tedlock, Barbara (1981). Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 4. Deleuze, Gilles. & Guattari, Felix. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minn Press. Originally Published as L'Anti-Oedipe, 1972 Les Editions De Minnuit. 5. Hillman, James (1983). Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account. Dallas : Spring Publications. 6. Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 Sept). A Briefing on the History of Dream Psi Research . Electric Dreams 9(9). 7. LaBerge, S. (1985). Lucid Dreaming. New York: Ballantine Books. See the website at http://www.lucidity.com 8. See http://www.asdreams.org for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD). 9. Lévy, Bernard-Henri (1995). Adventures on the Freedom road: French Intellectuals in the 20th Century. Translated by Richard Veasey. London: The Harvill Press. 10. Nietzsche, Frederich (1967). Basic Writing of Nietzsche. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: The Modern Library. 11. Kazantzakis, Nikos (1946/1995). Zorba the Greek. Republished by Simon and Schuster. The movie, by Michael Cacoyannis stared Anthony Quinn (Zorba) and Alan Bates (Basil), Irene Pappas and Lila Kedrova. 12. Deleuze, Gilles (1983/1962). Nietzsche and Philosophy. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson. New York: Columbia University. 13. Lyotard, Jen-Francois (1989). The Lyotard Reader. Edited by Andrew Benjamin. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Ltd. 14. Mislove, Jeffrey (1998). Working with Dreams with Jeremy Taylor. An interview from the Thinking Allowed series. Conversations On The Leading Edge Of Knowledge and Discovery With Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Transcripts available online at: http://www.intuition.org/txt/taylor.htm 15. See note 4. 16. See Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy: The Writings of Hakim Bey. Available online at: http://www.hermetic.com/bey/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 699-001 Subject: Re: in the dark do u overthink your decisions be4 making them? if so this could be the reason why u find yourself going back to the house u want that comfort and security that go along with it. i think the lights flickering has to do with faulty wiring ie: faulty thinking. u keep on going back to the same place and doing the same things over and over again (which is where the giant loop comes in) what the dream is trying to tell u is that u need to find that comfort and security within your own life. because your parents and that home won't always be there for u. if u want more light bulbs to go on rather than off over your head u need to have more faith in yourself and move on. u said they were painting the leaves and dirt to make it look more real. ie: false sense of security by going into that house. it's nice and amusing to hang out with your folks (which is what the dream was telling u exhibits in a giant park) and spend time with them but it's not really the answer to your problems just a nice distraction from them. anyway sorry i didn't get back to u sooner i have a lot going on and not. the things that r not going on r the things i have no control over. ie:someone's else thoughts and feelings. anyway your not the only one lost in this world going around in circles at least your aware of what's going on unlike most folks. [ed.note: since this text references a dream from last month, I've left the original dream here, for easy of reference.] hen_na_yume wrote:11/12/03 I am in a house that is my parents house. The surrounding environment is a loop of sorts, that i can only call a tour-of- subconscious. i can only compare it, to a giant park with exhibits here and there, and a road with a tour bus that goes around. at night there isnt supposed to be anyone outside (like the movie westworld). there is maintenance done at night, which i notice at a point when i am trapped outside, lost somewhere. at this point i observe people spraying leaves or dirt on an area, to make it look authentic. i remember wandering around, searching, in the dark, because there is no light. A vehicle with people encounters me, and takes me back to the house I was in before. It is so dark. There is an upstairs area, where I am trying to get the lights working. I recall trying different things to get them to work (not sure what they were anymore). I get them to work, but they are so dim it isnt even close to being good enough. I go down the stairs, and I find my parents. I ask them, (because they were out all this time, and they just got back) how do I turn the lights on? They tell me I can't because (I forgot why). The answer they give me is very indirect, I recall. I am only going to be comfortable when the lights turn on. And they never do. notes: I am leaving some major things out because I cant remember them. I've had numerous dreams with lights that dont work and being trapped in houses with lights that wont work. This was one of the more extensive dreams of this sort. