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Volume #12 Issue #2
February 2005
ISSN# 1089 4284
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes – Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News – Harry Bosma
++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Editor, Lucy Gillis
Thought-Forms, Automatons, and Active Initiators:
Residents in Lucid Dreaming
Robert Waggoner
++ Article: Identifying The People In Our Dreams
Linda L. Magallón
++ Column: The View From the Bridge
How do your do a DA-FU-MU?
Jean Campbell
++ Article: Whitehead and Psi :
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from January, 2004
Host Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the February 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by sending to:
dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted
here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucy Gillis, always on the edge of what is happening in the world of dreams
and lucid dreaming, has once again found that edge and will be sharing that
this month with Electric Dreams. This is one of the newest and most
controversial issues in dreamwork, the status of Others in our dreams.
Robert Waggoner’s Dream Residents presentation was a smash hit at the 2004
PsiberDreaming Conference and one of the best ways to jump into this issue
of the autonomy of dream entities. Be sure to reach this months selection
from the Lucid Dream Exchange, “Thought-Forms, Automatons, and Active
Initiators: Residents in Lucid Dreaming.”
Linda Lane Magallón (author of "Mutual Dreaming") explores how other people
show up in our dreams and how to recognize them. Its not as easy as you
would think, since they can appear in various guised. Linda offers a system
of Consistent Cues to allow to see through the masks to your favorite dream
partners. Be sure to read “Identifying The People In Our Dreams”
Jean Campbell founded the World Dream Peace Bridge to allow people to join
together to dream about subjects for particular goals in the world. Jean
looks at some of the projects, particularly the DaFuMu projects to see if
these individually shared dreams form a message or gestalt that unifies
these individual dreams and can itself be seen as an individual dream. Be
sure to read all about this in the View From the Bridge.
I’m including a second essay on the process theory of Alfred North
Whitehead. This article, “Whitehead and Psi : Dreams, Process Theory and
Nonsensual Perception.” is pretty much just what the title says. Its about
how Whitehead’s metaphysics can be used to theorize psi phenomena, what the
theory suggests for increasing psi awareness and control, and how dreams
provide a great laboratory for this work. It is pretty rough, so I’m going
to call it an ‘exploration’ rather than an essay.
Janet Garrett, who keeps up the wonderful collection of Electric Dreams
articles, is now adding some of the older columns to the collection. These
columns contain a wide range of information for dreamers and dreamworkers.
You can see her work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm
Harry Bosma has collected dream news, web updates, conference announcement
and other events in the world of dreaming and you can read about those below
in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news, conferences,
books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events, be sure to
send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at
ed-news@...
Talking dogs, attacking lions, playing squirrels, flying Orioles, attacking
owls, and a roaming lioness…but no tigers or bears…what else could it be?
Dreams in the January dream section! Kat Peters-Midland has collected the
finest from the month to read.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
or join the dream flow at
dreamflow@yahoogroups.com
(
dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
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For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one
of the many resources:
http://www.dreamtree.com
http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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Wishing you the best of dreams,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
February 2005
If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his
special
ed-news@... address. I can also publish especially European
and Asian dream news on the Dreamers United web log, see www.dreamunit.net
if you're curious.
Online:
- A Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- IASD Online Auction
- Results Planetary Dream Year 4
- Online Dream course from Gayle Delaney
Physical world:
- January: Stephen LaBerge program, Brazil
Books, movies, research:
- Sleep, dreams and spiritual reflections by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
- After-Death Communication Study
- Book translation dreaming classic
- Dreams - The Gateway, novel by Louis Poessel
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- A Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a
monthly DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.
On the weekend of 15-17th of March, 2003, there was the largest ever world
wide outpouring of a desire for peace (
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/reports/antiwarprotests.htm). On the
15th of each month we can remind ourselves of the enormous potential within
people, and call upon the global energy, so clearly displayed on that
weekend.
In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace
within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal
level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and
supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people.
A mandala is an image that holds together opposites. It is the image of our
human condition in which dark and light both play together. In dreaming
towards, and in creating “our” mandala of peace, we are learning how to move
with grace in this world of opposites: how to be at peace and how to act
with peace.
As Valley says of the mandala of peace:
A dream hologram interweaving the fabric of time with auspicious action. In
rythmn with the creative intelligence. In balance with the pulse of life.
Our aim is to use our DaFuMu to help heal the destructive energies so
rampant within the world at the moment (see Harry Bosma’s mandala being
created as a process of personal healing from dream images:
http://alquinte.com/en/healing_dreams/mandala.shtml). The construction of a
peace mandala may flow from our dreams.
So, please join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your
intention to dream towards the mandala of peace.
If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used
within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of
peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World
Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
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- IASD Online Auction
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Great news Dreamers! The IASD Online Auction resumes in February! We have
many items to bid on donated by generous dreamers and friends - a number of
books, a CD, a Dream Journal Kit beautiful artwork, a magazine subscription,
and three telephone dreamwork sessions.
The books that are up for bid are: Robert Moss's newest book "Dreamways of
the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul", Justina Lasley's new
book "Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dreamgroup Leaders", Wanda Burch's
"She Who Dreams", Ed Bonapartian's book "The Stories of Our Lives", and
Carolyn Bartlett's "The Enneagram Field Guide: Notes on Using the Enneagram
in Counseling, Therapy and Personal Growth". All wonderful books for
interested in dreamers!
Check out Marjorie Miles' DreamARTs: Creativity and Intuition Through Your
Dreaming Mind CD and booklet, an inspired CD of meditations to reconnect
your creativity and your Inner Dream Artist.
Looking for a dream journal to record your dreams? The Dream Journal Kit
includes a quality leather bound journal, unlined and ready for you to write
and sketch your dreams. It also includes colored pencils and light pen, so
that you can write your dreams in the dark and not disturb your household.
The light pen can be quite the relationship saver!
Art, the language of the soul. Don't miss your chance to bid on Katherine
Skaggs' limited edition print of "Guardian" and Brenda Ferimanni's print of
"Enlightenment". Don't let these beautiful prints get away!
Consider bidding on a year subscription of the Dream Network magazine! What
better resource for inspiration & education to help you better understand
the symbolic language and metaphors in your dreams?
So far, three very talented dreamworkers have donated a telephone dream work
session each: Beverly Kane, M.D., Gloria Coelho, and Billie Ortiz. What an
opportunity to delve into your dreams and explore the symbols and metaphors
of your deepest self!
The donations keep on pouring in, so I'm sure there will be more to bid on
starting February 1st. How to find the IASD Online Auction you ask?
You can find the auction on the discussion board of the IASD website:
http://www.asdreams.org/UltraBoardzzz/UltraBoard.cgi
Remember, all dreamers are invited to have fun and join in the bidding!
I hope to see you there!
Kat Peters-Midland
Director
IASD Online Auction
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- Results Planetary Dream Year 4
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I started to install the dreams incubated for the planetary Dream of year 4,
placed under the sign of climatic heating and the greenhouse effect (a vital
question well on the agenda when one sees the temperatures which prevail in
Europe in this moment). See:
http://www.oniros.fr/reves04.html
http://www.oniros.fr/dreams04.html
With my thanks to the participants, although very few, which I regret:
- Richard Wilkerson (the USA)
- Nick Cumbo (Australia). Not received dreams?
- Catherine Vander Cammen (Great Britain)
- Roger Ripert (France)
It should be noted that Catherine addressed the dreams of 3 other
participants, but they are not personal. I could thus install them only as
"associated dreams". One of the two dreams of Catherine, entitled "the
storm", seems to comprise an astonishing premonitory dimension, considering
the tidal wave which prevailed on December 26. For my part, I noted 8 dreams
but I only installed the first of them. For the continuation of the
installation of the Dreams, I await your corrections, further information,
comments and analyses.
Cordiales salutations oniriques
Roger Ripert
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- Online Dream course from Gayle Delaney
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All About Your Dreams
All About Your Dreams will help you learn to be a Dream Interviewer, someone
who knows how to ask the right questions rather than relying on the standard
"one-size-fits-all" dream dictionary. You will liberate yourself from
psychological dogmas, and learn to look before you leap to an
interpretation. When you know how to look and listen carefully, your dreams
will become clear statements of your deepest insights. You will see how
Dream Incubation can help you target and solve particular problems in your
life. By using the steps and questions provided in the textbook and the
course exercises, you will learn to take advantage of the highly personal
meanings of common dream images as well as those of recurring dreams and
nightmares. You can practice Dream Interviewing and Dream Incubation by
yourself or you can form "dream partnerships" with other classmates. What a
great opportunity to meet others who are just as fascinated by dreaming as
you are!
This course is great for artists, writers, lawyers, and scientists who would
like to tap into their dream-generated inspiration to problem solve more
efficiently. Therapists and dream group leaders and members who want to hone
their interpretive skills are also welcome.
For more information, see the website of Barnes and Noble:
http://educate.barnesandnobleuniversity.com/
educate/bn/home/catalog/overview.jsp?productId=8559
In case the above link doesn't work, copy and paste it so it reads as one
line. Alternatively, Gayle Delaney has her own website at
http://www.gdelaney.com/ .
Gayle Delaney, Ph.D., is a pioneer in modern dream work. She is the
best-known author in the field of dream interpretation and incubation.
Founding president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and
co-director (with Loma K. Flowers, M.D.) of the Delaney & Flowers Dream
Center in San Francisco, she is the author of many books and is a popular
guest on such shows as Oprah, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and Good Morning
America.
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- January: Stephen LaBerge program, Brazil
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ONEIRIC VISIONS: Ayahuasca, Lucidity, and Dreaming in the Amazon A 13-day
residential program with Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D.
January 23-February 5, 2005, Manaus, Brazil.
Stephen LaBerge will discuss the art and science of lucidity as a special
guest of Luis Eduardo Luna during a two week workshop exploring visionary
sacred plants of the Amazon. The program is sponsored by the Wasiwaska
Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Arts and
Consciousness, and will include several opportunities for guided personal
experience with the shamanic brew ayahuasca, known for producing powerful
visionary experiences.
http://www.lucidity.com/manaus/index.html
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Sleep, dreams and spiritual reflections by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
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Available as a free download is the book "Sleep, dreams and spiritual
reflections", written by Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya. Get it here:
http://www.awgp.org/english/books/books_english.html
Or immediately download the book in PDF format:
http://www.awgp.org/english/books/sleep_dreams.pdf
For more information you can also contact Vipul Patel, email him at
patelvipulk [at] indiadivine.com. Vipul told us to "please feel free to
copy/distribute these books as the Author intended them for public use and
did not want to have any copyright on his writings. Please feel free to use
any part of this book with proper reference on your website if you find the
book informative."
What follows is the preface of the book, written by Dr. Pranav Pandya, MD.
[...] The reality, origin, reflections and implications of dreams are
discussed in great detail in this book, which is compiled from the
translation of the Chapters 4 and 5 of the volume 18 of “Pt. Shriram Sharma
Acharya Vangmaya” series [...]
The current status and future scope of research on dreams is discussed with
substantial references. Special attention is focused on dream based early
detection, diagnosis and therapies in the context of reported scientific
experiments.
The readers will also get to know how the decipheration of dreams could help
resolving the complexities of psychosomatic disorders and elevating one’s
psychology. Sleep is an integral part of life. The variegated experiences of
dreams also become possible in this phase. In normal case, for most of us
sleep is almost an automatic, mechanical, or routine process. We do realize
its importance in relaxing and recharging of the body and the mind but
hardly pay any attention to its significant role in harmonizing the brain
functions, mental stability and self-development. The present book unfolds
the multiple facets of this natural and crucial process of daily-life.
