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Volume #11 Issue #1

February 2004

ISSN# 1089 4284

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes

++ News: ASD International Conference
Research requests, Web updates, and more!

++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis

++ Article: The Form and Motion of Dreaming Flight
Linda Lane Magallón

++ Column: A View from the Bridge
The World Dreams Peace Bridge
Jean Campbell

++ Column: The Waves:
The Waves: Dreaming with the Departed
Overtone Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
Nick Cumbo

The Waves: Healing Journey to Yellowstone
Rhythmic Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
Nick Cumbo

++ Dream: Dimensions
Stan Kulikowski II

++ Review: Dream Science Updates:
Dream incubation leads to better problem outcomes
Richard Wilkerson


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++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from January, 2003
Host: Elizabeth Westlake

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Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to:
Peggy Coats <info@...>

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Editor's Notes

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Welcome to the February 2004 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.

If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, please join us on
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com and we will guide you to the resources &
groups you need. To join send an e to
dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Lucy Gillis shares an excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange. This month,
co-editor, Robert Waggoner, shares his experiences and thoughts about plural
identity that emerged from a lucid dream. Is We Dreaming? Be sure to read
“Are You Awake?”

Linda Lane Magallón, author of _Mutual Dreaming_, tackles the area of form
and content in dreams and waking life. What shapes the objects of our dreams
and who fills them out? Read “The Form and Motion of Dreaming Flight.”

Jean Campbell brings you up to date on the dream activism group, the World
Dreams Peace Bridge. This month she talks about the Aid for Children Project
and the success they are experiencing getting aid to children in Iraq. Also,
there is contact information for those who would like to join in Candlemas
2004, lighting a candle for world peace on February 2.

Nick Cumbo newsletter and column reports on the dream 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.’ This
month, two selections are included:
In the Overtone Moon, the issue of Dreaming with the Departed is explored.
In the Rhythmic Moon mutual dreaming session participants joined in a
‘Healing Journey to Yellowstone’, in which they shared thoughts and dreams,
and contributed ideas as to how to bring a healing change to the Yellowstone
National Park, an area which the indigenous elders are calling for our
prayers and healing to be directed to.

I’m including a review of a recent article in the ASD journal Dreaming on
dream incubation that looks more closely at just what it is in dream
incubation that works so well – the creativity of the dreaming mind, or the
easy in problem solving in relaxed situations?

Our Global Dreaming News will bring you up to date on the events in dreams
and dreaming. Send Peggy news items at
info@...

No Dream Section this month, watch for an expanded section next month.

If you have dreams you want published enter them anonymously 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
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/community/electricdreams/

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See you all in March,

-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
- New CG Jung Page Launched
- Lucid Dreaming Retreat in March
- Stebbins and Taylor at Asilomar
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RESEARCH & REQUESTS
- Dreams and Sleep Positions
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WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
- Magikimages




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>>> New CG Jung Page Launched – a Message from Don Williams

The new JungPage is now live at www.cgjungpage.org! For this, my thanks go
out to Matthew Clapp in southern California for selecting the "Mambo Open
Source" software for the JungPage and for designing, installing, and
crafting the site and to Edwardson Tan of Manila (The Philippines) who
prepared the content for the new site. We've got a great team, and I look
forward to ongoing work together. I also want to thank all of the people who
have found the JungPage and continued to come back and all of the authors
who have contributed such fine work. My gratitude also goes to the people
who have donated money to the JungPage in the past and to the Inter-Regional
Society of Jungian Analysts for it's support.

The number of articles and book chapters has grown to over 400; the number
includes some new articles that Matthew carried over from the Nautis Project
(www.nautis.com). An article/author index with links will be installed soon
but for now you can probably find what you are looking for by using search
engine in the left column.

When you view the list of articles, notice that you can select the number
you want displayed by using a dropdown menu in the upper right corner. Also,
following an article's brief introduction, you can see the number of times
the article has been viewed--it's stunning to realize that some of articles
have been viewed over 50 times in the 1 week that the site has been online.
Finally, when you click on an article that you want to read or print, notice
that you have a choice in the upper right corner to view the article in the
default or a larger font! Special thanks go to Matthew for including this
feature.

We're inviting some groups to post their scheduled events at the JungPage.
The Event Calendar will grow as more societies (internationally) take
advantage of the ability to announce their seminars, workshops, and
lectures.

Most of the Jungian Resources will be familiar to you from the former
JungPage though now they are better organized and more easily accessible.

The Photo Gallery is new and will be a great resource. If any of you have
archival photographs you would like to submit, please send them as e-mail
attachments and include the accompanying text in the body of the e-mail.
If you haven't seen the Forum in awhile, be sure to see its new look and
vitality--I think there have now been over 37,000 posts to the Forum since
it was launched a couple of years ago.

There are some other features you can expect to see soon: a weblog, the
author/title index with a rating system for articles, site registration with
a mailing list subscription, visitor polls, a module for submitting
weblinks, and more.

There's a PayPal donation button in the lower left corner of the page. While
we are grateful for large donations ($50, $100, and beyond), we hope you'll
also consider donating small amounts (50 cents or a dollar, for example)
when you find something personally valuable.

We hope you enjoy what you find at the JungPage. Send us your comments and
your suggestions about anything you think we need or may have missed.

Best wishes for 2004!
Don Williams


>>>>> Lucid Dreaming Retreat in March

DREAMING & AWAKENING: Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, and Dream Yoga. Ten
days of awareness enhancement and fun at the beautiful Kalani Retreat Center
on the Big Island of Hawaii, with Stephen LaBerge and friends, March 5-13,
2004.