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 699-002 Subject: HERE'S MY INTERPRETATION HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO U! what was smooth becomes knotted, what was paradise turns to muck, what was in your own backyard is now too far away to bother with. i'm thinking that things are not as they seem. that u are very optimistic and maintain a positive view and it's not that u give up too easily it's that u have trouble remaining motivated. that u very often let your outside interests get in the way of your personal relationships. u work too hard and take the people around u for granted. u need to let them help u. u don't need to take the world on by yourself and u shouldn't have too. u get so preoccupied with details that u distort them and make them seem like something more than what they are. try not to overwhelm yourself or take things too seriously your a very literal person. sometimes your relationships/friendships are more worth building on than whatever it is your currently working on. take more time out for yourself and bring someone with you. the dream images i'm getting is: tree of life and salt of the earth (u mentioned the rocks were cube shaped like salt crystals) i think the knotts in the tree represented stress and undue tension you've been experiencing. i know some of this sounds snyde and a bit too personal but there's a great deal of too much personal information in this dream. and your lucky most people don't have their dreams reach out and grab the hell out of them the way yours seem to do. the man who was with u you didn't know who he was cuz u didn't bother to get to know him as a person but u intuitively knew he was there to help you. let the people around u who care about you help you. signing off for now. bye! have a happy thanksgiving! [ed.note: I have again left the original dream in place, for ease of reference] Kayne wrote: I joined another group before realizing it was completely dead. I copied this from the other post - Currently I don't have a lot of time to keep a detailed journal, so this is something from an era when I had more time. I also belong to a lucid dream group, but I sometimes have to doubt the sincerity of some of the people there. The posts here seem more like real dreams. At least more like the kind of dreams I have (Maybe you should all be worried??). Anyway, here's one nights worth of insanity, from a while back... I was in the woods near where I live. The trees were strange - They were huge, the bark was grey and smooth, but knotted in many places. The trunks were really thick, and the branches were interwound. I went up a hill, and on top of the hill there was a cluster of big rocks - they were brown, and cube-like (like salt crystals, only brown, and the edges of the squares were rounded). I looked out from the top of the hill and I was in a large forest - there were trees (green) as far as I could see, and far away a large fairly smooth rock - like part of a mountain - that was pale blue/white - maybe like a glacier. There was somebody else with me. I did not know him. We wanted to get to the rock to investigate it, but it was too far away. I started walking through the bushes, but soon there was ice everywhere. All the leaves had fallen and turned brown. The ice was like slush/ wet snow. I broke through it to my ankles then my knees, until I was wading through it. It was not cold, but we could not make it to the rock formation. -break- I was reading a book about psychology/behavior. It was a simple book, like something that might have been on a supermarket shelf. Not really worth paying attention too, I thought. There was a story in it about a woman, I think. Somebody had written, 'if you cared you would stop' - by someone who meant something. I said, 'something was a long time ago, love'. -I woke up __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 700-001 Subject: Spiders dream_title: Spiders dream_date: 26/11/2003 dreamer_name: Ingrid dream_text: I cannot remember the whole dream all I can remember I was sitting in the bath against a spider web, which I was totally unaware of when I looked around I saw this huge web with ugly red and black spiders hanging on it. One of the spiders bit me. dream_comments: I have never dreamt of spiders before, what does this mean? COMMENTS: 700-003, 703-003 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 700-002 Subject: Babies dream_title: Babies dream_date: beginning of october dreamer_name: sam dream_text: I dreamt my boss was angry with me because she was tired, she had just had a baby girl. I was upset that she was angry because i didn't tell her to have a baby. COMMENTS: 705-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 700-003 [700-001] Subject: Re: Spiders Hi Ingrid, This is my interpretation of your dream. Sitting in the bathtub is siginificant. It signifies your need to