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 #9 Issue #6 June 2002 ISSN# 1089 4284 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Download a cover for this issue! http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ The Global Dreaming News Events - Updates - Reviews - More From Peggy Coats - www.DreamTree.com ++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis ++ Article: The Scent of Flying Dreams by Linda Lane Magallón ++ Article: A New Approach To Interpreting Dreams by Dan Gollub D R E A M S S E C T I O N : This issue includes volume # 447 - # 467 D E A D L I N E : June 20th deadline for July 2002 submissions 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: o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Editor's Notes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Welcome to the June 2002 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreaming online. If you are new to dreams and dreaming, please join us on dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com and we will guide you to the resources you need. To join send an e to dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Our news directory, Peggy Coats, from dreamtree.com, has gathered dreaming news from around the world. In the Global Dreaming News you will find the latest dream and dreamwork events, conferences, and seminars. Also you will find research and research requests for subject, updates on your favorite dream websites, book reviews and more. If you have news items about dreams and dreaming for Peggy, send them to her at web@dreamtree.com Please pay particular attention to the May 31st Deadline for the ASD International Conference in Boston. Do you find that it is difficult to talk to dream characters in your lucid dreams? Do they give you answers that seem like nonsense? In this months Excerpts from the Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis features a note from Arthur's deceased girlfriend that he found in the pages of a copy of "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" by LaBerge and Rheingold which addresses this issue. By the way, ASD is now involved in producing a new and expanded Dream FAQ for the Internet. If you would like to help ASD with the FAQ project, please stop by the ASD site, become a member and join the lucid dreaming discussion group. http://www.asdreams.org/ Speaking of ASD, the Association for the Study of Dreams Boston conference registration deadline is May 31! If you have been to an ASD conference before, you already know how that they are the best place for any dreamer to be. If you haven't been, you are really in for a treat. ASD provides forums, lectures, workshops and a wide variety of presentations for all kinds of people interested in dreams. If you are interested in the science of dreaming or dream research, the top dream researchers will be there giving new papers and on the edge research and theory. If you just like to do dreamwork, the top dreamworkers in the world give hands-on workshops. If you are a dream inspired artist, you will enjoy the dream artists and authors at the conference. Sign up today and make plans to meet at Tufts University June 15-19th. http://www.asdreams.org/2002 As long as we are on the topic of ASD, please note that Dream Time Live returns next week with Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. You can chat with him in real time at http//mirror.at/mindrec or get more information at http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionschat.htm Linda Lane Magallón, author of _Mutual Dreaming_ and long time dream researcher of outer reaches of human potential, takes up the dream researcher tradition of the 19th Century and like D'Hervey de Saint Denys, explores the world of smells and dreams. In this essay, Magallón explores some odors that have been traditionally used to elicit dreams in "The Scent of Flying Dreams." Thanks also go to Linda for this month's cover of Electric Dreams. We don't send the cover with the e-zine, but you can view, download and print up a copy anytime at: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers/ If you like to try out new dream interpretation theories on your dreams, we have just the article for you. Dan Gollub looks at dreams as representations of our inner self's loves and hates, frustrations and hopes in a love-desire-nondesire-hatred pattern. His method is to overlay the dream across a narrative structure of an emotional-literary plot. He then shows how the dream cooperates to produce this dream-atic structure. Further, the conclusion must be developed to draw significant conclusions. Gollub also explores in this article the ways the complications can obscure the emotional-narrative pattern, and suggests ways in which he method can be used to align one's life with one's inner self. This method may interest clinicians and non-clinicians alike. Be sure to read "A New Approach To Interpreting Dreams." -------------------- Our dream-flow 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. Thanks to all who sent in information for the Dream Resources pages. There is still time to get your site updated. You can look through our collected website links at: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/ For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one of the many resources: http://www.dreamtree.com http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library Be sure to look over the program for the 2002 Dream Conference from the Association for the Study of Dreams in Boston this June. see http://www.asdreams.org/2002 for details. -Richard Wilkerson /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S May - June 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, pcoats@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/News/global.htm. This Month's Features: NEWS - Don't miss the ASD Dream Conference! - Dream Time Live - May 29th with Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. - Become Certified In Dreamwork at The New England Dreamwork Institute - Sleepwalkers - a New Book by F.P. Dorchak WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES - Central Premonitions Registry DREAM CALENDAR for June 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>> 19th Annual International Conference for the Association for the Study of Dreams June 15 - 19, 2002 Tufts University, Medford, (Boston), Massachusetts ASD hosts its 19th annual international conference this year near Boston. They have chosen the theme Dreams and Cultures for the 2002 Boston Conference in order to address ways in which dreaming is interwoven with culture, including cross-cultural studies of dreaming, effects of dreams on cultures, and effects of culture on dreams and dream content. In addition, we want to recognize the varied "cultures" which exist within the fields of dream study -- for example, dream and sleep research, dreams and the arts, dreams and clinical practice. For those who have not been to an ASD conference, here is a brief description of what is now 19 years of conferences. A new location is chosen each year for the conference, 2000 was University of California, Santa Cruz, we try to alternate between east and west coasts, and have had two conferences in Europe, at the University of Leiden, and at London University. The conferences now have an attendance of several hundred people from many countries. These include researchers from many academic areas (including psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, film studies), professional psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, artists, dream group leaders and participants, counselors, long-term dream diary keepers, social and community workers, and many other people who also appreciate and are intrigued by their own dreams. The conferences have 3-4 tracks running at the same time, except for when there is an invited speaker. These include a research paper track, workshop and experiential track, and a discussion panel track. For an idea of the wide variety of approaches and topics addressed in the conference, please see the list of proposals and titles received at the end of this page, a list of accepted proposals will be made known in January. All proposals go through a refereeing process so as to ensure high quality presentations. The conference will begin on Saturday evening, June 15 with an engaging and lively invited panel reflecting the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary richness of ASD. Speakers representing the Arts, Research, Clinical/psychotherapy, Cross-Cultural Studies and Spiritual/Religious Studies will address the issue of "Why Dreams Matter". This opening event will be followed by the traditional opening reception that will offer conference attendees an opportunity to greet old friends and meet new attendees, and to continue discussion generated by the panel. The five themes discussed in the opening panel will be reflected throughout the conference. Each day will feature a theme or special focus in addition to a variety of other presentations. For more information, and/or to register, visit the website at : http://www.asdreams.org/2002/index.htm >>>>> Dream Time Live Returns! The Association for the Study of Dreams presents Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., in live chat, Wednesday, May 29th. DREAM TIME LIVE returns on May 29th from 7-8 PM Pacific Daylight Time with returning featured guest Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. on the topic : NIGHTMARES IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11TH ERA: Join Kelly for a preview of his Boston conference presentations and begin the dialogue on the incidence, meaning, and function of 911-related dreams. Kelly's Dream Time Live appearance is the first of many symposia, presentations and workshops on posttraumatic nightmares and 911 which will take place the ASD Boston Conference, June 15-19th. Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., teaches at the Graduate Theological Union and John F. Kennedy University. He is the author of several books on dreams, and most recently edited the anthology "Dreams: A Reader on the Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming" (Palgrave 2001). His current projects include a book on the spiritual dimensions of dreams during times of collective crisis titled "Dreams of Terror, Visions of Hope" (Paulist, forthcoming), a book on religion and neuroscience titled "The Evolution of Wonder" (Routledge, forthcoming), and content analysis studies of highly memorable dreams (what Jung called "big dreams"). TUNE IN AND LOG ON TO CHAT WITH KELLY BULKELEY ON MAY 29TH. WHERE? This chat will take place in the Dreaming and Chatting chat room, called dreamtime You can connect from the Web or IRC **** WEB CONNECTION: http://mirror.at/mindrec/ for more information, see http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionschat.htm >>>> Become Certified In Dreamwork at The New England Dreamwork Institute Multi-Level Training Program; 3 Weekend Intensives Per Year in Western Massachusetts ; Introductory to Advanced Courses Available; Distance Learning and Internet Practicums; CEU Credits Are Available First Trimester Intensive -- September 19 - 22, 2002. Introduction to Dreamwork, Keynote speaker Jeremy Taylor www.jeremytaylor.com. "Dream Work is a fast growing profession, opening up opportunities for future dream workers. Cody Sisson's Dream Work Leadership program promises to train some of the best." Rev. Dr. Jeremy Taylor Co-founder and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams. "The unconscious speaks to us through our dreams in a cryptic language. Dreamwork is the practice of using many different tools to decipher the dream language, revealing insight about our health, career, relationships, and our emotional well-being." Cody Sisson, Founder of The New England Dreamwork Institute, Dream Counselor, and Certified Dreamworker. September Program · Using Artwork to Introduce Dreamwork · Basic Principles of Individual and Group Dreamwork Outline of a Dreamgroup Forum Group Dynamics Projection The Sacredness of Dreamwork · Dreams as a Personal Spiritual Practice · Assessing Psychological Issues Relevant to Group Leadership · Ethical and Legal Issues in Working With Dreams · History of Dreams · Journaling and Dream Recall September Practicums Group Dreamwork: Students will meet in ongoing dreamgroups and apply what they have learned in the seminars. We will also have the opportunity to work with Jeremy in the group process Art and Dreamwork: There will be art supplies for those wishing to create something artistically from there dreams. First Trimester Distance Learning, (Home Study): Required reading and Monthly internet dream practicums via Paltalk How would this Program Benefit You? Therapists, Counselors and Social workers: The integration of Dreamwork can be a beneficial catalyst to the therapeutic and counseling process. Alternative Healing Professionals: Energy Healing, Body Work, Yoga, and Reiki practitioners can all benefit by integrating Dreamwork into their programs. Health Care Professionals: Working with patients' dreams can provide valuable insight in the diagnosis and healing process. Clergy, Lay Leaders and Parishioners: Training in the use of Dreamwork as a regular form of spiritual practice. Teachers: Dreamwork provides tremendous motivational and inspirational tools for all forms of learning. Concept and Design Engineers: "Think Tank Dreamgroups"T for new product development departments of progressive businesses. Business and Community Leaders: Dreamwork can provide leadership skills needed to compete in the new global economy while paying attention to social, cultural and environmental awareness issues. For a full Course description and more information, you can go to: www.dragon-heart.com or contact : Cody Sisson, 330 Old Wendell Road, Northfield, MA 01360, 413-498-5950, cody@dragon-heart.com >>>> Sleepwakers -- New Book by Frank Dorchak You've seen Living with the Dead, The Sixth Sense, and What Dreams May Come. Now, enter the very real world of conscious dreams and multiple realities. Explore how we all dream while we're awake, and how different versions of ourselves actually change our present, our future-our past. F. P. Dorchak presents a novel that transcends mere fiction, to become a new way of looking at life, while attaining a much more useful and functional sense of spirituality. Sleepwalkers: A Roadtrip for the Soul (1st Books Library, Trade, 336 pages, ISBN 0-75963-950-7) delivers a story that both entertains and educates, as we explore: Readers Will Experience: a distinctively non-traditional, but practical and entertaining way of viewing the world; the immediate and powerful role dreams play in our everyday lives; how to have conscious dreams; that there is no separation between our awake and dream states; that each of us has nonphysical assistance on our roadtrips through life; a very possible reason for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); easy, playful, but extremely powerful exercises to enhance these objectives. And all this in fiction. With this one book, readers will have no choice but to examine their own lives, and try out the exercises. F. P. Dorchak shows metaphysical fiction can be fascinating, exciting, and gripping! Rob Butts, facilitator of the channeled Seth material, says: "F. P. Dorchak creates for us a most intriguing, interwoven and provocative account of our lifetime challenges...[and] what challenges he creates in this brilliant journey into those sleeping and awake questions we all have...." Joe Reininger, of the Colorado Springs McKinzey-White Bookshop, says: "If metaphysical fiction ever attains the acceptance and respect of general fiction, it will be because of writers like F. P. Dorchak. He has a gift...Sleepwalkers is gritty and provocative, yet its believable portrayal of the spiritual dynamics behind life situations left me with a feeling of lightness and integration." F. P. Dorchak has been writing horror and metaphysical fiction for nearly 16 years, and has been published in U.S., Canada, and the Czech Republic. SLEEPWALKERS is his first novel. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help spread the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/ This is really a public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a point to send changes to the links page to us. >>>> Central Premonitions Registry update http://mainportals.com/precog.shtml Central Premonitions Registry has a new URL. This site will carries information on Precognition researches, and and offers an online form which allows you to register real-time dreams that you feel might be precognitive. The site is maintained by Yaron Mayer, who is a Psychologist with a background in the area of serious scientific ESP research and a former prominent member of the Israeli Parapsychology Association. The site plans to report interesting findings to the relevant News groups, including pulses of news if a flux of dreams that seem to refer to the same pending event occur. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R June 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< May 29th, online 7-8 PM Pacific Daylight Time http//mirror.at/mindrec Dream Time Live Presents Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. more information at: http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionschat.htm June 1-2, in Parkersburg, WV "Dream Healing through the Energy Centers", a weekend workshop with Robert Moss. For more information, Visit www.themanorretreatandconference.org or contact Dr. Linda Sandel at (04) 422-7300 or wisdomsources@aol.com June 15-19 in Boston, MA 19th Annual International Conference for the Association for the Study of Dreams. For more information, visit www.asdreams.org June 22 in New York City, NY "Dreaming Like an Egyptian - An Adventure in Dream Travel"; a one-day workshop with Robert Moss. For more information, contact the Quest bookstore (212) 758-5521 June 29-30 in Santa Fe, NM "Dreaming Other Lives and Other Worlds", a weekend workshop with Robert Moss. For more information, Contact Shirley at (505) 982 - 2158 or email lizrdwymon@aol.com end news --------------------------------------------------- o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o You gotta love those lucid dream characters. Hardly ever make any sense when you ask them direct questions, right? Or do they? Arthur shares an intriguing dream report that he found inserted among the pages of a copy of "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" by LaBerge and Rheingold that belonged to his deceased girlfriend. ******* Arthur Kalindi's Dream 5/6/98 "Nothing Matters!" [The following is a lucid dream that my girlfriend, Kalindi, had several years ago. She died last summer, and I found this report when I was going through her things. I found it written out on some post-it notes, in between the pages of "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" by LaBerge and Rheingold - specifically, in the chapter "Life is a Dream: Intimations of a Wider World." She and I met through our mutual interest in lucid dreams, so it seems very appropriate for me to have found this comforting and fascinating dream report following her death.] I wake up and I am sitting in a bed in the middle of somewhere that looks similar to the entrance of the library, but everything is decorated in soft shades of pink and purple. I realize that I'm dreaming and I jump out of bed ready to leap out of my body into that blissful expansive feeling. Then I notice this strange little man. He's only about as tall as I am and he has the face of a fool - sort of distorted or deformed. I can tell he knows more than he seems to, his eyes are clear and sparkle like jewels. "This isn't real!" I tell him. "It's only a dream, we can fly anywhere we want to." "Are you sure this is a dream?" he asks, unconvinced. "Of course it's a dream, I did a state test and the letters changed." "Try it again, I want to see this." "Sure," I reply, and I look at a sign, and then away, and then back...but it doesn't change. It continues to read, "Nothing is Real". "Umm, it didn't change," I tell him. "Then why do you think this is a dream?" he says, grinning. "Because I can fly, see?" And I start to float in the air. You can't fly in real life. "What is this obsession with 'reality'?" "I don't know," I say. "I guess it's important for me to know what's real and what is a dream." He laughs hard. "And how do you define 'reality'?" "Something that exists?" I say, confused. "Exists to who? To you? To me? To someone else? To God? Does God exist?" I sit down on the edge of the bed. "It's hard to think cognitively in a dream." "There you go again. How do you know this is a dream? Did you create all of this? Did you create me? Am I you? Or are you me? Am I dreaming you? Maybe this is all my dream, and when I wake up, you will cease to exist." I sigh and he laughs again, throwing his head back and closing his mischievous, glittering eyes. I slump my shoulders forward depressed. "Don't worry," he soothes, these are all just different planes of reality." "So when you die, do all your realities die too?" "Do you mean like a plane crash?" We both laugh at that one. "No, you just move on to different planes of reality." "Are you sure we don't just cease to exist?" "Are you afraid of death?" he asks. "No." "Then why do you ask?" "I'm just curious." "What will you care if I'm right or wrong? If you ceased to exist, then nothing would matter because you wouldn't exist." "I guess you're right," I respond. "Nothing matters," he says, grinning. And then he skips away like a child. "Nothing matters! Nothing matters! Nothing matters!" Arthur can be reached at galatur23@yahoo.com ************************************ The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly newsletter featuring lucid dreams and lucid dream related articles, poetry, and book reviews. To subscribe to The Lucid Dream Exchange send a blank email to: TheLucidDreamExchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or join through the Yahoo Groups website at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/ The LDE can be found under Sciences>Social Sciences>Psychology>Sleep and Dreams. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o The Scent of Flying Dreams (c) 2002 Linda Lane Magallón o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o At a meeting of my first dream group, a fellow dreamer handed out sprigs of mugwort, a traditional dream pillow-stuffer. It's supposed to produce light sleep, and thus make it more likely that you will remember your dreams. I placed a couple of leaves under my pillow. But mugwort is a species of the bitter-tasting wormwood, whose cousin is used to produce absinthe liquor. It had such a powerful, and unappealing, smell that I couldn't even fall asleep. After tossing and turning for a while, I finally tossed the leaves out of bed. I didn't recall *any* dreams that night. When time came to make my own dream pillow, I choose dried lavender and rose petals, both for their bright purple and red colors and for their sweet fragrance. The pillow cover was made from a piece of burgundy cotton-polyester. On it, I sewed the image of a hot air balloon which had been cut from yet another piece of printed cotton. This was to be my "flying dream pillow." "Rose" is, of course, a pun on the past tense of "to rise" (in the air). When I looked up their meanings, I discovered that a red rose means beauty; a burgundy rose means unconscious beauty. The beauty of the dream? It seemed very appropriate. However, the traditional meaning of lavender is "distrust"! It comes from the belief that the English viper snake habitually lurked under a lavender plant. (Lavender was a favorite potpourri in Victorian England). So it was advisable to approach such a plant with caution. I could see a relationship between a snake lurking under the lavender plant and a scorpion skulking under a rock, but these images of my astrological sign, Scorpio, aren't as light or air-born as the Dragon and the Eagle. So I looked further for a more appropriate recipe for my flying dream pillow. And I found some ingredients that incorporated both lucidity and levity. The meanings are right; and they smell good, too. Jasmine: The Cape Jasmine means "transport of joy." Larkspur: The meaning of this delphinium is "swiftness, lightness and levity." Rosemary: Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary, was cured of paralysis by Hungary water, whose chief ingredient was rosemary. The herb was believed to invigorate the nervous system and strengthen the memory. This reviving feature makes it akin to lucid dreaming, and a key to the cure of dream paralysis. The flowers are easy to obtain where I live. And the rosemary was already growing in my garden. So, after experimenting, which of the above did I discover produced the most potent dreams? None of them. The winner was a nasal decongestant! I smear it on my upper lip for relief from a chest cold as but it has the double result of encouraging dream recall. (And it's also produced a flying dream or two.) If you want to stir up your own batch, the active ingredients are menthol, camphor and eucalyptus oil. Or you can go to the store and buy Vic's VapoRub. Reference: Powell, Claire. *The Meaning of Flowers,* (Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 1979). Dream Flights http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o A New Approach To Interpreting Dreams by Dan Gollub o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o You may have wondered if dreams contain valuable messages. Indeed, they do. The insights from the unconscious mind which are conveyed in dreams fulfill all the hope and wonder that people have had about their dreams down through the ages. What follows is an original method of analyzing dreams which makes it possible to understand their messages. It may help you see the messages in even your most complex dreams. THE EMOTIONAL PATTERN IN DREAMS A new theory about dreams is that they are consecutive depictions of what the inner self loves, desires, finds undesirable, and hates. In other words, the beginning of every dream of yours shows what you inwardly love, the early-middle plot reveals what is desired by your inner self, and so on. So the location of particular dream content is a key part of its meaning. A man dreamed this: "I went horseback riding. The horse took me through beautiful countryside. When it was time to go back I chose a different way, became lost, and came to some barbed wire which blocked the path. The horse became restless and tried to throw me." Following is an analysis of that dream in relation to the love-desire-nondesire-hatred pattern: The man goes horseback riding at the beginning of his dream, and therefore he loves doing that. Riding through beautiful countryside appears in the early-middle part of his dream, so he desires that scenery. The late-middle plot shows him becoming lost and then finding the way blocked by barbed wire. Those situations are defined by their late-middle location as being undesirable to him. In the ending the horse tries to throw him, and since that is the hatred section he would hate that scenario. Those are normal, unsurprising emotions and might seem disappointing for that reason. Shouldn't all dreams reflect the soul's mysteries? An answer is that the dreamer said he hadn't gone horseback riding for too long, and dreaming about it was enjoyable. A woman dreamed this: "I am buying jewels in a jewelry store. I choose a big pendant necklace with emeralds, flashing and beautiful. When I try it on, it hangs down too far. So I give it to my sister. She gives it back. She has nothing green to wear with it. She wants blue." The emotional pattern messages are as follows. The woman loves buying jewelry. She desires buying an emerald necklace. It would be undesirable if the necklace didn't fit her and she ended up giving it to her sister. She would hate it if her sister rejected her gift because of a petulant demand about the necklace's color. There's more to the dream interpretation process than just dividing the dream content into the four sections, of course. One also has to draw the correct conclusions, as we see in this next example. A woman reported that as a child she had dreamed this in the last half of a dream: "I was falling and falling. I was terrified. And I wanted to scream but was unable to do so." It might appear the urge to scream was related to falling. The dreamer had a different explanation, though. "As a child," she said, "I was not permitted to express my feelings. It wasn't until I was 16 that I began speaking out." The assumption is that the wish to scream was a consequence of being forced to suppress her emotions, and that inability to express her true feelings was what the hatred message truly was about. But do all dreams follow the same love-desire-nondesire-hatred pattern? The answer, initially hard to believe, is yes. Noises can make their way into the dream plot and interfere with its normal progression, and so can other external influences, but in the absence of those distractions dream plots always will contain those four separate parts in that specific sequence. Some complications which occur in dreams can make the presence of that emotional pattern harder to spot, though. SENTIMENTS IN THE DREAM PLOT One of those complications is that a display of sentiment within the dream such as a dream figure laughing or crying can be opposite to emotional reality. For instance, the dreamer might laugh at the end of a dream about something which in real life is painful, and the dream pattern message is that the dreamer's inner self would hate that inappropriate merriment. But on a superficial level the dream seems to end happily. Here is an example of laughter in a dream ending. A woman who was significantly overweight dreamed this in the last half of a dream: "I recited 'I like peanut butter and jelly. I like peanut butter and jam. I like peanut butter and mustard. But I like myself just as I am.' And then I laughed heartily." Since that dream content appeared in the last half of her dream, nondesire and hatred messages were being conveyed. We shall examine each in turn. Her words in the nondesire section were a reflection of her conscious self rather than of inner values. Those words depicted her conscious complacency about her incorrect eating habits, and the location of that dream content in her nondesire section shows that such complacency was undesirable to her inner self. Her laughter at the end of the dream was opposite to her emotional reality. At an inner level she felt much pain about being overweight and therefore would hate consciously feeling merry about that aspect of her life. Some displays of sentiment in dreams are genuine. Fortunately, it's not hard to distinguish between those which are genuine and those which are opposite to emotional reality. A dream sentiment is genuine if the figure who is displaying it simultaneously uses words which help to express that sentiment. Any sentiment displayed by a dream figure who doesn't simultaneously speak is opposite to reality. If words are involved but precede or follow a sentiment, that sentiment is opposite to reality. A woman was invited to a party and that night dreamed at the end of her dream that she was crying. Her dream image didn't speak while crying, so this is an example of an opposite-to- reality dream sentiment. She was in a good mood because of the party invitation and for that reason would hate to experience the sadness depicted in her dream. Here is an example of a genuine sentiment in a dream. A grown woman dreamed about a boy she'd known in grade school and in the dream ending her dream image began crying and said, "They told me to be afraid of you and I believed them." The sadness was genuine and her words in the dream explained why: she'd had unnecessary barriers against that person who could have become a friend. Opposite-to-reality dream sentiments can be hard for the inexperienced dream interpreter to understand. We shall look at additional examples of it later. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE USAGE IN DREAMS Speech in the dream plot often helps to identify the conscious self's boundaries. Anything spoken by the dreamer's image reflects an aspect of the conscious self, and words spoken by anyone else might instead present a view which the conscious self opposes (although speech by other dream figures than the dreamer can have a number of separate purposes and won't always represent a suppressed perspective). The following example helps illustrate this rule. A pregnant woman dreamed in the desire section of her dream: "I was back home from the hospital holding my new baby boy. An unidentified man was looking at my baby. I said something about newborn babies being ugly. The man replied, 'I don't think he's ugly.' I looked down at my infant son and saw that he had a perfectly shaped head, blue or green eyes, and was extremely beautiful." Her dream image's words indicate that consciously she tended to think of newborn babies as ugly. Her inner self didn't want her to think that way and therefore created another person to express a differing view. The plot after that conversation shows that she wanted a beautiful baby, so her conscious attitude didn't eliminate that inner desire. Dream pattern analysis can help clarify any abstractness involving the use of speech or language, as can be seen in this next example. This was the first half of a woman's dream (so it shows love and desire scenarios): "Grandmother and I were walking down a street that turned out to be a dead end. Just as we got to the end we discovered it. A nice man was there and we asked permission to cross by the little pond in his yard and go through to the next street. He said we could and then helped us across. I commented on how clear and clean the pond was. He was pleased. Then he showed us his baby seal. I asked if I could pet it. 'Of course,' he said, and I began petting it and playing with it. Then his wife began talking with me. It wasn't clear what she was saying, but she continued to talk with me. The seal became a baby." The man's words and accompanying behavior show the dreamer's wish that a property owner would be permissive and kindly while she was going for a walk in a residential area. That's simple enough, but the wife's verbal behavior might seem confusing. What is the purpose of dream speech which doesn't include specific words? A moment's reflection clears up this puzzle. That social behavior occurs in the desire section and so the conclusion is that in a friendly environment such as the one shown in the dream the dreamer desires being spoken to, and it wouldn't necessarily matter what the conversation is about. Instead, the other person's sociability would be the desired aspect. The desire section in that dream also shows the dreamer has a wish to play with a cute, cuddly animal such as a seal. But then that seal is transformed into a human baby. The dreamer's wish to interact with a pet animal evidently is a sublimation of a stronger desire to respond maternally to a child. Her inner self saw that maternal desire and constructed the dream partly to help her get in touch with it. Sometimes unspoken words appear in dreams. A woman with a seizure disorder had begun experiencing an increase in seizures. Also, she learned from her dentist that her gums were in bad shape and she needed to have several of her teeth pulled. She began feeling emotionally vulnerable to life's misfortunes. Then her boyfriend told her he wanted to start dating other women. One night, after feeling especially sad, she dreamed this in a dream's nondesire section: "A knight (from a chess set) had lost its bottom half, and its head toppled onto the floor. Someone said to it, 'You have violated the fire god.' Suddenly, I saw a page from a bible, and on it were the words, 'Christ comforts.'" The knight evidently symbolized both her loss of a romantic/sexual relationship and her dental problems, since it was missing its bottom half and its head was shown as being in harmful contact with the floor. The words spoken to that symbol attributed her problems to religious wrath against her. Yet that undesirable message was only a prelude to the dream's constructive solution, expressed by the unspoken words. The implication of those unspoken words in her nondesire section was that it would be undesirable for her not to seek religious solace. Unspoken words which appear in dreams can be deliberately misspelled, though, and there's a special message involved. The misspelling is, in effect, a warning that the dreamer either should avoid the related situation or at least be cautious about it. For instance, a man who had spent an evening in a smoke-filled room saw that night in a dream's nondesire section the unspoken word "aer." The meaning was that his inner self wanted him to avoid such polluted air if possible. Here is an example of a similar message. I had been planning to take my old car on a long mountain journey. Then I dreamed in a dream's nondesire section of a license plate which was similar to the license plate of my car but not identical to it. After awakening, I realized the purpose of that "misspelled" license plate was to inform me I probably shouldn't use my car for that trip. A difference between dream speech and dream thoughts is important to understand. Dream speech which occurs in a nondesire or hatred section can convey a correct or normal view about a negative situation, but any dream thought in a nondesire or hatred section will not be correct or normal in relation to the dreamer's true reality. That guideline helps us understand this next example. A woman dreamed in the nondesire section of her dream that some dinner guests failed to compliment her about the food she'd prepared. She then dreamed in that dream's hatred section: "I seemed to say, 'I can't stand it.' But it was unclear if I had said those words or instead had thought them." What was the reason for that mixture of speech and thought in her dream? It occurred because the woman's inner self had ambivalent feelings about the sentiment her dream image expressed. If being upset because the guests didn't praise her cooking had been fully acceptable to her the dream would have shown her speaking those words but not thinking them; if being upset in that situation had been totally unacceptable her dream self would have thought those words but wouldn't have spoken them. Since she was shown as half-speaking and half-thinking them the implication is that the temperamental nature they depicted was acceptable to her, but only marginally so. From such examples, we see how the use of speech and language in dreams is consistent enough to be understandable to the interpreter and also is sufficiently flexible for the inner self's varied purposes. THE USE OF SYMBOLS IN DREAMS Dreams use symbolism for a variety of reasons, a principal one being to convey an abstract message in the dream's visual medium. Dream pattern analysis reveals the emotional significance of that symbolism, and the recognition of that underlying emotion assists in understanding the symbolism's purpose. A man reported this about the beginning of a dream of his: "Robert (a talented guitarist) was using my guitar. He was playing in the key of F, which I usually avoid because of its difficulty." A love message was being conveyed, and with that in mind it becomes clear that Robert was a symbol of the dreamer as he would love to become. The dreamer's inner self would love it if he could play the guitar well, including in the key of F. Following is an example of an abstract dream message conveyed via a visual symbol. A girl who felt unhappy but wasn't sure why dreamed in the late-middle section that her stepmother said, "Here's your toast," and handed her a plate with a few bread crumbs on it. Dreams typically use images of food or money (which are easy to depict visually) to present messages about amount and/or quality of love, and in this dream the inadequate food in the nondesire location symbolized the insufficient amount of love the dreamer was receiving. DREAMING'S INVOLUNTARY EFFECT UPON THE DREAMER What you dream about won't necessarily happen, but if it does you'll involuntarily feel the accompanying emotion of love, desire, nondesire, or hatred, depending on where in the dream that situation had appeared. In that way your dreams will be attempting to guide your conscious adaptation. Let's look at examples of that adaptive guidance in dreams. A woman dreamed this at the beginning of a dream: "There are some refugee children in a run-down, dirty house. I befriend seven or eight of them and take them to my big house. I return to the other house and there are some more children there. They want to sneak into my group." Even though this dream segment is a fantasy it is influencing the dreamer to love acting motherly toward children who need her help. A man dreamed at the beginning of a dream of being at a swimming pool with his wife and another couple, and then dreamed this in the early-middle plot: "The other three were sunbathing and I was clowning around while jumping off the high-dive diving board. I was doing can openers and cannonballs, trying to soak them. Finally a guard told me to knock it off, so on my next dive I did a perfect swan dive." The desire plot displayed the man's playful urge to soak his wife and friends. That playfulness could become excessive, however, so the plot added a desire to be responsive to authority when told to stop those antics. Also, the dreamer's inner self may have seen that if he only performed the graceless dives his self image would suffer; perhaps for that reason the desire section included the wish to dive gracefully after finishing the bellyfloppers. A man who was a beginning fencing student dreamed in the nondesire section of making love with an attractive female fencer he knew. But why did this appear in his nondesire section? The answer is that the woman had declined to fence with him because he was a beginner and therefore wouldn't be a challenging opponent, and in response his dream was indicating that at an inner level he wasn't impressed with her beauty or her fencing skills and valued more highly the willingness to help a beginner, and found her undesirable for lacking that trait. If the dreamer had attempted to make love with the woman after having that dream he likely would have been impotent. The involuntary nondesire he felt would have interfered with his sexual arousal. Three more examples follow of how nondesire sections of dreams define scenarios which could result in psychologically-caused impotence or frigidity. A woman dreamed this in her desire and nondesire sections: "My children and I were in a barn that was warm and smelled of hay. We went toward the front entrance and found a room off of it where a man was living. He told us we couldn't go out that way and threatened us." It is unlikely the woman could become sexually aroused if there were some threat either to her children or to her. That threat would be undesirable to her and consequently could prevent her from