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May 2003
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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
First Lucid Dreams
By Lucy Gillis
++ Article: Consistent Clues
Go Get a Picture and Gather Some Dreamers...
By Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: A View from the Bridge
Report on the World Dreams Peace Bridge
Aid for Children/Kids on the Bridge
By Jean Campbell
++ Article: Dreampeace: The Earth Needs Dreamers
Research: Dreaming Our Way to 2012
By Nick Cumbo
++ Article: Saying our Goodbye's
Dreams and the Departed
Ed Bonapartian
++ Dream: "Heading North"
By Stan Kulikowski II
D R E A M S S E C T I O N : Volume #648 - #652
With Editors Elizabeth Westlake and Harry Bosma
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the April 2003 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
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or if you are interested in sharing dreams for world peace, please join the
World Dreams Peace Bridge
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
Lucy Gillis offers Electric Dreams a selection from her Lucid Dream
Exchange. This month she has picked out a selection of people's *first*
lucid dreams. Put on your hats of amazement and take the journey.
"Go Get a Picture and Gather Some Dreamers..." Linda Magallón continues her
excerpts from "How to Fly." This month she looks at the clues we have in
our dreams that will allow us to both get a bigger picture of the puzzle of
dream life and to enter into active participation during the dreaming
itself, such as in bringing about flying dreams. Get your oneiric
magnifying glasses and start your search for "Consistent Clues"
Jean Campbell continues to be a key player in 21st Century dream activism
and this month has an update from the most active online project, the World
Dreams Peace Bridge. In "A View from the Bridge" Jean describes current
projects and how you can participate. There is also information about the
website worlddreamspeacebridge.org
Nick Cumbo is back with some changes in the Dream of Peace Network. The
network explores the role of dreams in bringing about a more peaceful and
harmonious lifestyle to this planet, and is dedicated to bringing the
potential of dreaming into the culture of our communities. As a result of
these changes, They now have a new forum for dream interpretation and
general dreams discussion called the 'Fishbowl', and the renaming of the
'Earth Dreamers' forum to the intriguing title, 'Sea Life.' Their
discussions and mutual dreaming experiments are leading them to big events
in 2012. Read all about it in "Dreampeace: The Earth Needs Dreamers" and
"Research: Dreaming Our Way to 2012."
Ed Bonapartian is sharing an article with us that he previously had printed
in a local magazine called _Spiral_. in "Saying our Goodbye's" Ed shows how
dreams helped him and his community deal with the loss of a close family
member. It is a very touching story about dreams, life, synchronicity and
every surging spirit of relationships.
Direct from Stan Kulikowski's dream journal is a moving selection which is
titled "Heading North."
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The Dream Section, beautifully edited by Elizabeth Westlake [with the help
of Harry Bosma's editor program], is full of dreams sent in to us over the
last month. We are a little short this month as I wanted to publish early.
If you have dreams you want published, don't send them to Elizabeth
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-Richard Wilkerson
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If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats,
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This Month's Features:
NEWS
- 20th Annual International Conference of the Association for the Study of
Dreams
- 5th International Conference on Science and Consciousness
WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
- Dream Journal Software Update - Alchera
- Doctor Hugo's Fuzzy Dreamz
- Dreamshe
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>>> 20th Annual International Conference of the Association for the Study
of Dreams, June 27 - July 1, 2003, Berkeley, California
In a lifetime, we have over 150,000 dreams! Meet and study with top dream
experts and authors at the Association for the Study of Dreams 20th
international conference to be held June 27-July 1, 2003 at the Radisson
Hotel in Berkeley which offers spectacular views of the bay. Special
programs for the public and for psychotherapists with over 100 workshops,
seminars and multimedia events on all aspects of dreaming. For information
and registration, call toll-free at 866-Dream12 or visit www.ASDreams.org.
>>> 5th International Conference on Science and Consciousness,
Albuquerque, NM, April 25-30, 2003
There has been a major surge of interest recently in studying consciousness
as more and more people have experiences that cannot be explained by
traditional scientific approaches.At some point in history, a split
occurred and we ended up with Science and Religion. Science limited its
study to the material world and the Church took charge of the metaphysical
realms.Now, with science studying consciousness, we are ready to
reintegrate Spirituality and Science.
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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
www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. 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.
>>>> Dream Journal Software Update - Alchera
Alchera helps you understand the meaning and potential of your nightly
dreams. Alchera offers you a symbol dictionary, exercises, and many tools
for tracking your personal dream themes over time. As many people are still
completely new to the exciting field of dreaming, Alchera also includes a
primer on dreaming.
Please take the Alchera Tour, it will show what the software can do for you.
Registering for the full edition of Alchera costs only USA $39.50, which is
a bargain when compared to prices of daytime journaling only software. The
price includes a free upgrade to version 4.0.
Free upgrade to 3.71
March 16th, 2002. Available for registered customers is the maintenance
release Alchera 3.71. This release fixes bugs only, and does not offer new
features. The demo at this website will be updated later this month.
If you are a registered customer, but did not receive the newsletter
explaining how to get your upgrade, then there may be a problem with your
email address. Please use the New Email Address form to update your
customer information.
New customers will automatically receive version 3.71.
Currently, Alchera is only available for Windows.
http://mythwell.com/
>>> Doctor Hugo's Fuzzy Dreamz || Museums of the Mind
http://www.doctorhugo.org/dreamz/
Doctor Hugo's, a dream art project of short films on dreams, was one of
the first online poetic art project on dreams. A cinematic online
experiment, from fear to fun, drama, love, desire and a sense of wonder.
>>> Dreamshe
www.hyperlife.net/Oiseau/dreamshe
This site explores the power of our dream images, and how we can use those
images for personal and planetary growth.
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An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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Here is a selection of lucid dreams from our readers - their first lucids
for 2003.
Katie
Lucid Fire Warning
January 2 2003
I dreamt I was at my parent's house in New York, sleeping on the basement
floor. My mother came down and was puttering around talking to me. I was
annoyed that she was disturbing me when I didn't have to get up yet. I
thought it seemed odd to me that if she was up and around I didn't have to
be yet.
She's wearing white slacks and that tan and white striped cotton shirt she
used to have. I think I get up for a minute then go back to "bed". She asks
me questions like, "Why haven't you washed that?" referring to the muddy
throw rug I'm sleeping on and, "Is that my green sheet?" I say crossly,
"Stop asking me rhetorical questions when I'm trying to sleep!" Looking at
the motley assortment of bathmats and throw rugs and scraps that I'm using
as a bed, she says sadly, "I wanted so much more for you." I want to tell
her it's perfectly comfortable. She goes about her work and I settle down
to sleep. Then I realize I already *am* asleep and that this is a lucid
dream. For a moment I think, I'm lucid, what should I do? Should I do
something sexual?" but what I really want to do is continue this dream. I
say to my mother, "Mom, I'm dreaming."
She understands what I mean and says thoughtfully, "You know, I had a dream
last night about you. I dreamt that Jacoby Hall caught fire and the library
burned down." (I consider telling her that these are two separate buildings
but don't want to interrupt.) She says she went back to the office for some
paperwork she had to do -referring here to her school campus, not mine.
I say, "Would you do something?"
"Tell another person my dream?" she asks.
I'm surprised she's thought of this. "That too, but write it down. I've
never had a dream come true like that... well, sort of..." I trail off,
thinking that I've had a lot of precognitive details come true.
She considers, "Who knows? With a holy dream like that."
I'm startled by her use of the word "holy", I didn't realize that she
considered the dream to be of divine origin.
She says, "I want you to do something for me. Unhook your dryer at 3
o'clock on Wednesday."
