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August 2004
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
++ News – PsiberDreaming Conference
The Association for the Study of Dreams
September 19, 2004 - October 3, 2004
Virtual Conference - Online
++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis
Robert Waggoner interviews Beverly D'Urso
++ Article: ABC's of Dream Benefits
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: The Dreams of Children
The World Dreams Peace Bridge
A View from the Bridge
Jean Campbell
++ Column: Spectral Waves: The Quest for the Holy Grail
Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
Nick Cumbo
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from July, 2004
Host Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the August 2004 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, please join us on
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Electric Dreams is looking for a Dream News Editor. If you are interested in
this position, see the details below. This is a really fun position as you
get to know all the players in the field of dreams.
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucy Gillis shares travels around the dream world to find the most talented
and experimental lucid dreamers. This month, “DreamSpeak: An Interview with
a Lucid Dreamer” continues with its second installment. In this three part
series, Robert Waggoner interviews long time lucid dreamer Beverly D'Urso.
Linda Magallón. author of Mutual Dreaming, offers us a selection this month
from her book on How to Fly. In the article, ”ABC's of Dream Benefits,”
Magallón goes to the limits of flying dreams, combining experience and
speculative theory to find the most exotic flying contexts for your reading
zoo.
Jean Campbell notes that the theme of children has been popping up enough
this July on the Peace Bridge that it warrants a closer look. ” If you have
never heard of the Peace Bridge or if you are an active member, be sure to
read her column “A View from the Bridge.”
The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations underway at the Sea
Life forum. They take a community approach to dreaming, running monthly
dreaming projects to learn more about the world, and the evolutionary path
before ourselves and our planet. This month the journey is Crystal Waves:
Journey to the Galactic Center, Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year.
Keep in mind that the Fall PsiberDreaming Conference is almost upon us. For
more information, read the invitation from
the Host, Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Janet Garrett has been working hard this month to bring the Electric Dreams
Archives (our articles from the last ten years) up to date. You can see her
work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm
A black tornado followed by a white tornado, an erupting volcano, bright
purple spiders, a big snake, puppets jumping out the television with knives,
a shattered horse, and birthing a black rabbit...sounds like a new Tim
Burton movie, doesn’t it? Actually they are in the Electric Dreams Dream
Section, thanks to Dream Editor Kat Peters-Midland, from the Rocky Mountain
Dream Journal. Be sure to read all of these dreams!
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Global Dreaming News seeks new Editor – (volunteer position)
If you feel you would be a good candidate to report the news that is going
on in the dream world, be sure to contact Richard Wilkerson at
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The GDNews editor will receive the support of the Electric Dreams staff in
making contact with all the essential people in the dream world, and will be
responsible for putting this information together once a month for
publication. This is a really fun position and you can expand then news as
you like. In the past, we have included reviews of dream books, dates for
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Research Request: Dreams of the 2004 US Presidential Election
Have you or anyone you know dreamed about the 2004 US Presidential
election? For example, dreams about the candidates (e.g., George W.
Bush, John Kerry, Dick Cheney, John Edwards, Ralph Nader), the major
issues (e.g., terrorism, war in Iraq, economy), and/or the election
process itself? If yes, please contact Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. at
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project on dreams and politics. In addition to describing the dream(s)
in as much detail as possible, please also include the dreamer’s age,
gender, state of residence, political affiliation, and ideas about what
the dream(s) might mean. All dream reports will be kept confidential,
and if you like you will receive comments about your dreams from Dr.
Bulkeley.
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PsiberDreaming Conference
The Association for the Study of Dreams
September 19, 2004 - October 3, 2004
Virtual Conference - Online
Invitation from Host, Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
E-mail:
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http://www.asdreams.org/psi2004/
Join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of psi-dreaming for
two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, contests, and
chats at a bargain price. If you've ever had a precognitive dream, a lucid
dream, or simply an 'unusual dream' that puzzled you, this online conference
seems the place for you.
Past presenters include: Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., author of Altered States of
Consciousness, Robert L. Van de Castle, Ph.D. author of Our Dreaming Mind,
Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Ph.D. author of The Dreamer’s Way, Robert Moss,
author of Dreamgates, Marcia Emery, Ph.D., author of The Intuitive Healer,
Alan Siegel, Ph.D., author of Dream Wisdom, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. author of
Lucid Dreaming, Dale E. Graff, author of Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness,
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. co-author of Extraordinary Dreams, Jeffrey Mishlove,
Ph.D., host of Thinking Allowed - and many others!
Previous conferences brought in rave reviews:
"Bravo!", "Incredible!", "a wonderful experience," "amazing!", "topnotch",
"I am really thrilled," "great conference," "please, please do this
frequently," "I don't know how many accolades I can give you, too many to
count, I believe. The conference was simply great!! Good presenters, topics,
participants, and great energy."
If you missed the first two, make sure you attend the third!
Features:
1. Online Presentations, including provocative papers and workshops on
popular and cutting edge topics, such as: remote viewing, precognition,
dream telepathy, mutual dreaming, psychopompic dreams, lucid dreaming,
visionary dreaming, prodromal dreams, dream healing, the nature of dream
reality, and dreaming as a spiritual practice. Workshops will provide
resource lists for those who wish to explore topics in greater depth, and
practical instructions for techniques or experiments detailed enough so that
conference participants can try them out at home.
2. Dedicated PsiberDreaming Discussion Boards where participants can discuss
each paper and workshop in depth with authors and other participants, and
can post specific questions, etc. Links to relevant threads would appear
conveniently at the end of each posted presentation, updated daily to show
new threads of interest.
3. Scheduled Chats each week of the conference with presenters and/or other
experts on cutting edge topics.
4. Numerous PsiberDreaming Events where participants can test their skills
and explore different facets of paranormal dreaming, including dream
telepathy and remote viewing, precognition, and mutual dreaming. Judges will
evaluate how well dreamers tune into the designated targets, or how well
dreamers perform a specific dream task. And ASD will provide prizes to the
winners!
5. A PsiberDreaming Gallery of Dreams and Art. One section of this gallery
will feature the "best of the best", graphic images of dream art selected
from the submissions to past ASD conferences, formatted into a sequential
point and click cyber tour. A second section of the gallery will provide a
place where participants can display their own dream art (with accompanying
dream text or dream poetry), sharing them with other participants.
Event Dates and Costs:
The PsiberDreaming Conference runs from September 21, through October 5,
2003.
Online Participation Costs for both weeks (no one week rate):
General Public $38! (US Dollars)
ASD Members $33! (US Dollars)
Students with valid ID $23! (no additional ASD discount)
Note: we’ve deliberately set the price of attending this conference low to
open this conference to interested participants worldwide. Please take
advantage!
http://www.asdreams.org/psi2004/
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
LDE is pleased to present DreamSpeak: An Interview with a Lucid Dreamer. In
this three part series, Robert Waggoner interviews long time lucid dreamer
Beverly D'Urso. (Please note, as with all material in LDE, the author
retains copyright of his or her material. In this interview, the questions
are by Robert Waggoner and the responses are copyright of Beverly D'Urso.)
DREAMSPEAK
AN INTERVIEW WITH BEVERLY D'URSO: A LUCID DREAMER - PART TWO
(c) Beverly D'Urso
Questions by Robert Waggoner
Beverly D'Urso (formerly Beverly Kedzierski, and also Bev Heart) is an
incredible lucid dreamer. She served as Stephen LaBerge's main lucid dream
research subject in the early years of his research work, and helped provide
key insights into lucid dreaming. Interviewed by magazines, national and
local television, and other media, Beverly has promoted a greater
understanding of lucid dreaming and "lucid living." The LDE is pleased to
provide a multi-issue interview of this fascinating lucid dreamer.
Robert: So Beverly, you have been lucid dreaming regularly since you were a
child, and helped Stephen LaBerge scientifically prove the existence of
lucid dreaming as his main research subject. But did your time in lucid
dreaming affect your other dreams, or were they everyday, normal dreams?
Beverly: In 1982, after becoming extremely proficient in lucid dreaming,I
spontaneously began having precognitive dreams. These are dreams of things
that happen later in the waking state. For me, these dreams usually had
great detail, were very emotional, and the waking scenario would occur
within a few days of the dream. However, my precognitive dreams usually have
not been lucid. I was sure that they were not due merely to coincidence. I
even described the events, in detail, to others, who were later present
during the waking scenario. My previous view of the physical world as being
"solid," and having precise rules, had turned upside down!
Robert: How did you respond to having your world view altered by your lucid
and precognitive dreaming?
Beverly: These experiences caused me to explore other psychic phenomenon. I
began reading books, such as Jane Robert's "Seth" work. I needed to make
sense of what was happening to me. Again, I thought of life being a dream.
It would explain how such things like precognitive dreams could occur.
Maybe, I needed to become more lucid in life in order to really see it as a
dream. My dreams often seemed as real as physical reality, sometimes more
so. The more I thought of the implications of life being a dream, the more
it made sense. We could all be dream characters in a dream we call life. Was
there a Dreamer dreaming us all? However, during this time, I was still a
scientist trying to finish my Ph.D. I did not want to be distracted by these
ideas so much, that I never finished my degree. I decided to put them off
for awhile.
Robert: That's understandable. So how did the dissertation go?
Beverly: In my waking state, I was having trouble writing my doctoral
dissertation. I decided to try writing it in my dreams first. In one dream,
I found myself lying in bed. The desk in the room was in the wrong place, so
I realized that I was dreaming. I headed for my computer, to start writing.
I found that I could not move. I was paralyzed. I told myself, "This is my
dream, and I can do what I want!" I slowly made it to the desk. I looked
down, and I saw that the chair seat was an opening for "the pit to hell."
Flames swept up, and it sounded and smelled awful! I was, however,
determined to succeed. Holding my breath, I sat down, ready to be sucked
into the pit. Instead, I woke up, and within a very short time, I finished
writing my dissertation in the area of artificial intelligence.
Robert: That's a great story. I recall being at an Association for theStudy
of Dreams' presentation, where one of the speakers admitted that his
realistic dream of fighting the devil occurred when he was undergoing the
oral and written defense of his doctoral dissertation! So what happened
after you finished your dissertation?
Beverly: I finished my Ph.D. in 1983 and my career really took off! I was
very involved in starting up businesses and traveling around the world. In
1987, I took a short break from this computer science work to help Stephen
LaBerge form the Lucidity Institute.
By this time, we had been experimenting for awhile with lucid dreaming
induction techniques to help others more easily become lucid in their
dreams. At first, we tried to send clues to the dream world by using smells
and sounds. In one experiment, I tape-recorded my own voice saying, "I am
dreaming, now!" A technician would play the tape when I was in REM sleep,
making it gradually louder. However, as soon as the sound became loud enough
for me to hear in the dream, it would wake me up. This was when we decided
to send light to the dream, instead. Light could be more easily incorporated
into the dream and used as a clue to induce a lucid dream, for someone
trained to look for the flashinglight in their dream.
Robert: So, forgiving my pun, you and Stephen saw the light. How did that
work?
Beverly: We developed a mask that people could wear to sleep at night, which
could recognize REM eye movements. If a person was in REM sleep, it would
then flash a light, which would get incorporated into the dream. If users
were trained to look for the light, they could learn to question whether or
not the light was from the mask, and, more importantly, question whether or
not they were dreaming. The light might appear as flashing stoplights in
street scenes, or as lightning flashing in the sky. Many versions of this
dream mask eventually got developed, including the Dream Light and the Nova
Dreamer.
I created the first business plan to market this lucidity induction device.
I also helped Stephen give lucid dreaming workshops. In 1990, I decided to
lead my own personal groups and workshops on lucid dreaming, which soon
became lucid dreaming/lucid living.
Robert: Interesting. When you started out on your own leading lucid dream
workshops, did you feel like you had your own unique vision of lucid
dreaming?
Beverly: Sharing a little of my introduction to lucid dreaming will clarify
how I look at things. When we become "lucid" in our sleeping dreams, we
become aware that we dream while we dream. Some people never remember their
dreams, some remember them after they have been awake for a while, and some
remember them just after or before they awaken. Lucid dreamers remember they
dream while the dream takes place. They do not necessarily analyze the
dream, or look for symbols, but directly and consciously experience the
dream, shortening the time it takes to realize they dream.
To me, lucid dreaming does not mean merely "visualizing", "daydreaming",
"clear" dreaming, or even "controlled" dreaming, necessarily. Also, I
personally believe in levels of lucidity, as a spectrum. I would say I am
partially lucid, if I just remember to question if I am dreaming. I'd call
myself definitely lucid, if I know I am dreaming for sure. I consider myself
very lucid, if I can control or change things in the dream, not that I
always do. Finally, when I am most lucid, I often do not experience a body,
but I have a very powerful, spiritual-like experience.
In a lucid dream, I feel free to do whatever I please, have fun, experiment,
solve problems, accomplish goals, and go wherever my imagination takes me,
taking care to balance spontaneity and control. I have learned that
sometimes it is better to surrender to the dream. Other times, it helps to
take control, change things, or carry out goals.
