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Volume #10 Issue #6

June 2003

ISSN# 1089 4284

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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
C.A.G.E. Dreaming
By Lucy Gillis

++ Article: Clothed With the Color of Flying
By Linda Lane Magallón

++ Column: A View from the Bridge
Report on the World Dreams Peace Bridge
By Jean Campbell

++ Newsletter: The Waves: 02. Dream Healing
By Nick Cumbo

++ Book Chapter: Toltec Active Dreaming Technique
from Cry of the Eagle
by Theun Mares.

++ Dream: "Finding My Book"
By Stan Kulikowski II



D R E A M S S E C T I O N : Volume #653 - #660
With Editors Elizabeth Westlake and Harry Bosma

D E A D L I N E :
June 18th deadline for July 2003 submissions


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Welcome to the June 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
dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or if you are interested in sharing dreams for world peace, please join the
World Dreams Peace Bridge http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org

It's Conference Time! If you haven't registered yet for the Twentieth
Annual International Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams
that will be sailing into Berkeley, California between June 27th and July
1, then stop right now and make your plans and get registered at
http://www.asdreams.org/2003
This is the most fabulous dream event on earth. There will be over a
hundred presentations and workshops, plus special events and the Annual
Dream Ball where you can come as your favorite dream person and dance with
a wide assortment of costumed dreamers.

This month in Electric Dreams, we have many columns and return authors, as
well as new entries.

Lucy Gillis offers Electric Dreams a selection from her Lucid Dream
Exchange. This month Craig Webb and Robert Waggoner offer two examples of
their lucid experiments from the Dream C.A.G.E. the realm of Challenges,
Aims, Goals, and Experiments. "Many lucid dreamers enjoy experimenting in
the lucid dream state and devise goals or experiments to perform when
lucid, by employing various dream incubation techniques. However, sometimes
an idea will come to the dreamer while he or she is within the dream. So,
with no pre-planing necessary, the dreamer proceeds to experiment."


"…the energy signal is color." And the signal is go, ready for take-off,
when you read Magallón's "Clothed With the Color of Flying." In this
excerpt from _Consistent Clues_, Linda discovers how color in dreams and
waking like work together to provide clues to where we are and what we want
to do. And what do dreamers love to do? Fly! So, learn how to surround
yourself with the colors of your desire and put on your red socks and
flyer's jumpsuit and get ready to take off on a dream flight like no other.

Jean Campbell, spokesperson for the international dreaming and outreach
group World Dreams Peace Bridge (WDPB) has a monthly report for us called
the View from the Bridge. This group is an excellent example of how the Net
can be used by dreamers to network with people of like interest around the
world and positively impact the lives of other on a global scale. From the
upcoming meetings in Berkeley at the 2003 ASD Conference to the
projects in Korea and Turkey, the View will clue you in on all the latest
projects and how to participate.

Nick Cumbo is back with a whole new newsletter. The Waves is a newsletter
reporting on the explorations of the Sea Life community. Sea Life, the main
web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring together a circle of dreamers from
around the globe, collaborating in dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with
and for the earth itself' In this issue, the vast topic of Dream Healing;
reporting on our own experiences, and looking at some of the potential
benefits it could bring to the health of our communities.

I'm including a chapter from a book _Cry of the Eagle_ even though it has
little to do with dreaming. The author, Theun Mares, *calls* his technique
"dreaming" which is what drew my attention to it, but its best for
dreamwork folk to substitute in for dream the phrase "active imagination"
or "imaginative technique state." I'm including the chapter excerpt as I
found the technique excellent for my dream recall and conducive to lucid
dreaming. Note that Magallón identifies color as an important cue in
learning flying dreams, a technique that is core to the Mares process. I
think by dropping some of the universal spirit references, you will find
Mares techniques will enrich your imagination's aesthetic appreciation and
increase and enhance your lucid dreaming. The selection is called "Toltec
Active Dreaming Technique."


Stan Kulikowski's dream journal continues. This month Stan's selection is
titled "Finding My Book." The dream might be called a "recession" dream,
as it occurs in the midst of a USA and global economic recession and
expresses many of the concerns that evolve from these conditions, as well
as dropping below these issues into the tunnels of the psyche.


Cover at:
http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed10-6cov.jpg

The cover this month is from Adam Morris, a recent college graduate who is
now programming surgical robots. "I keep busy with ballroom dancing,
hiking in the mountains and attempting to learn how to paint."

"In November of last year, I began logging my dreams and I discovered a
whole new world I hadn't realized existed. Currently I am trying to learn
the art of lucid dreaming, in hopes to further develop this source of
creativity."

Adam maintains a weblog of these dreams at
www.erumpent.com/spark/dreams.html


Elton John concerts, pennies with the eyes cut out, and famous Belgian
monuments signal the end of the world. Is this the Evening News or a
Surrealist painting? No, it's the Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION! This
section is beautifully edited by Elizabeth Westlake [with the help of Harry
Bosma's editor program].

If you have dreams you want published, don't send them to Elizabeth
directly, but rather enter them in the form at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Or you can put them in the dream flow directly by subscribing
to: dream-flow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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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

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Don't' forget to register! The 2003 ASD International Dream Conference in
Berkeley is July 27- June 1. http://www.asdreams.org/2003

Also, ASD now has an online auction where you can buy and sell items, the
benefits going to support ASD. Please stop by the auction at
http://www.asdreams.org/auction/


-Richard Wilkerson

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If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats,
web@.... Visit Global Dreaming News online at
http://www.dreamtree.com/


This Month's Features:

NEWS
-- ASD Conference June 27-July 1
-- Book: "Cry of the Eagle"
-- Liquid Dream Dream Journal
-- Sleep Medicine Giant Calls it Quits
-- 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of REM Sleep

RESEARCH & REQUESTS
-- Dream Project Seeking Dream Artists
-- How Will Machines Dream?


WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
-- Doctor Hugo's Fuzzy Dreams
-- Dreamshe
-- David Jenkins: Practical Dreamwork

DREAM CALENDAR



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>>>>20th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams
June 27 - July 1, 2003
Berkeley, California


Dreaming by the Bay - Over 100 events over five days, including workshops,
papers, panels, symposia, art, and multimedia shows!

DREAM FILM FESTIVAL: At this year's conference, ASD will offer an expanded
dream film festival ( we supply the popcorn!) with nearly continuous
showings of feature and documentary films. With the help of dream film
gurus, Drs. Bernard Welt, Deirdre Barrett, Jim Pagel, and Kelly Bulkeley,
ASD will offer commentaries, symposia, and even repeat showings of popular
dream-oriented films ranging from Le Guin's, The Lathe of Heaven, to
Bunuel, Hitchcock, Sayles, Dr. Suess, the Rugrats, Star Trek episodes and
much more. Highly requested documentaries such as the Wise Old Dog, The
Power of Dreams, and Goodnight Moon will also be included.

SUNSET DREAM CRUISE ON THE BAY: As a special treat at this year's
conference, ASD will offer a cruise on the San Francisco Bay. From a dock,
right at the hotel, you will set sail into the sunset to savor the
spectacular views, and the sights and sounds of the bay. This is a rare
opportunity to share an evening with friends and colleagues from the
conference.

CE PROGRAM: ASD will be offering 30 Continuing Education (CE) Credits from
the ASD Dream Studies Continuing Education Program which will include
in-depth clinical and interpretive workshops with Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D.;
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.; Ernest Hartmann, M.D. Alan Siegel, Ph.D.; Roger
Knudson, Ph.D., Paul Lippman, Ph.D. ; Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D. Min.

BOOK SALES AND AUTHOR SIGNINGS: Browse through dream-related books and
obtained personalized signed copies from world-famous authors.

JURIED ART EXHIBIT: The deadline for submitting work to the 2003 Dream Art
Show is March 1, 2003. Artists may submit up to ten slides of their work.
For more information check the ASD web site, E-mail Richard Russo, M.A. at
RR@... or send a SASE to Richard Russo, 835 Peralta St. Berkeley, CA
94707.

HOT OFF THE PRESS RESEARCH: The conference will include one or more
"Hot-off-the-Press" sessions, during which individuals will be given five
minutes to present recent research findings.

2003 CONFERENCE COMPUTER CAFE
The online 2003 Computer Cafe will offer quick access to many conference
events and presentations, including the 2003 Dream Art
Exhibit, Presentation Abstracts, Conference Program Schedules and the
Annual Dream Telepathy Contest. You can access the cafe via the 2003
Conference website at http://www.asdreams.org/2003


>>> Cry of the Eagle - Theun Mares
The Toltec Teachings - Volume 2 - 2nd Edition
ISBN 1 919792 13 9
$14.95

The book's chapters on dreaming are of great value to anyone with an
interest in the study of dreams and dream interpretation. They include how
to set up Toltec active (lucid) dreaming, the different types of passive
dreams, many examples of dream interpretation, and a full list of Universal
Dream Symbols. (Download dream symbols from website). They represent a
fascinating and practical guide, as well as an important reference work on
dreaming.

One does need to translate "dreaming" here to mean "active imagination."

The Chapters on Dreaming Include:

The Technique of Dreaming: A description of Toltec active (lucid) dreaming,
and how to achieve this state, safely and effectively.
Passive dreaming, including the different types of passive dreams.
A Guide To Dreaming: Including how to work with dates and time.
A List of Universal Dream Symbols (download below) Examples of dream
interpretation for both active and passive dreams. Cry of the Eagle is an
invaluable book, not only for students of the Warrior's Path, but also for
anyone with a serious interest in the study of dreams, lucid dreaming and
dream interpretation.

For more information or to order online, please visit
www.toltec-foundation.org


>>> Liquid Dream Dream Journal
http://www.liquid-dream.com/

Liquid Dream II is a dream journal which can help you to: remember your
dreams more vividly understand what they mean learn the lessons presented
in them guide your conscious awareness into a dream remind you that you are
dreaming whilst you are dreaming and ultimately help you have full control
over your dream state. Liquid Dream II is the first wave of a series of
programs designed to expand mass awareness. The development of Liquid Dream
II was heavily influenced by the progressive melodolical transcendental
music genre. Liquid Dream II is designed as a tool to help you have lucid
dreams. The word lucid is defined as clarity, especially of thought. In
regard to dreaming it refers to a state in which you are aware that you are
dreaming, whilst you dreaming.


>>> Sleep Medicine Giant Calls it Quits.

From Stanford Report, March 19, 2003 : Sleep legend Dement keeps last
class wide awake "Father of Sleep Medicine" took his research from the lab
to the classroom to TV and beyond: By MICHELLE L. BRANDT

Dement said earlier in the day that there is no single reason for his
decision to stop teaching ("Iíve got to quit some time," he noted),
although the 50th anniversary of the observation of REM "seemed like a good
time."

William Dement, MD, PhD, the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has been involved in every aspect of
sleep and dreams for nearly as many years. After his work in the
University of Chicago sleep labs where Aserinsky and Klietmann discovered
(or re-discovered) R.E.M. in 1953, the rapid eye movement associated with
dreaming, Dement began teaching his famous Sleep and Dreams course at
Stanford. He came into the public attention again recently with his
campaign to get America to sleep, and educating the public on the dangers
of sleep deprivation.

According to Brandt's article, Dement claims to have taught the course to
over 15,000 students. In his last lecture on March 12, , "..more than
1,000 people, including many of Dement's friends and former students, piled
into Memorial Auditorium for the class, which is typically one of the
university's largest."

Brandt further reported that after taking the stage, Dement cancelled the
last final exam (leading a deafening cheer). He showed some videos,
including Dement's 1974 appearance on "The Johnny Carson Show" and another
of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle saying Dement's slogan,
"Drowsiness is a Red Alert."
"Pajama-clad members of the Stanford Band ran on stage and danced with
Dement before he said his final good-bye ("Tick-tock, we've come to the
final moment," he sighed)"


>> 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of REM Sleep

2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of REM sleep. Visit these
websites honoring that discovery:

http://www.bfp-fbp.be/BPS/symposium.htm

A special symposium will be held during the annual meeting It was be
jointly organized by the Belgian Psychological Society (BPS) and the
Belgian Association for the Study of Sleep (BASS).