feeling any sexual desire until she thought her children and she were safe. A man dreamed in the nondesire section of threatening to hit a smaller, weaker man who was a rival for a woman. In contrast to the previous example there might not be any physical danger involved for the dreamer in that situation, but nevertheless it would be undesirable to his inner self if he were to act in that bullying manner. While feeling that inner nondesire he predictably would be impotent in a lovemaking situation. A woman dreamed this in a nondesire section: "I saw a snake and at first was afraid that it would bite me, but then I thought, 'Oh, well, if it did bite me and I died then all of my problems would be over.'" That attitude is undesirable to her inner self, and if she consciously chose to devalue life in that way involuntary frigidity could be a result. As noted, dreams end with the depiction of what is hated. But inner hatred certainly can be constructive, as the next few examples show. A gifted teenager dreamed at the end of a dream that he was living in a dull, ordinary environment. By causing him to hate that outcome the dream was motivating him to find gifted companions and stimulating interests. After dreaming about being on a boat cruise with her family, a woman dreamed this in her hatred section: "I seem to remember Larry (my son) on a deck somewhere, standing and looking at us but unable to get to where we were, even though he wanted to." The dreamer reported that her son had been emotionally distant from the rest of the family and also had displayed behavioral problems. So his physical separation in the dream was a symbol of his emotional and behavioral separation from the family, and the woman's hatred of those problems would motivate her to help her son overcome them. At a time when I'd been lazy about working on a manuscript on dream interpretation I dreamed the following alarming conversation within a dream ending: A man said to me, "Do you want arthritis?" "No," I answered. "Then start writing," the man said. Dreams have that sort of power but they don't misuse it. There were periods after that dream when what I wrote was of such poor quality that it seemed I hadn't made any progress at all. But I had tried to write well, and I haven't gotten arthritis. MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF DREAM INTERPRETATION A woman reported that as a child she had dreamed at the end of a dream that clowns were crying at a grave. Questioning brought forth the information that during that childhood period her older sister frequently acted like a clown and as a consequence received a lot of attention from others. This example contains challenging intricacies. How would you interpret it using dream pattern analysis and the knowledge that the crying by the clowns was a sentiment opposite to the dreamer's inner emotional reality? The clowns at the grave were crying about the death of the "clown" who was the dreamer's sister. The fact that the dreamer dreamed about her sister's death in the dream's hatred section reveals she would have hated for her sister to die. But why did the dream include that potential mourning about her sister's death? Presumably, the dreamer had felt jealous of her sister when that sister received attention from others for her clowning and the dreamer may even have wished at a conscious level that her sister were dead. Her inner self didn't want her to feel that way, of course, and therefore caused her to hate the emotional consequences to others of her sister's death. That crying additionally was opposite to what the dreamer inwardly felt about her sister's playful, extroverted behavior. It was hard for the dreamer to enjoy that behavior consciously, though. That was why clowns cried in the dream rather than her own image. Most examples of an opposite-to-reality dream sentiment are much easier to interpret than that one. A woman who was a writer and the mother of a 14 year-old girl reported this: "I dreamed at the beginning of a dream that my cousin Jack came to live with us. He was 14 years old and I was the same age I am now. He was wearing a cap like my daughter's." She didn't remember any more of that dream but later that night dreamed this: "I plan to announce that I have won the lottery. Everyone then will assume that what I have won is money. I will not tell them otherwise and will say that I want to share my good fortune. What I have won is Jack. I will give him away. Then I think this is a marvelous idea for a very funny story. I think it is hysterical. I laugh and laugh. I'm not sure which came first: the intention to write the story or the plan to rid myself of Jack. Either way I am pleased with myself. Then I caution myself to make sure I am not plagiarizing this story from anyone. I say to myself, 'Did I read this somewhere?'" The woman's opposite-to-reality laughter in the second dream indicates that something was bothering her in real life. What might this be? In the dream she laughed about a "marvelously funny story plot," and this implies that as a writer she had been having problems devising humorous plots. But the dream laughter was more specific than that. It was about the "story" of giving away Jack. Why did that theme result in her dream image expressing so much amusement? Her first dream showed Jack the same age as the dreamer's daughter and wearing a cap like the daughter's. She would love for that child to come live with her (since she dreamed about him doing so in her dream's beginning), and with that information it becomes apparent that Jack in the second dream was a symbol for her daughter. Her intention in that dream to give away Jack was really a disguised wish to give away her daughter. She didn't want to be a mother any longer, and that wish was exceptionally painful to her. That is why she laughed so heartily in the dream. Here is a dream a woman had during a period of depression in which she occasionally thought about taking a lethal overdose of sleeping pills: "I was riding on top of a stagecoach, and men on horses were chasing it. Were they good guys or robbers? This wasn't clear to me. They drew closer and one of them shot me. Everything went black and I knew I would die." Her dream revealed disturbances, which may have been major contributors to her depression. It was desirable to her to be uncertain about men's roles and she felt anxiety that a man would hurt her. We also see that the dream was doing its best to keep her from attempting suicide: the ending was causing her to hate the harm that could come from an overdose of pills. That constructive nature is utterly typical of dreams. A man dreamed at the beginning of a dream that he was driving along an unfamiliar road to go to a party where he wouldn't know anyone. On the previous evening he had driven on familiar roads to attend a party where only people whom he knew well would be present. That love plot was implying he would love having new places to go to and new people to meet. A man reported he had dreamed as a child: "Elves and fairies lived in the cellar of my house, and my brothers and I climbed down the ladder to play with them. Then my brothers went back upstairs and pulled up the ladder with them, and I was there alone. There was a gingerbread man stirring a big pot, and he was going to throw me in it." I tried to explain the dream to him. "You loved imagining there were actual elves and fairies. You liked playing in the cellar with your brothers, and it would have been nice to play with those imaginary beings as well. You wouldn't have liked being abandoned in the cellar. As for the scary dream ending-- "Was there a man you were afraid of when you were a child?" I asked him. "The gingerbread man may have been a symbol for an actual person, and if so the dream was reflecting a fear involving him." "My father and I never got along," the dreamer said. "He used to beat me." A woman dreamed: "I am in an empty old hotel. I have inherited it from someone famous--maybe Buffalo Bill. I'm standing in the bare room, oak floors, large windows, sunshine, warm breezes. I am in a beautiful, white, floor-length summer gown. I am in the body of an old school friend whom I thought was attractive. Enter a man named Henry--another school chum, but someone I was less fond of, except in the dream he's tall, sensual, appealing. He takes me in his arms and tells me Black Bart has discovered he can lay claim to the hotel if I am not married. I am upset at the idea of losing the hotel. So Henry asks me to marry him, and we go to the justice of the peace and all ends well." The first half of the dream contains imaginative, pleasant fantasies. It would be undesirable to the dreamer to be upset about the potential loss of something she values dearly. The dream ending has a significant message in relation to what might be a future choice the dreamer can make. That ending shows her marrying, for financial reasons, a man she hasn't liked in the past, and it seems to predict they would live happily ever after. The true message, though, is that she would hate such a forced marriage. The indirect guidance is that she should marry for love rather than money. Note that the dream presents the character of Henry in the nondesire and hated sections yet also must include him in the desire section for the sake of the plot's continuity. In order for Henry to appear in her desire section, however, he has to change, and so he becomes physically desirable. As this illustrates, any transformations which people undergo in dreams are not random or whimsical but instead occur for essential reasons. A man lived in a city and had been forced to take his dog to the pound because neighbors complained about its barking. Subsequently he dreamed in the early-middle part of a dream that a dog talked about a house outside of town. What were the implications of that dream content in the desire section? He desired both having a dog and living in the countryside because the dog wouldn't upset neighbors there. But the fact that the dog rather than his own image spoke about the country house suggests he consciously had repressed that wish. "Unrepressing" that lifestyle change seemed in order. After her mother had died a woman dreamed this at the beginning of a dream: "My father had died and my mother was still alive. I was with her in the kitchen at the farm. I was attempting to console her. Somehow I was at peace with her." I offered the following interpretation to the dreamer. "The dream was indicating you'd love the situation in which your father had died instead of your mother and you could console her about his death. You probably have positive memories about being with her in the kitchen at the farm. Overall, though, your relationship with your mother was not serene, although you would have loved for it to be so. The feeling of being at peace with her in the dream is opposite to what you typically felt while she was alive." It seemed as if a feeling of relief crossed over the woman's face. "Dreams are curious things," she said. "You can't keep any secrets from them." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT DREAM INTERPRETATION Q. Is there any way to prove that dreams follow the love- desire-nondesire-hatred pattern? A. Not by using statistics. But you can try the following test. Make some effort which seems on the right tracks for your future. That could involve exercising, studying, rehearsing a job skill, being friendly, or engaging in some other similarly constructive activity. Involve yourself sufficiently in that endeavor to try to ensure that your efforts will pay off in the long run. Then see if you dream about that constructive life involvement. If it's something your inner self loves, you'll likely find yourself dreaming about it at the beginning of one or more dreams of yours. Q. Sometimes I'm aware in my dreams that I'm dreaming. Do those plots follow the same emotional sequence as other dreams? A. Yes, so those lucid dreams (as they are called) are analyzed in the usual way. Two examples follow. A woman dreamed this in the last half of a dream: "Suddenly I realized I was dreaming. Since it was a dream I could do whatever I wanted. So I began doing a strip-tease dance until I was naked from the waist up. Then I said to the men present, 'Now which of you sorry sons of bitches wants to marry this lovely creature?'" The strip-tease dance in the nondesire section was not undesirable to the dreamer. What was undesirable was the awareness that she was dreaming and therefore her strip-tease wasn't happening outside of the dream. In other words, she wanted to act in that uninhibited way in real life but felt she couldn't. Her words in the hatred section reveal a resentment she felt toward men and also show that she wanted to get married in spite of that resentment. We see that her dream, despite her awareness in it that she was dreaming, was about basic, down-to-earth feelings. A man on a business trip dreamed in a love section that he was back at home. In the hatred section he realized he was dreaming and wasn't at home after all. That lucid dreaming was simply a means of revealing how he felt about being away from home. Q. I told a psychoanalyst I had dreamed about the death of someone who was alive, and he said I had a death wish toward that person. Is that true? A. Not necessarily. In fact, such a statement stands an approximately fifty percent chance of being untrue. If one dreams within the first half of a dream about the death of a living person the chances are high the dreamer feels a genuine death wish toward him or her. But dreaming about that death within the last half of a dream instead suggests one doesn't want that outcome to occur. A woman dreamed this: "My married cousin living in South Africa was killed along with her husband in some type of bombing. My aunt and uncle were there trying to clean up the mess and arrange to have my cousin's three small children brought back to this country. There was some sort of problem with the government there and they were not able to bring the children home." The death of the dreamer's cousin and her husband occurred in the love section, so the dreamer evidently wished for their deaths. The remainder of that dream indicates why she had that wish. It would be desirable if her aunt and uncle tried to bring the children back, undesirable if there were government red tape which interfered with that goal, and the dreamer would hate it if the children could not be brought home. It becomes clear the dreamer had hostile feelings toward the children's parents for raising them in a foreign country. A woman reported she had dreamed as a girl of 11: "It was night and there was a full moon. I was walking in the woods. I came upon some garbage cans. Then I saw my brother's body lying dismembered in one of those garbage cans." The woman said that a month after she had that dream her brother was stabbed to death. Naturally, she wondered if her inner self had known of that in advance. "When I had that dream, did I know deep down inside that my brother would die?" she asked me. It was a question I couldn't answer. I could only tell her that her brother's death had occurred in the hatred section and therefore was something she hated. Q. Is dream interpretation a difficult procedure? A. It shouldn't be. It's certainly not difficult to analyze dream content in relation to the love-desire-nondesire-hatred pattern, and applying the guidelines you've now learned about interpreting dream plot complications similarly is a straightforward process. All of the following seems likely to happen. You'll be able to understand the vast majority of your dreams which you analyze. You'll find insights in your dreams which can help you get back on the right tracks if you've consciously been going astray. You'll realize that your dreams reflect qualities such as intelligence, benevolence, and resourcefulness while focusing on personal topics which are important to you. But don't merely take my word for it. See what messages your dreams have for you tonight. END Dan has a master's degree in psychology and is working in Kansas as a psychologist. He had a science fiction story published in 1994 in Writers Of The Future, Vol. 10. He's briefly been a chess master before sinking back down to lower rating status again. He offers free dream interpretation according to his theories in exchange for the right to use any dream sent him in his future writing. He would use all such dreams anonymously, of course. Contact him at dangollub@aol.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Where is the Global Dreaming News? 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Simon ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. walking with the animals From: Anonymous 2. The Birds of Death From: Anonymous ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:02:23 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: walking with the animals dream_title: walking with the animals dream_date: 4-3-02 dreamer_name: whytephish dream_text: I dreamed that my husband and I were walking our dog along a road, out in the country. We would pass fields and farms and houses. At one of the house an animal ran up to us. It was about waist high. When the animal was beside us we could see that it was a pony and the pony had a ball in its mouth. We decided it wanted to play ball with our dog. We tossed the bal a few times and both animals played ball for awhile. My husband & I walked on,. Later we we were in front of a farmhouse with a field of corn(dried)next to it. I looked up and saw two a double-ended llamas(like in Dr. Doolittle) flying. I saw one land in the cornfield but by the time my husband looked up(from petting our dog) the llama had landed. He saw the other llama flying and then we continued to walk. Then I woke up. dream_comments: We had seen a pony the week before the dreamand my pony in the dream that was the exact color(b & w spotted)but the real life pony was larger ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:25:59 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: The Birds of Death dream_title: The Birds of Death dream_date: March 2001 dreamer_name: funkygranma dream_text: I had consulted a doctor. While I could not identify his race, there was something about him which made me know he was a 'native'. He told me "the birds of death are already beginning to gather". Behind him I could see some large white birds, slowly flapping their wings. dream_comments: I had recently had surgery for cancer, and understand my outlook to be very positive. I woke feeling very weepy and scared, though I understand that dreams of death rarely mean literal death. ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 459 ____________________________________________________________ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. New Dream From: Anonymous ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 22:13:32 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: New Dream dream_title: Drowning in a brown muddy river dream_date: 04 May 2002 dreamer_name: eli dream_text: The driver in the car intentionaly slams on the brakes to a white car. There is a rushing overflowing brown river and the four individuals are taken into the abyss of the brown murkey river. I try to save myself but realize it is futile. I do not remember who is in the car and I am the passanger side. dream_comments: I hate the driver. Just before the dream I am telling someone that it is because we love her. ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 460 ____________________________________________________________ There are 3 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. dream i had this morning From: "edclaytonuk" To: Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: [dream-flow] hi, glad to be here! > Hi everyone, I just joined your club. I am an artist and am exploring > dreams....I'm having some very weird ones these days, too... > > I posted my dream site in bookmarks, and if you would like to try to > interpret one of my images, I'd love it. > > I am disappointed that there aren't any other member sites, though, > and am really hoping that some will be listed soon! > > I look forward to reading the posts. Take care > > Deb > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > dream-flow-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:32:24 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: Motorcycle Man dream_title: Motorcycle Man dream_date: 2-18-02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: In my dream, me and all the kids in the neighborhood are playing tag in the dark. The kids playing tag were named Brayden, Theresa, Chase, Cara, and Stephanie. We were playing tag in my backyard, and there was just a slight bit of moonlight out. We were interrupted by a roaring noise. I looked up and saw a motorcycle coming. Suddenly everyone ran away, except for Theresa. The man pulled into my driveway, and approached us. It was too dark to see him and I was afraid, but I was stuck, I couldn't move. The man then turned away and went back to the side of my house, where he pulled out a gastank. He started pouring it all around the house. Theresa and I ran over to him. I asked him what he was doing, but he did not answer. I told him to stop, but he wouldnt, he just looked at me and laughed. He then stood up and walked back over to his bike. He then rode off, but before he could stop, he hit something that had been in the road and fell into a crack in the ground. I ran over to see what had happened, but fell in as well, just as i jerked myself awake. dream_comments: I'm not sure why I had this, nothing in the dream had any connection with what had happened to me that day, but I'm still curious on it. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:16:15 +0200 From: "Israel O" Subject: RE: Sleep Paralysis Not much I could advise on this one. However, on a religious note, usually when you are stopped from doing something, it usually means that you are being guarded from harm. That we are restrained does not mean a punishment, but more of a protection from harm, like a mother holding her child's hand when crossing the street. This can manifest itself as policemen arresting you, or being put in jail, or in your case being "paralyzed". Quite the contrary of being "concerned" with this, I should more be thankful that I am being saved from harm's path. Are others out there experiencing paralysis? What do you think? Yours sincerely Israel O dream_title: Sleep Paralysis dream_date: 3/27/02 dreamer_name: Boardinchick84 dream_text: I had heard of sleep paralysis from my ex. He used to tell me that when he was younger is father fed him a lot of "Real Life" alien and bigfoot stories, claiming he had really seen them and all, and tat he would have nights where he'd lay in bed and suddenly wake up for no apparent reason, though some say it is caused by a fear of something in the room or something bad thats going to happen. well you wake up to find out to your surprise you cant move. Your eyes are open but you just cant move. Well on 3/27 i had gone to sleep late, I had shared a bed with my mom who i was visiting. All i know is that i felt an urge to get a hold of my mom, by grabbing her arm.I don't know why, I didn't experience any fear until I realized my arm wasn't moving. Then I freaked out trying to yell out, which i was but just my mouth wasn't moving, I tried kicking around violently trying to awake from this. I couldn't move, couldn't speak nothing, yet I could feel the signals from my brain to the body part i wanted to move. I suddenly woke up abruptly. It was all true. It wasn't a dream. The idea that maybe parts of my body had been constricted of blood while i was asleep, by laying on an arm or something. It wasn't true it was asleep when i woke up, no pins and needles, nothing. I was fully functional when i woke up. hmm just weird. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:31:58 +0200 From: "Israel O" Subject: RE: Motorcycle Man In your dream there are three basis elements, Theresa, the House, and the Motorcycle Man. Houses and rooms in dreams usually reflect upon one's "projects" or thoughts. It can also represent work. As an example, if one is starting a new project in school like a new play in drama, then one can dream of "building" a new room or house. Thus if a house is "destroyed", it could mean the end of the project, or abandonment of the said project. So, as per your dream, if it pertains to work, I would think that you have anxieties about your job being taken over by someone else. Or if in a school project, losing your position in the "Play" to someone else. But because the Motorcycle Man just poured gas and did not light it, it's saying that his threat is just that, a threat, but not substantiated in action. As for Theresa, she is just your passive side. She doesn't play an important part in this message. Yours sincerely Israel O dream_title: Motorcycle Man dream_date: 2-18-02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: In my dream, me and all the kids in the neighborhood are playing tag in the dark. The kids playing tag were named Brayden, Theresa, Chase, Cara, and Stephanie. We were playing tag in my backyard, and there was just a slight bit of moonlight out. We were interrupted by a roaring noise. I looked up and saw a motorcycle coming. Suddenly everyone ran away, except for Theresa. The man pulled into my driveway, and approached us. It was too dark to see him and I was afraid, but I was stuck, I couldn't move. The man then turned away and went back to the side of my house, where he pulled out a gastank. He started pouring it all around the house. Theresa and I ran over to him. I asked him what he was doing, but he did not answer. I told him to stop, but he wouldnt, he just looked at me and laughed. He then stood up and walked back over to his bike. He then rode off, but before he could stop, he hit something that had been in the road and fell into a crack in the ground. I ran over to see what had happened, but fell in as well, just as i jerked myself awake. dream_comments: I'm not sure why I had this, nothing in the dream had any connection with what had happened to me that day, but I'm still curious on it. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:32:47 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: Moving away dream_title: Moving away dream_date: Ryan dreamer_name: Ashley dream_text: dream: We were at a party whit a bunch of people we didnt' know and some we did all of a sudden i ( Ashley) kiss another girl right in front of him He trys to join in but I tell him to leave us alone he gets upset and storms off up stairs this chick that has been jealous of me for a long time grabs ryans hand and pulls him on stage and gets a another gurl to kiss so no theres 2 girls on him dream_comments: Umm Im moving to florida in a the next cuppel months and i think hes been thinking about me leaving a lot also he had this dream the night before ware I was dating his best friend and when he called I didnt want to talk to him.... Now do you think me moving has something to do with this because this all started Jut 2 nights ago and he was informd just 3 nights ago about the move. If you could e-mail me back a reply at BlueidSnake@aol.com Please use reall name ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:29:50 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: dooms day dragon dream_title: dooms day dragon dream_date: nearlly all the time dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: IT starts, as if I"m walking down a road or place and out of no explination of why or what alters me to do so,I start turning into a massive all-powerful dragon that distroys all it comes in contact with. dream_comments: To be bref, I'm not the tip of person that is distructive or the tip of person that would bring harm or pain apone a person or thing. BUT anyways, I can'T UNDERSTAND the hole point behind this dream. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:03:15 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: Devil in a dark house dream_title: Devil in a dark house dream_date: 19/04/02 dreamer_name: LC dream_text: I am in a massive gothic house looking out of a window onto a perfect beach with crystal clear water and white sands. I suddenly realise that the house I am in is less than perfect and become unsettled. I want to get out of the house but a small dark haired child tells me that I can't. I start to run down the stairs which are covered in red carpet. Every time I run down the stairs the next flight of stairs I see goes back up so I cannot escape. I come to a landing where a woman and the devil are hanging from the ceiling as if they have been murdered. I run down the stairs again and can see something moving in the darkness. All of a sudden I have a big sword and I run towards the darkness only to come face to face with the devil and I hit him with the sword and after that I woke up! dream_comments: This dream really frightened me and I would appreciate someone telling me what they think it means. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:03:52 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: The Jaguar dream_title: The Jaguar dream_date: January dreamer_name: CelestialStrange dream_text: I am in a frozen form. Perhaps I am dead or just in a deep state of eternal sleep. I lay naked on back in a tomb of a solid gray. The stone is not rough nor too smooth. The walls are quite high. My body lays on a large rectangular stone in the center of the tomb. It is similar to the walls. Around my head there is a halo of glyphs/icons/some sort of ancient, or unhuman writing. They are not of any color but just carved into the stone. Suddenly a large black jaguar appears on my side. Its eyes glisten of that of saphire. My mouth is slightly parted and it enters inside of it. Soon my eyes and mouth glow a brilliant majestic blue. The halo writing that surrounds my head also shines very brightly. dream_comments: This was my second black jaguar dream. ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 451 ____________________________________________________________ There are 8 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. RE: Moving away From: "Israel O" 2. RE: dooms day dragon From: "Israel O" 3. RE: The Jaguar From: "Israel O" 4. RE: Devil in a dark house From: "Israel O" 5. Re: The Jaguar From: "Denise" I was frustrated because this baby would not feed. I did not actually see the baby feeding. It appear that I was able to feed him as my breast were engorged with milk but this baby would not feed. Next, image was that of me cutting Money with a pair of scissors. dream_comments: Not sure, I have no imediate plans to have a child, nor am I in a relationship with the potential of providing me the security I would need to have a child? The money part, well let's just say I have financial stress, and the idea of cutting money, as to waste is not something I would do? share_dreams: ON ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:12:31 +0000 From: "Israel O" Subject: Re: Feeding [This message is not in displayable format] ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:33:30 -0700 From: Anonymous Subject: A Mother's Worst Nightmare dream_title: A Mother's Worst Nightmare dream_date: Sunday April 21, 2002 dreamer_name: Kaya dream_text: My 4 year old daughter and I were out walking. She was very playful and kept walking behind or ahead of me, running and laughing. Somehow, I ended up in the car, driving, but my daughter was still walking. At some point, I realized she was too far behind me so I pulled over and parked. I saw her in the rearview mirror, a few feet away, but on the next block. Before I could get to her, I saw her disappear into a building with another little girl. As I was crossing to get her, a man in a dark colored convertible blocked my path. I walked around his car and made it to the building. Before I went in, I noticed another dark car (small 4-door I think) sitting at the curb. Once inside the building, I saw that it was a bathroom. I thought I saw my daughter's shoes and pants at the bottom of the last stall. When I got to the stall, it was just her shoes and clothes. The other little girl was face down in the toilet, dead. My daughter was gone. I ran back outside, not knowing what to do first. I ran back to where I'd left the car and a woman came down to the sidewalk