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 #13 Issue #4 April 2006 ISSN# 1089 4284 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Electric Dreams: http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams Cover: http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed13-5cov.jpg o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes Richard Wilkerson ++ Global Dreaming News Harry Bosma ++ Cover Sheila McNellis Asato http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed13-4cov.jpg ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange Lucy Gillis - Editor Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics Jorge Conesa-Sevilla ++ Dream: "The Clicks" Stan Kulikowski II ++ Article: The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result Linda Lane Magallón ++ Column: Dreams and Themes DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD ++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX D E A D L I N E : May 16th deadline for June 2006 issue XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to Harry Bosma Send Articles, news and other items to: Richard Wilkerson: o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Editor's Notes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Welcome to the May 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreamwork online. If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com Subscribe by going here and registering http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/ .. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics. http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm We are just a couple months away from the IASD 2006 Bridgewater Conference, and if you haven't planned to come yet, check out the incredible program and reconsider! asdreams.org/2006 Virtual Dream Arts Gallery: I will have more on this next month, but I'm suggesting we start a virtual art gallery. This gallery will not "be" in any place, but will accept any art done in a dream, or any dream text that is about the gallery or dream aesthetics. If you have any art dreams, send'm in. (This is not dream-inspired-art, but rather art done or found in dreams, or dream museums in dreams). Until I get a separate form up, just use the dreamtemple submission form for EDreams: http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm This month in Electric Dreams: Lucid Dream Exchange editor, Lucy Gillis offers a generous taste of ideas from her new issue. In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views on the relationship between lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls "ecopsychological unfolding." The article, "Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics" has links to samples of his lucid dream inspired artwork Linda Magallón, dream pioneer and author of Mutual Dreaming, takes a look this month at how flying dreams helped her be less physically stiff in the joints. "The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result" may well be the beginning of a practice that will change our techniques in physical therapy. Stan Kulikowski II offers as selection from his unique dream journal, " The Clicks." If you have dreams you would like published, please enter them in the form at http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm David Jenkins, PhD., the director of Berkeley based DreamRePlay, pulses online each week useful hints and techniques for dreamworkers. His is a current sample, "Dreams and Themes" explores the idea that dreams come in thematic bunches, like bananas, and one can track these themes throughout one's life. Dreamers discovering a spaceship and being familiar with it, being chased, and witnessing earth changes and people suffering - What's going on? It’s the EDreams Dream section with Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland ! Be sure to read them all. Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles and authors in an easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which you can read about in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news, conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at ed-news@alquinte.com Cover by Sheila Asato http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed13-5cov.jpg -------------------- For those of you who are new to dreamwork, be sure to stop by one of the many resources: http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://dreamgate.com/dream/library http://dreamunit.net/news-en/ http://www.dreamtree.com Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo) http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/ -------------------- From the Dream Dimension, -Richard Wilkerson o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S May 2006 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@alquinte.com address. General news: - Report on the Nordic Dream Conference - Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD Online: - Update from the Precognition Games - Dream Journal Physical world: - Berkeley: the Dream Institute - Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace - California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patricia Garfield - USA and Canada: Robert Moss - USA: Jeremy Taylor Reminders: - Dreaming in Bridgewater - Ritual DaFuMu for Peace - World Dream Group Directory * * * GENERAL NEWS * * * --- - Report on the Nordic Dream Conference --- I'd like to give a short report on the Nordic Dream Conference in Copenhagen that happened during three days late March. The conference gave a huge boost to the formation of a Nordic and European dream network. Most of the participants at the conference came from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. However, there were also participants from Germany, England, and the Netherlands. The network includes people from many disciplines, ranging from dreamworkers and artists to researchers and teachers. Kate Adams offered to host the next European meeting early 2007. Kate works at the Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln (close to Nottingham), England. The Danish Association for the Study of Dreams and IASD offered to help with the planning. A longer report by the Danish association is available at the website of the IASD. It includes an extensive contact list: http://asdreams.org/affiliates/report06april.htm I hope to see you in England! Harry Bosma hbosma@alquinte.com --- - Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD --- Robert J Hoss, MS, author of The Language of Dreams, and director of the Dream Science Foundation is planning with IASD to provide funding for dream research. IASD will provide a committee to review research requests. Send proposals to bob@dreamscience.org The proposals will be considered for Foundation grants. Since full or partial funding is not guaranteed, other organizations are invited to help support these worthwhile efforts. * * * ONLINE * * * --- - Update from the Precognition Games --- The Precognition Games are currently focused at the third out of five dream incubation tasks. Everyone can join in at any moment. It costs nothing, and no special skills are required. Here are some of the more striking results for the first task. The first task asked to dream of an interaction with somebody in the upcoming week. If possible, it had to be an interaction with a stranger. Ulfet from Turkey dreamt of meeting a man who came because she had called for him. He wanted to learn her how to make magic, and looked like a magician. Later in the week, Ulfet stayed in a hotel, where many magicians showed up for the evening entertainment. Kathy from Australia dreamt of a crazy old man, whom she described in the following way: "white hair and beard, a bit stooped". Several weeks later Kathy had a very enjoyable meeting with an eccentric old man who in many ways felt similar to the man in the dream. Kay from England dreamt about a man called Jim. Later that week Kay just had to ask whether that name meant anything to a new temp worker. It turned that his girlfriend calls him that. Unfortunately not registered in time, but worth mentioning too: Linda from the Netherlands dreamt about a man in the town where she lives, who for the last ten years looked like he could use a good haircut. In the dream he appeared with a clean and fresh haircut. Later that week, she was surprised to meet him in person having that new haircut. To read the dreams yourself, or add your own, visit