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Volume #12 Issue #12
December 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
Lucy Gillis - Editor
Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe.
Ed Kellogg, PhD
++ Article: Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: The View From the Bridge
What Dreams May Come
Olivia Strand
++ Dream: Subcategorization
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Article: Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?
Peter Farley
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from Fall 2005
With Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the December 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/
.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and
dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
This has been quite a year for the Dream Movement. The Dream Institute of
Northern California and the International Association for the Study of
Dreams are now "living" in the same location in Berkeley, California. Many
dreamwork projects have matured into full blown educational programs,
certifications and international peace projects. The online IASD
PsiberDreaming conference continued its new tradition of exploring the edges
of dreaming. The Nordic IASD dream organization formed and will have a
conference this March. I'm looking forward to seeing these and the many
other projects in dreamwork unfold in the next year and hope to hear from
the readers of Electric Dreams about your new projects, books and events.
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucy Gillis has an excellent selection from her Lucid Dream Exchange. This
month you can try out the spells from Harry Potter in your dreams. You
magical guide will be the experta-cala-fragil-istic lucid dreamer, Ed
Kellogg, PhD. Pick up your wands and read "Trying out Spells from the
Hogwarts Universe."
When discussing psi events in a dream, we usually just hear about one kind
of psi power in operation. For example, the dream is either prophetic of
some upcoming event, or we seen in the dream something that exists in the
waking world some distance from us, or we get thoughts from someone else's
mind and they enter our dreams. But Linda Magallón, author of Mutual
Dreaming, would like to challenge this view and will suggest that there may
be several types of psi operating in the same dream. Read her example of
this in "Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams."
"Subcategorization" by Stan Kulikowski II is a dream, recording in a unique
style.
You may wonder why I pull out Stan's dreams and put then in the articles
section. I'm not really sure. At first I just wanted dreamworkers to see
there were various alternative ways to recording dreams, and Stan has a
unique style that seemed heuristic. But then the dreams kind of took on a
life of their own and they became a regular feature in Electric Dreams. If
you have unique ways of recording dreams, be sure to submit those to
Electric Dreams.
Ever feel that Peace on Earth is just phrase on a Holiday card? Well then,
maybe you need to join the World Dreams Peace Bridge! This month you will
get the View from Olivia Strand, and hear how world class dreamers are
changing the world.
Peter Farley has spent his life exploring life's mysteries and returning
useful information and techniques. In a selection on dreams below, Peter
discusses a range of topics in dreamwork, and introduces readers to his
philosophy on dreaming from a shamanic point of view. Get the full scoop and
links in "Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?"
Zombies in a mausoleum, black snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts...what
else could it be but the Dream Section of Electric Dreams Magazine from Kat
Peters-Midland!
Thanks to Lucy Gillis for permission to use her photo in the current EDreams
Cover!
http://tinyurl.com/7jm8d
Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues are online in an
easy-to-access format. These articles 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 searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which
you can read about 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@...
Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.
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
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dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:
http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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From Planet Dream,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
December 2005
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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his
special
ed-news@... address.
Online:
- Le Rêve planétaire 2005
- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism
- Beyond Your Dreams radio show
Physical world:
- California: Beyond Traditional Religion
- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference
Books, movies, research:
- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead
- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams
Recurring events:
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- Auction at Dreambay.org
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Le Rêve planétaire 2005
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The yearly Planetary Dream at the winter solstice is coming up. The solstice
is in the night of the 21st to the 22nd of December 2005. Like previous
years there will be a theme, which everyone is invited to dream on. The
theme of last year was climate warming. At the moment of publishing, the
theme for this year had yet to be determined.
An information page in English should be available soon. You can send your
dreams to Roger Ripert.
Email:
oniros@... (Roger Ripert)
French info page: www.oniros.fr/RP05.html
News: www.oniros.fr/nouvelles.html
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- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism
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ARAS is proud to announce the perfect companion tool for exploring symbolic
imagery in dreams. The ARAS Online website contains the entire Archive for
Research into Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) repository of 17,000 images and
20,000 pages of accompanying psychological and cultural commentary. Begun in
the 1930's as a way of giving specific content to Jung's notion of the
collective unconscious, access to ARAS was granted to only a handful of
scholars until the creation of this brand new website.
The new ARAS Online website facilitates the process of dream interpretation
and amplification by making available a beautifully displayed archive of
symbolic material from every culture since the beginning of time. ARAS joins
the computer's unique ability to search archetypal themes to the psyche's
natural process of expressing its deeper concerns through dream imagery. Far
more than a symbol dictionary, this site encourages the exploration of
symbolic material through a journey of active searching and unexpected
meandering that allows the multivalent meaning of dreams to emerge.
The site's home page can be found at
http://www.aras.org .
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- Beyond Your Dreams radio show
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I'd like to invite you to listen to my new weekly internet radio show
entitled "Beyond Your Dreams: Exploring Myth, Meaning & Metaphor", on
www.healthylife.net . The show airs on Thursdays at 2:00 pm Pacific, but
obviously is heard in all time zones around the world if you have Windows
Media Player or something equivalent. Past shows can be accessed on the
Archives pages. Also you can listen to past shows by going to my website
www.mindbodypotential.com and then going to the Beyond Your Dreams area of
the site.
I am always looking for guests to have on my show, anyone who is doing
interesting work in the field of dreams. Authors, analysts, & researchers
--you are all welcome to contact me!
I appreciate your comments and feedback -- all in the spirit of gaining
greater knowledge and insight into the subconscious ... and beyond.
Sweet dreams,
Denise Rodgers, M.Div., C.Ht.
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- California: Beyond Traditional Religion
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Spirituality, Depth Psychology, and Nonduality
This unique five-month intensive will illustrate an approach to spirituality
using a synthesis of Jungian depth psychology with the tradition of
nonduality. The program will have both an academic and experiential
component. We will discuss the philosophy of nonduality and also focus on
work with dreams at their archetypal and personal level. This work will
deepen our understanding of those complexes and shadow material that form
the structures of the self, which contributes to our illusory sense of
separateness. Insight into this process paves the way for nondual awareness
to spontaneously arise. This program will be of interest to people whose
personal sense of the sacred is not satisfied by traditional religions and
will be limited to 30 participants.
The five-month intensive will be held at Pacifica Graduate Institute at
Ladera Lane. Located on 35 acres in the foothills of the Santa Ynez
Mountains overlooking the Pacifica Ocean, this residential retreat center
provides a unique and peaceful environment for this event. The center has
lodging and dining facilities as well as a swimming pool and hiking trails.
January - June 2005
http://www.pacifica.edu/corbett05.html
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- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference
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Co-organised by the Danish Association for the Study of Dreams and the
Swedish Dröm Grupps Forum as a regional meeting of the International
Association for the Study of Dreams.
March 24-26th, 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark
More information at
http://www.ffsd.dk/ndk_2006.php
* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *
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- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead
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A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying and the Other Side
In The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains that we have
entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams, when they come
visiting and we may travel into their realms. As we become active dreamers,
we can heal our relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of
death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides for others,
helping the dying to approach the last stage of life with courage and grace,
opening gates for their journeys beyond death, and even escorting them to
the Other Side.
http://mossdreams.com
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- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
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In order to further our understanding of the extent to which lucid dreams
differ from non-lucid dreams in other ways than (obviously) whether or not
the dreamer knows it is a dream at the time, we have designed a new
questionnaire study, a revision of an earlier pilot study. In short, we are
asking you to fill out a web questionnaire and report form four times; Two
of these reports should be lucid dreams, and two should be non-lucid dreams.