"3 o'clock on Wednesday?"
"3 o'clock on Wednesday."
"My time or yours?"
"Yours."
"By unhook the dryer you mean unplug?"
"Well, you know." She makes vague gestures with her hands. She says
something about "Your father and your brother may also be at risk," which I
take to mean the dream may be about them and not me.
Even as I'm having this dream I'm surprised at how clear it is, the
stability of the lucidity, and the absolute clarity of my awareness and
thinking. Not all the details are right - early in the dream my mother
behaves differently than my real mother would (nor would I be sleeping on
the basement floor for that matter). At the end of the dream I see the
phone and the wall plate is a different color than the phone, which doesn't
strike me as incongruous. But the quality of my thinking is as clear as waking.
Karl B.
January 8 2003
I go down the hall to Roger's office and work at a cubicle. Roger falls
asleep. I get up to leave, and I suddenly realize I'm dreaming. I go to the
wall. I realize that since this is a dream, there might be a secret door in
the wall. The wall swings open, and I go into a passageway filled with
bright light. But I wind up back in the office. I guess I'm supposed to be
here. Now my body begins to faint, although I'm still conscious and lucid.
My body falls backward, but very slowly and gently. I lie on the floor,
unable to move, and I gradually lose lucidity.
Rich Stammler
January 26 2003
Sandi and I are trying to get somewhere when we come upon a pond, or a
stream that had a pond in it. I am aware there are fish in the stream and
pond. (Water in my dreams always represents the unconscious or inner
reality; fish represent inner ideas and goals. I have had past dreams where
I pick up Japanese brown carp as large as puppy dogs and hold them over my
arm while stroking them. I have also offered to share the fish with other
members of the family and some have refused to hold them.)
I see the water level is at our eye level but is totally transparent. There
are fish in the stream and, at one point in the dream, we see fish, not
swimming but moving along at about eye level. The fish have large bodies
like ornamental goldfish and tail fins that equal or double the length of
the body. The fish are at eye level and are iridescent. The tail fins are
totally translucent with small color patches that are translucent but at
the same time very bright colors. The fish are colorful, transparent, and
stunningly beautiful, magical.
Then Sandi and I are carrying some boxes with files, trying to go
somewhere. We end up in this field and I am aware of people on the
periphery who are hunting or something like that. I get the feeling they
are what is pejoratively called rednecks or hillbillies. I didn't want them
to see us, but they come directly toward us. They are upset we are there as
if we are trespassing.
I then look down while one of them is yelling irately and I see a female
with her feet not touching the ground, levitating. (I became lucid at that
point but it is not what I think of as full lucidity. I'm beginning to
realize that there are many shades of lucidity.) I tell Sandi "It's OK. We
don't have to worry about them, they are dream characters." They then
disappear.
We continue to where we have to go. I talk about the best way to launch, to
fly astraly, to make the trip faster, and Don, a colleague from work
appears. [Don is a very conservative, traditional southern gentleman.]
There was weather here for the first time and dirt and kind of a cliff on
the other side. I tell Don that what I need to do is jump off the cliff and
then we will fly.
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Consistent Clues
Go Get a Picture and Gather Some Dreamers...
©2003 Linda Lane Magallón
(Excerpted from "How To Fly")
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We've seen that a dream can look like its counterpart event in the waking
world, but it doesn't have to. And it's not likely to. Although the obvious
visual reproductions are easy to spot, there aren't very many of them. What
about all the variations and transformations? Are they just jumbled data, a
bit of this with a peck of that, forming a new recipe that has no
relationship whatsoever to the fruits of the waking state? Do we merely
classify dreams as "delirious" when they contain elements seemingly
inconsistent with physical reality? Well, believe it or not, even the
wildest sleep-time fantasy might be a response to waking life. Good thing,
too. We can use the information gleaned from wake-inspired nocturnal
productions to help incubate flying dreams. Despite obvious differences,
certain corresponding elements tend to stay the same. I call them
"Consistent Clues."
New Tools For The Treasure Hunt
The "Clues" actually have a fairly long history. Although there were
attempts to compare dreams and material reality as far back at the
Classical Greek period, researchers weren't very methodical until the late
1800's. The researchers began the comparison process with an
already-produced dream, that is, a report of a dream after it had happened.
Then they attempted to link the dream elsewhen, such as a portent of things
to come, or backward, to the distant or recent past.
This approach is, at best, a game of speculation. Sometimes the speculation
can be pretty wild! Which of the kabillion little events or aspects of your
physical life might the dream talking about? And don't forget all the
events that "happen" to you while you are watching TV or day-dreaming about
Tolkien's Middle Earth. Sometimes dream theorists throw up their hands and
declare that dreams have *nothing* to do with waking life. Or if they do,
it's a crap shoot. I'd rather the theorists put their hands down and start
counting the Clues.
To discover clues, it's far more fruitful for a researcher to begin with a
waking event, then link it FORWARD, to dreams that may follow. It's quickly
apparent that not every waking event has a dream reflection. Some dreams
will ignore an event entirely. Dreams do not react to every moment in our
lives. They respond to only some of them.
Finding links in this new direction can still be a guessing game, unless
you add one more element. INTENTION. When you intend to dream about
something in particular, your chances of doing so increase rather
dramatically. To deliberately dream of flying will produce more flying
dreams than if you wait around for them to appear. Researchers used
subjects that intended to dream for them in order to track the visual
components of dreams. Along the way, they discovered a couple of new tools.
These have worked well for over a century.
-- The picture target.
An image on paper, that stays still long enough for several folks to view
and analyze it, is a lot more practical than an event that's here and gone.
To use a picture target, you might stare at it just before you go to sleep,
wondering if any of the target elements will be incorporated into your
dreams of that night. If you are experimenting with the psychic aspects of
dreams, you could get someone else to "send" the target to you
telepathically. In either case, you have something lasting and concrete
with which to compare your dream report.
-- Multiple dreamer attempts.
A single dream is like a dot on a piece of paper. Even if you were able to
reproduce the picture in your dream, you really couldn't see the full
"picture" of how dreams work unless you added more dots, then stood back to
find if they created a pattern. Consider when a video scene begins with the
camera lens so close to an object that you can't see its edges. You
probably have no idea what the object is until the camera pulls back and
you finally get to see the entire object plus everything surrounding it.
Dreams are like that. One dream doesn't show what many dreams will, when
viewed together. Researchers could have collected several dreams from a
single dreamer. But they found it was more revealing to use several
dreamers and their many dreams gathered from a single experiment. So take
one picture target and several dreamers dreaming several dreams to that one
target and what do you get?
Subliminal Research and Free Association
The first to have some success in specifying the Consistent Clues weren't
the researchers inducing regular, lucid or psi dreams. Actually, it was the
subliminal researchers.
In 1917 the Viennese neurologist Otto Pštzl presented the results of a
study that used a tachistoscope. This device presents pictures on a screen
at 1/100th of a second. At that rate most of the scene can't be recognized
by the conscious mind. Pštzl was able to demonstrate that the unseen parts
of the briefly flashed picture can nonetheless be smuggled into dreams.
Drawings of the dreams made by dreamers during the night or early the next
morning may show traces of this subliminal imagery.
The "Pštzl Phenomenon" highlights a very important finding. It's not only
the pictures right in front of you that can form your dream. It's not only
the objects you remember that can form your dream. Dreams also respond to
what's on the periphery of your vision, to what you're not paying direct
attention and to what's underneath your usual level of perception.