I have remembered, on average, half a dozen dreams per night, for most of my
life. I'd say that between 2 and 20 dreams per week were lucid, to various
degrees. So, I'd say a good estimate of how many lucid dreams I have had
would be 20,000. Unfortunately, I am not a very good recorder of dreams, nor
I have organized my dream reports very well. I have, however, kept track of
the ones I consider most valuable.
Robert: A thousand here, a thousand there- at that point, who's counting?
No, that's incredible. So how have you used your lucid dreaming knowledge
and skills in your presentations and workshops?
Beverly: Here are a few examples of how I worked with my students in my
groups. I would often ask my students to choose a goal for a lucid dream.
One student told me he'd like to bike around the world. I told him to start
simple. He first had to become lucid, remember the task, stay in the dream,
and find a bike to ride. He accomplished this in several months. Finally,
one day he reported that he had ridden his bike through Russia in his
dreams. Shortly after this, he told me that he could no longer attend my
group. He was quitting his job, selling his house, and taking five years off
to bike around the world!
Another time, a friend I had just met asked me to dream for him. I dreamed
I was in a theater and was watching a movie that he is in. Later, I told him
the story, and I discovered that I had dreamed his life, including things he
never told anyone.
Once, I told a friend's eight year old nephew about lucid dreaming. I helped
him practice lucid dream induction techniques while awake. I asked him what
he'd like to do in a dream. He said he'd like to meet a president of the
United States. In a few days, he called me to tell me that he had a lucid
dream. He didn't find Washington or Lincoln, but he did meet up with the
artist, Leonardo da Vinci. He said that it was okay, because da Vinci was
famous too. I asked him what happened. He told me that he asked da Vinci if
da Vinci knew that he was in the encyclopedia. Then he showed da Vinci some
of his own artwork. The boy was very happy with his lucid dream, and very
pleased with himself.
Robert: Did listening to your students' lucid experiences and challenges
inspire you to try out new things in your own lucid dreams?
Beverly: Yes, sometimes I would decide ahead of time to meet up with people
in my dreams. I have succeeded in dreaming of the people, but none have
ever told me that they had the same dream. That would be called a "mutual
dream." It is easier for me to attempt a mutual dream when I am lucid,
because I can stop and remember my goal. I have an easier time making it
happen, as well.
I often try to accomplish tasks for my students so we can discuss issues
that arise, and also to see if we could have a mutual dream. Here is a dream
I had when trying to have a mutual dream with a student named Sharon.
I found myself in front of my childhood home and noticed that it looked
strange. The door wasn't in the right place and the house was situated
improperly on the block. This happens often in my dreams, so at that moment
I became lucid. I knew I was dreaming and I remembered that I had a goal for
this dream. However, I saw a neighbor, who I knew had died, and I first
stopped to talk to her. In previous dreams, I would see her and say, "You
are dead!" and try to get on with my goal. She would get upset and say, "I'm
here now, so talk to me!" Unless I did, I learned that I would have trouble
completing my goal.
My goal for the dream was to meet Sharon in the Bahamas. Immediately, I
began to fly like superman heading south, because I was in the Chicago area
at the time. It was dark, and I had a long way to go. By this time in my
lucid dreaming experience, I could fly through electric wires that were in
my way, but now I had another idea. I could make myself miniature, go into
the wire as electricity itself, and get there very quickly. So I got tiny
and popped into the nearest wire, which appeared like a large tunnel once I
was inside. I was whisked very fast, shooting headfirst down the line, until
I abruptly popped out the end of the wire. As my normal self again, I was
somewhere at the southern tip of the United States, at the ocean's edge,
where the electric lines stopped.
I realized I didn't have much time left, and I decided to travel the rest of
the way underwater, doing a kind of superman swim/flying. I soon got
distracted by the lovely underwater life and the joy of moving so fast,
while breathing the water. I finally made it to a lovely beach in the
Bahamas. I asked a guy, who was serving drinks to the sunbathers, if there
was a restaurant nearby. This was the place where Sharon and I agreed we
would try to meet. He pointed down the beach, and I walked to a resort type
building, and then through a long hall. I was about to ask the host if
Sharon was waiting for me, when I saw "her" sitting on a bench. She didn't
look like she was expecting me, so I said, "Don't you remember that you said
you wanted to dream of going to the Bahamas, and I said I'd meet you in a
lucid dream of my own? Well, this is it. We are dreaming now."
I was thinking that this dream girl was "Sharon," a dream-body who was
connected to Sharon, who was probably asleep in bed in Mountain View,
California. If I had seen her as a projection of myself, I may have decided
not to talk to her, believing that she wasn't connected in any way to the
physical Sharon. In this case, I said to her, "Well, I'll tell you a secret,
and we'll see if you remember it when I see you in our group next week." I
whispered a secret in her ear, and soon afterwards I woke up.
Robert: So what happened after this lucid dream? Did she call you in waking
reality or have any memory of the dream?
Beverly: When Sharon came to my lucid dreaming group that Sunday night, she
had forgotten the goal and had never dreamed of me, nor the Bahamas. I am
still waiting, as I am with others, for her to report a related dream or for
her to tell me the secret!
Around this time, I had a dream where I was riding my bike down the street
of my childhood home. I became lucid and started flying into the air. I was
flying over the nearby river, when a cartoon figure of a dolphin floated in
front of me. The dolphin danced around, and then asked me if I'd like to go
on an adventure. After putting out its fin for me to hold onto, it proceeded
to pull me down into the ocean, which was now where the river had previously
been. Something similar had happened to me, with a whale shark, in the
waking state, while I was scuba diving. The dolphin and I traveled deeper
and deeper, faster and faster. I felt both ecstatic and somewhat dizzy,
almost as though the experience were too intense. I woke up, however,
feeling fantastic; very peaceful, yet energized.
Robert: That's great. Did you have any more experiences with dolphins in
dreams or waking life?
Beverly: A few years later, I noticed an ad from a man who took people on
dolphin expeditions. I contacted him, and we eventually did a joint lucid
dreaming/dolphin swimming workshop on a sailboat in the Bahamas. On this
trip, while I was in the crystal clear water of the open sea, one of the
dolphins rubbed up to me. Underwater, its color and shape looked remarkably
similar to the dolphin of my dreams.
Robert: So what other lucid dreaming stories come to mind?
Beverly: When I was thirty-seven years old, I became very anxious to find a
mate, get married, and have children. During the Christmas holidays, while
visiting my parents, I had the following dream. I met up with myself at the
age of twenty-one, who was sad because she was about to leave her college
boyfriend, so she could travel and have a career. I told my twenty-one year
old self that I had done those things. I said that I now wanted a husband
and children. She introduced me to my alternative self, who was also 37,
and who had married my college boyfriend. They had three children, and now
she wanted to divorce him. My twenty-one year old self and I decided that
everything was as it should be. Finally, I woke up. As I am writing down
the dream, I hear an inner voice, as if from a future self, who says,
"Everything is perfect as it is!" I finally believed it. I trusted that I
would find my perfect mate, when the time was right. I didn't need to worry
about it. I decided that if life is a dream, then my dreams would come true.
I imagined that anything was possible, even after I read a Newsweek article,
which said that a woman was more likely to die from terrorists, than to get
married after forty! I did, however, prepare my life for my future family by
buying a house, getting a dog, which was supposed to be good with kids, and
taking a job as a college teacher, which I thought would work well with
being a mom. I met my husband two years after this dream.
Robert: It's interesting in that story how your conversation in the lucid
dream leads to a strong conviction that "Everything is perfect as it is!"
and following that revelation, you move ahead and buy a house and prepare
for your future family. That is one thing that many casual lucid dreamers
fail to see - how a lucid dream experience can be as powerful or more
powerful than many significant waking experiences. Have you ever used waking
reality to practice becoming lucid?
Beverly: In my groups, we would practice becoming lucid while awake. I would
give my students exercises, such as, questioning if they are dreaming,
several times a day. For example, I asked them to check if they were
dreaming every time they washed their hands during the day. I jokingly said,
"If your hand falls off, you are most definitely in a dream!" Around this
time, I was also helping my mother with her dreams of my dad after he died,
in 1992. She was having recurring dreams of my dad, who would appear next
to her bed. She would fear that he was here to take her to heaven. I told
my mom, "If you see dad, remember that he died, and therefore you must be
dreaming!" A few days after I gave my group the hand exercise, she was able
to get lucid in her recurring dream. My mother remembered that my father
had died, and she knew she was dreaming. She was even able to take his hand,
and his hand fell off.She did not know about the exercise when she reported
the dream to me the next morning.
Robert: Beautiful. Did trying to become lucid while awake lead to any
revelations?
Beverly: Yes, I saw how powerful it could be to become lucid in waking life.
I met my husband, Chris, six months after my father died. It was the most
lucid day I have ever experienced. We were at a party, and I saw him from
across the room. I knew that he was my future. It was love at first sight.
I was able to stay in the moment, without fear, and with total trust. I
believed in magic, while been totally accepting whatever happened. I was
able to listen to him, as if he were truly part of myself.
I was very sorry, however, that he never got to meet my father, when I had
the next dream. I was in my childhood home, where my mom still lived, and I
saw my dad on the couch. I remembered that he died, and that I must be
dreaming. I went to sit next to him and told him that I loved him. I asked
him why, lately, he hadn't appeared as often in my dreams. He said that he
was helping me from under the bridge. I'm not sure what he meant, but I was
happy to hear his voice and feel him close. Next, I embraced him, and after
we hugged, I looked back into his eyes. He had turned into my husband, whom
I so much wanted my dad to meet. I soon awakened and felt as though they
had finally met, at some level.
Chris and I were married in less than a year after we met. We knew that we
wanted to have a child. After much medical help to get pregnant, I decided
to work on the issue in my dreams.
I decided to dream of our future baby. I would ask questions of the baby in
the dream such as, "When are you coming?" I would also try to determine what
year it was in the dream. Sometimes the baby would have messages.
Robert: It's fascinating how you seem to work on "the future" to some degree
in your lucid dreams. Maybe it is not the future, so much as your hopes for
the future. Did you have many other lucid dreams of trying to influence the
future?
Beverly: One time, in waking reality, I was back in my childhood home, alone
for the first time. My mom was ill, and in the hospital. My Dad had died
over two years ago. I was afraid, crying in my bed. I fell asleep.
Spontaneously, without trying to influence the future, I had a type of
nurturing dream involving the future. I became lucid in my dream, when I
noticed that the baby, from my baby picture on the wall, was coming out of
the picture. I walked over to myself as a baby, just in time to take the
baby in my arms. As I held her, I saw my face in hers, and I pulled her to
my chest. I could see her lips sucking at my breast, and I felt very
fulfilled. I slowly awakened, and I felt my own lips moving, as well. I was
deeply nurtured. A year later I nursed my own child in that very bed!
Before my son, Adrian, was born, however, I also had some interactions with
my childhood witches. My witch dreams went through many transformations
during my life. In 1960, I faced up to the scary witches from my recurring
nightmares. In the 1970's, I looked for the witches of my childhood in a
dream, and they appeared as harmless, little old ladies. In the 1980's, I
noticed that the witch drama appeared in my waking life as well. In 1994,
doctors gave me terrible odds against having a child. So, I looked for the
witches in a lucid dream, thinking of them as my "creative power," and I
brought them into my uterus. Within a year, I got pregnant with my son,
Adrian.
Adrian was born during the 1995 Association for the Study of Dreams
Conference (ASD95). This was three years after I presented the paper at
ASD92 called, "What I Learned from Lucid Dreaming is Lucid Living." I
brought him to the ASD96 conference. He also came to the ASD97 conference,
where I gave a workshop called, "Living Life as a Lucid Dream." Adrian
turned two on the day of the dream ball.
Robert: In a way, it seems that your lucid dreaming skills allowed you to
use that beautiful symbol of witches as creative power for your own ends.
In a sense, you claimed the power of the shadow.
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ABC's of Dream Benefits
(From "How To Fly")
© 2004 Linda Lane Magallon
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Ask most folks why they like flying dreams and they'll probably answer,
"Because they're fun." They're expansive, energetic, expressive and
euphoric. They feel good. Of course, we're talking about the best case
scenario, not flights where you're frightened, frustrated, fatigued or
flummoxed. Dream flights span the range of emotion and sensation, but even
those at the negative end of the scale can be beneficial. While fun may
still be topmost on your list of motivating factors, there are plenty of
others to ponder. Would any of these ABCs inspire you to have dream flights?
Award for Awakening
Once I incubated a series of flying dreams when I'd been feeling so stiff in
the mornings that I practically hobbled out of bed. During the third of my
dreams, I dreamt I was dancing in the air. As the dream drew to a close, my
radio alarm clicked on. It was tuned to a station that was broadcasting a
song with a rollicking beat. Dancing in my dreams became dancing out of bed
and around the room. There simply was no physical stiffness left. The
emotions and energy of a buoyant nighttime flight can certainly carry well
into the day. On the other hand, if flying causes us to wake while we're
still asleep, we get another sort of award. It's called lucid dreaming.