The Lucidity Institute
http://lucidity.com/dreams4.html
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- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams
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You are invited to participate in research by Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.,
psychology faculty at Grant MacEwan College examining video game play
attitudes and experiences as well as experiences of various states of
consciousness including dreams.
There are three questionnaires and two small video games which you will be
asked to complete. You will be asked about your video game playing history
and preferences or the lack there of as well as your experiences with
various types of dreams and other experiences of consciousness. You will
also be asked to indicate your age, sex, education and work history. No
other personal information will be requested. You will also be asked to fill
out a questionnaire regarding your preferences for specific components of
video games as well as another questionnaire regarding your feelings while
playing video games. Finally you will be asked to play two very brief video
games, pacman and missile command, which are in java script. Therefore your
browser should be java enhanced in order to do that part of the research.
More information and the consent form:
http://tinyurl.com/7p6vx
* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * *
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- 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.
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. 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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- Auction at dreambay.org
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The IASD online auction has its own website - Dreambay.org! Every month it
has new items to bid on, and opportunities to donate your books, services
etc to support the IASD!
http://Dreambay.org
If you have any questions or would like to donate an item to the auction,
you may contact Kat Peters-Midland at
IASDauction@... .
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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While the magic of Harry Potter is back on the movie screens and fresh in
our minds, why not try some Hogwarts magic in your lucid dreams? Ed Kellogg
presents some fun tasks to try in your next lucid dream.
LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
September, 2005
by Ed Kellogg
[(c)2005 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.]
(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for LDE readers with
each new issue. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility for any
risks should they choose to undertake these tasks, which may possibly bring
about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you
who attempt these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.)
"Harry Potter and the Lucid Dream Exchange Challenge"
Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe.
This issue's task honors the book series of J. K. Rowling, because it
promotes a positive point of view about "magic" and about "psi," and has had
an incredible world wide impact among the people who really matter - the
children and young adults who will make up future generations.
J. K. Rowling's series of books (and the derivative movies) promote the
following "heretical ideas" in children at the most impressionable ages,
setting up a magical view of the world at deep levels:
1. Muggles (read "skeptics" and "debunkers") do not believe in magic either
because they can not do it, or because they hate and fear it.
2. Wizards and witches (read "psychics" and "lucid dreamers" <g>) can do
magic, but try not to do it or talk about it in front of muggles, to spare
their feelings and to avoid societal upset.
3. Even muggle parents can have wizards and witches as children, although of
course, as muggles, they will not understand magic, and will explain away
any evidence of magic when it occurs, out of ignorance and prejudice.
4. In general, wizards and witches feel sorry for muggles, and find their
disbelief in magic amusing. They do not take the viewpoints of muggles
seriously.
5. Muggles and wizards do not live in some other world, or in some
fairytale, they live in today's contemporary society.
I find it hard to imagine a better set of underlying defensive beliefs for a
developing child with psychic abilities. Granted, this set of beliefs may
not last, but they can give many children an extra year or two of magical
childhood before societal pressures mold them into at least a semblance of
muggles. But underneath it all, even in the most repressed, in the depths of
the unconscious, "Harry Potter" will live on. And that, to paraphrase Robert
Frost, may make all the difference.
The Challenge
When you next gain full lucidity in a dream, try doing one of the following
HP ("Harry Potter") spells:
1. Wingardium Leviosah! (pronounced: win-GAR-dee-um lev-ee-OH-sah) In the
books this spell levitates the object you point at while saying it.
2. Lumos! (pronounced: LOO-mos) This spell causes a light to appear.
3. Scourgify! (pronounced: SKUR-ji-fy) This cleaning spell makes messes
disappear. And finally -
4. Expecto Patronum! (pronounced: ex-PEK-toh pah-TRO-num) This advanced
spell causes a guardian animal spirit to appear.
Clearly intone each syllable of the spell you've chosen, using the
pronunciation provided above. (I suggest that you practice chanting the
spell during the day before going to sleep.) Stay centered in the dream and
focus your intent on tapping into and channeling your creative power.
Repeat as necessary, deepening your intent and trying variations in your
wand gestures as necessary.
Now if by some mischance you find yourself in a lucid dream without a wand
handy, in my experience you can use your hand instead with good results.
For this task, to minimize uncontrolled variables, I suggest that you use
the hand gesture known as "sword fingers" in qigong. I spontaneously found
myself using this gesture for focusing intent or for directing energy in
many lucid dreams. Once I discovered the qigong connection, I often used
this gesture intentionally. It has proven reliable for directing lucid dream
healing and psychokinetic effects. (With regard to HP spells, for example
I've tried "Wingardium Leviosah" for levitation in lucid dreams, using this
hand gesture in place of wand waving, and it worked quite well.)
To make the sword fingers gesture, point with your dominant hand by
extending the index and middle fingers. Curl the ring and pinky fingers
against the palm, and place the thumb on top of them. Aside from pointing,
you can use your hand to simulate wand movements (""Swish and flick,
remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very
important too -" -- Professor Flitwick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone) To get the feel of using this hand gesture, listen to classical music
and do some imaginary conducting. <g>
After your dream, record your experiences, and describe in detail what you
did (especially if it differs from what I've described above), and the
context - the environment and situation - in which you tried a spell out.
If the spell results in phenomena of some sort, describe what happened in
your dream journal in as much detail as possible - color, shape, movement,
texture, etc. Use illustrations if appropriate. Also, if you aimed the spell
at a particular target (for example, a feather for levitation, or an
infected cut for healing), describe the target's condition before, and after
the spell. If you get a chance to try a spell more than once, note down both
similarities and differences. And of course, should you succeed at trying
out any HP spells (regardless of whether or not the spells "work!"), I'd
very much appreciate it if you would send your dream(s) to me
(
alef1@...), or better yet, to the Lucid Dream Exchange!
(Interested in trying out more spells from the Hogwarts Universe? Visit The
Harry Potter Lexicon online and go to their "The Encyclopedia of Spells"
section at:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells.html )
Why should "Harry Potter" spells work in lucid dreams?
I believe that "magical words" derive their power from at least two
different sources.
First, the personal level, where magical words have effects through their
subjective associations for the user. Effective Associations: 1. On the
Thinking/Focus Level - clear meaning, with no contradictory or mundane
associations (why many magical spells use words from dead or foreign
languages.) 2. On the Emotional/Intent Level - positive affect associations,
for example words intrinsically embedded in an emotionally positive context,
for example mantras/godnames, found in religious texts, or taught in
spiritual or magical traditions respected by the user. And alternatively,
for those who love the books, spells taken from Tolkiens's Lord of the Rings
or from the J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books might work as well or
better than those taken from religious tracts or grimoires, as these words
have a powerful emotional appeal. Finally, "secret", or little known,
"magical words" can have an added power for the individual who uses them.
Second, the impersonal, archetypal, level. Some words may have an intrinsic
power, that does not come from the user as such, but that the user only taps
into. Magical words or phrases that resonate/effect the release of
archetypal energies, or of energies stored in the collective unconscious.
Two possible examples. First, mantras/godnames known and chanted with
purposeful intent by generations of monks, nuns, yogis, and other mystics.
Second, the Harry Potter spells - known and uncritically believed in by
millions of children.
