Earth Dreaming - International Association for the Study of
Dreams

International Association for the Study of Dreams Earth Dreaming
Conference Wyndham O'Hare Hotel, Chicago June 26-30, 2009

We hope that you'll join us for four-and-one-half days of seminars,
workshops, papers and events at the IASD Earth Dreaming Conference in
Chicago, June 26-30,2009.  Over one hundred international experts
will present on topics ranging from clinical to theoretical, from
research to cross-cultural, artistic and spiritual approaches to
understanding dreams and nightmares.

Special events include a gala 25th Anniversary Celebration, a juried
Dream Art Show with cash awards (entry deadline April 22), Hot off
the Press sessions featuring the most recent work in the field of
dream study, Morning Dream Groups, a Dream Hike, and the ever-popular
Dream Ball.

Keynote Speakers include:
Stanley Krippner, PhD  "Everyone Who Dreams Partakes of Shamanism"
and
Barbara Tedlock, PhD  "The Shamanic Power & Spirituality of
Dreaming".   I

nvited Presenter:
Robert Moss   "The Secret History of Dreaming"

Conference participants can earn up to 25 CE credits in Dreams and
Dreaming.  IASD is approved by the American Psychological Association
to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  IASD maintains
responsibility for the program.

Whatever your interest in dreams, you will find something to enjoy at
the IASD Earth Dreaming Conference.  Explore the world of dreams!  Go
to the conference web site at www.asdreams.org/2009 for registration
and further information.



Mailing Address:
International Association for the Study of Dreams
1672 University Ave.
Berkeley, CA  94703
US

Contact Name: Richard Wilkerson
Telephone Number: (209) 724-0889

LOOKING FOR PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS OF 9/11.

Documentary film producers looking for dreamers who had precognitive
dreams of 9/11 for VISION TV series.

We will be in the LA and San Francisco area October 22nd to 26th
Please e-mail Shannon Brown at:
shannon@...

Hi to all old Electric Dreamers,

  Please note this new book by Robert Waggoner on Lucid Dreaming, and
more....  Richard Wilkerson


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Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self
Robert Waggoner

October 2008, $18.95 paper, 320 pages
ISBN: 978-1-930491-14-4
Published by Moment Point Press, momentpoint.com
Distributed by Red Wheel Weiser, redwheelweiser.com
http://momentpoint.com/html/catalog/lucid_dreaming/overview.html


"In this remarkable book, Robert Waggoner has brought lucid dreaming
to a level that is simultaneously higher and deeper than any previous
explorer has taken the topic. Both autobiographical and historical,
theoretical and practical, psychodynamic and transpersonal, as well
as adventurous and cautionary, Lucid Dreaming offers its readers
instructions and insights that they will find nowhere else in the
literature. They will learn how they can become awake and aware while
asleep, and how this talent can change their lives."

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate
School and Research Center, San Francisco; Coauthor of Extraordinary
Dreams and How To Work With Them


"Robert Waggoner's unique storytelling style is compelling reading—an
impressive exploration of the subject. The work is scholarly,
fascinating, and, most of all, practical."
Christine Lemley, Executive Producer,
DREAMTIME Series, WFYI/PBS-TV Indianapolis

"A truly extraordinary, horizon-expanding book! Robert Waggoner goes
further and deeper than any of his predecessors in exploring the
implications of lucid dreaming for our synthesized understanding of
consciousness, reality, and spirituality."

Robert Van de Castle, Former President, IASD; Professor Emeritus,
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center; Author of Our Dreaming
Mind

"A must read for anyone with a serious interest in lucid dreams.
Robert Waggoner has written a book examining the depth and breadth of
the potential of lucid dreaming. His sensitivity to the transpersonal
elements of lucidity are especially illuminating."

Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D., Editor of Psychology and the Internet:
Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implication

"Robert Waggoner admirably fulfills his aim of bringing lucidity to
lucid dreaming. His book is distinguished by its wealth of first-hand
experience, and his clear recognition that, instead of seeking to
control and manipulate our dreams, we should use the gift of lucidity
to navigate a deeper reality and grow into connection with a deeper
and wiser self."

Robert Moss, Author of Conscious Dreaming and The Three "Only"
Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination



ROBERT WAGGONER is President-elect of the International Association
for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and a graduate of Drake University
with a degree in psychology. Over the past thirty years, he has
logged more than a thousand lucid dreams. He is a frequent speaker at
national and international dream conferences and the coeditor of The
Lucid Dream Exchange (dreaminglucid.com).


For more information, please contact
Susan Ray at Moment Point Press
susan@...
(800) 556-1828
momentpont.com
http://momentpoint.com/html/catalog/lucid_dreaming/overview.html

Go Ahead and Dream of the Future,
But Don't Forget to Save These Dates!!!

Unable to attend physical reality conferences, but longing for more
contact with the international community of dreamers? You'll love the
virtual reality of this year's PsiberDreaming Conference. Two weeks
of papers, workshops and discussion with dream experts and the
participants from around the world, this conference will be held
between September 21 and October 5, 2008. Online at the International
Association for the Study of Dreams.

REGISTER NOW at http://www.asdreams.org/psi2008

The theme for this year's 25th Anniversary conference is "Dreaming
the Future of Dreaming". We'll take a look at the past with
presentations like Teresa MacColl's "Dreaming With the Ancestors" and
archaeologist Dr.Curtiss Hoffman's "Glimpses Below the Surface:
Dreams and Archaeological Prospecting." We'll look at the future with
presentations like Ralf Penderak's "DaFuMu and Evolution" and former
IASD President Kelly Bulkeley's "Dreaming Commentaries on the 2008 US
Presidential Election."

And we'll have fun with two weeks of contests, real-time chats, and
workshops like Ed Kellogg's "The Once and Future Dreamer." Author and
researcher Stephan A. Schwartz will share a chapter on dreams from
his new book Opening to the Infinite.

IASD welcomes new members with the PsiberDreaming Conference. In
addition to providing affordable conference fees of $40 for
nonmembers, $35 for IASD members, and $25 for students with valid ID,
anyone who signs on for a first-time IASD membership between August
15 and October 1, 2008 receives free admission to the PsiberDreaming
conference.

Be sure to look for the two Special Features of PsiberDreaming 2008
Through Which You Can Make Dreaming History:

Dreaming the Future of Dreaming: What will be the future of dream
work in the next 25 years?

and

The PsiberDreaming Art Gallery An invitation to all dreamers who
would like to share their dream-inspired artwork



For further information go to http://www.asdreams.org/psi2008/


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www.asdreams.org

E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s  - Final Issue   14(7&8) August 2007


After fourteen years, I have decided to retire Electric Dreams.

The related dream groups will continue (see below), I’m just giving the
publication (and the publisher!) a rest.  I feel very proud of Electric
Dreams, both the publication and the communities it has spawned and the
influence we have had upon other individuals and organizations. The idea,
which evolved from a dream sharing community, was to create a swarm of free
speech forums for dreams and dreamwork online, and create a global dream
community. At the time, only a few individuals in the dream community could
actively publish information and communicate online. The Electric Dreams
publication provided a forum for these groups and individuals to materialize
in cyberspace.  Now I feel that dreamers and dreamworkers  (and dreams) have
easy access to the online global community and dreams and dream sharing has
become a common feature of virtual life.

I hope all of you who contributed will feel the warm fuzzy feeling of this
success in giving birth to the Dream Movement online, and will continue its
virtualization and actualization through your dreams and the dreams of your
communities and organizations.

Now what?   I have some comments from current Electric Dreams staff and
contributors listed below, then will include some historical information
about Electric Dreams and the Dream Movement online.  As always, there are
resources listed for further exploration of dreaming in cyberspace and
beyond.   As a thanks to the hundreds of contributors, I have listed the
articles that Janet Garrett has been (and will continue) extracting from
past issues and archiving.  It is a very impressive library of articles!
Special thanks to the regular contributors, Lucy Gillis & Robert Waggoner,
Jean Campbell, Linda Magallón, Stan Kulikowski II, David Jenkins, Victoria
Quinton, Kat Peters-Midland, Phyllis Howing, and so, so many others.

Thanks to Harry Bosma and all the past Global Dreaming News editors. You may
want to use the IASD News bulletin board or the IASD E-News to access the
many dream related events around the world. Use http://enews.kintera.org/
to subscribe to the E-news.  I would like to encourage you ~all~ to become
members of the International Association for the Study of Dreams,
asdreams.org . I hope you will join me and the many other extraordinary
dreamers this September for the ONLINE 2007 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
asdreams.org/psi2007

  I will be continuing the Postmodern Dreaming web page and continue my
support for ideas that push beyond the normal limits of dreaming and
dreamsharing.
http://dreamgate.com/pomo

I had a series of short dreams this morning. I won’t go into them all but
each one of these dreams ended the same, in an oddly perfect way; one about
moving to a new apartment, some about being at a conference, one about
traveling…and at the end of each one, I said to myself, in not quite such
clear terms as this,  “Another perfect ending, that’s so odd for my dreams.”

Gone Dreamin’

  Richard Catlett Wilkerson
  rcwilk@...




C O N T E N T S

++  Final Notes and Thanks (above)
       Richard Wilkerson

++  World Dreams Peace Bridge
        Invitation!
        Jean Campbell

++ The Lucid Dream Exchange
        Invitation!
        Lucy Gillis

++ Article: A Brief History of Dream Sharing in Cyberspace
                    Richard Catlett Wilkerson

++ Article: A Brief History of the Electric Dreams DreamWheel.
                    Richard Catlett Wilkerson

++ Article: Cyberdream - History Notes. Electric Dreams 4(7).
                    Richard Catlett Wilkerson

++ Article: The Internet as a Dream Journal
                    Richard Catlett Wilkerson

Final Quote – Dreaming online and Spirituality

++ The Electric Dreams Article Index of Thanks!

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THANK YOU, RICHARD!

FROM JEAN CAMPBELL AND ALL THE FOLKS
  ON THE WORLD DREAMS PEACE BRIDGE

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I was going to write a View From the Bridge for August.  It was a funny
story.  But when Richard told me that he planned to take a break from
editing Electric Dreams, I decided I was too sad to write the funny story.
I'll just send the punch line.  It goes like this.

"If this were my dream, and a Japanese , an American, an Englishwoman and
one from Turkey were discussing the derivation of 'Fuck" (as in "Don't F***
it up!") under a header saying 'Native American Blessing', what would you
have to say ?!?"

What I would say is that is pretty typical of the World Dreams Peace Bridge.
We hope that you'll remember to visit us at www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
in the absence of Electric Dreams, and that you might even like to join our
Yahoogroups discussion by sending an email to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

There are photos of the World Dreams prize-winning "Best Group Dream"
costume, worn at the Dream Ball at IASD's recent conference at Sonoma State
here: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/asd2007conferencephotos.htm
and photos from Drum Dance and Dream for Peace, sponsored by the Peace
Bridge on the National Mall in Washington in June here:
www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/drumming

We'll miss Electric Dreams, and thank you, Richard, for providing a place
for us all these years.

REMEMBER TO REGISTER FOR THE IASD PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE, HELD THIS YEAR
FROM SEPTEMBER 23 THROUGH OCTOBER 7 http://asdreams.org/psi2007/index.htm

Throughout recent history, many famous artists, scientists, politicians and
others have recorded dreams which led them to life-changing discoveries and
creative work. This list includes (but is not limited to): Mark Twain,
Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelly, Alice Walker, Isabel
Allende, Sting, John Lennon and Carl Jung. Most of these dreams contained an
element of psi: telepathy, precognition, psychopompic dreaming.

This year's PsiberDreaming Conference will present papers and workshops,
special events and discussions focusing on how some of these creative dreams
might have come about--and how any of us might use dreaming for creative
endeavors.
http://asdreams.org/psi2007/index.htm


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An Invitation to Join
The Lucid Dream Exchange

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The Lucid Dream Exchange is an independently published, reader supported,
quarterly publication that features lucid dreams, interviews, and articles
on lucid dreaming. Our goal is to educate and inspire lucid dreamers through
sharing lucid dreams, exploring lucid dream techniques, and discussing the
implications of lucid dream activities.

To subscribe, please send a blank email to

TheLucidDreamExchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

When you subscribe, you will be sent a request to confirm your subscription.

Just follow the instructions (reply to the message).

PLEASE NOTE: In order to access the LDE site to view and print issues of LDE
you will need to set up a yahoo mail account.

You will be notified when new issues are available, and when news or monthly
reminders are sent. If you decide you no longer want to be subscribed to
LDE, you can unsubscribe easily by sending a blank email to

TheLucidDreamExchange-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you have any questions, please email us at info@...

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Places to share dreams and thoughts
and ideas about dreams and dreaming online

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Electric Dreams has collected together its own link set, long before the
days of Google. Many of these links have rotted, but I think they provide a
kind of historical, annotated history of dream sharing at the turn of the
century.

Thanks to our many website supporters@ links! See
  http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources

Thanks to the following dream-sharing groups!

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DreamChatters
  dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters
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The DreamWheel
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamwheel
  dreamwheel-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
  dreamwheel-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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DreamShare
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamshare
  dreamshare-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
  dreamshare-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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World Dreams Peace Bridge
  http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/index.htm
Subscribe: worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: worlddreams-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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For IASD Members
http://asdreams.org/study
E-Study Groups on all sorts of topics in Dreaming. Participants must become
members within a month after joining.




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A Brief History of Dream Sharing in Cyberspace
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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"OK, you've seen the heavy groups,
now for some Morning Maniac Music!"
Grace Slick

Because of the dense interconnectivity of the Net, the dozens of online
dream networks are able to each serve multiple functions including news
gathering and dissemination, study groups, resource listings, literature
archiving, message boards for discussions and other functions. Still, dream
work continues to be a major thread and this issue column will cover the
early developments, message boards and e-mail dream sharing. The next issue
will focus on the explosion of the dream sharing sites on the World Wide Web
and other new forums.

Caution: ASD does not endorse nor support any of these sites or practices.
The purpose of this article is informational and educational.

Pre-(Net)Historic Dream Communications
Long distance communications have been available for quite awhile and have
been used by dream concerned individuals in various ways. Phone calls to
fellow researchers, 900 dream interpretation numbers, calls to friends and
family about "The nightmare I just had!" and pre-cognitive dream fears are
all well known (1), as well as talk shows on Radio and Television.

With the advent of modems, devices able to connect computers via telephone
lines, there arose regional Bulletin Board services (BBS). Now people could
leave messages and communicate with others who weren't directly connected to
the Bulletin Board at that particular moment. John Herbert, for example,
used this system to conduct a study on the difference between dream groups
that met only by posts to bulletin boards, and those meeting Face-to-Face
(2). But to connect to a BBS you have to call that phone number directly. If
you don't live in the same Area Code, it can get very expensive. And so one
BBS would be somewhat isolated from other BBS's.

When USENET became popular among the USA University crowd in the late
1980's, the idea of the Regional Bulletin Board was expanded nationally (and
in some cases, internationally) and the discussion of dreams could be found
in various Usenet Newsgroup topic boards. Usenet was organized like a real
bulletin board, where one could post a note and others could read and post
replies. Group discussions may them develop over time. Because of the
popularity of BBS's, the Usenet bulletin boards were called "Newsgroups". By
the 1990's all but the most wild of the Newsgroups were accessible via the
Internet, and it was clear that dreams needed their own Newsgroup.
"alt.dreams" was formed (3).

The Newsgroup alt.dreams was originally suggested by Jack Campin as a way to
study contemporary culture. He wanted a snapshot of dreams in the late 20th
Century much in the same way that The Third Reich of Dreams (4) gives a
snapshot of the society in Nazi Germany. But it was soon apparent that the
real appeal of alt.dreams was to share dreams and discussions about their
significance and meaning.

Although alt.dreams provided a global gathering spot and spawned other
related newsgroups like alt.dreams.lucid and alt.dreams.castaneda, the
un-moderated venue lacked something essential for those used to face-to-face
dream sharing. Individuals that did want more formed smaller private e-mail
groups away from the alt.dreams newsgroup.

Electric Dreams and other Dream Communities
One of these groups distributed a collection of the dreams and comments
between the subscribers and then published the comments and replies in a
weekly format. When I found the community in the fall of 1994 they had grown
to about 60 members and the dreams and comments were shared in a bi-monthly
E-zine, (an electronically distributed magazine via E-mail) which they
called Electric Dreams. Interest in this format grew and Electric Dreams
grew from 60 to 500 subscribers in the following year and added news,
articles and experimental dream events, but remained primarily focused on
dream sharing in cyberspace. Concerns about this free speech forum now
include a). the potential abuse of interpretive authority (anyone can
comment and pretend they are someone they are not and some feel that *any*
comment is abusive), b). lack of support for dreamers who submit dreams
(what if a dream interpretation unlocks psychological instability?) and c).
context or set & setting confusion (5) (What if someone thinks this is
psychotherapy, what if children joined a group with adults? ).

Another of the problems faced by the Electric Dreams community was the two
week delay in the dream being presented and the return comments. A solution
was found when I met John Herbert and participated in his ALL SeniorNet
Dream Bulletin Board. John Herbert's groups used a variation of some of the
Ullman/Zimmerman techniques (10), which he had worked out on the WELL and
ALL. A dream was selected, the group asked non-interpretive questions, then
each person took the dream as their own. During the process, the dreamer
could respond or reply as he or she chose.

The process was modified for e-mail and the first Electric Dreams Dream
Circles (6) were created. A dream was passed around in round-robin style
from one e-mail address with questions and replies added by each
participant. The ED Dream Circle was great for sharing dreams, but an
administrative nightmare. Jay Vinton suggested we use a Mail List style
approach and the problems seemed to disappear. In a Mail List approach, all
the members send all comments to everyone in the group, even if the comment
is directed to just one individual. This process creates a feeling of group
identity and cohesion.

These new mail list dream groups, the Dream Wheels (No connection with the
Ramsay Raymond Dreamwheel), have evolved in several new creative directions.
Generally the process has been refined and newer sharing and distribution
methods have improved (For more on the technical aspects of Mail Lists, see
the Dream Cyberphile pg 26 in the ASD newsletter 1996 13.1, 26-27.).
However, while the technical & methodological procedures have developed
quickly, the resolution of concerns about the safety and appropriateness of
dream sharing online seems to be taking a little more time.

Cyber-Dream Sharing Goes To School and Gets International Attention
Both Jayne Gackenbach and I felt that combining education with the
experiential groups represented an advance over just offering experimental
groups. Several projects followed. Jayne developed a program with Grant
MacEwan which now includes e-mail classes and bulletin board dream
sharing.(8) . When I expanded the DreamGate classes to include the community
beyond Electric Dreams subscribers, we incorporated many of the safety
features that Jayne created and implemented in her classes including the
post-session questionnaires and the pre-session clarifications about the
context and rules of group.(9)

When the Dream Cyberworld Project for the ASD XIII conference was proposed,
the ASD executive board foresightedly accepted and supported the project.
The only concern was that dream sharing via computers at the conference
might be confused as promotion or endorsement when in fact we were all still
wondering as a group just exactly what it really was. The Conference XIII
programs thus provided no online dream sharing, but did provide plenty of
examples and samples, giving interested individuals a chance to see the
spectrum of possibilities .

During the Berkeley Conference XIII, Sarah Richard's brought together in a
panel the many of the more active of individuals involved in online dream
sharing, including Jayne Gackenback, Jeremy Taylor, John Herbert and myself.
Fred Olsen and Linton Hutchinson also participated in sharing their
collective experiences. Not one of these people reported any problems with
online dream sharing in any of the groups or sessions. There were some who
were confused about the procedures at times, and some who didn't participate
who didn't like the *idea* of what was happening, but no reports of unhappy
participants or incidents requiring crisis intervention.

The idea of dream sharing on the Net continues to bring to peoples' minds a
myriad of possible disasters. Why haven't these disasters shown up?

Herbert's study suggests that online dream sharing provides more insight
than face-to-face dream sharing. His results were not statistically
significant but reveal an observation that in the cooler, non-confrontive
atmosphere of writing e-mail at one's home computer, the responses and
questions to and from the dreamer are more reflective and less emotional.
This also points to a weakness in e-mail dream sharing scheme for those who
like more emotional interplay. It appears then, that while dream groups
online may not yet be appropriate for many psychotherapy, they do provide a
safe and anonymous venue for adults to meaningfully explore meaning and
value.

As these dream sharing groups evolve and more studies are done, we will have
a better picture of the scope, range and relevancy of e-mail and bulletin
board style dream sharing.

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References:
(1) Dream Phone services have been used, for example, by the Delaney &
Flowers Center for the Study of Dreams, Fred Olsen's Reentry line and the
Hotline of Tony Dubetz, among others.

(2) Herbert, J.W.(1991) "Human Science Research Methods in Studying
Dreamwork: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and
Computer Dream Work Groups" Unpublished Manuscript, Saybrook Institute, San
Francisco, <http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/Greet.html> (25 Nov. 1996)

(3) Herbert, J. W. (1991). "Notes on the creation of alt.dreams." In "Human
Science Research Methods.. (see above)
<http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/ApI-AltD.html> (28 Oct. 1996)

(4) Beradt, Charlotte (1966). The Third Reich of Dreams. Translated by
Adriane Gottwald. Chicago: Quadrangle Books

(5) Richards, Sarah (1996, April 22). "RE: Dream Interpretation: The
significance of set and setting." ASD Web Bulletin Board.
<http://www.outreach.org/cgi-bin/dbml.exe?template=/asd/thread.dbm&threadid=
171&messages=26#373>(25 Nov. 1996)

(6) Wilkerson, Richard C.. (1995). "Dream Circles: A Sample Session of Dream
Sharing using E-mail Round Robin.". Electric Dreams.
<http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/circle>(28 Nov. 1996)

(7) Wilkerson, R. & Hicks, C. (1996). "Dreamwheels: a Sample Session of
Dream Sharing Using Mail List Formats."
<http://www.dreamgate.com/asd-13/2lb12.htm>(28 Nov. 1996)

(8) Gackenbach, Jayne (1996). Unlocking the Secrets of your Dreams. Grant
MacEwan Community College. <http://www.outreach.org/dreams/> (25 Oct. 1996)

(9) Wilkerson, Richard C. (1996). From Ancient Thrace to Cyberspace: The
History & Practice of Dream Sharing. DreamGate Classes.
<http://www.dreamgate.com>(28 Nov. 1996)

(10) See Herbet's paper for the similarities and differences between Ullman
and Herbert.






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Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 April)
A Brief History of the Electric Dreams DreamWheel.
Electric Dreams 7(4).

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The Electric Dreams community started as a dream group whose members
originally met on the Usenet newsgroup alt.dreams in early 1994. The group
formed to see if they could deepen the responses to dreams via e-mail, as
the alt.dreams format seemed to get stuck at more superficial levels of
interaction.

The original Electric Dreams group sent dreams in to an editor who compiled
them and send them out with any comments from previous dreams every couple
of weeks. For a few months this was fun and created a core community, but
over time people wanted to share more recent dreams and discuss them more
quickly.

I started the DreamCircle (1995) as a way to speed up the dream/comment time
for the Electric Dreams community. We tried some round robins and other
methods, and then used the CC: field to create the feel of a mail list. That
was Jay Vinton's suggestion. Since it went out in spokes, but turned, I
named it the DreamWheel.

I set up a mail list (listserv/majordomo) in 1996 through IGC, the Institute
for Global Communications. We used a variation on a technique developed by
John Herbert, Ph.D. for dream sharing on AOL SeniorNet bulletin boards. The
technique the Wheel uses now is very similar to John's, though we are often
looser with its application and tend to exaggerate the question period. John
feels this makes it harder for other in the group to give "...if this were
my dream." comments. But we have found that people really, really, *like* to
answer the questions and get that kind of attention for parts of the psyche
so often neglected.

To make the Wheel acceptable to the Association for the Study of Dreams,
Sarah Richards implemented a change from "If this were my dream..." to "In
my respondent dream..." to avoid the issues with the techniques being
claimed by Montague Ullman. It was reported that Ullman was unhappy that
John Herbert claimed to be using his technique, as it didn't include many
elements of the original process, some of which Ullman felt were essential,
such as the emotional work. Still, "If this were my dream..." is a phrase so
many people use, and though perhaps differently, it immediately signals to
many the general idea of what's happening. John and I both prefer to take
this one step further and directly or indirectly say "In my dream..." to
continue the notion that we are not giving the dreamer advice and taking our
own personal journey. Sometimes "if this were my dream..." gets
unconsciously translated into "If I were you..." rather than "When I pretend
it really is *my* dream and about *my* life." which was the intention we
want to get at. However, I am also looser about group process and only
*suggest* this way when I moderate groups. I prefer new participants at
least try it out.

Anyway, to further make the DreamWheel acceptable to ASD [now IASD], Jayne
Gackenbach wrote up a questionnaire that was given out at the end of each
series of dreams.

We used to do five or six dreams, then call it quits, unsubscribe everyone
and start over. This made people actively take a part in staying with the
Wheel, and make it a more intimate group. At the end of each series the
questionnaire would be given out to make sure the moderator had not become a
tyrant and everyone was heard if the process didn't allow for various
important expressions or ideas. But eventually the Wheel became permanent or
continuous, and we accepted lurkers like the elders that hang out at the
edge of a village, rarely participating unless they see something troubling.
Since the Wheel was continual, it became hard to know when to put out the
questionnaire. I still would like to include it as an option once every
month or two instead of our haphazard samplings.

We often took turns being moderators in the beginning, but it takes a lot
more work than you might imagine. Eventually Chris Hicks volunteered during
one of our madhouse-DreamWheel fests. Sometimes we would have several wheels
and sub-wheels going at the same time. Chris was very attentive and
eventually moderated the main wheel for a year or so. We have had about
three other moderators since then, and I fill in the gaps.
The group was run for some years by the very find moderator, Kathy Turner,
and then the most consistent and dedicated moderator, now owner, Phylllis
Howing.

Also, participants have gone on to create their own DreamWheels and some in
other venues and languages. Roger Ripert, for example, has a IRC gathering
on the first Thursday of each month for people who speak French. Visitors,
like Jay Belbo have visited the groups and initiated special dreamwork
projects.

Once a year, we would get the permission of one of the groups to publish the
transcripts. The intention is for others to see the process and be able to
learn and use it themselves.

Here are a few other places where the story is told differently:

Wilkerson, Richard (1999). The Origins of the Electric Dreams Community:
Part I
Electric Dreams 6(11), http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues/

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (Winter, 1997). A History of Dream Sharing in
Cyberspace - Part I The Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter
14(1).
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/cyberphile/rcwasd05.htm

A History of DreamSharing in Cyberspace
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/history/

Wilkerson, R. & Herbert, J. (1995). John Herbert and the Internet Group
Dreamwork . Electric Dreams 2(6), www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues/

Look for 1995, Electric Dreams volume 2 issue #6

Herbert, J.W.(1991) "Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork:
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and Computer Dream
Work Groups" Unpublished Manuscript, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco,
http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/Greet.html (25 Nov.1996)

Herbert, J. W. (1991). "Notes on the creation of alt.dreams." In "Human
Science Research Methods.. (see above)
http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/Greet.html (28 Oct. 1996)

Herbert, John (1996). The Founding of alt.dreams Some historical
cyber-dreaming notes. Electric Dreams 3(9).
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-articles/ed3-9her.htm (Oct. 1996)

Herbert, J.W. (1991) "Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork:
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and Computer Dream
Work Groups" Unpublished Manuscript, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, (pps
155-157).
NOW see http://www.asdreams.org/cyberdreams/herbert.htm

Wilkerson, Richard C. (1995). "Dream Circles: A Sample Session of Dream
Sharing using E-mail Round Robin.". Electric Dreams.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/circle (28 Nov. 1996)

Wilkerson, R. & Hicks, C. (1996). "Dreamwheels: a Sample Session of Dream
Sharing Using Mail List Formats." http://www.dreamgate.com/asd-13/2lb12.htm
(28 Nov. 1996)

Gackenbach, Jayne (1996). Unlocking the Secrets of your Dreams. Grant
MacEwan Community College. http://www.outreach.org/dreams/ (25 Oct. 1996)

Wilkerson, Richard C. (1996). From Ancient Thrace to Cyberspace: The History
& Practice of Dream Sharing. DreamGate Classes.
http://www.dreamgate.com/class (28 Nov. 1996)

Wilkerson, Richard C. (1999). The History of Dream Sharing: Theory,
Techniques and Cyberspace. San Francisco, CA: DreamGate Publishing.

Spivok, Lars (1999).Interview: Electric Dreams Interviews Richard Wilkerson
about his new CDRom, _A Brief History of Dream Sharing_.

Sample Session - John Herbert
http://users.aol.com/john0417/dmgp/dg16.html

Sample Session - Electric Dreams Dream Wheel
http://www.asdreams.org/asd-13/2lb12.htm

Sample Session - Electric Dreams Dream Wheel
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues/ed5-9.txt


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Cyberdream - History Notes. Electric Dreams 4(7).
Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 August).

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I thought I would include this article for those of you who need a short
summary of dream sharing online. This is a reprint of an topic I brought up
on the Cybermind discussion list.


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Date:Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:50:27 -0400
From:AOL User <RCWilk@...>
Subject: Cyberdreams - History Notes

Cyber-dream - History Notes

Dreams form a valuable group of objects in our culture in that, among other
things, resist commodification. They are free, and its hard to sell them, or
even get attention for them. It is no wonder the capital cultures attempt to
teach us through mother's voice that "it's just a dream".We are taught to be
bored and disinterested in other's dreams and see them as narcissistic
indulgences and random neural foam.

Now that the grassroots dreamwork movement that has been growing since the
sixties is online, there is an unique opportunity to watch and participate
in how this unfolds in cyberspace.

When I first came online most of the dream sharing was done via email and
occasional IRC. I tried to track down dream sharing in MUDs and MOOs, but it
has proven to be too spontaneous. Someone will mention a dream they had,
others may join in. If you have records of this, send me a reference.
All of the dream sharing at that time was non-clinical, grassroots insight
and peer relationship oriented. The quality varied widely. Many groups
achieved very imaginal, though time limited, insight groups. Sometimes it
was just spew of folklore and pseudo-psychology.

The first really unique cyber-dream groups were developed by John Herbert as
offshoots of his work in prisons and on BBSs. John migrated from the WELL to
AOL when Seniornet offered him free bulletin board space to conduct his
research. They really had him buried there, and it took me months to find
him even after I heard he was doing dreamwork online.

John's study compared offline and online groups, revealing that while
face-to-face groups, as he calls them, offer a more emotional experience,
the online groups were self-rated as higher in insight by the dreamer
presenting the dream. If you are interested in his work, see:

Herbert, J.W.(1991).Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork:
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and Computer Dream
Work Groups&quot; Unpublished Manuscript, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco,
http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/Greet.html
(25 Nov.1996)

About the same time the Usenet newsgroup alt.dreams emerged, originally
suggested by Jack Campin as a way to study contemporary culture. He wanted a
snapshot of dreams in the late 20th Century much in the same way that _The
Third Reich of Dreams_gives a snapshot of the society in Nazi Germany. But
it was soon apparent that the real appeal of alt.dreams was to share dreams
and discussions about their significance and meaning.Now alt.dream.lucid and
alt.dreams.castaneda have split off to form their own discussion areas.
Still, there was continual disappointment around the dream sharing.

The original Electric Dreams community formed out of a response to the
shallowness of these discussions. Using the unique Net abilities to send
mail around cheaply, a group of 60 or so dreamers formed an e-zine of dreams
and comments on dreams that they distributed bi-monthly. Eventually we began
experimenting with Herbert's techniques via email, forming short lived but
intensely focused groups. Unlike other mail lists that grow and shrink
according to their own pattern, the Electric Dreams groups automatically
unsubscrib*d everyone automatically at the end of each group. The key
technique seem to be having everyone own upfront their own psychological
projections, by saying prefacing, either literally or in an implied way "In
my dream..."Or " If this were my dream...."This reduced the group as
something being "done" to the dreamer and opened up the energy for the whole
group to participate in.

About this time the Web was beginning to take off and an explosion of unique
cyber-dream sharing began, from interpretive services to free comment boards
to a wild and wide variety of non- interpretive sharing, such as dream
inspired art galleries, hyperlinked dream journals and soulful mythical
education centers arising from cultural and archetypal psychology.

In 1996 the Association for the Study of Dreams held its annual conference
in Berkeley, and this was a hard time for the Electric Dreams community.
Basically the ASD board was very wary of dream sharing online and determined
to not have any exhibitions of this at the conference. This was during that
paranoid time when the only reports to the general public on the Net seemed
to be about child abuse and pornography. (The planning for the conference
was all in 1994-1995).The board was very generous about dreams and computers
in other ways and gave us room enough for the week to set up a half dozen
computers, have demos, clinics, seminars, and discussion panels. Just no
dream sharing. That was taboo. I'm still struggling with policies of linkage
with the online web site.

The issue of free speech in Cyberspace then began to take prominence. As you
can guess, some dreams and dream sharing can dip very quickly into - well,
odd and adult topics. This has forced us to remind people who sign up for
groups that they *are*, at this time, meant for adults. There is no reason
they couldn't be handled appropriately with children, but no one to my
knowledge has yet attempted to run such a group.

For the text of a sample group,
www.dreamgate.com/asd-13/2lb12.htm

Once dreams have been liberated from the couch and brought out into the
culture at large, a wonderful group of events seem to occur, at least within
the group. New ways of entertaining dream images that are not tied to
medical models begin to unfold in a wide variety of directions.

And that's the question I like to keep putting out - what are ways to
approach dream images on the Net that provide meaning and value? Poetically
speaking, what does the dream image itself call for that can happen only in
current electric currents?

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The Internet as a Dream Journal
Richard Catlett Wilkerson

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Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (Winter, 1999). The Internet as a Dream Journal.
The Association for the Study of Dreams Cyberphile. Dream Time 16(1)

The most common way to record a dream today is in a dream journal. However,
this was not always so. Early dream sharing was most likely verbal and done
around a village fire. Whoever else happened to be awake at the time acted
as the journal, a human surface against which the dream was recorded. Rather
than the private and isolated act that keeping a journal has become, the
dream was originally distributed across the social network.

Contemporary dream groups have helped bridge this gap between the isolated
dreamer and his/her society. But since we don’t wake up within direct
earshot of the group, sequestered journal keeping remains our primary
recording medium. The Internet can’t yet give back the intimate social
experience of the village fire, but it does offer new opportunities in
social recording and processing. With a few selections, one can both record
and share a dream at the same time. The dream might go out anonymously to a
general public or be shared with more personal details in an intimate group.


E-mail will automatically stamp a date and time on your dream record. Even
if you send the e-mail to yourself, this creates a dated journal. Many
e-mail programs offer special mail boxes, that will automatically sort
through both incoming and outgoing e-mail. Most people use these for sorting
incoming mail from a particular topic area or person, but they can just as
easily be used to keep a record of dreams.

E-mail can be further configured to distribute to a group. Different groups
now online offer different methods for recording your dreams and getting
different types responses. Willem Linschoten offers a group called the Daily
Analyst. Willem is a psychiatrist but offers the group as a public
exploration of psychoanalytic dynamics. Participants, mostly from the
Netherlands and America, create a living journal of dream adventures against
a heuristic background of educational essays and comments.

The Daily Analyst - http://callisto.worldonline.nl/~cb008448

For those who like group projects, mutual dreaming and psychic dream tests,
the Intuition Network offers the e-mail list dreams@.... Here
dreams are send in with subject titles marked with a "d." indicating a
dream, or a regular subject title for conversation. The group has different
levels of self-revelation, from full anonymity to full disclosure. Everyone
is on a first name basis and the feeling tone is very friendly.

http://www.intuitions.org select Conferences to find the Dream list.

MorpheusDreams is a new list that specializes in dreams and spirituality.
The forum leader, Dr. Deus, is quite active and responsive and the center of
the group. Special topics, such as dreams of the dead and transcendent
dreams will cycle from one week to the next. The moderator likes to generate
lots of mythological associations, and has as his stated motive the proof of
a divine soul.

http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/MorpheusDreams

The Electric Dreams community offers three different dream journal
opportunities via e-mail. The first is a list called dream-flow. This is an
open list, where dreams and comments on dreams flow in and out from a
variety of sources. The dreams and comments are doubly recorded. The e-mail
posts are archived publicly and they are also published once a month on the
Electric Dreams e-zine, which is the second e-mail list. Electric Dreams
also allows dreamers to send in pictures and dream inspired graphics in an
illustrated version of the same e-zine. Electric Dreams is also archived
online in a distributed manner, with members keeping full and partial
collections on mirror sites, creating a redundant and thereby robust memory
and archiving system.

The Electric Dreams community offers a third e-mail group, called the
DreamWheels. [No connection with the wonderful Ramsay Raymond Dreamwheel]
These are more private groups that are limited in number and time or
duration. They experiment with various kinds of dream sharing, the most
popular being the styles developed by John Herbert for electronic channels
in the early 1990s. [see Cyberphile 1997 ASD Newsletter 14(1)] The records
of these groups are usually keep confidential, though they are occasionally
published with the permission of the participants.

http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams

Bulletin Boards, Usenet Newsgroups and Web Sites.

Another way to use the Internet as a dream journal is to post dreams on a
bulletin board. The most popular bulletin boards on dreams and dreaming are
the Usenet Newsgroups. To contact these, you really need a news-reader
program and your Internet provider [ISP] has to carry the groups. If you are
on America Online, you can use the keyword "usenet" and then subscribe to
the newsgroups you want.

The most popular dream boards are alt.dreams, alt.dreams.lucid and
alt.dreams.castaneda but there are several others that talk about dreams and
dreaming as well, including alt. jung alt.psyhology, alt.psychology.help and
talk.religion.newage.

Posting to these boards creates two kinds of archived records. The first
lasts about two weeks. During that time, people can comment on your posts,
creating "threads" of notes that are connected to the original post. After
that time, the posts go into long term holding archives. The best way to
access these archives right now is via a search engine called Deja-News
www.dejanews.com This service will also allow you to post messages without
having direct access to the Usenet Newsgroups.

As an archiving service, these groups are very convenient. Dreams sent in to
them will be time stamped and dated. Researchers can search via keywords.
Don’t expect too much in the way of intelligent comments at this time. The
Oneiroatti have not yet found these groups. There are Internet Service
Providers (ISP) such as America Online, MSN and Prodigy that offer bulletin
board posting of dreams as well in their local forums. But the status of the
posts, how long they will last and what happens to the archives over time is
at present unclear. See for example the AOL Psych Online forums or the
Alternative Medicine Forum, Altmed.

An alternative to the Newsgroups and ISPs is the individually owned web
site. Jeremy Taylor, for example, provides a dream discussion area where
dreams can be posted in the same style as on a Usenet Newsgroup. The
guestbook has archives, but it is unclear what will happen with the posts
over time.

http://www.jeremytaylor.com/

An artistic variation is as site by Gail Bixler-Thomas, where dreamers can
post the dream with a picture and the dreamer’s own interpretation.

http://members.aol.com/gbt1/index.htm

Jesse Reklaw has been providing a unique dream recording service for years,
but only a few special dreams get chosen. He turns the chosen dreams sent in
into comic strips, and these are archived.

http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi.

Again, the length of the post is up to the individual Web site owner. The
solution is to put up and maintain your own private Web site.

The private dream journal sites are too numerous to mention individually,
but I wanted to point out a few of the characteristics and general flavor of
these sites. Often they are like a normal journal, with dream collections
from various time periods. These can vary widely. Some people have put
online dream journal collections that cover many years of dreaming, while
others have put up collections that cover a few days or months. Many of the
sites include illustrations and are more like dream inspired art galleries,
while others are completely text entries and pages. Some of the online
journals include feedback forms and comments to the dreamer, while others
allow for sorting and searching of particular dream themes. A new appearance
has been the appearance of Web-Rings, which tie together themes, such as
dream journals, together in a connected hyperlinking indexing system. Dan
Cummings attempted a similar project within one web site. He linked themes
within dreams to other sites. For example, creating links from a dream
alligator to a site about mythic alligators and save the crocodile clubs.
[see ASD Newsletter, 1995 12(2), 7]

Storing dreams and recording dreams in computers offline have been discussed
by Peggy Coats (see above article) and others, such as Sarah Richards
[http://www.iris-publishing.com/] and Cynthia Pearson. ["The Dream Index:
Thanks to Bill Gates, It's Working." Paper presentation, ASD-12, June 22,
1995.]

The channels of these journals used to be read-out-only or print. That is,
we could print the files or read from them verbally or to ourselves. Now
they are becoming more integrated with online programs and beginning to
distribute themselves across the global network.

If you have been feeling anxious about this dispersal of private material
into the public arena, you are not alone. The Internet has made the issue of
private vs. public as problematic as the issue of nurture vs. nature. What
happens, for example, when your boss reads your dream journals, or your
husband, or children?

For those concerned about how dreams might expose material too personal to
share, but still want feedback & social interaction, there is always
anonymous sharing. This is the Internet’s solution to confidentiality.
E-mail accounts online are now free. That is, once you have established one
e-mail account, you can sign up for several others. Netscape, Hotmail,
Tripod and other ISP’s give these away free in exchange for attention. AOL
offers its members 5 or 6 e-mail name accounts. With these accounts you can
send and receive mail anonymously. To protect people with dream about close
friends, some people use the global find and replace on word processors to
exchange personal names with pen names and pseudonyms.

Anonymous intimacy, public privacy, exteriorized interiors, networked
emotional fields, computer mediated souls. Sound crazy? Welcome to the 21st
Century! Here the boundaries of recording dreams and sharing them are in
flux. Archiving can now just as easily be publishing. Recalling dreams may
include a wide range of computer mediated assistance. The word "journal"
becomes more of a perspective than an object, an organizing intelligence as
well as a repository of data. We needn’t get lost in the chaos. As the term
"journal" begins to take on additional meanings and values, it forces us to
more carefully extract and define the essence of these activities and
practices. We begin to unfold the value that we place on dating and time
stamping our dreams. We begin to explore the differences within and between
the textual, verbal and graphic recordings.

We begin to examine the boundaries of representing and presenting dreams, of
their beginnings and endings, their resistance and persistence. Is the dream
over once we wake up and begin recalling it, or when we semi-lucidly begin
recalling before fully waking up? What kind of record is it when the text is
distributed over global networks and returned with comments?

There is one thing we can be sure of and that is the methods for recording
and keeping dreams will continue to evolve and overflow the boundaries of
our present day techniques and practices. This becomes especially so when
the Internet itself is used as the village fire that acts as the pages of
the manuscript. This digitally mediated journal is a fountain of networked
flows through which you can truly transverse the inscription of your own
dreams.

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“Dream groups online will become more diverse and offer a wide variety of
approaches to spiritual concerns, issues and topics. People now use the Web
to display not only dream texts, but images, sound and other media. What
makes this different from Television of the Film Industry is that so many
people can participate. TV and movies are done by a few for the many. The
Net is many to many. My spiritual image of the Net is of a place like
Avebury or Stonehenge where the tribes meet and exchange ideas and
experience. We erect new cosmic compasses that give us bearings in
relationship to one another and the Infinite, as well as finding new
metaphors that will move us into the new Millennium. Each meeting we
re-construct the compass, adjust the boundaries and add new stones. “

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (Spring, 1997). A History of Dream Sharing in
Cyberspace - Part II & III . The Association for the Study of Dreams
Newsletter 14(2).




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The Electric Dreams Article Index
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Adams, Ron (2004 June). Spectral Waves: The Quest for the Holy Grail.
Spectral Moon, White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(7).

Aionia, Madame (1997 January). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: First House. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Aionia, Madame (1997 February). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming
Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: Second House. Electric Dreams 4(2).
[Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(2).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 March). Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series: Dreaming
Through the Houses:  Third House.  Electric Dreams 4(3). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(3).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 April). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 4th House. Electric Dreams 4(4). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(4).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 May). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 5th House. Electric Dreams 4(5). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(5).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 June). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 6th House. Electric Dreams 4(6). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(6).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 July). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 7th House. Electric Dreams 4(7). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(7).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 August). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 8th House. Electric Dreams 4(8). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(8).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 September). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming
Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: 9th House. Electric Dreams 4(9).
[Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(9).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 October). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 10th House. Electric Dreams 4(10). [Reprinted
in Electric Dreams 7(10).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 November). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming
Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: 11th House. Electric Dreams 4(11).
[Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(11).]

Aionia, Madame (1997 December). Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming
Series: Dreaming Through the Houses: 12th House. Electric Dreams 4(12).
[Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(12).]

Alfred (1997 October). Dreams that Survive after Death. Electric Dreams
4(10).

Anderson, Jane (1998 June). Levels of Dreaming. Electric Dreams 5(6).

Anonymous (1995 December 30). Waltzing with Bears : A poem for dreamers.
Electric Dreams 2(15).

Ashwill, Bjo (2000 June). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. Electric Dreams 7(6).

Ashwill, Bjo (2000 July). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 2nd Column: Creating the Categories. Electric Dreams
7(7).

Ashwill, Bjo (2000 Aug). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 3rd Column: Metaphors In DreamSpinner. Electric Dreams
7(8).

Ashwill, Bjo (2000 Sep). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 4rd Column: Generating the raw data from your dreams.
Electric Dreams 7(9).

Ashwill, Bjo (2000 Oct). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 5th Column: Finding Metaphors Not Mentioned In Narrative
of Dream. Electric Dreams 7(10).

Ashwill, Bjo (2001 Jan). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 6th Column: Following Metaphors Over Time. Electric
Dreams 8(1).

Ashwill, Bjo (2001 Feb). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 7th Column: Finding Big Differences with Subtle Shifts
of Metaphors. Electric Dreams 8(2).

Ashwill, Bjo (2001 March). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 8th Column: Finding Jungian Archetypes With The
Computer. Electric Dreams 8(3).

Ashwill, Bjo (2001 April). The DreamSpinner Column: Working Dreams With The
Power Of Computers. 9th Column: Working Single Dreams With DreamSpinner.
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B, Sue (1996 May). Comments From Jung - Review. Electric Dreams 3(4).

Barrett, Connie (1997 August). Flower Dreams.  Electric Dreams 4(7).

Barrett, Hilary (2001 Jan). Exploring Dreams through the I Ching. "Two
Snakes in the Grass." Electric Dreams 8(1).

Barrett, Hilary (2001 Feb). Exploring Dreams through the I Ching. "The Train
Station." Electric Dreams 8(2).

Barrett, Hilary (2001 March). Exploring Dreams through the I Ching: Clarity.
Electric Dreams 8(3).

Barrett, Hilary (2001 April). Exploring Dreams through the I Ching. Electric
Dreams 8(4).

Barrye, Marilyn (2003 November). The Awakening Room. Electric Dreams 10(11).


Baughman, Steven. (2006 November). A World's Dreams.. Electric Dreams
13(11).

Baylis, Janice (August 1998). The Practical Side Of Dreaming. Electric
Dreams 5(7).

Baylis, Janice Ph.D. (2000 March). "I Just Love My Computer." Electric
Dreams 7(3).

Baylis, Janice (2002 February). Bin Laden Sees Precognitive Dreams as a
Security Risk . Electric Dreams 9(2).

Beldo, Jaye C. (1999 January). Integrative Dream Narration. Electric Dreams
6(1).

Betchley, Lee (2004 January). Wake Up and Dream - the Hypnotic Benefits of
Lucid Dreaming. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(1).

Bloom, Nancy Huseby (1998 September). Watch Your Dreams. Electric Dreams
5(8).

Bloom, Nancy Huesby (1998 October). Watch Your Dreams: Tips, Questions &
Answers. Electric Dreams 5(9).

Bloom, Nancy Huesby (1998 November). Watch Your Dreams: Tips, Questions &
Answers. Electric Dreams 5(10).

Bloom, Nancy Huesby (1998 December). Watch Your Dreams: Tips, Questions &
Answers. Electric Dreams 5(11).

Bloom, Nancy Huesby (1999 January). Watch Your Dreams: Tips, Questions &
Answers. Electric Dreams 6(1).

Bloom, Nancy Huesby (1999 February). Watch Your Dreams: Tips, Questions &
Answers. Electric Dreams 6(2).

Bonapartian, Ed (2003). Saying our Goodbye's. Electric Dreams 10(2).

Bostock, Cliff (2001 Feb). Cyberwork: The Archetypal Imagination in New
Realms of Ensoulment. Electric Dreams 8(2).

Bosma, Harry (1997 October). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and bad dreams.
Electric Dreams 4(10).

Bosma, Harry (1998 November). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dreams. Electric
Dreams 5(10).

Bosma, Harry (1999 October). Dreams and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Electric
Dreams 6(10).

Bosma, Harry (2000 January). The Future of Dream Journaling Software.
Electric Dreams 7(1).

Bosma, Harry (2004 March). Getting More Lucid Dreams. (An Excerpt From The
Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(3).

Bosma, Harry (2005 June). A Preview of Alchera 4. Electric Dreams 12(6).

Bouchard, Al (2005 August). Chicken Coop Thinking. Electric Dreams 12(8).

Bouchard, Richard (1996 January). Twelve Tips for Improving Dream Recall.
Electric Dreams 3(1).

Bouchard, Richard (1996 January). A Few Words About Journaling. Electric
Dreams 3(1).

Bouchard, Rick (1996 March). Gestalt Dream Technique. Electric Dreams 3(2).

Brzeski, Nancy Richter (1996 December). Granny Gallery - Interactive Art
Gallery. Electric Dreams 3(11).

Brzeski, Nancy Richter (1997 February). Special Dream Art Exhibit - Process:
Transforming Dreams into Art -Notes from the Granny Gallery. Electric Dreams
4(2).

Burns, William C., Jr. (1998 September). The Color of Dreams. Poem. Electric
Dreams 5(8).

Burns, William C., Jr. (1998 November). At Home with Strange Dreams. Poem.
Electric Dreams 5(10).

Burns, William C., Jr. (1998 December). "A Westering Sun: The Dream of an
Old Man." Poem. Electric Dreams 5(11).

Burns, William C., Jr. (1999 October). "At Home with Strange Dreams." Poem.
Electric Dreams 6(10).

Burns, William C., Jr. (2000 October). "On the Question of Nightmares" Poem.
Electric Dreams 7(10).


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Campbell, Ian (2003 December). Dream Blog on Death Dreams. Electric Dreams
10(12).

Campbell, Jean (1999 June). Using Dreams with the Tarot. Electric Dreams
6(6).

Campbell, Jean (1999 July). Dreaming and the Tarot. Electric Dreams 6(7).

Campbell, Jean (1999 September). Dreams Beyond Dreaming. Electric Dreams
6(9).

Campbell, Jean (1999 December). Spirituality in Dreams. Electric Dreams
6(12).

Campbell, Jean (2000 Oct). Walking the Monster. Electric Dreams 7(10).

Campbell, Jean (2001 Oct). Dealing with Precognitive Dreamer Guilt. Electric
Dreams 8(10).

Campbell, Jean (2002 November). Report on the World Dreams Peace Bridge.
Electric Dreams 9(11).

Campbell, Jean (2003 January). A View from the Bridge: A Report on the World
Peace Bridge. Electric Dreams 10(1).

Campbell, Jean (2003 February). A View from the Bridge: A Report on the
World Peace Bridge. Dreaming for Peace through the New Year. Electric Dreams
10(2).

Campbell, Jean (2003 March). A View from the Bridge: A Report on the World
Peace Bridge. A Peaceful Solutions Dream In/February 2003 Update. Electric
Dreams 10(3).

Campbell, Jean (2003 April). A View from the Bridge: A Report on the World
Peace Bridge. Dreams Activate Waking Reality. Electric Dreams 10(4).

Campbell, Jean (2003 May). A View from the Bridge - April 2003: Aid for
Children/Kids on the Bridge. Electric Dreams 10(5).

Campbell, Jean (2003 June). A View from the Bridge - May 2003: Peace Train
Steams Into Berkeley Station. Electric Dreams 10(6).

Campbell, Jean (2003 July). A View from the Bridge - June 2003: Dafumu
Dreaming. Electric Dreams 10(7).

Campbell, Jean and Explora (2003 August). Invitation from the World Peace
Bridge: Treasure Chest DaFuMu for the New Year (26th July). Electric Dreams
10(8).

Campbell, Jean (2003 September). A View from the Bridge - August 2003: Hands
Around the World. Electric Dreams 10(9).

Campbell, Jean (2003 November). A View from the Bridge. Electric Dreams
10(11).

Campbell, Jean (2003 December). A View from the Bridge - November 2003.
Electric Dreams 10(12).

Campbell, Jean (2004 February). A View from the Bridge: Candlemas 2004.
Electric Dreams 11(2).

Campbell, Jean (2004 March). A View from the Bridge: Candlemas Thoughts.
Electric Dreams 11(3).

Campbell, Jean (2004 April). A View from the Bridge: March 2004. Electric
Dreams 11(4).

Campbell, Jean (2004 May). A View from the Bridge: My Mother Died in
Hiroshima. Electric Dreams 11(5).

Campbell, Jean (2004 July). A View from the Bridge: Lucid Living on the
World Dreams Peace Bridge. Electric Dreams 11(7).

Campbell, Jean (2004 August). A View from the Bridge: The Dreams of
Children. Electric Dreams 11(8).

Campbell, Jean (2004 September). A View from the Bridge: Making Book.
Electric Dreams 11(9).

Campbell, Jean (2004 November). A View from the Bridge: Presidential DaFuMu.
Electric Dreams 11(11).

Campbell, Jean (2004 December). A View from the Bridge: DaFuMu Meets Dream
In to Create Psi Dream Event. Electric Dreams 11(12).

Campbell, Jean (2005 February). A View from the Bridge January 2005: How Do
You Do a Da-Fu-Mu? Electric Dreams 12(2).

Campbell, Jean (2005 March). A View from the Bridge February/March 2005.
Electric Dreams 12(3).

Campbell, Jean (2005 April). A View from the Bridge. March 2005: Carlos
Santana Comes to IASD Conference. Electric Dreams 12(4).

Campbell, Jean (2005 May). A View from the Bridge. April 2005: Life's Little
Book of Magic. Electric Dreams 12(5).

Campbell, Jean (2005 June). A View from the Bridge. May 2005: The Power of
DaFuMu Dreaming. Electric Dreams 12(6).

Campbell, Jean (2005 July). A View from the Bridge. July 2005: London,
Auctions and DaFuMu. Electric Dreams 12(7).

Campbell, Jean (2005 September). A View from the Bridge. August 2005: Emus,
Hiroshima, and Dreams Come True. Electric Dreams 12(9).

Campbell, Jean (2005 September). A View from the Bridge. September
Snapshots. Electric Dreams 12(10).

Campbell, Jean (2006 June). A View from the Bridge. Dreaming With The
Ancestors. Electric Dreams 13(6).

Campbell, Jean (2006 July). A View from the Bridge. Drumming Into Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 13(7).

Campbell, Jean (2006 August). A View from the Bridge. Dreaming the
Compassionate Feminine. Electric Dreams 13(8).

Campbell, Jean (2006 November). A View from the Bridge. Joy Creates a
Mystery. Electric Dreams 13(11).

Campbell, Jean (2007 January). A View from the Bridge. January 2007:
Saddam's Execution Sparks Conversation on the Peace Bridge. Electric Dreams
14(1).

Campbell, Jean and Joy Fatooh (2007 February). A View from the Bridge.
February 2007: Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights When the Mirror is Not
Enough. Electric Dreams 14(2).

Campbell, Jean (2007 March). A View from the Bridge. March 2007: Drumming,
Dancing and Dreaming for World Peace. Electric Dreams 14(3).

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Campo, J. Myztico (2006 October). Nightmares Fuel My Art. Electric Dreams
13(10).

Campo, J. Myztico (2006 November). Dream Time and Art. Electric Dreams
13(11).

Carter, Daniel (1996 August). Lucrative Sublimation in your Dreams. Poem.
Electric Dreams 3(7).

Castagna, Margo Elaine Ph.D. (1999 December). A Spiritual Collective Dream.
Electric Dreams 6(12).

Clapp, Matthew (1997 January). Jung and Dreams Column: The Real Dream.
Electric Dreams 4(1).

Clapp, Matthew W. (1997 February). Philosophy In Jung's Transcendent
Function. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Clemons, Susan (2003 July). Dreamwork for Everyday Life. Electric Dreams
10(7).

Colvin, Kirk (1996 June). Dream Inspired Poetry. Electric Dreams 3(5).

Conesa-Sevilla, Jorge (2006 May). Lucid Dreaming and Aesthetics. (An Excerpt
From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(5).

Crisp, Tony (1996 January). Finding a Happier Sex Life Through Dreams (Part
I). Electric Dreams 3(1).

Crisp, Tony (2001 June). The Waking Lucid Dream.<2a> Electric Dreams 8(6).

Crisp, Tony (2001 July). American Indian Dream Beliefs. Electric Dreams
8(7).

Crisp, Tony (2001 August). Dreams and Death: An examination of dreaming and
death from the standpoint of Eastern philosophy. Electric Dreams 8(8).

Crisp, Tony (2001 September). A Man in a Woman's Dreams. Electric Dreams
8(9).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 April). Dream of Peace: "Traveling through Time". Electric
Dreams 10(4).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 May). Dreampeace: The Earth Needs Dreamers. Research:
Dreaming Our Way to 2012. Electric Dreams 10(6).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 June). The Waves: 02. Dream Healing. Planetary Moon (April
04 to May 01, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(6).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 July). The Waves: 03. Star Trek to Sirius. Spectral Moon
(May 02 to May 29, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(7).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 August). The Waves: 04. Journey to Mt. Shasta. Crystal
Moon (May 30 to June 26, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(8).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 September). The Waves: 05. Children's Dreams. Cosmic Moon
(June 27 to July 24, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(9).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 October). The Waves: 06. Journey to the Lucid Crossroads.
Magnetic Moon (July 26 to August 22, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(10).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 November). The Waves: 07. Journey to Antarctica. Lunar
Moon (August 23 to September 19, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(11).

Cumbo, Nick (2003 December). The Waves: 08. Psychedelic Dreaming. Electric
Moon (September 20 to October 17, 2003). Electric Dreams 10(12).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 January). The Waves: 09. Dreaming with DNA. Overtone Moon
(October 18 to November 14, 2003). Electric Dreams 11(1).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 February). The Waves: Dreaming with the Departed. Overtone
Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(2).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 February). The Waves: Healing Journey to Yellowstone.
Rhythmic Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(2).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 March). Resonant Waves: The Ocean Also Dreams. Resonant
Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(3).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 April). Galactic Waves: Dreaming with the Trees. Galactic
Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(4).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 May). Solar Waves: Dreaming Our Way to 2012. Solar Moon.
White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(5).

Cumbo, Nick (2004 August). Crystal Waves: Journey to the Galactic Center.
Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Electric Dreams 11(8).

Cummings, Daniel (1996 July). Software: The Dream Map : Store & Record
Dreams on Mac. Electric Dreams 3(6).

Currim, Shamai (2005 July). The DreamTime: What is it Really? Electric
Dreams 12(7).

Currim, Shamai (2006 July). The Wheel of Life: Aligning Dreams with the
SuperConscious. Electric Dreams 13(7).


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Danna, Theresa M., M.P.W. (1997 February). The Children of Our Dreams.
Electric Dreams 4(2).

Davidoff, Leslie (1998 September). Linking Business Success and Dreams.
Electric Dreams 5(8).

Den Blanken, Carolus M. (1997 August). Developing Lucid Dreaming in the
Netherlands: A Personal Account. Electric Dreams 4(7).

Domhoff, G. William Ph.D. (2005 April). The Senoi Do Not Practice Senoi
Dream Theory: A Reply To Strephon Kaplan-Williams. Electric Dreams 12(4).

Dr. Deus (1998 May). Divine Messages: "Divine Re-turn." Electric Dreams
5(5).

Dr. Deus (1998 June). " Divine Re-turn Continued." Electric Dreams 5(6).

Dream Counsel (1999 August). Dream Analysis. Electric Dreams 6(8).

Dreampage (1995 August 18). There's a Tiger on the Train: Dream Poetry by
dreampage. Electric Dreams 2(10).

Dubetz, Anthony (1998 May). Easy Dreams: Making Nightmares Pay (Part I- IV).
Electric Dreams 5(5).

D'Urso, Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) (2005 August). My Lucid Dream Geometric
Healing Experience. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(8).


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Elliott, Tony (2002 November). To Spin A Twisted Tale. Electric Dreams
9(11).

Emery, Marcia, Ph.D. (2006 June). Dreams and Intuition. Electric Dreams
13(6).

Eudy, Charles N., MFCT, Ph.D. (1996 August). A Rose for Martina at the '96
ASD Conference. Poem. Electric Dreams 3(7).

Eulalia (1996 June). Please fix it! Electric Dreams 3(5).

Eulalia (1996 July). Dream like contact with magic (Part II of Please
(don't) Fix it!) Electric Dreams 3(6).


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Farley, Peter (2005 December).Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams? Electric
Dreams 12(12).

Fatooh, Joy (2006 December). A View from the Bridge. Scrambled Contest or
Outstanding Group Dream? Electric Dreams 13(12).

Feuerstein (Lamb), Trisha (1996 May). Dolphins, Whales, and Dreamtime.
Electric Dreams 3(4).

Flynn, Stephen (2001 March). How to Interpret Your Own Dreams. Electric
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Gackenbach, Jayne (1996 July). Unlocking the Secrets of Your Dreams.
Electric Dreams 3(6).

Gackenbach, Jayne (1997 September). Princess Diana's Death as a Ripple in
the Collective Field of Consciousness: Personal Ruminations in the Context
of My Work With the Cree. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Gamber, Victoria (2003). Stepping Out of Time. Electric Dreams 10(11).

Garfield, Patricia (2001 June) Interview with Electric Dreams . Electric
Dreams 8(6)

Garfield, Patricia (2005 March) The Monster (La Bête Noir). Electric Dreams
12(3)

Galimov, Vilen (1996 April). Quantum notes on Castaneda's Dreaming Gates.
Electric Dreams 3(3).

Gerson, Shari (2001). Interpreting Your Dreams... Can They Predict the
Future? Electric Dreams 8(4).

Giguere, Brenda (1995 July). Lucid Dreaming. Electric Dreams 2(9).

Giguere, Brenda (1995 September). Lucid Dreaming: Frustrations and
Fantasies. Electric Dreams 2(11).

Giguere, Brenda (1995 October). A Dreamer's Glossary. Electric Dreams 2(13).


Gillard, Arthur (2006 October). Interview with author Robert Augustus
Masters (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 13(10).

Gillespie, George (2002 March). The Stable Intense Lights of Lucid Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 9(4).

Gillespie, George (2004 October). Composing Poetry in Lucid Dreams.
Electric Dreams 11(10).

Gillis, Lucy (1999 December). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange.
Electric Dreams 6(12).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 January). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange.
Electric Dreams 7(1).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 February). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange.
Electric Dreams 7(2).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 March). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange.
Electric Dreams 7(3).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 May). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -
Signaling from Lucid Sleep. Electric Dreams 7(5).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 June). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -- Barton
Santello's series. Electric Dreams 7(6).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 July). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -- Who is
Dreaming? Electric Dreams 7(7).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 Aug). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -- Lucid
Dreaming and Precognition by Robert Waggoner. Electric Dreams 7(8).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 Sep). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -- Pair of
Lucid Meshing Dreams. Electric Dreams 7(9).

Gillis, Lucy (2000 Oct). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange -- Face
and Embrace your Fear with Charmaine Smith. Electric Dreams 7(10).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 Feb). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange: Kalinda's
Chocolate Dream. Electric Dreams 8(2).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 April). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange: Dream
Trips: Dream Drugs as Metaphor by Adrasta. Electric Dreams 8(4).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 May). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange: My
Mutable Body - Linda Lane Magallon. Electric Dreams 8(5).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 June). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange:
Challenge Dreaming with Dream C.A.G.E.  Electric Dreams 8(6).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 July). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange. WILD's
or Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams 8(3).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 August). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange. OOBE.
Electric Dreams 8(4).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 September). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange:
techniques and technology with Kacper. Electric Dreams 8(9).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 Oct). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange:
Dreamgates Book Review. Electric Dreams 8(10).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 November). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange:
Lucid Dreaming and the Deceased by Robert Waggoner. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Gillis, Lucy (2001 December). An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange:
Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams 8(12).

Gillis, Lucy (2002 January). SCARED STIFF - SLEEP PARALYSIS  An Interview
With Jorge Conesa, PhD. Electric Dreams 9(1).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 February). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange.
Electric Dreams 10(2).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 March). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: Tips
and Techniques. Electric Dreams 10(3).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 May). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: First
Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams 10(5).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 June). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange. Electric
Dreams 10(6).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 September). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange: 20
Questions About Lucid Dreams. Electric Dreams 10(9).

Gillis, Lucy (2003 October). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange: So,
Was That a Lucid Dream? Advice for the Novice Lucid Dreamer Electric Dreams
10(10).

Gillis, Lucy (2004 April). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange:
Nightmares and Lucid Dreams by Ben Kidd.  Electric Dreams 11(4).

Gillis, Lucy (2004 May). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange: Past
Lives in Poetry by Linda Lane Magallón.  Electric Dreams 11(5).

Gillis, Lucy (2004, June). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange: "False"
Awakenings and the Language of Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner.  Electric
Dreams 11(6).

Gillis, Lucy (2004, October). An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange:
Lucid Laboratory.  Electric Dreams 11(6).

Gillis, Lucy (2005 January). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: Sleep
Paralysis: If You Can't Avoid its Occurrence, Can You Change the Experience?
Electric Dreams 12(1).

Gillis, Lucy (2005 July). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: Multiple
Awareness in Simultaneous Dreaming Electric Dreams 12(7).

Gillis, Lucy (2005 November). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange:
Lucid Dreaming and Parallel Universes: An Interview with Fred Alan Wolf
Electric Dreams 12(11).

Gillis, Lucy (2006 April). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: A Chat
with Dr. Amit Goswami. Electric Dreams 13(4).

Gillis, Lucy (2007 January). An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange: Lucid
Dreaming and the Afterlife. Electric Dreams 14(1).


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find-in-this-page function to search on "lucid dream exchange". Yet more are
available at http://www.dreaminglucid.com/ ---


Gips, Judith (2002 December). DreamShare : An Online Dream Community.
Electric Dreams 9(12).

Goldhammer, John D. (2004 June). The Time Bomb: How Your Dreams Can Help You
Choose the Right Vocation. Electric Dreams 11(6).

Goldhammer, John D., Ph.D. (2005 June). The Artist and the Tidal Wave: How
Dreams Can Save Your Creative Life. Electric Dreams 12(6).

Goldring, Alissa (1996 September). Life, Art, Dreams. Electric Dreams 3(8).

Goldring, Alissa (1996 November). Life, Art Dream : Dreamlife.. Electric
Dreams 3(10).

Goldring, Alissa (1996 December). DREAMLIFE: Alissa's Dream Art & Creativity
Column. Electric Dreams 3(11).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 January). Life, Art, Dream : Projections. Electric
Dreams 4(1).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 February). Life, Art, Dream : The Gift of Dream
Fragments. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 March). Life, Art, Dream : Dreamwork, Is It Worth It?
Electric Dreams 4(3).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 April). Life, Art Dream : Crying. War. Electric
Dreams 4(4).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 May). Life, Art, Dream : Bones. Electric Dreams 4(5).


Goldring, Alissa (1997 June). Life, Art, Dream : Books. Electric Dreams
4(6).

Goldring, Alissa (1997 July). Life, Art, Dream: Good Humor. Electric Dreams
4(7)

Gregory, Jill (1994 October 20). Bringing Dreams to Kids! (Part I). Electric
Dreams 1(18).

Gregory, Jill (1994 December 13). Bringing Dreams to Kids! (Part II).
Electric Dreams 1(19).

Gregory, Jill (1994 December 31). Bringing Dreams to Kids! (Part III).
Electric Dreams 1(20).

Gregory, Jill (1995 April 15) Developing Dream Recall. Electric Dreams 2(6).


Gregory, Jill (1997 June). For Allen Ginsberg. Poem. Electric Dreams 4(6).

Grusch, Stephanie (1995 November 30). "Dreams." Electric Dreams 2(14).


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Hart, Jan (2003 July). A Lucid Dream/Keeping An Appointment. (An Excerpt
From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 10(7).

Herbert, John (2001 November). Reflections on Online Dream Groups. Electric
Dreams 8(12).

Herbert, John (1996 October). The Founding of alt.dreams: Some Historical
Cyber-dreaming Notes. Electric Dreams 3(9).

Hicks, Christopher (1995 October 1). Dream Line. Electric Dreams 2(12).

Hicks, Chris (1995 October 23). DreamLine: Trial of OJ Simpson. Electric
Dreams 2(13).

Hicks, Christopher (1996 January). DreamLine: The Changing Family. Electric
Dreams 3(1).

Hicks, Christopher (1996 April). Dream Line : The Natural Environment and
Our Dreams. Electric Dreams 3(3).

Hicks, Christopher (1996 May). DreamLine - Special Interview: Jesse Reklaw.
Electric Dreams 3(4).

Hillman, James and Margot McLean (1997 December). Seminar & Book Exerpts:
Dream Animals: "Now You See Them, Now You Don't: A Conversation Between the
Author and the Artist." Electric Dreams 4(12).

Holmes, Lee (1996 April). The Lucid Dreamer's Manual: Part I. Electric
Dreams 3(3).

Holmes, Lee (1996 May). The Lucid Dreamer's Manual Part II. Electric Dreams
3(4).

Hoss, Robert J. (2006 June). Electric Dreams Interview with Robert J. Hoss,
M.S. Electric Dreams 13(6).

Howling, Phyllis and Richard Wilkerson (2001 November). Online Dream Group
Transcript: "Black Hole". Report. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Howling, Phyllis (2000 March). Mutual Dream Report: Giza Pyramid. Electric
Dreams 7(3).

Hudson, RG (2005 May). Poem: The Dreamer & The Dreamed. Electric Dreams
12(5).

Hughes, Scott (2001 May). Your Fantasy and Dream Thoughts are Important.
Electric Dreams 8(5).

Hughes, Scott (1996 August). Theories of Dreams. Electric Dreams 3(7).

Hughes, Scott (1996 September). The Forgotten Language, Part I. Electric
Dreams 3(8).

Hurd, Ryan Dungan (2006 April). Ancestral Knowledge in Lucid Dreams Electric
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Island (1997 March). Third House Dreams. Electric Dreams 4(3). [Reprinted in
Electric Dreams 7(3).]

Island (1997 April). Fourth House Dreaming. Electric Dreams 4(4). [Reprinted
in Electric Dreams 7(4).]

Island (1997 May). Some Fifth House Rooms. Electric Dreams 4(5). [Reprinted
in Electric Dreams 7(5).]

Island (1997 July). Island's 7th House Dreams and Questions. Electric Dreams
4(7). [Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(7).]

Island (1997 August). Meditation on One Eighth House Facet: Sex and
Sexuality. Electric Dreams 4(7). [Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(8).]

Island (1997 September). Reflections on the Ninth House. Electric Dreams
4(9). [Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(9).]

Island (1997 October). Reflections on the Tenth House. Electric Dreams
4(10). [Reprinted in Electric Dreams 7(10).]


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Jacobson, Fanny (1996 May). "Dreamwatching I & II." Poem. Electric Dreams
3(4).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 March). DreamRePlay: "I don't measure up!"
Overcoming Your Worst Critic. Electric Dreams 13(3).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 April). DreamRePlay: Making Use of Nostalgia.
Electric Dreams 13(4).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 May). DreamRePlay: Dreams and Themes. Electric
Dreams 13(5).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 June). DreamRePlay: Breaking the Rules. Electric
Dreams 13(6).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 July). DreamRePlay: The $1,000 Dream. Electric
Dreams 13(7).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 August). DreamRePlay: Dreams and Speaking the
Truth. Electric Dreams 13(8).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 September). DreamRePlay: The Dream as an
Archeological Dig. Electric Dreams 13(9).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 October). DreamRePlay: The Nightmare: Getting
Beyond the Climax. Electric Dreams 13(10).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 November). DreamRePlay: Electing to Dream.
Electric Dreams 13(11).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2006 December). DreamRePlay: Look Both Ways. Electric
Dreams 13(12).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2007 January). DreamRePlay: Free Association: Loosen
Your Mind In 2007. Electric Dreams 14(1).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2007 February). DreamRePlay: Introducing the Dream.
Electric Dreams 14(2).

Jenkins, David, PhD (2007 March). DreamRePlay: The Socratic Approach to
Dreams. Electric Dreams 14(3).

Jenks, Allison Eir (1996 April). Dream Poem. Electric Dreams 3(3).

Johnson, Clare (2005 April). The Role of Lucid Dreaming in the Process of
Novel Writing. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(4).

Joy, Linley (1997 November). Sex, Symbols and Dreams: A Review of the Work
of Janice Hinshaw Baylis, Ph.D. Electric Dreams 4(11).


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Kahn, David L. (2006 December). An Interview with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.
Electric Dreams 13(12).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (1999 July) Interview with Electric Dreams.
Electric Dreams 6(7).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (2001 March). Jung the Great Dreamer but Where Are
His Little Dreams? Electric Dreams 8(3).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (2004 July) IASD Dream Conference 2004. Electric
Dreams 11(7).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (2004 December) Revisiting the Senoi Dream Theory:
The Bad Logic of Sir G. William Domhoff. Electric Dreams 11(12).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (2005 March) Reply to Anthony Shafton's "Why So
Few Blacks in the Dream Movement?" Electric Dreams 12(3).

Kaplan-Williams, Strephon (2005 May) Senoi Dreamwork, Facts and Fictions: A
Reply to G. William Domhoff, Ph.D. Electric Dreams 12(5).

Katie (2003 December). Book Review. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream
Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 10(12).

Keelin (1995 December 30). Adventures with the NovaDreamer. Electric Dreams
2(15).

Kellogg, E. W. III (2002 November). Virtual Reality Dreaming: Wave of the
Future? Electric Dreams 9(11).

Kellogg, E. W. III (2004 October). The Lucidity Continuum Electric Dreams
11(10).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2005 March). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, September 2004: "Lucid Dreaming Beyond Time and Space" Task.
Tuning into Your Optimal Self/Branching Parallel Universes. (An Excerpt From
The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(3).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2005 September). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, December 2004: The Lucid Dream Information Technique. (An Excerpt
From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(9).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2005 December). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, September 2005: "Harry Potter and the Lucid Dream Exchange
Challenge". Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe. (An Excerpt From
The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(12).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2006 July). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, December 2005. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy
Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(7).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2006 September). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, March 2006. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy
Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(9).

Kellogg, E. W. III Ph.D. (2006 December). LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming
Challenge, June 2006. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy
Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(11).

Kelly, Jon (1999 May). Reverse Speech "New Technology for Rapid
Self-Discovery." Electric Dreams 6(5).

Kelly, Patricia Grace (2000 Oct). Dream Poems for October. Electric Dreams
7(9).

Kelly, Patricia Grace (2000 Oct). A Gothic Romance - Dreamed April 7, 2000.
Electric Dreams 7(9).

Kingsley, Taylor Esta (1995 October 23). Dreamjourneys: Dreams of Spiritual
Transformation.  Electric Dreams 2(13).

Kingsley, Taylor Esta (1995 November 30). Dreamjourneys: Dreams of Spiritual
Transformation Part II. Electric Dreams 2(14).

Kingsley, Taylor Esta (1996 July). Poem: DREAMER DERRING-DO. Electric Dreams
3(6).

Klein, Alice (2003 November). Poem: Two Worlds. Electric Dreams 10(11).

Koteen, Earl. (2007 January). Guide for Dream Group Facilitation. Electric
Dreams 14(1).

Kulikowski, Stan (2002 January).Temporal Features Of My Dream Log (Moon
Phases and Dreams)  Electric Dreams 9(1).

Kulikowski, Stan (1995 July 28). A Dream Comic Art Review. Electric Dreams
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LaBerge, Stephen and H. Rheingold (1997 October). Overcoming Nightmares.
Electric Dreams 4(10).

Lamb (Feuerstein), Trisha (1996 May). Dolphins, Whales, and Dreamtime.
Electric Dreams 3(4).

Lappin, Dave (2006 January).Nice Girls Don't Go Naked in their Dreams (or Do
They?) Electric Dreams 13(1).

Leonard, Nora (2000 October). "Gloom's Gift" Electric Dreams 7(10).

Leonard, Nora (1998 November). "Nightmare-awake!...oh." Electric Dreams
5(10).

Lewis, Robert (1997 November). Dream Analysis as a Science: Discussion by
Robert Lewis and Richard Wilkerson. Electric Dreams 4(11).


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Maisel, Eric (2001). Sleep Creating. Electric Dreams 8(4).

McIntosh, Sandy (1995 October 1). Update: alt.dreams.castaneda. Electric
Dreams 2(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1996 March). Dream Ahead `96. Electric Dreams 3(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 January). DreamTrek: The Holiday Ornament - Dream
Telepathy Game Results. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 February). DreamTrek: The Literal Bias in Psychic
Dreaming. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 March). DreamTrek: Personal Clues to Psychic
Dreams. Electric Dreams 4(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 May). Dream Trek: Goodbye Group Mind. Electric
Dreams 4(5).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 June). Dream Trek: Non-Classic Mutual Dreams.
Electric Dreams 4(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 July). Dream Trek : Visitors to the Land of
Mutual Dreams. Electric Dreams 4(7).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 August). Dream Trek : The Spooky Future. Electric
Dreams 4(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 September). Dream Trek : Hooray! It's the End of
an Age. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 October). Dream Trek: Psychic-Creative Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 4(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 November). Dream Trek: The Halloween Costume Ball
: Report on a group dreaming project. Electric Dreams 4(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1997 December). Dream Trek: From Dream WORK To Dream
PLAY. Electric Dreams 4(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 May). Dream Trek: Is Godzilla In The House?
Electric Dreams 5(5).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 June). Dream Trek: Play Day In The Dream State.
Electric Dreams 5(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (August 1998). Dream Trek: The Liberation of the
Creative Spirit. Electric Dreams 5(7).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 September). Dream Trek: Help Solve The Flying
Wires Mystery. Electric Dreams 5(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 October). Dream Trek: A Call To Expand Dream.
Electric Dreams 5(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 November). Dream Trek: The Safe Universe of
Dreaming. Electric Dreams 5(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1998 December). Dream Trek: Dreamers Are Couch
Potatoes. Electric Dreams 5(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 January). Dream Trek: How To Create A Flying
Dream. Electric Dreams 6(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 February). Dream Trek: Flying Wires And Other
Mysteries. Electric Dreams 6(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 March). Dream Trek: Future Backward, Future
Forward. Electric Dreams 6(3).

Magallón, Linda (1999 March). Mutual Dream FAQ. Electric Dreams 6(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 April). Dream Trek: Matching Nightmares With
Appropriate Action. Electric Dreams 6(4).

Magallón, Linda (1999 May). Dream Trek: Dream Cycles. Electric Dreams 6(5).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 June). Dream Trek: To Honor the Humorous Dream.
Electric Dreams 6(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 July). Dream Trek: Decathlon Dreaming. Electric
Dreams 6(7).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 August). "Poem of the Past." Electric Dreams
6(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 September). Dream Trek: Sociability And
TheCreative Dream Journal. Electric Dreams 6(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 October). Dream Trek: Re-entry And Rabbits Versus
The Nightmare. Electric Dreams 6(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 November). Dream Trek: Flying Dreams FAQ.
Electric Dreams 6(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (1999 December). Dream Trek: My Dream Spirit Is a
Feminist. Electric Dreams 6(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2002 January). Maslow’s Map A New System of Dream
Classification. Chapter 1: Maslow the Man. Electric Dreams 9(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2002 February). Maslow’s Map A New System of Dream
Classification. Chapter 2: A Map of Healthy Growth. Electric Dreams 9(2)

Magallón, Linda Lane (2002 November). How Are You Sleeping? Electric Dreams
9(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2002 December). Dreams Are SLEEPING Experiences.
Electric Dreams 9(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 January). Going To The Sun: Religious Beliefs And
Psi. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 10(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 January). Dream Flow and Fragments. (Excerpted
from "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 February). Recording Your Dreams. (Excerpted from
"How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 March). The Dream Journal. (Excerpted from "How
To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 April). Visual Sources for Dreams. (Excerpted
from "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(4).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 May). Consistent Clues: Go Get a Picture and
Gather Some Dreamers... (Excerpted from "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(5).


Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 June). Clothed With the Color of Flying.
(Excerpted from "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 July). How Real is the Dream? (Excerpted from
"How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(7).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 August). Gestalt Dialogue For a Flying Dream.
(Excerpted from "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 10(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 September). Falling Dreams (Excerpted from "How
To Fly"). Electric Dreams 10(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 October). Titanic Nightmares Scream Warnings
About Real Damage. Electric Dreams 10(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 November). The Meaning of Meaning. Electric
Dreams 10(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2003 December). I Ching, Tarot, Star+Gate And Dreams.
Electric Dreams 10(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 January). Event-Clumps and Dreams. Electric
Dreams 11(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 February). The Form and Motion of Dreaming
Flight. Electric Dreams 11(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 March). Who Do We Ignore When We Interpret A
Dream? Electric Dreams 11(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 June). Gestalt Dialogue with the Inner Critic and
the Inner Child. Electric Dreams 11(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 July). Evolution of the Dream (From "How to
Fly"). Electric Dreams 11(7).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 August). ABC's of Dream Benefits (From "How to
Fly"). Electric Dreams 11(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 September). The Artworker of Dreams. Electric
Dreams 11(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 October). Xray Eyes and Heady Dreams . Electric
Dreams 11(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 November). Just What Is The Target? An Experiment
In Wide-Band Dream Telepathy. Electric Dreams 11(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2004 December). Dream Meaning 101. Electric Dreams
11(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 January). Out-of-Body in Bird Form. (From "How To
Fly") Electric Dreams 12(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 February). Identifying The People In Our Dreams.
(From "How To Fly") Electric Dreams 12(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 March). Flying In Poetry and Prose. (From "How To
Fly") Electric Dreams 12(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 April). Navigating in Dream Reality. Electric
Dreams 12(4).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 May). Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part
One: A Quest for Verification. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange,
Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(5).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 June). Give Your Inner Child A Lift. Electric
Dreams 12(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 August). Shadow Storm. Electric Dreams 12(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 September). Dreamwork, DreamPsi and Ethics: An
Invitation to the Psiberconference. Electric Dreams 12(9).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 October). Dream Characters and Reality Checks
Part Two: Validation and Practicality. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream
Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(10).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 November). Programming a Positive Dream. (From
"Humor in Dreams" Workshop.) Electric Dreams 12(11).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2005 December). Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless
Feline Dreams. Electric Dreams 12(12).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 January). Dream Characters and Reality Checks
Part Three: Incubation and Fantasy. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream
Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(1).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 February). Dream Characters and Reality Checks
Part Four: Mutual Dreaming. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy
Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(2).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 March). The Calling to Be a Super Hero. Electric
Dreams 13(3).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 April). The Dilemma of Deep Dreaming. Electric
Dreams 13(4).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 May). The Incubation Of Flying Dreams Has A
Waking Result. Electric Dreams 13(5).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 June). A Tale of Dream Trees. Electric Dreams
13(6).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 August). Hope For the Dream Art Underachiever.
Electric Dreams 13(8).

Magallón, Linda Lane (2006 October). The New Age of Pisces. Electric Dreams
13(10).

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Mares, Theun (2003 June). Toltec Active Dreaming Technique (from "Cry of the
Eagle"). Electric Dreams 10(6).

Marks, Eugene (1996 September). Wanderer's Web Site. Electric Dreams 3(8).

Marks, Eugene (1997 April). Eternal Return by Eugene Marks: Reprint of
Interview with EM. Electric Dreams 4(4).

Marks, Tracy (1996 June). Example of Creative Dreamwork. Electric Dreams
3(5).

Marks, Tracy (1997 September). Diana, the Living Myth: Diana/Artemis in
Greek and Roman Mythology. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Marlye, Philip (1997 June). A Brief History of The Online Guide To Lucid
Dreaming. Electric Dreams 4(6).

Mateus, Maria (2000 May). An Astrological Approach to Dream Interpretation.
Electric Dreams 7(5).

McElhatten, Brandi (1995 November 30). "Poem: Nightmares Leave Messes."
Electric Dreams 2(14).

McIntosh, Sandy (1995 October 1). Dream Poetry. Electric Dreams 2(12).

McIntosh, Sandy (1995 October 23). Update on Castaneda and Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 2(13).

McPhee, Charles (1996 November). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part I.
Electric Dreams 3(10).

McPhee, Charles (1996 December). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part II.
Electric Dreams 3(11).

McPhee, Charles (1997 January). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part III.
Electric Dreams 4(1).

McPhee, Charles (1997 February). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part IV.
Electric Dreams 4(2).

McPhee, Charles (1997 March). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part V.
Electric Dreams 4(3).

McPhee, Charles (1997 April). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part VI.
Electric Dreams 4(4).

McPhee, Charles (1997 May). Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: Part VII.
Electric Dreams 4(5).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2000 March). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 7(3).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2000 April) The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 7(4).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2000 May). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 7(5).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2000 June). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 7(6).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2000 July). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 7(7).

McPhee, Charles Ph.D. (2001 April). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 8(4).

McPhee, Charles (2001 July). The Dream Doctor. Electric Dreams 8(7).

Meadows, Kathleen, Ph.D. and Gloria Nye, B.A. (1999 July). Using Cards for
Dream Exploration. Electric Dreams 6(7).

Meadows, Kathleen Ph.D. (1999 September). Editor's Notes and About this
Dreams and Creativity. Electric Dreams 6(9).

Meadows, Kathleen Ph.D. (1999 September). Dreamy Writing. Electric Dreams
6(9).

Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1998 September). Simbilu's Dream Landscape 10,000
Dreams Interpreted. Book Review. Electric Dreams 5(8).

Moss, Robert (2001 Dec). Dreams of Terror, Dreams of Healing. Electric
Dreams 8(12).

Moss, Robert (2001 August). We Are All Psychics In Our Dreams. Electric
Dreams 8(8).

Moss, Robert (2001 July). The Underground Railroad of Dreams. Electric
Dreams 8(7).

Mott, John (1995 October 1). Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Lucid Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 2(12).

Mott, John (1995 August 18). Lucid Dreaming and the Wake/Sleep Doorway.
Electric Dreams 2(10).


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Noble, Jeri (1999 February). Dreamworking in Metaphysics. Electric Dreams
6(2).

Nutcracker (1996 May). Dream Reaper - Journaling. Electric Dreams 3(4).

Nutcracker (1997 February). DreamWorldNews. Interview. Electric Dreams 4(2).



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Olsen, Fred C. (1997 August). Should We Control Our Dreams? Electric Dreams
4(7).

Olsen, Fred M.Div. (1999 December). Dream Reentry and On-line Chat: An
Experience of Synchronicity and Resolving Loss in a Chat Room Setting.
Electric Dreams 6(12).

Ossana, Roberta (1996 December). Dream Network Journal Update. Electric
Dreams 3(11).

Ossana, Roberta (1999 March). Exploring the Mystery: History of The Dream
Network. Electric Dreams 6(3).


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Parfitt, Will (2005 July). Awakening Within The Dream. Electric Dreams
12(7).

Parker, Jennie (1999 May). Dream in Addiction Treatment. Electric Dreams
6(5).

Parker, Steve (2007 February). Steve Parker Goes W.I.L.D.!(An Excerpt From
The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 14(2).

Parry, Matthew (1994 December 13). Questions & Answers. Electric Dreams
1(19).

Parry, Matthew (1994 December 13). Freud's Interpretation of Dreams - Part
I: Theory. Electric Dreams 1(19).

Parry, Matthew (1995 February 24). Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams --
Part II: Method. Electric Dreams 2(3).

Parry, Matthew (1997 January). Dream Sharing Influences - This month: Freud.
Electric Dreams 4(1).

pasQuale (2005 March). Testing the 'Realness' of DC's (Dream Characters).
Electric Dreams 12(3).

Pavlov, Radostin (2004 May). Precognitive Dreams Electric Dreams 11(5).

Penderak, Ralf (2002 November). Musical Lucid Dreams. (An Excerpt From The
Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 9(11).

Penderak, Ralf (2004 November). Wake Induced Lucid Dreams Helped Me Deal
With My Fear Of Death. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy
Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(11).

Potts, Mena, Ph.D. (1997 May). Graduate Education in Dream Studies. Electric
Dreams 4(5).

Psychonaut (1997 February). Review: NovaDreamer. Electric Dreams 4(2).


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(1995 July 28). Questions & Answers on Dreaming. Electric Dreams 2(9).

(1995 August 18). Questions & Answers on Dreaming. Electric Dreams 2(10).

(1995 September 2). Questions, Answers, Comments and Replies. Electric
Dreams 2(11).

(1995 October 1). Questions, Answers, Comments and Replies. Electric Dreams
2(12).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 May). Jayne Gackenbach - Interview. Electric Dreams
3(4).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 June). Fred Olsen Interview. Electric Dreams 3(5).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 July). Interview: with Roberta Ossana. Electric
Dreams 3(6).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 July). Interview: with Kephrea. Electric Dreams
3(6).

Quinton,Victoria (1996 August). Interview: John Suler on Children's Dreams.
Electric Dreams 3(7).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 September). Interview: John W. Herbert: DreamSharing
in Cyberspace. Electric Dreams 3(8).

Quinton, Victoria (1996 October). Interview: Donna Campos, Host of
DreamStudio on Compuserve. Electric Dreams 3(9).

Quinton, Victoria (1997 February). Dream Program At Twin Lakes & Gina
Perlin. Interview. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Quinton, Victoria (1997 September). Interview with DrmDoc Electric Dreams
4(9).

Quinton, Victoria (1997 September). "Your Dream of Recovery": Interview with
Shelly Marshall. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Quinton, Victoria (1997 November). John Fitzsimons interview Electric Dreams
4(11).

Quinton, Victoria (1997 December). Interview: Donald Broadribb. Electric
Dreams 4(12).

Quinton, Victoria (1998 December). Habib Interviewed by Victoria Quinton
Electric Dreams 5(11).

Quinton, Victoria (1999 February). Interview: with Andy Griffiths. Electric
Dreams 6(2).

Quinton, Victoria (1999 February). Interview: with Jane Anderson. Electric
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Racicot, Anna (1997 April). Worlds Without War. Electric Dreams 4(4).

Reed, Henry (1995 February 5). Transforming Research into Socially
Responsible, Collaborative Personal Education. Electric Dreams 2(2).

Reed, Henry (1995 March 30). "The Meaning of Apocalyptic Dreams." Electric
Dreams 2(5).

Reed, Henry (1995 April 15). Encouraging Dream Recall. Electric Dreams 2(6).


Reed, Henry (1995 April 30). Women Better Dream Recallers. Electric Dreams
2(7).

Reed, Henry (1995 October 1). Notes on "The Art of Dreaming". Electric
Dreams 2(12).

Reed, Henry (1996 March). Hosting Your Dreams. Electric Dreams 3(2).

Reed, Henry (1997 June). The Dead Visit in Dreams. Electric Dreams 4(6).

Reed, Henry (1997 July). Dreams Increase Our Sense of Oneness with Others:
Comments on Ullman by Henry Reed. Electric Dreams 4(7).

Richards, Fae (1997 December). Book Review: Sex, Symbols & Dreams by Janice
Baylis, Ph.D. Electric Dreams 4(12).

Roberts, Maureen (1997 September). Dreams, Death and Diana: Lessons in
Personal and Collective Healing. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Russa, Joe (1999 June). SUNEYE, Lucidity & Enlightenment. Electric Dreams
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Schmidt, Dennis (1996 August). Safety in Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 3(7).

Siegel, Alan (2003). Dreams of Expectant Mothers and Fathers. (Adapted from
Dream Wisdom, 2003 Ten Speed/Celestial Arts Press - Berkeley) Electric
Dreams 10(2).

Seymour, Hannah (1998 September). Enter 'Dreamgates' for Time-Folding
Travel. Electric Dreams 5(8).

Shafton, Anthony (2005 June). Response to Strephon Kaplan-Williams' comments
on "Why So Few Blacks in the Dream Movement?" Electric Dreams 12(6).

Simbilu (1998 September). Challenging Your Interpretative Skills. Electric
Dreams 5(8).

Smith, Geoffrey H. (1997 October). Big Dreams and Nightmares: A Journey
through the Night Forest. Electric Dreams 4(10).

Smith, Mark Seven (1997 January). A Healing Power, Update on Castaneda's
Projects. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Smith, Rod (2000 February). Microanalysis of Visual Dream Content. Electric
Dreams 7(2).

Sondheim, Alan (2001 July). early dreaming. Poem.  Electric Dreams 8(6).

Sosnoski, Karen (1997 January). "Grateful for Second Chances" : Dream
Inspired Poetry. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Spivock, Lars (1999 April). Electric Dreams Interviews Rita Abrams. Electric
Dreams 6(4).

Spivock, Lars (1999 April). Dreaming in the Millennium. Electric Dreams
6(4).

Spivock, Lars (1999 December). Electric Dreams Interviews Richard Wilkerson
about his new CD-Rom, "A Brief History of Dream Sharing". Electric Dreams
6(12).

Spivock, Lars (2000 May). Easy Steps to Lucid Dreaming. Electric Dreams
7(5).

Star, Jennifer (2006 September). A View from the Bridge. Exploring Mandorla
Energy. Electric Dreams 13(9).

Strand, Olivia (2005 January). A View from the Bridge: A Peace Dream
Voyager. December 2004 - January 2005. Electric Dreams 12(1).

Strand, Olivia (2005 November). A View from the Bridge: Awakening To the
World. November 2005. Electric Dreams 12(11).

Strand, Olivia (2005 December). A View from the Bridge: What Dreams May
Come. December 2005. Electric Dreams 12(12).

Strand, Olivia (2006 January). A View from the Bridge: Make Me an Instrument
of Thy Peace Electric Dreams 13(1).

Suler, John (1995 November 30). Dream's Worth. Electric Dreams 2(14).

Sullivan, Kathleen and Peggy Coats, ed. (1996 October). Jill Mellick on
Creativity and Dreams. Interview. Electric Dreams 3(9).


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Tate, Timothy (1996 June). DreamWave: The Gold in Dross. Electric Dreams
3(5).

Taylor, Jeremy (1996 April). Dreaming Deep & Surfacing - Group Work with
Dreams in Cyber-Space. Electric Dreams 3(3).

Taylor, Jeremy (1997 June). Dream Sharing in Cyberspace. Electric Dreams

Taylor, Jeremy (2001 August). How to Become a Dream Worker. Electric Dreams
8(8). [This article was reprinted in Electric Dreams 11(06).]

Taylor, Jeremy (2001 December). Dream Work & Collective Trauma - Unconscious
Elements In Public Debate. Electric Dreams 8(12).

Taylor, Jeremy (2004 January). Review of 'Jung: A Biography' by Deirdre
Bair. Electric Dreams 11(11).

Turell, Sky (1996 August). Dangerous Liaisons. Electric Dreams 3(7).

Turner, Kathy and Richard Wilkerson (2000 April). DreamWheel Instructions:
How to run a dream group via an e-mail list. Electric Dreams 7(4).

Turner, Kathy and Grundy, Jodine (2003 October). A View from the Bridge.
Welcome Home, Dave: Picture Essays on Iraq. Electric Dreams 10(10).

Turner, Kathy (2005 August). A View from the Bridge. Making Connections.
Electric Dreams 12(9).

Turner, Kathy (2006 October). A View from the Bridge. A Month and a Bit.
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Val (1995 August 18). More on Dream Comics: Response to Stan's article on
dream Comics & Comic Journal Dream Entries. Electric Dreams 2(10).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 April). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic Steps
to Lucid Dreaming -- Step 1 : Doing the Mental Prep-Work. Electric Dreams
7(4).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 May). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic Steps to
Lucid Dreaming -- Step 2 : Increasing dream recall. Electric Dreams 7(5).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 June). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic Steps to
Lucid Dreaming -- Step 3 : Keeping a Dream Journal. Electric Dreams 7(6).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 July). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic Steps to
Lucid Dreaming -- Step 4 : Becoming familiar with your Dreams. Electric
Dreams 7(7).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 August). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic Steps
to Lucid Dreaming -- Step 5 : Adding Awareness to your Waking Consciousness.
Electric Dreams 7(8).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 September). The Lucid Bird's Words: The Six Basic
Steps to Lucid Dreaming -- Step 6 : Linking your Awareness to your Dreams.
Electric Dreams 7(9).

Vandekeere, Marc (2000 October). The Lucid Bird's Words: Nightmares: Things
that go BUMP in the Mind - Lucidity and Confronting Your Fears. Electric
Dreams 7(10).

Vandekeere, Marc (2001 July). Twin Foresight, Fear, Falling and Energy Body
Awareness in Lucid Dreams : Excerpts from an email correspondence between
Marc Vandekeere and another lucid dreaming and out of body awareness
enthusiast.. Electric Dreams 8(6).

VanDeKeere, Marc (2002 January. DARE to your Enhance your Lucid Dreaming:
Part 1: The Holy Grail of the Dreamphiles. Electric Dreams 9 (1).

Vedral, Johanna (2001 October). Nightmares through my life. Electric Dreams
8(10).

Vimanananda, Swami (1995 August 18). The Mystical Meaning of Dreams.
Electric Dreams 2(10).

Vimanananda, Swami (1995 September 2). The Mystical Meaning of Dreams - Part
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Waggoner, Robert (2003 April). A Look at Lucid Dreams and Healing. (An
Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams
10(4).

Waggoner, Robert (2003 August). Lucid Dreaming for Precognitive Information.
(An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric
Dreams 10(8).

Waggoner, Robert (2003 November). Chemically Influenced Lucid Dreams? New
Discovery Leads to New Issues. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange,
Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 10(11).

Waggoner, Robert (2004 February). Are You Awake? (An Excerpt From The Lucid
Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(2).

Waggoner, Robert (2004 July). DreamSpeak - An Interview with Beverly D'Urso:
Part One. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 11(7).

Waggoner, Robert (2004 August). DreamSpeak - An Interview with Beverly
D'Urso: Part Two. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(8).

Waggoner, Robert (2004 September). DreamSpeak - An Interview with Beverly
D'Urso: Part Three. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(9).

Waggoner, Robert (2004 December). DreamSpeak: An Interview with Keelin, a
Lucid Dreamer. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis,
Editor.) Electric Dreams 11(12).

Waggoner, Robert (2005 February). Thought-Forms, Automatons, and Active
Initiators: Residents in Lucid Dreaming. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream
Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 12(2).

Waggoner, Robert (2005 June). Seven Subtle Factors Influencing Lucid Dreams.
(An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric
Dreams 12(6).

Waggoner, Robert (2006 March). Dreamspeak: An Interview with Fariba
Bogzaran. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 13(3).

Waggoner, Robert (2006 June). "Does the Sailor Control the Sea?" Overcoming
Resistance to Lucid Dreaming. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange,
Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric Dreams 13(6).

Waggoner, Robert (2006 August). Dreamspeak: An Interview with Suzanne
Wiltink. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 13(8).

Waggoner, Robert (2006 November). Dreamspeak: An Interview with Don
Middendorf. (An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.)
Electric Dreams 13(11).

Waggoner, Robert (2007 March). Dreamspeak: An Interview with David L. Kahn.
(An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange, Lucy Gillis, Editor.) Electric
Dreams 14(3).

Webb, Craig (1997 May). Interview: with D.R.E.A.M.S. Foundation Director and
Lucid Paddling Adventure Trip Guide: Craig Webb. Electric Dreams 4(5).

Wilkerson, Richard C. (1994 November 20). A Brief Hello: A New Editor for
Electric Dreams . Electric Dreams 1(18).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 January 20). Dreams of the Blind. Electric
Dreams 2(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett and Jill Gregory (1995 February 5). Lets Sleep On
It: Dream Answers via the Incubation Approach. Electric Dreams 2(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 February 24). Freud Bibliography for
Researchers. Electric Dreams 2(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 March 10). Playing With Fire: The
Object-Cause of Desire at the Heart of the Dream. Electric Dreams 2(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 March 30). Commentary: on "Apocalyptic
Dreams." Electric Dreams 2(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 March 30). Review: "Dream Scene Magazine".
Electric Dreams 2(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 April 15). On the Tips our Tongues: Clues
from Dreaming Research to Enhancing Control and Understanding of Dream
Recall. Electric Dreams 2(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett and John Herbert (1995 April 15). John Herbert
and the Internet (dream) Group. Electric Dreams 2(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1995 June 8). Dream Sharing Experiment: The
Email Dream Circle. Electric Dreams 2(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 March). Dreams, Censorship and the new
Telecommunications Act. Electric Dreams 3(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 April). Interview: Joe Tucker of Dream
Archive. Electric Dreams 3(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 July). Dangerous Dreams: The Risks of
Online Dream Sharing. Electric Dreams 3(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 August). Conducting Dream Research on the
Net: A Quick Start for Beginners. Electric Dreams 3(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 September). Dream Bibliographies Online!
Electric Dreams 3(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 September). Significant Dreams: The Two
Millennium Silence Breaks in Cyberspace. Electric Dreams 3(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 October). Nightmare Hotline - An Interview
with Anthony Dubetz. Electric Dreams 3(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 November). Proposal: A History of Dreams in
Cyberspace. Electric Dreams 3(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996 December). Lucid Dream Resources Online.
Electric Dreams 3(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 January). Epic Dewfall Interview: Man
Against Eternity Tour. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 January). The Electric Dreams Education
Program - A Proposal Electric Dreams 4(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 January). DreamSharing In Cyberspace I -
Email and Mail Lists. Electric Dreams 4(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 February). Topics in Dreamwork Series: Jung
and Amplification. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 February). The Wanderer - Some time with
Eugene Marks. Interview. Electric Dreams 4(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 March). Topics in Dreamwork Series: Alfred
Adler & Dream Styles. Electric Dreams 4(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 April). Cyber-Dream Library! Electric
Dreams 4(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 April). DreamThread: Unravelling the
Mysteries of your Dreams : An interview with Ariadne Green. Electric Dreams
4(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 April). Topics in Dreamwork Series: Dreams
and Surrealism. Electric Dreams 4(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 May). Forum: Postmodern Dreaming - An
Introduction. Electric Dreams 4(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett and Harold Delius (1997 June). Dream Education
Series: Existential-Phenomenology and Dreams. Electric Dreams 4(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 July). Interview: Richard Nagle and
DreamScape Website. Electric Dreams 4(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 July). Dream Education Series: Gestalt and
Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 4(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 August). Cyberdream - History Notes.
Electric Dreams 4(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 September). Nocturnal Postings: an
Interview with Julia Koberlien. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 September). Dreams and Princess Diana: A
Special Section. Electric Dreams 4(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 October). Nightmares - An Introduction.
Electric Dreams 4(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1997 November). Debriefing for an Accent into
Lucid Freedom: An Interview with Dolphina. Electric Dreams 4(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 May). How to Portray a Dream in Film.
Electric Dreams 5(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 June). Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond
Value Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork in Cyberspace. Electric
Dreams 5(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (August 1998). Dream Science and Dreamwork:
Friends or Foes? Electric Dreams 5(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett ed. (1998 October). A Short History on the Rise
of Dream Sharing in Cyberspace. Electric Dreams 5(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett ed. (1998 October). A Transcript from an Online
Dream Group 'Coins of Life' An August 1998 DreamWheel. Electric Dreams 5(9).


Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 November). Interview: with Kris B.
Kendrick, Creator of the Dreams Project. Electric Dreams 5(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 November). Nightmares - an Introduction.
Electric Dreams 5(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 December. Interview with Dream and
Nightmare Authority, Ernest Hartmann, M.D. Electric Dreams 5(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 December). Dreams and Meaning in Science:
Neural Nets. Electric Dreams 5(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett and Beldo, Jaye C. (1999 January). Integrative
Dream Narration Project: Share a Group Dream! Electric Dreams 6(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 January). Delirium, Desire and
Deleuzioguattarian Dreamwork: Part of the Postmodern Dreaming Series.
Electric Dreams 6(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 March). The Proliferation of Dream
Discussion eLists on the Internet. Electric Dreams 6(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 April). ASD Bulletin Board - Home to the
Dream Titans! Electric Dreams 6(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 April). So You Want a Career in the Field
of Dreams? Electric Dreams 6(4). [This article was revised and reprinted as
Career Paths in Dreamwork in Electric Dreams 11(6).]

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 May). Interview: The Dream Songs of Vesica
Pisci -- A Special Place Between: An Interview with Kingfisher. Electric
Dreams 6(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 June). Dreams and Health: A Brief
Historical Review. Electric Dreams 6(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 July). About Electric Dreams - Orientation.
Electric Dreams 6(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 July). DREAMWORK2000 Becoming Yourself in
the 21st Century: An Interview with Strephon Kaplan-Williams. Electric
Dreams 6(7).

Wilkerson, Richard (1999 August). ASD Conference 99 - what you missed!
Electric Dreams 6(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett and Branka (1999 August). Special Section: Dream
Sharing with Serbia: A Special Report of a Dream Group Held During the
Crisis in Kosovo: Transcripts and Notes by Richard Wilkerson & Branka.
Electric Dreams 6(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 August). Research Request: Computers in
Dreams : Pre and Post Internet Perceptions. Electric Dreams & Part I
Pre-Net. Electric Dreams 6(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 September). Dreams and Creativity in the
Electric Theater of Cyberspace. Electric Dreams 6(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 October). Nightmares - an Introduction.
Electric Dreams 6(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 October). Different Kinds of Nightmares and
Different Kinds of Approaches. Electric Dreams 6(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 November). The ABZZzzzzs of Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 6(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 November). The Origins of the Electric
Dreams Community: Part I. Electric Dreams 6(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 December). Dreams and Western Religion.
Electric Dreams 6(12).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 January). Nanotechnology and Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 7(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 January). Dream Memes. Electric Dreams
7(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 January). Dreams and Connectionism.
Electric Dreams 7(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 January). The Future of Dreaming: Comments
from the Internet. Electric Dreams 7(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 January). The Socialization of Dream
Journaling. Electric Dreams 7(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 February). Dream Memes: Persistence
Dreaming Viruses. Electric Dreams 7(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 February). Dream Meme: All Dreams are in
Black and White. Electric Dreams 7(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 February). Dream Meme: Sickness in a dream
means you are about to get sick. Electric Dreams 7(2).

Wilkerson, Richard (2000 March). Digital Dreams: The changing (inter)face of
dreams in the twenty-first century. Electric Dreams 7(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 April). "Mel", A full transcript of an
Electric Dreams dream sharing group. Electric Dreams 7(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 April) A Brief History of the Electric
Dreams DreamWheel. Electric Dreams 7(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 May). A Brief History of Lucid Dreaming.
Electric Dreams 7(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 June). Transforming Dreams: An Interview
with Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. Electric Dreams 7(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 July). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer
Dreams II : The changing (inter)face of dream texts. Electric Dreams 7(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 August). New Trends in Online Dream
Sharing: Yahoo Dream Clubs and New Usenet Newsgroups. Electric Dreams 7(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 September). Creating Safe Cyberecologies
for Dream Sharing and Dreamwork: How the Association for the Study of Dreams
can offer its Ethical Traditions to the Internet. Electric Dreams 7(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 October). Becoming Nightmare, the
Rhizomatics of Dreaming. Electric Dreams 7(10). [This article was reprinted
in Electric Dreams 9(10) and 12(10).]

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 November). Digital Dreaming Series:
Computer Dreams III :: The Digital Shift in Culture. Electric Dreams 7(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 January). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer
Dreams IV :: Dream Codes and Decoded Flow. Electric Dreams 8(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 March). Jung, Personality and Dreamwork:
The Persona, the Ego and the Four Functions. Electric Dreams 8(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 March). Jung, the Desired, and Dreamwork:
Working with the Anima/Animus. Electric Dreams 8(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 March). Jung, the Self, and Dreamwork.
Electric Dreams 8(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 March). Jung, the Shadow and Dreamwork.
Electric Dreams 8(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 April). Dreams, Postmodern Theory and the
Improverse: Selections from Postmodern Dreaming. Electric Dreams 8(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 May). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer
Dreams V :: Emergence of Digital Imagery in Analog Dreamers. Electric Dreams
8(5).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 June). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer
Dreams VI :: Digital Dreaming: Emergence or Replacement Imagery? Electric
Dreams 8(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 June). Interview with Patricia Garfield,
Ph.D.- The Universal Dream Key. Electric Dreams 8(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 September). Becoming Intense, Becoming
Dream. Part of the Postmodern Dreaming Series. Electric Dreams 8(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 September). Digital Dreaming Series: (7a)
Digital Dreaming Research Project: Project Goals and Considerations.
Electric Dreams 8(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 September). Digital Dreaming Series: (7b)
Digital Dreams from March 2001 through April 2001.  Electric Dreams 8(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 October). New Approaches to Controlling and
Understanding Nightmares. Electric Dreams 8(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 October). Passage: Nightmare Within,
Nightmare Without. Electric Dreams 8(10).


Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 October). Dreams about the Terrorist
Attacks on NY and DC. Electric Dreams 8(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 November). Three Asynchronous Dream Sharing
Communities Contrasts and Comparisons. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 November). The DreamGate Course on the
History of Dreams. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 November). Developing Your Own Dreamwork
Ethics. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 December). Dreams of Terrorism : Anonymous
dreams from the Internet after 9-11. Electric Dreams 8(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 February). The Founding of the alt.dreams
Usenet Newsgroup: Initial Proposals and Configuration. Electric Dreams 9(2).


Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 April). Computer Dreams - Digital Dreaming
Series 8a: Selected Dream entries from April 2001 to June 2001 Electric
Dreams 9(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 April). Digital Dreaming Series (8b): Uses
of Computer Dreams as Personal and Cultural Meaning Maps. Electric Dreams
9(4).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 July). Digital Dreaming Series: (9a)
Selected Dream entries from July 2001 to September 11, 2001. Electric Dreams
9(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 July). Digital Dreaming Series: (9b) The
Digital Archetype: Discussions from the C. G. Jung Bulletin Board. Electric
Dreams 9(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 August). John Herbert's Pioneering Online
Research and Dream Groups. Electric Dreams 9(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2002 September). A Briefing on the History of
Dream Psi Research . Electric Dreams 9(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 January). The Evolution of REM Dreaming:
New Research Includes All Mammals. Electric Dreams 10(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 January). Dream Cards I: A Review. Electric
Dreams 10(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 March). New Trends in Dream Brain Research.
Electric Dreams 10(3).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 July). How Will Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? A conversation about androids and dreaming. Electric Dreams 10(7).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 August). Archetypal Psychology and
Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 10(8).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 September). Dangerous Representations:
Abstraction in Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 10(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 September). Computer Dreams January 2002 -
December 2002. Electric Dreams 10(9).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 October). Nightmares Resources Online.
Electric Dreams 10(10).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2003 November). A Case for Expanding Dreamwork
in Psychosynthesis. Electric Dreams 10(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2004 January). Transgressive Dreamworks:
Theorizing the Exceeding of Limits and the Creation of Improvizones.
Electric Dreams 11(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2004 February). Dream Science Updates: Dream
incubation leads to better problem outcomes. Electric Dreams 11(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2004 June). Career Paths in Dreamwork . Electric
Dreams 11(6).  [This article is a revised version of  So You Want a Career
in the Field of Dreams? published in Electric Dreams 6(4).]

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2004 November). Deleuzian Difference and
Non-Representational Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 11(11).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2005 January). Whitehead's Process Theory and
Dreaming Electric Dreams 12(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2005 January). Susan Sontag - A Farewell Dream.
Electric Dreams 12(1).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2005 February). Whitehead and Psi: Dreams,
Process Theory and Nonsensual Perception. Electric Dreams 12(2).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2005 June). The Dream Koan, "Why Do We Dream?"
Electric Dreams 12(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2005 October). Nightmares - An Introduction
Electric Dreams 12(10). [This article is a revised version of Nightmares -
an Introduction published in Electric Dreams 5(10).]

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2006 February). The Impossible Dream Part 1:
Identities in Process and Impossible Objects. The Postmodern Dreaming Series
on Transgressive Dreamwork. Electric Dreams 12(6).

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2006 October). Nightmares - An Introduction
Electric Dreams 13(10). [This article is a revised version of the articles
published in Electric Dreams 5(10) & 12(10).]

Winstead, Charles (1995 September 2). On the Dream Experiences Of Big Wall
Climbers: A Pilot Study. Electric Dreams 2(11).

Wiseman, Ann Sayre. (2006 June). Ann Sayre Wiseman's India Dream Trip: Life
Changing Strategies Through Art, Dreams and Creative Problem Solving.
Electric Dreams 13(6).


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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
            Robert Waggoner interviews pasQuale
            Editor, Lucy Gillis

++ Column: The View - World Dreams Peace Bridge:
            An Outbreak of Group Creativity:
            Can They Hear Us Drumming?
            Jean Campbell

++  Dream:  "Mushroom Predator"
               Stan Kulikowski II

++ Article: The Cinderella Complex
             Kurt Forrer

++ Column: Dreams and Fantasy in Pan's Labyrinth
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD


++ DREAM SECTION: From Kat Peters-Midland


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Welcome to the June 2007 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 seem 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


  If you haven't yet made reservations at the 2007 Annual Conference of the
International Association for the Study of Dreams, I encourage you rush over
and sign up, there is still time to get in and join the fun at Somoma State
College in Rohnert Park, California!  asdreams.org/2007

In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...

Lucy Gillis & Robert Waggoner travel the globe in search of lucid dreamer's
and their stories which go into the Lucid Dream Exchange. This month Robert
interviews Dutch lucid dreamer, pasQuale. Her passion for lucid dreaming has
led to the development of the popular website, www.ld4all.com and many
stories in this month's Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange.

The World Dream Peace Bridge, an international collection of collective
dreamers whose projects span the globe, has been very active this month in
integrating their experiences with dream, publishing books and preparing for
the world's largest-ever drumming circle (Monday, June 25, for Drum Dance
and Dream for Peace). Read all about their activities in this month's View
from the Bridge by Jean Campbell : "An Outbreak of Group Creativity: Can
They Hear Us Drumming?"

"The sense that the dream was here in charge all the way to the finished
product is overwhelming. No less so is the thought that the dream not only
knew in what form and how it was to become manifest, but also where and
when."  This extract and more can be found in an interesting article on
dreams and invention titled "Cinderella Complex" from Kurt Forrer.

David Jenkins, PhD., the explorer of the wide, wide world of dreaming,
reports these adventures through his weekly online e-pulse, DreamPlay. This
month's selection in EDreams uses Pan's Labyrinth as a way to explore
dreamwork.

Is your dream journal a literary mess of fragments, hard to read entries and
half told stories? Perhaps you need to apply your literary skills to these
stories. Check out how Stan Kulikowski II writes up his dream texts in
"Mushroom Predator."

Burning buildings, a meteor striking the earth, an engulfing shroud, and
floating fish is it Global Warming? No, just the latest installment of the
dream section of the Electric Dreams! From Kat Peters-Midland.

Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

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

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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
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http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/

Electric Dreams in PDF:
Back online at a new archive
Archive Courtesy of
Nick Cumbo
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June 2007

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.


Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Twisk Dreambase
- matchAdream.com
- Dream Journals on the Net
- Russian Dream Art Gallery
- Dream Maps

Physical world:
- IASD News: Conferences
- Canada: Christopher Sowton Dreamreading Seminar
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
- North Carolina: Tom Lane's Circle of Dreams
- New England Psychics Meetup Group
- Dream Course at JFKU in Pleasant Hill, CA

Books, movies, research:
- Griffin: Expectation fulfillment theory
- Light in lucid dreams

Reminders:
- Various calendars
- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online? This month we have a theme of recurring dreams.

Episode 3 of a Recurring Dream Serie: Alessa - Instr0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QY492z-pjM0

Recurring Dreams - Renetto
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c1TKBySA9w0

A Recurring Dream Within A Dream - break9away
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Si76-WlnCcU

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.

Richard Wilkerson


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- Twisk Dreambase
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The Twisk Dreambase has returned online!

Twisk Dreambase is an online dream archive that turned into a multi-user
blog over the years. It's been online from 1999 - 2004. Then it went
underground for a while (circumstances, circumstances!). Now it's 2007 and
time for a comeback!

Twisk Dreambase is a blog where anyone can post and discuss dreams.

www.twisk.com


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- matchAdream.com
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matchAdream serves as the collective log for the world's sleep dreams. Here
you can discover what the world has been dreaming about, and even submit
your own dreams to the collection.

Have you ever wondered if somebody has had the same dream as you? Would you
like to know if you have had the same dream as somebody else at the same
time? Perhaps somebody who you've never met and lives in another country?

matchAdream.com allows you to maintain a dream diary, search the database of
dreams by keyword, and it can automatically match your dreams with others
from all over the world free of charge.

www.matchadream.com


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- Dream Journals on the Net
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Jono's Demented Dream Journal:
http://jbdowse.wordpress.com/

I Dream by Melanie:
http://memsahibdreams.blogspot.com

Dream Prophesy by Joi:
http://www.dreamprophesy.com/blog

I'm especially looking for current dream journals that present drawings and
other pictures. Please email me if you have or know one.

Harry Bosma
ed-news@...


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- Russian Dream Art Gallery
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Maria Volchenko invites you to visit the dream art gallery on her website.

www.dream-art.ru/english/index.htm


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- Dream Maps
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Former news editor Peggy Coats of Dreamtree fame created another wonderfully
designed new website Dream Maps. This is what she says about it:

"Dream Mapping is a creative way of working with dreams through the
construction of dream maps: image assemblages or collages derived directly
from our dreams. If you know others who might be interested, please feel
free to forward this message on! There is a place on the website to sign up
for the mailing list."

Check it out at: http://dreammaps.net



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- IASD News: Conferences
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* The Spirit Of The Dream  *

June 29 To July 3, 2007

Register now, enter The Spirit of the Dream, and join our dream community on
the beautiful campus of Sonoma State University, in Rohnert Park, California
(in wine country, one hour north of San Francisco). Visit the IASD 2007
conference page for more information. Help IASD by sharing this link with a
friend or colleague.

www.asdreams.org/2007


* Dreams and Culture *

UK - September 7 to 9, 2007
at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, England

Our dreams reflect the culture in which we live, our culture shapes our
dreams and in some societies, dreams have shaped culture. This conference
explores the ways in which our dreams and culture interact and encourages
submissions from a range of disciplines.

www.asdreams.org/england07


* Psiberdreaming 2007 - Psi Dreams and Creativity *

Call for presentations

Since it began six years ago, IASD's PsiberDreaming Online Conference has
become one of the finest conferences available anywhere on the Internet:
reasonably priced and lots of fun.

This year's conference, scheduled from Sunday, September 23 through Sunday,
October 7, will be developed around a theme of Psi Dreams and Creativity in
the arts, in science, and in daily life.

What are psi dreams? Experiences with precognition, retrocognition, deja vu,
dream telepathy, remote viewing, mutual dreaming, lucidity and psychokinesis
all apply. Have you ever done creative work based on any of these
experiences in your dreams?

PsiberDreaming conferences involve paper presentations, workshops, and other
activities, scheduled each day of the two-week online conference. If you
have an idea for a presentation, send a title plus a brief synopsis to
Conference co-host, Jean Campbell at jccampb@... , by July 30, 2007.
Earlier is better. Guidelines for online presentation will be sent to
presenters upon acceptance of their proposals. Presenters must agree to
answer questions and interact with conference participants for at least two
days after their presentations are put up online.


The IASD website: www.asdreams.org


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- Canada: Christopher Sowton Dreamreading Seminar
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A Method and Manual for using Dreams in the Service of Health
Presented by Christopher Sowton, N.D.

A dedicated researcher and map-maker of the dream world, Christopher Sowton,
Naturopath and Homeopath, shares his experience and insights on how to use
dreams to guide and support healing.

Christopher has broken new ground in teaching healers to think outside the
realm of ego-bound consciousness and improve their ability to pick up
messages from the unconscious.

In this interactive seminar, with the use of video clips of actual dream
material, you will be walked through the Dreamreading Manual to learn a
practical method for understanding and making use of dreams in clinical
practice and in everyday life. Dreamreading complements all types of health
care practices.

For more information or to register: info@... or call
416-588-9649

Saturday, June 23, 2007
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
28 Madison Avenue.
(1 Block E of Spadina, N of Bloor)
$125
Dreamreading Manual included

www.dreamreading.ca


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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

The Dream Institute offers the following during June and July 2007.


* Culture Dreaming *

Saturday June 2, 3-5 pm
$15-25.

Join us as we look at dreams for their societal meanings rather than
personal. Open to dreamers and nondreamers alike, no experience necessary!


* Invitation to Beauty *

Sunday June 10, 2-4 pm

Summer Community Gathering & Celebration
for Ruth Gendler's new book, Notes on the Need for Beauty.


* Dreams at the Creative Edge *

Friday June 22, 7:30-9 pm

A free open forum with Richard Russo and Meredith Sabini. A follow-up
workshop will begin in July.

We explore the synergistic link between dreams and creativity. We will
present some inspiring vignettes of dreams that influenced creative work in
the arts, medicine, science, and the humanities. You are welcome to bring in
dreams connected with a creative quest or endeavor of your own.


* Follow-up Workshops *

Four Thursdays, 7-9 pm
July 12, 26 August 9, 16
$120

This workshop will provide a relaxed environment where participants can
explore dreams and the edge of a creative project of any type, whether
artistic, scientific, academic, or physical. We may call upon writing,
drawing, dream incubation, and active imagination to open up and extend the
creative edges.


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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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* Tuesday, June 5, 2007 *

Dreaming arts Studio, Santa Fe
1:00-6:30 p.m. $50.

UNDER THE BODHI TREE

If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, Do you think ghosts will
do it after? -Kabir


* Tuesday, June 12, 2007 *

Dreaming arts Studio, Santa Fe
1:00-6:30 p.m. $50.

DREAMS OF THE FATHER

In Honor of Father's Day Wise old man, Elder, Teacher, Guide, Deity,
Heavenly Father, Protector, Advocate, Hero, Tyrant, Villain, Patriarch,
Priest, Healer, Father of Nations, Ruler, King, Ancestor, Authority, Animus.

Bring a "Father" dream.


* Tuesday, June 19, 2007 *

Dreaming arts Studio, Santa Fe
1:00-6:30 p.m. $50.

THRESHOLD

In Honor of the Summer Solstice
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us....

Nelson Mandela


* Tuesday, June 26, 2007 *

Dreaming arts Studio, Santa Fe

SEEDS OF CHANGE

Like a seed,
the dream carries the cipher of the past and a blueprint for the future.
Each dream holds the promise of our potential waiting to be
liberated.


* Saturday, June 30, 2007 *

2:00 - 4:00 International Association for the Study of Dreams
Sonoma State University, California

THE DREAM AS MENTOR AND MUSE: CREATIVE DREAM JOURNAL WORK

A two hour interactive & experiential class with audience participation:
Dreams will be deconstructed and realigned with expressive techniques that
are insightful, experimental and non-invasive.
Journal work in "The Art of the Dream" offers healing guidance into the
realm of enchantment, the landscape of myth and the genius of the night
mind.


* Tuesday, July 3, 2007 *

International Association for the Study of Dreams
Sonoma State University, California 11:30-12:30

INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE PROJECTS FOR DREAMERS AND DREAM GROUPS

An exhibition/presentation with fifty dream journals illustrated with
collage, drawings, prose and poetry will demonstrate how expressive arts can
transform dreams. Guided techniques featuring universal themes and
archetypes will demonstrate how power, medicine and magic can transform
nightmare and paradox into deep inner soul work.


* Tuesday, July 3, 2007 *

Dreaming arts Studio, Santa Fe
1:00-6:30 p.m. $50.

INDEPENDENCE

In Honor of Independence Day
Let Freedom Ring!
No matter how perplexing or disturbing, each dream narrative points to our
inalienable rights by offering images that either hold or withhold our
freedom to act, to speak or to think. Independence day is a day of
liberation from dependency and external control. This is a day for release
from restrictive attachments. This is a day to exercise immunity from the
authority of inner tyranny and self abuse. This is a day of rebellion!

Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com

Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@...


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- North Carolina: Tom Lane's Circle of Dreams
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Gathering of Men and Women Exploring Nighttime Dreams Together

Friday, Sept. 21, '07 5:45 PM, 'til Sun., Sept. 23, '07 3:00 PM
at St Francis Springs Prayer Center, Stoneville, NC

* Learn essential wisdom your dreams have come to tell you.
* Discover their specific meanings for your own health and wholeness.
* Enjoy a depth of camaraderie with other dreamers -- men and women.

www.understandyourdream.com/events.htm

For more information, financing concerns or to check availability, contact
Tom at (336) 545 -1200 or Dreamdiscernment@...


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- New England Psychics Meetup Group
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The New England Psychics Meetup Group comes together in bi-weekly Psychic
Development Fun meetings, to talk and experiment with a variety of topics.
The group invites all psychics, mediums, divination experts, tarot readers
and especially dreamers. Experiments and exercises are done both during
daytime and in dreams.

The group is based in Providence / Warwick, RI. Dreamers in the area with an
interest in psi dreaming are encouraged to check out the group's website.
Joining is free, meetups are still free as well.

http://alquinte.com/en

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- Dream Course at JFKU in Pleasant Hill, CA
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Self-Exploration: The Language of the Dream II . CNS5039A
--exploration of archetypal dream motifs--

Since both dreams and great art arise from the same source--the personal and
collective unconscious-slides from art and from nature are the perfect
medium through which to explore our dreams, amplified from a Jungian
perspective through myth, cultural anthropology, literature, religion,
poetry and the arts.  This summer, the themes to be explored include:

. Colors (Yellow, Green, Blue, Brown) as metaphors for shades of feeling
. The Four Seasons as metaphors for the seasons and moods of our lives
. Animals (horse, eagle, owl, whale) as metaphors for our natural instincts
. The Body (hand, eye, ear, nose, sex organs, heart) as metaphors for
efficacy
. Basic Shapes (egg, spiral, cross, labyrinth) as metaphors for archetypal
    patterns of growth and change

The goal is to open up possibilities for the multiple layers of meaning in
our dreams, stimulate creative thinking, and bring these images alive in our
psyches, with the hope that the living energy will transform what is ailing
in the personal, interpersonal and collective psyche.


Instructor: Lynne Ehlers, Ph.D., is a practicing licensed clinical
psychologist and instructor in the dream studies program at JFKU
When: Five Monday evenings, 7:15 -- 9:15 p.m.
      July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2007
Where: John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill campus, room N162
This class is open to anyone interested in exploring their dreams
One unit of credit available through JFKU; CE credit not available at this
time
Cost: for 1 unit of credit = $455.  To audit, with no credit = $145.
Required Text: Mellick, J. (2001) The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative
Dream Work.  Conari Press      ISBN: 1-57324-574-7

For Information or registration:
Call 1-800- 969-3513 (for information) or 925 969-3353 (to register)
Or go online to ww.jfku.edu

* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Griffin: Expectation fulfilment theory
---

Joe Griffin offers a website explaining his expectation fulfilment theory.
From the page explaining the theory:

"The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming was first published in the
peer reviewed journal The Therapist (1993), forerunner of the Human Givens
Journal, and, despite wide exposure, has not been successfully contended."

And:

"Since it was first published it has received much support from
psychologists, brain researchers and interested members of the public from
whom we welcome further ideas and comments on the subject. Please send them
to us."

www.why-we-dream.com


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- Light in lucid dreams
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Dear Lucid Dreamers,

I have been researching on the experience of Light in lucid dreams and have
been collecting different lucid dreams to bring the breath and depth of
these experiences and looking at the phenomena itself. This is a
continuation of a study I started twenty years, which you might be familiar
with, on the spiritual dimensions of lucid dreaming.

I would like to invite you to contribute a dream or two related to your
experience of light in lucid dream or hypnagogic experiences.

If you are interested please send me a note at bogzaran@... and I will
give you more detail.

Thank you for considering. With all good wishes,

Fariba Bogzaran



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
---

Toko-pa Turner started a weekly column about dreams on her blog. Find the
link to that column, a great discussion forum, workshops, dream
interpretation and more on the website.

www.herownroom.com/mainmenu.htm


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
---

Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
---

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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Cover Artist : Lyndel Thomas
Cover: Dreaming

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LYNDEL THOMAS
Painting
Main mediums: OIL & Pastel
TEACHERS:  The Graham Moore School of Painting
and Teachers associated with the Victorian Artists' Society
I grew up in the Australian countryside with creative parents who encouraged
a love of nature and a strong desire to paint. My father, who had studied
with A.D. Colquhoun, was my first inspiration. I paint
LANDSCAPE, STILL LIFE AND PORTRAITS

Sculpture
Main mediums: Bronze, ceramic, plaster, wood
I majored with distinction in sculpture at The School of Mines - University
of Ballarat.
Sculpture is a medium in which I feel free to fully express my interest in
mythology.
I am an exhibiting member of the VICTORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY and of the
VICTORIAN SOCIETY OF WOMEN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS and THE ASSOCIATION OF
SCULPTORS VICTORIA INC. participating in selected and group exhibitions. My
work has been selected for hanging for the last 6 years in the "V.A.S.
Artist of the Year Awards" and I am a signatory member of the V.A.S. and my
portraits have hung in The James Farrell Portrait Exhibition.  In mid 2006 I
was invited to take part in an Exhibition at the Central Goldfields Gallery
of Maryborough featuring Life Paintings. A study trip to Europe in 2006 has
fuelled much inspiration and renewed my love of the pastel medium and a
serious interest in acrylics combining the wash method with the opaque.
I have won many awards for my work. Recent awards
include
Victorian Artists' Society 2000 Highly Commended by Godwin
Bradbeer
Art Show 2002 Castlemaine; winner of best 3-D work
Overall winner of Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors
"Annie Davison Oliver Award" 2003
Art Show 2006 Castlemaine; winner of best 3-D work
MSWPS 2006 Highly Commended Oil Portrait
Acquisitions: corporate bodies including the Footscray City Council,
Footscray R.S.L., Gippsland Base Hospital,
And various galleries and private collectors in Australia, Great Britain,
Europe and New Zealand

(Lyndel presently lives with her husband in a quiet country town of
Victoria, Australia. She can be contacted on forrerk@...)



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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Robert Waggoner interviews pasQuale
[Lucy Gillis, Editor]

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis

IN LDE 42, Robert Waggoner interviewed pasQuale.

Dutch lucid dreamer, pasQuale, has developed a deep passion and interest for
lucid dreaming, as evidenced by her popular website:

www.ld4all.com

There, she and many others help and encourage new and growing lucid dreamers
with tips, techniques and ideas. A lucid dreamer for more than 10 years now,
the LDE welcomes pasQuale.


RW: When did you first learn about conscious dreaming or lucid dreaming?

pasQuale: I first learned it when I was a student (about 13 years ago). A
friend in school told me about the possibility to control your dreams. She
lent me the book, Creative Dreaming, by Patricia Garfield. From that I
learned how to dream lucidly. I had my first lucid dream before I had
finished the book. I was so exited about lucid dreaming that I wanted to
tell the world about it. Everybody should know about this. Therefore, from
then on, all my school projects were about lucid dreaming. I created a
concept and a demo version for a lucid dreaming game for children, and in my
final year I wrote my end thesis about lucid dreaming and made a website
about it. That website is now known as LD4all.com.

RW: Can you recall your first lucid dream experience? Please, tell us about
that.

PasQuale: Sadly no. I only remember it was when I was reading Creative
Dreaming that sparked my first lucid dream, and it was one that had to do
with defeating enemies, I think. Unfortunately I can't find my earliest
dream records. The first dream in my hand written dream diary is dated Feb.
26, 1994 and at the end I mention: "... but already I had come to the
conclusion I was dreaming and I woke up."

RW: What about your early lucid experiences did you find interesting?

pasQuale: Reading back in my old dream journals, I see I was busy with
interpreting a lot, and when I was lucid I would do a lot to save my memory
of the dream, (in the dream I would sketch the environment or try to take
pictures), so I could use them for my school projects.

The incredible clarity and detail of my lucid dreams was a thing that also
made a big impression on me. I was like a tourist, trying to save everything
I experienced in my LDs.

Also, the thing that was most exiting was the incredible feeling you have
when you realize that everything around you is a dream. That's why I want to
teach lucid dreaming, so everyone can experience that feeling.

RW: In the beginning, what methods did you use to bring conscious awareness
into the dream state? Has that changed over the years?

pasQuale: Back then, I was also interested in past life regression and
reincarnation. I had done a workshop where we would be hypnotized and try to
visit a past life. I learned self-hypnosis in this way and I had a kind of
self hypnosis induction technique for lucid dreaming; I would do a
relaxation exercise and then tell myself that I would be aware that I was
dreaming.

Over the years it has changed.  I started to do yoga, and incorporated a
yoga relaxation exercise, which induced another kind of dream, where I would
be able to roll out of my bed, conscious, knowing I was dreaming. I then
either flew out the window or stepped through the mirror in my bedroom to
see where I would end up.

Later I didn't really do anything to become lucid, it happened
spontaneously.

Lately, I'm experimenting with different methods, and now I'm trying dream
yoga exercises, to see how that works.

RW: As you had more lucid dreams, were there any lucid dreams that made a
deep impression on you? Tell us about them.

pasQuale: Yes, a lot. I've had so many incredible lucid experiences. The
ones that stay in my mind are the most clear, vivid lucid dreams.

Like one where I found myself on a cobblestoned street, outside a church.
The stained glass windows spread their colors in front of me and it was so
incredibly real. I slowly woke up from this and the waking reality seemed
less real than the dream I just woke up from.

Another special lucid dream is one in which I met my spirit guide for the
first time. I tell about that dream on my site too:

I have just gotten lucid and then remember my intent of meeting my spirit
guide. I call: "Do I have a guide? Can I see you?". . .

I walk out into the garden, to the lawn, in the meantime asking: "Can I see
you? I would really like to see you."

Then I see somebody. She wears a kind of jute orange dress. She has blue big
beaded necklaces around her neck. Her hair is short and blond. Her age is
about 40 or 50? She looks Dutch.

"So you are my guide?"

"Yes."

"What's your name?"

"Annette."

I taste the name. Annette.

That was how I first met Annette. Later I called her again in a lucid dream,
because I wanted very much to paint her. I saw her and I only looked,
looked, and looked at her. When I woke up, I painted her. She looked
different than the first time I met her.

"The Museum of Lost Memories" is another one that made a big impression on
me. It originally had a place on the first drafts of my site, but later it
was discarded. It now has become a LD Quest to do. (Every moon (4 weeks) I
run a Lucid Quest on LD4all - an assignment for members to do in their lucid
dreams - I made a Quest about uncovering lost memories) but I still feel
there is more to this dream:

. . .Then I'm on a horse and I ride across the hill. Then I see four
castles. WOW! Castles in the mist. One of concrete, one of gold, one of
silver and one of glass.

I go inside one of them. "The Museum of Lost Memories". There I pick up a
strange object. It seems to be made of blue stone. It has a little orb on it
and next to it a smaller hole.

I go inside. You have to stand against the wired fence, then it will swoosh
you right inside.

I'd like to see my lost memories. I enter a very busy space with lots of
people. At the first display cabinet a little boy plays a game with silver
balls. I pay attention, I don't understand how he does it. There are also
colored cards, but I can't remember those.

I want to have a pen and paper to draw all these things, so I don't forget
them! I say: "In my pocket I have a pen" - and suddenly, there I have a pen.

In my other pocket is paper. Yes, a small notebook. I quickly sketch all
those things, the castle, etc.

I walk through to the end. There is a man who tells me I'm not allowed in
there. I obey him. I'm outside again. I wish myself money so I can buy
things. There, on the street is a pouch with money. A little like the Wild
West.

I enter a 'store'. Behind the counter is a lady in a tight dress. What do
you wish?

She shows me a map of the city. It has brightly colored buildings on it.
Red, blue, purple, green, with thick black outlines.

After this I either wake up or can't remember.

Another one is also an incredible clear and vivid dream, so clear that I
wanted to capture the image I saw when I woke up. In that dream I had
stepped through my mirror and ended up in a little room. I stepped out of
the window and then flew in an incredibly vivid landscape. At the end there
was a huge pirate boat and all the little details were amazing. From far
away you could still see every little ornament on the boat. When I woke up I
tried to capture it in a painting.

I use my paintings as illustrations on my site, and the pirate boat painting
is in there somewhere too.

You can see some more of my dream related, and other paintings at:

http://www.quuipo.net/gallery.php

If I would write down all the lucid dreams that have made an impact on me
I'd fill a lot of pages. Since a few years ago, I began to keep an online
dream journal on the LD4all forums, but you can only read it when you are a
member. So feel free to join and check it out.

RW: Interesting!  What did you take from these lucid dream experiences?
What did they come to mean to you?

pasQuale: I tend to see 'real life' more and more like a dream as well. One
where other rules apply, but a dream, nonetheless. I also love to go to
sleep because I know I can get lucid and can do anything I want.

Also, I feel I received a lot of knowledge and insight in my lucid dreams.
For example, the dream about my spirit guide made me able to connect to her
in real life as well. She still sometimes shows up in my dreams too.  For
me, the most vivid lucid dreams really feel like being in a different world.

Just the other day I had again this feeling very clear, while in my dream I
said to myself: "I will enjoy this while this lasts, I'll wake up soon and
then I'll be on that dull earth again."

RW: It seems that you have tried various experiments when lucid in the dream
state, like talking to a nightmarish figure (the German soldier),
transforming into an animal, and stepping through a mirror. Please describe
the lucid dreams and tell us what happened and your reaction.

pasQuale: Oh yes, I love to experiment in my lucid dreams. Once, I had a
dream in which a German soldier from WWII was coming after me to make me
prisoner or something. I ran down a bridge and hid myself in a corner. Then
I realized I was dreaming.

"I want to know who that is chasing after me, and why he's doing it," I said
to myself. I yelled: "Here I am! Come and catch me!" There he came. But the
mean-looking soldier had transformed into a small childlike woman. I asked:
"Who are you?"

She replied: "I'm your fear for the unknown."

This was a very emotional moment in the dream and crying, I hugged her. I
realized that my "fear for the unknown" had made me "run away" in real life
situations.

In other experiments, I've tried becoming animals. I've transformed into
several animals, and what's most profound is that you experience the
animal's senses, and it always comes with a realization. Like laying an egg
while being a bird:

Tonight I changed myself into a bird. First I flew around just myself having
huge wings and enjoyed it. After that I tried to change myself into a bird
to see what that feels like. Sure enough, I felt my body change, felt I had
a tail and a beak. The eyesight also changed, like very wide vision that
came together in the middle.

Shortly after that I tried to lay an egg to see what that feels like, it was
actually quite pleasurable; realization: of course it is, nature wouldn't
make it un-pleasurable.

Changing into an owl I'm in a backyard of some sort. I see two beautiful
owls flying. I decide I want to try and transform into an owl as well.

I want myself to be an owl; I spread my arms and they become wings. I feel
the feathers on my wings and try to be in an owl's body.

I fly on silken wings. So softly through the air with no sound at all. Even
though it is dark, I have no problem seeing. I swoosh through the trees in
the forest.

I try to remember what owls eat. Mice and stuff. I should try to catch one.
And I will probably have to hack up an owl-ball as well.

Comments: I feel I succeeded in half, because I still felt myself being
human as well. But I felt smaller and that experience of flying silently
through the air was wonderful.

It has made an impact, this dream, because the owls were so beautiful. It
was a barn owl. I did some research and it turns out the barn owl flies
indeed silently through the night, I never knew that.

Other experiments -- Stepping through a mirror used to be the first thing I
did once I was lucid. I still love it, but now I'm experimenting more also
with how I look in the mirror, and how it feels to travel through it.
Sometimes I end up in a new dream (world), sometimes the mirror leads to a
black void. Sometimes it is hard to step through, the mirror then feels like
it's made of thick syrup where you have to wade through.  Here is one mirror
example dream:

Lucid, I think, "Now what to do... flying out of the window?" The mirror in
the bedroom suddenly looks very attractive. Let's try and jump through that.

It bulges a bit; it's not easy to walk through. I succeed in jumping
through. I keep jumping through mirrors. Eventually I end up in a store.
Then again, I keep jumping through mirrors. They now all lead to the same
bedroom, but every time it is one a bit further away. They all look the same
though.

Finally I'm in a room with a wooden table. A friendly female puts her arm
across my shoulders and asks me what I will wear for the 25th anniversary. I
try to remember what anniversary she is talking about. She lets me choose
from different items of jewelry on the floor. I can't make a choice, since I
don't know what anniversary she is talking about.

RW: Like some of us, it appears that you have sought reincarnation
information in lucid dreams. Any luck?

pasQuale: Yes, I have had several dreams on this. For example this one:
Babylon, 56,000 BC.

I'm in the passenger's seat and I remember my request for a guidance dream.
I know this is it. To my left, the driver, is a guide. He/she feels
familiar. I can't remember who it is, or what he/she looked like, only the
energy, white yellowish golden, and very friendly and loving energy with a
bit of humour.

The guide asks me where I want to go. I say: "Please take me to my past and
my future"

"Why do you want that?"

"So I can understand more about myself"

"OK, where do you want to go first?"

"Please take me to my past"

"OK"

He drives, the road flashes by, we are on a highway in broad sunshine. The
dream takes the form of a very well cut American action movie -- with
complimentary music in the background. We pass a road sign: "Babylon 56,000
BC", and this is it. We are now in Babylon, 56,000 BC. I'm amazed that
Babylon existed at that point, and that I apparently have a past there.

The dream is now like a movie. I'm a watcher and I wonder when I get to see
who/what I was back then.

It is a mountainous area, the ground is brown, it reminds me of Hannibal's
journey through the Alps, but that wasn't this long ago was it? -- I see
sheep. They are very white and 'fluffy'. Black thin legs. It is like I can
communicate with them. There is a little lamb somewhere too.

Then I see two old people, a man and a woman. They wear colorful outfits
(reminds me a bit of Tibetan colorful clothes, but it is not the same). They
are eating soup and talking to each other. I am offered soup as well, I now
have the impression I'm a young girl. But I'm also myself. The soup is in a
deep bowl and the spoon is green. It looks a bit like the Chinese porcelain
spoons, only it is deeper and from another material. I admire it. I have to
try several times before I can properly eat from it. The soup is nice and
hot and there is some kind of butter in it I know.

All this time I feel the presence of the guide. I also know this dream is
about to end and I'm sad, because it was just getting interesting.

And yes, I wake up, feeling happy and slightly disappointed at the same
time.

RW: Mutual dreams seem to be a fairly rare experience, and mutual lucid
dreams even rarer. Have you experienced any of these?

pasQuale: I have tried. I'm actually on a quest to have a mutual lucid dream
with an online friend in Australia. So far no luck. I have come close on
occasions but I have never had a true proven shared dream. For example, I
dream of information of a person that I didn't know, and when telling the
dream proved to be right. For example, I dreamt of meeting someone I know
only online, from LD4all, and in the dream he told me the name of his
girlfriend. I didn't know that name in real life. I asked him in waking
life, and it turned out to be the right name.

Other people encounter me a lot in their dreams too, and see things about me
I haven't told them about, but I never remember those dreams.

I have come very close on two occasions, when I dreamt of the same dream
location of someone else, but she hadn't seen me. And another time where we
both recalled dreaming of each other, and seemed to have been in the same
location, but the dream setting was very different.

I keep trying. I have even been told in a lucid dream that I have to teach
about Shared Dreaming:

. . . I'm still lucid, I'm in a high place covered in the greenest grass you
can imagine. Everything is extremely vivid and clear. It is beautiful. There
is no sound. Silence surrounds me. I'm alone in this place.

"This is why you have to teach Shared Dreaming". A voice says, or is it a
realization in my mind?

I realize that with Shared Dreaming dreamers far from each other can meet
each other in this place. But I still want to experience a real shared dream
before teaching about it.

Have you ever tried "surrendering to the dream" or letting the dream show
you something unexpected or unknown? Or have you had other lucid dream
experiences that were totally unexpected? What happened?

Well, I use my lucid dreams to show me things, for example how the design of
the website should look like, or to show me paintings for inspiration. In
lucid dreams, a lot of unexpected things happen, and it's one of the things
I like to do too, to see what will happen when I do a certain action, (like
questioning the people in my dream, to see what they will reply), or to
reach into my pockets and see what comes out, to look at the sky and see
what it looks like, etc. Stepping through a mirror also leads to unexpected
places since you don't know what to expect behind it. I'm often in a very
exploring state of mind when I'm fully lucid.

Here's an example of when I decided to follow the dream once I was lucid:

While I'm sitting on the toilet, 7 of 9 (From Star Trek) comes to ask me
something. She wears a Star Trek uniform. I do a reality check and realize
I'm dreaming.

I decide to follow the dream. "What do you want me to show?", I ask her. She
walks to a door, it is closed. A little heart is drawn on it. The door is
white/yellowish.

I ask her something that will help me remember this dream and keep me lucid.

She gives me a smaller version of my wedding ring, it fits on my left pinky.

I try fitting it on my right hand, but it will only fit on my left. I check
if I can see the rings I got in earlier dreams (on my right hand) but my
right hand is empty.

I follow her and ask where we are. A beautiful view is outside. The colors
are extremely vibrant and clear. I see a lot of small houses with different
kind of rooftops. It feels old. In the front is a pasture where I see a lot
of animals. The only ones I recall are 2 very bright white sheep and two
marvelous grey wolves.

I ask her where this is. She says it is England. "I don't believe you, " I
respond, "I have never seen two wolves like that, and certainly not so close
to two sheep."

We are outside. I'm now with two young girls as well. We go to a big gate.
Everybody gets pottery, pots to carry. They are now outside and carry a lot
of those pots on their back. A rope is strapped around their head to carry
it.

The gate closes in front of the Star Trek character 7 and me and we wait
while more pottery is being thrown down. Some of it hasn't been baked right
and falls in pieces. Then we can enter as well.

The girls take me to the place where the plates are being painted. It is a
wooden building, kind of a workshop. A sand path leads toward it. There are
more buildings like that, and more people working.

I slightly lose lucidity, but regain it after doing another reality check.

I see the plates. I tell them I'll make them a design. Yes! I will make a
Plate of Dreams! I'm really enthusiastic about it. Some of the painters look
at me disapprovingly, others are as exited as me.

Oh, I probably have to draw a circle first. I have a square sheet of white
paper in front of me. Some of the girls help me make and cut out the circle.

It isn't really round but no one seems to care. I write "Plate of Dreams" at
the top. All the other designers make also 'plate of something's (can't
remember what they did), and the title should be written on the top. . . .

I'm now holding the drawn plate (I can't recall actually drawing it), and
look at it. Everybody is enthusiastic about my design. It is very intricate.

It is in a comic book style. A lot is happening, and it was funny as well.

Altogether, how do these lucid dreams make you question the nature of
reality?

Well, I have had LD's that were more real than reality and yet I knew I was
dreaming. I touched objects and wondered how things could be so real. I'm
getting more and more to the core feeling that reality like we perceive it,
is like a dream.

A quote from an extremely vivid lucid dream:

"I look around the place. It looks so real. I have trouble getting my mind
around the idea that this is all created by me. I wonder if it works like
this in reality too."

How about on your website? Have there been lucid dreams that have surprised
you, or shocked you?

It surprises me that people have so many ideas for what they do in their
lucid dreams and that's very inspiring to read. There is a special section
for members to keep their Dream journals and a lot of lucid dreams have been
written during the years.

Also you notice problems people have, like ending up in a black void, new
ways to test your reality - and the various ways people fly for example. I
barely have time to read all the inspiring dreams, and there are really
quite a lot to read.

Over the years, you have built quite a website for lucid dreamers at
(http://www.ld4all.com/) What prompted you to begin the website? How is it
going?

Well, as I said in the first question, it started out as a school project.
At that time, I had just discovered lucid dreaming and I wanted to tell
everybody how cool it is and how to do it.

Over the years it has changed in appearance and has had more content added,
and the forum.  I have always used my lucid dreams as inspiration and
guidance on how to design the site. The LD4all logo appeared to me in a very
clear lucid dream.

The site is still growing and evolving. The forum has grown to be a very
close and friendly community. Many people have had their first lucid dream
because of LD4all.

RW: At your website, are there points that you are trying to get across to
other lucid dreamers? Or does the on-going discussion and conversation, the
collective knowledge, provide the education?

pasQuale: The forum serves a lot as a support group for lucid dreamers.
People give each other tips, motivate each other, and people keep their
dream diaries on the site.

Techniques are developed and tried out, experiments conducted.  I started
the forum because I got a lot of emails and it became simply too much to
reply to all the questions so I decided that people could help each other,
so I created the forum for that. It has grown to be a very close community.

A lot of lucid dreamers find it very nice that they can talk about lucid
dreaming with someone else and they are not the only one. Many people can't
talk about their lucid dreams in their real life, people think they are
crazy. People are pleasantly surprised when they find a large group of
people who can lucid dream too.

RW: For those who have never been to your website, what kinds of issues come
up in the discussion about lucid dreaming?  Tell us about the range of
issues you see there.

pasQuale: Well, about everything you can imagine, really. The forum exists
now for over 7 years and has around 10,000 members worldwide. A large part
is of course the "help me get lucid" part. People help and support each
other. New people come with questions, and experienced lucid dreamers answer
them.

It is really a very friendly and supportive community.  Then people keep
their dream journals on the site, and members encourage each other and
congratulate each other when someone has a lucid dream.  Another part is the
lab, where we conduct our own experiments.

RW: What kind of lucid dream experiments could move forward the
understanding of the potentials of the dream state and lucid dreaming? What
would you like to see?

pasQuale: There are a lot of stories going around that certain foods
increase dream recall and could aid in having a lucid dream. I'd like real
scientific research on that, so that you could actually know what kind of
food/herbs are really helpful in this.

Another thing I would like to see is developing new ways to communicate with
the lucid dreamer, (besides eye movement) and maybe a way to communicate to
the lucid dreamer while he's dreaming and the dreamer can communicate back.
I think that would be extremely interesting to see a real communication
between a lucid dreamer and the real world.

The ultimate thing would of course be a device where you could see on a
screen what someone else is dreaming, and somehow record it so you can watch
it again.

RW: Thanks for your observations into lucid dreaming. Any parting thoughts?

pasQuale: I'm really exited to see how lucid dreaming is gaining popularity.

Back when I started my first site, there were only 3 or 4 other websites
about lucid dreaming on the net. Now a lot of lucid dreaming related sites
have popped up everywhere, and a lot of people have learned to lucid dream
because of those. I hope to see one day that lucid dreaming is common
knowledge and is taught about in schools.


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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
June 2007
An Outbreak of Group Creativity: Can They Hear Us Drumming?
Jean Campbell

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  An Outbreak of Group Creativity


One of the nicest things about being part of The World Dreams Peace Bridge
is that when people begin working with their dreams together, a lot of
creativity ensues.  Since last June, when Jean Campbell's book, *Group
Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power* was published, two other members of the
Peace Bridge, David L. Kahn and Ilkin Sungu, have completed manuscripts.
David's book, *A Dream Come True: Lessons in Current and Precognitive Dream
Interpretation,* was completed in the spring of 2007.  His first decision
about the new book was that he would contribute all proceeds to the Peace
Bridge's Aid for Traumatized Children Project, through which we provide aid
for the children traumatized by the war in Iraq.

Soon after that, Ilkin Sungu from Istanbul announced that her book, (working
title: * Written to the Wind*) had been accepted for publication.  It will
be a dual-language book in Turkish and English, and this time several other
members of the Peace Bridge got into the act...when Ilkin asked for
illustrations for her work.  Additionally Joy Fatooh and her sister Kitty
have provided English translation and Jean Campbell will provide a foreword.
Ilkin too plans to donate the proceeds of her work to the Aid for
Traumatized Children Project.

Peace Bridge member Ken Shapley from the UK has provided a new addition to
the World Dreams Peace Bridge web site at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/ken-art.htm   His latest composition,
including Ken playing the digideroo, can be downloaded in MP3 format from
his Peace Bridge art page.  And he's asked for the commentary of other
members of the group.

Can working with dreams in a group setting promote creativity?  If the World
Dreams Peace Bridge is any example, creativity abounds.

Drum Dance and Dream for Peace
And the 1,000 Drums Campaign

Other members of the Peace Bridge are exercising their creativity by
creating what may quite literally be the world's largest-ever drumming
circle, since drumming groups will circle the world with drum beats on
Monday, June 25, for Drum Dance and Dream for Peace.

The primary event of Drum Dance and Dream will take place at noon on the
National Mall in Washington DC on Monday, June 25 as part of the World
Children's Festival, sponsored by the International Child Art Foundation.
The World Children's Festival is a three-day event for children, free and
open to the public.  But Drum Dance and Dream for Peace is a global event
too.  Anyone who can beat a drum or bang on a pot is invited to join in.
For a list of groups drumming around the world see:
www.worlddreamspeacebrdige.org/drumming

You can join us in the drumming.  And you can also join us in an associated
fund raising event, the 1,000 Drums Campaign.  We hope to raise several
thousand dollars by asking people to contribute just a few pennies for every
drum beat during Drum Dance and Dream for Peace.  All funds will go to the
work of the Aid for Traumatized Children Project.

Hope to see you drumming...in the dream time!




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Dream: Mushroom Predator
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE:   20 may 2007  11:28
DREAM:  mushroom predator

=( yesterday was a saturday.  i spent the morning trying to repair my dryer
once again.  it was damaged by lightning on 1 march.  after much time
attempting the get the parts to fit and work together, i tried to start it.
it ran for about two seconds then stopped and would not start again.  must
be something in the wiring.  i was too discouraged to try again that day.
mother and i went to the grocery store and came home to watch videos from
blockbuster in the evening as we usually do on saturdays.  i got to bed
around 01:00 and feel asleep rather easily with the window fan running.  i
woke around 06:50 and could not get back to sleep for the longest time.  it
was too early to do anything around the house, so i read for a while, but i
was still feeling very tired.  i feel back to sleep around 09:30.  )=


i am sitting on a bench in front of what used to be the general store on the
small main street of the deserted ghost town.  i wonder what happened to all
the people who are supposed to live here.  we have discovered the empty town
and have been searching for the missing population.

my partner here is mexican man, a little too mature for his age.  he is
walking across the small town square in front of where i sit.  with him are
a young woman and her small son.  we met them on the way into town and they
joined us in our search.  her family was supposed to meet her as they lived
in area, but have not shown up.

i look down at the bench i am sitting on.  there has not been much to find
here.  the entire population has disappeared without leaving much trace.  a
few of the houses on the edge of town have a chair knocked over or a dish
broken in the kitchen, but not much else to indicate any disturbance.
somehow everyone just seems to have vanished without a trace or a struggle.

suddenly i hear a scream and look up to see that the young mother has been
scooped up by a huge mushroom bud in the shape of a funnel mouth.
my mexican friend has to hold the young son from rushing in after her.
finally he gets the boy to stop his efforts, so he can let go and carefully
look into the maw of the giant fungus where the woman lays trapped.

i try to rush down to join them, but all over the town square other fungal
pods have suddenly sprouted.  most of them in the center are small white
buds like you would purchase in a grocery store, but on the sides where i
am, they have grown tall and thick so i can hardly push my way past them.
in their most mature stages they are shaped roughly humanoid, like faceless
pale zombies with arms that wave slowly about them.  their feet are rooted
the soil that they have sprung up from.
there is only one feeding bud like the young woman is trapped inside, but i
have heard that the ancillary buds like i am fighting through take the shape
of whatever the fungus has fed upon.  here are the missing people of the
township, converted into unseeing zombie pods.  i guess that their skeletons
are still embedded inside the vegetable mass, being slowly dissolved by the
gastric digestive juices of the plant.

my friend has determined that the young woman can be saved.  she is too deep
inside the fungal mouth of the feeding bud to be secured by the corrosive
glue from the tooth like adhesive pads which line the edge of the mouth.
she is only stuck on smaller globs inside the blossom.  he carefully steps
on the lip of the feeding stalk and reaches in take her nearest hand.  with
a mighty pull he jerks her free with a tearing sound as some of her clothing
and a patch or two of skin stay fixed to mouth within.

i have finally made my way past the ghastly zombie sprouts on the edge of
the town square.  the leading foot of my friend was too close to one of the
adhesive pods when he pulled the woman out.   the pressure caused a thick
puddle of glue to ooze out over his foot so he can not get away.  he is
frantically pulling at his trapped leg, trying not to excite the other tooth
pads nearby.

i had found a short machete earlier when searching the town.  i go over to
the base of feeding stalk and start to chop at it.  its outer skin is tough
like leather, but once i manage to cut through it, the interior is more like
the dried texture expected of mushrooms.  it takes about twenty or so hacks
with all my strength, but i manage to sever the predatory mouth bud from the
rest of the plant.  the zombie buds on the edge of their circle around the
feeding zone stop their frantic waving and begin to wilt to droop right
away.

with the mouth cut off, i am able to cut the lip around my friend's boot so
he can get away from the digestive region of the plant.  it will take us
most of the day to cut away all the other buds which are unable to retract
back into their hiding places beneath the soil when the feeding nerves have
been cut.  most of the fungus is underground but by exposing so much of its
reproductive tissue to open wounds, natural infection should kill the
remainder of the plant.  we can not leave even a single mushroom bud to
release spores.


=( awake at 11:16.  i do not feel very refreshed yet, but know that it is
past time for me to get up.  i did not know any of the three people i saw in
this dream, nor recognize the deserted township.  this has the feel of a
nightmare i suppose, but the main emotion i felt was that of heavy exertion
rather than outright fear.  i guess this is because i was never caught in
the feeding excretions and had the job of rescue rather than escape.  it may
be of significance that the female part of the dream is the most endangered
and trapped, while the child, friend and self ego parts are more active in
her salvation.  i wonder that the friend was so clearly mexican as i have
only met a few such in waking
life and have never known them very well beyond mere acquaintance.   )=

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                                      stankuli@...
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   ===          who loves by looks
   | |          is seldom true to one
   ---                -- thomas campion (1601)


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The Cinderella Complex
Kurt Forrer

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There are hopeful signs that the latest investigations into the function of
the brain will help to lift Cinders out of the ashes and demonstrate that
without the Dream Fairy no one will be chosen by the prince of invention.

Before coming to such experimentation I want to relate a most remarkable
tale a recent inventor has to tell. Michael Barnsley, inventor of image
compression, tells it in the documentary called 'Colours of Infinity'. As a
young man, a student of mathematics, he had a recurring nightmare over a
period of twenty (20) years. In it he was face to face with a matrix, a kind
of switchboard whose connecting wires were always in a confused tangle. It
was his task to sort them out and find the correct hole for every one of
these wayward plugs. As much as he tried, he never succeeded and so the
nightmares returned time and time again, confronting him with the same task
on every occasion.

What is especially interesting in his case is the fact that unlike Elias
Howe and Kekule, Michael Barnsley had no desire for inventing anything
whatsoever all through this phase of nocturnal terror until the very end of
it. So he could have had no idea what the apparent 'switchboard' was really
for. All he knew for certain was that the wires of the curious apparatus
were higgledy-piggledy and had to be put in order. Clearly, what was
happening here took place mainly 'below' the level of ordinary waking
awareness, which latter we could, following the computer model, call monitor
consciousness as against hard disk consciousness. The only thing that
managed to rise above the realm of the 'hard disk operations' (the so-called
subconscious processes which upon sharper observation turn out to be
impinging dream memories), was the recollection of a nightmare in which a
certain task, whose purpose remained a dream secret, was to be performed.
And as is customary in the realm of nightmares, they will recur until the
dreamer has grasped the message and initiated appropriate action. That he
couldn't do of course since there was no visible problem or current project
to which it might be applied. Thus Michael Barnsley had no choice but suffer
his regular night terror until twenty years later when it was revealed to
him what the 'switchboard' was really about, what functions it would have
and in what realm it should come into existence.

Sometime after meeting with Benoit Mandelbrot and his revolutionary fractal
mathematics, Michael Barnsley began work on a practical application of
Benoit's discovery of the formula of infinite iterations (Z=Z squared + c).
He speculated that one such practicality could be the construction of a
particular software that allowed the compression, and hence clarification,
of photographic images that were fuzzy, such as those taken from satellites.
It was at this point that the scene of his old nightmare reappeared, but no
longer in its former, terrifying form, but as a eureka experience. Here is
what he said about the crucial time: "the discovery of how to automatically
calculate the collage of an arbitrary picture came to me in a dream. (In it)
I saw how you could straighten out the switchboard, how all the wires would
come untangled and be nicely connected and how you would join all the wires
from big blocks to little blocks in the grid. I woke up in the morning and I
knew I had discovered the total secret to fractal image compression. How to
automatically look at a digital picture and a) how to turn it into a
formula, and b) an entity of infinite resolution. So the goal is now to be
able to capture this fire of Prometheus, this fractal wonder, put it in a
box and being able to make this available to everyone." (From a documentary
film, 'Colours of Infinity', hosted by Arthur C. Clark.)

There is no better example I know that demonstrates the long arm and guiding
intelligence of the vertical gifts in scientific discoveries and inventions.
As the recurring nightmares, yet still meaningless to the dreamer, reveal,
ideas for inventions or inklings of discoveries may be present in the secret
realms of the carrier's 'hard disk' long before they will show up on his
'monitor' or 'desk top'. The incredibly long gestation of the matrix with
its secret processes not understood by the dreamer, suggest quite
irrefutably, that the task of creating the ultimate image compression
software was not really Michael Barnsley's choice, but the choice of his
nightmares and illuminating final dream. There is only one word for such a
happening: predetermination. This is strengthened by the fact that the
nightmare was resolved at the time when Barnsley actually began to ponder
the idea of image compression. The sense that the dream was here in charge
all the way to the finished product is overwhelming. No less so is the
thought that the dream not only knew in what form and how it was to become
manifest, but also where and when. This is easily established, for image
compression could only have become a reality at the particular point in time
when Barnsley would come in contact with Mandelbrot and his fractal
mathematics, the indispensable ingredient and motivation to the designing of
the invention in question. And let's keep in mind that it obviously knew
this at a time when fractal math had not yet been developed to the point
where it could be forming the basis of image compression. True, a French
mathematician had thought of the theory of fractals long before Barnsley was
born. But the facilities to make it visible and functional for practical
purposes, a suitable computer technology had yet to be developed, and that
became available only towards the end of Barnsley's legendary nightmares.
This case reinforces the notion that the inventor or the discoverer is not
the creator, not the originator, not the instigator of the invention or
discovery, but merely the vehicle, the tool in the hands of the dream,
which, like Cinderella's Fairy Godmother, alone can bring about the marriage
of mind and matter.