So I have a question for you to ponder. How can you use your waking mind to
"free associate" to an element of your dream that was procured by your
subconscious mind? I don't mean that it became subconscious because your
conscious mind recognized it, got embarrassed or guilty, and then repressed
the recognition. Freud's theory held that many dreams were the result of
childhood traumas and fantasies. That is, memories of childhood traumas and
fantasies still operative and being acted out in maladaptive behavior. If
memories of past connections (trauma plus guilt, for example) were
unaltered by the passage of time, as Freud believed, they could be
retrieved by the conscious mind because the conscious mind was aware of
them at one time, even if for an instant prior to the repression.
But what if an event is subconscious because your conscious mind never made
that connection in the first place? Never recognized it, never named it? It
might be a body-memory, instead. A motor-sensory memory can be made
manifest by the movement of your hand drawn across a sheet of paper. As far
as your conscious mind goes, it's truly "un" conscious. It's clear that
Freudian repression is not the same as subliminal perception. One depends
on a psychological reaction to a previously conscious memory and is
retrieved by written or verbal language. The other is physiological; it's
in the nature of how human perceptual apparatus works at its subconscious
periphery and its retrieval is not necessarily dependent on an oral
recitation. To understand subliminal information, we need to look elsewhere
to understand the associations that our minds make as they build the
structure of the dream.
The "Pštzl Phenomenon" was further studied by researchers Wolfgang
Leuschner and Stephan Hau. In 1992, they used a collage of triangular
objects as their target picture. In keeping with Pštzl's assumptions,
Leuschner and Hau discovered that the target material was apparently
dissociated by the mind into fragments. REM dreams appeared to depict the
fragments rather than the structure of the picture as a whole. So nobody
dreamt the full picture, but sometimes they dreamt parts of it. This is a
good reason to gather several dreams. More that one piece may be required
to complete the puzzle.
Consistent Clues
Leuschner and Hau's subliminal research identified four target features.
-- LABEL
Certain individual details of the target were mentioned in dreamers'
reports by their commonly recognized names. If there was a mountain,
sailboat or beach in the picture, one could find the word "mountain,"
"sailboat" or "beach" in the oral report. To the literal researcher, these
parts were "labeled" correctly.
-- CLANG
Some of the elements in the picture converted to metaphor. The use of
analogy is no surprise to folks who have invested time doing dream
interpretation. But these metaphors were of a specific type. They were
puns. For instance, a pictorial element, such as a "sail" might transpose
to the written word "sale." Such elements "clang," or sound the same.
-- COLOR
Even if the dreamer switched to other images or used different labels, the
colors tended to stay the same as those in the picture. Instead of a yellow
and green sailboat, the dreamer might dream up a green and yellow car.
-- FORM
Objects retained their triangularity. Again, the dreamer might switch to
other images, with different labels. But the new images would have three
sides, too. Rather than several people with triangular hats, the dreamer
might dream up one person with a pair of triangular eyeglasses. The
discovery of form was greatly aided by the fact that the dreamers didn't
just speak their dreams as they were recorded by video tape. This type of
research required that they draw sketches of what they had "seen" in their
dreams.
Other researchers, who used 3-dimensional rather than 2-dimensional
targets, would discover another Consistent Clue that has great relevance
for the flying dreamer.
-- MOTION
The way another character or object moves in the dream or the way your
dreaming self moves in the dream can be the same sort of movement as found
in waking life. Obviously, your physical body doesn't fly like Superman in
physical reality. But elements of your motion, like speed, direction or
height above the ground can be clues to your visual whereabouts in that
waking moment which helped inspire your sleeping dream.
Melonie's Dream Visit
The first time I became aware of Consistent Clues wasn't by way of a
picture or a lab experiment. My own waking life was the target. But it did
take the cooperation of another dreamer to discover Clues. At the time of
this dream, I was co-dreaming with her. I had never met Melonie in physical
reality; we communicated with each other by postal mail and phone. One
night, Melonie decided to come visit me in a dream. Melonie's dream began:
"I am in Linda's house. I recognize it from the photograph she sent me.
Three rooms. First to my right a small glassed-in room containing a piano.
This room is all glass and wood."
To assist our co-dreaming, I had sent Melonie a photograph of myself, but
not of my house. The bottom floor has three rooms. The family room contains
a piano. On its opposite side is a wall with two double sliding glass doors
and a large window. At the time of the dream, a wooden bookcase was planned
to cover most of its far wall. The blueprints for the bookcase were on the
back of our kitchen door and very much on my mind.
Melonie's dream continued:
"Then a larger room. Walls are greyish blue. I sit on a couch and wonder
how I can find Linda's telephone number. It is afternoon and she is at
work. Her husband and another man come in. Her husband is a psychologist."
The largest room is the living room but its walls are painted white. It's
the couch which is greyish blue. And it's the couch upon which I was
sitting when my husband came home from work one afternoon and handed me the
mail. Seated next to me was a man who is a hypnotherapist and the two of us
happened to be talking about dreams. For even more synchronicity, the mail
included a letter from Melonie. And in it was this very dream.
The literal LABELS include glass, wood, piano and couch. It's not an
uncommon cue for a dream to use "telephone" as an indicator of connection;
it SOUNDS very like "telepathy." The COLOR is the greyish blue. FORM is
inferred in numbers: the 3 rooms and the 2 men. The MOTION is the man
coming into the room. Label, clang, color, form and motion were ingredients
in Melonie's dream.
The pieces were right. But they weren't assembled as in physical reality.
In particular, some items were switched. The color of the couch showed up
on the wall. An occupation was attributed to another man. The photograph
was of the house instead of me. I was sitting on the couch rather than Melonie.
Some researchers call this a "reassociation weakness." But that's only if
they are seeking in dreams an exact Xerox of the material world. To their
credit, Leuschner and Hau took a more liberal view of the phenomena. They
called the opportunity for mixing and matching "a precondition for new,
witty and creative inventions of the kind seldom brought about by waking
thought." Creativity is a hallmark of dreams.
A New View of Dreams
As far back as the early 20th century, the subliminal researchers had
claimed that the dream features seemed to be "processed separately" by the
brain rather than together, as a whole. And they only had the outer fruits
of the dream to analyze: the dream reports. Finally, at the end of the
century, neurological researchers were able to use technology to study the
inner-workings of the body and brain. And guess what they found?
It used to be thought that memories were stored like pages in a book, or
books in a library shelf, located in a particular place in the brain. So
the neurologists went looking for those locations. They found that the
human brain no more contains memory spots than there are picture postcards
stored in the memory board slots inside your computer case. Even when
visual material first registers on the eye, it is recognized by two types
of elements: rods and cones, and they fire in various combinations,
depending on what is seen. But human encoding is even more complex than
digital computer language. It is beginning to look like any one part of the
brain is networked with other portions of the brain and body in a sort of
Internet of connectivity. Parts can be "talking" to one another at
more-or-less the same time. And it seems there are particular servers
handling specific sorts of traffic.
Eyes dissect an image cast upon your retina into about 126 million pieces,
then send signals for every one of these tiny elements to the thalamus. The
thalamus in turn fires neuronal networks to and within the visual cortex
before information ends up in the frontal cortex, where the pieces are put
back together. The multi-million bits of information don't all travel the
same route, however. All the processing takes place along a few
independent, parallel pathways. One system processes information about
SHAPE, one about COLOR and one about MOVEMENT, location and spatial
organization. Sound familiar?
Separated information isn't just a characteristic of dreams, then. It is in
the very nature of the body-brain perceptual system itself. And it's not
just subliminal dreams that manifest these characteristics. Parallel
pathways of research have reported evidence of Consistent Clues, too. The
Clues have been found in labs that study regular dreams and dream psi.