cleanse yourself of a situation. The spider web could signify a web of deception. Several spiders could mean several problems or annoyances that are going on with you right now. Both the red and black on the spiders signifies fear and anger. I think the dream is a warning that whatever is the problem is that is going on with you if you don't fix the situation you'll end up getting bit, so to speak. I would really look at what is going on right now. Is there a situation that is annoying you or bothering you or a problem you happen to be caught up in? I hope this helps. Louella __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 701-001 Subject: people dream_title: people dream_date: 26/11 dreamer_name: mystic dream_text: sometimes i dream of in every house i have been in a pearson comes walking into the room weird thing is i always wake up(properley) then fall back to sleep and the dream continues until that pearson is leaning over me and it is real like cause i can feel the presence of it all dream_comments: what does this mean also before something happens like maybe a death or happiness i get a interition that something is going to happen sometimes however iam wrong COMMENTS: 705-004 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 702-001 Subject: Death dream_title: Death dream_date: septemeber 2003 dreamer_name: Maddison dream_text: First Part- I am driving home from school on the highway, suddenely traffic stops, and I learn that a bomb has gone off on the opposite highway, people are telling me I have to leave my car and run because the bomb is going to get us next, but I do not want to leave my car and go with them. Second Part- I am in bedroom sleeping at school, and my sister comes in, wakes me up and asks me if she can stay with my because she is not going to make it through the night. I do not ask why, I just go back to sleep and let her stay with me. Third Part- I am at school, I get a call from someone, I do not know who, and they tell me to come home right away. When I get home I learn that my mother has died, and that we must arrange for the funeral, they do not tell me how and they also did not tell me when it happened because they did not want me to be upset. We arrange everything, when i go to the funeral home, everything is very familar, my mother is not the person in the casket, but I do not know who it is. I leave and go home, my mom is home and she tells me that everything is ok, she did not die. I wake up. dream_comments: I am taking a dream symbolism class at Salve Regina, we have to keep a dream journal, in this dream, I dreamt that I was writing in the journal. FOr this class, I have to present a dream and its meaning. I was in Italy this summer, when I got back, my grandfather passed away, about a month later I had to leave for school. COMMENTS: __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 703-001 Subject: Resisting Death dream_title: Resisting Death dream_date: November 25, 2003 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I am in a dark, greyish hole with webs. A skeleton representing Death driving a cast iron carriage was also in the hole with me. He pointed towards the carriage for me to get in. I said, "No, I am not going with you." He then pointed to the four walls that were surrounding me, showing me that there is no other way out. I felt trapped. The only way out was getting into the carriage. I felt scared, yet I wasn't because I was talking to death and telling it that I was not going. I looked up and saw a small,little hole. Through the hole a small light shined through. As I looked through the hole, I saw an Angel. The Angel reached through the hole and pulled me through the hole. As I hugged the Angel, my arms would pass through the Angel. To me it felt like air. Then I woke up. COMMENTS: 703-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 703-002 [703-001] Subject: color your dream death what if the black of your dream is an encroachment on your soul by spirits traveling in the wrong direction like the tunnel walls of neardeath experiencers and the white is your soul what if your spirit moves your soul to the right of those souls whose spirits are moving them in the wrong direction and what if you can see the influence of your spirit on your soul by observing that it has a left to right drift once i read that mohammed was asked what a dream meant and he told the dreamer to follow it and find out?i have not read all the so called apocryphal gospes but do you know of any mention os dreams? isn't it strange that jesus made no mention of dreams? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 703-003 [700-001] Subject: Re: Spiders wow this ingrid person is totally into the aura and chakra thing the meaning of colors. and she's read her share of dream books too. i don't know i'd say she did a pretty good job. but if u want my input here it goes: red and black are usually associated with sex magic, red is color of prosperity in orient, and black could symbolize death. i'd say that if u didn't see the spider web as u were getting in it could mean that u don't always think be4 acting. and that the web represents the past. but ingrid is right the bathroom means cleansing, the living room is the heart of the home, the bedroom would signify rest. is there some financial oppurtunity u missed out on in the past. and who do u feel is biting or stabbing u in the back right now? the 8 legs of the spider could represent many factors at the same time that could be bugging u rather than any one thing. or the dream could mean that there's something in the past that holds u back now something u didn't think was important till recently. have to go bye! __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 704-001 Subject: The Lightning Man dream_title: The Lightning Man dream_date: 11/29/03 dreamer_name: Lightning Ball dream_text: I got struck by lightning knocked my lights out for a long day. At night I got up and opened my eyes and my eyes turned blue and i opened my hands. " ball of Lightning" came out of my hands dream_comments: Why Lightning came out of my hands Why? COMMENTS: 705-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 704-002 [ed.note: post deleted - non-dream content] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 705-001 [700-002] Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO THE CRYING BABY ISSUE! sounds to me like she blames u for more than she should and that's not fair to u. u are not responsible for her life or the choices in it. does this woman remind u of the way your own mother treats u? u could feel devalued or underappreciated or even held back and that this woman is treating u like a child. get a job where u know your self worth and don't have to be treated in such a disrespectful and ungrateful manner. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 705-002 [704-001] Subject: Re: I KNOW WHAT THE LIGHTENING BALL IS! do u know or care that u have very strong powerful psychic abilities and your dream is telling u to stop ignoring them and have some faith in yourself. the dream seems 2b saying that u needed a great declaration or sign to tell u this. if it wasn't a brick hitting u over the head it's getting struck by lightening to get your attention. did u ever hear of energy balls or ectoplasm?? i was in a coven where the group broke up be4 she taught us how to do that. but u seriously need to stop denying your abilities and realize that there's nothing wrong with being a witch. it seems to me like your a hereditary one. and u don't even know it! it's a shame u can be very good and very powerful. i don't think god cares if your a witch just as long as your a good one. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 705-003 Subject: The Flying Lion dream_title: The Flying Lion dream_date: 11-29-2003 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I WAS IN A FIELD, LOOKING AT THE STARS THREW A TELESCOPE, AS I WATCHED SATURN, SOMETHING GOT IN THE WAY OF MY VISION, I TOOK MY HEAD AWAY FROM THE SCOPE, TO CLEAR MY EYES AND LOOKED AGAIN, THEN AS I WATCH SATURN AGAIN, THE OBJECT THAT ENTERED MY VISION WAS A FLYING LION, IT HAD WINGS LIKE AN EAGLE, I CALLED FOR MY BROTHER, HE THEN APPEARED OUT OF NO WAY, I ASKED HIM TO LOOK AT THE FLYING LION, BUT IT WAS GONE BY THEN, ALL THE WHILE THERE WAS MUSIC IN THE BACK GROUND, SMOOTH AND SOFT, GUITAR? WHAT DOES IT MEAN.? dream_comments: I HAVE DREAMS EVERY NIGHT, COMMENTS: __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 705-004 [701-001] Subject: Re:IF THE DEAD SEEM REAL TO U THAT'S CUZ THEY ARE! at least u can see them i can only feel them and sometimes hear. but even then there has to b high levels of concentrated energy. anyway the dead r trying to get your attention. they know u know about them and r therefore drawn to u. but as with the living u wanna b careful as to who u hang out with and who u help and y. they don't stop being human just cuz they passed on. u were asking me y u get an intuitive feeling be4 something good or bad happens that's normal. u have a very strong hold on the spirit world. most people would freak out b overwhelmed or wrongly assume their losing their mind. u just have more talents and abilities than most that's all nothing wrong with that at all. but u do wanna b careful as to who u share that information with i don't wanna see u get locked up in a mental institution or anything like that. but __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 705-005 [ed.note: post deleted - non-dream content] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 706-001 Subject: My Wierd Ass Day dream_title: My Wierd Ass Day dream_date: dreamer_name: Selene dream_text: Ok so im in The supermarkent where my mom works (i spend a lot of time there when im bored) and im looking for a muffin before i go to school. just one individually rapped muffin. but no, there are only 6 packs