Interrelationship of sleep, dreams and the limitless potentials of the
conscious, subconscious, and the unconscious mind are lucidly focused here
in great depth. The causes, pernicious effects, and remedies of insomnia,
somnambulism, and other disorders of sleep are discussed with substantial
examples. Live examples of mysterious cases of sleepless healthy and normal
life for several decades and those of decades long natural sleep are also
reported with details on the ancient and modern research findings on such
wonders of human brain. The trenchancy of mind and its improved learning
capabilities during deep sleep is given special mention here and the results
of recent experiments, research trends, and scope of the techniques like
hypnopaedia is discussed together with the specific "yoga sadhnas"of
relevance.
It is said that the ‘time-capsule’ existing in the inner cores of
unconscious mind contains the key to realization of supernormal faculties
like –– clairvoyance, telepathy, premonition, intuition, audio-visual
perceptions beyond the constraints of time and space, complete knowledge of
the past and future and of the esoteric features of nature.... The false
convictions, illusions and the truth of the transcendental realities of
dreams and the subliminal world of the unconscious mind are brought out
trenchantly by the author with discussions on a wide varieties of live
examples of dreams collected from authentic reports and research documents.
The list of examples includes the dreams that led to great scientific
discoveries or masterpiece creations of literature, art and music in the
modern age, as well as the significant dreams of the architects of world
history.
The book presents the invaluable pearls of ancient knowledge in terms of –
elucidation of the five levels of dream vis-à-vis the five subtle sheaths of
consciousness and the deeper aspects of creative conjugation of mind with
the inner impulses of the soul. It is up to us how best we make use of this
rare guidance on spiritual evolution and opportunity of epoch-making
research bestowed on us.
It is hoped that the book would be interesting and informative to all those
who would read it out of sheer inquisitiveness about dreams. It would, at
the same time, motivate and effectively guide the researchers of the hidden
domains of human mind.
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- After-Death Communication Study
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Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., a college teacher in Vancouver Washington, is
collecting stories of people who have been moved by dreams or sleep state
encounters with the departed. The stories will be included in a research
presentation on the phenomenon of sleep ADC's and will likely be included in
an upcoming book. Participants may request anonymity if desired. If you, or
someone you know has experienced such a dream, please contact Gillian at
gholloway@... .
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- Book translation dreaming classic
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Project: Translate the classical 1867 book of Le Marquis Saint-Denys from
French into English.
Carolus M. den Blanken, who just finished a French to Dutch translation,
asked me to put this out to the dream community. Den Blanken has a desire to
see the works translated in full. He also adds that "My understanding is
that the text and also the photo's are copyright free since the book was
already published in 1867."
Le Marquis Saint-Denys is famous for his association experiments with dreams
as well as lucid dreaming. For example, he once had the ladies he danced
with wear different perfumes. Then upon going to sleep, his servant would
place those scents upon his pillow. He noticed an increase in the number of
dreams about that woman connected with that scent. Anyway, there are many
other precious experiments and work with lucidity as well in his Dreams and
the Ways to Direct Them; Practical Observations.
Why would someone take this on without pay? Den Blanken says he hopes for
more people who just like him would do it for the "satisfaction to work on
the legacy of the first western researcher on lucid dreams."
If you read Dutch then visit the Dutch website for more information:
http://home.casema.nl/carolus/
Richard
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- Dreams - The Gateway, novel by Louis Poessel
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What are dreams? Does everyone dream? Are dreams the portal to alter
dimensions? Do dreams contain a secret gateway that may lead man to another
dimension? Can dreams be used as the ultimate weapon? Dreams-The Gateway is
the first book in a three part dream series. The story, a new twist for
science fiction fans, deals with all of these possibilities. Follow the
professor who is taken from his safe and protected college research
laboratory to a secret government base where new technology truly becomes a
nightmare for those who transverse into "Dreams-The Gateway".
The author can be contacted through his homepage at:
http://users.wcnet.net/louispoes
Or order the book online:
http://www.publishamerica.com/books/5911
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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
Have you ever wondered about the reality of your dream characters? Do they
perhaps exist “somewhere” in another dimension of reality – a “place” we
simply call “the dream state?” Could some of them be more than just images
conjured up by our minds? Do they have minds of their own? How could we go
about finding out?
In LDE 33 co-editor Robert Waggoner asks “Are all dream residents merely
thought forms?” and provides some very (if you’ll pardon the pun)
thought-provoking examples.
THOUGHT-FORMS, AUTOMATONS, AND ACTIVE INITIATORS:
RESIDENTS IN LUCID DREAMING
(c) 2004 Robert Waggoner
(This article was initially presented at the 2004 PsiberDreaming
Conference.)
In a lucid dream years ago, I found myself having sex with an attractive
dream resident. While part of me enjoyed the physical thrill and building
passion, another part lucidly wondered, "Is she merely a thought-form?" To
resolve the question, I authoritatively announced, "All thought-forms must
now disappear!"
Suddenly, she was gone.
As I lay there in the semi-darkness, hanging in a missionary position that
had seemingly lost its mission, I wondered how someone apparently so real,
so tactile and so responsive could be nothing but a thought-form.
Before I could ponder too long, another woman had taken her place! While
not as captivating as the first, she seemed to know the part quite well, and
we continued the scenario with passionate gusto. Again, I consciously felt
her skin, touched her hair and pressed her lips, yet I had to wonder, "Could
she be a thought-form?" With that, I declared that all thought-forms must
disappear. Poof! She too vanished.
In the semi darkness of the lucid dream, I became alarmed. She had "felt"
real, as real as my body felt in the dream. But she too disappeared. How
could one tell then? How could one distinguish between a dream resident as
valid as one's self and a thought-form? Or are all dream residents merely
thought-forms?
Before I could finish the questioning, a third woman lay underneath me now!
Not as engaging as the first two and with a bit of an "attitude," she seemed
intent on fulfilling the mission. But as I felt her skin, her bones, her
muscles, seeking some imperfection that would clearly indicate her status in
the dream state as either equivalent to mine or just a thought-form, I
realized my sense's record of unreliability. Formulating the dreaded
question, "All thought forms must now..." - she was gone before I could
ay - "disappear."
Shall we dreamers assume that all dream residents are simply thought-forms?
That seemed my unspoken assumption 29 years ago when I began lucid dreaming.
The dream characters (note: I no longer prefer the term, dream character, as
it suggests a pre-judgment that those who reside in the dream are merely
"characters" in a drama or book), or dream residents seemed to exist only as
projections of my dreaming mind. So in my early lucid dreams, I interacted
with the dream residents with complete confidence in my primary validity and
their secondary status. They were projections, play things, automatons of my
aware dreaming. In the lucid dream, I alone existed within a playground of
dreamed imaginings.
That assumption began to change one night, as I lucidly flew above a crowd
of dream residents. Laughing as I swooped down and knocked off the men's
hats, a hand suddenly shot up and grabbed me in mid-flight. Shocked by this
unimagined act, I wrestled free of the dream resident's grip, and continued
my lucid activities.
Awake, I now wrestled with the meaning of a dream resident's apparent
volition within "my" lucid dream. Can a mental projection possess volition?
Purposeful action? If so, does this suggest an awareness apart from the
lucid dreamer's? Can a dream resident be volitional, purposeful and aware?
If the actions run counter to the lucid dreamer's expectations, what then?
Over the years, other incidents have fueled my wonder about the nature of
dream residents. These are some abbreviated examples:
1) Driving down a mountain road, I realize I dream, and let go of the
steering wheel. Coming to rest in a mountain stream, I lucidly laugh and
call out to the night sky, "Pull me up stars!" Suddenly, I feel a firm grip
on my wrist, pulling me up. A young woman dream resident introduces herself
and tells me that she watches me in my dreaming and helps me. She explains
various things about dreaming and tells me how to reenter the dream.
2) Aware in a dream, I recall my goal to get precognitive information.
Seeing my brother, I lucidly ask, "So, D, a year from now, where will you be
living?" Hearing his response, I then ask, "A year from now, will you be
married?" Again he responds, but as he does so, a curious thing happens -
behind him appears a virtual duplicate of him with a bit of a worried
expression! (A year later, the answers are confirmed as correct.)
3) In a gray setting, I see A, a post-doctoral student from a foreign
country. He tells me that he would like to introduce me to his wife (whom I
have never met). She steps forward, and I am very surprised, since she looks
nothing like what I had expected. (A week later at a dinner party, some
graduate students tell me that they finally met A's wife. I stop them and
tell them that he introduced me to her in a dream! I describe her. One says
that I'm joking and have obviously met her. Another says that she probably
weighs 130 lbs. and not 125 lbs. as I estimated. The other says that it is
simply impossible. A month later when I meet her in waking reality, she
wears the same dress as in the dream.)
4) In a lucid dream, I announce that I want my higher self to take me to
some place important for me. Immediately, the dream scene changes to a
desert environment. I drift down to the ground, touching the waxy leaf of an
unfamiliar tree. Two women seem to wait for me. As I come to them, they
begin to ask me a series of thoughtful questions. Lucidly aware, I respond.
Finally they conclude, "You are not ready yet." I'm shocked to be judged by
these dream residents.
5) In a gray setting, I see a golden wood ladder. I watch as someone comes
down the ladder - it's my deceased father! I realize that I dream, and
laugh at his inability to get a good haircut in the after-death state.
Thinking that he may be a "thought-form", I decide to ask him questions
about future events. He responds. Then he informs me that he has come "to
tell me things." He suggests things to prepare for and then suggests that I
quit judging a certain person, since I have no understanding of the trials
in her life.
In these examples, one sees a sampling of lucid encounters with dream
residents. In the first, an unexpected dream resident announces that she
watches and helps me! She seems to possess knowledge that I do not. In the
second, a dream resident responds correctly to questions about precognitive
events. Oddly however, behind the dream resident appears a virtual copy; so
is the first, the second, or both, a "thought-form" of mine? Does the
apparently precognitive information come from a source like the collective
unconscious, or from the mind of dream resident #1 or #2?
In the third example of being introduced to A's wife, shall one assume that
A and his wife are thought-forms? Or have I met their equally valid dream
selves in the dream state? Is the lucid dreamer the only valid self in the
dream? In the fourth example, what can one make of a lucid dreamer being
judged (and in this case found wanting) by dream residents?
In the final lucid dream of meeting my deceased father, does it matter if he
responds correctly to my questions seeking precognitive information? Does
that prove that he is something other than a "thought-form"? How can a
lucid dreamer prove the status of a dream resident? Even if a dream
resident feels real and provides knowledge beyond the dreamer's capacity to
know, does that provide sufficient evidence to give them validity equal to
the dreamer's?
One of the beauties of lucid dreaming involves one's ability to question
assumptions, conduct experiments and act creatively. My initial assumption
that all dream characters are simply projections of my dreaming mind, now
seems simplistic.
What do you think about the nature of dream residents?
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Identifying The People In Our Dreams
©2004 Linda L. Magallón
(From "How To Fly")
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Let's say you want to dream with a friend. You agree to meet in-dream, and
then look for evidence of success. What sort of evidence will you be
seeking? Do you think that people will appear in dreams just as they do in
waking life? Well, they might, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Have you ever had a dream in which you weren’t quite yourself? When your
hair was another color? When you were older or younger than your current
age? When you were the opposite sex, a member of a different ethnic group,
an inhabitant of another century? Maybe you were a different species
altogether: a bird, an alien, a pixie. Or something animated, like a cartoon
character. Perhaps you had no form at all, or were just a point of light.
All this is possible in the dream state. And, if it’s possible for you to
have an alternate image, doesn’t it stand to reason that it is possible for
your dream companions to undergo such magical transformations, too?