This quarter's LDE challenge seems a kind of dream experiment, to look at
the effects of Harry Potter spells when tried by different lucid dreamers
from different backgrounds. Will the spells used in dreams generate effects
with the kind of commonalties one might expect in a consensual reality, or
will spells generate strictly subjective and different effects dependent on
the idiosyncrasies of the individual who uses them? Does it matter if the
person has read the Harry Potter books or if they haven't? Help us find out!
An example:
Early in July of 2005, I unintentionally stepped on a cat and it bit me.
Despite the usual treatment, after a day the bite began to look infected, so
when I came across the "Scourgify!" spell (used for cleaning up messes) when
rereading The Order of the Phoenix (in preparation for the next book in the
series coming out a week later), I decided to incubate a lucid dream that
night, to see what effect the spell might have when directed at the wound.
The relevant excerpt of my lucid dream account follows:
EWK 7/14/05 "In a corridor, I become fully lucid and remember my task. I
take off my left sock, and point my right hand, using my index and middle
fingers, at the bite and emphatically say "SCOURGIFY!" A yellow-mustard
colored mist comes out of my extended fingers, spraying the bite and
surrounding area with a clear yellowish liquid. It thoroughly covers my
ankle and foot, but does not stop spraying. . . . Finally, I say "CANCEL!"
out loud while looking at my fingers and the spraying stops. I see a drop or
two of yellow liquid on my fingertips. (the dream continues) . . ."
Next morning the wound looked much better - two thirds of the redness
surrounding the bite area had disappeared. "Scourgify" not only had an
effect in my dream, but perhaps in waking physical reality as well.
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Several Sorts of Psi in
Fearless Feline Dreams
(c) 2005 Linda Lane Magallon
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A psychic dream presented for the public is often a clear example of a
single kind of psi. Because of this practice, we might assume that
clairvoyance, telepathy, empathy, precognition and mutual dreams are
distinct and separate sorts of phenomena. Especially when we dream with
other people, however, our dreams can provide information using more than
one type of psi. It's also common to conclude that each example of these
discrete types of dreampsi will refer to only one event. Nevertheless, it's
not unusual for one dream to connect with several incidents, both waking and
sleeping. Here's an example.
On a night in late December, Keelin had a couple of dreams. One of them
featured square-shaped earrings, a pin and a playful kitten.
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On the bedside table I find some earrings along with matching rectangular
pins. As I examine them, sitting on the floor next to the bed, I spot a
straight pin sticking in the carpet (not there in waking reality) which I
place on the table. I select a pretty pair of earrings and hold them in my
hand to look at them more closely. They are made from a dark bluish gem or
stone with a goldish trim. This shape is small and square. Now, I'm
sitting/kneeling beside the bed watching as (my partner) Rich nuzzles with a
little kitten on my side of the bed. He is completely fearless of being
scratched by playful claws - a very sweet and loving exchange.
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Next evening, Rich's mother gave Keelin a gift of blue earrings that were
strikingly similar to the ones in her dream. Although the actual gemstones
were round, each was mounted on a small square of metal.
The dream had done an excellent job providing Keelin with a bit of
precognitive information, soon to appear in her waking life. However, there
was much more to the dream than the earrings event. Where had the pin in the
carpet and the kitten come from? The answer is found in the fact that this
particular Saturday night was a mutual dreaming night for Keelin. She had
suggested to herself that she be receptive to co-dreamers, and her intention
was rewarded.
Prior to her earring dream, Keelin had another dream in which she found
herself in Mexico. This first dream was a prelude that contained a "tracer
element." A tracer element is a recurring symbol that flags psychic
connection. In this case, it pointed to a particular person, who happened to
be me. My interest is sparked when a dreaming partner has a dream with a
Mexican theme. Almost invariably, that night's dreaming will have something
to do with my dreaming or waking life. Or both.
It's not surprising that dreamers would select a symbol that is a direct
import from physical reality. I'm married to a Mexican-American spouse and
our home is decorated with artifacts from our travels to Mexico. The tracer
element itself is not dreampsi for Keelin. Mexico is an association she
already knew applied to me. For myself, it flagged the probability that
psychic information would be forthcoming. In addition, this known attribute
was also a piece of mutual psi. The tracer element appeared twice when, that
very night, Keelin's Mexican theme wandered into my dream.
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I wake up in one of two simple, flat beds in a room that has a door with
window panes. It opens to the South. From that direction, a tiger strolls
into the room. At first glance, I'm surprised and curious. When I realize
she's a fully grown beast, I'm alarmed. But she keeps her head down while
sniffing the ground and shows no aversion to me being in the same room. As I
calm down, I decide that she must be a pet that wandered "across the line"
from Mexicali into the United States. I surmise that people must be
permitted to keep animals in their homes in Mexico.
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Besides the tracer element, the most sticking parallel in our mutual dreams
was the presence of a cat in our respective bedrooms. Another was more
subtle: being fearless or overcoming fear of that feline. As is my habit
toward the end of each December, I had pulled a card from a Tarot deck to
represent the energy of the upcoming year. This time, the selection was
"Strength." The Rider-Waite version of the card features a woman with her
arms wrapped around a lion's mouth. It's very clear that, although the cat
is large and fully grown, she has no fear of feline.
But that wasn't all. The card was very synchronous of an actual physical
event that occurred the evening prior to our mutual dreams. While kneeling
on the carpeted floor of the family room, I held a handful of colored
push-pins. I was picking them out of my palm to attach slips of paper to my
cork bulletin board. Every so often, I sat down to pet the family's two
cats. Our grey and black tiger-striped kitten, Spooky, was acting
particularly playful that night. When I dropped a blue push-pin, she grabbed
it in her mouth. Concerned that she might swallow it or otherwise hurt
herself, I gently retrieved the pin.
Perhaps inspired by my associations with the Tarot card, I had a dream that
was a metaphoric translation of this feline incident. Keelin's corresponding
cat dream was much more literal. In addition, her dreaming mind wove my
postcognitive blue pin-dropping together with her precognitive gift of blue
gemstones. There was more than a little fearless telepathic connection that
December night!
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Dream: Subcategorization
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 6 nov 2005 09:19
DREAM : subcategorization
=( yesterday was saturday, a rather uneventful day. julius came over to help
replace the ribbon cable on mother's television antenna which had broken
last week. it did not take long. the evening we just watched blockbuster
movies, but nothing first run was available so i just got some b-movies that
were not very good. got to bed around midnight but it took quite a while for
me to get to sleep. i often read or work late in such situations, but i did
not feel like it. it was probably too warm for the window fan, but
eventually i managed to drift off after 04:00. )=
it is early evening and the students are arriving for my night course in
language theory. there are not many students in the class, maybe five or six
and i do not enjoy teaching small groups like this but i still have to do
the curriculum preparation. i am going over my notes from previous lectures,
taking the examples we used and placing the words into categories of noun,
verb or adjective. i note that the lexicon is particularly odd since many of
the examples were selected for odd syntactic features or ungrammaticality.
perhaps i should exercise a little motherese and simplify the language so
this lesson will be easier to learn.
when the clock on the wall says it is time to start and the last student has
come in, i begin my lecture. "tonight we are going to study the issues in
first language learning. oddly enough, the principles here are not much at
all like bilingual or second language learning. in those cases, you already
have the basic structure of one language mastered and translation into the
new language plays a major role. first language acquisition is a unique
discovery process in which structure is learned for the first time."
