E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Subscribe: electric-dreams-subscribe@egroups.com Subscribe Online: http://www.egroups.com/group/electric-dreams Unsubscribe: electric-dreams-unsubscribe@egroups.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Volume #7 Issue #12 December 2000 ISSN# 1089 4284 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Download a Cover for this Issue! http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers Artist : Richard Wilkerson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes : Please become a member of ASD ++ Event: Mutual Dream Destination for December 15 : Palm Beach, Florida, USA. ++ Notes to the Editor/Dream Airing: + ASD membership form for 2001 + ASD offers 1 month free E-Study topic discussions ++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis ++ Column: The Dream Doctor By Charles McPhee, Ph.D. ++ Column: The DreamSpinner Column On vacation, back next month! By Bjo Ashwill ++ Column: "The Lucid Bird's Words" Lucid Email Excerpts: The First Experiences of a Budding Lucid Dreamer. Marc Vandekeere ++ Article: Dream Replicants and the Emergence of Simulacra By Richard Wilkerson ++ Column: Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: 11th House for November By Madame Aionia A S D E - N E W S special section D R E A M S S E C T I O N : This issue includes volume #21 – volume#41 D E A D L I N E : December 15, deadline for JANUARY 2001 submissions M.U.T.U.A.L D.R.E.A.M T.A.R.G.E.T December 15, 2000 : Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. NEXT MONTH: 2001 A Dream Odyssey XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Send Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: Richard Wilkerson Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Editor's Notes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Welcome to the November 2000 issue of Electric Dreams. If you are new to Electric Dreams, I should mention that some of the parts of this issue are unusual. I still have the zine split into three basic parts, the news, the articles and the dreams sent in over the month. But I have a special focus this month on The Association for the Study of Dreams [ASD]. As many of you know, I manage their website and am the Chair of the Electronic Communications Committee. The ASD community and the Electric Dreams community sometimes come to loggerheads over the issue of how appropriate it is to discuss the meaning of dreams on the Internet and this debate sometimes overshadows my delight with ASD as an organization that promotes dreams and dreaming around the world. This is my key mission, raising the awareness and contact of my culture with dreams. I don't expect to see dream sharing return to my culture as a common everyday practice in my lifetime, but I do see and work towards this happening as the cultural level of enlightenment increases. This mission or goal allows me to set aside my personal issues with various individuals and organizations when this temporary self-denial is in the service of the Dream Movement. I hope this is read by many of the organizations and individuals who have forwarded the Dream Movement and that we can pull together in the coming years to be very alchemical and accelerate the rate at which the movement turns from its baser supports into finer materials. So, this month, I would like to call you attention to the Association for the Study of Dreams, a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. ASD states that its purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information. They have done a fine job of this for nearly two decades. The annual international conference is a scene like no other. Not only is it a fine educational experience and often a great spiritual happening, it is also a fabulous place to become empowered and networked. Rarely have I gotten the individual attention and group support that comes from ASD members. ASD is very special in that they decided very early to welcome *all* dream perspectives, from the most hardheaded scientists to the most bizarre visionaries. The clash of ideas is wonderful and can be seen in the many other projects that ASD offers, including a peer-reviewed journal, a magazine, regional meeting, the website and the many other online projects. ASD's Community Outreach Some of the online projects you can get involved with for free, without being a member. The ASD E-News will keep you up on ASD happenings. The ASD bulletin board, hosted by Jean Campbell and the ASD community is a wonderful place to ask questions about dreaming. (Please don't ask there for interpretations of dreams). The ASD website now has articles from past Dreaming journal and Dream Time Magazine. Dream Time now offers a monthly live chat with famous dream personalities and the most renowned researchers and authors, such as Patricia Garfield, Jeremy Taylor, Alan Siegel, G. W. Domhoff, Marc Barach, and many others. This month on the 29th, Strephon Kaplan- Williams will be online from 7pm tp 8pm Pacific Time. http://www.asdreams.org/ Become a Member But I want you to do more than just use the resources. I want you to contribute to them, to become an ASD member. No one has ever gotten rich from dreamwork, not Freud, not Jung and definitely not ASD. It is a volunteer organization and we use all the money each year to continue these fabulous programs. Your contributions don't end up in the pockets of promoters, but rather in the raising of cultural level of awareness about dreams. Study Dreams Online with Experts! As a member, you not only get the journal, the magazine for free as well as substantial conference discounts, but you can also participate in the ASD E-Study Groups Online via e-mail. This project, started by Alan Siegel, Ph.D. and watched over by the Electronic Communications Committee, offers a growing selection of ongoing discussion lists focusing on interesting topics in dreams and dreaming. Lucid Dreaming, Dreaming and Telepathy, Dream Psi, Spiritual Dreaming, Dreams and Creativity, Dreams and the Humanities, Dreams and Film are just a few of the study groups you can join. There is no extra cost for joining one or a dozen study groups, your membership allows you access to all of them. Each one is hosted by an expert in the field and all levels of conversation are welcome. Whether you are interested in top notch discussions about your dream research project, or simply want to know more about lucid dreaming, or what to chat with other people interested in dreams, these groups are your passport to knowledge, education and dream community. How to become a member? Easy. You can stop by the website and use a credit card online, or you can use the form below and send it with a check to Sue Morano at the business office address. http://www.asdreams.org/idxmembership.htm If you are already a member, consider registering early and/or giving a donation or giving a gift donation. As a new bonus for membership, we will also put up a webpage about you on the ASD website with your picture and information about you. Double Bonus: If you sign up before December 1, I will also include you for free in the two month DreamGate "History of Dreams" class that I offer online, a $30.00 free discount to you! For more about the class, see http://www.dreamgate.com/class Let me see those new membership numbers climb with your name on them, and let's get the Dream Movement rolling for 2001 through ASD memberships! -------- The rest of the issue: Special note to dreamers who are having ELECTION DREAMS: There are two research projects going. Please send dreams about elections to: Kelly Bulkeley: see http://www.kellybulkeley.com Dreams about Gore or Bush are requested by Dee at Dee777@aol.com Bjo is on leave this month and will return in January, 2001. Be sure and check out her new improved website http://www.spinner-soft.com. Leave one of your dreams on the Spinner Dream Database and join the message board. The DreamSpinner Column will return next month. Charles McPhee returns to comment on dreams. If you haven't seen his new Dream