In some cases, the dream psyche is giving you an outfit to wear to the
costume ball. It's as though the psyche sees something in material word,
like a crawling insect, and says, "Wow, I wonder what it would be like to be
a cockroach?" And that night, it tries on the cockroach persona and image
for size. This sort of costume is a rental, to play-pretend, and not an
actual affirmation of you.
In other cases, the dream is allowing you to picture an aspect of yourself
that truly is you, but another side of you. Suppose I ask the question, "If
you were an animal, what animal would you be?" and you answer, "A buffalo."
You feel a kinship with the beast, perhaps because of its mannerisms,
perhaps because of what it represents to you, or perhaps because you like to
think of yourself as a "buff dude." Whatever the reason, you associate
yourself with the image of a buffalo. And when your partner tries to dream
with you, and has a dream about a buffalo, he may actually be perceiving
you. Not the "you" that looks like that buff dude in the bathroom mirror,
but the "you" that thinks of yourself as a buffalo.
The truth is that the dreaming self is quite capable of “X-ray” vision and
can see beneath the surface of our outer personas, if it so chooses. It can
see below the outer facade to all those secret selves that live within us.
That’s why, when we try to identify the people in our dreams, we really have
to put on our detective hats and probe deeply for clues to the people we
know in the waking state. Because they just may be appearing in disguise.
Verification
It's no easy task for your partner to discover that his dream buffalo points
to you, even if he's lucid. Identification while dreaming is a tricky
business. It's to the waking state we must return for solid confirmation.
There are basically 2 ways to verify that your partner has picked up some
information about you.
The first is to get your feedback. For this, you need to be able to
recognize and tell him if he's perceived the "inner you." Of course, this
requires that you have a good working knowledge of all the layers of
yourself, and not everybody does. Nor can we, if we are growing, developing
individuals. All life long, we still discover and uncover new aspects of
ourselves.
The second option is for your partner to compare his dream with your dream
or waking life (including life of your imagination). The likelihood that he
will have a dream that exactly matches yours is very small. The chance that
he will dream a carbon copy of either your physical or imaginal environment
is also very low. But there are portions of his dream that can serve as
clues to unlock the mystery of how psychic perception works. I call them
"Consistent Clues." They are the skeletons, the "bare bones" of dream
structure. While they are not guaranteed to appear in every interactive
dream, they appear often enough to make us stand up and take notice.
My advice is to begin familiarizing yourself with the Consistent Clues, in
order to get a sense of dream coding and decoding in general. Even if your
symbols differ, it'll be easier to crack the case, to solve the mystery,
after you get a general feel for how coding works. Consistent Clues aren't
limited to dream character identification. They work for all sorts of
dreams. If you use them to compare your dreams and your waking life, they
just might work for the dream you had last night.
My examples come from one of my mutual dreaming projects, called Nexus.
Here's some Consistent Clues to look for as you read along.
Consistent Clues: COLOR, LIGHTING, FORM, TEXTURE, PERSPECTIVE, MOTION
Some dreamers have a tendency to see each other with different colored hair
when they dream together. This may be just a reflection of their self-image.
It's not uncommon for folks whose hair has turned grey to still picture
themselves with the black, blonde or brown hair of their youth.
When the goal was to “dream for Kyla,” one of her Nexus team members
reported this dream: “I see a woman with long, bushy, curly red hair. I tell
her she’d look better with it cut. No comment from her. She collects all
kinds of sacred objects. There are about 20 saber toothed tiger heads
mounted on the walls and crystals and rocks hanging on cord hung from the
ceiling.”
Kyla responded, “I see myself with red hair sometimes in dreams, and a
friend once saw me shift to this aspect in wake-time. I recently dreamed of
entering an old wild road populated by tigers, among other beasts. In my
dream, I retreated from the tiger, but you saw the deeper part of me who
knows no fear.” The tiger heads were props attached to the wall; they were
the artifacts of Kyla's dream.
Color became the chief indication of one another's presence, not only in
terms of dream actors, but also as regards the scenery and props. In one
case, the goal for the Nexus group was to meet at the Great Pyramid. Team
member Barbara Shor dreamt of a purple heart and a pyramid while I combined
her two dream elements and dreamt of a purple pyramid.
By itself, color may not be enough of a signifier, but the case for
telepathy is strengthened when other elements of similarity appear. For
instance: texture or substance. Barbara's pyramid had a tip of clear crystal
whereas I held between my fingers a clear crystal of pyramidical shape. Both
of us had an extraordinary amount of light in our respective dreams, too.
This is a portion of Barbara's dream:
_____________________________
"The Pyramid is towering before me. I'm coming up on its lower right-hand
edge, climbing up the steep hill toward where it stands. I know I'm really
there because it looms over me with that strange, huge, but foreshortened
quality that it has. Its energy is so powerful that it shimmers in the air.
Yet its shape is so perfect that it somehow doesn't seem real. It's like an
energy silhouette blanking out the sky, rather than a solid
three-dimensional object. It's an almost-solid multidimensional object.
"As I look up I see that, real though it seems, this is a dream version, for
the Pyramid is complete. It has an enormous, water-clear quartz crystal tip,
and the sun rising behind it ignites the crystal in a blaze of light.
Suddenly, the tip swings back to the right, as though it were hinged to the
top of the structure. And I see a crowd of human-like golden winged beings
flying in and out of the interior. From this perspective, and in the
dazzling light, they seem more like a swarm of golden bees with vast wings
made up of strands of golden energy filaments."
_____________________________
And here is a part of my dream:
_____________________________
"Unlike most of my dreams, the scenery is brightly colored and finally I
become lucid--There's a store counter with things hanging on strings from a
display rack. I handle them to prepare myself for the goal of the night.
Talking to an unseen woman to my left, I describe, "The bottom has four
sides and it comes to a point." With this, I "image up" a clear crystal
pyramid, about an inch high. Holding it between left thumb and index finger,
I can feel the sharp point pressed against the middle of my finger.
"Satisfied that I've got a good "feel" and image, I place it on the counter
and walk to the middle of the room. "Excuse me," I tell the woman, "I've got
to go to the pyramids." I hold out my arms and spin to wipe out the
scenery, calling out, "Pyramids! Pyramids!" When I open my eyes, success!
I'm in a brightly colored restaurant where the men wear fezzes. I hurry
outside and turn my gaze up, up, almost straight upwards. It's the pyramids!
"The sight that greets my eyes is vibrantly tinted. The facade of the
building is a bright purple, against a bright blue, against a bright green
pyramid. But they're multilayered and flat on top. I grin at the ironic
realization that the only pyramids I've ever traveled to in waking life are
the ones south of the border. So my dreaming mind has conjured up Mexican
pyramids!"
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The form of the pyramid is one of the Consistent Clues. I dreamt of
flat-topped Mexican-style pyramids. When the tip of Barbara's swung away, it
left a flat-topped pyramid, also. And yet another clue is viewpoint.
Barbara's pyramid was looming over her. In order to see my pyramid the first
time, I had to look almost straight upwards, since I was so close to its
steep sides. "Looming over" me is a good description of my perspective of
the pyramid, too. More oblique were the long, thin forms, suspended in the
air. I dreamt of things hanging on strings, whereas Barbara dream of vast
wings made up of golden filaments.
In my dream, I spread my arms and spun to go to the pyramids, then exited
the interior to the outside; in Barbara's she sees human-like winged beings
exiting the pyramid to the outside. So, did Barbara see me, with arms
extended, as a winged being? I'd like to think so. Other dreamers have
dreamt of me with wings. Not surprising, I love to fly!
Consistent Clues: COLOR, LIGHTING, FORM, TEXTURE, PERSPECTIVE, MOTION
(Dream Flights)
© 2004 Linda Lane Magallón
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HOW DO YOU DO A DA-FU-MU?
The View From the Bridge
January 2005
Jean Campbell
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Almost exactly two years ago, back in March of 2003, Kathy Turner of
Australia asked members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, "Is there a name
for this type of focused, intense, peace dreaming we are doing?"
It seemed that there was. There ensued a week of conversation on the Peace
Bridge, tossing words around from various languages. The word that came up
as the favorite of all the Peace dreamers was Da-Fu Mu, which is a
combination of Japanese and Chinese meaning "Big Dream of Great Fortune."
Now the Peace Bridge has pledged to conduct a DaFuMu dreaming for World
Peace on the 15th of each month, and invited the participation of anyone
else who wants to join us (see
http://worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm ). But, as a result,
the question has come up of how would one interpret a group dream, or
utilize its function? This seems to me like a good question to address, as
personally I would love to see all of us considering the World Dream, of
which our individual dreams are a part. Pacifica Institute director,
Stephen Aizenstat and others have pointed out what could be considered an
extension of the Jungian concept of the archetype, that the World may have
dreams of its own.
As founder of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, I came to the group with
considerable experience in group dreaming. Beginning in 1978, I conducted a
ten year series of experiments in group dreaming called, "Dreams To the
Tenth Power," in which we asked groups of ten people from around the world
to dream together on a particular series of nights, with a particular goal
to be met.
What we discovered in that experiment was that people did appear to be able
to dream together when asked, and that they often exhibited dreaming skills
in telepathy and precognition while doing it.
So I came to the Peace Bridge suspecting that these potentials might exhibit
themselves within the context of dreams of world peace.
There is another question to be considered though. If it is true that
people can join together to dream *about* a particular subject or *for* a
particular goal. Do the combined dreams of these people form a message or
gestalt which can be interpreted in the way we interpret individual dreams?
To explore that question, I would like to take a look at five of the dreams
that came in response to the night of DaFuMu dreaming this month.
On the surface of things the dreams don't seem to hold much relevance to
World Peace, and several of the dreamers questioned whether they should even
submit them.
Gina
My dream from last night doesn't seem to have any clear connection to the
Dafamu, but I'm offering it anyhow, just in case it resonates with anyone:
There were two clips on the hood of my car, one on each side of the hood
close to the windshield. They were made of thick wire. One was missing and
the other was broken. I was in a large warehouse where I knew there were two
auto parts dealers. I first went to the one I had dealt with before, which
was in the back, and found that it had gone out of business, presumably
because the other dealer had moved into the front of the building and taken
all of its customers. I went back to the front just as the owner or manager
of the other business was pulling down a metal security screen in front of
the business to close for the day. I persuaded him to sell me the clips I
needed. I was afraid that if I didn't get the clips before I left, the
hood of my car would come up while I was driving and block my vision.
Ilkin
I am climbing to a building, where there are people I dint see for a long
time. They are working for Freedom and Solidarity Party. I have a backpack
in one hand and white papers in other. There are questions and answers I
prepeared to lighten them on the papers. I am asking a young woman to take
their photocopies for me. An old friend says the people I am looking for are
in the next room. I am feeling happy that I will give them the answers I
prepeared. I am thinking that they are important for their work for
peace.The buildings (the one we are in and others) begins to slide paralel
and with a little angle to the earth. But it doest effect us physically or
emotionally. We are hopefull and smiling. I am sitting in font of a wall and
leaning to an old friend. The dead ones are also with us. I feel that we are
in a different kind of place where the dead and alive can be together for
good things.
Liz
I had dream of you last night (Jean)... we were at IASD Conference and you
were presenting a new presentation to everyone with Power Point. I was in
charge of making the changes with this new 3D software... but I had not
realized all the pages were done, when I was making changes to the first
screen. Rita D. was there too... there was quite a crowd. But we got it
all together... and the new software was really neat and I was going to
learn how to work with it so that you (Jean) could have a monthly newsletter
to everyone later on. That was just part of the dream..