Sunny Secluded Retreat for Body and Mind
Rejuvenate body and mind. Awaken to your inner life. Stop sleeping through
your dreams. Join us in exploring the boundless frontiers of the dream world
in a setting of glorious natural beauty. Nurtured by the paradisical,
dream-like environment on the sunny secluded Puna Coast of the island of
Hawaii, we will cast off our blinders, drop the shackles of our ordinary
routines, and take a fresh look at what is real and what is dream.

A Dreamer's Dozen Reasons to Come

1. Participants in our past retreats have found it a wonderful combination
of work and play, with 95% evaluating it as "very" or "extremely
satisfying." They have also enjoyed phenomenal success at lucid dreaming,
with most having at least one during the program. Some sample evaluations
included:

. "A miracle..."
. "I had a fantastic time."
. "The whole experience was great."
. "A terrific mix of superb content and exceptional people."
. "The experience was an inspiration."

2. Nine days, eight nights at the 113 acre Kalani Oceanside Resort,
surrounded by tropical forest, edged by rugged lava coastline, with all
amenities close at hand.

3. Instruction by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. world renowned expert on lucid
dreaming. Dr. LaBerge is author of Lucid Dreaming, and Exploring the World
of Lucid Dreaming, and has had thousands of lucid dreams.

4. Daily exercises to develop the skills of lucid dreaming and mindfulness,
and application of the principles of lucidity to all aspects of life.

5. Special sleep schedules tailored to promote lucid dreaming.

6. Opportunities to work with both technological aids and natural substances
to stimulate dream lucidity and mindfulness.

7. Discussions on the nature of dreaming and reality, the importance of
lucidity, the role of control, obstacles to practice, overcoming nightmares
and self-imposed limitations, and more.

8. For those who wish, a chance to participate in research into lucid
dreaming and the mind.

9. Group outings including an evening session in a hot-spring, a hike
through the Kilauea caldera, and-if Pele wills-a close-up look at the fiery
lava entering the sea (the scene shown above at right).

10. Free afternoons to explore and group excursions to inspirational sites
on the island: the volcano, beaches, gardens, ocean, or?

11. Thought provoking conversation and memorable fun with new friends who
share your passion for lucid dream exploration.

12. And ... The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing ...


>>>> Stebbins at Asilomar

Unitarian Universalists and friends gather in a Californian coastal setting
in July to learn, grow, rest, be restored, laugh, play together, worship and
reaffirm values. Enjoy the traditional Stebbins experience plus Jeremy
Taylor's dream workshop and tours of the Monterey Bay Area. For more
information or to request a registration form: 510-234-3524
www.serve.com/stebbins
djleblanc212@...


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>>> Dreams and Sleep Positions
I am beginning to collect data for a research project on dreams and sleep
positions. I'm looking for people who may be interested in participating.
Participants will be given very little information about the study to limit
influence on data collected. However, you will receive a chart of 21 sleep
positions, each numbered.

Criteria for participation:
Record your dreams on a fairly regular basis.
Each night when you go to sleep write down the number of the sleep position
that most closely matches your position when you fall asleep.
When record your dreams, record the number of the sleep position that most
closely matches the position you were in when you awoke.
Submit your dreams to me in an electronic file.
Submit as many dreams as you are willing to, once a month, for as long as
you are willing. I will likely conclude data collection after two years.

If you have read anything about the psychology of sleep positions I will ask
that you honestly exclude yourself from this study to minimize bias. If
someone is knowledgeable about the psychology of sleep positions then they
are probably also familiar with the 21 positions as previously published by
a researcher from John Hopkins. I have simply, with his permission,
organized them into an easy to use chart that identifies them by number
rather than by the names he has given them. I am purposely not including the
name of the researcher, the names he gave the positions, or other details
for numerous reasons that I believe could influence or impact this study.
I am a doctoral student - ABD - though this is not my dissertation research.
Besides having worked as a sleep scientist for a local sleep wake research
institute where I have designed and carried out various types of research
protocols dealing with both medical and psychological aspects of sleep, I
have also designed and carried out numerous research protocols in
fulfillment of academic requirements.

As is a common desire for any serious researcher it is my desire to have
research results that are accepted for publication.

Results of the study will be provided to any participant interested in
receiving them.

If you are interested or have any questions please contact me here or via
email - annefrey@.... Thank you.
Blessings,
Anne
Betty "Anne" Frey (formerly Hollin)



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W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S

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>>> Magikimages – Dream Paintings by Helene Bied
http://magikimage.lenagraph.com
Helene is a French artist living in Santa Cruz, California. Her artwork is
a lot about dreams and about the unconscious dressed in colors and emotions
painted in all kind of shapes talking back to her.


>>>Jan 31, Atlanta, GA
Active Dreamwork. Emory University. To reserve a place, register on-line
(secure) after January 2, 2004* at HYPERLINK "http://www.emory.edu/eve"
www.emory.edu/eve




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An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange

Lucy Gillis

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This month LDE co-editor Robert Waggoner shares a thought provoking lucid
dream experience he had recently while on a business trip.

ARE YOU AWAKE?
(c) 2004 Robert Waggoner

As a small child, did you ever wander into your parent's bedroom, walk up to
the bed and stare intently at them for what seemed like hours? And then,
when something stirred in their sleeping awareness and their first bleary
eye opened to look at you, did you questioningly ask, "Are you awake?"

That sort of thing happened to me a few weeks ago in a lucid dream. I was
sleeping alone in a hotel in Rancho Cordova, CA on a business trip. About
3:30 in the morning, I awoke and told myself that I would have a lucid
dream, and then I felt the "feeling" of being lucid. Roughly an hour later,
I experienced the following:

I sense something. Someone is there. I can feel someone there.

Visually, I have only the "gray state" that seems to exist as the
intermediary state between visual dreams. Yet something, some presence, I
sense. At that point, I realize, "I'm dreaming."