This symposium took place during the year in which the 50th anniversary of
the discovery of REM sleep (Science, 1953) will be celebrated. It brought
together internationally renowned researchers on a hot topic: "The
Cognitive Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreaming":


http://www.sleepresearchsociety.org/about/president.php
Sleep Research Society and R.E.M. Anniversary

Sleep Research Society Board has been hard at work to begin a process of
strategic planning as well as to prepare for their upcoming celebration of
the 50th anniversary of the discovery of REM sleep. As a first step in
looking towards the future, they have focused on creating a structure that
will allow the SRS to achieve its primary goal of promoting the field of
sleep research.


http://www.apss.org/pprogramwelcome.htm


The 17th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies
returns to the great city of Chicago, from June 3rd through June 8th, 2003.
The meeting commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of REM sleep
by Eugene Aserinsky and Nathanial Kleitman at the University of Chicago. It
is also a historic joint meeting with the World Federation of Sleep
Research Societies. This combination of special circumstances ensures that
this will be the biggest APSS meeting ever. The scientific program will
include sessions designed to highlight the progress made in the fields of
sleep science and sleep medicine since the discovery of REM sleep,
beginning with the scientific keynote presentations by William C. Dement,
M.D., Ph.D. and Michel Jouvet, M.D. at the opening plenary session. The
program will also feature presentations of the best and most recent basic
and clinical sleep science from around the world.


http://www.sleepaus.on.net/meetings.html

Australian Sleep Society
The Associated Professional Sleep Societies' (APSS) 17th Annual Meeting
will be held June 3-8, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago,
Illinois, USA. The APSS is delighted at the opportunity to have the World
Federation of Sleep Research Societies (WFSRS) join us for this meeting.
The 2003 meeting marks an important date in the history of sleep medicine
and research. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery
of REM sleep!




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>> The Dream Projects is looking for Dream Artists
http://www.thedreamproject.org/

The dream project is artistic rendering of the dream landscape, encouraging
dreamers and dream artists.
A small army of illustrators and animators are mapping out our
dreams. They hope to use this map to navigate and explore the collective
unconscious, to become inspired, and to gain insight into what makes us
tick in the dead of night. The Dream Project is calling on artists who are
willing to explore the surreal and put their art on display. If you like, a
dream will be provided, and you need only make the map. Mediums can include
(but are not limited to):pencil, Flash, paint, clay, Director, Photoshop,
collage, Quicktime, series of still images, and handpuppets. Interested?
email dreamers@... for more information.


>> How will machines dream?
Electric Dreams Research Survey

In the January 97 issue of 21-C: Scanning the Future, Darren Tofts asks a
variety of people if androids will dream. "Trapped within the enigma of
Philip K. Dick's query [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?] is the
conundrum of being. For within his machine's struggle for humanity is our
own philosophical quest for the nature of existence and the acknowledgement
of the self."

However, the answers received from the digiteratti were banal and dull,
hopelessly stuck on the question of whether or not machines can be
conscious or not. Clearly the respondents knew very little about dreaming
as a process, subjectively or objectively.

So, let's fast forward through this question and just assume the
positive, that some machines in the future will be dreaming, either by
design, necessity or mutated nature. Now he question becomes "How will
androids dream of electric sheep?"

Give it your best shot, be bizarre, mutant, radical. (if you like,
you can include why you think machines must dream, but what I most
essentially would like to see is HOW you feel machines might dream.)

Please add the following to your answer if you are willing:

"I give permission to Electric Dreams to reproduce and publish my answer
to 'How will androids dream of electric sheep?'" Name or
Penname: _______________ and Name or Penname to be used on
EDreams: _______________

Send to rcwilk@...





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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

>>> 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.

>>> David Jenkins: Practical Dream Work
www.practicaldreamwork.com

David Jenkins offers "20 Dream Techniques" in which he gives practical
explanations of ways you can work and play with dreams. David offers
telephone consultations, teaches and does group and individual dream work
in Berkeley, California. His philosophy: dreams are like bananas, they come
in bunches -- meaning that most dreams are part of a series, the previous
dreams tell you something about this one and the next dreams will tell you
more.


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May 30 in Boulder, CO
Dreaming in the Light, with Jeremy Taylor. For more information or to
register for the class:
Call 303-245-4800, or log onto www.naropa.edu/extend
E-mail: extend@...

Jun 20 in New York, NY
Dream Yoga and Lucidity Workshop with Dr. Michael Katz, editor of "Dream
Yoga" and author of "The White Dolphin". Sponsored by the Dzogchen
Community of New York. To register contact 212 -755-8732 or email
zak10016@...


Jun 27-Jul 1 in Berkeley, CA
20th Annual International Conference of the Association for the Study of
Dreams. For more information, visit www.asdreams.org



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An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange

By Lucy Gillis


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Welcome to the Dream C.A.G.E.! where we feature Challenges, Aims, Goals,
and Experiments. Many lucid dreamers enjoy experimenting in the lucid dream
state and devise goals or experiments to perform when lucid, by employing
various dream incubation techniques. However, sometimes an idea will come
to the dreamer while he or she is within the dream. So, with no pre-planing
necessary, the dreamer proceeds to experiment.


Below is a sampling of dreams from the C.A.G.E.; one pre-planned and two
which seem to be initiated from within the dream state.



Craig Webb
Lucid experiment: can I stop breathing? + mirror
Date: 2002-3-17


Incubation: I would like to try a lucid experiment to see if (a) I breathe
in the dream, (b) I need to breathe in dreams.


Coming through the kitchen at my childhood home, I suddenly realize that I
might be dreaming, though the scene seems so true to waking life that I
can't seem to believe it. The dishwasher is in the middle of the floor
there and so I leap over it to see, though I'm a little hesitant in case I
come crashing down on the other side. No problem. I float nicely and feel
so amazed. I bob around a bit.


I remember the experiment I wanted to try, and look how real the whole room
feels. Amazing! I feel that I am indeed breathing and that it's connected
with my sleeping body in bed, so I'm too nervous to see if I can stop it. I
do however run my finger along the floor and feel its smooth finish ever so
clearly. Amazing.


The hall mirror catches my attention and so I head over to really look at
myself and see what I look like. I can see myself clearly from far away and
I do indeed look like me, but as I near and try to look at my face close
up, the eyes seem to be covered with this fog or mist on the mirror, no
matter where I move. My nose seems larger than it should be with pronounced
blackheads also. Odd. I turn my head sideways and the nose is still the
same and I still can't see the eyes. Very interesting. I slowly awaken or
shift into another dream.


Robert Waggoner
Mirror of Reincarnated Selves
January 29-30 2003


I believe earlier in the dream I was talking with Donald L. about his new
position; he states that he wants to quit doing any work on his old
position and devote himself entirely to the new one. I wonder if that will
work.


I go into a room, and prepare to leave for a trip. There's a very large and
complicated stereo system, which I turn off -- but it has three 'off'
buttons for the various components. I get them turned off and head down the
stairs. As I turn through the first room, there is a shapely young blonde
in a royal blue dress at a school desk, who catches my eye. I turn, and it
occurs to me, "This is a dream!"


For a moment, I get that amorous feeling, and begin to take off the gloves
I'm wearing. I decide to ignore the feeling. I turn and start heading for
the doorway, when I notice a blackboard-size mirror to my left. I stop and
look at it, wondering how I look in this dream. It is a bit fuzzy, so I
decide to use this mirror to learn about past reincarnational selves. I
say, "Show me past reincarnations of my self!" As I finish, two faces begin
to emerge on the mirror; both in their 30's. The one on the right is a man
with brown hair and a full beard - he looks directly at me and seems to be
quite full of energy. To guess, I would say he is Spanish. The man on the
left comes through, but he seems less energetic looking. He is balding and
has very thin blonde hair on his more rounded, pale, face. I mentally
encourage myself to remember these faces completely. I wonder if the pale
face guy is a younger version of the "Dutch" man that I had seen in a
previous lucid dream.


A third face is coming through on the far left, but it seems as if it is
having a problem becoming concrete or focused. It fades away. I go back to
the woman in blue, and ask her a question (I believe I ask her if she would
like to see past reincarnation selves). I begin to take off my gloves
again. She responds, but the dream is slipping away. I wake.


(Note: The first face of the man with the beard seemed familiar. I believe
his face is the one I saw in a lucid dream about 10 years ago in which "I"
was sitting in a large ornate wooden chair that had a triangular mirror at
the top. When I stopped and looked in the mirror, I was very surprised to
see this bearded young man looking back at me. I had the feeling that he
was involved in the church, somehow. He was pretty intense.


The second man looks quite a bit like a dream character that I have seen in
normal and lucid dreams. I feel like he is a Dutch trader - much more
sedate and contemplative, and balding! In a future dream, I hope to engage
these characters in conversation and ask them questions.)


Katie
January 15 2003


I had a long dream about Maureen; some kind of hostility or threat that I
eventually got away from. Then I'm looking at a window and it comes to me
that it's a dream. I put my arm through the window to test it, yes, I'm
dreaming. Delighted, I fly through. I fly over to my parent's house,
there's a group of people standing around by the crabapple tree, maybe an
impromptu party of family and neighbors. I tell them I'm dreaming and try
to decide what to do.


I decide to die and ask for their help. We try hanging me from the
crapapple tree but the limb is rotten and gives way. Mom tries whacking me
over the head with a glass bottle but that doesn't work. I think it's Dad
that comes up with the idea of carbon monoxide poisoning. We do the car in
the garage with a hose in the tailpipe trick. It's a big old beige station
wagon like we had when I was a kid. I lie down and wait, and eventually,
deliciously, get sleepy and floaty.


I float up into the air in ecstasy; the clouds are a very big part of this,
the beauty of them, soft fleecy transparent ones. I come to Heaven and
float around enjoying the beauty. Lots of very tall buildings, like
sandstone with dark green trim, but they're spaced far enough apart that
everything is light and airy.


I'm enjoying this a lot but decide I'd like to see God. I spy a cluster of
buildings, dominated by a pointy one, both off in the distance and higher
up in the air. I do my trick where I determine a spot and arrive at it
rather than physically fly (as I'd been doing earlier, flap-flap like a
bird straight up). I do this in short increments rather than all at once.


Everything's bright and sunny. There's people around like a campus. At
regular intervals on either side of the path are these translucent orange
hemispheres about the size of an orange half. I ask no one in particular,
"What are those?" and a man walking by answers me, naming some kind of
food, and a woman coming the other way says, "String cheese", so I take it
that they're food that tastes like whatever you want it to (manna?).
The spacing of them and the size of them is just irregular enough to
indicate that they're handmade and also set out by hand. I bite into one -
it tastes like it looks, like a kind of orange-flavored, gelatin candy.


There's a lot of pigeons around too, the sun making their neck feathers
glint green and purple. "All these pigeons and no bird shit," I say to
myself, "this must be heaven!" I go in the pointy building. There's a huge
set of double doors, unornamented but in a pretty wood like cherry.


I push through these and get to another, and another, and another, one of
those annoying dream blocks I get when lucid. I break this by a verbal
announcement that I want to get past, I think, and stepped up determination
to get on with the dream.


I come to a corridor that goes off to my right; immediately off of this
there's a large room with a lot of people around a table who stop what
they're doing and look up at me in surprise. I say, "I'm new, where do I go
to, uh, check in?" They tell me to go on down the hall. I think I'm calling
for God, then I hear God calling, "Katie, is that you? Where are you?"


A little wandering around while the voice wanders too trying to meet up,
ending up back near the conference room, whereupon I meet God, who is an
infant Asian boy with gross motor disabilities. Either he's got deformed
arms and legs, or else can't use them (he's in a one-piece red romper).


But what he can do, and does several times, is somehow use his muscles to
spin in a complete circle so that he begins lying face up and ends lying
face up, spinning around a vertical axis (parallel to floor). He's grinning
and cheerful flipping himself around. I'm under-whelmed. I say to a bearded
old man in a blue turban, "That's God?" Seeming alarmed that I'm not
impressed, he offers me kits to make other Gods, Buddhist or Hindu,
presumably whatever. The kits have sparkly beads and so on, arts and crafts
kinds of things.


"So what you're trying to say," I summarized, "is that we make our own
gods. In other words we are God." (My brother has been talking a lot about
this perspective in real life lately and gave me a book to read on it,
which I haven't started.) I was kind of bored and annoyed and disappointed
and that's where the dream ended.