the Dream Registry: http://dreamunit.net/registry Best wishes, Harry Bosma hbosma@alquinte.com --- - Dream Journal --- Dream Journal is the LifeJournal for dreamers, and has grown to quite a thriving community: www.dreamjournal.com * * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * * --- - Berkeley: the Dream Institute --- The Dream Institute of Northern California 1672 University Ave Berkeley, CA 94703 1-510-845-1767 Also see: http://tinyurl.com/9xv5l The Dream Institute offers the following during May 2006. * Engaging the Muse - A Poet's Journey * Four Monday evenings May 1, 8, 15, 22 7-9 pm, $75 Poetry arises from our unique engagement with a source often experienced as gods or Muses. This class will explore one's initiation into this relationship and ways that different poets stay engaged. Each class includes experiential exercises and group sharing. Readings provided. Kathryn Ridall, Ph.D., is a published poet, psychotherapist, and Adjunct Faculty, Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University. ] * The Raw & The Cooked - Poetry Reading Series * Sunday afternoons 3-5 pm, $5-15 April 30: Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas May 21: Phyllis Stowell Travis and Elizabeth Rosner This innovative monthly series invites published poets to present their own work and also invites participants to bring a poem to read, their own or favorites, for a lively sharing. --- - Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace --- DREAMING AND AWAKENING: Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, and Dream Yoga, 10 days of awareness enhancement and re-creation at the beautiful Kalani Oceanside Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii, with Stephen LaBerge and Alan Wallace, May 10-19, 2006. Becoming adept at lucid dreaming requires focused attention and practice that is difficult to maintain during our busy lives. This is an ideal opportunity to devote time to cultivating your lucid dreaming ability and enhancing your mindfulness in everyday life. Using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Tibetan dream yoga and Western science, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Alan Wallace, Ph.D. will co-present* instructions on methods of developing the mental skills that foster lucidity and on directing consciousness within both dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of personal goals. During this workshop, you will have an opportunity to use the NovaDreamer, and, if you wish, participate in ongoing research on a natural substance that, according to recent studies, has been shown to stimulate lucidity and mindfulness. Participants in our past retreats have enjoyed phenomenal success at lucid dreaming, with most having at least one during the program. --- - California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patrica Garfield --- At Dominican College, Corte Madera, California Tuesdays, April 18-May 23 2:00-4:00 pm Aegis of Corte Madera: 5555 Paradise Drive During each session following the introductory one, participants will examine at least two of the most common negative dreams around the world, as well as their positive versions. We'll discuss the usual meanings of these dream themes and explore individual variations. Discover how these themes are portrayed in your dreams, especially in senior issues such as retirement and bereavement. In addition to gaining knowledge about specific dream themes, participants learn some ancient and modern cultural methods for preventing and banishing nightmares; practice methods for inducing dreams on specific topics; and explore how to use dream content for creative purposes, with inspiring examples from famous dreamers. http://www.dominican.edu/academics/adult/osher/sprg06course.html --- - USA and Canada: Robert Moss --- * The Power of Active Dreaming * Evening Workshop Friday, May 12 MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#montreal evening * Dream Teacher Training * Level I, Five-Day Advanced Training Monday-Friday, May 22-26 DUVALL, WA http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#dtt-1 --- - USA: Jeremy Taylor --- May, 2006 May 5-7 - Loveland, CO Weekend Workshop held at beautiful Sunrise Ranch in Loveland. Sponsored by Billie Ortiz. All are welcome. Contact her at wakeuptoyourdreams@earthlink.net , or call 303/929.6122 May 12-14 - Mt Carmel in Niagara Falls, ONT Weekend Workshop as part of the Haden Institute. Contact Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com June, 2006 June 2-4 - Danville, CA (San Damiano Retreat Ctr) Weekend Workshop: "Dream Work as a Spiritual Discipline." You may stay at the Retreat Center, or commute. Register on line at www.sandamiano.org or phone 925/837.9141. Cost is $195 (with room and board) or $165 without. Schedule is Friday night orientation and introduction to group dream work, Saturday all day experiential workshop, Saturday evening dream work in small groups, and Sunday morning further dream work in the larger group. June 11-16 - Hendersonville, NC Haden Institute Summer Dream Conference. Jeremy will be offering dream training, including "More Ways Than Talk - Getting at the Deeper Meanings of Dreams Through Expressive Arts-As-Meditation." This conference is focused on understanding dreams in the light of Christian faith and tradition. You will have the opportunity to learn to understand dreams as a Christian discipline, find guidance for starting a dream group in your church, and to share the community of those exploring the growing Christian dream- work movement. It is open to all. It will be held at the Kanuga Retreat Center. Register by mail (Haden Institute, PO Box 1793, Flat Rock, NC 28731-1793), fax (828-693.1919) or email (office@hadeninstitute.com). For more information you can contact The Rev Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com or 828-693.9292. June 16-18 - Lexington, KY Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis' 2006 Annual Conference. Theme is "Diversity in Unity; Unity in Diversity" Keynote by Houston Smith. Jeremy will do a presentation introducing group projective dream work as a psychological practice and a spiritual discipline, and also a post conference workshop on working with your dreams. For more information email to info@aap-psychosynthesis.org or go to their website at http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org . June 20-25 - Bridgewater, MA IASD CONFERENCE Annual International Association for the Study of Dreams conference on the campus of Bridgewater College near Boston, MA. Jeremy will offer a workshop on June 23 and a presentation on June 24. A great opportunity to work with dream workers from around the world. Open to all! Go to www.asdreams.org . * * * REMINDERS * * * --- - Dreaming in Bridgewater --- 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams June 20 - 24th, 2006 Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater Massachusetts Invited speakers include noted Jungian psychologist, Michael Conforti, Ph.D, dreamwork pioneer, Montague Ullman, M.D., and Sci-Fi and fantasy author, Orson Scott Card. Special note for artists: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes will be awarded by an anonymous donor for the best Dream Art in June, '06. 