I wonder why I dream of IASD so much. I don't think in all my life I've
dreamed of one particular thing as much as I do the organization -- other
than my returning to my old college (Occidental).... goes to show you how
much IASD touches me maybe or how much a part of dreams it represents for
me.
Jean
I am walking in bright sunlight in a bazaar (See why I want to call the
Silent Auction an International Bazaar? I keep dreaming about them.) I am
a man, a priest. I am wearing a black cassock, and one of those nifty red,
wide collars that some priests wear, particularly in the Greek Orthodox
church, I believe. I am carrying a big basket over one arm for groceries.
I am holding in my right hand a couple of lamb shanks, trying to decide
whether to buy them or not. I am followed by a crowd of children, both boys
and girls, mostly between the ages of eight and twelve. They are barefoot,
dark haired, middle Eastern, but dressed in Western clothing. They are from
an orphanage or are street kids I work with.
In my mind I hear the words, "It's amazing how many different things can be
done with the money" (meaning money we raise here on the Bridge). At first
the priest is saying that to himself as he looks back over his shoulder at
the crowd of kids, catching the eye of a beautiful little girl with tangled
curls, wearing a brown and cream plaid dress. Then it is me saying it to
the priest. And then I am fully lucid, realizing that this is a dream I'm
sharing with the priest and the kids. And then I am awake, hearing said to
ME, "Feed the hungry."
Diana
My dream was of a pair of tap dancing children. I could only see their
feet. They had a little box with them, that sent some signal as to what
routine they should shift to. This went on for awhile, and as I watched
their shoes, I could tell that they weren't professionals, but they weren't
about to give up, practice...practice.
I've never been a dancer of any sort. Peculiar dream.
But now I am going to suggest that we look at these dreams the way that I
most often initially perceive my own, personal, dreams. When I recall a
dream I have had on a non-group dreaming night, I usually feel around
immediately for the "message" of the dream. I know that all dreamers don't
do that, but I tend to be among the "an unexamined dream is like an unopened
present" school; so I am always eager to open my presents, even if there is
sometimes an unpleasant surprise inside.
Let's take a look then at the messages the five DaFuMu dreams for World
Peace seem to present. In some cases, the dreamer has stated the message;
in some cases I am making an inference.
Gina
Take precautions now so you won't be blinded later.
Ilkin
I have some answers which can enlighten my friends in their work for peace.
We can all joyfully work together on this, both the alive and those who are
"dead."
Liz
My dreaming friends and I can use PowerPoint to communicate about World
Peace.
Jean
Feed the hungry, particularly in the Middle East. It can be a pleasure.
Diana
Don't give up on dancing, even if you're not a professional. Practice,
practice.
When considered in this manner, the dreams link together to carry a powerful
message for attainment of World Peace: "Take precautions now, so you won't
be blinded later. I have some answers which can enlighten my friends in
their work for peace. We can all joyfully work together on this, both the
alive and those who are dead. My dreaming friends and I can use PowerPoint
to communicate about World Peace. Feed the hungry, particularly in the
Middle East; and don't give up dancing, even in you're not a professional.
Practice, practice."
Is this way of looking at DaFuMu dreaming something like reading an oracle?
Maybe. But probably no more than the way many of us use dreams at a
personal level. Interpretation of dreams always needs common sense and a
clarity on the part of the dreamer that there is a real "ah-ha" connection
with the meaning of the dream.
Over the months between now and the IASD conference in Berkeley in June,
members of the Peace Bridge (and their friends, which could be you) intend
to begin to create a mandala for World Peace from the images individual
dreamers present from their dreams. During the conference, we hope to
present a living mandala. And, just for those who love the precognitive and
telepathic elements of dreaming, there's an additional aspect of the
"instructions" from these dreams.
Prior to January 15, I was very busy with the fundraising being done for the
Aid for Traumatized Children Project conducted by the Peace Bridge. So I
didn't have time to verbally explain to Liz that I had been thinking how
nice it might be to have a PowerPoint presentation about the Peace Bridge
work, and have it ready for the conference. No problem there though, her
dreaming self had not only gotten the message already, but also completed
the presentation. Hopefully it will be as easy a job in waking state as it
was in dreams.
Next month again, on February 15, The World Dreams Peace Bridge will hold a
DaFuMu dreaming for World Peace. We hope you will join us. If you would
like to know more about the work of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, take a
look at our web site at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org , and if you
would like to join us in discussion, just send a post to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Whitehead and Psi :
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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An illustrated version of this article is available at:
http://dreamgate.com/pomo/whitehead_and_psi.htm
KEY:
AI = Adventure of Ideas
MT = Modes of Thought
PR = Process and Reality
PRr = Process and Reality, revised edition
SMW = Science and the Modern World
Glossary: Please use:
http://www.hyattcarter.com/glossary.htm
Dreams, Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception
As the title indicates, there are three items being brought together in this
essay, which may be restated as how process theory, as it was developed by
Alfred North Whitehead and his followers, might be applied to extrasensory
perception and other psi phenomena, particularly in dreams.
Alfred North Whitehead [1861–1947], said very little about dreams and
telepathy. He did belong to a society at Cambridge which kept votes on the
topics of discussion, and according to his main biographer, Victor Lowe,
Whitehead always voted yes on questions of psi phenomenon being possible.
But no record from these meetings reveals any developed opinions. Still,
his process theory, which attempts to encompasses science and non-science,
provides a theoretical basis for nonsensual perception and action at a
distance, which may be seen as the core elements of all psi phenomenon.
Whitehead developed his process theory at Harvard, after two other full and
distinguished careers as a theoretical mathematician at Cambridge, and
educational reformer and administrator at the University of London. Instead
of retiring in 1924, he moved his whole family to America and became a
philosopher at Harvard, where he developed his unique ideas that brought
subjective experience back into science, a brought science into the new
world of subatomic processes.
Core Theory
In Whitehead’s process theory world, there is only one thing in the
universe, Creativity. That is, the universe is a “creative advance into
novelty.” [PR 222]
Just to get a picture of this in our minds, think for a moment of all things
being conscious, but only for a second, and without any memory. As we look
around the room, everything we see is aware, but in the next moment, a new
awareness arises as the previous one perishes.
The table is aware? Well, ok, no. Only individuals are aware, and the table
is an aggregate of individuals. For now, think of the table as a swarm of
processes, of individual atomic and subatomic processes, that can
experience. However, their experience is very short, on the order of a
millionth of a second. On the other hand, some things, like you and me, can
remember our experiences. This allows us to build up contrasting views and
options, to add more creativity to what we receive and what we pass on.
What’s the Matter with Matter?
Whitehead was unhappy with the material stuff in science. He felt that the
notion of matter was inherited from an ancient time when there had to be a
container for the stuff of the world. The stuff might vary, green stuff,
hard stuff, soft stuff, gold stuff, granite stuff, gaseous stuff, but it
was all matter. Yet the very sciences that rely on this view are the ones
that have dissolved this view. The more we poke into matter the more
ghost-like the stuff becomes.
This is not news for 21st Century people. We have been comfortable with
E=MC2 for generations and easily convert matter into energy in our
theoretical minds. Yet the ancient concept of matter as a container linger
on.
Everything (individual) has Experience.
However, Whitehead was also not happy that experience had been disconnected
from energy, and that energy had, like matter, become a vacuous concept,
devoid of experience and fully determined. For Whitehead, the energy units
of the universe were instances of the creativity of the universe, and better
characterized as feeling. Feeling captures for Whitehead the sense that the
basic instances of the universe-as-creativity are both body and mind, both
sensitive and sensor, influenced and influencing, experiencing, creative
productions that take in the universe in its multiplicity and add to it
their own view, so that there is always an all plus one. Feeling is a
unification of the universe, plus this new addition. Its an actual process
in transition that includes a self-evaluation as well as an evaluation of
what it receives and what it passes on. For now, think of these feelings
like as quantum energy units, with limited sentience.
Everything is in a Feeling.
“…apart from the experiences of subjects, there is nothing, nothing,
nothing, bare nothingness.” [PRr 167.]
It is one of the tenets of Whitehead’s theory that there is nothing beyond
the experience of these feeling individuals. This experiential creativity is
the final thing at the base of the universe, and there is nothing underneath
this primitive feeling. All potentials, all sense and nonsense, all real and
actual, unreal and partial, are “in” so to speak, some experience or
another.
Yet note clearly that experience for Whitehead is not the same as
consciousness. Object consciousness for Whitehead is a very highly evolved
process synthesized from these more primitive experience/feelings, and
consciousness is deeply swamped by sensual perceptions. I will separate
these out more below as the difference is crucial for understanding
nonsensual perception. For now, think about primitive experience more like
“The Force” in Star Wars, as a direct connection of feeling to the whole
universe. It connects to us by levels of intensity, depending on its
relevance. At one moment, a blind Jedi feels more intensely the room around
them and the swirl of her opponent’s light saber. The next, she may be in
closed-eye meditation and feel most intensely the torture of her friends a
million light years away on the planet Harth-Vedra.
Prehension
At higher levels of synthesis where we are conscious of the world through
our senses and reason, the word ‘apprehend’ is often used. We take the world
in and understand it in some particular way or another. Since Whitehead
attributes a kind of pre-conscious understanding to all individuals, from
sub-atomic particles to humans to God, he uses the term ‘prehend,’ which
might be initially characterized as apprehension without the ape, prior to
sensual perception, prior to object consciousness, prior to human identity.
Primitive feelings, or prehensions, are then both subjects and objects.
They are what feels and what is felt. As they are real, actualized
processes or instantiations of creativity. Whitehead’s technical terms for
these primitive feeling/experiences are actual occasions, and actual
entities. An actual occasion begins its creative process in feeling the past
or prehending the past. An actual occasion feels the past from its own
present. It feels the past as efficient causation, just as I feel the
pressure of life pushing upon me. However, the cause is felt or prehended
by an actual occasion as an aim from the past, and not just as an object of
empty force. It is not fully determined by these past causes, but does
directly feels them in its initial phase of becoming. Whitehead calls the
process of actual occasions becoming, ‘concrescence’, meaning becoming
actual or concrete, a growing together, coalescing. They are ‘actual’
because they are both real, and actualized.
The actual occasion in its initial physical phase receives the influences of
the past, but then in a conceptual second phase begins forming a subject
from these influences, and from the pure potentiality of the universe.
Finally the occasion forms it’s novel subjective aim, a primitive purpose
one might say, from its unique view of the universe. As it passes out of the
present, this subjective aim becomes an objective cause for actual
occasions. Note the radical view of subject and object here. In the
present, we are subject, but in the next moment we pass this present on as
an objective datum that can be prehended by other present/future actual
occasions.
Also note that the subjective aim includes an anticipation of future
occasions. Peter Mutnik [2005] says this anticipation is what separates
classical from quantum physics. This anticipation does not become a hard
cause, but does align the occasion with larger sets or groups that can be
quite distant, spatially and temporally. We will look at this in more detail
later in the work of David Pleasant.
If we looked at the life of a single atom from a Whiteheadian view, say one
in a wooden table, we would see the that this atom endures over time like a
string of beads, with each present moment the atom coming into being and
perishing into the past. This creates a kind of temporal society. This
singular society will be part of other larger societies (molecules,
macromolecules, organisms) and constrained to some degree by them.
So we might say that the actual entity is a microcosmic entity, while the
macrocosmic entities of everyday experience—men, trees, houses—are groupings
of entities termed nexu/s (plural of nexus has a line over the u, written
here as nexu/s ), or societies. We have already said that tables and houses
are not individual, but aggregates of individual societies. Yet there may
be, as in a stone, properties objectively shared by the components of the
aggregate. In this case, Whitehead will refer to the object as a
non-indvidualized society. On the other hand, to the degree our body/mind
or any individual responds to the world in a unified way, the society is
said to be an individualized society. Non-individualized societies are
swarming with experience, its just not unified.