and 12 packs so im walkina around the store muttering about my muffin when all of a sudden my History teacher pops up out of nowhere and is like "how can i help you?" i tell him im looking for a muffin and he says he knows where i can find them. so he take s me down an isel and hes like here you go. but again they are all 6 packs and 12 packs. "NO. i only want 1 muffin" "oh" he says and then rips open a 12pack of muffins and hands me one of them "go on take it" he says "no i have to pay for it first" i say but he keeps insisting that i dont need to pay for it that i should just take it and leave. so i stat to leave feeling uneasy then realize i cant do it and run back to the deli where i slap 12 cents in change on the counter and say "im sorry i tried to steal the muffin here ill pay for it" then i run away leaving the change and the muffin on the counter. my history techer is in the back going"nooooo" so then i go to school and my class is in the library working on the computers. the library is this room surrounded by glass walls kida linke a fish tank. wel me and my friends are talking and typing, my friend taps me on my shioulder and points across the room i look over and Kevin Soebo Dressed as Hurcules is there waving at me like a luvstruck girl. i turn away thinking hes and idiot. so im typing on my computer and all of a sudden and instant message pops up. i cant read it but i know its from him. again i ignore it. so then he gets up and cums over to talkto me. by this time im fed up with him so i say i have to go to my locker and get a book so i go out to my locker, its all darkand there is one streetlight on. After i get my book i start to walk back but then i am surrounded by a circle of black clad ninjas. oh crap i think. then i procede to kick all of their butts. then i woke up COMMENTS: __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 707-001 Subject: murder 12/06/03 : A man (black) is taunting me (at this point I am black too) and later, when he is walking down some cement stairs (vaguely similar to stairs at my old middle school) I sneak out from behind the railing, and come up behind him, and slice the back of his neck with a blade. This scene repeats at least two more times, seen from different angles. Other then the sense of confusion and dread I feel from killing him, I am rather judgemental as to how it "looked" when I killed him. It looked good for the most part. But it was amature looking. Not as "stylish" as I would have liked. The way I moved the blade across his neck was kind of shaky, and amature looking (these were my primary concerns when reviewing the murder). A friend asks me how did it feel, my first time killing a man. I said, ok (i meant, it didnt feel good at all). He said, but wasnt it a rush, wasnt it thrilling (something to that effect, i forgot the exact words). I recall thinking to myself, no, it really wasnt. I didnt feel anything when I did it. Now I was questioning why I ever did it at all. Now I was a fugitive of the law, and the police were homing in on our position. This part is hard for me to remember, but I run out of the building with my friends, and try to divert the polices attention. > I am myself (white) and I am running through some suburbs, into ppls houses, all the while i am running from a person (a person from my past from school who picked on me a lot). He is very much the same person he was in the past. He knows I committed the murder but I think he commited the murder (this part is hard to recall, but it was very uncomfortable). > I am driving my car and a good friend of mine is sitting in the passenger seat next to me. I tell him we can move to Hawaii, and they won't find us there for a long time at least. We can get jobs there and live peacefully. But we have to get out of here or I'm going to jail for "life without parole". Then I ask him, how long do you think we really have before we're caught? He says, three days max. I consider using my debit card somewhere and getting out of there fast before they realize I was there. Then I can use cash at the airport and make up a name for myself, so they won't know I am on the flight. This is about the time I wake up. When I awaken, I am in disbelief of reality. I think to myself, this can't be real. I really did kill someone, and there is nothing I can do about it now. It takes a few minutes before I realize that it was only a dream, and thats the most relieved I've felt in a very, very long time. comment: even hours later i felt a little like it really happened at some moments, and had to snap myself back into reality. for those of you who are planning on interpreting my dream, i can tell you i cant think of anything i heavily regret doing or feel guilty about lately that would offset this dream, though there were past demons that made an appearnce (bully from school) which would imply something. there could be some fear of commitment here, because i've made some bad