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Volume #13   Issue #1

January 2006

ISSN# 1089 4284

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
       Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
       Harry Bosma

++ Cover:  "Time Boy"
          by Ed Kellogg, PhD

++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Lucy Gillis - Editor
            Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part Three:
            Incubation and Fantasy

++ Column: The View From the Bridge
            Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
            Olivia Strand

++ Dream: "New England Armadillos"
           Stan Kulikowski II

++ Article:  Nice Girls Don't Go Naked in their Dreams (or Do They?)
              Dave Lappin


++ DREAM SECTION: Special installment from Computer Dreams by Gem


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Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to:
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Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to
Harry Bosma <ed-news@...>

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  Editor's Notes

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Welcome to the January 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.

If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/

.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and
dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

This has been quite a year for the Dream Movement. The Dream Institute of
Northern California and the International Association for the Study of
Dreams are now "living" in the same location in Berkeley, California. Many
dreamwork projects have matured into full blown educational programs,
certifications and international peace projects.  The online IASD
PsiberDreaming conference continued its new tradition of exploring the edges
of dreaming.  I'm looking forward to seeing these and the many other
projects in dreamwork unfold in the next year and hope to hear from the
readers of Electric Dreams about your new projects, books and events.

This month in Electric Dreams:

Thanks to Ed Kellogg for his cover art contribution of the "Time Boy"
graphic and dream story. Perhaps you too can improve your dream-psi
abilities with a visit from Time Boy.
http://tinyurl.com/dzks4

Lucy Gillis continues to explore the edges of dreaming and finds the most
interesting topics for her Lucid Dream Exchange.  In an excerpt this month
from the Exchange, Linda Lane Magallón continues her speculation about dream
characters. Are dream characters real people? Do they have a will, or a
consciousness of their own? Are they all the same, or could some be lifeless
projections? Be sure to read "Dream Characters and Reality Checks:
Incubation and Fantasy."

Stan Kulikowski II returns in 2006 with his unique style of dream recording,
this month with a dream titled "New England Armadillos."  If you have dreams
you would like published, please enter them in the form at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

Not only was 2005 having been a busy year for dream research and dreamwork,
but also for dream activism. And the Peace Workers on the Bridge are going
to be even busier in 2006!  Olivia Strand keeps all up on the World Dreams
Peace Bridge activities and in this month's View, she takes a look at the
Peace Festival in Norfolk, Virginia last December, and how WDPB members
around the world are doing in their efforts for peace. .

Peter Farley has spent his life exploring life's mysteries and returning
useful information and techniques.  In a selection on dreams below, Peter
discusses a range of topics in dreamwork, and introduces readers to his
philosophy on dreaming from a shamanic point of view. Get the full scoop and
links in "Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?"

The Dream Editor is on vacation this month. In place of the Dreams Section,
I'm including part 2 of a collection of computer dreams from "Gem". Gem's
dreams start in about 2000 when she got a job involving computer work. What
is interesting is that prior to this job, she knew little about them.

Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles
and authors in an easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range
of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress
and view hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm

Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which
you can read about in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news,
conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events,
be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at
ed-news@...

  Just a quick addition to the news. The International Association for the
Study of Dreams conference in Bridgewater, MA June 20-24th  still has room
for early registrations, but you must get in before January 15th.  The
Presentations are now closed for entry, but both Hot-off-the-press and the
Art Show are still open.  See the full scoop at
http://www.asdreams.org/2006

… and also, we will have more information next month on the Nordic Dream
Conference in Copenhagen this March. Watch here for details :
http://www.ffsd.dk/ndk_2006.php


Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com
(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)

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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:

http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com

Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/

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From the Dream Dimension,

-Richard Wilkerson




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

January 2006

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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his
special ed-news@... address.

Online:
- Dreams received for the Planetary Dream 2005
- Dream Visions website
- Dream of the Week email

Physical world:
- Berkeley: Dream Groups by David Jenkins
- San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming

Books, movies, research:
- Bulkeley and Bulkley: Dreaming Beyond Death
- Justina Lasley: In My Dream...

Recurring events:
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace


* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dreams received for the Planetary Dream 2005
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Hello Rêveurs / Dreamers!

Merci pour votre participation au Rêve planétaire 05 ;-)
Vos rêves figurent aux versions française et anglaise du site Oniros:

Thanks for your participation to the Planetary dream 05 ;-)
Your dreams can be seen on the French and English versions of the site
Oniros:

www.oniros.fr/reves05.html
www.oniros.fr/dreams05.html

Jusqu'à la fin de l'année, vous pouvez apporter toutes les corrections et
compléments d'information que vous jugerez utiles. Up to the end of the
year, you can add all the corrections and added information you think
useful.

Joyeux Noël / Happy Christmas

Le webmestre / the webmaster

Roger Ripert


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- Dream Visions website
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My site, www.mydreamvisions.com, is a culmination of many years study of
dreams and their rich benefits in personal and spiritual development. My
intention is to help others use their dreams to better understand and
improve their lives. The site includes many free dream interpretation
resources, including dictionary of symbols, step-by-step instructions for
dream interpretation, and tips for dream recall.

All the best to you,

Nancy Wagaman, M.A.


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- Dream of the Week email
---

Starting early January, David Jenkins plans to write a weekly email "Dream
of the Week". Each column is a vignette that introduces one of his
techniques, describes a dream and the dream work, and ends with the
outcome/insight for the dreamer.

Email for more information: davidj@...



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- Berkeley: Dream Groups by David Jenkins
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Elephant Pharmacy Wednesdays: Starting January 11, the Elephant Pharmacy
drop-in dream group has a regularly scheduled time - Wednesdays from 1-2 pm.
Enjoy an exciting hour of dream work as a break in the middle of your day.
This is a free class.

Berkeley Thursday Drop In: Starting January 12th, I will be offering a new
drop-in group on Thursday evenings from 7-8.30 pm in downtown Berkeley.
(2288 Fulton Street, #201, $10 per class). This is for the many people who
want to tell a dream or to listen to a dream without necessarily making an
on-going commitment. This also allows me to offer a Berkeley evening group
for those for whom Oakland Saturday morning group is not feasible. Come join
and feel free to bring a friend.

The details for these new groups and the current classes will be available
on the web site in early January. If you know of anyone who might be
interested, please forward this email to them.

Best wishes for the new year,

David
www.dreamreplay.com


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- San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming
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Dream Group based on Robert Moss' pioneer synthesis of dreamwork and
shamanism.

4 Tuesdays beginning 1/10/06
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Cost $95
in San Francisco
Please call or email Elizabeth Lombardo
415.447.8552
elizabeth_lombardo@...



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Bulkeley and Bulkley: Dreaming Beyond Death
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A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions

Documented throughout time and across cultures, dreams experienced by those
on the verge of death can offer profound insight into the process of dying
and provide deep spiritual solace for the individual passing away. In
Dreaming Beyond Death, Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley bring together
their diverse areas of expertise to create a guide to pre-death dreams that
offers practical advice and provides a broader understanding of this
phenomenon.

www.beacon.org/catalogs/sp05/bulkeley-bulkley.html


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- Justina Lasley: In My Dream...
---

In My Dream... is a delightful illustrated journal to capture dreams,
thoughts, and sketches. This creative and inspirational journal contains
helpful guides to discover the meanings hidden within your dreams. Introduce
the world of dreams to yourself and others this season... truly the gift
that keeps on giving.

Upon request, journals can be autographed by Justina Lasley for your gift
recipients.

More information:
http://www.dreamswork.us/



* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * *

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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:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.

In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace
within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal
level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and
supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please
join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to
dream towards the mandala of peace.

If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used
within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of
peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World
Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .

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Cover Artist: Ed Kellogg, PhD: TIMEBOY

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EWK 9/25/05   "I find myself outside in a grassy, sloping park setting -
very pleasant. I see lots of people scattered about enjoying the park,
picnicking and playing. I crouch down to talk with two little boys.
Semi-lucid, I realize I can do magic and for fun ask them if I can do
anything for them.  The boys look five or six years old, very small. The one
on the left looks sick - he has dark shadows under his eyes, looks pale and
very thin. He has thin dirty blond hair. I wonder if he has an illness in
waking  physical reality. The other boy looks healthier. They both look at
me, as if uncertain of what to say.

I ask the sick looking boy if he would like me to do a healing on him. He
tells me "No", but then adds "I'd like to do a healing on you!"

Surprised, I ask: "On what?" He tells me I have some blockage in my forehead
center that keeps me from perceiving (psychically?) correctly with it. That
makes some sense to me, but I wonder if he can do it, and if so whether he
could do so properly. I ask him if he means the third eye chakra, the little
boy nods, but he looks uncertain, as if he does not know what I mean.
However, at this point the other little boy with brown hair enthusiastically
pipes up: "He can do it!" He sounds so confidant that I agree.

As soon as I do, the first boy lifts a very thin arm up and presses his
right hand onto my forehead. As he does this I ask him: "Does your forehead
center seems fully open?" He nods.  I can't see his forehead though. He has
hair covering his forehead, and wears a gray wool cap with a red
stripe/fringe, that holds his hair in place.

Curious to see what his forehead looks like, I ask: "May I?" gesturing at
his head. He doesn't object, so I begin uncovering his forehead. To my
surprise I see a round silver watch with a white face and black hands
embedded on the left side, not in the middle as I'd expected. Surprised, I
continue. When fully uncovered I see that his forehead has four "third eyes"
- round watches with white faces with different times and slightly different
colored metal faces and numbers.

I feel alarmed at what I've seen and back away, breaking the connection -
perhaps before the boy had accomplished anything - but perhaps not. I don't
know if I want to end up with a "forehead center" like his - especially
considering he doesn't look all that healthy. He looks surrealistic, like
something by Salvador Dali. I wonder if what I'd allowed him to do, or had
almost allowed him to do, seemed such a good idea. I now understand why he
looked so uncertain when I asked him about the "third" eye" - his "forehead
center" has a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth!

Now that I've backed away "Timeboy" has a temper tantrum. perhaps because he
didn't get to finish his "healing" of me. He shrieks and runs around. I ask
the other the boy if he would like to come with me to do some magic
someplace quieter. He agrees. I pick him up my arms and fly off down the
grassy slope of the park . . . (dream continues) "

"The Rest of the Story . . .": On the night of 9/24 - 9/25 I'd incubated
dreams to tune into the target picture for the 2005 PsiberDreaming
Conference Precognitive Dreaming Contest, a target picture randomly selected
two days later - the cover of an early copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."  Under
the title, the cover illustration depicts two men and a pack of dogs in
pursuit of a woman holding a child, her cloak billowing behind her as she
runs away from her pursuers across an icy river through a bleak winter
landscape.  The men wear old fashioned clothing, one in brown, one in black.


After I left "Timeboy" (increasingly lucid, and eventually remembering my
task), I encountered two men hurrying along a trail, wearing old fashioned
clothing, brown and black. The one in brown reminds me at first of President
Kennedy and later of Theodore Roosevelt.  The two men led me to a room where
I saw a large sepia-tone photo of a dignified black man in old fashioned
clothing (same relative dimensions as the book cover) whom I identified as
"Martin Luther King" in the dream, despite the apparent anachronism.  When
this dream ended it immediately segued into an amazingly vivid but short
storm scene where I saw a nineteenth century ship - with billowing sails -
racing under pursuit, and then dramatically holed by a cannon ball.  The
post-Timeboy dream sequences had a number of hits to the "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
target - the theme of pursuit, the two men, the nineteenth century
backgrounds, the photograph of the black man ("Uncle Tom"), and the multiple
civil rights associations with President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and
even to slave ships, like the Amistad, which the 4 masted sailing ship that
I saw resembled.  These and other hits left no doubt in my mind at least
that I had successfully tuned into the target picture, and even earned my
submission a second place tie for the precognitive dreaming contest.   So
perhaps Timeboy's adjustment to my "forehead center" may have done something
useful after all.


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




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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

Back in May, Linda Lane Magallón tackled the subject of dream characters in
part one of her four part series. Are dream characters real people? Do they
have a will, or a consciousness of their own? Are they all the same, or
could some be lifeless projections? Join Linda as she takes us on a journey
through her own thoughts and intriguing dreams. You may not look at your
dream characters in quite the same way again!

Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part Three:
Incubation and Fantasy
(c) 2005 Linda Lane Magallón

I don't recall where I got the notion, but I do remember it was born of
desperation. I'd been searching for a new career without success. The
suggestion was that, to reveal my vocational heart's desire, I should
analyze my daydreams. There was one fantasy in particular that had started
when I was a kid, then grew and changed as I did. As an adult, I was too
embarrassed to admit that I still enjoyed it. Its genesis had been superhero
TV shows and comic books.

Not surprising, really. My maiden name was Linda Lane, but when people first
met me, they'd call me Lois. Lois Lane was the comic character whose prime
function was to be rescued by Superman. It didn't seem fair that he'd then
fly off and have all the fun. This inequality definitely called for a change
in the story line. So one day, in imagination, I took to the sky. No more
Lois. I became Casey Lane.

When I began analyzing my now grown-up version of the fantasy, I discovered
that some of the scenarios were much too vague. So I gave complete names to
the characters and retrofitted them with histories, personalities,
vocations, and avocations, all in an attempt to fill out my ideal working
environment. One of the characters was an Afro-American woman I'd been
calling Willie. I augmented her biography and expanded her name to Willette
Nicholson. I was very much aware that I was creating this character. Willful
fantasy was under my control, whereas dreams were totally out of control.

March the 8th International Women's Day. At approximately 4:30 in the
morning, for the first time in my life, I awoke to the fact that I was
dreaming. It began as a nightmare, as usual. Then I was rescued from
suffocation, not by Superman, but by a mysterious black-clothed woman who
flung me over her back and took me soaring through the sky. The dream
continued:

We fly over the plaza and down the street through a city of skyscrapers. The
woman makes a right turn, then stops. While hovering, she rolls me over onto
my back so that she is holding me in an embrace.

"Hello, Casey," she says softly, smiling. Her features are indistinguishable
but dark in color. She is projecting a blast of emotion toward me. I am
receiving an intense feeling of kindness and loving concern. She knows me as
Casey - my super self!

"Will-it!" I exclaim in utter astonishment as I recognize her. This mutual
recognition has brought me to lucidity. Willette lifts me to an upright
position. Still embracing my body with one arm, she stands to my left. We
are both suspended in the air.

I can't believe my eyes. Here is the subject of my creation: a character who
I made up in fantasy. But now I know she's an actual person, a completely
mature, independent adult, standing right next to me, holding me, talking to
me! And she can really fly! I can hardly comprehend it all.

"Why?" I ask. Why is she here, saving me, showing so much concern for me?
Looking me straight in the eye, she says with utmost gravity, "You were once
my mother."

The loving concern I felt emanating from Willie was so intense, I carried it
with me the entire next day. I was convinced, both in the dream and after I
awoke, that I was encountering a real person.

Here was the dichotomy expressed more vividly than I could have imagined. On
the one hand, there was this character that I had created, then enhanced
during the most intense period of visualization in my life. On the other
hand, there was this emancipating entity, freely speaking and acting on her
own. It was as if I'd incubated a new being in my imagination, who then
crossed over and was born into my dreams. If a statue had come to life in my
own front room, the psychological impact couldn't have been more powerful.

Fantasy Incubation

There was absolutely nothing within my experience to encompass what had
happened. I began a dream journal and read every dream book I could get my
hands on. I also continued to run excerpts from the fantasy in my mind just
before sleep. Maybe that would provide more substance to the dream. Maybe,
if there was enough substance, Willie could make a second crossing - into
the waking state. Maybe I could become more Casey-like in dreams or waking
life.

I am walking with Willie through the courtyard of an old apartment building
to a "gathering of the clan." Two friends come walking towards us; they turn
a corner and go up a couple of steps and inside a screen door. As Willie and
I follow them, I ponder on the fact that this married pair are the models
for two of the people in my fantasy. Thinking this way brings me to a low
level of lucidity.

Inside the apartment I recall their fantasy names and compare them with the
waking ones. "It's Sandy and Nancy Tully, not Torrey," I remember aloud.
Then I turn to the man and call him by his waking name. "Walter!" I exclaim.

"Who's that?" he responds. "The guy I patterned you after," I tell him.

Off to the right are the rest of the group. I take a big breath and proclaim
loudly to them, "You're all figments of my imagination!" Astonished, they
all collapse and sit down on the floor.

As I wake, I hear a voice saying, "I wonder what she I be?"

Of course, many Willie dreams were directly influenced by the fantasy. This
was especially true when I slipped from hypnogogia into a dream. A few times
the scenery of my reveries would show up in my dreams, but rarely was the
story line reproduced. For the most part, the dream would head off in
directions I'd never imagined.

After a while, in some non-lucid dreams, I simply "knew" that I was Casey.
My waking persona had been replaced by my fantasy one. This turned out to be
immensely helpful. As Casey, I knew I could fly away from danger or stand up
to threats. Thus, nightmares could be transformed within the dream, before I
ever woke up. My dreaming self, who had been the unwitting victim of almost
40 years of hellish existence, was being remade as a super self.

Doctrinal Compliance Again

For Willie, just the opposite seemed to be happening. She played roles I'd
never visualized. A social worker (she was a scientist). A spy (she was a
human rights activist). An elementary school teacher (she taught college as
a grad student). A trumpet player (yes, she was a musician, but she played
the flute). In the fantasy, she had a strong personality; in the dream she
could act like a wimp.