Now, I feel with certainty that someone is watching me. I am momentarily
confused, seeing only gray -- but then lucidly, I decide to simply open my
eyes. I open them.

Staring at me intently, less than a foot away, I see a man's eyes looking
soulfully into mine. I sense from him the thought, "Are you awake?", and
then see his realization that I am lucid, awake in the dream.

I see his full face and expression. He looks familiar somehow, as he gazes
into my eyes -- then, "I" seem to see from his eyes - wait, his eyes are
"my" eyes!! Suddenly, some awareness awakens within me - I get excited and
wake up in physical reality. I ask myself, "Was that my inner self?" "

Who sees through these eyes?

While, waking we assume that deeper aspects of our self lay dormant in our
psyche. We assume that our anima, our animus, our archetypal selves - they
sleep, while we are "awake". Our wise old woman, our heroic self, our inner
child, our creative genius, our daemons - do they slumber all the day long
until empowered by the spark of dreaming?

As I head toward my third decade of lucid dreaming, I am beginning to wonder
(by virtue of lucid dreaming) about the nature of identity. Less and less
each year, do "I" seem to be a lone "me." More and more, do I begin to think
that the actual "I"- or the actual "me" - is a community of aware selves.
While I routinely and unthinkingly group the various aspects of my self
under the designation of "I," it appears that I may be more accurately a
"group self", a psychological construct - in some sense, I am an "Aware
They".

This community of aware Selves may be consigned to "back room" functions by
the ego, or allowed out only at dream recess, or deeply felt imaginings, or
battled into submission by chemical warfare when deemed "unruly" by the ego
or cultural conventions, but this community of aware selves is here. It is
now. It is alive.

If awareness was the sole province of the ego, then there would be no
dreaming. Think about that.

If the "ego" was the only awareness, then when the ego was finished with the
day, exhausted and asleep - "awareness" would end as well. And then when the
ego awakened in the morning, "awareness" would awaken as well.

The fact is that awareness is apart from the ego. Awareness continues - the
ego sleeps. When we come into dream awareness, as the ego sleeps, obviously
some part(s) of us (some part of this community of aware selves that seems
to be the actual state of our being) accepts that mantle of awareness, that
cloak of perception and functions quite nicely in the dream state.

In lucid dreams of mirrors, we often consciously see that the "face" staring
back at us is not the physical face laying in the physical bed -- it may not
even be the same race, the same gender, the same age. As we consciously
explore, lucid in our dreams, we routinely receive notice that the "I" is
not one, but many. Though we may spend our waking hours, unaware of the
community of selves that seems to compose our larger being, the
psychological flexibility of the dream state shows our true situation - we
are many.

While waking, we often fail to be aware of those moments when we suddenly
act "uncharacteristically". Similarly, we rarely consider the history of our
"self", which examined thoughtfully in many cases, would show distinct
changes in thoughts, behaviors, moods, interests and states of being over
the years (if not in one day alone).

Though the ego could be said to captain the ship of Self, the ego exists
with a larger crew - and if nothing else, they influence the captain, the
direction of the ship and the inner workings - even if the captain remains
blissfully unaware of their existence. In case of multiple personalities,
however, one can see evidence of a mutiny on the Ship of Self -- whereby
another powerful aspect from the community of aware selves takes over
perceptually and appears, topside, in waking reality.


So as you go about your day, and your night, and your life dream and your
night dream, don't only ask yourself, "Who is the dreamer?", but dig a
little deeper and search a little broader, and ask instead, "Who are the
dreamers?"

Are you awake?


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The Form and Motion of Dreaming Flight

© 2004 Linda Lane Magallon

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Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: Is it backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.
(Hamlet III.2)

My dreaming self is like a kid with a coloring book. The pictures that she
draws may have their outline in the waking world, but she "fills in" that
mundane framework with detail and concept available from her world of dream.
Only the shape of objects from the waking state and the bare structure of
the physical event are retained. The rest is creative play. Hidden within
that creativity is her commentary on my life. She has definite opinions, a
quick, puny wit and the uncanny ability to select just the right visual
metaphor to describe the what goes on underneath the surface of physical
reality, like thought, emotion, sensation, intuition and instinct.

As a result, she and I live parallel lives, not copy-cat versions. And why
not? Since my dreaming self has learned to go airborne and discovered that
she really likes the sensation of gravity-free locomotion, she isn't bound
by the laws of physical reality. Whereas I walk, she can fly.

One summer, I packed my family off to a Hawaiian vacation of sun and surf.
We arrived just after a tropical storm had whipped the ocean into a frothy
mass of suspended particles. It took a week for the ocean to clear
completely. During that time I took scuba diving lessons off the island of
Maui. Just before leaving home, I'd had a dream. I didn't realize that it
was precognitive until after my waking event occurred, because, of course,
the dream wasn't a literal picture of my reality. But, in retrospect, the
parallels are obvious to me.
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A missile glides over seas heavy with waves, heading towards the light. A
man is clinging to its side. I fly on the left, keeping pace. Lifting the
man off the missile, I bring him back to shore. The missile turns and
follows us. Gently, safely, I drop the man on the ground as the missile
passes overhead. It comes around and continues to pursue me. Launching
myself toward the ocean, I look for a clear place to explode the missile.
But many large rocks lie either half submerged, or just below the surface of
the now placid water. Realizing that the missile is gaining on me, I spot an
open space just beyond a large island. I dive into the sea with the missile
right behind me. I pierce the surface and plunge deep into the dark. The
missile hits the water and detonates on impact, shooting spray high into the
air. I explode like a fountain from the water and arch high into the air,
circling back toward the cliffs that sheer into the sea. The cliffs change
into an old fashioned white fireplace mantle. I can still see the ocean and
rocky shoreline as they begin to dissolve into a homey living room scene.
Missile And Mantle, 6/19/82
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It surprised me how reactive people could be when faced with a shark, even
though our scuba diving instructors were careful to point out that those of
the "Jaws" variety usually stayed outside the boundaries of the coral ridge.
It was the smaller, more benign sorts that frequented the Hawaiian reef.