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Clothed With the Color of Flying
© 2003 Linda Lane Magallón
(Excerpted from "How To Fly")

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A strong self-suggestion backed by an intense visualization can induce a
flying dream. But it takes a lot of effort. After a busy work day, effort
is the least thing available as I prepare for sleep. My energetic movements
occur in the midst of the day. So if labeling and picturing my intent at
day's end doesn't fully do the trick, which of the Consistent Clues can
show me how to ride the vigor of waking life into sleep? It turns out that
the sign is based on form. But the energy signal is color.

Trading Places

The selected picture is not the only target in a dream telepathy
experiment. As the facilitator, my waking or dreaming life often attracts
the interest of the participants. One Saturday night in 1985, I "sent" a
picture of a skydiver to a class at the Dream Training Institute of San
Francisco. Then, on Monday night, I had this dream:

"Inside a car with other people, we are going exceedingly fast...Our car is
a large white sedan driven by a short dark haired woman. At times I am
soaring over the car, keeping pace with it."

The night after my white car dream, I attended the class as a guest speaker
on dream telepathy. The class shared their experiment dreams before I
revealed the picture to them. One of the members, Melinda Nelson, had a
dream that caught the airborne theme of the target picture quite nicely.
But the particulars more nearly echoed the dream I'd had. In addition, she
had some waking images to share. On her dream report she wrote:

"During the day, around 4:30 P.M., I have an image of a car, small to
mid-size, maybe the size of a Japanese compact, yet American made, going up
a slight hill. The surroundings are countrylike with green hills and no
other cars around.

"In the early A.M. I have a dream in which I'm driving a mid-sized newish
compact car with light interior at night with the stars out. I am going up
a slightly rolling hill, surrounded by a countrylike setting, as above.
Suddenly a woman who looks similar to Linda Magallón comes flying through
the roof of the car (like O. J. Simpson in the Hertz commercial) and
settles into the passenger seat. She's busy with her notebook, pen and
research notes and keeps her focus on her notes. She doesn't actually say
"Hello," yet there is a friendly sense. She has something in her hair:
either a pencil behind her ear and/or plastic curlers, just a few on top of
her head. She seems to be focused on correlating figures on a few sheets of
paper."

Of course, Melinda's dream was describing how I approach the analysis of my
dream telepathy experiments. I was particularly amused by Melinda's
description of my entrance into her dream. She had borrowed the style from
a Hertz rent-a-car commercial that was running on TV.

When we talked further, Melinda said she thought her dream car had been
white in color. Same color as my dream! Then, before I could comment, she
asked, "Do you have a maroon bathrobe?" for that was what she had seen me
wearing in her dream. It wasn't surprising that she would dream of me
clothed in such attire. I was wearing a bathrobe while I sent the picture,
curled up on my bed.

"No," I replied with a grin. "I have a white bathrobe and a new burgundy
Honda!" Melinda had pulled a neat switcheroo with her dream symbols, but
had the correct essence of my situation. The colors were right. They had
just traded places.

Hide and Seek in the Sky

It is true, that when I drive the freeway, I really "fly" down the road.
Besides the highway, there's another place in waking life where I always
feel like I'm flying. And that sensation easily converts to flying dreams,
too. I used the Consistent Clues of shape, motion, label and color to
discover the source in this dream that occurred one balmy summer night
during the previous year.

"The area is countrylike with green trees and grass. A small airplane,
high-winged, like a Cessna, takes off flying. I follow, keeping pace. Then
I see a new, modern red two-seater up ahead. I fly above the tops of
eucalyptus trees to investigate. The plane I leave behind is disappointed
and thinks I'm impressed by the newer, flashier models.

"I fly on the right side of the red plane, then over and above it to the
left, and back to the right. The plane is surprised. I wave and smile,
flying on ahead. I bank to the right, showing that I fly just like an
airplane. "Red" follows me because it is fascinated that I can fly without
a vehicle around me.

"I dip down towards a field, then try to rise to clear the trees at the far
end. Line or wires appear horizontally across the sky. I think, "Oh, no!"
I've got to get over them, beyond them, and fly free. With effort, I rise
past tree-top level beyond the wires and towards the blue sky. I am now
flying above hill level. I sense that "red" is on my tail. I don't like this.

"The countryside below is hills of dry grass and two-lane roads. Off to the
left, on a hill, are two towers. One is a brick or stone cylinder with a
tong-like structure on top. I bank to the left and towards it. The plane
flies around it to the right as I fly left. Passing the cylinder, I do a
quick downward spiral in order to place the cylinder between me and the
plane. Behind the top of the cylinder I float, moving to keep myself hidden
from the plane as it changes position.

"The plane asks, 'Where is she?' and loops to the right and heads back my
way. I descend down the side of the cylinder, then feeling I've gone too
low, levitate back up. When the plane is back on course, I fly up behind
it, approaching from below and rising above. I feel pleased because I'm in
a better position to see it."

The twisting, turning "plane" in my dream was acting like a person! That
intrigued me. In addition to recording the dream text, I did a quick sketch
of the "tong-like structure." Then I went looking through the house for
that form. The eucalyptus trees behind the house drew my search outside.
There was most certainly a "cylinder" in the back yard, although it was
made of plastic and metal. It was the above-ground swimming pool. At the
top of it were the railings of the step ladder that allowed people to climb
in and out of the pool. The upper board, or landing, of the ladder plus its
railings were the "tong" shape of my dream.

Due to the hot weather, my children and I had spent quite a bit of time in
the pool the day before. We were splashing water, diving underneath the
surface and playing "chase" games with a blue ball and each other, in and
out of the pool. My daughter Teresa was wearing a bright red swimsuit. She
was the red plane in my dream.

Swimming provided the sensation of flight. The Clues to discovery were the
*shape* of the pool and ladder, the *motion* of running and diving, the
correct *label* of the trees and the brightest *color* in the scene. Just
like Teresa's swimsuit, that plane was really red!

The Lime Green Suit

Most often, when I see color in dreams, there's a literal connection. I
dream of a friend wearing purple because that's her favorite color and I've
seen her in it often. I dream of orange fish because the ones swimming
around in our fish tank are that color. When I go searching a dream
dictionary, I can certainly find "black" and "white" as well as the primary
colors such as "red" and "blue." But what about the zillion other hues like
maroon and burgundy? It was an uncommon tint lead me to unlock the
significance for this dream, also from 1985:

"I'm wearing a bathrobe, but I wonder what I can wear to appear sharp and
businesslike in my new dreamworker role. I suddenly remember a lime green
suit I used to wear. I go to the closet to find it. On the top shelf I see
something that color. Is it a hat to go with the suit? No, it's a roll of
material...(I look further and find the suit.)

"The lime suit looks in good shape. It's made of wool and has a black
pullover to go with it. At first the suit looks like it has a neckline of
black, see-through nylon, but then it changes to a sweater with leather
patches, very rich and thick."

Because I was trying to understand dream interpretation, I attempted to
find the "meaning" of the color. Although the dream dictionaries listed
green and yellow, there was no lime green. Typical. I tried to link with
lime the fruit and lime the mineral and...No luck.

As I continued to dredge the details from memory, the first picture in my
mind was of a lime green suit, period. When I reread what I'd written, I
remembered that black neckline. Then I realized the style was the same as a
suit I had made just before I left for college. It was the most complicated
piece of clothing I'd ever sewn and I was very proud of the accomplishment.
My waking suit had had a similar charcoal border. It was the same shape as
the dream suit. But it had been a different color. So why did I dream up
the lime green?

I wasn't wearing business suits at the time, and a consideration of its
"good shape" didn't provide me any clues. So, instead of form, I decided to
concentrate on color. I walked around the house, looking, not for any-ole'
green, but that specific, brilliant, almost phosphorescent, lime green.

And there it was, lying on the coffee table. The most recent issue of the
*Reality Change* newsletter was black ink on lime green paper. Its title
had a black border. The newsletter contained the first article on dreams
I'd ever written and I was very proud of it. Duh. It's so obvious once I
make the connection.

The article was accompanied by a formal portrait of me, which ran for each
of the several issues in which I wrote articles for R. C. A few years
later, I would take a less formal picture, wearing a thick sweater vest, so
it makes sense to me that I would dream of the lime green suit morphing
into a sweater. But what about its "leather" components?

Pern

I am a fan of Anne McCaffrey's books, especially her "Dragonflyers of Pern"
series, and had been thinking about one of her novels before I went to bed
that same year. My dream borrowed heavily from the story line:

"I'm with a group of people: at least one woman with long, dark hair and a
blonde man. They are dressed in leather and cotton feudal outfits. We have
journeyed to the Southern Continent of Pern to find out about the
"scientific researchers" who landed here from Earth many years ago.

"Now, I'm back in a town in a canyon on the Northern Continent, dressed in
a multi-layered peasant dress, with leather boots and vest and peasant
blouse. The townspeople are out in the town square, looking up at something
caught on the corner roof of a building.

"I walk over to the building with a rope swung over my shoulder. I throw a
loop up to the corner of the building, then shimmy up the rope so easily
it's as if I'm levitating. Then I whip out a knife, and cut the restraining
line that had been attached to the roof. I am slightly concerned that I've
had to wear a dress while performing this maneuver. The townspeople are
duly impressed.

"I drop down to the ground and stride out in confidence, heading toward an
open area at the far end of town. From the midst of the town square crowd
the blonde haired man joins me. He asks me a question. I respond with a
single word. I have been picking up the language of Pern pretty quickly,
although I've only been here for a short while. The language of Pern is
similar to English, because it's a future development of that language. And
sometimes I use telepathy to help me translate a word or two."

I really liked the style of the dress I wore in the dream. But I thought it
was made of animal hides, since it was colored brown. An actual dress of
that construction would have been hot, heavy and expensive, so I didn't
even begin to think of sewing it. However, a couple of years later, I
walked into Macy's department store and there, perched high on a display
shelf over the door, was the dress! From a distance, it had a leather look,
but up close I saw that it was actually made of cotton. Brown, with long
folded panels of material and a low bodice, it had a medieval flair. So I
bought it and wore it to a Renaissance Fair. Perfect! I even wore it to
work, where it got rave reviews. Or at least raised eyebrows.

Jumpsuits

By this time it had become obvious that, whether literal or symbolic,
colorful clothing could show up in my dreams spontaneously and many of
those dreams were related to the flying theme. What would happen if I
deliberately donned clothes during the day with the intent to go flying at
night? The most obvious option was an aviator's suit, but that seemed too
bulky to permit easy movement, even in waking life. And it wouldn't have
fit the dress code of the work place very well.

So I decided on a more feminine alternative, the jumpsuit, a one piece
blouse-and-pants combination. I bought several over the next four years:
black, white, turquoise, purple and green. Every one of them was
incorporated into a flying dream. I dreamt I could fly just because I was
wearing that turquoise jumpsuit. Wearing the green made me a mundane
airplane passenger, but when I put on the violet, I became a purple sprite.
The white version was a super suit for both me and another dream character
(in waking life she liked to wear white, too).

But the winner for inducing the most flying dreams was the black jumpsuit.
So I made sure I bought a replacement when the first one wore out. Black
worked well during the cold months; I switched to white for spring and
summer. Either way, I wore them with boots. After all, Superman wears
boots, doesn't he? But my boots were black, whereas his were red. That
didn't deter me, however. At Christmas time, I bought a pair of knee-high
red socks to wear underneath the boots. Then one cold winter night, I wore
them to bed. That's when I discovered the Red Socks Technique.

Red Socks

Whenever I wore the red knee-high socks, I'd simply sleep the night away,
deep as I pleased. The socks warmed my feet and dried my mouth, gradually
making my body uncomfortable, and thus allowing me to come back to the
waking state very, very gradually. This usually happened about 4 or 5 A. M.

Because I came to consciousness so slowly, I was closer to the sleep state
than the waking. It was quite easy to do an about-turn and head right back
into the dream. Sometimes I was so drowsy, I could even get up, go to the
bathroom and return to bed to dream. In that case, I stretched out on the
bed in a flying position and took on the attitude and alignment of
Superman-style flight. I tensed myself mentally into a super ball of
strength and gave myself the strong suggestion to go lucid.

Then, I dived into the dream. Sometimes I could go directly from
hypnogogia, literally propelling myself into the imagery in order to start
a lucid flying dream. Sometimes there was a break in consciousness;
afterwards I simply found myself in a lucid dream, and I could launch
flight from there.