Doctor site, I recommend stopping by and adding some dreams to the growing collection and special teen section! http://www.dreamdoctor.com "The Lucid Bird's Words" returns with Lucid Email Excerpts: The First Experiences of a Budding Lucid Dreamer. Marc Vandekeere provided us this year with a very extensive lucid dream manual. Now Marc has turned his attention to an example of a person starting to learn lucid dreaming through a real correspondence with another lucid dream enthusiast. This month's excerpt from Lucy Gillis's "Lucid Dream Exchange" includes an example of lucid dreaming where the issue of real vs. imaginary pain is explored, as well as real vs. imaginary dream characters. Are they "our" characters, or do they have a higher status than objects? Speaking of identity in dreams, what happens when we mix postmodern cultural theory with dream analysis? In my article on Dream Replicants, I suggest that there are entities in the universe that escape our usual way of being represented and use our dream figures to launch themselves from the virtual-imaginary into the becoming actual. Take a science fiction ride with me in Dream Replicants and the Emergence of Simulacra. If you are unfamiliar with Postmodern Theory, please stop by http://www.dreamgate.com/pomo/ Madame Aionia finishes up the year with us by looking at dreams and the 12th House. See how you can use the imagery in astrology to explore the meaning and value of your dreams. Ours news directory, Peggy Coats, from dreamtree.com, has allowed us this month to include the ASD E-news in place of the usual Global Dreaming News. If you have news items about dreams and dreaming for Peggy, send them to her at pcoats@dreamtree.com What to send? Dream Conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, groups. If you want to review a dream website, send that to her or if you find a new website or put one up yourself. If you see great articles online about dreams and dreaming, send those URL's and a short review. Perhaps you have read a new dream book, or love an old classic in dreams and want to send in a book review? That's right, the Global Dreaming News has it all, and its *your* news as well. Be a regular contributor and keep the dream network humming with information. Our Dreams this month come from all around the Net and have been organized by the software developed by Harry Bosma. Be sure to look through the dreams and see what on the mind and soul of dreamers in Cyberspace. Are you new to dreamwork and dream sharing? Please send in an e-mail to scoop@dreamgate.com for a list of suggested steps and resources in learning about dreamwork and dreaming online. The Mutual Dream Desitination: Palm Beach Florida. Lets meet and see what dream chads we can encounter on December 15th. If you would like a cover for your Electric Dreams, the cover is at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers -Richard Wilkerson November 21, 2000 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dream Airing: News, Notes and Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ///////////////////////////////////// ASD MEMBERSHIP FORM fill out and send to the address below The Association for the Study of Dreams Membership: You can join online with a credit card at: http://www.asdreams.org/idxmembership.htm Or print this form and send it in! ASD Membership Form To join ASD please complete this form and send to the e-mail below. Remember that membership in ASD entitles you to a significant reduction in the annual conference and regional meeting fees. ASD MEMBERSHIP FEES RENEW NOW FOR 2 YEARS AND SAVE $10 (e.g., $190.Indiv/$120.Student) Renewal period: [ ] 1yr. [ ] 2yr. 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His topic will be: How To Discover Issues and Teachings in Dreams For details, send an e-mail to chat@asdreams.org ///////////////////////////////////// The Association for the Study of Dreams Special Offer: One month free E-Study participation. ASD offers discussion lists hosted by the experts in area of dreams and dreaming. The lists include dreams and clinical work, dreams and spirituality, nightmares, cyberdreaming, dreams and the humanities, dreams and film and many more. You are invited to join as many as you like, and for one month they are free! After that time ASD asks you become a member. This is a great way to support the dream movement and chat with the world's most famous dream researchers at the same time! http://www.asdreams.org/study /////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////// Thanks again to Jenn Fraser we are within a couple of months of completion of the Electric Dreams Articles Project! You can now access articles by author, or search topics, at: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles or with advertising at: http://members.tripod.com/ed-articles/ We still need a host that will exchange space for a small ad that is dream related. If you can offer us about 8 MB of web space, contact me at rcwilk@dreamgate.com //////////////////////////////////////////////// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mutual Dream Destination, December15, 2000 Meet You In Florida =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Once a month, we have a place we designate as a dream destination. No, this doesn't mean we think it's a great place. It means that for one reason or another, we have chosen to pick this place to try and meet during a dream. What? Yes, that's right. We all put the intention in our minds to meet, then try to dream of going to this place. We discuss this afterwards. Did you see me? Did you get there? What was it like for you? Sometime we have projects as well. For example, we went to Jerusalem in our dreams in hopes of using our dreams to find new solutions and perspectives. Other times we just want to have fun. Once we met under the sea, in the octopus's garden and had tea. Can this really happen? What about different time zones? OK, don't get overload by consensus reality. First, yes, people often have dreams where upon awakening they find out that someone else had the dream too. We just boost this process by lending a conscious intention to the game. It doesn't really matter if you dream of Florida tonight after reading this, or on the specific date set out. We don't put that kind of linear time requirement on this game. We are not trying to determine if we "really had the same dream" or "really were there together". Let's just say that to some degree, imaginal, psychic, cosmic, or comic, if we dream about similar things, we do share those images and in a sense, we were both there. You can share them on Dreamchatters or Dreamshare, two www.egroups.com discussion lists, or you can send to Judith and indicate whether you are comfortable posting them to the Dreamshare conference. About Mutual Dreaming: See Linda Magallon's Mutual Dreaming FAQ: http://members.aol.com/dreampsi/archive/mutualdreaming.html#anchor456487 Where would *you* like to meet in the future? Contact Judith E-mail : coamdre@mindspring.