So when a missile-shaped dogshark swam out of the milky mist, several
student divers quickly rearranged themselves behind our two instructors. But
since the instructors didn't panic, I thought, why should I? The shark nosed
its way slowly around us, seeming to look for a tasty morsel. Since it
wouldn't have cared where handout left off and hand began, we had brought
nothing to share. I admired its colorful, undulating body and casual
familiarity with the undersea world. The shark appeared mostly curious about
its unusual visitors. When it determined we had nothing to interest it, it
flowed slowly back into the murk.

The warm water off the Maui shore felt as safe a universe as the one in my
dreams. Swimming in underwater passages translated into further dreams of
soaring underneath arched and vaulted buildings. If I could breath with a
face plate in waking life, in dreams I could breath under water and in the
vacuum of outer space. Our air tanks provided buoyancy in the physical; in a
dream I drifted into the air, then balanced myself atop a balloon.

Scuba diving is very close to the feeling of floating in dreams. When I dive
in tropical waters, I'm peaceful, free and surrounded by the most beautiful
blues imaginable. Likewise, when I dream that I float inside a house, its
walls are usually blue in color. My body becomes precise and coordinated in
its movements, very slow and relaxed.

Jasques Cousteau said that his flying dreams ceased the first time he put on
scuba tanks and experienced weightlessness. He said he knew that's what he'd
been dreaming about all along. I agree with this famous diver that diving is
great. But it doesn't have to be a choice of one or the other. Scuba diving
actually enriched my flying dreams. Before, I had flown stretched
horizontally in the air, Superman style. Now I added levitation: floating,
hovering, regulated descent, rising with the currents, stopping to view the
scenery. The sensations would prove to be good practice for astral
projection, although in a medium much more subtle than water.
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Epel, Naomi. Writers Dreaming. (NY: Carol Southern Books, 1993).

http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)










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CANDLEMAS 2004
from
The World Dreams Peace Bridge

A View from the Bridge

Jean Campbell

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Whatever Happened to the Aid for Children Project?

Many of you are aware that, several months ago, some members of the World
Dreams Peace Bridge began to work on a project in response to the bombing of
Iraq. It was called the Aid for Children Project. For a variety of
reasons, which I'll discuss later, it has been difficult for us to be able
to send packages to Iraq, but we seem to have attained SUCCESS AT LAST.
This post is a thank you to those of you who have already contributed to the
Aid for Children Project, and an invitation to all to join us now in sending
therapeutic toys to the war-traumatized children of Iraq.

A Brief History of the Project

Back when we began, at the suggestion of May Tung, we chose to focus on
something we felt that, as a small group of people, we could do...not send
food relief or fix blasted fuel lines, but give some comfort to the more
than seventy percent of Iraq's population, children under the age of
eighteen. We talked on the Peace Bridge about stuffed toys, and the comfort
they had been to us as children whenever other things went wrong. We talked
about art supplies and other things therapists might use help the
traumatized victims of war.

At first, we thought we would be able to simply buy items from the stores
that UNICEF keeps in Turkey. We talked for several weeks, via email, with
several UNICEF employees, only to discover that, unless we had at least
$4,000, they could not deal with us at all.

Disappointed, we contacted UNICEF in Iraq, and were finally put in contact
with Dr. Karzan Ali, who runs a clinic for children in the northern Iraq
city of Erbil. We hit it off with Dr. Karzan right way. Again we
communicated by e-mail while we tried to find a way to ship packages to him.
He spoke of the possibility of coming to Turkey with his new bride. But
again our attempts were foiled. Packages that Ilkin sent from Turkey were
turned back at the border, and there was no way for our new friends to
easily travel to Turkey. In fact, there was no mail bigger than letter size
being sent to Iraq at all by private carriers.

Finally, a few weeks before Christmas, two different things happened. One
was that May was able to make contact with a man from the US, who will be
traveling to Iraq late in January. The other was that Ilkin took particular
notice of a post from a woman in an online discussion group she was in. The
woman claimed to know people who went in an out of Iraq on a regular basis.
Thus was the contact with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness Voices in
the Wilderness - Recent Updates
http://www.serve.com/vitw/ established. Suddenly we had more than one
contact who might be traveling to Iraq.

A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly has been witnessing the
situation in Iraq since well before the current war, and in fact was in Iraq
when the war began. She has graciously given an immediate and helpful
response to any mail we have sent her. She informed us that people from
Voices in the Wilderness travel regularly to Iraq through Amman, Jordan.
She gave us the name of a contact there, who has generously agreed to keep
packages until they can be taken into Iraq. And most recently, she directed
us to the people who operate the Seasons Art School in Baghdad, who are
working directly with orphans and other children traumatized by the war. An
email from them revealed that, in addition to any other help we might be
able to send, they were very much in need of musical instruments and music
paper. We realized that music is as much a part of healing as the stuffed
animals, paper, pencils and crayons we planned to send. And now, this week,
$700 of the $1,300 so far collected by the Aid for Traumatized Children
Project will go to Iraq in the form of purchase of toys, paper and a guitar.