The immense gap of twenty years between the first occurrence of Barnsley's
nightmare and his last dream of resolution that fixed the matrix he couldn't
sort out himself, suggests that intelligent dreaming is not an haphazard
process, that dreams are not just coming to the inventor's help when he is
stumped, but that they are an ongoing guide, step by step through his entire
life. It suggests that the 'hard disk' of the inventor and of every person,
determines when and what should appear on the 'monitor screen', which in
turn will signal when and what to do. That this is more likely than not is
underpinned by the experiments undertaken by Benjamin Libet. In an article
in 'The New Scientist' from 14 September 2002 the following paragraph penned
by John Gray demands that we seriously consider this suggestion: "If
cognitive science is right, the picture of humans that philosophers conjure
up when defending ideals of personal autonomy is at least partly a chimera.
Other research supports this conclusion. Work by Benjamin Libet at the
University of California showed that the electrical impulse in the brain
that initiates action occurs up to half a second before we take the decision
to act. Our actions are initiated unconsciously."

The paragraph then continues: "True, Libet allowed that we can veto what the
brain has initiated, but it is unclear how we can even know that we have
deliberately exercised this capacity. For all practical purposes, it might
as well not exist."
A devastating conclusion for all those who, with the Ugly Sisters feel they
can force the hand of the Dream Fairy. In light of Libet's research,
together with Michael Barnsley's experience, choice is an illusion. True it
comes into our mind as a feeling, free will is a feeling, but that's where
it ends.

In view of the fact that dreams are capable of forging ahead not only into
the immediate future as Edison, Howe, Kekule and Mozart have experienced,
but also into the far future as Michael Barnsley would substantiate, gives
us little room for 'self-determination'. My own observations of dreams over
a period of sixty years have convinced me that not even that bit of coveted
'veto' Libet mentions is possible. The classic example for this is a dream
in which you are told that you will make a certain mistake. Then, naturally,
you will do everything in your power to avoid it. You stay alert all day,
watching for the situation with that built-in mistake to occur so you can
forestall it. Suddenly you are distracted and ambushed by the dream's
program. The mistake it made.

Choice is an Ugly Sister word. Accepting the reality of the Dream Fairy's
power alone brings you to the Castle of Clear Vision where the illusion of
personal choice is stripped from you.

Kurt Forrer is the author of 'DREAMS, Pre-grams of Tomorrow, a Path to a New
World Perspective'

  From Kurt

"My book had been published in 1991. I wrote it twenty-one years after an
experience that shook the foundation of my very existence. I could see from
then on how dreams would translate to waking experiences. One of the most
fascinating things of that experience was that I saw that the Freudian
interpretation was as valid as the Jungian one. Both interpreters have a
point, but where they both miss out is in the fact that dreams are of the
4th dimension and are able to foresee tomorrow and beyond. In my book I show
how this fact can be realised by anyone who can recall their dreams and has
sufficient diligence and stamina to follow my instructions and record their
dreams meticulously and watch for their waking manifestations. "

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Dreams and Fantacy in Pan's Labyrinth
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DREAMS AND FANTASY

Pan's Labyrinth is a fascinating film in its own right but it is also
instructive to look at how director Guillermo del Toro skillfully combines a
historical tale and a fairy story into a creative whole.


From my particular dream perspective that's valuable because the
fantasy/reality "tracking" in the film has a great deal in common with the
way our dream/waking lives cross paths.


Categorizing this film of two separate but connected plots is not easy.
There is a harsh, sad story about waking life conflict (the aftermath of the
defeat of the republicans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39) but it is not a
war movie. The fairy tale is not of the cute, charming variety. Nor is there
a "face your fantasy fears and you'll be fine" message.


From one perspective, the movie is about the juxtaposition of these two
worlds, "reality" and fantasy. As it progresses, these two stories, always
intertwined, also interact. Knowledge and actions in one arena affect the
other.


The story is set in 1944 Spain, post civil war. The setting is not
arbitrary. How familiar you are with this pivotal European conflict, the
inspiration of a generation of radicals, will greatly affect how you first
experience the movie. Clearly, del Toro, a Mexican, has something he needs
to say about that titanic clash of wills. But within and through that outer
political statement, there is a view of the imagination that few people
connect with political tracts.


The main character is a ten year old girl, Ofelia. In waking life her father
has died and her mother has remarried a sadistic army officer. He is in
charge of capturing or killing the last rebel supporters of the republic who
are holding out in the woods. The mother is pregnant and dangerously ill but
the officer is more concerned that she give birth to his son than that she
survive. The housekeeper and the doctor who attends her mother are both
secretly aiding the rebels as well as truly helping the mother. In the fairy
tale, Ofelia is a princess, aided by dragonflies, guided and challenged by
Pan, a faun. Before the next full moon she must pass three tests to prove
she has not become human. Del Toro handles the standard formula of the
princess and the three tasks with an original twist of his own. I am giving
away only a morsel of the plot when I tell you that she fails his tests and
thereby, paradoxically, succeeds.


In this fairy land, Ofelia has allies, is given tasks to perform and
decisions to make. She must also live and take action in the waking world as
she struggles to help her mother survive, to resist her new "father" and to
keep the secrets of the housekeeper. (If you listen to the DVD commentary,
del Toro explains how he connects and distinguishes the two with the use of
color, shapes and parallel activities).


Your dream life also has a parallel and intertwining effect with your waking
life. Dreams have the great benefit that they are far beyond waking control
so that the parallels run much deeper. Rather than being artful and artistic
ways of making points, dreams are direct enactments of what is really going
on for you They are, I think, superior to your conscious assessments of your
life.


Del Toro clearly views the republicans as people whose imaginative power is
stronger than that of the fascists who vanquish them. It's a fascinating
working out of how to make sense of an oppressive system that lasted 40
years and a cause that retreated into the realm of the imagination.


Among the interpretations you could make of this film--and it can encompass
many--one would be that "Might is right. but short sighted." Might really
does triumph in the waking world; yet, in the long run, the people who hold
true to their imagination are the more human and humane.


Conclusion


The point about your dreams is this: the issues that you are dealing with in
your dreams are central to your vitality. To ignore your dreams is to lose
touch with a core part of your humanity and imagination.


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and over but never achieve satisfaction it's time to take a look at your
dreams.


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you about one specific problem (money, weight-loss, career change, sleep
improvement etc). The most difficult problems are typically much easier to
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dream_title: Faces in Photos
dream_date: April 26/27/28-07
dreamer_name: Anonymous
dream_text: I am looking at old black and white photos of people. I don't
know any of them. There is one in particular of a woman with glasses. She is
dressed like in the 1950's and posing like a class picture.
All these people are important somehow to me but I don't know who they are.
Now I see a woman sitting in a dark corner of an endless room. She is
hunched over and looking down.
She looks up and her eyes are red then black like coal.
Again the photo of the 1950's woman reappears.
Now I am seeing faces of women flashing before my eyes. Some have evil
expressions...some look in distress, some are just staring blankly at me.
I want to turn away but I need to remember the images I want to speak to
these faces but they cannot respond. I wonder who they are?
dream_comments: Hi I don't know why night after night I am seeing photograph
images of faces and seeing people's faces..

dream_title: driving with the dead
dream_date: 04/26/07
dreamer_name: runoutoftime
dream_text: for two days in a row I have dreamt I was driving my
grandmother, an aunt and someone else I don't know, to an unknown
destination.  We were just driving not saying anything or going anywhere in
particular.

dream_comments:

dream_title: The "Eye" Has It
dream_date: 4-26-07
dreamer_name: Grave Doctor J
dream_text:. I went back to sleep this morning after my husband and brother
left to run an errand. About 20 minutes after. i had a dream where i woke up
and looked in the mirror and i yelled! my left eye was completely red and
bleeding. I mean the bleeding would not stop i kept wiping it away and it
kept going. I was calling my husband's name but he didn't answer.
dream_comments: It was so realistic, very brief and very scary.  I have
never had a dream so vivid about myself. in the past i had dreams about my
hair. It was either different colors, falling out or i looked in the mirror
and was completely bald. Seeing me bleeding out of my eye was horrifying!

dream_title: eternal bliss
dream_date: 21.05.2006
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: I experienced leaving my physical body, in the form of a bird.
I was flying at great height and speed over green grass woven lands, green
valleys, springs, rivers, and ultimately into the sky. I wondered about what
happened to me, who I am, where I came from, and where am I going. I
suddenly enter a long tunnel formed in the mountains. Inside it was pitch
dark. I continue flying in the form of a bird without hitting any sides.
Still my questions bug me. There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.
I approach the light with great speed. To my surprise, the body of the bird
disintegrates and forms a rope-like light rotating into itself collecting
all the light particles in the form of fire. After some time, the light-fire
particles start unwinding and spread outwards at great speed. Still my
questions continue as to who I am, where I came from, and where I will be
going. At this point of time, I find a blissfully smiling face, inviting me
into it and telling me that I am going to get absorbed into it.
dream_comments: My sister woke me up and asked me as to what happened and
why was I sighing deeply.  My body was completely drenched in sweat.  I was
quite depressed for some time; depressed because, I had eternal bliss during
that time, and I could not continue to have that bliss in the real world.

dream_title: Ying Yang
dream_date: When I was a little kid
dreamer_name: DS
dream_text: I was in the middle of a bridge, on either side of me was a
troll.  The evil troll, which was black, would try and kidnap me.  Then the
white troll tried to save me.  They got into a fight and ended up piled on
top of me.
dream_comments:

dream_title: electric fire
dream_date: 4/23, 4/24/ 2007
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: I keep dreaming of an electric fire. I have to run away from the
electric fire. It's not too bad of a fire, but everyone has to evacuate
anyway. The first night we were all evacuating a house like a school or
college house. The second night we were on a public transportation train -
like the L-train in Chicago and there was an electrical fire and we had to
leave the train. Neither night we had to run or hurry, but still we knew
there was an electric fire. The first night my desaesed sibling was also in
the dream.
dream_comments:

dream_title: random party
dream_date: 4/16/2007
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: I was at a party at an old friends house and went to look at the
room where my boyfriend lived for awhile and it was so ugly, but when I went
back downstairs it was now one of my family reunions. My grandpa was there
who I never see anymore. My boyfriend wanted to leave so I left my whole
family for him and after we left we met up with a couple of old co workers
and one of their trucks got stolen and my ex boyfriends brother captured the
theif and I beat them up but before the cops came I woke up.
dream_comments:

dream_title: baby bulldog
dream_date: 3/5/2007
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: I was with a friend looking to get a new dog so I went to an
animal shelter/pet store and saw the most perfect little english bulldog
puppy that was exactily what I was looking for. In order to take the dog
home I had to take him in a room and bond with him, but when I did the puppy
turned into a man in his mid twentys and was so annoying. I really loved the
dog, but I didn't want this man, but I couldn't get one without the other so
I was so confused and before I could make a decision I woke up.
dream_comments:

dream_title: Freaky
dream_date: 04/18/06
dreamer_name: BN
dream_text: I was walking along what looked like a river when I see my
ex-girlfriend. She is standing there in a pure white dress and is smiling at
me.  She starts talking to me she says "Don't ask me again..." We start
walking and out of nowhere the sky turns bright red and she melts. I hear
screaming in the background and then I see a black cat, he jumps on me and
melds into my leg...
dream_comments: I woke up in a cold sweat.



dream_title: Jesus
dream_date: 1981
dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I was standing with many people in a line. At the beginning of
the line there was a chair, everyone seemed to have different energies
filtering through their veins of expectation, waiting for "the turn". Next
to the chair was a curtain, closed, with an illuminating life behind it,
lighting it up.
When it became my turn to sit in the chair, a hand pulled back the curtain.
It was Jesus sitting behind the curtain. I was baffled he showed Himself to
me. He simply and gently looked in my eyes and said, "until you walk away
from possessions, you will never truly feel free". That was all.

dream_title: third eye in first boy friend
dream_date: 29 may 07
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text:  I thought about my first boyfriend in the afternoon wondering
what he was doing at this point of his life. At night I dreamt that he
appeared and spoke to me when he spoke to me he had a third eye in his face.
It is the first time I dream with a third eye. He was worried about feelings
he had on something he was scared of about me

dream_title:
dream_date: May 21,2207
dreamer_name: Amy B.
dream_text: I dreamed that i was in bed with the individual that i'm
currently talking to, in the dream i got up on the bed and crawled towards
the end of the bed, i looked up and saw that there was a woman at the door,
looking through the crack and she had blonde hair(long), and a green top; i
recall hearing her talk to someone asking for something, she ends up walking
into the room and puts her breast into my mouth and asked me to suck on it,
i tasted the milk from her breast, it had a bad taste, i spit it out, and
she went into the bathroom to pump out the milk, i did not know if she was
pregnant or not, but felt like there was a baby situation.

dream_title: eternal bliss
dream_date: 21.05.2006
dreamer_name: anonymous
dream_text: i had a fantastic dream. i experienced leaving my physical body
in the form of a bird and flying at great height and sped over green grass
woven lands, green valleys, springs, rivers, and ultimately into the sky. i
was wondering, as to what happened to me, as to who i am, and where from i
came, and where am i going. i suddenly enter a long tunnel fromed in the
mountains. inside it was pitch dark. but i continue fllying in the from of a
bird without hitting any side. still the question buggs me. there seems to
be light at the end of the tunnel. i approach the light with great speed. to
my surprise, the body of the bird disintegrates and forms a rope like light
rotating into itself collecting all the light particles in the form of fire.
after some time, the light-fire particles start unwinding and spreads
outwards at great speed. still the thinking goes on as to who am i, where
from i came and where will i be going. at this point of time, i find a
blissfully smiling face, inviting me into it and telling me that i am going
to get absorbed into that.

dream_title: Killer of a Mexican Band
dream_date: 05/19/2007
dreamer_name: Monique G

dream_text: Hi my name is monique and i experience this awful dream:
I had a dream of this famous Mexican band that was from Dallas!!! webb
chapel rd! well the main singer of the group will sing songs about the
street they grew up on which was webb chappel and how they came up!! well
there was this one guy that had beef with people who lived on webb chapel so
he shot him on the head!!! well this is all i remember from the dream i
had!!! i do remember that part of the groups name was something PRIMEVERA!!!


dream_title: Peace?
dream_date: 5/18/07
dreamer_name: Avis

dream_text: I was helping a friend find something; I was driving him or her
down many tree-lined streets in an attempt to find some unknown (to me)
object or individual.  At some point, we are out of the car and my friend is
gone.  I am alone at the top of a small hill.  I believe I'm standing in
dirt, and just looking around.  I feel fine, pleased even.  I turn to look
at what is behind me.  I see a huge cloud of brownish debris coming directly
toward me.  This debris and dirt cloud is massive.  It is moving very, very
quickly.  My mind recognizes that this cloud is the result of something
manmade, that some city off in the distance was attacked.  My mind also
recognizes that I am going to be swallowed by this debris.  I know for a
fact death is coming.  I do not run, I stand there and watch it approach me.
It is moving so quickly.  I feel no fear.  It is mesmerizing.  The cloud
approaches and my mind recognizes that I am going to be vaporized.  I still
feel no fear.  As the first bits of the cloud hit me, I feel no pain but
feel myself fading away.  My perspective shifts to that of someone who would
be watching the scene unfold and I see myself break down like sand,
disintegrated parts of me blowing away.  I am completely calm through this
all.  My perspective shifts back to being in that body and feeling - really
really feeling, but not experiencing any pain - that dust cloud pour through
my body, taking me with it.  Then I just disappear.  But, I somehow still
have knowledge that I have disappeared.  And then the dream ends.

dream_title: Being shot
dream_date: 5/12/07
dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I was walking back to my car on a dirt road by myself, and
talking on the phone to my mother. A kid in the trees on the side of the
road was holding a shotgun. I tripped and fell and was crawling on my tummy
for 2 seconds and all of a sudden this boy was standing over me and as soon
as I turned over he shot me in the stomache, and ran off. I could physically
feel blood gushing from my stomache and mouth and the last thing I remember
is telling myself to wake up and just get to my car and I'll be okay I
wiggled my fingers to get energy, and then woke up.


dream_title: oprah is trippin again
dream_date: 11/29/06
dreamer_name: esoteric

dream_text:           I dreamt it was a sunny day and we (me and somebody
else)was on a busy street when i heard "oprah" on a radio (or maybe just out
of the blue cause i don't remember a radio being on at the time of the
dream)and she said (anyone who come on her show talking about money or being
sexist in anyway would be kicked off the show)but at the time of those words
i visualized the stage setting and i saw people on the stage as if the
camera was moving from left to right as if i seen the show on a television
screen and i saw "two little girls" in my vision, they were twins on stage
but "they had on blue dresses " and "sandy blonde hair". one of the girls
had a shocking facial expression on her face as a result of "oprah's"
comments. all of a sudden i was in "my room at home" and i saw (two
spiders/crabs)like insects crawling on the walls of the room.

dream_title: The Clock
dream_date: 11.05.03
dreamer_name: AlwaysDream

dream_text: I was in an old two storey house or apartment block, overlooking
the side of a huge clock face, stone around the face, huge metal hands on
the clock, I couldn't see it face on, it was almost looking out onto the
side of it.  There was a concert on the roof and Elton John was playing the
Piano, I saw his hands and nails but knew they weren't his.  Inside I was
packing a suitcase, and was basically clearing everything out and putting it
into the car.  I walked back into an apartment and they were painting the
walls, a light soft green colour, with a roller, the room had big windows
overlooking the rest of the building...  it was almost like a party was
going on, I saw an ex-friend that I had recently broken up with and her
partner walking into the room ahead of me and then out the door onto a
balcony.


dream_title: The penny
dream_date: 4/23/03
dreamer_name: iDoM

dream_text: I was walking towards a penny, a dark purple penny. It's eyes
were cut out and I could see someone staring at me through the eye. This
terrified me, but I kept walking to what appeared to be my demise. I began
to walk slower, realizing the potential danger of this penny, and when i got
to it i touched it and i got pushed very hard. I got pushed into what seemed
like another world, what seemed like another dream. I found myself sitting
on a tree branch. I looked down and i was so high in the sky the houses
looked like little ants. I realized i could fall, becuz the branch
started shaking. I looked over and beside me was my girlfriend Ali. she was
safe on another branch, and she saw my branch shaking. She was crying,
saying she didnt want me to die. She stretched her hand out towards me and I
thought i was saved, saved by the love of my life. She swiftly moved her
hand up way out of my reach and grew an evil, demonic smile. I fell, looking
back at her with the sickest feeling. She killed me, the girl i love killed
me. As i fell to my death i saw her stare at me laughing.  At some point
during the fall i woke up, only to hear her laughing more, the same
laugh...but i wasnt dreaming.


dream_title: UNDERSTANIDNG A MADMAN
dream_date: 05/24/04
dreamer_name: ANNIE H

dream_text: It begins when I am at a social gathering and there appears to
be someone interested in talking to me. I ignore the man and address to
everyone that I am going to sleep. It is when I am going to sleep that two
strangers approach me and warn me about the man who wanted to talk to me.
They reveal to me that he is a madman and that it all began during his
childhood. I am taken back to when the madman was a child and it is as if I
am witnessing it firsthand the man's childhood. He is about 6-8 yrs. old and
playing on a building's rooftop with some friends. He then pushes one of his
friend's off the roof intentionally and I am witnessing the friend's fall
firsthand. Obviously his friend dies and at that moment the young madman
jumps off the roof but nothing happens to him and he is completely unharmed
and that is where it all began.

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:39:47 -0000
From: "Andrea"
Subject: Re-Occurring Dream about same person

I keep having dreams over and over again about the same person. I think that
I dream about him because I have feelings for him. He is a friend of mine,
and he knows how I feel.  In my dreams I am so happy and complete and just
an unexplainable feeling of bliss. When I wake up I am overwhelmed with
guilt and am almost in tears because of these dreams. I am married and feel
bad about having these dreams all the time.
In my dream tonight, still haven't gone back to sleep from waking up during
it, I was waiting to see if a war/end of world attack that I knew may be
getting ready to start was actually going to happen. I was walking down the
road by my friend's (the guy who I dream about) house. He had an unusually
long swimming pool and I got in and instead of walking down the sidewalk
like you usually would continuing my walk I got in the pool and started
swimming. It was a very narrow long pool. He got in and swam to me, I turned
around and went under water and pretended I didn't see him. He started
talking to me and then we got on a bench I put my head in his lap and was
hiding waiting to see if the end ( I think the world was waiting for a bomb
or nuclear weapon to be launched at us) It never did. We decided that we
needed sleep as we had been up all night. He walked me home to my mother's
house. I don't live there, so that was odd to me. We didn't do alot of
talking during the ride back before he walked me to my mother's. But I do
remember the feeling of absolute happiness, warmth, and love in this dream.
As we were walking he was telling me he needed to get some sleep. I told him
no one was home at my mom's then I woke up.

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May 2007

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Editor, Lucy Gillis
            Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
            David L. Kahn

++ Column: The View – World Dreams Peace Bridge:
            Ebb and Flow
            David L. Kahn

++  Dream:  "F191"
              Stan Kulikowski II

++ Article: Sex and Sustenance in Dreamwork
             Kurt Forrer

++ Column: Dreaming Writers
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD


++ DREAM SECTION: From Kat Peters-Midland


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Welcome to the May 2007 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 seem 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


  Dream Hunting Season is now officially open, so put on your red caps (or
get you’re your hunting gear) and get ready.  From the IASD conference at
Sonoma State University to the Drum, Dance and Dance for Peace event in
Washington DC to the 2nd International Conference of Nordic and North
European Network for the Study of Dreams, to the many channels for dream
sharing online and via IASD DreamTime radio shows and regional workshops,
lectures and other events, you are bound to bag the dream event of your
choice.  If you can’t find a dream event that pleases you this season, well,
dream up one of your own and send it in.


In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month’s publication at
ed-news@...

Lucy Gillis travels the virtual globe in search of lucid dreamer’s and their
stories which go into the Lucid Dream Exchange. This month she presents
David L. Kahn and his views on integration in lucid dreaming. Is it all a
matter of being conscious, of dialogue, of willingness to look at the dark
side? Kahn suggests that Integrity is the key which binds these and other
techniques together to make for an integrated personality through lucid
dreamwork. Read more about this in this month’s excerpt from the Lucid Dream
Exchange, “Integrating Lucid Dream Characters.”

David L Kahn fills in for Jean Campbell on “The View”, the monthly news and
information forum from The World Dreams Peace Bridge.  The upcoming Drum,
Dance and Dream for Peace is of major focus, and regional participation is
encouraged. This event will open the Peace and Leadership Day, June 25, at
the World Children's Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC.  Read
about this and other global events in “Ebb and Flow.”

David Jenkins, PhD., the explorer of the wide, wide world of dreaming,
reports these adventures through his weekly online e-pulse, DreamPlay. This
month’s selection in EDreams is “Dreaming Writers” where David looks into
the dreams of authors, particularly Steven King via Naomi Epel’s book on the
topic.  David also shows how these dreams can be used for creative
inspiration and personal growth.

Is you dream journal a literary mess of fragments, hard to read entries and
half told stories? Perhaps you need to apply your literary skills to these
stories. Check out how Stan Kulikowski II writes up his dream texts in
“F191.”

Kurt Forrer may shock you at first “If dreams are about life, about
survival, then an interpretation without the sexual facet is nothing short
of castrating the dream. “ What can this mean? Is this a return to one
dimensional sexual interpretations, or a re-reading of Freud that may bring
juice and life back into dreamwork?  In Kurt Forrer’s “Sex and Sustenance in
Dreamwork” he asks “Can basic beliefs dreamers don’t know about coerce them
into actions against their better judgment?” …and finds ancient formulas
that may save the modern world.

Here is a new collection of dreams with a burning building, a meteor
striking the earth, an engulfing shroud, and floating fish.  … it could only
be the dream section of the Electric Dreams! From Kat Peters-Midland.

Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

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

Cover by Richard Wilkerson.  I have been thinking about the many “I”’s in a
dream.
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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/

Electric Dreams in PDF:
Back online at a new archive
Archive Courtesy of
Nick Cumbo
and the Dream of Peace Network

http://www.dreamofpeace.net.au/electric-dreams/


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

May 2007


Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.


Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Lucid Dreaming Experiment at Dreamschool
- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
- Dream Journals on the Net

Physical world:
- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
- UK: Dream Conference

Books, movies, research:
- Ashtiany: Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
- Researching Dream Experiences that Influence Your Life

Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online? This month we have a theme of dream walks.

Silent Dream Walk - André Reis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXqW2WoeSlg

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Dream
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBthooCJGHk

Walking Dream : Animation - itsjelly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPe8uTCjQo

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.

Richard Wilkerson


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- Lucid Dreaming Experiment at Dreamschool
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Dreamschool organizes a Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment at April 29th. The
goal is to further humanity's awareness of common Mind experiences and
stimulate dialogue and further research and development into humankind's
super-normal potential.

www.dreamschool.org/NewSite/LucidDreaming/GlobalExperiment.html

Homepage: www.dreamschool.org


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- Toko-pa Turner's Dreamspeak Column
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Toko-pa Turner started a weekly column about dreams on her blog. Find the
link to that column, a great discussion forum, workshops, dream
interpretation and more on the website.

www.herownroom.com/mainmenu.htm


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- Dream Journals on the Net
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Simon's dream log has illustrations with some of the dreams:
www.ladytrap.org/dreams/dream_log.htm

Rob Couture has his dreams tagged so you can browse by category:
http://xuriel.com

Maximilian in Dreamland, also tagged with categories:
http://maximilianindreamland.blogspot.com/

I'm especially looking for current dream journals that present drawings and
other pictures. Please email me if you know one.

Harry Bosma
ed-news@...


* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
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* The Spirit Of The Dream -- June 29 To July 3, 2007 *

This is planet earth's biggest dream conference ever! Drink in the majestic
splendor of California's famous wine country while exploring your dreams.

You can now check out the full schedule (over 200 presentations!) and list
of presenters, including updated information on the pre-conference in-depth
workshops on June 29th, continuing education (CE), and special events, as
well as transportation and lodging and much more. Abstracts will come online
in the first week of May.

Register now, enter The Spirit of the Dream, and join our dream community on
the beautiful campus of Sonoma State University, in Rohnert Park, California
(in wine country, one hour north of San Francisco). Visit the IASD 2007
conference page for more information. Help IASD by sharing this link with a
friend or colleague.

http://www.asdreams.org/2007/


* Electric Dreamers Special *

Free 6 week online History of Dreams Course for any subscriber that signs up
for the 2007 IASD conference between May 1 and June 1, 2007. Just send a
copy of your IASD conference registration receipt via email to
rcwilk@... and say "Richard, I've signed up for the 2007 IASD
conference, please put me on the next DreamGate History of Dreams online
course!" Course materials are delivered twice a week for six weeks, you can
do the exercises as they arrive or save them up and do them at your own
pace. More course info at http://dreamgate.com/class


* Dream Time Radio Show *

IASD's "Dream Time", an Internet radio program, is broadcasting each
Wednesday at 9am Pacific (Noon Eastern), the show airs with a rebroadcast 12
hours later. This series with many famous dream experts is going to end in
May.

May 2: Working in Dream Groups - Jeremy Taylor, Bob Haden

www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org


The IASD website: www.asdreams.org


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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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* May 8, 2007: Rules of the Road *

A Dreamer’s Deck of Divination Cards.

Are you exceeding the speed limit? Are you going the wrong way? Should you
be yielding to oncoming traffic? Should you be proceeding with caution? What
are the alternative routes?


* May 12, 2007: The Art of the Dream *

Exhibition and Open Studio with over 100 dream books and illustrated
journals by artist/dreamers.

Guests are invited to a hands-on exhibit of one hundred hand-crafted dream
books embellished with montage, collage, drawings and creative writings by
members of the Santa Fe Book Arts Group (B.A.G.). These intuitive and
experimental dream books have been created in response to thought provoking
universal, archetypal themes in weekly “Art of the Dream” workshops with
Victoria Rabinowe. Born out of the realm of mystery and paradox, these books
contain intriguing dreamwork that is narrative, symbolic and mythic.


* May 15, 2007: Queen of the Night *

Dreams of the Mother, In Honor of Mother’s Day

The Mother is the channel for bringing our soul to life. Like an alchemist,
she transforms our spirit into form.


* May 22, 2007: Pilgrim's Progress *

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time." - André Gide


* May 29, 2007: Rememberance *

In honor of Memorial Day. Bring a dream of a Dearly Departed One.


Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com

Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@...


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- UK: Dream Conference
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2nd International Conference of the Nordic and North European Network for
the Study of Dreams
7 - 9th September 2007 at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln,
England

The deadline for submitting presentations expired on April 27th 2007. So far
far the countries represented with presentations are the UK, USA,
Netherlands and Switzerland. Submissions from Denmark, Germany and Sweden
are also expected, but weren't received yet at the time of writing this news
item.

For more information try this direct link:

www.bishopg.ac.uk/?_id=10136&page=1

Or alternatively, find the conferences link at the homepage of the Bishop
Grosseteste University College Lincoln website:

www.bishopg.ac.uk



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Ashtiany: Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
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Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
by Serpil Bagci (Author), Olga M. Davidson (Author), Yehoshua Frenkel
(Author), Rotraud E. Hansberger (Author), Hagar Kahana-Smilansky (Author),
Jonathan G. Katz (Author), Leah Kinberg (Author), John C. Lamoreaux
(Author), Mohammad J. Mahallati (Author), Eric Ormsby (Author), Sholeh A.
Quinn (Author), Khalid Sindawi (Author), Mohsen Ashtiany (Editor)

Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the Near East and North
Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed them with a theological dimension,
saying that after him "true dreams" would be the only channel for prophecy.
Dreams were often used to support conflicting theological and political
arguments, and the local chronicles contain many accounts of royal dreams
justifying the advent of new dynasties.

This volume explores the context of these theological speculations and
political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating
insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its
cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete
examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De
divinatione per somnum. Some of the current scholarly assumptions about
dreams being merely stylized expressions of social conventions are
challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities,
self-awareness, and spiritual development.

This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and Traditions. The
series explores cross-cultural constructs without losing sight of the rich
texture of local variations of traditions or beliefs.

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674021223/


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- Researching Dream Experiences that Influence Your Life
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The goal of this questionnaire is to study dream experiences that influence
your life or have a special quality in somebody's existence. The results of
this questionnaire will be presented at the annual IASD Conference, which
will be held in Sonoma, California, USA from June 28 to July 3, 2007.

Hermine Mensink works as health care psychologist and psychotherapist from
her office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has been a member of the IASD
since 1994 and became a Board member in June, 2006. Professor Bierman
supervises the project. He has worked for the Dutch Institute of
Parapsychology for many years.

www.dreamresearch.nl



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
David L Kahn
[Lucy Gillis, Editor]

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The Lucid Dream Exchange is pleased to present a new quarterly column by
David L. Kahn. His first article for LDE, “Integrating Lucid Dream
Characters” appeared in LDE 42.

Integrating Lucid Dream Characters
(c) David L. Kahn 2007


The word Integrity conjures up images of a person in power, such as a
business or political leader who demonstrates high moral values.  On a
personal level, to live with integrity is something we associate as being
honest to one's self and acting in a way that we believe is in the best
interest of others.  Our dreaming mind firmly but caringly shows us that
which we deny, and in so doing guides us towards a life of integrity - if we
choose to listen.  This connection between dreams and integrity can be
looked at as 1) your dreaming mind never suggests that you act in a way that
is knowingly harmful to others, 2) dreams are there to repair, never to
impair, and 3) integration of neglected or separated aspects of your
personality is an essential part of achieving your highest potential.  Can
lucid dreaming be used as a means of integrating our lost or forgotten
personality traits?

The self-integration view of the word Integrity is defined by The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "A matter of persons integrating various parts
of their personality into a harmonious, intact whole."  This type of
integration (integrity) within a lucid dream may present itself literally as
the person merging with another person, animal or object as seen in the
following example by Ralf Penderak of Badendorf, Germany.

I'm in the fields on the back of my house. I'm jumping backwards, and the
jumps are getting longer and longer. How is that? I must be dreaming!
Everything fades to grey, like so often in the moment that I become lucid.
This time I won't give in to physical awaking so easily, but I start singing
and dancing, with slowly rotating turns around my axis. After a few seconds
I see my son and my dog (a Dalmatian) standing by a small tree. At first I
don't want to go there, but then I realize that this is a good chance for
interaction. I remember that mostly everybody just disappears from dream
scene once I become lucid. So, I go there and start playing with my dog, at
first orbiting each other slowly, then faster and faster, until we are one
whirl with no more borders between us. We melt into each other in ecstasy.
When we calm down, I see my skin is now white fur with black dots. I awake
physically. Ecstasy lingers and makes my day.

Dream characters that represent aspects of your personality are an
interesting bunch.  There are some that seem to prefer their privacy, but if
called upon they'll show up to perform some function.  Others are ready to
be reintegrated into the "you" of the dream, no longer choosing to remain as
a separate character.  After integrating an athlete you may find yourself
ready to get back into shape, or perhaps the integration of an artist sparks
an old interest in painting.

Robert Waggoner recently provided us with the following example of an
integration that occurred within his dream...

...Behind me, I see a tall slender black woman, who seems to be with us.  It
seems the farm wife doesn't care to mix their food with our food.  We wait.
As I sit there, I look at my brother and then at the black woman; it
suddenly occurs to me, "This is a dream."  I stand up and want to know what
this means.  I pick up the black woman and ask, "Who are you?  Who are you?"

   She looks at me, and surprises me with her response.  "I am a discarded
aspect of your self."  Immediately, I sense the truth of her statement and
feel the need to reintegrate her into my being.  She then energetically
evaporates into me, once I accept the truth of her statement.

Lucid dreams provide us with a unique opportunity to heal by rejoining our
fragmented personality traits with the whole.  Asking your dream characters
who they are or what they want should provide you with some interesting, and
perhaps unexpected, responses.

An interesting lucid dream experiment would be to see if you can integrate a
previously non-existent personality trait within the conscious "you."  For
example, perhaps you have been shy for as long as you can remember and you
would like more courage.  If you found a courageous dream character and
asked them to join you, what response might you get?  Or, maybe you would
like to play classic rock guitar.  If you invited Jimi Hendrix to become a
part of you, would your ability to understand the music improve?  Of course
it may be best to simply see who shows up, trusting that they are there for
reasons that are important to the greater "you."

German gestalt psychologist and lucid dreamer Paul Tholey used his
Conciliatory Method to make peace with dream characters.  He found that by
using this approach, dream characters would often transform from "lower
order to higher order creatures," thereby helping the meaning of the dream
make more sense.  For example, a beast might transform into a human, and
from there the human might integrate with you as seen in Tholey's own
example...

I became lucid, while being chased by a tiger, and wanted to flee. I then
pulled myself back together, stood my ground, and asked, "Who are you?" The
tiger was taken aback but transformed into my father and answered, "I am
your father and will now tell you what you are to do!" In contrast to my
earlier dreams, I did not attempt to beat him but tried to get involved in a
dialogue with him. I told him that he could not order me around. I rejected
his threats and insults. On the other hand, I had to admit that some of my
father's criticism was justified, and I decided to change my behavior
accordingly. At that moment my father became friendly, and we shook hands. I
asked him if he could help me, and he encouraged me to go my own way alone.
My father then seemed to slip into my own body, and I remained alone in the
dream.

The opposite of integration, of course, is disintegration - which is a word
that we tend to associate negatively.   The Cambridge Dictionary of American
English defines disintegrate as "to become weaker or be destroyed by
breaking into smaller pieces."  Would you ever want to disintegrate any
aspect of your personality?  Consider this; cancer cells are part of the
physical whole of a person.  In this case, the attempt to regain health is
done by disintegrating - destroying - those cells.  A negative personality
trait can cause damage to the entire person, even to the detriment of that
part of the person - much like how the cancer cells inevitably destroy
themselves.  The "cancerous" personality trait may even be a physical aspect
of you, such as the smoker or couch potato. These personality traits often
make their entry into your psyche at a point in your life in which some form
of defense is created to counter a real or imagined stress or danger.  In
some cases they serve dutifully, but it is time they retire.

For example, guilt can be a good way to prevent further bad life choices
that are harmful to yourself or others, but when you carry guilt with you
years after the event, who does it really serve?  Just as there are
personality traits that are best suited to be reintegrated into the group,
others should be voted off the island.

The trick with disintegrating personality traits is to not eliminate one
negative trait by using another.  In other words, if Judgment and Anger vote
Guilt off the island, you are still only left with Judgment and Anger.

Compassion and Understanding, on the other hand, may help find Guilt an
appropriate place to take residence.  The following is an example that I
used in my book, A Dream Come True, and shows the results of a fear being
disintegrated.

I am in the living room of one of my childhood homes.  I hear my father
yelling very loudly.  He sounds very angry and I am afraid.  I try to find
him, but I don't know where he is.  Now I see him.  He is coming down the
hallway into the living room.  He looks to be about eight feet tall.  He
looks angry.  I realize that this is a dream and I remember that I should
try to show him love, rather than run away or fight.  I walk up to him and
hug him.  He turns into my childhood dog, who I loved very much.

The disintegration appears in the dream as the scary personality trait
shrinking and reducing itself down into something small, harmless, and
loving.  The result of this disintegration is transformation, and ultimately
that is the intention behind the dream.

With all of this adding and removing of personality traits, should you be
worried about the mind conducting experiments like a mad scientist mixing
ingredients with potentially disastrous results?  I think not.  Our dreaming
minds have earned our trust.  This inner self wants only what is best for
you, in a way that is also best for others.  That is what integrity is all
about.

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and lucid dream related articles and interviews.  To subscribe to The Lucid
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Ebb and Flow
May 2007
David L. Kahn

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This past month has been a busy one for many Peace Bridge members.  This
edition of the View was put together last minute due to time constraints,
but it is these kinds of busy projects that represent who we are as a group.

Drum, Dance and Dream for Peace occurs just prior to the IASD conference.
This major event is the opening ceremony for Peace and Leadership Day, June
25, at the World
Children's Festival on the National Mall in Washington.  It is filling
Jean's schedule for much of the next couple of months, along with the
schedules of Valley Reed, Jeremy Seligson, who will be conducting workshops
at the event.  Even if you can't get to Washington you can participate in
this global event by forming a drumming circle at home.  Whether or not you
will be able to attend, I encourage everyone in our group to support this
project.  Please visit www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/drumming for
information.  There have been several recent changes.

  You may also print flyers from the website for you to distribute.

Peace Bridge discussions and events of this past month ranged from poetry to
the Virginia Tech shootings, from organized volunteer work to more suicide
bombs.  Despite the constant stream of negative news, we are busier than
ever doing what is within our ability to make a difference. Robert Waggoner,
co-editor of the Lucid Dream Exchange, describes lucid dreaming not as the
ability to control the ocean, but to take control of the ship.  This same
train of thought can be seen in contributions from Peace Bridge members.

Ebb and Flow

Elk Looks Back to the Bridge:
I have watched the ships laden with gifts pitch and quake while
high seas did shutter the bounty into the deep

and those whose steady hands guided by prevailing winds into villainous
harbors
sang no more

a watcher, a twinkling star, a candle in the window
and tears a plenty given back to those high waters and even further to
the moon.

Hermine to the Bridge:
I dreamt yesterday morning I was on a ship and in the position of being the
captain on board, using my compass to know in which direction I was going
and that felt really good! It was on the ocean with big sails and for a
longer journey. The compass as a symbol gave me strong and compassionate
feelings and more self confidence.

Jody to the Bridge:
Hermine, beautiful strong dreamer: your compass gives you and us the
direction to encompass all that we experience and feel, with compassion and
courage to create a positive community future.

Ken to the Bridge:
I was in a semi lucid state and had been pondering on ancestors and how we
must all have shared ancestors if we go back far enough, and how if we
remember back far
enough we must all share the same source light of life and then a huge wave
suffused every cell in my body and swept me up into the sky, yet the sky was
like a liquid power...it was like being tumbled in a cosmic sea by a huge
wave, I felt tiny but made of it and was not sure if I would survive (looks
like I did though)..

Peace Bridge costume for Sonoma:

A number of Peace Bridge members have confirmed plans to attend at the
Sonoma conference, coming from South Korea , Minnesota , Texas , California
, Ohio , Jordan , Mexico , Virginia , Australia , Pennsylvania , and The
Netherlands.

Jean to the Bridge:
If you're not on the list, and you're planning to come to the IASD
conference, sing out :))

Jody to the bridge:
Shall we dream it, our Bridge costume?

Shall we BE a bridge?
A net?

A flock of Monarch butterflies?

Kotaro's flowers, all flower children of the world?

What do we dream together?



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Dream: F191
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE:   1 may 2007  09:19
DREAM:  F191

=( yesterday was a monday.  i finally got my motorcycle back from the shop
but i do not think the repairs fixed its charging problem.  when i rode it
around town, it showed signs of still getting harder to start with every
stop and the battery went on hard charging again when i got home.  i did not
get out to the metal fabrication shop to pick up the metal plate i need to
repair the squirrel cage fan in my dryer.  the laundry is really piling up
after two months with the washer dryer down.  evening went as usual and i
got to sleep just after 01:00.  )=

the meeting has been long and i am glad that it finally over.  the final
formation is held and dismissed.  i wait for my friend to come get me in the
parking lot.  i am in my cadet uniform.  everyone has left but me.
it is late afternoon.

finally i hear the loud noise of a jet aircraft and turn to see a sleek
modern aircraft taxi up to me.  the cockpit canopy pops up and my friend, jr
arthur leans out and waves to climb aboard.  the plane is low enough to the
ground that i can just jump up to where the foot grooves for the ladder are
recessed when the canopy is up.  i climb inside.

once inside the jet, in the back copilot seat, i find the spare helmet and
put it on so i can use the intercom to talk with jr.

"are you strapped in?"  i hear jr say in the helmet. "we have a long way to
go, but this should get us there rather quickly."

"i am fine."  i tell him while buckling on the various safety belts over lap
and chest.

we taxi out the main gate of the air base and onto the highway.

apparently, jr does not have his pilot's license yet so we are just going to
taxi all the way to columbus which is about 50 miles away.  the jet is a
little large for the roadway, but he keeps off the main interstate, using
access roads that parallel it.  whenever there is a break in traffic, which
is often on the side road, he can open up the engine and we move very fast.
sometimes up to 200 miles per hour while still on the ground.  in this way,
the trip to columbus slips by very quickly.  i must keep my eye open for
police cars as they would stop us for going so fast, but we manage to evade
detection.

finally we arrive at our destination.  jr parks the jet in a nearby parking
lot and we go into the house which is just down the street on a residential
block.

inside the house there are quite a few people already assembled.  there are
many folding chairs set up and most of them are taken.  the host comes up
and notices that jr is wearing his flight suit which has a lot of technical
gadgets on it and wide dark pants which flare at the sides like an
equestrian costume.

"you came in the F191?"  our host asks.

"yes, it just outside.  you want to see it?"  he responds and the two of
them leave by the door we came in.  i am left alone with a bunch of
unfamiliar people and little idea of what is going to happen.  i sit to
wait.

soon the hostess comes over to me.  "we do not wear rank and insignia here."
she says, indicating my civil air patrol uniform.

"i was just at another meeting and did not have time to change."  i tell
her.  "i as comfortable in uniform."

"well could you remove the rank and shoulder boards?"  so i unpin the
colonel diamonds from my collar and unsnap the shoulder boards.  i think it
looks a little weird with just the black snap buttons above my selves.  some
people are a somewhat uncomfortable with my rank since i was appointed to it
when i was wing commander rather earning it in the usual way.

it is time to begin the evening activities.  everyone gets up and forms two
long lines around the walls of the rooms.  then we all start walking very
slowly so we tour the entire building and introduce ourselves to various
people we meet in another line moving in the opposite direction.  every now
and then, someone is selected for show and tell, demonstrating some talent
or curious object they have brought.

"what did you bring?"  the person behind me whispers.

"some frozen strawberries."  i tell him.  "you want to try some?"

when he says yes, i get out of line the next time we are in the kitchen.  i
pull open the top freezer section in order to get the strawberries.  each
one is frozen in its own plastic section, but first i put a small frozen
crepe in the microwave for a minute to warm it up, then put one strawberry
on it and nuke it for another minute.  when it is done, i give the hot
pastry to the other person for him to eat.
several other people from the lines say they want one too, so i prepare a
few more.

it has been a long time since i have seen jr and i am worried that he left
and forgot to take me home.  in the corner of one room i see that my
shoulder boards and rank insignia are still were i left them, so i get them
before they get lost.

i go outside and see that some children have gathered near the garage.
jr is there with a large plastic model of the F191.  he explaining the
various features of the aircraft to them.  next to him is a model of recent
military tank with a uniformed driver talking to some other children.  next
to him is a helicopter with its pilot and finally another airplane, a
painted naval airplane rather like a gunship.  it is not nearly as sleek as
the F191.

=( awake at 09:09.  when i was a teenager i was a cadet in the civil air
patrol and did wear military uniforms like the summer khakis in this dream.
i was promoted to colonel for a year when i was a wing commander in ohio.
jr arthur is someone i know from down here in pensacola.  he worked with me
in computer science and we were in a training project for the navy security
group for about ten years.  i have not seen him in several years since the
project ended, but i did notice him in his bagpiper costume on a recent
pledge drive for the local PBS station.  i believe he had been a pilot in
the navy but he was retired for many years when i knew him.  i doubt that
there is an F191 in the air force, but it looked rather folded and flat like
stealth aircraft.  it was painted mostly white with some panels a green
color. my last couple dreams have had strawberries in them.  i have some out
in the garden but the berries keep getting eaten by something.  i have tried
to put a scarecrow statue of an owl near them, but they still keep
disappearing.
i suppose there must be some significance in the peaceful use of fighter
aircraft as just basic transportation on common highways yet there was some
concern for avoiding police detection.  needing to strip off my rank to be
sociable is a form of humiliation that seemed more reasonable at the time
than it does now.  it seems that i can still do technologic interesting
things, but need to keep a low profile in doing them.  )=


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  ===    you can't give it, can't even buy it,
  | |    and you just don't get it.
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Dreaming Writers
DreamRePlay
(Copyright 2007) David Jenkins, PhD

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ANNOUNCING THE 1-PROBLEM-AT-A-TIME DREAM GROUP  (Berkeley, CA)

When you have a waking-life problem that you have attempted to resolve over
and over but never achieve satisfaction it's time to take a look at your
dreams.

I will be starting a new dream group in which you will work on solving one
particular waking life problem. Although my usual approach is to follow the
dreams wherever they lead, in this group you'll be using your dreams to tell
you about one specific problem (money, weight-loss, career change, sleep
improvement etc). The most difficult problems are typically much easier to
resolve when we look at them from a dream perspective. Interested? (The
group will include local and telephone meetings.) Send me an email:
davidj@....

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Dreaming Writers
In a previous column, Power Dreams, I looked at some great contributions and
inventions that happened in dreams. In this column, and future ones, I will
examine the ways in which creative people make use of their dreams. In
particular I'll look at how novelists and screenwriters, the people who spin
out stories, use their dreams.
We acknowledge novelists as creative people but the real point, from my
perspective is that we are all creative people and the creativity of dreams
is available to all of us.

This week's column is based on the book, Writers Dreaming by San Francisco
author Naomi Epel. Naomi interviewed 26 writers about the connections
between their dreams and their writing. This week, we'll look at her
interview with Stephen King, the author of many great horror stories
including Carrie and Salem's Lot. King is a master of taking our worst fears
and turning them into stories that makes your spine tingle with excitement
as well as fear. That's a lot like dream work.

This column looks at two potent ways in which King uses his dreams. The
first is how he uses a dream to give him a critical moment in a story. The
second, a more everyday kind of use, is how he treats a particular recurring
dream as a warning signal.

A Creative Use of a Dream

_It_ was King's longest novel. The story was already eight hundred pages
long when he became quite stuck and could not think of what to do with one
of his characters, Beverly.

"When I'm working I never know what the end is going to be or how things are
going to come out. I've got an idea what direction I want the story to go
in. But with It I got to a point where I couldn't see ahead any more.

"I remember going to bed one night saying, 'I've got to have an idea.'" That
night he dreamed:

I was in a junk yard, apparently I was the girl. And there were all these
discarded refrigerators in this dump. I opened one of them and there were
these things inside, hanging from the various rusty shelves. Then one of
them opened up these wings, flew out and landed on the back of my hand. I
realized it had anesthetized my hand and it was sucking my blood out.

"I woke up and I was very frightened. But I was also happy. Because then I
knew what was going to happen. I just took the dream as it was and put it in
the book."

As best as I can tell, you can read it in Chapter 17,The Death of Patrick
Hockstetter.

What Stephen has done here is incubated a dream. The dream told him, so to
speak, how to handle his waking life problem.

When you are stuck in some aspect of your life or need an answer that has
defied your rational powers, try dreaming up a solution (see Sleeping
Solutions).

If you have ever started a project and become bogged down when it was
nearing the end, check out your dreams. Of course you may not be able to use
a dream so directly (although it is not uncommon), but you will often find
answers to your needs, your questions and requests in your dreams.

What makes dream work so special is that you get answers you would never
arrive at if you applied your rational thought to the problem. King uses
that creative aspect successfully.

A Practical Nightmare

Regardless of how unpleasant they are, some bad dreams are functional. Here
is a nightmare and King's explanation of how useful it is for him.


"I don't have a lot of repetitive dreams but I do have an anxiety dream:"
I'm working very hard in a hot little room and I'm aware that there's a
madwoman in the attic and I have to finish my work. I have to get that work
done or she's going to come and get me. At some point in the dream that door
always bursts open and this hideous woman jumps out with a scalpel.

"And I wake up."

"I still have that dream when I'm backed up on my work and trying to fill
all these ridiculous commitments I've made for myself."

Nightmares can act as warning signals. They remind us, sometimes very
loudly, that we are neglecting something.

King' understands that his dream tells him that he's got to get the work
done. Otherwise he'll get scalped.

We Are All Creative People

It might seem that writers have a special relationship to dreams because
their work is creative, but each of us is creative in every dream. Dreams
start from a creative place. They tell you something in a fresh, different
way. For all of us, that different view is the key to utilizing them. The
dream - or the dream work - will indicate to you a new way of seeing your
waking life.

Writers Dreaming

Writers Dreaming is a terrific read for dream aficionados. It shows how
famous authors (Elmore Leonard, Isabel Allende, Art Speigelman, Maya
Angelou, and others) incorporate dreaming into their work. When you see how
other people use their dreams, you'll develop ideas about how you can use
your own. This is the most practical book on dreaming that's ever been
written (excerpts).

ANNOUNCEMENT

Over the coming summer months, I am going to publish this column less
frequently. Starting in May, you can expect to receive Dream of the Week
three or four times during the summer months. I'll be back to my weekly
schedule in September.



ANNOUNCING A NEW DREAM GROUP
When you have a waking-life problem that you've attempted to resolve over
and over but never achieve satisfaction it's time to take a look at your
dreams.

I will be starting a new dream group in which you will work on solving one
particular waking-life problem. Although my usual approach is to follow the
dreams wherever they lead, in this group you'll be using your dreams to tell
you about one specific problem (money, weight-loss, career change, sleep
improvement etc). The most difficult problems are typically much easier to
resolve when we look at them from a dream perspective. Interested? Send me
an email: davidj@....

DREAM GROUPS

The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince Street
in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and Telegraph. Please
let me know if you are coming.

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  Sex and Sustenance in Dreamwork
  Kurt Forrer

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“Can basic beliefs dreamers don’t know about coerce them into actions
against their better judgment?”

  ‘Dream Sight News’ is a site on the Internet. This month the editor, Jane
Teresa Anderson, offered some dream samples furnishing apparent evidence
that demonstrate that certain basic _beliefs_ dreamers may hold will force
them to act on them blindly with consequences that often are, in the
editor’s opinion,  ‘failing to reach the goals the dreamers have set
themselves’. Such beliefs, she suggests, take root in our unconscious mind
often in early childhood. They often may be the result of traumatic
experiences. She then continues by saying that when it comes to “_beliefs
you don’t know about, your actions are automatic, with no chance of being
vetoed by your wiser judgment_.  In the end she asks the question, “_if an
unconscious belief is not creating the results you want, how *can you change
it?*_”

There are two presumptions and one inaccuracy in what the author is saying
in all this. I have printed these three contentious points that need to be
questioned in bold letters.  (Astericks)

	 I want to begin this questioning with the inaccuracy. When you check
the word _belief_ in the Collins’ dictionary for instance, you find that it
is defined in this way: “1. a principle, idea, etc., accepted as true or
real, esp. without positive proof”. I have written the word ‘_accepted_’ in
italics (_ underline_) in order to highlight the fact that belief hinges
upon this very word. It hinges on it because ‘acceptance’ is an
indispensable prerequisite of a belief. Put another way we can only say that
we believe something if we are *fully aware of what it is about*. It is
therefore by definition impossible to have “*beliefs you don’t know about*”.
That being so, it is not making any sense to say, as the editor does, after
having listed the various dreams, “_Dreams reveal your unconscious
beliefs_.” Clearly, _‘unconscious beliefs_’ is a contradiction in terms.
From this follows that we must look for a term in place of ‘_belief_’ that
withstands the test of the dictionary and at the same time fulfils the
functions of ‘_unconscious motivation_’.

	 The two presumptions are 1. That our wisdom may be greater than the
dream’s, and  2. That we can change what the editor calls ‘unconscious
beliefs’. Since the latter is a misnomer it is perhaps best if we begin by
proposing a more appropriate term for it. We know from what has been said so
far that by this is meant a motivational force the source of which we do not
know. Because of the fact that the source of it remains hidden from our
eyes, psychology has adopted the nineteenth century concept of the
‘Unconscious’. This is wholly unfortunate since it _may_ suggest that this
realm is utterly devoid of consciousness. If that were the case, terms like
the ‘unconscious mind’ which the editor has adopted, would be sheer
nonsense, for anything that is devoid of consciousness is simply
non-existent. What psychology means to highlight here is of course the fact
that there could be something in our consciousness of which we are not
directly aware because of our focus being temporarily directed elsewhere.
‘Unaware’, being the operative word in this context, it would be more
appropriate to speak of ‘incognisance’ than of ‘unconsciousness’. Thus the
term ‘_unconscious belief_’ that forces us to act upon it blindly would best
be replaced by ‘*incognisant promptings*’.

	 Whether or not we can actually change such incognisant promptings by
means of ‘_dream alchemy_’, as the writer suggests, and thus replace them by
means of wiser motivations than the dream can offer, will be examined in
course of and subsequent to the discussion of the dreams the author has
listed for us. Each of those dreams hides what she has called an unconscious
belief which term I have now substituted with _incognisant promptings_.

Jim’s Dream:

“I was waiting in line to buy a theatre ticket, but people kept pushing in
front of me. Finally I got to the front, but then the ticket office closed
and I was directed to join a long queue at another counter.”

The author comments by saying that this dream reveals the belief of “my
needs are less important than other people’s.” While this summary has a
certain substance to it, it does not ring absolutely true in the context of
the dream. To be fair, she offers some alternative answers we might consider
in this case such as: “I always seem to be kept waiting”; “just when I think
I have made it, I’m right back to where I started, or worse”; “patience
doesn’t pay”; “you’ve got to be pushy to get what you want in life”.

	  The writer also sees this dream as an example of a possible belief
complex that might make Jim act in a similar way in similar situations. That
might well be true, but since I have no evidence of this I will have to
treat this dream like the rest on the writer’s list as a one off case. Thus
I shall confine myself to demonstrating that this dream is actually nothing
more serious than a classic example of a very common occurrence within every
relationship with a female partner.

You will wonder where I saw a possible wife or a definite female companion
in Jim’s life at the time of this dream. Dreams speak in symbols which may
be translated into associative items and parallel plots. In the present case
we detect an object that is decidedly female. It is the ticket office.
Another word for ticket office is box office. A box is a distinctly feminine
object, thus it stands for a wife or sexual partner. Under such
circumstances it is clear that the dreamer, in order to attend the show,
must first obtain the OK from that very ‘feminine office’. Without this
permission he won’t gain entrance to that nocturnal play he covets so much.
From the dreamer’s strenuous efforts to obtain this permission we may infer
that he will be equally determined in his waking hours to do the very same.
The fact that Jim is prepared to pay for the entertainment suggests that he
may even cajole his partner with some kind of present. Maybe even a ticket
to the theatre. But that does not need to be so. What is certain from the
word theatre is that he wants to perform and have his partner in on the act!
Alas, she rejects him. Perhaps she even elbows him back into his place.
Incidentally ‘many people’ in dreams need not manifest as many people in
waking, but simply as many rebuffs from one single person as in this case.
Jim’s burning libido is not allowing him to give up easily. He is given
sufficient patience to keep his hopes alive. But just as he finally gets to
the front, the ticket office closes. As I have said, a more telling word
would be box office. Yet he persists. His hormones are giving him the
patience, tenacity and humility to join a new queue. Now this is
interesting. First it is a frontal attack, now he tries to come in the back
door. How did I extract that? Well, queue is a French word for tail or butt.
So the dream with its image acrobatics manages to put him in a waiting queue
while at the same time teasing him with his partners ‘queue’. Oh God, this
is such a common bedroom scenario, what married partner could miss its
meaning? No doubt, the last words that poor Jim probably heard on the night
that followed his dream were: “I’ve got a headache”. But the rebuff could
have been quite physical, for after all his dream tells us that he was being
constantly pushed to the back. Again, the dream shows its genius for double
entendres: it says that Jim was being pushed to the back when it was really
his dearest wish to do the pushing.
The Freudian interpretation of the dream is of course not the only one.
There is also a non-sexual meaning and manifestation or indeed several of
them that are as valid as the sexual one. Indeed, from my perspective there
are invariably no less than two waking outcomes of one single dream story:
one is sexual while the other is ‘innocent’ as Freud used to put it. This
innocent version, as I have suggested, could actually have had something to
do with the intention of buying a theatre ticket or more generally, going
out for the night. But that version or versions would not be as compelling
as the sexual interpretation when it comes to demonstrating the power of
incognisant promptings. The sexual context makes it far more convincing that
there is a force at play in a dream scenario that is well outside the
dreamer’s control. It does so because it is known to all sexual beings just
how powerful their libido can be. It is for this very reason that I shall
examine all the other dreams that this writer offered for spotting the
‘unconscious beliefs’ of the dreamers from the sexual point of view,
although there is always also the non-sexual one/s.

Incidentally it would be of interest to know what Jim’s partner had dreamt
on that same night or early morning. If we had access to such a dream, we
could then obtain a truly scientific verification or falsification of my
interpretation. It would then become clear if it was really Jim’s belief
that made him fail, or if it was nature herself. Only by means of such
double checks can a dream interpretation be regarded as more scientific than
speculative.

Here I have of course speculated in the same way as Freud used to do it. But
unlike Freud I am never satisfied to leave it at that. I always seek
confirmation for my interpretation whenever possible. The questions I would
ask in this case would be: 1. “Does Jim have a wife or sexual partner? 2.
Did the wife or partner reject Jim’s advances on the day that followed the
dream?

Greta’s dream:

“I was climbing a hill and decided I wanted to go back down again, but there
were too many rocks and precipices below where I was standing. I thought
that if I walked along one of the precipices I would eventually find an easy
way down. The trouble was, even the precipice path led upwards, so in my
endeavor to find an easy way back down I just kept climbing higher and
higher. I ended up feeling stranded with no way back down.”
The writer epitomises this dream by saying it expresses the belief that
“backing down is not an option”. She has picked up the dream’s language
nicely for it ends “with no way back down”. There obviously wasn’t an option
as she writes. To me this is a splendid example that shows that we, as the
ego, want to go in one direction, while some stronger force nudges us in
another direction; in this case in the direct opposite. Put another way it
pictures the battle of wills, the will of the individual against the will of
nature in a classic manner. It does this to perfection since this inability
to surrender to the greater forces always engenders a conflict that will
leave us, as it did Greta, “feeling stranded with no way back”.

Freud would have seen in this dream a substantial sexual conflict; one that
leaves a dreamer stranded on the shores of social mores and nature’s urges.
This very imagery I have just used to describe the location of Greta’s
conflict shows that we readily project our feelings into the outside world.
The shore I had in mind is the embankment that borders on the ocean of
libidinous urges which is held in check by the ethics of social taboos. The
dream, as are poetry and everyday metaphor, is doing exactly the same thing.
While in everyday language the metaphors are often veiled to a greater or
lesser degree due to the fact that they are presented to us in a code of
sound, the dream’s metaphors loom large because of their energetic pictorial
imagery. But curiously enough it is this very intensity of expression and
often realistic imagery that prevents us from seeing the metaphor and its
meaning just as we miss the forest for trees. The important thing in Greta’s
case is to realise that the dream projects not only her feelings into the
mountainous landscape, but also some of her own anatomy.

This projection of the body and or some of its parts follows the same
principle that is called “as above so below”. Within the framework of the
dream this means that our physical body is projected into the landscape.
Twin hills out there for instance may refer to a woman’s breasts. In poetry
this is an easily recognised ‘device’, but when it comes to dreams, most of
us miss the meaning. We find such poetical projections of erotica even in
Songs of Solomon which has been modeled on the ancient Sumerian poetic cycle
of the “Sacred Marriage Rite”. Thus in Solomon 8:10 the beloved says of
herself” “I am a wall, and my breasts like towers…” In 7:7 the lover
exclaims: “This thy structure is like to a palm tree and thy breasts to
clusters of grapes.”  In 7:3 he says: “Thy two breasts are like two young
roes that are twins.”  And in 4:12 we get as close to dream language as is
possible: “A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a
fountain sealed.”

We need not call for Dr. Freud to help us see the meaning of such
projections into the landscape. Water is clearly feminine and consequently
women dream far more of water than men, so far as I can assess; after all
they are the ocean of life, they carry the amniotic fluid and thus whenever
the dream wants to feature things feminine, water will often play a part.
The womb of a woman could well be presented as an indoor swimming pool. But
that is more likely to happen when there is a pregnancy underfoot or an
impending illness of the womb because such a pool is more a reference to the
internal reproductive organs than the attached exterior anatomy. With
respect to the latter an outdoor pool is featured, a lake, the ocean or a
river, or a flood plane.

I realise that it would be far more appropriate now to deal with Nelson’s or
Bronwyn’s dreams that feature water very strongly than returning to Greta’s
mountaineering feat which is devoid of water. Indeed, her dream seems to
contradict what I have just said about women’s dreams. We shall see that it
does not. The first thing I felt about Greta’s dream was that there is no
male entity around. There is a hill, a path, rocks and precipices, but no
forms that would suggest the presence of the opposite sex. Earlier I have
suggested that hills may refer to breasts. But there is only one hill in
this dream, so it can’t mean that. This one hill, if it is a projection of
Greta’s physique, can only be Mons Veneris. Pathways, streets etc. according
to Freud are a reference to the anatomy of the vulva and so would be the
precipices. Looking down a precipice in a mountainous region engenders
vertigo and great anxiety. The higher we climb, the greater will be this
feeling. There are two kinds of anxiety: unpleasant and pleasant. The
unpleasant one is shunned as much as possible while the pleasant one is
sought fervently and frequently. Climbing a mountain clearly engenders
increased anxiety and thus Greta climbing her dream hill becomes a perfect
analogy to increased ‘anxiety’ of the libidinous kind.
But in Greta’s case things go awry. She gets herself into a situation where
climbing the hill suddenly becomes unacceptable. She wants to return. But
the forces of nature push her onwards and upwards. But because she isn’t
comfortable any more with what she had begun probably willingly, the journey
ends with her feelings of being stranded with no chance of redress.

Stranded is a telling expression. The literal meaning of ‘strand’ is the
shore of the sea, the sands and the rocks. It shows that Greta was left high
and dry on her hill climb and for this reason there are no water features in
the dream. Her erotic encounter was one of total frustration and regret. And
indeed backing down in the sense of getting out of the dilemma was no
option. Nature takes its course whether we are with her or against her.

Nelson’s dream:

“I am standing waist deep in water when I notice a shark coming towards me.
I am so terrified, I freeze. I close my eyes and hope it will go away. All
is quiet for a while and I think the shark has gone, but when I open my eyes
I see several more sharks lurking in the water.”

The writer maintains that this dream expresses the belief that “ignoring my
fears and hoping for the best works for a while and then things go from bad
to worse.”
Although this is a man’s dream, water is most prominent in it. It is there
not because it refers to the dreamer himself, but to his sexual partner. I
suggest this because if a man dreams that he is standing in water it refers
to him being sexually connected with a woman. But in this case there are
problems as is all too obvious. The water is not warm and inviting, it is
not welcoming as the dreamer would expect, on the contrary. It houses that
almost universal icon of terror, the shark. This icon is so widespread and
common that it must be seen as something of an archetype of terror. No doubt
it was because of this that “Jaws” was such a huge success that it spawned
“Jaws II”. Yet the story is still about sex, about the man wanting it, but
unable to obtain it. I can almost guarantee that this man had an almighty
‘domestic’ with his partner on the dreamday. This domestic may not have
revolved around the subject of sex explicitly, but most definitely
implicitly. When the dream says that Nelson shut his eyes hoping the shark
would go away, it simply means that he did not want to acknowledge that he
was no longer in friendly waters, but that his relationship had deteriorated
dangerously. The fact that he would possibly be in an ear-shattering row the
next day –my assertion based on personal experience after such a dream-
instead of in his partner’s loving arms is not something that he would want
to contemplate. So he closes his eyes hoping that his assessment is wrong.
He closes his eyes clinging to the hope that things will not fall on a heap,
but will get back to the way they were at the beginning of the relationship.
Alas, when he opens his eyes to the stark and unadorned reality of things,
he sees that there is little hope of improvement since the waters are
swarming with sharks. He could have dealt with one of them, but not a whole
school. _So the author of Dream Sight is quite right in her assessment that
things could only go from bad to worse_. But the reason for this is not the
fact that Nelson did not face his fears. Closing his eyes meant that he did
not want to believe that his sexual relationship was on the rocks, or more
precisely, that it would be devoured by the predators lurking in the waters.
It meant that once he was courageous enough to look the matter in the eyes
he would realise at last that forces greater than his would swallow up the
last vestiges of his sexual relationship. Nelson might stay in this
relationship for years yet, but it will never get back to where it was and
in the end the sharks will rip the bond of the two lovers to shreds.


Bronwyn’s dream:

“I am standing waist deep in water when I notice a shark coming towards me.
I am terrified but try to make friends with the shark to stop it from biting
me. I look into the eye and begin to talk and, amazingly, as I do this it
changes from a shark into a huge playful fish. We end up playing swimming
games. I am aware it is strong and powerful, but it doesn’t frighten me any
more.”

The author of Dream Sight extracts from this the belief that “when I face my
fears I overcome them”. Obviously Jim’s and Bronwyn’s dreams have much in
common. Interesting is that in both cases the dreamers stand in water up to
their waist. It means that their genitals are immersed in water thus
demonstrating that here too the dream centres on the sexual relationship of
a couple. Bronwyn is luckier than Jim for her efforts to defuse an obviously
explosive situation succeed. But was this happy outcome due to the fact that
Bronwyn ‘faced her fears’? After all Nelson too opened his eyes in the end
which could be interpreted as ‘facing his fears’. But that was to no avail.
So did Bronwyn win over her angry partner by facing her fears or because the
dream would have gone that way in any case?

	 To me the plot suggests the latter. Again I see in the opening
scenario of ‘the shark coming towards Bronwyn’ a sure sign of an impending
domestic upheaval. If it wasn’t a full-blown row that resulted from this
dream on the dreamday, there was at least a distinct and unmistakable threat
of one. But I go for the full-blown thing which, as it subsided, had the
typical ‘making it up’ in its train. The ‘making it up’ was of course
full-blown sex as the swimming games clearly intimate. The terror of the
shark ended up becoming a strong and powerful connection with a fish which
latter in this case firmly manifested as the partner’s penis. Fish and
fishiness are generally well recognised sexual symbols which have been
incorporated of old in the iconography of myths and religions. Isis for
instance, the Egyptian goddess as the swallower of Osiris’ penis became
Abtu, the Great Fish of the Abyss while Kali, the Indian goddess changed to
the fish-eyed Minaksi after swallowing the penis of Siva.

Karen’s dream:

	 “I keep having dreams involving babies aged about one year old. The
dreams are different, but it always turns out that the babies fail to thrive
after their first birthday. They become weak, or sick, or I lose sight of
them.”

The author comments like this: “Things go well for about a year, and then
they stop thriving”. This is of course absolutely correct. Babies are after
all personifications of projects, of new ventures and of new jobs. We have
many metaphors that are about babies like ‘I was left holding the baby’, or
‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath’ and so on. But here again we have
to ask if Karen fails because it is her belief that things will go awry
after one year or if there is a factor at work that has nothing to do with
belief? As you will notice I have not yet committed myself to a sexual
interpretation. If you were inclined to coerce me into such an
interpretation I would say it was possibly connected with Karen’s inability
to hold onto a partner with whom she could ‘make a baby’. She said these
baby dreams were all different. It would be most interesting to know in just
what way they presented themselves. With that sort of knowledge it might be
easier to determine whether or not this was really about failing
relationships or just about jobs or both.
	 Be that as it may. I would now like to look at the differences and
congruencies between author’s view of these dreams and my own. There is no
doubt that we concur totally in regard with the dream’s influence on the
waking life. In short we agree that the dream is a kind of blueprint of the
future. But the writer of the article obviously holds to the Jungian notion
that our dreams are more about reconnoitering the future than determining
it. This Jungian perspective leaves the possibility open for the dreamers to
change those dreams that threaten the goals they have set for themselves.

	 I am surprised that Jung never realised that he often said at the
end of an unsuccessful treatment of a patient things like: ‘The fate
depicted by the dream ran its course’. (C.G. Jung, “The Practice of
Psychotherapy” 142; Bollingen Series XX, Pantheon Books, Tran. R.F.C Hull).
Had he done so he might well have revised his view of the dream as a
prognostic tool in the medical sense and considered that it might be more
like a prophetic instrument in the Josephian sense. We shall see at the end
that Jung had an experience that must have made him change his long held
view ultimately realigning himself to the ancients who saw the dream as an
unalterable prediction of things to come.

	 Before coming to that I would like to quote and discuss a line from
the author’s article I have already cited at the beginning of this review.
Here it is: “when it comes to _beliefs you don’t know about, your actions
are automatic, with no chance of being vetoed by your wiser judgment_. Apart
from the word ‘belief’ this sentence might well serve as the perfect basis
to my argument that dreams cannot be changed for the ‘better’ and that our
‘wiser judgment’ is nothing more than self-deception.

	 There is a perfect experiment that will demonstrate this. It is
called ‘post-hypnotic suggestion’. For this a subject is put under deep
hypnosis. I would like to point out at this very juncture that true deep
hypnosis evidences REM exactly as does the dream state. Furthermore I want
to add to this that the brain frequency in the dream state produces theta
waves of 4-8 cycles per second or 4-8 Hz, which is also the case in the
state of deep hypnosis. As well as that this same frequency is also observed
when the channels are opened to intuition and past memories, including dream
memories (!) that are stored in the so called subconscious mind.

	 The post-hypnotic experiment is simple. After the subject has been
put under deep hypnosis he or she is told to perform a certain task at a
given time after waking up from the trance. Added to this command is
another, namely that he or she will not be able to recall what happened
during the trance state.

Thus the hypnotist might suggest to his subject that he was to get up off
his chair five minutes after waking up from the trance, go to the table and
grab the vase of flowers on it and tip it over the hypnotist. Five minutes
precisely after waking up the subject that has no memory whatever of the
given command will get up and do exactly as he was told. He will think that
his actions were his own idea. When asked why he did this strange deed he
will find several good excuses. Yet they are nothing but rationalisations.
He might say: “You looked feverish and I felt I needed to cool you down.”
Just as in the case of our dreams that prompt us to act in a certain way
although we have forgotten them upon waking and thus believe that our doings
were our own idea, he too will never know that he was prompted by an
incognisant memory.

	 Clearly the dream is no different to a post hypnotic command which
we will promptly execute it in much the same way as the writer of Dream
Sight suggests we as the dreamers do with regard to our ‘beliefs we don’t
know about’. It is plain to see that what she calls ‘beliefs you don’t know
about’ fits perfectly into the framework of the post-hypnotic suggestion
given to the subject with the added command that the suggestion be
forgotten.

And speaking of forgetting: do we not forget most of our dreams? How many
minutes, if we are lucky, do we remember of two hours or more of dreaming of
one night? How can we step in and profess that we know better than our
dreaming when we at best snatch a tiny fragment of countless hours of
dreaming in course of our life? Is this not like some layman remarking on
procedures of genetic engineering of which he knows no more than that there
are test tubes and Petri dishes involved? And yes, isn’t it interesting that
Freud who claimed to have cured the neuroses of many patients wrote: “The
actions we ascribe to coincidence or free choice are in reality subject to
unconscious mechanisms implying a determinism that rules both the conscious
and unconscious life absolutely.” (“Freud”, Octave Mannoni, Rohwolt’s
Monographien, August 1975, Rohwolt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, page 80-1; my
translation).

And no less interesting is Jung’s experience of the mysterium coniunctionis
of which he says: “I can describe the experience only as the ecstasy of a
non-temporal state in which present, past, and future are one. Everything
that happens in time had been brought together into a concrete whole.
Nothing was distributed over time; nothing could be measured by temporal
concepts. The experience might best be defined as a state of feeling, but
one that can’t be produced by imagination. How can I imagine that I exist
simultaneously the day before yesterday, today, and the day after tomorrow?
There would be things which would not yet have begun, other things which
would be indubitably present, and others again which would already be
finished and yet all this would be one.” (C.G. Jung, “Memories, Dreams,
Reflections”, 327, Collins, the Fontana Library, 9th Impression, 1971,
recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, translated from the German by Richard
and Clara Winston.) In view of this Jung must have changed his mind about
his understanding of the dream as a mere reconnaissance flight or medical
prognosis with possible input from the dreamer. When all exists now, how can
we add or subtract anything?


POST SCRIPT

Freud was right when he maintained that absolutely every conceivable object
and situation could be used as a stand-in for your sexual organs and their
encounters. This fact alone is massive evidence of the all-pervasiveness of
sex. But the dream has some favourites as it were, images which occur more
often than others, and so are more typical. This sort of thing is socially
conditioned. In a culture where there are no stairs people won’t dream of
going up stairs, and in a society where there are no locks and keys such as
among the natives of Australia before white man’s arrival, there will be no
dreams of locks and keys. Locks and keys however, as Freud had pointed out
one hundred years ago, occur very frequently in dreams of people of our own
culture. With regard to such regular images it pays to take notice of their
occurrence in your everyday speech. As I have said elsewhere, the dream’s
metaphors are also our waking metaphors. In fact I argue that the metaphors
in everyday speech are copied from the dream. In view of the fact that the
dream is a pregram of waking, it could hardly be any other way. The
difference between waking and dream metaphor is merely one of presentation.
While one is pictographic, or made of dream pictures, the other is abstract
sound, or acoustic code, spoken language that refers to pictorial images in
other words.

You may be aware that it was the sexual interpretation of the dream that
rent the association and friendship between Jung and Freud apart. Freud
insisted that the deeper one delved into the dream, the clearer it became
that its bedrock was pure sexuality. Jung on the other hand objected saying
that it was not justifiable to take the sexual language of dreams absolutely
concretely. Indeed, Jung believed Freud was obsessed with sex, regarding it
as something numinous. If Jung meant this to be a reproach it failed
miserably. It failed because ‘_numinous_’ really relates to something
_divine, to something mysterious, arousing religious or spiritual emotions_.
And that is precisely the way our ancient forebears, the bedrock of later
generations, saw sex.

For them it was not something that should be hidden, something to be ashamed
of and denied, but something to be venerated (this word comes from Venus and
is related to venereal), for after all it forms the basis of our earthly
existence. Indeed, if it were not for the fact that our parents and their
parents back to Adam and Eve had sexual congress, we would not be here to
discuss this.

*Survival on this planet depends first and foremost on the s-twins:
sustenance and sex. The formula is simple s + s = S: sustenance plus sex
equals Survival.* The two S’s are as inseparable as Siamese twins. Indeed if
one of them should die, the other would follow on its heels. This of course
has to be understood in the larger context of life in general where sex is
also the fertilisation of plants.

http://tinyurl.com/3b84s6

If dreams are about life, about survival, then an interpretation without the
sexual facet is nothing short of castrating the dream. Only the dual
interpretation of the dream will yield a precursor of life perpetual. Our
ancient forebears were only too conscious of this simple fact of earthly
existence. They realised that the earth by itself was like a woman without a
husband. If the earth was to be _Mother_ Earth and thus capable of bearing
and nurturing mankind and other life, impregnation was paramount. This boon
would come from the sky which was also heaven where _Father_ God was at
home. In their eyes he rode at times in the storm clouds, struck the earth
with orgasmic lightning bolts and impregnated it with gigantic ejaculations.


In Sumeria, the cradle of human civilisation, rain was not just water, but
it was also ‘strong water’ which meant semen. We need go no further to see
what our forebears did when they spoke in such terms. It is all too obvious
that they projected the human condition into their surroundings. When they
saw in the thunderstorm the same phenomenon as in sexual intercourse, they
did exactly what the dream does every night. Indeed, if we observe the dream
attentively, we will see that it constantly identifies the human body with
the body of the earth. For example it will feature twin hills when it wants
to draw attention to a woman’s breasts. A minaret or the steeple of the
church will be an unmistakable reference to the penis. On the other hand a
terrestrial cleft, a hole in the ground, a pit, a cracked rock will just as
surely point to the female genitals. And so does the door. And why not?
After all the vagina is the door into this world for most of us, the
exception being those lifted from the womb as the babe in Macbeth by
Caesarean birth.

For the ancients there was no distinction between the sacred and the
secular, between the physical body and spiritual realities. Indeed the body
was the icon for things spiritual just as the sky was the icon for heaven
beyond the sky. For our forebears the bodies of their women were no less
sacred than their temples. Indeed in the Near East all temples were modelled
on a woman’s reproductive system. The lower end of the vagina up to the
hymen was the template for the porch of the temple. The hall was fashioned
after the vagina proper, and the uterus provided the pattern for the holy of
holies, the inner sanctum. (See Allegro, ‘The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross’
page 25).

When you reflect on this you suddenly realise that as a foetus you developed
in the inner sanctum of a living temple. At the same time you realise that
modelling the temple on the vagina does not vulgarise this sacred structure,
but instead ennobles its fleshly counterpart.

It is only through the separation of the sexual from the sacred that sex
becomes something other than a divine union, something other than the two
aspects of one and the same divinity finding reunion in the heavens of
ecstasy.

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From Kurt:

  "When I moved to the present domicile I was approached by one of the local
ladies who discovered that she was in possession of my dream book entitled
'DREAMS, Pre-grams of Tomorrow, a Path to a New World Perspective'. Being a
prolific dreamer she suggested that we run a dream group here. This became a
reality in May 2003. Ever since then we met on the last Sunday of the month.
We begin at 10:00 a.m. with a cup of coffee and small talk. Then from 10:30
on  to midday I give a talk about a particular subject.

The last one was centered around the [article above]. We have lunch on the
premises and then, at 1:00 p.m. we have a session of interpretation of
everyone's dreams. At the beginning of these workshops I was the one who did
most of that, by today all members have become proficient and they all offer
their view of the dreams to be analysed."

My book had been published in 1991. I wrote it twenty-one years after an
experience that shook the foundation of my very existence. I could see from
then on how dreams would translate to waking experiences. One of the most
fascinating things of that experience was that I saw that the Freudian
interpretation was as valid as the Jungian one. Both interpreters have a
point, but where they both miss out is in the fact that dreams are of the
4th dimension and are able to foresee tomorrow and beyond. In my book I show
how this fact can be realised by anyone who can recall their dreams and has
sufficient diligence and stamina to follow my instructions and record their
dreams meticulously and watch for their waking manifestations.

Kurt Forrer
forrerk@...

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Here is a new collection of dreams with a burning building, a meteor
striking the earth, an engulfing shroud, and floating fish.    Kat
Peers-Midland


Dream title: Getting beat up
Dream date: March-April
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream: One of my friends she punched me. This was during school and for some
reason the teacher wasn't there. And she started beating me up. But I didn't
do anything at all. Just blocked myself.
Dream comments: My friend and I are competitive.

Dream title: Getting pushed off
Dream date: March-April
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream: One night between March and April I had a dream that all of a sudden
someone pushed me off a cliff.
Dream comments: I sat up and gasped as I woke up

Dream title: Fire Rescue
Dream date: 3-23-07
Dreamer name: Wisper
Dream: I was walking down a street in NYC, (it looked like a street in
Brooklyn) with a co-worker and we were just walking and then all of the
sudden I heard screaming from kids in a Brownstone. When I looked up the
building was on fire and the kids were yelling out the window "HELP ME". The
co-worker just looked at me and then I started running up the stairs to
rescue these kids. When I reached them, I could feel the fire, smell the
smoke and it was actually burning my eyes. I took both children and ran down
the stairs. When I sat them on the porch I looked into their eyes and I
recognized them; there were 2 children I knew. Then all of the sudden the
father of the children came running out of the house and came down stairs in
his underwear sobbing and telling me he was so sorry!!! Then he embraced me
and did not want to let me go!!! Then I woke up.
Dream comments: When I woke up it was the middle of the night and the light
of Grandmother moon was on my face. I was totally wiped out from this dream.