1st prize: $l000, two 2nd prizes of $500 each. Any medium is acceptable including photography, videos or DVDs, computer art, book art, installation or any combination of the above. The dream or the significant part of the dream must be included. The criteria for selection will be originality, integrity, universality, and relevance to building bridges. The awards will be presented during the Art Reception in June, '06. Join dreamers, clinicians, researchers, educators and artists from all over the world for four days of workshops, lectures, exhibits, and events examining dreaming and dreamwork as presented through traditional and innovative theories and therapies, personal study, scientific research, cultural tradition and the arts. Over 100 workshops and events on all aspects of dreaming are planned, with topics and events of interest to the general public as well as professionals. Special events include an Opening Reception, a Dream Arts Exhibition and reception, a solstice visit to a Native American archaeoastronomical site, a Dream Telepathy Contest, various other social events and the ever popular closing costume "Dream Ball". More information at the website of the IASD: http://asdreams.org --- - Ritual DaFuMu for Peace --- The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly DaFuMu - a collective dream of good fortune - to support peace. For more information go to: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm To join the World Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com . --- - The Precognition Games --- Experiments starting in April, running for several weeks each: * April 1/2 - Predicting the news * Dream about future news. Aim at something that will become known within the next week. Something small will do, allow your dreaming all the room it needs to find something that appeals to your interests. It can be newspaper news, or trade specific news, or anything else as long as it can be objectively verified. * April 15/16 - Getting involved * Have a dream to prepare for a future situation in your immediate environment. Suggestions for such a future situation include events in your own future, events in the life of people you know, or events in your neighborhood. More information available at the IASD Discussion Boards, and you're welcome to add your special dreams to the Dream Registry at any time. http://dreamunit.net/registry --- - Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams --- More participants are welcome. In order to further our understanding of the extent to which lucid dreams differ from non- lucid dreams in other ways than (obviously) whether or not the dreamer knows it is a dream at the time, we have designed a new questionnaire study, a revision of an earlier pilot study. In short, we are asking you to fill out a web questionnaire and report form four times; Two of these reports should be lucid dreams, and two should be non-lucid dreams. The Lucidity Institute http://lucidity.com/dreams4.html --- - World Dream Group Directory --- Help the IASD Develop a directory of active dream groups, worldwide. Would you like to list your group on the IASD website? The IASD would like to learn more about how many dream groups are active, how many people are involved, and how the IASD can help group members and leaders. Please contact the IASD Board Secretary Gary Goodwin to learn more about this project. Email: gegood@yahoo.com END NEWS ================================================ ======================================== o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Cover: "Banker's Wife" by Sheila Asato http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed13-5cov.jpg o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Sheila McNellis Asato is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to the growth, transformation and healing of individuals and the community through the arts, dreaming and creative development. www.monkeybridgearts.com Sheila is an artist and Japan specialist. Dreams are an integral part of her creative practice and calling as an instructor in the arts. As a graduate student at St. Mary's University, her work has focused on the healing and spiritual benefits of cultivating an active relationship with imagery through dreams and art. "Banker's Wife" is part of the Healing Collage(sm) collection. Healing Collage(sm) is a unique process developed by Sheila Asato for personal insight, creative development and spiritual growth. It is a creative synthesis of graphic design principals, Japanese collage therapy, the Watchword process and Kaplan-Williams dream cards. All forms have an underlying compositional structure which holds them together. The dream is no exception. Through the Healing Collage(sm) process, it is possible to observe the dream in action as it affects the placement of imagery in your own unique collage. Healing Collage(sm) and Dreaming http://www.monkeybridgearts.com/X2Dreamwork.html o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis This month: Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics (c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views on the relationship between lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls "ecopsychological unfolding." To see samples of his lucid dream inspired artwork go to: http://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/archive2/shaman_art.html Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics (c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla I am honored to be given the opportunity to share ideas in this forum, ideas that for many years have been, exclusively, a private understanding of the interlacing between lucid dreaming material, its artistic reinterpretation in diverse media, and these having a direct impact on what I refer to as ecopsychological unfolding. Many practitioners of Transpersonal Psychology are keen on the study and understanding of psyche processes that I will attempt to describe in the context of lucid dreaming and its artistic representation. The interested reader can go to writers in this field for further information if you have not already. For the time being, let the reader interpret ecopsychological unfolding as a more inclusive process of personality individuation (non anthropocentric and embracing of all nature and its processes), or being actively involved in the discovery and integration of as many personality aspects as possible that are said to be the inclusive of a real "me": dark and light, somber and gay, or evil-tending and good-generating. Thus the full integration of SELF, even if it is an impossible task, requires that these dualities be stitched together into a larger and seamless SELF-quilt. Because this task is extremely demanding and difficult, due in part to the extreme dichotomizing tendencies of individual limited awareness, nationalism, and ideology, a lucid dreamer is, on the other hand, in a position of advantage over the regular dreamer. This is the case since dream content and the manipulation of a dreamscape by lucid dreamers allows for a volitional returning to and controllable dialogue with the depth of the psyche. Dreaming itself embraces ambiguity. The simpler story is, to relate and reiterate in a few lines, that lucid dreaming can be for many a reliable source of perceptual and cognitive data, a source of novel interpersonal exchanges with imaginary or known dream characters, and a controlled exercise of social and personal "deviance." By deviance it is meant that lucid dreaming allows for cognitive and emotional free-play that could challenge comfortable and even orthodox relational cultural patterns. This inner dreamscape "deviance" can be and is expressed via another "deviant" enterprise, artistic expression, creating a powerful hermeneutic circle, maximizing the potential for SELF-growth. The Surreal It is more common to hear about lucid dreaming and its potential aesthetic products being defined in terms of "surrealism" than in any other way. In fact many of the personal accounts that describe lucid dreaming begin, elaborate upon, or end by paying notice to its surreal quality. I would argue that although this description aptly surveys the surface presentation, the fragmented nature, and even the overall quality of lucid dreaming experiences, nevertheless, this predominant surreal classification is less important or useful in my art or in my ecopsychological unfolding. Surrealism is, as philosopher Paul Shepard aptly described (1996), the antithesis of the fully integrated-natural world and of its ecopsychological ideal: a fully embedded humanity, inescapably, in Nature. That is, surrealism is the reification and the ratification of components "in and of themselves" extracted from a larger original and organic context and elevated to a polished and exclusive category (a form of fetish). The rapidly shifting dreamscape itself makes this reification and ratification possible because, oftentimes, even when we are proficient lucid dreamers, the fascination with a particular and singular element of a dream detracts attention from a larger and more dynamic scenery and meaning-content that the proficient dreamer does not pay attention to or cannot keep up with. When lucid dreamers recollect the vividness of a dream, it is often these surreal highlights that are mentioned. Film has been the artistic medium par excellence that depicts dream life as surreal precisely because of its potential for control of temporal sequencing and image unfolding. Directors can artistically manipulate both temporal sequencing and image unfolding in order to create a close approximation