A heart warming story

Even though we have not been actively collecting funds for the Aid for
Children Project for a few months, primarily due to all of the
uncertainties, nonetheless money has continued to come in, something which
has kept us going during some difficult times. In November, the iMAGE
Project's PayPal account received an interesting donation. Generally the
message notice gives the name of the person who has made the donation. This
time there was no name. Further exploration revealed that this was not just
an anonymous donation. Three children, two of them eleven years old, one of
them ten, had donated $300 to the Aid for Traumatized Children fund. How
had three kids come up with all that money? It turns out that they made
"butterfly knots" and sold them, donating the money to kids less fortunate
than they were. Quite an inspiration, don't you think?

Want to help?

So that's the story so far. Even if you've helped this effort in the past,
you might like to do it again. One hundred percent of all funds go to the
children. We are all volunteers here.

Checks can be sent to:
The iMAGE Project
408 Elmhurst Lane
Portsmouth VA 23701

Donations are tax deductible. Your check is your receipt.

Or you can contact Jean Campbell at jccampb@... for a PayPal account
number to use a credit card.

The world is made from our dreams.

Jean Campbell, Moderator
The World Dreams Peace Bridge
www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org



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Please join us in Candlemas 2004.

February 2nd 2004

Everyone is to light a candle for peace on the 2nd of February, 2004.

It can be at home, or with friends if you wish.

Let us all choose to bring light against the heaviness in every country in
the world.

If you take a photo or portray or write about your candle and your thoughts
at the time and you are happy for those pictures and thoughts to be added to
the 'Candles
for Peace' online photo album at

http://www.peacetraining.org/gallery/

then please send your pictures and words by post to:
to.

Victoria Quinton
P O Box 3009
Frankston East 3199
Victoria
Australia

or by email to

Victoria_Quinton@...

Thank you.












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The Waves: Dreaming with the Departed
Overtone Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
© Nick Cumbo

The Waves: Healing Journey to Yellowstone
Rhythmic Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
© Nick Cumbo


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The Waves: Dreaming with the Departed
Overtone Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
© 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 mutual
dreaming adventures, and ‘dreaming with and for the earth itself’

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

During the Overtone Moon, we participated in a ‘Dreaming with the Departed’
project, in which we shared and discussed our dreaming experiences with the
departed. Discussion focused upon the question of spiritual existence after
physical death, whether or not it were possible to communicate with the
departed in dreams, and the need for healthy boundaries if such
communication were possible.

While we weren’t especially successful in our deliberate attempts to meet
the departed in dreams, a small number of dreamers reported spontaneous
experiences of their own. ‘The Wizard’ expressed his feeling that life after
death seemed “a little too good to be true”, though he also mentioned that
if it were he’d like to communicate with his deceased grandparents. Two
nights later he dreamed of his grandfather who’d died 12 years earlier. He
was a little frustrated afterwards, since he couldn’t remember what they’d
said to each other.

‘Clarkkent’ also had a dream with the departed:

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DREAM: CHANGING THE PAST

We were at a clifftop - we got to change the past of a relative who had
died. (No, before you ask, Doctor Who was not in the dream) Then the scene
changed. I was at a hospital together with my parents and a number of
relatives, basically because that same relative had died. I had never seen
these strange "relatives". We sat down to eat on a table. One of them took a
cake mum had baked and tried to throw it on the floor (not at us like some
slapstick comedy). I tried to hit him back.

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As ‘Clarkkent’ later discovered, the next evening, the daughter of the
departed relative turned out to have had a “very similar” dream. “The cliff
top became 'somewhere high'. Somebody tried to kill the relative with a
pillow in her dream, too. She had the relative’s part of the dream too. Very
strange.” I could only wonder if combined together, the two dreams may form
a piece of a greater puzzle; an attempt by the departed relative to
communicate their feelings about an element of their past.

Previously, in my own conscious dreams, I’d had a number of experiences of
communicating with the departed. It’s my belief that freed from time and
space; the spirits of the departed may also be able to offer us guidance for
the future. As my aunty had died from the same disease, which a close friend
has contracted, I went into dreaming with the hope that my aunty might be
able to share some advice or suggestions for my friend. My dream was a
valuable lesson, about human nature.

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CONSCIOUS DREAM: MEETING AUNTY VIV

I recover my intention, to meet my Aunty Viv. I sing my intention out aloud,
my voice gradually growing in intensity. I’m hoping to be pulled to her
through flight, but instead I turn to see a young Asian man of about 18, who
I immediately understand is some kind of spiritual guide, here to help me
find my aunty. Before us, these steps begin to roll out as if they’d always
been there. I get the impression that my guide has kind of melded them into
being, as a link between two distinct places.

We continue walking into the room below, my guide ahead of me. It seems to
be quite a busy place! Slowing down for a moment, he quickly whispers in my
ear “Don’t talk to her about the question you were going to ask her”. His
tone is firm, and I immediately understand that my initial intent to ask
about health advice would not be the right thing to do. His words seem to be
accompanied with a mental transfer of knowledge, which tells me that this
might set her back in her spiritual growth, or perhaps that she will be a
little offended. I feel a bit uneasy about having to ‘hide’ my intentions,
but decide that it is probably the best thing I can do.

As I walk onwards, she arrives from the other direction. She looks young and
healthy, still somewhat similar to her old self, but with a renewed vigour.
I’m happy to see her, and we both share a warm hug. I get the feeling she is
a little surprised to see me, as though she didn’t really expect that I’d be
interested in coming to meet her. Nevertheless, she’s pleasantly surprised.

Taking me into the room, she introduces me to these two children who she’s
been working with. She tells me that they’re seven and eleven. Though she
points them out, I don’t really get a clear look at them. At this point, she
shows me what they’ve been working on. It’s a really colourful map; full of
cute little pictures of houses and the buildings that populate what seems to
be an imaginary town. I get the feeling working with them is a big part of
what she gets up to in the world of spirit, and that it brings her great
satisfaction. I’m happy to see that.