They've been found out in the field of lucid dreams. And in a closely
related field of waking endeavor: remote viewing.
Surfing Your Dream Reports
So what does this mean when you go surfing your dream reports to discover
evidence of dream-waking correlation? You already know some of the skills
to develop beforehand: recall, recording, journaling. Take care to LABEL
your dream elements as accurately as you can. Although you may not have a
full copycat dream, a few of the elements might be named as they are in
waking life.
Then do an about-face. Ignore the blatant imagery. Yes, that's right.
Ignore the labels you have given to whatever you "saw" in your dream. At
this stage in the process, don't you dare go running for a symbol
dictionary! Time enough for that later. Much later. Symbol interpretation
is about step 18 in a list of 20. There's a whole lot of prep work to do first.
If you haven't done so already, try to get in the habit of making sketches
of the objects in your dreams. No, not involved drawings. Quick doodles
actually work better to define FORM. Write down the COLOR you see, even if
you only mention black and white. Describing MOTION may be a little more
complicated. For now, just be aware of moving about in your dream, even if
you aren't in flight.
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(Dream Flights)
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Aid for Children/Kids on the Bridge
A View from the Bridge - April 2003
Jean Campbell
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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/monthyupdates.htm
The idea for The Aid for Children Project did not come from one specific
dream, but rather seemed to grow organically, as members of The World
Dreams Peace Bridge watched with horror the effect of advancing U.S. troops
on the children of Iraq.
May Tung, herself a refugee from China when she was a little girl, was the
first to mention the idea of helping the children of Iraq. She suggested
sending not food or water, but therapeutic aids like stuffed toys, crayons
and paper, which could be used to help the children deal with trauma.
It was when we scheduled the first Dream Incubation for Children in early
April that the idea really took hold, when it was discovered that several
people had been dreaming not just for but with the children of Iraq. And
then people began to talk about how, during childhood illness or other
difficulty, some stuffed toy or doll had been a cherished friend or
listener to secrets told to no one else.
At the request of the group, Ilkin Sungu, who lives in Istanbul, went to
the offices there of UNICEF, where she was told that there were already
therapists in place and goods being shipped from Turkey to refugee camps in
Iraq. The director of UNICEF's Istanbul office offered a deep discount on
the types of stuffed toys, crayons, paper and pencils we were looking for
as well as enthusiastic support for the proposed program. Ilkin was
assured that she could personally oversee the shipments, and that even
cards and pictures from dreamers around the world could be sent to the
children. Thus the Aid for Children Project was born. If you would like
to contribute to this project, just send a check to:
Aid for Children
The iMAGE Project
408 Elmhurst Lane
Portsmouth VA 23701
USA
or check the World Dreams Peace
Bridge
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/index.htm for updates.
(Note: The iMAGE Project is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization managed by
World Dreams moderator Jean Campbell. All funds designated for the Aid for
Children Project will go directly to the children. All donations are tax
deductible.)
Along the way to this dream-created communication with the children of
Iraq, another interesting thing developed. First came an e-mail to the
Peace Bridge from Jeremy Seligson's nine-year-old daughter Elloisa (Ellie)
in Korea, and then another from Victoria Quinton's Australian daughter,
Emily, just turned nine. Soon Julian joined in from the United States, and
before we knew it, there were Kids on the Bridge.
The Kids on the Bridge program is still developing. There are plans for a
discussion board on the World Dreams web site, and for dream-related and
peace-related activities for the kids. But most definitely this is a first
in the community of dreamers, a place where kids can have their own space
for discussion and development of projects.
If your own kids are interested in dreams and peace, and might like a place
to explore these with other kids from around the world, send an email to
jeansdream2002@..., or watch this space for updates.
The World Dreams Peace Bridge continues to grow. Several new members have
joined the Peace Bridge discussion group in the past month, and there have
been enough Peace Train activities starting around the world that a special
Peace Train discussion list has been created at Yahoogroups specifically
for Peace Train conductors. If you would like to create a Peace Train, you
can join the list by sending an e-mail to :
peacetrainproject-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
And don't forget that Jeremy Seligson, the original Peace Train dreamer,
will be conducting a Dreams and Peace Trains workshop at the upcoming ASD
Conference in Berkeley at the end of June. Jeremy will be assisted by May
Tung and me. Other members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge will also be
in attendance.
The final activity of the month of April that must be mentioned is the
creation of a new word to describe what we do on The World Dreams Peace
Bridge. You can do it too. It's called Da-Fu Mu Dreaming or Dreams of Big
FU, meaning dreams of great blessing. The word, a combination of Japanese
and Chinese, came about when Kathy Turner asked, "What do we call this kind
of focused, long-term, peace dreaming we've been doing?" And a
word-playful discussion ensued. Check out the Da-Fu Mu Dreaming page
at Dafumu - World Dreams Peace
Bridge
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm
And when you dream of peace, say Dafumu!
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge is a group that uses personal dreams for
public world peace. You can find out more about the WDPB at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
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Dreampeace: The Earth Needs Dreamers
Research: Dreaming Our Way to 2012
By Nick Cumbo
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Dreampeace: Dreaming Our Way to 2012
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The Dreampeace community, explores the role of dreams in bringing about a
more peaceful and harmonious lifestyle to this planet, and is dedicated to
bringing the vast potential of dreaming into our culture.
Link:
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/
Our web forum 'Sea Life', aims to bring together a large circle of dreamers
from around the world, collaborating in adventures in the world of dreams,
and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself'.
There is a focus on small groups of dreamers (usually about 8 members),
called Dream Teams, sharing dreams on a regular basis, and getting to know
each other on a more personal basis. Within a group, we run creative dream
incubation projects, journeys to places such as the Redwood Forests and
Antarctica, attempt mutual dreaming experiments, and much more.
It was decided this month to begin running research projects to demonstrate
the power of dreaming in various fields. These research projects, are also
the result of a wish to improve collaboration between members of different
dream teams, and open the forums to individual dreamers.
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE YEAR 2012
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In March, our research project focused on the topic of 'Dreaming Our Way to
2012'. As a result of this research, the site was led through important
changes. Most significantly, the changing of our name from 'Earth Dreamers'
to 'Sea Life', and the addition of a pre-existing forum offering a wider
variety of general discussion on dreams called the 'Fishbowl'.
Firstly, I would like to call on some external evidence to demonstrate
rather quickly the significance of the year 2012. As some readers may know,
the ancient Maya of Central America were an advanced civilisation. A
central part of their knowledge, was their sophisticated astronomy, and
their understanding of time itself.
John Major Jenkins is a key figure in our modern knowledge of this system.
In his online article 'The Solstice Sun and the Galactic Center' he writes
"Mayan cosmology is a complex science primarily concerned with
understanding the nature of time. It utilizes calendar systems invented by
the Maya to calculate important eras during which divine energies, or gods,
would manifest on earth. Mayan calendar systems are intimately involved
with, and based upon, the movements of celestial bodies including the sun,
moon, and planets. Mayan calendars also track more subtle astronomical
phenomena such as eclipses and, most significantly, the slow shifting of
the heavens known to modern astronomy as the precession of the equinoxes.
The precession of the equinoxes (which also could be called the precession
of the solstices) was believed to be responsible for a succession of World
Ages, a doctrine central to Mayan Creation mythology".