of an original dream experience. I will only cite the work of the famous Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmajer, who transferred the surreal work of his equally creative wife and artist, Eva Svankmajerová, to film, here, as principal exponents of the surreal artistic approach. (Eva Svankmajerová is well-known for her writing and plastic arts.) But hundreds of other film sequences emphasize the surreal quality of dreams. Even when the focus is not a single object, an entire dream sequence can unfold in exceptionally alluring and brilliant vignettes without an apparent connection between these frames. Surrealism is thus also deviant, intensely so, in my earlier use of that word, since it forces a new interpretation of time and space that can lead to unique and creative insights. Salvador Dalí made an easy juxtaposition of mathematics, time, and his visual rendition of these advances, as he understood them. Dream surrealism has been re-created or re-interpreted in dance, music, poetry, and architecture. I will not argue here that a focus on the surreal quality of dreams is not important for other forms of artistic expression or even that it cannot contribute to ecopsychological unfolding in its own right. But I am saying that, at least in my case, the more humble aspects of lucid dreaming end up being the more important and pertinent messages that invite further discovery. More Humble Aspects of Lucid Dreaming The more "humble" aspects of a lucid dream that I am referring to are content as opposed to surface driven. Their lackluster "humility" lies in their often hidden and harder-to- arrive-at semiotic aspects, as Freud and Jung discovered. Instead of the surreally enhanced sensorial qualities that are often present in lucid dreaming, these more fundamental elements are of great significance to me. It is their potential semiosis that makes them more important. One word (its meaning), a face (as a mask suggesting my behavior or an ideal), the angle of an object (indicating direction), a text read (in a larger context), music heard (not only notes but what the song means to me or how it makes me feel), and a complete dream story that holds together logically and provides discernable meaning to the individual dreamers--this is the stuff of which my dreams are made. Particularly since 1994, my lucid dreaming has had a dominant shamanic import, to use that term both generally and technically. Of course this import has coincided with an equal interest during waking reality in attempting to understand global patterns of the human condition in mythical terms. For a given question in waking reality, for example, a dream being was encountered who wore a particular mask. This mask was later carved to achieve maximum approximation to the dreamt object. The dream being was also pantomiming or acting out various dances and manners of walking or flying or swimming. These dream manifestations and their messages were the answers I sought. By carving them afterwards I had the extended opportunity not only to reminisce about the dream and its message, but also to refine and elaborate further this message for maximum clarity and understanding. See www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/gatherings.html Often, the depth of meaning inherent in these more lackluster aspects of a lucid dream, echo a genuine interest in and detailed inspection of my natural surroundings. In fact the more slowly and deliberately I walk in my woods, the more detail I see in natural objects that catch my eye-spirit, the more vivid and the greater detail the dream object provides. This is walking meditation at its best with the expected and often reported effect of enhanced lucid dreaming. Thus, control of dream lucidity means more than a technical procedure that can quickly be learned from a CD. It is instead a prescribed and intense attentional state or movement, even a way of life, and perfecting it is the aesthetics of which I am most desirous. Lucid Dreaming, Artistic Expression and Ecopsychological Unfolding The complete dynamics that I have been trying to describe makes for a circular, self- feeding and grander aesthetics where no longer is there a distinction between the lucid dream, the dreamer, natural embeddedness, or the artistic product. All are complementary manifestations of a grander semiosis. The concept of art as being separate and thus decontextualized from this circular relationship, itself a form of surrealism, or even as a necessary but incomplete inspection of nature when an original code is lost, is a western invention. This is aesthetics interpreted from a "deficit" model. Interestingly, many so-called primitive languages do not have a concept for art for they experience and express their existential and natural relationship as a grand process or even a cosmology, a process rather than an object. Perhaps an imminent discovery, my view of the interplay between lucid dreaming and its artistic representation is, to my surprise and delight, more "primitive" than western. In this sense, I no longer follow or am interested in a western production vector that places an interesting lucid dream on a position "a" followed by production of art piece "b," however hypnotic, well crafted, and commercially viable this art piece may turn out to be. Instead, the artist, the process of making art, and the art product itself are all fully integrated components of lucid dreamscapes and of the original life-nature-matrix that generates all dreaming. Paul Shepard (1967/1991) describes this existential and ideal cohesion: "The inner world is coextensive with the outer, the natural habitat a middle ground, lacing into each other like fingers of clasped hands." ________________________________________________________________________ Bibliography Paul Shepard (1967/1991). Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Aesthetics of Nature. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. Paul Shepard (1997). The Others: How Animals Made Us Human. Covelo, California: Island Press/Shearwater Books. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla PhD, has a triple degree in Biology, Philosophy and Psychology from Humbolt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author of "Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep Paralysis". He currently lives with his wife in Switzerland, and works at the Sleep Laboratory at the University Hospital in Bern. Jorge teaches Ecology, Art & Psychology of Aesthetics classes and workshops and offers a wide range of ecological services in Italy, Switzerland, and Spain through his organization Le Feuillou Rediscovered. http://www.geocities.com/jorgeconesa/Ecopsychologie/newblack.html. ******************************** The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly newsletter featuring lucid dreams and lucid dream related articles and interviews. To subscribe to The Lucid Dream Exchange send a blank email to: TheLucidDreamExchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com You can also check us out at www.dreaminglucid.com ******************************** o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result © 2006 Linda Lane Magallón o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Once, during the month of May, I incubated flying dreams for two weeks straight. I simply affirmed aloud, "You can fly! You can fly!" several times during the day. I used this particular wording because I wanted to fly in the dream state along with other dream characters. In the first dream, rather than repeat the incubation phrase, I declared to a dream character, "I can fly! I can fly!" Despite saying this, I did wonder if I really could get off the ground. I had a vague recollection of recent difficulty doing so (in the dream state). I made the attempt anyway and surprised myself at how quickly and easily I got airborne. Rising, I automatically went into a sequence of loops and spins in the air, shooting off and soaring quite high, pursuing an automobile below me. I quickly overtook the cars on the highway beneath. I astonished and delighted myself with how fast I could soar, and with such a smooth acrobatic style. In the second dream of this series, I realized that I could fly because a dream character called me a "shaman." (Not true in waking life.) I tried to get airborne by taking off towards the top of a hill in the hope that the wind would catch me and buoy me up. It