Dream Willie was extremely elastic. Something besides deliberate pre-sleep
intent was forming her character. When I read Jungian literature, she'd act
like a Jungian archetype. If I were studying Freud, I'd dream something with
sexual content. Depending on what I read, talked about, or saw on TV, she'd
be Christ Consciousness or the Wicked Witch of the West. She was also The
Thinker, a Primal Screamer, a food server, a fund-raiser, a dress model, a
printing shop clerk and The Lone Ranger! The most pervasive influence was
the Seth material. I dreamt of her in Jane Roberts' imaginal Library, as an
oversoul and as a channeled entity. I dreamt she told me that Jane Roberts
was part of our "family." Whereas other folks in the Seth community
interpreted that to mean I was part of Jane Roberts' extended family, the
Sumari, I assumed that Willie was referring to my fantasy clan. In any case,
I accepted neither possibility out of hand. I knew only too well that
Doctrinal Compliance was swaying my subconscious. Dream conformity to what I
experienced in waking life was preprogramming Willie's dream persona. It was
responsible for both the foundation and maintenance of most dream settings
as well as the ongoing narrative. A lucid dream wasn't free of this
background influence, either.

Lucid Creation and Comparisons

Within lucid dreams, I could deliberately conjure up Willie's image, but it
would be quite vague or readily collapse. Once, her dream body turned into
an egg! Maybe I was once her mother, but this retro-birth was ridiculous. I
was more successful when I simply called for her. True, she didn't show up
very often, but then is a real person always available at our beck and call?

At the edge of hypnogogia, I tried to picture her in new surroundings to see
how much control I had over the pre-dream stage. A lot, it turned out.
However, once the dream began, the scenario was likely to morph. I learned
that, in-dream, create your own character was not an easy task. Most
definitely, I couldn't do everything I wanted to do. In fact, the more I
attempted the deliberate do-it-yourself approach to dreaming, the more I
realized how unyielding the dreamworld could be.

Reality checks I did, by keeping records and comparing methods of retrieval.

I came to understand that the sort of Willie I encountered depended on the
method of encounter. The non-lucid dream Willie was not like the fantasy
Willie. Less sure of herself. The automatic writing Willie was more like the
channeled Willie. Very authoritarian. The Willie of poetry was not like the
day vision Willie. Abstract and conceptual rather than visual and objective.

Lucid dream Willie was hard to find. Hypnogogic Willie was often an imp.
This sort of reality check yielded the conclusion that each type of
retrieval system actually formed a different kind of Willie.

Me as Willie

Occasionally, in non-lucid dreams, I actually became Willie - knew myself as
Willie, looked out from her point of view. I assumed this was an expansion
of the fantasy. There, the characters had the communal capacity to become
aware of one another's thoughts and feelings. Tele-empathy. Also, when I ran
the fantasy in my mind, I usually took on the role of each character,
especially when they had speaking parts. Temporarily, I could play Willie.
But I never thought of her as a "part of me," like an essential limb or
organ. Rather, she was a cloak I could create and wear, then take off and
put away.

I experimented with this concept in waking life.
  My hair was given a permanent of tight curls. I wore her colors (red and
black) all winter long.
Perhaps because of that period of pretending, I spoke up with more
confidence and began to identify myself as a researcher. Act as if, and it
rubs off on you.

Other Dreamer's Willie

When I began talking about Willie to colleagues and friends, several other
people dreamt about her. But with the exception of Melinda Nelson's
hypnogogic example, their variations weren't much like my waking or dreaming
versions. True, other people could dream of Willie singing or dancing, but
not to the rock and roll beat of the music tapes I played when I imagined
her. She was the parent of many children as well as a daughter in one of my
past lives (dream reactions to "Once you were my mother"). One dreamer's
version of Willie was a little child; another's was a high priestess.
Personal projection was the driving force, while tele-empathic perception
took a back seat. Willie could show up in other people's dreams as an
exalted divinity, an opera singer's attendant or a camera projectionist
(speaking of projection!).

Willie was also the inspiration for communal creativity after we woke.
Besides Melinda's drawing, friends created a plaster face mask for Willie
(using my face), a Tarot reading and a horoscope (based on the date and time
of the breakthrough dream). But none of them really rang true.

Waking Life: The 10% Manifestation

I was running errands one day and musing that if I ever met Willie in waking
life, she'd probably not have that name. After all, I was Casey only in the
fantasy. So what name would she have, I wondered. "Diana" came to me. Two
days later I walked into a new job and met the woman I was replacing. She
was of Anglo descent, not Afro-American, but that didn't stop me from
chuckling at her name. It was Diane Wills. I had imagined that Willie's
childhood home would be in Carson City, Nevada. That's where Diane and her
husband were going to retire.

Because the horoscope based on the date of the breakthrough dream didn't
feel right, I decided that, if I were to guess Willie's astrological sign,
she would be a Leo. Then I had a dream that Willie and I would meet in
Mexico. By this time, I didn't take it very seriously. Nevertheless, when my
husband and I journeyed there, a black woman was part of our tour group. I
mentioned dreams; she was interested in New Age phenomena. After talking
with her, I discovered that she was the mother of a single son, like Willie.

She was a vegetarian, like Willie. And she was a Leo.

Every once in a while, I'd have synchronicities like these. Bits and pieces
of the fantasy Willie would come true, but never the whole package. At
first, I was frustrated, then disappointed, then resigned. I tried my best
to create my own reality in the waking state, but it proved to be a far more
difficult task than influencing dream with imagination. How much actually
came to be? "About 10%," Willie had suggested in a lucid dream. That may be
an overstatement.

The Letdown

Through all my seeking of her asleep, I learned a lot about the lucid
dreamworld. The exploration was fascinating, whether I looked for Willie or
not. With increasing frequency, I did other things. Willie was so elusive
that she was becoming an in-dream jokester and I was not enjoying the joke.
I felt rejected, ignored, conned, let down. Funny thing, the breakthrough
dream had prefigured this. When Willie told me, "You were once my mother," I
tried to understand.

"You mean in another existence?" I ask.

Willette does not respond verbally, but half turns and looks off toward the
clouds. The clouds are white and billowing as if in anticipation. They form
a corridor through which a patch of blue sky can be seen. The sky brightens,
taking on the silhouette of a robed Christ-like figure. As I watch the
figure approach, I become more and more hesitant, fearful of being misled
spiritually. I'm convinced Willette's comment means that she believes in
reincarnation. Willette gestures with her arm to indicate that this god-like
figure is coming halfway to meet us. "You mean Jesus?" I ask doubtfully.

Willette gives no answer. I worry that the figure might not be the "true"
divinity sanctioned by the Church. "Why am I hesitating?" I ask her, though
I know the answer. There must be some way out of this dilemma. I mentally
flail around, searching for a reason not to go. (Where was I going anyway?
To my death? Would I ever come back?)

Ah-ha! I find an excuse; Willette's answer has given me the key. I remember
- I am wife and mother to my own two children. They need me. I can't go yet.

In fact, as I remember, superimposed on the scene is a mental impression of
my bedroom just outside the closet doors. I seem to be in two places at
once. Standing in my bedroom. And standing in the dream. "My children!" I
proclaim.

Willette looks at me seriously. "There is something unresolved here," she
says as she releases me. I fall backwards and down out of the sky. I wake
with a jerk, as though I have just crash landed on my bed.

The elation of meeting Willie was tempered by the spiritual conflict I'd had
to endure. And then, when I didn't do what was expected, I was dropped like
a hot potato. Some friend. I ignored this part of the dream. It made me feel
too uneasy. I was trying to think positively about dream Willie. Repression,
big time.

The issue of whether the god-like figure was really Christ became moot when
I left Catholicism soon thereafter. I never thought the Christian god would
respect me enough to meet me half-way. To indicate that I was remaining
neutral as to its identity, I called the figure "The Cloud Walker." Six
years later, I finally got up the courage to incubate a return to the
breakthrough dream. I didn't encounter Willie, although Jan accompanied me
for a time. It turned out that there were two Cloud Walkers. One of them was
a kindly gentleman named Da'caug. The other one was me! You can read the
dream and make of it what you will. I thought it was amazing, euphoric and,
at its conclusion, a bit humorous. What a delightful change from the
sensations I'd experienced at the end of my breakthrough dream. I felt quite
resolved, thank you very much. About the Cloud Walker, that is, not about
Willie.

The energy to have Willie dreams seemed to be winding down. Perhaps the
reserves I had accumulated during 30 years of fantasy were being depleted? I
sought her less and less in lucid dreams. I saw her with diminishing
frequency in non-lucid dreams. Elation and anticipation were replaced by
disappointment. I was angry, at her sometimes, but mostly with myself.
Willie was a trickster and I was a fool, or so it seemed. Cynical, I became,
about the whole affair.

Grounded Once More

After speculating in the stratosphere, it took years to get grounded again.
Thank goodness, I had a ground to fall back on. I had built its foundation
with my research into telepathic and mutual dreaming.

After everything is said and done, who is the only creature who can serve as
a reality check on dream characters? What sort of character can give you
feedback as to whether or not your assumptions are accurate? There's only
one. A cooperative, fully alive, physical human being.

Last in the series - Back to Verification: Mutual Dreaming  See LDE 37.

http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)


Reluctant Willie

Lucid, I yell, "Willie, Willie!" remembering how many times this has not
worked to bring Willie to me and I feel my emotions move into despair. This
time, I halt them and affirm my desire instead. "I've got to believe I can,"
I think to myself.

Around the corner of a light green house, a slender, but not thin, Black
woman strolls towards me, dressed in slacks and a shirt. Is this Willie? I
feel myself start to doubt and stop myself, as if holding my breath. As the
woman comes my way, something like a banner of dark long hair furls out
between us to hide her face. I hope that she really is Willie and note that
she is sporting an Afro. Will I never see her face? I wonder. Then I affirm
that I will hold onto the dream until I do.

She comes around the obstruction and takes me by the left hand with a "come
with me, I want to show you something" attitude. (She may actually say this,
but the exact conversation is unremembered.) Her hair metamorphs a couple of
times from the Afro to several versions of less kinky hairstyle, although
all are mid-length. The last has convoluted curls on top and a fairly
straight bouffant. She is slightly taller than I and younger than I
expected. I think, "I've never seen her so close, so long." We walk along
the sides of what seem to be shop fronts. Finally I stop her and ask,
frowning, "What's taking you so long?" meaning to meet me in waking life.
When she starts to answer I realize I need to ask an even more specific
question. "Are you going to come into my reality?"

As she smiles and looks off to my right, I notice her slender facial
structure and cocoa complexion. "I'm waiting, too," she responds. "Next week
sometime," she says turning back to look at me with a wink.

"Next week! Ohh!" I exclaim in astonishment and gratitude. As I awake, I am
aware we are still holding hands.


Unfortunately, Willie never did show up that next week. Not in the waking
state, not in the dream. I was disappointed, discouraged, disenchanted. I am
in a meeting room filled with people seated at rectangular tables.
Willie is seated across from me. I lean forward urgently, asking if she is
now living in this world and get an affirmative answer. I may also ask about
doing a project together. Then I stand to see her smiling but leaning
slightly away from the table with an aura of self-confidence (like she knows
she can join me but doesn't have to commit herself).

This connection has been intense, almost to the point of lucidity. I go into
the next room and gain some additional self-awareness when I wonder what
name Willie would have in this life. As if in my imagination, I get the
impression of two names, the second ending with an "sey" like in "Morresey".
The room is a bar filled with people. Gazing at a row of women seated at the
bar, I finally gain full lucidity.

I suddenly realize that I have seen Willie in an earlier part of this dream.
"Willie! Willie!" I bellow, facing the women, who look at me askance. I'm
ready to bolt for the next room, but stop to offer an apology for my
behavior. "Excuse me, I'm lucid," I say and leave. I quickly walk to the
meeting room, which is still filled with people, sitting and standing about.
"Willie!" I call again. When no one responds and I don't see her, I hurry on
to the next room. This one is a huge auditorium with descending seats to a
stage on the right-hand side of the room. It, too, is filled with people. I
call out Willie's name again, my eyes sweeping the room.

Someone with mid-length curly light brown hair steps directly in front of me
and the two of us sit down on the steps. "What do you know about her?" s/he
asks, referring to Willie. I try to remember our conversation at the table.
"Only that she was born in this world, which says mountains," I reply. I
recall that I had been wondering if Willie would remain a discarnate
throughout this life.

"Do you know anything about her family?" "First I thought she was alone," I
reply, thinking hard and picking up more imagery, "Then I got an impression
of a lot of problems, so I don't know."

Those lucid dreams, in which I remembered to or wanted to look for Willie,
were so infrequent that I pursued the elusive will-o'-the-wisp for many
years. This dream was the turning point.

I'm in a large room filled with women. "Willie! Willie!" I yell. In response
some of the women in the first row seated facing me change color from white
to black. But it's a "fake" change, like overlaying one transparency over
another and I'm amused/irritated to see that their features haven't changed
from Caucasian either. "Do you know how long I've been looking for that
woman?" I ask the group rhetorically.

"How long?" responds a woman's voice to my right. I turn and discover I'm
seated on top of a counter along with a whole row of women. "Since 1982," I
reply. "March 8th, 1982, as a matter of fact."

A woman rushes past me down the aisle. Another woman perched on the opposite
side stops her with, "The woman (meaning me) wants to talk to you about the
mesh."

Is the woman in the aisle Willie? I look at her back and notice her bouffant
black hair, trying to decide if she's Black or White. She hesitates, then
continues on. I watch her, tempted to jump down and follow. But I stop by
telling myself, there ain't no way I'm going to run after her if she doesn't
want to see me.


Return to the Breakthrough Dream

I am journeying down a single-lane dirt road through a hot, flat desert on
my way to a distant city. Then I decide I don't like to travel that way and
rerun the scenario, this time in a hot-air balloon. My friend Jan is with
me. Problem is, the winds could carry us anywhere in the desert, where we
might die of thirst. So Jan checks out the water supply, in tanks that look
like scuba gear.

Finally, I decide I don't want to go that direction at all and turn around,
back the way I've come. I gaze up at the distant mountains that parallel the
right side of the road. They seem to come together at a single peak which I
know is the "north pole." Then I realize that it looks that way because I
can see the curvature of the planet. Wow, this must be a small planet for me
to be able to see its curvature so well! The scene makes me slightly giddy.
I realize I'm not on Earth.

As I bring my gaze down, I find myself standing at the edge of a
semi-circular cliff. Beyond, white clouds swirl, obscuring the view below,
but I know that they mask a bottomless abyss. In fact, it seems that if I
could look through the clouds beneath my feet, I'd see more blue sky and
finally the blackness of starry space, as if the cliff is suspended like one
of those "cities in the sky." In front of me in the distance are the
multi-forms of layered clouds and the shadow of a building nestled into the
cliff. Above this panorama is the limitless expanse of the blue heavens.

Knowing full well I might fall, I decide to step off the cliff. What a
thrill to realize that I don't drop! Not even a little bit! Instead I skate
forward across the top of the puffy whiteness. I have conquered my fear and
with what wonderful results! I can feel the wind stream past my face and the
sun's warmth on my shoulders. The feeling of wonder surges up from inside,
straining to meet the expansiveness of the outer scene. I fling my arms wide
as the feeling inside my body fulfills itself in ecstasy. This rush of
energy brings me to lucidity.

I land at the building across the cliff and enter via the door. There are a
few people about in this elevator foyer, but one man in particular steps
forward to greet me. He speaks some phrases in an unfamiliar language. "I'm
awake...on earth," I exclaim, alerting him to my degree of consciousness.
"Earth" is a lower case word, very, very far away. His eyebrows go up and
his eyes sparkle as he realizes that I am lucid.

"What is this place?" I ask curiously. "Phobe," he replies emphatically,
rhyming the word with "robe." I remember him using that word when he first
addressed me. "Phobe?" I ask excitedly, "You mean one of Jupiter's moons?"
"No," he replies, furrowing his brow in concentration. I get the impression
of a spot in the far distance of a horizontal plane.

"What is your name?" I inquire. He tells me. "Da'caug," I repeat slowly,
carefully. It sounds like "Da-cawg."

Da'caug takes my hand in his. He feels so familiar, like family. I realize
that while he's serving as my guide, he is also according me great respect,
as if I were a colleague. We tour the back side of the building, ending up
at the far side of the cliff. This time I force myself to look down into the
white clouds and see far below me, the edge of a cosmic ocean. Hands firmly
clasped, we both push off from the cliff and once again I experience the
ecstasy of flying while standing up.
We return to the building and enter another door into a room busy with the
atmosphere of commerce. There are people in check-out lines, as if
purchasing items in a gift store at a lodge. The whole area now has the
feeling of a national park. A woman walks by, one I recognize from the first
room.

"Hilda?" I ask Da'caug if that's her name.

"No, Ada," he replies. "She doesn't have a ____."

I don't catch the word but it seems like "soul," though I know that's not
it. Da'caug seems genuinely perplexed, like he can't figure out what she is.
I get the impression that she is more solid and doesn't have the same kind
of spiritual emanations that the other people in the scene do. I look at
them, concentrating, trying to see their auras myself, but all I see is a
shimmer as their forms temporarily dissolve and then refocus into sharp
outline.

"Auras," I say, "How can you tell?"

"There used to be a brochure," says Da'caug, looking around for one. Am I
supposed to buy it? No, Da'caug is going to give it to me, but is unable to
locate one. Instead, he starts telling me how to see auras. His words
resolve into a couple of lines of print in a book. I get the impression that
"seeing" auras is equivalent to seeing an additional layer of information
overlaid on the printed words.


(NOTE: Phobos, who in mythology was an attendant of Ares, is actually the
larger of the two moons of Mars. Its root is "-phobe" which is Latin for
"fear." But after the initial trepidation, I certainly experienced none of
that! Actually, the scenario was the antithesis of fear, perhaps where the
"other side" of our fearful selves dwell.

I had been incubating to "go home;" to find Willie so she would take me
"half-way" to god, as in the breakthrough dream. In a later dream of the
night, I became lucid in a room, paused to gather my energies, and called
out "Where are you Willie?" But the effort cost me the dream.)