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In the words of Robert Moss:
http://www.mossdreams.com/

“We meet our departed loved ones in our dreams. Sometimes they come to offer
us guidance or assurance of life beyond death; sometimes they need help from
us because they are lost or confused, or need forgiveness and closure.
Dreams of the departed help us gain first-hand knowledge of what happens
after physical death.”

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Stay tuned next month for the results of our ‘Healing Journey to Yellowstone
’. We welcome new dreamers to join us in our adventures.

Email: explora@...
Forum: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife


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The Waves: Healing Journey to Yellowstone
Rhythmic Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
© 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 mutual
dreaming adventures, and ‘dreaming with and for the earth itself’

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

During the Rhythmic Moon, we participated in a ‘Healing Journey to
Yellowstone’, in which we shared our thoughts and dreams, and contributed
ideas as to how we might bring a healing change to the Yellowstone National
Park, an area which the indigenous elders are calling for our prayers and
healing to be directed to.

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LETTER TO THE SPIRITUAL PEOPLES OF MOTHER EARTH. NOVEMBER 17, 2003

Our Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are calling for our prayers.
Many of you understand the relationship of the energy grid lines of heaven
and earth. They are like the nervous system of our bodies. Bad vibrations
of development, construction, war, ECT has stressed out Earth Mother and us,
as well. The words that have been given in prophecy by the Hopi, tell us,
"We are the people we have been waiting for."

My name is Bennie LeBeau and I am from the Eastern Shoshone Nation, in
Wyoming, and a member of the Council of The Spiritual Elders of Mother
Earth. The Grand Tetons and the Yellowstone National Parks are a part of our
original homelands. They were written into our treaty, as a sovereign
country, so that we could utilize these sacred sites and that our cultural
traditions would not be forgotten. Since September 1999, we have been
attempting to gain permission for our most sacred ceremony--the
Sundance--and other ceremonies, to be allowed in the Grand Tetons and
Yellowstone Park. The park officials and the general public are beginning to
see the significance of why it is needed, because of the seismic volcanic
activity in and around the Grand Tetons and the Yellowstone National Parks.
In these sacred site areas, we, as humans, have helped escalate a
disturbance to the web of life on earth. Remembering the words from the past
by a powerful messenger. Chief Seattle stated, "Whatever befalls the earth,
befalls the sons of earth...the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to
the earth...all things are connected...man did not weave the web of life; he
is merely a strand in it...whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

In July 2003, the Yellowstone Park rangers closed the entire Norris Geyer
Basin because of the deformation of the land and the excess temperature.
There is an area 28 miles long and 7 miles wide that has bulged upward over
five inches, since 1996. This year the ground temperature on that budge has
reached over 200 degrees. Everything in that area is dying. The trees,
flowers, and grasses resemble a dead zone and are spreading outward. The
animals are literally migrating out of the park. The later part of July, one
of the park geologists discovered a huge bulge at the bottom of Yellowstone
Lake. The bulge has already risen over 100 feet from the bottom of the lake.
The water temperature at the surface of the bulge has reached 88 degrees and
is still rising. Keep in mind that Yellowstone Lake is a high mountain lake
and normally has a very cold-water temperature

The Lake was closed to the public. Dead fish were floating everywhere. The
same is true of the Yellowstone River and most of the steams in the park.
The stench of sulfur was very strong. Yellowstone is what geologists call a
super volcano. There are massive calderas of molten fire beneath Yellowstone
National Park. Geologists are saying that every living thing within six
hundred miles could be affected if these calderas erupt. It could produce an
ash cloud that would cover the entire western U.S. Then, the cloud could
blow east because of the prevailing winds, literally covering the entire
nation with volcanic ash.

I believe this to be of great importance to us all, at this time. The vision
is to pray for balance in this area--with our prayers, songs, drums and the
instruments we were given. No matter what culture we are, our hearts are
what make the difference. If Yellowstone National Park seismic activity
continues, then the entire earth would be affected. The 100 years of
government management in the Yellowstone and The Grand Tetons have
disallowed our prayers and ceremonies to exist there. It is now time for us
to act as a nation/world within all countries to allow the prayers and
ceremonies into the National Parks of Wyoming. Joseph (Hinmaton Yalatkit)
1830-1904, Nez Perce Chief, said, whenever the white man treats the Indian
as they treat each other, and then we will have no more wars. We shall all
be alike-brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and
one country around us, and one government for all.

I send a strong-hearted message to you to awaken and respond now. These
sacred site areas are calling out to her caretakers all over the world.
Together our songs, our drums and our prayers speak the ancient language
that exits in harmony. We can bring balance and harmony back to the land
remembered by our ancestors and preserve it for future generations. This is
a great opportunity for prayer work in our councils and other groups,
helping bring the indigenous nations together and with all nations of the
world. Now, is the time for coming together and working in harmony, as
remembered in the sacred pictures drawn on the rocks, and in our sacred
instructions of the heartbeat of the land--remembered, too, from the sacred
songs heard in the wind?

Today the spirits are calling for good medicine for us all to awaken and
return to the sacredness for all living things, for the future of our Mother
Earth. Chief Seattle's words, when the last Redman has vanished from the
earth and the memory is only a shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie,
these shores and forests will still hold the spirits of my people. We have
not vanished but have been reborn to do the work our ancestors did; it is
time to step into the moccasins of our ancestors with the wisdom, strength
and knowledge at hand.

Bennie E. LeBeau

For up to date postings on news, lectures, slide presentations, location
seminars please visit Carolyanna Petersen-Perez:
http://www.stargrail.net/

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Given that the focus of Sea Life since it’s beginnings has been to bring
greater awareness of the potential of 'dreaming with and for the earth
itself', this project gave us an opportunity to show heartfelt respect for
our mother earth who provides so much for us. In any case the project
succeeded in at least one goal. Previously many of the participants were
unaware of the environmental problems in the Yellowstone Region.