Note that Archetypal Psychology has challenged the notion that objects
cannot have soul. This might be seen as the first step in acknowledging
this. However, in Archetypal Psychology, objects *sometimes* have soul and
sometimes do not. The animist position that tribal peoples attribute a
continued presence in a stone is incorrect. The stone is sometimes
inhabited, and other times not. I will discuss the status of semi-autonomous
entities in a later essay on Whitehead. For now, I simply want to note that
‘objects’, while not always conscious, always have primitive experience. In
this way, the mind/body issue is not, as Griffin [1989] says, an ontological
dualism, but simply an organizational duality. We put primitive experience
together in one way and there is only unconscious micro-mind, we put it
together in another way and we get consciousness awareness.
Consciousness, finally.
"Consciousness is how we feel the affirmation-negation contrast" [PR 372].
In general, more complex occasions will cycle within themselves between the
physical and conceptual phases, and synthesize more complex subjective
aims, and object consciousness. That is, more freedom, and consciousness.
Not all actual occasions will vibrate in this way and so most will not reach
consciousness.
For primitive experience to be synthesized into consciousness, a contrast or
unity of incompatibles needs to occur. This will be the feeling of a set of
feelings on one hand, and the feeling of a proposition about those feelings
on the other. At the primary level of experience, there is only direct
perception, and no issue of proposition truth or falseness. Just as an
illustration, when we hit our foot with a hammer, there is no question in
our mind whether we are feeling pain or not. We don’t ask, “Hmm, I wonder if
that hurts, or could I be wrong?” We might, however, be wrong about what hit
us and why. This is just an illustrative analogy, not an example, since
consciousness is involved in the sensory awareness of pain.
Contemporary Separation
Contemporary actual entities are actual entities that occur in causal
independence of one another. "Actual entities are called contemporary when
neither belongs to the ‘given’ actual world defined by the other" [PR 102].
Actual occasions cannot experience other actual occasions in its same
present. Everything in the present, including your own subjectivity, is not
available for another coalescing prehension. A microsecond after the
subjective present perishes into the objective past, then all these
occasions become available for experience. As an occasion perishes, it
passes on its subjectivity as its subjective aim, felt as efficient
causation in the present occasion.
As an analogy might be like the experience of your room, what you are
experiencing in the room now, as being the product of experience that
occurred a micro-moment ago.
Note that in Whitehead, some of this was your own personal experience, now
objective (like your memory and visual field), and some is the experience of
other actual occasions, which have now become relevant to you, but may not
have been before. That is, I turn my head and now the relevancy of the table
declines, and the bookcase increases.
The table and bookcase (its individual occasions that make them up, that is)
are both in the present as a subject (which you can’t see) and in the
immediate past as an object which you can see. A better model of this is
saying that as the moment passes, objects shift from a subjective phase to
an objective phase. Once it has shifted, an occasion is objective or
available for all to see.
Mutual Immanence
That one actual occasion, once it has perished, is available to all other
actual occasions, has been implied in this essay, but not specifically
stated. Once an actual occasion perished and becomes objective, it is
theoretically available to all other new occasions in the universe. Due to
their low intensity and relevance, distant occasions may not rise to
awareness. Still, there is at the core of Whitehead’s process philosophy
this very key factor of each occasion adding its own uniqueness to the whole
universe upon each concrescence, and this uniqueness being potentially
available then to all other occasions. Time and space do not impose limits
as the occasion, once available, is available to the whole extensive
continuum. Just like a dream, where the occurrence of a seemingly distant
event is available material for all other parts of the dream immediately, so
to the extensive continuum is like the dreamer who dreams our dream and all
parts are immediately influenced.
Occasions are not overwhelmed by this influx of all other occasions as each
actual occasion acts as a filter as well as a reception to other occasions.
Whitehead refers to this filtering as Negative Prehension, and this is
generally a process available only to the second phase of conceptual
prehension, where valuations are made. In other words, an occasion has
influence on future occasions depending on its relevance to the subjective
aim of the future forming occasion. Actual occasions on Alpha Centauri are
as available as actual occasions in front of my nose, but their relevance
and intensity are minimal.
Mutual immanence is not so bizarre if we return to the notion that life if
basically strands of energy feelings. To the degree that these feelings are
semi-sentient energy events in motion, then all types of events can arise
through the transmutation of the energy inherent in actual occasions. Once
actualized, that particular transformation is more likely to occur again. In
this sense it is easy to see that all possible forms are in all other
possible forms, and that those forms which are brought into actuality are
more relevant to “the force” in general.
Sensory and Nonsensory Perception
Sensory perception for Whitehead is built up out of two more primary forms
of perception, of time and of space. Perception in the mode of causal
efficacy is a basic perception of time and perception in the mode of
presentational immediacy is a basic perception of space.
However, we can’t confuse this with Kant’s notion of consciousness through
the intuitive modes of time and space. For Whitehead, perception initially
occurs pre-consciously as casual efficacy and presentational immediacy,
which may or may not rise into the propositional symbolic relations of
consciousness and conceptual understanding.
Causal efficacy is a direct, nonsensory perception of change. This is the
Jedi “disturbance in the force.” It is about positively prehending
trajectories of the past and their future aims. In other words, it is a
direct grasp of causes. Though experienced by an actual occasion, they are
vague and initially unconscious. Causal efficacy “…produces the sense of
derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future…a
sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past.” [PR
178] Cobb refers to this as our “non-local, non-conscious interaction with
the world as quantum organisms, a form of direct 'perception.'” [Cobb,
1993] .
This mode of perception is core for Whitehead, and probably the most
controversial. Whitehead felt that Hume and those who base their reasoning
on conscious perception of the immediate objects of the environment, tend to
end up not being able to find any evidence of causality in perception.
Causality is relegated to being a constructed idea rather than a mode of
perception. Whitehead’s causal efficacy holds that causal influence
permeates normal perception, and sees persisting entities with a past and an
efficacy in the future. Perception is not limited to our typical spatialized
present, but includes more fundamentally a temporal perception of the
massive past.
Presentational immediacy is the perception of space in the sense of the
relationships of space or the way space is structured in the present.
Both of these are perceptions of the extensive continuum. The extensive
continuum is the way the many and the one can communicate with one another
in the sense of general relationships before they acquire temporalization
and spatialization. Its not *what* gets transmitted, but the conditions. An
occasion may or may not conform to these conditions, but to be part of the
continuum, they must conform. There may be other extensive continuums than
the ones in which we participate, and participation is part of the
definition of being part of that continuum. Some have attempted to define
these conditions specifically and have succeeded and failed in various
degrees. Note for example Kant’s Categories, where the conditions for
Understanding were attempted, (Quantity, Quality, Relation, Modality) and
previous to Kant, the a-priori conditions, such as a=a and all bodies have
extension. Whether or not these particular categorical truths hold is not
the issue here. Rather, here we can just say that in particular Epochs, such
as our own, particular laws (or persistent habits) hold sway over the way
time and space unfold for experience.
As an actual occasion concrecses, it absorbs into its becoming the objective
aim of the whole past and the past’s space/time continuum. There is
pressure to conform to the received continuum as well as pressure to unfold
a novel continuum.
In presentational immediacy, there is just the presentation of a
cross-section of the immediate present as a potential of extensive
relations, without any causal concerns. As an illustration, we see a patch
of color/space, and we don’t know where it came from or where it is going.
When combined with our senses, we can say this is about the geometry of
life, how its all divisible, (how we can chop up perception into spatial
segments).
Presentational immediacy is the perceptive mode "in which there is clear,
distinct consciousness of the ‘extensive’ relations of the world. . . . In
this ‘mode’ the contemporary world is consciously prehended as a continuum
of extensive relations" [PR 95].
When combined with sensory data, presentational immediacy sharpens causal
efficacy.
"But we all know that the mere sight involved, in the perception of the grey
stone, is the sight of a grey shape contemporaneous with the percipient, and
with certain spatial relations to the percipient, more or less vaguely
defined. Thus the mere sight is confined to the illustration of the
geometrical perspective relatedness, of a certain contemporary spatial
region, to the percipient, the illustration being effected by the mediation
of ‘grey.’ The sensum ‘grey’ rescues that region from its vague confusion
with other regions"
[PR 185].
Given that the primary mode of perception is the direct prehension of one or
more actual occasions by another actual occasion, sensory perception finds
itself as a later synthesis of experience. Sensory perception is called
symbolic reference, and is derivative from two earlier modes of experience,
causal efficacy and presentational immediacy .
The mixed mode of symbolic reference is only found in conscious perception,
and perceives objects both as located in specific regions of space, and as a
persisting entity with a past and the power to act in the future.
These modes of perception present no inherent theoretical problems with psi
and its acquisition of information at a distance. The main problem will be
how distant events can rise to consciousness, as consciousness tends to be
overwhelmed by the senses and their impact on what is relevant. So before
discussing the various ways in which process philosophy might handle psi, we
need to make a side trip into the how dreams may provide the very conditions
and prove a good model of the type of state that will be most conducive to
psi phenomena.
Dreams and Psi
"While awake, our view of ourselves is one in which we see and stress our
autonomy, our individuality, our discreetness. We define our own boundaries
and we try to work with them. What I'm suggesting, and which is not at all
novel, is that our dreaming self is organized along a different principle.
Our dreaming self is more concerned with our connection with *all* others."
[Ullman 1989, 217]
It shouldn’t really be a surprise that dream states are more conducive to
psi phenomena. Written records of dream prophecy and strange phenomena
occurring during dreams go back to the beginning of writing itself, in early
cuneiform and Egyptian texts. And who hasn’t heard of someone in the family
predicting the future in dreams? Still, it was sometime before these claims
were carefully studied. In the 1960’s dream psi research began at the
Maimodides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which produced more than fifty
articles, summarized both in a technical monograph [Ullman and Krippner,
1970] as well as two editions of the popular book _Dream Telepathy_ with
Ullman, Krippner and Vaughn, [1973, 1989].
Ullman was the chair of the Psych Department at the Center and after some
preliminary studies with Parapsychological Foundation in 1960, the lab was
established [1962]. The basic procedure was to have the participant hooked
up to an EEG and sleep in a soundproof room. After going to sleep, the
target picture was revealed, usually an art piece selected by random and
given to an agent 32 to 98 feet away (sometimes longer). When REM began, the
agent began "sending" the picture, and after 10-20 minutes the sleeper was
awakened and the dream recorded. The next morning the sleeper was shown 8-12
pictures and asked to rank them in terms of how closely they matched the
emotions of the dreams. many variations and subject combinations were used.
Some experiments were as exotic as having the 2,000 dead heads from a
Grateful Dead concert see and send the picture 45 miles away to Malcolm
Bessent in the lab.
It became very clear, that while the replication of these experiments would
prove challenging, the dream state seemed particularly favorable to psi.
The dream state may also be seen conductive to the construction of types of
consciousness from experiences of feelings whose relevancy is typically
overwhelmed by waking consciousness.
Dream Psi and Whitehead
It is almost a definition of psi to say that it is nonsensory influence at a
distance. And the primary question is how non-contingent force, information,
and pattern are transferred and received? How is a mind in New York able to
read a mind in London?
The primary core of prehension, is exactly this, the nonsensory reception
and transmission of influence. As mentioned before, an occasion receives at
beginning of its formation the whole of the past, and adds to this whole
past selections from the realm of pure possibilities. “From Whitehead’s
point of view,” states David Ray Griffin, “the only thing extraordinary
about extrasensory perception…is that the information in question has risen
to consciousness.” [Griffin 1989, p.29] Process philosophy, at its core, is
all about nonsensory perception. However, the datum from a prehension in
London finding its way to consciousness in a mind in New York City will
require some explaining. In theory, there is no barrier to this occurring.