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- AN EXCERPT FROM THE LUCID DREAM EXCHANGE By Lucy Gillis In many instances of lucid dreaming, pain is not usually felt. In the example below, Heather, the dreamer, is surprised when a dream character gets angry for being called a dream character and is able to inflict pain. Heather December 31 1990 I am in a car with my father, holding Tiny (a dog) in my arms. We decide we're going to go somewhere but my uncle, A, arrives. We go to an apartment elevator with him and two NHL hockey players. One of the players has red hair. We get off the elevator. I have to hold Tiny tightly because the people in the apartment have a cat and two small long-eared, long-tailed dogs. Soon I have to leave because it's snowing. I'm then in what looks like the North End of the city, in an apartment. Tiny is now inside a nailpolish bottle. I begin to sense that something's wrong. PG. and another woman are there. I fling the bottle to the floor so it will break. Out pops a piece of lint. I stare at it and know that when it shakes itself it will pop into being Tiny again. When this happens I turn to the girls and say triumphantly "This is a dream!" PG is exasperated and says "You mean to tell me that we are all dreaming?" I say "No. I am. You are characters created by my mind." Then I see a bright white light in a narrow horizontal band with black edges flash in my eyes and on my hands. I get kind of surprised. PG gets angry and interlaces her fingers with mine. I see more flashes rip through the "fabric" of the dream world and hear a crackle and hiss like static. The fabric of that reality looks like bad reception in a TV. PG bends my fingers back. I don't pay attention to her. Instead I wonder how my fingers can hurt when I am aware that I am dreaming. So I try to wake myself up. I have to close my eyes. I hear myself say "Open your eyes." I do and I see my bedroom wall. I close my eyes again, and then open them to be sure I've pulled out of the dream. *********************************** The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly issue featuring lucid dreams and lucid dream related articles, poetry, and book reviews submitted by readers. For further information contact Lucy Gillis at lucy_gillis@hotmail.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Dream Doctor Charles McPhee, Ph.D. http://www.dreamdoctor.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Brace Yourself!" I'm getting braces soon and one night I had a dream that I was backing out of getting them. Then the angel Gabriel came to me and told me that I have to get braces because if I didn't I couldn't get into heaven and if my teeth were crooked I would have to go to purgatory and have to earn my straight teeth. And I was so scared that I would go to hell that I woke up. What does it mean? --Abby, Age 15, Porterville, CA, USA Hi Abby - Do you think straight teeth really are that important? That you wouldn't be allowed into heaven if you had crooked ones? Hmmmm.... I don't know about this Gabriel guy... Actually, your dream probably is more about obeying your parents - and making them happy - than it is about any real life "heaven and hell" decisions. I think you're nervous about getting your braces, and you've been thinking about backing out of it, but you don't want to disappoint your parents - not after you've already seen the orthodontist, had impressions made of your teeth, and had all the preparations done. What's the message of this dream? It's time to "brace yourself" for a shiny pair of "train tracks" lashed across your teeth! A lot of your friends are going to have them too - and when you get done you'll have a very nice, pretty smile. But uh.... In case you and Gabriel didn't finish your conversation - it takes more than a cute smile to get into heaven. (It has to be attached to a good heart!) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Lucid Bird's Words Lucid Email Excerpts: The First Experiences of a Budding Lucid Dreamer By Marc Vandekeere =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The following article was reformatted from an email correspondence with another lucid dream enthusiast. It is always rewarding to hear about the excitement that lucid dreaming can create. The wondrous experiences shared by other dreamers can serve as inspiration and motivation to keep all of us focused on pursuing our own dreams. This person, we'll call Dreamer1, is in the early stages of developing her lucid dreaming ability. This article shares her first lucid dreaming experience along with some comments and advice from me, Marc. I hope that this discourse can shed some light on the excitement and experiences that a lucid newbie may encounter and offer some constructive tips on how to make the most of your first lucid dreaming experiences. Dreamer1: Hi Marc, I just had what I believe may have been an OBE! Marc: Congratzzz!!! I'm all ears.... Dreamer1: I was listening to your Lucid Dreaming CD while using the wake/back to sleep method... Marc: That is definitely the best way to do it. The Wake/Back to Bed Method, http://hometown.aol.com/ecsomatic/Page7.html, is the most effective approach to developing your dreaming abilities. There is something magical about sleeping for several hours, awakening for an hour and then returning to sleep that dramatically increases yours odds of becoming lucid in your dreams. It is a great way to coordinate your dream training with the best targeted time period. It may take rearranging your sleeping pattern to use this Wake/Back to Bed Method, but as you can see, it really will add some turbo power to your dreaming progress. Dreamer1: Suddenly I thought, "Am I having an out of body experience? Try putting your hand through the chair." I remembered this from the first Robert Monroe book. Well, my arm went into the chair and I could feel the stuffing inside my husband's big green recliner... Marc: Isn't that a wild sensation?!? There is nothing quite like penetrating solid matter, at least nothing found in our waking world. It's great to hear that you were successful and especially on one of your first few experiences in a conscious dreamstate. Since you were successful it indicates that you must have an open-mind and a less limiting system of beliefs in place. Many people wouldn't be able to overcome their ingrained waking belief that it is impossible to penetrate solid matter. You read about this experience and then were able to experience it yourself. Good job! This is a great way to start opening the doors of your dreaming perception. Many of my first dreaming experiences were directly related to experiences that I had read about in books. Reading is a great way to fill your mind with possibilities and set the stage for replicating these experiences in your own dreams. Since this "solid matter penetration" method has working successfully for you I suggest using this method again to increase your odds of becoming lucid in any future dreams. Aside from being an effective means of sparking lucidity, it is quite an intense experience in and of itself. For fun, try passing your hand through different substances like wood, walls, glass or whatever, and notice how you perceive and experience each substance as your arm or hand passes through it. The differences between each substance can really be perceptually unique. Dreamer1: ...my feet were sinking through the floor and I thought "This is like quicksand, I'll sink all the way through. I'm up to my knees now, how can I walk here?" As soon as I thought this I was back to walking on top of our brown carpet. Then suddenly I seemed to be seeing an overview scene with streets, houses and buildings below and I thought, "Well then, try to fly." I gave the order "Fly!" and tried to take off but nothing happened. Next, I was in the back right passenger seat in a car looking out a window, watching signs and storefronts pass by, and I called out "Focus" and the writing did seem to get more clear. Although I've read LaBerge , that one cannot read in a dream, as the writing is always backwards, which is supposed to be a clue to turn lucid, I can always dream read just like it's newsprint, the sign I called out for focus on was the word Pittsburgh. Marc: I can usually read text in my dreams too, but if I look away and then glance back, sometimes the text may have changed. Not always, but enough to sometimes effectively realize I'm dreaming by noticing the morphed text. Usually while reading in a dream, if it is just simple words like a street sign or restaurant logo, I have no problem reading it. Actually reading a book or reading massive amounts of text in a dream can be a different experience entirely. It seems as if the message and meaning of the text is transferred and understood, but the text itself may not necessarily correspond to the meaning that is being directly perceived. It's difficult to put in words, no pun intended, but it's almost as if the text itself is not as important as the meaning. So if I am absorbing the information of the text the words may actually be garbled and illegible