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Volume #13 Issue #4

April 2006

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

++ Cover Sheila McNellis Asato
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++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla

++ Dream: "The Clicks"
Stan Kulikowski II

++ Article: The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result
Linda Lane Magallón

++ Column: Dreams and Themes
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland


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Editor's Notes

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Welcome to the May 2006 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. Please, no dreams interpreted
here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

We are just a couple months away from the IASD 2006 Bridgewater Conference,
and if you haven't planned to come yet, check out the incredible program and
reconsider! asdreams.org/2006

Virtual Dream Arts Gallery: I will have more on this next month, but I'm
suggesting we start a virtual art gallery. This gallery will not "be" in any
place, but will accept any art done in a dream, or any dream text that is
about the gallery or dream aesthetics. If you have any art dreams, send'm
in. (This is not dream-inspired-art, but rather art done or found in
dreams, or dream museums in dreams). Until I get a separate form up, just
use the dreamtemple submission form for EDreams:
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

This month in Electric Dreams:

Lucid Dream Exchange editor, Lucy Gillis offers a generous taste of ideas
from her new issue. In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views
on the relationship between lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls
"ecopsychological unfolding."
The article, "Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics" has links to samples of his
lucid dream inspired artwork

Linda Magallón, dream pioneer and author of Mutual Dreaming, takes a look
this month at how flying dreams helped her be less physically stiff in the
joints. "The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result" may well be
the beginning of a practice that will change our techniques in physical
therapy.

Stan Kulikowski II offers as selection from his unique dream journal, " The
Clicks." If you have dreams you would like published, please enter them in
the form at http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

David Jenkins, PhD., the director of Berkeley based DreamRePlay, pulses
online each week useful hints and techniques for dreamworkers. His is a
current sample, "Dreams and Themes" explores the idea that dreams come in
thematic bunches, like bananas, and one can track these themes throughout
one's life.

Dreamers discovering a spaceship and being familiar with it, being chased,
and witnessing earth changes and people suffering - What's going on? It’s
the EDreams Dream section with Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland ! Be
sure to read them all.

Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles
and authors 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@...

Cover by Sheila Asato
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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 the Dream Dimension,

-Richard Wilkerson


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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S

May 2006

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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@... address.

General news:
- Report on the Nordic Dream Conference
- Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD

Online:
- Update from the Precognition Games
- Dream Journal

Physical world:
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace
- California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patricia Garfield
- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
- USA: Jeremy Taylor

Reminders:
- Dreaming in Bridgewater
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- World Dream Group Directory


* * * GENERAL NEWS * * *

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- Report on the Nordic Dream Conference
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I'd like to give a short report on the Nordic Dream Conference in Copenhagen
that happened during three days late March.

The conference gave a huge boost to the formation of a Nordic and European
dream network. Most of the participants at the conference came from Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, and Finland. However, there were also participants from
Germany, England, and the Netherlands. The network includes people from many
disciplines, ranging from dreamworkers and artists to researchers and
teachers.

Kate Adams offered to host the next European meeting early 2007. Kate works
at the Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln (close to Nottingham), England.
The Danish Association for the Study of Dreams and IASD offered to help with
the planning.

A longer report by the Danish association is available at the website of the
IASD. It includes an extensive contact list:
http://asdreams.org/affiliates/report06april.htm

I hope to see you in England!

Harry Bosma
hbosma@...


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- Dream Science Foundation partners with IASD
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Robert J Hoss, MS, author of The Language of Dreams, and director of the
Dream Science Foundation is planning with IASD to provide funding for dream
research. IASD will provide a committee to review research requests. Send
proposals to bob@...

The proposals will be considered for Foundation grants. Since full or
partial funding is not guaranteed, other organizations are invited to help
support these worthwhile efforts.



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Update from the Precognition Games
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The Precognition Games are currently focused at the third out of five dream
incubation tasks. Everyone can join in at any moment. It costs nothing, and
no special skills are required.

Here are some of the more striking results for the first task. The first
task asked to dream of an interaction with somebody in the upcoming week. If
possible, it had to be an interaction with a stranger.

Ulfet from Turkey dreamt of meeting a man who came because she had called
for him. He wanted to learn her how to make magic, and looked like a
magician. Later in the week, Ulfet stayed in a hotel, where many magicians
showed up for the evening entertainment.

Kathy from Australia dreamt of a crazy old man, whom she described in the
following way: "white hair and beard, a bit stooped". Several weeks later
Kathy had a very enjoyable meeting with an eccentric old man who in many
ways felt similar to the man in the dream.

Kay from England dreamt about a man called Jim. Later that week Kay just had
to ask whether that name meant anything to a new temp worker. It turned that
his girlfriend calls him that.

Unfortunately not registered in time, but worth mentioning too: Linda from
the Netherlands dreamt about a man in the town where she lives, who for the
last ten years looked like he could use a good haircut. In the dream he
appeared with a clean and fresh haircut. Later that week, she was surprised
to meet him in person having that new haircut.

To read the dreams yourself, or add your own, visit the Dream Registry:
http://dreamunit.net/registry

Best wishes,

Harry Bosma
hbosma@...


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- Dream Journal
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Dream Journal is the LifeJournal for dreamers, and has grown to quite a
thriving community:

www.dreamjournal.com



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
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The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767
Also see: http://tinyurl.com/9xv5l

The Dream Institute offers the following during May 2006.

* Engaging the Muse - A Poet's Journey *

Four Monday evenings
May 1, 8, 15, 22
7-9 pm, $75

Poetry arises from our unique engagement with a source often experienced as
gods or Muses. This class will explore one's initiation into this
relationship and ways that different poets stay engaged. Each class includes
experiential exercises and group sharing. Readings provided.

Kathryn Ridall, Ph.D., is a published poet, psychotherapist, and Adjunct
Faculty, Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University.
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* The Raw & The Cooked - Poetry Reading Series *

Sunday afternoons
3-5 pm, $5-15
April 30: Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas
May 21: Phyllis Stowell Travis and Elizabeth Rosner

This innovative monthly series invites published poets to present their own
work and also invites participants to bring a poem to read, their own or
favorites, for a lively sharing.


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- Hawaii: Lucid Dreaming with LaBerge and Wallace
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DREAMING AND AWAKENING: Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, and Dream Yoga, 10
days of awareness enhancement and re-creation at the beautiful Kalani
Oceanside Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii, with Stephen LaBerge
and Alan Wallace, May 10-19, 2006.