i explain the process of taking examples from the rest of the course and
using them to create a simple phrase structure grammar with simple
generative rules. i write some of the example sentences on the board and
show how the words are parsed into the three categories of substantive words
with a few left over like the determiners and copular words. these we place
into an undecided category of possible counterexamples. there are about
eight or nine nouns, fewer verbs and still fewer adjectives from about two
dozen sentences. there are more counterexample words than i would like for
this exercise.
it takes some time to go over each example sentence and to explain the
simple process of how the words are parsed into various categories. just
before we get to the break, one of the students, a pretty graduate student
who always sits in the front row, raises her hand. "i understand that we are
born with grammatical structure already wired into our brains from genetics
and the process of language acquisition is just eliminating possible
structures from the one you are born into."
very good, i think. she has leaped into the heart of what comes next in the
lesson.
before i can answer, another student speaks up. "oh, that has been
disproven. we all start tabula raza." this is tom baker, the actor who
played the fourth doctor on doctor who. he does not have the curly wig but
his natural wavy hair which is always a let down to see.
before i can respond again, the rest of the students get up to leave for
their break. i catch tom baker before he gets out into the hallway. "you
know, noam chomsky and his followers do say that universal grammar is
inherent in language acquisition." i realize that tom is an advanced
graduate student in the linguistics department and i wonder how he could
come to believe this tabula raza hypothesis.
"stuff and nonsense." he replies. "there are no real chomskyites left
anymore." this is news to me, but i have been out of that field for a long
time. still, universal grammar is a major theory in more linguistics than
the generative grammars and clean slate is one of the most difficult
theories to justify with data.
after the break when the students return, i start with an explanation of
what we can do with new structural data that comes in. i point out that our
current phrase structure generates some sentences with two elements and
others with three. now we notice that some verbs only show up in the two
element sentences, and a different set of verbs come in the sentences with
three components.
"this is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs"
the pretty graduate student says, again anticipating the point. i find that
i like her which is hardly a surprise.
"yes, good. but how to we formally handle that? do we just put a mark on
some of the verbs that they show a different behavior, or do we break the
verb category into two new ones, transitive and intransitive?"
"subcategorization." she smiles back at me. it is easy to teach when you
have a really responsive student who correctly anticipates what comes next
in lecture. i wonder why i am bothering to teach at all except all the
others may not be so well prepared.
"piff and piddle." says tom baker. he has come up to the white board and has
drawn a phrase structure diagram on it. it is a left regular structure with
four branches. at the terminal leaf of each branch he has written a phrase,
each begins with a phonetic symbol which he pronounces as 'tuh' so the
diagram he reads as "tuh women", "tuh dogs", "tuh swim", and "tuh lake".
i think his point has to do with determining the subject or object status of
'tuh women' or 'tuh dogs' but i can not see how 'tuh' can mark both noun and
verb phrases. english is a right linear grammar, not leftward like this, so
i do not see how our intuitions about the language examples can be applied
here. also, we have not allowed for recursion in our phrase structure rules,
so four element sentences are ruled out. they would be parsed as two run-on
intransitives, not nested structure as this diagram.
the teacher from the next class sticks his head in the door. "could you
leave the foot shelves tucked in front of your seats when you leave?" on the
front legs of each student desk there is flat, beveled plate that is hinged
and pivots into different positions, probably as a foot rest. i did not know
there was a courteous position to leave them for the next group of students
to use the room.
=( awake at 08:37. i have started last week into the first video tapes of
tom baker's doctor in my conversion process of my doctor who collection from
vhs to dvdr. for two and half years i have been doing this task and this is
the last stretch of 30 or 40 videos before it is finished. i would expect
the doctor, especially his, to be an unruly student in any class. i have
only gotten to teach language acquisition once at the westfield community
college in massachusetts, to a group of bilingual spanish speaking teachers
for a special project of the springfield city school system. my doctoral
studies were in generative grammars and child language, but this was the
only time i got to use it direct many years ago. i suppose there may a
cosmic dilemma symbolized here, the clash between good and evil on some
level, but the experiences of responding evenly to the good student and the
disruptive one is always a part of the professional skills of teaching. i do
it enough in class that it must be natural to dream about it. i wonder if
the sex roles of good and bad students are reversed for female teachers? in
waking life, the genders of responsive students are usually randomly mixed.
)=
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
What Dreams May Come
December 2005
Olivia Strand
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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
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Olivia Strand
Conversation on the Bridge seems to have turned more inward in the past few
weeks, placing our dreaming, individually and as a group, more in focus
again. Although some of the people in the Bridge group have been as busy as
ever!
Jean Campbell is, among other things, organising a Peace Film Festival in
southern Virginia, along with Bridge members David Gordon and Valley Reed.
This festival seemed to grow from the screening of ‘a peace film’ to filling
a three-week programme of films, talks and other events, all but in the
blink of an eye! Next month’s View will have a re-View of the festival; in
the meantime, if you, or anybody you know, live near Norfolk, VA, and would
like more information – please email Jean at
jccampb@... for a
programme.
And Jody tells us from Ohio that she has been too busy to even tell us much
of what she has been up to! But you may recall from last month’s View that
Jody had been interviewed for a CNN programme, “Voices from the Homefront”,
together with veteran Paul Hackett who will be running for the US Senate in
2006. No doubt we will hear more about this, too, next month!
A Soul Family of Dreamers
One of the past month’s highlights came in the form of the return of Rita,
who together with her partner Bob used to be active members in the early
days of the Bridge discussion and dream group. This time Rita has joined us
on her own as Bob sadly passed away earlier this year.
The conversation that followed made me personally reflect on how I have
begun to feel that even while I have met only two people from the Bridge in
person, this group of dreamers have become something of a soul family to me.
On the Bridge I can share thoughts and dream experiences and know that they
will be received with both kindness and understanding, and with interest!
And I have found it strangely grounding to have such a wonderful group of
dreamers to turn to, and share with. And yes, I said grounding and I meant
it. Because our collective wisdom seems practical as well as compassionate
and, above all, grounded in personal experience. In the context of loss and
of belonging, Jody put it very well:
“Doesn't it seem that this IS the Bridge: the improbable but very real
creation of a space that spans our life and death, alone and belonging,
conflict and harmony, despair and hope experiences?”
“We Create A New God”
Because of a shift in when we ‘go to press’ with the View, we have a
‘shorter’ month this month, that doesn’t feature a DaFuMu dreaming. Not that
this stopped us from dreaming, and sharing many of those dreams.
Ilkin, a powerful, and often lucid, dreamer from Turkey, shared a number of
dreams with us, and in response to an observation that her dreams seemed to
have the finding of solutions and a sense of being in control as a common
theme, she commented:
“I thought you want any dreams related or not with peace work and the
Bridge. I don't think these dreams are related with both directly. But they
may have relation with some of my interest areas including peace etc.
“In fact my dreams about disastrous events begin to repeat again but this
time accompanying by some powers I may have. It may or not be related to the
topics we discuss here but I am very much concerned about the climate
change, world changes, ecology etc too and want to direct some of my energy
to these areas. I feel that I must interested with the future of nature and
changes in front of us, as much as I am interested with politic, social,
economic etc issues where we stand as humanity. These may be reflecting in
my dreams though the ones I sent you were not very special.”