Browsing the Body and Brain
Have you ever had an in-the-body experience? I don't mean inhabiting the
physical body during the day. I mean traveling through it, deep in the
night, as a fairy-like bit of consciousness. For dreams, it doesn't matter
what size we are. Our awareness of self can shrink and become a traveler on
a fantastic voyage through the body's systems, but the pictures will be
produced for normal size comprehension. For instance, the flash of light
created by the visual nervous system might be perceived as a storm with
lighting in an inky dark landscape. When we're small enough, the lungs may
seem to be a huge cave of howling wind. I bet you didn't know that Hades is
located in the intestines! The flyer is graced with a gift to keep the
underworld under her skin from being too overwhelming. She has the ability
to rise above it.
Courage to Confront; Choice to Create
In the schema of American psychologist Abraham Maslow, there are two major
motivations that help determine our thoughts, feelings and behavior: basic
needs and growth needs. When our basic needs (like air, food, safety,
companionship and esteem) are not met, we worry and fret, even agonize and
fear. These reactions are converted into the normative nightmare and anxiety
dream. The flyer has a tactical advantage regarding threats: flight or
fight. We can run away from problems (flight) or come back to confront them
(fight). When basic needs are satisfied, the energy that had been forced to
fulfill them is liberated for the growth of human potential. Instead of
trudging through trouble, we are free to fly. As we fly free from survival
imperatives, we expand our artistic horizons. We sculpt creative dreams; we
create our own reality.
Decoding Day Residue
Flying dreams have been labeled "bizarre," that is, they don't conform to
the constraints imposed by the physical world. It's true that your physical
body will walk or run or drive a car down the street. But your inner
body-sense surely doesn't. It floats along for the ride. Your physical body
may break into a smile over a happy event, but your inner body leaps for
joy. Your physical body may sit on an office chair, while a spark of your
inner consciousness soars to the South Seas in reverie. Comes time to form a
dream about daytime events and the sleeping mind is not limited to a literal
depiction of life. Rather than a mundane description of your daily commute
to work, it may well depict a slow but steady flight through city streets.
Or perhaps the orchestral sounds from your car's loud speakers may invoke
uplifting emotions that evoke an ecstatic flight to anywhere but city
streets. Thus, when you get ready to decode a flying dream, ignore the
blatant "bizarre" imagery. Dig underneath it. Concentrate on sensations,
emotions and thoughts. These are the elements that echo an actual waking
event. Dream pictures don't have to be photographic records of a recent
daytime experience. For flying dreams, the mind reveals the hidden side of
self. It paints how you feel.
Emotional Environmentalism
Dreaming together with other people doesn't guarantee a communal high. If it
happens spontaneously, it's far more likely that a shared dream will be a
nightmare or anxiety experience. It's deliberate co-dreaming that's likely
to shift focus towards mutual agreement and harmony. Successful mutual
dreamers have this in common: most all know how to fly. Although their
dreams may begin as an anxiety event, resolution can occur in-dream and the
dream will end on an upbeat note. This is the Environmental Effect: the
conversion of negative to positive while the dream is still happening.
Instead of shadow land, the dream becomes a land of light. In the long run,
the percentage of negative dreams drops rather dramatically. The flyer is,
then, a dream environmentalist, recycling the residue of daily waste and
polluted programming and retrofitting our minds with attitudes and aptitudes
that build us new Edens.
Finding Friendship
As the flyer matures, flight away from life into the long night of the
hermit's cave transforms into tentative return. The flyer becomes more
willing to risk human relationship and finds new courage to attempt
communication. When I'm lucid and other dream characters share the same
scene, I often ask if anyone would like to come fly with me. The characters
may raise their hands or simply come forward to join me. A co-flight can be
parallel, hand-in-hand or enmeshed with co-mingled bodies. This flow of
interaction carries over to the waking state. As a whole, flying dreamers
are more likely than most to share their dreams with other people when they
wake up. Flying dreams are a highly prized gift of relationship.
Glimpses of a Gorgeous Globe
Since there's no need to breathe in the hyperspace of dream, there's no
limit to how far you can fly. Dream flight can send you streaking through
the stars, en route to a distant planet or rounding the moon and sun as if
you're propelled by a celestial sling-shot. But there's one spot where
stopping and hovering is a glorious joy. That's where you can view the whole
of our Great Blue Marble supported only by the infinite dark. Many people
write about "oneness" as if it's some abstract concept in the land of mental
ambiguity. This dream is an opportunity to actually see it: the beauty of
the whole Earth from a vantage point aloft. The flow of the pen may produce
promises or release an ancient longing, but the fulfillment of human hope
happens in Technicolor, feelie-vision, surround-sensation and the utter
reality of suspension in space.
Herald of Health
How healthy are you? Your dreams can hand you the clues. Because dreams have
a high relation to sensation and feeling, they can picture such aspects of
your being. They might indicate that you are in less-than-perfect health.
Conversely, they can display the activities of a robust and vigorous psyche.
Flying - how fast, how far, how high - serves as a thermometer of health. Do
I fly through fair skies or foul? Do I get airborne at all? The styles,
moods, obstacles (or lack of them) can indicate the state of my emotional,
mental and physical health. They can signal that well-being is on the way or
warn me that I need pay closer attention to my body, my car, my
relationships with other animals and people. I incubate flying dreams to get
my dreaming self moving away from sickness and other sub-standard modes of
being. We both feel better that way.
Intentional Imagination
I'd like to quote British poet W. H. Auden here: "The trouble with dreams,
of course, is that other people's are so boring"! Oh, my, can we have boring
dreams? Yes, indeed. Once in a dream group, a dreamer related a long tale of
trying to become lucid. When she finally achieved her goal, she found
herself in a empty room, without any characters, without any props or
scenery or a script being automatically produced just for her. Since there
wasn't anything interesting going on, she shrugged her mental shoulders and
let go of her lucidity. After this, she had no desire to have any more lucid
dreams. That shocked me to the core. But I came to realize the fundamental
difference between fate and free will. The fated dreamer lets only
happenstance direct his drama. The flyer understands she had a choice to be
either passive or an active agent in the emergence of her story. In flight,
we awaken the Inner Child who is never bored or boring because, in her
theater of dreams, she remembers how to play. She knows how to release her
emaciated imagination from its stark cage and let it take flight.
Jokes and Jumping Jehosephat
Do you recall the last time you laughed in a dream? Have you *ever* laughed
in a dream? Here's another quote to ponder. When psychoanalyst Victor Monke
was asked about proactive dreams, he responded that dreams were the results
of "conflicting emotional needs at the same time." If a person truly were
able to direct the course of a dream away from its "natural" conclusion,
said Monke, "he wouldn't be having the dream" in the first place. As our
legacy from Freud, we are weighed down by the grave supposition that dreams
are repressions of some seriously perverse psychological problems. There is
an insipid inference that only troubled dreams warrant our attention. Humor
has little foothold in such a fault-finding occupation of the mind. It comes
as no surprise to me to find out that Freud never had a flying dream in his
life. Did you know that, in dreams, it's possible to jump, laugh, sing and
giggle yourself into the air? After all, aren't flying dreams premiere
examples of "levity"? Before you groan, you might like to know that flying
dreams are great punsters, too. Our dreaming selves can have a very humorous
perception of waking life.
Knowledge versus Kryptonite
The Kryptonite Effect is the nemesis of the flyer. It's everything that
keeps her grounded, makes it hard to launch, slows her progress and creates
a glass ceiling for her efforts. Understanding these obstacles, and how to
overcome them, translates into helpful hints and an attitude that aids in
solving problems in related sorts of dreams. For instance, if you come to
realize that phenomena like sleep paralysis, myclonic jerks and floating
feelings are quite natural and common on the borderlands of sleep, then the
surprising sensations of flight will intrigue rather frighten. Cognitive
therapy can change a negative mind set for flying. Behavioral therapy helps
convert knee-jerk reactions to more positive activities. Programming for
flight is practice in incubation, a primary tool for any proactive dreamer.
The more you know and put to use, the better your dream adventures.
Comprehending Kryptonite means reviewing one's biochemical, psychological,
physical and psychic health and selecting the appropriate tools for the job
of healing. It's a holistic approach to dreams.
Launching the Lucid Dream
My body's fatigued, my mind is mush, my self-discipline is practically
nonexistent and my dreams are few. I don't know if you've ever been at the
bottom of the barrel, but I sure have, more times than I care to remember. A
highly desirous goal, like becoming awake as I dream, seems totally beyond
my reach. Pie in the virtual sky. There's only two ways I know to win the
prize. One, take a tremendous leap and hope you land in the treetops rather
than atop a footstool. Pull yourself together, take a deep breath, and
activate your will with all the power of an Olympic weight lifter and jump.
However, the number of times I've leapt tall buildings with a single bound
is very low indeed. For the second option, take the slow and easy way, one
step at a time. This approach is longer, but along the way, you can have
some pretty interesting dreams. My dreaming self begins in low gear; I take
a walk around the block. My dreaming self starts to walk; I walk and imagine
flying. My dreaming self begins to fly. Only then, do I give myself the
directive to go lucid. This route from flying to lucidity, from slug to
Super Hero, has been used successfully by many dreamers.
Mundane Milieu To Mary Pop-ins
What's the most tedious dream you have? For me, it's a slight variation on
some trivial activity in waking life. It's when my dreaming self is acting
like my clone, and a pretty robotic one, at that. Flying is certainly not
mundane; it's a promise and fulfillment of fantasy. So, what's a fantastic
alternative? How about Alice Through The Looking Glass? Instead of staying
in mundane reality, you imagine yourself into a mirror. Or into a story, a
movie, even a symbol. My dreaming self likes Pop-ing Into A Picture best, so
that's what I'll choose to look at before I sleep: solid visual blocks with
which she can build the scenery, props, characters and even story line.
Flying into the picture in my imagination translates into flying into realms
of adventure when I sleep. Or I might try Pop-ing Into A Picture on the
borderlands of sleep. During hypnogogia, I watch the scenes flash like a
slide show, then take a mental breath and launch myself into one of them. I
can start a flying dream that way. Boring, they are not.
Nullifying the Nightmare
Flight or flight is an automatic response to fear bred from millions of
years of evolution. Since dreams can react to instinctual promptings,
running away from terror is a very common theme. The flyer has an advantage
over surface dwellers. She can leap above grasping hands or sharpened teeth.
But fleeing is only a first step in the flyer's defensive repertoire. She
can turn and watch the threat from above or return to fight, frighten,
negotiate a cease-fire or befriend. Should she stand her ground, learn to
face down fear, she still knows, deep in her soul, that she has a back-up
plan. She can always get airborne if need be.
Opportunity for Out-of-Body
Flying in dreams is preparation for astral projection. The feelings of
floating and soaring are already known. It's simply a case of shifting the
scenery. Instead of a fantasy landscape, a change of consciousness provides
awareness of one's own bedroom. Being stuck in the thrall of sleep paralysis
may be scary at first, but the flyer soon realizes she can escape that
heavy, frozen feeling. By relaxing and reaching back in her mind for the
memory of gravity-free movement, she can retrieve the sensation of lightness
that enables lift. If she exchanges her serious concern for levity, then
out-of-body she will float. Lightheartedness is the key.
Practice for Physical Life
Wouldn't it be great to fly like Superman in the physical world! Well,
perhaps someday, someone will find the key to unlock that secret. In the
meantime, flying is still good practice. It provides the self-esteem to
stand up and face problems in waking life. It models movement for the
physical body. Since the sensations of flight in dream derive from
sensations felt in daily life, the dream can do an about-face and inspire
still more movement, now backed by the confidence and control that comes
from practice in a safe arena. Now matter if the goal is to roll a scooter,
ride a horse, drive a car or yes, even fly a plane, the dream builds
experience for such activities. It is a first-rate, custom made, flight
simulator.
Questioning the Status Quo
Go with the flow. A wonderful feeling. A heart-swelling ecstasy. An
effortless ride. When you have no place special to go, catching the wind and
taking it wherever it may go is the name of the game. But supposing the flow
isn't sending you where you wish? Is it sucking you downward, shooting you
upward at too fast a pace? Then you may wonder whether the flow is flowing
in your best interest. Perhaps it is taking you exactly opposite your
optimum path. Flows come from all sorts of sources: illness and heath, peer
pressure and support, enthusiasm and warped will power. Only some of these
are worth your while. The flyer may catch the latest surge of energy if she
wish, but she is no victim of circumstance. She has the awareness to wonder
where and why and how and with whom she is going. And the determination to
stop and consider other options.
Religious Revolution and Reality Tests
In the annals of religious history, many a dreamer has been swept up by
compelling forces and flung skyward to serve almighty purposes. Should the
journey be rapturous, the dreamers may well respond with adoration and awe.
But their own wills and intentions are sacrificed on the altar of passive
surrender. Is this an admirable trait in a spiritual seeker? A spontaneous
surprise may offer little choice. But the dreamer has the power to awake
from the enthrallment of sleep; to wonder, to compare, to judge. There are
many religious paths, none of which are exempt from reality tests. Am I
being swept along by gods or ghouls, angels or demons, by aliens or fairy
folk, by friend or foe? Must I rely on others to reach enlightenment or do I
have some say about the route of my Hero's Journey? When the spirit learns
to fly on her own, her inner myth can't help but change. At this, the
dawning of the air-age of Aquarius, willful flying contains the seed of
religious revolution.