Clothing of Flight

I think clothing inspires flight because it's a suggestion that literally
surrounds me during the entire day. Even if I don't mentally recall my
flying intent, my body surely does. The most effective method is to give
myself the strong self-suggestion as I'm getting dressed in the morning
(when I still recall some of the feelings of sleep). In a way, it's like
"loading" a talisman with magic. But it's not a teeny bit of symbol on a
string around my neck. It's a whole body icon. Awake or asleep, it places
me fully into the middle of the action.


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Peace Train Steams Into Berkeley Station

A View from the Bridge - May 2003

Jean Campbell

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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/monthyupdates.htm



For those of you who are planning to attend the annual Association for the
Study of Dreams conference being held this year between June 27 and July 1
at the Radisson Hotel in Berkeley, California,
[asdreams.org/2003] you won't want to miss either the Dreams and Peace
Trains Workshop being conducted on Monday night by Jeremy Seligson, May
Tung, and Jean Campbell, or the display of Peace Trains from around the
world. The Peace Trains will be on display in the common areas of the
conference throughout the week.

But the Peace Train Project, begun by The World Dreams Peace Bridge last
August, has been picking up steam in more areas than one. Exciting news
has reached the Peace Bridge recently from both Korea and Turkey, as
dreamers from the Bridge continue to explore ways to dream the world toward
peace.

Let me quote from a May 12 e-mail written from the original Peace Train
dreamer, Jeremy Seligson to UNESCO in Seoul:

"Dear Mrs. Yeon,

Could you please forward this explanation to your counter-part in
UNESCO North Korea. It would be wonderful if North Korean children could
draw pictures of peace and make their own North Korean Children's Peace
Train which could link up with the South Korean Children's Peace Train and
make one Korean Children's Peace Train of it. What a good example they
could set for the adults on both sides."

Jeremy states in an enclosed article, the purpose of Peace Trains:

"The Peace Train is a dream on behalf of the people and other creatures of
this planet, and especially for the children and future generations who
will inherit the condition of life on Earth from us. It is a dream of love
and prosperity, of harmony and joy, of self-confidence and personal
security. It is a dream of a co-operative family, local and world
community, one that creates an environment for respectful settlement of
disputes. And it began with an actual dream I had on July 26th, 2002...."

Jeremy goes on to explain:

"The first trains began rolling in from children in South Korea. It was
here that the World Children's Peace Train first began, with art works
collected by my students at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in
Seoul. They went out to playgrounds, elementary and middle school
classrooms, Sunday schools, art schools, youth groups and other places to
lead Peace Train workshops, collect and construct trains together with the
children. The children made Peace Trains and at the same time received
Peace Training. They learned to express their own desires and feelings for
peace, as well as to work together with others on a project for peace, a
project which was part of a greater design, involving children around the
whole world....

"It is apt that the Peace Train begin in Seoul, Korea, because this is
perhaps the most dangerous place in the world to live, being faced with the
moment by moment threat of annihilation by the missiles and artillery of
the North Korean military, stationed just some 230 kilometers away...."

The most recent stop for the Korean Peace Train was at the International
Fair in May at the International School in Seoul, where a Peace Train
exhibit graced the walls of the gym where the fair was held. Jeremy has
also been interviewed recently for a Peace Train documentary by a Korean
journalist, who is currently studying in London.

More exciting Peace Train news came in mid-May from Ilkin Sungu in
Turkey. At a picnic, she struck up a conversation with the wife of a
childhood friend, who turned out to be the national director of the
Education Volunteers Association, a group which sponsors after-school and
summer programs for school children all over Turkey.

So excited was this new friend about the Peace Train Project and its
potential, that she immediately asked Ilkin to put together a proposal for
using it as a teaching tool within the program, and scheduled a meeting for
her with program directors during the week of May 20.

But wait. There's more. Quoting from a post sent by Ilkin to the World
Dreams Peace Bridge on May 21, "I entered the meeting room and an
EARTHQUAKE happened (fortunately not a large earthquake). I saw that they
already put Peace Train in their Summer School Program.... They are also
planning to put The Peace Train in their 2003-2004 Academic Year Program...."

As the meeting progressed, Ilkin said, she learned that this large
volunteer organization was also planning to offer the Peace Train Project
to one of its sponsors for its annual Summer Festival.

Assuming that the Peace Train Project is accepted as the theme for this
event, Ilkin explained in her proposal for the Summer Festival:

"....Our goal will be to build the basics of 'peace consciousness' in our
own country where nearly half of the 72 million population is under the age
of 16.

" The natural geographic specialty of Turkey, as the only country in the
world being a bridge between continents will also let the Turkish
Children's Peace Train be a natural bridge between the cultures and
societies....

" Turkish children are, although they have witnessed many wars in
neighboring countries for decades, the lucky children of a country which
did not even enter the Second World War, and who grow up with a belief of
'Peace in the Homeland, Peace in the World.' They have many important
observations to tell the world children both from their witnessing the wars
in nearby areas and growing up in a country which has not entered any war
since its founding."

The Peace Train Project is not the only aspect of the World Dreams Peace
Bridge, but it is a most important and growing one. On the Peace Bridge
discussion list, the Peace Train maintains its foundation in dreams. For
example, here is one recent dream from Nick in Australia (see Nick's report
on Dreams and Healing in this issue of Electric Dreams)


Colourful Friendships


I'm on the train, near the front of one of the carriages. Two seats down,
closer to the door, I see a boy of about 4 and his roughly 30 year old mum.
She's got a punk-like haircut, but she's a very relaxed person. She goes
off, to check something, so I start talking to her son. At first, I'm just
smiling at 'the little baby', making faces and stuff. A girl about my age,
looks over at me. I catch a glimpse of inner happiness - as she watches.

Anyway the boy starts talking to me, at which I am a little surprised -
because he's so young. I decide that I should make more of an effort to
listen to children. After a little, I'm beginning to wonder where his mum
is, and notice that she's near the door. She seems to be getting the pram
ready. Laughing, I make a joke, about how she just disappeared, leaving her
poor son here with me. I'm surprised at how comfortable I feel speaking to
her.

Then the mum, starts showing me how they've decorated the train. It's very
cool, I see five little necklaces hanging from the front of the carriage,
along with these amazingly colourful fish - made from paper. It reminds me
of this origami-fish, my friend made for me. I called it a peace-fish.
Suddenly I am struck by this realisation, that this lady would be a perfect
person to tell about the Peace Trains project. I start, "Well that's really
interesting, because there's this project using artwork like this for peace".

At this stage, my friend Jesse joins me. He adds something, saying "I like
artwork for communication". It comes across with his own particular slant
on things - ie. the use of artwork to market an idea. After this the woman
is talking about friendships, and the different kinds. I see a scene, and
in this a big roadway type thing, surrounded by buildings? on either side.
At the beginning, there is a space for 'physical friendships' highlighted,
and she points out one or two other varieties - through the depiction of
colour.
I think one of them's about friendships, which are more based on who is
popular, etc. Finally, I see an area called 'colourful', and she tells me
"Invariably, colorful's make the most of where I am".



Dreaming of peace and the interesting projects created as dreams come true
happen daily on the Bridge. Join us. To learn more about The World Dreams
Peace Bridge, go to our web site at http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org ,
or join the Peace Bridge discussion group by sending a post to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


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public world peace. You can find out more about the WDPB at

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/

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The Waves: 02. Dream Healing
Planetary Moon (April 04 to May 01, 2003)
© 2003 Nick Cumbo

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The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations of the Sea Life
community. Sea Life, the main web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring
together a circle of dreamers from around the globe, collaborating in
dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself'

Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/

This moon, we'll be looking at the vast topic of Dream Healing; reporting
on our own experiences, and looking at some of the potential benefits it
could bring to the health of our communities.

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Tell your doctor about a dream offering advice for a problem you're
experiencing, and the most many of us will receive is a chuckle and a
strange smile. And that's only if you can build up the courage to speak of
it in the first place! Modern medicine hardly acknowledges the healing
power of dreams, never mind encouraging the awareness and application of them.

Dreams can provide us with timely health checks, precautions to take to
maintain our health, and advice as to suitable medicine and treatment. They
are even capable of healing deeper soul wounds that may be responsible for
the physical symptoms of disease. We see the above attitude expressed in
the healing practises of many cultures around the world; from tribal
shamanic practitioners to the hundreds of Asklepian dream healing
sanctuaries in use around the Mediterranean in centuries past.

Prior to attempting our own healing dream journeys, a number of dreamers of
my acquaintance had blessed me with the details of their own experiences.
Kathy, a member of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, is one such person.
Kathy's story acted as a powerful affirmation of one of the many
possibilities of Dream Healing.

Kathy's daughter suffered from carnitine deficiency; A side effect of an
anti-eleptic drug, it destroyed all her muscles and all but killed her.

By good luck, Kathy found a doctor who knew what was wrong. As soon as her
daughter was diagnosed, she was given carnitine and all the life
threatening aspects stopped (eg. She no longer fell into comas). However,
she could not grow her muscles back. The doctor had gone overseas, and
there was nobody else in their home city who was an expert on this
metabolic problem.

One night, Kathy had a very clear dream. In it, she saw a medical script
for creatine. She had to trace over the doctor's name on the script. It was
the same doctor who had diagnosed carnitine deficiency.

Having had similar experiences before, Kathy was quick to act on the advice
of her dream. The next day Kathy's daughter started creatine as well, and
her muscles started to grow. When the doctor returned six months later, he
mentioned to her daughter to take creatine. She said she already was! He
wanted to know how she knew, as the research had only just come out about
the link between carnitine and creatine!

Kathy's story clearly highlights the potential of dreams as a source of
accurate and medicinal advice. True - It was a pretty simple dream, but it
did give her the information she needed. It also seems important to
remember that Kathy had enough faith in her dreams to actually make a
decision based on what she was shown. Who knows how many people have
similar dreams, and simply never feel comfortable enough to tell them to
anyone.

I believe, we need to get the value of these type of dreams out in the
open, especially within the medical community. This way individuals can
begin to freely confer with doctors about the details of their dreams,
without feeling embarassed about it. Given her feelings on dreaming, I'm
sure Kathy would agree:

"I think we can get advice anytime we want. In general when I want to learn
something about how to relate better to those around me or situations in
which I am, I always ask my dreams. I think of it as giving myself
permission to shift in this area.

ALWAYS I learn."

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MEKENZIE'S DREAM GUIDANCE FOR HYPOGLYCEMIA

We were just beginning our own dream healing project at the forum, when
MeKenzie, a wonderfully skilled dreamer from within my own Dream Team,
received some unexpected advice.

MeKenzie had been diagnosed a couple of months previously, with
hypoglycemia - low sugar blood. As a result she often suffers from severe
headaches and anxiety attacks.

In her lucid dream, she emerged into an underwater world, a kind of
training center for dreamers. At the first level, for example, she saw an
elderly man teaching the kids "how to do karate with THE FORCE". Eager to
move on, she gradually progressed to the most advanced level, before
finally settling down to "reach a different level for lunch":

"I look around, aware that I'm hypoglycemic so I can't eat certain food. I
hear a voice telepathically that says something like, ~You don't have to
worry. These foods are offered to show you what you can eat in your life
without having to give up your sweet tastebud~. I look up in amazement.
There is a chef looking at me and he says, "Yep. That's right! Go ahead! We
personally made them just for you!" I smile and blush. I eat strawberries
with sugar-free whipped cream, most tasty vegetable cake/soup, etc. I feel
very special!"

This dream didn't offer a cure to her disease, but it did give her a sense
of greater freedom and a knowing that perhaps things weren't so bad. Given
the proven link between the health of the mind and body, stress-relieving
advice such as this is certainly important. Inspired, she later decided to
seek further guidance by incubating a dream on the topic:

"My mom and I go back to the hospital for the follow-up check for my blood.
The nurse comes in, to check my blood pressure. She tells me to sit in the
front of a big screen. I wonder why they need a big monitor for checking my
blood pressure, but I say nothing about it. My nurse tells me to wait here
and that my doctor will come in soon.

My doctor comes in and he pumps in the air to test my blood pressure. All
of a sudden, the screen turns on, showing me everything about my blood.
Sugar, red cells count, white cells count, t-cells count, chemicals, etc.
There are a lot of things I don't even know exist in my blood like t-cells
and their function. You can say that I have learnt a lot from this experience!