mistakes in the past, i.e. joining the military and hating every minute of it. same with school. didnt like it either. but this didnt feel like one of 'those' dreams either, since i frequently have those dreams. so i'm not sure what to make of it. - A COMMENTS: __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-001 Subject: Re: HUGGED BY AN ANGEL RESPONSE TO RESISTING DEATH! at first u resisted death but when u accepted that death is apart of life and that u have nothing to lose cuz u still maintain your sense of self u were then rewarded by a hug from an angel cuz u finally learned your lesson. there is no life without death. death is a part of life and u can always come back if u want but i believe some souls r forced to come back here whether they like it or not cuz there was something they needed to learn or experience and it wasn't right for them to try to avoid it. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-002 Subject: Re: NOTHING WEIRD ABOUT A CRUSH RESPONSE 2WEIRD ASS DAY well u either have a crush on a girl or some girl has a crush on u (or it could be a guy with very strong female traits that remind u of someone) but the character of hercules would suggest that this secret admirer of yours is strong and persistant. the fact that this person is the store where your mom works would suggest to me that u know this person and got to know them in a comfortable environment such as school or work. at 1st u wanted to confront this person and tell them u were not interested but instead u thought u were sparing the persons feelings by avoiding them all together. which is y u left the muffin (sexual term referring to womans private area) and the change on the counter. u wanted to give this person your own 2 cents on the matter but thought better of it. u do however feel tremendously guilty for avoiding this person and not wanting to talk to them about this. all u have to say is: i like u and i think your a good person and i'm sorry i don't swing that way if and when i do you'll be the 1st person i contact. till then can we just please b friends!? your history teacher showed up cuz apparently u had a similar problem in the past from someone else who may have been the opposite gender than the person who's after u now. your history teacher represents the past and he's screaming no, no, noooo! cuz he doesn't want to see u continually running away from the same kind of situation over and over and over it's just easier to deal with the person and give that person some closure. u were beating up the ninja's later cuz u were working out your frustrations regarding this situation. your mad at this person for having more feelings for u than they should or mad at yourself for having more feelings for them than u think u should. and u feel like u can take on more than what u would otherwise could handle cuz your that angry and frustrated. u do however seem like u wanted to give this person a shot and see how it goes but r very much afraid of the results. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-003 Subject: Re: MY INTERPRETATION OF CAR BOMB & GRANDPA'S FUNERAL did all of these dreams take place be4 your grandfather died? cuz if so then all of them tie in together. in the 1st part your being warned about some impending danger but your not afraid cuz u know somehow u will be ok. in the 2nd part your sister is feeling unnerved by something but u don't know what that is. what if she has intuitive feelings about impending doom and death in the family too??? either way she seems to know somethings wrong and seeks comfort from u. in the 3rd part of the dream u say that u r being told your mother is dead and yet when u see the casket she is not in it she's alive. if your grandfather is your mother's dad that would mean to me that when he passed away a part of her died as well. people very often grieve for the dead as if they themselves had died. they must've been very close. but it seems like your surrounded by well meaning people who take care of things quickly even if they r a bit misinformed sometimes. and maybe u weren't afraid of dieing when told about the car bomb cuz u were kind of curious to see 4 yourself what the other side is like in person. but let's not go there. u have very strong talents and abilities for a reason and even though u feel a bit overwhelmed sometimes u probably wouldn't have these gifts if u weren't strong enough to handle them. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-004 Subject: Re: COULD BE ANIMAL TOTEM SPIRIT OR ABOUT ASTROLOGY your dream could be telling u to get some medicine cards and get into the animal totem spirit thing. but i think it's mainly about astrology i don't know if u believe in it or ever had your chart done. as for your brother the dream implies he doesn't see the same things as u or doesn't believe in the same things which is ok. he's a separate entity and shouldn't have to believe in the same things. i very often have more in common with my friends than i do my immediate family. did u see the nostradamus movie very good. he had his chart done and he was exactly the person the stars made him out to b psychically inclined with powerful visions. u can pick it up free at a library. if it's not lumped in with everything else it could be in documentary or biography section. this movie was not like a boring PBS documentary movie it was a real movie and a good one at that. as for the music they say that the universe and the heavens create music all the time that the world runs on it. anyone who writes songs or music is tapping into that creative force and that's y music affects our emotions, thoughts and dreams. and that's y we can sometimes get more energy from listening to music than we can from eating. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-005 Subject: Re: THE MORE LUCID THE DREAM THE BETTER! i've had numerous and strange dealings with the spirit world but not as strong and powerful as your dealings with them. the most i can say is trust your intuition and let your conscience be your guide. whatever works for u to protect yourself keep at it. if u want more guidance than get some books on astral projection so u can guide the experience rather than letting things happen. u can also get a book on creative visualization and do the grounding mediation there's a book called: "creative visualization" by shakti guwain. these books r in the occult, new age, sometimes even self-help section. other than that get sage or sweet grass or do some sort of cleansing ritual. mohammed was into lucid dreaming and there r some people who can seed their dreams and choose to dream about whatever they want and there's books on that to. so u can follow your dream and learn to follow it or guide it. as for jesus didn't he have visions? i don't know maybe some of them were waking dreams. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 708-006 Subject: Black Hair dream_title: Black Hair dream_date: 12/7/03 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I saw a black bird fly right pass me and I see black hair when I scoop the popcorn. (I work in a theater) dream_comments: none __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 709-001 Subject: Flying dream_title: Flying dream_date: 2/3 days a week dreamer_name: noname dream_text: Every time i remember my dream it starts at night when the witches come out and they pratice their seyonces. When something bad happens to a friend in any of my dreams, the seyonces become soft almost wispering and in my dream it dosn't matter where i am i just run around in circles until my body is lifted off the gound and then i can fly around town until bad turns into good. dream_comments: Every time I fly in my dreams i can control it extemely well, such as taking off and landing. When I do fly I don't need anything to supposrt myself and the wind feels so realistic __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 709-002 Subject: Wedding dream_title: WEDDING dream_date: 12-7-03 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I DREAMED THAT I HAD MARRIED MY EX BUT THAT I WAS STILL MARRIED WITH MY PRESENT HUSBAND. dream_comments: __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 710-001 Subject: tidal wave dream_title: tidal wave dream_date: November 2004 dreamer_name: Kerriemc dream_text: Its full colour and very busy very exhausting. I am in a coastal area. I can see the ocean. There are people all around me. My daughter is with me. I feel my inner voice tell me that there is imminent danger and that I need to save myself and my daughter. I hear people shouting 'tidal wave is coming. People begin to panic. I see the wave it is almost upon us and there is nothing I can do. I feel great fear and a survival within, the need to save my daughter. I hold my daughter tight. The wave hits we are swept up I breath for my daughter giving her air as she needs it. We are surrounded by water and strive to find the top of the water.There are bodies all around us. The water subsides and the town is filled with mud and I am walking on the ground and feel bodies in the soil beneath my feet. I can't see my daughter. I find a table and a little girl and tell the girl to get onto the table as there is another wave coming. the wave hits followed by another one. I survive the water subsides and the town is destroyed. There are other survivors I am very sad and very very afraid. dream_comments: I feel dread and a great deal of fear throughout this dream. I feel lonliness. This is a recurring dream in subject matter only. The scheme of the dream changes each time. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 710-002 Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO THE WEDDING DREAM! did u feel like u made a mistake marrying your husband instead of your x. or do u like them both and want the best of both worlds in your life? or do u feel like u shouldn't have gotten involved with either. what do they mean and represent to u? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 710-003 Subject: Waiting for you dream_title: WAITING FOR YOU dream_date: dreamer_name: FOR MY HUSBAND dream_text: MY HUSBAND HAD A DREAM THAT HE WAS HAVING LUNCH IN A DINNER WITH HIS AUNT,HIS COUSIN,UNCLE,AND AUNT (WHO HAVE ALL PASTED ON) WALK INTO THE DINNER. HE LOOKS AT ALL OF THEM AND SAID TO THEM WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU GUYS ARE DEAD?!ONE OF THEM SAID TO HIM WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU. dream_comments: WHAT COULD THIS MEAN? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 710-004 Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO FLYING DREAM i don't know what books u been reading but not all witches hold seances at nite can be anytime of the day. i have dreams where i'm levitating and i can control that 2 it's fun i always get mad when i wake up and can't reproduce the same kind of energy. it's takes so little. i think the witches r murmuring cuz no one likes to say bad things out loud might scare people. what do u mean bad turns into good how does your flying cause that to happen u didn't say. they say that flying dreams is really astral travel. so i don't know where u go or what u do but i'm glad your intent on turning bad into good. i read in a dream book that levitating dreams means that i'm stressed and that i just wish to get away from things. sometimes i don't know i'm stressed till after i have one of those dreams but haven't had one in a long time now. did u get my response to your other dreams the funeral and muffin shop. they seem to have been mailed back 2 me without a response couldn't figure out y. though the 1st time i responded to someone same thing happened but apparently he did get my response. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 710-005 Subject: Re: response to black hair well what kind of black bird was it a crow? they say crows signify death. or lead the souls where they need to go. there's a native american tribe called "crow nation". where were u when the black bird flew past u? if someone left behind black hair when u were scooping up the popcorn someone from the spirit world could b trying to get your attention. ask your spirit guide to send u a dream! __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 711-001 Subject: desert i'm in a desert with some people. we come to a wall and at the top is a place no one can make it. so we climb up and everyone falls but me. i'm nearing the top, and have to move to the right to make it up. before i make it i see someone below me, he is way high up, and he jumps off the wall and lands in the sand below. the sand is so deep and flowing it doesnt hurt him at all. i make it up and the sand is warm to the touch and feels good to lie in. i look beyond and there is a a hill of sand. at the top there is a sort of fence and it is guarded heavily by these arabs. one of them points a gun at me and i make hand gestures suggesting i will not try to apporach any higher. the only way is down so i jump back down. i land in water, and everything is now blue. i fear to let my breath out so they dont see the bubbles on the surface and shoot me. so i cant breathe at all and force myself awake. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 711-002 Subject: Re: I HAVE AN ANSWER (WAITING FOR YOU)!!!! your husband could be sick and doesn't know it. the dream could be a warning he seriously needs to see a dr. as soon as possible. or if this is not the case but should be looked in to. the dream could be telling him he doesn't pay enough attention to his own family dead or not and they just want to be acknowledged. no reason to ignore the dead. there just gonna keep at it till they get your attention. is he in danger from some acquaintance or is there physical dangers on the job chemicals, no safety button on a machine, faulty equipment? could be a warning about almost anything. tell your husband to pray to these spirits and ask them to send more info in his dreams. the majority of dreams i have are filled with people i don't know and never met trying to tell me something. they say that when u dream u leave your body and very often go back and forth between the world of spirits and this one. set up an ancestor altar in your home. pictures, candles, incense, family memorobilia, etc. jewelry that belonged to his aunt. is there a family medical history he is not aware of??? could be neurological too. parkinsons or such??! __________________________________________________________________ ______ _________________________________________________ -------------------- END ISSUE ----------------- -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- Subscriptions: The Electric Dreams E-zine (issn 1089 4284) is *free* and distributed via email about once a month. 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