Most of us also felt that the Native American people should be allowed to
perform their ceremonies for the park. Sunwolf added, “I think anyone should
be allowed to do ritual and ceremonies there, for the park. This is
important, because Nature works in cooperation, and we are part of the
sacred keepers who ought to be allowed to keep our intentional work of
healing going.”

An interesting concept to develop out of this project, was an idea to
accompany our month-long dreaming projects, with a bringing together of the
dreamers for a more focused and intensive night or two of DaFuMu dreaming
and meditation. DaFuMu, is a term familiar to members of the World Dreams
Peace Bridge, meaning “a big dream of good fortune”.

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/

I decided to meditate in a tandem with a friend in a neighbouring state, and
similar time zone. Lying upon the earth, beside my peace tree, I saw someone
I thought to be my friend ‘Timeless Soul’ kneeling by the earth and praying.
As it turned out, this was the mental image ‘Timeless Soul’ had been
projecting to the Yellowstone Region.

Later, reaching a deeper state of trance, I found myself conscious and
awake, watching a screen displaying a database I had been designing for a
Philosophy organisation. The meditation gave me an idea I could put to use
in waking life. Through encouraging awareness of the environmental issues
around us, through this organisation, I might be able to shape some greater
positive shift in the way we live upon the Earth.

Do we believe dreaming communities like ours could make an important
difference to the environmental stability of our world, through dreaming
with each other? I’ll leave SunWolf to answer that for you, “We can bring
healing to terrorism, health issues, economic issue, just about anything
where there needs to be a lifting of consciousness. Usually it all stems
around fear, and we can dream that understanding and reasoning”

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Stay tuned next month for the results of ‘The Ocean Also Dreams’. We welcome
new dreamers to join us in our adventures.

Email: explora@...
Forum: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife




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Dream: Dimensions

Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE : 22 jan 2004 08:08
DREAM : dimensions

=( yesterday was wednesday. after my morning class, i rode around town
trying to get some errands done, but most of them were unsuccessful. after
two and half months, the skink has come out of its hibernation so i wanted
to get some new crickets for it, but three pet stores were all out of them.
i wonder why there has been a local run on this commodity. there are
crickets in the tank, but since these were born and grown there during the
lizard's sleep, they know every cranny and can successfully hide from it. i
thought some dumb crickets might help the creature comforts of the reptile.
i felt tired all evening and did not much accomplished other than paying out
the monthly bills. went to bed around midnight and got to sleep rather
easily. )=


this game starts on a computer monitor but eventually progresses to some
real spacetime performance, something like a combined race and scavenger
hunt. the first moves in the game are taken in turn between the players
who operate the special interface into the networked multiplayer
environment. i am logged in and waiting to take my first turn. when my
time comes, first i specify a few points which delimit the overall size of
my game piece in several dimensions.

i have chosen thirteen dimensions for my game piece. it will take me much
longer to initially construct this thing, and that will give me a later
start time for the performance part of the game, but it will be rather
difficult for the other players to tamper with or block its various
operations. it becomes increasing difficult for novice players to envision
and anticipate movements in the higher dimensions, so i will have a tactical
advantage over their simpler pieces.

with each of my opening turns, i can construct the shape of my game piece in
greater detail. after the first set of points to delimit its overall size,
on the next turn i fold in some additional points to create lines for its
edges, then in the next round i will fold those lines into plane surfaces.
then surfaces to volumes, then volumes into portal rifts, and so on through
the thirteen dimensions, i sculpt the piece carefully. in some of its
rotations it looks like a pipe with three prongs bent into parallel
orientation, but that is seen with only the two dimensional perspective of
our eyes. it is an ambiguous construction which alters its appearance as i
rotate it while fashioning its shape.

above the fifth dimension i can not depend on just my rational consistency,
so i put the interface on constant systematic rotation so i can watch the
effect while i sculpt it. on several of my turns, i make mistakes which
cause parts of the device to be malformed. this is often seen as closures
so some of the parts no longer come up in the rotation. other times the
mistakes cause loss of shape-- the entire viewport is filled with infinite
mass when the rotation gets to that aspect. that is the nature of a
singularity in mathematics: either nothing or too much. i fix the mistakes
on my next turn, sometimes taking a short series of fixes to back out to
where i made the error.

finally i have the piece crafted and am ready to begin its operation. it is
beautiful to look at as it silently rotates through its dimensions, changing
shape with perspective. i am by far the last player to leave the sculpting
studio, which usually bodes well for the performance part of the game. i
did not make that many mistakes to delay my first movement. only a really
experienced player will be able to out maneuver me with a simpler game piece
, and i believe that i know most of them from past play.


from the starting point in the game space, each move in my turn is begins by
simply rolling the game piece onto an adjacent face so it stands in a new
position. when i confine my movements to one of the three lower dimensions,
it looks like i am just rolling a constant object. but when i make a move
in the higher dimensions, the piece seems to mutate into something new,
sometimes monstrous. once in a while it seems to disappear altogether but
comes back in a new configuration on later turns.

soon i must actually travel in the race part of the game. the scenario i
have chosen through my movements involves a bicycle, one of those ancient
asymmetrical devices with the really large front wheel and tiny back wheel.
it is difficult to get up on the seat and start pedaling that massive front
wheel, but once it gets started the momentum does a lot to carry me forward.
the movement of the bike is strange at first, but i become quickly
accustomed to how it feels.

my path outward is on old concrete streets that fortunately have little
modern traffic. sand has blown in to fill most of the worst cracks in the
pavement, so i rarely have to countersteer around potholes. the pace is
rather slow and leisurely like i would expect with nineteenth century
technology, but i have to really increase the speed when i approach an
uphill run. momentum in the large wheel counts a lot for the uphill, but if
i lose it then i must dismount and walk the bike to the top. steep
downhills are also a risk as i have no braking advantage. the bottoms can
be a terror if unexpected traffic appears when the momentum is beyond
control.

fortunately most of my journey is along coastal regions which are flatlands.
i think the game piece is taking me out cape cod towards provincetown. the
territory looks familiar anyway. occasionally other people pass me riding
modern high tech bicycles. they usually wave as they zoom by on the normal
pavements which now and then run beside the old disused concrete roads that
i must take.