would for just a few moments; then I'd land again on the downward slanting grassy slope. This happened a couple of times in a row. Since I was landing closer and closer to the base of the hill, I became concerned that I would not get fully airborne before I reached the bottom. However, just before I arrived there, I was able to project myself mentally, so that I did indeed seem to be soaring across the tops of fog-shrouded hills. Despite my success, the one constant in these first two dreams was a disappointment. I was the only one who was flying, although I was flying to do something for the other dream characters. In the first dream, I was trying to retrieve a suitcase stolen by a couple who were fleeing in their automobile. In the second case, I was assisting in a search for a Native American boy. As wonderful as these flying scenarios were, they were both Lone Ranger adventures. As delightful as the soaring felt, I was the only one there to enjoy it. So I kept affirming that I wanted more people involved. Just before falling asleep the third night, I thought maybe saying, "We can fly!" might do the trick. This night I had just finished several days' battle with influenza and was taking antibiotics for a bacterial infection. As with previous nights, the initial dreams had me on a long journey. There didn't seem much that responded to my flying request. Rising, I went to the bathroom and returned to sleep. I fell into deep dreaming, so deep that the last dream of the night I could scarcely recall. I probably would not have remembered it at all if it hadn't been so active. For my dreaming self had finally granted my wish. In the dream, I was one of three couples who were dancing...in the air! Flying together, dancing together. Using very graceful movements, rhythmic actions and vigorous acrobatics. At first the music was quite melodic. A woman with short, dark hair was swirling around in a full skirt with a slender man who had a beard. He may have been my partner at one point. We certainly did some partner switching, doe-see-doeing in the air. Then I was somersaulting with a young, dark haired man who was dressed in a black tuxedo with longer-than-usual tails. After flipping over, I raised my knees and playfully bumped against him, in time with the music, which has shifted into a rumba tune. The whole affair was very joyous. For the past year or so I had been experiencing a slowdown in my physical ability to get- up-and-go. In the morning it would usually take 10 or 12 robot-like steps before my body would loosen up and begin moving in its normal free-flowing manner. This morning I awoke at 6:28 A.M., two minutes before the alarm was due to go off. I reviewed the dream, reveling in the feelings of swirling and the joy of being with the other people. At 6:30 the radio came on with a rollicking rock-and-roll tune of the type of rhythm that always sets my toes to tapping. I just could not ignore it. Throwing back the covers, I leapt from the bed and starting bugalooing around the room, jerking and turning in time with the music. I ended up on the other side of the bed, where my husband was lying. He opened one eye, looked and me and said, "I guess this means you're feeling better." I kept flinging out my arms and legs, hopping and swirling around, all the way to the bathroom. It was then that I suddenly realized that my body had been demonstrating a degree of flexibility unlike any I had experienced in a long time. There was simply no problem of stiffness at all. http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights) o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Dream: The Clicks Stan Kulikowski II o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o DATE : 5 apr 2006 06:22 DREAM : the clicks =( yesterday was a tuesday. i had to take my car out during the afternoon since my motorcycle broke down. i needed to order a new battery since my bike is too old for the retail shops to keep it in stock. i started the diagnostics. at least the charging system seems to check out, the stator and regulator continuities are as expected. i suspect that the short may be in the dashboard as i have had to replace it several times before and keep a spare in the toolkit. tomorrow i will start checking up on the handlebars. the evening goes as usual with mother. i got to bed around midnight but it was a little too warm to sleep easily so i read a novel until 01:30 when i finally got the sleep. )= i am one of three weekend guests at the sumptuous spanish mansion of a friend named john. he is the younger son of the wealthy family of latin america. this house is found in a suburban somewhere of a tropical country. the architecture and furnishings are very lavish with many antiques probably handed down through the family for centuries, the feeling of comfortable fortune accustomed to the many servants who scurry between the major figures of the family who live there. i have been given a small suite of rooms in the guest wing. it is late afternoon, a slow time of day waiting for the evening meal, time off to be alone, maybe take a nap so to refresh from the heat of the season. i have taken advantage of the siesta time by stretching out under the clean white sheets of my small bed and have just awakened. there is a slight knock on my door and marcia marks slips past the door and lets herself in. she smiles as she comes over to the bed to sit down. "have you heard?" she asks me. "john wants us all to watch a science fiction movie tonight?" "no, i have not been told." i sit up in bed wiping the sleep from my eyes. "that is better than having to sit with the older generation of the family who do not quite know what to do with us." they have been formally polite but stiff in their understanding of us foreigners. "oh, i got a sunburn at the pool today." marcia stretches out like a cat on my bed. i can see that her skin is somewhat red but not painfully so yet. i take her in my arms to comfort her if i can. "you can spend the night here with me if you want." i whisper hoarsely in her ear. "i would like that." she replies. so, i have some hopes for a better night. the door opens again and in comes john, our immediate host for this weekend. "movie tonight." he says right off. "i thought we could see in one of our rooms rather than the screening room. more intimate that way." marcia sits up quickly and takes a seat in the stuffed chair next to the bed. she is not exactly shy in her relations with me but propriety seems of some import with the elegant surroundings. john comes over and tugs strongly on the sheet that is covering me. everyone knows that i always sleep naked in bed and he is playfully threatening to expose me. i pull the cover from my waist back up to mid chest and clamp it under my arms. marcia leaves the room, not wanting to increase some social tension that seems to be evident. i wonder if she has had some flirtations with our host but think little of it. she tends to get herself in over her head with men without hardly thinking about it. perhaps i should be more discrete while i am a guest here. i get dressed while john fiddles with doilies on the arm chair that marcia has abandoned. "i thought i would invite leto to join us." he says casually. leto is his older brother, heir to the estate, a thick necked bull of a man with about the same level of sensitivity. he seemed uncomfortable with us american guests but made an effort last night to accommodate us. "and i think we stay in here." a strong voice interrupts a little too loud. i see that the brother leto and a young blonde woman, the other guest, have come in the open door. i do not know why he would prefer this small room, but there is a large television with a dvd player in the corner, but hardly enough seating for five of us. leto pushes my bed against the wall and turns another chair against the wall toward the television. "i need a leg rest to be comfortable." leto says in his heavy accented english. "you will come to help me get from downstairs." john and i leave with him. i have not been down in the servant quarters of the house. we soon find a service elevator and quickly descend. when the doors slide open i can see a workroom. there are two men and a woman carving some wooden figurines that are a little more than knee high on the floor. although the sculptures are still rough with chisel marks, i can enjoy the baroque textures. i especially like the sitting lion that taking