Ilkin says something that I find very interesting here, when she speaks of
the return of her disaster dreams, many of which have seemed precognitive in
the past, but how they this time allow her to draw on her powers, in the
dream. To me, this suggests that as we become more aware of our dreams, not
only after we had them, but also while we are still dreaming, inside the
dream, we begin to learn to change things in the dream. And by extension,
learning to change our dream realities may allow us to change our waking
reality world, too. If you are familiar with the World Dreams Peace Bridge
then you have probably also heard our mission statement: “There can never be
too many people dreaming of peace.”
Jean too submitted a dream that evoked the imagination of many in the group,
judging by the response. She called her dream “We Create A New God” and I
have included it here:
“In the dream we (and I mean us folks of the Bridge) are standing in front
of a group of gods. We have just created a new god. But this new god looks
curiously like Ernie from Sesame Street...same flat face, same somewhat
awkward, floppy character.
“I am both observer and participant in this dream, so I can see and hear
from above the crowd our dismay as we look at this new god of ours. Someone,
maybe me, says: "Awwwwww, now we'll have to live with him forever!" EOD
“There is a playful quality about this dream, an irony. While I was walking
this morning, I reentered the dream, and let myself be the god Ernie. What
he said was that, even though he represented television and the impact of
technology on the people of this planet, he was also an extremely lovable
god. He said the reason kids love Ernie is because he can make mistakes, and
knows how to laugh at himself.”
It turned out that as well as having enjoyed Sesame Street with their own
children, members of the group had experiences of Ernie to share, ranging
from working with children in therapy, to dreams of their own about him. In
response to a question about the “group of gods”, Jean commented:
“In my dream, at least, the other gods were more like the traditional image
of ghosts...pale, silvery, almost see through. And a little shocked to see
such a new and colorful god as Ernie.”
I, myself, wondered about the "Ghostlike gods... hmmm... What does it mean
if our archetypal gods have grown wan, silvery and pale?" to which Anna
responded:
”There is a lot of lore from many traditions that says the god/desses create
us and we create them in never ending circle...the native American animal
spirits who ask to be danced into material experience; the orishas who
inhabit human riders' in voudou ceremony; all the way to the immanent
spirits in our earth, who it is clear, we have not tended and they fade…
“So much wisdom which tells us that it is our human calling, between heaven
and earth, to heed the spirits, to admire them and invite them, to ASK for
their help which they so willingly hold for us but must wait to be asked.
“To wilfully dream is a part of this, I think.”
Perhaps it does not seem too much a leap of the imagination, to see Ilkin’s
concerns about the changes in the world and the climate that affect the
Earth’s delicate eco systems reflected in Jean’s dream of the god Ernie, and
the fading gods of old?
DaFuMu dreaming in November and December
Join us in our Dreams of Great Fortune – DaFuMu – on the 15th each month!
The November DaFuMu will continue the theme of awakening to the world, and
with the addition of dreaming for the youth of the world – a request that
arose as France has seen almost two weeks of urban rioting. We hope to have
an update on this in the next View.
The December DaFuMu is open to anyone who care to join us – please visit our
website for more information on DaFuMu-dreaming, and on how to submit
dreams.
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
And we shall see, what dreams may come.
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Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?
by Peter Farley
www.cosmologies.com/treeoflife
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Man will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their
own souls.
--- Carl Jung
How do waking dreams differ from the dreams we have at night? This is
another of the most commonly asked question about waking dreams. This time
there is a simple answer: There is no real difference. In fact, there is
only a hair’s breadth difference between the awakened state we call living,
and that which we experience at night and call the dreamstate.
Waking dreams and night dreams can merely be thought of as two different
settings of the same program. And, just as we might access the same program
on our computers through two different methods, so to do we access the
different kinds of dreaming. The night dreams require our physical eyes to
be closed and our conscious mind shut off from the outside world. The waking
dreams require that our physical eyes be open and our conscious mind alert
to the things going on around us.
Very few people understand the true nature of dreams and the importance
dreaming has to our life and the state of balance we need to try and
maintain. Dreams are arguably the most important part of our lives because
they are a direct method by which we can realize our existence as divine
spiritual beings. And, once again, it is we ourselves who are best equipped
to interpret our own dreams, and then gauge their subsequent importance.
Most everybody dreams at night, but not everybody remembers their dreams.
Just as with waking dreams, learning to remember our dreams is a skill which
comes with practice and attention. When we consciously set out to remember
our dreams, it is amazing how quickly we can learn the ways to do it which
best suit our own individual needs. As we come to see how important
understanding our dreams can be to our daily lives, they will also become a
nightly gift we simply cannot wait to unwrap come morning.
Keeping a dream journal in which to record our dreams and their
interpretations is the most important thing we can do to help ourselves
receive the wisdom and guidance being offered. Not only can this dream
journal be used to record our dreams, it can also be very helpful to use as
a daily diary in which to release the worries and frustrations of the day by
writing them down before we go to sleep.
The one area in which night dreams may vary slightly from waking dreams is
that our night dreams are normally exaggerated in size, shape, and the kind
of problems they project. The pictures or symbols the unconscious and
superconscious minds present to us in night dreams are exaggerated
specifically to help get them past the censor and on to the conscious mind.
Much like their waking dream counterparts, night dreams will often come in a
series, and not so much as the individual, stand-alone kind of dream. Even
though the characters and events in one dream may vary totally from the
dream that precedes or follows it, the connection between the various dreams
will usually come out during their interpretation. Sometimes a series of
dreams will continue over the course of more than one night, so we must be
sure to review the previous day’s dreams in order to get the bigger picture.
The earlier example of the baby that was first miscarried and then born
again in a new and larger form, is just one example of dreams coming in a
series.
Just as waking dreams have a variety of messages and ways in which they can
be conveyed, so to do night dreams come in different types based on their
intent or on their purpose. In broad categories, these types are:
1. “Physical’ dreams: These are dreams where a physical need or intrusion
from the outer world such as an alarm clock, sets up similar conditions in
our dreams to mirror the outer conditions. A person who goes to bed thirsty
will often dream of satisfying that thirst during their dreams. An alarm
clock ringing in the bedroom may translate into a telephone or some other
kind of bell, ringing in the person’s dream. A physical urge to go to the
bathroom will manifest itself in exactly the same way in the dreamstate.
2. Prophetic dreams: These are the most common form of dream to be found in
many of the world’s influential sacred texts. Prophetic dreams may relate to
situations as they appear in a person’s life at the present, or they may be
an actual vision of some future time or event. In this case, the prophetic
dream will often form the basis for a later deja vu experience in life. (See
chapter 11).
People will often have dreams about great cataclysms or changes happening on
the planet Earth. Occasionally these will turn out to be actual predictions
of what is really to happen in the future. Although this is a difficult
responsibility for the person who has such dreams, it is helpful for those
people to remember that each and every one of us is led to be in the exact
place in which we find ourselves if we are listening to our inner guidance.
The more each one of us learns to listen to and rely on this guidance, the
more we can be sure that we are never in a place where we are not supposed
to be.
Often prophetic dreams will fall into the category of a past-life dream
where the person is actually remembering an earth change that has already
taken place upon the planet at some earlier time in history. This event has
then become incorporated into what is called cell or cellular memory, the
greater part of what constitutes the strands of our DNA. The person
experiencing such a phenomenon has simply tapped into his or her cell memory
during the unconscious state we call dreaming and is then experiencing, for
all intense purposes, what we like to call a past-life dream.