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Dream: New England Armadillos
A Lucid Dreams
Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  : 11 dec 2005  10:10
DREAM : new england armadillos, a lucid dream

=( yesterday was saturday.  i spent most of the day grading the student web
sites in my web design course as the semester is just ending, my last final
exam given on friday.  during the evening i took a break to watch some
blockbuster videos with mother as we usually do on saturday, then i finished
evaluating web sites around 01:30 and got to sleep.  i woke around 05:15
without any dreams that i could recall and got up to run my grading software
since i could not get back to sleep.  around 06:30 i started to eat some
crackers but i remembered that i had not taken my morning blood sugar
measurements, so i took one then.  212 which is really bad since my morning
sugars are usually around 120.  i had eaten a lorna doone cookie and two
dried apricots about an hour earlier without thinking about them, so my
blood sugar reading will be messed up today since i am out of the usual
eating pattern.  i went back to bed at 06:45 and feel asleep rather quickly,
trying to remember not eat anything until at least 10:30. )=

at the base of the hill, just before the amherst town commons begins with
the downtown buildings, i can see the old greenhouse where i store some of
my things.  this space was given to me by the landlord of my apartment which
is at the top of the hill.  i am just going down to the greenhouse to check
on the few crates and boxes that i have in there.

the greenhouse has a waist-high foundation made local stones mortared
together then the walls and roof of glass panels that have been whitewashed
on the inside.  it is always a little warmer inside, but since this
structure has been abandoned for its agricultural utility, it has that
dusty, arid atmosphere of a neglected storage area.  over on the right side
just as i enter, i find a large antique chest which has some of my things in
it.

the flat square lid of the chest creaks as i open it.  inside i find several
shoe boxes with small things in them.  mostly this chest contains the yellow
white skulls of various animals that i have collected over the years.  the
smaller ones which are more fragile have their own smaller containers,
usually made of clear plastic or thick cellophane.  i move several of the
shoeboxes around to see the larger skulls underneath them.  everything seems
to be here just as i left them.  but as i go to replace the last shoebox,
its side tears open and most of its contents showers into the bottom of the
chest.
damn, now i need to find a new shoebox and empty the entire chest to
retrieve all of this.

i carefully close the flat lid of the chest and look further down the rows
of benches where i have some gardening tools stored.  i am thinking that i
will leave and go back to my apartment on the hill when several young men
come in.  they are not carrying anything with them, so i am wondering what
they are doing here since they are obviously not any of my neighbors.  i
worry that they may be here to steal something since i left the padlock off
the door when i came in.

i watch them go down the rows of boxes and crates in here.  i doubt that
anyone would want to steal my skulls or old garden tools but there may other
things in here of value.  eventually i clear my throat to get their
attention.  "you boys leave anything in here?"

one of them comes over with a threatening look on his face.  "we know about
that marijuana you grew in here."  he says to me.

i am startled, but not worried.  i have not grown any pot in here for
several years and they would have no proof since it was harvested long ago.
just seeing the potted plants, they could not be sure that i was the
planter, but still i do not want cause any trouble that might get my
apartment raided.  i do not say anything as the boys file past me one by one
to leave.

after they leave, i replace the padlock on the outer door.  i suppose i
should tell the landlord about their intrusion in here in case there is some
trouble later.  i start walking up the hill toward home.

i just cross the road and walk a little way when i come to small shop that
has a short strip of grass then a small flower bed around the walls of its
building.  on the border of its flower bed i see a strange creature.  it is
a little larger than a rat but very thin like an african chameleon and
covered with a blotchy red skin, no hair or scales at all.  it moves very
slowly with deliberate motions like a sloth.  its mouth and jaws look like
pinchers, having no teeth inside when it opens them to lick some ants off
the flower stems.  i think that i have never seen an armadillo in new
england.

some of the flowers move and i see another of its kind stick its head out
between the blossoms.  soon i count five more of them hidden in various
places along the garden.  i wonder if they have congregated to breed or if
they normally keep in groups.

leaving these curious creatures to feeding on their insects, i start on the
sidewalk up the steep part of the hill.  i have to exert some effort to make
it up the grade, but i am accustomed to this walk.  i catch up with a young
woman who is going slower.

"i think we are dreaming this."  she says to me.  "look up at the sky."

i look up at the sky at the top of the hill.  it is mostly cloudy but a see
a bright spot behind a cluster of clouds where the sun must be.
then i see a patch of open sky a ways away from there where the bottom of
the sun is poking through.  there can not be two suns in the sky, so i
realize that this must be a dream.  i am indeed dreaming.

oh boy, i rarely get lucid moments in dreams but i know that i should be
able to take control of the experience with my conscious thinking and do
anything i want with it.  i look at the woman and think that i might have
wonderful sex with her, but only for a moment without any intention behind
it.  no, that would be a waste of such an unusual opportunity, so i spare
her my affections.  flying-- i have not flown in a dream for ever so long
and i think that lucid flying ought to be less effort than my usual which is
often panic driven.

so i turn around and think that i would like to fly straight up from here to
cavort below those clouds.  i see the horizon behind me is filled with a
large full moon, indeed so large it takes up almost half the sky.  further
confirmation that this is a dream.

but nothing happens.  i think happy thoughts like peter pan says we need to
fly, but i stay on the ground.  i squeeze my arms next to body and
concentrate harder.  i am doing something wrong.  it should not take so much
effort to get airborne.  usually when i dream of flying it is more like
swimming through a thick viscous air, but lucidity ought to allow me
carefree flight like people who born under air signs report.  thinking real
hard i feel a tingle shower over me, much as i would think tinkerbell fairy
dust must feel, and finally i feel my toes just lift off the ground about
two centimeters.  that is all the lift i can get by just willing it so, but
it is enough for me to realize the effect.  i just hover there for a few
seconds.  hardly cavorting in the clouds but it is flying of a sort i guess.

then i think that i wake up.  i can see the clock beside the bed but can not
read the large red LED numbers on it.  i reach over to fire up the bedside
computer as i definitely want to get this dream into the computer files
while it is fresh in my mind.  it usually takes that laptop seven or eight
minutes to get itself ready for input so i wait.

then i am walking up the sidewalk of the hill again.  this time i am pushing
a wheel barrow and accompanied by karen rehle and her husband.  we are going
to the greenhouse at the top of hill to plant some seedlings for them.  in
the wheel barrow is about a half bushel of manure that we plan to use as
fertilizer.  i assure them it is rabbit droppings which i got from a friend.

when we get to the greenhouse, there are several older women inside tending
to their plants.  we go over to an empty bench on the side near the glass
wall where i have a collection of empty terra cotta pots and potting soil.
i slop some liquid run off from the manure as i wheel over a rough board on
the floor.  the liquid looks like it has green algae leaves in it.

=( awake at 10:10.  the other awakening in the dream was false, just part of
the dream before my sleeping lost that brief experience of lucidity.  i do
not understand if the false wake up was shallower since i saw my bedroom
maybe glimpsed it or deepening, a transition state of my mind returning to
its experiencing only condition.  i suppose that the terms 'deeper' and
'shallower' are somewhat arbitrary usage.  the dream seems to have a
symmetry to it, greenhouses at both start and finish, the early one at the
bottom of the hill just used for idle storage and the late one at the top of
the hill functioning for plant growth.  i lived for fourteen years in or
near amherst massachusetts, but i never lived in an apartment near the town
commons, nor was it at the bottom of a steep hill.  it is at the top of a
more gentle incline.  i suppose there may be some significance to these ups
and downs in this dream.  i do have a collection of animal skulls which i
keep in various places around the house, but in that large flattop chest i
store a collection of board games.  i have rarely seen a couple of live
armadillos here in pensacola, usually they are seen only as roadkill, but
they are larger sturdy creatures than these small fragile animals in this
dream.  karen rehle was a girl in my high school who i hardly knew at all.
i know nothing of her husband and she was not at my high school reunion
which i went to in september.  my thoughts about dream flying and the
horoscope signs which people are born under are well established in my
thinking but they were not editorial opinions of
made just when i wrote this.   i actually thought them while i was dreaming.
it is interesting to me that i was able to fly even a little without the
swimming efforts i usually make, but it seems somewhat disappointing that
lucidity did not allow for more exaggerated expression or control.  perhaps
i am just not any good at lucid dreaming or maybe inexperienced.  it seems a
waste of such an opportunity not to know what to do with total control when
i have it so seldom and so briefly.  i suspect that better dreamers than me
can do it better, establish a plan for world peace or solve some intricate
problems of quantum mechanics.  i could have looked for a predictive
distribution of prime numbers to prove the reimann hypothesis, but instead i
just settle for two centimeters of nonswimming flight.  well, feeling the
fairy dust sprinkle over me was at least pleasant and perhaps i needed that
uplift.  )=
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace
January 2006
Olivia Strand

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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
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Olivia Strand

A busy month for the Peace Workers on the Bridge! The View takes a look at
the Peace Festival in Norfolk, Virginia, running for three weeks and thus
almost up to Christmas. Jody’s son David returned from Iraq, and Ilkin’s son
found that his compulsory military service takes him to a town in southern
Turkey that seems just a bit too close to the Syrian and Iraqi borders for
comfort.


New People on the Bridge

We were joined this month by some new people and would like to welcome Lana
Nasser from Jordan, now living in Berkeley, California, and Denise Rodgers
from Texas.

Lana is working on obtaining grant funding for a project entitled 'Dance
around the world barefoot for peace', which she hopes to take to young
people, working with goddess myths and dance performance. If all goes well,
Lana hopes to produce a documentary about the project, as well as a multi
media performance. If you would like to know more, please contact Lana at
corpusenchantus@...

Denise: “My intention for becoming a member of Peace Bridge is to connect
with others who use both night dreams and day-time dreams to build bridges
to humanity.  The "bridge" metaphor is what attracted my attention because I
have often referred to myself as one who helps to bridge the spiritual world
with the scientific world.

“In November, I began hosting an Internet radio show entitled "Beyond Your
Dreams: Exploring Myth, Meaning, & Metaphor in Night-Dreams and
Day-Visions". I decided to do the show (on my nickel) so I could make a
forum available for others who are doing good work in the field of dreams
and visions, & consciousness.  A place where people can actually hear from
the old pioneers, like Barasch, Taylor, Van de Castle, Ullman. A forum to
hear about "Dreams to the Tenth Power" and the goals of Peace Bridge,
because people want to hear about these things.”

You can find more about Denise’s work on the IASD Bulletin Board
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/index.php or you can contact her at
drodgers520@...


Our Sons and Daughters in Iraq

As many of our readers may already know, several of the people on the Peace
Bridge have sons or daughters placed in, or near, Iraq. Jody Grundy’s son –
Jody was recently interviewed in a programme by the CNN, speaking against
the Iraq war, and working in support of war veteran Marine Major Paul
Hackett who hopes to run for Senate for the Democrats in 2006 against Jean
Schmidt – Jody’s son David returned from his second term in Iraq last week.
Major David Grundy served as a doctor both terms.

More and more military personnel (in the US) speak out against the war in
Iraq, and I have to say it carries some weight with me when veterans and
currently or recently serving army people do so. Shortly before his return
from Iraq Major Grundy wrote an article, published in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, where he spoke in support of “Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a
retired Marine Colonel who earned a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts during
the Vietnam War, stood up on the floor of the House to say, from the heart,
that the war in Iraq is a failure and that we should bring our troops home
soon.”

To see the whole article (assuming it remains on the website by the time you
read this): http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005511270352


Bridge member Jeremy’s daughter and her fiancé were both posted to Iraq at
the end of the summer, and now Ilkin’s son faces many months of military
service in Turkey, near the Syrian and Iraqi borders – and we all feel for
them. Suddenly black and white, either or arguments seem more difficult, as
we have to put real names and real faces to the people our governments send
to serve at the front.


Norfolk Peace Film Festival

During the entire month of December several of the Peace Bridge members who
live in the Tidewater area of Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth,
Suffolk, Hampton) have been sharing in the creation of a Peace Festival,
with first-run documentary movies, video/discussion groups, seminars and
other activities.  The seminars are being presented at David Gordon's Studio
for the Healing Arts.

On Friday, December 9, Bridge member Valley Reed, who also happens to be one
of the founders of the Crawford Peace House, was at the Festival with her
partner and Peace House co-founder, Hadi Jawad.  Their seminar presentation
covered the vigil conducted last summer by Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, and
the other exciting events that have happened there since then.  Never
missing an opportunity, Valley and Hadi stayed with Steve Swan while in
Tidewater, and Jean stayed there too, a virtual slumber party, joined by
other Peace Bridge members in the dream state.  Other members of the Bridge
were invited to congregate there in the dream state.

In a seminar of her own, "Women and Children in War: Dreams of Peace", Jean
will present the World Dreams Peace Bridge Aid for Traumatized Children
Project, showing the PowerPoint presentation created for this years's IASD
conference, and sharing the article on the group's project, "Dreams and the
Children of Baghdad," written for the summer issue of Dream Time.

Halfway through this festival, and to tie in with the Iraq theme above, Jean
Campbell reported being part of a team of two who facilitated a discussion
of the films "Caught in the Crossfire" and "Operation Dreamland" at the Naro
Theater, as part of the Peace Festival.

“Although there weren't as many members of the military there as I might
have hoped, one interesting thing was that we had four members of the Army
Press Corps (public relations people), one of whom was in charge of
embedding the seven hundred members of the American press who covered the
story of the bombing of Fallujah.  Well, of course, that made for a pretty
interesting discussion.

“One good thing was that a number of the members of the Tidewater Peace
Alliance attended the films, and the military spokespeople met with a far
more educated and articulate audience than they thought they might
encounter.  For example, one man, a Vietnam vet, spoke about his experience
in the military, and then challenged the idea of "I'm just following
orders."  He ended up asking the military people, given Bush's response to
terrorism, that if Bush were to ask them to take him (the speaker) out as a
terrorist, would they "just follow orders?"  "You wouldn't come after ME
would you?" he asked.  (Nervous titters from the audience.)”


DaFuMu in November

Our dreams this month sparked some interesting conversation, touching on
what lies at the core of the work of the World Dreams Peace Bridge – the
potential for change that lies in our dreams, and in reality creation.

But how can I do justice to the wonderful discussions that take place on the
Bridge?

“I don't know if recall is all that important.  I tend to side with Robert
Moss, its about being CONSCIOUS in a dream, and what one brings back is the
message.” Ron

“Just watch people for a few days -- you'll notice they are constantly
jockeying for "rank" through words and actions designed to position
themselves vis a vis everyone else they come in contact with.  I think this
forms one of the basic unspoken structures of human interaction, and should
be recognized so we can figure out ways to work around this tendency.” Gina

“I've always felt there was a 'pecking order', even just in social groups --
but never could put my finger on it or always hear the words -- 'you create
your own reality' -- to dismiss what I see to be true. How does the 'create
your own reality' mesh with this pecking order business?” Liz

“I think we create our realities - up to a point. That's actually one of the
things that I choke on most frequently with all the new age teachings,
'well-meaning' people telling me to think positive and create my own
reality. We simply cannot create our realities independent of those around
us…” Olivia

“…and again I find refer to an ecology – where it seems to me we CO create –
the rest of it is real, is Not us – AND – we, by our choices & actions, how
we hold it – have almost infinite effect. Isn’t it in how we 'take' our
reality that we create it? Not the arrogant stance that we make it all –
what we make is our part of the dance with it...” Anna

“I so resonate with the concept of co-creation that has both energies in it:
it holds space for our individual choices and our ongoing life learnings and
also holds sacred space for the communal and world energies that move in us
and through us constantly…” Rita

“Ron, I love the idea of Peace T.V.  I've gotten more involved with media
again than I ever expected to do.  Anne and others are looking into the
contract of the local cable station to see if independent programming is
still possible.” Jean

“I will dream the existence of a peace channel with you, Ron, to be created
in your lifetime.” Rita

“I hope so.  I just found out there is a military channel. And of course
Eric and I just recently got our new gay channel LOGO. So if we can have a
gay channel, a military channel, gosh darn we ought to be able to have a
Peace Channel.” Ron

“Or, to paraphrase St Francis of Assisi: Make me a channel of thy peace.”
Olivia


Sound like fun? Come and join us on the Bridge!

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org


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Nice Girls Don't Go Naked in their Dreams (or Do They?)
by Dave Lappin

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My wife, Brenda and I were at some friends house one night to play some
dominoes. At one point during the evening, we started talking about dreams
and particularly, being naked in dreams. I mentioned a recent dream where I
had been naked and very openly so. Brenda mentioned that she had rarely if
ever had a dream being naked.

Growing up, she was raised in a fairly strict family and was not able to
express herself like she would have preferred. She once got in trouble at a
young age for saying “Golly”, as her mother thought that was out of line and
just one step away from profanity. Later in her first marriage, she was
afraid to speak her mind without feeling the wrath of her husband. So she
grew up not being able to express herself openly. So, from the soul’s
perspective, it made sense that she hadn’t had any dreams of being naked.

It seems that I have had my share of dreams being naked. No, this doesn’t
mean that I secretly wish to join a nudist colony. I grew up in a fairly
open-minded family. My father was known to say just about anything, not to
provoke, but rather to just sometimes get a rise out of someone. We used to
call him a champion “Bullshipper.” I think that some of my dad rubbed off on
me.

Growing up, one of the neighborhood ladies use to say I was “such a nice
boy.” My oldest sister and I would laugh about that as we grew up. When
we’re “nice” we don’t say anything to offend anyone or speak our mind, in
general. Or do we? Society asks that we don’t “rock the boat,” but sometimes
it sure is fun to do it anyway.

From the soul’s perspective, being naked in a dream represents being open
and honest, particularly in regard to how openly you have communicated
(revealed yourself) to others. I can remember the many times that I have
revealed a part of myself to others in my waking life, only to be naked in
my dream the following night. Coincidence? No. Actually it serves as a
perfect metaphor with how openly we share ourselves with others.