form with the female worker. "do you sell these on the estate?" i ask. "no, they are just replacements for the household." leto tells me. "the weather rots the wood rather quickly." leto starts toward one of the doors, but midway there he stops. his face makes a peculiar twitch. "you and john go over there and look for whatever it is we are here for." he points to hallway that has some sort of metal railing along the wall. john looks a little worried but we go down the hall. there is no furniture stored in here at all. i thought we were here to get a stool of some sort, but now i am not so sure. "my brother has the clicks, erratic changes in temperament." he tells me when we get to the end of the hall. "it is best to just humor him. usually he does not get violent." usually? suddenly i feel rather uncomfortable being here. when we get back, leto has wandered off somewhere. in a side room that seems to be an infirmary, i see a black wicker magazine rack that is empty. it is about the right height to use as a leg rest so i take it over to the elevator. if we do not find anything more suitable, this might do the job. i quickly take it up to the main floor and leave it off in the main hall leading back to the guest rooms. i intend to take the elevator back to john on the lower floor, but an older man steps up to me. he is the main patriarch of the family. "i have heard that you saw one of leto's fevers." he says to me. apparently news of this condition travels fast in this house. "he did not mention anything about the young lady last summer, did he?" "no, john just said it was 'the clicks'. it looked like a mild nervous condition." i reply. i avoid saying anything about epilepsy or the sinister mention of a young lady last summer. i make a mental note to warn marcia about leto's clicks. i notice that one of the servants is filling the magazine stand with magazines since it has appeared up here on the upper floor. =( awake at 06:05. marcia marks was a woman i was intimate with for a while when i lived in massachusetts but she was always too busy with her life to take much notice of me. i tried to keep touch with her for a while but she hardly noticed. she became a surgeon and seemed to lose contact with humanity in medical school. at least she lost interest in me. none of the other people in this dream are known to me. there seems to be a rather elaborate texture to this dream as if building up to some plot conflict that does not quite happen, my sleep being too short to sustain this kind of story. )= -- . stankuli@etherways.com === qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit | | who not is today, tomorrow less suitable will be --- -- Ovid _Remedia Amoris_ i 94 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD Dreams and Themes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Dreams are like bananas, they come in bunches As you explore dreams over time, you discover that certain issues and people keep coming back. Even though every dream is unique, with experience you realize that themes are recurring. You can detect these repetitions in your dream life even after a few dreams. As a wealth of “evidence” builds up, you will begin to see a bigger picture and that changes how you see each individual dream. Dream Themes At first it is unclear what the connection is. There are no fixed rules to follow. Sometimes it is obvious: your mother is in most of your dreams. Sometimes it is more subtle: the first dream may be about two kittens and the next dream about two children. The next dream will always be different. It will probably happen in a different location, with other people and unique circumstances, but there will be a common strand. If bandits chase you in one dream, it’s likely that you’ll be chased by a bear in another. By looking carefully, you’ll find that you have just a few themes, maybe five or six, going on in your dream life. For example, you might have many dreams about being late, finding yourself lost, getting chased, or falling down. Regardless of how different the context is, the theme will remain the same. Each person’s themes stay constant over many years. G. William Domhoff, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reviewed the dreams of a woman, “Dorothea,” whose dream journal spanned fifty years; that’s a long dream journal. Six themes regularly appeared throughout the fifty years. Here they are: Eating or thinking about food (1 in 5 dreams) Losing an object, usually her purse (1 in 6) In a small or disorderly room or her room was being invaded (1 in 10) Dreams about her mother (1 in 10) Toilet dreams (1 in 12) Late or missing a bus or train (1 in 16) What’s more, these six themes cropped up in three quarters of all her dreams! In other words, the matters that dominate your dream life now are for keeps. They are not going away. When you examine a number of your own dreams, 20 or more, you will see some common issues. This is the bigger picture: the life you are really living in your dreams. Waking Life To put this in perspective, waking life is also divided into themes. Most people have a work theme, a family theme, perhaps a few hobby or pastime themes, a childhood theme and so on. And, like dream themes, that’s how most of our time is taken up. Of course, in the summer you will have a vacation theme, in November there’ll be a Thanksgiving theme, in December a Christmas or Chanukah theme and so on. Sometimes a unique event will happen but then things go back to the regular themes. Living with Themes It's a big deal to me that you are going to be dreaming about the same matters for the rest of your life. It is like a career or a marriage without any of the choice. Even worse, most people are unhappy with their “choice” of dream life. Domhoff has estimated that 80% of dreams contain something negative or stressful in them. You don’t need nightmares to have a seriously sub-standard dream life. The bottom line is this: Do you want to go through the rest of your life dreaming the same old thing? You Can Transform Your Dream Self The news is not all bad. Even if the themes are lifelong, you can change your role and your situation in your various relationships. If you are always arguing with your mother, that can change so that you enjoy your mother’s company even if your mother-theme continues for the rest of your life. You can “educate” your dream mother and show her better ways to behave. If you are always looking for food, you can turn that around so that you have food in your dreams. You might be a man who continually dreams about conflicts with other men. When you work on these dreams with Dream RePlay, you will typically find that the fighting diminishes, instead of guns and knives, opponents use fisticuffs and, as the intensity diminishes, they simply argue with you until finally you will encounter cooperation with men in your dreams. If you are fearful of flying, the fear can be converted into pleasure. The task of Dream RePlay is to transform your dream life and that means enjoying your themes rather than being overwhelmed by them. I want to change your dream life so that you continuously place yourself in the role of hero or heroine. The desired result is that the dream-You has more confidence in difficult situations and is more present to the dream thrills. The Gift of a Dream Group To truly transform an issue, it is best to give yourself at least three months. I strongly recommend weekly participation in an ongoing dream group. It is harder to achieve major changes on your own. One of the special benefits of being in a group is that the participants are great at holding each other’s dreams in their memory banks. Often someone will tell a dream and other people will make connections to previous dreams. You can then see the progress you are making and you become highly aware of the core issues that still dissatisfy you. My own clients have had amazing success in dealing with issues about romantic relationships, relationships with their own self-care, relationships with family members, etc. Click Here To Read Back Issues of Dream of the Week http://dreamreplay.com/dreamoftheweek.htm Best wishes, David Jenkins email: davidj@dreamreplay.com web: http://dreamreplay.com --------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland Here is the latest collection of dreams with dreamers discovering a spaceship and being familiar with it, being chased, and witnessing earth changes and people suffering. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dream title: The Letter S Dream date: none Dreamer name: Where's Birk? Dream text: I'm standing in a garage attached to my house, and it's filled with people that I don't really know, but I know in my dream. Their faces keep changing. My family is there, and a few of my friends, but they keep on switching roles. For instance, my boyfriend becomes my friend and my friend becomes my boyfriend. We're all watching a bunch of kittens, mostly white, but some are calico or orange. The kittens are running around a white statue of an angel that only moves occasionally. But there is a fairy dressed all in green with red hair, which is waving a wand around. The cats seldom pay attention to her. One of the cats runs up to the open door of the garage and says, "The white one will grant all of your wishes." Then, all of a sudden, I'm in my kitchen, and the cat has turned into this girl who sits next to me in biology, and she says, "We don't know what the green one's name is, but we like to call her The Letter S." Dream comments: none Dream title: None Dream date: None given Dreamer name: anonymous Dream text: Mariachis were killing people and when I would try and tell my friends and family they didn’t' believe me. All of a sudden I was by my self in downtown El Paso, and I felt scared because if the Mariachis saw me they would kill me!!!!!!!!!!! Dream comments: none Dream title: Will I or Will I Not? Dream date: 2 weeks ago Dreamer name: Niqua Dream text: I was 2 months pregnant by my current boyfriend. But we had broken up and he didn't know. He was going with someone new and I didn't tell him I was pregnant, so no one knew. Then when I told my cousins and confirmed their suspicions, I woke up. Dream comments: none Dream title: Discovering I’m really an alien Dream date: 9th April o6 Dreamer name: Kochavah Dream text: I dreamed that somehow, in my local area I discovered some kind of spaceship, nothing huge or particularly high tech. It’s more like a capsule, smooth, streamlined, about the size and height of a large car and dark golden in color (something that really stood out). I had a real sense of pre-knowledge and familiarity of this thing. I knew how to open it and how to get inside and what to do when I was in there. The next thing I know I’m flying through space, visiting other worlds. I had the impression of being with at least one other person, who seemed to be distinctly male,-although I cant clearly recall a face. Despite visiting all these worlds - there was still something I couldn’t quite figure out about the ship. It had something to do with how it worked and how to get to a particular destination. The ship worked by some kind of mind control thing. The space was confined, though not claustrophobic. I could lie down inside it and somehow navigated through space by controlling some kind of interface that worked the ship. Again - the color and shape of the ship, as well as the image of flying through space are extremely strong. The last thing I remember was somehow making some kind of writing appear on the ships interface, I realized then what it meant(again-a sensation of intense familiarity and clarity- I can draw the symbols I saw) and how it was the key to getting to the place I was trying to go to. This other presence was with me the whole time, but it did not try to help me. The last image is me flying through space with theses symbols on my screen. Dream comments: This is going to sound like I’ve watched too many scifi films but this dream i had has left me shaken up for days. I can’t seem to figure out what it might mean, it seemed so real that at the time it felt as though it had really happened and so couldn’t have had any meaning- if that makes sense? This is just one of a series of intensely real dreams- all with a similar theme. I wake up shaking with the intensity of it and it often takes me several minutes to realize they aren’t real, I can also remember them vividly for weeks afterward. The colors and images are all extremely familiar and vivid to the point that they seem even more real than reality- if that makes sense. Other than an ongoing fascination with the sky, e.g. birds, the sun, moon etc, I can think of no reason why I would suddenly have these dreams or what they might mean. Dream title: My Father Dream date: every night Dreamer name: imabeachinit Dream text: Every night I dream of my dad, and he passed away 1-23-06. We were never close, and in my dreams he is not trying to tell me anything - he is there. Last night I told someone that my dad was literally dead for 3 days (and was even frozen) and now he is back alive. It all seemed normal. When he is in my dreams I know that he supposed to be dead. When I look at him, it doesn't seem to be an odd thing that he is there. I go about doing my different activities in my dream and that is all. Dream comments: I can’t figure out why is he there in my dreams. Dream title: The Baby Dream date: 04 April 2006 Dreamer name: toocute Dream text: I had a dream that my husband conceived a child with some female. He didn't deny sleeping with her or that the child was his, but he still wanted to be with me. Dream comments: My husband is on a 6-month deployment and we've only been married for almost 3 months. Dream title: Being chased, wallet stolen Dream date: recurring dreams for about two months Dreamer name: Curious Dream text: In one dream I am being chased. In other dreams my wallet gets stolen. There are dreams that sometimes an article of clothing gets torn off. Dream comments: on one occasion I woke up crying. Dream title: Man in the trees Dream date: 9-9-05 Dreamer name: anonymous Dream text: I was walking down the street, when suddenly....a man grabbed me around the neck! I tried to run when I realized it was my dead grandmother back from the grave. I wanted to hug her, but she kept trying to stab me with a meat cleaver. Suddenly I tripped over a curb and was run over by a Mack truck. Then my grandmother's spirit caught up to me. She killed me; I moved to Texas. Dream comments: none Dream title: Pervert! Dream date: 1995 Dreamer name: cbaby Dream text: I was in a dark road, running, and running. I was in my pink Dukes of Hazard nightgown (my favorite) and all I can see is me running from my music teacher. He was yelling, "I'm going to hurt you!" "I will kill your family!" I continue to run and run. I run past what looks like metal sheeting for walls, which is rust colored but some are black. Red clouds and smoke. I keep running, that’s all, running and crying and hearing him yell! Then I wake up screaming. Dream comments: Honestly, this is new to me, my mother has told me all my life that when my dreams seem like coincidences that they are normal. I have had the same dream approximately 5 times in the last 11 years. What I want to know is why? My dream started when I was in the 5th grade, we just got our new music teacher and I really did not like him. He was so mean, mostly to guys, slamming chairs, throwing stuff when the boys got out of line, but honestly, I can remember him spending more time with the girls. Well, after one incident with a boy in a chair in the class room, I went home like normal and everything seemed ok, a normal day for a 12 year old. I went to bed normally, but somewhere along the way my dreams went totally wrong. I woke up in the living room screaming and crying "LEAVE ME ALONE" My mother was on the couch beside me crying. She was so upset and she told me that I had walked into the living room and let out a horrible scream. But I didn’t remember even getting out of bed. SO here I am in the living room floor hysterical and my mother is of no help, she told me later I scared the heck out of her. It is still just as vivid as it was 11 yrs ago. The end result was that my mother was so scared when I told her what it was about, that she contacted the school and put me in counseling, and out of music. Less than a month went by and then we got a phone call from the school counselor that the music teacher had been caught taking a high school girl into a custodian’s closet and sexually assaulting her. When my mother was told, she and the counselor made an appointment with the principal and we all set down and talked. They asked me if I had ever been touched inappropriately and so on, and of course he never touched me. He did get charged and served jail time for sexual assault and something