Becoming adept at lucid dreaming requires focused attention and practice
that is difficult to maintain during our busy lives. This is an ideal
opportunity to devote time to cultivating your lucid dreaming ability and
enhancing your mindfulness in everyday life.

Using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Tibetan
dream yoga and Western science, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and Alan Wallace,
Ph.D. will co-present* instructions on methods of developing the mental
skills that foster lucidity and on directing consciousness within both
dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of personal goals.

During this workshop, you will have an opportunity to use the NovaDreamer,
and, if you wish, participate in ongoing research on a natural substance
that, according to recent studies, has been shown to stimulate lucidity and
mindfulness.

Participants in our past retreats have enjoyed phenomenal success at lucid
dreaming, with most having at least one during the program.


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- California: Lifelong Dreamers with Patrica Garfield
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At Dominican College, Corte Madera, California
Tuesdays, April 18-May 23
2:00-4:00 pm
Aegis of Corte Madera: 5555
Paradise Drive

During each session following the introductory one, participants will
examine at least two of the most common negative dreams around the world, as
well as their positive versions. We'll discuss the usual meanings of these
dream themes and explore individual variations. Discover how these themes
are portrayed in your dreams, especially in senior issues such as retirement
and bereavement.

In addition to gaining knowledge about specific dream themes, participants
learn some ancient and modern cultural methods for preventing and banishing
nightmares; practice methods for inducing dreams on specific topics; and
explore how to use dream content for creative purposes, with inspiring
examples from famous dreamers.

http://www.dominican.edu/academics/adult/osher/sprg06course.html


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- USA and Canada: Robert Moss
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* The Power of Active Dreaming *

Evening Workshop
Friday, May 12
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#montreal evening


* Dream Teacher Training *

Level I, Five-Day Advanced Training
Monday-Friday, May 22-26
DUVALL, WA
http://www.mossdreams.com/2006may.htm#dtt-1


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- USA: Jeremy Taylor
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May, 2006 May 5-7 - Loveland, CO
Weekend Workshop held at beautiful Sunrise Ranch in Loveland. Sponsored by
Billie Ortiz. All are welcome. Contact her at
wakeuptoyourdreams@... , or call 303/929.6122

May 12-14 - Mt Carmel in Niagara Falls, ONT
Weekend Workshop as part of the Haden Institute. Contact Bob Haden at
bob@...

June, 2006 June 2-4 - Danville, CA (San Damiano Retreat Ctr)
Weekend Workshop: "Dream Work as a Spiritual Discipline."
You may stay at the Retreat Center, or commute. Register on line at
www.sandamiano.org or phone 925/837.9141. Cost is $195 (with room and board)
or $165 without. Schedule is Friday night orientation and introduction to
group dream work, Saturday all day experiential workshop, Saturday evening
dream work in small groups, and Sunday morning further dream work in the
larger group.

June 11-16 - Hendersonville, NC
Haden Institute Summer Dream Conference. Jeremy will be offering dream
training, including "More Ways Than Talk - Getting at the Deeper Meanings of
Dreams Through Expressive Arts-As-Meditation." This conference is focused on
understanding dreams in the light of Christian faith and tradition. You will
have the opportunity to learn to understand dreams as a Christian
discipline, find guidance for starting a dream group in your church, and to
share the community of those exploring the growing Christian dream-work
movement. It is open to all. It will be held at the Kanuga Retreat Center.
Register by mail (Haden Institute, PO Box 1793, Flat Rock, NC 28731-1793),
fax (828-693.1919) or email (office@...). For more
information you can contact The Rev Bob Haden at bob@... or
828-693.9292.

June 16-18 - Lexington, KY
Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis' 2006 Annual Conference.
Theme is "Diversity in Unity; Unity in Diversity" Keynote by Houston Smith.
Jeremy will do a presentation introducing group projective dream work as a
psychological practice and a spiritual discipline, and also a post
conference workshop on working with your dreams. For more information email
to info@... or go to their website at
http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org .

June 20-25 - Bridgewater, MA
IASD CONFERENCE
Annual International Association for the Study of Dreams conference on the
campus of Bridgewater College near Boston, MA. Jeremy will offer a workshop
on June 23 and a presentation on June 24. A great opportunity to work with
dream workers from around the world. Open to all! Go to www.asdreams.org .



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Dreaming in Bridgewater
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23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams

June 20 - 24th, 2006
Bridgewater State College,
Bridgewater Massachusetts

Invited speakers include noted Jungian psychologist, Michael Conforti, Ph.D,
dreamwork pioneer, Montague Ullman, M.D., and Sci-Fi and fantasy author,
Orson Scott Card.

Special note for artists: TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes will be awarded by
an anonymous donor for the best Dream Art in June, '06. 1st prize: $l000,
two 2nd prizes of $500 each. Any medium is acceptable including photography,
videos or DVDs, computer art, book art, installation or any combination of
the above. The dream or the significant part of the dream must be included.
The criteria for selection will be originality, integrity, universality, and
relevance to building bridges. The awards will be presented during the Art
Reception in June, '06.

Join dreamers, clinicians, researchers, educators and artists from all over
the world for four days of workshops, lectures, exhibits, and events
examining dreaming and dreamwork as presented through traditional and
innovative theories and therapies, personal study, scientific research,
cultural tradition and the arts. Over 100 workshops and events on all
aspects of dreaming are planned, with topics and events of interest to the
general public as well as professionals. Special events include an Opening
Reception, a Dream Arts Exhibition and reception, a solstice visit to a
Native American archaeoastronomical site, a Dream Telepathy Contest, various
other social events and the ever popular closing costume "Dream Ball".

More information at the website of the IASD:
http://asdreams.org


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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 - to support peace.

For more information go 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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- The Precognition Games
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Experiments starting in April, running for several weeks each:

* April 1/2 - Predicting the news *

Dream about future news. Aim at something that will become known within the
next week. Something small will do, allow your dreaming all the room it
needs to find something that appeals to your interests. It can be newspaper
news, or trade specific news, or anything else as long as it can be
objectively verified.

* April 15/16 - Getting involved *

Have a dream to prepare for a future situation in your immediate
environment. Suggestions for such a future situation include events in your
own future, events in the life of people you know, or events in your
neighborhood.

More information available at the IASD Discussion Boards, and you're welcome
to add your special dreams to the Dream Registry at any time.

http://dreamunit.net/registry


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- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
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More participants are welcome.