I was giving a talk once to a service club. At the end of the talk, one
gentleman in the back yelled out, “You know, my wife always dreams about
being naked in church!” Well, that dream spoke volumes to me. Since being
naked represents being open and honest, I knew exactly the meaning of her
dream. A building in a dream represents a state of mind we reside in from
day to day. A church represents living in a state of mind representing
spirituality. So, I told that his wife is open and honest about her
spirituality. The man replied, “Yeah, she talks about that stuff all the
time.” Interestingly, a few months later I was giving another talk on dreams
to another service organization. The same man was there and again mentioned
that his wife dreams about being naked in church. I told him it means the
same thing as it did a few months ago!

How open and honest are you in your waking life? It is liberating being able
to speak your mind. You may find yourself, like my wife did, in situtations
where is was difficult to express herself openly. Once you take the steps to
say what you are really about the inner world takes notice. If you are
tentative about revealing yourself to others in your waking life, then you
will most likely have a dream where you are uncomfortable about being naked.

One night I dreamed about being naked while walking down a sidewalk. I then
saw a car coming in my direction and I openly “flashed” the people in the
car. I just let it all hang out in my dream state. This meant that I was
being the same way in my waking state. The day before I had gone on a job
interview and I communicated very openly about who I was and some of the
metaphysical beliefs I held. While I did not get the job (and glad that I
didn’t) I open about who I was. I guess I was a little shocked at how I
acted in the dream, as it certainly was an extreme for me, as naked dreams
go. I’ve had plenty of naked dreams, but nothing like this.

It is easy for us to view our dreams on purely a physical level. While there
is a connection from our dreams to our physical life, the real meaning is
gained from from understanding them on a spiritual level. The spiritual is
who and what we really are. You will find that you will not die if you
openly reveal to others things about yourself not revealed before. Try just
openly revealing something about yourself that you normally wouldn’t. You
might mention to a friend that you lack confidence in an area of your life,
for example. Part of life is learning to transcend our fears. By
communicating to your friend that you lack confidence, they just might be
able to help you overcome this lack of confidence and help you move on with
your life.

By the way, my wife has started to have naked dreams. As she has begun to be
more open in who she is with others, it is no wonder. She even had an
intimate encounter in one dream, but that is for another article.

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Dave Lappin He has been interpreting and teaching about dreams for over 15
years. He has appeared on radio and TV across the Midwest. As well, he has
given talks to a wide variety of groups across the Midwest regarding dreams
and other metaphysical topics. Dave is also a Reiki Master, artist, and
writer. You can visit Dave’s website at:
http://www.understand-your-dreams.com
or by e-mail at: dave@...




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The Dream Section Editor is on vacation this month. In place of the Dreams
Section, I'm including part 1 of a collection of computer dreams from "Gem".


02/11/2003)
I was communicating with someone about catalyst. I saw communicating because
I don't know if it was by phone or email or on catalyst. I said that I had
decided to at least come in and establish my presence in dissertation
proposal writing. There was some conversation about my continued confusion
about not being able to be in dissertation seminar this semester when I was
in it last semester, and having to go back into dissertation proposal
writing instead. (79 words)

02/12/2003)
Bill C and I were working on some marketing materials. We were playing with
different color combinations and such for the website, color backgrounds on
postcards and color text. Could we do a white background with a silver font?
(39 words)

02/15/2003)
I was continuing the computer work that I was doing all day. (12 words)

02/27/2003)
I was working at the computer in an Excel spreadsheet. I was trying to
figure out how to print the spreadsheet and show the row numbers but having
the row numbers start with the actual data and not start by numbering the
header row. (44 words)

03/16/2003)
I was at the University of Encino. I was sitting in a room working at a
computer. It was at a table with a high stool type chair. There wasn't much
room. There were rows of table without much room between them. I was sitting
there working at the computer and I noticed out of the corner of my eye that
Bill D was trying to sneak up behind me. I turned around and saw him. He
came around the other side of the table and said, "Hi Sweetie." We hugged.
We chatted very briefly then he turned and walked away to put something in
his office. His office was not very far away. He was wearing navy blue sweat
pants and a striped shirt and tennis shoes. As he came back out, I was
stretching and rubbing my eyes because I had been looking at the computer
screen so long. He said something about that. I said I just forgot to bring
my eye drops with me. I said I should probably go try to get some. He told
me where the nearest drug store or something was. He said, "Of course,
they're going to be getting ready for the St. Patrick's Day parade now."
Then he was saying something about the fact that they don't get as many
people coming in there as they used to because they're located in a small
strip center. The big strip centers are in other locations and not as many
people come in there as used to. (255 words)

05/07/2003)
I was sitting at a computer working and Matt was sitting next to me. But he
was only 5-6 years old. He was sitting there talking about helping me. He
said, "I know how I can help you. I can help you enter things." He was
referring to entering references into my Endnotes software. I said, "Do you
really think you can help me with that? You're kind of little to do that
aren't you?" He said something to the effect that he can help. I turned and
looked at him and said, "Well, here's what I think. I think I'm dreaming
right now. And, in waking life you're alot older and I asked you to help me
with this and you started and you did a good job. But, now, in this dream I
don't know. You're kind of little." He said, "Whooaaa!" (144 words)


07/13/2003)
I was on a business trip with Bill C. We were in a hotel room. Actually I
was there and Bill came in. The room had two double beds. I was going to
sleep in one and he was going to sleep in the other. In this dream it was in
my head that this was just the way we always did it. We were talking about
related to business as he was getting ready for bed. After he was ready for
bed he came to my bed and started to climb in. I was lying where he was
trying to get in. He said, "What do you mean what am I doing? You know what
I'm doing." I didn't. I went ahead and moved over and he got into bed with
me. He kissed me. I was thinking that he wasn't a bad kisser and then I
thought he could move a little more but still not bad. At some point Bill
became Daniel. Now we were on...I was on a bus and Daniel got on the bus and
at first, even though there was an empty seat next to me, he took a seat a
couple rows back. This was a very short bus. Not a typical bus. Maybe only 5
or 6 rows of seats. There were 3 seats on one side of the aisle and maybe
2-3 on the other side of the aisle. I got up and went back and sat next to
him. I put my hand through his arm, at his elbow. We were talking and he was
kind of upset about something, not upset at me. He got up and moved into
another seat then. I thought I would just let him go. This bus had alot of
black people on it. In fact, I think Daniel and I were the only white people
on the bus. I turned around a couple of times. I finally asked one of them
if the white guy was asleep. They said yes. We pulled up. I guess he woke up
and got up and came and sat next to me again. We pulled up to this place
where we were getting off. We got off and we were walking together and again
I had my hand in his elbow, holding on at his elbow. [This seems to be one
of those dreams that every time I go back to sleep the dream continues.] It
continues to be something about finding the document or something on the
computer. I don't know what computer we're using since we are on the road
traveling. Something continues about or related to him kissing me and
related to the fact that my shoulder was bothering me. (437 words)

07/25/2003)
The old music group The Monkees wanted to make a comeback. Someone was
trying unsuccessfully to help them. I made some suggestions that fell on
deaf ears. The band members had mixed emotions about the comeback. Micky was
the one that wanted it most. Peter and Mike were easily able to let it go. I
don't remember hearing Davey's feelings about it. Mickey wanted the comeback
very badly and was very upset that it wasn't working out. I got a call from
an agent or some such person in California. She wanted to come meet with
them. Someone had suggested that she meet Mickey in BroadRipple near the
train station. I called her and asked if she would be staying in town and
she said that she would be returning to CA on the same day. I then suggested
that they just meet at the airport. It would be easier for everyone and save
her time. She said that was a good idea. She gave me her flight information,
airline and flight number, and told me to have him meet her at baggage
claim. After I finished speaking with her I realized that I did not get her
flight number nor did I make arrangements for how they would find each
other. Then I realized that she might know what Mickey looks like from past
TV programs and albums. I called Mickey and shared the good news. I told him
he could get online and look up her flight to see what time it arrives.
Since she is leaving the same day I thought it was odd that she would want
to meet at baggage claim. I have the sense that she was going to have
baggage with her but I don't know why she would. In the next scene I was at
the airport and met her. I was sitting and chatting with her and employees
from the airline came up and spoke with her. They obviously knew each other.
I summized that she used to work for the airline. We went to sit in a
different place in the airport, at a small round table. A gentleman came up
to bring us something and he knew this woman also. They were old friends. He
was tall, average build, brown hair but balding, and wore glasses. He had on
a white shirt. He worked there, maybe at a restaurant at the airport. As we
sat there we were watching this large crowd of people, mostly women, yelling
and screaming. It turns out they were watching the Monkees perform. I said
to this woman, "See how much they love them?" She nodded her head yes. I
don't know if this was happening live or on TV. The woman's male friend came
up to the table again and as he began to walk away she said, "Oh. I'm sorry.
Let me introduce you to my dear friend Mark." He turned back around and
shook my hand. I noticed he was wearing a wedding ring but had the
impression that he was single. I don't know what gave me that impression. I
was thinking what a nice man he was. A little later the woman and I were
sitting and talking with him. He had something written across his forehead.
It was probably five or six lines of text, very clearly readable, and an
arrow with a red stem and blue tip. There was also a birthmark that looked a
bit like an x. At first I thought the text and arrow were there for medical
reasons and I felt sad for him that he had to live with that and how that
must get people's attention and cause them to stare and such. It was
impossible not to notice if you look at him but I tried not to look at it
long enough to read what it said. I finally gave in though and read it. When
I read it, it seemed to be there for fun, saying something about beer and I
don't know what else. Then I thought it was just odd. (684 words)

07/23/2003)
I was trying to find some pictures on the IDA website that I was looking for
to download. I was having trouble finding them. I finally did find them, or
at least some of them. But they were all part of this file that I had to
download. In this file there were also a lot of the graphics that were used
to create the website. After I finally found the file and downloaded it I
was going through it trying to delete all of those graphic images that I
didn't want or need so I was left with just the pictures to go through.
Maybe I was going to go through those as well and delete the ones I didn't
want. (122 words)

07/27/2003)
I was at work. Bill C and I were learning and working with some kind of new
computer technology. We were learning the ins and outs of how it works. It
was really cool but I can't explain it. (39 words)

07/27/2003)
At one point it seems as though I am myself and at another point it seems
that I am Carly from some daytime soap opera. Early in the dream Carly had
been kidnapped. Her boyfriend, Jack, who is a police officer, found her, but
didn't tell anyone right away that he found her. They made love. I don't
know why he didn't tell anyone that he found her. Later in the dream she, or
I, am with a young college boy. Some other woman found out that she/I was
kind of seeing this young college guy. He was into computers. That's what he
was studying. I'm in this room with this other woman. There are empty boxes
under this cabinet. One of them is evidence that he is using AOL. The other
is evidence of where I/Carly am. This other woman realized that Jack had
found me but didn't tell anyone. She also knew that this guy wasn't supposed
to be using AOL at school so she wanted to expose both of us. I was trying
to get her not to. I'm not sure why. I hid the box that would let people
know that Jack had found me. I kind of stashed in towards the back of the
cabinet behind something else. I did the same thing with the AOL. Now the
college guy is working on a project with some classmates. I see his laptop
sitting. We're in a mall now but he is sitting with all of these six-foot
long folding tables. His laptop is sitting on one of these tables at the
front of the room right by the door. There is a big red button on the front
that says AOL. It's maybe 1 by 2 inches long. It identifies that he uses
AOL. I saw it and knew that it had something to do with this woman who
wanted to expose him so I turned it off. I hesitated to interrupt him
because he was working with his classmates but decided to anyway. I went up
to his left side and bent down and tapped him. He leaned back in his chair
and I whispered to him what I had just noticed. He wasn't all that concerned
about it. I told him that this woman wanted to expose him but he just wasn't
that concerned. Now I'm going through a large department store in the mall.
I'm on the first floor and I'm walking through a children's clothing
department. I go to the escalator. The two escalators, up and down, are
divided by steps. It is a really steep staircase so I decided to take the
escalators. Instead of steps on the escalator it is flat like a people mover
but it goes up. I get on there and I stand to the left. I reached for the
rail but there is a woman who is taking the steps at the same time and she
grabs the escalator handrail. Since this is so steep I know I am going to
need to hold on so I grab the right handrail. I was kind of irritated that
this woman who was walking up the steps was in such good shape that she was
keeping up with the escalator. I was upset because I didn't think I was in
good enough shape to do that. I moved over to the right of the escalator so
I could hold on to that handrail. The escalators were much wider than they
are in waking life. Still, as it gets to the top I have to exert a lot of
energy and strength to hold on and get to the top. I almost have to pull
myself off. Then you walk a few feet and there is another incline and
handrail and I have to hold on to that handrail as I walk up this other
shorter yet steep incline. I have to pull myself along to get up that one. I
finally got up there and I'm walking around. I think I'm in the ladies
clothing department now. The college guy shows up and is walking with me.
We're walking through the various departments and he starts reading
something to me that he found. It's a piece of literature or something that
someone had written. It has lots of adjectives. It's very sensory. It talks
about smells and sights and such. I thought it was very nicely written and I
especially liked all the sensory details. He was kind of making fun of it. I
asked him if he had ever really paid attention to the sensory experiences in
his life, the smells, the sights, the sounds. He kind of laughed. I said I
guess that's a difference in our age. I am 20 something years older than
you. I started thinking about that...or maybe I was talking to someone about
it. Isn't it fairly common for very young men to fantasize about being with
an older woman and maybe that's all this was for him. Maybe his desire to be
with me was maybe just fulfilling some fantasy, wanting to experience
lovemaking with an older woman, what an older woman might teach him about
romance and intimacy. (870 words)

08/14/2003)
Someone was helping with my website and we were having a lot of trouble with
some of the pages. (19 words)

08/20/2003)
I was at the CT office. We had quite a few different websites. We were
making some changes in the copy and such of some hard copy materials and
then incorporating those changes into the websites. (36 words)

08/21/2003)
I was making some changes to my personal websites. It had something to do
with Matt and his roommates, maybe. Definitely Matt. I was talking to Matt
as I was doing it, telling him that yes it is tedious but if it's kept up,
and all the changes are made on all the appropriate pages that it is
certainly worthwhile doing. (61 words)

09/01/2003)
This dream had something to do with burning a CD for other people. I don't
know who "we" is. I don't know if we were doing this to sell them. There
were a couple of different pieces that were going on the CD. I wanted to
make sure that they got burned in the right order. I also said when people
put the CD in their computer to play it they would see the name of each file
for each track. So I wanted to make sure that each track would be named
appropriately so it would make a good impression. There was also something
about dividing up the files or some such. Maybe the whole file didn't need
to be burned on the CD. (125 words)



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Hi to all Electric Dreamers,

  I know you are all busy and so this will be short.

  The January issue will be out in a few days, but I wanted Electric
Dream subscribers to be aware of some Dream Deadlines for IASD.

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  Deadline 1: December 31, 2005 Noon.
  International Association for the Study of Dreams
  ITEM: All submissions for 2006 Conference presentations need to be
sent to the program committee. For details and submission forms, see
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  ITEM: All donations for the 2005 pledge drive need to be postmarked
by Dec 31, 05 to be included in the 2005 tax year. Contribute to the
Dream Movement and the IASD dream education projects at:
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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
       Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
       Harry Bosma

++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Lucy Gillis - Editor
            Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe.
            Ed Kellogg, PhD


++ Article: Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams
             Linda Lane Magallón

++ Column: The View From the Bridge
            What Dreams May Come
            Olivia Strand

++ Dream: Subcategorization
           Stan Kulikowski II

++ Article: Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?
             Peter Farley


++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from Fall 2005
                    With Kat Peters-Midland

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Welcome to the December 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.

If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/

.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and
dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

This has been quite a year for the Dream Movement. The Dream Institute of
Northern California and the International Association for the Study of
Dreams are now "living" in the same location in Berkeley, California. Many
dreamwork projects have matured into full blown educational programs,
certifications and international peace projects.  The online IASD
PsiberDreaming conference continued its new tradition of exploring the edges
of dreaming. The Nordic IASD dream organization formed and will have a
conference this March.  I'm looking forward to seeing these and the many
other projects in dreamwork unfold in the next year and hope to hear from
the readers of Electric Dreams about your new projects, books and events.

This month in Electric Dreams:

Lucy Gillis has an excellent selection from her Lucid Dream Exchange. This
month you can try out the spells from Harry Potter in your dreams. You
magical guide will be the experta-cala-fragil-istic lucid dreamer, Ed
Kellogg, PhD. Pick up your wands and read "Trying out Spells from the
Hogwarts Universe."

When discussing psi events in a dream, we usually just hear about one kind
of psi power in operation. For example, the dream is either prophetic of
some upcoming event, or we seen in the dream something that exists in the
waking world some distance from us, or we get thoughts from someone else's
mind and they enter our dreams. But Linda Magallón, author of Mutual
Dreaming, would like to challenge this view and will suggest that there may
be several types of psi operating in the same dream. Read her example of
this in "Several Sorts of Psi in Fearless Feline Dreams."

"Subcategorization" by Stan Kulikowski II is a dream, recording in a unique
style.
You may wonder why I pull out Stan's dreams and put then in the articles
section. I'm not really sure. At first I just wanted dreamworkers to see
there were various alternative ways to recording dreams, and Stan has a
unique style that seemed heuristic. But then the dreams kind of took on a
life of their own and they became a regular feature in Electric Dreams. If
you have unique ways of recording dreams, be sure to submit those to
Electric Dreams.

Ever feel that Peace on Earth is just phrase on a Holiday card? Well then,
maybe you need to join the World Dreams Peace Bridge! This month you will
get the View from Olivia Strand, and hear how world class dreamers are
changing the world.