Dream title: unknown
Dream date: 4/10/07
Dreamer name: Lilac
Dream: It was a white area with one or two desks and a couple of chairs. I
was the only person in the room. I have a boyfriend, I accidentally dropped
his ring and it kept rolling and I couldn't catch it. I finally lost it.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: unknown decision
Dream date: 14th April 07
Dreamer name: Astralwolf
Dream: I'm wearing a black monk-like robe, walking in a dark forest, where
only a few patches of light that shine through. The hood is over my head and
it shadows the top half of my face. As I’m walking, a fallen angel lands in
front of me. He seems familiar, but I can't recognize him. His mouth moves
and it looks like he's shouting, but nothing comes out of his voice. He
points behind me and I look around, a black shroud engulfs me then I wake
up.
Dream comments: everything seems to be in slow motion, from his mouth
moving, to the black shroud.

Dream title: Floating Fish
Dream date: recurring dreams in past 5 months
Dreamer name: AD
Dream text: I walk into a room, sometimes at my parent's house and sometimes
it’s at my home.  It's like the front of their tank is let down like a tail
gate of a pickup truck and either one or all of them are floating in the
air..just floating!!
Dream comments: I've had this dream 10 times in the past 5 months

Dream title: none given
Dream date: none given
Dreamer name: Sal
Dream text: I was at this house and there was a butler.  I was putting
bouncy balls in a closet in the basement of the house; then there was a
party at the house basement.  I went into the closet and grabbed a bag of
weed out of the closet and when I turned around there was a bunch of parents
just staring at me with mean looks on their faces. I ran out of the house
and behind a shed (with a porch on it) and hid the weed. Then later some
friends and I were smoking cigars on the porch.
It switched over to me at basketball practice, and my friend was smoking a
bowl, then he passed it to me.  I hit it and then I threw it and said "oh
crap man, I’m on probation. I’m going to be positive now." He said "no, its
ok I have smoked on probation too, and I was fine, so you'll be ok."

It switched over again and I was at basketball tryouts. I went into the
bathroom before tryouts and there was poop everywhere and it got on me.  I
asked to use my friend’s cell phone and when I tried to make a call, the
phone didn’t work.  So I was going to ask if I could use it again, but he
walked out of the bathroom too fast.  So I walked out of the bathroom and
started to walk through the gym to get to the locker room.  Then an evil man
and woman were setting traps to try and kill me (like burn me to death and
drown me.  Somehow I kept getting away and made it to the locker room.  I
told my coach that I had shit on me and I needed to call my parents to get
new clothes.  He said "shit happens and no one will care, so just keep on
playing".   Then BAM - people started dying everywhere; blood squirting.  I
told my friend that we needed to get out of there, so we ran out of the gym,
using the back way.  We ran through the school parking lot, found a car with
its door open and keys inside, so we stole it.  I started driving away,
heading for the city.   Then I heard this whistle from an unknown source and
I didn’t know if it had any significance.
The dream then switched over to the evil lady (who set the traps) was on a
desert road, dancing around a fire, I could see a car (like the one we were
in) driving off into the distance until it disappeared.
Dream comments:  I have no idea what this dream was about.


dream_title: Black Winter
dream_date: 07/15/97
dreamer_name: JK
dream_text: A meteor had struck the earth.  I was searching for my dad in
the aftermath.  When I finally found him, the shockwave from the impact was
pushing me away.   He was scared out of his mind, and frozen with fear.  I
could see the reflection of the explosion in his eyes, glowing bright red.
In the end I couldn't reach him, and I woke up in a cold sweat...

dream_comments: This is a story of a dream I had 10 years ago.  My father
was a double Vietnam Veteran who died a year later on his Birthday.  I wrote
a song about that dream called 'Black Winter'.  You can listen to it at this
link, or type my name in 'Google' along with the song title.
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=141312


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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Cover:  by Laura Atkinson

++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Hallucinations Begone!
            Lucy Gillis

++ Article: Rhine Conference: Consciousness Today
             Harry Bosma

++ Column: The View - World Dreams Peace Bridge
            That's A Lot of Change.
            Jean Campbell

++ Dream:  "Buffy and the Spitting Alien"
            Stan Kulikowski II

++ Column: "Changing" the Dream
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ Article: Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond Value:
             Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork
             in Cyberspace  Richard Wilkerson




++ DREAM SECTION: From Kat Peters-Midland


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Welcome to the April 2007 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 seem to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
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.. 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


In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...

Are all the dreams the same level of simulation and imagination?  Lucy
Gillis explores this and other issues of unhallucinated reality in
"Hallucinations Begone!", this month's selection from the Lucid Dream
Exchange.

Psi Dreamers - heads up! Harry Bosma reports from the Rhine Conference in
March 2007. The "Consciousness Today" theme brought together scientists and
psychics to push the edges of conscious thought, and ground psi in science.
Read the review and see the new directions developing for dreamers and
dreamworkers.


The World Dreams Peace Bridge continues to dream up world wide events. Can
we envision the changes as productive? Jean Campbell gathers together
meaningful events from the global community and communication networks to
forge night-dreams with dream-visions to give us all another look at change,
spare change, global change and personal change.  Be sure to read "That's A
Lot of Change."

Speaking of change, one of the goals of personal dreamwork can be to have
more pleasant and fewer stressful dreams. David Jenkins, PhD shows you how
last night's dream is a steppingstone to your next dream. You replay the
dream on order to spell out what you really want to happen. You can have
allies, say what needed to be said; and even end the dream in a different
way. Read about this work in "'Changing' the Dream."

Have your ever looked at your dream journal and felt you could probably
write these dreams up in a better way? Take a look at Stan Kulikowski II's
dream text to get an idea of how this might happen. Read "Buffy and the
Spitting Alien."

Farwell,  Jean Baudrillard!  The famous French postmodern philosopher  died
in March, and leaves us with thoughts about his body of work that involve
theories about drift of signs over time from pointing to the real to
becoming simulations of the real to becoming pure simulations without
anything but passing reference to reality, a reality Baudrillard felt we
have lost in the consumption of signs. Those of you who are Matrix movie
fans will recognize the name from the Neo's hollowed out book, Simulation
and Simulacra.  What's this have to do with dreams? Well, both Jung and
Baudrillard saw the problem of signs, but they took different directions.
Both felt that meaning and value lay in the symbolic. Jung explored how
symbols help us to find our own meaning and value, while Baudrillard
explored how signs undermine this same meaning and value. Both are valuable,
and in memorial, I am reprinting an article on dreamwork and Baudrillard,
"Signs of Simulation: Symbols beyond Value Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots
Dreamwork in Cyberspace"

Finding worms in hair, falling off a bridge, watching a plane crash. it
could only be the dream section of the Electric Dreams! From Kat
Peters-Midland.

Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

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

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.

Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Dream Journals on the Net

Physical world:
- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe

Books, movies, research:
- Deadline August 2007 for Dream Research Funding
- Call for dreams: "Dancing the Labyrinth"
- Grant: Can Our Dreams Make Us Well?

Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online? This month we have a theme of dream machines.

Death of a Dream Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqjPKmBrZ4

Dexter's Lab - Dream Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_f1D37edc

Kidd Video - The Dream Machine - 1 of 3 (Ep. 14)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4_EazSgKE

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.

Richard Wilkerson


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- Dream Journals on the Net
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After the rise of logging dream descriptions online, some dreamers recently
started to also put drawings and other pictures online. You may find these
inspiring.

Late 2006 Robin Whitmore started his online dream diary. He makes his
drawings on paper with his eyes closed. After scanning the colors are
inverted. The DreamDiary is currently also on display as a year long
installation at the Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland.

Check out: http://robinwhitmoredreamdiary.blogspot.com/



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- IASD News: Annual Conference and Radio Show
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The 24th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams will be held 29 June to 3 July 2007 at Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, California

New this year are the pre-conference sessions : "If you would like intensive
training in skills or knowledge related to dreams, we are offering morning
and afternoon pre-conference workshops on Friday June 29, before the
conference begins. If you have already registered for the main conference
you may return to the registration site to add pre-conference sign-ups and
fees."

www.asdreams.org/2007/


IASD's "Dream Time" an Internet radio program is broadcasting each Wednesday
at 9am Pacific (Noon Eastern), the show airs with a rebroadcast 12 hours
later. Tune in to the following shows in April.

April 4: Spiritual and Cosmic Dream Connections - Bob Van de Castle PhD &
Rita Dwyer
April 11: Extraordinary and Psychic Dreams - Stanley Krippner PhD
April 18: Dreams and Healing - Wendy Pannier & Rita Dwyer
April: 25 Working with Your Own Dreams - your host Bob Hoss, MS
May 2: Working in Dream Groups - Jeremy Taylor, Bob Haden

www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org


The IASD website: www.asdreams.org


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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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* April 3, 2007: Trickster *

In honor of April Fools Day. Meddle with the notion of your dream. Allow
your dream images to shift their shape and to play their tricks

* April 10, 2007: Resurrection *

In Honor of Easter. A dream that left the world forever changed.

* April 17, 2007: The Rules of the Game *

Dreams, like the world of games,
navigate through the territory of dark and light
in a checkered journey
where conscious versus unconscious in fundamental archetypal conflicts.

* April 24, 2007: The Wounded Healer *

"Maybe the purpose of the wound is to make us aware of the healing power
within us" -Adler


Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com

Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@...



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Deadline August 2007 for Dream Research Funding
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2007 Call for Research Letters of Intent from DreamScience/IASD

The DreamScience Foundation in cooperation with IASD is again offering money
for qualified dream research.

Submission Areas: High quality research proposal Letters of Intent are
invited in areas related to dreams and dreaming, including but not limited
to: the neuroscience of dreaming, psychological studies of dreaming and
quantitative dream research in such fields as anthropology and cultural
studies.

The submission deadline is 15 August 2007. See the IASD / DreamScience
website for more information and email submission forms:

www.dreamscience.org/iasd


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- Grant: Can Our Dreams Make Us Well?
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Dream Power: Can Our Dreams Make Us Well?
by Mary Jo Davis-Grant

She dreamed her way from sick to healthy

Did you ever have a dream that left you feeling healthy and refreshed in the
morning? Well, Mary Jo Davis-Grant did: 500 of them, in fact, over a
seven-year illness. In this uplifting true story, Mary Jo analyzes 41 of
those dreams to answer the question: Can the images of our dreams affect our
health and even help cure illness? You'll be amazed at the possibilities for
safe, drug-free pain and stress relief described in this true story from a
daring educator and psychologist.

www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585010952/


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- Call for dreams: "Dancing the Labyrinth"
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I am weaving together a solo performance for the IASD conference in Sonoma
titled 'Dancing the Labyrinth.' I am collecting dreams about 'dance' and
'labyrinths' to use as inspiration in choreography and for poetic synthesis.
If you have had dreams around this theme-please send them over to
lana.nasser@...



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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April 1, 2007

(A very exciting dream)

I dream that I am flying through the sky.I fly through the thunderclouds and
can actually feel and touch the water elements in the clouds. I see how they
change and electrify before a lightning strike. I fly above the cloud into
the blue sky above, and watch the clouds from above as the lightning
gathers. The clouds are a luminous grey (hard to imagine I know) and little
water crystals of yellow, pink, hot green morph in spirals as the cloud
begins to charge with electricity.

I dive back into the cloud and can feel the electricity start to raise the
hairs on my body, it tingles but does not harm me.   EOD.  Laura

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Hallucinations Begone!
(c) Lucy Gillis 2007

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"First you must realize that you are dreaming. . . This knowledge
automatically changes the dream state into another in which the critical
faculties are aroused and operating. . . You may "awaken" in your house for
example. If so, check your rooms against their normal arrangement. Anything
that does not normally belong there may be an hallucination, part of the
usual dreaming process. If you will such images to disappear, they will,
leaving you with the basic unhallucinated environment."
1. Jane Roberts

It had been a while since I used the technique to "will away hallucinations"
as suggested by Seth, channeled by author Jane Roberts. I can still remember
the first time, many years ago, when I had come across the suggestion in
Robert's book Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness. I was intrigued
by the idea of the "unhallucinated environment."

What was that exactly? If you are in a dream state, and not projecting
out-of-body into a physical location, then what are you left with if you
will away hallucinations? Is it that empty "grey space" that so many
dreamers have experienced, or is it something more? Is it populated with
symbols and objects of other people's dreams? Or populated with other "real"
entities? Is that possible? According to Seth, it is:

"You may, then, encounter images that are subconsciously formed, quite valid
images, that belong in another dimension; or constructions created by others
in other systems. For any control at all, you must learn to distinguish one
from the other. Again, . . . you must first will it to disappear. If it is a
subconscious construction of your own, it will vanish."2

"The basic unhallucinated environment" became one more tantalizing idea that
made lucid dreaming all that more appealing - what was "out there" ("in
there"?) in the dream state to be discovered?

Over the years I played with the technique, always thrilled to notice when
objects or the entire dream scene vanished, but for some odd reason, I
didn't seem to remember to apply the technique very often.

Recently, however, during an ordinary lucid dream, I suddenly remembered to
will away my hallucinations to see what would happen:

I am at the cottage in Alberta. It's dark; the place is dimly lit. It is
very cluttered with furniture and other objects, like boxes and packages. It
is not messy though, everything is tidy, but crowded. I get up from where I
have been sitting and open a door to go into another room, presumably the
washroom. I look around and notice that this room too is very cluttered. I
then see a door that I had never noticed before. I wonder if it was meant to
be hidden, or if I had just never noticed it behind stacked boxes. As I am
about to go back out to the main living room area, I'm noticing more and
more that the place just doesn't look right. I must be dreaming!

I look for something to read, in order to reality-check, and I see a red LCD
display, like on a digital clock, on a shelf. I don't even have to look away
and then re-look to see the numbers change; they change quickly with every
blink of my eyes, proof that I am dreaming. I'm so happy to be lucid!

Then, reaching for the latch handle on the wooden door, I think that I
should try to meet S (as we had planned to do when we would each next get
lucid) but instead (probably due to all the clutter around me) I decide to
try Seth's advice and "will all hallucinations away". I want to see just how
much of the clutter is my own hallucinated imagery and I'm curious to see
what will be left, if anything. I'm very pleased that I've remembered to do
this; I usually don't remember this technique when lucid, even though I
think it is an excellent one.

I open the door and step out into a room that is quite large, almost like a
gymnasium in size. There are a lot of people around, but none are paying me
any attention. I speak loudly, addressing the dream. "Dream, I command all
hallucinations to disappear!" I say this again, phrasing it in a different
way, perhaps twice more, thinking that I should be more clear, or more
commanding. On the third "pronouncement" I think that it would also be
helpful if I spin, thinking that if I take my attention off the room and the
characters there, it will help me to get rid of my own subconscious dream
constructions. I spin counterclockwise, but it feels awkward. I am acutely
aware of the feeling of my toe pushing off the hardwood floor as I spin
around.

I know that I am still too "attached" to the dream. I can still feel my
consciousness tied up, entangled, in this dream scene; it's hard to explain
but it is a tangible feeling. I know that my level of lucidity is not high
or clear enough to produce instant good results, yet I want to keep trying
anyway. I stop spinning, and make my statement again, firmly, then I spin in
the other direction.

When I stop spinning, I am thrilled to see that the room has changed
dramatically. It has become smaller, all white, featureless, and nearly
empty, save for a few boxes and some living room furniture off to my right.
However, I am surprised to see three men, sitting casually on the living
room furniture, watching me. "You three again!" I spontaneously blurt out.
"You were left the last time too!"

My curiosity piqued, I approach the men and ask, "Who are you? Where do you
come from?"

Unfortunately, I don't know what their response, if any, was. Next thing I
knew, I was awake.

My first thought upon waking was one of triumph. I had remembered to will
away hallucinations and it had been successful, despite it not occurring as
soon as I had commanded. Though it took me a few tries, I was happy that I
had been aware of the reason - that I had been too consciously attached to
the dreaming process and I could actually "feel" what that was like, while
it was happening, even if I couldn't later describe it in any adequate or
even articulate way.

My next thought though, was one of disappointment. I didn't get answers to
my questions! Or if I had, I didn't consciously remember them.

As I scribbled down the dream in my journal, I was struck by how surprised I
had been in the dream to see those three men. I remembered how I immediately
blurted out "You three again!" In that moment I had recognized them, and I
knew, or my dreaming self knew, that the last time I had banished my
hallucinations, those three individuals had been left behind.

But that memory was one confined to the dream state. I had no waking memory
of previously willing away hallucinations in a dream and being left with
these three people. Or had I done it earlier in that dream, but did not
recall it when awake? It made me wonder how memory "worked" in the dream
state and why waking memory and dreaming memory were sometimes cut off from
each other.

The feeling of recognizing the men was difficult to describe too. It wasn't
a recognition based on physical appearances; their faces were not familiar
to me in any way at all. It was a recognition based on a different
sensation, a feeling that in some way had a thickness or density to it, as
though it was alive or in motion somehow. Very hard to describe, and I could
only borrow Seth's term "feeling-tone" to come close to labeling it.

But those three men. My waking memory did recall other dreams where three
strangers appeared together. Usually all male, but I knew that, on at least
one occasion, one was female. I didn't think that the female was a
different...character...(if I can use the term), but was a different guise
used by one of the three individuals.

Curiosity getting the better of me, I dug out old dream journals, and in
going through a few of them, discovered that I had had many dreams of "three
strangers" or "three men" over the last couple of years. Some dreams were
non-lucid, but mostly the triad showed up when I was aware I was dreaming.
They rarely spoke, when I was lucid. Usually they just observed me, or
listened to what I had to say. Oddly, they were more animate when I was
non-lucid, participating in my dream scenarios like actors playing their
roles. But when I became lucid, aware of my dreaming condition, they became
my silent audience, their attention then turned to me.

Now I had to wonder. Were these three recurring "characters" simply symbolic
of something? Aspects of my own dreaming psyche? Personified dream symbols?

Or were they something more? They did remain after I willed away my
hallucinations - were they somehow part of the "unhallucinated dream
environment"? And if so, what did that make them? Dream constructions
belonging to someone else? "Real" individuals able to travel through dream
worlds? Denizens of the afterlife? (Some may argue that by spinning I simply
created another dream scene, conjuring up more dream hallucinations or
subconscious imagery, but as I spun, I maintained the intent that
hallucinations vanish, with no specific anticipated outcome.)

Because they had remained after I banished hallucinations, because they had
a distinctive and somehow familiar "feeling-tone", and because of their
behaviour in previous dreams I began to wonder if the three men really could
be more than just inanimate dream symbols.

I remembered what Jane Roberts had said about the dream state changing when
one became lucid. I remembered also that Seth had talked about the
transitions from one state of consciousness to another:

"There are indeed others who can help you in such experiences, and who often
do while you are in the dream state, whether or not you know it. They can be
of great assistance as guides."3

Could my three men be dream guides? Do they show up in my dreams to assist
me with my "inner education"? Or are they old pals from another lifetime,
checking in on me to see how I'm doing? Will I ever know?

How I love all the questions that lucid dreaming evokes! Each one like a
stepping stone leading me deeper, onwards and inwards, into the dreaming
mind - my own dreaming mind. It is as though each question is a challenge,
or a reason, to get lucid again and again, to experience inner senses that
differ from waking perception, to meet and greet dream "characters" (who- or
what- ever they may be), to explore inner environments, - whether
hallucinated or not! And so very much more.

"Hallucinations begone!" Give it a try the next time you become lucid. You
may be quite surprised at what vanishes....and at what - or who - remains!

References
1., 2. Roberts, Jane, Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness 3.
Roberts, Jane, The Early Sessions Book 6, Session 261

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Rhine Conference: Consciousness Today
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Here's a selective report for psi dreamers. March 2007 the Rhine Research
Center organized a conference with the title "Consciousness Today: Where
Scientists and Psychics Meet at Myrtle Beach". The meeting of scientists and
psychics gave the conference an exciting edge, forcing researchers to keep
an open mind, and psychics to keep their feet on the ground.

The conference opened with a keynote by star psychic Joe McMoneagle. He
spoke about his experiences as a remote viewer with the Stargate project.
Joe shared a wide variety of insights into the workings of psi, and funny
anecdotes about working as a psychic in the context of intelligence
agencies. Joe once worked together with Stephan LaBerge to try remote
viewing from lucid dreams, but never really got to like remote viewing from
dreams.

Dale Graff presented the results of his personal dreaming project. Dale
incubated precognitive dreams for striking pictures on the front page of the
newspaper. He showed his sketches along with the found matching photos as
published by newspapers. Dale also speculated on how dream images work
towards displaying a photo from the future.

Stefan Kasian presented nine examples of dreamers who bought new homes with
the help of dreams. Stefan also shared some preliminary results on how such
dreamers score on scales for absorption and creativity. Obviously, the
purchase of real estate should make for a fruitful area to research psi, as
it involves so many very strong emotions. Stefan looks forward to hearing
more experiences from dreamers. For more information, see Stefan's member
page at the IASD website.

Other presentations among others told about the similarities between
sensitivity for subliminal messages and psi information (James Carpenter),
and similarities between "flow" experiences and psi abilities (Jean
Hamilton). The conference concluded with a keynote by Joseph Chilton Pearce
about the connection between the heart and the mind. One of the findings he
mentioned was that the heart knows about events before the brain or the mind
does. The main theme of his talk could perhaps be summarized with saying
that we should change our society to live more from the heart.

Harry Bosma
hbosma@...






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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
April 2007
That's A Lot of Change
Jean Campbell

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A few days ago I had a dream.  It was a fairly common dream, but with a
little twist.  Here's the dream.

I am standing outdoors near a house.  The house has concrete steps leading
up to a wood porch with a porch railing, all somewhat old and run down, but
comfortable.  It is nearly dark, but there's enough light for me to see
something shining on the porch step.  I bend to look and notice that it is a
gold coin, one of the new gold dollars that have been minted recently.  Then
I look and see a couple more of these coins lying on the porch near the
steps.  I begin picking them up.  I had six of them in my hand when I woke
up, because I remember saying to the man I was with, "I've got six of them,"
and thinking to myself, "I used to pick up pennies.  This must be
inflation!"

When I woke up though, the first thing I thought of was the last of a long
series of dreams I had several years ago about picking up coins...which
stopped when I realized I was saying to myself, "That's a lot of change."

That was when I learned that dreams of picking up coins are fairly common.
At the time I was corresponding with Tam Mossman, probably best known as the
editor of the Jane Roberts/Seth books for Prentice Hall.  He said he'd had a
series of these dreams of picking up coins just before he decided to leave
Prentice Hall and begin publishing a magazine about intuition.  He said he
had been collecting coin dreams from others as well.

But here's the twist.  The marvel of being in an ongoing dream group, and
one that spans the world, is that as soon as I posted the above dream to The
World Dreams Peace Bridge, I began receiving information about the number
six and its meaning as a symbol, from other members of the Peace Bridge.
This was information I never would have taken the time to look up on my own,
so (as with all dream groups) the input from others was valuable and
appreciated.

From Joy in California came this message, "Oh yes! Not only is 6 gold coins
a lot of change, it's BIG change, and GOOD change!"

The 6 of Pentacles or Disks in the tarot comes to mind, traditionally
showing six coins surrounding a prosperous person with a scale, giving alms:
As one book says (The Sacred Tarot Unveiled by Allyson
Walsh): "...recognizes that giving is as important as receiving - this is
the practice of prosperity consciousness, letting energy flow back and
forth."

Alexandra Genetti in her very globally-oriented Wheel of Change Tarot shows
six coins, six cowrie shells and six paper bills, symolizing the symbolic
nature of money and how it can become distanced from our actual material
needs. In the accompanying book she points out how trade and specialization
have brought wonderful diversity yet disconnected us from the direct
relationship to our sustenance we knew in ancient times: "This is a very
large change," she says.

She emphasizes being aware of the wide-reaching environmental and economic
effects of how we use our money; her Six of Disks "may herald a time of
simple increase and good material fortune. Along with this fortune comes the
challenge to divide the needs from the wants in your life.... The balance
you achieve will help you bring a larger balance in the totality of the
world."

Knowing this IS your focus, Jean, I'd take your 6 gold coins as a very good
sign!

From Kathy Turner in Australia came this message related to the wish for FU
or good fortune that Peace Bridge members have given to each other ever
since it was introduced by May Tung to the group many years ago:

Dear all - I wish you much much happiness and much FUUUUUUUUUUUUU (6 gold
coins of FUUUUUU) at this time.
A late happy wish for Mawlid al-Nabiy (March 31st);
A late happy wish for Saka New Year (April 2)
A partly late happy wish for Passover (April 3 - 10);
An ontime happy wish for Easter (April 8).
Kathy

And from Janet in the UK:

After reading Joy's tarot connection to Jean's dream I decided to head for
my tarot book. (The Way of the Tarot, by Karen Hamaker-Zondag - a Jungian
approach using the Rider-Waite deck.)

Here's some of what it says about the number six: "Six is the pivot of it's
divisors (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 = 1 x 2 x 3), and also the pivot or center of the
first five even numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. If we link this with the fact that
we encounter three two times in six, and three is connected with the ingress
of psychic energy into the realm of time and space, then it seems that six
with its pivotal action has a cyclic function. Cycles bring us back to
points where we have been before, but where we can make a fresh start with
new trends and new cycles. In the meantime, something old, the previous
round, is completed. Thus in six something has been completed, but at the
same time there is movement due to a duality or stress-field (2 x 3). Here
is a remarkable association of rest and tension, in which the completion of
a cycle preponderates, but
the impulse to enter a new stage is also present."

As Janet pointed out, what Hamaker-Zondag says about the number six seems to
echo the change that is going on in the lives of many people on the Bridge,
"And," Janet adds," it certainly resonates with my own life, where I am
definitely feeling as if I have come to an end of a cycle and need to enter
a new stage - I'm just not sure what that stage is yet."

After writing this, Janet noted, "I haven't looked at the tarot for a long
while, and only dabbled with it
for a brief time, but decided this afternoon to pick just one card to see
what turned up. So I shuffled the pack thoroughly, cut it, and turned over .
. . the six of cups!

From what I have heard, the energy of the six is running rampant this
spring.  There seem to be major changes coming to a lot of people, not just
the people of the Peace Bridge.  But there was another interesting result
from the appearance of the six coins in my dream and the discussion that
followed.  Several people, for whom the work with numbers in dreams was a
new idea, have now begun to look at their dream numbers.  Two is a favorite,
but who knows what might develop?

Lots of change, indeed!



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Dream: Buffy and the Spitting Alien
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE:   16 mar 2007  08:22
DREAM:  buffy and the spitting alien

=( yesterday was a thursday.  i took my mother to her eye doctor to check
how her glaucoma medicine is doing.  he changed her prescription to a
different pair of drops.  in the evening my friend ron from massachusetts
called.  we have not spoken in about six months i suspect.  lana married lex
on _smallville_ even though she discovered clark's secret.  i got to bed
around midnight, fell to sleep, but woke about 04:00 and could not get back
to sleep until around 07:00.  lately my sleep has been better than this. )=

the high school is deserted now, the students have fled so the screaming and
running part is done.  buffy the vampire slayer comes carefully into the
large empty garage in back of the building for maintenance of the school
buses.  she is careful now because she does not know in what direction
attack is likely to come.

on the back wall of the garage buffy sees a student partially encased in a
dried mucous that is charcoal gray.  with some effort she manages to pull
the girl off the wall.  she comes free with a noticeable pop, the mucous
coming away like a coin around her.  the dried stuff is stiff but brittle,
so buffy is able to break away the part covering the girl's mouth and nose
so she can breathe easier.  slowly, carefully, buffy starts clearing away
the other chunks that are binding her.  the girl is trembling but too out of
breath to run away until she catches up.

when buffy has the last dried chunks removed from her hair and has brushed
away the crumbly pieces from her blouse, they barely get a chance to turn
around when the alien comes in the door from the outside.  it is the typical
kind of creature from outer space seen in comic books: green skin, bald head
with pointy ears and large lidless eyes.  it is wearing a tight satin
costume with ornamental ribbing marking its shoulders and elbows.

buffy and the student flee to the far door on the other side of the garage.
just as they scurry through the doorway, the alien makes a sound in its
throat and hacks up a sizable mass of phlegm which is spits across the
garage at them.  buffy pulls the student out of the line of fire so the
mucous splats against the door as she yanks it closed.  when wet, the mucous
is blue green color that quickly turns the dark gray color as it hardens.

the next room has work benches and stools which the two dash around.
buffy lets the student run into the hallway but she stays back, picking up
tall waste can to use as a shield.  she intends to slow the oncoming monster
so the girl can make her get away out of the school.  the other door to the
garage was somewhat sealed by the glob of mucous the alien had spit, so it
takes a little while for the creature to gain entrance in here.

buffy manages to catch next two projectiles which the alien spits at her
across the room with the trash can, but has to throw it down when it becomes
too thickly covered.  she does not want her hands to get trapped holding the
object when it hardens.  by this time they have approached each other close
enough that buffy can upturn one of the work benches for cover as she ducks
under the next salvo of adhesive.

she is finally close enough to swing her fist and only connects with the
cheekbone of the alien from a glancing angle, but never the less the bones
of its face crack beneath the skin.  the creature is rather fragile, not
meant for hand to hand combat in this earth gravity.  the alien quickly
turns a dial on its wrist and dissolves in a ripple of colored lights as it
teleports away somewhere.  the immediate threat seems over.

my father comes into the hotel room and asks "are you awake yet?"  i open my
eyes to see that it is still dark outside and the clock on the bedside table
says 04:30.  "we only have a half hour to drive to get home, so we should
leave soon."  he always likes to drive very early in the morning so the rest
of us in the family must get up before dawn even though none of us are
morning people like he is.

as he leaves the room, i sit up in the bed and think that i can write up
this dream about buffy the vampire slayer before we have to go.  beside the
bed i have an old underwood typewriter.  i could go out to the car to get my
laptop computer, but it seems easier if i just type up the
dream on paper.    i can transfer it to computer files later.  i would
probably lose too much of the dream if i go outside in the cold to get the
laptop.

there are several folders of loose paper beside the bed.  i have a little
trouble getting heavy old typewriter balanced on my lap as i sit up.  i put
the first page of empty white paper in the roller and balance the edges
before i clamp it down.  i try to type the title 'buffy and the spitting
alien' but only random mixed characters come out on the paper.  moving my
fingers in the pronounced up and down movements needed to push the levers
onto the paper seems really awkward and difficult after years of the smaller
motions of computer keyboards.  more unreadable characters come out in more
attempts to write the title line.  oh yes, this is a vintage qwerty keyboard
and i have long ago taught myself dvorak touch typing as the only sensible
interface.  i need to switch back to my old hunt and peck skills with
antique technology like this.

i pull out the illegible page i have made and seek another new page to type
upon, but every paper i pull out of the folders has stuff printed on it
already.  apparently i have ruined the last blank sheet.  i start looking
for pages that have larger open areas so i can fit my dream story into
whatever space is available.  i find a page that has a color image of a
vegas stripper down one side.  that one would probably do as stationary in a
pinch, but i keep thumbing through the other sheets looking for a wider
area.  i doubt much of the dream would fit into the column of white beside
her.

the door to the hotel room opens again.  this time a young woman with very
black hair comes in and sits on the bed behind me.  "can't get your dreams
down?"  she asks me.  i am clearly having trouble fumbling with all the many
papers in the folders.  she leans her chin upon my shoulder.  "perhaps you
are not meant for that dream."

i know that she has a boyfriend but they are having difficulties.  i doubt
that they are well matched, but i do not want to cause any further problems
between them.  i stop fiddling with the papers and she leans further around
me so her face comes around just in front of me.  she is clearly pressing
her breasts into my arm and she smiles at me with obvious invitation.
"there might be more to life than just dreaming."
she murmurs in my ear stretching up so her cheek brushes lightly against
mine.  in spite of myself, i feel an erection creep up under the sheets
across my lap.  she notices this too and chuckles a little deep in her
throat as she kisses me squarely on the lips with just the tip of her tongue
teasing me to enter her.  i guess it is time for her boyfriend to be
forgotten.  the heavy underwood typewriter falls off the bed with a heavy
clunk as i give in to her charms, letting myself dissolve away in the heady
rush of pleasure.

we do not get any further before a local politician comes in the door.
"i got the grant."  he exclaims with heartfelt relief.  outside the door i
can see a stretch limousine in the parking lot.  "it helps if you have your
family to think about during the negotiations."

i am pleased that he has scored this lucrative contract for his career, but
i can not help but wish his timing were about an hour or two later.
the young woman with the dark hair and deep inviting eyes laughs a little
and looks demurely away as we separate.

=( awake at 08:05.  buffy in this dream was sarah michelle gellar just like
the television series.  the spitting alien was rather like mister mystxplck
without the leprechaun hat from the superman comics of the 1950s.  i did
learn to type on an ancient underwood typewriter when i was in high school
before i got an olympia portable for college.  i have taught myself dvorak
typing about a dozen years ago but usually have no trouble when i must use
qwerty keyboards.  my father died more than a decade ago.  he did always get
us up hours before the break of dawn when we traveled by car anywhere
because he was best in the morning.  i have no associations with the
delightful dark haired girl nor the annoying politician at the end of this,
other than i find beautiful women delightful and have little patience with
politicians of any stripe.
this seems like a dream without much depth, starting with a television
adventure, then morphing to unreliable technology with a memory from teenage
years, then into a flirtation with sexual energy foiled by commonplace
politics.  the timeline is contorted with buffy being the most recent
feature followed by the antique typewriter from distant adolescence before
the sexual drive expresses itself.  my current typing skills did interface
unsuccessfully with the older device, just as buffy struggled with the
alien, and the politician interrupted the pleasures of the dark haired girl.
seems conflict everywhere and i suppose that writing about dreaming about
writing about dreaming has some twisted second order logic to it also.  )=


--

                                               stankuli@...
   .      i swear it happened just like this:
  ===     a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss,
  | |     and the gates of love they budged an inch
  ---     but nothing much has happened since.
                        -- l cohen (1992) _closing time_




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"Changing" the Dream
DreamRePlay
(Copyright 2007) David Jenkins, PhD

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One of the goals of my work is to help you have more pleasant and fewer
stressful dreams. Although last night's dream cannot be changed, it is a
steppingstone to your next dream. You can imagine variations on the current
dream and this re-working influences future dreams. You replay the dream on
order to spell out what you really want to happen. You can have allies, say
what needed to be said; and even end the dream in a different way.

Action changes the dream

The key to DreamReplay is action. Action is very different from
understanding. For instance, saying "The horse is a symbol of your
instinctual energy," may help you understand the dream but it doesn't alter
its outcome

Instead, I would rather ask "Where do you want to go, what do you want to
do, now that you are riding the horse?"

Action-an action of the imagination- changes the dream. And influences the
next dream. If you cannot or do not imagine something different, you and
your dreams are guaranteed to stay the same.

Most often, you take the action that continues the dream in the direction
you wish to go: "Now that you have said goodbye to your mother, what do you
want to do next?" Often the dream leaves you stuck with unwanted feelings
and then the action required is to express yourself. For example, someone
might embarrass you in a dream and make you feel bad. You would work out
what you really want to say to that person. Speaking this to the imaginary
person is taking action.

Dream action is governed by the dream situation

You are not completely free to imagine any action to resolve the problem in
the dream. You are governed, even controlled, by the particular dream
situation.

Think of the dream as a rowboat in a strongly flowing river. You have some
choices about what to do, but you have to flowt downstream-there is no way
of changing that. You could ignore what is happening to the boat and drift
wherever the river takes you. Or you could use the oars or learn about the
currents and the winds in order to steer the boat as best you can. In the
same way, you have some choices within the general direction that your dream
is taking you, but you must work within the reality of the dream.

It can be tempting to take an easy action when you are in a difficult
situation. For example, suppose you dreamed you were walking through the
park and saw your boyfriend necking with your best friend. If asked what
you'd like to have happen next, you might want Superman to come out of the
sky, beat them up, and swoop you away. That might be very satisfying but it
wouldn't really affect the dream since you've basically abandoned the world
of your dream to people who are "doing you wrong." It would be better to
articulate clearly to your dream-girlfriend and your dream-boyfriend what
you are feeling. (Afterwards, Superman can whisk you away). Even in a
difficult situation, it is important for you to take charge rather than exit
the situation. After all, it's your dream.


Forget your best behavior

Dream life is, in many ways, much more rough-and-tumble than waking life.
The people who visit us in our dreams are often neither subtle nor polite
and the problems faced are most often not intellectual problems. You have to
work at the level of the dream characters. If someone is about to kill you
with an axe, you could imagine talking to him nicely. If that works,
congratulations. But you will usually find that your action must equal the
energy of the dream. In this example, talking is not the same as getting
help, hiding, or protecting yourself. If your dream-husband is insisting
that you have to visit his relatives and you are sure you do not want to,
the key question is: What kind of "No" will this dream-husband understand?
You may have to express yourself far more strongly than your waking-life
husband would require.

Conclusion

You don't change a dream just by talking about it. You have to ask yourself
what would make a significant change to the dream.

In next week's column, we'll discuss how to talk to dream characters - they
are easier than waking life characters in that you will always know what is
true and more demanding of your skills since they are harder to train.


DIAL-IN DREAM GROUPS

Whether you live far away or close by, a phone group allows you to get
a sense of dream work in a very convenient way. With this new work, I
hope to communicate the pleasure and the excitement of dream work to many
people.

email david at davidj@... for information.

DREAM GROUPS

The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince
Street in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and
Telegraph. Please let me know if you are coming.


web: http://dreamoftheweek.com










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Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond Value Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots
Dreamwork in Cyberspace.

Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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This article was originally published as
Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1998 June). Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond
Value Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork in Cyberspace. Electric
Dreams 5(6).

http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/articles_rcw/baudrillard-dream.htm



" We used to live in the imaginary world of the mirror, of the divided self
and of the stage, of otherness and alienation. Today we live in the
imaginary world of the screen, of the interface and the reduplication of
contiguity and networks. All our machines are screens. We too have become
screens, and the interactivity of men has become the interactivity of
screens."      Jean Baudrillard, Xerox & Infinity.

Jean Baudrillard is a cultural theorist who, like Carl Jung, became
concerned about Western Culture's abandonment of the symbolic and over-
involvement with the sign. Unlike Jung who responded by developing an
individual psychology for exploration of the *symbolic* in the personal
realm, Baudrillard took on a McLuhanian like media probe and analysis of the
*sign* in contemporary culture. His startling results take us into a
hyperreal world where models of reality dominate and reality itself has
given way to simulations of the real, and eventually to simulations of
simulations that have no anchor, nor interest, in the real whatsoever.

o Can Cultural Analysis be Applied to Dreamwork?

The extension of humanity into computer mediated communications, as well as
the general rise of technology & media has brought out the ever increasing
importance of the technological interface and extension of our species. Not
only will we extend the practices of dreamwork into new area, but we will
continue to observe the effects and transformations in dream imagery that
these organic-digital combinations produce.

Although the dream resists direct commodification & digitalization, (just
try to sell a dream, or even get someone to listen to your dream with
interest), the transition from symbol to sign is an essential turning point
according to Baudrillard in our culture becoming sign dependent. There is
some marketing around dreams and dreamwork, but it is a very insignificant
part of the economy of the sign, money or politics. Even Freud remarked with
sadness late in this life that psychoanalysis had abandoned dreams and had
added nothing to his original theory in over 40 years, an this was for the
sake of the capital that could be made from developing long term
transferencial therapies (I included the capital reasoning here). James
Hillman might have developed a way to see commodification in dreamwork. He
has warned against turning dreams into objects for use in the dayworld, but
this would be a very metaphorical use of commodification. Generally
speaking, dreams resist being quantified, and in doing so may offer us an
alternative to being swept up in the endless march of mass media, consumer
advertisements and what Marx called primitive accumulation that dominates
capitalist societies that focus on the exchange and use value of objects
rather than their deeper meanings.

Perhaps more interestingly we might look at our dreams for clues to our own
cycles of consumption. A kind of Marxian Dreamwork that exposes the places
in our life we have turned into objects and been turned into objects, were
we are the repressed workers and where we repress the worker. For
Baudrillard, himself once a Marxist theorist, the world has moved past both
Capitalism and Marxism into a Fractal economy where all meanings and options
have fully extended & played themselves out and now just circulate the
pieces around by means of a code that no one controls. The use we make of
the dream relates to capitalism as much as the exchange value might. In this
sense, the symbolic goes beyond the uses we can make of the dream, and any
dreamwork that favors the dream over the function we make of it needs to
gather this sense to continue. Still, we need to begin somewhere.

o How Far Have You Personally Moved into the Hyperreal?

Baudrillard offers us an image of the 4 revolutions that he sees having
occurred in the shift from real to hyperreal. These 4 Orders can be applied
to the dream world as well as waking cultural horizons. By reading our
dreams for the dominate order, we may be led to insights about our
relationship with the signs and symbols that make up our world and inner
world. When are we more like a feudal caste society were any variance in the
interpretation of an event is considered a transgression? When are we so
involved in the simulatory experience of the dream that its relationship to
the rest of the world is no longer important? When is our desire shifted and
manipulated by the objects in our environment and where do we rebel and
consider creative, subversive alternatives?

o Sign Revolutions: A Sound Byte

The fixed and referential symbols of the Feudal/caste societies were shaken
by the Renaissance theatrics which put their meaning(s) into question. Just
what signs were suppose to refer to anymore was up to debate. The industrial
revolution made possible the serial replication of these signs,
exterminating any reference, producing an explosion of referents.. In the
post-industrial era, metaphysical models of the code create a world of
simulation without any reference to the real, an order of simulation that
has no interest in the real whatsoever. Finally, in the fractal order, the
simulations implode into a viral proliferation infinity extended and
exhausted in all directions. All distinctions and differences are
interwoven, cross-bred and played out to an extreme.

o Levels of Image

Level 0. Aboriginal symbolic exchange cultures. The image is a reflection of
basic reality. Note dream imagery in aboriginal cultures where the image is
like almost a sacrament. Even in our de-sacralized society, dreams are often
vaguely see as reflecting reality. Jung was interested in returning the
dream image to this level, though he often wanted to bring it up into the
dayworld for our personal use. In aboriginal culture, the dream can
completely undermine the exchange value system, shifting the flow of gifts
and counter-gifts, marriages, taboos and status.

Level 1. The image masks and perverts reality. Here is more a level of
Freudian dreamwork level, with the dream functioning to both express the
basic reality of desires in a disguised form just enough to let off steam,
but not enough to wake the dreamer.

Level 2. The image masks the absence of a basic reality. The dream masks the
fact that it is a dream and that there are things we don't want to dream
about. "...Power is no longer present except to conceal that there is none."
(181 S&S). In dreamwork, we teach people who are haunted by specters of
power - shadows, bears, wolves, muggers, monsters - that these figures are
involved in scenarios of empty power and can be confronted.

Level 3. The image bears no relation to any reality whatsoever, it is its
own simulacrum. Here we have moved into lucid and proactive dreaming where
the dreamer doesn't care that there is any connection with reality, the
event itself has become the reality of concern.



o Portrait of a Dreamworker:

When she was young, her dream interpretations carefully reflected the life
and reality of the dreamer, almost like she was a landscape artist. Later,
her own versions of reality began to appear in her interpretations. Some saw
this as her distortion of reality phase, others as drawing the world through
her own reality. The interpretations often seemed to mask and pervert the
reality of the dreamer. Then a desperation began to emerge, and her
interpretations masked the absence of reality, as if to protect herself and
others from a flaw at the center of the universe. Finally, her
interpretations bore no relation to any reality whatever and reproductions
of images that had no original began to proliferate.

o Dreamwork and Levels of the Sign

A way we might use these ideas in dreamwork is in recognizing the different
levels of power scenarios that play themselves out in dreaming. Baudrillard
speaks about the orders of appearance of simulation: pre-simulation
feudal/caste societies, counterfeit pre-production societies, production
societies and re-productive simulation society.


ORDER:  FORM - LAW  -  SEMIOTICS - PROCESS
0  Feudal/caste societies - signs and their meanings are pre-determined

1 Natural - Counterfeit -  Arbitrariness  - Corrupt Symbol

2  Market - Production - Seriality -Icon

3 Structural - Simulation - Codification - Linguistic Sign

4 Fractal - Proliferation - Viral metonymy - Index


o The Feudal/Caste Society

Ever have a dream that felt like you were at the Round Table? Or how about
another type of cast of class society where everyone's roles were set and
fixed? Typically we like to romanticize the symbolism of such a dream.
Perhaps we might see our dream knight as an indication of our relationship
to the Higher Self, pre-figured as the king or head lf the society. Our
knight and his or her behavior becomes a symbolic singular indication of our
ego's relationship to wholeness. Baudrillard's work may offer an alternative
view.

In these caste/feudal societies the representational systems; the codes, the
symbols, the signs carry clearly marked, commonly held and limited numbers
of meanings. One knows immediately another's caste or rank by the garments
one wares. The status is clearly indicated and there is little hope of
changing one's class. Anyone who tries to change the meaning of a sign is
risking punishment for the transgression. Signified and signifier are fixed.
Transgressors of this reality, dragons, heretics and infidels, must be
hunted down and slain. All unstable reference must be punished and free
interpretation is prohibited. In our dreamland we may find concerns about
taboos and transgressions. Concerns about one reality dominate. Dreams in
this style may indicate a part of personality that runs a very rigid yet
meaningful game.



o The Counterfeit Renaissance

There is a period of time before production society sets in and after the
feudal/caste society which we often refer to in the West as the Renaissance.
Now the signs begin to loosen and what they signify are more arbitrary. Does
the bible mean this, or that? Protestant movements demand that each man must
make his own interpretation of the bible. But why stop there? Everyone
begins to have his or her own interpretation of everything. The particular
meaning of a sign is freed, and an abstract code analogous to money is born.
Theater is born and there is destruction between a thing and what it
represents. Psychology can begin as we can now question who we really are.
Nature becomes important because it is lost. In the Renaissance we find
stucco floral outpourings everywhere, in fountains, in buildings in
paintings, in clothes, in books and on weapons. Stucco was the first
plastic. The sign is stripped of its original meaning, but still refers
dimly to a time when it did mean something. Too late. The natural world
unfolds in every form, but it is all on stage. It is the theater of
appearance and disappearance and changing forms. I am reminded of the movie
"Interview with a Vampire" where the vampire's stage a show, a parody of
their life which unfolds endless "real" scenarios against the background of
vampirism, but unable to refer to anything outside of the play itself. Their
reference to the real world was cut by their condition. So too this early
production society feeds on the real but is really cut off from it.

In dreams, we often encounter these worlds as well. Sometimes they are
joyously filled with creative and theatrical energy, oddly meaningful and
yet free from meaning. Strange forms evolve, masks and mistakes in identity
trick us and make us laugh. Reversals and getting back to where we once were
becomes more difficult. We find ourselves marrying people we don't know,
making alliances with strangers and creating art forms we never imagined. On
the darker side, this world can be uncomfortably unstable. Pets turn into
insects, chairs are haunted with ghosts, hospitals become prisons. Mom just
ain't what she used to be. Reality refuses to stabilize. This is the first
order of simulation, the corrupt symbol that no longer refers to what it
used to refer to. At one level this validates the living symbol that evolves
and wants to grow out of its old form. But what Baudrillard is suggesting is
that these images that have outgrown their original reference will never be
able to find a happy home to live. Desire has become grandiose and swirls
upward in Baroque productions of a Heaven in process, cupids arrow spiraling
ever upward and outward.

o Modern Production Society

Here the sign produces neutral values can be exchanged in an objective
world. Just like the free worker who is now free to make what he or she
wants, but there is little meaning in the work. There is a nostalgia for
ancient meaning, but it is all appearance. The Marlboro Cowboy is a
billboard commodity used to sell cigarettes. The real meaning of the sign
easily exchanged.

There is an expansion here of the production of goods, science and
technology. There is an explosion of transportation, products to buy, and
services as commodities. There is an explosion of science and technology, of
national boundaries, of different social spheres, topics to discuss, money
and value. In the Modern society there is a constant proliferation of
commodities.

In dreams we find modern images in the factory, the conveyor belt, the
assembly line. But this is also the world of the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Duplication proliferates. Dreams of serial duplication, hordes of animals
without a queen or leader, clones and eternal returns may appear. The
simulation begun in the previous stage now accelerates and a great deal of
energy is put into covering up the loss of reality. I recall a Gaham Wilson
cartoon where a group of scientists were in discussion in a large astrolab,
above unnoticed, a piece of space had torn and several angels were trying to
quickly pull it back together. Dreams where maps and territory are confused
speak to this level. Baudrillard sites Borges' story where the makers of a
map had it laid out so perfectly that it covered the real territory, except
in places where there were tattered corners. The busy activity of hiding the
fact that reality has disappeared may take simple and less harmless forms
like going to Disneyland, or stronger forms like Auschwitz where death is
produced and reproduced.

Since the surface of things is now suspect and devoid of meaning, one Barbie
doll as meaningful as another, the Modern turn was to Depth. If the Real can
no longer be found on the surface, then in it must be found beneath the
surface. Once the unconscious is revealed, then what you really feel, what
you really meant, is re-discovered. Look for dreams where you feel that what
is "really" going on, where is it "really" happening is somewhere else. We
can say that psychoanalytically the self is in projection in this Order. It
is in the group that won't let your in, in the party that is just over when
you arrive, in the gift and prize given to someone else. Just not quite
"here". Detective dreams, an inability to find your way home, all lost and
found dreams are of this order. As are all equivalences, such as dreams of
balance, or weighing and measuring. What is it worth? If there is even a
hope of answering this questions, we are still in the Modern Order of Signs.


o Post-Modern Hyperrality


"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks,
models of control-- and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times
from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures
itself against an ideal."      from Simulacra and Simulation

Had the truth been that we remained in a production reality, Marxism may
have continued to be a viable theory in the world. But Baudrillard sees that
what Marx called the "nonessential" sectors of capital to be what the global
process of capital is founded upon. Fashion, media, publicity, information &
communication networks, cybernetic control systems, computerization,
cyberspatiality, digitalization and genetic code proliferation. The
organizing principle is no longer production but re-production. In this
society of simulations where it is more interesting to be involved with a
simulation of reality than reality itself, a new social order establishes
itself. With the collapse or implosion between image/simulation and reality,
the ground for the real disappears. People write in to Robert Young, an
actor who played Dr. Welby, for medical advice and Raymond Burr who played
the lawyer Perry Mason& Ironside for legal advice. Now doctors and lawyers
are expected to act like Dr. Welby and Perry Mason. The models are the pivot
point of reference rather that reality itself. Simulations now determine
reality.
The continual solicitations to buy, to consume, to work, vote, give
opinions, and participate in social life consume meaning and value as
distinctions become meaningless.

Simulations have devoured reality, and models have taken over. The
production of reality in the Modern phase resulted in saturation and
explosion. Now we have implosion. Reality and meaning melt into a nebulous
mass of self-reproducing simulation. Simulations have taken over for
reality, and now generate nothing but more simulations.

The boundaries between entertainment and news collapse. The news becomes
spectacle, entertainment. Politics and entertainment implode. Polls turn the
elections into image contexts, a war of signs.

We still consume, even more feverishly. But now we buy status and presence
instead of objects. Here in San Francisco, my neighborhood has filled with
four-wheel drive wagons. We used to call them jeeps. I doubt most of these
all-terrain vehicles have even been anywhere off the road beside perhaps a
sidewalk. There are hills here, but never any snow nor weather that would
warrant a 4-wheel drive. It is very cool to be part of this urban safari. In
hyperreality what is produced and consumed are signs. The pressure on the
individual is to be socialized. Production is irrelevant and secondary.

In a surreal mode, we find pleasure in finding the unnatural in the natural.
Eruptions of moments of surreality break into the course of everyday life.

In the hyperral, the real and imaginary collapse together everywhere. Any
moment might be a media event and we have a kind of sixth sense for this. We
scan for fakery, montage and overlay. Absolut Vodka ala the latest artist,
Absolut Mc Glynn, Absolut Philip, Absolut Goodman....

A kind of non-deliberate parody clings to everything. No one believes it is
real, nor cares. Do you have political concerns about the integrety of the
politicians? Get with it, its cool that Newt brings his laptop to congress!

In dreamwork, we cover the full spectrum. Some people use dreamwork to patch
up the holes in their reality - or gaps in their illusion of reality -
places where meaning and value have dropped out of their lives. Much of
therapy is about patching up holes in the ego. Deeper work is statistically
rare. Dreamwork can go the other extreme as well and be a vehicle for
promoting a particular singular reality. Here, the interpretations will
always be the same, and the interpretive process determines reality. Just as
vexing can be the dream as god approach, where the dream reality is
determining all the reality and dreamwork becomes a kind of religion, the
dream an object of worship.

o An Alternative to Signs - The Improverse

While Baudrillard exposes very well the simulated reality we are moving so
rapidly into, his alternatives are somewhat lacking and under theorized. The
gist is to enact scenes that return us to the symbolic and burn the sign.
But his suggestion of becoming more real than real, more the worker than the
worker, more the consumer than the consumer, seem to have little or no
effect on culture and quickly play out to exhaustion in avante-gaude art
scenes. Big History may truly have ended and in our postmodern world all we
can do is play with the pieces. While this may cause sadness for dictators,
nationalists, classicists and others desiring massive changes, for most of
us exploring dreamwork in cyberspace it offers the opportunity for play and
experimentation.

A personal alternative is the Improverse, the intrusion of a symbolic
exchange into sign value and exchange. In the improverse, reality is created
out of the interaction of two or more singularites (dream, person, mood,
sound in the distance..) intruding into the exchange value and signs. One
might say that reality is co-determined by the participants on a local
level. Avens once said about the dream, we give it meaning, then it reveals
to us its significance. If we can hear it. Listening is as important as
signing in this universe. Having an ear for the other and being able to play
off of the song that comes from neither but from the relationship is much
like the old technique of impovisational music. In blues and folk rock jams,
the musician is called upon to listen while playing. Improvisations lead to
a temporary reality or song/jam world that includes all that are listening,
musicians and non-musicians alike. Thus the subjective-objective world is
crossed. On a Social-Political level, subversive activities often erupt in
the same manner. On a larger scale we can see the effects in such events as
the tearing down of the Berlin Wall coming directly from grassroots cultural
exchange programs. On a more local level, Bikers, sick of Auto dominated
streets began erupting into spontaneous Critical Mass bike-a-thons in the
Bay Area in the late 1990's during rush hour traffic. In dreamwork we
approach the dream without a sense of knowing, but of interest - we try a
note. This boy in my dream is my own undeveloped boy. We listen and maybe we
hear yes, maybe we hear no - but usually a whole intuition appears that
leads us on. The improverse comes into being.

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TERMS:


Hyperreal: A phenomenon where one can no longer tell the difference between
real and reproductions of the real. Reproductions even become more real than
real and experiences of hyperreal more satisfying than experiences of the
real.

Image: Sometimes a visual presentation, but not always. In a larger way,
more as an understanding, as in "Let me give you an image of what happened
the other day."



Sign: Something that usually points to something else. It can be a part of
language or an event as well as a traffic sign or dream image. The sign has
parts, the signifier - like the word "couch", the signified or concept it is
referring to like the idea of couch and the referent, a concrete object like
my couch in my living room. In Postmodern theory, there is more and more
emphasis on the material signifier and less on the concept to which it
refers. The actual object in the real world, the referent, often seems to
disappear altogether.

Simulacra: In Plato a false copy. But in modern thought were the distinction
between appearance and reality are challenged the simulacrum has more value
as a critical idea and becomes a copy without an original. The idea here
being reproduction without interest in first causes or reference.

Simulation: The process by which something real replaces the thing being
represented. Language does this in being able to transform something
specific and concrete into something abstract and universal. This brings up
notions of map and territory. For Baudrillard, the transformed "map" may be
more real than the original territory. I might enjoy a film on sky-diving
more than actually doing it. Baudrillard sees history as sliding from
attention to the land to the map leading to the disappearance of meaning.
"simulation is . . . the generation by models of a real without origin or
reality: a hyperreal" (Baudrillard, 1983: 2).






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Dream title: Baby

Dream date: march 21, 2007

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: I had a new born child and I was holding it; I was so happy.
One day I let an old friend baby sit for me and she stole the baby from me.
I never saw my baby again and I just kept crying and crying and crying.  I
called the police and told them what happened and then I woke up.

Dream comments: I might be pregnant but from my boyfriend







Dream title: Dying

Dream date: none given

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: I'm in a car accident and fall off a bridge. I'm falling and I
see my self crying and falling and dying.  When I hit the bottom of the
bridge, I see a coffin, but I don't see myself.  I don't know who it is in
the coffin.  I just see myself just crying.

Dream comments: I've been having this dream dying for about 7 years; I think
it's me in the coffin.





Dream title: Weird

Dream date: march 20, 2007

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: I was in a huge castle-like home. I had twice the number of
brothers and sisters that I have in waking life. This home that we moved in
seemed so weird. There were so many people in the house running around
because my parents had something going on, like a meeting with their
company. One of my sisters and I were fighting about which room we would
choose to live in because each room was better than the other. Somehow my
sister got the better room (like she always gets the better life then I do)
with manipulation. I got the smallest room. My parents were still working
with everyone downstairs in some big meeting. Another sister and I went
exploring the home. One place seemed like we shouldn't be near it. Then my
cell phone rang I put it on speaker phone so my sister could hear it
silence...deep breathing on the other line.

Dream comments: weird dream!





Dream title: Airplane crash

Dream date: 3/19/07

Dreamer name: yaakbaby

Dream text: I was standing in my office with some co-workers and all of a
sudden a huge jetliner crashed nose first right outside the window.  It
didn't even break our windows.  We watched people gathering up parts.
Suddenly I said "Look at the basket of heads!  They're all smiling".

Dream comments: I dream about airplane crashes a lot and I am not afraid of
flying at all.

Dream title: Worms in hair

Dream date: 3/23/07

Dreamer name: mirasaza

Dream text: I was in the bathroom; it was dirty and I needed to clean it
because guests were coming over.  I picked up a black vent brush, like the
one I use everyday, and brushed it through my hair a few times. I noticed
some difficulty, like my hair didn't feel right or look right when I brushed
it. I looked at the brush and there were big long worms in it.  I freaked
out, and ran my fingers through my hair, and started pulling out worms, lots
of worms.  My hair was dry to start, but by the end of my dream I was bent
over a tub with sopping wet hair pulling out long worms and clumps of tiny
worms too.

Dream comments: I've never had this dream before.


Dream title: OMG! Doggie Conundrums!
Dream date: 28/09/2006
Dreamer name: PJ
Dream text: I dreamt that we had bought ourselves a pet dog, a
Labrador-Border Collie mix.  After getting home, it decided it was feeling
horny and tried to "Make Whoopee" with my youngest child, and then after
pulling the dog from him, it tried to do the same with my youngest daughter.
My partner pulled the dog off my daughter and began to masturbate, which
sprayed all over the lounge walls and the kids.  It smelled so bad it, that
I ran outside and I became violently sick.
Dream comments: This is one of the rudest and strangest dreams I have ever
had.







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Welcome to the March 2007 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
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In this issue:

Kata Dales of Altar Girl fame and Ross Kerr, infamous reclusive writer and
musician, have teamed up to bring you "Lost in the Woods," a comic which
explores how both dreams and technology change the ways in which we think
about ourselves and relate to others. See the cover they created for this
months Electric Dreams and read about their adventures.

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
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Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis searches the globe for lucid
dreamers and their experiences. This month Robert Waggoner interviews David
L Kahn. (No not David Kahn the upcoming president of the IASD, but another
interesting Kahn) Long time lucid dreamer, David L. Kahn has recently
completed a book about dream interpretation, "A Dream Come True"  Be sure to
read this interesting interview.

The World Dreams Peace Bridge continues to dream up global events. Jean
Campbell describes a new project that will occur at the World Children's
Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on June 25, "the world's
largest ever drumming circle." Be sure to read about it, and join in.

Stan Kulikowski II has one of the most unique ways of recording his dreams,
and we often pull these out from the many dreams sent in to show readers how
applications of narrative style can be applied to dreams. This month, Stan
narrates a dream called "The Dream of September."

Your dream work will go improve considerably when you learn to ask good
questions. You are training yourself to follow. A fascinating new level of
creativity comes through when you allow the dreamer to lead.  These and
other gems of dreamwork wisdom are found in DreamRePlay creator, David
Jenkins, PhD as he explores "The Socratic Approach to Dreamwork."

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- Dreams Studies - Want to Help?
- Various calendars
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- IASD News: Radio Show
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The IASD "Dream Time," an Internet radio program continues after successful
programs with Jean Campbell, Robert J Hoss, David Kahn and Patricia
Garfield. March 7 - be sure to see Gayle Delaney.
This show focuses on the Science of Dreaming and is aired  on Modavox's
VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel You can also listen through a link
from the IASD, DreamScience.org. The show will be hosted by IASD Past
President and Executive Officer, Bob Hoss.

www.health.voiceamerica.com
http://dreamscience.org/idx_radio.htm

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 -  9am Pacific  (noon Eastern)

Understanding and Incubating Dreams
with Gayle Delaney PhD.

Description: When we dream, we speak to ourselves in the language of
pictures and metaphors. Understanding this dreaming language opens the door
to creativity and insight that can greatly enhance our lives. Dr. Delaney
and our host Bob Hoss will discuss some simple techniques you can use for
understanding your nightly dreams. Gayle will describe her method of
interpretation called the Dream Interview that you can use on your own or
with a friend. The Dream Interview replaces old wives' tales as well as old
psychiatrist's interpretive pronouncements with a series of carefully
crafted questions that allow you to discover your own private meanings. She
will also discuss how we can target dreams for specific problem solving with
her method of Dream Incubation.

Gayle Delaney PhD, founding president of the International Association for
the Study of Dreams, Co-director of the Delaney & Flowers Dream Center in
San Francisco and author of 7 publications including In Your Dreams, All
About Dreams and Sexual Dreams.

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online?

Flying Lucid Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojN82KM_Htw

Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bC3Tlq8EOE


Flying Dreams - The Secret of NIMH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkY-FQnD_9w

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.     --
Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@...


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- IASD E-Newsletter
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Not just for IASD members, the IASD E-news keeps you up on all events
sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Editor,
Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D.
Subscribe here

iasd-eNews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *


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- London Dream Conference - Call Deadline
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Dreams and Culture
2nd International Conference
of the
Nordic and North European Network
for the Study of Dreams

Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, England

7-9 September 2007


Each and every person dreams. Our dreams reflect the culture in which we
live, our culture shapes our dreams and in some societies, dreams have
shaped culture. This conference explores the ways in which our dreams and
culture interact and encourages submissions from a range of disciplines.

Please submit the Call for Presentations form on the following page
electronically to kate.adams@... with a copy to
research@... by April 27th 2007.
http://www.asdreams.org/england07/index.htm

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- Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox

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Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox
21st March 19.30- 21.30 p.m.
Danish Association for the Study of Dreams (FFSD)

At vernal equinox day and night are of equal length. Light and darkness
meet, and we move along with Spring into a period of increasing light.

-- From olden times such passages have been important to the culture, to the
inner and outer growth, and to man's attachment to and respect for the
rhythm of the earth.

The Association is intent to reiterate at each vernal equinox this ritual,
which is based on old traditions, renewing it with contemporary meaning.

We shall use our dreams as a portal into the inner world and through the
fire unite with the power of nature. Contacting the dreams and the fires
will create a connection between people on this earth as well as a tangible
and shared network of light and consciousness.

We invite everybody to meet in small or large groups, public or private, on
this particular evening. Or, of course, do it on their own.

We suggest to follow below points so as to create a common reference, thus
intensifying the bond and facilitating the sharing of experiences:

1. Time and date: Wednesday 21st March 19.30 - 21.30 p.m.
2. The participants to gather in groups. If you are alone, you might
visualize the connection to other groups or participants.
3. A fire to be lit, or alternatively a candle symbolizing the fire.
4. The participants to share their dreams around the fire. This can be done
in different ways like e.g. telling the dreams, drawing them or showing
drawings of them. Meditation, songs, dance, and music are other options.
5. Dream incubation. Before the end of the ritual to focus on the dreams of
the coming night. Each individual to visualize the fire before going to
sleep.
6. Reflection. Anybody having the desire and energy to do so, is invited to
share their evening by mailing experiences, thoughts, dreams, drawings, etc.
to the Association.

The material that we receive will be edited and maybe put on our website.

We intend to present our Equinox Dreams Project at the North European Dream
Conference in Lincoln, England next September. The theme of this conference
is Dreams and Culture.

We do hope that the above will inspire you to participate. If you have any
questions, you are welcome to put them to us by mail to mail@...



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- Berkeley Dream Institute
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The Dream Institute
1672 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703
510-845-1767

How to get your name on the Dream Institute newsletter list - call and leave
your name and address at 1-510-845-1767

The year began with a moving and wonderfully successful event-Jacqueline
Thurston presenting, Lana Nasser performing-to bring sacred images from
ancient Egypt to life. We had to turn eager folks away! Suggestions for
future programs are most welcome.

As the featured dream shows, the time for "new wine" is here. Dreams were
recognized by most indigenous and traditional religions as a source of
renewal. "Culture Dreaming" may become one of the new wineskins. The Dream
Institute is the only California venue offering it.

A new series begins this month; if you haven't yet attended, make time to
come to this dynamic event.

NEW - STARTING THIS MONTH

ART & DREAMING Emily Anderson starts Sat Feb 10
This workshop opens the space for one's natural imagination and creativity
to emerge through different art-making processes. Emily Anderson, M.A., is a
multimedia artist and former co-director of the Oakland Art Gallery. Meets
alternating Sat and Thurs: Feb 10 & 22, March 10 & 22, April 14 & 26.
CULTURE DREAMING a new series begins Sat Feb 10 3-5pm
Participate in this exciting new mode of dreaming for social change. After a
brief meditation, we tell dreams as they emerge; we then look at cultural
aspects of the
"big dream" just co-created. Observers welcome.

DREAM GROUP Richard Russo & Meredith Sabini begins Feb 15
An 8-session dream group to meet twice a month on Thursday evenings
beginning Feb 15. See enclosed flyer.


CONTINUING PROGRAMS - OPEN TO ALL

Study Group for CULTURE DREAMING Feb 3 March 3 April 7
This began in January, continues through April. A focused group for those
who've previously attended. To join now, please plan to attend all 3
sessions. Call to reserve.

DREAM STUDIES OPEN FORUM Monday Feb 12 7:30-9:30 pm
Mike Morrison and Kelly Bulkeley (GTU) present, "Caregiving in Time of War:
PTSD and dreaming among military veterans"

DANCE & DREAM Lana Nasser Sunday Feb 18 2-4pm
This class combines Middle Eastern dance movements, breathing exercises,
vocalizing/sound, and visualization to work with dreams in an embodied way.
IASD LECTURE SERIES Wednesday Feb 21 6:30pm, lecture at 7
Dr. Alan Siegel will present. (IASD members & students $10)

JFK DREAM-SHARING Tuesday Feb 27 7-9:30pm
Open to current students and graduates of the Dream Certificate Program.
Hosted by Judy McEnroe.


OFFICE & LIBRARY Open Hours & WORK EXCHANGE
Open Mon, Wed, Fri. Call 3 days ahead if you'd like to come.
Work in the "Wisdom House" 4 hours/month-make copies, stuff and stamp
envelopes to send out our newsletter in trade for an event or workshop of
your choice. Time & day relatively flexible.

Dream Institute of Northern California EVENTS

DREAMS & TAXES Friday Feb 23 7-9pm refreshments served
What if we reviewed and summarized our year's dream log as we do our
finances? Come and learn ways to creatively survey a year's dreams, which
you can continue at home. You will marvel at the recurring themes that
emerge. Bring your dream journal. Follow-up meeting will be arranged. With
Meredith Sabini.

SPRING EQUINOX RITUAL Sunday March 25 2-4pm
In March, Winter turns to Spring, a time of rebirth. Save this Sunday
afternoon for live music, storytelling, and dream-sharing around our outdoor
firepit.


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Call for Art
We are always looking for art from local (Bay Area) artists to display at
Fox Commons Art Gallery, which is housed in The Dream Institute. You can
send slides, or call to bring your work by.


MARCH

7 : IASD Bay Area Lecture Series
Robert J Hoss - Dream Language
6:30 - 9:00 PM

10: ART & DREAMING
Emily Anderson 10am-1pm

12: DREAM STUDIES
OPEN FORUM
7:30-9:30pm $5-15

25: EQUINOX RITUAL
2-4pm $10-20



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- IASD Bay Area Lecture Series - Dream Institute
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The International Association for the Study of Dreams Presents The Bay Area
Lecture Series

March 7 at the Dream Institute in Berkeley
Dreams and Personal Transformation with Bob Hoss, M.S.
Author of Dream Language and Executive Officer of IASD


The great luminary of the dream world, Carl Jung, observed that if dreams
have an ultimate plan in mind, it is a natural tendency towards establishing
balance and wholeness.

Jung described this as a process of transformation, a cyclical and
evolutionary process that can last throughout a night of dreams or a
lifetime.

Our dreams both reflect the stages of this transformation, and help to bring
it about. In this lecture and workshop you will learn how to recognize
transforming imagery even in your everyday dreams, how to understand what
the dream means to you in your life's situation, and how to work with it to
change your life. You will learn a simple Gestalt based technique to reveal
hidden feelings, conflicts, fears and desires that may be holding back your
progress in life; followed by a closure technique designed to use your dream
to project a potential path to wholeness. A worksheet will be provided.

Bob Hoss, M.S., is the author of the book Dream Language, Executive Officer
and former President of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams. As a scientist with training in Gestalt work, he has been teaching
dreamwork for over 30 years. He is on the faculty of the Haden Institute for
dream leadership training, and the adjunct faculty of Sonoma State
University. He frequently appears on radio and TV and his book was recently
featured nationally on ABC TV and in Readers Digest. Currently Bob Hoss is
hosting a thirteen-week radio show, Dream Time the Radio Show on Voice
America's health channel. This show features interviews with IASD experts.
Visit Bob Hoss's website at www.DreamScience.org

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at:

The Dream Institute
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, California

Pre-lecture social: 6:30 p.m.
Lecture:  7-9 p.m.

Admission (payable at the door): $15
(Members and students with valid ID, $10)


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- Dream Art Show in Oakland, California
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You are invited to a show of paintings by Betsy Wood,
March 5th to April 30th

See slide show of dream paintings by Betsy, interwoven
with improvisational dance, music and song by Lana Nasser.
Sat March 31st, 3pm. Refreshments.

RSVP
Questions Betsy 510-891-8282

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-  Women's Dream Workshop, Sonoma California
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Sharing from the Source: Dreams of our Times

A Workshop for Women
Saturday, March 31, 10am-1pm

at Shambhala Sonoma Meditation Center, Sonoma, CA
255 W. Napa St., Suite G, Speer Building
To register: Please call 707-824-2885       $25 suggested donation


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- Workshop and Dream Art Exhibit - Santa Fe, MN
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The Dreaming Arts Study have both and exhibit and workshops available in
March

Offering Workshops in Santa Fe


In each Tuesday studio workshop, dreams are turned into illustrated journals
and hand bound books through guided explorations of universal themes and
archetypes. "The Art of the Dream" workshops access the roots of creative
consciousness through poetry, prose, collage and image-making.

Newcomers and out-of-town dreamers are most welcome.
Please make reservations advance 988-1086.
Bring a dream.
$50. includes all materials

Contact
http://victoriadreams.com



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *


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- Dream Videophile has Dream Movies
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Interested in films with dream-themes? Deirdre Barrett, PhD and others have
reviewed dozens of films and have them listed and reviewed. Join the
dream-movie craze and see them all!

http://www.asdreams.org/videofil.htm


* * * REMINDERS * * *


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-  Dreams Studies - Want to help?
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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of the amazing realm
of dreams through participation as a subject!   Do you qualify?  See the
IASD Bulletin Board for a list of research projects looking for subjects.

http://www.asdreams.org/research/research_idx.htm


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- Various calendars
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html

International Association for the Study of Dreams
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=1851


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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Cover : "Lost in the Woods Scene"

Kata Dales

http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed14-3cov.jpg

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Artists' Bio

Kata Dales of Altar Girl fame and Ross Kerr, infamous reclusive writer and
musician, have teamed up to bring you "Lost in the Woods," a comic which
explores how both dreams and technology change the ways in which we think
about ourselves and relate to others! Let's see if we can catch up with them
now!

I've just discovered Kata's "secret den of artistry." She's busily sketching
out a cover for some sort of e-zine, but seems to have a free moment..

"I've been doing comics since FOREVER, but Ross and I are the ultimate team.
I suppose one way you could look at our collaborative effort is that I focus
on the emotional intricacies of human relationships and Ross babbles about
things like 'discursive networks' and 'the ethical implications of
technological integration' until I get him to shut up. In addition to doing
the art I have to make sure Ross doesn't alienate our readership entirely."

Ross is sitting in his dorm room eating cereal and bashing on his computer
keyboard intermittently. He responded to me-at least, I think he was
speaking to me-when I asked him a few questions about the comic.

"I approached Kata one day and told her about a dream I had in which I was
reading a book that combined words and pictures in a sort of sequential
narrative. She told me that I must have been living under a rock for the
past century and proceeded to force me into reading 1,000 issues of shojo
(girls' Japanese comics). After that incident, I dropped the sprawling
postmodern masterpiece I had been writing in favor of making a comic with
Kata. I don't regret it in the least, because no one knows how to read
anymore."

That's all for now! Tune in at http://www.lostcomic.net for more wacky
adventures in cyberspace!


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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Robert Waggoner interviews author David L. Kahn
(c) Lucy Gillis 2007

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis

In LDE 42 Robert Waggoner interviews author David L. Kahn.


Lucid dreamer David L. Kahn has recently completed a book about dream
interpretation, "A Dream Come True", which recognizes the value of
precognitive material and lucid dreams.  The book is currently being
reviewed by some publishers for possible publication.  (You can purchase the
self-published version on-line at http://stores.lulu.com/lucidreverie)
David has been a lucid dreamer for nearly thirty years.  He lives near
Minneapolis with his wife Chris, son Jacob, and daughters Kristin, Amanda
and Heather.


Robert: When did you first learn about conscious dreaming or lucid dreaming?

David: I was around ten or eleven years old. I saw a television show that
had a piece on lucid dreams, explaining what they are and how you can make
conscious choices in them, including to do things that would not be possible
in real life. I was glued to the TV. The show had an example of a girl that
was running on a beach while being chased by a person on a horse. She could
not see who the person was, because the rider was wearing a black hood. She
realized that this was a dream, stopped running, and turned to face the
person on the horse. The horse stopped running and the rider took of her
hood. She saw that the person on the horse was herself.

Robert: Can you recall your first lucid dream experience? Please, tell us
about that.

David: The very first time that I realized that I was dreaming while the
dream was occurring, I was perhaps 8 or 9. At that time I had never heard of
a lucid dream and I wasn't aware that I could change the dream. My first
true lucid dream was the same night that I watched the TV show. In the dream
I was at school with my friends when I realized that I was dreaming. I took
off and flew very fast over the school yard for a couple of minutes until I
awoke.

Robert: What about that lucid dreaming experience (or those early
experiences) did you find interesting?

David: I was surprised by how real the dreams felt. The dreams seemed as
real as waking life, sometimes even more so. The colors became very rich and
images became sharper. Sometimes I was surprised to find out that I didn't
have total control. How can I know that I'm dreaming, but be unable to walk
through this wall? There were also times that I recall telling my friends in
the dream that they too were dreaming, so quickly I realized that there are
different levels of lucidity.

Robert: At that time, what methods did you use to bring conscious awareness
into the dream state? Has that changed over the years?

David: I did a lot of work with lucid dreams during my teen years. I was
fascinated by Stephen LaBerge's work. I read his books and had an audiotape
of his at the time. I had some success with MILD, but mostly I found
incubation to be something that worked for me if I put enough effort into
it. I also experimented with reality checks during the day, and I even
bought a subliminal message tape. Mostly I just tried to keep lucid dreams
on my mind, often with books or tapes. That made a big impact on the
frequency of my lucid dreams. I recall one night as a teen having a lucid
dream, waking up, then going back to sleep and having another lucid dream.
In both dreams I attempted to fly my way out of my body. I didn't succeed,
but I did have strange circular flights. These days I still tend to use
dream incubation as my main method of inducing lucid dreams.

Robert: As you had more lucid dreams, were there any lucid dreams that made
a deep impression on you? Tell us about them.

David: Nearly all of my lucid dreams have made a major impact on me, but
there is one that was a major turning point in my life. I had this dream
about twenty years ago, when I was in my later teens. I was in an empty
room. There was a window on one of the walls. Nothing caused me to question
my reality, but I became lucid. The colors became very rich. I walked over
to the window and looked out onto an open meadow with a single tree in the
middle of the meadow. My vision focused in so that I could clearly see fine
details of the individual leaves. Each leaf was luminescent, glowing with a
bright green color. I realized at that moment that each leaf was alive, but
so too was the entire tree. I felt the connection between all living things.

Robert: Interesting! What did you take from this lucid dream experience?
What did it come to mean to you?

David: I remember that dream as though it happened last night. It had a
major impact on my life in subtle ways that may be hard to quantify. I see
the world and the people in it differently. I am reminded of the Native
American saying, "No tree is so foolish as to have branches fight amongst
themselves." In addition to the metaphoric meaning, I literally have never
looked at trees the same since. I notice the individual leaves, not just a
single tree. When I hear the sound of wind blowing through the leaves, it
has a calming affect on me. It is much like the peace you might feel while
taking a walk on a beach listening to the crashing sound of waves.

Robert: What experiments have you tried when lucid in the dream state?
Please describe and tell us about some of those?

David: One experiment that has stuck with me over the years took place in
another of my teenage lucid dreams. I decided that I wanted to hear what
music sounded like in a dream, so when I became lucid I made my stereo
appear in front of me. I had a cassette tape in my hand and tried to put it
in the tape player. For some reason the tape wouldn't fit, so I just jammed
it into the tape deck and forced it shut. Then out of nowhere I heard music.

It was unbelievable. The sound was coming from everywhere, as though it came
out of the air itself. It was the most crystal clear sound that I have ever
heard. Interestingly, prior to having this dream I had a few nights of
failed attempts at having a lucid dream. In one of those dreams I was
hearing music. The name of the song in that dream was called "Dreaming
Again." It is as though my mind was attempting to help me achieve my goal.

Robert: Have you ever tried "surrendering to the dream" or letting the dream
show you something unexpected or unknown? Or have you had lucid dream
experiences that were totally unexpected? What happened?

David: It is interesting that you ask this. I had a recent lucid dream that
was perhaps the longest lucid dream that I've ever had. It lasted several
minutes. After becoming lucid, I repeated nearly identically the events of
an out of body experience that I had many years ago. I walked through the
same window and began floating up above the same house and trees. I then
felt that I wasn't just floating, but I was being lifted under my arms by
something that I could not see. I had a brief moment of doubt and began to
drop, with a feeling in my stomach like being on a roller coaster. I
realized that I had to let go of my doubt, and I continued to float. I then
turned my arms so that my hands were facing up. I repeated several times,
"Show me what I need to see." As I was saying these words, I felt myself
being quickly turned in different directions. In one direction I saw a
silhouette of a large tree in a sunset. Eventually I went over the ocean and
was dropped on an island, where my lucidity continued as I explored the
island.

I realized a couple of interesting things after this dream. One is that I
recognized the tree silhouette inside of a sunset as the wallpaper image
that I have on my computer. Later that day I took a look at my computer
screen wallpaper, which hadn't changed in months, and I noticed something
that I had never seen before. I saw something very small next to the tree. I
zoomed in on it and saw that it was a headstone. It wasn't scary. The
feeling that I had is that something has been in front of my eyes all this
time and I didn't see it until now. The other realization that I made is why
I kept repeating the words, "Show me what I need to see." I had recently
written a poem into a chapter about spiritual dreams in my book. My dream
was telling me to listen to my own words. Here they are...

Enlighten me to all I see

The storm at night, the sun by day
The black, the white, the shades of grey

The waves, the serenity of a calm sea
Dead branches for firewood, the living tree

The garden flower that smells so sweet
The cigarette butt tossed on the street

The house, the cars, the money you've made The piles of bills you've left
unpaid

Your friends, your family, the people who care Those whose presence you
cannot bear

Are you trapped or are you free?
Enlighten all it is you see

Robert: Have you experienced lucid dreams that made you question the nature
of reality?

David: I have precognitive dreams fairly often in both lucid and non-lucid
dreams. No matter how often that happens, I still find myself with a sense
of awe. In a recent lucid dream, I had a very bizarre experience unlike any
other dream that I've had. I was standing in front of a bathroom mirror when
I became lucid. I noticed that the shower curtain was blue, and I also
noticed geometric shapes on the shower curtain. I knew that I would be blue
when I looked back at the mirror. Indeed my skin was very blue, except for
my neck in the area that I recently had surgery. I looked away from the
mirror for a few seconds, and when I looked back something very strange
happened. I became the color blue. It wasn't just my skin color. I was
actually the color, as though without me blue would not exist. This is one
of my most difficult dreams to express in words, because it is hard to
describe what it feels like to be a color.