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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- World Dream Group Directory
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Help the IASD Develop a directory of active dream groups, worldwide. Would
you like to list your group on the IASD website? The IASD would like to
learn more about how many dream groups are active, how many people are
involved, and how the IASD can help group members and leaders. Please
contact the IASD Board Secretary Gary Goodwin to learn more about this
project.

Email: gegood@...


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Cover: "Banker's Wife" by Sheila Asato
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Sheila McNellis Asato is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, a center
dedicated to the growth, transformation and healing of individuals and the
community through the arts, dreaming and creative development.
www.monkeybridgearts.com

Sheila is an artist and Japan specialist. Dreams are an integral part of her
creative practice and calling as an instructor in the arts. As a graduate
student at St. Mary's University, her work has focused on the healing and
spiritual benefits of cultivating an active relationship with imagery
through dreams and art.

"Banker's Wife" is part of the Healing Collage(sm) collection. Healing
Collage(sm) is a unique process developed by Sheila Asato for personal
insight, creative development and spiritual growth. It is a creative
synthesis of graphic design principals, Japanese collage therapy, the
Watchword process and Kaplan-Williams dream cards.

All forms have an underlying compositional structure which holds them
together. The dream is no exception. Through the Healing Collage(sm)
process, it is possible to observe the dream in action as it affects the
placement of imagery in your own unique collage.

Healing Collage(sm) and Dreaming
http://www.monkeybridgearts.com/X2Dreamwork.html




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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis

This month:
Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
(c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla

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In LDE 37 Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla discussed his views on the relationship
between lucid dreaming and aesthetics and what he calls "ecopsychological
unfolding." To see samples of his lucid dream inspired artwork go to:

http://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/archive2/shaman_art.html



Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics
(c) Jorge Conesa-Sevilla

I am honored to be given the opportunity to share ideas in this forum, ideas
that for many years have been, exclusively, a private understanding of the
interlacing between lucid dreaming material, its artistic reinterpretation
in diverse media, and these having a direct impact on what I refer to as
ecopsychological unfolding.

Many practitioners of Transpersonal Psychology are keen on the study and
understanding of psyche processes that I will attempt to describe in the
context of lucid dreaming and its artistic representation. The interested
reader can go to writers in this field for further information if you have
not already.

For the time being, let the reader interpret ecopsychological unfolding as a
more inclusive process of personality individuation (non anthropocentric and
embracing of all nature and its processes), or being actively involved in
the discovery and integration of as many personality aspects as possible
that are said to be the inclusive of a real "me": dark and light, somber and
gay, or evil-tending and good-generating. Thus the full integration of SELF,
even if it is an impossible task, requires that these dualities be stitched
together into a larger and seamless SELF-quilt. Because this task is
extremely demanding and difficult, due in part to the extreme dichotomizing
tendencies of individual limited awareness, nationalism, and ideology, a
lucid dreamer is, on the other hand, in a position of advantage over the
regular dreamer. This is the case since dream content and the manipulation
of a dreamscape by lucid dreamers allows for a volitional returning to and
controllable dialogue with the depth of the psyche. Dreaming itself embraces
ambiguity.

The simpler story is, to relate and reiterate in a few lines, that lucid
dreaming can be for many a reliable source of perceptual and cognitive data,
a source of novel interpersonal exchanges with imaginary or known dream
characters, and a controlled exercise of social and personal "deviance." By
deviance it is meant that lucid dreaming allows for cognitive and emotional
free-play that could challenge comfortable and even orthodox relational
cultural patterns. This inner dreamscape "deviance" can be and is expressed
via another "deviant" enterprise, artistic expression, creating a powerful
hermeneutic circle, maximizing the potential for SELF-growth.

The Surreal

It is more common to hear about lucid dreaming and its potential aesthetic
products being defined in terms of "surrealism" than in any other way. In
fact many of the personal accounts that describe lucid dreaming begin,
elaborate upon, or end by paying notice to its surreal quality. I would
argue that although this description aptly surveys the surface presentation,
the fragmented nature, and even the overall quality of lucid dreaming
experiences, nevertheless, this predominant surreal classification is less
important or useful in my art or in my ecopsychological unfolding.

Surrealism is, as philosopher Paul Shepard aptly described (1996), the
antithesis of the fully integrated-natural world and of its ecopsychological
ideal: a fully embedded humanity, inescapably, in Nature. That is,
surrealism is the reification and the ratification of components "in and of
themselves" extracted from a larger original and organic context and
elevated to a polished and exclusive category (a form of fetish). The
rapidly shifting dreamscape itself makes this reification and ratification
possible because, oftentimes, even when we are proficient lucid dreamers,
the fascination with a particular and singular element of a dream detracts
attention from a larger and more dynamic scenery and meaning-content that
the proficient dreamer does not pay attention to or cannot keep up with.
When lucid dreamers recollect the vividness of a dream, it is often these
surreal highlights that are mentioned.

Film has been the artistic medium par excellence that depicts dream life as
surreal precisely because of its potential for control of temporal
sequencing and image unfolding. Directors can artistically manipulate both
temporal sequencing and image unfolding in order to create a close
approximation of an original dream experience. I will only cite the work of
the famous Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmajer, who transferred the surreal work
of his equally creative wife and artist, Eva Svankmajerová, to film, here,
as principal exponents of the surreal artistic approach. (Eva Svankmajerová
is well-known for her writing and plastic arts.) But hundreds of other film
sequences emphasize the surreal quality of dreams. Even when the focus is
not a single object, an entire dream sequence can unfold in exceptionally
alluring and brilliant vignettes without an apparent connection between
these frames. Surrealism is thus also deviant, intensely so, in my earlier
use of that word, since it forces a new interpretation of time and space
that can lead to unique and creative insights. Salvador Dalí made an easy
juxtaposition of mathematics, time, and his visual rendition of these
advances, as he understood them. Dream surrealism has been re-created or
re-interpreted in dance, music, poetry, and architecture.

I will not argue here that a focus on the surreal quality of dreams is not
important for other forms of artistic expression or even that it cannot
contribute to ecopsychological unfolding in its own right. But I am saying
that, at least in my case, the more humble aspects of lucid dreaming end up
being the more important and pertinent messages that invite further
discovery.