Peter Farley has spent his life exploring life's mysteries and returning
useful information and techniques.  In a selection on dreams below, Peter
discusses a range of topics in dreamwork, and introduces readers to his
philosophy on dreaming from a shamanic point of view. Get the full scoop and
links in "Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?"

Zombies in a mausoleum, black snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts...what
else could it be but the Dream Section of Electric Dreams Magazine from Kat
Peters-Midland!


Thanks to Lucy Gillis for permission to use her photo in the current EDreams
Cover!
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Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues are online in an
easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information
for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view
hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm

Harry Bosma searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which
you can read about in the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news,
conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events,
be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at
ed-news@...

Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:

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Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
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G L O B A L  D R E A M I N G  N E W S

December  2005

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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his
special
ed-news@... address.

Online:
- Le Rêve planétaire 2005
- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism
- Beyond Your Dreams radio show

Physical world:
- California: Beyond Traditional Religion
- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference

Books, movies, research:
- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead
- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams

Recurring events:
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- Auction at Dreambay.org



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Le Rêve planétaire 2005
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The yearly Planetary Dream at the winter solstice is coming up. The solstice
is in the night of the 21st to the 22nd of December 2005. Like previous
years there will be a theme, which everyone is invited to dream on. The
theme of last year was climate warming. At the moment of publishing, the
theme for this year had yet to be determined.

An information page in English should be available soon. You can send your
dreams to Roger Ripert.

Email: oniros@... (Roger Ripert)
French info page: www.oniros.fr/RP05.html
News: www.oniros.fr/nouvelles.html


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- Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism
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ARAS is proud to announce the perfect companion tool for exploring symbolic
imagery in dreams. The ARAS Online website contains the entire Archive for
Research into Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) repository of 17,000 images and
20,000 pages of accompanying psychological and cultural commentary. Begun in
the 1930's as a way of giving specific content to Jung's notion of the
collective unconscious, access to ARAS was granted to only a handful of
scholars until the creation of this brand new website.

The new ARAS Online website facilitates the process of dream interpretation
and amplification by making available a beautifully displayed archive of
symbolic material from every culture since the beginning of time. ARAS joins
the computer's unique ability to search archetypal themes to the psyche's
natural process of expressing its deeper concerns through dream imagery. Far
more than a symbol dictionary, this site encourages the exploration of
symbolic material through a journey of active searching and unexpected
meandering that allows the multivalent meaning of dreams to emerge.

The site's home page can be found at http://www.aras.org .


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- Beyond Your Dreams radio show
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I'd like to invite you to listen to my new weekly internet radio show
entitled "Beyond Your Dreams: Exploring Myth, Meaning & Metaphor", on
www.healthylife.net . The show airs on Thursdays at 2:00 pm Pacific, but
obviously is heard in all time zones around the world if you have Windows
Media Player or something equivalent. Past shows can be accessed on the
Archives pages. Also you can listen to past shows by going to my website
www.mindbodypotential.com and then going to the Beyond Your Dreams area of
the site.

I am always looking for guests to have on my show, anyone who is doing
interesting work in the field of dreams. Authors, analysts, & researchers
--you are all welcome to contact me!

I appreciate your comments and feedback -- all in the spirit of gaining
greater knowledge and insight into the subconscious ... and beyond.

Sweet dreams,
Denise Rodgers, M.Div., C.Ht.



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- California: Beyond Traditional Religion
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Spirituality, Depth Psychology, and Nonduality

This unique five-month intensive will illustrate an approach to spirituality
using a synthesis of Jungian depth psychology with the tradition of
nonduality. The program will have both an academic and experiential
component. We will discuss the philosophy of nonduality and also focus on
work with dreams at their archetypal and personal level. This work will
deepen our understanding of those complexes and shadow material that form
the structures of the self, which contributes to our illusory sense of
separateness. Insight into this process paves the way for nondual awareness
to spontaneously arise. This program will be of interest to people whose
personal sense of the sacred is not satisfied by traditional religions and
will be limited to 30 participants.

The five-month intensive will be held at Pacifica Graduate Institute at
Ladera Lane. Located on 35 acres in the foothills of the Santa Ynez
Mountains overlooking the Pacifica Ocean, this residential retreat center
provides a unique and peaceful environment for this event. The center has
lodging and dining facilities as well as a swimming pool and hiking trails.

January - June 2005
http://www.pacifica.edu/corbett05.html


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- Denmark: Nordic Dream Conference
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Co-organised by the Danish Association for the Study of Dreams and the
Swedish Dröm Grupps Forum as a regional meeting of the International
Association for the Study of Dreams.

March 24-26th, 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark

More information at http://www.ffsd.dk/ndk_2006.php



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Robert Moss: The Dreamer's Book Of The Dead
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A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying and the Other Side

In The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains that we have
entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams, when they come
visiting and we may travel into their realms. As we become active dreamers,
we can heal our relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of
death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides for others,
helping the dying to approach the last stage of life with courage and grace,
opening gates for their journeys beyond death, and even escorting them to
the Other Side.

http://mossdreams.com


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- Comparing Lucid and Non-Lucid Dreams
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In order to further our understanding of the extent to which lucid dreams
differ from non-lucid dreams in other ways than (obviously) whether or not
the dreamer knows it is a dream at the time, we have designed a new
questionnaire study, a revision of an earlier pilot study. In short, we are
asking you to fill out a web questionnaire and report form four times; Two
of these reports should be lucid dreams, and two should be non-lucid dreams.

The Lucidity Institute
http://lucidity.com/dreams4.html


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- Video Game Attitudes and Dreams
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You are invited to participate in research by Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.,
psychology faculty at Grant MacEwan College examining video game play
attitudes and experiences as well as experiences of various states of
consciousness including dreams.

There are three questionnaires and two small video games which you will be
asked to complete. You will be asked about your video game playing history
and preferences or the lack there of as well as your experiences with
various types of dreams and other experiences of consciousness. You will
also be asked to indicate your age, sex, education and work history. No
other personal information will be requested. You will also be asked to fill
out a questionnaire regarding your preferences for specific components of
video games as well as another questionnaire regarding your feelings while
playing video games. Finally you will be asked to play two very brief video
games, pacman and missile command, which are in java script. Therefore your
browser should be java enhanced in order to do that part of the research.

More information and the consent form:

http://tinyurl.com/7p6vx



* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * *

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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a
monthly DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.

In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace
within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal
level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and
supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please
join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to
dream towards the mandala of peace.

If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used
within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of
peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World
Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .


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- Auction at dreambay.org
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The IASD online auction has its own website - Dreambay.org! Every month it
has new items to bid on, and opportunities to donate your books, services
etc to support the IASD!

http://Dreambay.org

If you have any questions or would like to donate an item to the auction,
you may contact Kat Peters-Midland at IASDauction@... .

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange

By Lucy Gillis

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While the magic of Harry Potter is back on the movie screens and fresh in
our minds, why not try some Hogwarts magic in your lucid dreams? Ed Kellogg
presents some fun tasks to try in your next lucid dream.


LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
September, 2005

by Ed Kellogg
[(c)2005 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.]

(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for LDE readers with
each new issue. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility for any
risks should they choose to undertake these tasks, which may possibly bring
about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you
who attempt these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.)

"Harry Potter and the Lucid Dream Exchange Challenge"

Trying out Spells from the Hogwarts Universe.

This issue's task honors the book series of J. K. Rowling, because it
promotes a positive point of view about "magic" and about "psi," and has had
an incredible world wide impact among the people who really matter - the
children and young adults who will make up future generations.

J. K. Rowling's series of books (and the derivative movies) promote the
following "heretical ideas" in children at the most impressionable ages,
setting up a magical view of the world at deep levels:

1. Muggles (read "skeptics" and "debunkers") do not believe in magic either
because they can not do it, or because they hate and fear it.
2. Wizards and witches (read "psychics" and "lucid dreamers" <g>) can do
magic, but try not to do it or talk about it in front of muggles, to spare
their feelings and to avoid societal upset.
3. Even muggle parents can have wizards and witches as children, although of
course, as muggles, they will not understand magic, and will explain away
any evidence of magic when it occurs, out of ignorance and prejudice.
4. In general, wizards and witches feel sorry for muggles, and find their
disbelief in magic amusing. They do not take the viewpoints of muggles
seriously.
5. Muggles and wizards do not live in some other world, or in some
fairytale, they live in today's contemporary society.

I find it hard to imagine a better set of underlying defensive beliefs for a
developing child with psychic abilities. Granted, this set of beliefs may
not last, but they can give many children an extra year or two of magical
childhood before societal pressures mold them into at least a semblance of
muggles. But underneath it all, even in the most repressed, in the depths of
the unconscious, "Harry Potter" will live on. And that, to paraphrase Robert
Frost, may make all the difference.

The Challenge

When you next gain full lucidity in a dream, try doing one of the following
HP ("Harry Potter") spells:

1. Wingardium Leviosah! (pronounced: win-GAR-dee-um lev-ee-OH-sah) In the
books this spell levitates the object you point at while saying it.

2. Lumos! (pronounced: LOO-mos) This spell causes a light to appear.

3. Scourgify! (pronounced: SKUR-ji-fy) This cleaning spell makes messes
disappear. And finally -

4. Expecto Patronum! (pronounced: ex-PEK-toh pah-TRO-num) This advanced
spell causes a guardian animal spirit to appear.

Clearly intone each syllable of the spell you've chosen, using the
pronunciation provided above. (I suggest that you practice chanting the
spell during the day before going to sleep.) Stay centered in the dream and
focus your intent on tapping into and channeling your creative power.
Repeat as necessary, deepening your intent and trying variations in your
wand gestures as necessary.

Now if by some mischance you find yourself in a lucid dream without a wand
handy, in my experience you can use your hand instead with good results.
For this task, to minimize uncontrolled variables, I suggest that you use
the hand gesture known as "sword fingers" in qigong. I spontaneously found
myself using this gesture for focusing intent or for directing energy in
many lucid dreams. Once I discovered the qigong connection, I often used
this gesture intentionally. It has proven reliable for directing lucid dream
healing and psychokinetic effects. (With regard to HP spells, for example
I've tried "Wingardium Leviosah" for levitation in lucid dreams, using this
hand gesture in place of wand waving, and it worked quite well.)

To make the sword fingers gesture, point with your dominant hand by
extending the index and middle fingers. Curl the ring and pinky fingers
against the palm, and place the thumb on top of them. Aside from pointing,
you can use your hand to simulate wand movements (""Swish and flick,
remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very
important too -" -- Professor Flitwick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone) To get the feel of using this hand gesture, listen to classical music
and do some imaginary conducting. <g>

After your dream, record your experiences, and describe in detail what you
did (especially if it differs from what I've described above), and the
context - the environment and situation - in which you tried a spell out.
If the spell results in phenomena of some sort, describe what happened in
your dream journal in as much detail as possible - color, shape, movement,
texture, etc. Use illustrations if appropriate. Also, if you aimed the spell
at a particular target (for example, a feather for levitation, or an
infected cut for healing), describe the target's condition before, and after
the spell. If you get a chance to try a spell more than once, note down both
similarities and differences. And of course, should you succeed at trying
out any HP spells (regardless of whether or not the spells "work!"), I'd
very much appreciate it if you would send your dream(s) to me
(alef1@...), or better yet, to the Lucid Dream Exchange!

(Interested in trying out more spells from the Hogwarts Universe? Visit The
Harry Potter Lexicon online and go to their "The Encyclopedia of Spells"
section at:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells.html )


Why should "Harry Potter" spells work in lucid dreams?

I believe that "magical words" derive their power from at least two
different sources.

First, the personal level, where magical words have effects through their
subjective associations for the user. Effective Associations: 1. On the
Thinking/Focus Level - clear meaning, with no contradictory or mundane
associations (why many magical spells use words from dead or foreign
languages.) 2. On the Emotional/Intent Level - positive affect associations,
for example words intrinsically embedded in an emotionally positive context,
for example mantras/godnames, found in religious texts, or taught in
spiritual or magical traditions respected by the user. And alternatively,
for those who love the books, spells taken from Tolkiens's Lord of the Rings
or from the J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books might work as well or
better than those taken from religious tracts or grimoires, as these words
have a powerful emotional appeal. Finally, "secret", or little known,
"magical words" can have an added power for the individual who uses them.

Second, the impersonal, archetypal, level. Some words may have an intrinsic
power, that does not come from the user as such, but that the user only taps
into. Magical words or phrases that resonate/effect the release of
archetypal energies, or of energies stored in the collective unconscious.
Two possible examples. First, mantras/godnames known and chanted with
purposeful intent by generations of monks, nuns, yogis, and other mystics.
Second, the Harry Potter spells - known and uncritically believed in by
millions of children.

This quarter's LDE challenge seems a kind of dream experiment, to look at
the effects of Harry Potter spells when tried by different lucid dreamers
from different backgrounds. Will the spells used in dreams generate effects
with the kind of commonalties one might expect in a consensual reality, or
will spells generate strictly subjective and different effects dependent on
the idiosyncrasies of the individual who uses them? Does it matter if the
person has read the Harry Potter books or if they haven't? Help us find out!

An example:

Early in July of 2005, I unintentionally stepped on a cat and it bit me.
Despite the usual treatment, after a day the bite began to look infected, so
when I came across the "Scourgify!" spell (used for cleaning up messes) when
rereading The Order of the Phoenix (in preparation for the next book in the
series coming out a week later), I decided to incubate a lucid dream that
night, to see what effect the spell might have when directed at the wound.
The relevant excerpt of my lucid dream account follows:

EWK 7/14/05 "In a corridor, I become fully lucid and remember my task. I
take off my left sock, and point my right hand, using my index and middle
fingers, at the bite and emphatically say "SCOURGIFY!" A yellow-mustard
colored mist comes out of my extended fingers, spraying the bite and
surrounding area with a clear yellowish liquid. It thoroughly covers my
ankle and foot, but does not stop spraying. . . . Finally, I say "CANCEL!"
out loud while looking at my fingers and the spraying stops. I see a drop or
two of yellow liquid on my fingertips. (the dream continues) . . ."

Next morning the wound looked much better - two thirds of the redness
surrounding the bite area had disappeared. "Scourgify" not only had an
effect in my dream, but perhaps in waking physical reality as well.

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Several Sorts of Psi in
Fearless Feline Dreams
(c) 2005 Linda Lane Magallon

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A psychic dream presented for the public is often a clear example of a
single kind of psi. Because of this practice, we might assume that
clairvoyance, telepathy, empathy, precognition and mutual dreams are
distinct and separate sorts of phenomena. Especially when we dream with
other people, however, our dreams can provide information using more than
one type of psi. It's also common to conclude that each example of these
discrete types of dreampsi will refer to only one event. Nevertheless, it's
not unusual for one dream to connect with several incidents, both waking and
sleeping. Here's an example.

On a night in late December, Keelin had a couple of dreams. One of them
featured square-shaped earrings, a pin and a playful kitten.
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On the bedside table I find some earrings along with matching rectangular
pins. As I examine them, sitting on the floor next to the bed, I spot a
straight pin sticking in the carpet (not there in waking reality) which I
place on the table. I select a pretty pair of earrings and hold them in my
hand to look at them more closely. They are made from a dark bluish gem or
stone with a goldish trim. This shape is small and square. Now, I'm
sitting/kneeling beside the bed watching as (my partner) Rich nuzzles with a
little kitten on my side of the bed. He is completely fearless of being
scratched by playful claws - a very sweet and loving exchange.
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Next evening, Rich's mother gave Keelin a gift of blue earrings that were
strikingly similar to the ones in her dream. Although the actual gemstones
were round, each was mounted on a small square of metal.

The dream had done an excellent job providing Keelin with a bit of
precognitive information, soon to appear in her waking life. However, there
was much more to the dream than the earrings event. Where had the pin in the
carpet and the kitten come from? The answer is found in the fact that this
particular Saturday night was a mutual dreaming night for Keelin. She had
suggested to herself that she be receptive to co-dreamers, and her intention
was rewarded.

Prior to her earring dream, Keelin had another dream in which she found
herself in Mexico. This first dream was a prelude that contained a "tracer
element." A tracer element is a recurring symbol that flags psychic
connection. In this case, it pointed to a particular person, who happened to
be me. My interest is sparked when a dreaming partner has a dream with a
Mexican theme. Almost invariably, that night's dreaming will have something
to do with my dreaming or waking life. Or both.

It's not surprising that dreamers would select a symbol that is a direct
import from physical reality. I'm married to a Mexican-American spouse and
our home is decorated with artifacts from our travels to Mexico. The tracer
element itself is not dreampsi for Keelin. Mexico is an association she
already knew applied to me. For myself, it flagged the probability that
psychic information would be forthcoming. In addition, this known attribute
was also a piece of mutual psi. The tracer element appeared twice when, that
very night, Keelin's Mexican theme wandered into my dream.
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I wake up in one of two simple, flat beds in a room that has a door with
window panes. It opens to the South. From that direction, a tiger strolls
into the room. At first glance, I'm surprised and curious. When I realize
she's a fully grown beast, I'm alarmed. But she keeps her head down while
sniffing the ground and shows no aversion to me being in the same room. As I
calm down, I decide that she must be a pet that wandered "across the line"
from Mexicali into the United States. I surmise that people must be
permitted to keep animals in their homes in Mexico.
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Besides the tracer element, the most sticking parallel in our mutual dreams
was the presence of a cat in our respective bedrooms. Another was more
subtle: being fearless or overcoming fear of that feline. As is my habit
toward the end of each December, I had pulled a card from a Tarot deck to
represent the energy of the upcoming year. This time, the selection was
"Strength." The Rider-Waite version of the card features a woman with her
arms wrapped around a lion's mouth. It's very clear that, although the cat
is large and fully grown, she has no fear of feline.