At the upper-left corner of the huge screen, the computer is making an
estimated diagnosis of my illness/cause. It shows a lot of "scientific"
words before it makes its final decision. I don't actually remember it, but
I am making an educated guess with the letters that I do remember, "Cl…
v/f… sis"

My doctor, wearing a concerned face, says "You have a 'puddle' blood. You
are at the edge of everything. You can easily be hypoglycemic, or out of
'balance'. You can be diabetic as well. Your blood has taken a heavy toll
and is still taking a heavy toll." I'm shocked, realizing that I get sick
quite easily and can become very sick if I am not careful.

"Oh, and a diet will help… but it will not cure your condition", he adds
before he departs the room. I wonder what he meant by this and I get an
impression that I will have to learn how to live with my condition and that
it is caused by my DNA.""

MeKenzie's dream read very much like an account of a visit to an ordinary
doctor. In fact, I was initally quite confused! I couldn't help asking
myself if this were really just a dream.

MeKenzie was impressed that the dream seemed to have uncovered information
about her body, of which she was previously unaware. Not only was the
material clearly presented, but it was also free! What a wonderful
advantage for any student, or low income earner.

MeKenzie would like to hear from others who are coming to terms with this
illness. Perhaps some of you know what she was diagnosed with in her dream?

Email: dm7@...

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REIKI HEALING DREAMS

While offering a variety of goals to meet in our dreaming adventures, our
main choice for the healing project, was an attempt to meet a master
skilled in the healing art of Reiki.

It seems appropriate to draw on the knowledge of the homepage of 'Reiki the
World', a website co-ordinating an event in mid-June in which Reiki healers
worldwide, will join forces to direct healing energies into the world itself.

Link: http://www.reikitheworld.com/

"Reiki is a system of healing using the natural energies of the world. It
is often termed spiritual healing but draws its traditions from thousands
of years of medical practices from Asia and India. Reiki is not a power
within the practitioner but a power that he or she draws on and uses.

You may often hear reference to the physical, emotional or spiritual. One
cannot exist without the other. A physical trauma will often trigger either
an intense emotional response or a higher need for spiritual awareness. A
need to follow a spiritual path will often result in a release of emotional
negativity. An emotional issue will often result in a physical ailment. For
every physical manifestation, there is usually an underlying emotional
cause. The beauty of Reiki is that it works on all of these levels
simultaneously, bringing a sense of balance between them.

There are many aspects of our lives that Reiki can assist with. It will
work away at the cause of Illness, will effectively reduce stress, will
help you to develop a positive attitude as well as balancing energy and
chakras, increases energy levels. It will also enhance personal growth, and
help to expand creativity. Reiki heals the Body, Mind and Spirit."

In my lucid dream, I found myself in the kitchen of my house. Moving into a
stance for meditation, I noticed that my arms felt a little uncomfortable.
Wondering if this was a reaction to using the keyboard so often, at first,
I decided to try healing myself:

"I start applying energy from my right hand to the left arm, singing the
energy across. However, this has a strange effect. My arm becomes more
transparent, I can see a somewhat unhealthy looking red energy beginning to
outline the skin. I become worried, that firstly the area doesn't really
need this type of healing, and in any case being so experienced, and
focusing my own energy on myself, could make it worse. I try allowing the
universal energy around me to flow into my right hand, and I see a higher
density white-patchwork frame of light, forming around it. This light seems
pure, and I know it can be used for healing."

This part of the dream stressed the importance of using energetic healing
techniques in the right way, before applying them. It was also at this
point, that I remembered my goal to try and 'Meet a Reiki Master'. I
decided to find him in a neighbouring room. I was so surprised to find him
there.

"He looks like some type of higher being. His face, is more like a light
golden oval mask. His face has an ancient feeling to it, and a unique
energy all of it's own. He wears peasant like clothing - a red skirt as I
remember. I can't see his arms. His appearance is a strange combination of
cartoon character and mystical influences.

He's a funny character, and initially we seem to dance with one another,
mimicing each other's movements forwards and back. This is probably
initiated by me, but it seems this is his way of understanding my own energy.

Some time after this, I begin to fade in my lucidity. It seems as though
I'm about to drop out of the dream, but instead I find my mind drawn into
his energetic field. I see green wave-like patterns, and feel myself and
him as these patterns. I feel that I have to follow and become one with
these patterns of trance, in order to increase my understanding of myself
and of what it is he is doing here.

I return from this, finding myself back in my dreaming body. He explains to
me that we are in a sense universal reflections of each other, and of the
importance of the previous process. I'm quite impressed by what he's done,
but am eager to continue. I kind of casually stroll around him, "Mmm.
reflections, hey. Yeh, I understand that".

Now that's settled, he asks me who it is I want to heal. I think I go into
trance again, because a moment later a thought pops into my head. For some
reason I decide that my sister will benefit from it. I get the sense that
this is a good decision, as she's going through her final-year of school,
and that this will help give her direction.

Immediately, my sister appears before me. He stands close to her, and he
tells me there is some kind of parasite? at the back of her head. I see a
harpoon-like band of energy, reach from him into this energy center. I'm
stunned. I know him to be applying the healing energy through this, but he
seems to think there is not much time. It's as though there's some
distraction in surface reality, and that we need luck on our side.

'Hmm..', I think, remembering how important one's will is in affecting
situations like this. I hold myself in an inner knowing that this will work
out. Meanwhile, he continues the healing. While working with him, I feel
surrounded by a magnificent aura. Suddenly, after a significant period of
time, something changes. "You've done it! You've done it!" he shouts in
jubilation. He's almost jumping up in the air. It's an incredible sight!

Suprised that I haven't woken up, and absolutely amazed by witnessing the
event, I run up to him, giving this crazy character a big hug. "What's your
name", I ask excitedly. "Ducky Johnson", he replies. I smile, and then wake
up."

Waking from the dream, I was truly astounded by the beauty of the event. It
gave me a lot of faith in the true power of Reiki. I genuinely believed the
experience was real - that the Reiki Master was actually channelling the
Reiki through to my sister's energy body, from within the Dreamtime.

Having said this, it is a difficult thing to validate the success of the
healing. Upon hearing the story, my sister wasn't sure about the nature of
the experience, but was genuinely appreciative that I would think of
helping her.

To the skeptic, this story may not have much power, but that is surely why
it would be beneficial to see the integration of these healing practises in
an experimental setting. Perhaps, in the future we will begin to see
experienced lucid dreamers practising Reiki on patients from afar. If the
patients were to remain unaware of this influence, we could begin to study
their health in order to see if these practises were indeed succesful.
MeKenzie's experience demonstrates a case, in which this type of healing
could be especially helpful:

In her lucid dream, MeKenzie found herself flying over a freeway. Deciding
to expect a building with Reiki masters inside, she came to a tall building
with a temple-like appearance.

"I enter the building and an elderly woman introduces me to two patients -
one with cancer (brain tumor) and another one that just generally needs
some healing. I tell her about my intention and that I wish to learn level
one healing. She looks at me like a weirdo as if she wants to say, "You
ALREADY know how!"

But instead, she changes the topic and talks about the importance of
herbals and that people on the earth fail to recognize the simple
medications without any unwanted side effects like it is with man-made
medications.

Another gentleman comes and tells me that I need to help them to heal the
same two patients the elderly woman introduced me to. Apparently, I have
"unconditionally" and "special" healing energy.

He places his right hand on my head and places his left hand on the cancer
patient while that elderly woman places her right hand on his shoulder and
her left hand on other patient. "Focus your energy and we will do the rest.
Do not worry," the male Reiki master says. I nod and then start to focus on
my energy. All of a sudden, I experience a rush of energies through me. I
start to cry, knowing that I am now directing the energy from the endless
universe.

I look up and see their hands glowing in bright golden light. I can feel
each individual energy and tell its origin, it is the weirdest encounter I
ever had with the energies. I feel overwhelmed and the Reiki masters seem
to know that I will wake up soon, so they say, "Until we meet again."

I am still channeling the energies even though I am not focusing on
channeling them - as if they are on the automatic switch. I wake up,
buzzing with the energies and I soon realize that I have two favorite's
now: my "special" energy and the "water" energy.

MeKenzie's story impressed upon me, the sheer intensity of the experience.
The dream seems to have uncovered through first-hand experience, awareness
of the healing powers which so obviously belong to her. Not only this, but
it demonstrates an area in which spiritual healing practises are
particularly important; Illnesses and diseases for which we no medical
cure. Stressing, once again the value of further study in this area.
Hopefully this story, will inspire other dreamers to seek out similar
experiences.

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CONCLUSION: THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAM HEALING

Knowledge of the use of dreams as a source of healing guidance and
medicinal advice is especially valuable to our culture. Some of us are at
first reluctant or embarrassed to see a doctor - perhaps due to concerns
about privacy or the fees involved. Yet by listening to the sought-after or
at times spontaneous advice of our dreams, we can open ourselves to an
alternative source of wisdom within.

Once more of us begin to learn to place our trust in these dreams, we will
begin to see a society in which their powers are solidly integrated into
medicinal practise. For now, let's hope that our doctors take our dreams a
little more seriously, the next time we visit.

If you're ever feeling concerned about your health, try asking your dreams
for assistance - through the practise of dream incubation! Remember, it's free!

Stay tuned next moon for the results of our research from our 'Star Trek to
Sirius'. In the meantime dreamers are invited to contact Nick (Explora),
with their experiences of healing in dreams.

Email: explora@...

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RESOURCES

Reiki The World
Link: http://www.reikitheworld.com/

Asklepian Dream Healing
Link: http://www.mossdreams.com/

ASD: Dream Healing
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asd-DreamHealing/


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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/
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Toltec Active Dreaming Technique
from Cry of the Eagle
by Theun Mares.

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Reprinted by permission of Charles Mitchley
Lionheart Publishing
Email: charles@...
Web site: www.lionheartpublishing.com

Toltec Active Dreaming Technique from Cry of the Eagle by Theun Mares.

It is quite impossible to practise active dreaming when the physical body
is tense and uncomfortable; therefore, the very first prerequisite in
setting up dreaming is to cultivate the ability to achieve complete
relaxation at will in the chosen moment. We term this state of relaxation,
deep relaxation, and in the final analysis it is nothing more than a
conditioned reflex.
In setting up dreaming it is important to set aside a room and a time of
the day in which you will not be disturbed for at least thirty minutes.
Ultimately an experienced warrior can dream anywhere, at any time, no
matter what his or her circumstances or surroundings may be, but in the
beginning it is a great help to create the ideal environment in which to dream.

Having chosen the time of day at which you are going to practise dreaming,
try more or less to stick to that same time every day, but realise that
this will be purely from the point of view that a set time fosters a sense
of self-discipline. Strictly speaking, the time of day has very little
impact upon dreaming, and it therefore does not matter when it is done,
except that it is obviously not a good idea to practise dreaming when you
are tired and apt to fall asleep. Having said this, I should point out that
different periods of the day do yield differences in the quality of
dreaming, but this is only of relevance to very experienced dreamers who
are engaged in specific types of research work. For ordinary dreaming by
the warrior who is not so engaged, any time of the day or night can be
utilised. However, you should never attempt to practice dreaming when your
stomach is full, or after having consumed alcohol.

The room chosen should preferably contain a bed because, once again, it is
a lot easier to set up dreaming by lying on a bed, in order to achieve
maximum relaxation. Care too should be taken that the light in the room is
neither glaring nor disturbing, and if at all possible, the room should
also be fairly quiet and warm, but with plenty of fresh air. Once the
conditioned reflex has been set up, and proficiency in dreaming has been
achieved, the warrior can, if need be, dream sitting perched on a busy
pavement in full sunlight, whilst surrounded by noisy traffic, but this
obviously takes a great deal of personal power and is only possible after
considerable practice.

Having chosen the room and time of day, dress in something which is
comfortable and just warm enough. Tight clothing, shoes and jewelry can be
an awful nuisance if you are trying to relax, and they often have the
annoying habit of cutting off the blood supply to some part of one's
anatomy after a while. If you are practising dreaming during the day, draw
the curtains so that the light in the room is subdued. If you are
practising at night, make sure that there are no overhead lights causing a
glare, but also do not turn out all the lights. Having something like a
bedside lamp placed outside of your peripheral vision is about the best
solution. You are now ready to start learning the conditioned reflex.