More Humble Aspects of Lucid Dreaming

The more "humble" aspects of a lucid dream that I am referring to are
content as opposed to surface driven. Their lackluster "humility" lies in
their often hidden and harder-to-arrive-at semiotic aspects, as Freud and
Jung discovered. Instead of the surreally enhanced sensorial qualities that
are often present in lucid dreaming, these more fundamental elements are of
great significance to me. It is their potential semiosis that makes them
more important. One word (its meaning), a face (as a mask suggesting my
behavior or an ideal), the angle of an object (indicating direction), a text
read (in a larger context), music heard (not only notes but what the song
means to me or how it makes me feel), and a complete dream story that holds
together logically and provides discernable meaning to the individual
dreamers--this is the stuff of which my dreams are made.

Particularly since 1994, my lucid dreaming has had a dominant shamanic
import, to use that term both generally and technically. Of course this
import has coincided with an equal interest during waking reality in
attempting to understand global patterns of the human condition in mythical
terms. For a given question in waking reality, for example, a dream being
was encountered who wore a particular mask. This mask was later carved to
achieve maximum approximation to the dreamt object. The dream being was also
pantomiming or acting out various dances and manners of walking or flying or
swimming. These dream manifestations and their messages were the answers I
sought. By carving them afterwards I had the extended opportunity not only
to reminisce about the dream and its message, but also to refine and
elaborate further this message for maximum clarity and understanding.

See www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/gatherings.html

Often, the depth of meaning inherent in these more lackluster aspects of a
lucid dream, echo a genuine interest in and detailed inspection of my
natural surroundings. In fact the more slowly and deliberately I walk in my
woods, the more detail I see in natural objects that catch my eye-spirit,
the more vivid and the greater detail the dream object provides. This is
walking meditation at its best with the expected and often reported effect
of enhanced lucid dreaming. Thus, control of dream lucidity means more than
a technical procedure that can quickly be learned from a CD. It is instead a
prescribed and intense attentional state or movement, even a way of life,
and perfecting it is the aesthetics of which I am most desirous.

Lucid Dreaming, Artistic Expression and Ecopsychological Unfolding

The complete dynamics that I have been trying to describe makes for a
circular, self-feeding and grander aesthetics where no longer is there a
distinction between the lucid dream, the dreamer, natural embeddedness, or
the artistic product. All are complementary manifestations of a grander
semiosis.

The concept of art as being separate and thus decontextualized from this
circular relationship, itself a form of surrealism, or even as a necessary
but incomplete inspection of nature when an original code is lost, is a
western invention. This is aesthetics interpreted from a "deficit" model.
Interestingly, many so-called primitive languages do not have a concept for
art for they experience and express their existential and natural
relationship as a grand process or even a cosmology, a process rather than
an object.

Perhaps an imminent discovery, my view of the interplay between lucid
dreaming and its artistic representation is, to my surprise and delight,
more "primitive" than western. In this sense, I no longer follow or am
interested in a western production vector that places an interesting lucid
dream on a position "a" followed by production of art piece "b," however
hypnotic, well crafted, and commercially viable this art piece may turn out
to be.

Instead, the artist, the process of making art, and the art product itself
are all fully integrated components of lucid dreamscapes and of the original
life-nature-matrix that generates all dreaming. Paul Shepard (1967/1991)
describes this existential and ideal cohesion: "The inner world is
coextensive with the outer, the natural habitat a middle ground, lacing into
each other like fingers of clasped hands."
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Bibliography

Paul Shepard (1967/1991). Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the
Aesthetics of Nature. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press.
Paul Shepard (1997). The Others: How Animals Made Us Human. Covelo,
California: Island Press/Shearwater Books.

Jorge Conesa-Sevilla PhD, has a triple degree in Biology, Philosophy and
Psychology from Humbolt State University in Arcata, California. He is the
author of "Wrestling With Ghosts: A Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep
Paralysis". He currently lives with his wife in Switzerland, and works at
the Sleep Laboratory at the University Hospital in Bern. Jorge teaches
Ecology, Art & Psychology of Aesthetics classes and workshops and offers a
wide range of ecological services in Italy, Switzerland, and Spain through
his organization Le Feuillou Rediscovered.

http://www.geocities.com/jorgeconesa/Ecopsychologie/newblack.html.

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The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A Waking Result
© 2006 Linda Lane Magallón

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Once, during the month of May, I incubated flying dreams for two weeks
straight. I simply affirmed aloud, "You can fly! You can fly!" several times
during the day. I used this particular wording because I wanted to fly in
the dream state along with other dream characters.

In the first dream, rather than repeat the incubation phrase, I declared to
a dream character, "I can fly! I can fly!" Despite saying this, I did
wonder if I really could get off the ground. I had a vague recollection of
recent difficulty doing so (in the dream state). I made the attempt anyway
and surprised myself at how quickly and easily I got airborne. Rising, I
automatically went into a sequence of loops and spins in the air, shooting
off and soaring quite high, pursuing an automobile below me. I quickly
overtook the cars on the highway beneath. I astonished and delighted myself
with how fast I could soar, and with such a smooth acrobatic style.

In the second dream of this series, I realized that I could fly because a
dream character called me a "shaman." (Not true in waking life.) I tried to
get airborne by taking off towards the top of a hill in the hope that the
wind would catch me and buoy me up. It would for just a few moments; then
I'd land again on the downward slanting grassy slope. This happened a couple
of times in a row. Since I was landing closer and closer to the base of the
hill, I became concerned that I would not get fully airborne before I
reached the bottom. However, just before I arrived there, I was able to
project myself mentally, so that I did indeed seem to be soaring across the
tops of fog-shrouded hills.

Despite my success, the one constant in these first two dreams was a
disappointment. I was the only one who was flying, although I was flying to
do something for the other dream characters. In the first dream, I was
trying to retrieve a suitcase stolen by a couple who were fleeing in their
automobile. In the second case, I was assisting in a search for a Native
American boy. As wonderful as these flying scenarios were, they were both
Lone Ranger adventures. As delightful as the soaring felt, I was the only
one there to enjoy it.

So I kept affirming that I wanted more people involved. Just before falling
asleep the third night, I thought maybe saying, "We can fly!" might do the
trick. This night I had just finished several days' battle with influenza
and was taking antibiotics for a bacterial infection. As with previous
nights, the initial dreams had me on a long journey. There didn't seem much
that responded to my flying request.

Rising, I went to the bathroom and returned to sleep. I fell into deep
dreaming, so deep that the last dream of the night I could scarcely recall.
I probably would not have remembered it at all if it hadn't been so active.
For my dreaming self had finally granted my wish.