Robert: What questions did this bring forward about lucid dreaming and the
nature of consciousness?

David: More than ever I feel as though we have only touched the surface of
what reality is, and where we can go with our minds. I have no doubt about
precognitive dreams. I think anyone that experiences them has a knowing that
they are real, even if it can't be proven scientifically (yet). I also have
this sense that there is something guiding me that is beyond my own
subconscious. There are too many synchronicities, and somehow they have
never steered me wrong. If it was just coincidence, I would think that I'd
be steered wrong at least on occasion.

Robert: I understand that you have almost finished a book on dreaming, and
have a chapter on lucid dreaming. Tell us about the book.

David: The book is called A Dream Come True. It discusses many different
interpretation techniques that I believe would be affective for both
experienced and non-experienced dreamers. My belief is that many, perhaps
most, dreams include some precognitive material and that the dream cannot be
fully interpreted without seeing the past, present and future aspects of the
issue you are dreaming about. I also discuss recognizing angles and
3-dimensional space within dreams as a means of recognizing what may be
precognitive material. The more basic interpretation sections of my book
include such topics as understanding why your dream takes place in your
childhood bedroom, recognizing oversized objects, etc.

Robert: On the chapter on lucid dreaming, tell us a bit about your
viewpoint; what are you trying to get across to readers?

David: The information that I provide about lucid dreaming is something that
experienced lucid dreamers would easily understand. I felt it was important
to include a chapter on lucid dreams early in the book, because I have
included various lucid dream examples in other chapters ranging from
spiritual dreams to precognitive dreams. I think experienced lucid dreamers
would find some similarities in their dreams and gain further ideas about
what they can do with their own lucid dreams, while less experienced lucid
dreamers would gain a better understanding of the value of lucid dreaming.
In an example that I use in a chapter on "Actions and Figures of Speech", I
tell a story of a series of synchronistic events that occurred both in and
out of my dreams. An interesting part of a lucid dream is included in which
I ask a dream character for help in dealing with a financial issue that I
was having. The character replied, "Ask the old man." I don't know why, but
I awoke with the thought that "ask the old man" could be an acronym (ATOM).
I thought about atoms, and realized that the night before I had been reading
about molecules in a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer. I have a lot of respect for Dr.

Dyer's work, and he happens to be nearly the same age as my father. I
realized that he is "the old man." With this I knew that my answer was to
ask myself what Wayne Dyer would do in this situation. Instantly I heard
myself say, "Surrender and trust that the universe will take care of this."
So, my dream wasn't so much giving me financial advice as attitude advice.
Although in the end, the synchronistic events mentioned in this chapter of
my book did end up manifesting some real life solutions.

Robert: It seems like nowadays many people have heard about lucid dreaming,
and have a basic conceptual understanding. Does it seem odd that individuals
that are used to having individual dream experiences would have so many
similar common lucid experiences? What might that suggest?

David: Non-lucid dreams certainly seem to have a lot of common themes, as
indicated in Patricia Garfield's book The Universal Dream Key: The 12 Most
Common Dream Themes Around the World. It would make sense that there is at
least some commonality among lucid dreams as well. What I find interesting
is that lucid dreams seem to have their own similar experiences, often
different from those of non-lucid dreams. Flying dreams, dreams of light,
deceased family or friends, the richness of colors, and so forth don't seem
to fit into the standard mold of dreams. It seems that many of the
differences between standard and lucid dreams are spiritual in nature, as
though by reaching certain levels of consciousness we become more open to
those experiences. The most spiritual of lucid dreams have a feeling of
coming from someplace other than my own mind, and I have heard this
described by others.

Robert: What kind of lucid dream experiments could move forward the
understanding of the potentials of the dream state and lucid dreaming? What
would you like to see?

David: It would be interesting to look at precognitive dreams or remote
viewing dreams by two or more people simultaneously having lucid dreams (or
at least in the same night) in order to see if there is a difference in the
degree of accuracy. On a personal level, I am interested in dreams of light.

I am curious about experiences of others that may be similar to my tree of
life dream. Perhaps next time I should try to communicate with the tree, or
even to become the tree. Also, after my experience of becoming the color
blue, I am curious as to what else we might become. I think many of us have
become animals, different people, or even floating consciousness in our
dreams. What would it be like to become a beam of light, water, gravity, or
a geometric shape?

Robert: Thanks David, for your observations into lucid dreaming. Any parting
thoughts?

David: Trust the guidance of your dreams and then manifest their messages
into reality. That is how my book, articles and this interview came into
being. I felt guided, and over time I began to rid myself of doubt as my
dreams had shown me. Also, realize that sometimes there are signs right in
front of your face...

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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
  Drumming, Dancing and Dreaming for World Peace
  Jean Campbell
  March 2007

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On May 14, 2006, Mary Whitefeather Joyce had the following dream:

We are all (many people for miles) are standing outside, not sure where, a
place I have never been to. We are all holding hands in a prayer for PEACE.
We are all dressed very colorfully, wearing colors of the rainbow. There are
children everywhere as far as I can see. There are many with drums. There
are 4 large pau wau size 24"-28" drums in a circle and within 4 corners as
though they represent the 4 directions. As soon as I hear the drum beats i
wake up!EOD

A few weeks later, when she created a Solstice Drumming Ceremony for the
International Association for the Study of Dreams' annual membership
conference in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Mary Whitefeather met Jean
Campbell and other members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge.  She soon
became a member of the Peace Bridge herself.

It was a great Valentine's Day surprise then to discover, on February 14,
2007, that Mary Whitefeather's dream from May 2006 seemed to be predictive.
That day she wrote a message to the Peace Bridge discussion list, saying she
had been asked to create "the world's largest ever drumming circle" at the
World Children's Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on June
25.

Further, she asked the Peace Bridge to cosponsor this event, and we agreed
to do it.  There's more.  We are asking you to do it with us!  Check the
Drum Dance and Dream for World Peace web pages at
www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/drumming
(link available after March 10, 2007)

Quite literally, Dr. Ashfaq Isaq, whose International Child Art Foundation
(ICAF) sponsors the World Children's Festival has asked us to gather the
tribes...all of the tribes...to drum, dance and dream for world peace on
"Peace and Leadership" day at the World Children's Festival.  The drumming
event will be at Fourth Street on the Mall, directly in front of the US
Capitol.  And for those who cannot come to Washington, there are drumming
groups forming all over the world to join us on a day to create a peaceful
future for the world's children.

One of the workshops presented that day has also grown from a dream.  World
Dreams Peace Bridge member Jeremy Seligson will present a Peace Train
Workshop, coming a few days early to the U.S. from his home in South Korea,
before traveling to the IASD conference in Sonoma.

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Dream: Game of September
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DATE  :  15 feb 2007  06:24
DREAM :  game of september

=( yesterday was a wednesday.  after a few days of spring weather a cold
front moved in with a noticeable chill.  i lit the fireplace which had been
unused the day before.  it was valentines day.  my mother only enjoys candy
bought the day after when it is marked down, so i must wait to buy it for
her on sale which takes much of the joy out of the holiday with no one else
to celebrate with.  at least the mail order wine company had shipped me a
special heart shaped bottle of pinot grigio which i had enjoyed seeing in
the refrigerator for over a week.  we cooked weenies over the fireplace and
drank the wine.  i got to bed around 01:00 and went to sleep without any
problem.  )=

it is after dinner and i have that slightly overfull feeling that you get
when finished from a memorable meal well prepared.  the few people from our
neighborhood are gathered here on the back porch, stretching and talking
politely together in small groups.  our host is a slightly elderly man of
very dominate character.  he laughs a little too easily and a little too
loud but it is easy to forgive him for being just barely overbearing,
especially after such a good meal as he has prepared for us.

i meet with the young wife of our host over by the card tables.  she is a
thin blonde woman, a trophy wife of considerable beauty but she has accepted
her position in life in no small degree as an accessory of a very famous
man.  i had once felt sorry for her but have gradually grown accustomed to
her plight.  today we have determined to learn together the game of
september.

sitting down together at the nearest card table, i shuffle the huge deck of
cards from the small boxes bought from the local voodoo shop.
it takes some time to arrange the many cards dealt into manageable hands.
she has an opening card which she plays face up in the shared book area near
the draw pile of undealt cards.

i think a little before i decide before i place a 'story' card next to the
opening.  i am worried that she will pick up the card to put in her hand,
but instead she immediately places a feminine card next to it, so the play
now reads 'her story'.  fortunely, i have a 'happy ending' card to fix the
plot structure so no one can pick up the developing sequence from here on.
it will take some time to add the content cards onto this line, but we have
the basis of a solid tale growing here.

i draw two cards from the undealt pile and think about discarding some into
my personal book area of the table.  it is a little early to get down on the
board this way, but i would feel a little easier with fewer cards in my hand
to manage.  perhaps i should hold off on scoring my personal card matches
until i see how the shared story unfolds and can make better judgements on
the perspectives of the plot view.  some of the cards are smaller, shaped
like little blue clouds, and this makes it difficult to hold them with the
larger trump cards.

before i can decide on my next play, we are distracted from our game and
called over to her husband's side for the telling of a mutual joke that has
been told too often but it requires her attendence as always does.  he knows
the game of september better than almost anyone here, but rarely enjoys
playing with novice beginners, so his wife and i have been left to learn how
to play by ourselves, making the mistakes that the inexperienced often must
suffer before they can see the overall patterns of common strategies.

"how goes your game?"  he asks her in his overly expansive manner with
extravagant public gestures.  he seems much like a falstaff holding court
with the local gentry in attendance.

"we have just started."  she smiles back at him, waiting for him to launch
into his telling of one of the jokes as he always does whenever he has
gathered together an audience.  she is familiar with her role as playing the
innocent simpleton with large eyes and affected manner.  i wonder if we will
ever get back to our game abandoned on the card table and if it will be her
story that unfolds there.  to discover one's destiny in such a manner is no
small thing but i doubt that it will be such an easy thing to accomplish.

=( awake at 06:15.  this dream has a very solid feel to it even though none
of the characters are known well enough to me to have names.  yet they seem
like very familiar persons that i should have known better.  the woman with
whom i play cards seems rather like kathy ollie, a somewhat shy woman i knew
many years ago.  she was the wife of a behavioral psychologist who taught at
the university in amherst but he was not at all like the overbearing husband
in this dream.  the game with the voodoo cards seemed to have more
significance to me than it should.  the telling of tales with the play of
cards is afterall what tarot decks are used for, but this game seemed to
have more the interactive play of canasta in its structure with a larger
deck of many more distinguished cards and suits.  i do not quite know what
to make of a dream with a newly invented game in it, but it has a satisfied
and complete feeling of complexity to it so that i wish that i had played
longer at it and so know more of its details.  )=


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           | |        and to kick ass
           ---        and i am all out of bubble gum.
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The Socratic Approach to Dreams
DreamRePlay
(Copyright 2007) David Jenkins, PhD

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As you listen to a dream, It is almost impossible not to be bubbling over
with questions and interpretations. Part of the art of dream work is
learning how to transform your own ideas into good questions about the
dream. This column shows some ways to do that.

Framing Your Question

In some forms of dream work, you offer your thoughts to the dreamer. You
might say "I wonder if the dream means that you are concerned about your
work?" That was the thought that you had about the dream and therefore you
asked that question. For many reasons, this is not a good idea. One problem
is that the dream might mean something completely different to the dreamer
and therefore your idea, honest and intelligent as it may be, is nonetheless
intrusive and prevents the dreamer from thinking for herself.

Many dream workers would instead say, "If it were my dream, it would mean I
was concerned about my work." That preface, "If it were my dream...," is
powerfully effective in emphasizing that this is the listener's opinion and
allows for the fact that it may not fit for the dreamer.

But, the problem is that it still takes the dreamer away from her dream and
her thoughts and shifts the focus to the listener and his interpretation of
the dream.

If your opinion makes sense to the dreamer, your counsel will be highly
valued. If it doesn't, you are breaking the flow of the dream work. There is
a way of avoiding the dangers in offering your opinions.

The Jenkins Rules of Dream Work

Rule #1-Every opinion can be converted into a neutral question.

Rule #2-Deal with the problems within the dream. (Help the dream-self rather
than fix their waking life)

Working Backwards

In these examples, you will see how to work from your "raw" thought to a
question that stays with the dream.

Jane's Dream: I dreamed I was lost in a huge, empty building. I couldn't
find the way out.

Let's suppose that you "know" that Jane hates her day job and really wants
to be an artist.

You "know" that this huge building represents her impersonal downtown
corporation. You also "know" that if only Jane would pluck up the courage to
leave her job, she would get lots of work as a freelancer. Therefore all she
has to do is to get out.

This dream is a gift from heaven for you. You are dying to say, "Look, Jane,
the building represents your job. You have no friends there and that's why
it's empty. The dream is telling you to leave your job."

Listener, beware! For one thing you might be wishing to leave your own job.
Secondly, this conversation is not about you. Even if you are completely
right, the task is for Jane to find her own way out - and that is your clue.

In the dream work, you need to focus on finding a solution to Jane's
dream-problem. If you are right, that solution will apply - better than any
well-meaning advice you can give her.

First of all you know that you want Jane to leave her job. You believe that
is equivalent to leaving the building. Convert that into a question:

"Do you want to leave the dream-building or do you want to stay there?"

Now you have a perfect question. You have taken your prejudice and converted
it into a neutral question that works for the dream-Jane and yourself.
You've followed both Rule #1 and #2.

If Jane says, "I am happy in this building, I just want to find out where
everyone else went," then you have some very important information. You know
that this dream is nowhere close to your belief systems about Jane and her
waking job.

If Jane says, "I hate this building, I want to get out of it but I can't
find an exit," you have moved the dream work forward. Now you can start to
focus on getting Jane out of the building. You might ask "What floor are you
on?"
"Can you see any stairs or an escalator?" These are questions that orient
Jane to the task of getting out of the building.

If you are right about your assessment of Jane's work situation, then, as
you gradually work through the dream issues, Jane herself will link the
dream to her job situation. Even if you are wrong, you are still helping
Jane deal with whatever problems the dream is referring to.

Some Examples

I dream that there is a red pillow on my bed.

Listener thinks: The red represents anger.

Problem: It's too general to ask "Does red represent anger to you?" Some
reds may be anger but not all. It also ignores both rules #1 and #2.

Instead ask: "In the context of the dream, what does the red suggest?"

You can also ask how the dream would be different if the pillow were some
other color.

I dream I am with a group of people and there is a man who is rude to me..

Listener thinks: She is far too sensitive.

Problem: This may or may not be true and it may or may not be helpful..
Asking "Why are so sensitive?" is too loaded (as well as breaking rules #1
and #2); the dreamer will have to defend her right to be sensitive.

Instead ask: "What do you really want to say to the man who is rude to you?
In doing so, you will probably be given an insight into what triggers the
dreamer's "sensitivity. "


  Conclusion

Listening to a dream is a double process. If you are involved then the dream
is stirring up your own mind. You need to catch these thoughts and bring
them back to the dream. If you deliver them "raw." you are pushing the
dreamer into your perspective and away from the dream.

Your dream work will go improve considerably when you learn to ask good
questions. You are training yourself to follow. A fascinating new level of
creativity comes through when you allow the dreamer to lead.

DIAL-IN DREAM GROUPS

Whether you live far away or close by, a phone group allows you to get
a sense of dream work in a very convenient way. With this new work, I
hope to communicate the pleasure and the excitement of dream work to many
people.

email david at davidj@... for information.

DREAM GROUPS

The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince
Street in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and
Telegraph. Please let me know if you are coming.


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Men doing dishes, don't go back in the house, turkey fish and police school
- what's going on?  .another dream section of the Electric Dreams magazine
from Kat Peters-Midland!



Dream title:  a man doing dishes
Dream date: A month ago
Dreamer name: AJNTRC
Dream text: I dreamed a guy I really liked (not dating) came to visit me
from another state. He washed my dishes, kissed me on the cheek and called
me beautiful.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: my dad tried to kill me!!!!
Dream date: February 22, 2007
Dreamer name: cha-ney-ney
Dream text: In my dream I'm back in my old house in Pennsylvania, the one I
lived in before I moved to Alabama, which is where I live now.  The house
looked different...I just knew it was that house, and there was a huge
bedroom downstairs with a huge sitting room added on to it and it has
previous owners stuff in it...and it seemed like I'd dreamed of that same
place before. I really wanted to move into that room but my mom wouldn't let
me! Then my dad shows up out of nowhere and starts punching me and hitting
me in the face and then started to strangle me. I manage to run outside and
get away from him and he goes "Just let me explain...just let me explain!!!"
I stood there just staring at him and then I took off and ran downtown to
the CVS Store that was there.  I ran inside and started screaming for my
brother and all of a sudden he appears out of nowhere and was like "who did
this to you...who did this to you????" Since I had blood running down my
face from being punched and he takes me over to my aunt and he says to my
aunt "keep her here...and whatever you do...don't go back to the house!!"
and then I just wake up after that!
Dream comments: that dream really freaked me out

Dream title: Hope
Dream date: 2/20
Dreamer name: Mae
Dream text: Voice saying: Never give up hope, but don't have false hope
Dream comments: My sister has cancer, she had the dream.

Dream title: Turkey Fish
Dream date: none given
Dreamer name: La Fromage
Dream text: My sister, her friend, and I are in the bathroom, baking
cookies, and I decide to eat some of the raw cookie dough. I immediately
feel sick to my stomach and go to the toilet and well... get sick. But
instead of your average sick, I have puked up red, yellow and green fish. My
sister's friend tells me that it is the raw turkey in the dough. "That kind
of stuff happens when it's uncooked all the time."
Dream comments: This was a while ago, I'm sorry for the graphic nature of
it.

Dream title: killing bad people
Dream date: February 18 2007
Dreamer name: whats?
Dream text:   At first I was like in a police school learning about what to
do and how to use a gun when a bad person has guns and they are trying to
kill you. My superior was telling me how to identify a person who has
weapons and he/she is trying to find targets. I felt like I could identify
them thanks to my teacher. Suddenly they started shooting so I started
shooting back with the gun my superior had given me. I killed many of them
but one of them shot me.  I tried to finish killing the bad people with all
my strength.  I could kill them because there were only two left, but then I
closed my eyes. I woke up in a hospital, with my mom who was watching me.
Then I ask what happened, she told me everything.  Then it started to change
and it disappeared.
Dream comments: After my dream had change a little I start dreaming a
different thing. But I still soar with the bullets that had passed my chest.

Dream title: break up
Dream date: 2/17/07
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamt that my boyfriend broke up with me and he told me that
it was better to be friends.  But he was a different person, it wasn't my
boyfriend the one I with right now.
Dream comments: this is like the second time I dreamt that he broke up with
me but in different surroundings.

Dream title: danger
Dream date: February 15, 2007
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: someone was trying to kill me Dream comments: scary

Dream title: red big snake
Dream date: 2/15/2007
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I saw snake (cobra) around the dead coffins Dream comments: none

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Hi to all Electric Dreamers...  The March issue will be out in a few day, in
the meantime, there are a few events that will occur this week:

1. WED 9am Pacific:  DreamTime Internet Radio - Gayle Delaney, PhD is the
guest on the IASD DreamTime show on VoiceAmerica, hosted each Wednesday 9am
Pacific time by Robert J Hoss
  Yes, with a speaker and computer connected to the Net you can tune in. Just
go to the following link
  http://www.health.voiceamerica.com

...select Wednesday, scroll to 9:00AM DreamTime and start the play button!
A phone number will be provided for call in questions.

2.WED Evening 6:30 - 9pm:  Berkeley, CA : Robert J Hoss is the guest for the
IASD Bay Area Lecture Series held in Berkeley California at the Dream
Institute, on University Ave, between Mcgee and Jefferson.  $10 IASD
members, $15 non members.  Great deal to meet Bob Hoss and hear his talk on
Dream Language, one of the first systems to highly integrate science and the
arts of interpretation.


3.  The news below may be updated later this week...
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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
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Online:
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Physical world:
- London Dream Conference - Call due April 27
- Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox (Danish Assoc)
- Berkeley Dream Institute Programs for March
- IASD Bay Area Lecture Series: Bob Hoss
- Dream Art Show in Oakland, California
- Women's Dream Workshop, Sonoma California
- Workshop and Dream Art Exhibit - Santa Fe, MN

Books, movies, research:
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The IASD "Dream Time," an Internet radio program continues after successful
programs with Jean Campbell, Robert J Hoss, David Kahn and Patricia
Garfield. March 7 - be sure to see Gayle Delaney.
This show focuses on the Science of Dreaming and is aired  on Modavox's
VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel You can also listen through a link
from the IASD, DreamScience.org. The show will be hosted by IASD Past
President and Executive Officer, Bob Hoss.

www.health.voiceamerica.com
http://dreamscience.org/idx_radio.htm

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 -  9am Pacific  (noon Eastern)

Understanding and Incubating Dreams
with Gayle Delaney PhD.

Description: When we dream, we speak to ourselves in the language of
pictures and metaphors. Understanding this dreaming language opens the door
to creativity and insight that can greatly enhance our lives. Dr. Delaney
and our host Bob Hoss will discuss some simple techniques you can use for
understanding your nightly dreams. Gayle will describe her method of
interpretation called the Dream Interview that you can use on your own or
with a friend. The Dream Interview replaces old wives' tales as well as old
psychiatrist's interpretive pronouncements with a series of carefully
crafted questions that allow you to discover your own private meanings. She
will also discuss how we can target dreams for specific problem solving with
her method of Dream Incubation.

Gayle Delaney PhD, founding president of the International Association for
the Study of Dreams, Co-director of the Delaney & Flowers Dream Center in
San Francisco and author of 7 publications including In Your Dreams, All
About Dreams and Sexual Dreams.

---
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
---

Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online?

Flying Lucid Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojN82KM_Htw

Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bC3Tlq8EOE


Flying Dreams - The Secret of NIMH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkY-FQnD_9w

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.     --
Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@...


---
- IASD E-Newsletter
---

Not just for IASD members, the IASD E-news keeps you up on all events
sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Editor,
Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D.
Subscribe here

iasd-eNews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *


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- London Dream Conference - Call Deadline
---

Dreams and Culture
2nd International Conference
of the
Nordic and North European Network
for the Study of Dreams

Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, England

7-9 September 2007


Each and every person dreams. Our dreams reflect the culture in which we
live, our culture shapes our dreams and in some societies, dreams have
shaped culture. This conference explores the ways in which our dreams and
culture interact and encourages submissions from a range of disciplines.

Please submit the Call for Presentations form on the following page
electronically to kate.adams@... with a copy to
research@... by April 27th 2007.
http://www.asdreams.org/england07/index.htm

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- Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox

---

Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox
21st March 19.30- 21.30 p.m.
Danish Association for the Study of Dreams (FFSD)

At vernal equinox day and night are of equal length. Light and darkness
meet, and we move along with Spring into a period of increasing light.

-- From olden times such passages have been important to the culture, to the
inner and outer growth, and to man's attachment to and respect for the
rhythm of the earth.

The Association is intent to reiterate at each vernal equinox this ritual,
which is based on old traditions, renewing it with contemporary meaning.

We shall use our dreams as a portal into the inner world and through the
fire unite with the power of nature. Contacting the dreams and the fires
will create a connection between people on this earth as well as a tangible
and shared network of light and consciousness.

We invite everybody to meet in small or large groups, public or private, on
this particular evening. Or, of course, do it on their own.

We suggest to follow below points so as to create a common reference, thus
intensifying the bond and facilitating the sharing of experiences:

1. Time and date: Wednesday 21st March 19.30 - 21.30 p.m.
2. The participants to gather in groups. If you are alone, you might
visualize the connection to other groups or participants.
3. A fire to be lit, or alternatively a candle symbolizing the fire.
4. The participants to share their dreams around the fire. This can be done
in different ways like e.g. telling the dreams, drawing them or showing
drawings of them. Meditation, songs, dance, and music are other options.
5. Dream incubation. Before the end of the ritual to focus on the dreams of
the coming night. Each individual to visualize the fire before going to
sleep.
6. Reflection. Anybody having the desire and energy to do so, is invited to
share their evening by mailing experiences, thoughts, dreams, drawings, etc.
to the Association.

The material that we receive will be edited and maybe put on our website.

We intend to present our Equinox Dreams Project at the North European Dream
Conference in Lincoln, England next September. The theme of this conference
is Dreams and Culture.

We do hope that the above will inspire you to participate. If you have any
questions, you are welcome to put them to us by mail to mail@...



---
- Berkeley Dream Institute
---

The Dream Institute
1672 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703
510-845-1767

How to get your name on the Dream Institute newsletter list - call and leave
your name and address at 1-510-845-1767

The year began with a moving and wonderfully successful event-Jacqueline
Thurston presenting, Lana Nasser performing-to bring sacred images from
ancient Egypt to life. We had to turn eager folks away! Suggestions for
future programs are most welcome.

As the featured dream shows, the time for "new wine" is here. Dreams were
recognized by most indigenous and traditional religions as a source of
renewal. "Culture Dreaming" may become one of the new wineskins. The Dream
Institute is the only California venue offering it.

A new series begins this month; if you haven't yet attended, make time to
come to this dynamic event.

NEW - STARTING THIS MONTH

ART & DREAMING Emily Anderson starts Sat Feb 10
This workshop opens the space for one's natural imagination and creativity
to emerge through different art-making processes. Emily Anderson, M.A., is a
multimedia artist and former co-director of the Oakland Art Gallery. Meets
alternating Sat and Thurs: Feb 10 & 22, March 10 & 22, April 14 & 26.
CULTURE DREAMING a new series begins Sat Feb 10 3-5pm
Participate in this exciting new mode of dreaming for social change. After a
brief meditation, we tell dreams as they emerge; we then look at cultural
aspects of the
"big dream" just co-created. Observers welcome.

DREAM GROUP Richard Russo & Meredith Sabini begins Feb 15
An 8-session dream group to meet twice a month on Thursday evenings
beginning Feb 15. See enclosed flyer.


CONTINUING PROGRAMS - OPEN TO ALL

Study Group for CULTURE DREAMING Feb 3 March 3 April 7
This began in January, continues through April. A focused group for those
who've previously attended. To join now, please plan to attend all 3
sessions. Call to reserve.

DREAM STUDIES OPEN FORUM Monday Feb 12 7:30-9:30 pm
Mike Morrison and Kelly Bulkeley (GTU) present, "Caregiving in Time of War:
PTSD and dreaming among military veterans"

DANCE & DREAM Lana Nasser Sunday Feb 18 2-4pm
This class combines Middle Eastern dance movements, breathing exercises,
vocalizing/sound, and visualization to work with dreams in an embodied way.
IASD LECTURE SERIES Wednesday Feb 21 6:30pm, lecture at 7
Dr. Alan Siegel will present. (IASD members & students $10)

JFK DREAM-SHARING Tuesday Feb 27 7-9:30pm
Open to current students and graduates of the Dream Certificate Program.
Hosted by Judy McEnroe.


OFFICE & LIBRARY Open Hours & WORK EXCHANGE
Open Mon, Wed, Fri. Call 3 days ahead if you'd like to come.
Work in the "Wisdom House" 4 hours/month-make copies, stuff and stamp
envelopes to send out our newsletter in trade for an event or workshop of
your choice. Time & day relatively flexible.

Dream Institute of Northern California EVENTS

DREAMS & TAXES Friday Feb 23 7-9pm refreshments served
What if we reviewed and summarized our year's dream log as we do our
finances? Come and learn ways to creatively survey a year's dreams, which
you can continue at home. You will marvel at the recurring themes that
emerge. Bring your dream journal. Follow-up meeting will be arranged. With
Meredith Sabini.

SPRING EQUINOX RITUAL Sunday March 25 2-4pm
In March, Winter turns to Spring, a time of rebirth. Save this Sunday
afternoon for live music, storytelling, and dream-sharing around our outdoor
firepit.


* * * * *
Call for Art
We are always looking for art from local (Bay Area) artists to display at
Fox Commons Art Gallery, which is housed in The Dream Institute. You can
send slides, or call to bring your work by.


MARCH

7 : IASD Bay Area Lecture Series
Robert J Hoss - Dream Language
6:30 - 9:00 PM

10: ART & DREAMING
Emily Anderson 10am-1pm

12: DREAM STUDIES
OPEN FORUM
7:30-9:30pm $5-15

25: EQUINOX RITUAL
2-4pm $10-20



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- IASD Bay Area Lecture Series - Dream Institute
---

The International Association for the Study of Dreams Presents The Bay Area
Lecture Series

March 7 at the Dream Institute in Berkeley
Dreams and Personal Transformation with Bob Hoss, M.S.
Author of Dream Language and Executive Officer of IASD


The great luminary of the dream world, Carl Jung, observed that if dreams
have an ultimate plan in mind, it is a natural tendency towards establishing
balance and wholeness.

Jung described this as a process of transformation, a cyclical and
evolutionary process that can last throughout a night of dreams or a
lifetime.

Our dreams both reflect the stages of this transformation, and help to bring
it about. In this lecture and workshop you will learn how to recognize
transforming imagery even in your everyday dreams, how to understand what
the dream means to you in your life's situation, and how to work with it to
change your life. You will learn a simple Gestalt based technique to reveal
hidden feelings, conflicts, fears and desires that may be holding back your
progress in life; followed by a closure technique designed to use your dream
to project a potential path to wholeness. A worksheet will be provided.

Bob Hoss, M.S., is the author of the book Dream Language, Executive Officer
and former President of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams. As a scientist with training in Gestalt work, he has been teaching
dreamwork for over 30 years. He is on the faculty of the Haden Institute for
dream leadership training, and the adjunct faculty of Sonoma State
University. He frequently appears on radio and TV and his book was recently
featured nationally on ABC TV and in Readers Digest. Currently Bob Hoss is
hosting a thirteen-week radio show, Dream Time the Radio Show on Voice
America's health channel. This show features interviews with IASD experts.
Visit Bob Hoss's website at www.DreamScience.org

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at:

The Dream Institute
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, California

Pre-lecture social: 6:30 p.m.
Lecture:  7-9 p.m.

Admission (payable at the door): $15
(Members and students with valid ID, $10)


--
- Dream Art Show in Oakland, California
--

You are invited to a show of paintings by Betsy Wood,
March 5th to April 30th

See slide show of dream paintings by Betsy, interwoven
with improvisational dance, music and song by Lana Nasser.
Sat March 31st, 3pm. Refreshments.

RSVP
Questions Betsy 510-891-8282

--
-  Women's Dream Workshop, Sonoma California
--

Sharing from the Source: Dreams of our Times

A Workshop for Women
Saturday, March 31, 10am-1pm

at Shambhala Sonoma Meditation Center, Sonoma, CA
255 W. Napa St., Suite G, Speer Building
To register: Please call 707-824-2885       $25 suggested donation


--
- Workshop and Dream Art Exhibit - Santa Fe, MN
--

The Dreaming Arts Study have both and exhibit and workshops available in
March

Offering Workshops in Santa Fe


In each Tuesday studio workshop, dreams are turned into illustrated journals
and hand bound books through guided explorations of universal themes and
archetypes. "The Art of the Dream" workshops access the roots of creative
consciousness through poetry, prose, collage and image-making.

Newcomers and out-of-town dreamers are most welcome.
Please make reservations advance 988-1086.
Bring a dream.
$50. includes all materials

Contact
http://victoriadreams.com



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *


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- Dream Videophile has Dream Movies
---

Interested in films with dream-themes? Deirdre Barrett, PhD and others have
reviewed dozens of films and have them listed and reviewed. Join the
dream-movie craze and see them all!

http://www.asdreams.org/videofil.htm


* * * REMINDERS * * *


---
-  Dreams Studies - Want to help?
---

You can help dream research gain a better understanding of the amazing realm
of dreams through participation as a subject!   Do you qualify?  See the
IASD Bulletin Board for a list of research projects looking for subjects.

http://www.asdreams.org/research/research_idx.htm


---
- Various calendars
---

Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html

International Association for the Study of Dreams
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=1851


---
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
---

Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


---
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
---

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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Volume #14  Issue #2

February 2007

ISSN# 1089 4284

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Electric Dreams: http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
Cover: Cover by Caroling Geary

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Cover: "Stan's Maddox Effect Portal"
            Caroling Geary

  ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
             Steve Parker Goes W.I.L.D.!"
             Lucy Gillis

++ Column: The View - World Dreams Peace Bridge
            Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights
            When the Mirror is Not Enough
            Jean Campbell and Joy Fatooh

++ Dream:  "Maddox Effect"
            Stan Kulikowski II

++ Column: Introducing the Dream
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ DREAM SECTION: From Kat Peters-Midland


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D E A D L I N E :
Send articles and news by Feb 25th for
the March issue
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Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple

Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to
Harry Bosma <ed-news@...>

Send Articles, news and other items to:
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Welcome to the February 2007 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 seem 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


One would think that when the world is full of dream and dreamwork events,
that Electric Dreams e-zine would be bigger than usual, but in fact just the
opposite is true. Why? Partly because most Electric Dreams staff are
involved in the projects we talk about, and there are lots of them this
month. So apologies for the late issue and without further ado.


In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...

Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis searches the globe for lucid
dreamers and their experiences. This month is an article on the how Steve
Parker uses W.I.L.D. or "Wake Initiated Lucid Dream" technique to achieve
lucid dreaming.
Be sure to read "Steve Parker Goes W.I.L.D.!"

What is the World Dreams Peace Bridge?  Jean Campbell and Joy Fatooh bring
you up to date on this global dreaming community and the projects they
manifest through dream sharing in this month's View from the Bridge,
"Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights When the Mirror is Not Enough."

The dream contributed by Stan Kulikowski II this month, "Maddox Effect," is
also the inspiration for this month Electric Dreams cover by
Caroling Geary, Stan's Maddox Effect Portal".  Find out about the dream, the
portal and how you too can experience the Maddox Effect.

The way we tell a dream is rarely the way it actually happens to us. How
important is the way we contextualize the dream telling, how do we
contextualize dream fragments? These and other gems of dreamwork wisdom are
found in DreamRePlay creator, David Jenkins, PhD as he explores the many
sides of the dream in "Introducing the Dream."

Smiling lobsters with human teeth, a water bottle sitting inside the
stomach, and people aging a thousand years in just three seconds.another
dream section of the Electric Dreams magazine from Kat Peters-Midland!

Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

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

Cover by Caroling Geary, graphics by Stan Kulikowski II
http://dreamgate.hypermart.net/ed-covers/ed14-2cov.jpg

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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/

Electric Dreams in PDF:  Temporarily offline

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To Infinite Dreaming, and Beyond,

-Richard Wilkerson


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  FEB 2007

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.

Online:
- Radio Show - Dream Time - Wednesdays
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- IASD Newsletter available to non-members

Physical world:
- Dreams and Culture - London Dream Conference
- Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox (Danish Assoc)
- Berkeley Dream Institute

Books, movies, research:
- Dream Videophile has Dream Movies

Reminders:
- Dreams Studies - Want to Help?
- Various calendars
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

---
- IASD News: Radio Show
---

IASD is excited to announce "Dream Time," an Internet radio program. This
new show will focus on the Science of Dreaming and will aired be on
Modavox's VoiceAmericaT Health & Wellness Channel You can also listen
through a link from the IASD, DreamScience.org. The show will be hosted by
IASD Past President and Executive Officer, Bob Hoss. Live Feb 21, 2007 and
broadcasting each Wednesday at 9am Pacific (Noon Eastern), the show will air
with a rebroadcast 12 hours later.

www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org


---
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
---

Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online?

Lucid Dreaming videos - how to, all about, odd experiences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEcqb6f7itA

How to Lucid Dream and have OBE I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqlhkPkpNMM

How to Lucid Dream and have OBE II By Matt Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEcqb6f7itA

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.     --
Richard Wilkerson


---
- IASD E-Newsletter
---

Not just for IASD members, the IASD E-news keeps you up on all events
sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Editor,
Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D.
Subscribe here

iasd-eNews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *


---
- Dreams and Culture - London Dream Conference
---

Dreams and Culture
2nd International Conference
of the
Nordic and North European Network
for the Study of Dreams

Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, England

7-9 September 2007


Each and every person dreams. Our dreams reflect the culture in which we
live, our culture shapes our dreams and in some societies, dreams have
shaped culture. This conference explores the ways in which our dreams and
culture interact and encourages submissions from a range of disciplines.
These may include anthropology, the arts and humanities, psychology,
biology, physiology, education, religion, philosophy, spirituality, and
clinical and therapeutic disciplines. Themes may include: explorations of
dream content in different countries and cultures; dreams in film, art, the
media and literature; the impact of religion upon dreaming; dreaming in the
curriculum; cross cultural approaches to dreams; working with dreams from
different perspectives; spiritual and philosophical approaches to dreams,
amongst others.

Submissions for the following are invited:

Paper presentations (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions). Submissions
for papers from students are strongly encouraged for a student symposium

Workshops (1.5 - 2 hours for the practical demonstration of an approach with
maximum audience participation and minimum time spent on presenting
material)

This conference is brought to you by an international team from different
cultures. The conference venue is suitably located for this theme in the
beautiful Roman city of Lincoln: a city of culture and history crowned with
a Norman castle and Medieval cathedral. The conference is being hosted by
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln - a small, friendly, Higher
Education institution founded in 1862 and set in its own leafy grounds.

http://www.asdreams.org/england07/index.htm

---
- Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox

---

Dream Fires at Vernal Equinox
21st March 19.30- 21.30 p.m.
Danish Association for the Study of Dreams (FFSD)

At vernal equinox day and night are of equal length. Light and darkness
meet, and we move along with Spring into a period of increasing light.

-- From olden times such passages have been important to the culture, to the
inner and outer growth, and to man's attachment to and respect for the
rhythm of the earth.

The Association is intent to reiterate at each vernal equinox this ritual,
which is based on old traditions, renewing it with contemporary meaning.

We shall use our dreams as a portal into the inner world and through the
fire unite with the power of nature. Contacting the dreams and the fires
will create a connection between people on this earth as well as a tangible
and shared network of light and consciousness.

We invite everybody to meet in small or large groups, public or private, on
this particular evening. Or, of course, do it on their own.

We suggest to follow below points so as to create a common reference, thus
intensifying the bond and facilitating the sharing of experiences:

1. Time and date: Wednesday 21st March 19.30 - 21.30 p.m.
2. The participants to gather in groups. If you are alone, you might
visualize the connection to other groups or participants.
3. A fire to be lit, or alternatively a candle symbolizing the fire.
4. The participants to share their dreams around the fire. This can be done
in different ways like e.g. telling the dreams, drawing them or showing
drawings of them. Meditation, songs, dance, and music are other options.
5. Dream incubation. Before the end of the ritual to focus on the dreams of
the coming night. Each individual to visualize the fire before going to
sleep.
6. Reflection. Anybody having the desire and energy to do so, is invited to
share their evening by mailing experiences, thoughts, dreams, drawings, etc.
to the Association.

The material that we receive will be edited and maybe put on our website.

We intend to present our Equinox Dreams Project at the North European Dream
Conference in Lincoln, England next September. The theme of this conference
is Dreams and Culture.

We do hope that the above will inspire you to participate. If you have any
questions, you are welcome to put them to us by mail to mail@...



---
- Berkeley Dream Institute
---

The Dream Institute
1672 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94703
510-845-1767

How to get your name on the Dream Institute newsletter list - call and leave
your name and address at 1-510-845-1767

The year began with a moving and wonderfully successful event-Jacqueline
Thurston presenting, Lana Nasser performing-to bring sacred images from
ancient Egypt to life. We had to turn eager folks away! Suggestions for
future programs are most welcome.

As the featured dream shows, the time for "new wine" is here. Dreams were
recognized by most indigenous and traditional religions as a source of
renewal. "Culture Dreaming" may become one of the new wineskins. The Dream
Institute is the only California venue offering it.

A new series begins this month; if you haven't yet attended, make time to
come to this dynamic event.

NEW - STARTING THIS MONTH

ART & DREAMING Emily Anderson starts Sat Feb 10
This workshop opens the space for one's natural imagination and creativity
to emerge through different art-making processes. Emily Anderson, M.A., is a
multimedia artist and former co-director of the Oakland Art Gallery. Meets
alternating Sat and Thurs: Feb 10 & 22, March 10 & 22, April 14 & 26.
CULTURE DREAMING a new series begins Sat Feb 10 3-5pm
Participate in this exciting new mode of dreaming for social change. After a
brief meditation, we tell dreams as they emerge; we then look at cultural
aspects of the
"big dream" just co-created. Observers welcome.

DREAM GROUP Richard Russo & Meredith Sabini begins Feb 15
An 8-session dream group to meet twice a month on Thursday evenings
beginning Feb 15. See enclosed flyer.


CONTINUING PROGRAMS - OPEN TO ALL

Study Group for CULTURE DREAMING Feb 3 March 3 April 7
This began in January, continues through April. A focused group for those
who've previously attended. To join now, please plan to attend all 3
sessions. Call to reserve.

DREAM STUDIES OPEN FORUM Monday Feb 12 7:30-9:30 pm
Mike Morrison and Kelly Bulkeley (GTU) present, "Caregiving in Time of War:
PTSD and dreaming among military veterans"

DANCE & DREAM Lana Nasser Sunday Feb 18 2-4pm
This class combines Middle Eastern dance movements, breathing exercises,
vocalizing/sound, and visualization to work with dreams in an embodied way.
IASD LECTURE SERIES Wednesday Feb 21 6:30pm, lecture at 7
Dr. Alan Siegel will present. (IASD members & students $10)

JFK DREAM-SHARING Tuesday Feb 27 7-9:30pm
Open to current students and graduates of the Dream Certificate Program.
Hosted by Judy McEnroe.


OFFICE & LIBRARY Open Hours & WORK EXCHANGE
Open Mon, Wed, Fri. Call 3 days ahead if you'd like to come.
Work in the "Wisdom House" 4 hours/month-make copies, stuff and stamp
envelopes to send
out our newsletter in trade for an event or workshop of your choice. Time &
day relatively flexible.

Dream Institute of Northern California EVENTS

DREAMS & TAXES Friday Feb 23 7-9pm refreshments served
What if we reviewed and summarized our year's dream log as we do our
finances? Come and learn ways to creatively survey a year's dreams, which
you can continue at home. You will marvel at the recurring themes that
emerge. Bring your dream journal. Follow-up meeting will be arranged. With
Meredith Sabini.

SPRING EQUINOX RITUAL Sunday March 25 2-4pm
In March, Winter turns to Spring, a time of rebirth. Save this Sunday
afternoon
for live music, storytelling, and dream-sharing around our outdoor firepit.


* * * * *
Call for Art
We are always looking for art from local (Bay Area) artists to display at
Fox Commons Art Gallery, which is housed in The Dream Institute. You can
send slides, or call to bring your work by.

FEBRUARY  Dream Institute Events

18: DANCE & DREAM
Lana Nasser 2-4pm $20

21: IASD Lecture Series
Alan Siegel 6:30pm $15

23: DREAMS & TAXES
Meredith Sabini 7-9pm $25

27: JFK DREAM GROUP
7-9:30pm $10

MARCH

10: ART & DREAMING
Emily Anderson 10am-1pm

12: DREAM STUDIES
OPEN FORUM
7:30-9:30pm $5-15

25: EQUINOX RITUAL
2-4pm $10-20




* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *


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- Dream Videophile has Dream Movies
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Interested in films with dream-themes? Deirdre Barrett, PhD and others have
reviewed dozens of films and have them listed and reviewed. Join the
dream-movie craze and see them all!

http://www.asdreams.org/videofil.htm


* * * REMINDERS * * *


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-  Dreams Studies - What to help?
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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of the amazing realm
of dreams through participation as a subject!   Do you qualify?  See the
IASD Bulletin Board for a list of research projects looking for subjects.

http://www.asdreams.org/research/research_idx.htm


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- Various calendars
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html

International Association for the Study of Dreams
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=1851


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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Cover : "Stan's Maddox Effect Portal"
          Caroling Geary

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Caroling Geary read Stan Kulikowski's dream, the "Maddox Effect", (see below
for reprint)  on the DreamShare list. Inspiring! She wrote, " ... this is a
plan." She saw it as an evolutionary technology or ritual and responded to
the need to visualize the geometry of the planets in a poster with the
horoscope. She channeled the graphic as she would work on her own dream,
letting it flow without preconceived ideas of the result. In imagination,
she went into the dream, stepped on the ferry, and experienced the portal
rift. The top part of the graphic is the finding of elements and the bottom
part finding the alignment. Later she asked, "could the dream be showing you
a chart where working with magnetic energies would be enhanced?"

Caroling explains her dream background on her website: wholeo.net.
See http://www.wholeo.net/Trips/Art/MR/dreamJournal.htm.
Her works are Copyright 2007 Caroling, wholeo.net. All rights reserved. You
may copy them for non-commercial use, if you use this attribution.


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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Steve Parker Goes W.I.L.D.!
(c) Lucy Gillis 2007

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The heart and soul of The Lucid Dream Exchange is its lucid dreamers. From
their first-hand accounts, readers can learn a lot about the lucid dreaming
phenomena. This month, Steve Parker shares his experiences with the W.I.L.D.

technique.

Steve Parker Goes W.I.L.D.!

Editor's Note: A "W.I.L.D" is a "Wake Initiated Lucid Dream"; a dream in
which the dreamer enters the dream state consciously, without first falling
asleep. The term "W.I.L.D." became popularized after it appeared in Stephen
LaBerge's ground-breaking book, "Lucid Dreaming". See this book for further
information.

I have been trying the W.I.L.D. technique. I was able to obtain very vivid
dreams with this technique. I finally became lucid using the W.I.L.D. (I
only have time to try it on the weekends. During the week I have to get up
at 4:00 a.m. every morning for work. On the weekends I sleep in. It is a
great time to try the W.I.L.D. technique.)

Sunday August 13 2006 7:00 a.m.

Several times I have tried the W.I.L.D. technique. Usually I try the
technique in the afternoon or after a good night's sleep. I wait for the
images to pass by. I then try to catch onto an image. When I do this I keep
repeating "I am dreaming". A couple of times this sent me immediately into
very vivid dreams. I was getting close but not quite lucid.

The Sunday morning after a lot of sleep I tried the W.I.L.D. technique. I
saw images go by and almost fell completely asleep. I tried to keep my
consciousness awake. In a half-sleep state I was able to grasp an image. I
saw grass below my feet. I said "I am dreaming" and the image became more
clear. When I realized I was becoming lucid because of the W.I.L.D.
technique I almost woke up. I kept repeating, "I am dreaming". This kept me
lucid.

I then suddenly stepped into this image and found myself in a lucid dream
environment. I was walking down my street. It was daytime and I was looking
at the front lawns of my neighbors. The dream environment was very
realistic. As I was walking down the sidewalk enjoying the summer day I
decided it should snow. Snowflakes started falling and soon the sidewalk was
covered in snow.

I then decided there should be a strong wind blowing against me. A very
strong wind blew up out of nowhere and it was hard to even take a step
forward. I decided it should become hurricane strength. The wind
intensified. I decided to fly up into the air and let the wind take me. I
floated up and the wind took me sailing away. I swooped up and down, my nose
coming inches from the pavement. I was not worried and was enjoying this
great sensation. I could feel the wind and how powerful it was. I was able
to keep this going for a while and had a lot of control of this lucid
experience.

After awhile it became a vivid dream. While in this vivid dream I became
lucid again. I started floating again. I then woke up.

I found in this W.I.L.D. induced lucid dream that I was in more control of
my dream environment. In clarity and other aspects it was not any greater
than other lucid dreams. If you are taking a nap or oversleeping this is
definitely a quick way to become lucid. Do not try hard, and allow your mind
to relax. Keep repeating "I am dreaming" and grasp that image and do not let
it pass by.

Here is another example of a W.I.L.D. attempt and what appears to work for
me.

Sunday August 20 2006 8:00 a.m.

I have had a very good nights' sleep. I am lying in bed very relaxed. I
start drifting off repeating, "I am dreaming". I can now see my hands. I am
observing them. I am lucid. I have used the W.I.L.D. technique. I now shift
to another image. I am looking down on a huge city. It may be a map. The
city is in 3D. Each building stands out clearly. The W.I.L.D. technique is
working. I now say "I am dreaming". I feel the rush of wind as I separate
from my sleeping body. At this moment I wake up. It is disappointing to wake
up now. I was ready to enter my W.I.L.D. lucid image.

In this state of alpha sleep it is easy to wake up. W.I.L.D. seems to work
best when you are relaxing after a good nights' sleep, or trying to take an
afternoon nap. I find it does not matter what position you are lying in as
along as you are comfortable. Also you feel your body is warm but not hot.
Now you let your mind relax and drift into a light sleep. At this time you
will find yourself in dream clips that do not last very long. While in these
dream clips keep repeating, "I am dreaming". Your mind is still awake. Upon
studying a dream image remind yourself that you are dreaming. This helps to
put you into the dream that you are observing. The trick now is not to wake
up while you are aware that you are dreaming. Hold onto the lucid dream and
do not panic. Now you can enjoy a lucid dream.


W.I.L.D. WITHIN A VIVID: A brief lucid experience. It is interesting in only
that I was able to conjure up a "W.I.L.D." while dreaming.

Monday October 23 2006 a.m.

I am having a vivid dream of an amateur boxing tournament. They want me to
officiate. I do not mind since I used to officiate amateur boxing for nine
years. I do not have my referee uniform. It is okay, they will allow me to
wear my street clothes. I walk over to my judging chair. I sit down and look
around. I do not recognize anyone here, which is unusual. I relax, as there
is some time yet to the first bout. I decide to close my eyes and see if I
can initiate a W.I.L.D. It works. A large wooden house appears before me in
great detail. I now say "I am dreaming". I approach the house and get closer
and closer. I know I am lucid in this W.I.L.D. experiment but I cannot hang
onto it. I now wake up.

Happy lucid dreaming,
Steve


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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

February 2007
Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights
When the Mirror is Not Enough

Jean Campbell and Joy Fatooh

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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

February 2007

Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights When the Mirror is Not Enough

Jean Campbell and Joy Fatooh

I was wondering how to communicate in this month's View From the Bridge the
response that came to last month's very stressful communication on The World
Dreams Peace Bridge about the execution of Saddam Hussein.  How could I say
that the response was, for many, to return again to the image of the child?
My question was answered with this spontaneous, poetic, summary from Peace
Bridge member Joy Fatooh.

Reflections from the Full-Moon Nights when the Mirror is Not Enough

Anna to the Bridge:
"The images of a Baby in so many dreams have made me notice that a Baby is
the blessed mingling of 2 very different beings - something New, of each
one, yet unto itself. Maybe as we continue to share with one
another our deepest longings - who knows what new life we will create? So
important that we do - from Love, in its deepest, highest, most intense
expressions."

Rita to the Bridge:
"The way I related to the baby in your dream (which was not at all what it
had to say to you yet was a gift to me) found its way in a dream of mine
last night - as I was dreaming with Joy - I was looking in the
mirror at myself when I was in my early 20's - after a long dream that
reflected my courage and my faith - and told myself how much I loved
myself."

David to the Bridge:
"That sounds like an amazing dream. I really enjoy dreams of mirrors. It is
so interesting to see what is reflected back to you, and love for yourself
is about as good as it gets. Thank you for sharing."

Rita to Joy:
"all I remember... is the end scene where I am looking at myself in the
mirror and find that I love myself very deeply and at the same time Chip
[the cat] is waking me up and licking my face:)) I wake up light and happy."

Joy to Rita:
"Connecting with the mirror fragments in my dream, and my waking up light
and happy.... Now why did my mirrors cover multiple containers of food? Many
opportunities for self-nourishment beneath the protective
cover of self-love? So cold, though! - all floating in cold water. Needed to
be warmed."

Ken to the Bridge:
"Hi Victoria, sorry to hear you are feeling that way about the romance side
of life, hope things turn around for you ( big full moon out there and as I
look at it the words 'wait for Henry' keep coming to mind, might be nonsense
but ya never know! When the right chemistry is there everything will go well
for you i'm sure."

Joy to Rita:
"Gradually lost recall while I lay between waking/writing and drifting back
to sleep - all I recall is having access to a big compartmented stainless
steel thing as if in a restaurant kitchen that has multiple wells for
prepared ingredients, ready to be used, floating in their liquids; one would
expect the wells to be rectangular but they're parallelogram-shaped, and
covered with parallelogram fragments of broken mirror than simply rest atop
the foodstuffs, tofu and mushrooms and so on, pale and wet and cold to
touch. Later while drifting the association 'while Suzanne holds the
mirror,' last line of a song I'd been thinking
of, comes drifting in....

Joy to the full moon, same moon shining on us all:

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
...

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/album1.html#0

(editor - including link to Suzanne lyrics, I'm not sure they aren't
copyrighted - RC )

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water.

...And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

...for the tune, history and commentary http://www.globalpoet.com/cohen.htm
which maybe answers, what has all this to do with peace?

Leonard Cohen quoting Irving Layton:
"A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those
deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order,
you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the consolumentum, the kiss
of peace."

Joy to Rita:
"Felt myself waking - looked up and found myself in the pale blue sky in the
presence of the Sun and the Moon, and that was enough! I rose up toward
them, and woke."

The Moon is the mirror of the Sun and reflects its light with serene
impartiality over all the world. The Moon is the mirror of all who look up
at it and wonder who else is looking at it now.

...sometimes one must indulge in reflective poetics before starting work in
the morning! Anyone who has read this far was in the mood to do so; bless
you all,

Love,
Joy



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Dream: Maddox Effect
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  :  17 jan 2007  10:20
DREAM :  maddox effect

=( yesterday was a tuesday.  it was cold and overcast all day, but i got to
the university for my daily exercise and back without getting rained on
much.  i got some groceries and fixed dinner as usual.  i listened to some
music CDs and then mother's television programs at least were not reruns.  i
got to bed around midnight and went right to sleep.  )=

i have been living in mexico city since the fall of civilization.
with the decline and loss of various central services there is a certain
sense of independence developing in everyone.  government and political
activities were the first to fail, then broadcast entertainment and
satellite communications.  hospitals closed in the united states because
doctors and medical technicians were unable or unwilling to work without the
comfortable profits they took from their traffic in human suffering.
transportation became unreliable when the fuel supply broke down.  the
electrical grid was one of the last major services to collapse, taking with
it the last feeling of cooperative security.

many of the third world developing countries were slower in their decline,
not having so far to fall, and so i came to live in mexico city.  i could
struggle with the language but eventually got enough fluency to get by.

the last weekend of each month i attend the meetings of the local club of
the macintosh paranormal users.  we attend lectures and demonstrations
devoted to a mixture of computer technology and occult themes.  such as, how
to keep the batteries on laptops charged with hand cranked personal
generators, or the manufacture of candles to illuminate hidden messages from
angels.  this club meets at a conference facility outside of the city, and i
usually get a ride with another member who lives on the edge of town.

i go to the catholic church to meet him.  there is a garden of statues
devoted to various saints that i must cross before i climb down the steep
sides of a grotto.  at the bottom i find him waiting as usual in his van
which he somehow manages to keep supplied with petrol.  it looks like a
volkswagon van, but its body has been modified with strange features.  he
sits up front in the driver's seat with a steering wheel as expected, but to
start the engine he must stroke several cylinders on the dashboard until the
vehicle begins to purr then the engine fires up.  he must convince the
machine to take us where we want to go.

we ride a few kilometers through empty fields and vacant groves.
most of the agricultural activites continue but only on a level for local
consumption which requires less time and fewer laborers.  soon we come to a
forested mountain.  a small village about half way up is where the
convention center is found.

once inside, i see that there are fewer attending the meeting than there was
last month.  this drop of participation is to be expected as more and more
of the technical equipment that we possess becomes inoperative.  that is
part of the reason why arcane processes have been added to our activities as
these are the replacement when engineering fails.  if this pattern of
attendence continues the club will cease its activities later in the year.

one of the members gives a demonstration on how to repair a CD ROM drive
from a common failure that has developed when playing disks with a certain
format.  another speaks on how to detect gremlins who are attracted to some
forms of computer networking.  the backbone of the internet broke long ago
with the failure of the satellites, but some of us continue to use local
area networks in corporate buildings, or, in my case, my house.  my friend
who drove me here today talks on the maddox effect which is some use of
magnetism to influence celestial forces during certain astrologic events.  i
do not follow much of his presentation because i have trouble visualizing
the geometry of the planets as he speaks too quickly.

i sit in the back of the room as usual.  there are several other members of
the club's governing board who greet me.  i was once on the planning
committees and some of them remember me.

when the meeting is over, we return to mexico city in the van.  my friend
has brought a couple others back with us.  when we pass through the small
village on the mountain side, i can see that he had found time to put up
some posters about the maddox effect.  one of them has a horoscope showing
the alignment of planets which would have been useful during his lecture if
he had displayed it.

when we get back to the catholic church on the edge of the city, i thank him
for the ride and remind him that if he ever needs my help with vehicle
maintenance, i would be glad to be of assistance.  i have many tools which i
know how to use.  he tells me that he does need a new cup head starter
motor, but i do not have one anymore.

as i depart to go back home, i get the feeling that something is not right
with the sunlight and gravity of this place.  whenever i leave him, i must
use the symbolic ferry in the middle of the statue yard beside the basilica.
it is a small flat top boat in a pool which floats on the water for only a
meter or two to the other side.  you are expected to give a coin for charity
to the nun operating the ferry when we reach the other side.  i think that
during this short ride the sky changes.  i look up at the sun through the
cloud cover but i can not detect any obvious shift in its appearance.  if i
were here on a starry night, i could probably tell when the dimensional
shift happens.  somehow, the paranormal club is not part of this planet any
longer and i have found a way to attend using an unknown portal rift in the
church yard.

=( awake at 09:30.  i have never been to mexico city.  i did have a VW van
for a few years when i lived in amherst.  i am currently a member of the
pensacola macintosh users club which meets once a month to discuss things
related to apple computers.  it is a good source for assistance in trouble
shooting problems which most repair shops do not support.  i was also a
member of a UFO society that met in gulf breeze a few years ago, but they
have disbanded mainly due to personality conflicts of the leadership.  these
two experiences seem to have combined in this dream.  much of this content
seems directed by others outside myself and i am just going along trying to
make the best of the situation.  my unnamed friend drives the van, others
give lectures, and a nun operates the strange ferry ride while all around us
the social structure of the world is falling apart.  this may be just an
assessment of my current situation because if it portends that i should take
a more active role in my fate, i do not see where such effort should be
directed.  i would naturally lean toward science and technology for any
rational solution, but those seem to be the processes that are failing while
the paranormal and superstition take over.  i doubt i would very happy in a
world where this inversion happens, but this dream seems to suggest that i
could at least survive even if i did not control my progress through it.  )=

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Introducing the Dream
DreamRePlay
David Jenkins, PhD

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When someone says "Tell me your dream," you rarely begin with the actual
dream. Before delving into the plot, the drama and the details, you usually
start with an introduction. Although seemingly a formality, introductions
actually hold important cues about the dream.
Various Introductions


"I've only got a fragment"
"You won't believe this dream"
"This dream happened the night my boyfriend and I had a fight"
"This is a very boring dream"

The introduction might be as short as a sentence. It might be longer than
the entire dream. For example, identifying a particular character in the
dream might become a larger task than describing the dream.

Introductions tell you when or where the dream occurred--"Tuesday night" or
"At my uncle's."

Sometimes they prejudge the dream--"It's not very important."

Occasionally they issue a challenge--"You'll never be able to interpret this
one."

The introduction can be a comparison--"Everyone's had the dream where. . . "
or "No one has ever had a dream like this one."

Quite often, the introduction apologizes for the dream--"All I can remember
is. . . " or "It's only a snippet."

The Importance of Dream Introductions

I realized how important the introduction can be when I was telling my own
dream in one of my groups. Like so many other people I said, without
thinking, "It's only a fragment."

At that moment I knew that I was apologizing for the dream.

I have heard thousands of dreams and I know that, at the start, the dreamer
has little idea what adventure might be in store. But here I was, trying to
forestall any surprises, to put some spin on my own dream.

Underneath, I had two very different worries. Firstly, that everyone would
be bored stiff; that no one would have anything to say about this worthless
dream. Secondly, I hoped that the dream might help me with a particular
waking problem, but I didn't want to feel disappointed if that didn't
happen.

Knowing that I had both high and low expectations of this dream work helped
me understand the dream better.

I realized that the introduction to the dream is part of the dream work and
a valuable asset. An introduction can do three things: it orients the
dreamer, it orients the audience, and it shapes expectations.


What to Do with an Introduction
Exactly how the introduction is incorporated into the dream work depends on
the particular situation. Here are some examples.

This dream happened when I was staying at my brother's. I dreamed I was on a
boat in a lake. Suddenly there was a storm and I had no way of getting back
to the shore.

Her brother was not in the dream but he was present in the introduction.
Therefore it's legitimate to bring her brother's perspective into the
dreamwork. The dreamer should imagine the dream as though he had witnessed
her on the boat in these difficulties. It will be immediately obvious to her
whether or not her brother is an ally when she is in trouble.

I can't believe anyone could have this dream. I dreamed that the toilet was
overflowing and there was mess all around. I was disgusted.

The dreamer needs to know that bathroom dreams are quite common.

This is just a snippet. I dreamed that an elephant was eating a mouse.

The dreamer downplays the importance of the dream by referring to it as a
"snippet." Perhaps it is unimportant and perhaps not.

I love this dream. I dreamed that a brand new animal had just come into
existence. Everyone was crowded around, admiring it. The animal was so
pleased to be alive. It loved all the attention.

That's a great dream and the introduction is consistent with the dream.

I already know what this dream means. I dreamed that my mother gave me a
silver platter.

I would take the dreamer at her word and not try to offer any
interpretation. She simply wants to announce something to the world.

Conclusion

The introduction is not part of the dream but it is part of the dream work.
Sometimes, you'll find the introduction contains the key to the entire
dream.


  DIAL-IN DREAM GROUPS
Whether you live far away or close by, a phone group allows you to get a
sense of dream work in a very convenient way. With this new work, I hope to
communicate the pleasure and the excitement of dream work to many people.


Day: Monday January 26th
Time: 5pm-6pm Pacific Daylight Time
Dial-in Number: 620-782-2200 (Kansas)
Access Code: 707172#


DREAM GROUPS

The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince Street
in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and Telegraph. Please
let me know if you are coming.

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Best wishes


David Jenkins
Dream RePlay


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Smiling lobsters with human teeth, a water bottle sitting inside the
stomach, and people aging a thousand years in just three seconds.another
dream section of the Electric Dreams magazine from Kat Peters-Midland!



Dream title: My Son
Dream date: 1/4/07
Dreamer name: firewolf
Dream text: I am in some type of school and am married to a handsome young
white man. We have a beautiful baby boy, and he looks white, but has my big
brown eyes.  Even in the dream, the impossible love I feel for my son burns
bright in my heart until it's almost unbearable. My husband storms in the
room with our son, in his arms. He is furious. Apparently someone insulted
my son for having a biracial mother (me). The next day I go into some school
office. I am scared and angry. I have lost my baby. And for hours I roam
helplessly looking for him. Close to tears. But then as if by magic a crowd
separates and there is my baby. And once again I am overwhelmed by the love
I feel for him.
Dream comments: I'm 15.


Dream title: none given
Dream date: none given
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamt that a spirit left out my body.  When it came back in,
I felt cold.  I could talk but no one can hear me.  There was a body above
me, wrapped in a sheet.  I couldn't see the face.  Then the spirit came back
in me and then I could move again.
Dream comments: none



Dream title: Crustaceans with canines
Dream date: 12/29/06
Dreamer name: Allie
Dream text: There were lobsters in my friend's yard.  She lives on a farm,
and the lobsters were frolicking in an empty field.  The lobsters were
smiling at me, and I came to realize that they had human teeth.
Dream comments: none


Dream title: Water Bottle
Dream date: 12/21/06
Dreamer name: rickets
Dream text: There was a water bottle inside of my stomach and I couldn't get
it out.
Dream comments: none


Dream title: recurring dream:
Dream date: march 2005-til now most nights
Dreamer name: brown_eyed_girl07
Dream text: I'm in this huge house-like building and there I a lot of stairs
and doors  I have my 2 sons with me and we're running away from something;
we are climbing these stairs that seems like forever.  Then we go through a
door which leads out to a stage with an audience, so we run right across the
stage that leads us out to this net-like thing.  We have to climb across and
my youngest son who's 5 gets stuck. Then he finally gets free and we hide in
this dingy room that's dark.
Dream comments:  I have the same dream all the time.

Dream title: Flying
Dream date: 1/22/07
Dreamer name: narmen
Dream text: I was falling from a cliff but then I started flying up.  I did
not fall.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: thousand years ahead
Dream date: 10.12.2006
Dreamer name: karben
Dream text: A girl and I stand in a room, maybe my home. Then I get close to
the girl and we both stand in front of a mirror. Another mirror appears
behind us, so there was a doubling-holographic effect.  We see each other
thousand times. Then nearly at the same moment we begin to age for thousand
years, so we look like grandma and grandpa in 3 seconds. This scares me and
I wake up.
Dream comments: This felt very real so it scares me a lot to get old in such
a short time. I did practice some lucid dreaming but this dream was out of
my control, maybe it means something.









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++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Cover : Electric Dreaming 2007
            Richard Wilkerson

  ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
             Lucid Dreaming and the Afterlife
             Lucy Gillis

++ Column: The View - World Dreams Peace Bridge
            Saddam's Execution Sparks Conversation
            on the Peace Bridge
            Jean Campbell

++ Article: Guide for Dream Group Facilitation
             Earl Koteen

++ Dream:  "Law of Karma"
            Stan Kulikowski II

++ Column: Free Association: Loosen Your Mind In 2007
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ DREAM SECTION: From December Dreams


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Welcome to the January 2007 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 seem 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

Please note the Jan 31st Deadline for early discount registration for the
2007 Sonoma IASD International Conference (June 28-July3).
www.asdreams.org/2007

Dreaming and dreamwork in 2007, what does this mean? I keep thinking about a
reporter a hundred years from now looking back through early Internet
archives and finding this issue. What is the state of dreaming and dreamwork
at this point in history?
The term "dreamwork" now clearly means working with dreams, rather than just
its original meaning of being worked on by dreams (Freud's dream-work).
  The International Association for the Study of Dreams continues to support
both hard science research and experimental dreamwork. IASD is also
extending outreach more globally and has officers now representing different
parts of the globe. Organizations that want affiliation with IASD can now
join as an organization. There are a half dozen or so semi-major schools of
dreamwork that are trying to raise their status to accredited institutions,
and a couple of graduate schools now offer advanced certificates and
education in dreams. The Jungians, the old guard of dreamwork as working
with dreams, continue to hold their own in local chapters supporting
psychotherapy in major cities, though they haven't gotten into mainstream
educational institutions with much success in the USA.  There are a few
dream related magazines available and a professional, peer reviewed journal
dedicated to dreams.

  More relevant to Electric Dreams readers and online dreaming, there is a
wide variety of dreamwork now available online. Some early groups, like the
DreamWheel dreamsharing online groups continue, and the DreamShare group is
still in operation after nearly a decade, and that community continues its
mutual support.
  But the largest quantity of online dream sharing occurs more spontaneously
between individuals and groups that want to get together for a short time
and exchange their dreams. Free e-discussion groups can be created
spontaneously, as well as cheaper phone connections, both analog and
digital, text messaging "quickie" dream groups and group cam meetings.
This has created a kind of candy-story effect. The intensity of the few
half-dozen or so dreamgroups in the '90s has been distributed over a wider
variety of dream sharing venues, including dream videos, internet radio,
cell phone groups and many other devices. The trend seems to be towards the
integration of dream sharing into everyday life, even if the only thing that
people do with their dreams is share them and then laugh or say, "isn't that
interesting?"
  Early experimental dream sharing has become more sophisticated as well, as
we have seen in the World Dreams Peace Bridge, where shared dreams become
the community food for nurturing international projects and services to
mankind.
Conference and discussion venues have become more sophisticated as well.
IASD has been providing an annual online conference on the latest and most
fantastic ideas in dreaming through the PsiberDreaming Conference, as well
as contests, art galleries and other activities.
   Overall, 2007 looks like a very creative year for dreamsharing in
cyberspace, and I hope as you find or create projects online you will share
them with Electric Dreams readers.

In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...

Lucid Dream Exchange editor contributes an article she wrote on the views of
afterlife gained through lucid dreaming, and how you can continue to deepen
and explore this mystery of all mysteries in your own lucid dreaming. Lucy
Gillis draws upon both Western and Eastern traditions for help in solving
this enigma in "Lucid Dreaming and the Afterlife."

One of Electric Dreams earliest members, Earl Koteen, has been studying
dreamwork and promoting dream groups for decades.  Earl returns this month
with an outline for group leaders interested in developing solid techniques
and successful groups in "Guide for Dream Group Facilitation."

Stan Kulikowski II is back this month with his unique style of dream
journaling, the selection this month called "Law of Karma"  If you would
like to submit dreams for publication, please use the dream entry form at

Free association was on of the earliest techniques for releasing the secret
of dreams. DreamRePlay creator, David Jenkins, PhD explores the many sides
of association and we can move past right and wrong thinking to a whole new
world non-judgmental living.  Be sure to read "Loosen Your Mind In 2007."

Cutting of one's left hand, getting felt up, getting hit by the football,
abandoned without food and water, getting puked on - is this the Emergency
Room at General Hospital? No, it's the Electric Dreams Dream Section for
January 2007!
Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

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

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.

Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Dreams received for the Planetary Dream 2006
- Lotus Dream website

Physical world:
- IASD News: Radio Show
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe

Books, movies, research:
- Ashtiany: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
- Szpakowska: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
- Applications of Lucid Dreaming

Reminders:
- Pregnancy Dreams Study
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online?

Three animated nightmares, a Very clever mix of animated dreams while
dreamer narrates, with information between the sequences:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7QBo2a4hQ

The Red Blanket scence from the Science of Sleep:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo7kN0uNMI

The Dream Cube. A mysterious cube brings dreams to life:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo7kN0uNMI

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.

Richard Wilkerson


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Hello Dreamers!

The received dreams for the Planetary dream 06 have been put on the Oniros
site: 15 participants.

See: www.oniros.fr/dreams06.html

Your corrections, commentaries, illustrations and interpretations are
welcomed.

Thanks to the participants and a happy new year 2007 :-)

Best dreaming and waking states regards,

The webmaster
Roger Ripert


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- Lotus Dream website
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Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D., a researcher and author on dreams in the Chicago area,
now has a new news and information site about dreams and dreaming. Jacquie
is also the E-News editor for the International Association for the Study of
Dreams.

http://lotusdream.org/index.htm



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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IASD is excited to announce "Dream Time," an Internet radio program. This
new show will focus on IASD's support of dream studies and dreamwork and
will aired be on Modavox's VoiceAmericaT Health & Wellness Channel You can
also listen through a link from the IASD, DreamScience.org. The show will be
hosted by IASD Past President and Executive Officer, Bob Hoss. Beginning
February 14, 2007 and broadcasting each Wednesday at 9am Pacific (Noon
Eastern), the show will air with a rebroadcast 12 hours later.

www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org

IASD member Layne Dalfen was interviewed in an article "Nightmare Turned
into Dream Job," which appeared in the Montreal's Gazette on December 16,
2006. To read the article visit: http://tinyurl.com/y5slja

The publishers of The Dream Book: A Young Person's Guide to Understanding
Dreams, by Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. Co-founder and President (1998-9) of
IASD, are printing a second edition. The book also previously won the 2002
Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award.

The IASD website: www.asdreams.org

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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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January 16, 2007 THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (Martin Luther King)
January 23, 2007 IN THE BEGINNING: CREATION MYTH (New Year)
January 30, 2007 THE SHADOW (Groundhog Day)
February 6, 2007 THE TREE OF LIFE: AXIS MUNDI (Arbor Day / Tu B'shevat)

Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com

Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@...



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Ashtiany: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
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Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
by Serpil Bagci, Olga M. Davidson, Yehoshua Frenkel, Rotraud E. Hansberger,
Hagar Kahana-Smilansky, Jonathan G. Katz, Leah Kinberg, John C. Lamoreaux,
Mohammad J. Mahallati, Eric Ormsby, Sholeh A. Quinn, Khalid Sindawi, Mohsen
Ashtiany (Editor)

Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the Near East and North
Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed them with a theological dimension,
saying that after him "true dreams" would be the only channel for prophecy.
Dreams were often used to support conflicting theological and political
arguments, and the local chronicles contain many accounts of royal dreams
justifying the advent of new dynasties.

This volume explores the context of these theological speculations and
political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating
insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its
cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete
examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De
divinatione per somnum. Some of the current scholarly assumptions about
dreams being merely stylized expressions of social conventions are
challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities,
self-awareness, and spiritual development.

This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and Traditions. The
series explores cross-cultural constructs without losing sight of the rich
texture of local variations of traditions or beliefs.

www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ASHDRE.html


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- Szpakowska: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
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Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
by Kasia Szpakowska

Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as
recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume eminent
international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across
a wide period.

Table of contents:

- The Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & Middle Kingdom (John
Baines);
- The End is Near (Leonard Lesko);
- Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" (Maria Costanza Centrone);
- The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and Flint in Pharaonic
Egypt (Carolyn Graves-Brown);
- Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature (Alan B
Lloyd);
- Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian Dream Exegesis from a
Comparative Perspective (Scott Noegel);
- In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Daniel Ogden);
- Sinuhe's Dream (Richard B Parkinson);
- A black cat from right, and a scarab on your head: New sources for Ancient
Egyptian Divination (Joachim Quack);
- The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg (John Ray);
- 'and each staff transformed into a snake' The Serpent Wand in Egyptian
Magic (Robert K Ritner);
- A Lost Dream Episode (Anthony J Spalinger);
- Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday (Kasia Szpakowska);
- Entangled or Connected: The power of knots and knotting in Ancient Egypt
(Willemina Wendrich).

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/60945?/Location/Oxbow


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- Applications of Lucid Dreaming
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Daniel Erlacher requests your help with an online survey on applications of
lucid dreaming. The survey comes in three languages: German, English, and
Dutch. Look for the language links at the top of the page.

http://experiment.klartraum.de



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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of the amazing realm
of dreams through participation in a short study on dreams during pregnancy!

The search is on for any woman who is pregnant, or man who is expecting a
child and is willing to offer a written account of a dream that they have
had during that time. The only participation required for the study is a
signed consent form and the dream write up. All info will be entirely
confidential, and the dreams will only be identified as from a man or a
woman, age, and trimester. Both consent form and dream write up can be sent
over email so the process is quick and easy. If you have any questions, or
if you or somebody you know may be interested in participating please email.

Marena Koukis
dreaming@...


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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and dreamwork.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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Lucid Dreaming and the Afterlife
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"If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose ourselves every night,
what chance do we have to be aware when death comes?. . . Look to your
experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your
experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."
Tenzin Yangal Rinpoche


What happens when we die? Where do we go? Do we go anywhere? What will it be
like? If my body is dead, how will I be able to see or hear? Will I be able
to see or hear?

It was questions like these that occupied the mind of an ancient physician,
over 1500 years ago. He found his answers, not in his religion, not in the
science of his time, but in a more intimate and immediate way. He received
his answer in a dream - a lucid dream. In fact, this particular dream is the
first written report of a lucid dream in recorded history. The dream was
found within the letters of St. Augustine, a Christian philosopher and
priest.
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In 415 A.D. St. Augustine wrote a letter to a priest by the name of Evodius,
in which he described the dream experiences of Gennadius, a physician from
Carthage. Gennadius, disturbed by doubts as to whether there was life after
physical death, had two dreams. In the first he was visited by a youth "of
remarkable appearance and commanding presence" who demanded that he follow
him. Gennadius did so and was led to a city where he could hear singing "so
exquisitely sweet" and unlike anything he had ever heard before. He asked
his guide what the music was, and was told, "it is the hymn of the blessed
and the holy." At this point Gennadius woke, believing the experience to be
nothing more than just a dream.

However, the next night, as he dreamed again, his young guide of the
previous night returned and asked Gennadius if he recognized him. Gennadius
replied "Certainly!" Then the youth asked him where they had met, but
Gennadius could not remember, though he did correctly recall and describe
the event of their meeting and what had occurred.

The young guide then asked Gennadius if the events he just described took
place in sleep or in wakefulness.  Gennadius replied, "In sleep," to which
the youth responded with "You remember it well; it is true that you saw
these things in sleep, but I would have you know that even now you are
seeing in sleep." The youth continued, "Where is your body now?" Gennadius
answered "in my bed." (Gennadius was then lucid; aware he was dreaming,
while his body slept in his bed.)

The youth pressed on; "Do you know that the eyes in this body of yours are
now bound and closed, and that with these eyes you are seeing nothing?" "I
know it," answered Gennadius. The guide then asked, "What then are the eyes
with which you see me?" To this, Gennadius could not respond, he did not
know the answer. The young guide then provided him with answers he had been
seeking in his waking life:

"As while you are asleep and lying on your bed these eyes of your body are
now unemployed and doing nothing, and yet you have eyes with which you
behold me, and enjoy this vision, so after your death, while your bodily
eyes shall be wholly inactive, there shall be in you a life by which you
shall live, and a faculty of perception by which you shall still perceive.
Beware, therefore, after this of harboring doubts as to whether the life of
man shall continue after death."

According to St. Augustine, "This believer says that by this means all
doubts as to the matter were removed from him." Gennadius had awakened,
satisfied with his answer, and didn't doubt the existence of life after
death again.

Gennadius's "youth of remarkable countenance" or "dream guide" is not the
only one to compare the dreamstate to the afterlife. For thousands of years,
Tibetan Buddhists practicing "dream yoga" have been instructed in various
degrees of (what Westerners refer to as) lucid dreaming as a means of
increasing their awareness on the path to enlightenment. Dream Yoga was
developed to help train the practitioner to achieve enlightenment during
sleep so that at the time of death, he would be prepared for the death
bardo's. In the Tibetan language, the word "bardo" refers to an interval
between two events.  In the case of the death bardo's, the intervals are
between death and rebirth.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, ("Bardo Thodol") describes three bardos that
the deceased will encounter after death.  In these realms of existence the
deceased will meet with experiences that are the result of his own "inner
manifestations"; just like dreaming, these manifestations are projections
originating from his mind.

If he does not recognize them as projections, he can become trapped within
them, believing them to be reality.  Unable to attain enlightenment from
this stage, he will pass to the bardo of rebirth, to begin the cycle of life
and death again.

However, if he can recognize the projections as being manifestations of his
own mind, and can detach from them, then he has a better chance of achieving
enlightenment, after which he will no longer need to be reborn. Here is
where the practice of lucidity within dream yoga becomes important:

"The lucidity experience . . . assists in understanding the unreality of
phenomena, which otherwise, during dream or the death experience, might be
overwhelming."
Michael Katz, Editor, Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light

With dream lucidity, the practitioner learns to recognize that all around
him is a dream, an illusion. He then learns to detach emotionally from the
dream, thereby reducing the likelihood of creating more illusory imagery.
Though lucid dreaming is viewed as a necessary stage of development in dream
yoga, to the Tibetan Buddhists, achieving lucidity in dreams is not the
ultimate goal. It is merely a step along path to enlightenment, it is not
enlightenment itself.

Besides the dream state being like the death bardos, dream yogis claim that
the stages of consciousness experienced during the sleep cycle resemble the
stages of consciousness experienced when dying. Since we sleep and dream
every night, we have the opportunity to learn to consciously observe our
sleep cycle and to become more familiar with these stages of consciousness.
According to Rob Nairn, author of Living, Dreaming, Dying:

"We can have a trial run at death every single night when we go to sleep.
We can begin training to fall asleep consciously and to dream lucidly.  The
process of falling asleep parallels the process of dying, while dreams
parallel the bardo of death."

Of course, you do not necessarily have to be a Buddhist-in-training, or one
awaiting divine intervention, to learn about the after-death condition in
the dream state.

From 1964 until her death in 1986 author Jane Roberts channeled Seth,
"an energy essence personality no longer focused in physical reality" or,
one who was "as dead as it gets" (as he called himself). It was Seth who
coined the now much-used phrase "You create your own reality." Seth's main
message is that consciousness creates reality and that individually we each
create our own personal realities based upon our beliefs, thoughts, and
emotions.

Seth spoke on numerous other topics as well, including extensive information
on dreams and death. When asked what happens when we die he replied that
there is no specific answer as to what happens immediately after death,
because each individual is unique with his or her own personal beliefs and
expectations, and as our beliefs shape our experience of everyday living
reality, they will also serve to structure our experiences in the after
death state as well.

Like the Tibetan Buddhists, and Gennadius's dream guide, Seth also maintains
that the dreamstate is similar to the state of existence the deceased will
encounter after death. He too, suggests that getting familiar with your own
dreams can help prepare you for the immediate after-death condition.

"In sleep and dream states you are involved in the same dimension of
existence in which you will have your after-death experiences. . . .
Therefore, the best way to become acquainted with after death reality before
hand, so to speak, is to explore and understand the nature of your own
dreaming self."
Seth

According to Seth, in the after-death state there is an almost infinite
number of things you can do. You can visit with already deceased friends and
relatives, go into the past, travel what seems to be great distances in an
instant, review your former life, review past lives, plan your next life,
move on to other dimensions of reality, and much more. He insists there are
always guides to help you out. No one is alone, but if you strongly do not
believe in an afterlife, or in helpful guidance awaiting you there, it may
take some time before you become aware of your condition or aware of any
helpers to assist you. But you will eventually become aware.