But that wasn't all. The card was very synchronous of an actual physical
event that occurred the evening prior to our mutual dreams. While kneeling
on the carpeted floor of the family room, I held a handful of colored
push-pins. I was picking them out of my palm to attach slips of paper to my
cork bulletin board. Every so often, I sat down to pet the family's two
cats. Our grey and black tiger-striped kitten, Spooky, was acting
particularly playful that night. When I dropped a blue push-pin, she grabbed
it in her mouth. Concerned that she might swallow it or otherwise hurt
herself, I gently retrieved the pin.

Perhaps inspired by my associations with the Tarot card, I had a dream that
was a metaphoric translation of this feline incident. Keelin's corresponding
cat dream was much more literal. In addition, her dreaming mind wove my
postcognitive blue pin-dropping together with her precognitive gift of blue
gemstones. There was more than a little fearless telepathic connection that
December night!


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Dream: Subcategorization

Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE : 6 nov 2005 09:19
DREAM : subcategorization

=( yesterday was saturday, a rather uneventful day. julius came over to help
replace the ribbon cable on mother's television antenna which had broken
last week. it did not take long. the evening we just watched blockbuster
movies, but nothing first run was available so i just got some b-movies that
were not very good. got to bed around midnight but it took quite a while for
me to get to sleep. i often read or work late in such situations, but i did
not feel like it. it was probably too warm for the window fan, but
eventually i managed to drift off after 04:00. )=


it is early evening and the students are arriving for my night course in
language theory. there are not many students in the class, maybe five or six
and i do not enjoy teaching small groups like this but i still have to do
the curriculum preparation. i am going over my notes from previous lectures,
taking the examples we used and placing the words into categories of noun,
verb or adjective. i note that the lexicon is particularly odd since many of
the examples were selected for odd syntactic features or ungrammaticality.
perhaps i should exercise a little motherese and simplify the language so
this lesson will be easier to learn.

when the clock on the wall says it is time to start and the last student has
come in, i begin my lecture. "tonight we are going to study the issues in
first language learning. oddly enough, the principles here are not much at
all like bilingual or second language learning. in those cases, you already
have the basic structure of one language mastered and translation into the
new language plays a major role. first language acquisition is a unique
discovery process in which structure is learned for the first time."

i explain the process of taking examples from the rest of the course and
using them to create a simple phrase structure grammar with simple
generative rules. i write some of the example sentences on the board and
show how the words are parsed into the three categories of substantive words
with a few left over like the determiners and copular words. these we place
into an undecided category of possible counterexamples. there are about
eight or nine nouns, fewer verbs and still fewer adjectives from about two
dozen sentences. there are more counterexample words than i would like for
this exercise.

it takes some time to go over each example sentence and to explain the
simple process of how the words are parsed into various categories. just
before we get to the break, one of the students, a pretty graduate student
who always sits in the front row, raises her hand. "i understand that we are
born with grammatical structure already wired into our brains from genetics
and the process of language acquisition is just eliminating possible
structures from the one you are born into."

very good, i think. she has leaped into the heart of what comes next in the
lesson.

before i can answer, another student speaks up. "oh, that has been
disproven. we all start tabula raza." this is tom baker, the actor who
played the fourth doctor on doctor who. he does not have the curly wig but
his natural wavy hair which is always a let down to see.

before i can respond again, the rest of the students get up to leave for
their break. i catch tom baker before he gets out into the hallway. "you
know, noam chomsky and his followers do say that universal grammar is
inherent in language acquisition." i realize that tom is an advanced
graduate student in the linguistics department and i wonder how he could
come to believe this tabula raza hypothesis.

"stuff and nonsense." he replies. "there are no real chomskyites left
anymore." this is news to me, but i have been out of that field for a long
time. still, universal grammar is a major theory in more linguistics than
the generative grammars and clean slate is one of the most difficult
theories to justify with data.

after the break when the students return, i start with an explanation of
what we can do with new structural data that comes in. i point out that our
current phrase structure generates some sentences with two elements and
others with three. now we notice that some verbs only show up in the two
element sentences, and a different set of verbs come in the sentences with
three components.

"this is the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs"
the pretty graduate student says, again anticipating the point. i find that
i like her which is hardly a surprise.

"yes, good. but how to we formally handle that? do we just put a mark on
some of the verbs that they show a different behavior, or do we break the
verb category into two new ones, transitive and intransitive?"

"subcategorization." she smiles back at me. it is easy to teach when you
have a really responsive student who correctly anticipates what comes next
in lecture. i wonder why i am bothering to teach at all except all the
others may not be so well prepared.

"piff and piddle." says tom baker. he has come up to the white board and has
drawn a phrase structure diagram on it. it is a left regular structure with
four branches. at the terminal leaf of each branch he has written a phrase,
each begins with a phonetic symbol which he pronounces as 'tuh' so the
diagram he reads as "tuh women", "tuh dogs", "tuh swim", and "tuh lake".

i think his point has to do with determining the subject or object status of
'tuh women' or 'tuh dogs' but i can not see how 'tuh' can mark both noun and
verb phrases. english is a right linear grammar, not leftward like this, so
i do not see how our intuitions about the language examples can be applied
here. also, we have not allowed for recursion in our phrase structure rules,
so four element sentences are ruled out. they would be parsed as two run-on
intransitives, not nested structure as this diagram.

the teacher from the next class sticks his head in the door. "could you
leave the foot shelves tucked in front of your seats when you leave?" on the
front legs of each student desk there is flat, beveled plate that is hinged
and pivots into different positions, probably as a foot rest. i did not know
there was a courteous position to leave them for the next group of students
to use the room.

=( awake at 08:37. i have started last week into the first video tapes of
tom baker's doctor in my conversion process of my doctor who collection from
vhs to dvdr. for two and half years i have been doing this task and this is
the last stretch of 30 or 40 videos before it is finished. i would expect
the doctor, especially his, to be an unruly student in any class. i have
only gotten to teach language acquisition once at the westfield community
college in massachusetts, to a group of bilingual spanish speaking teachers
for a special project of the springfield city school system. my doctoral
studies were in generative grammars and child language, but this was the
only time i got to use it direct many years ago. i suppose there may a
cosmic dilemma symbolized here, the clash between good and evil on some
level, but the experiences of responding evenly to the good student and the
disruptive one is always a part of the professional skills of teaching. i do
it enough in class that it must be natural to dream about it. i wonder if
the sex roles of good and bad students are reversed for female teachers? in
waking life, the genders of responsive students are usually randomly mixed.
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
What Dreams May Come
December 2005
Olivia Strand

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http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org
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Olivia Strand

Conversation on the Bridge seems to have turned more inward in the past few
weeks, placing our dreaming, individually and as a group, more in focus
again. Although some of the people in the Bridge group have been as busy as
ever!

Jean Campbell is, among other things, organising a Peace Film Festival in
southern Virginia, along with Bridge members David Gordon and Valley Reed.
This festival seemed to grow from the screening of ‘a peace film’ to filling
a three-week programme of films, talks and other events, all but in the
blink of an eye! Next month’s View will have a re-View of the festival; in
the meantime, if you, or anybody you know, live near Norfolk, VA, and would
like more information – please email Jean at jccampb@... for a
programme.

And Jody tells us from Ohio that she has been too busy to even tell us much
of what she has been up to! But you may recall from last month’s View that
Jody had been interviewed for a CNN programme, “Voices from the Homefront”,
together with veteran Paul Hackett who will be running for the US Senate in
2006. No doubt we will hear more about this, too, next month!


A Soul Family of Dreamers

One of the past month’s highlights came in the form of the return of Rita,
who together with her partner Bob used to be active members in the early
days of the Bridge discussion and dream group. This time Rita has joined us
on her own as Bob sadly passed away earlier this year.

The conversation that followed made me personally reflect on how I have
begun to feel that even while I have met only two people from the Bridge in
person, this group of dreamers have become something of a soul family to me.
On the Bridge I can share thoughts and dream experiences and know that they
will be received with both kindness and understanding, and with interest!
And I have found it strangely grounding to have such a wonderful group of
dreamers to turn to, and share with. And yes, I said grounding and I meant
it. Because our collective wisdom seems practical as well as compassionate
and, above all, grounded in personal experience. In the context of loss and
of belonging, Jody put it very well:

“Doesn't it seem that this IS the Bridge: the improbable but very real
creation of a space that spans our life and death, alone and belonging,
conflict and harmony, despair and hope experiences?”


“We Create A New God”

Because of a shift in when we ‘go to press’ with the View, we have a
‘shorter’ month this month, that doesn’t feature a DaFuMu dreaming. Not that
this stopped us from dreaming, and sharing many of those dreams.

Ilkin, a powerful, and often lucid, dreamer from Turkey, shared a number of
dreams with us, and in response to an observation that her dreams seemed to
have the finding of solutions and a sense of being in control as a common
theme, she commented:

“I thought you want any dreams related or not with peace work and the
Bridge. I don't think these dreams are related with both directly. But they
may have relation with some of my interest areas including peace etc.

“In fact my dreams about disastrous events begin to repeat again but this
time accompanying by some powers I may have. It may or not be related to the
topics we discuss here but I am very much concerned about the climate
change, world changes, ecology etc too and want to direct some of my energy
to these areas. I feel that I must interested with the future of nature and
changes in front of us, as much as I am interested with politic, social,
economic etc issues where we stand as humanity. These may be reflecting in
my dreams though the ones I sent you were not very special.”

Ilkin says something that I find very interesting here, when she speaks of
the return of her disaster dreams, many of which have seemed precognitive in
the past, but how they this time allow her to draw on her powers, in the
dream. To me, this suggests that as we become more aware of our dreams, not
only after we had them, but also while we are still dreaming, inside the
dream, we begin to learn to change things in the dream. And by extension,
learning to change our dream realities may allow us to change our waking
reality world, too. If you are familiar with the World Dreams Peace Bridge
then you have probably also heard our mission statement: “There can never be
too many people dreaming of peace.”


Jean too submitted a dream that evoked the imagination of many in the group,
judging by the response. She called her dream “We Create A New God” and I
have included it here:

“In the dream we (and I mean us folks of the Bridge) are standing in front
of a group of gods. We have just created a new god. But this new god looks
curiously like Ernie from Sesame Street...same flat face, same somewhat
awkward, floppy character.

“I am both observer and participant in this dream, so I can see and hear
from above the crowd our dismay as we look at this new god of ours. Someone,
maybe me, says: "Awwwwww, now we'll have to live with him forever!" EOD

“There is a playful quality about this dream, an irony. While I was walking
this morning, I reentered the dream, and let myself be the god Ernie. What
he said was that, even though he represented television and the impact of
technology on the people of this planet, he was also an extremely lovable
god. He said the reason kids love Ernie is because he can make mistakes, and
knows how to laugh at himself.”

It turned out that as well as having enjoyed Sesame Street with their own
children, members of the group had experiences of Ernie to share, ranging
from working with children in therapy, to dreams of their own about him. In
response to a question about the “group of gods”, Jean commented:

“In my dream, at least, the other gods were more like the traditional image
of ghosts...pale, silvery, almost see through. And a little shocked to see
such a new and colorful god as Ernie.”

I, myself, wondered about the "Ghostlike gods... hmmm... What does it mean
if our archetypal gods have grown wan, silvery and pale?" to which Anna
responded:

”There is a lot of lore from many traditions that says the god/desses create
us and we create them in never ending circle...the native American animal
spirits who ask to be danced into material experience; the orishas who
inhabit human riders' in voudou ceremony; all the way to the immanent
spirits in our earth, who it is clear, we have not tended and they fade…

“So much wisdom which tells us that it is our human calling, between heaven
and earth, to heed the spirits, to admire them and invite them, to ASK for
their help which they so willingly hold for us but must wait to be asked.

“To wilfully dream is a part of this, I think.”


Perhaps it does not seem too much a leap of the imagination, to see Ilkin’s
concerns about the changes in the world and the climate that affect the
Earth’s delicate eco systems reflected in Jean’s dream of the god Ernie, and
the fading gods of old?


DaFuMu dreaming in November and December

Join us in our Dreams of Great Fortune – DaFuMu – on the 15th each month!

The November DaFuMu will continue the theme of awakening to the world, and
with the addition of dreaming for the youth of the world – a request that
arose as France has seen almost two weeks of urban rioting. We hope to have
an update on this in the next View.

The December DaFuMu is open to anyone who care to join us – please visit our
website for more information on DaFuMu-dreaming, and on how to submit
dreams.

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org


And we shall see, what dreams may come.




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Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?
by Peter Farley
www.cosmologies.com/treeoflife

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  Man will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their
own souls.

                                                      --- Carl Jung

  How do waking dreams differ from the dreams we have at night? This is
another of the most commonly asked question about waking dreams. This time
there is a simple answer: There is no real difference. In fact, there is
only a hair’s breadth difference between the awakened state we call living,
and that which we experience at night and call the dreamstate.

Waking dreams and night dreams can merely be thought of as two different
settings of the same program. And, just as we might access the same program
on our computers through two different methods, so to do we access the
different kinds of dreaming. The night dreams require our physical eyes to
be closed and our conscious mind shut off from the outside world. The waking
dreams require that our physical eyes be open and our conscious mind alert
to the things going on around us.

Very few people understand the true nature of dreams and the importance
dreaming has to our life and the state of balance we need to try and
maintain. Dreams are arguably the most important part of our lives because
they are a direct method by which we can realize our existence as divine
spiritual beings. And, once again, it is we ourselves who are best equipped
to interpret our own dreams, and then gauge their subsequent importance.

Most everybody dreams at night, but not everybody remembers their dreams.
Just as with waking dreams, learning to remember our dreams is a skill which
comes with practice and attention. When we consciously set out to remember
our dreams, it is amazing how quickly we can learn the ways to do it which
best suit our own individual needs. As we come to see how important
understanding our dreams can be to our daily lives, they will also become a
nightly gift we simply cannot wait to unwrap come morning.

Keeping a dream journal in which to record our dreams and their
interpretations is the most important thing we can do to help ourselves
receive the wisdom and guidance being offered. Not only can this dream
journal be used to record our dreams, it can also be very helpful to use as
a daily diary in which to release the worries and frustrations of the day by
writing them down before we go to sleep.

The one area in which night dreams may vary slightly from waking dreams is
that our night dreams are normally exaggerated in size, shape, and the kind
of problems they project. The pictures or symbols the unconscious and
superconscious minds present to us in night dreams are exaggerated
specifically to help get them past the censor and on to the conscious mind.
Much like their waking dream counterparts, night dreams will often come in a
series, and not so much as the individual, stand-alone kind of dream. Even
though the characters and events in one dream may vary totally from the
dream that precedes or follows it, the connection between the various dreams
will usually come out during their interpretation. Sometimes a series of
dreams will continue over the course of more than one night, so we must be
sure to review the previous day’s dreams in order to get the bigger picture.
The earlier example of the baby that was first miscarried and then born
again in a new and larger form, is just one example of dreams coming in a
series.

Just as waking dreams have a variety of messages and ways in which they can
be conveyed, so to do night dreams come in different types based on their
intent or on their purpose. In broad categories, these types are:



1. “Physical’ dreams: These are dreams where a physical need or intrusion
from the outer world such as an alarm clock, sets up similar conditions in
our dreams to mirror the outer conditions. A person who goes to bed thirsty
will often dream of satisfying that thirst during their dreams. An alarm
clock ringing in the bedroom may translate into a telephone or some other
kind of bell, ringing in the person’s dream. A physical urge to go to the
bathroom will manifest itself in exactly the same way in the dreamstate.


2. Prophetic dreams: These are the most common form of dream to be found in
many of the world’s influential sacred texts. Prophetic dreams may relate to
situations as they appear in a person’s life at the present, or they may be
an actual vision of some future time or event. In this case, the prophetic
dream will often form the basis for a later deja vu experience in life. (See
chapter 11).

People will often have dreams about great cataclysms or changes happening on
the planet Earth. Occasionally these will turn out to be actual predictions
of what is really to happen in the future. Although this is a difficult
responsibility for the person who has such dreams, it is helpful for those
people to remember that each and every one of us is led to be in the exact
place in which we find ourselves if we are listening to our inner guidance.
The more each one of us learns to listen to and rely on this guidance, the
more we can be sure that we are never in a place where we are not supposed
to be.

Often prophetic dreams will fall into the category of a past-life dream
where the person is actually remembering an earth change that has already
taken place upon the planet at some earlier time in history. This event has
then become incorporated into what is called cell or cellular memory, the
greater part of what constitutes the strands of our DNA. The person
experiencing such a phenomenon has simply tapped into his or her cell memory
during the unconscious state we call dreaming and is then experiencing, for
all intense purposes, what we like to call a past-life dream.

What many people fail to realize with regard to prophetic dreams is the
symbolic nature of their dreams. Since most dreams relate to a person’s own
life or state of being, the major upheavals people see and think to be
prophesying changes on the Earth, should actually have been translated as
being major upheavals that are about to occur in their own lives and not
necessarily on such a grandiose level. Remember the exaggeration aspect of
night dreams which is used to slip them past the censor. Although these
upcoming events may seem “earth-shattering” to the person involved, the
dream has had just that kind of intention. By portraying an event as
“cataclysmic,” a person will be much more likely to stand up and take notice
of its possible implications in their life.

Not all of us can be, or would want to be, seers for the rest of the people
on the planet. We can, however, be seers for our own lives if we consciously
allow it to happen. Since our inner guidance works with all the potential
causes and effects in a person’s life, it does not necessarily read the
future as such because we are constantly in the process of creating and
changing that future. This is especially true when we choose to make
decisions which break the traditional mould or pattern of our past thoughts
and actions. Our inner guidance is simply working on the situations we have
already set in motion through the decisions we have already made.