In the dream, I was one of three couples who were dancing...in the air!
Flying together, dancing together. Using very graceful movements, rhythmic
actions and vigorous acrobatics. At first the music was quite melodic. A
woman with short, dark hair was swirling around in a full skirt with a
slender man who had a beard. He may have been my partner at one point. We
certainly did some partner switching, doe-see-doeing in the air.

Then I was somersaulting with a young, dark haired man who was dressed in a
black tuxedo with longer-than-usual tails. After flipping over, I raised my
knees and playfully bumped against him, in time with the music, which has
shifted into a rumba tune. The whole affair was very joyous.

For the past year or so I had been experiencing a slowdown in my physical
ability to get-up-and-go. In the morning it would usually take 10 or 12
robot-like steps before my body would loosen up and begin moving in its
normal free-flowing manner. This morning I awoke at 6:28 A.M., two minutes
before the alarm was due to go off. I reviewed the dream, reveling in the
feelings of swirling and the joy of being with the other people.

At 6:30 the radio came on with a rollicking rock-and-roll tune of the type
of rhythm that always sets my toes to tapping. I just could not ignore it.
Throwing back the covers, I leapt from the bed and starting bugalooing
around the room, jerking and turning in time with the music. I ended up on
the other side of the bed, where my husband was lying.

He opened one eye, looked and me and said, "I guess this means you're
feeling better." I kept flinging out my arms and legs, hopping and swirling
around, all the way to the bathroom. It was then that I suddenly realized
that my body had been demonstrating a degree of flexibility unlike any I had
experienced in a long time. There was simply no problem of stiffness at all.




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Dream: The Clicks
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE : 5 apr 2006 06:22
DREAM : the clicks

=( yesterday was a tuesday. i had to take my car out during the afternoon
since my motorcycle broke down. i needed to order a new battery since my
bike is too old for the retail shops to keep it in stock. i started the
diagnostics. at least the charging system seems to check out, the stator
and regulator continuities are as expected. i suspect that the short may be
in the dashboard as i have had to replace it several times before and keep a
spare in the toolkit. tomorrow i will start checking up on the handlebars.
the evening goes as usual with mother. i got to bed around midnight but it
was a little too warm to sleep easily so i read a novel until 01:30 when i
finally got the sleep. )=


i am one of three weekend guests at the sumptuous spanish mansion of a
friend named john. he is the younger son of the wealthy family of latin
america. this house is found in a suburban somewhere of a tropical country.
the architecture and furnishings are very lavish with many antiques probably
handed down through the family for centuries, the feeling of comfortable
fortune accustomed to the many servants who scurry between the major figures
of the family who live there.

i have been given a small suite of rooms in the guest wing. it is late
afternoon, a slow time of day waiting for the evening meal, time off to be
alone, maybe take a nap so to refresh from the heat of the season. i have
taken advantage of the siesta time by stretching out under the clean white
sheets of my small bed and have just awakened.

there is a slight knock on my door and marcia marks slips past the door and
lets herself in. she smiles as she comes over to the bed to sit down.
"have you heard?" she asks me. "john wants us all to watch a science
fiction movie tonight?"

"no, i have not been told." i sit up in bed wiping the sleep from my eyes.
"that is better than having to sit with the older generation of the family
who do not quite know what to do with us." they have been formally polite
but stiff in their understanding of us foreigners.

"oh, i got a sunburn at the pool today." marcia stretches out like a cat on
my bed. i can see that her skin is somewhat red but not painfully so yet.
i take her in my arms to comfort her if i can.

"you can spend the night here with me if you want." i whisper hoarsely in
her ear.

"i would like that." she replies. so, i have some hopes for a better
night.

the door opens again and in comes john, our immediate host for this weekend.
"movie tonight." he says right off. "i thought we could see in one of our
rooms rather than the screening room. more intimate that way." marcia sits
up quickly and takes a seat in the stuffed chair next to the bed. she is
not exactly shy in her relations with me but propriety seems of some import
with the elegant surroundings.

john comes over and tugs strongly on the sheet that is covering me.
everyone knows that i always sleep naked in bed and he is playfully
threatening to expose me. i pull the cover from my waist back up to mid
chest and clamp it under my arms.

marcia leaves the room, not wanting to increase some social tension that
seems to be evident. i wonder if she has had some flirtations with our host
but think little of it. she tends to get herself in over her head with men
without hardly thinking about it. perhaps i should be more discrete while i
am a guest here.

i get dressed while john fiddles with doilies on the arm chair that marcia
has abandoned. "i thought i would invite leto to join us."
he says casually. leto is his older brother, heir to the estate, a thick
necked bull of a man with about the same level of sensitivity.
he seemed uncomfortable with us american guests but made an effort last
night to accommodate us.

"and i think we stay in here." a strong voice interrupts a little too loud.
i see that the brother leto and a young blonde woman, the other guest, have
come in the open door.

i do not know why he would prefer this small room, but there is a large
television with a dvd player in the corner, but hardly enough seating for
five of us. leto pushes my bed against the wall and turns another chair
against the wall toward the television.

"i need a leg rest to be comfortable." leto says in his heavy accented
english. "you will come to help me get from downstairs."

john and i leave with him. i have not been down in the servant quarters of
the house. we soon find a service elevator and quickly descend.

when the doors slide open i can see a workroom. there are two men and a
woman carving some wooden figurines that are a little more than knee high on
the floor. although the sculptures are still rough with chisel marks, i can
enjoy the baroque textures. i especially like the sitting lion that taking
form with the female worker.

"do you sell these on the estate?" i ask.

"no, they are just replacements for the household." leto tells me.
"the weather rots the wood rather quickly."

leto starts toward one of the doors, but midway there he stops. his face
makes a peculiar twitch. "you and john go over there and look for whatever
it is we are here for." he points to hallway that has some sort of metal
railing along the wall.

john looks a little worried but we go down the hall. there is no furniture
stored in here at all. i thought we were here to get a stool of some sort,
but now i am not so sure.

"my brother has the clicks, erratic changes in temperament." he tells me
when we get to the end of the hall. "it is best to just humor him. usually
he does not get violent." usually? suddenly i feel rather uncomfortable
being here.

when we get back, leto has wandered off somewhere. in a side room that
seems to be an infirmary, i see a black wicker magazine rack that is empty.
it is about the right height to use as a leg rest so i take it over to the
elevator. if we do not find anything more suitable, this might do the job.
i quickly take it up to the main floor and leave it off in the main hall
leading back to the guest rooms.

i intend to take the elevator back to john on the lower floor, but an older
man steps up to me. he is the main patriarch of the family.
"i have heard that you saw one of leto's fevers." he says to me.
apparently news of this condition travels fast in this house. "he did not
mention anything about the young lady last summer, did he?"