Texts on Tibetan Buddhism, dream yoga, and the Seth books go into much
deeper explanations and descriptions of the after death state. This article
merely hints at a portion of the greater tapestry, only to point out the
common thread - lucid dreaming.

If you want to know what your after death condition may be like, look to
your dreams. If you want to see in "quick time" how your beliefs and
expectations create reality, examine your lucid dreams and watch as your
thoughts and beliefs (both conscious and unconscious) manifest in imagery
and circumstance all around you. When lucid, perform experiments, ask
questions of your dreams, do all you can in order to become more consciously
familiar with operating in non-physical realities. Don't wait for science or
religion to hand you "answers." Explore, dive into your own dreaming
consciousness and see what discoveries await you there.

Is there life after death?

I'll leave that question to you, the reader, with these words from St.
Augustine:

"Nevertheless, while it is free to every one to believe or disbelieve these
statements, every man has his own consciousness at hand as a teacher by
whose help he may apply himself to this most profound question."



References:

Letter 159 (A.D. 415)
St. Augustine
www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102159.htm

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, Edited
by Michael Katz Snow Lions Publications, Ithaca, New York, 1992, 2002

Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul Jane Roberts Prentice Hall
Press, New York, 1972

Living, Dreaming, Dying:
Practical Wisdom from the Tibetan Book of the Dead Rob Nairn Shambala
Publications, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York, 1998


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View From the Bridge
Saddam's Execution Sparks Conversation on the Peace Bridge
January 2007
Jean Campbell

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It has often been noted that the World Dreams Peace Bridge, comprised as it
is of people from all around the globe, might be seen as a microcosm of the
macrocosm, that how we deal with world crises on the Peace Bridge reflects
into the larger world. At the end of December, faced with the execution of
Iraq's former President, Saddam Hussein, Peace Bridge members talked about
the meaning of this event. This article represents only a fraction of what
was said. The end of the year also brought a few dreams, some featuring
former Peace Bridge member May Tung, which might serve to light the way
toward peace.

December 30, 2006

Ilkin-Turkey

I woke up with a very bad feeling at just before sunrise. Seems like now, we
can forget every little hope of peace in the area. Every human, who ever
he/she is even Saddam was under the protection of International Human Rights
Laws. Now, we can say "goodbye" to them too. It makes me really sorry not
being able to say "happy new year". No need to make any prediction to see it
will not be a happy one at least for the people of this area.

I don't even wonder anymore if sometime there will be any action to take
Bush to international courts for his crimes against humanity.

Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm


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Jody-United States

Dear Ilkin,

I woke up with bad feelings too and I heard the news late last night that
Saddam was executed. I join you in the conviction that execution of a human
being, no matter how bad he/she is and whatever the crimes, is another
crime. Unlike you I still hope we can evolve as a species to a new common
view of humanity and ethics that supports International Human Rights Laws
and even deeper a common commitment to non-violence and compassion. We are
not there as a whole world, we are not there in many nations, not only the
US government. But we are there as many people, ourselves included, who
agree in better principles and try to live them and change policies in these
more humane and just directions.

I have a heavy heavy heart about the future in your part of the world too
Ilkin. But it is not separate from our part of the world really: that's why
I, here in a pleasant neighborhood in another country wake up just as you do
with heavy heart. You are right, it will not be a happy new year for most of
your part of the world.

And, I want you to know that I had a similar thought about Bush: why is he
not on trial for crimes against humanity? When or could he ever be on trial?
I would like him to be brought to trial, he and his cohort and to be made
accountable for all the deaths and suffering that has come from his wrong
and falsity based decisions. But even he I would not want to see executed.

I fear that the need to take revenge in order to right wrongs creeps into
all of our hearts. I wish for something else: that we evolve together to a
common humanity that sees this does not break the cycle of violence and
suffering. Only facing reality directly, calling for justice tempered with
forgiveness and most of all deep deep compassion for the confused, often
evil doing acts of our species will lead to true transformation.

I want to share with you a quote from an activist Catholic Bishop, Oscar
Romero, who was assassinated for his speaking out against injustice in his
country. A friend sent me this quote last night and I have been meditating
on it since:

"If you need hope, you're courting despair, and if you court despair you
will stop working. So try to wean yourself from this need to have hope. Try
to have faith instead, to do what you can, and stop worrying about whether
or not you're effective....Worry about what is possible for you to do, which
is always greater than you imagine." Oscar Romero

I don't know if I agree about this view of hope or not. I do agree about not
taking time to worry about being effective and I do agree that what is
needed is to continue to act out of faith in what we know to be true and
represents our core values. Ilkin, I see you and frankly myself and others
we know, acting in this way. Your beautiful action of helping the several
refugees from Iraq that you recently wrote about and urging us again to take
action to do and give whatever we can for aid....these are actions that
proceed from your core beliefs. There is no holding back, no wondering if
the outcome will be hopeful or not. You just do it. So do I.

Dear friend, this is my New Year's greeting to you: take comfort in knowing
you are not alone as one who holds her truth and acts from it without
attachment to success or happiness of outcome. This is the steel in our
spines, this is the adamantine unbreakable diamond in the Self from which
new worlds can be built.

My love to you and your family and your part of the world from mine.

Jody


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Ali-Iraq

Dear Friends...

I feel ashamed of what the pigs had committed early morning today...It is
the first day of the holy Eid Al ADHA. the holy Pilgrims sacrifice to Allah
and pray and Muslims all over the world celebrate these days....but that is
not the case for the pigs of the green zone.....as they are just pigs and
their master ordered them to do it now,

I would like you to know that all Arab nations and almost most Islamic
nations condemned the execution that was carried out today..

You probably know that many other cases against him is there in the tribunal
and they want him dead before he testify any more information as that will
embarrass the Black house administration...


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Jean-United States

Dear Ali and dear Ilkin,

I hardly know how to reply to the messages you have sent, or to the travesty
of justice that took place last night.

I wondered, as I always do, what I could have done to change or prevent this
situation. Having been associated for a while with the delivery of abuse and
torture has sensitized me immeasurably to my belief in the power of human
consciousness. I prayed, of course. I lit a candle. I meditated. And I was
well aware that a martyr was being created.

But I continue to believe that nothing happens in the world that I cannot in
some way affect or change, and that we are all in this thing together.

I want to mention that it hurts to hear my people called pigs. That was a
bit of a surprise to me, since I have called them that myself. And Ilkin,
even though this is a terrible, dark event, I still believe there is room
for hope...and room for a blessed New Year and Eid.

Love to all,
Jean


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Ali-Iraq

Dear Ilkin...and all..

Iraqis used to get a bonus or a surprise gift at every holy occasion..for
example a pardon or release some of the political prisoners...etc

Look the difference we experience now....

That happened in the past when governments were real people not pigs and
when they are loyal to their country not to the evil power brought them...I
my self and I believe many Iraqis and all Arab and Muslims get the message
out of that execution..

But...I guess they did not calculated the response that will be most
unexpected..
More hate and disrespect to the pigs at the Black house..

That is a proof that the policy makers do not take into consideration our
holy days or our feelings and from now on I will not buy any American brand
and will start a campaign to sanction American products as it is simply
imported from an out law country and governed by jungle law....am I right?

American regime only export death and death squads.....and the problem is
that those fucken liar at the black house claim that they try to implement
democracy in our nations..
What a big lie...Iraq is a good example for their evil plans and
products...death, sectarian divisions...no security rape..murders....a
country governed by death squads and the pigs at the green zone support them
with money and cover..

Thanks Mr. Bush for these Christmas and new year gifts. Please condemn his
evil acts as I think he has gone too far. Now we pray to Allah to take
revenge !


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Kathy-Australia

Dear Ali especially:

I am very very sorry for all the devastation to your country and very very
sorry to hear of Saddam Hussein's execution. An execution is barbarous. I
agree totally with the quote Olivia appended to her note I lit a candle last
night, and prayed. Richard Dicker of the Human Rights Watch best summed up
my sentiment:

"The test of a government's commitment to human rights is measured by the
way it treats its worst offenders."

AND we all know that it is the US who orchestrated this pseudo trial and
execution.
I wonder if Bush considers that others could see him as committing "crimes
against humanity"? I wonder if Bush could consider that he could be executed
- just if the power balance was different.

I wonder - I'm so sorry.

Kathy


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Kotaro-Japan

Dear Ali,

As my Menieres disease getting better I can focus my viewpoint (the point
where our eyes focus), I would like to write some.

First of all, it seems insulting pigs including other animals to use as the
symbol of wicked people. Pigs never prepare to murder, to rape...in short,
to begin the war and the occupation. Only the Human beings, like me and you,
have the ability to. And only Human beings wishes revenge or have the
courage to cut off the chain of this unceasing killing each other.

In the second place comes a question what Iraqi people are going to do for
the peace in Iraq. If there are many activities, are they depend on the
anger against the U.S.A. or western culture? I am not any kind of
representative of Japanese. I am personally suspicious about the logic of
super power country, U.S.A. toward other countries. Recently I want to shut
my ears when I hear the words, Justice, Humanity, Glory, God, and so on.
These words have been disgraced their proper meanings.

Thirdly, the internal incidents might be getting worse and worse. The
puppetized government in your country does not have any wisdom or power to
settle down the conflicts, it is clear. But other very important problems
are not clear. How and when U.S. armies should retreat? What or who will
have the wisdom to settle down internal murders, destructions?

Dearest Ali, do you think it might be much better if U.S. troops retreat
immediately? If so, what will happen in the poor The government without the
background? Is there any solution to build up the government by rigid
election by all Iraqi people now? How and who will calm down the bloody
incidents between sects?(I am not saying the both side of the sects are
attacking each other.)

Honestly speaking, I have no vision of the next year of Iraqi people, and am
only wishing the real peace will visit to the hearts of every people first,
not only in Iraq but also other countries in the World including the human
being in the Black house that you call so.

May eternal light will keep shinning in your heart,

Kotaro


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Ilkin-Turkey

Dear Ali; (better to change the topic because I am afraid this is what is
going to happen)

I know I can only look with an outsider's eyes, I didn't lived what you and
all your loved ones experienced in that hell. But please be calm and
logical. There are so many questions behind this event which all will see in
time. Today, I thought that there wasn't any leaders in Iraq's history who
died with normal health reasons for the last century. I wonder if Taliban
and other leaders of today are aware of this or what they think their future
will be. I wrote many times; "freedom, democracy cant be imported or
exported", I can add "cant be bought or sold" too. As it wouldn't differ
very much I you/ me/ all would use/ buy any American products or not...Yes;
"Bush is the enemy" but not only yours or mine etc but also "his own
people".. It is not the "American workers/ people" who is the enemy but the
regime.

America didn't begin to export death squads today or only to Iraq but to all
the world beginning from the Vietnam. Than I can ask; "Where were you all,
all those time?". "Where were your minds when they support, fuel Saddam,
Pinochet, Suharto and all others with all kinds of arms?". "Where were you
thinking Saddam get the chemical weapons he used at Halepce; from you, me or
US?". "Iraqis where were your minds when the invasion begun?". "Muslims
where were your minds when you were serving US as the armies against than
USSR around so famous Green Crescedent?". "What are you doing Iranians?".. I
can ask so many questions...

If we didn't get any lessons from the history, put it aside and look today
and future. Not only Iraq but all the area is turning to "fields of
revenge". That is the most dangerous thing and what they want to put in our
minds. It is hard to explain our friends from other areas why/ how this
execution can have such an effect, why it is so belittling over the people.
Many of them may not understand what the role "honor" plays in the lives and
understanding, what "vendetta/ feud" can create in the lives of the Middle
Eastern people. But it is sure the "regimes and their puppets" know it very
well. There is not only religious divisions but also divisions in religions,
there is not only countries, nations but also tribes, ethnicities and so
many more I am not able to tell in this little mail...

No my friend; we shouldn't pray Allah for "revenge" but for mind, logic and
knowledge & power to use them. To stand against any outsider and build our
"own" freedoms and democracies. Prevent them to create "fields of revenges"
they wanted on these lands. Real people of America also aware of this and
not enemies.

I still want to wish "happy new year" at least to the children, to the young
ones not to live all these in their future...


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Jeremy-South Korea

What if we were faced with a clear hypothetical question? If this man
(Sadaam, Bush or another) lived, another million people, children and women,
mostly, would die, and if he died that million could live, would you still
oppose the execution?

What if a malaria mosquito was about to bite my child, and go on to bite all
the members of my family and community, would I kill it? Of course.

One would think I would naturally follow the crowd on the Peace Train. But
here my mind is not made up.


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Ali-Iraq

Dear Jodie and other friends..

I do appreciate your standpoint..I know well it is not the sum of
contribution offered, however small, or may be just symbolic, but it is the
will, the intentions and the sincere feelings that every one on the bridge
share with us, and it is really heart to heart encounters.

However...I always think that it is my duty to convey whatever necessary to
you all to make you imagine in a better way ,the magnitude of damage and the
depth of human suffering .....



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And then the dreams

Valley-Dallas

I wanted to wish you a wonderful holiday and new year and let you in on the
dreams I was gifted from May on Christmas. On a whim, I decided to fly to
San Francisco to visit my brother for Christmas. The night before my
departure I had this short, sweet dream:

May Tung appears in my dream and she has prepared a feast of Chinese Dim Sum
in my honor.

On Christmas Eve I arrived in San Fran and that night I dreamt of her again,
but this time it was a very complex dream and difficult to put into words. I
was being shown some kind of grid or configuration of shapes that were
representing some form of predestination. Something that was set in time and
space but had not yet happened in waking life.

I don't know what the specifics were about this predestination, or if she
was just showing me how it works but it felt a very enlightening experience.


I felt her presence all the while there in her home town, and I was
surprised she chose to visit me in my dreams to welcome me with such honor
and open arms. Such a jewel she is!


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Jody-Cincinnati

Here is the dream about which I've been musing deeply:

My Solstice dream from December 22, 2006:

I see three birds, three doves, very beautiful. They are very unique doves,
each of these three doves is of black and white coloration and more strange,
each dove has a small pouch at its breast in which it carries a baby bird.
Like marsupial doves!

There is a network or grid-like curtain over the whole area where these
birds are, a cage or aviary, and yet there is no visible sign of
confinement. On the net there is a repeating motif or pattern, which is
clear in the dream but I can't quite remember on waking. Nearby stands a man
named Ron M. who is the Director of Regional Planning for our county in
Ohio. His presence cues me to think of a network wide planning effort. Then
it occurs to me that these are the black and white doves of peace and the
network and planning is for a unified peace planning effort, one that would
carry on with the next generation, baby birds, which are carried outwardly,
at the breast as the young develop, just near the heart, as an infant or a
baby kangaroo might be carried in a front pack to look out on the world. End
of Dream

On waking I reflect that the black and white seem like the union of
opposites, good and evil, light and dark as one. And that peacemaking is
just that: no exclusion of the dark, rather a union that creates a
generative third new possibility. And, the three doves of peace might refer
to three great spiritual traditions struggling with one another: Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. But in the dream they are together, not at odds,
rather held in a common space with an overall network or pattern which
defines their abode and contains them. To the planning part of the dream I
connect a waking life experience and recent invitation from two Jewish women
friends of mine who have been very involved in interfaith dialogue and have
been approached by NCCJ (National Conference of Christians and Jews) which
has now become an organization for interfaith dialogue called Bridges. (yes
Bridges!) The invitation was to become involved in visioning a World Peace
Conference in Cincinnati OH in 2007. Yes, we can dream of it! And my dream
feels like direction to me to explore this possibility with these women and
others of the three religious traditions mentioned and others who are quite
serious about such an effort.

I share this with you at this end of the year as my gift and connection to
all of us who are living BRIDGES of peace, peace which is a journey, a space
that seems to be an impossible dream, and yet is vividly real to all of us
and others we touch.

Carrying the baby bird of peace like at infant at the heart,

Jody


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Del-Sydney

Anyhow: I got myself involved in the planetary dreaming on Dec 22, and I
would like to share the most prominent gift I received from it, which will
hopefully bring some light for others too. Almost every detail escaped me,
but this one thing stood out: I was shown/informed that each one of us is
like the hexagon in a beehive, in the way we are all connected to make up
the whole. This impacts me so much, because it is a beautiful picture of
interconnectedness and how integral each of us are to the whole. I think
this picture speaks volumes!

May the new year bring multitudes of new blessings for you all! And more
emails from me, yahoo!

Joy-California


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A sequel to Jody's dream and Kathy's comments thereon?

I dreamed my sister and I drew pencil drawings of our dreams both on one
page, linked at their upper inner corners by curving shapes that almost
touched. "It's a boat," she said. "It's the moon," I said - "but it's also a
boat." Then I narrated in a voice so charged with dramatic energy it woke
me:

"The full moon comes riding over the land and touches the sun. Guan Yin,
Kundun and Siefai meet!"

The bit about the boat and the moon relate to something personal but could
also relate to the larger story, the serial group dream here. I know Guan
Yin is a Mandarin Chinese name for the Goddess of Compassion and Kundun is a
title for the Dalai Lama translated as "Presence." I don't know what Siefai
is - that's my attempt at a phonetic spelling - my first impression on
waking was of a reference to something regarding Kaballah (Jewish mysticism)
of which I've read very little but had occasion to think of yesterday -
"sefer" the Hebrew for book; "sefirot" in the plural or "sefirah" singular,
a term that is intentionally obscure according to the book I have here but
relating to the emanations of God and the central symbolism of Kaballah. Any
other clues, anyone?

As the full moon rises when the sun is setting, if it rides over the land to
touch the sun, then East meets West -imagine that!

Joy


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Guide for Dream Group Facilitation
Earl Koteen

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Editor: The following is an outline for group leaders interested in the
process of dreamwork. This outline is a summary or many years of experience
that Earl Koteen has had in a variety of settings.


Agenda

Check-in:  Name, mood +/o what's most prominent, dream title; want/need/weed
to share (Need expressed importance and urgency, want a preference to share,
and "weed" is between the two.  We use recency and frequency of sharing as
guides for tiebreaking.

Opening Centering Exercise:  Some mind, body, and sensory
awareness/relaxation.  Can include a couple of deep breaths, body scan,
attention to surrounding sounds and sensations, etc.

Identification and Sequencing of Sharers:  Review wants/needs/weeds,
identify who will share (normally 2 on weeknights; 3 on weekends) and in
what sequence

Sharing Dreams and Break:  Normally about 1 hours per dream and one 10
minute break.  After about 45-50 minutes into dream work, ask 1st question
to the group (Any new perspectives on the dream?) and then 2nd question to
the dreamer (Anything you wish us to look further at or anything you wish to
do or say?)

Closing Centering Exercise:  Relax and return to body.  Express gratitude
for sharing of the dreams and for contributions by group members.

Facilitation

In addition to what's mentioned above:

Set method for sharing the dream:  It's dreamer's choice, though the dreamer
may and often does want input from the group on how s/he will share the
dream.  If the dream is typed, sometimes the group wants to read it before
the dream speaks it.  If the dream isn't typed, then there are normally two
readings.  Encourage the dreamer to read slowly, but w/o interruption the
first time.  During the 2nd reading, group members may interrupt at any time
to ask the dreamer to pause or to repeat.

Ignore the Speaker!!!:  OK, I am exaggerating for emphasis.  I don't really
mean to ignore whoever is speaking.  However, just as the use of "if it were
my dream" or "in my dream" seems counterintuitive at first, one of the
biggest challenges of facilitation is recognizing that your primary
responsibility is not to the speaker but to the group.  Notice the speaker,
but do not give the speaker rapt attention.  Instead, regularly scan the
room to see whom else wishes to speak.  Surprising, the speaker will know
you are attending to her/him even though you are not always looking directly
at her/him.

"Air" Traffic Controller:  This is often the most important part of
facilitation.  While one person is speaking, you can acknowledge a raised
hand or other indication of a desire to speak by eye contact and a nod.  If
you notice that more than one person wishes to speak, announce a sequence as
soon as the current speaker stops.

Often when one speaker stops, more than one person starts to speak, even
though not all of these individuals have previously indicated their desire
to be put in the speakers' queue.  Most of the time, the potential speakers
quickly resolve sequence among themselves.  However, if they can't easily
resolve it among themselves, please interrupt if necessary to announce a
sequence of speakers.  To make your interruption more courteous, you can
make statements like:  "X has had her hand up for a while now," or "Y hasn't
had a chance yet to comment on this dream."  However, usually you will have
no problem so long as you set a clear sequence.  When there are more than 2
people who wish to speak, it's often easiest to just sequence them from
right to left or vice versa depending on seating arrangement.

Another responsibility is enforcing the sequence.  Once you've said that Y
will be the second speaker after X, tactfully interrupt Z if he tries to
jump in.

A third responsibility, even when you haven't announced a sequence, is to
see that those who have been trying to speak get the opportunity.  Comments
like, "X has been trying to make an observation," usually do the trick.

Please exercise your best judgment in making your interventions.  These are
guidelines and not rules and can generate strife if imposed too rigidly.
However, they generally make for a happier and better functioning group when
reasonably imposed.  Dream group members tend to less impatience and are
less likely to overtalk one another when they are assured that they will get
their "turns" to speak.


Earl Koteen (koteen@...), a long-time dream worker and workshop
leader, is completing his studies at the Starr King School for the Ministry
(Unitarian Universalist), Berkeley, California, where he hosts a dream group
open to the public.

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Law of Karma
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  :  19 dec 2006  10:36
DREAM :  law of karma

=( yesterday was a monday.  i seemed to be a bit more productive than i have
been in the last two weeks.  after swimming in the afternoon, i took mother
to the bank to transfer some money into the checkbook for paying our bills.
then she suggested we stop for dinner somewhere and i took us to a new
mexican restaurant that just opened.
she did not like it once we got there, but i was glad to eat out.
during the evening i entered about four months of lottery data into my
programs files which took quit a while since the florida lottery has changed
its web site so getting past game data is much harder now than it used to
be.  i had lost the weekly data entry when the lightning strike last august
burned out the network router and i had not recovered the data for my
lottery analysis programs to process until now.  i got to bed around 00:30
and went to sleep without much difficulty.  )=

the teacher is passing among us, stopping to ask a question or two of some
of us.  she stops to look at me but does not ask anything.  she likes to be
called teacher but she does not really teach us.  she is more like a
spiritual leader and sometimes, like now, an examiner.

eddie grout starts to sing a song to fill in the silence.  he is sitting at
the end of the long picnic table where we are all sitting.
he sounds a lot like the well known country singer, hank snow, but with a
slight eddie grout accent.  i am a little surprised how well he can sing.

without much thought, i pick up a straight clay pipe which is filled with
grass and light it to take a short toke.  the teacher freezes where she is
and looks at me hard, but says nothing.  the grass in the pipe is not
marijuana but actual lawn clippings so there is nothing illegal about me
smoking it.  i get a small rush from the smoke but nothing that lingers very
long.

the teacher is done now, but pauses to wait for the end of the last verse of
eddie's song, then she leaves our tent for the next.

"you sing quite well."  i tell eddie.  he looks a little embarassed.
"you sound a lot like hank snow.  didn't he live around here?"  eddie does
not know so he shrugs.  "i think he lived in crestview or somewhere like
that.  my father would have known where."

every one in our tent gets up now to go outside.


=( i awake here, probably around 10:05 but i do not open my eyes to look at
the clock.  the dream just continues as if it is not done. )=


eddie and i meet a heavy middle age woman.  "have you read the book of lois
yet?"  she asks us.  eddie says that he has, but i have not.
"the teacher told me that i must lower the cost of myself."  she tells us.

"ah, that is like the law of karma."  i say.  "the goal of life is to lose
the self.  lowering your cost is part of that."  she seems to understand and
goes on ahead.

i think that is good i was smoking just grass and not stronger stuff.
sometimes i will smoke steel wool.  it is not narcotic, but
microscopic fragments of the steel make up the smoke and they shred the
linings of your lungs, so it is very harsh.  usually i smoke it until blood
starts to flow out of my nostrils and mouth then i have to quit for a while
to heal up.  if anyone smokes too much steel,
they can lacerate all their visceral organs.


=( i finally open my eyes.  10:20 on the clock beside my bed.  i go over the
events in this dream to help keep them in mind before i turn on my computer
to enter it into the dream journal.  i think there may have been more.  this
content was a little more slippery than my normal dream memory which is
never very good.  eddie grout was in my
high school and i saw him at the 40th reunion more than a year ago.
he was a rather shy but slightly  mischievious person, yet very well liked
by everyone in the class which is a rather odd popularity.  i have always
thought that the law of karma was that every action has a consequence,
relating physical actions to moral consequences.  i suppose there can be
more than one law of karma, but i do not actually recall any being stated as
i have it here.  this process of
waking up but having the dream continue on in conscious thought is something
that has happened to me several times in the last few months, but i do not
think i ever got one into the dream journals before.  indeed, i wonder if
the last part is really a genuine dream or something my mind just wants to
make up, but there seems to be kind of momentum or dream inertia that drives
this.  it is not really like a lucid process where consciousness happens
while still asleep because there does not seem to be same level of control
here.
indeed, it almost the reverse of lucidity, the subconscious needs to
continue to deliver its content payload even though the dreamer comes awake
before the dream is over.  the part before the awake notice is just like
normal dreams, and the part after may have a different
mental status but i can not distinguish much to tell them apart.  if
lucidity somehow is cheating in dreams because the conscious mind asserts
control of the content, then this may be like the revenge of the
subconscious which will just not quit and give up to consciousness until it
is ready.  )=

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Free Association: Loosen Your Mind In 2007
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mention the deadline -- concentrates my thoughts about dream work remarkably
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And now for the dream topic of the week.

FREE ASSOCIATION

Free association is a kind of meditation that loosens up your mind, allowing
it to wander. All you have to do is follow the wanderings.

If I was to make one recommendation for what to do in your new year to aid
you in your dream work, I'd suggest that you learn or practice free
association until it comes naturally. It's also a great way to come up with
new ideas -- a brain massage rather than a brain storm.

Often, as you will see, the connections that come from associating to the
dream are the key to making sense of the dream.

Sigmund Freud invented Free Association as a technique. I don't use it
exactly as a Freudian would but, I think it is an essential part of self
knowledge.

The Method

Essentially the technique is to notice whatever is in your head at the
moment.

If I say the word BOOK, you might immediately think of READ, FIRESIDE, HARRY
POTTER, VACATION IN MEXICO and so on. What you need to practice is noticing
whatever came first to you. It's that simple. But!!!

In ordinary social conversation, we very naturally censor ourselves. The
first answer is quite often "wrong" or socially inappropriate.

If I were to say, "Name a movie star who you find attractive," you might not
wish everyone to know who first came to mind. Your mind would then go
through a process of finding an answer that you wished to present. Many of
us lose the habit of catching that first answer and come to believe in the
more acceptable one.

This process is happening all the time. Your mind searches for an answer
that is socially appropriate and acceptable. BUT, and this is the key, a
word or a concept, picture or sound popped up in your mind first. Free
association is the practice of noticing that first one and following it.

The Difference between Thinking and Associating

We use the word "think" in two different ways.

If I asked you how to get from your house to the supermarket, you would
think through the steps to take and then explain the directions. In
contrast, as you walk down the street on your way to the supermarket, you
might think about someone you knew in high school. That's the thought popped
into your mind. You did not actively generate the thought. Instead, so to
speak, you received it. It's not a rational process.

Free Association and Dreams

A common technique with dreams is to consider what associations you have
with the dream.

I dreamed I saw a purple cloud.

Ask yourself what do you associate to the purple cloud? Purple might remind
you of a coat you wore. Or signify something royal. You might go off on your
associations to the word "cloud." What is most useful is to notice what
first comes to mind rather than what you logically "think" the purple cloud
means.


Nicole's Dream
I dreamed I was in the supermarket. The tomatoes looked very ripe but I
couldn't decide whether to buy them or not.

When Nicole thought about tomatoes her mind went to the tomato plants her
family used to grow when she was a teenager. The conversation steered off
into the days when Nicole herself was a "hot tomato." We came back to the
dream with Nicole considering whether she was ripe for another relationship.


Practice

If you are not already adept at free association, try practicing. Write down
your daydreams. As you wander down the street, catch the thoughts that you
are "receiving." As you wake up, notice the thoughts that are occupying your
mind. Take your next dream and write down whatever comes to mind about each
aspect of the dream.

Special bonus: if you are stuck on a problem, write it down and then free
associate. You'll wander way off target but likely come back to it with a
fresh, creative approach that would be impossible if you focused on the
problem.

Warning: You should not be surprised if all kinds of unacceptable ideas come
up: immoral, unethical, angry, or other. Stop if it's upsetting.

Conclusion

Dreams are irrational. That's what people either love or hate about them.
You might be flying, your father may be wearing a skirt, you might discover
that your house has a room you never noticed. The logic of dreams is much
closer - and truer - to the meanderings of free association than it is to
waking life rational thinking.

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Cutting of one's left hand, getting felt up, getting hit by the football,
abandoned without food and water, getting puked on - is this the Emergency
Room at General Hospital? No, it's the Electric Dreams Dream Section for
January 2007!



dream_title: Hand Cutting

dream_date: 12/1/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I had a dream that I was cutting wood with a chainsaw, but my
left hand was broken and I had a cast on.  While cutting wood, I cut through
my cast and cut my left hand off.  There was no pain or harsh reaction, but
I calmly walked into the house and inserted my severed hand into an ice
bucket.  When I pulled it out later, I found I had only cut the tips off my
fingers, and I was fine with that and carried on as normal, but my cast had
been cut off and only a small portion was left.


dream_title: me and my boy friend and my best guy friend

dream_date: 12-3-06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: well yesterday me and my boy-friend were hanging out and then we
started kissing and everything and he then started rubbing my crotch and
then after he left i feel asleep and i had a dream me and my best guy friend
c, it was his birthday and his mom and i and him were in c's car but he had
his mom drive he was in the front i was in the back  and c held my hand and
then started rubbing my crotch and after him doing that for like 4 minutes i
pulled his hand away. so im my cream i cheated my bf and i in real live feel
bad and i wanted to know if this was a sign of something



dream_title:

dream_date: 12/04/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: i was at school and with half of the people i hate where like my
best-friends and my real best friend was there to soo we where walking down
the hall and i stopped at this really hot guy "L" and we hugged and he
kissed me and then he said bye baby i aid i love you and blew a kiss then we
walked out side and sat down and watched people play football then the ball
hit me and i had to be escorted off the field but the one escorting me off
the field was a guy named "J" who i have a crush on in real life soo he sat
me down and we chatted then he left and right about the time he left the
whole school blew up luckily me and my friends where out side but the person
who was dead was "J"

dream_date: December 6th, 2006

dreamer_name: KT

dream_text: okay, so i was with a bunch of kids from my high school and we
had all gone to kansas city for the weekend. we went swimming and were
having a great time. Then me and this guy named S (whom i in real life used
to have a "thing" with) were together again!! we were at a gas station just
me and him, when we went inside,  the lady told us to leave. we asked her
why of course... and she said it was coming. we had no clue what she was
talking about so we walked back out to the car to get in and leave. as we
were getting in the car, an earth quake started and every single thing
around us had fallen to the middle of the earth. me and s were the only
people left in the entire world. just me and him standing together on top of
the world. it was like a tall piece of land standing alone. we were left
there with no food or water or anything. i woke up and was so confused! what
could something like this mean?


dream_title: ex

dream_date: 12/7/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: last night i had a dream about the person who i really loved.
but we broke up when i was 15 and now im 21. i never seen the chick that he
cheated on me with but she was all up in the dream. lt was like we were
doing thing behind her back. so could this mean that were gong to hook up or
is it that i miss him or something b/c its been a long time since i though
of him and seen him.



dream_title: Tunnel walk

dream_date: 11/2006

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: In the beginning of the dream, I met a man who was nice to me,
and he were supposed to look after me. Then I was in another place and was
kidnapped by a large, strong man. He dragged me into an old train tunnel. As
we walked deeper into the tunnel I used my mobile-phone as a walkie-talkie,
and contacted the police several times. Suddenly we walked about 30 meters
outside, and then the tunnel continued. After a little while we had to climb
up a small stone wall. Up there I told him that if he puked on me, I will
puke on him back. Then he puked on me, and I tried to puke on him, but I
couldn't. About 5 seconds later I pushed the kidnapper into a box, and
closed the box. In front of me there was a big gate with bright light on the
other side of if. I opened the big metal-gate and rushed inside. At this
point I knew that the cops  were just a few moments away. Inside the gate
the man in the start of the dream stood and looked at me. "I got you now",
he said, and he was the evil boss, the kidnapper was just working for him.
Then the dream stopped.

dream_comments: Sorry for the bad language, I'm a Norvegian.



dream_title: mates?

dream_date: 7/12/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: i cant remember it all but the main part of the dream was spent
with my mate and me sat around talking generally hanging out the normal
things and then holding hands? she wont let my hand go and keeps wanting to
hold my hand even when im trying to pull away? then we walked back to my
house holding hands and we walked into my kitchen and my uncle was fixing
something and saw us holding hands and i went to let go but she wouldn't let
go again....?? sat down on sofa listening to music and hugged.
and then thats where i woke up!!



dream_title: Multiple Me's

dream_date: December 6, 2006
dreamer_name: H2O

dream_text: There are 3 of me in my dream. Two of me are arguing over doing
the right thing and wanting to do it knowing it's wrong. The third 'me' is
watching. Nothing gets resolved, but the first 2 me's argue with each other
over getting their own way. Then I wake up.




dream_title: Airplane Crash

dream_date: ?/11/06

dreamer_name: Twylight

dream_text: It was in colour, I always dream in colour.  An airplane
crashed, it was flying too low near power lines. It was during the day,
clear blue sky on a deserted road or runway.  It was a red plane, not a
jumbo a smaller one.  I was in a car and as I drove past the wreckage I
could see the dead people on it.  One main person was the back passenger, a
man.  He had a moustache and his face was swollen and his eyes were like
they were popping from his head, they were blue, his face was blue.  His
head was through the window.  There was smoke/cloud and an awful smell.
Rescue services wearing yellow, were trying to find any survivors.  I woke
up feeling such sadness and sick from the images.




dream_title: In a row boat with my sister

dream_date: 11/16/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: My sister and I are in a row boat, and it started to sink so my
sister grab on to the green grass with her right hand (because she cannot
swim) and I was sinking with the boat, she yell to me swim you know how and
I said I can't, so she grab my hair so i would not sink, but I was going
under, and she held on for dear life. The End


dream_title:

dream_date: dec,10 2006

dreamer_name: confused

dream_text: hi my im not at liberty to disclose my name at this present
moment. but i have very confusing dreams . some repeatedly over the course
of several years. my most resent dream although not a repetitious one at
present. tied in remotely to my present excursions .

it started out as me making my way out of the house one late night early
morning, sneaking past my grandmothers sleeping soul (her actually sleeping)
to rendezvous with a recent love interest .i live in a pretty rough
neighborhood but at this time no one is active. so im relatively safe but
cautious. how ever when i reach the busy street that goes by the name
puritan that divides me from my love the usually deserted street was
bustling with civilian activity . and me knowing that teens in my area were
under a strict curfew began to sneak across puritan hoping that the police
would not catch site of me or men up to no good would not slow their
vehicles down to pick me up. but before i made my way across the road i did
some thing very peculiar , i stripped down to my underwear and made my way
ducking and dodging behind shadowed corners


dream_title: oprah is trippin again

dream_date: 11/29/06

dreamer_name: esoteric

dream_text:           I dreamt it was a sunny day and we (me and somebody
else)was on a busy street when i heard "oprah" on a radio (or maybe just out
of the blue cause i don't remember a radio being on at the time of the
dream)and she said (anyone who come on her show talking about money or being
sexist in anyway would be kicked off the show)but at the time of those words
i visualized the stage setting and i saw people on the stage as if the
camera was moving from left to right as if i seen the show on a television
screen and i saw "two little girls" in my vision, they were twins on stage
but "they had on blue dresses " and "sandy blonde hair". one of the girls
had a shocking facial expression on her face as a result of "oprah's"
comments. all of a sudden i was in "my room at home" and i saw (two
spiders/crabs)like insects crawling on the walls of the room.



dream_title: Lots of people

dream_date: 11 december 2006

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I was upstairs in my top room of my house and there were loads
of people there. There was a cover and a boy under it. I don't know who he
was but he reminded me of a "N". Then we got and under the covers and had
sex. Then I went out of the covers and people from school went under the
covers with him



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From   Roger Ripert and our dream friends in France: CMS (France), le
17/12/06, 7H+, UT+1



Hello Dreamers,



Like each year, at the winter solstice, the association Oniros is organizing
a Planetary dream, that is a shared incubated dream on a planetary basis.

The first one happened on the winter solstice 1982.

On december 18, in 1982, for the first time in the history of our probable
reality, dream networkers across the U.S. and in Europe hooked on by
telephone to share their dreams with each other and in this way to discover
some aspects of our world dreaming.
Coordinated by Bill Stimson, editor of the Dream Network Bulletin, nine
dream-network centers stretching from Paris, France, to San Francisco and
including the Austin Seth Center, each transmitted a dream to the other
centers and thus produced "the first world dream" («Reality Change», vol.
III, n° 8, february 1983).

An idea taken up successfully by the Oniros association at the time of the
winter solstice of the year 1990 with a collective Planetary Dream founder
having for shared topic : "Dreaming for the Earth" in which took part 200 to
300 dreamers all over the world (see: http://www.oniros.fr/dreams90.html).

Ten other Planetary dreams took place since then, starting in 1996, with
various topics related to this Dream founder.

This year 2006, marked by the continuation of destructive wars and the
increasingly tangible  effects of the climate warming, we finally chose to
go back to the sources and simply invite you to dream on a planetary scale,
as in 1982.

In fact, with the advent of the Industrial and consumption society, the
waking social life has taken now for each of us an undeniable planetary
dimension.
For proof, at the level of communication,  the data-processing fabric woven
by the "World Wide Web" which enables me to address this email to you;
without speaking about the myriad of multilingual satellite channels which
do not cease broadcasting their continuous flood of images on the planet !
But on the level of dream (in our dream life), what about the dimension of
our social life ? Did it take a planetary dimension ?
Obviously not, and that is the the snag !
We continue to think in our "for interior" (in our dreams), on a social
scale which is very often limited to our close relations and, on the
cultural level, within the limits of the old state-nation systems.
Still superficial, the planetary social dimension of our waking life did not
reach yet the heart of our thoughts : our dream consciousness...
Then, on the longest night of the year, that one of winter solstice (as of
the night which precedes it and that which follows it), I invite you to try
to find in your dreams this light/consciousness which will make us true
planetary citizens !

Best greetings



             Roger Ripert



P-S : Thanks for spreading this information about the Planetary dream 06



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PLANETARY DREAM 2006

See also :
http://www.oniros.fr/news.html


INCUBATION THEME :  DREAMING ON A PLANETARY SCALE


See Picture
http://www.oniros.fr/RP06R.jpg



Instructions to the dreamers


In order to succeed the induction of the Planetary Dream 2006, it is advised
for the participants to follow the classical rules for dream incubation
(volontary induction of specific dream contents) and to practice it during 3
nights. See the page : The incubated dream


1. During the day and before going to sleep, become immersed in the call for
the planetary dream and its theme.

2. Just before you fall asleep and in state of relaxation :
- Immerse yourself in the above visual support a for the induction
- Induce the dream through a clear and precise formulation such as : "this
night, I will dream on a planetary scale... ".

3. When you wake up, record your dream as accurately as possible, whatever
the content is.

4. Send your dream as soon as possible, before the 31st of december 2006 :

- either by email to ONIROS : oniros@...
- by postal mail : Oniros, Chitry Mont Sabot, 58190 - Neuffontaines, France.


Planetary dream composition

All the nominative dreams sent by email will be recorded on the Net to form
a specific dream journal, "The dream world ", dated 21st to 23 rd of
december 2006, which all the participants will be able to read on the site
Oniros


N.-B. - For the credibility of the "Planetary dream", the incubated dreams
must be nominative, dated, and sent with an address.




Winter solstice


The time of the winter solstice is in 2006 Friday December 22 at 0. 21 min
Universal Time (1. 21, standard time in France : TU+1).
In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice corresponds to the moment
when the apparent longitude of the Sun is equal to 270 degrees.
This time indicates the beginning of winter.
Christmas comes from latin Natalis (dies). It is the native day. It
represents the birthday of the birth of the Invictus SUN (Unconquered Sun).
This feast took place the day of the winter solstice. From this time,  the
days are lengthening, the sun reappears and winter starts.
In the beginning, Christmas was the feast of the sun.
Let us go back and glory the Sun which gives us each day the light and
without which we cannot live !


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Volume #13  Issue #12

December 2006

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Cover : "Buddha Museum"
             Laura Atkinson

  ++ Column:  An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
             Editor,  Lucy Gillis
             Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace
             Part 3: "Dreamspace"
              Ed Kellogg, PhD.

++ Column: The View - World Dreams Peace Bridge
                       Scrambled Contest or Outstanding
                       Group Dream?
                       Joy Fatooh

++ Interview: Dreams and Signs
               An Interview with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.
                Questions by David L. Kahn

++ Column: Look Both Ways
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD


++ DREAM SECTION: From November Dreams


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Welcome to the December 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 seem 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

Please note the Dec 15th Deadline for getting in presentations proposals to
the 2007 Sonoma IASD International Conference (June 28-July3).
www.asdreams.org/2007

Many thanks to all the contributors to Electric Dreams in 2006.  As a
reminder, Electric Dreams is sort of a free speech forum for dreamwork and
dreaming.  If you have novel ideas in this area, feel free to submit
articles to rcwilk@...

Many thanks to our readers and everyone who contributed dreams this year. We
had to close down the dreamflow discussion group (needs a moderator to keep
the spam down) but the dreamflow form is still up, so you can still get your
dreams published in Electric Dreams by submitting them to
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...

Lucid dream explorations are part of the daily meals at the Lucid Dream
Exchange, and I hope you will feast on the excerpt this month from the
editor, Lucy Gillis, which showcases Ed Kellogg in an article that will open
your mind and stretch your imagination. The article, "Exploring the Bizarre
Physics of Dreamspace: Part 3 Dreamspace" uses the notion of multiple
dimensions to solve some of the most difficult puzzles of the know universe,
and offers suggestions for exploring and experimenting with your own
dreamspaces.

"Where these ideas meet, we find the World Dreams Peace Bridge - a group
brought together by the notion that we can bring our focused intentions into
our dreams, dream together, and magnify our will to promote peace so that it
radiates throughout the web."  And this group has their own special
chaotic-wisdom, which Joy Fatooh shares this month in the View from the
Bridge. Read the View, join the Bridge. Peace, love, dreams.

David L Khan brings in an interview this month with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.,
who is the author of Sacred Signs: Hear, See & Believe Messages from the
Universe (Llewellyn Publications, 2006).  Find out how Dream Signs can help
in your spiritual journey and align you to the Infinite.

Yes, dreams are ambiguous, and this month's selection from the DreamRePlay
series with David Jenkins, PhD explores the many sides of dreams, and how to
use the opposites for your interpretive advantage.  Be sure to read "Look
Both Ways."

Crabs loose in the kitchen, Turkeys running around, being chased by my
father, black blood. is this still Thanksgiving? No, it's the Electric
Dreams Dream Section !
Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
Dreamgate.com/dream/temple

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

Cover by Laura Atkinson, read more about "Buddha Museum" below.
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Which includes an article Dream Time and Art

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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/

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 2006

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-news@...
address.

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

Online:
- Dream Video of the Month
- DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer
- A Month In Pictures

Physical world:
- IASD News: Annual Conference / Student Awards
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute

Books, movies, research:
- Oldis: Lucid Dream Manifesto
- Schenk: Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams
- Mellon: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
- Gould: Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for Children's Dreams
- Research: Expecting a child?

Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online?

I got fascinated with all the old tribe films, Papua, Africa, Australia,
etc. Here is a promo for a dreamtime peace project:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UN7G5QzPE

I also thought this kid's views & musings about dreaming on the movie The
Science of Sleep was interesting. I haven't seen the movie yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCa4f_FksDk

Strephon Kaplan-Williams reads a sexy dream he had, and then explains.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EBA5cMZlI

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know.

Richard Wilkerson


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- DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer
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We offer the DreamBoost lucid dream enhancer and sleep aid. It's an all
natural herbal supplement you take at bedtime to promote lucid dreaming and
dream recall. It is designed to help relax the body while increasing the
brain's activity during REM sleep. We would be happy to send you a free
sample of DreamBoost so you can try the product for yourself. Just send me
your mailing address and we will send a bottle for you to try.

Thank you,
Brian Engler
www.dreamboost.com


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- A Month In Pictures
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A month ago I started my personal Dreams In Pictures project, publishing a
dream a day, with accompanying pictures. As I write, the month has almost
ended, and it has been interesting. I'll probably wrap it up in some way,
possibly creating a mandala, or perhaps a photo book at Lulu.

Halfway the project Laura Atkinson started her own dream blog. As a result
some mutual dreams were uncovered that otherwise may have gone unnoticed.

You're welcome to take a look, and I hope it will inspire you to start a
similar online dream project. Let me know when you do and I'll be happy to
add you to the news next month.

http://alquinte.com/en/

Harry
ed-news@...



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- IASD News: Annual Conference / Student Awards
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The conference deadline for submitting presentation proposals is coming up
at December 15th. If you want to present at the 24th Annual Conference at
Sonoma State University, and haven't submitted yet, be quick!

IASD has created a form on the website for sponsors of the conference.
Vendors of dream related products can choose from a number of ways to
promote their products during the Annual Conference.

Not available at the time of writing, but expected very soon on the IASD
website: information on the 2007 student awards.

http://asdreams.org/2007/


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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

The Dream Institute offers the following during December 2006.


* Culture Dreaming *

Saturday December 2, 3-5 pm, $20

Culture dreaming offers a living sense of our interconnectedness. In the
first part of this experimental forum, we tell dreams in council fashion, as
people are moved to speak. A fresh composite dream is created. In the second
part, we explore themes and imagery in it. The "culture dream" always shows
surprising relevance to both individual and larger societal concerns.

Conveners:
Richard Russo, M.A. and Meredith Sabini, Ph.D.


* International Association for the Study of Dreams Lecture Series *

Precognitive Dreams & The Everyday Physics of Free Will
by Craig Sim Webb

Pre-lecture social 6:30 pm
Lecture 7 pm
Admission: $15 (Members and students with valid ID, $10)

A multifaceted look at precognitive dreaming from historical, scientific and
experiential perspectives. The lecture will also cover the fascinating
question about free will and destiny, and how quantum physics offers
interesting links between the two. Participants can also expect some tips
for discriminating between symbolic and precognitive dream information and a
lively question/discussion period.

Craig Sim Webb, Director of the nonprofit DREAMS Foundation, is a physicist
and dream and consciousness speaker/ author/ researcher/ inventor. He has
participated in dream and consciousness research at Montreal's Sacre-Coeur
Hospital's Dream and Nightmare Lab, and at Stanford University with lucid
dream pioneer Stephen LaBerge.


* JFK Dream Group *

Hosted by Judy McEnroe
Dec. 7, 7-9:30 pm, $5-15

Judy will be sending you info about the details of the next dream group.


* Holiday extravanganza *

Dec. 10, 2-5 pm
Free Open House

What a joy to see this place flourishing! We want to say a special thanks
for your interest and participation. Please come by and enjoy music,
champagne, and a dance performance. Your family and friends are welcome.


* Solstice Ritual *

Chanting & Dream Reading
Dec. 22, 7:30-9 pm, $20

We honor this special moment when Darkness and Light are equal. The Wisdom
House, our building in Fox Commons, will be transformed into sacred space
for the evening, which includes an inspiring dream-play and chanting by
Julie Lucchesi in Gregorian, Tibetan, Hebrew, Sanskrit, and her own
originals.


* Dream Retreat *

Meredith Sabini
Dec. 30, 12-4 pm, $60 includes buffet

Take a quiet day to be with yourself and read over your 2006 dream journal.

In this introverted retreat, you are free to use the resources here-art
materials, library for researching symbols, and quiet space for writing. I
will present ways of understanding and synthesizing themes and figures from
the year's dreams.

This retreat is for those who have an active dream practice. Please send a
brief description of yours by December 15. Limited to 10, advance enrollment
only.



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Oldis: Lucid Dream Manifesto
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The Google book is a full, free read; so with the link your readers may read
the entire book, if they want. This is actually a 1974 book originally
published by the University of South Dakota, and re-printed this year. My
original reviewers back then were Ann Faraday and Bob Van de Castle, and
they both noted an incompleteness in my analysis of dream physiology and
dream history, so my apologies for these gaps.

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22lucid+dream+manifesto%22

Thanks,

Daniel Oldis


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- Schenk: Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams
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Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams: Exploring Near Death Experiences Without the
Flatlines
by Paul W. Schenk

People who undergo near death experiences often have profound and life
changing experiences. It is as if the whole of their life has been put into
focus and they can see relationships, experiences, and their hopes and
dreams in a completely new light. Now Paul Schenk shows you how you can help
clients experience some of the life-changing benefits of a near death
experience without the life-threatening cardiovascular crisis. With full
length annotated case transcripts, you will learn how to do this and explore
the many other things you can do with hypnotically facilitated waking
dreams.

The therapeutic usefulness of dream interpretation is deeply rooted in
psychotherapy. The Hypnotic Use of Waking Dreams bypasses the controversy
associated with past life therapy, i.e that if reincarnation doesn't exist,
neither can past life therapy. It provides a much more traditional approach
to understanding and utilizing the kinds of chemical experiences that occur
with this interactive approach to hypnotically facilitated dream-like
imagery. Dr. Shenk integrates classic teachings on dream interpretation and
trauma treatment with decades of published work on near death experiences.
The resulting applications to a variety of presenting clinical problems are
demonstrated with extensive case transcripts. The therapeutic use of waking
dreams is independent of both the clinician's and the client's beliefs about
reincarnation because the dream content can be understood as being just good
fiction as it is in classical dream analysis.

www.crownhouse.co.uk/index.php?page=productdetails&product_id=307


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- Mellon: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
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Waking Your Dreams: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious
by Emma Mellon

Dreams are as unique as finger prints no two are the same. "Waking Your
Dreams" shows readers how to use their individuality to find the unique
meaning their dreams have for their waking life. Written by a psychologist
and using case studies from her practice, "Waking Your Dreams" combines the
most recent scientific understanding of the dream process with psychological
expertise. This accessible, thought-provoking companion helps readers enter
and understand the rich and deeply personal world of their dreams. In
"Waking Your Dreams", active participation, receptivity and curiosity
replace the ubiquitous cookie-cutter interpretations, as the dreamer is led
to visit the dream and return, with its essence, to waking life. The author
aids readers in developing their creative and imaginative abilities to
better understand the potent language of dream images and symbols and
demonstrates a method for entering, as guests and learners, the realm of
their dreams. Readers will learn ho!
  w to access and walk through their own unique dream creations and use their
individuality to find the unique meaning they have for their waking life.

www.hci-online.com/Engine/Shopping/search.asp?search=Mellon


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- Gould: Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for Children's Dreams
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Catching the Dream: A Parent's Guide for Children's Dreams
by Janet, S. Gould

Catching the Dream is a comprehensive evaluation of every aspect of
children's dreaming with an in-depth analysis of each. It explains why
dreaming is important to children's physical and emotional well-being, is
thoroughly researched and uses actual dreams to illustrate each topic. The
information in this book teaches parents how to determine what kind of dream
the child has experienced, what the dream possibly means, what could have
caused the dream, and how to integrate the dream into the child's daily
life. It also teaches parents what can affect children's dream contents, how
children can have happy dreams, when dreams have a needed message about
children's well-being (physical or emotional), and how dreams can reveal
children's imaginal skills, ego development, and psychosocial stage. There
are chapters on nightmares and night terrors: what causes them, what they
mean, what to do if the child is experiencing them, and how to work with
them. The book includes a chapter !
  on sleep: what it is, why it is important to dreaming, sleep disorders, and
how to have a good night's sleep. Although the title indicates that this
work is oriented towards children's dreams, there is a great deal of
information within it that applies to adult dreaming as well.

http://www.amazon.com/product/gp/0976808358/


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- Research: Expecting a child?
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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of the amazing realm
of dreams through participation in a short study on dreams during pregnancy!

The search is on for any woman who is pregnant, or man who is expecting a
child and is willing to offer a written account of a dream that they have
had during that time. The only participation required for the study is a
signed consent form and the dream write up. All info will be entirely
confidential, and the dreams will only be identified as from a man or a
woman, age, and trimester. Both consent form and dream write up can be sent
over email so the process is quick and easy. If you have any questions, or
if you or somebody you know may be interested in participating please email.

Marena Koukis
dreaming@...



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Victoria Rabinowe (California):
http://victoriadreams.blogspot.com

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and the new
dreamwork, as reflected in his many books over the years. Now in retirement
age Strephon gives his podcasts and continues to write new books.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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Cover: "Buddha Museum"
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This was an image I made based on a mutual dream between Harry and myself.
Both of our dream journals this month are on the web

November 13, 2006 - Laura's Dream   http://dreamartist.wordpress.com/
"A museum dream.  Two large rooms being remodeled. One floor, wood.highly
polished, high ceilings. The other one was still being built.  There were
lots of people sitting in chairs, waiting to get into a third room, that had
a really funky slide show / music presentation. It had something to do with
Buddhist Mystic stuff.  There was a screen that was down, and the large
Buddha was in the background.  It reminds me of the 9ft tall Buddha at the
RISD Museum. The images that appeared on screen would overlay the Buddha in
the background.  There was music / multimedia presentation being projected
onto to the screen."

Harry's Dream Monday, November 13 http://alquinte.com/en/in_pictures/
(Note: mutual dream)
Laaa-gen in dro-men zien
Thee laar-zen droommachien
A slow chant. First line literally translated says "layers in dreams see".
The second line must be poking fun of it. It sounds like "tea boots dream
machine". Emotionally, the second line expressed awe of the depth that
appears when you're able to see the layers in a dream.
In other dreams, I was playing with kids from my childhood, and looking to
buy new clothes, discovering that I already had some new dress shirts in the
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis

Is your dream environment stable? Or does it morph and transform as the
dream progresses? If you change your viewing perspective, does what you see
follow physical rules, or do you see something else altogether? How do your
dream environments compare to waking reality?

This month we continue with part 3 in the series "Exploring the Bizarre
Physics of Dreamspace" of Ed Kellogg's Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenges.


LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
June, 2006

by Ed Kellogg
((c)2006 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 them, which may possibly bring about
mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you who
accomplish these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.)

Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace
Part 3: "Dreamspace"

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the
particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of
the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a
conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter". Max
Planck, Nobel prize winner.

"M stands for "Magic", "Mystery", or "Matrix" - according to taste"
Definition of the "M" in M-theory by its originator, physicist Ed Witten.
(1)

In order to come up with a consistent model of our universe, reconciling
quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory of relativity, the Standard Model,
etc., including everything from gravity to subatomic particles, physicists
found that the standard 3 + 1 dimensions (space-time) just won't do - that a
workable model requires 10 or more dimensions to explain how the universe
behaves. When they did this, they came up with not just one, but many
"Superstring Theory" solutions that can elegantly and accurately model how
our Universe works. (Dr. Ed Witten found a way of uniting these variations
with his much acclaimed M-theory, but had to add another dimension to do
so.)

Some interesting consequences also fall out of such models, including time
travel, parallel universes, etc. Unfortunately, to put superstring theory to
the test in (3 +1) space-time requires such enormous amounts of energy that
scientists may not have the resources to do confirming experiments for
thousands of years. Yet, humans have routinely experienced phenomena such as
those described above in their dreams (2), which opens the possibility that
dreams may take place "outside" of (3 +1) space-time.

Also, if this model holds, this would mean that each of us exists as ten or
more dimensional beings, to which our (3+1) physical reality selves would be
only an infinitesimal aspect of our Higher-Dimensional Selves, of less
significance than a two dimensional square in a three dimensional cube,
which contains an infinite number of such squares ... Similarly, even our
"brains" would consist of far more than the (3 +1) space-time component
focused on by most scientists, but could also bring into play an additional
6 or more dimensional component, a possibility that mechanistic models of
consciousness promoted by most neurophysiologists ignores entirely. Perhaps
dreams do occur "all in our brains" as some scientists like to believe, but
not in our (3+1) space-time brains, but in 10 or more dimensional brains.

If we do experience these other dimensional components of self, it makes
sense that we would do so in our dreams, visions, and OBEs. We would usually
'translate'/remember these dreams in terms of the (3+1) space-time templates
that we have built from our experiences in waking physical reality, but I've
noticed that IF people pay mindful attention to their dreams, they report
dream experiences that do not fit in a (3+1) template, any more than a
square peg fits in a round hole
.
In his book Hyperspace, Michio Kaku wrote that according to superstring
theory, before the "big bang", our cosmos actually existed as a perfect
ten-dimensional universe. (3) However, because of an instability of this
ten-dimensional world, it broke down into "two" universes: an inflated
four-dimensional (3+1) universe and a collapsed six-dimensional universe.

If waking reality space-time corresponds to the physical reality universe,
to what reality might this coupled 6 dimensional universe correspond? I
suggest that we entertain the hypothesis that we experience this higher
dimensional universe in our dreams.  If so, dream reality space-time might
extend through 6 dimensions, just as physical reality space-time extends
through 4, three spatial, and one temporal dimension.  Based on my own
experiences, it appears that dream reality space-time has 4 + 2 dimensions,
four spatial, and two time dimensions. Three of the spatial dimensions would
correspond to the length, height, and depth of physical reality space-time,
but dream space-time would also have a fourth spatial dimension, a
hyperspace dimension, in which dreamers could also move. In this fourth
spatial dimension movement might take the dreamer into parallel dream
universes, most of them differing only slightly from the ones adjoining them
(like moving up in a cube would move us through a series of squares). Also,
having a fourth spatial dimension would also allow our dream bodies to go
through things, through a wall for example, to teleport, or even to "flip"
ourselves so that our right side becomes our left side, and visa versa. (4)

However, even if we have the capacity for movement in this 4th spatial
dimension in dream reality, dreamers don't bring any learned navigational
skills for moving in 4d from physical reality space-time. As a consequence,
one might expect dreamers to tend to drift, and to move through, parallel
universes, as well as to teleport, and even to occasionally reverse
orientation without much control. Perhaps this explains the apparent
mutability of many dreamscapes.

Why two time dimensions? Well, for one thing, having a second time dimension
makes time travel easy, and many dreamers report precognitive and time
travel experiences in their dreams. In dream reality we would have the
capacity for movement in this 2nd temporal dimension, but as we would not
have learned navigational skills for moving in it from physical reality
space-time experiences, we might tend to drift and to move through dreamtime
without much control. This would result in a two-dimensional time, where we
would experience two times, a personal timeline (what we sequentially
experience), and a world timeline. Instead of likening time to a straight
line, in DR it corresponds more to a two dimensional plane with the forward
edge corresponding to the future, and the backward edge to the past. (For
more on this, see 5.)

If we do experience a higher dimensional universe, how might "superstrings"
show up in our dreams? How might we perceive them? Perhaps a lucid dreamer
might notice anomalous structural elements, subtle signs of a higher
dimensional dream matrix below surface appearances. Although computer game
graphics may look realistic at first glance, careful viewing reveals
distortions due to an underlying hexagonal or tile matrix structure. If such
a matrix underlies dream reality, perhaps lucid dreamers can perceive
underlying distortions due to that matrix, when mindfully looking at their
surroundings. How might lucid dreamers perceive superstrings? Perhaps they
have some relation to "power lines", which many people report encountering
in dreams, often unexpectedly.

The Challenge: Exploring the Properties of "Dreamspace"

When you next become lucid in a dream (where you know that you dream while
you dream) pay attention to the structural level of your dream environment.
Does the dream environment appear stable, or does it change? If so how does
it change? As you move around in that environment, how do changes in your
perspective change what you see? Does your perspective sometimes shift
unexpectedly, or even reverse itself? Look for anomalies, distortions, or
unexpected regularities in the fabric of dreamspace such as "powerlines" or
geometric patterns.  Pay less attention to the foreground, and more
attention to the background, of experienced dreamscapes. Record your
experiences and interactions with dreamspace in your dream journal in as
much detail as possible - include drawings and diagrams if appropriate.


REFERENCES

1. Quoted from the The Elegant Universe, a three part NOVA series on
Superstring theory first aired in 2003. Amazing graphics, illustrating
mind-bending concepts. Available on DVD.)

2. "Psi-Perception in Dreams: Next Stop - the Twilight Zone." (a 2003
PsiberDreaming Conference Presentation) by E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.
http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_pdc2003_001.htm

3. Kaku, M., (1994) Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel
Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, Doubleday, New York.

4. Kellogg III, E. W. (1989). "Mapping Territories: A Phenomenology of Lucid
Dream Reality". Lucidity Letter, 8(2), pp. 81-97. Available online at:
http://www.spiritwatch.ca/LL%208(2)%20dec%2089/KELOG082.W50.htm

5. To read an example of a literally mind-bending higher-dimensional dream
of this kind, and its consequences on the dreamer, see pp. 49-50 in The
Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, by Rudy Rucker
(1994), Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

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Appendix 1. Just for fun: a lucid dream in which I attempted to manifest a
superstring with interesting consequences . . .

5/26/2000 " . . . In a 'Maxfield Parrish' type setting, in order to
demonstrate that we dream to two doubtful, but beautiful (and naked) women
bathing in a small, white marble pool, I fly across a very large, elegantly
furnished, wood paneled room. As I fly I remember my 'Superstring' task, and
chant aloud the incantation 'By the power of Alkahest / Let a Superstring
manifest!'

Nothing much happens - I expected a delay - but in a moment a 'radio' comes
on, and I hear a voice that tells me that 'it does not seem a good idea to
do an experiment of this type, at this time, as you still seem too unfocused
and distracted.' The voice tells me further that 'to do an experiment of
this kind requires careful consideration beforehand as to what to do, and
clear mindful intentionality while doing it'.

What the voice says makes sense to me - the naked young women definitely
distracted me, and still somewhat cloud my intent. However, this remarkably
stable dream environment seems perfect for an experiment of this kind, and
at this point I can now work undisturbed.

Rather than miss an opportunity, I decide to wait and see what happens. I go
outside, and see another pristine dreamscape view in a sort of rectangular
plane like space - unlimited in two directions, but of only limited height
and breadth - perhaps a mile for those dimensions. The whole dreamscape
changes as I watch - it becomes gray and desert like. In the sky, dark,
almost black, clouds materialize, roiling and moving, as if about to give
birth to something awesome and terrible. From a Maxfield Parrish scene it
has become El Greco!

Reluctantly, realizing that I do not have clear intent, and have not
carefully considered the implications, I decide to abort the experiment.

Looking up at the sky I intend/shout 'Cancel!' The clouds lighten and begin
to disappear. I intend/shout 'Cancel!' again, and the dreamscape returns to
normal.

I think of what else I might do, and decide to try manifesting a hypercube.
As I think this, three entities show up, two 'men' and one 'woman'. One of
the 'men' says 'Go ahead - if you don't mind having six or seven more of
you!' I think further, and tell the three excitedly 'I have it!" and compose
a simple chant: 'By the power of Alkahest / Let understanding of a hypercube
manifest!'

However, just after I've completed the first line of this chant one of the
'male' entities grabs my left hand, keeping me from completing a gesture. As
soon as he touches me I immediately return to waking physical reality, my
experiment incomplete, even though I'd felt solidly embedded in the lucid
dream reality right up to that moment."

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View From the Bridge
December 2006
Scrambled Contest or Outstanding Group Dream?
Joy Fatooh

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There's a great, worldwide, multicultural tradition that our thoughts -
prayers - meditations - focused intentions have actual power and influence.
Another vast school of thought says we're all interconnected in subtle and
profound ways; our true self is the entire web. Then there are those of us
who most readily access that web in our dreams, transcending distance and
boundaries to share experiences while we sleep.

Where these ideas meet, we find the World Dreams Peace Bridge - a group
brought together by the notion that we can bring our focused intentions into
our dreams, dream together, and magnify our will to promote peace so that it
radiates throughout the web. At least that's the way I see it. Our founder
Jean Campbell, author of Group Dreaming: Dreams To the Tenth Power, explains
the title as reflecting the idea that if "people could dream together, we
would be suggesting that dreams can be augmented in an exponential manner."
It's a leap of faith to think we can thereby change the world. But - dream
with intention, dream as a group, share information, influence one another
on the profound levels on which dreams operate? We do that all the time!

A remarkable group dream took place a few weeks ago, disguised as the
Psiberdream Telepathy Contest. The contest is part of the International
Association for the Study of Dreams' annual online conference. Several
participants were Peace Bridge members - or joined soon after.

The rules: An unnamed person selects four dissimilar pictures and seals them
into opaque envelopes. A set is provided to a person acting as "sender" who
secretly selects one, leaving the others sealed, then spends the night
attempting "to establish mind-to-mind, awake-to-sleeping connections with
the dreamers participating all over the world.. Dreamers are encouraged to
incubate the intention of seeing or connecting with the sender and the
picture, writing down all dreams they have." The next day, all four pictures
are posted online, and contestants post their dreams and choose which
picture they seem to match. Judges award prizes for the dreams best matching
the target picture.
The contest night was a Thursday. The sender was the renowned and talented
Beverly D'Urso. I wrote down a plethora of dreams. In one I realized I was
dreaming, gleefully called out "Beverly, show me the picture!" and took off
flying. Below me was a snowy landscape. A bare patch of earth opened in the
center. Suddenly "a very large dog" leaped into the scene, followed by
another; later I dreamed yet another dog.

Once I saw the potential targets, I zeroed in on Picture #1, a snowy scene
with a bare patch of earth at the center, in which two elf-like characters -
one tall and young in a pale, belted outfit, one short and old and bearded
in a red-orange Santa-like hat - gaze up into an evergreen tree. Bits and
pieces of my other dreams fell into place: Two figures, one tall, one short.
A figure in a pale belted outfit. An evergreen tree. Boys or young men
looking up at what I'd described as "something like a pickle?!" which in
fact resembled one of the branches. Asymmetrical apples and carrots, the
color and shape of the red-orange hat. My white cat leaping toward a little
animal, which I related to a white snow-shape curving toward a small oval
hollow that could be an animal's burrow.

One convincing bit for me was that I twice dreamed a stair-step line from
lower right to upper left, which corresponded to the "implied line" created
by the elves' heights and direction of their gaze - something only an old
art sudent might care about!

But there were no dogs in the picture. And I didn't dream of an elf or gnome
- the main subject, really.

But Dolores did! She dreamed of "two dwarfs in tall red caps, sitting on a
shelf with downcast eyes, hands on their knees and their white beards
flowing over their knees between their hands. They looked like the
red-capped fellow in picture #1."

Sonia D. matched the taller, younger elf when she dreamed "My [teenaged] son
is wearing a drab gray one piece-suit and looks something like a jester."
Beverly A. reinforced the little old dwarf and his cap, dreaming of a "boy"
who was orange and very wrinkled, and "a red triangular shape that doesn't
seem related to anything. It's just there." Ilkin's brief dream notes
concisely interpreted the expressions on their faces: "Grumbling/curious.
Waiting/looking the way for something. Afraid from precognition. Snow."

Patricia wrote her dream in haiku form:

tiny elves shelter
in the hollowed out birch tree
massive storm
----
the dog alerts them
one by one scruffy elves leave
the hollow log

Maia contributed, "First, a dream of placing a child into a small oval
hollow in the earth.. Second, images of caribou and snow, ice, a few patches
of bare earth." Mary Pat, like me lucid and actively seeking the target,
dreamed of woods, cold, and "a landscape full of snow and ice" - plus
red-harnessed reindeer hung with bells.

And a Husky dog.

Two non-competing contest facilitators couldn't resist reporting. Bob Van De
Castle wrote, "The most compelling aspect of my dreams last night was that
there was a scene where I had my hands in snow, which is something I can't
previously recall ever experiencing!" Rita Dwyer dreamed of snow and
evergreens and "Christmas in the air."

Suzanne "dreamed about seeing Beverly eating an ice cream." Curt dreamed "a
black sphere on the upper left of my visual field - I look up to see it..
What I notice about Picture 1 is that there is a black patch in the upper
left of the picture about the same size as the sphere in my dream, and the
two figures seem to be looking up at it."

We excitedly compared notes online. As a group, we'd dreamed up every bit of
Picture #1. But we were also impressed by the group hits on the other three
pictures, especially #3 and #4.

Picture #2 showed a family of apes in loving interaction. Bob V. thought two
of his dreams related: "In the first I was on a bed with a dog's head on my
lap and I was petting him. In the second, a different dog was on the bedroom
floor on its back and sort of rolling around." More dogs!

Picture #3 showed a dark-haired, bare-footed, bare-breasted dancer in a
yellow skirt, dancing for an audience in a darkened room. Liz described her
perfectly, aside from hair and costume colors: ".dancing with her arms in
the air. She has light hair with streaks and a bare top. She is moving her
hips back and forth and she has a thin figure. From about the middle of her
back down she is wearing a see through white garment. She has a smile on her
face and appears to be enjoying herself. She is acting as though she is
dancing for an audience." Peggy dreamed of happily going topless, plus bits
that filled in what Liz missed: a pretty woman with dark hair; the color
yellow; a bare foot. Val, who loves jewelry, keyed into the dancer's
earrings and bangles. David L. K. modestly converted the audience passively
watching the central dancer into several turned-off televisions in a
darkened room surrounding one that was on - which he blocked from the view
of his young daughter, as he assured us he would have done if Picture #3
were being broadcast!

Liz later in the night seemed to dream the Amish barn-raising in #4:
"Themes: Busy working, building. Emotions: frustrated, trying to work Major
structural elements: wood, very large arch shape. I am standing on a high
ladder with many people below me.." Ed described the same scene in table-top
miniature, adding the colors: "Themes: Construction, putting pieces
together. Emotions: Mental focus, annoyance at having someone telling me
what to do. Major structural elements: Edges, lines, geometrical shapes.
Manipulating pieces, building. Blue, white and beige.. Geometrical puzzle.
lots of wooden pencils." Dale dreamed of an assembly/disassembly project, a
crowd of people and "something that resembles a barn or a shed." Janet saw a
tall, empty house made of unfinished light brown wood; Bob K., a house with
no walls, roof or furniture. Gosh dreamed of wooden frame structures three
nights in a row. Terri dreamed she tried to climb up a tall stage at an
outdoor concert. Mary Pat dreamed of a large building in a scene that looked
very much like the picture, especially the bright green sloping lawn. Sonia
D. dreamed, "I receive a 'gift'.. a child's playhouse. I open the door to
the house to discover that it is not fully assembled."

But although four of us dreamed seven dogs total, there weren't any dogs in
any of the pictures. Where'd they come from?

On Saturday Beverly revealed the target: Picture #1. The thoughts she'd
generated in sending it included Santa and reindeer along with elements of
the picture itself. Next she posted descriptions of her dreams on contest
night. "Ordering ice cream, but not eating it." "Open-walled houses" - was
she dreaming of #4, still in its sealed envelope? Or dreaming of the dreams
of the contestants who dreamed of #4? She also dreamed of visiting Ashland,
Oregon - where she'd recently travelled with Ed - in an old car that turned
out to be a near-exact match with an old car Ed dreamed, completely
unrelated to any of the pictures.

And - what's this? She dreamed an "extremely large dog" tried to get into
bed with her!

At this point Suzanne confessed, "Gosh! I'm so confused! You see, Robert
Waggoner and I are doing some dream games too. The last time it was his turn
to do the sending, and I was a bit disappointed to find out that this dream
telepathy contest had the same target night. Since I wanted to participate
in both, I didn't know what to do.. Maybe it's interesting to share what he
was sending.?"

Turns out it was a photo of sled dogs on an icy river!

The judges labored for an extra day, reporting, "Choosing winners is very
difficult. Extra awards may be added to cover the strange and wonderful
things that happened during this PDT contest of 2006." While we waited we
talked about how we'd contributed elements adding up to the whole, each
according to our own way of seeing. I wrote that it was "difficult to
evaluate my own dreams' relation to the target without looking at everyone
else's. Think how fun and rewarding it would be if that were the object of
the game. treat it as a group dream and say, for instance, 'Wow, there's a
lot of snow in here! A lot of dancers too, but even more snow. And look at
all the elves.."

Finally the judges stated that collectively the 2006 contest had "the best
results ever," and named ties for first, second and third place plus several
honorable mentions for matches with non-target pictures and Beverly's
dreams. Clearly they weren't entirely comfortable with reducing this
intricate network to a linear hierarchy. And neither was I. The initial
ego-thrill of being named a winner was quickly replaced by a feeling
something like loneliness. The experience of meshing minds in the night with
people all over the world was far, far more rewarding.

Joy

(P.S. Jean has reminded me that she wrote last month of my Albuquerque
mystery and suggested I might tell how it turned out. Bear with me: it's
still unfolding, with the help of my dreaming friends on the Bridge. More
soon! - jf)


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  An Interview with Adrian Calabrese, PhD.

Questions by David L. Kahn
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Adrian Calabrese, PhD., is the author of Sacred Signs: Hear, See & Believe
Messages from the Universe (Llewellyn Publications, 2006), 10 Spiritual
Steps to a Magical Life (Llewellyn Publications, 2003), and How to Get
Everything You Ever Wanted: Complete Guide to Using Your Psychic Common
Sense (Llewellyn Publications, 2000). Dr. Calabrese is a member of the
American Association of Journalists and Authors, the National Speakers
Association, and the Author's Guild. She is currently in private practice
and is director of the Metaphysical Center and pastor of the Metaphysical
Church of the Spirit.

  Website: www.AdrianCalabrese.com


  David L. Kahn [DLK]: Tell us about Sacred Signs. What do you most want the
reader to take from it?

Adrian Calabrese, PhD., [AC]: The book is the result of my own experiences
with signs as I indicate in the first chapter. My father's illness was the
motivating force, as well as signs my clients/students/church members shared
with me over the years. I want the reader to know most importantly that
signs are real and extremely significant as direct guidance from God/The
Divine.


  [DLK]: What similarities or differences have you noticed between signs that
show up in waking life versus those that show up in dreams? Do signs appear
large or exaggerated while awake as they do in dreams?


[AC]: Dream signs may be partially allegorical, as opposed to waking signs,
which are direct and literal. They both are direct guidance from God. I find
waking signs to be mostly subtle and significant only to the person asking
for the sign. At times, they may be exaggerated, but not often.


  [DLK]: Can you give us an example of a dream sign that had a major impact
on your life?


[AC]: I dreamed my uncle had died, and he did several days later. He was ill
and I had been concerned about him. Before I went to sleep I programmed,

  "Please let me know in my dream what's going to happen." Then I went to
sleep and I saw him in a coffin. It was really astounding. I saw all of the
family there. That morning I knew it was a literal dream; it was not an
allegorical dream. I told my folks the next day, "You know, I think he's
going because I had this dream." He had been sick on and off his whole life.
He had several heart attacks. Why this time? He had survived it so many
times. This is the only time I had that dream, and then sure enough about
three days later he made the transition.


  [DLK]: Do you frequently experience precognitive dreams?


[AC]: For me it's kind of rare. Usually when I have a precognitive dream it
is something that is major. It's not just sort of an everyday occurrence. It
would be something major, something life changing or challenging. So, for me
it's kind of rare. I get most of my information through light trance, but
when things are huge in my life they tend to come through in my dreams. When
I'm conflicted about something and the human part of me just can't figure it
out or if I can't open myself up enough to spirit to get the information,
then I turn to my dreams when I can be clear. Even though the information is
allegorical, and not necessarily literal, I still know what to do. My mom is
amazing about it. My mother is psychic as well and she gets all of her
information in dream time. She's closed to any kind of psychic perception
generally. She's a little afraid of it, but she trusts her dream time. She
will just think of a situation or a question and then she goes to sleep. She
wakes up the next morning with the exact answer that she needs. She doesn't
necessarily remember the dream, but she knows the answer when she wakes up.


  [DLK]: What are your thoughts about the deceased showing up in dreams?


[AC]: I see a lot of people in dreams. I've often seen family members that
have come back in dream time. That's pretty regular for me. It's my belief
that when a loved one appears in a dream, it is not really the dream. The
loved one is making the communication. For whatever reason, we may not be
aware, but there is definitely communication going on and sometimes the
spirits are able to make the contact much easier when we are in that alpha
state.


  [DLK]: What can you share about your early years, religious or spiritual
upbringing, and what brought you to the field of metaphysics?


[AC]: I was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic schools through my
undergraduate degree at Fordham University. I began my studies in the field
after having a deeply moving spiritual experience. I heard the voice of my
Spirit Guide, Roger.


  [DLK]: What is the story of you discovering your spirit guide, and what did
he have to say to you?


[AC]: I was on a weekend vacation in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. A friend
and I had decided to go down there, and at the time I was a starving
actress. We had planned to be on the beach, but it rained and we were forced
to entertain ourselves. Instead we went to a bookstore. My friend was very
much into new age and psychic phenomena and I was not. The most I did was
read the horoscope in the daily news. But, she had talked a lot about it and
I was in the new age section, and there was one book that was not aligned in
the shelf. It was sitting on top of the other books. I'm a little neat nick
and went to put it back inline.

I picked it up and it said, "Spirit Guides." I looked at it and I said,
"Wow." I've heard about these things and it was very affordable. I only had
a few bucks, but I thought I'd treat myself. My friend had an armful of
books and this gypsy fortune telling game, and I said, "What are you buying
that for?" She said, "I don't know why." We got back to the room and it
continued to rain. We only had two days on this weekend that we thought we
were going to spend on the beach.


That evening I said, "Let's play that fortune telling game that you bought"
and she said, "Oh all right." It consisted of a scarf that you laid down on
a surface that had an outline for cards. It was almost like a tarot thing
that you kind of place the cards on each one of these outlines on the scarf
and then read in the book what it means. In the center there was a circle
and you're supposed to put in the circle an article from the person that
you're reading - a ring, a watch, something to get their energy. So she did
mine and told me all these wonderful things that are going to happen to me,
and then I said "I'll do yours" and she handed me a ring. When she put it in
my hand, I couldn't open my hand and I started to panic. I said, "I can't
open my hand." Then the ring began to move in my hand, and I said "It's
moving" and it really, really scared me to death. I couldn't release it.


  All of a sudden, at that moment, I heard a voice say "Hello" as though it
were another person in the room. I said, "What?" I thought she said it. She
said, "What? I didn't say anything." I said, "I just heard some guy say
hello." She said, "Uh oh, I think I know what's happening. Close your eyes
and just see what you hear." I closed my eyes and I heard, "Hello." I said,
"I heard him again" and she said, "Ask him who he is." I said, "Who are
you?" and he said, "I'm your spirit guide."


I asked him his name and he said, "Roger." I told her, "Roger" and then I
said to him, "Roger?" I expected a spirit guide's name to be very exotic. He
said, "Roger for Christ's sake. I'm here to help you do your work" and I
said, "What work?" I'm speaking out loud because I don't realize that I can
communicate just with my thoughts.


It was astounding because my friend was witnessing this thing happen to me
and she began to ask me questions. When she asked me a question, I'd ask it
of Roger and he would answer it. He was giving us predictions. He was giving
us information that I could not possibly know about my friend's friends and
things that had occurred in her life that I didn't know about. We knew for
sure from that kind of evidence that this was the real thing. He stayed with
me all night.


  I was terrified. I didn't want to go to sleep. I was up all night because
he talked to me the entire night. Finally I said, "You have to stop." The
whole weekend he was in my head. He said, "Oh, just tell me when you've had
enough." It was so simple, and he said, "Call me when you want me." From
that moment on my entire life changed. I began to be able to heal. My friend
that weekend had a problem in one of her legs. She said, "Ask Roger what to
do" and he told me to put my hand on our leg, and I did and the pain went
away.


It was as though someone flipped a switch and all of a sudden I could do all
of these things that I never even knew I could do. From that moment my life
has taken quite a turn.


  [DLK]: Share some concepts from your earlier books, including where dreams
may be a part of the book or have given you ideas when writing them.


[AC]: In previous books, I have mentioned dreams as significant tools in
understanding our needs, desires, motivations, guidance from God, and that
they may be used as tools to program the subconscious mind for manifesting
our desires.


  [DLK]: Do you often use your dreams for guidance, or incubate a question to
receive the answer in a dream?


[AC]: I actually do both. If I'm having an emotional dilemma, in dream time
they'll come more clearly for me. If I know that a situation is far too
emotional for me to handle, I will definitely do the programming and try to
get the information through the dream state.


  [DLK]: Are any of your clients particularly adept at finding signs in their
dreams?


[AC]: In Sacred Signs I talk about the dream signs. Many times we will get
them in dreams. My client Garth is the best at it. He goes to sleep and he
gets the literal. He's the most amazing person. He wakes up and he records
it in his mind, and he goes back to sleep and he continues, getting the
answers that he is looking for.


  [DLK]: The word "coincidence" doesn't seem to be a part of your vocabulary.
Do you have any thoughts about the timing of this interview, and how it may
prove to be a sign either for you or someone reading this?


[AC]: I don't believe in coincidence, only in synchronicity. Yes, this
interview is a sign for both of us, you and I, and possibly for a reader.
For me, it is a sign to continue my work. Only you and the readers will be
able to determine what significance it has for you.


  [DLK]: Thank you, Adrian, for sharing your thoughts and experiences with
us. What do you see for yourself in the future? Another book? Any parting
thoughts or words of wisdom?