but the meaning is able to make its way out of the textual mayhem. On a different subject entirely, one thing that you can try is to "assume you are dreaming". Try to get into the habit of thinking and believing that it IS a dream whenever you might be thinking that it is. It's hard to describe again, but it's like a faith in knowing that you are being fooled into thinking it is a dream. Dreams can be so convincing that they can fool you quite well, but I find that during my waking state I wonder if I am dreaming far less than I do while dreaming, probably since less wild and illogical stuff is happening. Anyway, just KNOW that it must be a dream whenever you are in wondering if it is. Have the faith, assume that it must be and act as if it were a dream. By jump- starting your lucidity like this, you can often bypass the whole 'reality-checking' stage. It's initially hard to set this pattern and ingrain this habit, but when you do it can increase your odds of successfully detecting that it is in fact a dream. Dreamer1: I noticed that when I called out "Focus" the other three passengers in the car did not seem to hear me. In fact, as soon as I noticed this, I heard a slight click and my hearing seemed to turn off, leaving a very distinct silence. I'm not sure, but I think this may have been the Lucid Dreaming CD changing tracks because then I heard you repeating, "The next time I dream . . ." I tried to think my way back into putting my arm through the chair to start all over again, but no luck. Marc: Sounds to me like quite an experience. It's often so hard to tell what is a lucid dream and what is an out of body experience. I'd focus less on trying to fit it into one category or another and just focus on repeating any type of similar experience. The experience is really what matters most. Our innate tendency to identify and categorize everything makes a lot of these altered states of consciousness more confusing than they really need to be. I recommend emphasizing experience. Experience it more and you'll gain better ability to make sense of these various altered states. It also sounds like you had a pretty long voyage considering it was one of your first experiences. Over time you'll get better at maintaining control, clarity and lucidity. Instead of having the dreamscape jump from one scene to another you'll be able to sustain a longer, smoothly flowing conscious stream of experience. You also did a great job of maintaining your dreaming awareness during the dream shifts. Oftentimes, when an abrupt change occurs in a dream, it becomes difficult to stay lucid. These dream shifts have a way of sucking you back into non-lucidity. I liked seeing that you exhibited a good ability to monitor and acknowledge these dreamscape shits without losing your focus or awareness. It is also good to see that you already are using verbal commands to influence your dreams. This verbal method of control works best for me. I've tried a lot of other methods for influencing the course of a dream and none have the precision and control that verbal commands provide. Next time you find yourself in a dream, try saying to yourself or aloud, "I am in a lucid dream. Maintain lucidity!" This is a great way to maintain and prolong your lucidity. Whenever you feel your lucidity is fading, repeat this verbal command. By repeatedly using this command, you can easily "re-lucidify" your dreaming awareness, extend your lucid adventures and gain far better control of the dreamscape. By developing this habit in my dreaming awareness, I am now able to maintain my lucidity for at least twenty minutes or so on average, and having lucid dreams that can last over an hour is not out of the question. It certainly puts a new spin on your dream life. It's almost like experiencing a whole day's worth of experience in one dream. Hopefully, this verbal command approach can work as well for you too. Dreamer1: Nevertheless, the experience was wild and wonderful. I never had any success like this with Monroe's Gateway Discovery tapes or the LaBerge Nova Dreamer I tried as I've had from your CD, and ultimately I sent the others back before the thirty day trial period ran out. Marc: I am very happy to hear that and glad to be of service. I personally get good use out of my NovaDreamer. At first, wearing a sleep mask was quite cumbersome and uncomfortable, but once I got used to wearing it, I found that it was a great tool for inducing lucidity. It was especially helpful in the beginning stages. I don't use it as much as I used to, but in a pinch and if I am going through a dry spell, I will don my little dreaming mask and hope for the best. Dreamer1: Thank you! I look forward to trying the other CDs. Unfortunately, with my work schedule, I have not been able to put in the time I would like on these LD/OBE adventures. Take care and thank you again... Marc: Thank you for keeping me posted with your progress. It is always inspirational to hear the experiences of other dreamers. One thing to keep in mind is that a busy schedule usually means poor dreaming results. A preoccupation with daily concerns and responsibilities can really put a damper on your dreaming progress in many cases. Considering your busy schedule, I think you are off to a great start and can look forward to even more marvelous things to come! Just keep at it and you'll keep getting better and better. Like any other skill it just takes some consistent discipline, action and application. Best of EVERYTHING, marc ^v^ http://how.to/luciddream http://come.to/dreamresearch http://go.to/mindvoyages =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dream Replicants and the Emergence of Simulacra Richard Wilkerson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "We're gonna do, We're gonna do, kind of a science fiction story" --Preamble to Wooden Ships at Woodstock. Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself." -- Jean Baudrillard. By rising to the surface, the simulacrum makes the Same and the Similar, the model and the copy, fall under the power of the false (phantasm). It renders the order of participation, the fixity of distribution, the determination of the hierarchy impossible. It establishes the world of nomadic distributions and crowned anarchies. Far from being a new foundation, it engulfs all foundations, it assures a universal breakdown, but as a joyful and positive event, as an un-founding: "behind each cave another that opens still more deeply, and beyond each surface a subterranean world yet more vast, more strange. Richer still... and under all foundations, under every ground, a subsoil still more profound." -- Gilles Deleuze, "Plato and the Simulacrum," The Logic of Sense One of the major sites of conflict in the interpretation of dreams has been whether they reveal or conceal, a conflict found most clearly in the debate between the Freudian notion of partial concealment and the Jungian notion of revelation. Several contemporary dream scientists have tossed into the ring the notion that dreams are not revealing or concealing anything. We might say that these schools of thought mark the extremes positions of the modern and ancient world about dreams, that dreams are revealing, concealing, are neither, or are a mixture of all of these. However, all these notions (as notions, I don't want to attack the work or therapy evolving out of them itself right now) all these notions involve the dream image as representative. One camp may say that the dream image represents something important, another that it doesn't. Others fall into the spectrum of value vs. no-value. But what happens when dreaming and dreams are not seen so much as representing my life, but as having motives all their own? This is not a new idea, and even goes back to ancient views that see the figures in dreams as autonomous figures, ghosts, demons, spirits and gods. More currently, Carl Jung, and then James Hillman have suggested that even the ego in the dream, who I think of as me in the dream, may also not be me. Linda Magallón has also suggested we give the dream a