What many people fail to realize with regard to prophetic dreams is the
symbolic nature of their dreams. Since most dreams relate to a person’s own
life or state of being, the major upheavals people see and think to be
prophesying changes on the Earth, should actually have been translated as
being major upheavals that are about to occur in their own lives and not
necessarily on such a grandiose level. Remember the exaggeration aspect of
night dreams which is used to slip them past the censor. Although these
upcoming events may seem “earth-shattering” to the person involved, the
dream has had just that kind of intention. By portraying an event as
“cataclysmic,” a person will be much more likely to stand up and take notice
of its possible implications in their life.
Not all of us can be, or would want to be, seers for the rest of the people
on the planet. We can, however, be seers for our own lives if we consciously
allow it to happen. Since our inner guidance works with all the potential
causes and effects in a person’s life, it does not necessarily read the
future as such because we are constantly in the process of creating and
changing that future. This is especially true when we choose to make
decisions which break the traditional mould or pattern of our past thoughts
and actions. Our inner guidance is simply working on the situations we have
already set in motion through the decisions we have already made.
3. Past-Life Dreams: Past lives dreams do happen, to some people more
frequently than others. Whether we attribute them to having lived a prior
existence, or to some kind of genetic or cellular archetypal memory, doesn’t
really matter. There is a lesson to be learned from the dream and it usually
relates to something which is currently going on in our lives. In being
given a past-life dream we are being asked to look at a cause to which we
are currently living the effect, or to a pattern of behavior which is still
holding us back in this lifetime as it has done in another. All we need to
do to deal with these dreams is to realize their connection and the problem
that is at the core of our behavior. Once we have recognized the problem we
can deal with it, or simply move beyond it.
Human traits such as an uncontrollable temper or frustration are often
products of the unconscious mind which started somewhere back in a past
lifetime. They tend to surface again in our dreams as reminders of the
trouble they have caused us in the past, while also asking us to take a
closer look at the negative effect they may be having in our lives
currently. While being a fictionalized account of just such an emotional
trait passed on from one lifetime to another, Jack London’s novella, The
Star Rover, has much to offer on this subject for anyone who takes the time
to read it.
Past life dreams are easy to tell because they have a real movie-like
quality to them, usually as if we are acting in the movie rather than simply
watching it. The action is often straightforward, with very few if any
symbols that seem to stand out above any others. These kinds of dreams are
also the easiest to remember since they seem to stay with us longer whether
we normally remember our dreams or not.
4. Dreams of Intrusion: These are dreams where another person or being is
trying to influence or control us while we are asleep. This can be anyone we
have had in our lives who may, even subconsciously, wish to do us harm.
These dreams are characterized by a person who we normally think of as being
trustworthy in everyday life, appearing in our dream doing something which
is very uncharacteristic of them. It is helpful to learn to recognize this
kind of dream, and then to practice visualizing a blue or white light
surrounding ourselves through which nothing wishing to harm us can
penetrate. We must also try and be aware of when there is a potential
hostility we might carry for someone which will then cause us to intrude on
their dreams as well.
5. Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming is a technique by which we can eventually
learn to wake up in our dreams to realize we are dreaming. By being able to
do this, we can then control the direction in which the dream flows, or
change any parts of the dream we feel we do not like. This is sometimes
easier to do when we return to the same dream after having awakened sometime
during the night. By using our conscious will, we can return to the dream
and change the direction in which it was heading, or re-run the part of it
we did not like, but this time make it come out the way we want it.
This technique comes in very handy when we are experiencing one of the many
types of phobia which often haunt our dreams. By understanding the source of
the fear and subsequently facing it, we can then free ourselves from the
often debilitating effects these phobias can have on the moment-to-moment
living of our life.
Many inventors and artistic people have used this technique to bring back
ideas and works of artistic form from the higher planes of existence.
6. Problem-solving Dreams: Have you ever heard someone use the expression,
“Let me sleep on it?” The problem-solving dream does just that. If we take a
problem we cannot find a solution to with us into our dreamstate, it is more
than likely that we will awaken in the morning with the answer virtually
exploding from our conscious minds into the world around us. Our inner
guidance works for us and is always honest in what it says. When it is given
an important decision to make or faced with a difficult problem, it will
always reveal the best possible solution given the circumstances and
conditions under which it operates.
The exercise involved with this technique is as follows: Write down on a
piece of paper a goal you are trying to achieve or a problem you are trying
to solve. Then put it beside your bed where you will be sure to see it first
thing in the morning. Secondly, write down what it is that is the greatest
obstacle or opponent to achieving your goal or finding a solution to the
problem. Ask for help from your source of inner guidance or from the Dream
Master before you go to sleep. Then be sure to consciously try to retain
whatever it is that comes through to you as an answer in the morning. Write
it down! There should be an answer there somewhere.
7. Burning-off karma or payment-due dreams: Often it is easier to work out
in the dreamstate any of the more difficult lessons we have given ourselves
or been given to learn in this lifetime. Again, this is especially true for
those kind of experiences which would create considerable havoc if they
occurred in our ordinary physical lives. Car accidents or other situations
of extreme physical danger would often be too traumatic for us to experience
during our waking state. If we do not necessarily need these experiences to
happen in our external physical life, our inner guidance can often arrange
for us to have these experiences in our dreams. This will still allow us to
get the “experience” and the learning that would come from it, without
putting our lives or balance in jeopardy.
8. Dreams of release from fear: “To sleep, perchance to dream. Aye, there be
the rub.” Shakespeare was obviously talking about the possibility of having
Hamlet face a nightmare when he gave him those immortal words to speak. But
dreams do not have to be a source of fear. On the contrary, they can be one
the best methods of dealing with our fears.
To protect ourselves from the punishment and shame associated with the
repressed desires of the unconscious, we have established the censor as a
guard to stand over it so that none of these desires can escape into our
outer world. When something is repressed in the unconscious, however, it
will often come forward as a dream. Even though the memory of the dream
might disappear in the morning, the psychic energy of the dream will
sometimes remain with us, causing us to feel fear or to have a bad attitude,
without really knowing why. The pressure built up within us by these
lingering fears, and the guilt attached to them, can often be relieved by
correctly interpreting the dream’s symbols before the dream becomes too much
of a psychic danger to our physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual
balance.
Often understanding the source of these fears will help to eliminate them.
If we can practice lucid dreaming as was described above, we can also
recognize the fear which may haunt us in our dream and instead of running
from it, we can turn and face it. By doing this we will find that it is
simply a fear we have created in the darkest recesses of our own mind. This
single act can break the fear’s hold over us and bring a freedom and peace
of mind to us that we might not have previously known.
Often our fears or phobias will stem from a “past life” trauma which, when
re-experienced in the dream state, gives us an understanding of the source
of that fear, and also helps diminish or totally erase that fear’s hold upon
us.
9. Dreams with the Dream Master: The one aspect of our inner guidance which
can be of most help in our dreams is the Dream Master. During some dreams, a
being will appear who we can tell cares deeply about us and our struggles to
learn the often difficult lessons of our life. This being will radiate
perfect love, and he is there to help us. Occasionally we can find ourselves
taking trips to strange lands, meeting various teachers, attending classes
in various temples of higher learning, or having all kinds of adventures in
our dreamstate while accompanied by this wonderful being. In whatever form
this being appears, it is the feeling of perfect love that will tip our hand
to the fact that we are indeed working with our own Dream Master.