Link:
http://www.timeofglobalshift.com/
"The next large turning point in the Mayan Long Count calendar, a date
which marks the end of a period of over 5,125 years in Mayan chronology,
occurs on December 21, 2012. The ancient Maya believed that the years
around 2012 would be attended by great changes and, in accordance with
their World Age Creation mythology, the transformation of human beings into
something completely new. "
What makes this belief, all the more interesting is that the end date was
actually fixed on "an astrological alignment, an alignment so compelling
and rare that the ancient Mayan astronomers believed it to signal the
commencement of the next World Age"
"The solstice sun will be in alignment with the Galactic Plane in the years
between 1980 and 2016. In more precise terms, both the U.S. Naval
Observatory and astronomer Jean Meeus (in his book Mathematical Astronomy
Morsels, 1997) calculated that the solstice meridian will align with the
Galactic equator in 1988. We can call this zone a solstice-galaxy
alignment, or simply, galactic alignment. This alignment occurs roughly
once every 12,800 years (one-half of a precession cycle)."
"The Maya believed the era-2012 alignment to be the most significant
evolutionary event that human beings experience. For example, the image of
the sun moving into alignment with the Milky Way is played out in the Maya
ballgame. It is equivalent to the movement of the game-ball, symbol of the
sun, into union with the Milky Way, the cosmic "goal." Likewise, the Mayan
Creation story of One Hunahpu's resurrection in the cosmic game court also
symbolizes the 2012 alignment".
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For those interested, a modern calendar utilising the Mayan knowledge of
time, can be found at the official website of The World Thirteen Moon
Calendar Change Peace Movement:
Link:
http://www.tortuga.com/
"This popular movement to change the calendar is also a peace movement, and
is based on the discovery of the Law of Time, a discovery that demonstrates
that time is a frequency, the universal frequency of synchronisation.
It is this law that maintains the universe in harmony and guarantees beauty
wherever you look in nature. When we are genuinely synchronised in time we
can easily promote values such as harmony, cooperation, and spiritual
unity. When there is harmony there is art and elegance."
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YOUR DREAM JOURNEYS TO 2012
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Having explained a little about the Mayan system of time, many are probably
wondering what this has to do with dreams. Our research into 2012, not only
gathered information from sources across the internet, but also aimed to
discover new information about these changes, through a knowledge source
accessible to all of us, our dreams.
Our project was to 'Travel to 2012', and if possible to discover the role
of the 'Earth Dreamers' forum (as it was previously known), and 'dreaming
with and for the earth itself'. We planned to achieve this through dream
incubation via visualisation and stating our intention, before sleeping,
and the techniques of lucid dreaming.
The results were quite unexpected:
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2012: SEA LIFE (22 March 2003, by Explora)
Lucid dreaming, I begin to sink into the earth, into a realm of energy,
continuing a long spiral journey through the blackness. It is certainly not
quick, but the rush of this type of travel, keeps my thoughts moving for
most of the journey. After what seems like a minute, I begin to become a
bit concerned at how long it's all taking. What can I do to maintain my
lucidity, I wonder. Voicing words, to myself, I am soon relieved to find
myself noticing new visual imagery. I see a city skyline at night, which I
know to be important. I get the feeling that in the future I will no longer
live where where I do at the moment, and will be closer to the city.
I eventually find myself in a room, which in some ways resembles the living
room of my house, but which seems to be my office. Here, I see an iMac like
machine, produced by Apple. I press the power on key, and am relieved when
it turns on directly, without the need for the entire startup process to
take place. Instantly, I notice the words 'Sea Life' centered on the top
menu bar. It seems important, as though it is the title of the product the
company is working on. It reminds me of the way a company produces a
background image, for itself.
It gives me a sense of deja-vu, as though I have already heard this name
somewhere before in a dream. I look at the column of icons along the left
side of the screen. I notice there is alot of Adobe software. I notice
'Adobe Sea Life' in particular. This strikes me as a little bizarre, and
interested, I click on the program. It loads, and a picture of a tank like
area with sea life on the left side of the pool shows. I see an animation,
perhaps of the mutation or growth of a species of sea life. The creatures
move to the right.
Still, a little confused, I decide to see what else I can find on the
table. Reaching to the back, behind all the other little items there, I
find a business card. Along the back are a list of peoples names, about
10-12 in total. I run through the list, noticing one that's underlined. It
seems this is the main number for the company. At this point, I begin to
wonder what the company is called. Flipping to the other side of the card,
I see the name, 'Don Marti & Architects'.
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Initially, I was quite confused. While I'd enjoyed the journey and felt
that it was a very real experience, I couldn't really make sense of why the
product was called 'Adobe SeaLife'. Why would a group with the name 'Don
Marti & Architects' be producing Adobe software. After all Adobe is a very
large organisation!
I was also a little confused, as I wondered whether it was possible the
dream was referring to some type of career in the computer software
industry. I'm currently studying telecommunications at university, but had
deeply hoped that my future career would involve the arts of dreaming.
Thankfully, I am also a member of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, a much
larger group. I decided to share my dream, to see what others thought of
it. I received a variety of interpretations, but I felt a particularly
strong resonance with San's comments:
"I would look to the word Adobe. For me, having Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe
PageMaker, I might consider if it had any meaning for me there, but
stronger still for me, the nature of adobe. Unfired clay. Sometimes I work
with unfired clay as a medium for my art. It's very satisfying in that it's
pliable, flexible and cooperative until I'm ready, and then it dries into a
shape of my choosing. When I am ready (or not sometimes) I can break it, or
leave it to the rain, or divide it between friends in ceremony, etc.
Ultimately, it returns to the place it began, as we all do. ...so for me
the Sea Life and the Adobe might provide for an interesting transformation
and I'd have to imagine how I'd want it to unfold ... perhaps one lapping
wave at a time ..."
Link:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
These wonderful words seemed to redirect me to my hearts wishes, for it
reminded me of what I felt about the nature of dreaming. I decided to
research the name 'Don Marti' a little. Having said this, I was still
considering the possibility, that I may be involved in software
development, and assumed that if this were the case I'd be working in
Australia (as this is where I currently live).
I keyed in his name, and was surprised to find that he was a well known
article writer in the Linux scene. He seemed to be a key figure, in
offering his opinions on the direction of the operating system.
Somehow, the dream seemed to have drawn it's meaning from the name of a
writer, I had previously never heard of. My first association of course,
was the nature of the Linux platform, as open-source, and under development
from anyone who chose to participate. This seemed to hold true for the work
we were doing at the 'Earth Dreamers' web forum.
Meanwhile, DM7, a member of the dream team I'm a part of, managed to visit
2012:
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ATTEMPT TO ASTRAL TRAVEL… 2012 (29 March 2003, by DM7)
Everything is so real so I have to use some Reality Check's. I try to push
my finger through the wall, but it doesn't work. I try to pinch myself and
it HURTS! "Maybe I'm not dreaming?" I thought, trying to be stubborn
because I really want to travel into the future again. I check the clock
and it remains the same. I slap myself really HARD and it is kind of numb,
but I still can feel the pain. I'm really confused about if I'm actually
dreaming or not.
I finally try to back trace where I am. I come to the conclusion that I WAS
from my bed. "There is a possibility that I'm dreaming, but no matter what
I do… it won't tell me if I'm dreaming." I thought… trying to figure out if
it's actually a dream or not. I'm extremely confused, but then finally, I
thought, "How about trying to travel to the future… if you can do it, then
you're dreaming. If you can't, then you're not dreaming." So I proceed,
trying to think how to travel since I usually go outside and fly toward the
sky, but I can't float and I get an impression that I'm locked in the house.