higher existential reality and address the dream and dreamer and dreaming process as a kind of entity. Wouldn't your friends in waking life think it was odd if you said, "Oh, glad to see you again, hey this is what you represent to me...", or "let me interpret you!" To suggest that the dream and its images may be very important and valuable, yet not represent what they appear to be representing seems to throw us back into the Freudian days when dream images were disguises of their true meanings. Jung felt that to go on the assumption that the unconscious was only trying to fool us would be a disaster and a complete surrender to being the hopeless victim of powers we never see. But both of these views, and all of these views, are totalizing views. That is, they attempt to account for all of dreaming. What dreamworkers have found is that ~all~ of these operations and strategies are in the dream process; revelation, concealment, meaning, meaninglessness, the fabulous and the pointless, the marvelous and the mundane. As postmodern writer Jean Lyotard might say, they are all Grand Narratives that are used to grab up and distribute all the meaning of the whole world in one story. Harry Hunt has spent a great deal of time showing that the multiplicity of dreams is a more telling metaphor than singularity of purpose. While various groups try to appropriate dreams and dreaming for their purposes, there is always more to dreams and dreaming that escapes their limits. Still, it's hard to let go of the feeling that the dream is about me. Dreams so often contain images that look and act like the people and objects in my life. How do I account for this and what is the right term, sign, symbol, image, simulation, representation, duplication, copy? Notice how all these terms allow me to pull the image back into relationship to my life and force the image to be less than the Real which it is imitating. Other notions such as mask, personae, resemblance, staging, theatre, and actors all force the image to dance to something beyond itself, while at the same time sheering off a thin surface and dumping any depth and substance that is not related to that which the mask is representing. Postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard feels this process of representation has led us into a postmodern world that is about to take off into the hyperreal. Early cultures had no separation between the thing and what it represented. The Modern mind often misses this and abstracts early cultures animism. Moderns laugh about how primitives saw their god as a rock, a tree, a river. But this, according to James Hillman, this is a massive mis- perception. We tend to spiritualize what is really soulful. The deity would inhabit and be the rock sometimes and other times not. The rock didn't represent the god, the rock was, at times, god. Of course, there is some romanticizing here. The primitive earth was full of attempts to control the meaning of signs. To get them fixed, they were deeply cut into the flesh, and familial connections were continually used to signify the flow of woman, of goods, of discussion. Alliances were also developed with somewhat more freedom, but also deeply regulated and viscously enforced. According to poststructuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, despotic pharaoh types eventually collected all these natural flows of filiation and alliance of small tribes into themselves, and made it appear as if all things flowed from them. All gold, all goods, all seasons flowed from Pharoah. Now there was a representation, but only One. This was enough to break the back between the signs and what they pointed to. To hold this horror at bay (that signs might begin to represent something other than one thing) there were terrible laws and caste societies. It was clear what things meant, and you could tell who someone was just by their clothes. Transgressions were severely punished. Interpetations of dreams were banned. Witches were burnt by the thousands for sharing dreams. There could be no tolerance of other gods and religions who might interpret a sign differently and threaten the system that tightly binds the sign to its meaning. The Renaissance shows us the beginning of something different. Plays and writings that addressed issues other than the Pharaoh began to bloom. It was a playful time for the signs and psychology could emerge. What's behind the mask? With a little money, one can change one's caste and clothes at a moments notice. What does the bible mean, this or that? Who knows, and how do they know? There is a deep nostalgia for the past and for Nature, but its too late. The sign and what it means have been completely severed. The Marionette dances on the stage, but its only value now is in entertainment. In the modern industrial world, things don't mean anything and we are used to it. The robot that makes the cars is not the marionette that dances on the stage. The robot has a local function and no one would think of trying to interpret its meaning. There is a duplication of cars, of Barbie dolls, series of washers and microwaves, and continual re- use of signs and models. The Cowboy is used to sell movies one day, cigarettes the next, shaving cream the next. But have you ever seen a cowboy? Oh yes, on TV, so you have had a real experience? Signs for the real are more apparent than reality itself. We begin to live in a simulation of the Real and feel we are in contact with the Real. If you are asking yourself, "Yes, but what is the Real we have left?" , then you can see for yourself how modern you have become and how lost this natural answer has become to us. Baudrillard says that without the grounding of the Real, the society begins to launch itself into a virtual reality, a satellite society that circles around an empty center of circulating signs. As Brian Massumi notes, we can only gape in fascination, for the secret of the process is beyond our grasp. Meaning has imploded. There is only a pleasureless orgy of exchange and circulation, media blitz and sound bytes, advertisements for advertisements, the projection from one hyperreality into another, another website to another website. Baudrillard's reaction to all this is to suggest we push the system to its limit. If we are being pushed into consuming, then we can become such super-consumers that the system goes into hyperdrive and we can there-by break free of its gravity. But I really doubt that buying extra Barbie dolls for the kids this holidays is going to stress the system enough that it mutates into a post-capital society What can we do? Can were go back to the days when signs really meant something? Hardly. Or at least, not in a global sense. Small groups attempt to do this, but they usually end up a paranoid cults living on borrowed time in an anachronistic and isolated dome. Do we become hypercynnical? Can we just stop believing in anything and react to all the ads and failed attempts to change with a smirk of knowing its all over now, baby blue? I would like to suggest is that we find a path between regressing back into a primitive state or becoming hypercynical. This path is not a singular one. It's a path that we all have to create, but at the same time is individually determined and maintained. Those of you who have been doing dreamwork are already familiar with this path. Each day we wake up with a dream. Each dream is its own world and thus a perspective on all other worlds, including our waking world. This overlapping imaginarium, finding the meaning of one story through the view of another story, might seem like a hall of mirrors. But over time, due to the acceptance of the unknown, the subtle, the different, the odd, the strange and the unreal, we can begin to see the ruptures in representations and a dance that is occurring in the non-center of the universe. Each day, a new world, a new perspective. Here is one for today. What happens when we see our dreams as a realm of beings manifesting through our psyches? Too paranoid? If we are to take seriously the notion of giving dreams more status, this part of the story will return again and again until we get it. Philip K. Dick, who wrote the (1968) _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?