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Dream Airing

 

Notes, letters to the editor.

Send to Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@aolcom

 


From Patricia Kampmeier

I am collecting dreams for a book!

of fish, worms, wolves, cats and salamanders, and also numinous dreams of any kind. Series of any of these would be especially interesting. Please tell your dream(s) and then a little about what that symbol means for you. If you wish to show the work you have done, including drawings, to arrive at that meaning(s),that would be great, too, though not necessary. Several meanings for a particular symbol are OK, since dreams are many-layered. I would also like to know how old you were when you had each dream.

You can email me patkamp@pacbell.net 

or use the online form www.dreamgate.com/dream/kampmeier/  

Thanks, Pat


Electric Dreams Cover Artist: Bryan A. Smith < bryan@thinkpiece.com  > http://www.thinkpiece.com 

I am a US born citizen, living and working in Saudi Arabia, where after years of dabbling in various artistic mediums, three years ago I decided to purchase a computer and explore it as a means of expressing my artistic vision. One year ago I launched my personal website entitled Thinkpieces.

When I sit down to work my only desire is to create a composition that strikes a deep, non-verbal harmonic chord. I hope to create pristine unrecognizable forms in a passionate exploration of color, texture, and shape.

My work is about exposing the content of a perceiver's ideas. It does not depend on common symbols to convey meaning. Instead, it hopes to speak to ambient psychological states. It is a language, which depends on a mind imposing meaning for its grammar. It lives during its creation and it is generative in its final form.

My approach does not include regard, purpose, or intent. I start with a basic shape and work with it until I see something interesting. I provide flow and cohesion while I insert my vision and my impressions into an emerging image. I search for a unique combination of light, color, texture, and form. A compelling image. A thinkpiece. I hope you enjoy them.

I also would like to thank Richard for offering the opportunity to participate in the vision of "Electric Dreams" and hope that my contributions will enrich the experience of it's subscribers.

If you are interested in learning more about the artist, and viewing his more of his work, you are invited to visit his site at:

http://www.thinkpiece.com 

You are also invited to foward comments to Bryan at:

bryan@thinkpiece.com 


If you missed the series that just ended, Making Nightmare's Pay by Anthony Dubetz, you can still catch the text online

www.dreamgate.com/dream/dubetz/  

AND you can join us online to discuss these and other dream topics.

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Sinatra Songs: Dream By Johnny Mercer

Get in touch with that sundown fellow
As he tiptoes across the sand
He's got a million kinds of stardust
Pick your fav'rite brand, and
Dream, when you're feeling blue
Dream, that's the thing to do
Just watch the smoke rings in the air
You'll find your share of memories there
So dream when the day is through
Dream, and they might come true
Things are never as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream

thanks to DblueRose@aol.com


Chit Chat on Phil-Lit list

Dreams, they have to be structures of narrative, or so it seems with mine. I'm one of those that has color in dreams. I mean brilliant colors with a depth well perceived, and my dreams are very vivid. Most always, and I truly mean this, they consist of a narrative that is hosted by another form that I identify as a second personae of myself. For as long as I can remember, I have been able to place myself, my other, main character self, through my narrative self, into the dream's story line, whether it is re-telling of the days awakened events, or some wild ride of the sub conscious, they always seem to be lead by a narrative, as well as have the feeling of being narrative. Perhaps I'm sounding a bit from left field, but my dreams are narrative, and I can manipulate myself portrayed in the dream, through this narrative self, as well as the dreams story line, however, I do not always have full control of the dream, but usually. Not always am I the central character in my dream, but there is always that narrative self in all my dreams, as far back as I can remember to my childhood. I remember my dreams as if they were books that I have read, full of image and content, story plot and all. I know, sounds strange and far fetched, but I love to dream, I love stories and have a very vivid imagination. That's why I enjoy literature so much and I seem to be good at interpretation than others in my class. I cannot find the full of this string, especially Robert A. Gahl's original posting, but I thought I would throw my 2 cents in anyways. I hope I haven't strayed off the strings path on some dream tangent that sounds like some L.A. California, hippy stuff. LOL :-) From andreas@andreas.com  (Andreas Ramos

Richard Wilkerson wrote: "the faster/sooner one repeats the dream in the morning, the higher the chance of recall... Dreams, then, are a secondary kind of gift of language and always already a text.... Story telling develops naturally out of dream recall because the only way to really have good recall is to learn re-telling."

Along with the rest of his message, this quote seems to imply that short-term memory, and in particular that of dreams, is somehow temporally nondimensional. If I've understood Richard correctly, telling the story of a dream moves it from short-term memory to long-term memory by inserting it within the temporal dimension constituted by narrative. Mirembe's comments about the use of diverse languages in the dreams of polyglots might seem to be a counterexample to the claim that dreams are temporally nondimensional. However, it may be that such language use is not really embedded within the temporal meaning structures of narrative.

Any comments? Robert A. Gahl, Jr. School of Philosophy, Pontifical Atheneum of the Holy Cross gahl@asc.urbe .


Hi Group Dreamers:

I've continued with last month's group dream intention statement, and from now on will be doing a new topic every two months. We seem to get better results the second month on the same topic.

Statement: We dream to heal the earth! Graphic: See the website if you can't access the attached graphic.

How to participate:

1. Dream on this month's topic for the first week of the month, and record your dreams. 2. E-mail me any dreams that you feel relate to the group topic, along with any comments about them and their meaning to you and/or impact on your life. Include dream date. 3. Specify whether you want your e-mail address included in the posting or not. 4. Tell any interested friends about this project!

Please send me an e-mail if you do not want to participate in this project.

Thanks, Ann Klein

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From: inorganic_being@hotmail.com   Newsgroups: alt.dreams.castaneda Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:59:24 GMT

It is true that Castaneda has departed. The best article was in the LA Times that devoted a very large portion of their preciously expensive print space to Castaneda's "passing".

I imagine that some of you will lose heart due to this news. My post here is for you...

Our first reaction to this news is based on the reporters using the words "died" and "death". Had the papers boldly announced his "somersault into the inconceivable" would you have been so dismayed?

Way back in '62, Castaneda wrote that the final enemy of a person of knowledge is "old age". You see, the human possibility that sorcery offers is NOT the mundane immortality that many of us secretly hope for; rather it is the possibility of an alternative to mundane death.

Don Juan described death many times (it will tap you on the shoulder, it will stab you like a knife, it is a rolling force, it is whorl of dust on the road), and he also described the difference between the average person's death and the Toltec's. The ONLY thing that the Toltec gets is the advantage of dying with full awareness. This opens up the possibility of sneaking past the Eagle. At the moment of death, the Toltec gets to perform a last dance of power, with only Death as witness -- this last dance is the summation of all the power accumulated during a lifetime filled to the brim.

In an interview a few years back, Carlos said that he had fully expected to burn from within in the late 1980's -- he was very surprised to find himself still kicking in the 1990's. It was that extension, he said, that made him attempt to change the tonal of the times by bringing Tensegrity to the forefront.

Only this year, he said that The Wheel of Time would be his last book. And look, his passing (two months ago) coincided closely with the publication.

You see, Carlos did not live stupidly, nor die stupidly. He lived and "died" like a warrior


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