STEP 1a:

Lie down on the bed, flat on your back, using either a light pillow or no
pillow at all. Rest your arms on the bed at your sides; the hands a small
distance away from the body and with palms up; that is, facing the ceiling.
Your legs too should be slightly parted, so that your feet do not touch
each other. Close your eyes lightly, sigh deeply, cough if you feel the
need to do so, and then concentrate upon relaxing. You are now going to
learn deep relaxation.

In learning the conditioned reflex it is important also to learn muscular
isolation, and although for most people this is a very difficult thing to
do, it is nevertheless essential for learning to relax. Starting with the
toes of both feet tense them by crunching them up tightly for a few
seconds. Now release the tension abruptly and completely. In tensing and
releasing it is not the duration of tension that is important, but the
degree of tension achieved. Never tense for so long that the muscles begin
to cramp, because if they do you will have a terrible time and achieve
nothing. Tense as hard as you can for only a few seconds, and then release
as abruptly and as completely as you can.

When you tense the toes, concentrate on not tensing any other part of the
feet or body simultaneously. Complete muscular isolation is in fact
impossible, for the simple reason that all muscles are interactive; but it
is still possible to concentrate tension in any one given area. Therefore
you should not have to tense up the face, or even the legs for that matter,
when you try to tense the toes.

Once you have tensed and released the toes, tense the insteps and calf
muscles by forcing the relaxed toes down towards the bed. In doing this you
should not again tense up the toes. Hold the tension for a few seconds, and
then release abruptly. Now repeat this process with the thighs and knees.
Pushing the knees down against the bed, get the feeling of pulling them
down towards the bottom of the bed, taking care not to tense the calves and
feet.
Now tense up the buttocks by squeezing and pinching them together, hold,
and release. Next, tense up the lower abdomen by getting the feeling of
bringing the hip bones down and together, so as to contract what I call the
'bikini' muscles. Now do the upper abdomen and chest by forcing the ribs
together and downwards. Then force the shoulders down towards the bottom of
the bed. Finally, tense the back by getting the feeling that you are
arching backwards in an attempt to make your shoulders touch your buttocks,
but without literally arching your back.

Having done the body and the legs, you repeat the process with the arms and
hands. It is by no means easy to achieve the necessary muscular isolation
in this part of the body, and it is therefore best to practise the muscular
isolation of the arms separately whenever you have the chance to do so,
otherwise you will spend a great deal of time and frustration in trying to
isolate the sections of the arms during the exercise. In doing this, first
tense up and release the upper arms, then the forearms, and finally the
hands, by crunching them up into tight fists before releasing.

Next, tense up the neck muscles by simply pushing the neck backwards into
the bed. Then, tense up the face muscles by screwing up the whole face into
a tight ball, tensing also the eyes, the lips, and the mouth by biting on
the teeth and forcing the tongue against the back of the teeth. Finally
tense the muscles of the scalp by frowning upwards without opening the eyes.
Now lie still and make sure that the teeth are slightly apart and the
tongue and eyelids are fully relaxed. Mentally check every part of your
body to ensure that no tension remains anywhere. If you do detect tension
somewhere, then tense and release that part of the body again, but take
care not to tense up another part of the body in the process. This is where
the muscular isolation becomes so necessary.

The sign that your body is fully relaxed is the feeling of being extremely
heavy - as if you are sinking right into and through the bed. If you try to
move your fingers, the movement should feel slow, sluggish, and heavy, like
trying to move your fingers through thick treacle. In practice you may find
that you will have to repeat the tensing and relaxing two or three times
more before you are fully relaxed, but the rewards are well worth the
effort. Under no circumstances must you rush this part of the training, nor
should you move on to the next step before you have achieved complete
relaxation.

STEP lb:

Having relaxed deeply and completely, keep your eyes closed, and do the
following breathing technique, which is termed the 2/4 breathing sequence.
This breathing technique, unlike many others, is in itself perfectly
harmless and safe but, as with any other technique, please adhere to the
instructions as given.

Keeping the teeth slightly apart and the tongue fully relaxed, breathe in
to a count of four (4), hold for a count of two (2), breathe out to a count
of four (4), and hold for a count of two (2). This is one cycle; now repeat
the cycle ten to twelve times, but no more, otherwise you will begin to
hyperventilate. All breathing should be done only through the nose.

The speed of the counting should be neither too fast nor too slow. Ideally
the speed should be worked out in relation to one's own heart pulse, taking
two beats to one count. Ascertain this speed beforehand by feeling your
pulse, and counting each beat as 'one and two and three and four and',
giving a total of eight beats to four counts. The idea here is to fill the
lungs totally on the inbreath, and to empty them completely on the
out-breath. In doing the counting, count mentally without moving the tongue
or jaws.
Take care that you do not tense up the body during the breathing, which
should be relaxed and easy, but nevertheless quite vigorous. Do not worry
about making a noise. You should be able to hear your breathing quite
loudly and clearly. When you hold your breath after the intake you must not
close off your throat by blocking the air with your throat or tongue.
Simply suspend the breathing with the feeling of hovering in mid-air. Any
blocking will only cause tension. Likewise, after exhaling, just leave the
lungs deflated under the force of gravity; do not block or hold anything.

After you have finished between ten or twelve cycles, breathe in to the
count of four (4), hold for two (2), and then exhale in one rapid expulsion
through the open mouth, allowing all air to escape before the lips slowly
close, seemingly of their own accord. Resume normal breathing naturally
when the body urges you to do so. This final breath of 'in through the nose
and out through the mouth' should be in the nature of a huge sigh, and is
termed a cleansing breath.

Now simply lie still for a few minutes longer without falling asleep, and
enjoy the utterly relaxed state of mind and body. Never forget to do the
cleansing breath, for any deep sigh is a signal to the subconscious mind
that you wish to change something. This is extremely important, for the
subconscious mind is very much like an automatic pilot. It is the
subconscious mind that is responsible for both breathing and the heart
beat, amongst many other functions. We do not consciously have to think
about making our heart beat or about breathing, but we can at any stage we
wish, take over from the automatic pilot. However, if we do, we must also
make it clear when we wish automatic handling to be resumed. Many an
apprentice has found him or herself in a very tight spot after going to
sleep whilst doing the breathing sequence. If, after having fallen asleep,
the subconscious mind does not resume normal breathing, and it can and does
happen, the result is severe hyperventilation causing extreme nausea, a
violent headache, and a totally erratic heart beat, which invariably brings
about terror and panic.

Steps 1a and 1b should be done every day, for it is during this process
that the subconscious mind is being trained to associate the 2/4 breathing
sequence with deep relaxation. Once the subconscious mind recognises the
process, you only have to initiate the 2/4 breathing and the subconscious
mind will send the body into a state of complete relaxation - something
which is not only useful for dreaming, but also for getting rid of unwanted
nervousness or tension. Ultimately the warrior refines this technique down
to just having to do the cleansing breath in order to go straight into
dreaming.

Depending upon the individual, it can take anything from four to six weeks
of daily practice before the subconscious mind has established the
conditioned reflex. If you are prone to a great deal of tension, it can
take up to three months before the reflex has been set; but even if this
should be the case, just keep on persevering, for persistence eventually
overcomes all obstacles. However, realise that if at any time before the
conditioned reflex has been established you miss a day, you will put your
progress back by at least a week, and sometimes even by as much as two weeks.

After about four weeks you can begin testing to see if you have already
acquired the conditioned reflex, by doing the following test. Simply lie
down on the bed, close your eyes, take a deep sigh, and then without having
gone through the process of tensing and releasing, do three to four cycles
of the breathing sequence, followed by the cleansing breath. Now give the
subconscious mind one or two minutes to register the command. If you find
that you quite happily slip into deep relaxation, then you have acquired
the conditioned reflex, and you can now move on to step 2. If nothing
happens, then continue with the tensing and relaxing for another week or
so, then test again. Keep this process up until the conditioned reflex has
been cultivated.

Under no circumstances should you proceed to Step 2, or even experiment
with it, before you have mastered the conditioned reflex. If you do so, you
will only be undermining your own personal power. Therefore resist the
temptation to rush into dreaming like a bull in a china shop, and content
yourself with taking everything one step at a time. If you heed this advice
you will never regret the time and patience you have invested.

STEP 2: "The Yellow Rose of Friendship.

After you have achieved deep relaxation, perform the following
visualisation technique termed the Yellow Rose of Friendship. Realise that
ultimately this section of dreaming is eliminated if the warrior should
have the need to enter an altered state of perception quickly, but in
formal dreaming, and definitely in setting up dreaming, it is a vital
prerequisite for entering heightened awareness in this specific technique.

The Yellow Rose of Friendship is a symbol which is ancient beyond belief,
having its origin quite literally in a time before time. In other words, it
is a force which originated before this present manifestation of the
universe, and when seen by a seer creates the visual impact of a yellow
rose. This ancient symbol is described in the first of the four parts of
what is known as the Sorcerer's Explanation; an equally ancient and
powerful verbalisation of manifestation, life, and the purpose of
incarnation. Thus, the symbol of the Rose is extremely potent when properly
visualised, and it has the property of sending the practitioner far into
the left side. In due course of time, the Sorcerer's Explanation will be
revealed, but for now we will simply look at how the Rose should be used in
the art of dreaming.

A great deal of nonsense has been written about the art of visualisation,
and as a result people are generally quite confused as to what this art
entails. There is nothing mystical or difficult about visualisation; for in
the final analysis it is nothing more than recalling to memory the desired
object or being. Every man, woman and child quite spontaneously practises
visualisation every time they think of a favourite person or thing. If you
are unclear about what a rose looks like, then study one every day for
several days until you are quite clear about all the details pertaining to
every part of it. For this purpose you do not necessarily need to have a
yellow rose - any colour will do, for you only need the shape, structure
and detail. This study can be done whilst you are still practising to
achieve the conditioned reflex.

Once you are clear about what a rose looks like, and you have acquired the
conditioned reflex, lie down on the bed, close your eyes, and do three or
four cycles of the breathing sequence, followed by the cleansing breath.
Once you have achieved deep relaxation, visualise in front of you a
beautiful yellow rose. The colour should be a lovely soft pastel yellow,
neither too light nor too dull. Although pastel yellow, the colour should
be vibrant and completely clear, with no trace of cream, gold, orange, or red.

The rose itself should be a crisp loose bud, in which only the outermost
petals have begun to unfold, whilst the innermost petals are still closed.
More than this I am not permitted to impart, for each and every one of us
has to learn to see the Rose for what it truly is. Do not be despondent,
because it will not take you long before you will begin to see the most
amazing detail in the rose. In this you must follow your feelings; that is,
your heart. If you feel something is not quite right, then experiment and
change it, until it feels right for you. In due course of time you might
well change it again, and this process will go on until finally you will
know that you now have the right rose. The astonishing thing here is that
ultimately everyone sees the rose in exactly the same way, for at the end
of the day there is only one Yellow Rose of Friendship.

You will find yourself faced with all sorts of questions in trying to
visualise the rose. Does it have a stem and, if so, are there leaves
attached? If there are leaves, how many, and how are they placed and
clustered? Is the rose attached to a bush, and if so, where is the bush
placed? If the rose is part of a bush, is it the only rose? How many petals
does the rose have, and how are these arranged? Do the petals fold right
over left, or vice versa? The questions are many, and each one has
significance. Each of these questions can and should be answered, but in
this respect know that there is only one right answer for each question,
and that these answers are the same for everyone!

Do not try to answer all the questions at once. Take your time in
discovering the rose at leisure, and in time you will be rewarded by the
most breathtaking beauty and composition. As you continue to visualise the
rose, day after day, year after year, you will begin to sense the
significance of every part of the rose and, as a result, the most
astounding secrets will gradually be revealed to you. Unveiling the Yellow
Rose of Friendship is one of the most exciting practices of the Toltec
tradition - a practice which can only be described as truly magical! Also,
there is no other technique that builds so much personal power as unveiling
the Rose, and it is for this reason that no-one who has seen the Rose is
permitted to impart its secrets, for to do so is to rob the apprentice of
the opportunity to harvest his or her own personal power.