I can't think of anything except yelling out my command so I did. I yell,
"TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE IN THE YEAR OF 2012… NOT 2,012 YEARS LATER, BUT THE
YEAR OF 2012… NOW!" To my surprise, the scene changes. "That's way too
easy!" I thought. I'm still in my house and it still looks very much the
same, but my parents are busy doing something in the kitchen. I turn
around, trying to find some kind of a source to tell me the year it is. I
find a huge TV in the middle of the hall. I get an impression that it is
actually there so I can ask for the year.
I go to it and to my surprise, I have full control over the TV. I ask it
what year it is right now and "2012" in green text appears on the TV while
it is on the news channel. I don't understand the news anyways so I go into
the computer room. I notice that I have carpal tunnel braces on. I try to
get them off. While I do that, I lose my lucidity. Luckily my intention is
strong enough to be continued.
I get on the computer and check on the forum. There are two different
forums. One is from dreamofpeace.net and other one is more like a dream
interpretation forum. I notice that there are much more active members on
the latter (perhaps more users there as well). I notice that there are a
lot people starting to be concerned about their dreams, requesting for the
interpretation. I get an impression that year of 2012 is a "opening" time
for people about dream interpretation where it will eventually lead to
lucid dreaming and dreaming of peace, etc.
The topic of "dreaming" is still very much underground like it is right
now, but there are more members there. The next thing I know is that I wake up.
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As well as demonstrating a fun and original 'reality check' for use in
lucid dreaming, DM7's story shed valuable light on the role of the forum in
the future. I was quite excited by these events, as I often share the
Dreampeace website address with other people I meet who are interested in
dreams. Recently, I've begun to wonder how useful it would be to many
visitors, because of the lack of a general forum for discussion of dreams.
DM7's dream reinforced the value of another forum, to help encourage people
to move from not only sharing their dreams, but also to actively seeking
adventure and guidance for the world this way.
A few days later, in a response, to a dream I had posted online, entitled
'Dance of the Spirit', another dreamer 'Singer', replied:
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Hello, Explora!
I enjoyed reading your dream posts very much. Dreams are so important,
especially positive ones that foster taking better care of ourselves and
our beautiful planet! Our future survival depends on it!
I was reading a book called Matter into Feeling by F. A. Wolf, Ph.D., who
put it very nicely when he wrote, as an example:
"The dream experiences of Australian Aboriginal people indicate that the
needed characteristic arises, is first born, in dreams. Each creature
dreams of the possibility for the next evolution, so that, for example, the
fish dreams of the amphibian and the amphibian dreams of the bird, and so
on. That is, we first dream in order to become aware of our future
possibilities --- the new ways that each one of us may exist. And the
ability to sense oneself as something new or altered seems to be vital for
survival, for altering the genetic code."
Let us keep dreaming!
Love and Light to All
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This seemed to fit the theme of 'Sea Life' perfectly. It conjured up the
same animation, I had witnessed in my dream voyage to 2012, of the sea life
mutating and evolving in the tank. More importantly, it demonstrated what I
believe we are doing through dreaming, we are learning to become aware of
our future possibilities not only as individuals but also on a planetary
level.
A week later, through a strange series of coincidences, I happened to
stumble across, a web forum called The Fishbowl, run by the magnificent
Toko-Pa. I quite enjoyed the discussion here, due to it's obvious direction
with regards to spreading the potential of dreaming, and it's clear
distribution of information.
When Toko-Pa mailed me asking me to add a link from Dreampeace to the
forum, I was quite honoured. I soon realised that this was a wonderful
opportunity to offer consistency with DM7's vision of an alternate and more
open dreaming forum:
"Dream School is an innovative organisation dedicated to the integration of
dreamsharing into our culture. Offering a thriving dream forum called the
Fishbowl, as well as creative seminars, lectures, private dreamwork and
online resources."
Link:
http://www.herownroom.com/fishbowl
Rather than just linking to the 'Fishbowl', it was decided to actually make
it our sister forum. I was just putting together the updated website, when
I became aware of the logical next step. I was wondering what to do about
the icons for 'The Fishbowl' and 'Earth Dreamers' forums, when up popped a
thought. The realisation that the 'Sea Life' program, the 'company' was
working on, had been a new name for the 'Earth Dreamers' forum, all along.
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CONCLUSION
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Through this research project, we've seen the nature of mutual dreaming
really come alive. I remain with the feeling that the energies of the
'galactic alignment' of the 2012-era, manifested themselves through our
research project, resulting in a series of unexpected discoveries. I feel
there was some inherent meaning to these, that we were actually being
reminded of some strategies to assist us through the changes the earth is
going through.
Our initial intent was to discover more about the role of the 'Earth
Dreamers' web forum. Our results:
- In my journey to 2012, I appeared to be a key member of a company, called
'Don Marti & Architects' working on a product called 'Adobe Sea Life'.
- DM7's dream of 2012, reflected a future need for more open dream
interpretation, and a general discussion forum.
The meaning of our dreams, could only be uncovered through a combination of
techniques:
At the time of my dream, I only knew the word Adobe as the name of a large
software organisation. As a result of sharing the dream with the World
Dreams Peace Bridge, I was lucky to receive a variety of interpretations,
including San's reflection on it as 'Unfired clay', 'Pliable, flexible,
Co-operative, until I'm ready, and then it dries into a shape of my
choosing'. We could probably extend this a little and call it a shape of
our choosing.
The meaning of the name 'Don Marti & Architects', was initally completely
unknown to me. I was a little suspicious about this, so I thought I'd check
out the name on the internet. Don Marti, proved to be a key writer and
reviewer of an open-source operating system. I would guess that this
strongly relates to my own future path, and that of the other 'architects'
involved in our work at the 'Sea Life' forum. What makes this interesting,
is that the meaning relied on an external source of information, namely the
internet. My dream appeared to not only draw it's information from the
future, but also from the heart of our collective consciousness.
The key to uncovering the meaning of the word 'Sea Life' hinged upon a
series of future events coming together, in synchronisation. Firstly, as a
result of posting a dream 'Dance of the Spirit', I discovered what the
reference to 'Sea Life' was all about: realising our own potential by first
dreaming it. Next, a strange series of events led me to come across a
wonderful forum called the 'Fishbowl', drawing upon DM7's vision of an
alternative dream forum. Finally, we have the logical next step of
realising the similarities in themes between the 'Fishbowl' and 'Sea Life'.
I think we see three themes being stressed here: the importance of sharing
our dreams, of our spiritual unity, and finally of the key role of time in
synchronisation and bringing together these concepts.
As a result of these changes, we now have a new forum for dream
interpretation and general dreams discussion called the 'Fishbowl', and the
renaming of the 'Earth Dreamers' forum to something a little more
intriguing, 'Sea Life'. Through this alignment of direction and themes
between the respective forums, people are more likely to find a place where
they feel comfortable sharing and envision their dreams. Surely this will
have a beneficial role, as dreams continues to take a greater place in our
society.
We are all intimately connected to one another. In the place of the heart,
we are all one being, none of us separated from any other. Let us remember
this as we 'Dream Our Way To 2012'.
Stay tuned next week for the results of our research into the topic of
'Dreams and Healing'. In the meantime, Dreamers are invited to simply
contact, or to share their dreams of 2012, with Nick (Explora)
Email:
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RESOURCES
Time of Global Shift
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Dream School
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Harmonic Convergence: Messages from the Star People: 2012 Vortex
Link:
http://healing-arts.org/spider/vortexexcerpt.htm
The World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement
Link:
http://www.tortuga.com/
Dreaming Our Way to the Heart of the World
Link:
http://www.mossdreams.com/
World Dreams Peace Bridge
Link:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
Dreams of the Great Earth Changes: All About 2012
Link:
http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm
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By Ed Bonapartian
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As far as phone calls go I'm always leery of the ones that arrive late
in the night; in my life they always seem to be a harbinger of bad news.