3. Past-Life Dreams: Past lives dreams do happen, to some people more
frequently than others. Whether we attribute them to having lived a prior
existence, or to some kind of genetic or cellular archetypal memory, doesn’t
really matter. There is a lesson to be learned from the dream and it usually
relates to something which is currently going on in our lives. In being
given a past-life dream we are being asked to look at a cause to which we
are currently living the effect, or to a pattern of behavior which is still
holding us back in this lifetime as it has done in another. All we need to
do to deal with these dreams is to realize their connection and the problem
that is at the core of our behavior. Once we have recognized the problem we
can deal with it, or simply move beyond it.

Human traits such as an uncontrollable temper or frustration are often
products of the unconscious mind which started somewhere back in a past
lifetime. They tend to surface again in our dreams as reminders of the
trouble they have caused us in the past, while also asking us to take a
closer look at the negative effect they may be having in our lives
currently. While being a fictionalized account of just such an emotional
trait passed on from one lifetime to another, Jack London’s novella, The
Star Rover, has much to offer on this subject for anyone who takes the time
to read it.

Past life dreams are easy to tell because they have a real movie-like
quality to them, usually as if we are acting in the movie rather than simply
watching it. The action is often straightforward, with very few if any
symbols that seem to stand out above any others. These kinds of dreams are
also the easiest to remember since they seem to stay with us longer whether
we normally remember our dreams or not.



4. Dreams of Intrusion: These are dreams where another person or being is
trying to influence or control us while we are asleep. This can be anyone we
have had in our lives who may, even subconsciously, wish to do us harm.
These dreams are characterized by a person who we normally think of as being
trustworthy in everyday life, appearing in our dream doing something which
is very uncharacteristic of them. It is helpful to learn to recognize this
kind of dream, and then to practice visualizing a blue or white light
surrounding ourselves through which nothing wishing to harm us can
penetrate. We must also try and be aware of when there is a potential
hostility we might carry for someone which will then cause us to intrude on
their dreams as well.


5. Lucid Dreaming:  Lucid dreaming is a technique by which we can eventually
learn to wake up in our dreams to realize we are dreaming. By being able to
do this, we can then control the direction in which the dream flows, or
change any parts of the dream we feel we do not like. This is sometimes
easier to do when we return to the same dream after having awakened sometime
during the night. By using our conscious will, we can return to the dream
and change the direction in which it was heading, or re-run the part of it
we did not like, but this time make it come out the way we want it.

This technique comes in very handy when we are experiencing one of the many
types of phobia which often haunt our dreams. By understanding the source of
the fear and subsequently facing it, we can then free ourselves from the
often debilitating effects these phobias can have on the moment-to-moment
living of our life.

Many inventors and artistic people have used this technique to bring back
ideas and works of artistic form from the higher planes of existence.


6. Problem-solving Dreams: Have you ever heard someone use the expression,
“Let me sleep on it?” The problem-solving dream does just that. If we take a
problem we cannot find a solution to with us into our dreamstate, it is more
than likely that we will awaken in the morning with the answer virtually
exploding from our conscious minds into the world around us. Our inner
guidance works for us and is always honest in what it says. When it is given
an important decision to make or faced with a difficult problem, it will
always reveal the best possible solution given the circumstances and
conditions under which it operates.

The exercise involved with this technique is as follows: Write down on a
piece of paper a goal you are trying to achieve or a problem you are trying
to solve. Then put it beside your bed where you will be sure to see it first
thing in the morning. Secondly, write down what it is that is the greatest
obstacle or opponent to achieving your goal or finding a solution to the
problem. Ask for help from your source of inner guidance or from the Dream
Master before you go to sleep. Then be sure to consciously try to retain
whatever it is that comes through to you as an answer in the morning. Write
it down! There should be an answer there somewhere.



7. Burning-off karma or payment-due dreams: Often it is easier to work out
in the dreamstate any of the more difficult lessons we have given ourselves
or been given to learn in this lifetime. Again, this is especially true for
those kind of experiences which would create considerable havoc if they
occurred in our ordinary physical lives. Car accidents or other situations
of extreme physical danger would often be too traumatic for us to experience
during our waking state. If we do not necessarily need these experiences to
happen in our external physical life, our inner guidance can often arrange
for us to have these experiences in our dreams. This will still allow us to
get the “experience” and the learning that would come from it, without
putting our lives or balance in jeopardy.



8. Dreams of release from fear: “To sleep, perchance to dream. Aye, there be
the rub.” Shakespeare was obviously talking about the possibility of having
Hamlet face a nightmare when he gave him those immortal words to speak. But
dreams do not have to be a source of fear. On the contrary, they can be one
the best methods of dealing with our fears.

To protect ourselves from the punishment and shame associated with the
repressed desires of the unconscious, we have established the censor as a
guard to stand over it so that none of these desires can escape into our
outer world. When something is repressed in the unconscious, however, it
will often come forward as a dream. Even though the memory of the dream
might disappear in the morning, the psychic energy of the dream will
sometimes remain with us, causing us to feel fear or to have a bad attitude,
without really knowing why. The pressure built up within us by these
lingering fears, and the guilt attached to them, can often be relieved by
correctly interpreting the dream’s symbols before the dream becomes too much
of a psychic danger to our physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual
balance.

Often understanding the source of these fears will help to eliminate them.
If we can practice lucid dreaming as was described above, we can also
recognize the fear which may haunt us in our dream and instead of running
from it, we can turn and face it. By doing this we will find that it is
simply a fear we have created in the darkest recesses of our own mind. This
single act can break the fear’s hold over us and bring a freedom and peace
of mind to us that we might not have previously known.

Often our fears or phobias will stem from a “past life” trauma which, when
re-experienced in the dream state, gives us an understanding of the source
of that fear, and also helps diminish or totally erase that fear’s hold upon
us.


9. Dreams with the Dream Master: The one aspect of our inner guidance which
can be of most help in our dreams is the Dream Master. During some dreams, a
being will appear who we can tell cares deeply about us and our struggles to
learn the often difficult lessons of our life. This being will radiate
perfect love, and he is there to help us. Occasionally we can find ourselves
taking trips to strange lands, meeting various teachers, attending classes
in various temples of higher learning, or having all kinds of adventures in
our dreamstate while accompanied by this wonderful being. In whatever form
this being appears, it is the feeling of perfect love that will tip our hand
to the fact that we are indeed working with our own Dream Master.

Once again, the Dream Master is an aspect of our guidance which has only our
highest good at heart. If, before going to sleep, we ask for his help and
guidance with any particular problems , anxieties, or fears with which we
are struggling to cope, then we are likely to find the fears relieved, the
problems resolved, or the solutions well at hand upon awakening in the
morning.


10. The tag dream or “zinger”: This last kind of dream is not really a
dream. Instead, it is an urgent-telegram service which attaches its message
to the end of a dream in order to slip it by the censor without having to
disguise it. Most often these zingers will come in the form of words we hear
just upon awakening, just at that time when the censor is “changing guard”
from night duty to the daytime shift. If we can catch the gist of these
zingers and retain them, we will find their words contain some of the most
important messages we can receive from our inner guidance.

Sometimes these zingers will take the form of words or lines from a song,
sometimes a song which we have not heard in years. If we can trust enough to
take the message in the words as a personal message for us, then their
significance will easily be revealed.

Tricks to help remember our dreams

1.    Before going to sleep, clear the head of the day’s events. If
necessary, record them in your dream journal. Problems and frustrations of
the day will often be ‘worked on’ during our dream state, and therefore will
tend to take up the bulk of our dream time if we do not clear them from our
heads before going to sleep.

2.    Remember to write in the journal why it is you want to remember your
dreams. This serves as a positive reinforcement to the mind as to the
benefits which can be gained from remembering your dreams. The more we
clarify our desire to remember, the more our inner self will find a way to
bring that request to fruition.

3.    Write in the journal the questions that are currently in the forefront
of your mind, or problems which still remain unresolved. This will help
clarify the issues that most need to be dealt with. It will also give you a
source of reference with which to begin relating the dream symbology to the
particular problem it addresses.

4.    Keep a small tape recorder, or a light, a pen, and a journal, ready
and within easy reach. Date the journal, or include the date of the
recording on the tape before going to sleep.

5.    As you go to sleep, give yourself the intention of recording or
writing down your dreams throughout the night and/or the next morning. This
is the same “set to recall” faculty that many of us have already experienced
which awakens us five minutes before the alarm is set to go off. This brings
up perhaps the most common blockage to the remembering of our dreams—the
alarm clock. The most conducive atmosphere for remembering dreams is to wake
up slowly out of our sleep so that we can remain for a period of time with
one foot in the dream state, and one foot in the conscious or awakened
state. This forms a bridge, as it were, between the two states of existence.
Being jerked out of sleep by a noisy alarm is the worst thing we can do in
trying to remember our dreams. The best way to deal with this is to
preprogram ourselves to wake up five minutes before the alarm goes off. This
will give us time to recall sufficient details from our dream that can then
be useful in triggering other details we may not yet have remembered.
Another way to allow ourselves ten more minutes to go in and recapture the
basic details of the dream which can then be used to recall the rest later,
is to use the snooze button.

6.    Don’t say “I want to remember my dreams,” say “I am going to remember
my dreams and write them down in specific detail.” Set an appointment with
the inner self to remember your dreams. Set an affirmation; make an
agreement. We may need to write it out or say it over and over again to
ourselves to make it work more effectively.

7.    Don’t get up, don’t exercise, and don’t think about other things until
you have successfully captured your dreams before they begin to fade. If for
some reason your supplies are not close at hand to record the dreams, it
will help if you can remember one or two important details which can be used
to trigger the rest of the dream later. If some details of the dream can be
brought into the conscious mind during the night, then the rest of the
important aspects of the dream can also usually be brought forward.

8.    Doing a contemplation or meditation upon arising will often bring back
a remembrance of your dreams, or other details from the dreams which you
might otherwise have overlooked. Using the “remember backwards” technique
often brings out more details. If we can remember the last thing that
happened in the dream, or the last thing we saw before we woke up, we will
usually be able to trace backwards and find out what it was that happened up
until that point.

9.    Record or write down whatever comes through. Anything, whether it be a
dream or not. You can worry about finding out its significance later, but
only if you can remember it because you’ve somehow captured it physically on
paper or on a tape.

10.  Write down the first thing that comes into your mind upon awakening.
This will bring together the dreaming and the waking state, and also it will
help to support the remembering of dreams later in the morning. Sometimes it
will be the words or title of a song which contain within them a message
from our inner guidance.

11.  Write down all the fragments of the dream that can be remembered (the
people you see, sounds, lights, spoken words, colors, feelings, song lyrics
etc.). Any aspect of the dream may be important to its meaning, especially
if it stands out in our memory for one reason or another. If it helps to
make a small drawing of some aspect of the dream, this will help you
visualize the circumstances later, and also might make the dream easier to
find in your journal when needing to refer back to it.

12.  Try to capture in a few words the main mood or feeling of the dream?
This may help relate the dream to a certain situation in your life.

13.  Give the dream a title or a word which describes the main symbol or
symbols of the dream. This may be an instance of Golden-Tongued Wisdom that
can provide some clue to its interpretation (see chapter 11).

14.  If an explanation for the dream or for a symbol comes during the
writing process, jot it down. Leave enough space under the transcription of
the dream to write down its interpretation.

15.  Write down all the dreams that can be remembered. Be honest,
straightforward and sincere.

15.Even if our actions in the dreams do not seem to be what we would call
“nice,” no one else is going to read the journal, and the actions most often
do not mean that we would or could do these things in our normal daily life.
It is, however, important to release them through the vehicle of our dream
journaling. If something hurts, writing it down will help make it resolve
more quickly.



Common Tricks of the Mind

1.    One of the more frequent pitfalls in doing dreamwork is the belief
that the dream is not important, or that we will write the dream down later
upon awakening. When this happens the dream is more often forgotten than
remembered.

2.    It is often easier to think that we are too tired and need our sleep.
This is like paying to go to college, and then sleeping through the lectures
which are only there to help us.

3.    Thinking we have to go over the dream in our mind before it can be
written down usually leads to us drifting back to sleep with the dream
unrecorded, and usually unremembered. If it is down on tape or in our
journal, then we can go over the dream at our own leisure.

4.    We interpret the dream while asleep or during some short time in which
we wake up during the night. We think that we will remember it so we don’t
have to write it down, but usually it is forgotten upon awakening.

5.    Sometimes we think that we have already recorded the dream, only to
find in the morning that we haven’t. We may often see ourselves in the dream
writing it down or recording it, especially after we’ve been doing this for
a long time. We need to make sure we have recorded our dreams, even if it
means recording them again. This may be a blessing in disguise if it leads
to us getting more of the details of the dream recorded.

6.    It is not uncommon for us to mistake our finger for a pen. When we
have one foot in the inner worlds and one foot in the outer world, things
like this can happen.

7.    If blocks occur in remembering our dreams, we need to ask ourselves,
“What are some of the blocks I might have to vividly remember in my dreams?”
One of the most common is an attitude of ‘I don’t remember my dreams. So why
bother trying?’ The best thing to do in this case is to restate this
picture, that is, change the viewpoint from which we look at the blockage.
Then we need to adopt a positive attitude that we can do whatever it is was
that we felt was blocking us.

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"Waking Dreams vs. Night Dreams?" by Peter Farley was excerpted from Waking
Dreams and the Waking Dream Cards: Finding Answers to Life's Questions, a
work on dreams and waking dreams co-authored with Sharon King, a former
counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA.
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Here’s another interesting dreams section with zombies in a mausoleum, black
snakes, sharks, and a house with ghosts.


Dream title: Where Art Thou Teeth?
Dream date: 11/17/05
Dreamer name: Underkill
Dream: I was sitting in this hotel room, it was a nice hotel. I was there
with my boyfriend. We were watching T.V. We were talking and everything
seemed fine. Then my teeth started to feel loose. I knew I'd been having
dreams where my teeth would fall out one by one. So I quickly ran to the
bathroom before my boyfriend could see. I started to pull at my teeth when
all of a sudden they all came out like dentures. Under the false teeth were
these little withered teeth. They started high up in my gums and were
crooked. At the bottom of my gums they were very short and were like little
baby teeth. I put the false teeth back in and ran out the door. When I ran
out the door I was in my kitchen. My parents were both sitting around the
table. I came in horrified. My mom asked “my, what was the matter.” I
started to pull out the denture-type teeth. I screamed “why you didn’t tell
me about this!” She said “Oh my God why didn't you say anything about this?”
I was scared out of my mind. I immediately woke up and felt my teeth. They
were still intact.
Dream comments: It always feels so real at the time. I just want to know why
my teeth are falling out. I wake up and I'm so upset. It's so ugly. I feel
like my teeth are really going to fall out.

Dream title: Black Snakes
Dream date: 11/16/2005
Dreamer name: JF
Dream: I was lying in bed on my back naked, I was surrounded by thousands of
very fat black snakes about 18 to 24 inches long, suddenly a very large one
appeared in front of my face, I remember using both of my hands to grip it
because it was so huge even then I was unable to get my hands all the way
around its body, it was working its way through my hands trying to get in my
mouth. At the same moment I could see two more snakes one moving down my
stomach and one coming up from underneath me both of these snakes were going
between my legs where they met head to head and started forcing themselves
inside of my body, by this time the snake that I was holding in front of me
was working its way slowly toward my mouth, as it slid through my hands I
could feel my mouth being stretched wide open as it was working its way in I
could feel it going all the way down my throat, I could also see and feel
the other two snakes wiggling between my legs as the forced themselves
inside of me, I remember seeing the tail vanish as I swallowed the snake in
my mouth and seeing the tails of the other two coiling back and forth before
as the slid inside me. My dream continued that way, I had snakes entering my
mouth one by one and entering between my legs two by two. The snakes were
expressionless their mouths never opened nor did they ever try to bite me,
In my dream I was trying very hard to count and remember each one of them
also each snake had numbers on their skin most of the snakes had two
separate numbers one number toward the head of it and one number further
down toward the tail there were a few dozen snakes with just numbers toward
there head only. The majority of the snakes had two simple sets of numbers
like 23 /18 or 7/ 4 83/106 29 /25 183/180 marked in the two different
locations as described, however there were a few dozen with larger numbers
like 1,432/1,398, 1,107/1,024, 673/589 and again one number was close to the
head the other close to the tail and there was about a hundred or so snakes
with only one number toward the head and this number was always a small
number either 1 or 2 nothing larger and those particular snakes always
entered in my mouth.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Dangerous Water Slide
Dream date: 15/11/2005
Dreamer name: Maka
Dream: My boyfriend and I are sliding down a natural springs waterslide, the
water is clean and clear, beautiful tropical scenery surrounds us. We are
water sliding down very fast, taking sharp turns, and we seem to be enjoying
our selves. We take a sharp turn which takes us to a large round waterfall
opening; as I look down I can see a small pool full of sharks. As we leap
down we do not land in the pool, we land on our feet on the edge of the
pool. We proceed to walk away, but as we are walking away a few sharks
manage to bite my legs and feet.
Dream comments:

Dream title: House with ghosts
Dream date: 11-12-05
Dreamer name: Renee
Dream: I was in a large house with 3-4 other people - I didn't recognize
them but in the dream I knew them. Then {I realized the house was a house I
lived in about a year ago, we had a tragic house fire there.} We were in the
house to get something. There were ghosts there. I was with a man, whom in
my dream was my spouse, we were in the bath room there was a ghost face on
the wall and I leaned his head toward the wall the ghost ate him like a
horror movie. Then the ghost face disappeared. I went to be with the others
we were all frightened a lot and want to stay in the same room for safety.
The next morning we all got on a bus. The bus seats were all black and
towards the front there was a stack of black boxes or coffins that
frightened us a lot also.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Drinking water
Dream date: a month ago
Dreamer name: zunny
Dream: I dreamt that I was drinking a lot a lot of water bottles nearly 30
bottles and still feeling thirsty!!
Dream comments: By the way this dream was repeated several times all over
the past 5 years!!