The first item to note is that the nonsensory perception of actual occasions
means that causality is retained, but separated from both the rule that the
events must be contiguous and that causality implies full determination.
There can be causal influence at a distance, and that influence needn’t be
fully determined as each occasion has a chance to alter its own course.
Thanks to quantum physics, this is now not as much a stretch of the
imagination as it once was. [Pleasants, 2003].
Given this paradigm, we are getting psi information all the time in the
background of our perceptual flow. In fact, given this paradigm, we are
getting more psi information than any other kind of information, as we are
immediately prehending the past of all other occasions in any extensive
continuum we might share with them.
There are some problems. Perception in process theory is guided by relevancy
as much as anything else, and sensory data tends to force its relevancy upon
consciousness. Given that sensory perception overwhelms our more basic
sense of “The Force,” sensory reduction is needed. This is why psi
experiments need for people to block out extraneous stimuli through
meditation, concentration and dreaming. Dreaming has an added advantage of
providing a reduction in sensory input by raising the threshold which allows
or block out a lot of sensory information to our senses.
The next problem is that one of the ways an occasion restricts the relevancy
of new possibilities is through negative prehension. In negative prehension,
pure potentiality is excluded from entering into the synthesis of the
uniqueness and definiteness of the forming occasion. However, the exclusion
is itself a relational tie to that which has been excluded. Even negative
prehensions maintain a thread of connection to that which they have
rejected. Altering the filters of negative prehension is a way to change the
relevancy of how a moment is formed. Speaking of how this might be done at
the level of human consciousness, we might consider developing types of
meditation that relax the typical filters and level them all out, as in
vipassana. Of course, being open to what is, may not favor one’s experiment
any longer. Alternatives would be meditative stances that allow us to hold
intensions in mind while generally remaining open to wider and wider
influences.
Finally, there is the issue that the targets and re-construction of the
targets in psi experiments and actions, to make any sense to us, need to be
reconstructed in consciousness. This is going to involve the senses at
several levels. If Charles sees a red apple on his table in London, and has
asked me to guess what he is looking at, I will have to make a guess about a
target that is essentially a sensory construction and symbolic reference.
The target may be, like an apple or table, an aggregate object that doesn’t
even exist as unified object of any relevancy at the level of an full actual
entity or the sets it participates in. The target might be just an
abstraction in Charles conscious mind. Charles and I do share a similar
culture and both have apples and tables as shared signifieds or concepts. At
the level of prehension, what is going to be immediately grasped, will have
to be the extensive relations behind these abstract concepts. In
Whiteheadian terminology, the nexus of societies is what will be passed in
nonsensory perception, not a picture of an apple or table, if the focus is
on the thing on the table. What might increase relevancy is to focus on the
object in Charles mind, not what he might be seeing as some object separate
from his thoughts. A 2002 paper by E. W. Kellogg discusses this issue of
reconstruction in some detail, where a psi target appearing like a
cornucopia ends up in his dream as a helicopter.
Besides the perception of distant minds and objects, (which we have
explained as being the nonsensory perception of actual occasions) there is
also psychokinesis, or changing things at a distance through non-contiguous
means.
In Whitehead’s process theory, the other side of nonsensory prehension is
causal influence, which then also acts at a distance, as well as upon
contiguous events. Griffin [1997] feels that just as perceptual data
overwhelms our consciousness of nonsensory perception, contiguous causality
overwhelms our perception of influence at a distance. But from the
viewpoint of the object influenced, this is just another case of nonsensory
perception. We *will* the spoon to bend, but the spoon (the society of
occasions making up the spoon) prehends the intensions of past occasions and
change accordingly (or not). The physical and the mental just two poles of
the same occasion, and so psychokinesis can be seen more as a communication
than the will as brute force. Taken as such, a common form of psychokinesis
is the impact of the mind on the body. Griffin [1989] feels that just as
sensory perception presupposes a more primitive nonsensory perception, so
bodily actions presuppose a more primitive psychokinesis. The real question
in this system is not whether or not it can be theorized, but whether or not
it can be brought up from inconspicuous to be conspicuous.
I would speculate that for psychokinesis to work more effectively, the shift
from willing to communicating is going raise the relevancy of the suggested
change to target. However, it is difficult to know just what it means to
communicate going down the ladder of synthesis instead of up. That is, we
are talking about wanting a highly constructed intention, such as wanting
the spoon to bend, and hoping this conscious intention can be broken down
into a coherent message at the level of causal efficiency or subjective aim
in an actual occasion. However, if one could succeed in such an endeavor,
then this would make the effort much easier.
Kellogg [2004] has suggested a work-around by drawing upon the minds and
the abilities (psi or otherwise) of one's alternate selves in alternate
universes. In Whiteheadian terms, we could say that when something
actualizes itself, it is now objectively available to everyone, and
therefore more likely to occur again. So why try to invent the wheel again?
Just tune into those that have already been able to make psychokinetic
contact.
Prophecy and precognition are initially difficult for process theory to
address, as mutual immanence reveals to the present occasion all of the
past, not the future. Griffin notes that there are many kinds of seeing
into the future. If the Titanic springs a leak in the basement, that
information is now “present” temporally to all, and so those on the top deck
might get it, even if not sensed. Or one might intuit consciously or
unconsciously the trajectory that is most likely through the accumulation of
subjective aims. But the first is distant seeing, not seeing into the
future, and the second is simply making a good guess. Griffin’s other
alternative is that visions, particularly dream visions, may CREATE the
upcoming event. This too may be, but is not seeing the future.
Dave Pleasants [2000, 2003] has suggested a different solution by reading
Whitehead via quantum physics. Pleasants has been fascinated by the
Radin/Bierman effect [1998]. They were studying responses of subjects to
various pictures and found that subjects bodily responses to evocative
pictures occurred several seconds before the pictures were presented. How to
explain this?
Condensing his quantum theory explanation here beyond what is fair, a series
of alternative universes spread out before us in all directions of time and
space. Once we experience them, they become fixed, for us. But for some
theorists these paths are all valid and real alternative universes, not just
potentials that become actual. The parallel lines are fixed, but the path
any individual takes between them is not fixed. One may see an event that
looks like a fixed future event, as it is in one universe, but choose not to
take that path.
Pleasants feels that by combining Whitehead’s feeling processes with
parallel universe theories, we can come to the view that “future events are
not only real and capable of interacting with each other, but are also
conscious of themselves and their interrelations with other events on a very
basic level” [Pleasants, 2003].
Whether or not these parallel universes are part of the mutual immanence of
this particular extensive continuum is problematic. But perhaps its better
to proceed with the theory that they are, and the key (to seeing the future)
is to focus on what might make these alternative universes more relevant.
Whitehead’s process theory seems well suited to the theoretical discussion
of many aspect of psi. The issues of cause at a distance, mind and body,
distant knowledge and transmissions exceeding the speed of light in temporal
and spatial directions are all easily handled. What seems just as promising,
is that Whitehead’s insistence on the creative and subjective pole of all
events, which brings into play the issue of relevancy. Relevancy is
important in developing psi theory, but also in developing psi pragmatics.
With relevancy as the main filter and amplifier, it may be that the desire
to use psi to further control and manipulate the world will have to give way
to psi as a way to communicate with the world, and the world with us. In
particular, a way of communicating below the level of conscious abstractions
and with the thing itself. For Whitehead, this thing itself is the creative
universe.
And it appears that dreams are going to be one of the best laboratories for
this experiment. This is true not only because of sensory reduction, but
because dreams unfold the truths of subjective creativity. Each dream is its
own space-time continuum, both developing new alternative multiplicities
while synthesizing distributed unity. As Ernest Hartmann [1998] has said,
dreams contextualize emotion. They are already clearly an intelligent
feeling, a creative advance into novelty.
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Dream title: Unfamiliar surroundings
Dream date: 12/15/04
Dreamer name: men
Dream text: My dreams have recently been where I find myself in unfamiliar
surroundings. I am not afraid because I sense that someone I know is with
me. In my last dream I am flying in an airplane, again with someone else,
and looking down at the surroundings. I don't know who is with me as I
never see that person in my dreams. The people in the different
surroundings are also unfamiliar. I sense that I know some of them, but
again I don't know which of these characters I know.
Dream comments: I am a school teacher and the district is building a new
elementary school. There will be changes in that some of us will remain in
the same building while others will be shuffled around. This happened about
five years ago when a lot of staff shuffling took place. I do not feel or
am afraid if I have to move. I go where I am needed, and being separated
from my co-workers does not bother me. I like changes in my life. This
dream has been going on for about two weeks. I try to remember my dreams
but have not had any success.
Dream title: Talking dogs
Dream date: 12/16/2004
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: These dogs don’t bark at all, they talk to me. Something
between growling and a human speech, but I understand them perfectly,
although I wish I didn't.
Dream comments: They have been the same since I was 8 years old.
Dream title: Falling
Dream date: 121604
Dreamer name: loveydovey
Dream text: Someone was pushing me down and I get sucked into a black hole.
Then my ex-boyfriend appears and then I go to tell him I’m sorry. Then I’m
stuck in total darkness again.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: The boy next door
Dream date: 12/14/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was picking up my new boyfriend's daughter from school.
Dream comments: I never met his daughter, and we had said that we would not
get kids in the middle.
Dream title: Locked up
Dream date: 12/03/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: My boyfriend came home from being in jail for 2 years. He is
thin and ugly; and I don't like him anymore.
Dream comments: My boyfriend has been gone for 2 years and he writes me
telling me that he lost a lot of weight.
Dream title: killer
Dream date: 12/19/04
Dreamer name: Ap
Dream text: He was stalking me and trying to kill me.
Dream comments: I wasn’t scared
Dream title: Big Dog
Dream date: 12/8/04
Dreamer name: DD
Dream text: I am driving slowly down a one-way street, lined on both sides
with parked cars. It is nighttime, perhaps during the summer. As I glance up
the road, I notice a figure about a block away. My first glance gives me the
impression that it is a large dead animal, left in the wake of a reckless
car. As I drive up, and the image is revealed in the headlights, I realize
that the animal is a dog - a huge, white dog. It is lying down in the road,
its body spanning the entire street across. Contrary to what I had thought,
the dog is alive and breathing heavily. I then woke up.
Dream comments: When I awoke after this, I felt that it was vaguely
prophetic in relevance to my life. I wondered what sort of symbolism might
be woven into the image.
Dream title: Bizarre Turnouts
Dream date: 12/20/04
Dreamer name: CF
Dream text: I wake up in the dream; I walk downstairs to my living room
towards the Christmas tree. All of the presents were gone and I was totally
confused. The presents were all outside all ripped apart and messed up.
Then I started crying because everything was gone and my dad was saying it
was my fault for putting the presents near a power bar, or something which
got hot. Some people came in and helped save us by throwing the presents
outside. I am still crying because I was getting blamed. Then we found some
of the presents in the cupboard. Then the scene changes and I’m sitting in
class at school, which suddenly changes to sitting in the auditorium. I was
singing in this funny high pitched voice, and this girl came up to me and
said she liked me and I said she was nice. Suddenly she started taking off
her pants and I was like…um you better look behind you, because the vice
principal was behind her. The VP pulls her and points to me and says come
with me. Then I found out I’m suspended for so long and I have detention.