"no, john just said it was 'the clicks'. it looked like a mild nervous
condition." i reply. i avoid saying anything about epilepsy or the
sinister mention of a young lady last summer. i make a mental note to warn
marcia about leto's clicks. i notice that one of the servants is filling
the magazine stand with magazines since it has appeared up here on the upper
floor.

=( awake at 06:05. marcia marks was a woman i was intimate with for a while
when i lived in massachusetts but she was always too busy with her life to
take much notice of me. i tried to keep touch with her for a while but she
hardly noticed. she became a surgeon and seemed to lose contact with
humanity in medical school. at least she lost interest in me. none of the
other people in this dream are known to me. there seems to be a rather
elaborate texture to this dream as if building up to some plot conflict that
does not quite happen, my sleep being too short to sustain this kind of
story. )=


--

. stankuli@...
=== qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
| | who not is today, tomorrow less suitable will be
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DreamRePlay
with David Jenkins, PhD
Dreams and Themes

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Dreams are like bananas, they come in bunches As you explore dreams over
time, you discover that certain issues and people keep coming back. Even
though every dream is unique, with experience you realize that themes are
recurring. You can detect these repetitions in your dream life even after a
few dreams. As a wealth of “evidence” builds up, you will begin to see a
bigger picture and that changes how you see each individual dream.

Dream Themes

At first it is unclear what the connection is. There are no fixed rules to
follow. Sometimes it is obvious: your mother is in most of your dreams.
Sometimes it is more subtle: the first dream may be about two kittens and
the next dream about two children. The next dream will always be different.
It will probably happen in a different location, with other people and
unique circumstances, but there will be a common strand. If bandits chase
you in one dream, it’s likely that you’ll be chased by a bear in another.

By looking carefully, you’ll find that you have just a few themes, maybe
five or six, going on in your dream life. For example, you might have many
dreams about being late, finding yourself lost, getting chased, or falling
down. Regardless of how different the context is, the theme will remain the
same.

Each person’s themes stay constant over many years. G. William Domhoff, a
professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reviewed the dreams
of a woman, “Dorothea,” whose dream journal spanned fifty years; that’s a
long dream journal. Six themes regularly appeared throughout the fifty
years. Here they are:


Eating or thinking about food (1 in 5 dreams)
Losing an object, usually her purse (1 in 6)
In a small or disorderly room or her room was being invaded (1 in 10)
Dreams about her mother (1 in 10)
Toilet dreams (1 in 12)
Late or missing a bus or train (1 in 16)

What’s more, these six themes cropped up in three quarters of all her
dreams!

In other words, the matters that dominate your dream life now are for keeps.
They are not going away. When you examine a number of your own dreams, 20 or
more, you will see some common issues. This is the bigger picture: the life
you are really living in your dreams.

Waking Life

To put this in perspective, waking life is also divided into themes. Most
people have a work theme, a family theme, perhaps a few hobby or pastime
themes, a childhood theme and so on. And, like dream themes, that’s how most
of our time is taken up. Of course, in the summer you will have a vacation
theme, in November there’ll be a Thanksgiving theme, in December a Christmas
or Chanukah theme and so on. Sometimes a unique event will happen but then
things go back to the regular themes.

Living with Themes

It's a big deal to me that you are going to be dreaming about the same
matters for the rest of your life. It is like a career or a marriage without
any of the choice. Even worse, most people are unhappy with their “choice”
of dream life. Domhoff has estimated that 80% of dreams contain something
negative or stressful in them. You don’t need nightmares to have a seriously
sub-standard dream life. The bottom line is this: Do you want to go through
the rest of your life dreaming the same old thing?

You Can Transform Your Dream Self

The news is not all bad. Even if the themes are lifelong, you can change
your role and your situation in your various relationships.

If you are always arguing with your mother, that can change so that you
enjoy your mother’s company even if your mother-theme continues for the rest
of your life. You can “educate” your dream mother and show her better ways
to behave.

If you are always looking for food, you can turn that around so that you
have food in your dreams.

You might be a man who continually dreams about conflicts with other men.
When you work on these dreams with Dream RePlay, you will typically find
that the fighting diminishes, instead of guns and knives, opponents use
fisticuffs and, as the intensity diminishes, they simply argue with you
until finally you will encounter cooperation with men in your dreams.

If you are fearful of flying, the fear can be converted into pleasure.

The task of Dream RePlay is to transform your dream life and that means
enjoying your themes rather than being overwhelmed by them. I want to change
your dream life so that you continuously place yourself in the role of hero
or heroine. The desired result is that the dream-You has more confidence in
difficult situations and is more present to the dream thrills.

The Gift of a Dream Group

To truly transform an issue, it is best to give yourself at least three
months. I strongly recommend weekly participation in an ongoing dream group.
It is harder to achieve major changes on your own. One of the special
benefits of being in a group is that the participants are great at holding
each other’s dreams in their memory banks. Often someone will tell a dream
and other people will make connections to previous dreams. You can then see
the progress you are making and you become highly aware of the core issues
that still dissatisfy you. My own clients have had amazing success in
dealing with issues about romantic relationships, relationships with their
own self-care, relationships with family members, etc.

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Dream section editor Kat Peters-Midland

Here is the latest collection of dreams with dreamers discovering a
spaceship and being familiar with it, being chased, and witnessing earth
changes and people suffering.
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Dream title: The Letter S
Dream date: none
Dreamer name: Where's Birk?
Dream text: I'm standing in a garage attached to my house, and it's filled
with people that I don't really know, but I know in my dream. Their faces
keep changing. My family is there, and a few of my friends, but they keep on
switching roles. For instance, my boyfriend becomes my friend and my friend
becomes my boyfriend. We're all watching a bunch of kittens, mostly white,
but some are calico or orange. The kittens are running around a white
statue of an angel that only moves occasionally. But there is a fairy
dressed all in green with red hair, which is waving a wand around. The cats
seldom pay attention to her. One of the cats runs up to the open door of the
garage and says, "The white one will grant all of your wishes." Then, all of
a sudden, I'm in my kitchen, and the cat has turned into this girl who sits
next to me in biology, and she says, "We don't know what the green one's
name is, but we like to call her The Letter S."
Dream comments: none