_" which was made into the Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner", which became a model for so many Cyberpunk movies to follow. Dick explores the issue of copies and false copies and simulacra, a special group of copies that are so thinly related to the original that they have achieved independent status. In his story, the replicants were produced to do hard physical labor and help provide companionship for people colonizing distant planets. They appear and act human, but have one fatal flaw; they are all pre-programmed to live only four years. Something goes wrong and a group of replicants band together and rebel, massacre the colony, steal a ship and return to earth. As a Blade Runner, its Rick Deckard's job to find and destroy these renegade robots. The mood is dark, and the 2021 society on earth, full of multicultural hustle and bustle, seems almost post-apocolyptic. The constant ads floating by and oversized buildings have become the model for Cyberpunk novels and stories since the movie came out in 1982. Throughout the story, Deckard finds himself caught between his own feelings and the requirements of his job to kill. His job is complicated by the fact that he is forced out of retirement and that the newer android models are smarter and faster than people. An additional problem is that the standard tests, which have been relied on for years to discriminate between androids and humans, begins giving unreliable results. Soon he comes to find out the replicant's plan. They no longer want to be tied to the automatic death that is pre-programmed. They want to be recognized, not as having full human status, but as a being in their own rights. Deckard finds himself empathizing with some, even falling in love, while continuing to hunt and kill other replicants. When is a copy a copy, and when does it obtain a new status of being? This is the Platonic conundrum of the simulacrum, which is a copy of an original. In Plato, there are ideal forms or models and there are the good copies that are manifested in this world. Then there are simulacra, which are then considered less than the ideal models and poor copies. Poststructuralist, Gilles Deleuze, begins with this notion of simulacrum as copy, but then pushes it into a whole new territory. At some point, the connection (between a sign and what it is suppose to represent) becomes so thin that it is not a matter of degree and quantity of difference, but of nature and quality. This logical impossibility is more than a metaphor indicating the thin connection between copies and their originals. We often see this in Pop Art, where Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans may be said to represent the originals, but that is not their main function. They are copies that have achieved a whole new status and created a whole new aesthetic. Similarly, photo-realistic paintings that playfully mimic photography are more than just copies of photographs or the objects they represent, but create a whole realm and style of painting where the objects bear little significance to real world objects, though they depict these objects with a realism usually reserved for cameras. Deleuze notes that the notion of copies, models, replications and mimicry all force the object to represent something else that is considered more real than itself. The copy is always bound by a set of internal relations to a model against which it is judged. Does the barber's pole clearly point to the barber, or is it a bad sign pointing to something else? The simulacrum, on the other hand, looks on the outside like a copy, but has a, well, deceptive resemblance to the model. On the surface it looks like one thing and may make us associate to the represented model, but underneath, its dynamics may have no relationship to the model what-so-ever. Think of the pitcher plant that simulates the look of an insect and fools the insect into thinking that it operates like a friendly insect, but has a very different dynamic going. A copy is wired to stand in for its model, a simulacrum operates by a different code and enters different circuits. The point here is not for the simulacrum to imitate and become the thing it simulates, but to temporarily use this mask for other goals, its own proliferation. The replicants in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" plan to re-vision themselves and escape completely from the realm of humanity, populating worlds that mankind will not and can not every want to inhabit. They just need the human form for awhile. There is nothing yet to represent them, and so they emerge from behind what can be represented. Baudrillard often says that simulacrum are copies without an original, but as Massumi notes, this leaves the question of whether there ever was a Real from which we broke, or if there was simulation of reality from the beginning. A better view is that they co-exist from the beginning, though simulation has to be seen in two contexts, the first in its role as an exclusive disjunctive synthesis and the second more desirable inclusive disjunctive synthesis. Both of these syntheses emerge within a world where the flows of desire, goods, money, information, and communications are already tightly channeled and highly regulated. Its no wonder they have to being as appearing to be something else. Both will have to extract a surplus from the flows and create their own matrix. However, one will simply re-territorialize the surplus and become another fixed system, while the inclusive disjunctive synthesis will affirm the differences in the system, creating a flowering of all the points in its circuit and thus producing a cyberneticly related improverse around which nomadic singularities interact and create. In many ways we can see how much of dreamwork is involved in allowing these dream replicants an opportunity to exceed us. Dream inspired writers and artists are most keenly aware of their role in nurturing something that is beyond themselves. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after his dream and showed it to his wife, she destroyed the manuscript in horror. But the dream replicants had already created a full body matrix of surplus desire that had established itself in a network in which Stevenson, the dream, his wife and the writing were simple travelers. Within days Stevenson had completely re-written the novel. The Jungians and the Post-Jungians, the Archetypalists, have also been engaged in encouraging and supporting the process of allowing dream replicants to find their own world. Instead of trying to drag them up from the underworld, Hillman suggests we might learn more by allowing them to drag us down into the underworld. However, this gets people into debates about just two worlds, the waking world and the imaginal world. The real point is that we have hit the cultural trans-warp drive and now inhabit, or can inhabit, an infinite amount of worlds. The Internet has done a lot in bringing this to light metaphorically. Its becoming clear that we are reaching a stage of cultural transition where old identities, old alliances, old filiations, old ways of seeing territory and boundaries are dissolving before the flood of unleashed objects, images, information, connections, virtual spaces and recombinatory genetic and physical biophysiologies and psychobiological ecologies. This calls for a dreamwork that might be seen through the three Deleuze-Guattari stages hinted at before. In the first stage, the connective synthesis, the full body of the dream launches from its surface a set of intensities and differences. Though each unique, they form a set of related trajectories around or above the egg-body of the dream. This is the second stage, the disjunctive synthesis. We need to be keen on differences here. If we begin to associate to the images in the dream around a circle that already exists the project will