Sports and Skills of the Super Hero
Dream researcher Paul Tholey used lucid dreams to help perfect his
skateboarding skills. Then he taught other dreamers to practice the skills
of their sports in-dream, too. One dreamer was an Olympic equestrian. In
order to improve skiing prowess, Tholey suggested that another dreamer
practice, but not within his dream body. The dreamer flew along out-of-body,
at the end of his skis. Flying helps the physical athlete, but it also keeps
the mind flexible. Players of chess, board games and virtual reality toys
are flyers. Flying is a sort of dream air-obics. Many video games require an
active mind and quick reflexes as the player speeds from one onrushing scene
to the next. Flying is no sport for couch potatoes! Even if physically
immobilized or confined to bed, a dreamer with a strong and flexible mind
can soar like a Super Hero.
Traveling through Time and Space
If you wished to travel in Wonderland, how would you get there? Fall down a
rabbit's hole? The ability to fly might come in very handy just then. There
are all sorts of tight spaces that can be traversed with ease if you have
the ability to move in a unique direction. Not just forward and back, but
down into the depths of the underworld, up from dungeons and despair and
through long dark tunnels out into the light. I've always thought that time
travel would be most practical if it took place suspended in the air. Less
traffic up there. In dream, if I travel in time, I usually teleport or go
via space vehicle. Either way is an opportunity to try out variations of the
flying theme.
Understanding a Universal Symbol
Since flying dreams have been found down through history and across the
world wide, flying has a solid claim to be called a "universal" symbol. But
is it an archetype? It seems Carl Jung's primary experience aloft was a
vision induced by medication. Floating happened to Jung; he didn't happen to
it. He was fascinated by UFOs and little girls who turn into birds, but they
were objectified symbols at a safe distance away. The most popularized
flying myth is Icarus, the guy who fell out of the sky. Why not Daedalus,
the fellow who actually got it right? Hmmm? When I went searching the annals
of ancient legend and myth for tales of flight, there wasn't a lot of
positive adventures to pick from. So I looked further and found examples in
Chinese fairy tales, African-American folk tables, American tall tales,
Japanese comic books, British science fiction and, most especially, the
children's section of the library. Flying expands your world, in more ways
than one.
Visiting Virtual Reality
Ever seen VR images on TV? Virtual reality is a series of connected images,
a simulation of life on the move. In a VR helmet, you can visit locations
(such as a mimic of Mars) with all the visual reality of a physical trip,
but without the danger and expense of going IRL (in real life). Or you can
inhabit realms of fancy. In VR your point of view "flies" from one angle,
altitude and attitude to another. Whether fantastic or realistic, flying
provides unique perspectives no earth-bound individual can have. Just like
dreams can do. Dreams are our own personal virtual theaters of the mind. In
VR you can fly through walls. In dreams you can fly through earth, air, fire
and water. Shrink to the size of a molecule, grow to the size of a galaxy.
Have experiences you've never "dreamed" of having, here in waking life.
Flying is a fairly comfortable introduction to even more extraordinary
dreams.
Wallop of Wonder
The first experience of any "big" dream can shake you to the core. It's a
sensory, mental, emotional explosion of feeling that impresses you forever.
It remains with you in the present to serve as an inspiration for the
future. And as a standard against which you judge all new occurrences.
Unfortunately, succeeding experiences may never come close to equaling the
first. Perhaps that's why some folks treat a flying dream as something
sacred, something they never dare repeat. It would diminish the awe and
amazement of the original impact, they presume. Now, that's just sad. It's
true - no flight will be exactly like another. It could be better! For me,
one of the greatest joys of flying is the view of the passing landscape. A
dream scene can outrank any VR or physical version with its vivid color,
sparkling essence and overall sense of realness that is unlike any other.
I've lost count of the times I've called out spontaneously, "Oh, how
beautiful! Oh, how wonderful!" while I watched a scene unfold in all its
heart-filling glory as I flew over, around and through it. Words of
astonishment rise like an underground torrent and gush right out of me. You
may have heard of repeating nightmares, but what about repeating big dreams?
That's what flying dreams are for me.
X-trasensory X-perience
What's the most common psychic dream? These days, it's likely to be the
preview of an air disaster. Airplane and space shuttles top the list that
includes prophetic dreams of Apollo, Challenger and the New York World Trade
Center. The theme of flight permeates of our culture down to the depths of
our dreams. Sometimes such dreams have great practical benefit: some folks
have been warned away from taking airplane flights that later ended in
tragedy. But there are also plenty of positive examples of flying psi:
clairvoyant, empathic, telepathic and mutual as well as precognitive. If you
want to visit another person in-dream, then at least one of you has to
travel. Mutual dreamers often use the premiere method of locomotion, the
out-of-body experience. When you move into extraordinary dream space, where
the unknown is the rule rather than the exception, being able to fly will
get you out of potential trouble spots and shift your paradigm. It can
change the way you view psi phenomena over all. Instead of a prisoner of
prophetic fate, you rescue your own destiny and place it back in your hands.
You and Your Dreaming Self
What do you actually do in your dreams. Or, I should say, what does your
dreaming self do? Because, if you are a flyer sans vehicle, you know darn
well that you, as physical self, aren't doing the flying. The "you" of
waking reality isn't the "you" of dream space. Never in waking life have I
become invisible, shrunk to a pinpoint of light or metamorphosed into a
bird. My dreaming self has that sort of fun, although vicariously, I come
along for the ride. It's as if we lead parallel lives, each with their own
unique properties. They might be separate lives, if we pay no attention to
one another. When we learn to become aware of each other, though, we can
develop a reciprocal relationship. I suggest new ideas; she may or may not
carry them out. Instead of always asking her to serve my needs, I ask, "What
would you like to do?" I provide new building blocks of vivid memories for
her to shape the dream; she provides me with a life of magic. Who gets the
best of the trade? We do!
Zero In, Zone Out
If I had to pick just one benefit of dream flying, it would be this: I am
more. As a flyer, my concepts of both waking and dreaming reality have been
radically altered. I live in a wider, richer universe than even before. It's
multi-leveled meaning, not surface symbol. I feel myself to be bigger; that
is, there's more substantial me to fill me up. Fulfillment or enlightenment
aren't mental concepts to write about, with which to play literary mind
games. They are first hand experiences of beingness. Sometimes I wonder if
folks who write about extraordinary spiritual, mental, psychic or emotional
highs have ever actually been there. Imagining them is not the same has
having them. I wonder what would happen if we could separate speculation
about reality from reality itself.
But that's just speculation. Guessing, theorizing, writing, talking. And
talking. And talking. And talking... They're flimsy substitutes for the real
thing. So time to stop simulating sleep and start sleeping. Pleasant
flights!
Zzzzz.
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
July 2004
Jean Campbell
THE DREAMS OF CHILDREN
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Meanwhile - Let us be good to the children in our lives - and add more
children to our lives who need some good - Joy Fatooh
On The World Dreams Peace Bridge this month, a major theme seems to have
been the dreams of children. In war-torn Iraq; in Peace Train activities in
Germany and Australia; in Dallas, Texas and Manchester, England, members and
supporters of the Peace Bridge have been thinking about and listening to
children and their dreams.
During the recent conference of the International Association for the Study
of Dreams in Copenhagen, Denmark, attended by several members of the Peace
Bridge, I began to listen to people as they talked about working with
children and their dreams, "I would be worried that the parents might think
I was trying to influence the children," said one man. "I love children;
and they love me," said another. "The most important thing in working with
children's dreams is being able to listen," said Brenda Mallon, author of
Dream Time With Children.
On Monday, July 12, just before a scheduled Peace Train workshop in Germany,
Ralf Penderak's eleven-year old son, Alex, had the following dream:
I get a letter saying I must go to the army. I am eighteen. It is just seven
days of school left. I have nightmares every night in that week. I don’t
know what will happen. I’m fearful. I fear I’m going to die. I awake after
the seventh night and think, now I have to go. Then I awake one more time,
and wonder, what is going on. Is this reality or is it another dimension? It
dawns on me that I actually am eleven years old and don’t have to be a
soldier now.
A Peace Train workshop, is an activity that can be taken on by anyone
interested in peace. Information on Peace Trains can be found on the World
Dreams web site at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
Before the workshop Ralf planned, inviting Alex and his cousins, Ralf also
had a many dreams. "I had dreams related to the Peace Train meeting,
showing that his was also for me bringing up issues of self confidence,
creativity, anger, war and peace. But this wasn't only due to the Peace
train activities," Ralf said. "but a result of the intense dream work
related to the Copenhagen conference and the World Dreams Peace Bridge."
One of Ralf's dreams was this one:
Ripping the Red Rag
There is a deep red cloth right before my face, that fills my entire field
of vision. I grab it with both hands and tear, until it is beginning to rip
in the middle. Through the rip I see blue skies. Now I see myself sitting
there on a table with the cloth and passing on my work to a boy. He is
supposed to continue, what I have begun.
The work of the Peace Bridge operates on many levels, both in dreams and in
waking reality. Peace Trains were also created in Australia this month in a
workshop led by Victoria Quinton. Nick Cumbo celebrated A Day Out of Time,
the New Year's day of the Mayan Calendar, and the anniversary of Jeremy
Seligson's Peace Train Dream by having a Peace Train DaFuMu on his web site
at www.dreamofpeace.net
Immediately after the Copenhagen conference, members of the Peace Bridge
held a DaFuMu dreaming for peace during the NATO meetings being held in
Istanbul, Turkey. Possibly these dreams contributed to the fact that there
was no major outbreak of violence during the talks. One could hope so, even
though not even all members of the Peace Bridge knew about the DaFuMu
dreaming.
Joy Fatooh wrote on July 12:
I've just quickly skimmed through all your writings that came in while I was
away. I gather that there was a DaFuMu last night? Sorry I missed the
announcement, but I didn't miss the DaFuMu! I stopped at my mom's house on
my way back over the mountains and slept on her floor, and decided I might
dream something pertinent to our discussion about violence and peace to
share with you all.
---
In an overpriced specialty ice cream shop I bought one small scoop of
pistachio and set it on a table while I paid. When I turned around, a tall,
gaunt, scruffy man had taken my ice cream to another table and was calmly
eating it. He looked probably poor, possibly homeless, and I didn't so much
mind him having my ice cream; but my thought was that it might not be good
for me or him or society if I didn't insist on
something in exchange. So even though I was a little worried that he might
be a bit deranged, I said, "Hey, that was mine - what are you going to give
me for it?"
He just sat there and looked at me while he ate. I said, "You don't have to
pay what I paid for it, but you should give me something to make it fair." I
saw a pile of coins on the table beside him and asked, "How about one of
these quarters?" But he said, "Those aren't quarters," and on a closer look
I saw that they were some kind of foreign coin.
I asked, "Could I have one for my nephew's coin collection?" He said,"No,
you can't have one of those. But here," he took from his big coat pocket a
double handful of clever little wire sculptures. They were very nicely made
little human figures of shiny black wire, all posed with various weapons
like toy soldiers.
I don't know any kids who play with toy soldiers and I didn't care for the
combative poses myself, but I sorted through them and chose three hat were
unarmed. However, arriving home a moment later, I realized that I hadn't
taken them with me.
I went back - now the place was somehow at the other end of my own house,
near the hot springs - and I was informed that by accepting three of the
figures I had been inducted into some kind of secret society. The unarmed
three I'd chosen were gone. I looked through the pile again and found three
that were armed, yet did not look aggressive - rather, conveyed a sort of
graceful, tai chi-like readiness. My favorite was a woman with bow and
arrow, the drawn bow forming a lovely curve that led into the curve of her
body, held far forward as she stood on the toes of one forward-striding
foot, somehow incredibly balanced.
"Yes, Balance," the impersonal narrator/voice-over/Dream-Voice-of-Wisdom
intoned - "Balance is what it's all about."
With an amazing set of synchronicities involving our old friend the Phoenix
and a new member from Sydney, Australia Su Leybourn, a set children's dreams
of peace brought Valley Reed back to the Peace Bridge. You may remember
Valley's dream of the Crow and the Phoenix which she danced at the ASD
Regional Conference in 2002. You can see photos of the tale of Anna Belle
and her friend the umbrella in the dance at
http://asdreams.org/conferences/2002cincinnati/crow_and_phoenix.htm Valley
had dropped out of e-mail contact several months ago.
Though the entire story is too long to tell here, toward the end of July, a
post arrived in the contact box on the World Dreams site from the director
of the youth program at a Unity Church in Dallas, Texas. Children from the
church had written cards and drawn pictures expressing their dreams of
peace, which they wanted to send to children in Iraq. They wondered if we
could help them find somewhere to send them.
Well, of course we knew just the place, as we have been sending packages to
the Seasons Art School in Baghdad for the past several months, but out of
curiosity I asked where the Unity Church in Dallas might have heard of the
Peace Bridge. Through Valley Reed, of course. She is now on staff at the
Dallas Peace Center, one of the oldest and most respected peace groups in
the country.