Dream title: None
Dream date: None given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: Mariachis were killing people and when I would try and tell my
friends and family they didn’t' believe me. All of a sudden I was by my
self in downtown El Paso, and I felt scared because if the Mariachis saw me
they would kill me!!!!!!!!!!!
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Will I or Will I Not?
Dream date: 2 weeks ago
Dreamer name: Niqua
Dream text: I was 2 months pregnant by my current boyfriend. But we had
broken up and he didn't know. He was going with someone new and I didn't
tell him I was pregnant, so no one knew. Then when I told my cousins and
confirmed their suspicions, I woke up.
Dream comments: none


Dream title: Discovering I’m really an alien
Dream date: 9th April o6
Dreamer name: Kochavah
Dream text: I dreamed that somehow, in my local area I discovered some kind
of spaceship, nothing huge or particularly high tech. It’s more like a
capsule, smooth, streamlined, about the size and height of a large car and
dark golden in color (something that really stood out).
I had a real sense of pre-knowledge and familiarity of this thing. I knew
how to open it and how to get inside and what to do when I was in there.
The next thing I know I’m flying through space, visiting other worlds. I
had the impression of being with at least one other person, who seemed to be
distinctly male,-although I cant clearly recall a face.
Despite visiting all these worlds - there was still something I couldn’t
quite figure out about the ship. It had something to do with how it worked
and how to get to a particular destination.
The ship worked by some kind of mind control thing. The space was confined,
though not claustrophobic. I could lie down inside it and somehow navigated
through space by controlling some kind of interface that worked the ship.
Again - the color and shape of the ship, as well as the image of flying
through space are extremely strong.
The last thing I remember was somehow making some kind of writing appear on
the ships interface, I realized then what it meant(again-a sensation of
intense familiarity and clarity- I can draw the symbols I saw) and how it
was the key to getting to the place I was trying to go to. This other
presence was with me the whole time, but it did not try to help me. The
last image is me flying through space with theses symbols on my screen.
Dream comments: This is going to sound like I’ve watched too many scifi
films but this dream i had has left me shaken up for days. I can’t seem to
figure out what it might mean, it seemed so real that at the time it felt as
though it had really happened and so couldn’t have had any meaning- if that
makes sense? This is just one of a series of intensely real dreams- all
with a similar theme. I wake up shaking with the intensity of it and it
often takes me several minutes to realize they aren’t real, I can also
remember them vividly for weeks afterward. The colors and images are all
extremely familiar and vivid to the point that they seem even more real than
reality- if that makes sense. Other than an ongoing fascination with the
sky, e.g. birds, the sun, moon etc, I can think of no reason why I would
suddenly have these dreams or what they might mean.

Dream title: My Father
Dream date: every night
Dreamer name: imabeachinit
Dream text: Every night I dream of my dad, and he passed away 1-23-06. We
were never close, and in my dreams he is not trying to tell me anything - he
is there. Last night I told someone that my dad was literally dead for 3
days (and was even frozen) and now he is back alive. It all seemed normal.
When he is in my dreams I know that he supposed to be dead. When I look at
him, it doesn't seem to be an odd thing that he is there. I go about doing
my different activities in my dream and that is all.
Dream comments: I can’t figure out why is he there in my dreams.

Dream title: The Baby
Dream date: 04 April 2006
Dreamer name: toocute
Dream text: I had a dream that my husband conceived a child with some
female. He didn't deny sleeping with her or that the child was his, but he
still wanted to be with me.
Dream comments: My husband is on a 6-month deployment and we've only been
married for almost 3 months.

Dream title: Being chased, wallet stolen
Dream date: recurring dreams for about two months
Dreamer name: Curious
Dream text: In one dream I am being chased. In other dreams my wallet gets
stolen. There are dreams that sometimes an article of clothing gets torn
off.
Dream comments: on one occasion I woke up crying.

Dream title: Man in the trees
Dream date: 9-9-05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was walking down the street, when suddenly....a man grabbed me
around the neck! I tried to run when I realized it was my dead grandmother
back from the grave. I wanted to hug her, but she kept trying to stab me
with a meat cleaver. Suddenly I tripped over a curb and was run over by a
Mack truck. Then my grandmother's spirit caught up to me. She killed me; I
moved to Texas.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Pervert!
Dream date: 1995
Dreamer name: cbaby
Dream text: I was in a dark road, running, and running. I was in my pink
Dukes of Hazard nightgown (my favorite) and all I can see is me running from
my music teacher. He was yelling, "I'm going to hurt you!" "I will kill
your family!" I continue to run and run. I run past what looks like metal
sheeting for walls, which is rust colored but some are black. Red clouds and
smoke. I keep running, that’s all, running and crying and hearing him
yell! Then I wake up screaming.
Dream comments: Honestly, this is new to me, my mother has told me all my
life that when my dreams seem like coincidences that they are normal. I have
had the same dream approximately 5 times in the last 11 years. What I want
to know is why?
My dream started when I was in the 5th grade, we just got our new music
teacher and I really did not like him. He was so mean, mostly to guys,
slamming chairs, throwing stuff when the boys got out of line, but honestly,
I can remember him spending more time with the girls. Well, after one
incident with a boy in a chair in the class room, I went home like normal
and everything seemed ok, a normal day for a 12 year old. I went to bed
normally, but somewhere along the way my dreams went totally wrong. I woke
up in the living room screaming and crying "LEAVE ME ALONE" My mother was
on the couch beside me crying. She was so upset and she told me that I had
walked into the living room and let out a horrible scream. But I didn’t
remember even getting out of bed. SO here I am in the living room floor
hysterical and my mother is of no help, she told me later I scared the heck
out of her. It is still just as vivid as it was 11 yrs ago. The end result
was that my mother was so scared when I told her what it was about, that she
contacted the school and put me in counseling, and out of music. Less than a
month went by and then we got a phone call from the school counselor that
the music teacher had been caught taking a high school girl into a
custodian’s closet and sexually assaulting her. When my mother was told, she
and the counselor made an appointment with the principal and we all set down
and talked. They asked me if I had ever been touched inappropriately and so
on, and of course he never touched me. He did get charged and served jail
time for sexual assault and something to do with having sex with a minor. I
believe he is on the Sexual predators list at the local sheriff’s office. I
am now 23 and honestly that dream still scares the hell out of me. I hate to
think that it could have gotten worse if it had not been for the sudden
attention he was receiving from my dream, but I almost feel guilty, like
maybe I shouldn’t have told. I am a grown woman and still feel like a
little girl when I think about him. I have only trusted 2 men in my life,
one my father and the other the man I married. I was friends with the boys
at school, but it seems to be older men I can seem to trust and I want to
know if maybe that dream is the cause of it? Thanks for the time, RCC.