collapse into a modern thing that can be represented and an idea will emerge, an archetype perhaps, which will territorialize all the energy and become a little pharaoh. To allow the replicants room to move we need difference and non-represented spaces. The first is easier, at least conceptually. Difference is what makes something unique. Yet we can never see pure difference. We always see difference in relation to something else, in opposition, in context. Yet though it is invisible and non-representable, it is what differentiates one being from another. Without representing them, one can find the flows in the dream, and what stops the flows. We can see where the fluxes and partial objects have emerge into existence, measured only by their expression in of the content, of ruptures and breaks in the flow. In the final stage of conjunctive synthesis, if we have carefully kept the new matrix that is not-a-matrix alive, there may exist the nomadic dream replicant who has found a way out of the territorialized space of repressive systems of control. Traversing the full body of the dream the nomad breaks into other flows and creates ever new connections. Finding deterritorialized space in which to play the nomad skates between systems, busy becoming intense, becoming dream, becoming transfigural. Eventually, the space will be re-territorialized. And that is also why there are no examples of this kind of dreamwork given in this essay. Any example would be a general case in which you might try to abstract and conceptualize the underlying principles. And yet each dream - and each encounter with each dream - is going to be essentially different every time we engage the dream. There is not a singular essence to extract that can be generalized, though essence and singularity of meaning create trajectories around the full body of the dream just as surely as difference or feelings or desire. The full body of the dream produces, and produces, and produces. As Deleuze & Guattari say, the unconscious is not a theater, it is a factory. Richard Wilkerson - November 2000 -------------- BIBLIOGRAPHY -------------------------- Baudrillard, Jean (1983). Simulations, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), p. 11. Baudrillard, Jean (1983). In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and John Johnston (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), p. 56. Bogue, Ronald (1989). Deleuze and Guattari. (New York: Routledge Deleuze, Gilles (1990). The Logic of Sense. Trans. by Mark Lester with Charles Stivale. Edited by Constantin Boundas. New York:Columbia University Press. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix (1972/1977). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Preface by Michel Foucault. Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Dick, Philip K. (1968). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Del Rey (Ballantine) Books 24th printing. Filmed as Blade Runner 1982. The book reissued under the title Blade Runner at the release of the film. Mikkola, Timo (1997). Blade Runner: Film Noir or Science Fiction? Retrieved October 15, 2000 on the World Wide Web: http://www.uta.fi/~ks53182/blade/blade.html Massumi, Brian (1987). REALER THAN REAL: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari Originally published in Copyright no.1, 1987. http://www.anu.edu.au/HRC/first_and_last/works/realer.htm =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: 12th House =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Have you ever wondered how dreams and astrology are connected? There are many ways we can connect dreams to astrology, and many don't require that you know all about your Natal Chart. In this column we will be exploring the symbolic rather than predictive aspects of astrology. Symbolic astrology attempts to use the images of astrological to give meaning to one's life and empower choices rather than predict paths. We do this by imaginal overlay. In this process we impleach, (poetically interweave)dream, image, feeling, life and symbol in a way to evoke a felt sense of the dream's imagery and its position in our life. This year we are focusing each month on a different House. The inner circle of the Natal or Birth Chart is divided into 12 distinct regions know as Houses. They relate to everyday activates. One will be about physical appearances and temperament, while another relates to possessions, for example. Planets and signs fall within these Houses and influence the areas of focus. We will be watching for images of planets, signs and other celestial events and hopefully begin to see the emergence of an astrological chart that dips into birth charts, dreams, and our waking life. Twelfth House: Pisces. At the end of the series of 12 Houses, it is the alpha-omega house of endings of one cycle and just before the beginning of the next. The next cycle can be a spiral upward or a spiral downward, or an octave higher or lower than the present one. But before moving to the next octave, the 12th House itself must be traveled. Dream: I am in an arctic sea aboard an 18th Century ship. I am in a cabin studying under a swaying light. I have been brooding for sometime and left my home to help others, but now just seem to live in this little cabin. I am looking at an oily fish design on the cover of the book, and thinking that the fish can get away by slipping deep below the surface. In this dream we see that there is a struggle with the lower and higher self on a plane that seems isolated for the individual. There is the theme of self-sacrifice and the brooding loss of the old self set to sea, but also the possibility the individual may descend with the old self into the icy depths of the sea. At the center of this escape is the fish, which in this millennium is continually associated with the Christian notion of sacrifice to the higher self. And there is no negative judgment in the descent either. It could be a suicidal escape fantasy, or it could be the need to contact the deeper soul. Dream: I am waking outside a kind of hospital. Its seems more like an sanitarium for tubercular patients from Thomas Mann. There is a maze of hedges and I find my way blocked by an altar with items laid out on it. No one is around and I see that the altar has clothes on it that I used to wear. I only remember two now, a set of clothes from childhood that used to be put on me when I played in the sandbox, and a business suit that was a favorite of mine to welcome new clients to my shop. I think it is odd that there isn=t a priest around. Before this dreamer is a way out, but a sacrifice of the whole past, all the personalities she previously wore, all that she has obtained in the first 11 Houses, must first be sacrificed. Will she recognize that she is the priest that must do this, or will she return to the hospital? Karma, in this sense, is not so much a fated curse but a way of seeing things that allows for new paths and growth. Dream: I was playing with my army men toys but then I was one of them. People were shooting all around. I kept thinking that if they really kill one another, I won=t have any more left to play with. I run over a hill to get away and see all the army men that have died in a pile. People are pulling them down and burying them in a graveyard nearby. I help them, but feel like I'm burying part of myself. My heart goes out to the soldiers, even though I know they are toys. Dreams of the 12th House may be particularly difficult for the individual and this difficulty may be relieved by service to others. The gaining of a higher self by loss of an earlier one is painful. Helping others is also helping oneself, even when at the time this may not be fully realized. As some say, it's not really a battle to be won, but a acquiescence and devotion. Those who flee from the 12th House effects may find themselves in classical Shadow psychology, i.e. being chased by monsters and unforeseen forces that threaten to undermine or destroy the self. Also, dreams may compensate for too much sacrifice. Many people feel the 12th House as a deep debt that must be paid in life and devote years to helping and ailing relative or seek religious solitude in a monastery, only to neglect their own development. This un- lived life may take on the shape of a monster or force threatening the dreaming. So, if sacrifice and withdraw are the call of the 12th House that can lead to ruin, what is the productive solution? It seems that the solution is individual and can't be collectively spoken. Inner peace, understanding and wisdom are as equal a possibility as despair. The desire for the inner oneness of all things unfolds a mystery that can be seen in our travel through all the Houses of the Cosmos. With each cycle we get another glimpse and opportunity to share and participate in the co-creation of the universe. M. Aionia This completes a full year of Dreaming through the Houses. If you wish to follow the full year of Houses, they will be available online at the Electric Dreams Articles Site: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-articles/ or http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/ Comments and additions to the set of articles will be added if you send them in to M. 