from her porch. I told her what happened and she said the little girl was Ms. so and so's daughter from across the street. I told her that my daughter was missing and asked if she'd seen anyone come out of the bathroom with a big bag or a child. She said no. I told her to call the police, then I think I just lost it. I woke up very upset and agitated. Soon after I woke up, I started a crying jag that lasted several hours. About an hour after I woke up, my mother called from an out of town trip. She said she'd dreamed that I killed myself by shooting myself in the head. dream_comments: I know that the dream was directly related to an incident that occurred in my daughter's (and my) life when she was 3. I also believe that the dream was giving me insight into the incident and urging me to take further action about an aspect of the situation that has yet to be taken care of. ____________________________________________________________ [dream-flow] Digest Number 452 ____________________________________________________________ There are 7 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: A Mother's Worst Nightmare From: "Denise" wrote: > Hey, concerned person here. Have you ever woken yourself up by moving in these night mares? You can see a dream doctor (yes, they have those). They observe you sleeping, get nerve readings, muscle readings. If these dreams are seriously bothering you, perhaps this is needed. Also, has anything (besides this) been stressing you out lately? Try to calm down, relax a little. SEE A DOCTOR. A little advice from a concerned person, ~Lucy ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 14 Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 22:23:33 +1000 From: "Leonie Subject: Re: Re: Is it normal to have these sorts of nightmares.. I really need someone's help [This message is not in displayable format] ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 15 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:03:14 -0500 From: "Denise" or believe they are ie: backstabbing you. They are... Rev. Jessie Garrett "With power, intelligence and strength the world could be your playground" YahooMsngr: Malorra Official Model Site: http://xmonstrx.com/JessMainPage_X.html The Order Of Lilith: http://www.geocities.com/theorderoflilith/ HermeticOrderoftheGoldenDawn: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HermeticOrderoftheGoldenDawn/ A New Dawn: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A_New_Dawn_/ The Healing Path Begins Here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thehealingpathbeginshere --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dream_title: recurring dream about Vampires dream_date: NA dreamer_name: Cameron dream_text: I have been having a recurring dream about Vampires. I am always the last human and realize that all of my friends and family have been turned into one of them. I have to fight them off. The location of their lair is dark, cold and stormy. It is located on the end of a cliff by the ocean, underground. I have to fight them off, which I do gallantly for a while, doing humanly impossible tricks, like the Matrix. But I feel myself getting tired and weaker because there are so many of them. I feel alone, I know that it will not last, that eventually I will have to give in to them, then I wake up. 3/14/02 I dreamt that I was in a very cold place, where there had been ice glaciers and things. As I am wandering through this place I find very old items, a watch, a few necklaces, little things like that, and a dog chain of someone from 1877 or 1977, can't quite remember but there was a date on it. I realized they were very valuable, because many old ships had sunk out there. The next part of the dream I am trying to help get something very important somewhere, I don't even know what it is. But there were a few of us on one team working together to get this thing across the airport. I remember our teacher/leader or someone had to stay behind, and it was sad, I cried. Then we left and I had to leap over the metal detector so not to get caught, and the others were my decoys, they went through first setting it off so that the security would ignore me and search them. I got through. And made it onto the flight. 5/22/02 All I remember is that I was painting using many different colors, all of the colors in my pallet and I was randomly brushing them over my canvass. All the colors of the rainbow, when I see myself I notice my hair is also all the colors of the rainbow. I have stripes of colors all over my hair. The painting started out as something and then just became a random thoughtless piece of work. I had the feeling that it dream_comments: I don't really understand the symbols in my dreams I know they mean someting very important or I would not have remembered them so vividly. I have many dreams, I guess you could say I look for answers and ask myself to dream the solution. I do but then I can't seem to figure them out. Can I get some help with the interpretation or is it completely up to me to relate it to my life? ___________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:41:42 -0700 (PDT) From: McGarvey R Subject: (unknown) Hi. My boyfriend had another weird dream he wanted me to find out about. He had a dream that he was talking to me with his back to me. When he turned around, I was REALLY pregnant. He said that I was huge and we were both smiling. What do you think this means? ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ There are 7 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Before I was eaten by a Giant From: Anonymous 2. death From: Anonymous 3. Dating From: Anonymous 4. orphan of zirka From: stan kulikowski ii 5. Re: orphan of zirka From: "christina a 6. Re: orphan of zirka From: wendy frazetti Subject: orphan of zirka Stan requests that his name and e remain with the dream text. - editor DATE : 22 may 2002 04:36 DREAM : orphan of zirka =( last night was a tuesday. i got home from teaching early in the afternoon, but could not motivate myself into any productive work that i should be doing. there was an extra long season finale to _buffy the vampire slayer_ which i watched, but i had missed most of the season with a tuesday night course last term. later we watched roger corman's _battle beyond the stars_, the second remake of _seven samurai_ that i know of. the previous night we had run _the magnificent seven_. i went to bed around 00:30 and got right to sleep without my usual reading. )= i feel the slim cold band of metal circle my forehead and all my nervous activity suddenly calms then stops. in still silence i sit and hear a man's whispered voice from behind me say "remember". a memory uncoils within me. i see the darkened silhouette of a thin child with a long neck, maybe four years old. a nurse puts her hand on his shoulder and says "this is your father". the boy looks up at the stranger before him. i can see his eyes glitter and move within the bones of his face reflected like an x-ray within his shadowed shape. around his forehead i can feel the cold, slightly moist band of zirkon like the one around mine. "father?" the boy says. i can feel my lips moving, saying the same thing as his. he is looking at a stranger who is looking at him, hope in both their eyes. i understand now that they had to rush this imprinting session, not because of my need, but that the father would lose the ability to bond with me if they waited much longer after the birth of his own child four years ago. that child had died and the hospital took the opportunity to substitute myself with it. i am one of the orphans from zirka. that is why my memories of life before four years have a vague postcard like quality to them. they are not real, but have been told to me in zirkon sessions like this one. people from the planet zirka have a natural susceptibility to the metal zirkon that comes from their planet. zirkon is mildly radioactive and its gamma rays resonate with nerve synaptic activities. the zirkon native to earth only produces a mild reaction like a trembling in my fingers when i touch it, but zirkon from zirka have a quantum spin that matches its native nervous tissue and causes a total paralysis. that is why the shadow government of earth imports these metal bands from zirka to assure total control of the immigrant population. superman must have a similar susceptibility to kryptonite from his own planet. i can wonder now how the woman i know as my mother must have lied to herself. it is natural to need a baby after the months of pregnancy but how could she not sense that her child was stillborn? perhaps it wasn't and was just put into fosterage so i could be placed here. still, she had to wait years while my infancy in the hospital was required to adapt my body to the air, water and foods of earth. how clear things become when i have contact with the metal of my home world. how muddled they become when it is taken off. during my twenties, when i was in college, i would some mornings wake up and not remember the night before. we were told that this was due to alcohol consumption at the time, but now i know these incidents to be lengthy zirkon conditioning sessions. the queasy aftermath i felt were because my internal organs had been poorly regulated for hours when the activity of the vagus nerve had been suppressed. even now i can not recall what the government agents did to me when they placed the metal band around my forehead. usually i would wake up at home after a black out, but sometimes i would be god knows where next to a woman i did not know. part of a breeding program i assume. i certainly remember no pleasure from the activity. i would dress, go outside and wander the streets looking for my car parked somewhere i could not recall then to drive aimlessly searching for landmarks until i could find my way home. =( i wake around 04:00 and it takes me a while to decide that i am awake enough to type this into my dream log. i have no idea how this content features into my life. my memories of life before age four do have a viewed quality to them, but i assume that is natural. in my waking life i must have missed the breeding program where you wake up with strange women. i do not recall right now if 'zirkon' is a real metal or something that frank zappa made up. the beginning of this dream had a very creepy feel to it like someone was in the room with me while i slept. i can still hear that husky whispered command to 'remember' like it was not part of the dream. it has a musical breathless quality like that 'welcome' in the grand rest at the start of the rock opera _tommy_. )= ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:20:56 -0500 From: "christina anderson" =============== SUBMITTING NEWS and Calendar events related to dreaming. 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