Apropos the above, realise that you should also not talk about your
experiences of the Rose to anyone other than someone whom you can trust as
being a genuine seer. Keep all you discover about the Rose quietly to
yourself, and if you are going to notate your discoveries in a journal,
then ensure that your journal remains confidential at all times. Above all,
remember that the Rose is a symbol which will put you in touch with a most
potent force of unimaginable antiquity. As such it should always be treated
with due respect and caution, not in the sense of yielding to superstition,
but in the sense of handling an unknown force.
As you visualise the Rose, allow it to revolve clockwise on the horizontal
plane, and at the same time to turn slowly on its own axis, also clockwise.
This movement is much like the rotation of the planet upon its own axis as
it spins around the sun. At some point along its orbit the rose should
slowly turn upside-down, and then correct itself again shortly before
coming to a stop at the end of the revolution. All this movement is to
enable the practitioner to view every part of the rose in minute detail.
Therefore the speed at which the Rose revolves should not be hurried, but
neither should it be laboriously slow.

Once the Rose has completed a single revolution, allow it to come to a
stop. Now mentally feel a petal of the Rose with your thumb and forefinger.
The texture should feel like cool soft velvet. Start feeling the petal near
its base, and then run your fingers gently to the top of the petal. Notice
the thickness and the strength of the petal near the base, and how its
texture becomes progressively thinner and more frail towards the top.

Having felt the Rose, mentally smell its delicate scent. The fragrance
should be strong and clear, exactly like a real rose, and not cloying like
a cheap perfume. Smelling the Rose is not easy for most people, and since
this is also dependent upon one's general progress upon the Warrior's Path,
it can take a long time before one is able to smell the Rose. Sometimes an
apprentice will have what can be termed beginner's luck, but all too often
after this initial success the scent has a habit of just vanishing.
However, in time it will return.

After completing this section on the Rose, let it fade quite rapidly from
your inner sight, but remain in your relaxed state for a few more minutes
without allowing yourself to fall asleep. Practise this second step of
setting up dreaming until you can perform it effortlessly, and are fully
familiar with every aspect of the Rose. It is not necessary first to be
able to answer all questions concerning the Rose before proceeding to the
next step. Normally it takes many years of practice before you are able to
unveil the Rose fully, but just ensure that you can visualise the Rose with
ease and clarity before proceeding to Step 3.

One final point needs to be elucidated with respect to the Rose; namely,
that it acts like a barometer in showing our personal relationship to the
world around us. Therefore, if the Rose is determined to look wilted and
scruffy, no matter how hard you try to make it crisp and fresh, leave it,
but realise that you will have to take a good hard look at your
relationship to the world around you, in order to find out where you are
out of harmony with life in general. Likewise, if the colour continues to
fade to a dull pale yellow, you are once again out of harmony with the
world around you.

Step 3: "Entering the Colour.

This section of setting up dreaming is what is known as entering the
colour; that is, the colour of the dreamer. Becoming aware of the colour
will be your first indication that you have succeeded in setting up
dreaming. However, it must be stressed that you must not try to visualise a
colour, as with the Rose, but must see whatever colour presents itself to
you, as if you have your eyes open and are looking at a screen lit up in a
uniform colour. There is absolutely no mistaking the colour once it does
appear, and therefore you will not be left with any doubt whatsoever. If at
any time you think that maybe you are seeing a colour, then take it as a
fact that you are definitely only imagining a colour. When the colour does
present itself, it is clear and very real!

It mostly happens that when the colour first appears, it will be in an odd
irregular shape, much like a blotch of ink. When this happens, concentrate
upon mentally smoothing out the edges of the colour until it has become
uniform and fills your entire inner view. In doing this, do not stare at
the colour directly, otherwise it will simply, and most frustratingly,
disappear. If it should vanish, wait until it again emerges, and then try
once more to even it out. Remember, practice makes perfect, and depending
upon the individual, you can find yourself playing hide and seek with the
colour for some weeks.

Once you have achieved a uniform colour which fills your entire view, you
will discover that you have somehow mysteriously entered into the colour,
in that it will appear to you as if you are totally surrounded by the
colour on all sides, above and below. Furthermore, you will now also be
able to look at the colour directly, and even move your eyes around
anywhere without it having the tendency to vanish from sight. You will now
have achieved what is termed entering the colour, and this is the sign that
you are in heightened awareness proper.

Sometimes the shade of colour is so dark that an apprentice will at first
not recognise it, believing that he or she is simply staring into
blackness. Should you find that you also seem to be staring into a black
hole, then peer closely at that darkness, as if you are looking for a
texture of sorts. In time you will begin to discern minute specks of
colour. Once you have accomplished this, start to merge these tiny specks
mentally into one coherent centre, until they form a mass of colour, and
then proceed as above.

Once you can enter the colour easily and at will, proceed to Step 4. As you
gain experience in working with the colour you will in due course of time
begin to notice that if you glance casually at any shadow you may encounter
in your daily life the shadow will no longer appear dark or grey, but will
now be in your colour, especially the edges of the shadow.

STEP 4: "Declaration of Intent.

This section of dreaming is termed the declaration of intent and, once
again, as with the Rose, the declaration is used only in formal dreaming.
Should the warrior need to enter an altered state of perception
immediately, the Rose and the declaration are eliminated.

The declaration of intent is different for every group of dreamers, and
therefore I again cannot reveal too much. However, this also is not really
a handicap, for the simple reason that all the declarations start and end
in the same way and, moreover, dreaming can be practised very successfully
without having the full declaration. In time, as you begin to sense to
which group you belong, and as you gain proficiency in the art of dreaming,
you will discover the four missing words in the partial declaration given here.

Once you have finished with step 3, allow yourself a moment or two of
stillness, and then mentally sound the following words:
Lord, I enter here that I may be filled with the richnesses of life ......,
......, ......, ......; to be able to share them with those who are in need
of upliftment in the mind, and of peace unto the body.

The term 'Lord' has absolutely no religious implications at all, but is
merely the ancient and accepted nomen for one's own dreamer. 'I enter
here', refers to entering the colour or the vibration of the group to which
one belongs. You must through dreaming ascertain for yourself what is meant
in your own group by the 'richnesses of life'. There are four of them, each
one being assigned to one of the four quarters, starting in the East and
then going North, South, and ending in the West. Take great care in what
your understanding is of the final part: under no circumstances should the
statement be taken at face value.

In order to sound the declaration you must ensure that you do not turn it
into a kind of internal dialogue, by talking to yourself, or in any way
muttering it under your breath, moving the tongue silently, or whatever.
The best way in which to achieve this sounding is to imagine that you are
standing in some huge stone-walled building, and hearing your own voice
speaking somewhere in the centre of that building. The feeling you should
get is that you are listening to your own voice reverberating, but not
echoing, off the walls of the building. Practice this at any time other
than in your dreaming, until you can do it with ease. In dreaming sound the
declaration only once. Even if you feel that it was clumsy or haphazard, do
not try and repeat it. If you do, you will only succeed in turning it into
internal dialogue quicker than you will believe possible!

STEP 5:

We now come to dreaming proper, something that is a lot easier to write
about than to master. The trick here is that once you have sounded the
declaration of intent, you must allow yourself to go further and further
into left side awareness. The problem arises because the rational mind
associates this with falling asleep, and a terrible battle ensues between
going into the left side and falling asleep.

There is no help I can give you here except once again to state that
practice, determination and perseverance, makes perfect. You must reach
that stage of awareness in which you are hovering on the brink of deep
sleep, but in trying to achieve this you will, no doubt, fall asleep time
after time until finally you discover that it is possible to let the
physical body fall asleep whilst you retain full awareness. The sign that
you have achieved this is that although you will feel asleep, you will
nonetheless still be fully conscious of all sounds and smells, and feel
that you are somehow highly alert.

Once in this state you simply concentrate upon the colour and wait and see
what comes up. Do not try to still your mind in any way whatsoever. If you
do you will only be draining yourself of personal power. Simply allow your
thoughts to flow unimpeded, but cultivate the feeling that you are watching
them play off on a television screen. This will create in you a sense of
detachment, and in time you will find that, because of this detachment, you
quickly enough lose interest in your thoughts. What in effect will happen
is that your thoughts will fade away because you are not sustaining them
with your intent. Once your thoughts have faded away you will be left
suspended in only the colour, meaning that you have stopped the internal
dialogue.

What happens beyond this point is what is termed true dreaming. Again,
depending upon the individual, there can be a long time in which nothing
seems to be happening. The trick here is to watch for whatever feelings may
come up for you. When a feeling does surface, and even this can take a long
time before anything significant is noticed, just flow with it without
trying to grasp it or analyse it. Most of the time it will only be some
while after the dream that you will notice that you suddenly have clarity
on an issue which has been bothering you, or that you have somehow come up
with the answer to a question, or that you have become aware of knowledge
that you never knew you had. In the final chapter we will look at a few
examples of how to fathom the feelings which arise during dreaming.

Dreaming can sometimes yield a visual impact, or an audio impact, or both
simultaneously. When this happens, just watch the scene unfolding, or just
listen to the message, which most of the time is very cryptic. After the
dream you will have time enough in which to fathom the meaning of these
impressions, for should you try to grasp their meaning whilst they are
unfolding, you will simply interrupt the process and dispel the experience.
Having explained this, you must, however, not make the mistake of expecting
or anticipating either visual or audio impressions in your dreaming. It is
vital here to remember that essentially dreaming yields personal power, and
that this power can only flow to you through feeling. It is therefore the
feelings generated during dreaming which are important. Any visual or audio
impressions which may arise are by no means the rule, and should be looked
upon only as an added bonus.

Apropos the above, it is also important to know that when visual
impressions do arise in dreaming, then the only ones which should be noted
are those that are in full colour. In true dreaming, colours are always
very clear and vibrant, in fact almost luminous, and can even sometimes
appear to be three-dimensional. However, in the beginning stages it quite
often happens that an apprentice will get impressions that are decidedly
monochrome or black and white. All such impressions, no matter how
fascinating, should be ignored. Note them, but do not try to keep them in
focus. Simply allow them to fade as quickly as they will. These black and
white images, which more often than not are the faces of what appear to be
unknown people, are technically termed ghost dreaming, and are the result
of unresolved feelings which are strong enough to cause a visual impact.
They are therefore in the nature of past events which should be dealt with
in recapitulation. Do not fall into the trap of trying to recapitulate
these events during dreaming, because if you do, you will get stuck in
ghost dreaming and never master the real art of dreaming.

Finally, as far as time is concerned, you should as a rule of thumb never
spend more than twenty minutes in dreaming. You will find that after
approximately twenty minutes you will spontaneously feel the urge to return
to normal awareness. This is as it should be, because although people are
mostly never aware of it, life pulses at twenty-minute intervals. Because
of this fact, intervals of twenty minutes are a most natural rhythm in all
of life, and therefore no matter when you decide to do what, you will quite
automatically adopt a twenty-minute rhythm. Sometimes, depending upon your
frame of mind and your emotional state, this rhythm can pulse in intervals
which are slightly shorter or longer than twenty minutes, but this too is
natural and need not concern you. It is only when you ignore this natural
rhythm altogether that fatigue and frustration begin to set in.

There is a step beyond this point, but this you must discover for yourself
through the power of your own dreaming. In the final analysis, dreaming is
a most private and personal experience and, in this, your own dreamer will
begin to guide you as you gain proficiency in stopping the internal
dialogue. Relax into your practice of dreaming and be content to build your
personal power at whatever your own individual pace may be. You cannot
hurry the process, nor can you force it - all will unfold at a pace which
is suitable for you.

Moreover, realise that the art of dreaming is the ultimate meditation, in
that you will be entering that vibration which signifies your dreamer's
dream, and in that vibration you will learn about yourself, your purpose in
this lifetime, and about life in general. It is also in dreaming that you
will learn the true meaning and significance of intelligent co-operation.
In mastering this technique the world becomes your oyster, and a day will
come when you will realise that you are beginning to do things you were
never able to do before. In other words, power will then be at your
command, and the Eagle's gift will be yours for the taking. What you will
do with your life after that, and how you will utilise your power, is
entirely dependent upon you as an individual, and upon the impeccability of
your spirit. That you may reach this point speedily, and that you may use
your power wisely, is my most sincere wish for you.

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Theun Mares is a teacher of the Toltec Path of Freedom, and is author of 7
books that describe this universal, timeless and practical approach to
finding freedom, joy and power in one's everyday life. "Cry of the Eagle"
describes the technique of dreaming - one of the fundamental aspects that
warriors need to master. For further information about Toltec and the
books of Théun Mares, and to purchase online, visit
www.toltec-foundation.org The website also has a download of Toltec
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Stan Kulikowski II
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Dream: Finding My Book

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DATE : 5 may 2003 03:54
DREAM : finding my book
stankuli@...