So the dreams of the children in Dallas connected with the dreams of the
children in Baghdad, and one more contact has been made.
From the children who attend the Seasons Art School, we have begun to
receive individual e-mails. The program at the Seasons Art School is not a
regular school program, but a therapeutic program, directed by a graduate
student from the University of Baghdad, Emad Hadi. The school sees several
hundred children in morning and afternoon sessions, working with them in
art, theater, music, computers and other means of self expression,
attempting to deal with the effects of war.
So far, in the past month, a dozen children from the school, who are
learning English and computers, have written individual email notes to the
Peace Bridge, and have received in return e-mails, postcards and letters
from individuals on the Bridge. We are hoping to establish a page on the
World Dreams web site, through which individual children can be paired with
others around the world to develop a true communication.
The Childhoods Voices program, the parent program of the school, has also
set up another program this summer in one of the poorest districts of
Baghdad, the Peace Birds School. This is what they say about that program:
All over the world, a child wakes up cheerfully every morning with his/her
dreams and ambitions, with the innocent hope, that he/she will have a future
without fear. However, the dreams of our Iraqi children have become more
special, not because of their beauty or colour, but because of their tragic
pain and sorrow. Our Iraqi children wake up with a big burden of fear, and
with no smile. They are afraid of everything and nothing, because their fear
has become the tangible reality in which they live from day to day. Their
fears range from not being able to reach school because of the razor wire
put by occupation forces in many areas, and sometimes around their schools,
sudden explosions which may occur at any time, the security situation in the
streets which prevents them from playing with their friends or outside their
homes and even their homes have become unsafe for them. Put simply, Iraqi
children are afraid, from childhood, of annihilation.
Obviously, this is not something they enjoy but is a reality which is
enforced on to them. Therefore, it is our duty to carry the message of peace
with us, so as to implant in the minds of our birds that they can live in
peace. For this reason, “Peace Birds Art School” has been established in the
Al-Dura District.
During the month of July, one final thing has been happening on the World
Dreams Peace Bridge that has to do with the dreams of children. Brenda
Mallon from Manchester, England, author of the excellent book *Dream Time
With Children*, has agreed to send copies of this book to the teachers in
Iraq, and we have begun conversations with Emad and others in the school
about the possibility of working with the children with their dreams. This
is a delicate activity, of course, but Brenda, who has worked with children
in northern Ireland and other situations involving conflict, is particularly
well-suited to the task of helping people to understand the role of war and
conflict in the dream lives of children:
"Dreams act as an internal information system--they are messages from
ourselves to ourselves," says Brenda Mallon. "They reveal inner struggles
and expose the complexity of working out who you are in a confusing world.
This is particularly the case for growing children who find that both the
physical and emotional changes they experience influence their dream life."
(13)
By making connection with the dreams of children the world over, members of
the World Dreams Peace Bridge hope to assist in facilitating a communication
between adults and children, and children with children, that can broaden
the field of possible peaceful interaction.
We encourage you to visit the World Dreams Peace Bridge web site at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org or to subscribe to the World Dreams
discussion group at
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If any of you have ever dreamed, as I have, www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
Thank you.
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Crystal Waves: Journey to the Galactic Center
Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year
© Nick Cumbo
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The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations underway at the Sea
Life forum. We take a community approach to dreaming, running monthly
dreaming projects to learn more about our world, and the evolutionary path
before ourselves and our planet.
Link:
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife
During the Crystal Moon, we set off for a ‘Journey to the Galactic Center’.
In Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Major Jenkins suggests that the Maya derived
their amazing knowledge of the cosmos through journeys to the galactic
center in heightened states of consciousness. “How can we know for sure?”
Jenkins asks, “the only way to test this theory of course, would be to
repeat the experiment. What would be possible if a team of neo-shamans
opened their mind to the Galactic Center?”.
http://sealife.dreamofpeace.net/viewtopic.php?t=1488
While Jenkins affirms that the Mayan ceremonial thrones were often built as
a “hotline of communication with the cosmic center”, we didn’t have such
luxuries available. Basically, we had to start from scratch, and so finding
a suitable visual gateway became our first goal. Upon meditating, a
rectangular tunnel showed itself to me. While the shape faded into the depth
of darkness behind it, I felt that we were supposed to travel through it.
Interestingly, Jenkins claims that “astrophysicists now believe that a Black
Hole – a Hyperdense object from which even light cannot escape – exists at
the center of our galaxy.
“Please allow me to see the beauty of the Center” GreenEyes had asked
before her journey. She was met with a vision of the human spine, seemingly
a reflection that the galactic center is both within us and without.
“I am looking at a human spinal column against a black background. The
disks are each almost the size of my fist. The rib bones are as long as my
arm, but fade to shadows away from the spine. I can see the nerves in little
bundles running up and down the spine. I was like, Oh! The Central nervous
system, eh? and admired the beauty of it. After all, that's why I was
there.....”
THE SIRIUS CONNECTION
ChrisNA felt that the Galactic Center may be in some way related to Sirius,
which he believed to be the origin of this plane. He set out into meditation
with the intention of learning more about the galactic center. After praying
for guidance, protection, and truth, “something extraordinary happened”. A
small but symmetrical symbol appeared.
“An incredible strong, blue-white energy beam from the circle in the
middle - after seemingly traveling light years [though the feeling didn't
feel like any physical distance at all] - hit my heart chakra and started
illuminating my whole body in white-blue radiance.
I don’t know what this means but I on experiencing it, remember that I have
experienced something like that before, but the lightbeam started from my
third eye that time. I was lying in bed letting go of all my ego, trying to
find the center of everything, and this immensely strong energy beam blasted
out of my third eye into the distance carrying my awareness with it..”
His experience was especially fascinating from a personal perspective; since
this blue-white beam of energy had become a trademark of our dream journeys
to Sirius, undertaken almost a year ago.
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/thewaves/03sirius/
Intrigued, I decided to follow up with meditation of my own, using the image
he provided as the starting point. I was surprised to see it unfold into a
3-dimensional structure with a circular base. A theme later extended through
ChrisNA’s own meditation
“I had another 'vision' while taking a bath yesterday. It had been raining
the whole day and the forests around me lay in white fog. I visualized
myself surrounded by it - without any clue where I was or should go. My mind
steady; a bright-bluish light beam [similar to the one I experienced the
other day, but not at all filled with energy - just simply a light ray]
shone through the fog to my heart chakra. I followed it until I came to it's
origin.
I recognized it as Sirius, but unlike the previous time there was only
positive energy radiating form it, not –everything- the center piece
remained the same, the smaller circles around it changed from black to white
correspondently. I asked myself what this means and it transformed instantly
to deliver the answer. The image transformed into a three-dimensional
cone-shape structure, which entered my heart chakra and created another
structure (similar, but black, not white) at the back.
I was floating in space. I realized what I previously puzzled over, what
these higher and lower dimensions mean; me saying ‘higher and lower’ was
confusing, they are infact negative and positive dimensions, with eternal
bliss on one end (the white cone) and misery on the other (black cone at the
back). I understood that enlightenment (I don’t particularly like the word)
is the transcendation of both positive and negative, because both are just
two sides of the same coin – of us – and we won’t identify with ourselves as
long we identify with one side. Infact ‘ourselves’ are the energy of the
cosmos, and no subjective mind.”
THE POWER OF FLIGHT
Waterstarrainbow made a number of fascinating attempts at journeying to the
galactic center. One of which began after becoming conscious in a dream, and
looking up to the night sky.
“There are hundreds of stars. I see what first looks like a leaf actually
turn into an umbrella. I think of the Galactic center and I am trying to get
the umbrella to come back to me. I turn around and see a car and I wish with
my body and ask for the unbrellla to be in the car. I see that it is. I grab
it and I am willling it to go up. It is slowly doing this, but what makes it
fly off was actually just letting it happen. I’m flying very fast and very
high. I am getting nervous and scared and decide to wake up.”
Some of my own attempts at journeying there left me with similar fears;
perhaps an unwillingness of the ego to let go, and become propelled by a
force beyond words. One quickly comes to understand why such a task was left
to experienced shamans. Eager to succeed, I set out into conscious dreaming
to meet my spirit guide, and to ask for assistance.
“I decide to ask him if he can help me with the dreaming adventure to the
galactic center. Next thing I know his earlier fading form has disappeared.
He’s shape shifted. Now before me lie a large group of seagulls flying into
the sky.
I decide this would be the perfect opportunity to call on the guidance of my
totem animal. Remembering a trick Waterstarrainbow used, I bring my totem
animal into manifestation using my intention. A group of pigeons materialize
beneath my hands. Without waiting, they begin to rise up into the sky. I’m
dazzled, and especially intrigued by the heights to which they rise. As they
come back closer to ground level, a transition takes place, and I attempt to
shift into my true pigeon form.
Unfortunately, I'm not such a good flyer as the rest of the group are. I'm
caught between half human, half pigeon awareness. Watching the pigeons in
flight, I begin to realize something. That pigeons don’t just flap their
wings at every opportunity; they are patient and graceful, and flap only
when required. This is the secret to flying.
Not only this, but the pigeon doesn’t just fly in any old direction. You
have to follow the way of the wind and move with it. It’s still possible to
shape the direction of your own personal journey, yet you need to attune
your path to the direction of the wind. I experiment with this new found
power of flight, knowing that I still have a lot of learning ahead of me.”
This attempt to reach the galactic center taught me about the power of
calling on one’s totem animal, and the month ended up filled with some
extended coaching from the pigeon family, in the art of flight.
THE GALACTIC LIBRARY
Setting her intention for a dream about the galactic center,
Waterstarrainbow keyed us into the Galactic Library, seemingly a storehouse
of galactic knowledge.
“Me and a large group of people were on our way to somewhere. It was
somewhere in the galaxy. We were standing in a huge room; this was the
galactic library! A little cute bug had landed on my shoulder and it wanted
to go home, although it's grip sometimes dug into my skin. Me and the group
were standing over a huge map of the universe and the little big pointed out
where it lived on the map. I asked someone if we could go there but they
said that they didn’t have the right co-ordinates (or technology??) to get
there but it would be ready in a few hours.
This began a series of dreams about the Galactic Library. A few nights
later, I found myself returning to what appeared to be the very same
library. Not once, but twice. Here I found great numbers of books about ‘3d
worlds’, and dreaming and waking consciousness.
In an earlier dream, I had found myself reading a book called “The Pleidian
Agenda’. The book made mention that the Earth was actually a Mobile Phone,
and that to make use of it, we had to touch down on the keypad. I found such
an analogy intriguing, and wondered if it might relate to an image of
‘Timeship Earth 2013’, in which we activate our awareness of the Earth’s
rainbow body, through daily meditation synchronized with the 13 Moon
Calendar.
Reentering the library, I found to my surprise that my ordinary mobile phone
now had new features. It could not only receive radio but also colour TV
transmissions. The dream left me wondering about Earth’s place in the
galaxy, and the use of meditation and dreaming to facilitate communication
with the larger world, communication of the intergalactic variety.
Just as we were nearing the end of the project, I had one last dream, in
which I found myself watching a security camera, where I could clearly see
Sunwolf making his way into the library. The experience had me intrigued; I
couldn’t help wondering what book he might have received. My question was
answered only a day or so later, by a dream of his own.
“I was on a new bed, and a guy next to me was on another new bed. We were on
a track and this car pulled us ahead, really fast. So fast, I had to grab
his arm and I told him I hoped he didn’t mind. He understood I would fly off
if I didn’t. We heard this woman’s voice, she was from the factory, asking
if the beds were comfortable, even tho we were going at a fast pace down the
track? I guess we agreed it was darn comfortable, despite the bumpy ride.
Then we got to the end of the track, somewhere in downtown Boulder. There
was some flirting between me and this guy, a Mexican, when I looked up at
the sky. It wasn’t dark yet, but I saw this jewel of a light, pulsating. I
asked him if he saw it. He said yes. It seemed like the center of the
universe, and I felt some cosmic shift was happening, perhaps ascension.
Then a huge newspaper flew up and tried to block out the jewel of light,
then I heard radio and TV try to blare it out, but the jewel kept shining.
Comments: The symbol of the jewel of light was very neat. I felt this
consciousness, kinda like they scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey, where the
monkeys were touching the vibrating slab of stone. It seems the symbols of
the newspaper, TV and Radio were our culture and news of the day trying to
drown out our spiritual evolution. But from all the problems and troubles in
the world, people forget that more people marched and stood for peace,
world-wide, in greater numbers than ever before”
Perhaps the significance of the Galactic Center, is that it helps us to
remember!
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Stay tuned next month for ‘The Adventures of the Peace Train’. We welcome
new dreamers to join us in our adventures.
Email Nick:
explora@...
The Waves (with pictures):
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/thewaves/
13 Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement:
http://www.tortuga.com/
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** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS
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A black tornado followed by a white tornado, an erupting volcano, bright
purple spiders, a big snake, puppets jumping out the television with knives,
a shattered horse, and birthing a black rabbit...sounds like a new Tim
Burton movie, doesn’t it? Actually they are in the Electric Dreams Dream
Section. Be sure to read all of these dreams! If you want to send in
dreams, please enter them at
dreamflow@....