This call was no different and when I heard my mother in-law Charlotte's
voice, I knew that bad tidings were arriving once again, as she broke the
news to me that Sandy; a close member of the family had just died.
There wasn't much else that she could say; the news wasn't unexpected since
he had been taken to Hospice just that morning. But I also knew from
experience that you can never adequately prepare yourself for the emotions
that come during a loved one's passing. As I listened to the grief etched
in her voice, I closed my eyes and brought an image of Sandy into my mind
and mentally I wished his spirit well wherever it may have gone on its next
journey. He had fought a hard fight against cancer, but in the end his body
had simply given out.
As the family gathered at my mother in-laws house the next morning, I sat
in the kitchen sipping my coffee while staring at a picture of him perched
on a living room shelf. Since he had been a companion to Charlotte for
close to twenty years, I had over a decade of memories to look back on. To
our family and friends, Sandy had been known for his love of playing cards.
Often I would arrive at her house to find him on the front porch or at the
kitchen table dealing out the cards for another Poker game, as he and his
friends taunted each other about their card skills with an Italian dialect
few could understand.
But one memory stood out in my mind and it was the memory of a dream he
had shared with us a few months before his death. It was a dream that came
at a time when his body was weak, suffering the effects left by the
radiation treatments, which caused him to spend most of his days sleeping.
In his dream, Sandy finds himself healthy and free of the pain that had
manifested itself in his waking life, as he sits at a table playing cards.
All his friends are there with smiles and laughter, celebrating the joy
that can only be found in long friendships. In this card game, Sandy is
king. Every hand is a winning hand and no one can come close to beating the
cards he holds before him. As the dream ends Sandy is left with a clear
memory of that card game. It made such an impression on him that he
mentioned it to Charlotte the next morning. At this point I knew that his
dream had been a healing dream, a message to both him and his family that
all would be well after he passed. However, I also felt that it was a dream
that needed to be told again now, to leave an image of Sandy in our hearts
that we could hold on to as we dealt with our grief over his passing.
Later that morning we made arrangements at a local funeral home for Sandy's
burial. Since we would be holding a memorial service for him, I decided to
honor his dream of the card game by using it as a sort of eulogy, which I
could read out loud during the service. I figured this would give friends
and family a fond memory to remember him by.
After we had got home, Charlotte asked me to take Sandy's clothes over to
the funeral home. As she handed them to me, she looked around the room
concerned she might have forgotten something, which gave me a sudden
insight. I asked her to give me a deck of his cards, the ones he used
during his card games. As she handed them to me, I could see her eyes fill
up with tears, in those cards was a lifetime of memories for her. Gently, I
told her that we were going to send Sandy off right; that we were going to
honor his dream of the card game by putting a deck of cards in his shirt
pocket, the same way he had always carried them around when he was alive.
For me, it was my way of honoring his memory and saying goodbye.
A few days later, the priest of the church where the service was to be
held, rejected my idea of my giving a eulogy during his memorial service
due to my not being a member of the church. My initial reaction was one of
anger. I'm a real stickler for honoring dreams but in this case I realized
my frustration with the church was not going to get me anywhere. Instead,
on the day of his service, one of my sister-in laws, Shelby gave a short
but very moving eulogy. I realized this was her way of honoring his memory
and saying goodbye. Life goes like that sometimes, what you think should
happen doesn't but what needs to happen does.
Our dreams also work like that; they cross the bridge between the living
and the departed and in doing so often leave us with a way of saying
goodbye that we never expected. But that bridge works both ways, in that it
allows the departed to say their goodbyes to us as well. In the ensuing
months it was apparent thru our dreams, that Sandy was not going leave
without saying his goodbyes also.
A few weeks after his memorial service, I received another phone call from
Charlotte. I had been in a hurry to be on time for an appointment; however,
as soon as I heard her words saying to me that I was the only person she
could talk to, I stopped dead in my tracks. Something in the tone in her
voice told me that I needed to listen very carefully to the dream she was
about to tell me. Originally a bit skeptical about dream work, she now felt
that no one else would believe her experience from that morning.
She had awoken a bit earlier than her alarm was set for, and as she lay in
bed in that twilight zone between sleep and being fully awake, she heard a
most melodic sound, as if someone was playing a musical instrument she had
never heard before. Looking over in the direction of the sound, she
realized it was a row of metal hangers that were hung on a small clothes
rack across the room. They were swaying as if moved by a gentle breeze and
something in the movement and sound immediately brought an image of Sandy
to her mind. Now fully awake, she spoke out loud; " You old son of a gun,
you wanted me to know that you were ok, didn't you". Since there had not
been an open window in her room or anything else to explain the hanger's
movement, in her heart she knew this experience had been his way of letting
her to know he was doing well.
In the spring after Sandy's interment, my wife had a dream where she and
Sandy were dancing together alone in the cafeteria of the church school she
had attended as a child. Since my wife always enjoyed dancing with Sandy at
social occasions, I told her that if it were my dream I would wonder if her
dream was his way of having one last dance together. A way of saying
good-bye to her, with a memory of a dance never forgotten.
Just before Sandy's death we had received news that my other sister in law
Kelly, was going to have a baby. The timing of this news in the context of
Sandy's illness was of great comfort to our family. Where there once had
only been the potential for an ending, there was now the news of a
beginning, for us the cycles of life would run full circle and it was just
before Kelly gave birth, that one last goodbye would be said. It arrived
in a dream that Kelly had during the time she and her husband were thinking
of names for the baby. In her dream Kelly finds herself at work as she
hears that the TV show "Crossing Over" with spiritual medium John Edwards
is going to be filming a show there. Kelly then finds herself in an empty
auditorium. She sees John Edwards walk up on the stage and he tells her he
is communicating with Sandy. When she asks him what Sandy is saying, he
tells her that Sandy says to name the baby after him.
Given Sandy's easygoing relationship with Kelly when he had been alive, it
didn't surprise me that he had one last moment of fun with her. A joke
shared between friends, and a way of saying goodbye, in the land of dreams
where those who have departed will always be close.
Ed Bonapartian is the co-host of a bi-monthly Dream Circle in the Albany,
NY area. As a writer who delights in sharing dream awareness, he and his
co-hosts have held dream circles at a local therapy group, bookstore, and
college as well. For further information on upcoming circles he can be
contacted at
edward@... or see the website at
www.dreamweavingcircle.com
Copyright © by Edward Bonapartian
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Dream: Heading North
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DATE : 14 apr 2003 11:38
DREAM : heading north
=( last night was sunday. i finished writing the draft of the chapter on
WWW for the textbook which mohsen is writing. as with most projects
I attempt, i began it well but had increasing difficulty getting it
done. i start creative tasks easily, but the last five percent seems to
take more effort than all that goes before. it felt good to finally get
the last of the text written, so now i can reread and polish, find
illustrations. i started writing the PERL script which will take the many
little files of paragraphs, concatenate them with various levels of
formatting. mohsen wants copy in MS word and i have already decided to
make both an HTML and XML version of the material. the last, the XML, is
just to be certain that i am fluent enough in the horrible XSLT style
sheets to warrant the somewhat disparaging things i had to write about the
current directions coming out of the W3C organization. i did not get to
sleep until 05:30, feeling exhausted but still wound up from completing
this task. sleep did not come easy this night. )=
the steppes of siberia are a cold and forbidding place. almost no colors,
just shades of brown and gray. sometimes the aurora borealis comes almost
down to the ground like a sparkling fog of light, but not now. today is
just flat white sunlight with the long shadows of autumn. i am weary and
slogging it out the last distance until i get back to the village, just a
collection of rude huts gathered around a wide spot in the path across the
tundra.