Once again, the Dream Master is an aspect of our guidance which has only our
highest good at heart. If, before going to sleep, we ask for his help and
guidance with any particular problems , anxieties, or fears with which we
are struggling to cope, then we are likely to find the fears relieved, the
problems resolved, or the solutions well at hand upon awakening in the
morning.
10. The tag dream or “zinger”: This last kind of dream is not really a
dream. Instead, it is an urgent-telegram service which attaches its message
to the end of a dream in order to slip it by the censor without having to
disguise it. Most often these zingers will come in the form of words we hear
just upon awakening, just at that time when the censor is “changing guard”
from night duty to the daytime shift. If we can catch the gist of these
zingers and retain them, we will find their words contain some of the most
important messages we can receive from our inner guidance.
Sometimes these zingers will take the form of words or lines from a song,
sometimes a song which we have not heard in years. If we can trust enough to
take the message in the words as a personal message for us, then their
significance will easily be revealed.
Tricks to help remember our dreams
1. Before going to sleep, clear the head of the day’s events. If
necessary, record them in your dream journal. Problems and frustrations of
the day will often be ‘worked on’ during our dream state, and therefore will
tend to take up the bulk of our dream time if we do not clear them from our
heads before going to sleep.
2. Remember to write in the journal why it is you want to remember your
dreams. This serves as a positive reinforcement to the mind as to the
benefits which can be gained from remembering your dreams. The more we
clarify our desire to remember, the more our inner self will find a way to
bring that request to fruition.
3. Write in the journal the questions that are currently in the forefront
of your mind, or problems which still remain unresolved. This will help
clarify the issues that most need to be dealt with. It will also give you a
source of reference with which to begin relating the dream symbology to the
particular problem it addresses.
4. Keep a small tape recorder, or a light, a pen, and a journal, ready
and within easy reach. Date the journal, or include the date of the
recording on the tape before going to sleep.
5. As you go to sleep, give yourself the intention of recording or
writing down your dreams throughout the night and/or the next morning. This
is the same “set to recall” faculty that many of us have already experienced
which awakens us five minutes before the alarm is set to go off. This brings
up perhaps the most common blockage to the remembering of our dreams—the
alarm clock. The most conducive atmosphere for remembering dreams is to wake
up slowly out of our sleep so that we can remain for a period of time with
one foot in the dream state, and one foot in the conscious or awakened
state. This forms a bridge, as it were, between the two states of existence.
Being jerked out of sleep by a noisy alarm is the worst thing we can do in
trying to remember our dreams. The best way to deal with this is to
preprogram ourselves to wake up five minutes before the alarm goes off. This
will give us time to recall sufficient details from our dream that can then
be useful in triggering other details we may not yet have remembered.
Another way to allow ourselves ten more minutes to go in and recapture the
basic details of the dream which can then be used to recall the rest later,
is to use the snooze button.
6. Don’t say “I want to remember my dreams,” say “I am going to remember
my dreams and write them down in specific detail.” Set an appointment with
the inner self to remember your dreams. Set an affirmation; make an
agreement. We may need to write it out or say it over and over again to
ourselves to make it work more effectively.
7. Don’t get up, don’t exercise, and don’t think about other things until
you have successfully captured your dreams before they begin to fade. If for
some reason your supplies are not close at hand to record the dreams, it
will help if you can remember one or two important details which can be used
to trigger the rest of the dream later. If some details of the dream can be
brought into the conscious mind during the night, then the rest of the
important aspects of the dream can also usually be brought forward.
8. Doing a contemplation or meditation upon arising will often bring back
a remembrance of your dreams, or other details from the dreams which you
might otherwise have overlooked. Using the “remember backwards” technique
often brings out more details. If we can remember the last thing that
happened in the dream, or the last thing we saw before we woke up, we will
usually be able to trace backwards and find out what it was that happened up
until that point.
9. Record or write down whatever comes through. Anything, whether it be a
dream or not. You can worry about finding out its significance later, but
only if you can remember it because you’ve somehow captured it physically on
paper or on a tape.
10. Write down the first thing that comes into your mind upon awakening.
This will bring together the dreaming and the waking state, and also it will
help to support the remembering of dreams later in the morning. Sometimes it
will be the words or title of a song which contain within them a message
from our inner guidance.
11. Write down all the fragments of the dream that can be remembered (the
people you see, sounds, lights, spoken words, colors, feelings, song lyrics
etc.). Any aspect of the dream may be important to its meaning, especially
if it stands out in our memory for one reason or another. If it helps to
make a small drawing of some aspect of the dream, this will help you
visualize the circumstances later, and also might make the dream easier to
find in your journal when needing to refer back to it.
12. Try to capture in a few words the main mood or feeling of the dream?
This may help relate the dream to a certain situation in your life.
13. Give the dream a title or a word which describes the main symbol or
symbols of the dream. This may be an instance of Golden-Tongued Wisdom that
can provide some clue to its interpretation (see chapter 11).
14. If an explanation for the dream or for a symbol comes during the
writing process, jot it down. Leave enough space under the transcription of
the dream to write down its interpretation.
15. Write down all the dreams that can be remembered. Be honest,
straightforward and sincere.
15.Even if our actions in the dreams do not seem to be what we would call
“nice,” no one else is going to read the journal, and the actions most often
do not mean that we would or could do these things in our normal daily life.
It is, however, important to release them through the vehicle of our dream
journaling. If something hurts, writing it down will help make it resolve
more quickly.
Common Tricks of the Mind
1. One of the more frequent pitfalls in doing dreamwork is the belief
that the dream is not important, or that we will write the dream down later
upon awakening. When this happens the dream is more often forgotten than
remembered.
2. It is often easier to think that we are too tired and need our sleep.
This is like paying to go to college, and then sleeping through the lectures
which are only there to help us.
3. Thinking we have to go over the dream in our mind before it can be
written down usually leads to us drifting back to sleep with the dream
unrecorded, and usually unremembered. If it is down on tape or in our
journal, then we can go over the dream at our own leisure.
4. We interpret the dream while asleep or during some short time in which
we wake up during the night. We think that we will remember it so we don’t
have to write it down, but usually it is forgotten upon awakening.
5. Sometimes we think that we have already recorded the dream, only to
find in the morning that we haven’t. We may often see ourselves in the dream
writing it down or recording it, especially after we’ve been doing this for
a long time. We need to make sure we have recorded our dreams, even if it
means recording them again. This may be a blessing in disguise if it leads
to us getting more of the details of the dream recorded.
6. It is not uncommon for us to mistake our finger for a pen. When we
have one foot in the inner worlds and one foot in the outer world, things
like this can happen.
7. If blocks occur in remembering our dreams, we need to ask ourselves,
“What are some of the blocks I might have to vividly remember in my dreams?”
One of the most common is an attitude of ‘I don’t remember my dreams. So why
bother trying?’ The best thing to do in this case is to restate this
picture, that is, change the viewpoint from which we look at the blockage.
Then we need to adopt a positive attitude that we can do whatever it is was
that we felt was blocking us.
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"Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?" by Peter Farley was excerpted from Waking
Dreams and the Waking Dream Cards: Finding Answers to Life's Questions, a
work on dreams and waking dreams co-authored with Sharon King, a former
counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA.
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Here’s another interesting dreams section with zombies in a mausoleum, black
snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts.
Dream title: Where Art Thou Teeth?