to do with having sex with a minor. I believe he is on the Sexual predators list at the local sheriff’s office. I am now 23 and honestly that dream still scares the hell out of me. I hate to think that it could have gotten worse if it had not been for the sudden attention he was receiving from my dream, but I almost feel guilty, like maybe I shouldn’t have told. I am a grown woman and still feel like a little girl when I think about him. I have only trusted 2 men in my life, one my father and the other the man I married. I was friends with the boys at school, but it seems to be older men I can seem to trust and I want to know if maybe that dream is the cause of it? Thanks for the time, RCC. Dream title: EARTH/SUN Dream date: March 13 2006 Dreamer name: Juno Dream text: I awoke in the middle of a great desert, on the planet earth and it was beautiful, the sky was all sorts of iridescent colors and it seemed like I was somewhere like Egypt or northern Africa. As I stood looking at the stars, as the sun was rising on the horizon, I saw a seed, flying and hurling from space which was coming from our Sun. It burst through the earths outer layers of our blue sky, as it sped through the earth’s protective ozone layers. It was like it was the Sun’s seed fertilizing the Earth as if she were to become pregnant. Then as this white light seed burst through it made a crackling and sparking sound, like an electrical transformer that would be exploding. There were flashes of great light and sparks flying everywhere. I had to put my arm across my eyes a bit because it was so bright. Then the scene shifted and I saw the beginnings of the North Pole ice caps starting to melt. Water was rising everywhere, where there were rivers and oceans. The scene immediately changed again and I witnessed millions and millions of people starving, being homeless all across the world, including children becoming homeless and orphans. It was so intense I started to cry in the dream. Dream comments: It was so sad that I made myself wake up from the dreaming. I am a prophetic dreamer. Dream title: Ghost of Love Past Dream date: 03/12/2006 Dreamer name: N.D. Lawrence Dream text: I dreamed I was back at college. I was not to attend school, but the reason for my being there was not revealed in the dream. Nothing looked like I remembered. The buildings were smaller, the campus was more isolated and there were many tall trees on the grounds. The buildings also looked older than they had when I was in college. The brick foundations of some buildings looked to be crumbling slightly. Outside the front of the building where most of my classes had been held, there was a large new gutter that had been dug out of the red clay dirt. There was a small walkway stretched across it so that you could get inside. When I went inside, I discovered that it was no longer a building where classes were held, but had been converted into apartments. I was going to be staying here. I learned that one of my former History Professors was also living inside the building, which was the same building where his office had been before. I went to see him in his apartment when I learned he was living there. I found that he was sick and he looked older than I remembered even though only a few years had passed. The nature of his illness was unclear. I didn't ask, but somehow I knew that he was dying. We resumed our regular evening conversations as if no time had passed at all. Despite his illness, he seemed to have the same intensity and depth I had found as attractive as a student. Though the friendship we renewed did not involve physical love, I began to feel guilty because I was now married. My spouse was not staying with me, which was not explained in the dream. I realized that I did still love him, but I no longer had any desire to become physically involved with him. I realized that it was not the same love and attraction I had for my husband, though it was just as intense. Resolving that having a deep friendship was not cheating, and that my friend needed me now that his life was ending, I decided to take care of my friend until he died. Each time I visited him, he seemed more and more frail and shrunken. One day, I found him outside on a cold snow-covered day in the trunk of his car. I thought he had been trying to commit suicide. I was angry at him for not only throwing what was left of his life away so carelessly, but also because I felt this was an indication that he had little regard for our friendship. Though I had not interfered in his life until then, I immediately wrapped him in a blanket, picked him up and carried him inside the building to his room. All I said was "I'm going to take care of you now." I was shocked at how tiny he had become, and how light he was as I carried him inside. Somehow I had not realized how far his illness had progressed. We had no conversations after that, and I started sleeping on his couch so I would be there if he needed me. I didn't ask - I just did it. One night I was up late, and I looked up to see that the door of the hall leading to his room, which was usually cracked so I could hear if he got up in the night, had been closed. At first I thought perhaps the light in the living room had disturbed his sleep. When I cracked open the door, I saw that the door to his room was still open, and his light was also on. So I closed the hall door again. I suddenly felt like a great black mysterious hole existed between us, made up of all the years we had been apart. I wondered why he was not married, and where all of his other friends had gone. It occurred to me that I may have assumed a friendship when in reality our relationship amounted to a few good conversations between strangers. Perhaps he just wanted to be left alone. The next morning, I went outside alone for a walk in the snow. It was the first time I had left his apartment since his attempt at suicide. The campus seemed abandoned, and I felt a deep sadness and regret envelope me. If I had come back after I graduated, what might have happened? Why had I not? Was it because of my fear that our relationship was one- sided after all? Would it have changed anything? Had my romantic attraction to him back then made me reluctant to pursue a pure friendship with him because I was no longer single? If so, why? Was this fear unfounded? So many questions flew through my mind. I paused on the walkway between the edge of the rain gutter and the building, staring into the gutter as it slowly filled with snow. I stepped off, and walked along the steep edge of the ditch. Then I heard my friend. He was in a wheel chair, on the walkway watching me. He hadn't spoken to me since his suicide attempt. He said, "Be careful, you might fall". I looked at him, directly into his eyes, and felt the familiar unspoken sense of understanding between us which had filled me with infatuation so many years ago. I answered "I'm good at standing on the edge of things without falling. It’s my gift." I sounded bitter, and I knew both he and I understood this statement as a metaphor for our relationship. He looked so deeply into my eyes that it almost hurt but I didn't look away. He shook his head in silent acknowledgement. His sad eyes looked at me then to the gutter. He slowly turned and went back inside. I felt a wave of intense anger at the unspoken words neither of us had been able to say to the other. I was no longer in doubt that the love I had felt for him was mutual. I suddenly leapt into the gutter. I landed squarely on my feet with my knees bent. I stood up slowly and stepped back to see my two deep footprints in the snow. It made me smile and I started to dance around playfully kicking the snow and laughing. I looked up to see the sun rising through the tall campus trees. That was the end of the dream. Dream comments: The man in the dream was really one of my former professors. I had a serious crush on him when I was a student. I took every class he taught that I could fit into my schedule, and we talked often outside of class. I felt a strong connection between us, and I always suspected that he felt attracted to me as well, but due to our circumstance as student and teacher, neither of us ever did anything about it. I have had other dreams about him, but this was the first which directly addressed my feelings for him. I am happily married, so I found the dream somewhat disturbing. 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