i am glad to be finally back. i will be the last of the expedition to
check back in so we will be ready for the full expedition as soon as i can
check my gear, get some food and refreshment, and pack up to go. there are
a few rail tables set up on the edge of town, just there so we can repack
our backpacks. we had been told to go out on a vigorous day hike, each of
us in a different direction, a shakedown hike to test that our equipment
was properly packed and balanced.
the village shaman is a foreigner, a laplander who has followed the caribou
all over the arctic circle. he has formed up this expedition to travel
into the hard north ahead of us. he now watches as i unpack my gear,
checking that everything has remained where it ought to be. a bit of bone
or thread. a couple points of antler. canteen. a heavy set of spare
socks. everything has a purpose. the loss of some item might mean, at
best, loss of some function when we arrive. at worst, loss of life in the
unforgiving north lands ahead of us.
one of the other men over to my left is complaining bitterly and has thrown
down a guitar. it is a fender martin, electric guitar with shiny steel
strings. i had wondered about that object too. since we will have no
amplifiers or electricity to play it properly, why should he have to bear
the extra weight of the thing. if we are to need music at some point,
surely a small balalaika would tote better and make better sound when it is
needed.
the shaman shakes his head, already weary of the conversation. he picks up
the fallen instrument and patiently returns it to be repacked on the side
of the other man's gear. everything has been selected with care. nothing
is extra or spare.
i wish i could be certain of the reason for this expedition. we are to
head north and to keep going beyond all recognition of anyone now alive in
the village. the shaman is certain that we will encounter something.
something necessary, perhaps precious and perhaps threatening. it is out
there waiting but not for long. the cold white winter will set in soon and
we must be back before the snows get too deep to travel. the shaman can
not be more precise because his knowledge and certainty comes from his
dreams, and no one doubts the man who is slightly touched with thinness, so
he can see the other side of things.
=( i wake and the clock says 10:48. it takes me a little while to be sure
that i am awake and will not get back to sleep. i have few waking
associations with this content. no one had names nor was i familiar with
the few bleak men solemnly packing their gear around those tables on the
edge of town. just certainty that we were going north and no one quite
knew what to expect. i suppose there is a simple and straight forward
interpretation, relating to the academic task i have just finished and not
exactly knowing what fate it will have. i can not imagine that my writings
are what mohsen expected and do not know what result, if any, will come
from the labor. )=
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Message: 648-001
Subject: Dead Children
dream_title: Dead Children
dream_date: 2/26/03
dreamer_name: Nora
dream_text: I dreamed that I was standing in someones back yard when all of
a sudden this Red Glitterey Apperection out of thin air, it spoke to me
with a question aking me if I would like to know how it feels to be dead, I
replied Yes. I also mentioned that we could go and visit my grandmother who
has been gone for many years, he took me to this house, and I remember that
the floors were wooden and there were lights on and as we were going
through this doorway to enter a room, a child appeared and it was a young
boy about 6-7 yrs old, then the rest of the children appeared as we entered
the room, they were playing games like pinball machines or something, I
remember asking my guide if the children were all dead and he replied yes.
I remember just about as we were about to leave that there was another
child and then a dog came running out from somewhere in the house and I
again asked if the dog was dead he said yes. The children told me that they
were quite happy and loved being there, somehow that made me happy, all of
the children had smiles. My guide told me as we were leaving that I didn't
have to try and breath because it was not necessary, he then asked me if I
would like to see outside,and I said yes. It was bright and sunny, there
was a stream with all sorts of lush greenery and flowers, there was not a
breeze and it was not hot it was a great feeling of beauty and peace and
the grass was beautiful as I had never seen, the colors were magnificent,
the sky was blue, nothing but quiet all around, I kept looking for my
grandmother and then I woke up.
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Message: 648-002
Subject: LUST
dream_title: LUST
dream_date: 2-28-03
dreamer_name: DREAMWEAVER
dream_text: MAKING OUT WITH AN CO WORKER
dream_comments: AM I NOT HAPPY WITH MY HUSBAND
comments:
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Message: 648-003
Subject: bionic people
dream_title: bionic people
dream_date: november 2002
dreamer_name: riddick
dream_text: it all started with a weird looking robotic suit person saying
the car accident was caused by a shooting pill then it showed a whole bunch
of bionic people talking about the weird things they did over the years and
then it shows a bionic person with a straw skirt standing on white objects
with a weird looking city in the back. also his leks were arched and he was
pointing right at me then i woke up right in the darkness.
dream_comments: i enjoyed this dream somewhat.
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Message: 649-001
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Message: 650-001
Subject: The Door
Firstly Hi all hope you dont mind me joinin in.
Time of Dream 4 years ago
In my dream I was shown to this normal looking front door,and someone
or something was urging me to enter. When I went toward the door I got such
a feeling of terror I was so frightened of what was behind that door. Well
I woke up for real,had a few mins trying to shake it off then lay down
again and went to sleep. As soon as I did I was back at the same door with
the strongest compulsion to enter,but again such terror gripped me,I woke
up again and it must have took me an hour to get rid of the feeling of
terror I had. 3 years later the memory of that dream was still strong in my
mind and I now feel I know what it was about. 2 years ago I was diagnosed
as having Cancer,well you think death straight off,but a week later I had
accepted it, then I was cleared. 1 year later I was again very ill and
thought I was going to die,but I was only a bit scared for a day. So my
dream,it was either a way to take away a lot of my fear, or someone or
something gave me 2 more chances in life. Probably should,nt a put this on
this site,but I would like to know what others think. Myself I got The
Reaper tatto on my arm to mock him,but I wonder,will I see that door again.
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Message: 651-002
Subject: screaming faces
the dream started off in a large house. there were four males sitting in a
very decorated and expensive den. They were all talking about whether they
were in love with each other or not. at the time it was like i was watching
a movie, but the room began to spin... next we were all walking in a
parkinglot, (wallmart i think?) and the tall skinny man to my left was hit
by a car and everything began to spin again... back to the den....there was
this old man, ancient almost. he looked like he might be dead becuase his
skin was very pale, perhaps a shade of blue, he also had rotten teeth and a
hole in the side of his head, like a gunshot wound. he kept pointing at me
and yelling 'what evil have i done to you?" then just as he raised his hand
to slap me in the face, i woke up....... ne ideas? lemme know! snt
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Message: 651-003
Subject: slamming and screaming
i was in this large white room, the walls were very filthy. there was a
huge rusty metal door to my right and a chair in the center with broken
pieces of twine tied all over it. i heard the door slam, i looked over and
saw it closed. then it began to slam over and over again. i tried to keep
it close but i couldn't. then a little girl came over to me and touched my
hand, i let go of the door and she grabbed the door handle, when she did it
stopped slamming. then she slowly walked over to the chair and sat down.
the twine wrapped itself all over her like it was alive. she started
screaming and the door started slamming agian. then it was all quiet...'the
door has been opened'... she said in a low voice. her eyes widened and
began to turn the color of blood, she began to scream again..it was so
loud. the door slammed open one final time and this great smoky shadow
stepped inside... i tried to see his face, but there was nothing, only
darkness.i was so afraid. he started to hover above me and then fell
suddenly on top of me, i couldn't breath, the air turned thick and hurt my
lungs, as if i was breathing in poisen. i thought i was dying, then she
screamed again, and i woke up. -this dream really really scared me, hope
you can figure it out, cuz i surely can't!
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