Dream title: death
Dream date: 7/1/04
Dreamer’s name: “A”
Dream: I was at my boyfriend's house with him and his cousin who was with
some girl. My boyfriend and I were in his room. His cousin and this girl
were in the other room. This guy broke in and he killed the woman and hit my
boyfriend’s cousin. My boyfriend’s cousin was unconscious. This guy came
into my boyfriend’s room and my boyfriend was kissing on my stomach. This
guy came in and threw me into the wall. I was so weak I couldn’t move. He
sliced my wrists and on one arm it said "jack killed" and on the other arm
it said "me". He left me bleeding. My boyfriend came over and laid me on
his bed and was crying. There was blood everywhere and my boyfriend’s
cousin came running in yelling about the girl and saw me. Then he read my
arms and saw my boyfriend just lying in my blood crying. He told his cousin
to call 911 and the ambulance came and took me into the ambulance. My
boyfriend was with me and before they could pull off I died.
Dream comments: I really want to know what this means... it scared me so
much. I woke up from it and had to look at my arms. When I laid back down to
go to sleep I kept redreaming it. Please I would really like to know what
this dream means.
Dream title: Really strange predictive dream
Dream date: 1979-present
Dreamer’s name: jdlech
Dream: This dream first made me feel as if I were flying through the room,
then it progressed to flying outside. Then it moved on to me being somewhere
not of this universe. It's very hard to describe because where I was had no
physical location. Thoughts were physical forces just as gravity and
electricity are physical forces here. You cannot see them, but you can feel
them and witness their effect on other things. The best way to describe it
is that I saw the whole course of human events in its entirety. Quite
understandably, I was totally overwhelmed by it all. It was all I could do
to watch the overall picture pass by while noting only a few details. Of the
overall picture, I can tell unequivocally that human events are not a single
line nor are they a multiple universe sort of thing. History is immutable
and cast while the future is a set of probabilities and possibilities. And
the influence of all the organizations and entities are all manipulating the
present in order to produce what they think are the best possible future for
themselves. I saw events that will never happen as well as events that have
happened and others that should happen but their time has not yet come. But
time is not an immutable thing. There is no set time for any particular
event. Not even the weather has an established time for which specific
events occur.
Dream comments: This recurring dream occurs clearly about two or three times
per year. But there are also dozens of times during a year that I will
dream some dim reflection of it. In fact, I've grown to look forward to
having this dream since I usually wake up feeling better than normal, more
relaxed, tolerant of others, and even a bit pacifistic. To date, I've never
been able to control anything, merely to look on passively.
Dream title: Two tornados
Dream date: 1977-84
Dreamer’s name: jdlech
Dream: I had a recurring dream that always start out with me on a grass
covered ledge looking down upon a large village. From the storm clouds
overhead comes two tornados, one after the other. The first tornado is
black and totally destructive. Everything is destroyed down to every blade
of grass, every bone in the body, every piece of wood; the destruction is
absolute. But everything goes up the first tornado and down the second one.
The second tornado is white and it puts everything back in its proper place
all the way down to each blade of grass. After the second tornado, all is
exactly as it was before.
Dream comments: I had this dream several times from the ages of 10 to 17.
Interpreting this dream is relatively straightforward.
Dream title: confusion
Dream date: 6/29/2004
Dreamer’s name: L
Dream: I’m at someone’s house and I’m seeing a volcano erupting very close.
Everyone is sleeping so I’m trying to tell them but next thing there are no
walls in the house and the lava chunks start flying and rolling. I’m
scared. I think I remember kicking one back out of the house. Then the
floor was covered in water so I ended up leaving and had to start over
somewhere else, like a school or something. I was noticed by this nice
woman. When I went into her house I saw that she had a BAD spider problem
and I was seeing all kinds of spiders. Bright purple. She had this bad
bite on her face and I noticed that her eye wouldn’t open all the way, kind
of like she had an abscess. I ended up getting the bite on my face and I
remember trying to pop it. I remember seeing my eye roll down, not out, but
up. Then I could see some sort of mechanical yucky stuff.
Dream title: The step sister
Dream date: 4/20/2004
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: my step sister was trying to kill me because of what I told her. She
had started to tell me ‘I going to chop you’ and all kinds of horrible
things.
Dream comments: Really she and I don’t like each other. I just want to known
what this means. She does witchcraft. Is she trying to scare me or what?
Dream title: Weird
Dream date: 06/26/2004
Dreamer’s name: mizS
Dream: I went to a candles shop where you can make them. Someone took me
over to a sandbox over on the floor and told me that’s how we make candles
and to dig for the clay, so I did. Out came the tip of a worm. At first I
left alone but then it got bigger and bigger and it came at me. It was huge
and mean.
Dream comments: So what does that mean? It was so weird.
Dream title: discarded
Dream date: 6/26/2004
Dreamer’s name: H
Dream: I am in a room, I think a basement, that contains piles of used junk
up to the ceiling, old and discarded stuff. Second hand stuffed animals
that are ripped exposing yellowed stuffing is all I distinctly remember. I
am there for what seems quite awhile. I sleep in there and dream I am in a
room/world hard to describe. It’s so vivid I think it’s real. Best example
I can give is mostly black with a gigantic rectangular window and dark
blues. The window frame looks like a Van Gogh painting or something and
outside the window is dark-blue with intermittent flashes of light with
treacherous ascending hills leading up to a huge abandoned house. It’s a
haunted house and the people in this world do not go into the house. I am
climbing the hill and I get adjacent to the house, though it is quite some
distance away and I can only see it in outlines. I remember seeing all the
way through the house as the windows were very large and I couldn’t see
anything inside the house. I vaguely recall being in the house. All I
remember from that is not feeling right at all, and walking on ashes.
Dream title: This road with crosses
Dream date: February 2004-ish
Dreamer’s name: K
Dream: I am at a restaurant with people I went to high school with. I am
sitting with my friends and ex-boyfriend. My ex-boyfriend is telling jokes
but besides that no one is talking to me. I have no ride home so I get in
the van with my friend and ex. My friend is driving and doesn't know the
way to my house even though I am telling her. We are on a skinny winding
road in the forest on the side of a hill. We keep passing this clearing
that is on a bend of the road. Next to it are three cement crosses, the one
in the center is the tallest with purple jewels in the middle of each one.
Next to the crosses down the hill is some sort of sports stadium. My
friends in the car have quit talking to me and this ride seems to take an
hour. I finally get to my house and my ex opens my door for me. I say
we'll talk again and he says “I doubt it” and hugs me.
Dream comments: Any thoughts?
Dream title: my old friend
Dream date: 21 Jun 2004
Dreamer’s name: M
Dream: I have some dreams about my old friend.
First dream: I was in bed with a man and we are both naked. Our bodies
were covered by a gold blanket. He inserted the gold ring in my right hand.
I felt the guy was my old friend.
The second dream: I was in a bridge and I saw my old friend walking in the
land part near the bridge. I stopped the car. I followed him. He went to the
last house, unfortunately, and I failed to see him. I asked where he is
leaving. I saw him entered to a certain house but they told me that they
never saw him.
The third dream: I was in an oval field, standing in the circle path. There
is a young man at my back, he is my old friend. I am waiting for him. I am
standing while he is walking near to me from my back. I am just looking at
him and waiting for him. He hugged me from my back when he reached me. Then
we hugged each other. I introduced him to my parents. After that, my parents
left us. We stayed in a room and slept together.
Dream comments: I haven’t seen this man for about 2 years. I loved my old
friend much. We were close friends before we felt the romance. We both
stopped it for a while because it was not the right time. I thought we have
connections. I can feel when he is there in my side. Please help me what
these dreams meant.
Dream title: Grocery shopping
Dream date: none
Dreamer’s name: herennow
Dream: I was in a supermarket pushing a cart but the cart was lower than
normal; I needed to bend over to push it. Without warning, an old
Vietnamese woman took my eggs from my shopping cart.
Dream comments: I know there is symbolism here but I can't make sense of it.
Dream title: Eagle and Snake Attack
Dream date: 6/19/04
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: Last night I dreamt that I was living in a house on a hill. The
place was very rustic and the hill was rusty red with soil, not green. My
daughter and I were at the bottom of the hill. Suddenly, I saw a big cobra
or python coming towards me. It grabbed on to my arm and I started spinning
with my arm out in order to throw it off, but it started constricting on my
arm a little. Finally, I managed to get it off. Then this big, giant eagle
came down from the sky and started attacking me. It had really sharp claws
and it scratched as I was trying to defend myself. It was trying to bite me
with its beak too. I was so scared, but my daughter (who was a lot bigger
now, it was like we were sisters) and I started running up the hill and into
the house. We got inside and slammed the door shut right before the eagle
came in. Very scary.
Then the dream switched and I went to my parents’ house or some family
member's house. It seemed like an apartment in the city, but one of those
ghetto-type apartment buildings with the long hallways. As I was walking
in, I saw a couple of guys wearing nothing but towels. Then I went
downstairs to the basement and there was an Indian woman (a teacher)
teaching something about spirituality, I think. The guys in the towels were
there too, but I'm not sure if they were paying attention.
Dream comments: By the way, before I went to sleep last night, I asked to be
given a dream that will show me how I can be truly happy.
Dream title: none
Dream date: none
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: Last night I had an extremely emotional, uplifting and faith-renewing
dream. The dream started out that we were all waking up. I was in the bed
with my husband, but he was still sleeping. My sister was awake and so was
my father, but my mother was still sleeping. I sat up in bed next to my
husband because I was hearing these weird sounds, like a whispered
conversation. I realized that I was listening to his dream. I looked out
the window which was huge and right near the bed and was able to see some
images from his dream before they disappeared. Then I was suddenly next to
my mother. In her dream, I heard screams and fighting, like a little girl
trying to defend herself or something like that. When I looked out the
window, I saw three men, possibly military, holding my father’s hands behind
his back and taking him away. Strange.
Dream title: none
Dream date: none
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: Here is one of those dreams that are hard to describe or understand.
I’m at someone’s house...and I’m seeing a volcano erupting very close.
Everyone is sleeping so I’m trying to tell them but next thing there is no
walls in the house and the lava chunks start flying and rolling. I’m scared
and I think I remember kicking one back out of the house.
Then everyone was awake. My mother came into the house from outside (or
maybe it was my mom's sister) saying that my grandmother had just died. We
were all shocked, but no one cried right away. I was the first one to start
crying hard and I went to hug my mother. She acted like if I was a little
ridiculous for crying the way I did. It seemed like everyone was kind of
unaffected, although it was evident that they were just in shock and didn't
know how to react. Then, some of my cousins showed up and some other people
from my father's family started showing up.
I took the opportunity to go to my parent's room (in my childhood apartment
in the city) and lock the door and be by myself. I lay down on their bed
and cried. Then I got up from the bed and started saying "Why God? Why now?
I was just a few weeks away from going to see her. Why didn't I get the
chance to go and see her?" I was so upset about that. I felt like if I had
just narrowly missed her. As I was saying that, I was looking up at the
ceiling and the light, when suddenly the light either blinked or moved (not
sure, but something happened out of the ordinary). I kept crying.
Then I went outside into the living room and I was telling my parents the
same thing, about how I was just a couple of weeks away from being with my
grandmother. I looked up at the ceiling fan/light and realized that on the
base of it, it had a smiley face on it. I looked up at it and said,
"Grandma, I wish you were here" and suddenly, the whole entire fan moved in
a circular motion. I was shocked and told everyone to look up at the fan.
I started talking again to the fan saying in Spanish "Grandma, I miss you so
much. I really wish that I would've had a chance to see you again." Again,
the fan moved. Everyone was shocked. I was so happy and excited at the
realization that my grandmother was not gone. So, I said," Grandma, you're
still here, you're still here" The smiley face seemed to smile wider and the
fan moved in an even more obvious way. I was ecstatic at the realization
that my grandmother had not gone anywhere, she had merely lost her body, but
she was here after all. I was so happy. At this point, the dream ended.
Dream comments: Before I had this dream, I asked God to show me in a clear
manner what my life wants for me (as opposed to what I want from my life)
within the next two years, with regards to my career. When I woke up from
the first dream I felt that my question was answered. The message that I
heard in my head said "Don't despair". This fits in perfectly with the
dream I had just had, where I was in complete despair about Abuela's
passing, all to figure out at the end that she hadn't gone anywhere. She
was here all along, just not in the same form. She was waiting for someone
to realize that she in fact, still existed. Very symbolic. I cried when I
woke up from this dream and I thanked God and my spirit guides a million
times for blessing me with such an insightful and uplifting dream. I feel
like I just received a special, personalized gift. It means so much to me
when I have these dreams that serve to confirm my spiritual beliefs about
life.
Dream title: A sign of a soon to fail relationship?
Dream date: 22 Jun 2004
Dreamer’s name: LM
Dream: I recently had a dream that my boyfriend came home with our child
that I never seen before (we were all drunk). I remember having this
distinct feeling that the child was several months old. When he arrived with
the child he wouldn’t come in the house and instead gave the child to my
father to bring to me. I remained on the cell phone as if the call was more
important.