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Alan Siegel, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Dream Time Magazine Editor of ASD E-News Program Chair ASD 2001 Conference www.asdreams.org/2001 http://www.asdreams.org ASDCentralOffice@aol.com - to send us an e-mail 2001 Conference Hotline: (866) DREAM12 (toll-free) <<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||<<<<<<<<<<< +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ New Series begins with dream-flow@egroup.com Digest #1 09/29/2000 This issue includes volume #21 – volume#41 Hello and welcome to the DREAM SECTION of Electric Dreams. This section is edited by Richard Wilkerson and the DreamEditor, a software creation of Harry Bosma, author of the Dream interpretation and journaling software "Alchera". (homepage: http://mythwell.com) Please note that we print these dreams as they come to us and that means we do not correct the spelling. Some dreamworkers find these spelling mistakes a great window on the dream and dreamer. The Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION includes dreams and comments from the DREAM FLOW, a project to circulate dreams in Cyberspace. Many mail lists participate, including dream-flow@lists.best.com dreamstream@topical.com DreamsRus@onelist.com The Dream Sack http//www.deeplistening.org/ione Usenet groups (too many to name, search DREAM) If you would like to send in single dreams for the flow, you can leave them at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple If you have a mail list or would like to contribute dreams and comments on a regular basis, you can subscribe to the dream-flow by sending an E-mail to TO: dream-flow-subscribe@egroups.com You may get a note back to verify the subscription. Simply hit the return or reply key and send the note back. An Archive of dream-flow is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@egroups.com/ Pre-November 2000: http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@lists.best.com/ Pre-November 1998 http://www.mail-archive.com/ed-core@lists.best.com/ Pre-April 1990 Use Electric Dreams Backissues http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues -------------------------------- BEGIN ---------------------------------- [dream-flow] Digest Number 21 ____________________________________________________________ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. How it is possible I'm asleep? From: Anonymous ___________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:46:09 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: How it is possible I'm asleep? Dream Title How it is possible I'm asleep?(lucid,K) Date of Dream I don't remember! Dream I'm in my school. My colleagues keep on bullying me. I don't realise at first that the school I'm in is no longer my school. When I go outside, I lose one of my boots... then I throw out the second one, just for measure. I keep on walking doen the street in the sad light of late afternoon sun. When I'm closing to my home, I keep on questioning my reality, and, finally at home, I do a levitation check...Since I'm floating under the ceiling, I realise I must be dreaming. I fly out of the window. Now I spot a town in the distance. I fly by... This town looks like if it was a Chinese town because of it's architecture. I stay there for a while, and fly futher. I arrive at a buliding, where my vision (blurred at the beginning of dream) becomes crystal clear - I see everything in vivid detail and in 3-d. Then I realise that the situation is somehow paradoxical - as I remember that I'm not really walking around the dreamed building but my body is fast asleep in my home. So I'm asleep. But how I can be asleep when I'm here and walking? As soon as I fly outside the vivion becomes two dimensional, my dream body disappears and I can no longer interact with it. I decide to relax and just enjoy the fading dream. I see a train crossing some mountain chain and I wake up. Comments by Dreamer Very interesting. What is awareness? During the dream state we have the same awareness as in the waking state, what lucid dreaming phenomenon clearly demonstrates. ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 22 ____________________________________________________________ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. murder From: Anonymous 2. Re: murder From: Heratheta ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:23:29 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: murder Dream Title murder Date of Dream Oct, 23rd around 12:30 am Dream I was told that my employer had a dream that I would be attacked and killed at work by a customer and then later in the dream it happened. I was stabbed and left to die while screaming for help in a public place, but no one helped me not even my "friend" who was there Comments by Dreamer Scared the crap out of me and I'd like to know if it means something more than just another dream ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 23 ____________________________________________________________ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. The Beautiful Face From: Anonymous ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 02:41:50 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: The Beautiful Face Dream Title The Beautiful Face/ QueenMun Date of Dream October 24, 2000 Dream I went down a water slide and at the end of it he was there, the water current had pushed me under and he helped me out like a life guard. I looked into his face and he had the deepest blue eyes and tanned skin with little braids in his hair. He held me while I got my hair out of my face and then kept holding me tenderly. We went into a different pool just to relax all the while he was she holding me and across the pool was a guy I was talking to last year only he was with another girl. The guy with me and myself got out of the pool and went to his car. While we were driving he held my hand and he had the softest skin I had ever felt and his lips on my skin were so warm and soft also. All of a sudden a shot like a bullet rang out and I got so scared that it had hit him that I searched all over for a wound, but all he did was look at me and smile and told me that he didn't get hit. Comments by Dreamer I felt as though he was the guy I am suppose to be with, like he exsists and I am suppose to find him. Or that it is my boyfriend but looks different and that it is telling me that when he goes to the marines he won't get killed and he will return back okay Permission to Comment yes_share_comments Permission Comments Do what you like with my dream just please tell me your intake on my dream, what do you think it means? ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 25 ____________________________________________________________ There are 6 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. allergy girl From: Chantelle McLaren