Dream date: 11/17/05
Dreamer name: Underkill
Dream: I was sitting in this hotel room, it was a nice hotel. I was there
with my boyfriend. We were watching T.V. We were talking and everything
seemed fine. Then my teeth started to feel loose. I knew I'd been having
dreams where my teeth would fall out one by one. So I quickly ran to the
bathroom before my boyfriend could see. I started to pull at my teeth when
all of a sudden they all came out like dentures. Under the false teeth were
these little withered teeth. They started high up in my gums and were
crooked. At the bottom of my gums they were very short and were like little
baby teeth. I put the false teeth back in and ran out the door. When I ran
out the door I was in my kitchen. My parents were both sitting around the
table. I came in horrified. My mom asked “my, what was the matter.” I
started to pull out the denture-type teeth. I screamed “why you didn’t tell
me about this!” She said “Oh my God why didn't you say anything about this?”
I was scared out of my mind. I immediately woke up and felt my teeth. They
were still intact.
Dream comments: It always feels so real at the time. I just want to know why
my teeth are falling out. I wake up and I'm so upset. It's so ugly. I feel
like my teeth are really going to fall out.
Dream title: Black Snakes
Dream date: 11/16/2005
Dreamer name: JF
Dream: I was lying in bed on my back naked, I was surrounded by thousands of
very fat black snakes about 18 to 24 inches long, suddenly a very large one
appeared in front of my face, I remember using both of my hands to grip it
because it was so huge even then I was unable to get my hands all the way
around its body, it was working its way through my hands trying to get in my
mouth. At the same moment I could see two more snakes one moving down my
stomach and one coming up from underneath me both of these snakes were going
between my legs where they met head to head and started forcing themselves
inside of my body, by this time the snake that I was holding in front of me
was working its way slowly toward my mouth, as it slid through my hands I
could feel my mouth being stretched wide open as it was working its way in I
could feel it going all the way down my throat, I could also see and feel
the other two snakes wiggling between my legs as the forced themselves
inside of me, I remember seeing the tail vanish as I swallowed the snake in
my mouth and seeing the tails of the other two coiling back and forth before
as the slid inside me. My dream continued that way, I had snakes entering my
mouth one by one and entering between my legs two by two. The snakes were
expressionless their mouths never opened nor did they ever try to bite me,
In my dream I was trying very hard to count and remember each one of them
also each snake had numbers on their skin most of the snakes had two
separate numbers one number toward the head of it and one number further
down toward the tail there were a few dozen snakes with just numbers toward
there head only. The majority of the snakes had two simple sets of numbers
like 23 /18 or 7/ 4 83/106 29 /25 183/180 marked in the two different
locations as described, however there were a few dozen with larger numbers
like 1,432/1,398, 1,107/1,024, 673/589 and again one number was close to the
head the other close to the tail and there was about a hundred or so snakes
with only one number toward the head and this number was always a small
number either 1 or 2 nothing larger and those particular snakes always
entered in my mouth.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Dangerous Water Slide
Dream date: 15/11/2005
Dreamer name: Maka
Dream: My boyfriend and I are sliding down a natural springs waterslide, the
water is clean and clear, beautiful tropical scenery surrounds us. We are
water sliding down very fast, taking sharp turns, and we seem to be enjoying
our selves. We take a sharp turn which takes us to a large round waterfall
opening; as I look down I can see a small pool full of sharks. As we leap
down we do not land in the pool, we land on our feet on the edge of the
pool. We proceed to walk away, but as we are walking away a few sharks
manage to bite my legs and feet.
Dream comments:
Dream title: House with ghosts
Dream date: 11-12-05
Dreamer name: Renee
Dream: I was in a large house with 3-4 other people - I didn't recognize
them but in the dream I knew them. Then {I realized the house was a house I
lived in about a year ago, we had a tragic house fire there.} We were in the
house to get something. There were ghosts there. I was with a man, whom in
my dream was my spouse, we were in the bath room there was a ghost face on
the wall and I leaned his head toward the wall the ghost ate him like a
horror movie. Then the ghost face disappeared. I went to be with the others
we were all frightened a lot and want to stay in the same room for safety.
The next morning we all got on a bus. The bus seats were all black and
towards the front there was a stack of black boxes or coffins that
frightened us a lot also.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Drinking water
Dream date: a month ago
Dreamer name: zunny
Dream: I dreamt that I was drinking a lot a lot of water bottles nearly 30
bottles and still feeling thirsty!!
Dream comments: By the way this dream was repeated several times all over
the past 5 years!!
Dream title: Zombies in the Mausoleum
Dream date: 11/7/05
Dreamer name: dsmivjade
Dream: In this dream, I was in a mausoleum or funeral home with a friend
whom was visiting a dead relative. I remember it being dark, in other areas
there were beams of moonlight lighting areas from a glassy ceiling directly
above us. I remember vaguely my friend pointing out a bunch of coffins lying
around just outside the crypts open spaces. The coffins were very visible in
the exposed areas of the moonlight. I thought it was quite strange because
my first thought someone had stolen the corpses for some practical joke.
Then my friend pointed to a huge cargo elevator and said he was going to go
in and check it out to see if it was still operational. I heard a slight
bumping sound coming from inside. Suddenly I was overcome with stark terror,
it was too late he had already gone in and was actually pulled in and then
he screamed and then silence. It suddenly started to get darker so I turned
around and saw people shambling and running in my direction. One guy I could
make out was running after me with his eyes closed. I saw him and a hundred
or more behind him. They made no noise it was just flat and fast.
Dream comments: I woke up before I could experience the inevitable.
Dream title: Symbolic Confusion
Dream date: 11/4/05
Dreamer name: Gemini
Dream: There is a panther (my favorite animal) with an Egyptian crown around
its head that has a cobra (my Chinese horoscope) around its head. They are
looking into a mirror and the reflection is me. The panther has a sad face
and the cobra is angry. In between the panther’s chest is the sign of a
Gemini (my horoscope) that is burning on fire.
Dream comments: I woke up crying yet in a vengeful mood.
Dream title: Massive Colors
Dream date: 09/09/2001
Dreamer name: poohbr
Dream: I had a dream of massive ball of colors. It was huge and full of
every emotion you could think of. There were no dark colors at all just the
most beautiful colors you will ever see during the wake hours. When I tried
to look away my face was gently turned back to the middle of the massive
ball of colors and I could not look away. I can still see the colors and
fell the emotions. The emotions ran wildly in my dream. The colors just got
brighter and brighter. I felt very safe in my dream and that I wanted to go
into the Massive ball of colors.
Dream comments: none
Dream title: Recurring dream about Mick
Dream date: Twice a month
Dreamer name: LA
Dream text: I have a recurring dream that I am visiting Ireland (where my
husband is buried) and discover that he is alive. (He had been ill for the
last five years of his life with AIDS. I was lucky and never contracted the
disease). In my dream I find him alive, with AIDS but surviving and staying
well. He seems reluctant about me seeing him again and I can't understand
why he never contacted me. I very much want to be back in his life but he is
very hesitant. He doesn't tell me to go -- but he doesn't ask me to stay
either.
Dream comments: Mick's death occurred 10 years ago. We had a rocky
relationship in the very beginning of dating but by the time we were married
we were very comfortable with one another. I met someone 2 years after his
death -- we did not marry but I had a child with him. The relationship
didn't last (my choice to end it). My daughter is now 7. I am currently in
another relationship with another very nice man but I am not quite sure if
this is a forever deal either.
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