I just start crying because I’ve never been suspended and this is going to
make me look bad with my reputation etc. So I’m just crying then I’m sitting
in class and the VP tells me to follow her through the cafeteria. So we’re
walking through the cafe and some kid spilled juice all over, so she had to
deal with that student first. Then as I’m standing there I see an old lady
who slipped and fell on the ground, I help her up and realized this lady
looks sort of like my grandma who just died. Then I called the old lady the
name that I called my grandma that no one else did. And she said something
like "I used to have a grandson or granddaughter who called me that". But I
didn't really hear that part well. Then I told her my grandma had just died
and I started crying and crying. Then I woke up completely confused.
Dream comments: This is my friend’s dream and he really wants to know what
it means and I really want to help.
Dream title: Car crash
Dream date: no clue
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was riding with one of my close friends and he got into a
crash with me in the car.
Dream comments: It was scary because I got killed in it.
Dream title: Teeth dreams
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: GDz
Dream text: I have the teeth falling out dreams.
Dream comments: These dreams are so real that I can feel them and have to
look when I wake up to see if they are still there, I have had them ten
times or so...sometimes nights in a row even. Please post this so others
who had their teeth dream can see this so that they can see that someone
else has had something similar!
Dream title: None given
Dream date: 12/23/2004
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: Boyfriend in the house arguing with mom
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Never ending
Dream date: 12/21/04
Dreamer name: Heather
Dream text: Continuously falling over and over nothing but a light at the
end. I can't reach it. I see it; I keep falling towards it ... but seems
like it getting closer. I just keep falling over and over again.
Dream comments: I'm scared that one day I'll reach the light and I’m scared
that one day I won't see the light
Dream title: Vampires
Dream date: 12/20/04
Dreamer name: JJ
Dream text: I was at this restaurant with my 3 friends. We left after
seeing my 2 sisters I haven’t seen in a while. My three friends and I were
walking down this street and saw this place that looked kind of like a skate
park but it was haunted. Vampire people were walking down there. We all
decided to go down there and see what was going on. I turned around after we
got down there and they left. The vampires tried and tried to change me into
a vampire but they couldn’t because I didn’t have fear for them. So finally
they made me half-vampire half- human; and I could change any time I wanted
to. I left and it’s daytime now. I saw my boyfriend and I stopped him and
told him what happened. He got mad at me and walked off. One of my friends
thought he was me so she shot him and killed him.
Dream comments: I feel that I’m scared of losing my boyfriend even though we
love each other very much. I just wanted to see just in case I’m very wrong.
Dream title: Love
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: Dl
Dream text: In my dream I was talking to the girl who I love. In the dream
she sent me a text message to my phone even though we were next to each
other. Other people were there but we wanted it to be private. I couldn’t
see it on my phone so she printed it out and it said that she wanted to be
with me. One weird thing is that she gave me exact dates. She said something
about discovering she loved me on a Saturday 12.
Dream comments: We are currently not together and this is why I wish to know
what it means. Is she going to say yes?
Dream title: Turtle
Dream date: 12/22/04
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream text: The people at work were making me cook live turtles. They kept
telling me I had to do this until all the turtles were gone. They made me
stir them to the bottom. Then all of a sudden one came to the top, just
laying there and was staring directly at me.
Dream comments: What is even more strange is that the same night my nephew
was awaken by screams from his two year old that said their was a turtle in
her crib trying to bite her feet.
Dream title: A wild pig
Dream date: 12-25-2004
Dreamer name: bp
Dream text: I had a dream about the black wild pig which is coming to me. I
saw a guy trying to kill the wild pig.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Unknown
Dream date: unknown
Dreamer name: Tee
Dream text: Father walks in to the house appearing to be drunk with his
private part in his hand. He walks to the bathroom and begins to pee. Blood
is coming from his private part and he says “Daughter it won't stop”.
Dream comments: What does this mean? At the time I was dreaming this I
remember feeling frightened during and after I woke up.
Dream title: my friend
Dream date: every night
Dreamer name: Cy
Dream text: A guy is going 2 kill everyone in the world. Then my boyfriend
in the dream gets pissed at me and we break up. So then my friend comes up
to me and asks if we can make out and I say yes.
Dream comments: does this mean I like Carl?
Dream title: My boyfriend
Dream date: 12/26/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: At school at the end of the day, my boyfriend was taking me
home. I live in a big house and no one was home. I was scared to be alone
so he stayed. Then we did a little kissing, then it moved to the bed and we
did it. My mom came home and saw us and I got in so much trouble. I got my
car taken away and I had to break up with him, but I really didn't break up
with him.
Dream comments: Nothing
Dream title: Moon
Dream date: 12/25/4
Dreamer name: SA
Dream text: I saw a moon in my dream along with rain
Dream comments: It is good or bad?
Dream title: A Dream That Made me go hmm
Dream date: 12/27/04
Dreamer name: SA
Dream text: I dreamt I worked for a television station and we were up for an
award. I needed to be on my way to my mother's but I had to go to the
ceremony because I was up for an award even though I only worked as a clerk.
They were being held at an ancient airport on the banks of a huge body of
water. It was a dark blustery day. There was a tin sign, green and white,
kind of rectangular with black writing on it. I don't remember what it said
but it named the airport. It was fluttering back and forth in the wind. I
was very anxious because I'd not called Mother to let her know I'd be late.
Someone said the ceremonies would be over by 3 p.m. and I thought that would
be fine, that's not too late. I went up some stairs into a paneled and
carpeted area where the ceremonies were going to take place. There were
fewer than a dozen people there, I was with a woman, a blonde young woman
who was giving me the dirt on all the people that came up to the podium. I
started getting fidgety because the ceremonies dragged on and finally she
told me I could go so I started to leave. I got out to where my car should
be and I put my key into the lock of a gold colored car and an alarm went
off. I desperately looked around for my car and there was a litter of really
tiny kittens scattered around the lot and the grounds. I knew Mother was
going to be furious with me because I was going to have to take some of the
kittens home. I started up a sidewalk and one horribly deformed kitten, one
really cute black and white kitten ran up to me and I knew those were the
ones I'd take. I went into a building that resembled a library and I think I
was looking for a phone. There were men just wandering around, and there
were a couple of policemen there. I fretted when I saw them because of the
alarm I'd set off on the car. I ended up in a bathroom. I had an overnight
bag or something similar and the kittens were in there with me. I was
looking for a place to hide them. At that point I think I was awakened.
Dream comments: This was a particularly vivid dream and the area of the
airport gives me pause ...I've never seen it before I'm sure. But it was
very real. Very strange.
Dream title: None
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamed that I was being smashed under some spiky wheels on a
monster truck.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Lost
Dream date:?
Dreamer name: Seer
Dream text: I was walking in a field of purple flowers and they were the
only color in the dream. I saw this man walking towards me.
Dream comments: This dream occurred about 5 months ago and I moved down here
3 months ago. I am now very close to my boyfriend who was in that dream -
it’s cool.
Dream title: Glass Lid Casket
Dream date: 1995
Dreamer name: Se
Dream text: I was down in the earth, about 10 stories below the surface.
Above me I watched as a casket slowly floated downward with no straps
securing it. I knew my Mom was in the casket but I felt detached rather
than a feeling of curiosity. The earth beneath where I stood was hard and
well worn and large, somewhat like a very small cave. Once the casket rested
quite softly, and without creating any noise, I saw it had a glass cover. I
stepped forward and when I saw my Mom I was suddenly overwhelmed with
enormous grief. I fell to my knees and cried out to God, "Please, do not let
this be!" And my heart was breaking and the pain ran through the marrow of
my bones.
My husband woke me up from me crying in my sleep as I was in my dream.
Dream comments: This is an old dream but I thought it would be interesting
for others to read. I felt I knew what the dream was forewarning me about,
but not as nearly as how painful it would be once the reality set in. The
dream had nothing to do with my Mom. She is still very healthy and active.
It was what she stood for and represented me, the mothering aspect of my
*self* that I was being shown.
Dream title: The Lioness
Dream date: 12/31/04
Dreamer name: Se
Dream text: My husband and I were cleaning a funeral home along with another
couple. (I do not know this couple in real life). Behind the funeral home
was a veterinarian who owned and operated both businesses. We only cleaned
the funeral home. I knew there was a pair of lions that were allowed to roam
free about the funeral home. I only saw the lioness 3 times. Each time I
was sitting in a chair and across the room to the right of me was an
identical chair. She was behind it and was grooming herself. I felt no
fear...just observed.
The second time I was in the same chair and she had one of our cats. She
was carrying it in her mouth to take it to her mate for a feed.
The third time the same thing happened, only this time with our cat we have
in real life. I went to the vet to complain about his lions eating my cats
and his attitude was basically like, "Tough, you'll get over it."
As we left I turned to my husband and said, "He has $125,000 in insurance
here but no way could any amount of money compensate for our loss."
We stepped out into the sun and started climbing a hill made of sand. The
hill was not steep but the climb was arduous. I then said to my husband, "We
have lost everything we dearly loved. We have nothing."
He was a few feet in front of me. Suddenly I was overwhelmed by the loss of
our cats. I fell to my knees bawling and then the weight of this sadness
was so overwhelming it was tangible and I was prone as I tried to continue
to climb the hill by crawling, still bawling. My husband woke me up because
I was crying from the dream.
Dream comments: Normally I understand my dreams very well. What kind, the
message, etc. This one has me a bit befuddled because I've never dreamed of
a funeral home or lions. I sense this contains a very strong message, most
likely prophetic.
If I do not get the full message, I will get another dream OR if what this
is telling me comes to pass quite soon, I will recognize its meaning while
in the midst of the situation.
I've considered the possibility it may be a teaching/prophetic combination
dream. All I know for sure is it had me extremely upset and I could not
shake off the residual effect it had on me for a couple of hours. That is
how strong this dream was.
Dream title: Chase
Dream date: on going
Dreamer name: Isis
Dream text: I am in a fun park at a ride that spins around. I can not get
out. Someone is chasing me and I am terrified. I run and run and try to
hide. I get to the doors and they slam shut. Then I wake up.
Dream comments: I am an elderly lady. I feel like I might be dying in the dr
eam. I am trying to control the dream so I never have it again. It has been
on going for years. This is an on-going dream. It is so real that I am
afraid I am going to get stuck there and can never come back. I would like
it to go away.
Dream title: an owl
Dream date: 12/27/04
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I had a dream about owls attacking me and dogs too.
Dream comments: I felt really scared but every time I would pray they will
go away once I stopped they kept coming back.
Dream title: Finding an unexpected restaurant
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: PL
Dream text: My friend, Dolores sent me to where she used to live to look at
something (a house?) I can't remember. I drove quite a long way down a
road at night, even as far as a highway that I knew connected to a highway
on the far western side of the city (even though I was in the east). I saw
the street I was looking for but missed the turn. I'd also passed some nice
restaurants I hadn't expected to see out here in this somewhat rural area.
Dolores had told me there were no restaurants worth eating at out here but
these looked good. I made a left turn into a drive way that looped back out
to the street in the shape of a U but it was blocked so I had to back out of
it anyway to turn around and go back to my destination, but once again I
drove past it and then past the really nice looking restaurant that had many
tables tastefully displayed in a long row next to a long set of nice
windows. I remember something similar to black chopsticks as part of the
decor. I pulled into this driveway and decided I may as well go in the
restaurant since I'd already missed my destination twice. It was nice
inside. Just as I walked in a woman running it recognized me (we knew each
other) and said, “What a coincidence you should walk in just at this moment;
I was just thinking that I wanted to redecorate the restaurant and I know
you are a really good decorator. Maybe you can help me!"