Dream comments: Is this a sign of a soon to fail relationship. or is it my
mind telling me we aren’t communicating enough??
Dream title: My Death in October 2004
Dream date: May, 2004
Dreamer’s name: Kokopelli & Me
Dream: I am in an area of brightness with a feeling of extreme hurt and
loss. In blackness, a calendar page "October 4, 2004" floats by. I see
myself and experience emotional pain.
Dream comments: My close friend and sister-in-law passed in a violent car
crash 7 months earlier. I feel that either my mother or I will die on the
date shown.
Dream title: Demons
Dream date: 6/23/04
Dreamer’s name: 8675309
Dream: The dream is that I am watching Tales from the Hood, and I am sitting
down eating a bowl of spaghetti with Hallucinogenic mushrooms in it. All of
a sudden (at the part of the movie when the puppets started popping out of
the wall) they slowly started jumping out of the TV with knives, jabbing at
my feet.
Dream title: special car
Dream date: June 22, 2004
Dreamer’s name: rockergurl
Dream: My friend was driving my mom’s car and we went over a cliff.
Dream comments: what does that mean?
Dream title: ex-boyfriend
Dream date: 6/22/04
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: My ex-boyfriend came back into my life.
Dream title: shattered teeth
Dream date: 23/06/04
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: All I dream is that my teeth shattered and then fire out of my mouth
with such speed. My jaw feels stuck and I’m very frightened then I wake up.
Dream comments: I can't think of anything I’m my life that this dream can
relate to.
Dream title: Terrible Tornadoes
Dream date: Monthly
Dreamer’s name: Karmelred2003
Dream: I am in a house running towards the basement when it hits. I always
get to the basement just in the nick of time. Sometimes I see family members
that I haven't seen in a long time and sometimes I am alone. (This dream
re-occurs very often). I can hear the howl of the wind; I can feel the
pressure changes within the house. I wake up in a cold sweat.
Dream comments: What does this mean??? I am anxious to know.
Dream title: Strange dream
Dream date: n/a
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: My friend and I were walking and we stopped this bus to ask him about
a fieldtrip we were going to go on, for him to explain it. He stood up and
we realized that he was mentally handicapped and wearing boxer-briefs. He
said that we would normally watch a movie in the back of the bus that he was
driving and he would change the type of underwear he wore depending on the
day. My friend and I were like um ok and we just ran off!
Dream comments: I would like to know what it meant I don't get it!
Dream title: Hotel Party
Dream date: 24 Jun 2004
Dreamer’s name: rjj202
Dream: I had this dream a couple nights ago and me and a bunch of my friends
were at a party at some really big hotel with my friends from school and out
of school(we were all drunk).
There were these guys that my best friend and I used to hang out with before
(and one of them liked me). At the party, they had gotten rooms for us in
groups and we go up. My best friend and the guy she likes went to find
their room. When they found it the door was already open, so they go in and
sit on the floor in the middle of the two beds. Two of our other friends go
to their room which was in between the room we were going to and the one my
friends were in. The guy and I go to our room and we find the door already
open. He turns around (and I followed) and goes down the stairs to get
keys. Then he realizes that the door was already open so we go back up.
Something happened and we start chasing each other around the room, and then
we went to the bed in front of the t.v and laid there. All of a sudden this
little girl with short brown hair comes in and comes and sits in the corner
of the bed on my side and stares at the guy. We ask her what you are doing
here. She says I want to make out with you (to the guy) so I ask her how old
are you anyway. She says 7!!! I start laughing, but the guy says ok. So
she leans forward and he kind of backs up but she leans more towards him and
does something on/to his lips (I didn’t see) but he goes...ooh eeew
gross...GET OUT! So she leaves and I woke up.
Dream title: Discover
Dream date: 16-06-2004
Dreamer’s name: zoktor
Dream: In my old school where I have to go to the class where a member of
family is waiting for me to bring them to a higher grade. At first I cannot
find the person but later I do find him. I enter my new classroom where I
meet my new teacher who is dressed in a white laboratory coat and is very
small. I make the remark that it doesn't matter he is very small and I'm
rather tall. {Which is in real life it’s true - 2 meters}. I'm going to
learn from his machine which is situated in the new classroom. I see this
new machine floating on a flat wooden crate through water which is at both
sides fenced by brick stone walls. I mentioned to the small white dressed
teacher not to have it floating to the lake and we managed to pick it up. I
am catching with a fishing rod a big eel out of the water and then throwing
the line back into the water again. I notice that lead sinking weight has
the form of an obelix. I notice that I have a catch. The water is stirring
strongly and I see that I caught a black rabbit. All this fishing happens in
the water fenced by brick stone walls. On an island in a swampy lake now
with 2 two white dressed teachers with the machine, were they are going to
teach me about the workings of the machine. End
Dream title: None
Dream date: random reoccurrence
Dreamer’s name: peznducky
Dream: I’m driving a car and approaching something like another vehicle or a
building or even a tree. I hit the break but the car doesn't stop. Instead
it keeps going but I can feel the breaks trying to stop it. The resistance
continues until I wake up right before I hit the object I’m approaching.
Dream comments: I’ve had this dream numerous times and each time the
vehicle, environment, and object I’m approaching are different. But the
same thing happens.
Dream title: meteors
Dream date: 25 Jun 2004
Dreamer’s name: L
Dream: I’ve had about 30 dreams about an asteroid hitting earth and killing
us all for about a year now. The last dream, I see the meteor coming fast.
It’s dark grey and there is a slice taken out of it. As its hitting I
embrace a hug of a man who’s next to me. I don’t really know who he was but
I remember appreciating life and love at that moment. I close my eyes and
wait a few seconds, and then nothing happens. Then there is joy and somehow
it disappeared.
Dream comments: I don’t understand it. I am usually good at predicting
things. I am wondering what it means. I know that Catholics believe that
there will be one that will hit the earth and there is nothing mankind will
be able to do to stop it.
Dream title: Babies
Dream date: ongoing for weeks
Dreamer’s name: anonymous
Dream: I been having a dream with babies: one a boy and the other one a
girl.
Dream comments: what does this mean?
Dream title: Taken Babies
Dream date: June 28th, 2004
Dreamer’s name: M
Dream: I dreamed that I was pregnant four different times and each time
around my 5th or 6th month some event would happen where my unborn child was
taken from me. The first time was when a thug tried to take my purse and I
resisted. He stabbed me right in my stomach and killed my child. The rest of
them went on in similar ways.
Dream comments: It makes me think that I may not be able to have anymore
children.
Dream title: Bus Dream
Dream date: 4 Jul 2004
Dreamer’s name: Sapphyre
Dream: I dreamt of being on a bus going to work, but the driver got up on a
ramp under construction and couldn’t go any further. There was just us on
the bus and we got off and were on an interstate that was barren. Suddenly
we were in a very odd town. By odd I mean I’ve never seen this place, on
television, in real life, nowhere. We went into a bus depot and I waited
for another bus, but somehow we both missed it. Then I was at home I think,
or had made it to work, and was getting all these notes from my boss. This
was significant because she didn’t think she wrote them but I assured her
she did because it was in her handwriting and written in light blue ink
(like from one of those gel pens).
Dream comments: I’m still unemployed so there is no real boss, and I never
saw her face she was to my back as I was talking to her looking over my
shoulder at the notes. The bus driver was a black man, no one I’ve ever
seen, not an actor I’ve seen or anything. I was left with a sensation upon
waking of being lost and frustrated. In the dream I worried I’d be fired
because I couldn’t get to work. I have an idea where this one came from but
thoughts are welcome.
Dream title: with a baby
Dream date: 6-21-04
Dreamer’s name: me
Dream: I was holding a little baby girl and feeding her. She was dressed in
pink, and was so small.
Dream comments: have not been feeling good
Dream title: Nightmare on my street/in my parking lot
Dream date: 7/5/04
Dreamer’s name: God’s Angel
Dream: I was looking outside my bedroom window and I saw my father sitting
on the step closes to the entrance. It was a dark night and I saw a child
running down the parking lot. He looked as though he was 6 or 7 yrs old. He
ran fast and appeared to have a smile on his face. Right behind him was a
group of people trying to catch him. Older and younger people ran after
him. I saw him run all the way down to the end of the parking lot. My father
eventually got up from the step he was sitting on and looked towards the
direction the boy was heading. I was stunned to see my father in this dream
because he never looked up to where I was or knew I lived there. He just
remained calm and quiet and looked to where the boy was running. I looked
down at my father for one last time and looked toward the end of the parking
lot. I couldn’t see that far. After 5 minutes went by, I heard a gun shot.
At that moment I woke up from the dream.
Dream comments: My father has been dead for 8 years now and passed away on
December 31, 1996. I don’t know why I had this dream or why my father never
looked up at me. Maybe he guards my house or he wants to stay close by.
Dream title: Monster Truck
Dream date: 07/07/04
Dreamer’s name: The One
Dream: I went into the garage and got in my vehicle, I proceeded to let the
garage door up. My car was facing the alley, so I was ready to pull out.
There was the over-sized, huge red monster-looking truck facing me. I use
the word monster only to describe how huge the truck was. The truck
appeared to be revved-up and ready. When I noticed the truck was coming
full speed ahead towards me. I immediately tried to let the garage door down
with the opener. The garage door came down on the truck. However, the
truck backed up and came after me again. But, I woke up with a bad
headache, wondering what that was all about.
Dream comments: So, what do you think?
Dream title: Frog
Dream date: 08 July 2004
Dreamer’s name: Pole2876
Dream: I saw a frog twice. First, it was just staying in one corner then I’
m just looking at it. Then the next thing happened was I was standing in
front of the frog and I signaled it to get out of my room. It just stayed
and jumped for a long while. But its like I’m dribbling a basketball with
glue or something, because it won’t get away from me.
Dream comments: kindly tell me what the meaning of this dream, is this good
or bad, I’m just curious to know it.
Dream title: Big Wheels
Dream date: 7/7/2004
Dreamer’s name: Moonlight
Dream: I was standing with my friend out in front of the High School that I
attended when I was young, but as the age that I am now. Older people,
senior citizens, were riding out of the front doorway of the school on
bikes, big bikes, which grew bigger as they pedaled. The people were dressed
in biking attire, colorful pads, and helmets. And the bikes themselves were
very colorful: neon oranges and pinks. It's hard to describe the bikes: they
were mostly wheel, but more like a really big, really long balloon (no
spokes) and at least 1 story tall. The bikers were very high up on the tip
top of these balloon-like wheels, and there was a pedal on each wheel way at
the top. The wheels were side by side, not front to back, like an upside
down V, with the biker at the top of the V. There were about 3 or 4 bikers
that pedaled past, and then the last one wiped out and came crashing down
and couldn't get back up. It looked kind of funny, but other bikers went to
help the one that fell down.
Dream comments: What do you think this means? I'm very interested to know!!!
Dream title: Father travels from the balcony to the ground
Dream date: July 9/10 2004
Dreamer’s name: 1latham
Dream: Scene: Balcony of two-story building or hotel. My father was being
lifted down to the ground by two people, helpers in white. One of the
helpers had my dad by the feet. I don't know where the other helper was or
if there even was another helper but I believe there was. I have no idea how
he had my father or if he was standing on the cab of a truck or something.
As he was going down I was scared to death. My dad said they do this all the
time. When my father got to the ground his hands almost touched the ground I
think, or got pretty close from the jump
Dream title: Cancer scare
Dream date: re occurring once every few months
Dreamer’s name: A
Dream: I find myself constantly dealing with cancer of the lungs. If not me,
then someone close to me. Most of the dreams I am grieving the upcoming
death.
Dream comments: I am a nurse who often works with cancer patients and a
friend recently died of cancer. Is this a simple connection to those
factors?
Dream title: A Spider and a Cat...
Dream date: 7/10/2004
Dreamer’s name: Moonlight
Dream: Last night I dreamed that I was back at my mom and dad's house where
I grew up. I was trying to make a cake - mixing the batter, a yellow cake
mix, when a fat spider dropped down from the ceiling and right into the
batter! (I am very afraid of spiders- any size). So I stepped back and just
watched it, and it slowly started to pull itself out of the batter with its
web. But then it kind of swung a little past the bowl and dropped back down
and onto the cupboard into a bunch of peanut butter cookie crumbs that I had
been nibbling on. The crumbs stuck to the spider and its web, but the spider
still managed to pull itself back up a little. Then, out of nowhere came a
little orange cat that swatted the sticky, cookie spider across the kitchen.
I jumped back into the living room because I didn't want the spider anywhere
near me. The cat tossed the messy spider up in the air and whipped it around
and back to the other side of the kitchen. Then I saw the spider's web was
all over the room!
Dream comments: It's another of my weird dreams. What does it mean?
Dream title: The dream of The Shaman.
Dream date: July 7 2004
Dreamer’s name: ALF
Dream: My dream starts off just like any other day: get up go to bathroom
then go to the kitchen. But there are people that I don’t know in a house
that I have no recollection of getting to.