[AC]: You're welcome. I am working on my next book, Single and Happy! What
to Do for Your Soul While You're Waiting for Mr. Right, as well as two other
titles. I'm speaking and doing workshops around the country, and just
returned from a 5-city book tour for Sacred Signs. In parting, it is my wish
that all of us come to know the Spirit within and learn to have a life-long,
positive, loving, joyful relationship with the Divine. Blessings to all!

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David L. Kahn is a member of the International Association for the Study of
Dreams (IASD) and the World Dreams Peace Bridge. His book, A Dream Come
True: Lessons in Current and Precognitive Dream Interpretation, can be
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DreamSpeak interview for the next quarterly edition, and he will be starting
an on going quarterly column in that publication.

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Look Both Ways

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Dreams and Ambiguity: There are Two Sides to Every Dream
Whatever you think your dream means, don't forget to consider the exact
opposite. If you are sure your dream means just one thing, stop! Take
another look.

Almost all methods of dream work have a built-in "warning" system to remind
you to consider the alternatives. In ancient Greece it was believed that
dreams were sent by the gods. On their way to you they passed through one of
two gates, either horn or ivory. True dreams passed through the gates of
horn; false dreams passed through the gates of ivory.

In other words, dream meanings are always tricky; they can flip flop.

This is particularly important when your dream "suggests" taking some
critical action in the waking world. If your dream seems to clearly tell you
to change your job, or that your boyfriend is having an affair, think
carefully before quitting your job or accusing your boyfriend.

I dream that I wake up and find that I have got a terrific new job to go to.


That's nice but, flip it around, and it may well mean you had better wake up
if you want a terrific new job.

Calpurnia's Dream

Shakespeare offers a perfect example of the way in which a dream can be
understood in two different ways. In the play "Julius Caesar," Calpurnia,
Caesar's wife, dreams that a statue of Caesar was flowing with blood and
many Romans wash their hands in the blood. She is sure it means Caesar will
be assassinated.

Caesar tells the dream to Decius. But Decius (who is part of the plot to
kill Caesar) says it means Caesar is so great that Rome shall be nourished
by his blood; that Rome will be revived by Caesar. He adds that it would
look bad if Caesar gives in to Calpurnia's fears.

Both interpretations are feasible. Calpurnia's judgment was good. Decius was
lying. But Caesar, swayed by his own pride, followed Decius' interpretation.
He went to the forum and the rest is history.

The problem with all dreams interpretations is that they have this
ambiguity. There is no final way to resolve the matter.

The Moral

Interpreting dreams always leaves room for opposite conclusions. Pride and
vanity will often push you in one direction. "Bad" dreams can have a "good"
interpretation and vice versa. If you are dealing with practical matters in
the waking world, be wary of simply taking action based on a dream.

By and large, Dream RePlay avoids this issue because we wait for the next
dream and watch the progression. A good rule of thumb (unless you have to go
to the forum today) is to wait for two more confirming dreams.

In next week's column we'll discuss dreams of infidelity: what do you do
when you dream that your lover is cheating on you? You'll see that there are
many possible interpretations.

  DIAL-IN DREAM GROUPS
There will be no group next week. The next one will be on Monday, 27th.

DREAM GROUPS
The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince Street
in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and Telegraph. Please
let me know if you are coming.

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Best wishes

David Jenkins
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dream_title: messy drama

dream_date: 11/28/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: it was me, my boyfriend and my mother, was @ my grand mothers
house i walked in my grandmothers house gave a kiss to my grandmother
greeted my mother and gave a kiss to my boyfriend, my boyfriend comes up to
me calling me a bitch a hoe he said that he neva loved me that he's always
cheatin on me, he made waterfalls run down my cheeks i was crying and crying
i felt the worst pain ever like my heart doesn't exist he would keep
repeating himself not knowing what i did wrong i went to the kitchen grabbed
a knife went to the living room then i did a cut on his leg then another one
on his other leg and another on his shoulder i told him that if he wants to
feel the pain im feeling right know i said it over and over until we went
outside then he would say "u a bitch a hoe i never loved u etc" then he
didn't care that i was crying he just would keep making me feel like shit
then after that i couldn't take it no more i took the kitchen knife then ran
it across his face and made a big cut he was still alive he just stood there
in shock i told him "every minute i cry every minute u say u don't love me
the pain ur feeling right know is what im feeling" and i keep repeating "why
why"

dream_title: "Paralyzed"

dream_date: 11/14/06

dreamer_name: dreamswimmer

dream_text: like always, there was no true plot, just feelings and images
clearly remembered. it is long...i was dreaming i was laying on by bed
motionless just waiting for a friend to arrive, resting after a rough
morning. we had planned for the day to film a documentary about rape at a
near-by college.(Still in my dream) i had fallen asleep by the time my
friend arrived and she woke me up with a honk of her horn urging me to
welcome her in my home. i couldn't move. i was anxious to see her, but to my
surprise i was paralyzed. she let herself into my house and came into my
room and immediately asked what was wrong. then did i realized that i
couldn't talk because it consisted of movement in the mouth, so i groned. it
was the most uncomfortable feeling knowing i couldn't even lift a finger. i
had no control. she assumed i was just tired so she said i could rest awhile
and she would go get some lunch. by the time she got back i was entirely
angry. not at her but i wanted to take it out on her. i couldn't take it
anymore. as time went on minute sounds got louder and light gotbrighter and
my vision became disturbed and blurred. when she came back up she had become
a tornado in my eyes. in the presence of my own room, i could see all the
furniture ruined and decorations broken so i became more mad. i finally
gained enough energy and adrenaline to rage up off my bed long enough to
kick her out of my house. little did she know she was a threat to me and my
belongings, so i knew my words would confuse her, hurt her and ruin our
plans for the day. i needed a companion but no matter how hard i tried to
explain my fatigue, she would never understand until i was healed. i passed
out the moment i got my words out at the edge of my bed. i didnt even make
it on my bed, so now i am laying uncomfortably on the floor. i was laying on
rubble of a tornado which was painful, but again i had no control. i was
left for hours alone on end until finally i went on a walk covered in
layeres and layers of clothes, dark sunglasses and warm shoes. i was
sensitive to the world like i had just woken from being in acoma.the air was
cold, the sun was too bright, my eyes were swolen, i was lost and sad i had
no idea where my friend went. as i was walking i saw my boyfriend. what a
relief, like clonopin on a manic day, like water when your thirsty, he had
saved my from my confusion. what day is it i asked. i do not remember what
he responded, but then i saw my mom and little sister at a neighborhood
pool. i asked if i could join them but they said no and i felt rejected and
confused why not and when the last time i saw them was. my dream ended with
the honk of my friend outside my house. it was a trip i thought it started
all over. but then i looked around. my room was all clean and all protraits
still hung. this dream has meaning and i will never forget it.


dream_title: flying

dream_date: 2006

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: i dreams that i can fly i can control my flying and it feels as
if it is real.i began to run on a green grassy hill,then suddenlly i jump
and lift off into the air,i mostly hover around corners of my house,i feel a
tickle in my stomach at times



dream_title: Teal Turkey, Yellow Rattle Snake & 9mm

dream_date: 11-21-06

dreamer_name: Cairns

dream_text: It was thanksgiving night and i wasn't to happy with the whole
thing so i went out in my front yard and started shooting my dads .22 rifle
and after a little while he came out and brought me a flash light so i could
see were i was shooting. It was sort of like it was raining were the sound
was muffled but it wasn't so i went into the back room in out garage and
reloaded the .22 rifle and i also took our Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol and
i loaded it and i remember walking out in the driveway and their was these
two turkeys and i was trying to catch them so i had a piece of PVC that was
broken at the end and i was trying to hit the turkey over the head and i
just couldn't keep up with them, one of the turkey's was looking more like a
dog sort of like our 2 year old male dog astro that we have and the
turkey/dog bit my hand but didn't do any damage and i remember yelling if i
had my 9mm i would have blown ur head off and then my family was their and
my dad had caught the turkey that was still a turkey and i remember saying
wow its a teal turkey and my dad took it off and the turkey/dog was gone but
their was this giant yellow rattle snake laying belly up and i remember
thinking i need to pretect everyone from it so i took out the 9mm and
started shooting at it but the gun had such a kick i couldnt get close to
hitting the snake and i was hitting my neighbors yellow barn thats a good
100 or 150 yards behind it... the dream sorta faded out from their and
turned into a bunch of mush i cant remember...


dream_title: 13 years older than me

dream_date: 11/20/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: Im in love with this guy but we r 13 years apart.He is a karate
instructor and is very successful don't no if he likes me back so i talked
to god not in person but in my prayers. I asked god to tell me weather or
not i should give him up, i also asked him if he could tell me in a dream or
something if i should give him up.So last night i had a dream about him, i
had a dream that i went to karate and i said "hi" to him he was talking to
someone and he said "hi sugar lips im kindda busy right now but i'll talk to
u later". So i said ok and started to watch the karate lesson when it
started then we kept looking back and forth at each other then this one girl
came up to us and started saying "oh u like each other its so ovbeuse" then
we looked at each other in a weird way and it was like she was jealous or
something!
I really don't no if i should give him up or not,i asked my best friend she
said not to give up but i need to no if i should or not and i need to no wut
my dream means!


dream_title: snake in a box

dream_date: 16.11.06

dreamer_name: nur

dream_text: my friend has a small box in the top shelf with a small snake in
it.she tells me to look after it.its very high on the shelf. i take it ans
some how i open it, but i'm so afraid of the snake so i clost it too
strongly that i harm the snake. i forget my mobile phone inthere.the snake
cant move and going to die.i feel sorry for him.and than somhow the box is
opened.i'm happy i got my mobile phone back and that the snake now will be
ok.i wonder how she didnt mind having a snake and i managed to mess it up

dream_title: Running from father and guts hanging out

dream_date: 11/11/06

dreamer_name: Black blood vomit

dream_text: Well I was with this friend and we were in the grocery store
running away from my dad who was chasing us. Finally I was in my dads car in
the parking lot, all of a sudden I was in my friends car. So me and my
friend are planning on seeing each other again without getting caught and he
lifts his shirt up all of a sudden and shows me that his guts are hanging
out. I'm pretty freaked out about it but he acts normal about it, and
finally I go home.


dream_title: many crab walk around me

dream_date: 11-13-2006

dreamer_name: dreamer

dream_text: I dreamed many crabs appeared in my kitchen. It was walking into
my bedroom and around my pillow. and it became more and more around my
kitchen and bedroom anywhere.and It was with some long shape fishes looks
like snake.



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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
    Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
    Harry Bosma

++ Cover “Enlightenment Garden”
          ~and~ article,  Dream Time and Art
          by J. Myztico Campo

  ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
             Lucy Gillis – Editor
             An Interview with a Lucid Dreamer
             By Robert Waggoner
             Responses (c) Don Middendorf

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             Joy Creates a Mystery
             Jean Campbell

++ Dreams:  “Schwartzchild Limit”
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             “The Never”
             Stan Kulikowski II

++ Column: Electing to Dream
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ Column: A World’s Dreams
            Steven Baughman


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Welcome to the November 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
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.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted
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In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month’s publication at
ed-news@...

From Lucy Gillis an the Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE), we have an interview
conducted by Robert Waggoner. Lucid dreamer Don Middendof is interviewed
about his beliefs on lucid dreaming and how dream and life enhance one
another.  While not dreaming, he teaches classes in physics, psychology, and
philosophy at a liberal arts college in the Northwestern part of the U.S.

Jean Campbell returns to the View, an ongoing summary and discussion about
events that take place in the online/offline global World Dreams Peace
Bridge. Jean discusses her presentation of the Bridge in Berkeley in October
and gives an example of how the Bridge members dream together, both with and
for other people.

May thanks to a regular contributor to EDreams, Linda Lane Magallón. She is
taking some time off to develop some other dream related projects.

Two unique dream journal entries  from Stan Kulikowski II, “
“Schwartzchild Limit”  ~and~ “The Never.”  If you have dreams you would like
published, please enter them in the form at
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Regardless of your political views, there is so much media focus on the
upcoming November 7th elections, that it would be close to impossible for
your Waking-self not to notice. But how about your Dream-self?  Read
“Electing to Dream,” part of the weekly DreamRePlay series with David
Jenkins, PhD

Every think it would be nice to just be able to pick up a phone in the
morning and tell your dream to your journal, and then have that journal
automatically available online? Well that part of a developing project by
Steven Baughman and his group, who are putting this all together as we
sleep. Read more about this in “A World’s Dreams.”

Speaking of dreams, what do these things have in common - Getting stuck on a
broken bridge, a falling elevator, and throwing snakes?  Only one thing, the
Electric Dreams Dream Section with Kat Peters-Midland!
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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:
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Cover by Myztico -  ‘Garden of Enlightenment’
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Which includes an article Dream Time and Art

The Dream Institute of Northern California didn’t get their November
Schedule in, but if you are in the Bay Area, please watch for programs this
month at
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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special  ed-news@...
address.

Online:
- Dream Video of the Month
- Bag O' Dreams software
- A Month In Pictures

Physical world:
- Oregon: Dream groups starting!
- California: Early Registration IASD Conference
- California: Workshop with Mary Brill
- Belgium: training and courses

Books, movies, research:
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- Mallon: 'In Your Dreams' at Channel 4
- Documentary on Lucid Dreaming (DVD)

Reminders:
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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. What are
dreamers putting online? Here's a sample:

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Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let us know!


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- Bag O' Dreams software
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Bag O' Dreams is an application for the exploration of dreams. It allows you
to search for words and phrases in a set of dreams. It also creates a
term-document model of a set of dreams which lets you identify features and
themes which can't be found by simple keyword-type searches. The use of
automatic clustering techniques lets you to find themes without specifying
what they are ahead of time. Profiling techniques make specific predictions
about the gender, age, family and marital status of a dreamer.

Traditional forms of dream interpretation are supported by the ability to
tag (color highlight) dream elements from different categories; words
describing characters, emotions, settings, objects and actions. The built in
dictionary and optional thesaurus allow you find possible associations and
idiomatic expressions relevant to these elements. Built in lists of search
strings help you quickly identify typical dream themes such as flying,
loosing teeth or being chased. These lists can all be customized to suit
your needs.

Statistical measures help identify elements and themes which are
over-represented or under-represented in a cluster of dreams. These can be
used to test a theory of dreaming when it makes specific predictions about
dream content for a particular theme.

For the latest changes please see here:
http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/history.html

For some information on the Quick Profile Report:
http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/quickprofile.html

Bag O' Dreams requires the current version of the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE). A new build of Bag O' Dreams can be downloaded here:
http://kitchen-sync.com/bag/download.html


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- A Month In Pictures
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Now that we all have digital photo camera's, and an abundance of imagery
already available on the internet, what can we do with that?

Inspired by Laura Atkinson's "A Dream - A Day", presented at the last Psiber
Dreaming Conference, and Aad van Ouwerkerk's new book "Droomwerk" (sorry,
that's Dutch), I started "A Month In Pictures". The plan is to pick or
create an image a day based on a dream.

It's a completely personal project, but I imagine that more people are doing
projects like this, or might perhaps be interested in doing something like
this with a group. I'd be interested to hear about that.

http://alquinte.com/en/in_pictures

Harry
ed-news@...



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- Oregon: Dream groups starting!
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Former Global Dreaming News editor and webmaster of the much admired Dream
Tree website Peggy Coats is announcing the start of various dream groups, in
Portland, Oregon. The Dream Sharing starts November 1st. The Monthly Dream
Book Club will start in January 2007, and the Dream Method Practice Group
will start in February. For more information, please visit the website.

http://www.dreamtree.com


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- California: Early Registration IASD Conference
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24th Annual Conference
International Association for the Study of Dreams
29 June to 3 July 2007
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

Early registration has started! Visit the website for more information:

http://asdreams.org/2007


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- California: Workshop with Mary Brill
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Transitions and Transformations - Using dreams as your guide

With Mary Brill, LCSW

* Saturday, November 18, 2006
* Fee: $95
* Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
* Location: Spirit in the Arts, 650 El Camino Boulevard in North Sacramento
(enter building from the parking lot and go upstairs)
* Contact Jaymee by phone 916-498-9588, or email jaykjell@... for
registration
* Bring a bag lunch. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

This one day workshop will focus on the use of dreams for guidance, making
life changes and transformation. Learn to develop an on-going practice of
dream recording, mapping, exploration, high adventure, imagination and self
discovery through the use of your dreams and the dreams of others.

Research indicates that the use of dream interpretation quickens an
individual’s ability to make rapid changes, work through resistance and
blocks, and access inner resources. It is perhaps one of our most
under-utilized and underdeveloped resources and yet, has the potential for
deep introspection and profound change.

You need no experience in dream work to attend. The only essential
ingredient for participation is an open mind! Bring a notebook, pen, and
your dreams.

Mary Brill is an experienced psychotherapist practicing in Northern
California. She leads national and international seminars and tours focused
on personal growth, dreams, feminine wisdom, and spirituality. She is known
for her unique ability to tame the inner critic and foster self acceptance.


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- Belgium: training and courses
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The dream center De Gulden Snede considers dreamwork as the original
foundation of all therapy, and would like to see dreamwork become wider
known by offering training and courses. De Gulden Snede has four teachers of
its own, as well as two guest teachers. Much of the work done by De Gulden
Snede is inspired by Dr. Maarten Lietaert Peerbolte, as well as by a variety
of other influences.

December 7th, a presentation will be held on Dream Analysis As Incarnation
Process.

More information is available at the website:
http://www.guldensnede.be



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- LaBerge: special book / cd offer
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Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide To Awakening In Your Dreams And In Your Life

by Stephen LaBerge (Sounds True: Boulder, 2004)

Is this a dream book, a dream offer, or just a dream dream? An introduction
and practical guide highlighting the potentials, applications, and various
approaches for lucid dreaming at will. Book includes a CD with Trance
Induction of Lucid Dreaming and other techniques. Use the link below for a
special discount offer direct from the publisher at the lowest-ever price:
US $9.30 (You save $10.65, more than 50% off list price). Note that the full
discount is shown on check-out only. If you are buying more than one copy,
please ask for the full discount in the checkout comments box.

Order here: http://snipurl.com/ldcd2

Lucidity Institute: http://lucidity.com


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- Harthan: Working the Nightshift
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Working the Nightshift How To Understand Your Dreams

by Dr. Joan C. Harthan (Paperback - Sept.2005)

As well as giving a comprehensive background to the history of dreams, and
how the modern world views them, this book guides the reader, step by step,
through ten effective dream analysis techniques.

You created your dream, only you can know what it means. But interpreting
your dreams is a challenge. It involves being open to learning things about
yourself that you may prefer not to know. When you investigate your dreaming
life, you are examining the real 'you' that hides behind the façade that you
present to the world, (and sometimes yourself!). It takes courage to delve
this deeply, but there are rewards at the end. Conscious interaction with
the world of dreams can not only help us to understand ourselves but can
help us to use that knowledge to make profound changes in our life.

The fact is that the blueprint for your life can be found in your dreams.
Most dreams are creative solutions to life's problems and can be used to
write a new life story for yourself. They show you what really makes you
happy and suggest ways in which happiness can be achieved. This knowledge
can then be used to bring good things into your life and eliminate those
things that aren't working.

http://www.docdreamuk.com


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- Mallon: 'In Your Dreams' at Channel 4
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Contacting you from England. I have just finished filming another five short
films 'In Your Dreams' for Channel 4 TV which will be shown in November.
This time I had the great pleasure of interviewing Robin Gibb of the famous
Bee Gees, Jennie Bond, former Royal Correspondent for the BBc, Gail Porter,
TV presenter, Carol Smillie, TV presented and James Hewitt, who, for five
years, was the lover of Diana, Princess of Wales.

As ever their dreams were revealing and fascinating. And for Robin Gibb his
dreams were the source of many melodies which were sold all around the
world, including Massachusetts and Jive Talking.

Kindest regards,

Brenda
www.brendamallon.com


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- Documentary on Lucid Dreaming (DVD)
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Explorers of the dream world are called Oneironauts. They use lucid dreams
to consciously enter into a world created by their mind. A lucid dream is a
dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that he or she is dreaming without
waking up from the dream. It is a skill which can be learned and experienced
by anyone. This documentary DVD will cover the scientific, psychological,
and spiritual aspects of lucid dreaming.

Interviews include world renowned dream researchers such as Dr. Stephen
LaBerge from Sanford University, Dr. Fariba Bogzaran from the Lucid Art
Foundation, Keelin from the Lucidity Institute, and Dr. Alan Wallace a
Tibetan Buddhist Scholar from the Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness
Studies. These experts share discoveries and wisdom they have gained from
their exploration of lucid dreaming.

http://www.luciddreamexplorers.com/



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Victoria Rabinowe (California):
http://victoriadreams.blogspot.com

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and the new
dreamwork, as reflected in his many books over the years. Now in retirement
age Strephon gives his podcasts and continues to write new books.

http://strephonsays.com


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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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Cover:  "Enlightenment Garden"
~and~
Dream Time and Art
by J. Myztico Campo

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“To live is to Dream, to die is to Awaken”, this thought has always
fascinated me for as long as I can remember. As a child my dreams were very
vivid, full of prehistoric creatures, vivid past life recollections, flying
dreams all in vivid colors. These dreams fuelled most of my waking
imagination and my creative process was informed from these surreal images.
I remember as I grew older my dreams became more lucid, things were
happening in my dreams that later appeared in my waking life on a rather
consistent basis. Some may call these Déjà vu, to me it seemed like these
dreams were trying to show me glimpses of the future before it actually
happened which I found rather eerie yet completely mind boggling.

As I got deeper into the creative process that included
painting/music/filmmaking and writing, dreams continued to be a major source
of inspiration and influence on my waking life. At times I preferred the
dream state than the waking state of mind. In the dream world possibilities
are endless where as in the waking state there are so many restrictions
placed upon us by questionable governments, societies, organized religions
and expectations as to where we should be within our aging timelines.

A lot of my art work (about 90%) arises from visions I witness during my
dreamtimes. I always pay close attention to my dreams. Some are much more
vivid than others as I try to be as lucid as possible during them. In the
particular case of “Enlightment Garden” that appears in this months Electric
Dreams cover I had this vision during a particularly vivid dream. I was
walking in an incredible garden where the trees were whispering
conversations to each other. As they carried on with their conversations the
trunks of the trees were turning into these stunning stained glass mosaics.
Blooming from their branches were these stunning purple hearts and scattered
eternal flames burning intensely. A further walk through this garden led me
to an interdimensional portal that transcended time, space and the material
world. I was greeted by 2 intensely glowing spirits whom communicated with
me telepathically.

They told me that our “so-called world leaders” were drawing humanity closer
to the end of times unnecessarily. Due mostly to ignorance, greed and the
need to control the masses under a dark cloud of deceptions. If humanity was
to evolve over the next 100 years we the people of this world need to place
extra close attention to the way we are being governed. I remember asking
them what would be the best non-violent manner in which to create these
changes to affect positive change for our world. The answer was surprisingly
simple yet rang so true. They said humanity needs to “AWAKEN” from a long
slumber caused by mass brain washing and historical deceptions. To realize
we are purposely distracted daily by outer influences that keep us away from
our true evolutionary potentials therefore keeping all of us oppressed by a
minority few.

With that said these spirits embraced me and then proceeded to walk through
the portal hand in hand until they assimilated and became one with eternal
space. The portal imploded, the garden morphed into a ravaged war torn city
with body parts strewn all over wreckage of what once were homes and
businesses. A crying child
with half a torso crawled toward me shedding tears of blood and said, “Will
we ever have PEACE?”…I woke up in tears, sketched out the garden scene on a
pad and proceeded to paint the dream that very day.

To see more of Myztico’s work. Please visit his website at:
http://myztico.mosaicglobe.com

About the Artist; J. Myztico Campo is a Cuban born, NYC raised self taught
Visionary Surrealist whose work has been displayed in various galleries in
the U.S. He has a variety of creative passions besides painting that
involves music/filmmaking/murals/poetry & photography. To see and hear more
of Myztico’s work visit his website:  http://myztico.mosaicglobe.com



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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis

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An Interview with a Lucid Dreamer
By Robert Waggoner
Responses (c) Don Middendorf


Lucid dreamer, Don Middendorf, believes that lucid dreaming helps enhance
lucid living (and vice versa). He explores the dreaming (and waking) worlds
with the goal of becoming more conscious of the reality-creation process.
His goals for his lucid dream excursions are to become more familiar with
his own psyche as well as other states of consciousness and existence - and
perhaps most importantly, to have fun. While not dreaming, he teaches
classes in physics, psychology, and philosophy at a liberal arts college in
the Northwestern part of the U.S.


Robert: Can you recall your first lucid dream experience? Please, tell us
about that.

As a child, I would occasionally realize that a fearful dream was "just a
dream" and wake myself up. I can only recall a couple of times when I was
able to tell myself that I was dreaming and continue dreaming. I also
remember a number of dreams in which I would sort of know it was a dream and
that I could fly if I could push off a particular spot in the alley or hold
my legs up as I floated down the long hill that I lived on. I think that I
thought of these dreams more as "that reality in which I can fly" rather
than as recognizing them as lucid dreams. I'm hesitant to say much more
about my childhood memories because I can't be sure my recall is accurate.
(The reconstruction of memories of the past based on current beliefs is a
hot research field right now.)

Robert: When did you first learn about conscious dreaming or lucid dreaming?

What about that lucid dreaming experience (or those early experiences) did
you find interesting?

I first learned about manipulating the dream environment from reading Seth
Speaks in 1974. Immediately after reading that book, I often awoke
remembering that I had been lucid, but with little or no recall of the
actual dream. The first fully lucid dream that I can remember now occurred
about a year later and I became lucid when I found myself floating above my
bed and bumping into the ceiling. I knew my body was asleep and this was a
dream but I wondered if I was also out-of-body so I looked out the window. I
saw a parking lot instead of the field that I knew was there in waking
reality. At the time, I believed that out-of-body experiences would take
place in the waking-world setting, so my dreaming self was puzzled by the
clear feeling of being out-of-body, yet the certain knowledge that this was
a dream.

For several years afterwards, I was always trying to come up with some model
that included a clear distinction between lucid dreams and out-of-body
experiences. I think the desire to understand the distinction helped me have
many lucid dreams. Whenever I would read another author's ideas on the
subject and start to believe that view, I would have a lucid dream in which
my dreaming self found some reason to reject that model. I think a good
model is a wonderful thing, but a good question leads to more interesting
experiences.

Robert: At that time, what methods did you use to bring conscious awareness
into the dream state? Has that changed over the years?

During the day, I would use a belief-changing exercise about being able to
become lucid in my dreams or have out-of-body experiences. Then I would use
similar pre-sleep suggestions. I was highly motivated so I did this almost
every night. I still use and believe in suggestions, but I tend to just let
lucidity come when it does. I've noticed that I usually have a couple of
nights of non-lucid or semi-lucid flying dreams before a series of lucid
dreams, so I often just wait until I have flying dreams and then suggest for
lucidity. One other "method" that I use now is to keep a list of "cool"
dreams in the back of my dream notebook. When I want to induce a lucid
dream, I'll re-read a number of previous lucid or nearly-lucid flying dreams
and that seems to spark the awareness of lucidity. At times in the past,
I've also had some success with the approach of asking "Is this a dream?"
frequently throughout the day. Jayne Gackenbach's research suggested that
meditation was highly correlated with lucid dreaming and I've noticed that
this seems to be true for me in those times when I have been able to make it
a regular practice.

Robert: As you had more lucid dreams, were there any lucid dreams that made
a deep impression on you? Tell us about them.

For the last decade or so, I've been fascinated by merging my dream body
with "matter" in the dream. I noticed that several people in your survey
(LDE #27, June 2003) said something similar as well as one of your previous
interviews. My dreaming self seems to be the one driving this experience. In
one lucid dream, I remembered my waking suggestion to talk with my inner
self about a specific problem and my dreaming self gently (but firmly)
over-rode my waking desires to try experiments moving my hand and body
through walls.

As mentioned by several of those interviewed in previous LDE interviews,
some of the most profound experiences I've had while lucid are when I
remember my desire to talk with my inner self about my purposes in life (or
to "seek the highest").  In one, I became completely sure that everything
and everyone in the dream was me. The feeling was so overwhelming that I was
deeply disappointed when I awoke to the seemingly flat waking reality. In
telling this dream, I want to edit the statement and say I was sure
everything in the dream was related to me in some deep way, but the actual
feeling in the dream wasn't about relations between me and the other things
or people, it was an experience of complete subjectivity - united whole.
There was simply no distinction between "other" and "me" even though there
was a spatial location from which the scene was viewed.

Robert: Interesting! What did you take from this lucid dream experience/s?
What did it come to mean to you?

I think such transcendent experiences (whether waking, dreaming, or
meditating) remind us of our basic subjective nature as expressions of All
That Is.

Robert: As a professor teaching a class on Dreams, Memory and Consciousness,
you must have discussed the paradoxical nature of lucid dreaming, inasmuch
as one develops conscious awareness in the (apparently unconscious) dream
state. What issues did lucid dreaming bring to a classroom study of
consciousness?

Quite a few students who enroll in such a year-long program have already had
some experience with altered states of consciousness. A few have had lucid
dreams and I encourage them to tell the class about their experiences -
primarily to encourage the excitement about the fun activities one can
pursue while lucid. My goal is to have them experience the nature of
consciousness rather than just read the theories we have constructed about
it. I think that lucid dreaming is the safest and most easily accessed
"altered" state. For students studying consciousness, I think the most
important take-home point of their first few lucid dreams is that
consciousness is much more flexible and has greater potential than many of
our current models allow. While suggesting to have lucid dreams, one student
had several out-of-body experiences. When we got to the part of the
consciousness text discussing the strictly biological models of
consciousness, she could state from her own experience that these models
were incorrect or at least quite incomplete.

Robert: Had many of the college students experienced lucid dreams? What
questions did they bring forward about lucid dreaming and the nature of
consciousness? What did consciously being aware in the dream state suggest
to them?

I think about 30 out of 75 students had lucid dreams during this past year.
Some had lucid dreams prior to the class, but for many it was their first. I
started talking about lucid dreams early in the year and encouraged students
to tell the class when they had a "cool" dream. It also helped that they
read about the scientific experiments "proving" that lucid dreams do exist
and it really helped having visitors who discussed their own exciting
experiences with lucid dreams. (Thanks to Robert for sharing his enthusiasm
this year!)  From my perspective, it changed the nature of the question,
"What is consciousness?" for everyone in the class because even those who
didn't have a lucid dream heard many experiences from their friends. I think
this "loosened" the beliefs of the class as a whole about other "paranormal"
experiences. I used lucid dreams as an example of experiences that were
considered "fringe" or "paranormal" but are now included as part of
"legitimate" science (of course, even non-lucid dreams could fall in this
category).  Of course, most of the students had pure-fun type of lucid
dreams such as flying that we just enjoy. I think these kinds of experiences
hint at the possibilities and encourage students to try experimenting with
what may be possible in the dream state - such as problem solving, or
out-of-body experiences or interactions with departed relatives or probable
selves. I can recall several students over the years who had a lucid dream
that helped change their beliefs in the nature of reality, but I think and
hope that I only see the beginning of such a change. It probably takes more
than a year or a summer (and more than a single dream) to do so. I hope the
experience of lucid dreaming helps them to realize that they can use a
subjective approach to studying their own consciousness without relying
exclusively on the studies done by experts. It makes me happy when a student
tells me that he or she no longer feels a need to use drugs to reach altered
states because the lucid dreaming state is better in some way. It also
pleases me when a student expresses a self-discovered conclusion about some
of the nonsense spouted by researchers in consciousness studies who have
clearly denied themselves from having any real experiences with
consciousness from the inside.

Robert: Did your students have any experiences with lucid dreams that
surprised you? Tell us about that?

A number of years ago, the students arranged to have a class meeting in the
dream state without telling me. The organizers told their peers to focus on
a candle before sleep and then come to a dream bonfire on campus bringing a
particular secret object to show any others who managed to show up. Three or
four students were able to induce lucidity that night and remember to go to
the dream bonfire and had many tantalizing near-misses with other students.
For example, Joe saw Mary who was asking about Steve while Mary dreamt of
hanging out with Joe and Steve. (I made that last sentence up just to show
the kinds of interactions they had. I never collect students' dreams.) I was
completely surprised at their success in a single trial at mutual dreaming.
In a similar trial this past year, only one student was fully lucid on the
night, but she actively sought out specific students in the class and one or
two of these other students had non-lucid dreams with her. Over the years,
several students have had transcendent experiences and a few have
life-changing or belief-changing lucid dreams or out-of-body experiences.

Robert: For some of us, lucid dreaming provides experiences that make us
question the nature of reality, and look to theoretical physics for possible
answers. Do you find this in your own lucid dreaming experience? Are there
aspects of lucid dreaming which might touch on principles of consciousness
or theoretical physics?

Oh my Robert, it would take several books and maybe several lifetimes to
answer that question fully! I use the models and observations of modern
physics to show students that some of the concepts that they think of as
absolute facts about bedrock reality might be less clear-cut than they
think. I particularly like to bring up the nature of time in relativity and
to discuss the use of multiple universe models in current cosmology and
quantum theory. I also like to shake up the standard view that objects have
observer-independent properties by discussing the predictions and
observations of wave-particle duality. I decided to do graduate work in
physics rather than biology because I wanted to understand the profound
discussion of consciousness in Jane Roberts' books which relied heavily on
physics. However, I cringe when students or people at conferences tell me
that my discussion of some of the theories of modern physics have proved to
them that their unconventional beliefs about the nature of reality are
correct. It's not that I object to their unconventional beliefs, but to
their reliance on the evidence of others - in this case the experiments and
theories of modern physics. Ken Wilber has pointed out that almost all of
the founders of modern physics were mystics, but none wanted their mystical
views based on their physics - partly because they all knew that whatever
models we use in physics will change over the next hundred years. However,
they hoped that their mystical views would remain "true" even if the strange
new views of physical reality evolved into something even stranger in the
future. Despite that caveat, I have to enthusiastically agree with your
suggestion that lucid dreaming will help us understand the nature of reality
- including consciousness and theoretical physics. Advances in theoretical
physics often go hand in hand with advances in mathematics and both are
highly dependent on using the conscious mind to reason and intuit productive
new ideas. That is, we're already using consciousness to explore the nature
of physical reality and the recognition of this is becoming more explicit. I
believe that the next generation of physicists will be trained in both
meditation and lucid dreaming - because it will be more efficient (as well
as more acceptable).

I think the most interesting thing I've ever done in a lucid dream that
helps in understanding the nature of consciousness (or at least of self) was
to ask myself what I thought of my waking life while in the dream state. I
can't say that I had some great insight about my waking life, but there was
quite a feeling of compassion and some humor for the current challenges that
I faced in my waking life from my dreaming self.

I've had a couple of lucid dreams in which I got a little better
understanding of some aspects of relativity or quantum theory, but I haven't
had any deep insights into the nature of physical reality. However, I think
each time we become lucid, we are gaining some experience with using our
consciousness in a more facile way and that's more important than
understanding how it works. I'm still quite interested in how it works, but
for now, I'm satisfied with just increasing, lengthening, and deepening my
experiences with lucidity in both dreaming and waking life.

Robert: Things like multiple false awakenings have always interested me.  I
remember one morning in which I had seven successive false awakenings, one
after the other -- bam, bam, bam - by the time, I wakened in "this" reality,
I literally hugged the wall and hoped I didn't suddenly pop into a new copy
of reality. Now, some people have suggested that false awakenings simply
show the "mental model" nature of consciousness, but I've wondered, what
about parallel realities? If physicists need anecdotal evidence of possible
visits to parallel realms, perhaps they should talk to experienced lucid
dreamers. What do you think about false awakenings?

Yes, I think some extremely experienced lucid dreamers could choose to
repeatedly return to particular parallel realities and explore their nature.

I don't have that level of skill, but I think some of those you've
interviewed over the last few years might. On the other hand, I think we all
experience parallel (or not-so-parallel) realities in our dreams whether
lucid or not. I think the role of lucidity is then to bring some degree of
reason into the experience so that we can reflect on the experience as it
occurs while dreaming rather than simply as dream recall later. A friend
told me of a moving (non-lucid) dream in which she dreamed she was the
number 8. I think that's far enough from our waking reality as to be labeled
a non-parallel reality, but still interesting.

I really don't know about false awakenings. On the one hand, my waking self
always feels that I simply missed some subtle (or not-so-subtle) cue that I
wasn't back in this reality. That is, I simply feel like I wasn't fully
lucid in any of the states of dreaming or waking. Once I'm "really" awake,
it feels like I should have known I was still dreaming. On the other hand,
if a series of false awakenings indicates actual awakenings in closely
parallel realities as you suggest, it could be very hard to tell one reality
from the other. For example, if the series of parallel realities in your
false awakenings differ by having speeds of light that are tiny fractions of
a percent different from each other, it might be hard to tell when you had
reached the right home reality. If the false awakenings are actually
parallel realities, a lucid dreamer might be able to consciously be aware of
some sort of internal signal that identifies this reality as home. It will
take some fairly advanced mutual lucid dreamers to figure this one out, I
think.

Robert: Lately I've been working on a piece called, "Why Does an Apple Fall
in a Lucid Dream: The Physics of Lucid Dreaming."  So, Don, why does the
apple fall in a lucid dream? The dreamer's expectation? The dreamer's
control? Belief? Intent? The dreamer's will?

You could also ask why the apple falls in a non-lucid dream. In fact, it may
surprise you to hear that there are still some aspects about the nature of
motion and gravity in waking reality that we (physicists) know that we do
not understand. The current cosmological models require multiple universes
with many different "fundamental constants" such as the speed of light or
the strength of gravity. Only those with nearly identical constants would
resemble our waking reality even a little. So maybe the apple falls in some
dreams because we are in a reality with a similar underlying make up. I
think the dreamer's expectation and belief enter at the level of the choice
for experiencing that particular reality. However, I have never made that
choice at the level of the dreamer, but I believe it's made at the level of
some inner portion of my being which I could call the Dreamer. The Dreamer
may be the part of us that allows the consensual Core Beliefs of a
particular reality (such as whether things fall) to be consistent across all
observers in that reality. This is analogous to Jung's conception of the
self as being part of a grander Self that has connections with a collective
(as well as a personal) unconscious. This may seem fairly speculative, but I
think that the reader's of LDE could do an experiment in which they choose
to experience realities in which the attractive nature of mass is gone and
objects attract on the basis of color. Then, red apples would move toward
other red objects, but not necessarily downward. So, my musings on your
interesting question is that it's all about beliefs, but at a deep level, so
as long as we're not over-riding the agreed-upon setup of that reality, we
don't need intent or control for an apple to fall. In waking reality, there
are good reasons not to violate the laws of the game such as gravity - it's
an ordering principle which makes it easier for our fledgling consciousness
to learn and play here. That's not to say that the anecdotal accounts of
levitation will be always be false - but my guess is that it takes a more
focused will than most of us incarnates have to over-ride the mass beliefs.
If was really adept at consciously creating my dream reality, I could
violate gravity by flying whenever I wanted. I think the same may be true in
physical reality, but I believe that becoming adept at reality creation is
one of the main reasons we're here and if I was so good at it that I could
fly, I probably wouldn't have much of a reason to be here.

Robert: Have you ever thought that the psychological space called "dreaming"

deserves its own "physics"? Obviously, dreaming involves a type of
psychological physics which may not have a direct connection with the
physics of the material world. Yet lucid dreamers experience certain
commonalities in "psychological space" which suggest that the psychological
space of dreaming functions on certain (yet-to-be-enunciated) principles.
What do you think? Is the world ready to consider the physics of
psychological space?

It seems I anticipated this question in my previous answer.  I certainly do
think the "space" of dreams (lucid or not) is going to function on some
"yet-to-be-enunciated principles", but I think the physics will have to be
based on consciousness or love as fundamental (rather than energy) and may
resemble psychology or pure mathematics more than it resembles current
physics. Well, I don't know that everyone in the world is ready to consider
what you call the physics of psychological space, but I think some are
considering it now and some have done so in the past. In fact, Carl Jung
attributes his ideas for his theory of personality to his discussions with
his colleague and patient, Wolfgang Pauli, about the new ideas in quantum
theory which Pauli was helping to develop. Jung attributes his views on
introvert/extravert and feeling/sensing as complementary aspects of a
personality to the quantum notion of complementarity and the lack of
observer-independent properties in quantum objects. I've already mentioned
the Seth books twice, but I have to do so again because I think they have
the best description I've seen of the physics of this reality and others
including dreaming realities.
Another part of the answer to whether dreaming deserves its own physics
might be that the scope of "dreaming reality" is far greater than waking
reality. I think of dreaming as one method of entering an infinite number of
other realities - each with their own physics. I doubt we can remember much
of our experiences from any reality that is too far removed from this one.
How would we record or even remember an experience in a reality which
differed from waking reality by even a relatively minor change like having
two time dimensions? (Although it's possible that the simultaneous dreams
discussed by Lucy at the LDE website and in LDE #35 are a reflection of that
kind of reality.) I've had a few dreams which were so ecstatic that even
though I was lucid and felt that they lasted for some "time", when I awoke,
I could only write a few words about it - that failed to capture any of the
essence of the experience.

Robert: Have you had (or heard about) lucid dream experiences that shed
light on the discussion of the nature of consciousness? Tell us about those.

What kind of lucid dream experiments could move forward the understanding of
the nature of consciousness? What would you like to see?

Well, the pages of LDE are full of such experiences. I think some of the
most enlightening were the experiments on mutual lucid dreaming that you
(Robert), Ed Kellogg, and Linda Lane Magallón reported at the Association
for the Study of Dreams conference in Santa Cruz in about 1999 (and I
suggest you give a summary of those experiments at some point in a future
LDE). I think mutual lucid dreaming is our best bet at some understanding of
consciousness that we can begin to call scientific. Of course, I think our
personal lucid dream experiences shed light on the characteristics and the
mobility of consciousness, and some of its potentials such as telepathy and
precognition that are not currently accepted by the majority of
professionals studying consciousness in the west.

The ecstatic "oneness" experiences that I mentioned above, the reflection on
the waking state from the dreaming state that I mentioned, and the certainty
I've had in some out-of-body experiences about the independence of
consciousness from the body (and the existence of life after death) all give
me insights into the nature of consciousness that I have personal experience
with.

Robert: Thanks Don for your observations into lucid dreaming. Any parting
thoughts?

It has been a real joy to watch the evolution of the LDE over the last
decade. I thank you (Robert) and Lucy for putting so much time into this
(and Ruth for starting it). I can't tell you how many flying or lucid or
otherwise "cool" dreams I've had after reading the dreams that people have
shared in the LDE.

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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
  Joy Creates a Mystery
  November 2006
  Jean Campbell

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I've been suffering some role confusion lately.  One of the reasons is
because members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge neglect no opportunity to
gather in physical reality, since most of our communication is done online.

On Wednesday, October 25, I kicked off the IASD Bay Area Lecture Series with
a lecture on "Group Dreaming/Dream Activism."  I was happy to see an
audience of twenty-five people in the beautiful Dream Institute building in
Berkeley--but there among the IASD members (most of them being IASD members)
were members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, a most welcome addition to
the evening.

There was Jody Grundy, all the way from Cincinnati, and seated beside her,
May Tung's good friend, photographer Roxanne Worthington.  Lana Nassar was
there and, most remarkably, Joy Fatooh, who had driven over the mountains
from the eastern part of the state, to meet us for the first time in waking
physical reality.

All of us Peace Bridge members have a tendency to meet in dream reality,
something that has inspired me to say that the Peace Bridge discussion group
is the world's longest-lasting online dream journal and also the
longest-lasting group dream experiment.  In fact, Joy became a member of the
Peace Bridge due to sharing dreams with Ilkin in Istanbul, although the two
of them have yet to meet while awake.

There was much joking and laughing and hugging going on among the Peace
Bridge members in Berkeley that night, particularly when the Peace Bridge
ladies discovered that they had all been suffering similar pains in the same
knee, shoulder and hip (We hope this is not a result of dreaming together.).

Then, in the aftermath of the evening in Berkeley, in a fun-filled
conversation online, Joy proposed a mystery to the members of the Peace
Bridge, and a unique use of group dreaming.

"Just for fun," Joy wrote, "Do any of my talented and curious friends out
there want to
dream up 'What happens to Joy in Albuquerque?"'

"When I was 17 years old," she went on to say, "I dreamed I experienced
something very mysterious in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'd never been there
(except for passing
through once at night on Route 66). The dream was so vivid and strange that
it stayed with me... and over the course of 20 years I gradually found out
what it was that I experienced... and thus verified that it was
psi-something, but what? If it was precognitive and it's going to happen to
ME, it's taking at least 33 years to happen - because next week I'm going to
be in Albuquerque for the first time since the dream!"

This was a request to group dream about the results of a dream!  No Peace
Bridge member is going to pass up this kind of a challenge, so the dreams
began to come in.  Mary Pat, having joined the Bridge shortly after the
recent PsiberDreaming Conference, dreamed about Joy meeting with gnomes in
Albuquerque, something that seemed  very puzzling until Joy reminded her
that the Dream Telepathy conference at the PsiberDreaming Conference where
they first met involved a piece of art including gnomes.  Rita dreamed of
being in Albuquerque.  Jeremy, who reminded Joy that the deadline for
dreaming had already passed by his house in Seoul, Korea, sent an article
he'd found on the Internet  which claimed that joyous thinking created
joyous people.  It was also interesting to note that several people in the
group had connections with Albuquerque, although these connections had never
come up before.

The mystery is not solved.  Joy is only now on her way to Albuquerque, on
her business-related trip.  But before she drove away, she left a message on
the Peace Bridge list, telling us the dream she'd had at seventeen that has
stayed with her so long:

"When I was 17, I dreamed it was a calm dark night and I was rising straight
up into the open air over Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’d never been to
Albuquerque, other than passing through once on Route 66. But I knew it was
the lights of Albuquerque receding below me. The visceral feeling of rising
straight up, with the cool night air all around me, was absolutely vivid and
real. Looking down, far below me but high above the city lights I saw a huge
white globe glowing softly as if lit from within."

Even learning years later that Albuquerque is the Hot Air Balloon Capitol of
the World has not taken the mystery away from her dream, Joy said.  "It was
an unforgettable dream from the moment I woke. So vivid! Such a gently
thrilling feeling. Why Albuquerque? Why rising straight up? How? What was
the incandescent globe and how did it get to be so high?"

What are these dreams (sometimes called high dreams, yes, or peak
experiences) that so capture our attention, and what if anything does this
type of dream have teach us about group dreaming?  Tune in next month, when
Joy herself has agreed to write The View From The Bridge.  Maybe she will
give us some answers.





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Dream: Schwartzchild Limit
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  :  15 oct 2006  09:52

=( yesterday was a saturday.  i did not have much to do since the new
scanner has not arrived and i am waiting to scan in the pictures from my
high school yearbook to complete the dvd project i have been working on.  i
did ride over to visit with julius for an hour or so and drink a couple
beers.  the evening was uneventful with some mediochre videos from
blockbuster.  i got to sleep around 01:00 without trouble.  it has finally
gotten cool enough this year for the window fan to suffice for sleeping.  )=


i wake up in the office at the research lab.  it is dark and i have fallen
asleep with my head upon my desk as i often do.  i do not want to turn on
the lights which will disturb the few others who also often sleep here
rather than go home nights when the research requires us to put in long
hours.

i have just figured out what is going on with the latest data sets from the
experimental facilities.  we are getting wildly variant results from the
quantum measurements of the tomak fusion generator.
i think that we have discovered another singularity in the einstein
equations.  the schwartzchild limit is the smallest radius which matter can
be compressed into a neutron star before it collapses into a black hole.  at
this point the equations no longer yield a single solution but start
producing infinite sets of solutions.  that seems to be what has happened to
our experiments, but we have not been increasing the mass or velocity of the
object.  we have been decreasing the time scale of the measurements.  this
should not have changed any of the fundamental elements of the physics
involved, yet the measured results on the microscale fluctuate enormously.

it was not my job to check these calculations, but my colleague who did this
job has not reported any discrepancies from the data.  i believe he must be
selling results to rival research firms.  that is the only reason i can
think of that he would not have told us that there is another limit in the
basic physics which results in quantum gravitational collapse.  surely he
has already estimated the value of this limit, but i can do that by writing
a program loop to systematically approach the equation values where the data
starts to fluctuate.  if einstein's equations do not show this singularity
there, then we have found data which requires a different form of mathmatics
to represent the structure of the universe.

i sit up straight in my desk chair and switch on my computer terminal.  the
usual startup screen does not come on, but instead the monitor stays dark
with just a small command prompt at the top.  what is this?

i discover that my usual keyboard has been changed for a small crappy cheap
keyboard made of black plastic.  following its umbilical cord off the
desktop i see that it leads to an inexpensive dell computer sitting on the
floor.  someone has removed the computer i normally use and left this one in
its place.  i try to see if i can launch an editor to enter my program to do
the calculations, but nothing operates as it should.

well, i must turn on the lights to see what has happened.  when i do, i hear
a few moans from the others in the room who are trying to sleep here.  while
i slept, the room has been stripped of most all of the equipment we normally
use.  we have suspected that our project was going to be closed down for
lack of funding, but it should not happen so suddenly especially with the
unexpected data coming in from the physical plant.  this all seems like
industrial espionage from the top level, trying to shift the benefits of a
world shaking discovery to more profitable management.

=( awake at 09:30.  i think that the term 'schwartzchild' is the right name
for the limit where the gravitational singularity is found in einstein's
equations.  if not, it is a name very close to that but i have no way to
look it up just now and in the dream i was remembering 'schwartzchild' at
any rate.  i did read through a manuscript facsimilie of einstein's theory
of special relativity a few months ago.  it was a complete handwritten
manuscript from 1912 published for the centential of his annum mirabulous of
1905.  this was before the schwartzchild singularity was recognized i
believe.  i have a feeling that this research facility was at umass in
amherst but the office and the people i saw here were not any that
encountered back then.  i was expecting a gui interface to come up on the
computer monitor but we still had only text command prompts which i could no
longer operate for some reason.  there was a bit more to this dream which
did not seem very important compared to the discovery of the new
singularity, but i have lost recall of it before i could enter it.  it would
not surprise me if the grand unification needed for quantum gravitation
required a reformulation of our physics but i somehow doubt that the
granularity of time is involved.
)=


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                                          stankuli@...

      .    the juvenille sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for
     ===   a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home
     | |   for life.  for this task it has a rudimentary nervous system.
     ---   when it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain
           anymore so it eats it.  it's rather like getting tenure.

                       -- Young Scientist Network, University of Washington


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DreamRePlay
David Jenkins, PhD
Electing to Dream

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Regardless of your political views, there is so much media focus on the
upcoming November 7th elections, that it would be close to impossible for
your Waking-self not to notice. But how about your Dream-self?

We don't usually dream about current events. By and large, we dream about
the people and relationships in our immediate life. Sometimes we dream about
larger-than-life characters such as movie stars, but it is rare that we go
beyond that personal sphere. Nevertheless, there are times when the dreams
of entire populations share some common themes.

After September 11, many people had dreams that referred to the World Trade
Center. A Brooklyn woman dreamed she was searching through the rubble for
her childhood security blanket. That's a very direct and, for her, painful
reference. A California man dreamed he was lost in New York on Bombay
Street. Since he knew of no such street, the pun in "Bomb Bay" indirectly
suggested a fear that the San Francisco Bay might also be bombed.

Many people responded to the Hurricane Katrina disaster with related dreams,
which ranged from being swept away by floods to cleaning up the mess.

Elections are not quite the same as disasters, but their importance can
bring them into our dreams.

Because our dreams tend to resonate with the emotions we are experiencing,
you may dream you are talking to the elected leaders you prefer and everyone
is listening to you. You might dream your side has lost the election by one
vote

Don't be surprised if your dreams tell you what you want to hear. One
Democrat, in 2004, jumped the gun and dreamed:

“I was napping on the sofa while my daughter watched TV to see who was
winning the election. Suddenly I awoke [in the dream] to lots of cheering
and triumphant sounding music. I asked, "Who won? Did someone win?" My
daughter just sat and smiled at me. Again I asked her, "Who won, who won?
Did Kerry win?" Finally she answered me with, "YES!!!!" We were overjoyed
and started calling friends to make sure everyone knew.”

John Kerry, of course, lost that election.

Summary

If you are actively involved in election campaigning, you may well be too
exhausted to dream.

If you are unsure who to vote for, maybe you’ll have a dream that tips the
balance.

As with all dreams, consider the Dream-self as a separate person and have a
conversation. That other part of you may well have a very different slant on
politics than you do.

"FOUR EXPERTS TRY TO GET INSIDE READERS' HEADS"

That's the title of a piece in last Sunday's Washington Post in which I was
a featured expert. Readers sent in dreams and several dream experts made
comments on them.

I didn't think I was trying to get "into readers' heads" but I did ask the
same kinds of questions I discuss in these columns. Regular readers of my
column will recognize the "Movie method" and "Continue the dream"
techniques.

DIAL-IN DREAM GROUPS

On Monday and Tuesday I will again be holding more 1-hour dream groups on a
telephone conference call.

Whether you live far away or close by, a phone group allows you to get a
sense of dream work in a very convenient way. With this new work, I hope to
communicate the pleasure and the excitement of dream work to many people.


Day: Monday November 6th
Time: 5pm-6pm Pacific Daylight Time
Dial-in Number: 620-782-2200 (Kansas)
Access Code: 707172#

And


Day: Tuesday November 7th
Time: 7pm-8pm Pacific Daylight Time
Dial-in Number: 620-782-2200 (Kansas)
Access Code: 707172#

DREAM GROUPS

The Saturday drop-in group ($20) is from 10 am to noon at 2315 Prince Street
in Berkeley. The nearest major cross street is Ashby and Telegraph. Please
let me know if you are coming.

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They can read back issues and subscribe (free) at DreamOfTheWeek.com.

Best wishes

David Jenkins
Dream RePlay

email: davidj@...
phone: (510) 644 2369
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A World’s Dreams
Steven Baughman

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Hi, my name is Steven Baughman. I am a Master of Fine Arts student at
Parsons School of Design. Working with fellow student Michael Tabtabai, our
thesis is exploring the possibilities of social media in humanizing the
digital experience. One approach we are taking is trying to find the best
way to represent dreams in a digital environment.

We struggled with how to actually enter the dreams into the online space.
Typing in front of a computer seemed too cold, and besides, I forget my
dream literally minutes after waking up. After exploring some other
alternatives (image entry, computer generated dreams, to name a few) we came
to the obvious conclusion: voice recordings.

Last month we set up a phone number that anyone can call as they were waking
up, and record their dreams. Many people use their phone as an alarm clock,
and almost everyone has a phone on a bedside table.  After the call, the
dreams are then automatically uploaded online and saved for that person, and
potentially anyone, to hear. In the future we hope to expand this site to
allow users to login, save and sort their recordings, control who can listen
to their dreams, and connect to people through their dreams. We're hoping
soon to expand the project internationally by setting up some numbers in the
UK, France, and Germany.

Truthfully, we don't know much about the specifics of dream theory. We only
recently started getting into the subject, and have now been recording our
dreams for a couple months. I love listening to my dreams later in the day,
and often find myself amazed at the things I said just a few hours prior.
Yet, I really enjoy listening to people talk about their dreams. They are so
intimate. There is such a lack of *voice* in a digital environment, I find
it refreshing to listen to someone speaking to me as if I was a good friend
sharing a moment (and morning voices are sometimes really funny too!).

For the next few months I will do my best to keep you updated on new
developments, and highlight some of my favorite dream recordings. I hope
you'll take some time to listen to a few, leave some comments, and give us
feedback about how to expand upon this idea.

Steven Baughman
steve@...

For more info, please visit: http://a.parsons.edu/~famouser/dreamers
To record a dream, call: 347-404-5094.

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Getting stuck on a broken bridge, a falling elevator, and throwing snakes;
must be the Electric Dreams Dream Section with Kat Peters-Midland!

Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by submitting at
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Dream title: One Strange Day!
Dream date: 9/21/06
Dreamer name: Sleeping4dreams
Dream text:   I was driving down a mountain freeway, in a small white car,
with my kids & my dogs. My husband was following us in our truck. The
freeway was a one way road. There was a yellow Ferrari behind us, and this
person was driving crazy.  This person was weaving in & out of traffic at a
high speed.    The yellow Ferrari passed my husband, and was now behind me,
right on my tail. I was frightened due to the fact the roads were very
narrow, and the car was right on my tail.    Just then, the car made a pass
around me, I could then see that it was only one person in the car - a young
man. As he passed me he side swiped the tail end of my car, spinning me into
the guard rail on the freeway. His car however went over the mountains edge.

My husband came rushing to my car, and I was pinned in, I could not move. I
remember asking if everyone was alright, and they were.    I passed out at
that moment. When I opened my eyes, I could see lights rushing by me. I was
in a hospital being rushed to surgery, I heard the Dr. "get her into surgery
stat!"
The next time I opened my eyes, I was in a room all by myself. I heard a
heart machine, and I was connected to IV's. I was all alone.  I looked
around the room, and discovered a bathroom. I went into the bathroom, still
attached to IV's, and looked into the mirror.    My face was covered in
gauze and bandages.  I started to take off the wrapping, and discovered that
my nose looked funny. I touched it, and it the whole top layer of skin and
bone fell off into the sink. I freaked out.
I immediately left the hospital still attached to my IV's, and I had wrapped
towels from the hospital around my face. To my surprise, there was a Walmart
next door to the hospital.
I went inside the store, and went to the bandage aisle so I could rewrap my
nose.  I couldn't believe it but my oldest son was there. I asked him what
he was doing, but he asked me why wasn't I in the hospital? I in return
asked why I was by myself in there. He told me that, my family had just left
from visiting me and that I had been in a coma for 2 weeks!!!
He then saw my face, and said oh no it fell off. I said what did, of course
he said "your nose mom." I had him take me home. When I walked in my
husband’s eyes got huge. He said "how did you get out?" I told him I left.
To my surprise, he told me I had to go back and that I was being charged for
the murder of the young man in the yellow Ferrari.
Dream comments: I was very shaken up by this dream.



Dream title: Religious
Dream date: 15/05/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was pregnant with a holy baby the baby must be born in holy
water. It was also very important that I look after this baby well because
it’s holy and god’s child. I gave birth to the baby and it was a boy and it
was born in a church.  The church had mostly green and blue as colors. I was
walking down the stairs to have the baby and there were also newspapers
about me and my baby.  I was reading the news paper in my dream.
Dream comments: The dream felt so real.  I can still feel the water around
me and the coldness of the steps.



Dream title: Stuck on breaking bridge over ocean
Dream date: 10/15/06
Dreamer name: ML
Dream text: I am on a one-way bridge.  The bridge is very long and narrow,
and stretches out into a dark ocean. The end of the bridge has broken off,
and traffic becomes stuck on the bridge. I can not move forward or backward
because of cars. There is no land insight. Then the bridge begins to shake
towards the end of the dream because it’s breaking.
Dream comments: I keep having a reoccurring dream that I am stuck on a
one-way bridge with the same details.

Dream title: Elevator Terror
Dream date: 10-01-06
Dreamer name: Dreamer
Dream text:  I was getting in an elevator that was quite narrow on the
inside and 2 other people besides me were getting on. We all pushed our
buttons for the floor that we wanted to get to. I noticed mine was the
highest floor of all of us. After the last person got off, I began my
journey to my floor, which seemed like forever to get to. I noticed the
higher the elevator traveled, the faster it went. It finally stopped at my
floor and just when I was about to get off; it started to fall all the way
down the way it came. I could feel myself really falling in my dream. All I
could do was pray.
Dream comments: I have dreams that I'm falling often. Maybe three times in a
month. I never seem to hit bottom though or at least I don't remember that
part of it.



Dream title: my dad enters my dreams
Dream date: 10/ 07 /06
Dreamer name: FN
Dream text: My dad enters in the room.  My dad reminds me of past event when
he attacked me and made me cry, when I was 10 years old.  He said I’m a
hopeless child.  He hit me in the chest and repeated that I’m hopeless and
not very smart.
Dream comments: I don’t like having dreams about my dead father.


Dream title: Death of a friend
Dream date: 10/10/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I came into my friend’s house, and there were many people there.
I asked her sister what’s wrong and she said my friend passed away.   I
started screaming that it can’t be. All of a sudden some women run into the
room and say “she’s breathing, she’s alive”.
Dream comments: I almost never have dreams, and tonight I had a very unusual
and scary dream. I woke up very sweaty from it.


Dream title: Snakes
Dream date: 10/ 07/ 2006
Dreamer name: Mem
Dream text: There was a party. Someone gave a gift to the celebrant and it
was a snake.  Then after a few speeches, a man threw the snakes to me.  Then
he left with me and the snakes in the same room.
Dream comments: is it a big deal about the snakes?

Dream title: Keyhole
Dream date: September, 28, 2006
Dreamer name: Zeasus
Dream text: I was riding on a bike down a hill, totally enjoying myself,
feeling free. The person in front of me fell. When I got to them they were
falling into water that was coming up on the stone (like a stone beach).
This person was small, weak looking, and naked. I thought he looked like a
boy I knew in kindergarten named Jeremy. I put him onto a rock and turned to
an older man (father from 28 Days later, the movie). I asked him if he would
be alright and he said there was something wrong with his heart, like a
hole.  But he had it too and he was still alive. I was worried about the boy
on the rock and when I looked back it was my boyfriend brushing himself off
and clothed now. (He is also named Jeremy).
Later in the dream I was walking up a square spiral staircase. When I got to
the top, there were many men were holding one of my friends in a room (I
don't know him that well and he is an old friend). I walked over and one of
the other men told him a joke.  For the punch line, he punched him. My
friend pretended to be knocked out and opened his left eye (my left). When
he stood back up I put a key in his right eye, turned it to the left, back
again and took it out. I then looked down these dark stairs through a door
and knew he had to go down them. As I walked away I felt bad that I was
making him go down the stairs, but as long as I didn't have to, it was
alright with me.
Dream comments: I think I am scared of exploring my own unconscious.


Dream title: Torn and confused
Dream date: 9/14/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was in this house, and in one room there was an ex of mine. My
ex kissed me and I told him I didn't want to do anything with him. In
another room, there was another ex of mine who I had slept with.
Afterwards, I looked out of the window of the room to see the ocean.  There
was a whale that had beached itself with a baby whale on the beach, who was
also dead. I then leave the room to go down stairs only to run into the man
I'm currently dating. He tries to hug and kiss me and I push him away.
Dream comments: I was told that fish in a dream mean pregnancy. I don't
understand why my exs were in my dream and why I pushed my current boyfriend
away.


Stan Kulikowski II
DATE  :  28 oct 2006  08:50
DREAM :  the never

=( yesterday was a friday.  it was rainy and cold in the afternoon so i did
not go swimming for my usual daily exercise.  i do not often skip this, but
i stayed home and worked on burning my dvd project.  i quickly ran out of
blank disks and ordered some on the internet.  i will need to run the
mailing labels and prepare the disk graphics while i wait for delivery of
200 disks in the next few days.  the project did not come out nearly as good
as i had hoped, but i would have to purchase really expensive software and
just hope that it allowed more flexible menu construction, so i will just
have to accept what the crappy templates provided with the cheapo idvd.
during the evening i smoked some tobacco in my pipe which has been unused
for about a year, but i have been feeling somewhat down lately and have
wanted more stimulation than usual.  i got to bed around 01:00 but could not
get to sleep until around 04:30. )=


several people and myself have entered the rundown carnival lot at the edge
of town.  it is midwinter in england, a bleak and barren time of year.
there are only a few traces of hard frozen snow collected in the shadows
where the sun can never melt them.  a small merry go round with no horses
and part of a minature ferris wheel are among the few mechanical devices
that are left exposed on the empty lot with an empty table or two.  the
place has an abandoned feeling a little beyond desolation.

at the far end of the lot there is a small ramshackled building where we can
stay.  there is a wire fence that is broken in several places but tall weeds
and shrubs growing up through it give the feeling of boundaries that are as
much imaginary as real.

before we can move into the small cottage, we are required to catch and
confine the never which lives there.  this is not difficult as the never
turns out to be a young english girl with some features like a cheetah.  she
has pointed ears and prominent whiskers with a wide swatch of spotted fur on
her back.  she wears just enough tattered clothing for modesty and little
else.  the never does not run nor resist us when we take her to the cage in
the back of the cottage.

her cage is a small rectangular area several meters wide made of thin iron
bars.  it is just tall enough for her to stand up right, but the entrance is
a long thin passage barely large enough for her to crawl through.  at first
she does resist entering through the crawl space, but i and one other man
have to force her head and shoulders into the opening.  once begun, the
never wiggles and squirms her way inside, the metal bars making deep grooves
in her pelt until she emerges in the larger area.

once the never is in her cage, her appearance changes so she just looks like
a normal girl, losing all the cat like features.  she paces back and forth
inside, having nothing else to do.  there is no furniture of any kind, not
even a blanket to lie upon.  she just walks to one end of her cage then
turns to walk back the three strides it takes to get there.  we have been
instructed not to feed her nor give her water and never ever to let her out.
no one has said anything about speaking to her, so i sometimes will stand
next to the bars and tell her things, mostly about the weather or events in
the world, but she does not reply or give any indication of interest in my
efforts.

after a couple weeks, a small child comes to stand with me near the cage.
he is a small boy and i get the feeling that he is her son, but no one ever
questions him.  ocassionally he will make a short comment about some news
item i am explaining to the never, but he does not talk to her directly and
she gives him no notice whatever.

at last springtime arrives outside with some reluctance to push away the
winter.  a few green buds appear on the weedy hedge row.  i have the job of
repairing a wicker topiary shaped like a rhinocerous that has fallen into
disrepair during the foul weather.  there is no lack of dead vines for me to
weave into the gaps, but i am not a skilled sculptor so the rhino has some
uneven spots when i am finished.

i have decided that we have no reason to continue the captivity of the
never.  she is obviously some supernatural creature, able to pace her cage
constantly without any rest or sustainance at all.  other than the pacing
she has never indicated any desire to escape or frustration with her
circumstances, but i have begun to feel a growing reluctance to have her
confined without reason.

when i open the door to her cage, she is at first unwilling to crawl back
through the short crawlway.  only when the small boy comes over to encourage
her does she finally submit to squeezing her way out.
the fur and cat like features return when she emerges from her captivity.
she does not bolt away but just stands there looking at me with her large
brown eyes.  i want to touch her and take her in my arms to hold her, but i
know she would be uncomfortable with this.

i open the door to the cottage and have to gesture that she can leave.  the
never does not want to be touched if she can avoid it so she steps outside
when i indicate it is time for her to leave.  once out she takes a few
tentative steps then dashes quickly over the fence and away toward the
horizon.  it is a joy to see her stretch her legs out and bound in ever
larger strides.  i can not imagine that i will ever see her like again.

=( awake at 08:35.  this dream has a placid somewhat empty feeling to it.
there are other people staying with me in this cottage but other than the
small boy they just seem supply a feeling of consensus without interaction.
there was a bit of dialog with a woman, probably a landlady who managed the
property, at the start when we moved into the cottage, and i remember
telling her that she would have to repeat this for to me to recall it.  she
said she would but never did and i have forgotten it before i could write it
into this journal.  i think she said there were five things we had to do
while staying there, and they all seemed important at the time but keeping
the never confined was the only one i can recall now.  i suppose that using
the term 'never' as a noun to describe this miraculous being is related to
our injunction to never release her.  i am a little surprised that there
seemed to be no consequences when i did finally free her.  perhaps the dream
ended too soon to discover what happens with the never running free.  she
was just in the house when we found her so i wonder what risk or reason
there was for her long confinement.
perhaps i seem to be waiting for this release that never seems to come and
has little or no consequence when it does.  )=


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    | |    and the gates of love, they budged an inch,
    ---    but nothing much has happened since.
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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
       Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
       Harry Bosma

++ Cover “Secret Hand”
            ~and~  Nightmares Fuel My Art
            by J. Myztico Campo

  ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
              Lucy Gillis – Editor
              Arthur Gillard interviews author Robert Augustus Masters.

++ Article: The New Age of Pisces
             Linda Lane Magallón

++ Column:  The View – World Dreams Peace Bridge
              Month’s summary
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++ Dreams:  “Moving On”
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               “Red Potato Woman”
                Stan Kulikowski II

SPECIAL NIGHTMARE SECTION FOR HALLOWEEN

++ Column: The Nightmare: Getting Beyond the Climax
            DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ INFO: Nightmares: an Introduction
          Richard Wilkerson

++ Article : Becoming Nightmare, the Rhizomatics of Dreaming
              Richard Wilkerson

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Welcome to the October 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online. (revised 10-13-06)

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
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.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted
here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
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In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month’s publication at
ed-news@...

Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE) editor, Lucy Gillis, regularly shares gems from
her publication with Electric Dreams. In this month’s Excerpt, An Interview
With Robert Augustus Masters By Arthur Gillard Responses (c) Robert Augustus
Masters. From psychedelic nightmares to “psychoemotional theater fleshed out
and broadcast by the mind, constellated around and expressive of certain
feelings, urges, intentions, pulls” this interview will get you ready for
Hallo-ween and all other doors BE-tween.

From the World Dreams Peace Bridge. This month’s View, from Kathy Turner,
  review traces just some of the major rhizomic connections the Bridge has
been making: the war on Lebanon and continued destruction of Iraq; weeds and
flowers; dealing with awareness of the sadnesses of others; dreams and peace
events.

Not all is dark on Halloween. Linda Lane Magallón offers some light from the
pumpkin’s eyes in “The New Age of Pisces” where she will free you from the
bewitchment of modern life and show you what the Aquarian Age is really
going to offer.

As the Dream Section is a bit smaller this month, so I’m including two
dreams from Stan Kulikowski II, “Moving On” below  ~and~  “Red Potato Woman”
at the end of the Dream Section.  Stan often contributes selections from his
unique dream journal.  If you have dreams you would like published, please
enter them in the form at     http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

Our SPECIAL NIGHTMARE area (Halloween tradition at ED) has some resources
for beginners, and challenges for advanced dreamers. See the Nightmares: An
Introduction for resources.  Thanks to David Jenkins, PhD., the director of
Berkeley based DreamRePlay for his article on “Nightmare: Getting Beyond the
Climax.”

  Besides the basics,  I'm including a re-run of  "Becoming Nightmare, the
Rhizomatics of Dreaming."  This is NOT for beginners, and YOU MUST BE THIS
HIGH to RIDE. This article that looks into the possibility of actually
conjuring nightmares as part of a larger Transgressive Dreamwork project.
Booo!

Dream Section with Kat Peters-Midland: This month’s dream section is short,
but it has some very interesting dreams of a black bird biting, hearing
voices on a haunted pager, digging for gold, and a yellow rattle snake
following…
   If you have dreams to share, use the dreamflow form at
www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple

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:
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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special  ed-news@...
address.

Online:
- Premonition Web
- Sawlogs Dreams Now Have Images
- Real Life Log 'Field of Shattered Dreams'

Physical world:
- New York: Latin American Fine Art Exhibition
- California: IASD Call for Presentations
- Berkeley: Dreams and Islam
- Kickoff Event for IASD Bay Area Lecture Series
- Santa Fe: Workshops by Victoria Rabinowe

Reminders:
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Premonition Web
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Register your dream's and premonitions, visions, without having to go to a
bank. Premonition Web is a dream registry designed to help precognitive
dreamers to monitor what they see and when they see it.

If you want to register your dreams there is yearly fee of £6.00 to pay for
the site, the paperwork (a receipt will be sent to you via post or Email)
and lastly the safe filing of your dreams, which will be kept within the
limits of the Data Protection act 1998. Once you've paid this fee, you can
update your dreams six times throughout the year.

There are also discussion papers offering explanations for premonition
dreaming.

www.premonitionweb.com

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- Sawlogs Dreams Now Have Images
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Sawlogs now displays an image next to each dream described at Sawlogs. Along
with a complete site redesign, these images offer a visual component to a
(typically) text-driven experience.

Sawlogs still offers dreamers content analysis statistics based on the
Hall/Van de Castle scales. Describe a dream today and see what happens.

www.sawlogs.net

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- Real Life Log 'Field of Shattered Dreams'
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My site basically is a detailing of all of my strange dreams, and also
speculation on what the dreams might mean for me, etc. Eventually I want to
expand the website to include articles on dream interpretation, the meaning
of dreams for our lives, how dreams impact our lives and psychology, and
assorted other topics.

The URL of my site is this:

http://www.reallifelog.com/lostintokyo/

Peter Kaufman


* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- New York: Latin American Fine Art Exhibition
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Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th St., New York.
Running from October 21 to November 10, 2006
www.Agora-Gallery.com

The upcoming Latin American Fine Art Exhibition will showcase artists
inspired by dreams - Mauricio Toulumsis and Raul Martinez. Reception takes
place on Thursday, October 26th, 6-8 PM.

* Mauricio Toulumsis *

Replete with religious and symbolic significance, Mauricio Toulumsis' images
are inspired by the deeply felt emotion accompanying the exultant belief in
eternal life. Toulumsis' distinctive, stylized portraiture generally depicts
the female as the central figure in the process of life, as the stewardess
of birth and creation. Groups of heavenly matrons, often surrealistic in
semblance, are the proud, powerful and uncannily numinous sovereigns of
Toulumsis' works. The result of 30 years of self-exploration, Toulumsis'
paintings delve into the philosophical search for meaning in life, meaning
in death, and truths about the corporeal and spiritual human. Born in Mexico
City, Toulumsis developed his technical rendering skills while studying
architecture. He has exhibited his work both in Mexico and the United
States.

www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Mauricio_Toulumsis.aspx

* Raul Martinez *

In Raul Martinez’s painting, “Self Portrait,” the artist’s hands, turned
inward, are tranquil yet melancholy in their stillness and isolation. The
artist does not show his face, but reveals so much more by sinking his arms
into a milky light. This, Martinez is telling us, is where his art is
created, and where he reveals himself. This palpable mood is also conveyed
in Martinez’s black and white studies of women portrayed within a painterly
environment of light, shadow and motion. Like the artist in his ironically
titled self-portrait, his subjects are physically vulnerable and turned
away, yet we know intuitively the complex emotional landscape of these
women, for Martinez has made it the substance of their surroundings. When he
works in color, sunlight is key to Martinez’s work. Whether contemplating a
dozing figure or capturing the kaleidoscopic impressions of a streetscape,
Martinez uses light as a tool for an exuberant investigation of the isolated
moment. Raul Martinez !
  has shown his powerful oil painting throughout Puerto Rico and has recently
been invited to participate in international shows in Valladolid, Spain and
The Hague, Holland.

www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Raul_Martinez.aspx

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- California: IASD Call for Presentations
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24th Annual Conference
International Association for the Study of Dreams
29 June to 3 July 2007
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
DEADLINE for submissions — 15December 2006

High quality proposals are invited that explore the conference theme, The
Spirit of the Dream. These may reflect on how the dream offers a source of
wisdom, guidance, information, energy, or creative inspiration to the
dreamer or to the community; and how the relationship with dreams can be
cultivated so that we live lives that are deeper, more creative, and more
meaningful.

http://asdreams.org/2007/


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- Berkeley: Dreams and Islam
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I have exciting news regarding the Open Forum in Dream Studies, which will
meet twice this Fall, on Monday September 18 and Monday October 16,
7:30-9:30 pm at the Dream Institute (1672 University Ave., Berkeley,
510-845-1767).

The gatherings will involve a two-part presentation on Dreams and Islam,
facilitated by Malek Yamani. Malek's work centers on the interaction of
Muslim spirituality and Jungian psychology, with a focus on the powerful
dream teachings of the two traditions. In a world that seems to be tearing
itself apart over different religious visions of the divine (you know what
day this is), Malek's perspective offers a refreshing and hope-inspiring
vision of cultural respect and mutual understanding through dreams.

A native of Morocco, a graduate of Sonoma State's Depth Psychology Program,
and currently a student at California Institute of Integral Studies (in
addition to being a globe-trotting Microsoft executive and father of four),
Malek will lead a discussion on topics that I think everyone who works with
dreams in the contemporary world should be part of. Please tell your
friends, colleagues, and students, and I hope to see you there.
Best regards,   Kelly


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- Santa Fe: Workshops by Victoria Rabinowe
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Offering Workshops in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Weekly Studio classes, every
Tuesday from 1:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Victoria’s Santa Fe Learning Center.
Custom designed courses of study, workshops and retreats for groups,
conferences and professional trainings. Internet “remote” workshop projects
for individuals and groups.

Here are workshops coming up in October. Also visit the website
http://victoriadreams.com/


* THE DREAM AS THE BOOK OF LIFE *

October 3
Remembrance and forgiveness
In Honor of Yom Kippur
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$50.


* MONASTERY DAY; HARVEST / SUKKOT *

OCTOBER 10
Tuesday 10-6:00
Pecos Benedictine Abbey
Call for reservations and directions 505 988-1086
$50. donation to Sister Miriam

For over ten years, Sister Miriam has hosted our dream group in a day of
sculpting our dreams from nature by the beautiful pecos river.

The Festival of Sukkot is intended for all of mankind. It is quite a drastic
transition from the most solemn holidays in our year to the most joyous. It
is a harvest festival and a general thanksgiving for the bounty of our
dreams in the year that has passed.


* THE DREAM IS A CIRCLE THAT NEVER ENDS *

October 17
In honor of Simchat Torah
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$50.

Come, come whoever you are
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving;
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, come
even if you have broken your vows a thousand times
come - come yet again, come.
-Rumi


* THE NIGHT OF POWER *

October 24
In Honor of Lailatul Qadr
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$50.

The Quran is peace by itself.
The night in which this Divine Book is sent down gives a spiritual luster to
our dreaming hearts and souls.


* WITCHES BREW *

October 31
In Honor of Halloween
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$50.

Fill dream books and journals with spells, incantations and hexes. Call the
wild, dark, hidden side to emerge.



* * * REMINDERS * * *

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- Various calenders
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Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html

Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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By following Strephon's podcasts you will be engaging in a consciousness
course by experiencing the meaning of the dreams Strephon talks about as he
developed their themes and wisdom aspects.

Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and the new
dreamwork, as reflected in his many books over the years. His best seller in
America and other countries has been his The Dream Cards. However, his
dreamwork manuals are the respected classics in the field used in college
and university classes as well as by the general public.

Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts and continues to write new
books.

http://strephonsays.com/


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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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Cover:  "Secret Hand"
~and~
Nightmares Fuel My Art
by J. Myztico Campo

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The dream world of nightmares has been fascinating me since I was a child of
five. Some of my earliest recollections of these nightmares were a recurring
dream of being in a very exotic lost land with some of the most magnificent
plants I had ever seen. I would wander this land and witness incredible
natural beauty. But then it would turn dark and I would be chased by man
eating prehistoric creatures most notably a T-Rex. I would run for dear life
until suddenly I would find myself at the very edge of a cliff and I had to
decide my fate quickly. Would I prefer to take a chance at survival and jump
off the cliff or face being eaten alive by a very hungry T-Rex. I would
always choose to jump off the cliff always waking up or shifting into
another dream before I hit the ground. These childhood dreams inspired me to
draw T-rex and other nightmarish creatures on blackboards at school.

Fast forward to my adult years as nightmares became more of a source of
constant inspiration artistically. They serve as portals into the
imagination of fear, shining a light onto the dark corners of the psyche.
Exposing parts of oneself that one may need to confront during their waking
lives. We are living during a time in history that governments and the media
collectively use to exploit the sense of “FEAR” to project onto the masses a
sense of insecurity. To give us the illusion that the only way that we as a
society can be safe from all of the “evil” surrounding us is by allowing
governments to continue eroding our rights and pry deeper into our private
affairs. When in effect in my humble opinion I instinctly  sense that these
governmental entities are not only staging many of the events that are
sensationalized in screaming headlines but are reaping the rewards that come
with more control of the masses. This to me is like a recurring nightmare
that we as humanity must be aware of and ultimately wake up to, otherwise
the nightmare will progressively get more sinister and we as sentient beings
will only become institutionalized numbers and chattel for the wealthy to do
with as they see fit.

On the cover of this months issue of “Electric Dreams” my painting “Secret
Hand” is based on a recent nightmare of a secret society of bankers and
militaristic men hell bent on governing the world with their influx of debit
based currency and death dealing devices creating their nightmarish agenda
upon humanity to only benefit their secret society. The hand is symbolic of
behind the scenes deal making, pacts with the devil selling out their souls
for temporary earthly gain of wealth, power and control. I am currently
working on a series of hand gesture art that will help me manifest
humanities need to openly communicate in a more productive and creative way
to help benefit all and not just a few….We can all evolve quicker and more
effectively without these secret societies obstructing the intellectual and
spiritual evolution of humankind. Let us all end this “NIGHTMARE”…

About the Artist; J. Myztico Campo is a Cuban born, NYC raised self taught
Visionary Surrealist whose work has been displayed in various galleries in
the U.S. He has a variety of creative passions besides painting that
involves music/filmmaking/murals/poetry & photography. To see and hear more
of Myztico’s work visit his website:  http://myztico.mosaicglobe.com



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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis

This month, Arthur Gillard interviews author Robert Augustus Masters.