=( awake at 07:54. it does not take me long to start this entry in the
dream files, i feel mostly rested having slept without much restless
discomfort which has been bothering me often of late. i do not actually
feel refreshed, but at least i am not sleepy and there is sufficient time
for me to write this dream before i have to get off to my morning classes.
there seems to have been a bit more of the dream when i finally got to the
destination town-- it was probably provincetown but i can not be certain
now. too much of that part of the dream has slipped out of my recall. while
i lived in massachusetts, my few journeys out to cape cod were usually like
vacations so this location has a mythical nature to it rather than real life
qualities. i never really understood the purpose or goal of the game, but i
think that discovery of its geometry was a major part of it. since some of
the higher dimensions seem to involve probabilities (as we understand them),
the game was probably not movement of perfect knowledge. )=

stankuli@...








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Dream Science Updates:
Dream incubation leads to better problem outcomes

Richard Wilkerson

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Dream Incubation is an ancient technique for problem solving. Ancients would
hold the problems in their minds (like incubating an egg) and sleep on the
steps of temples hoping for a dream that would allow them to enter the
temple and access the oracle. In ancient Greece, Asclepian dream sanctuaries
dotted the Mediterranean and people who had physical, mental and spiritual
issues would go to the sanctuaries and await a dream that would heal them.

Contemporary dreamwork has borrowed the spirit of these techniques to allow
dreamers to hold a wide variety of intentions in their minds before going to
sleep and then using the resulting dream as a creative response to the
problem. But just what is it that is so helpful? Some have suggested that
any technique that reduces our anxiety about a problem is helpful in solving
the problem, and that is how dream incubation works, through relaxation.
Others say it’s the creativity of the autonomous imagination that offers the
best solutions. Who is right?


Dream Incubation Study: Is it relaxation or the creative dream mind that
helps solve problems?

The White-Taytroe experiment found that incubation was useful in several
situations and a better choice for problem solving than the relaxation
techniques they studied.

The technique was thinking of a question or concern related to a personal
issue, and to repeat that issue question over and over until falling asleep.

The participants had to keep track of their problems over a ten day period,
and reported on the levels of stress these problems created as well as the
degree that these problems were solved.

Dream incubation was found to increase the likelihood of a problem being
solved.

Interestingly, the study looked at how much the effects of expectation and
relaxation impact problem solving, and conclude that, in this experiment
set, it was something else that was occurring that makes dream incubation so
effective. Some subjects used the incubation technique AFTERWARDS – in the
morning instead of before going to sleep, to check the impact of the
incubation technique itself. As you might expect, those incubating problems
upon waking instead of for the dreams found they couldn’t solve the problems
as well.

So, what is this something? White and Taytroe suggest that it may be due to
counterfactuals. “Counterfactual thinking involves reconstructions of past
events in terms of alternative actions or conditions that could lead to
different outcomes.” (207)
That is, the process of holding the problem in mind may set up a condition
where the mind can begin producing alternative solutions, and there is now
empirical evidence of dream content containing counterfactuals.

I found it interesting that this theory of counterfactuals corresponds
somewhat to Gilles Deleuze concepts of the virtual and the actual, where the
actual is always surrounded by a field of potentials, and like in Quantum
physics, the actual occurs out of the collapse of the wave, or in Deleuze,
the collapse of the virtual, a fall into the real. Another way to look at
this is to say that all sense is surrounded by fields of non-sense, which
give it support. To the degree one can set up a counter circuit where the
actual also produces in the virtual, the general sensitivity of system can
be raised to include or be more influenced by its own potentials. In dream
incubation, this means that the focus on a topic will increase the
counterfactual field potentials of the actual dream or dreamer. Why the big
increase in counterfactuals in dreams vs. waking consciousness? Its
tempting to suggest that as the ego-actual enters into dream zones, there is
some relaxation of the factual and the field of the counterfactual is
“closer” to the dreamer. That is, when we are awake our environment gives us
very strict and concrete feedback, but in the dreaming state, the world we
existentially inhabit is more malleable and the proximity between actual and
counteractual increased.

We must be careful about generalizing from a single experiment. As White and
Taytroe carefully point out, this experiment gives strength the argument for
dream incubation in problem solving and weakens the arguments that its just
about relaxation or focus. But the study used just one kind of incubation
technique and focused on a narrow band of issues. In the White-Taytroe
study, only “Moderately solvable, moderately distressing” problems were
studied. However, this is an important study in that it suggests that
further research needs to be in areas that address the special nature of
dreaming itself and to focus less on peripheral issues.


Gregory L. White, Laurel Taytroe (2003). Personal Problem-Solving Using
Dream Incubation: Dreaming, Relaxation, or Waking Cognition? Dreaming
Volume 13, Number 4, December 2003. 193 – 209. Kluwer Academic/Human
Sciences Press, Inc., New York City

Gilles Deleuze (1994/68). Difference and Repetition. Trans: Paul Patton.
Columbia University Press : New York City




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