Dream comments: No clue about the dream except that it seemed to be a very
good dream. One goes out looking for one thing, misses it but then finds
something unexpected and delightful. (Or: one goes out looking for a house
but ends up finding a job because one keeps missing what one is looking
for.) Perhaps it has to do with finding nourishment in places where one
doesn't expect to find it and where people say it doesn't exist. Also when
you spontaneously follow things you like you find good opportunities. Like
attracts like. Otherwise don't yet know the meaning of the dream.
Dream title: Gave birth in rapid succession
Dream date: 12/20/05
Dreamer name: JL
Dream text: I dreamed I had just given birth to a little baby - it was
adorable. It is in a little papoose and I could hold it with one hand.
Then I realized I was about to give birth to another baby right away even
though I had just given birth and one usually has a nine month minimum
waiting period. It seemed amazing.
Dream comments: A few days later I heard news that one of my stories would
be published in a book. I was very excited. Then when I read the editors
comments more carefully about twelve hours later I realized they also wanted
to see a very long book I had written too! This was like giving birth twice
in rapid succession, so the dream seemed like a mild form of precognition.
I am in my forties, have 2 children and cannot have any more children in
reality.
Dream title: Whoa! Freaky!
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: TD
Dream text: I dreamed that I was at this really old, musty village house
with my dad and an old woman. She was very sweet and let me eat some stew. I
was confused so she tried to explain that I was in the 19th Century in
Lancelot, but I was still in my normal clothes. I walked into the back room
of the house and was pounced by a huge gray dog (like Fang off in Harry
Potter). I tried to push him off while I was giggling, but he turned into a
boy (a very cute boy!). I just looked up at him until he got off. I walked
out and into an ordinary gym locker. A bunch of girls came in talking about
basketball. I was listening in on their conversation and heard one say they
got an e-mail from their dad. He was very rich, supposedly. I came in
because I knew (I don't know how) she'd changed the name and taken my e-mail
from my dad. I yelled at her with the boy right behind me. "I can't believe
you did that! I haven't seen my dad in a year and a half and you just took
his e-mail from me! I hope you’re proud of yourself!" She began to cry and I
took her laptop away and read the e-mail. I saw myself read the e-mail. I
went out the other door and was walking out of a castle. There was a goblin
on top of the tower looking at me. He jumped down in front of me and said he
was taking over the village. The sweet woman ran away screaming and I began
to run in the other direction, the boy transforming into a dog and following
me. Then I woke up!
Dream comments: I really haven't seen my dad in 1 and 1/2 years and I am
(currently) single.
Dream title: None given
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: My aunt called me from a pay phone and my mother was sitting on
the couch next to me when I answered the phone. I was so excited that it was
her and told my mom it’s Aunt Sandy. She got up and looked at me and
disappeared into the kitchen. I then went back to the phone and said “Sandy
how am I talking to you? You are dead.” She said “I’m calling from a pay
phone in a different dimension”. I said “Why aren’t you in heaven?” She
told me that it takes a while and in the mean time this nice old lady is
showing her around. I asked her if she was alright and if she was in any
pain when she died. She told me no she was not in any pain that she did not
even know that she died. Then the dream turned to my grandmother’s house
where she lived and no one would listen to me that she was on the phone and
that’s where my dream ended.
Dream comments: A very vivid dream after my aunt passed away.
Dream title: Imaginary Pony
Dream date: 1-05-05
Dreamer name: Aniv
Dream text: My dream starts off in a darkened and shadowed apartment
complex. I walk down a hall toward my boyfriend's room, but instead turn
into a room just before his. It is my boyfriend's friend, R., and he wants
me. I am sitting on his bed looking out of a window onto a bleak and rain
speckled landscape. R., half naked, leans into my ear and says, "You can
stay. It's not like you care. I mean, how you can be here when your
boyfriend is right next door." I stand up, upset, and answer, "I don't know
why I'm here..." I leave, and run into my boyfriend's room, lay down in his
arms, and sleep. When I wake up, I am on a basketball court with a number
of foreign orphans. It is sunny outside now. I find one sports glove on
the ground, the kind with a leather sole and fishnet fingers with the tips
cut off. I put it on, and suddenly, I can shoot basketball like a pro. I'm
playing with the kids with this glove on, and then my mother calls out to
me. "Why don't you show them how to lasso?" So I do, and as I go to throw
my rope out along with the children, I reign in an imaginary pony! It is
black and beautiful, but very skittish. It rides me around, and no one can
see it but me. The dream ends with me trying to calm the pony down.
Dream comments: Oh my gosh... I don't even know where I pulled this from.
This has got to be the craziest dream ever.
Dream title: Having a baby, but not really.
Dream date: 1/3/05
Dreamer name: Baby
Dream text: My sister and I were both in the hospital both about to have our
babies (we were both pregnant at the same time). I kept on having
contractions, so I got up to go the bathroom and by the time I came out she
had her baby already. I kept on having contractions, but by the time I was
ready to push no baby came out. As it turns out I just had to pee badly.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Big truck, big teeth, bad breath with a hint 'o' vomit...
Dream date:?
Dreamer name: Snaggle lip ring on a punk chic
Dream text: I was running from a BIG, very FAST truck; it was a semi-truck.
It would go from me running against a purple sky into nowhere... and back to
the semi-truck and then to the scary man driving the truck. I remember his
breath STUNK! It was HORRID! I was extremely scared! The truck and the man
in the truck were chasing me... I was running for my life! I was going to
die and all I could smell was vomit. In the dream it wasn’t just the man and
the truck I was afraid of...it was the smell, (vomit) the smell was DEATH.
Everything in the dream was death...I felt I was going to die. Occasionally
I would fall and get hurt...I awoke in a panic. I awoke in a sweat. I AWOKE
IN VOMIT! I had thrown up all over myself...
Dream comments: I was around the age of 10 maybe 9 years old... I was
sleeping on the top bunk of my bunk bed. I suppose I had a nightmare. I was
sleeping...I was sick...I was dreaming. Dreaming a delirious dream... This
dream has always stuck with me.
Dream title: Calling for help
Dream date: 10/31/04
Dreamer name: Carrie
Dream text: I was on top a lighthouse admiring the view; the ocean was calm
and beautiful. In the distance I saw a very large boat. On the road I saw a
contingent of very impressive vehicles associated with a motorcade and
hundreds of cars following. I heard the sounds of sirens and saw people
lining the street. Suddenly, I heard a very loud sound like an explosion.
The building I was in rocked violently and I saw a huge wave (but it was red
as if on fire). I saw the wave coming to land and I knew all the persons on
the motorcade would be right on the path. I tried to call a friend who can
warn the lead cars to take a different route. I could not get the help in
time and everyone perished.
Dream comments: I had contacted my friend on November the first 2004 by
email and related the events. The comment sent to me was that the number was
changed and forwarded a new phone number to me. Is this a premonition of the
tsunami?
Dream title: My totem dream
Dream date: 1/2002
Dreamer name: cr
Dream text: My totem dream has a beginning some months before and goes on
today. This dream began with what first seemed like a small flock of
red-breasted birds. When they landed I was clear they were Orioles. They
landed in a particular formation, their black wings outstretched like an
ominous cloak, but in an instant felt at ease. Almost unnoticed a little to
their right, and just below, was a small turquoise owl. This part ends
there.
Next I was standing somewhere not sure where though I remember leaves on the
ground. Playing in those leaves were 3 or 4 squirrels. In an instant one
scurried up my pant leg up to my face. It looked right into my eyes. In an
instant I was startled but didn’t flinch and it didn’t bite me. Dream ends.
Dream comments: I rarely if ever remember my dreams that are why now nearly
3 years hence I remember I remember it vividly and is the only dream I have
remembered since then. Also just after I had a lucid dream related to the
first. And to make this even more of interest, a very important component of
it all is with me every day.
Dream title: A HUGE RATTLER....
Dream date: 1/06/2005
Dreamer name: dt
Dream text: I was standing on a square platform that had a lot of water in
the center of it. There were many people there. All of a sudden this man
walks out with the biggest rattler I had ever seen. He was carrying it with
a long bar/hook (wraps around snake). The snake got loose and it was "known"
that if the snake came towards you that you had to get the bottle off a
shelf and shoot water down its throat until it left you alone or died. I
watched a lot of people who tried to defend themselves but couldn't do it so
they jumped in the water to get away. That’s when I saw the snake coming
towards me. I desperately got the bottle of water and began to shoot it down
towards the snake’s mouth. I couldn't get it done either. I knew I was gone.
Then the snake stopped - looked at me and began to talk to me like in the
devil’s voice. The snake eyes turned red too. Then the snake just...died.
Dream comments: Thank You for this!! It was very disturbing and it has been
a crazy year for me as well- Really a few years! Thanks Again!
Dream title: Blown off the towers
Dream date: 9/2000
Dreamer name: sr
Dream text: I am on top of one of two huge towers- I know I am in New York,
and a voice tells me I am 110 stories up. Huge gusts of wind are blowing up
there, and I lay down, afraid that the wind will blow me off. I am also
afraid of being up so high, and try to focus on the roof of the tower next
door so that I won't realize how far up I am. Suddenly huge gust of wind
blows me off the tower, and as I begin to fall, the voice says in my head
"When the soul sees that there is no hope left for the body, it lets the
body go."
Dream comments: It felt very profound at the time and I remember telling it
to two friends over dinner who were equally impressed with the odd quality
of the dream.
Dream title: None given
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I am having dreams about having a child.
Dream comments: Does it mean I am pregnant or will be in the future?
Dream title: My husband is my boyfriend again
Dream date: 08/01/2005
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamt I am born again & my husband is my first boyfriend. He
loves me too much & is very possessive of me.
Dream comments: Can this be true?
Dream title: None given
Dream date: 1/11/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was in my Catholic church and I crossed over to my boyfriend’s
church very easily. After the mass in my church I went over to his church
looking for him and everybody was crying because of what the pastor was
preaching. I was saying hi to everyone and he disappeared. I was mad and
crying because he was acting like an ass. Then I saw him he came back in his
car outside the church and he was laughing. When I ask him why he was being
like that, he started laughing in a weird way so I got mad. Then I found
out the he had just found out he had a incurable disease in his ear or some
part of his ear was broken; he was going to lose the hearing sense forever
or die. Everybody was sad and it was raining then I woke up.
Dream comments: It was a weird dream and when I woke up it was really
raining. I am in Ohio, away for college, and my boyfriend is back in New
Jersey. We are having some problems now that we are trying to solve, but it
is mainly on my part. I am very confused. I always ask God for signs to
help me make the correct choices but this dream I really don’t get it. I am
concerned because when I have dreams they are never good and after those
dreams bad things happen relating to it. I don’t get it until everything is
over and there is nothing I can do. So I am always worried when I get
dreams.
Dream title: Flying Saucer
Dream date: 1/10/05
Dreamer name: Ct
Dream text: I dreamed I walked outside my home and saw a large flying saucer
flying around back and forth, then disappearing behind the house and
crashing. I walked around the house not really expecting to see the saucer
but there it was embedded into the side of my home. I woke up shortly after.
Dream comments: I have been dreaming a lot lately about flying objects in
the sky and falling down to the ground. Is there any logic to this dreaming?
Dream title: Cosmic Orgasm in the Void
Dream date: a year and a half or 2 years ago
Dreamer name: a guy
Dream text: I was meditating with someone in a dream. We were floating in a
black void. We were one person. The dream was based on feeling. It was if
a cosmic energy streamed through both of us. It was the most amazing
feeling I ever had.
Dream comments: I think twice about this guy, I feel this dream was
spiritually connected and/or cosmically
Dream title: lions
Dream date: 10/19/04
Dreamer name: lions
Dream text: lions attacking
Dream comments: frightening
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