An Interview With Robert Augustus Masters By Arthur Gillard Responses (c)
Robert Augustus Masters

Robert Augustus Masters lives and works near Vancouver, British Columbia. He
specializes in cutting-edge integral psychotherapy, counseling, spiritual
deepening, and awakening work. Robert describes himself as increasingly
finding freedom less through transcendence than through intimacy with all
that is, a perspective which illuminates his deeply transformative workshops
and therapy sessions. Some of his recent books include Darkness Shining
Wild: An Odyssey to the Heart of Hell and Beyond: Meditations on Sanity,
Suffering, Spirituality, & Liberation, Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening's
Heartland, Freedom Doesn't Mind Its Chains: Revisioning Sex, Body, Emotion,
& Spirituality, and The Anatomy & Evolution of Anger: An Integral
Exploration.

For more information, please see his bio at Integral Naked -
http://in.integralinstitute.org/contributor.aspx?id=120 where you can also
listen to an informative and entertaining audio dialog (to listen to the
dialog you simply need to join free for one month). Integral Naked also
hosts a Question and Answer thread with Robert which continues to cover a
lot of territory including dreaming and lucid dreaming:
http://multiplex.integralinstitute.org/Public/cs/forums/thread/1910.aspx

Robert's website includes essays, poetry, a free online newsletter and
descriptions of his workshops, therapy and apprenticeship programs:
http://www.robertmasters.com/ Of particular interest is his essay on "An
Integral Approach to Healing" -
http://www.robertmasters.com/Work_Section/integral_part.htm

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Arthur: Do you remember your first lucid dream? How old were you?

Robert: I don't remember what was probably my first lucid dream -- in large
part because in my early years I had trouble separating waking state and
dreaming state phenomena -- but I do remember becoming lucid during two
types of dreams that started when I was about 5 or 6. In the first, I would
find myself at the top of a tree or standing at the edge of a cliff....I'd
leap off, feeling ecstatic, totally unafraid of hitting the ground below
(which invariably received me the way that a pillow receives a weary head).

The other type of dream in which I'd become lucid was far from pleasant: In
it, I'd be in my bed, tucked under the covers, feeling a strange chill in
the air (and here I would become lucid), a grey-lit iciness that was very
familiar -- for I had this dream hundreds of times -- and into the room
would come my mother, initially looking like herself, but soon mutating into
a hideous, malevolent creature bearing down on me, trying to tear the covers
from me, at which point I, in heart-thumping terror, would wake up. The fact
that I was lucid did not seem to make any difference; I felt consistently
powerless. Not until I was 8 or 9 did I free myself from this lucid
nightmare: One night, as my monster-mother drew near me, I got up and
attacked her; she fought back, but I persisted, and she faded into the
background. It was the last time I had the dream.

Arthur: Has the nature of your dreams changed over time?

Robert: My dreams have changed as I have changed, and I have changed as my
dreams have changed. My dreaming self and my waking state self have been,
and are, inseparable. Looking at, into, and through what's arising with
undreaming eyes, whether waking or asleep, continues to be both grace and a
discipline; the actual process of selfing (that is, of animating, occupying,
and reconstituting "me") has been and is an object of awareness, however
infrequently, both in dreaming and waking states.

During times of intense dream exploration, I have had an abundance of deep
and amazing dreams. When I became interested in lucid dreaming as a young
adult (23 or so), such dreams arrived quite often; for a while, I'd exploit
their possibilities, but eventually I tired of such adventuring, and more
often than not simply let them go their own course. Sometimes dreams have
arrived that have dramatically altered my life course. For example, when I
was 22, unhappily immersed in a doctoral program that didn't really interest
me, I had a dream of drowning -- a deeply surrendered, blissful drowning --
that led me to, in a matter of just a few hours, to leave my doctoral
studies for good.

Mirror dreams come to mind... As a child, I had a recurring dream of looking
into a mirror and seeing my reflection slide and eddy into freakish
contortions. The face I'd see looked terrified, its horror eloquently
expressed with bizarre flourishes borrowed from whatever had most recently
frightened me, be it an ad for a Frankenstein movie or the witch scene from
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". I knew what was going to happen before I
stared into the mirror, and yet I always looked. The mirror, usually
outlined with a compelling brilliance, dominated whatever room in which I
found it. Only in these dreams did I truly face my fear; in the daytime I
did whatever I could to avoid it.

I had no such dreams (as far as I can recall) as an adolescent, but had
further variations of them arise once I got a bit older. When I was 22, I
had the following dream: I'm at a party, moving from room to room,
socializing. Someone offers me some LSD; without any hesitation, I take it.

Soon the party is blazing with hypervivid colour, crawling with archetypes,
seemingly bursting with untranslatable significance. The walls melt and
writhe. An acid trip. Finally, I move or am moved toward the bathroom. The
ten-foot journey is as hilarious as it's weird; before I complete it, I
realize that I am dreaming. My experiencing seems to be concentric rather
than sequential. The bathroom. As I close the door, I feel very excited and
almost painfully alert. There's a mirror on the wall. I immediately recall
my childhood dreams of looking into a mirror. The mirror beckons, widening.
Looking into it, I see my wide-eyed reflection. Its features wriggle and
shift into a series of faces, some of them incredibly hideous and far from
human. But I'm not afraid, for I know that these visions are LSD-induced. I
continue looking, as my ancient fears parade by, showing their faces. I
relax, settling more and more deeply into my seeing.

Three years later, I had another mirror dream: I'm in a dimly lit house,
feeling very uncomfortable. The mood is both sluggish and sinister. I go
into my room, and lock the door, then enter its bathroom, and look into the
mirror over the sink. My eyes seem to be extraordinarily close together; in
fact, there's no gap between them. I realize that I am dreaming. In the
mirror there is one large eye, between and slightly above the place where my
eyes ordinarily are. Dread and fascination fill me. The eye is a glowing
blue, unblinking, unwavering, and of immense though unexplainable
significance to me. I feel as though I'm drowning in its gaze, which I very
dimly intuit is my gaze. I force myself to look below the eye, at the smooth
pink flesh where my everyday eyes ought to be. For a while I see only skin.
Then, as if through a poorly focused lens, I see my two eyes. They are
firmly and tightly closed. I leave the bathroom. My room is too small. I
decide to leave the dream, and it immediately shatters.

It took me a while to understand why my lucidity in the dream had not
lightened or freed me. Though I'd become aware of the overall dream, I had
been utterly unaware that the self ("me") of the dream was also part of the
dream. My identification with that fearful, isolated "I" kept me feeling
afraid and isolated. My lucidity in the dream had been like a vast moat,
surrounding but not touching the role I had assumed in the dream. The mirror
gave me an opportunity to see what I was doing; the eye in the mirror was an
"I" that saw through me. When I finally noticed my two "regular" eyes in the
mirror, I saw only skin-deep, not seeing that I was asleep to my situation.

Here's another mirror dream, from when I was 48: Becoming aware that I'm
dreaming, I leap up to fly, but fall back, twice. Then I surrender, inwardly
asking to be taken where I most need to go. I'm in the air, a few feet above
some pavement. Suddenly I'm pulled backward and downward at a tremendous
speed, my body almost totally vanishing during my "flight." I land in an
underground, poorly lit room. Its walls are all floor-to-ceiling mirrors,
all equally sized and all bizarrely distorting my reflection. Though fairly
large, the room feels quite compressed. I'm in the middle, afraid but not
panicked.

Slowly, I walk toward one wall, seeing all sorts of mirrored "fragments" of
myself. A dark, eerie, heavy feeling saturates the room. Everything is
sickeningly greyish. I gaze into my reflection's eyes, seeing less of the
hallucinatory than I expected. Then I walk into and through the mirror,
finding myself in an even more compressive space. It's extremely
uncomfortable; if I wasn't still aware that it was a dream, I would surely
escape as quickly as possible.

No exit in sight, though - just claustrophobic greys, amorphous and
hideously alive. I keep moving, as if through jelly - fatly quivering, ever
denser protoplasm - existing both as a dreambody and a disembodied observer.

Finally, I can barely move.

In despair and helplessness, I drop down on my knees, crying and wordlessly
praying, aching for release. As the observer, I see my eyes turned up, my
hands in prayer position in front of my chest, my face deathly pale.
Surrender. Suddenly, I am vaulted into another world, vaguely sensing that I
am in a hospital, watching a group of doctors tending a covered-up patient.
A series of events transpire [which I cannot recall], ending in joy.

In many lucid dreams, I have moved or have been pulled toward places of
luminosity, often dissolving in their radiance. Sometimes, though, I have
gone in the "opposite" direction, going deep into the Earth, into mineral
and dense dark. In the preceding dream, I'm being pulled below the surface.
Let's permit the image of being in the grey, underground room to unfold
itself, to "speak":

When underground, I don't appear to myself as I usually am. When I see
myself reflected all around, I don't appear to be myself.

Wherever I look, I see my reflection, so long as I remain in the centre of
the room. Though there is a lack of illumination when I am underground
looking at myself, there is enough light to see. The ceiling and floor are
the same; above and below are the same underground. I am mirrored from all
around when I am below the surface.

My surface appearance is broken into many components when I am below the
surface. When I remain in the middle, I can see, but am distant from what I
see. Wherever I turn, there I am.

When I leave the middle, thereby decentralizing the space, I can more
clearly see particular reflections. When I no longer occupy the centre, I
can pass through what I am looking at. Stepping through one self-image puts
me behind them all, and this happens when I am below the surface, and am
willing to "face" myself, however unpleasant that might be. When I remain in
the centre, when I am the centre, I am encircled by what I fear.

[Note: I have no explanatory summary for all of the above - its insights are
intrinsic to its totality as an image. It speaks not of one meaning for me,
but of many, from prenatal to transpersonal, each of which could be mined
for more significance.]

Once "I" am through the mirror, things get worse - but did I not ask to be
taken where I most needed to go? Only when I am "decentralized," down on my
knees, no longer fighting my helplessness, does "release" occur. I haven't
so much given up - submission being but a kind of collapse - as surrendered
(surrender being more expansion than collapse), opening to a sacrifice of
self that's anathema to the usual me.

Arthur: What do you see as the nature of dreams - are they models of reality
constructed by a brain unconstrained by sensory input and interaction with
the environment? Are they visits to a subtle energy realm or astral plane?
What do you think of the view, held by some spiritual traditions, that the
dreaming process is similar to what we experience when we die?

Robert: What a question! To me, dreams are the mind's contents made visible
through three-dimensional story-like formats while the body sleeps.
Psychoemotional theater fleshed out and broadcast by the mind, constellated
around and expressive of certain feelings, urges, intentions, pulls.
Self-made, self-starring, self-revealing private motion pictures. The
original home movies, usually forgotten before they're really seen.

Like movies, dreams range from the banal to the sublime. Some films can open
us to unsuspected or dormant dimensions of ourselves; so too with some
dreams. There are movies that can make us look deeply at ourselves while we
watch (and also indirectly participate in) them, just as there are dreams
that serve the same awakening function. Dreams may just be internal noise
(like most of the thoughts we have, or that have us, while "awake"), and
they may also be profoundly relevant harbingers of needed changes. Dreams
can simply be hangovers from the previous day's activities (both outer and
inner), no more meaningful than the random thoughts creating mini-logjams
behind your forehead on a busy day, and they can also be doorways into
unimaginable vistas of being, portals to and from What-Really-Matters.

Dreams don't so much tell us about ourselves, as they are our selves (our
multi-selved selfhood), all dressed-up for the part; various aspects,
dimensions, qualities, elements, and action tendencies that constitute us
intersect and interact with each other, as if they are in fact discrete
entities/things independent of each other. We ordinarily identify with one
of these, dreaming that we are indeed that. This is true not only of
everyday dreams, but also of most lucid dreams.

Prior to truly awakening, we are simply dreaming (including dreaming that we
are not dreaming), whether physically awake or not. This, however, does not
mean that dreams are not real; they are just as real as the self-sense about
which they are arranged. A dream is a real mirage, just like us. The more
real things get, the more dreamlike they seem.

A dream is a story (ranging from simple cartoon to complex myth) that we are
telling ourselves, a story through which we are constructed and
reconstituted. Becoming aware of the actual story doesn't necessarily end
it, but rather simply allows us to participate in it in the best possible
way.

Let's now go into more detail regarding body, self-sense, and dreaming. The
sense of literally being inside our physicality can be extremely convincing.

Not surprisingly, our dreams generally display much of the same sense of
"within-ness." In dreams, our waking-state body is perhaps most commonly
represented - besides as itself - through the metaphors of dwelling-places
and vehicles, with the dream's "I" (or what we might call the dream-ego)
usually appearing more or less as a replica of our waking-state "I,"
ordinarily located inside somewhere, whether in a long-ago living room or
behind the wheel of a suddenly brakeless car.

In our dreams, our body is a perceptual convention, a bit of theater, as
much a prop as anything else in the dreamscape. We could, while dreaming,
view our dream-body as a metaphor, a choice, a creation, but instead we
usually just identify with it in the very same way that we identify with our
physical body in the so-called waking state.

"I," now taking stage as the dream-ego, is still preoccupied with being at
the helm of the body, while at the same time being lost in the dramatics of
the dream, taking everything therein as real. While dreaming, we may engage
in activities that would be impossible or extremely unlikely in the waking
state, yet we - while dreaming - rarely see anything unusual in this. We
look, but usually don't look inside our looking.

As in the waking state, all that will usually alert us - or snap us out of
our trance - is some sort of crisis, a not-to-be-denied intensity of
perceived danger, as perhaps best demonstrated by full-blown nightmares. We
may awaken for a few moments within a nightmare, but ordinarily not so as to
explore and make good use of it - rather, our common intention then is still
to flee, to escape, to get back to sleep or at least into a more comfortable
or secure circumstance.

Even in lucid dreaming we still generally take ourselves to be the "I" of
the dream, regardless of "our" apparent freedom of choice. Much of the
appeal of dream lucidity lies in the possibility of having more power and
control in our dreams. Such power or control can be very useful when
"fleshing out" the intention to turn around to face a dream adversary or
difficult situation we have been fleeing, but not so useful when it merely
reinforces the dream-ego.

In fact, the very desire to be lucid during a dream, to be a somebody who
can lucid-dream, creates the same difficulties as the desire to be awake
during the so-called waking state, to be a somebody who can meditate or be
aware.

The "I" who stars in or centres a lucid dream is actually just part of the
dream, no more than a convincing personification (and embodiment) of the
witnessing or self-reflective dimension of the dream. However, when the
dreamer becomes the object of awareness in the midst of his or her dream,
then the dream itself, at least in my experience, usually can no longer hold
its form, and all its contents dissolve into unmappable, space-transcending
Luminosity.

Short of such dissolution, there is usually some sense of embodiment in
lucid dreaming (although there sometimes may be a sense of being a self
without any body, existing as a point of attention in the dreamscape, a
point that may or may not be personified).

For many years, I experimented with intentionality in lucid dreaming:
jumping from great heights; flying far and wide; dissolving my body;
suffering lethal injuries; traversing space instantaneously; diving deep
into solid earth; passing through walls; letting my body be as malleable as
plastic; meeting various spiritual teachers; having archetypal encounters;
facing adversaries with violence, love, shapeshifting suddenness.
Nevertheless, however unusual or thrilling my lucid dream-doings were, they
were still mostly centered by the very same sense of self around which my
daily activities were generally organized.

After a while, it became more interesting to leave the dream alone, to
simply abide in the midst of it, and see where it took me. Dreaming or
waking, lucid or not, ecstatic or depressed, the work was basically the
same, to simply be as present as possible, uncommitted to - and unidentified
with - the intentions of any particular "I." And what did this do to my
dreambody? Freed it, at least to some extent, from what I "normally" took it
to be, thereby permitting it to more fully be a medium for simply
maintaining relationship with my environment.

Arthur: Do you see consciousness as continuing in some form in deep,
dreamless sleep? Have you ever experienced lucidity in that state, and if
so, what was it like?

Robert: Consciousness continues in deep, dreamless sleep, but without any
form. No objects, no appearances, no self. In this state, we are almost
always unconscious of being conscious. Nevertheless, we can be awake during
deep, dreamless sleep, as various sages have taught. I've had direct
experience of this, though it was not the "I" of everyday discourse. The
phenomenology of this is without sensation, feeling, cognition, or any
temporal or spatial sense, bearing no discernible characteristic other than
that of unbound, featureless, effortlessly sentient presence. No-thing-ness.

Here is what I have experienced as the state of deep, dreamless sleep
spontaneously metamorphosed into the state of dreaming sleep: First, out of
nowhere and nothing, there arose colour and movement, without any
discernible shape. Then vague forms began appearing, diaphanous and softly
swirling, taking on a bit more solidity. When I - in the form of alert,
undivided attention - "entered" this nebular fluxing of colour and
shape-making, it almost immediately became more densely three-dimensional
and vividly real in a conventionally sensory manner, literally taking on
substance all around me, including as a dream-body closely resembling my
physical body.

Arthur: What role have lucid dreams played in your spiritual life, or your
life in general? Have you, for example, had insights or spiritual
breakthroughs in dreams? Has a lucid dream ever anticipated developments in
your consciousness or understanding which occurred later in your waking
life? Have you had shifts in perspective or values as a result of lucid
dreaming?

Robert: Lucid dreams have played a big role in my life. Being in them and
experimenting in them taught me firsthand that I am more than my body, more
than my mind, and more than my sense of self. Facing difficulties and
challenges while lucid dreaming has deepened and stabilized my ability to
face difficulties and challenges while in the waking state. Deep insights
and realizations have often arisen during lucid dreaming. I remember a dream
I had when I was 34: I'm lucid and flying to meet a spiritual teacher I
love. I am being knowingly propelled by my desire to see him, my movement
being so fast that I cannot see any scenery. A few seconds later I find
myself sitting in a room in the upper floor of an unknown stone building. I
am waiting, but without any tension. There's a window in the room, and the
air is very fresh, and the colours remarkably bright. I feel something
touching my lower torso, and look down. To my surprise, I see a baby body,
no more than a month or two old. I am holding him, cradling him, already in
love with him. He meets my eyes, and I leave the dreaming state in ecstasy.

The next morning, I told my partner at that time that I'd met our son; prior
to this, we'd had no desire whatsoever to have children, but within days had
mutually and easily arrived at the decision to conceive him. A few months
later, she was pregnant. Six months into her pregnancy, I had the following
lucid dream: I'm in a unknown yet very familiar room. A boy, perhaps six
month old, is sitting on the floor gazing at me. As I look into his eyes, I
say, "Hi, Dama." Before this we had not considered any name for our
baby-to-be, and nor did we know that that little one would be a boy. Three
months later Dama arrived. He did not cry once during his delivery and
arrival; a short time later, he was in my arms, gazing at me as he had in my
dreams.

Arthur: Could you tell us how you incorporate dreamwork into your therapy
sessions or workshops? How does your approach relate to the various schools
of therapy (gestalt, Jungian, etc.?) Are there any examples you'd like to
share?

Robert: I frequently incorporate dreamwork into my session and groupwork,
using a number of approaches. I may use Gestalt, having you act out the
relationship between various parts of your dream; I may use psychodrama,
having you act out a part of your dream; I may use bodywork, having you
deeply experience and openly express different emotions and states that
arose in your dream; and I may use all of these, and more, in working with
one dream at one time, making room for you to really "get" your dream, and
not necessarily in just one way.

An example: A woman in a group for women with cancer describes a dream in
which she is being pursued by a very large bear. She is clearly frightened
by it, and awakens before it reaches her. I talk with her a bit about her
dream -- she is nice to the extreme, meek-voiced and energetically small --
then ask her to get on all fours and act like she's the bear. She is
embarrassed, but goes ahead. Move around, I say, and let some sounds emerge.

Again, more discomfort, but she does as I ask. She continues this for a bit,
then I ask her, as the bear, to immediately speak to the frightened woman
(her) in the dream. Without hesitation, she says, "Don't run away from me, "

and says it with considerable emotion. I ask her to say it again, and she
starts to cry. Now, I say, imagine you are that frightened woman, and
respond to the bear. She does, and goes back and forth for a while between
the two positions. Finally, she doesn't need to move anymore, for both
positions are now coexisting easily within her, and she, on her own, is
starting to realize what the bear actually is -- an expression of her own
disowned power, enlarged by her fear of embodying such power. Her voice is
fuller now, her presence much stronger. As she reclaims her "bear" energy,
she fills out more, laughingly saying that she wants to give all the women
in the room big bear hugs.

Another example: A young man (in a group session) is describing a dream in
which he is prone, seemingly limbless, struggling to move forward. Limbs do
eventually materialize, but only as flimsy, stick-like things viewed as from
a distance. His voice is low and monotonous, tinged with a remote sadness.
He sits as though defeated. I listen closely, noticing no intention in
myself to speak. We gaze at each other in a not-uncomfortable silence.
Breathing in, breathing out. There's a subtly increasing warmth in my belly
and chest, then a sudden image of a terrified baby.

His eyes are a bit more open now, still distant but seeming to call from
somewhere behind the distance. There's increasing movement in me now,
amorphous but gathering momentum. I don't feel any desire to talk about the
dream nor to "interview" him - something far more compelling is inviting me
to act. My breath is a little fuller now, my belly looser; the feeling of
presence in the room is getting stronger.

Now the waiting-time is over.

I ask him to lie face-down on the carpet, and to attempt to move forward
without using his limbs. He struggles in silence, and cannot move forward.
Breathe more deeply, I whisper in his ear, and let your struggling have a
sound, a sound that expresses the actual feeling of it. He groans and
writhes with great intensity, looking as though he's pinned to the spot. Or
stuck. His back appears rigid yet oddly soft, his spine like a suffocating
serpent. My own back is subtly writhing, my hands tingling. My intuition to
touch him suddenly intensifies, and I begin to massage his back, loosening
the muscles on either side of his spine.

Soon he is crying very hard, his sounds both adult and baby-like. I have him
reach out in front of himself, but he still cannot move forward. Then I ask
the group, all of whom are very moved, to make a kind of tunnel over him,
everyone on hands and knees, alternatingly positioned (shoulders next to
neighbor's hips), pressing down on him, but not so heavily that movement is
impossible. Everyone knows what to do; there's an unspoken link between all
of us, centreed by an obvious caring for him.

He starts to panic. I have him exaggerate his sounds for ten or fifteen
seconds, then tell him to move forward, using his legs, his arms, everything
he's got. For a minute or so, he struggles, moving ahead very slightly,
wailing like a newborn, and then suddenly he explodes with strength, lifting
up the bodies curled over him, screaming very loudly. Adrenaline races
through me, not in fear, but in readiness.

I make a triangle-shaped opening with my hands and press it against the top
of his head, encouraging him to keep coming. He pushes mightily, still
screaming, moving forward, pushing and surging, his movements serpentine,
his body feeling to me more like cascading rapids than solid flesh. Another
minute or so, and through he bursts, spilling into my arms. I hold him
close, while he cries uncontrollably. At this moment, I am both mother and
father. And the newborn I am holding is not only him, but all of us,
including me. My interpretations of what has happened pale beside the raw
presence of his pain, his need, his sheer bareness of feeling, and - when he
at last opens his eyes - his love.

He didn't move; he was movement. Birthing-movement, ancient and yet so
nakedly now, messily precise, eventually unclouded by amniotic or
psychosocial shrouding, eloquently transparent to Being. Nothing special in
all this - just a few trembling petals of the everfresh,
hyperbole-demolishing Wonder of being here.

Arthur: In many of your books you mention dreams in the context of the
spiritual path of awakening. What do you see as the connection between our
experience of dreaming and lucid dreaming, and our experience of life while
physically awake? Or our experience of death, for that matter?

Robert: Our dream-life reflects our physical waking life, and our physical
waking life reflects our dream-life; the two realities may seem very
different, but in fact they are remarkably similar, and share considerable
overlap. The mind I have while dreaming is basically the same mind I have
while physically awake. The bodies in the two states may seem to be very
different, but at the level of body-image -- where we spend a lot of our
mental time -- they are very similar. The "I" at the centre of our dreams is
pretty much the same "I" that's at the centre of our physical waking
experience. Dreaming is what the mind tends to do when it's disembodied --
daydreams while "awake" and sleep-dreams while, well, asleep.

At death and after death, no longer anchored to the body at all, the mind --
and this is just my intuition -- doesn't do much else other than dream, and
it's not the kind of dreaming we can pinch ourselves out of, for there's no
body to which to return; what's called for is real lucidity, the capacity to
recognize that what's happening is dreaming, on whatever scale. The content
doesn't really matter; a dream is a dream. Given that what happens after
death is what is happening right now, we might as well stop flirting with
awakening practices, and really get into them, regardless of the state we're
in, doing whatever work is necessary so that such practices can take deep
root in us. Lucid dreaming, lucid waking, lucid living, lucid being...

Arthur: In Darkness Shining Wild you describe the following dream as taking
place shortly after the 5-Meo-DMT experience in which you almost died:

"I spent most of that first post-5-Meo night sitting up in bed (Nancy slept
on and off beside me), helplessly absorbed in extremely gripping,
three-dimensional replays of the horror I had experienced, now and then
trying to comfort myself with the thought that this wouldn't, couldn't, last
for more than a few nights. The waves of remembrance did not come gently. I
was throbbing, shaking, struggling to find some semblance of calm in the
psychospiritual riptides that were tossing me about like a piece of
shore-bereft driftwood. A hellride minus an offramp.

Hour after hour I endured, feeling as though I would never return from the
madness that was infiltrating me. Finally, just before dawn, I fell asleep
and very soon found myself in a lucid dream.

I had often had such dreams, frequently using them as portals for all kinds
of adventure and experimentation. As such, they were normally quite pleasing
to be in; I would know that the body I "had" in the dream was not my actual
physical body, and so could then freely engage in activities that would mean
disaster or even Death in the "waking" state. If I was afraid in a regular
dream and then became lucid during it, I could usually face the fear,
interacting with it's dream-form until some kind of resolution or
integration occurred.

But not now. Yes, I knew I was dreaming, but I could not work with the fear
therein. The dream was saturated with an enormous, otherworldly terror which
was coupled with savagely hallucinatory disorientation. In the midst of this
I stood, my dreambody but a ghostly sieve for its surroundings. I knew that
if I left the dream, I would still be in the very same state.

At last, I let myself go fully into the dream, despite my conviction that I
very likely would not return. Now I was completely inside it, utterly lost,
immersed in an edgeless domain of look-alike, spike-headed waveforms, each
one sentient and subtly scaly, moving protoplasmically in endless procession
in all directions. Just like my 5-Meo setting, but without the speed.

Suddenly, I was overcome by a completely unexpected, rapidly expanding
compassion. All fear vanished. A few moments later, I somehow cut - or
intended - a kind of porthole in the bizarre universe that enclosed me, as
cleanly round as the shrinking aperture of my consciousness at the onset of
my 5-Meo journey.

Through this opening the countless alien forms spontaneously came streaming,
immediately metamorphosing into flowers, birds, trees, humans: Earthly life
in all its wonder and heartbreaking fecundity. Then the dream faded, and I
lay radiantly awake, deeply moved, feeling as though the hardest part was
now over.

It had, however, just begun."

- Robert Augustus Masters, Darkness Shining Wild, pp.22-24

When I first read this dream, I felt puzzled as to why this didn't resolve
the crisis for you. Upon further consideration, it seemed that in a way it
reflected in miniature form your course through the dark night described in
that book. Would you agree with that? How do you see this dream as fitting
into your Darkness Shining Wild experience, and did dreams play any role in
your healing process?

Robert: I would agree. This dream also foreshadowed my eventual emergence
from my crisis roughly nine months later (on my birthday). I had many lucid
dreams during those nine months, and none of them liberated me from my
crisis. Did this mean that they were not helpful? No. They helped me to stay
wakeful during that hellish time. In one, for example, my compassion for my
agony (in the form of a man going insane) arose, supporting and paralleling
my fledgling compassion for my agony during waking times. In hindsight, I
recognize that it would not have served me to have had an exit from my
suffering before my nine months were up; I needed to stay with it until I
was no longer capable of resurrecting who I'd been before my 5-MeO-DMT
hellride.

Arthur: You have some familiarity with entheogens/psychedelics and much
experience with the naturally occurring "altered" states of dreaming and
lucid dreaming, as well as vast experience with states of consciousness
reached through meditative and other spiritual practice. How would you
compare lucid dreaming with entheogens and meditative experiences as tools
for exploring consciousness or to promote growth or awakening?

Robert: Where entheogens tend to dynamite the gates, lucid dreaming and
meditative practice help open them, the key being in our hands. Once we're
through the gates, we're usually presented with an abundance of experiential
possibilities, ranging from the merely sensory to the ineffably revelatory.
With entheogens, we're mostly just awe-filled spectators, however intimately
connected we are to what's going on, at an impossibly rich banquet of
sights, sounds, feelings, and perspectives; with lucid dreaming, we're much
more likely to be participants in what is unfolding, seeing it alter in
accord with what we are doing; with meditative practice, especially deep,
stable meditative practice, we are neither spectators of nor participants in
what is happening, but rather clearings of consciousness at once apart from
and profoundly intimate with what is occurring. Such meditative practice may
also occur, albeit rarely, during lucid dreaming (you might, for example,
try closing your dream eyes during a lucid dream and letting yourself rest
in Being) and entheogenic intoxication. There's no substitute for meditative
practice and meditativeness, which can be accessed during any state or
experiential possibility, even if we dream otherwise. Entheogens may
catalyze some degree of awakening, and lucid dreaming may give it a stage,
but meditativeness gives it the ground it needs to truly take root.

Arthur: In a Q&A thread on the Integral Naked forum, you mention an upcoming
book on "dreams, dreaming and the dreamer." Could you elaborate a bit on
what subject areas you'll cover? Are you planning to include exercises for
the reader?

Robert: That book is some years away, and so I haven't made any plans
regarding its subjects areas, other than the very general topics of dreams,
dreaming, and the dreamer.

Arthur: Thank you for a fascinating interview, Robert. Do you have any
parting words of advice for those pursuing lucid dreaming in the context of
personal or spiritual growth?

Robert: Experiment. Take risks while you are lucid. Pay attention to the
role or roles you are playing in the dream; notice what hooks or attracts
you, but don't forget to examine the you who is feeling hooked or attracted.

Remain aware of the dreamer as much as you can, whatever state you are in.
Experiment some more. Move from lucid dreaming to lucid being, letting
awakening's alchemy get so far under your skin that you have no choice but
to fully participate in it.


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The New Age of Pisces
© 2006 Linda Lane Magallón

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Bewitched by a 2-millennium spell, we sleep. But the inky black night is not
forever. Unbeknownst to us, the earth continues to rotate and the nighttime
thrall gradually loosens its hypnotic hold. We start to stir. In the dim
light of the approaching day, we are roused to consciousness. When full
awareness returns, the enchantment of slumber is broken. We wake to a whole
new perspective of our previous preoccupation. We were dreaming! For two
thousand years, we were dreaming.

  There's a quiet revolution lying dormant in the land of sleep. As earth
progresses along the path of the Vernal Equinox through the astrological
cosmos, the Age of Pisces rolls over in bed and turns to face the dawning of
the Age of Aquarius. Dozing obliviously, we may not know we're due for a
wake-up call from Uranus, the revolutionary ruler of Aquarius. The light is
beginning to glow, as the earth turns ever onward. There are already signs
of the coming day, should we care to raise our heads out of the covers and
look. But when sleep paralysis remains an impediment, we're likely to
misconstrue a false awakening for the real thing. As we struggle towards
lucidity, we will still have to traverse the era of the false dawn.

Is the Age of Aquarius going to be a Utopian fantasy or an Apocalyptic
horror? How about neither? The first idea is wrought with rosy Piscean
idealism; the second is a projection washed with the black and blue of
Piscean pessimism. The Apocalypse was John the Evangelist's biblical vision
of the End of Days. It occurred at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, as a
fixed prophecy of a fated future, and has been haunting us ever since. It's
an old repeating nightmare designed to panic us into submission to a
dictatorship of fear. Only now are we wakening to the testable fact that
such stress mongering is neither just nor healthy.

  During the Christian era, the world has been dominated by a god with
Piscean qualities and values: sacrifice, denial of the physical and
denigration of the flesh. A hallowed saint could raise nightmarish suffering
to an ecstatic art, where the only dream of worth was communion with that
god. But the average person had to trade the bleak possibility of big dreams
for the hope of bliss in the afterlife. In the meantime, her normative dream
was yet more confirmation that life is a battle between good and evil. There
was nothing to do but lie down and take it, then stumble to her feet to
relate tales of sleep time trauma turned folklore and myth.

  Pisces, the fish, is an apt symbol for the age. The constellation consists
of two fish, tied at their tails (their tales?) and pulling in different
directions. The path of the Vernal Equinox first traversed the fish looking
backwards and Pisces has truly been fixated on the past. The Equinox is
currently positioned below the belly of the second fish. Since Pisces #2 is
pointing forward, in the direction of Aquarius, we are beginning to feel his
pull, right down to our guts. Yes, there's a new fisherman above the waves,
luring us in his direction, but we're still very much living below the
surface. This about-face in fishy orientation is what we call the "New Age."
But it's not the Age of Aquarius yet. It's actually a new phase of the
Piscean Age ­ a stage I call the Neptunian Transformation.

  For the most part, the "New Age" is a long way from being truly Aquarian,
except in subtle influence and developing structure. Most of the ideas and
activities are still very much Piscean. They may seem new to us, because
they've been hiding in the murky deep for so long and we're just uncovering
or re-discovering them. All over our watery globe, the liberating energy of
Aquarius is bringing traditional ideas to the surface. The detection of the
historical and mythical past of dreams, the disclosure of the secrets of the
occult, the revelation of new religious views, the realization that there's
an entire world of many diverse dream cultures ­ these are the lights that
are starting to illuminate the dawn. But this still-hazy dream recall is
only a review of the previous dark night, an overview of where we've been.

  The more innovative Piscean notions are a result of a revolution instigated
by Uranus, whose eccentric orbit revealed the existence of the planet
Neptune. Previously, Pisces had been "ruled" by Jupiter (a stand-in for
Jehovah and other patriarchal gods). But with the discovery of Neptune,
Pisces was reassigned this new ruler, and Pisces took to it like a duck to
water. You might say that, in terms of dreams at least, Pisces finally found
her footing. She's beginning to stand up and reveal what she's been hiding
for more than half the age. The Neptunian Transformation allows her to
display more of her real self than ever before. And *this* is the amazing
renovation-in-progress that Pisces feels in the depths of her soul. When
Pisces is energized by Neptune, dreams are no longer idolized or ignored. We
recognize that they live within us, swimming below the surface of our daily
awareness.

  Neptune, the god of the sea, is a much better match with the fish. When
Sigmund Freud proclaimed dreams the royal road to the unconscious, dreams
became linked with the undercurrents of human psychology. Carl Jung
metaphorically linked it with the sea. Suddenly, the idea of the great sea
of unconscious was born into our social awareness. There's resonance with
mythic stories, folk tales like "The Little Mermaid" and poetry like
"Winkin, Blinkin and Nod" in which the nocturnal sailors go trolling for
dream fish. The notion that dreams are linked with story, myth and art is
very Piscean, as is the idea that a dream has a "meaning" that can be fished
out of the unconscious sea.

  Ironically, the tools for this fishing expedition provided by Jung, Freud
and their contemporaries aren't dream tools at all. Pisces is slippery,
fragile and allergic to analysis, so she tends to keep it at fin's length.
Thus, Freud and Jung had to provide waking tools, like free association and
amplification, which depend on the exercise of non-sleeping imagination.
This post-dream work occurs when the dream is already done. It really
doesn't have anything to do with the process of dreaming but rather prods
and expands and analyzes dream "reports". That is, it relies on verbal
memories and written records of dreams long after the original event has
happened. It's a very "hands-off" approach that keeps the dreaming at a safe
distance (in the past, of course) and keeps our waking egos in our "comfort
zone." Supposedly we need this witness inhibition to deal securely with our
unconscious demons. We aren't encouraged to take a first-hand view and get
into the action, for that is contrary to the passive Piscean perspective.
Neither are we encouraged to develop a first-hand relationship with the
dream. Rather, we treat it as a "thing" that's supposed to come to our aid.
This attitude is in for a big modification when Aquarius rises above the
horizon.

The Aquarian revolution is about a switch in values, from a dominator
paradigm to a partnership paradigm. No more can Pisces be a passive follower
with her head stuck in story; now she's being called to be an active, voting
member of the Aquarian community council. An effective council member needs
to know what's actually happening in both the physical world and the world
of dream. Suddenly, the link between the dreaming and the waking life of the
dreamer becomes crucial, as is the link between dreams and the link between
dreamers.

  In the meantime, during the Neptunian Transformation, we sleep as fish
floating dreamily beneath the surface of the sea of unconscious. Round and
round in mandala circles we drift in the current, washed wherever the
undertow takes us. We only seem to stir from our liquid lethargy to flee the
monsters of the id.

  As Piscean fishermen and fisherwomen, we gaze back from the waking world
into the mysterious murk, looking for omens and signs in the dim remembrance
of slumber. "What does this mean?" we question, hoping to catch sight of an
animated jewel slipping between the waves.

  And so we weave our dreamwork nets with the warp of theory and the woof of
technique and cast them into the ocean, dredging up day residue and fish
fragments. Taking symbol snapshots, we freeze them in a perpetual moment of
time. Former living creatures transform into memory clips and written
recordings. In our ignorance, we call them "dreams." As dead objects, we can
work on them as we please. We slice and dice them, seeking understanding in
their skeletal remains. How strangely colorless they appear, here in the
glare of daytime bias. Greedy for mystical meaning, truly needy for
nutritional narrative, we pick over the remnants and quickly, intuitively
decide it isn't enough. It's not okay for these sorts of "dreams" to just
lay there, raw, staring at us out of dead eyes.

  When these fillets don't fulfill our needs, we must expand the menu. And so
we dress up the Piscean pieces with the produce grown on the dry land of
waking imagination. We garnish them with mushroom myths and lemon wedge
legends. We drown them in the sauce of free association, archetypal
amplification and Oedipal illusion. And should we invite other diners to the
feast, the opinion onions and potluck prejudice of their after-words simply
adds weight to the groaning table.

What can we call the concoction created at this banquet?
Waking-work-on-dream-reports, perhaps. This sort of "dreamwork" assumes that
"dreams" are mere afterthoughts about the event and not the events while
they are happening. Likewise, a "dreamer" is the person who reacts to the
incident in the waking state, not the one who acts within the dream world.
"Dreaming" isn't in-dream activity but the imaginative embellishment of a
poorly remembered and poorly recorded sleep time event. Or maybe it's *just*
waking imagination, no sleeping dreams need apply.

There's an old saying that goes, "Whoever discovered water, it wasn't a
fish." I think we've yet to discover our dreams! We'll have to stop swimming
in self-absorbed circles *in the waking state* to realize that dreams aren't
what's left after we embellish them with waking imagination.

Or maybe they are, and we should just leave them be. Then call what goes on
before and during sleep something else entirely. A new Aquarian term without
the old Piscean baggage. A term to indicate what we do ahead of time and
during the dream to keep us aquatic creatures active and alive, rather than
apathetic and oblivious.

  This way, we find significance not in symbol fragments washed up on the
shore. We don't ask, "What does this mean?" at arm's length. Meaning is
enmeshed in the very sea life that surrounds us. We live life in sleep as we
act life in the waking state. And in the acting, in the living, we don't
have to talk endlessly about meaning. We actually experience it, first-hand.

  The Aquarian waking is not going to be easy for Pisces, and she knows it.
It's far easier to continue to slumber than to get out of bed. At the
moment, she identifies with being a sensitive soul who requires gentle
handling. Her hope is that she can rouse herself to the situation without
dashing hopes or diminishing ideals, but I'm afraid this delusion is a pipe
dream if Pisces thinks she can continue to swim in the tsunamis of old
beliefs. It's not that hopes and ideals will disappear, just dependence on
the old tales and myths.

  Out in the fresh air, we can see clearly that we don't "have" dreams, like
having a common cold, nor do we "own" dreams to manipulate as we please, nor
do dreams "serve" us like slaves to our waking passions. The dream isn't a
personal tidal pool or merely an oceanic feeling. It is a vibrant reality of
distinct, yet networked individual entities. It is an ongoing story we
continue to live from the inside-out, a virtual adventure while we sleep.


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

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World Dreams Peace Bridge
August – September View from the Bridge
A month and a bit
Kathy Turner

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Dreams seem to be naturally rhizomic. A hat becomes a person becomes a sky
becomes a light. Image links to image in fast memory connections. An endless
dance.

On the Bridge our central interests are peace and dreams. All of our ideas
flow into and through these two principles. But what we link up to these
concerns is sometimes truly amazing.

This month and a bit review traces just some of the major rhizomic
connections we have been making: the war on Lebanon and continued
destruction of Iraq; weeds and flowers; dealing with awareness of the
sadnesses of others; dreams and peace events.

Of the invasion of Lebanon and continued destruction in Iraq

The barbarous and senseless Israeli invasion of Lebanon shocked many of us
on the Bridge. The worst moment was the massacre in Qana. Thirty seven young
children and some elderly people killed as they tried to shelter from the
Israeli bombing of their village: too afraid to leave as others had been
killed doing just that. But it was not just Qana that shocked: it was the
merciless Israeli bombing of ambulances; of citizens, of attacks on
hospitals and on the bombing of the capital of Beirut; it was the 1 million
refugees (1/4 of the country’s population); it was the disastrous
environmental destruction as Israel bombed a power plant and flooded the
Mediterranean with oil; it was the destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure
of roads and airports and water and electricity; it was the silence or even
active support given to Israel by particularly the US and the UK.

The invasion tested us on the Bridge too. Some were horrified, sending
message after message of information; some remained silent; some expressed
afterwards that it took them some time to realize that the horror expressed
in email after email was not anti-semitic – just horror at war and what the
Israeli government was doing.

In the midst of this we found out that the young Iraqi woman raped and
murdered along with her family by US soldiers was Abeer Qasim Hamza. She was
just 14 years old. Ilkin said her name is “Fehriye” in Turkish and added
with such sadness: “meaning "honorary". But they took her honour by the
worst way”.

Ilkin asked that this month’s DaFuMu be for “Lebanon Children/ Civilians and
Peace".

And Kotaro from Japan (gently remembering and older war, and an older
destruction: unconditional surrender in World War II in August of 1945)
reached into his heart of compassion at the horror of Qana in Lebanon now
and found a blue dragon. He wrote:

“The bombing at Quana damaged my heart so much. Last night, all the way in
the train to my home, I was chanting the Heart Sutra in my mind as I could
sit down on. Then, suddenly an odd image appeared clearly in my heart. It
was a horrible darkness, at the bottom were the fires, and I could see a
blue transparent pipe was climbing up to the dark sky. This image was
fullfilled with my heart sutra chant. I could not recognize what it was but
as it was so clear”.

And Anna replied reminding us again how it is balance that is needed:

“Yes, the Blue Dragon -Water IN Fire- not just after.
I keep thinking & feeling that we NEED the Fire- it is not to eliminate it,
but to use it well -and that can only be done when it is balance. Our human
way -to always try to go to extremes, not respecting the natural balance of
all things...we try to draw a straight line renting the spiral of life, and
it damages. We in the US seem to want all for ourselves at time (I write
with shame and confusion) -not seeing how, as in the yin/yang image, that
leads right to nothing for us or anyone. where if we'd only surrender to
balance- some for all -ALL (us too) might prosper more...

I can’t see images sent to the list -I can well imagine the Blue Dragon,
though, the Beast of Fire in Water, our ally”.

And Victoria, our archivist, finds one of her earlier dreams of a dragon. It
too has the dragon in a place of respect, though fear accompanies the dream:

“During some of this dream I had a sense of fear; of being out on a limb
without obvious support from anyone. I was in very dark woods and something
with a big dragon's eye that sometimes looked like a cat's eye or the eye of
another animal as looking at me. This thing was tremendously powerful and
worthy of respect. When I made myself look beyond my fear I could see that
it wasn't trying to attack me; that perhaps it was new. Just because
something seems big, doesn't mean it can't feel shy too”.

Our dreams and images of balance meet up with the growing instability in the
Middle East. Ilkin reports the terror she feels at the escalation in
violence in Turkey as the PKK (Kurdish “terrorist” group) uses the summer
tourist season to attack Turkey and as the Turkish government discusses both
sending Turkish troops to Lebanon (as part of the UN “peace” keeping force)
and as it prepares to enter northern Iraq to attack PKK camps.

The occupation in Iraq and the instability in the Middle East was increasing

Ilkin begs us to try to understand what is happening. She writes: “I was
telling about my worries for a long time (I was telling about the gathering
of troops at the border)...I can only repeat what I wrote to Jean and some
other friends several times, again and again; "please, please follow what is
happening at this area of the world closely"...

Today as I write this month’s review, Mary sent in the latest news from
Turkey of a bomb blast in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish-majority city in
Turkey's southeast, with 7 of the dead being children.

Of dreams

Of course some of our dreams link directly to the terrors we hear about
daily. One dream was from Mary: “It was something about terrorists trying to
blow up something (I hear an explosion and see smokey-cloudy-gray color all
around me) at the Michigan and Canadian border”..

Is it a precognitive dream? For Mary it was very specific and had a clear
link to previous dream “my guess is this is coming from my last dream about
seeing the red Canadian logo on the plane that "almost" crashed into a very
high-tall mall”.

Joy was our dreamer for the DaFuMu this month – and a very appropriate
dreamer too as she is from Lebanese background. Her first dream is stark:
“I dreamed a child took me by the hand to show me something that he had
found disturbing. It was indeed terribly disturbing: an animated diagram of
a child who had been playing alone in the tall grass outside his town,
smashed by a helicopter's circle of destruction so that only his upper half
remained. I wished I hadn't seen it and I was glad it was a line drawing
rather than a graphically realistic horrifying bloody image. But there was
no escaping it. It was on the Internet; it was on a bag of bread. It was a
reminder of what really happens to the children of war and the imagination
can do the rest.
Later as I woke, that anonymous dream-voice that speaks sometimes on waking
said cynically, if I remember right now: "There are one thousand one hundred
eleven of them - but the one doesn't matter." I thought the point must be
that of 1,111 every one is ONE and every one matters”.
Another dream from Joy:

“When I hoped to dream something more healing post-DaFuMu, the most vivid
dream I had was that someone had picked the two green lemons that I'd been
watching slowly grow on my little lemon tree. I recognized them immediately
- one almost full-grown, one small, both still very green -and I was so
angry. Why would someone do this? Couldn't they see these were nowhere near
ripe yet, and now they'd never ripen?”

Joy comments: “I always wanted a lemon tree especially for flavoring
Lebanese food -almost every meal has a lemon in it - and just this year
finally got a dwarf lemon tree that I can move indoors in my
non-Mediterranean winter. Pulling my cherished first new lemons from the
tree before they have a chance to grow and ripen is surely an overly-gentle
symbol for killing the children of Lebanon. Where does the healing come in?”

Which Joy answers immediately herself with the memory of a book called “The
Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East” by Sandy
Tolan.  The book concludes with an “account of how Jewish and Arab children
have together planted seeds salvaged from one desiccated lemon tree planted
long ago behind one stone house.” Here is a review of the book:
http://www.bookpage.com/0605bp/nonfiction/lemon_tree.html

Sonia gives us her first dream: a very appropriate one. The memory of her
German ancestors; their involvement in the holocaust helping where they
could; their dream state now (opening to happiness):

“In the first dream I was in a big mansion as the other dreamer stated she
was however, my time period was the present except in the attic of the
house. I have been in this mansion in previous dreams, but the attic was
always old and had no life to it. This time I went upstairs and I heard lots
of talking and laughing behind the door. I opened the door and the first
thing that came to my mind that these were people that had lived in Germany
during the holocaust. There clothing matched the time period and both my
grandparents (that are now deceased and Germans) were there. Everyone looked
nice and healthy and were gathering for a big meal. Besides my grandparents
I had never seen any of these people before.

The second dream I am not sure was even a dream because it happened so fast.
The shape of Christ (made with pure white light) appeared with a black
background. It was hard for me to see, but I had no doubt who the shape
represented. The shape moved closer and closer and then disappeared and I
woke up”.

And Rita sends us a chapter of her book detailing her own “dreams and
experiences of healing [her] ancestral war wounds”. The book is beautifully
titled: Following my dreamlines - living from the inside out

Of weeds

Where does our discussion of weeds begin? It is hard to say. “Seeds” as a
symbol of peace (and conflict) weave throughout our discussions. Jean
reminded us that one of the very first dreams was from Jody: “The New Age
Seed Company”.

But weeds specifically: where did the discussion start? Probably
unconsciously we made a link to an article that Jennifer sent us from
Starhawk (environmentalists and peace keeper) in which she links the idea of
exterminating weeds to the use of force in war as a means of stopping
something we don’t like. Interestingly, that unconscious link came through
in a conscious request from Kathy to our two great flower photo senders
(Kotaro and Jennifer) for some pictures of weeds.

We received beautiful images of weeds from Japan from Kotaro and wonderful
native flowers from Joy in the US. More, we entered a whole discussion where
the question of weeds and invasion wove together.

Joy sent us her thoughts in which she weaves her love of native American
plants with stories of hollyhocks in China and Tibet and a mediation on how
to roam and not be invasive.

“People tip the balance to where Mother Nature, who has to work with what
she's got, takes it from there. To name examples near my home, people
scarcely know what the hills of coastal California used to look like before
oat grass arrived (with cattle, in the historic past); and much of eastern
Nevada will never be sagebrush again since cheatgrass took over (all within
about the last 5 years).

I don't want to take the analogy TOO far as there are things I'll do to a
plant or plant community that I'd never advocate for a human or human
community! - but it goes back to what I remarked about the world scene a
week or two ago: we have to start where we are. If we apply more awareness
and a different set of values, we may be able to influence future change to
be less catastrophic and devastating.... in whatever realm we can influence.


I'm pretty dedicated to defending an all-native flower garden. Almost
all-native. I might plant some hollyhocks.

Now this is important to me: I don't want anyone to run with my analogy and
say that people who go where they're not native become weeds. People are
people; we belong to the whole world; we wander and people new places; it's
our nature. We also cling tenaciously to ancestral homelands. We also, alas,
invade and conquer. The extraordinary thing about people is our capacity as
individuals to choose to behave like cheatgrass or hollyhocks.

Cheatgrass cheats by getting a head start: it sprouts in the fall while the
native plants are dormant, so by spring it's robbed their water and
nutrients. By summer lightning season, it's dropped its seeds and dried to a
fine tinder. Flash! - a fire rages across the landscape, killing everything.
Next spring, the cheatgrass seeds germinate unharmed – and miles and miles
of sagebrush country (with all its native wildflowers and birds and lizards
and voles) have been converted forever into rolling golden hills of
beautiful waving cheatgrass growing so densely that nothing else can ever
again take hold. That's called a cheatgrass invasion.

Hollyhocks were my dad's favorite flower; I used to plant them for him. They
grow as well here in the high desert as they do in an English country
garden. When I went to China this summer I was delighted to see them
flourishing among brown rock walls in the mountain villages of Sichuan. When
I tell people back home, they wonder, "How did they get there from England?"
- before it occurs to them that it might have been the other way around! So
far my searching turns up equally-authoritative claims that they're native
to China and they're native to the Middle East. Trade between China and the
Middle East is ancient indeed. This woman of Middle Eastern descent and her
partner of Chinese descent rode a bus onto the Tibetan plateau marvelling at
all the hollyhocks along the way without knowing which of our ancestors
first carried a pocketful of seeds which way along the Silk Road.

I've never heard of a hollyhock invasion. I choose to be a hollyhock, big
and adaptable and colorful and slightly goofy-looking. I'd like to thrive
and be loved anywhere, gently without crowding anyone, and make a few seeds
of brightness that the future can take or leave”.

And Diana takes the point to a longing: “I wish life was as elegant as our
ideals. But it always gets so complicated”.
Of relating to the sadnesses of others

This month Sonia asked a question that must arise for anyone who
deliberately opens his/her mind to the pain of others. She asked: “How do
you deal with the pain of knowing how others are suffering? The more that I
try to do for peace and make an effort to help others the more intense the
pain seems to get. I become aware. By pain I mean like an emotional sadness.
A sense of helplessness”.

Joy found her answer in the Buddhist practice of Tonglen quoting from Pema
Chodron’s book:

"The essence of tonglen practice is that on the in-breath you are willing to
feel pain; you're willing to acknowledge the suffering of the world. …."The
essence of the out-breath is the other part of the human condition. With
every out-breath, you open. You connect with the feeling of joy, well-being,
satisfaction, tender heartedness, anything that feels fresh and clean,
wholesome and good. That's the aspect of the human condition that we wish
were the whole show.... You connect with that and you breathe it out so that
it can be experienced by everyone.”

Olivia (just spinning in) has her own methods that are remarkably similar.
She wrote: “How do I deal with the feelings? I just let them wash through
me, go and blow my nose if I must, and if it's something that makes me feel
angry and helpless I send up a prayer, often in the form of light enveloping
the victim, if it's related to pain, or death”.

Rita has gentle methods too for dealing with our awareness of pain: “I allow
whatever I feel to move through me, whether it is pain, sorrow, joy or
happiness. It is rather simple in a way if I don't get my head in the way
labelling it or doing something with it”.

Kotaro sent a “small opinion” making the difference between understanding
and “feeling” the pain of others: “To understand the pains of others is
completely different from to "feel" them or at least to try feeling them. So
in this meaning, our imagination and creative efforts will be needed at
first”.

Of dancing and action

And finally, one last rhizome. Some of those on the Bridge have been
involved in peace activities this month:

Sonia organized An EarthDance International Festival, held on Saturday,
September 16 (http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/peacemonthevents.htm ).
Some of the proceeds are to be donated to the World Dreams Peace Bridge
project: Aid for Traumatized Children
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/aidforchildren.htm  Jean and Stephen
were there, adding to the fund raising by distributing soft toys (a gift
from Mary) to children for a small donation.

Jean and others are working on the Tidewater Peace Alliance Celebration of
UN International Day of Peace on September 21st.
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/peacemonthevents.htm



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Dream: Moving On
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  :  6 oct 2006  07:50
DREAM :  moving on

=( yesterday was a thursday.  in the morning i had to get mother up early
for a doctor's appointment at the hospital.  she did some psych tests of
memory but the doctor refused to allow me to sit with her.
it seemed he wanted to inquire about my relationship in case i was taking
advantage of her obviously weakened condition, but he said that he was
satisfied that i was keeping her in good stead.  he said that i ought to get
her out of the house as often as i could and perhaps should get a pet for
her to keep, but neither is something she ever wants to do.  it seems doctor
examinations are never ending now which mother always dislikes them sucking
large chunks of money from insurance and doing nothing that really helps
her.  i can see her point but feel that i should get her medical status
confirmed so she will have a local family doctor with the facts of her
health and care.  my laptop computer finally returned from repair of the
lightning strike last month so i could at last start digitizing my dvd video
project for the fourth time.  i got to bed around midnight as usual.  )=


the paddle wheel steamboat moves quietly on the surface of the river much
like the morning mist that lifts off the water.  the constant slush slush of
the paddles as they churn the river is just about all that is heard at this
early hour of the day.  the pilot in the steering house up on the top layer
makes certain to find where the final sand bars have settled before leaving
the deep current and making for the docks of the city on the shore.

mary temple is a proper lady with her hair all tucked up under her hat,
wearing thin leather gloves with a small ivory button under the wrist.  she
is one of the upper society of the merchant families, not really old money
of aristocrats but comparing herself favorably to their kind.  she is
emancipated enough that she never wore a whale bone corsette, but retained
the several layers slips and petticoats beneath her proper wool dress and
vest.  she was definitely not one of those young women who called themselves
flappers and smoked tobacco openly whenever licensenous saxophone music
played.

mary waited while the passengers disembarked for the city then the cargo
being offloaded was towed from where it had been strapped to the open deck.
she was not going ashore.  she never did while the river boat made its stops
in the various cities along the journey.
mary had no interest in the tourist promenades of the town.  she had a more
serious purpose for her travel and would just wait aboard until the journey
continued upriver.

since the riverboat was a side wheeler, there was a small open deck on the
stern that faced out into the water.  there she would while away a few hours
with another passenger she had met.  he was a little older than her, and
seemingly from a century earlier, dressed in stiff starched collars and
heavy wool fabrics.  they had got on well when she confessed to an interest
in fishing although she had not any experience with the modern poles and
tackles since her father had taught her with nothing but cane poles.  she
enjoyed the splash of the bobber and the way it settled itself into its
place on the water when casting it out.  they never seemed to catch any fish
who were wise to avoid their bait just off the docks, but mary did not mind
as the pleasure in fishing for her came from the waiting on the water, not
the scurry of landing an unfortunate creature.

before lunch the captain of the boat came to shoo them off the deck and put
an end to their fishing reveries.  it was time for the new cargo to be
loaded and so they must retire to their suites to endure the hot part of the
day, napping in light linen.  on her way to her room, mary saw the thin
children along the halls with their dark hollow eyes.  they were sick and so
never seemed to go ashore, not strong enough to stand in the light so they
kept to shadows along the walls much like mice.  it did not bother mary that
no one else ever seemed to notice these children and went about their
business as if they were not there.  she saw them and felt a little sympathy
toward them, but she had never been a mother and lacked some of the more
tender tendencies that more experienced women had toward the young.

by evening her male companion returned for her and they went to large gaming
room where passengers normally spent their idle nights.
today, being ashore, the attendance was small but an orchestra from the town
had been commissioned to fill the hall with music.  this was one of the main
intentions of her journey, to study classical music as she had always wanted
to direct an orchestra in performance, but this was a profession that
accepted no women.  so she studied from the side, behind the curtains waving
her ivory baton in imitation of the actual director in front of the
musicians.  her companion waited with her patiently, but they were joined by
an older man who seemed from an even earlier century with wild hair that
stuck outward from his head like it wanted to abandon his scalp.  this man
had been a successful conductor and though he held his baton in an old
fashioned style and never moved his head toward the active sections
producing the music in the modern way, mary was still grateful for his
tutelage.  so the three of them waited out of sight behind the curtains
while the music swelled and swayed.  tonight was beethoven and a fine
rendition it proved to be.

when the evening of music had ended and the muscians were packing up their
instruments with little discussion, i went ashore with the few patrons for a
final nightcap upon the town, leaving mary and her companions backstage as
they usually spent their time.  also as my custom, i drank too much and
spent too much effort trying to talk with strangers who had no interest in
the things i had to say.  the ride back in a small service bus was
uneventful except that the driver drove way too fast for safety, but he
seemed well familiar with the road.  he deliberately drove over a swell in
the pavement so the rear wheels left the pavement at one point and gave a
satisfying double thump when bouncing back.  i was glad to get back to the
riverboat in one piece if not a little scattered from my entertainments.

mary seemed to wandering the boat approaching a state of disarrangement.  as
she went to the end of the bar with its array of liquor bottles, her
clothing seemed to tatter and disintegrate into small scattered pieces as
she approached the doorway that lead to the galley.  reaching to door with
her hand, it felt surprisingly hot to the touch so she opened it.  the other
side was ablaze with flames that paused with the breath of fresh air she had
admitted by opening the door, then from the center a ball of fire swelled up
and rushed upon her startled face.  the ends of her hair and the edges of
her clothing caught fire rapidly as the wave of flame approached her.
they say you can never remember the moment of your death because you are not
really there to experience it.  how many times this riverboat explodes when
its boilers catch from the galley fire is something no one will ever know.

the next morning, as usual, the boat is ready to disembark and continue its
perpetual journey up river.  not as usual, mary is dressed in her travelling
clothes with bags packed to finally leave.
her siamese cat is meowing from its box cage.

"i am ready to move on."  she announces to her male companion, the one just
slightly older than herself.  since i have seen her plight and the manner of
her death, she is finally ready to acknowledge it.
this is a major change in her status and she thinks that she is able to
understand part of it at least.

"i am staying to continue."  the nameless man tells her.  he has no reason
not to resume the familiar passage ahead.  mary nods her head to him
politely and turns to walk off into the mysterious light that exceeds the
sun.


=( awake at 07:35.  the woman aboard this ghost ship is totally unknown to
me.  the name 'mary temple' is no one i have ever known, indeed everyone
comes from a time of my grandparents and before.  i had the feeling that
they had not all died in the same incident that i saw which killed mary, but
had collected from various river craft over a longer period of time before.
certainly the plague ridden children in the shadows were unlikely to be
passengers aboard a gambling boat.  i wonder that someone as prim and proper
as mary seemed to be would be there except for her desire to take part in
concert entertainment.  this dream is mostly third party style observation
except for my brief appearance in the one episode of evening drinking
ashore, but i manage to return in order to view the rerun of mary's sudden
death by fire.  what deeper meaning such a dream could have for me, of
course, i have not the slightest notion, but it did seem to be a picturesque
experience and i can be glad at least for that.  a dream peopled mainly by
ghosts and suffering death does not seem on the surface to be an aspect of
health or good prospects.  )=


--

     .      i lift my glass to the awful truth
    ===     that you can't reveal to the ears of youth
    | |                      -- l cohen (1972) closing time
    ---     stankuli@...


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DreamRePlay
David Jenkins, PhD
The Nightmare: Getting Beyond the Climax

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The Nightmare: Getting Beyond the Climax

Almost everyone has them.

You know it was not ''real.'' It was ''only a dream.'' But nightmares are
powerful experiences of our fears. Shaking them off can be tough.

During a nightmare, we lose our ability to think and act clearly. Courage
abandons us and, instead, a sense of fear, often laced with guilt and shame,
overpowers us. We are attacked, humiliated, betrayed, and emotionally
tortured. In a nightmare, we have no weapons; friends become enemies; the
world is unmanageable, revealing our vulnerabilities at every turn.

How do you get rid of nightmares?

If you compare your nightmare to a story or movie, you'll see that the dream
stops at the climax the scene when the hero is in the most vulnerable
situation, where the audience gasps in horror sure that the hero will die.

Your task is to transform that climax into a resolution, by finishing the
scene and allowing your dreamer, the hero of your dream life, to triumph
over adversity.

One of the easiest ways to "fix" a nightmare is to use the Movie Method:

Wanda's dream

Two men are chasing me. I know that they will kill me if they catch me. I
manage to run away but then I'm trapped on a balcony. I look down to a
courtyard but it's too far away I'm certain that the jump would kill me. I
am helpless.

This nightmare had plagued Wanda since she was a teenager. Creating her own
movie script, Wanda imagined Susan Sarandon playing her. Wanda decided that,
at the climax, Tim Robbins would come in. He'd climb halfway up to the
balcony and hold her hand so that she could jump without hurting herself.

It made her laugh to imagine herself being courted from a balcony. What
began as a nightmare was already turning into a romantic comedy.

Her nightmare disappeared in a single session.

Jack's nightmare

I dream I am back at my old job. They have overwhelmed me with work. The
cash register is broken and I am dropping things all over the floor in front
of the customers.

Jack had worked as a checker in a very understaffed supermarket and this had
happened to him more than once in waking life.

To fix this nightmare, the dreamer asserted himself in the situation. In his
imagination, Jack went back into the dream situation and told his managers
exactly what they were doing wrong. He told them what staff they needed on
his shift. Then he went to each customer and explained that due to unusual
circumstances he would not be able to serve them.

The key for Jack was to replay the dream to the climax and then continue it
to a resolution.

This twenty year nightmare subsided in the next dream, was uneventful in the
third dream and hasn't been seen since January 2006, five months ago.

Summary

The point, with nightmares, is make them stop. They ruin your sleep and they
disturb your daytime abilities.

With Dream RePlay, you can expect dramatic improvements in your dream life:
instead of foes and fears you can experience friends and fun. Your
nightmares will decrease and even stop after one effort when you move the
story of your dream beyond the climax.

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This is a great way to begin your exploration of dream work. It is also
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DREAM ANALYSIS BY TELEPHONE
A phone consultation is a great way to begin your exploration of dream work.
It is also perfect when you don’t have the time to attend a regular class
but want to discuss a particular dream.

David is available for dream consultations by phone. The current cost is $50
per hour. A typical dream analysis might consist of a 30-45 minute
discussion of the dream and a follow up after the next dream.

David’s hours for telephone consultations are Monday through Friday, 10 am
to 7 pm, Pacific Time. To make an appointment, please email him with two or
three times when you are available and your phone number. He will e-mail you
back with an appointment time, payment information and request a
confirmation. David’s e-mail address is davidj@...

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Nightmares - An Introduction
Richard Wilkerson

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Updated from  Electric Dreams 5(10).

There are a wide range of events during sleep and wake that are often
referred to as "nightmares" and it is wise to learn to distinguish between
them. Most of what we call nightmares are simply extreme reactions and fear
that accompany uncomfortable dreams that occur from time to time in most
everyone, usually towards the end of the sleep cycle. Often we are awakened
by a nightmare and there can be strong feelings of sadness, anger or guilt,
but usually fear and anxiety. Often we are being chased, and it's not
unlikely for children to be chased by animals and fantasy figures, while
adults are often chased by male adults.

Night Terror vs. Nightmare

Night terrors usually occur during the first hour or two of sleep. Screaming
and thrashing about are common. The sleeper is hard to awaken and usually
remembers no more than an overwhelming feeling or a single scene, if
anything. Children who have night terrors also may have a tendency to
sleepwalk and/or urinate in bed. The causes of night terrors are not well
understood, though it appears that night terrors are from a distinctly
different stage of sleep. Children usually stop having them by puberty. They
may be associated with stress in adults. A consultation with a physician may
be useful if the night terrors are frequent or especially disturbing.

Why do we have nightmares?

Nightmares may have several causes, including drugs, medication, illness,
trauma or they may have no related cause and be spontaneous. Often they
occur when there is stress in one's waking life, and when major life changes
are occurring.

What can be done about nightmares?

The International Association for the Study of Dreams notes that "It really
depends on the source of the nightmare. To rule out drugs, medications or
illness as a cause, discussion with a physician is recommended. It is useful
to encourage young children to discuss their nightmares with their parents
or other adults, but they generally do not need treatment. If a child is
suffering from recurrent or very disturbing nightmares, the aid of a
therapist may be required. The therapist may have the child draw the
nightmare, talk with the frightening characters, or fantasize changes in the
nightmare, in order help the child feel safer and less frightened ."

Nightmares also offer the same opportunity that other dreams do, to
investigate the symbols and imagery for life enhancement. The challenge in
the last few decades for the dreamwork movement has been to teach a variety
of methods that replace the old phase "It was just a dream." In American
schools, people like Jill Gregory and Ann Wiseman teach children coping
mechanisms that allow the child to come into relationship with the dream
monsters and fears in a novel and related manner. Alan Siegel, PhD, Kelly
Bulkeley, PhD and others teach parents how to handle their children's
nightmares.
Ernest Hartmann and other researchers are finding that those who have "thin"
personalities, or sensitive, receptive individuals, are more likely to have
nightmares than "thick" personalities. Pioneers like Linda Magallón, Stephen
Laberge and Jayne Gackenbach are teaching people to take control of their
dreams and have the outcomes they wish rather than becoming the dream's
victim.


CyberDreamwork offers a Nightmare Response Line
Nightmare Response: 1-866-DRMS911
This is not therapy, but a qualified person will get back to you.

The International Association for the Study of Dreams offers a Nightmare
Resources page.  Here you will find among its members the top researchers in
the field.

http://asdreams.org/nightmare/index.htm

NIGHTMARE BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY IASD

Special Issue of Dream Time, with many researchers articles on Nightmares
and Children. Much of the work is applicable to adults. Volume 15 numbers
1&2 Winter/Spring 1998 Available via ISD www.asdreams.org

Garfield, Patricia (online)
http://www.patriciagarfield.com/idx_library_childs.htm
Nightmares and what to do about them.

Wiseman, Ann Sayre (1986, 1989). Nightmare help. A guide for adults and
children. Ten Speed Press.

Krakow, Barry, and Neidhardt, Joseph (1992). Conquering bad dreams and
nightmares. Berkeley Books.

Hartmann, Ernest (1984).The Nightmare: The Psychology and Biology of
Terrifying Dreams. Basic books.

Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and Meaning of Dreams. A
new book by Ernest Hartmann, M.D. is now available for ordering through
Plenum Publishers.

Siegel, Alan; Bulkeley, Kelly (1998). Dreamcatching: Every parent's guide to
exploring and understanding children's dreams and nightmares. Three Rivers
Press.

MORE ON NIGHTMARES

Cushway, Delia, and Sewell, Robyn (1992) Counseling with dreams and
nightmares.Sage publications.

Kellerman, Henry (Ed.) (1987). The Nightmare: Psychological and Biological
Foundations. Columbia University Press.

Titanic Nightmares Scream Warnings About Real Damage
             Linda Lane Magallón
Electric Dreams 10(10), 203.
Dreamgate.com/ed


Lazar, Moshe (Ed) (1983). The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Daymares in
Literature and Film.Undena.

Downing, J., and Marmorstein, E. (Eds.) Dreams and Nightmares: A Book of
Gestalt Therapy Sessions. New York: Harper and Row, 1973


Ok, that was the basic stuff. Now for very advanced players, and article on
cultivating the personality that can handle nightmares….

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Becoming Nightmare, the Rhizomatics of Dreaming

Richard Wilkerson

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This article was originally published  (2000 Oct).Electric Dreams 7(10) as a
kind of preliminary exercise in the exploration of horror and developed
later in Transgressive Dreamwork (see http://dreamgate.com/pomo/   ) but I
feel that it begins to create alternatives to fleeing from nightmares, or
abolishing them. In this sense, it's more in the tradition of Jungian Shadow
work, but with some postmodern twists.

There is a lot of jargon in this file that may be cleared up if you read my
article on Deleuze and Guattari's postmodern philosophy,
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/articles_rcw/deleuze98.htm


I.

Signs and Subject, all well greased and in place. All social/familial taboos
in operation. All tasks of production and consumption completed and finally
Brian goes to sleep. Some time later that night Brian awakes, too frightened
to scream, heart pounding and he is on some kind of roller coaster ride in a
land without gravity. Brian just had a nightmare.

There has been a break in the flow and the insertion of a nightmare machine
in the factory of the unconscious. It shreds its way through signification
(what is what) and subjectification (who is who). The usual codes have
unraveled, and the flow of de-coded signs circulate in things that are only
themselves. Brian' ears are red and buzzing, and he wonders why they are on
his foot. He hears a old voice of a therapist asking what he thinks the ear
on the foot represents, and now he knows the therapist must be mad, speaking
about what the falling mast might mean symbolically as another wave pushes
his ship under the swell. Both a breakthrough and a breakdown of a world
that revolves around the subject. Now the subject is whirled around. Around
may not be the right word, as around implies a center and there is no center
here.

Standard wisdom dictates that we move away from offensive and frightening
scenes. These reactions keep us out of trouble, keep our hands from being
burned by the stove, keep germs off our food, keep our bones from being
broken by cars and cliffs. However, this aversion reaction also keeps us in
line and in alignment with early training that may no longer be valid.
Taboos may be said to function in the same way. There are boundaries we are
taught not to transgress, or there will be Hell to pay. But were these
boundaries put into place by a perfect parent, guardian or teacher?
Unlikely. And in a society whose parameters and values change at an
unparalleled pace, one's value programs need to be upgraded more than once a
generation.

In fact, this is the classic definition of the neurotic. The neurotic is a
person who encounters offensive, frightening scenes and backs away. But they
keep backing away until there is no further back to go, becoming deeply
compressed within themselves, and no longer venturing out the front door, no
longer touching anything without washing their hands, no longer peering over
steep cliffs.

Societies too become neurotic, become paranoid, and then begin trying to
control everything, the media, the way children are raised, what we eat and
drink, who we talk to. Modern societies have tried to do away with these
tyrannical systems, but in doing so have not replaced them with anything,
and so our values have become confused, conflicted, fickle. One group tries
to save trees, and tries to save the jobs so they can feed their family. The
higher, synthetic truth that will bring together opposites is harder and
harder to find. When people don't have an inner value to call on, they look
around, see what the neighbors are doing, and follow suite. There is no real
inner status, so outward signs of status become important.

Dreamworkers have always been aware of this condition of the retreating
self/society and the machines that keep it in place. Spiritual dreamwork
discusses these issues in terms of enlightenment and salvation. That is,
there is a veil of illusion we call our lives, and the paths that allow us
to transcend these illusions. Psychological dreamwork discusses these
illusions in terms of neurosis and psychosis, and the appropriate level of
challenges and supports are set up to allow the individual to make choices
from places other than overwhelming affective/emotional states. Postmodern
dreamwork addresses these illusions more as social constructs and looks for
ways to subvert repressive forces and open up creative lines of escape. In
this view, the nightmare is not something for the subject to escape from,
but a path to escape the neurotic subject.

II.

What are those gaps in the dream, those shifting scenes of the dream?

The self passes through various states as it (they) rolls around the body
without organs. Some of these states are quite discontinuous. Freud and Jung
both addressed this discontinuity. They knew it was more than a lapse in
brain activation.

Interestingly, recently, the REM theory of dreaming collapsed. In 1953,
Aserinsky, a grad student of Nathaniel Kleitmann, found that when you waken
a person whose eyes were moving rapidly during sleep, they tended to recall
dreams. Eventually the REM cycle was found to be fairly regular and that it
activated parts of the neo-cortex through fairly random neural bursts. Since
then, Alan Hobson and his friends have insisted that dreaming is simply the
sleepy mind dealing with these random firings and gaps are times when there
are pauses in this activation.

Over the last few years, a whole new picture began to emerge from the
studies of a neurosurgeon who followed the dreams of patients with brain
damage. Mark Solms noted that the activation sequences that the brain needed
to dream (or more accurately, to recall dreams) was *independent* of the REM
activation. Oh, REM brain stem activation got this new Dream-On sequence
going at times ( a spiral like activation that cycles through our motivation
centers, our spacio-temporal-imaginal centers, our higher visual centers)
but so did other things, and once activated, it follows its own independent
activation.

But all these notions seemed dated, or limited, when considered within a
Deleuzio-guattarian engagement. Molar aggregates scrape and fight about
territory all the time, and when this occurs over millions of years, brain
structures get pushed to the limit and turn into revolutions.

Dream discontinuity here becomes more a matter of intersecting lines
disrupting the subject of the conjunctive synthesis. At least from the point
of view of the body without organs.

The body without organs. Imagine a body that has not been organized into
brains, hearts, genitals, legs, arms, skin. A body like this has no real
interior, there are just flows, almost a perverse polymorphic distribution
of intensities that offer a smooth surface around which the dynamics of the
subjects, the objects, the affects, the cognitions, the forces of production
and consumption travel, not in paths where the end is known, but in partial
paths, in trajectories. An egg, crisscrossed by forces, dynamics, vectors.
As we approach the surface of this egg, the intensity drops to zero and
everything begins to slide.

In waking life, the ego uses narrative bridges to compensate for this
discontinuity. Even when we wake up, the technique for learning dream recall
is journalling.

But when sleeping, the access to the neurotransmitters that allow identity
structures to rigidly hold together and produce grids, thereby
reterritorializing dominate cultural axiomatics, disappear. That is, the
dream state is full of narratives and subjects, feelings and thoughts,
repressions and productions, and these work in a way that is unfamiliar to
the subject, who upon waking may recall a "dream" but in fact is only
recalling the last slice, the one it can identify as a story.

Disjunctions appear as gaps between dreams because the subject relates to
them from its experiential story-frame. Deterritorializations may be
experienced as apocalyptic or may be seen as loss of consciousness. Each
dream story, while it is being produced, is like a child playing on a train
track, and a track at the intersection of an infinite vortices. The subject
consumes the dream as narrative, but can only rarely use that narrative
structure to reterritorialize its identity. Again, probably due on the
bio-chemical level to the dissolving or wavy grid of control that occurs
during dreaming. (Interestingly activated first by the very spot that
leucotomies -earlier called lobotomies - are performed, ie dopamine,
active-producing, connecting, interest-producing, action-producing, desiring
centers).

Gaps in the Dream. Freud saw them as a cover-up, but one in which a sharp
mind could follow back by association, to a source. Oedipus gouging out his
eyes, then retracing his steps of the crime. Whether one goes for the theory
of being able to recover authorial intention or not, the process, free
association, did emerge as a skill by which the subject could begin to
produce his/her own streams and lines of escape.

Jung, in his charming Hegelian way, saw the gap as a portal being held open
by two unreconcilable opposites, two things that the ego just could not let
go of, yet could not have, two horrors, two beasts in eternal struggle for
one reality they could never both inhabit. Through this portal held by the
struggle emerged the uncanny transcendent.

OK, perhaps its just another tyrant awakening in the desert and slinking off
to Bethlehem, but when the dream becomes one of many sites where the
intolerable may first occur to us, where the molar limit produces molecular
cracks and bleeds the brood of the night, then here is a factory that
produces the un-containable rupture across which the nomad may skate.

III.

Like desire (and madness) dreams seem to be the most powerful when they
bring us into contact with radical otherness. Daniel brings Nebruchanezer
into contact with a dream that transforms the religions of Babylon. Joseph
brings Pharaoh into contact with a dream that alters the state of Egypt. Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is written after a Robert Lewis Stevenson encounters his
own Hyde in a dream. Freud and Jung encounter desire and madness in dreams
and create and alter the course of psychotherapy.
This radical otherness is better characterized as a continual process of
becoming other, which begins in the desire to escape bodily limitations.
These limitations can be both cultural as well as natural. To regress back
to representations for a moment, in dreams we often find ourselves up
against our own cultural and psychophysical limit-expectations. We stop at
red lights in our car in a dream. We open dream doors. We walk upstairs and
eat meals. Yet in other dreams we fly, we breath water, we walk through
walls, men become women, we can be several identities at once, we become
animals and crooks, we have sex with taboo people and inanimate objects.
And perhaps most radically, we stop being we. I am not the center of my
dream, but just one trajectory intersecting the dream.

*zzzzz* Desire as productive, creating breaks in the flow and connecting one
desiring machine to another.

*zzzzz* Dreams/nightmares as productive, and what they are producing and how
does this work? Careful, does each dream produce a singularity, or can we
abstract and generalize since we have all been caught in the same habits of
western culture?

*zzzzz* Dreams/nightmares in their different phases of deterritorialization
of subjective space, their territorialization of brain space, the
teterritorialization of ?

*zzzzz* If you must remain psychoanlaytic, how about a slight shift? Instead
of seeing nightmares as a failure of the censor, what happens if we posit
that the nightmare is a deflection of something so ungraspable that it can
only be said to be a successful censoring of that experience.

*zzzzz* Dreams/Nightmares as ruptures between the binary thinking of
conscious/unconscious, wake/sleep, aware/not aware, here/not here?

*zzzzz* What might have young Felix or Gilles have thought to themselves
when they first had to tackle Descartes Dream problem about reality and
knowing?

*zzzzz* How might the dream/nightmare be seen as a co-patriot of
disfamiliarization?

In ancient Delphi, people would sleep on the steps of the temple of Apollo,
seeking (incubating) the dream that would allow them access to the oracle
inside. Mythically, this access to the truth was a later imposition of
Apollo on a pre-Greek people who practiced dance and rites that were
assigned by the Greeks to Dionysos. Pan is one of his entourage and was said
to have taught Apollo dream work at Delphi. In the Dionysian groups, the
questions or problems, if that is what they really were, were danced along
the hillsides and meadows and involved transformations in ecstasy. This
moving-into may be distinguished from Apollo's seeing-from afar. With the
dominance of Apollo, the dramas were all contained in the amphitheater and
the ecstasies relocated to the dream (and the one oracle, who was imprisoned
in the center of the temple and surrounded by the priests who did all the
interpreting of visions and dreams). This same set-up was found in the cult
of Asklepios (Aesculapius in Latin). At these popular dream healing
sanctuaries the amphitheater was ever near the spa. The patients would be
cured when they encountered Asklepios or one of his family or animals in a
dream. The becoming other, so to speak, was limited to particular containing
vessels. Still, Dionysos is seen as Apollo's dark brother and has his own
months where he is still the god at Delphi.

Like Dionysos, the nightmare remains nomadic subject, the free autonomous
subject which exists momentarily in an ever shifting array of possibilities
as desiring machines distribute flows across the body without organs.

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From the Dream Section editor Kat Peters-Midland :

This month’s dream section is short, but it has some very interesting dreams
of a black bird biting, hearing voices on a haunted pager, digging for gold,
and a yellow rattle snake following…

Dream title: The Repetitive Car Ride
Dream date:  none given
Dreamer name: Dream-Keeper
Dream text: I am riding in a van going through city and states with no real
destination in mind. I am not driving but my mother is. My father never
seems to be there. We then decide that we want to go fishing and head off
down the road to a pond of some sort. But then we change our minds and
decide to go somewhere else. We set off on this road that feels so familiar.
As we drive I notice that the bridge that we are crossing runs out. And we
have to jump the water to get to the shore or the road at the end of the
water. But yet we aren't shocked that the road runs out but it feels like
it's just another route. But as we cross I get jumpy and we always barely
make it. And then the dream stops there.
Dream comments: I have had this dream several times and most of the time as
I am coming out of the dream I tend to feel as if I am falling and I hit the
ground in the dream I wake up and the strong pull is gone.

Dream title: bitten by a black bird with red markings on it
Dream date: 10-01-2006
Dreamer name: precious2god
Dream text: I dreamed I was upstairs in an abandoned house.  It was a house
that I was interested in buying.  There was a hole in the roof and I saw a
black and red colored bird fly