It switches: Now, I am sitting in a circle the people I don’t know. We are
sitting and being very attentive to this American Indian. He talks us into a
meditative state. Then the vision starts. He says to me "You are a very
special girl; I don’t know why you do not want to accept who you are...Look
inside and stop lying to yourself. If you are lost contact your spirit for
further help." Then it starts to rain. Everyone wakes up and looks at me
for some odd reason. We all including the shaman go to the house I don’t
even recognize.
Dream comments: I have very odd dreams especially if I am thinking on how to
turn my life around to make it better....Who knows it might be the future!
Dream title: bullets
Dream date: 7/3/04
Dreamer’s name: maky
Dream: I stood in my house, barefoot, staring coldly at the bloody floor.
Someone had broken in. I was so afraid it would get me, my insecurities took
over. For some reason there was a pistol in my pocket. I went to the kitchen
and there it was the killer. A beast with a terrible smile on its face,
covered in blood. Without hesitation I shot it. It lay there dead I was
still afraid. I closed my eyes then woke up.
Dream comments: oh scary
Dream title: visit from Joseph
Dream date: 2002
Dreamer’s name: camp1
Dream: I was walking through a strange place, lush green. I saw my stepson
Joseph and I yelled “Joe it is you” and I patted down his rib area. He said,
“I am ok now the plastic is gone”. I hugged him and talked awhile and said,
“You are alive!” He said, “Yeah I came to tell you”. We were talking
without words though, just our minds. He said he was happy and left.
Dream comments: My stepson Joe was killed in a car accident in 2001. We
were very close buddies. I believe he came to see me in my dream to visit.
Dream title: true love
Dream date: 07-11-04
Dreamer’s name: me-me
Dream: I had a dream that a rat was eating on me and chasing me and water is
around and then it turns into something else
Dream title: none
Dream date: 12 Jul 2004
Dreamer’s name: Sapphyre
Dream: I had a dream that I was in a work environment, and wanted a snack.
Everyone else was having one, so I went to a refrigerator and found a
Carmello, a Hershey's with Almonds, and a Mr. Goodbar. I took the Carmello.
Then on a counter were some marshmallow eggs and I took one that was in a
box. I opened it up and it was this softball size round green marshmallow
bunny with string sugar all over it, it was really cute, and I started
eating it on my way to my desk.
Dream title: Flower from heaven
Dream date: 1st March 1999
Dreamer’s name: Solomon
Dream: It was very cold outside and I was playing with old friends of mine,
(can’t remember exactly). I decided to go inside the house and I happened to
look up in the sky. Then I noticed that there’s something in the sky. I
strongly concentrated on the sky and I saw a flower. I called my brother and
my sister to come and witness this. As we were watching this with disbelief,
the flower changed into a little kid. Surprisingly the child started to
crawl, then slowly coming towards us. As this child came closer I noticed
that it was a boy. Suddenly he opened his arms and there was something that
was written in his palms like a post card. It was a massage and I read it
“what ever you do I’ll be with you, I’ll be watching you”. Then it
disappeared in the sky. We went inside the house but I was still shocked and
I was excited but I couldn't express myself.
Dream comments: I think there's this special gift that I have but I it
doesn't come out clear.
Dream title: Angel visited my house
Dream date: 08 January 2003
Dreamer’s name: Solomon
Dream: I was at home at home my boyfriend and my daughter were also there.
Outside it looked dark and strange. I felt that something strange is about
to happened. I told them that it would be better for us not to look or be
outside because we are not supposed to see what’s happening outside.
We went to bed (the three of us). While my child was praying the front door
was open and my mother was speaking loudly and she was with her husband. I
became worried because we were sleeping on their bed. While I was still
wondering my elder sister came in, I was surprised because I thought that
she was in the other bedroom with her family, because her boyfriend was very
sick.
A wounded man showed up and my sister explained to us that this man just
came behind her, scared her and she thrown something to him that is why he’s
bleeding. I looked at the man closely and I realized that, this man is an
angel. I was so disappointed and I spoke with a shameful voice, “I’m sorry
sir for what happened to you, may you forgive us”. The men wiped his face
with the cloth. I turned around and said to my mother, “This man is an
Angel, and don’t you realize that? Don’t you read the bible? Look I am
standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears me my voice and open the
door, I will come into his house and take the evening meal with him”. My
mother answered me without caring, “how do you know that this is an Angel
and if he is an Angel, why is he attacking your sister?” I looked at the
man and I humbled myself to him then I said to him, “I know you re an Angel”
. I turned around and looked at my family and told them that “I think you
should read the bible, in Revelations it is said that blessed are those who
listen and hears my voice when I stand at the door knocking and opens the
door. I will come to their house and eat with them.” I felt spiritually
matured and the man stood up and he said, “I should be going now”. I knew he
was an Angel, I felt that this man came to destroy the wicked and that was
the reason why we were not to be found outside.
After he closed the door my mother started arguing about it. Quickly I
thought that Angels are spirits and I told my mother to go out and see if
she could see that men walking down the street. When she rushed to the door,
her friend entered and she looked shocked. She asked about this man, “who is
this man?” She paused, no one answered her and she told us that, as I came I
looked at this man and he vanished. We looked at each other and I was
pleased that someone saw that.
Later we were in an open place there was a hill there while my child was
praying, my boyfriend was sitting next to me. My sister’s child was sat
toward the top of the hill and she threw the first baby to me and I told
myself that this child is for my sister. Later he threw another one and this
one landed nicely into my hands and I told myself that this is my child and
I putted him aside and looked up again at her. She threw the same baby
(first) again and the baby fell into my hands but not as nicely as mine. I
was surprised and shocked where do these kids come from but I was pleased
with mine.
Dream comments: Some of things are dreamed of come true. Like this one, my
sister got her baby in June 2004 and I'm sure I'm the next one to conceive,
after trying for more than 15 years.
Dream title: The vision of Jesus face
Dream date: 21 December 2002
Dreamer’s name: Solomon
Dream: I was in the room with other people but I don’t remember exactly who
I was with. It was late at night and I was sitting in another room. Others
were sitting in the next room. I sense a very strong attraction and looked
towards that side. I saw the wall moving forming an image. I looked closely
and that was the face of Jesus Christ. I moved my eyes away from there
because I thought I’m getting crazy. I looked down for a while trying to
clear my mind and to see whether what I saw is true.
Slowly I looked at the same place again but nothing happened and I wanted to
tell someone about this but I couldn’t. I stood there watching; just when I
thought of moving out from that room the vision started forming again. And
it was the same face of the Lamb and it clearly showed up. I was shocked
and stand still for while staring at it.
Dream comments: When I woke up I was very pleased and I believe that I carry
a special gift from God.
Dream title: Welcome Home 113
Dream date: 07/13/04
Dreamer’s name: dreamer
Dream: I dreamed I was on a date with this guy, he was taking me and my
daughter swimming. I was going to change my clothes and a lady told me my
tattoo could not be seen. I told her I didn't have a tattoo. So she pointed
to it and it said Demetrius. I was in shock. I came back out from changing
my clothes and I heard someone calling my name, and it was Demetrius. So I
ran to him forgetting my date and we hugged and talked for awhile. When I
got to him I realized that he had a lot of jewelry on with the number 113. I
saw my date walk away shaking his head at me. Demetrius asked who he was and
I told him he was my date. He got upset, but he shrugged it off and asked
me if I wanted to get something to eat. So we got in his car which was red
and yellow and on his seats the number 113 where on them. So we went out to
eat and then we went back to my place and we got in an argument about my
date, then he apologized and he got on his knee and was about to ask me
something, but I was awakened by the phone.
Dream title: abandon
Dream date: none
Dreamer’s name: liquid love
Dream: I dreamt of an old girlfriend, from a few years back. I’ve always
held a special place in my heart for her, and in this dream, she left me
behind. We were walking in a field, and she left me far behind, and I was
never to see her again. I vaguely remember what came after, but I remember
everything being dark and gloomy and isolated.
Dream comments: Does this mean something about my current girlfriend, whom I
’ve been with for a year and a half? I just would like a little input, is
all.
Dream title: The mall and baby
Dream date: 7 14 2004
Dreamer’s name: naikfe
Dream: My friends and I are in the mall. My friend and her baby boy went and
got a new baby boy then we got in the car and left with both babies.
Dream comments: I just lost my baby by a miscarriage 6weeks ago. The new
baby in the dream I could not take my eyes off him. And right now I am
trying for other baby. Could this be a sign? What did this dream mean?
Dream title: none
Dream date: 16 Jul 2004
Dreamer’s name: JR
Dream: I keep having dreams that my husband is not being faithful to me.
Dream comments: I keep having these dreams that he is having sex with
another woman. He tells me time and time again that he respects the whole
husband thing and that he loves me and my children and that he would never
do anything to hurt me.
Please help!
Dream title: fishbowl
Dream date: few years
Dreamer’s name: J
Dream: I dreamt I took a fish from a fishbowl and killed it. I was relieved
that there two more fish alive and swimming around.
Dream title: The Black Horse
Dream date: around a year ago
Dreamer’s name: "power dreamer"
Dream: I am running with a beautiful black horse down a wide path lined with
trees. We are going very very fast, and I'm running neck and neck with him.
I find great joy in this and laugh in my dream. We are running and running,
and I can see the trees fly past us, one after the other boom boom boom. I
can see them coming up on the horizon as we start to climb up a hill. The
grass is very very green on either side of the path. Suddenly, the horse
takes off at tremendous speed, and I can't keep up with him. He is flying
over the stones down the long path as it curves over the hill in front of
him. Suddenly a white stone barn appears at the end of the path, many trees
on either side of it. The horse cannot stop and he careens into the side of
the barn and breaks into a million pieces. He screams (as he hits it and
shatters) a horse-ish scream that I've never heard in waking. Sobbing, I
begin to pick up bits of the horse (which I realize is mine) and carry him
off in my arms. I wake up with a scream.
Dream comments: I have had several dreams about horses being mistreated or
killed, the most notable being a horse autopsy. I believe these were stress
dreams about not being in control and fearful of the future; mostly due to
the fact that I was about to leave for my first year of college.
Dream title: "The Ships"
Dream date: A year ago
Dreamer’s name: Power Dreamer
Dream: I am on a raft made of small logs and quilts. It almost seems I’m
floating on a quilt, with a quilt for a sail. I am on the blue sparkling
ocean; it's rather warm, with a bright sky. There comes a huge cruise ship
and it looms very very close to me. (I am watching my self on the raft at
this point, and I can see the people on the big ship as well). There are
people looking over the sides of the ship, and an announcement comes on, a
male voice saying something like "Patrons, we are about to release the
cargo. Those of you with weak stomachs might want to step back from the
sides of the ship." Momentarily, a door opens in the side of the ship, and
thousands of dead bodies are let out into the sea all around my little raft.
(I am back in the raft at this point) I am horrified, the twisted bloated
bodies are extremely vivid in my dream, and I distinctly remember the stench
of dead bodies hanging in the air, with all these empty faces floating by me
and lapping up against the side of my raft. I scream and wake up.
Dream comments: You should have seen the look on my boyfriend's face when I
told him about that one.
Dream title: drugs
Dream date: 7/16/04
Dreamer’s name: mj
Dream: I was at my friend’s house hanging out with friends when I realized
they were doing heroin and speed in pill tablet form. I found the pills and
was really scared so I decided to rinse them down the sink. They some how
evaporated into my skin and all of the sudden I was tripping out
Dream comments: This really freaked me out because I have never done those
drugs and I don't understand why they were in my dream or what them meant
but I felt like I was really on them when I was dreaming
Dream title: death of an ex
Dream date: 07/18/04
Dreamer’s name: wrong era
Dream: The dream occurs in a building in which I have reoccurring dreams,
although the dreams have different themes the place is the same. It seems to
be hotel, yet it is where I live. One wall is missing and I can walk
outside, up a hill to other dwellings. I am sitting on a sofa, and become
aware that my ex-husband is dead. But there seems to be other things more
important to me: the washing machine in the other room. It is an old
fashion wringer washer and I don't understand why it is a problem. I seem to
be alone still and I sense there are other people in the room but I can't
see them. I am not sad about the death of my ex but something deep inside is
troubling me. I never move off the sofa I continue to look at my
surroundings.
Dream comments: The hotel/ house is very old and is the back drop for many
of my dreams for the last 10 years. It seems to be from the late 20's or
early 30's.
Dream title: The Black Rabbit
Dream date: 20/07/04
Dreamer’s name: J
Dream: All I can remember that in my dream I woke up in the middle of the
night and I felt sick, so I ran to the toilet and threw up, twice. My
partner was at this stage at the toilet door and asked if I was alright and
I said it was nothing, however in the dream I thought I was pregnant but
didn't want to tell him yet because I had no proof. I thought to myself I
would wait until tomorrow to see if I would throw up again. For a split
second, I remember that I went into our kitchen and my ex-boyfriends parents
were there telling me that my suspicions of being pregnant (to my current
fiancée) were correct and that I was expecting a baby. Then I was handed a
black little rabbit and they said that I had given birth to it first and the
baby would be coming in the expected time frame (9 months). I cradled the
bunny like it was my own child
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