=( last night was sunday. i spent much of the evening cleaning out the web
page design site so it is ready for new summer classes which start in the
morning. i added a form validation to the initial survey for the testing
courseware. some students are not filling in their names or student
numbers properly, so i added a javascript to the perl CGI generated HTML
page which will check that their name has at least two words. took a while
to debug it since it is a confluence of three computer languages, so no
debugger automatically indicates the errors. finished the evening watching
_dr who_ from my video collection. it was the episode where the actor jon
pertwee morphs into tom baker at the end. pertwee is my mother's favorite
doctor and she is always a little sad to see him go. i got to sleep around
01:00 with less difficulty than lately. i am much better after a bad cold
all week that prevented me from doing all the usual course evaluations. )=

it is time for the friday afternoon staff meeting. the time when
everyone in the research center comes together before adjourning for the
weekend. it is a time when for planning, goodbyes, hopes and schemes. to
figure how the fuckers have screwed us this week, and what we are going to
do about it next, as the big boss of us all likes to say.

i avoid the usual libation of coffee or coke. the first because i never
drink it and the later because i am stoked already on caffeine for the day.
in years past the stories have it that they served gin and whiskey, "white
or brown" here; but the provost shut down the juice mill when the campus
police got tired of the pranks which ensued from the weekly binges. this
activity had ended a decade before i got here.

the little group that i am associated with is waiting for me around the
cafeteria bench tables. i greet them and sit down at the far end of one,
whether the head or the foot i can not tell. conrad, the newest young
turk, has waited for me, the senior member to arrive before he starts his
litany of wise cracks. he wants to be the leader of our cliche once i am
gone, which will be soon, but the others have only provisionally accepted
him for now.

"how was it, stan, back when you were active in the proposal
factory?" he asks me with a smirk. he always starts with a rhetorical
question to me. i have only been here seven years which is the basic tenure
of the top ranking jobs and will not be renewed. he is soft money and will
not ever pull down one of those top spots, but he does not know that yet.

"you know, the guy who had your position before you was a stocky fellow
named kerry conner." i suffer to speak to him directly. "he did not speak
much, but if you gave him an impossible task every morning, he would find
some way to have it done by lunchtime."

none of my proposals were ever funded, and that is the basic reason for
my dismissal here. the minimal resources were made available to me, but
the human connections-- which they call networking-- never connected with me.
indeed, the general technophobia of the professional teacher college caught
against me since my concept of networking involves computers between the
people. a popular notion these days, 20 years after i started doing it,
but as with most places: it is not what you know or even what you can do;
it is who you know that matters. i do not know the power center around the
dean who arrived here three years after i did.

conrad is a little put off that i directly pointed out his relative
novice status here, so he takes a hard suck on his coffee and does not
pursue the lead any further.

"how should i approach the proposal problem i mentioned to you the other
day?" the sweet young woman with the soft voice is asking for private
attention not in the center of conversation. she is the newest of the
fulltime hardline researchers hired here recently. i lower my voice to answer.

"the secret is in the public school system of the city of pensacola. you
can basically ignore the two outer counties of our catchment area. no one
in the college would ever know if you had spectacular success out there. it
is possible to pull together something solid over in santa rosa county, but
harder to do because of the distance involved in connecting their
resources. you would spend most of your time gone from here, so you have
to double check everything in the university on a regular basis. hard to
do for long. the city is the only really viable school system closely
connected with the student teacher internships that feedback to here. you
make yourself noticed there and it automatically pays off with the dean who
keeps the reins of power in his vest pocket."

for a moment i have a fantasy that perhaps this power klatching may
actually have a beneficial result. she might be the key to the power
vacuum that i have missed. she just smiles and says nothing, obviously
missing some link in what i said, or perhaps she already understood this
and was just being polite with her question. my hope fades just as rapidly
as it came up. i have always found it difficult to tell with japanese
women what they mean behind their eyes. they appear so simple on the
surface but their responses are so alien to me.

i look out at all the people across the room, seated thinly in the other
political circles. so few of the secretaries and staff workers on the
projects are left from when i first arrived here. the few that i do know
look back at me with tilted eyes, no one ever wants to look deeply into the
eyes of the condemned. their time will come sooner than mine did and
nobody wants to catch that premonition in a glance.

the saving grace of these friday shindigs is that they are very short in
duration, but mandatory in attendance. the big boss passes by the tables
and chairs, briefly conferring his benediction on the various people, then
dismissing the groups one by one. i wonder why he continues this ceremony
every week since he obviously has lost all interest in either the
potentials or the results. he is very close to his retirement, has chosen
his replacement from his second who is also just short of retirement, and
just officiates over the decline of the research department.

when my table is dismissed, we all get up and scatter like strangers at
the end of the week.

rather than leave the building for the parking lot, as usual, i go down
into the basement, and from there into the tunnels that connect the campus.
these tunnels have really high ceilings, like twelve feet curved domes at
the top of the walls, and they are lined with polished white formica
trimmed in chrome, brass and varnished woodwork. everything shines and
sparkles in bright florescent light with hardly a shadow cast anywhere.
the spacious brightness belies its underground windowless nature.

i am just wandering with no particular destination in mind. a sort of
reverie on my terminal condition, slightly interested in what will come
next and how i will manage. something will probably come up. always has,
but the question is how much energy should i put into getting the result?
in the past i have sometimes poured tremendous output into the working
endeavor and sometimes more modest effort. the results have always seemed
predestined upon hindsight, the energy expended having no direct bearing on
the end. this time i am in better condition than ever before and so feel
like i am gliding toward an unforeseen destination with no sense of
movement at all.

uhoh. the tunnel i am walking down has come to an end and the passage
into the next has been locked with a lens of heavy clear plastic. i can
see some workmen locking down other side passages. i did not realize that
they shut down the tunnels on the weekend.

i turn around and start back. i look at my wristwatch and realize that i
might not get back into my building. i check my pocket to be sure that my
keys are there. i can at least start my car in the parking lot if i do not
get shut up in the tunnels for the weekend.

i barely make the last two portals before the cellar workmen lock them
down. at the far end of the passage i am now in, i can see one of the
ubiquitous gray men in gray overalls sliding the lens into place. i will
not make it so i shout ahead to get his attention. he does not hear and
the way is sealed just as i get there. i knock on the clear panel, but the
faceless worker on the other side does not see me. he just turns and
shambles away to wherever the physical plant janitors go when offline.

i turn quickly and see down a junction intersection that a ventilation
fan near the ceiling has been removed for repair. i can fit through there
and get into the next passage which ought to connect to my building. my
department key should let me in as i often had to work late hours on
weekends, so i can get in.

i hurry down the long floors and lean forward into the breeze of my
movement so i can fly up to ceiling. like a shot i flit through the small
fan opening. since i am airborne already, i keep up the lift with my
concentration and move my arms to control direction. i hope they don't
turn off the lights in the closed tunnels because my momentum would be
serious if i were to smash unseen into a stone wall.

suddenly at the far end of the hall, i pull up to stop and lightly
descend to the floor. where is the door to my building which i had
expected to find here? i am beginning to feel a little panicked as i walk
to the only direction available to me, around a corner to the left.

i see some of the faceless gray workers gathered around a side passage, a
jeffreys tube or workman's space behind a removed wall panel. i am
grateful that they are doing some construction with dangling cables and
conduit.

"can anyone tell me how to get to building 79?" i ask as i squeeze past
them into narrow channel. of course they can not answer, having no mouths,
but i thought they might point the way. none does. they just pause their
milling about as i pass by.

soon i come to juncture in the tight service duct, hardly shoulder width
now. the back side of the white formica paneling on my left, raw concrete
just off my shoulder on the right. i stop and wonder where i am going now.

from the concrete wall i can barely hear a sound: the heavy bass notes of
a rock band playing some led zeppelin number. ah, i suddenly know where i
am. the student union has live music in their rathskeller on weekends. at
some turn i went a hundred and eighty degrees off course to building 79.

following the music, i soon find a flight of stairs that leads up to a
janitor's door that opens into the student union. i feel a wave of relief
as i finally step into an open area where i know where i am. i think i
would like to have draught beer at the bar with the music before i walk
back overland to my car in the parking lot.

but i find that the remodeling has closed the entrance the rathskeller.
turning back i find a new doorway, but it goes into a restaurant, all brass
and ferns. i wonder how to find the student bar.

soon i decide to sit down and think at one of the public seating coves
along the hallway. the bench seats are upholstered brown naugahyde.
between the nearest two benches, on a service table, i find my sketch book
which i often left over here in the years when i came here once in a while.
i am surprised it is still here.

i pick up the thick sketch book, maybe three hundred pages, and thumb
through a few pages. it seems that every page on both sides has been
filled in. i had not realized that i had done every page so that it has a
completed and professional look to it. the colors are all bichrome:
charcoal and shades of green pastels. the green was because that was the
only pastels that i had and i was too lazy or cheap to buy more. i
randomly page a few more wondering if this might be publishable. a
successful publishing project like this might make sense of everything i
have done here.

two students, a boy and a girl, come from separate directions and seeing
me with the book, sit down on either side of me.

"you know, i read that book." says the boy.

"i did too." replies the girl with a grimace. "it has a date rape in it."

"oh, there is much worse than date rape in here." i say thinking of some
of pages. incest. cannibalism. talking dogs and cats. dark depression.
shattering insanity. clowns.

"oh, there is much worse than date rape." repeats the young man. "in
one place it has hercules cleaning out the nestorine temple by pissing it
away with a dick like a fire hose."

huh? i don't remember that one.

=( i awake around 03:40. it is clear that i will not get back to sleep
soon, and this long dream is sharp in my mind, so i sit up to enter it into
my dream journal. lots of associations here. the initial research
department is rather like my first employment here in pensacola with the
teacher college. some of the observations about the work are accurate, but
the guy conrad is no one i ever knew. kerry conner indeed did not speak
much, or at all. he was a retarded teenager i taught many many years ago.
he had no speech and made constant noises with his lips to indicate his
moods. i believe the japanese researcher was suzie lambert who did work in
that department. the big boss was frank witwer. UWF does not have any
underground tunnels between the buildings. i have dreamed tunnels under
UWF before this, but that was an architecture of wright state in ohio where
i was an undergraduate. the tunnels there were raw industrial walls, not
fancy finish like these. building 79 is the computer science building
where i now work, not the research building 77. the student union was not
the one here, but the one at the university of massachusetts in amherst
where i did my doctoral work. it has a flight of concrete stairs off the
main concourse that just descends to nothing at the bottom-- a curious
architectural feature that made no sense unless it was intended for an
uncompleted underground project. those were the stairs i ascended to get
out in this dream. students used to gather there to get high during breaks
in the bands before going back to the beer when the music started. did not
know the two students at the end. i do not understand what all this mixed
architecture means, but the feeling of shifting employment feels familiar. )=

. stankuli@...



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New Series begins with dream-flow@... Digest #1 09/29/2000

This issue includes volume #653 - #660

Hello and welcome to the DREAM SECTION of Electric Dreams.

This section is edited by Elizabeth Westlake and the DreamEditor, a
software creation of Harry Bosma, author of the Dream interpretation and
journaling software "Alchera".
(homepage: http://mythwell.com)

Please note that we print these dreams as they come to us and that means we
do not correct the spelling. Some dreamworkers find these spelling mistakes
a great window on the dream and dreamer.

The Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION includes dreams and comments from the
DREAM FLOW, a project to circulate dreams in Cyberspace.

Many mail lists participate, including
dream-flow@...
dreamstream@...
DreamsRus@onelist.com
The Dream Sack http//www.deeplistening.org/ione
Usenet groups (too many to name, search DREAM)

If you would like to send in single dreams for the flow, you can leave them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple

If you have a mail list or would like to contribute dreams and comments on
a regular basis, you can subscribe to the dream-flow by sending an E-mail to
TO:
dream-flow-subscribe@egroups.com

You may get a note back to verify the subscription. Simply hit the return
or reply key and send the note back.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the improvement of this section
(but not about the content itself), please send it to
dream-flow@....

An Archive of dream-flow is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@egroups.com/
Pre-November 2000:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@lists.best.com/
Pre-November 1998
http://www.mail-archive.com/ed-core@lists.best.com/
Pre-April 1990
Use Electric Dreams Backissues
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues

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