Dream title: EARTH/SUN
Dream date: March 13 2006
Dreamer name: Juno
Dream text: I awoke in the middle of a great desert, on the planet earth and
it was beautiful, the sky was all sorts of iridescent colors and it seemed
like I was somewhere like Egypt or northern Africa. As I stood looking at
the stars, as the sun was rising on the horizon, I saw a seed, flying and
hurling from space which was coming from our Sun. It burst through the
earths outer layers of our blue sky, as it sped through the earth’s
protective ozone layers. It was like it was the Sun’s seed fertilizing the
Earth as if she were to become pregnant. Then as this white light seed
burst through it made a crackling and sparking sound, like an electrical
transformer that would be exploding. There were flashes of great light and
sparks flying everywhere. I had to put my arm across my eyes a bit because
it was so bright. Then the scene shifted and I saw the beginnings of the
North Pole ice caps starting to melt. Water was rising everywhere, where
there were rivers and oceans. The scene immediately changed again and I
witnessed millions and millions of people starving, being homeless all
across the world, including children becoming homeless and orphans. It was
so intense I started to cry in the dream.
Dream comments: It was so sad that I made myself wake up from the dreaming.
I am a prophetic dreamer.

Dream title: Ghost of Love Past
Dream date: 03/12/2006
Dreamer name: N.D. Lawrence
Dream text: I dreamed I was back at college. I was not to attend school,
but the reason for my being there was not revealed in the dream. Nothing
looked like I remembered. The buildings were smaller, the campus was more
isolated and there were many tall trees on the grounds. The buildings also
looked older than they had when I was in college. The brick foundations of
some buildings looked to be crumbling slightly. Outside the front of the
building where most of my classes had been held, there was a large new
gutter that had been dug out of the red clay dirt. There was a small
walkway stretched across it so that you could get inside.

When I went inside, I discovered that it was no longer a building where
classes were held, but had been converted into apartments. I was going to
be staying here. I learned that one of my former History Professors was
also living inside the building, which was the same building where his
office had been before.

I went to see him in his apartment when I learned he was living there. I
found that he was sick and he looked older than I remembered even though
only a few years had passed. The nature of his illness was unclear. I didn't
ask, but somehow I knew that he was dying. We resumed our regular evening
conversations as if no time had passed at all. Despite his illness, he
seemed to have the same intensity and depth I had found as attractive as a
student. Though the friendship we renewed did not involve physical love, I
began to feel guilty because I was now married. My spouse was not staying
with me, which was not explained in the dream. I realized that I did still
love him, but I no longer had any desire to become physically involved with
him. I realized that it was not the same love and attraction I had for my
husband, though it was just as intense. Resolving that having a deep
friendship was not cheating, and that my friend needed me now that his life
was ending, I decided to take care of my friend until he died.

Each time I visited him, he seemed more and more frail and shrunken. One
day, I found him outside on a cold snow-covered day in the trunk of his car.
I thought he had been trying to commit suicide. I was angry at him for not
only throwing what was left of his life away so carelessly, but also because
I felt this was an indication that he had little regard for our friendship.
Though I had not interfered in his life until then, I immediately wrapped
him in a blanket, picked him up and carried him inside the building to his
room. All I said was "I'm going to take care of you now."

I was shocked at how tiny he had become, and how light he was as I carried
him inside. Somehow I had not realized how far his illness had progressed.
We had no conversations after that, and I started sleeping on his couch so I
would be there if he needed me. I didn't ask - I just did it. One night I
was up late, and I looked up to see that the door of the hall leading to his
room, which was usually cracked so I could hear if he got up in the night,
had been closed. At first I thought perhaps the light in the living room
had disturbed his sleep. When I cracked open the door, I saw that the door
to his room was still open, and his light was also on. So I closed the hall
door again. I suddenly felt like a great black mysterious hole existed
between us, made up of all the years we had been apart. I wondered why he
was not married, and where all of his other friends had gone. It occurred
to me that I may have assumed a friendship when in reality our relationship
amounted to a few good conversations between strangers. Perhaps he just
wanted to be left alone.

The next morning, I went outside alone for a walk in the snow. It was the
first time I had left his apartment since his attempt at suicide. The
campus seemed abandoned, and I felt a deep sadness and regret envelope me.
If I had come back after I graduated, what might have happened? Why had I
not? Was it because of my fear that our relationship was one-sided after
all? Would it have changed anything? Had my romantic attraction to him back
then made me reluctant to pursue a pure friendship with him because I was no
longer single? If so, why? Was this fear unfounded? So many questions flew
through my mind. I paused on the walkway between the edge of the rain gutter
and the building, staring into the gutter as it slowly filled with snow. I
stepped off, and walked along the steep edge of the ditch. Then I heard my
friend. He was in a wheel chair, on the walkway watching me. He hadn't
spoken to me since his suicide attempt. He said, "Be careful, you might
fall". I looked at him, directly into his eyes, and felt the familiar
unspoken sense of understanding between us which had filled me with
infatuation so many years ago. I answered "I'm good at standing on the edge
of things without falling. It’s my gift." I sounded bitter, and I knew both
he and I understood this statement as a metaphor for our relationship. He
looked so deeply into my eyes that it almost hurt but I didn't look away. He
shook his head in silent acknowledgement. His sad eyes looked at me then to
the gutter. He slowly turned and went back inside. I felt a wave of
intense anger at the unspoken words neither of us had been able to say to
the other. I was no longer in doubt that the love I had felt for him was
mutual. I suddenly leapt into the gutter. I landed squarely on my feet with
my knees bent. I stood up slowly and stepped back to see my two deep
footprints in the snow. It made me smile and I started to dance around
playfully kicking the snow and laughing. I looked up to see the sun rising
through the tall campus trees. That was the end of the dream.
Dream comments: The man in the dream was really one of my former professors.
I had a serious crush on him when I was a student. I took every class he
taught that I could fit into my schedule, and we talked often outside of
class. I felt a strong connection between us, and I always suspected that
he felt attracted to me as well, but due to our circumstance as student and
teacher, neither of us ever did anything about it. I have had other dreams
about him, but this was the first which directly addressed my feelings for
him. I am happily married, so I found the dream somewhat disturbing.
Though it was very realistic in many ways, it also seems full of vivid
symbolism.









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