Dream title: Zombies in the Mausoleum
Dream date: 11/7/05
Dreamer name: dsmivjade
Dream: In this dream, I was in a mausoleum or funeral home with a friend
whom was visiting a dead relative. I remember it being dark, in other areas
there were beams of moonlight lighting areas from a glassy ceiling directly
above us. I remember vaguely my friend pointing out a bunch of coffins lying
around just outside the crypts open spaces. The coffins were very visible in
the exposed areas of the moonlight. I thought it was quite strange because
my first thought someone had stolen the corpses for some practical joke.
Then my friend pointed to a huge cargo elevator and said he was going to go
in and check it out to see if it was still operational. I heard a slight
bumping sound coming from inside. Suddenly I was overcome with stark terror,
it was too late he had already gone in and was actually pulled in and then
he screamed and then silence. It suddenly started to get darker so I turned
around and saw people shambling and running in my direction. One guy I could
make out was running after me with his eyes closed. I saw him and a hundred
or more behind him. They made no noise it was just flat and fast.
Dream comments: I woke up before I could experience the inevitable.

Dream title: Symbolic Confusion
Dream date: 11/4/05
Dreamer name: Gemini
Dream: There is a panther (my favorite animal) with an Egyptian crown around
its head that has a cobra (my Chinese horoscope) around its head. They are
looking into a mirror and the reflection is me. The panther has a sad face
and the cobra is angry. In between the panther’s chest is the sign of a
Gemini (my horoscope) that is burning on fire.
Dream comments: I woke up crying yet in a vengeful mood.

Dream title: Massive Colors
Dream date: 09/09/2001
Dreamer name: poohbr
Dream: I had a dream of massive ball of colors. It was huge and full of
every emotion you could think of. There were no dark colors at all just the
most beautiful colors you will ever see during the wake hours. When I tried
to look away my face was gently turned back to the middle of the massive
ball of colors and I could not look away. I can still see the colors and
fell the emotions. The emotions ran wildly in my dream. The colors just got
brighter and brighter. I felt very safe in my dream and that I wanted to go
into the Massive ball of colors.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Recurring dream about Mick
Dream date: Twice a month
Dreamer name: LA
Dream text: I have a recurring dream that I am visiting Ireland (where my
husband is buried) and discover that he is alive. (He had been ill for the
last five years of his life with AIDS. I was lucky and never contracted the
disease).  In my dream I find him alive, with AIDS but surviving and staying
well. He seems reluctant about me seeing him again and I can't understand
why he never contacted me. I very much want to be back in his life but he is
very hesitant. He doesn't tell me to go -- but he doesn't ask me to stay
either.
Dream comments: Mick's death occurred 10 years ago. We had a rocky
relationship in the very beginning of dating but by the time we were married
we were very comfortable with one another. I met someone 2 years after his
death -- we did not marry but I had a child with him. The relationship
didn't last (my choice to end it). My daughter is now 7.  I am currently in
another relationship with another very nice man but I am not quite sure if
this is a forever deal either.



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Volume #12     Issue #10

October  2005

ISSN# 1089 4284

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes
      Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
       Harry Bosma

++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part Two:
            Validation and Practicality
            Linda Magallon
            Editor, Lucy Gillis

++ Column: The View From the Bridge
            September Snapshots
            Jean Campbell

++ Dream:  "Porpoise People"
             Stan Kulikowski II

++ Special Section : Nightmare Resources

++ Article: Becoming Nightmare, the Rhizomatics of Dreaming
             Richard Wilkerson

++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from September, 2005
                   Host Kat Peters-Midland

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  Editor's Notes

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Welcome to the October 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.

If you are new to dreams and dreamwork,  there are a few e-lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/

.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and
dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

  The 2005 PsiberDreaming Conference was a great success this year, thanks to
Host Ed Kellogg, PhD and the many contributors and participants. From the
mathematics of non-sensual perception to ethics of psi dreaming to using
lucid dreaming for healing and art, this extreme dreaming group pushed the
edges of practice and theory to create one of the best PDConferences to
date.  Fortunately for those who missed, you can still discuss these topics
on the IASD bulletin board.  www.asdreams.org

Special Nightmare Issue.

Along with all the regulars, I also re-run some of the past article on
nightmares in preparation of Halloween.   For those who can't sleep because
they are having nightmares, try the Nightmare Hotline: 1-866-DRMS911

This month in Electric Dreams:

Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis offer ED readers an excerpt from her
Lucid Dream Exchange, this month an article from Linda Lane Magallón is the
author of Mutual Dreaming. Linda explores the status of a reoccurring
personality/character in her dreams and how she and others connected through
this personality. Be sure to read "Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part
Two: Validation and Practicality."


Jean Campbell updates us their latest projects of peace and connection to
people around the world. From the devistations of war and weather to the
hopeful peace rallies, she will connect you directly to the projects on the
World Dreams Peace Bridge and the soul of the world. Find out what is
happening and how you can join the Bridge in"The View."

Stan Kulikowski II is here this month with a dream selection uniquely
recorded in his own dream narrative style called "Porpoise People."

Our NIGHTMARE area (Halloween tradition at ED) has some resources for
beginners, and challenges for advanced dreamers. Besides the basics,  I'm
including a re-run of  "Becoming Nightmare, the Rhizomatics of Dreaming."
This is NOT for beginners, but a YOU MUST BE THIS HIGH to RIDE type of
article that looks into the possibility of actually conjuring nightmares as
part of a larger Transgressive Dreamwork project.  Booo!


Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues  are online in an
easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information
for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view
hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm

Harry Bosma searches  around the world for news on dreams and dreaming,
which you can read about in  the Global Dreaming News.  If you have any
dream news, conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online
meetings or events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of
each month at ed-news@...

Stabbing someone repeatedly and chopping them up in little pieces, flying in
a car, having a baby, and making love with the devil….some fascinating
dreams in our latest Dreams section of Electric Dreams!   From Kat
Peters-Midland.

Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com
(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)

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For those of you who are new  to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:

http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com

Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/

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From Planet Dream,

-Richard Wilkerson




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

October 2005

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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email 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

October 2005


If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma at his
special ed-news@... address.


Online:
- International guide to lucid dreaming
- Intuitive Gateways website
- Podcast about dreams
- Dream Art Journaling Workshop

Physical world:
- San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming
- Oakland and Berkeley: Yoga and Dreams
- Savannah, GA: Brian MacGregor's dream art
- Berkeley: The Dream Institute
- New York City: Montague Ullman

Books, movies, research:
- Working the Nightshift
- Request for Dreams Involving Animals and Insects

Recurring events:
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- Auction at Dreambay.org



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- International guide to lucid dreaming
---

Russell from the Lucid Crossroads website has taken the initiative to create
an international guide to lucid dreaming. The guide is already available in
many languages.

The guide has been designed to make translations as easy as possible.
Russell would like to translate the guide in as many languages as possible.
Perhaps you can help him out.

International guide: http://lucid.atspace.com
Crossroads: www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk


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- Intuitive Gateways website
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I work with dreams using a method developed by Jungian Analyst Robert
Bosnak. I am also a writer and the site offers mentoring in dreamwork or
writing. I have several articles on the site.

www.intuitivegateways.com

Deborah DeNicola


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- Podcast about dreams
---

My Podcast is a half-hour format show in which I interview interesting
people in and around the world of psychology. I have already interviewed 2
dreamworkers.

What is a podcast you ask? Well, it is an outgrowth of blogging. First,
there was blogging, then there were audio blogs as people figured out they
could attach sound files to their blogs. Now there is podcasting. Something
called RSS (don't worry about the technicalities) allows you to "subscribe"
to podcasts so that your computer is automatically updated with the latest
episode of whatever podcasts you are subscribed to. If you have the latest
version of iTunes, for example, you can go to the music store (podcasts are
free), click on the podcast button at the left, do a search on Shrink Rap
Radio, and my show will come up and you can then subscribe and each week you
will get the latest half-hour episode of my podcast, Shrink Rap Radio.
Another way to think of podcasting is Tivo for your radio. You get to listen
to the content you are interested in, commercial free, when you want to
listen to it. Most people are listening to podcasts using an mp3 player,
like the iPod, in their car, while working out, or on the airplane.

By the way, you don't have to use iTunes. You can listen to the show right
on the website using the streaming audio by clicking on Listen Now. And,in
terms of subscribing, in addition to iTunes, there are other "podcatchers"
or RSS news aggregators for Mac and Windows, alike that can be used. You can
find one with a Google search. The fact that iTunes added the podcasting
feature to iTunes was another brilliant move on Steve Job's part which
should further strengthen the iPod franchise.
David
www.shrinkrapradio.com
shrink@...


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- Dream Art Journaling Workshop
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I would like to have another group begin the journey the first week of
November 2005. In order for it to be really fun, it works best with 5 or
more participants interacting in the program.

Basically the Dream Art Journaling workshop works like this:
1) You will receive in the mail a "art care package" filled with goodies and
tools to use, and the workbook that is used in conjunction with the online
portion. The interaction of the participants has an online component, so you
you will need access to the internet.
2) Support material and threaded discussions on the "dream goals" are
conducted via a free Yahoo Group.
3) We do not go as far as digital media. The art part of the workshop is
pen, paper, and other basic mediums, etc.
4) Previous participants might join the group as "dream art mentors".

Most importantly ... the workshop is especially designed for "non-artists"
or anyone who wishes to connect artistically with dream imagery. To those
who are interested, please email me and I will supply the weblink again as
soon as it becomes available, and provide detailed information.

>From the instructor standpoint, I was simply amazed at how quickly the
dreamers connected with their dreams, and began to produce beautiful works
of art.

Sincerely, Laura A.

ArtThatGlows@...
My website is www.arthatglows.com (when the website server is back up and
running)




* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *

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- San Francisco: The Practice of Active Dreaming
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A 4 Week Class in San Francisco

I am offering a 4 week class on dreaming based on the work of Robert Moss
(www.mossdreams.com). It's exciting work and I am inspired to share it with
others.

If you know anyone who might be interested, I'd greatly appreciate it if you
passed this flyer on. The class starts on September 29.

Thank you so much for your support.

Blessings & sweet dreams,
Elizabeth Lombardo
elizabeth_lombardo@...


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- Oakland and Berkeley: Yoga and Dreams
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My first yoga-dream course was quite remarkable. Using some exciting new
techniques, we look at your body and what your dreams have to say about it.
Your dreams are actually making a running commentary on your body -- how you
are using it, what it needs, where it is hurting. Once you start to see
these references, a whole new dimension of dream work opens up.

We initiated this 4 week course in consultation with Judith Hanson Lasater,
as yoga consultant. Two yoga teachers and three serious yoga practitioners
spent a month looking at how their dreams connected with their body and
their practice. They uncovered a remarkably different perspective on their
yoga - sometimes confirming and sometimes suggesting quite new approaches.
As an added benefit, they also acquired basic tools for working on their own
dreams. You can read some of their feedback below.

The time for the group meeting is somewhat flexible, depending on the needs
of participants.

Please call -- (510) 644 2369 -- or e-mail me -- davidj@... --
with any questions or to let me know you wish to participate. You can also
read a course description at
http://dreamreplay.com/yogacoursedescription.htm .

Namaste,

David Jenkins, Ph.D.


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- Savannah, GA: Brian MacGregor's dream art
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Brian MacGregor's art work will be shown at A.T. Hun Art Gallerie's Annual
Show, the costume party and show will be Friday and Saturday Oct. 21 & 22.
All day and night at 302 City Market Savannah, GA.

MacGregor's work is also on display at Jazz'd, Bistro of Savannah, in April
at The Mansion on Forsyth Park, and he has a six page article featured in
SAVANNAH MAGAZINE'S November issue.

www.brian-macgregor.com


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- Berkeley: The Dream Institute
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Events sponsored by
The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767


- Deepening Your Dreaming: Integral & Shamanic Approaches -

October 14-16
Four Springs Retreat Center, Middletown California

This retreat demonstrates the potential of dreams as a source for personal
growth, problem-solving, and creativity. Participants will learn about
extraordinary dreams, lucid dreams, mutual dreaming, and dreams of the
deceased. In her shamanic approach in dream work, Dr. Bogzaran will lead the
group through various practices with dream re-entry with a drum, dream
incubation, poetic/automatic writing, and personal mythology.

$385 includes workshop registration, cabin or lodge room, and meals. Send
$100 deposit to hold a space.

Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D. Associate professor and founder of the Dream Studies
Program, JFK University; co-author, Extraordinary Dreams; Director, Lucid
Art Foundation. Besides her extensive background in teaching and research in
dreams, lucid dreaming and art, she is also trained in shamanism, East-West
philosophy, somatic psychology and has been a practitioner of Taoist
energetic systems and Ta'i Chi Ch'uan for over twenty years.

For more information contact bogzaran@...


- Dreams within the Dyad -

Oct 28 & Nov 11 2005
3-6 PM
$75
6 CEU
Meredith Sabini, PhD

Dreams that refer to the therapist, the client, and the therapy provide
especially valuable information and insight. Examples from clinical
literature and practice will illustrate.


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- New York City: Montague Ullman
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"DREAMING AS A NATURAL HEALING SYSTEM," WITH MONTAGUE ULLMAN

** Download Flyer in PDF format at - http://asdreams.org/2005ullman/ - **

Montague Ullman, M.D., is one of the best-known names in the field of
dreamwork. For three decades, Dr. Ullman has devoted himself to extending
dreamwork beyond the consulting room, out into the community, where ordinary
people can help each other understand their dreams.

Dreams are intensely private, intrapsychic communications, Dr. Ullman
teaches. They focus on unresolved issues from our past, and in doing so
repair our connection to others; dreams require socialization to deliver
their message to the fullest. The Ullman Method of dream-sharing is a
powerful structure within which group members both help and benefit, while
the dreamer remains the final authority on the dream's meaning. The four
stages of the Ullman Method are sequenced to provide the dreamer with a
sense of safety so the dreamer may "spark across the metaphoric gap between
dream image and waking reality."

Dr. Ullman's career spanned an early period in the practice of neurology,
psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, followed by a transition to community
psychiatry. In the 1960s, he was director of the psychiatry department at
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he also founded one of New
York's first sleep laboratories and conducted groundbreaking experiments in
dream telepathy. He is clinical professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. A Web site of Dr. Ullman's writings is
maintained at http://siivola.org/monte/ .

Thursday, November 10, 2005 "" 6:30 refreshments, 7 p.m. program
The Community Church (downstairs meeting room)
40 East 35th Street (between Madison and Park avenues), Manhattan
$25 suggested admission, pre-registration encouraged "" (212) 741-2207




* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Working the Nightshift
---

News of a book I've just had published. Full title: "Working the Nightshift,
How To Understand Your Dreams" Trafford Publishing (2005) ISBN 1 4120 5546 6
May be of more interest to those who are still exploring different ways of
analysing their dreams as it includes 10 analysis techniques. You can check
it out (and make a secure purchase) on my website www.docdreamuk.com or
order direct from www.trafford.com

Jo Harthan


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- Request for Dreams Involving Animals and Insects
---

The dream animals seem to have struck a cord of connection in many of us, so
I am continuing my research of dream animals and insects and need your help.
Any dreams where they are present are of interest.

At this critical time in our environment, I think dream animals may be an
important source of information we are overlooking. If you are interested in
participating in this research and have a dream to share, please go to my
website at www.graygoosedreams.com . It is not fully operational yet but you
can go to the "about us" page and then to the dream survey page where you
can input your dream.

Thank you for any dream you care to share.

Bitsy Broughton




* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * *

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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a
monthly DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.

In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace
within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal
level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and
supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please
join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to
dream towards the mandala of peace.

If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used
within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of
peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World
Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .


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- Auction at dreambay.org
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The IASD online auction has its own website - Dreambay.org! Every month it
has new items to bid on, and opportunities to donate your books, services
etc to support the IASD!

http://Dreambay.org

If you have any questions or would like to donate an item to the auction,
you may contact Kat Peters-Midland at IASDauction@... .

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange

By Lucy Gillis

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis

Back in May, Linda Lane Magallón tackled the subject of dream characters in
part one of her four part series. Are dream characters real people? Do they
have a will, or a consciousness of their own? Are they all the same, or
could some be lifeless projections? Join Linda as she takes us on a journey
through her own thoughts and intriguing dreams. You may not look at your
dream characters in quite the same way again!



Dream Characters and Reality Checks Part Two:
Validation and Practicality
(c) 2005 Linda Lane Magallón

Water is quickly filling the glass stall in which I am standing. Higher and
higher the water level rises as I stretch desperately to keep my head above.

As it reaches my neck, I begin gasping for air.

Suddenly, a black woman clothed in a black shirt and pants appears next to
the shower door. She puts her shoulder to the thick white bathroom wall and
gives a mighty shove, breaking a huge, jagged hole. Through the hole is an
upper story view of a city plaza. The woman swings open the shower door,
grabs me by the arm, and slings me across her shoulder. She leaps through
the hole into the air. Looking down from her back, I can see we're far above
street level. "You're flying, we're flying!" I exclaim in amazement.

This is the beginning of my breakthrough dream, my first lucid dream. It
started as a nightmare, as usual. Up to this point, I'd remembered only
nightmares and anxiety dreams; it never occurred to me that a dream could be
any different. To have it suddenly change because a dream character rescued
me, then took me flying through the sky? Talk about astounding.

Nightmare Resolution

The resolution of nightmares: this was the first practical reason to pay
special attention to my dream character, Willie. Soon after the first dream
of her, I had a second.

I am on the rear porch of an old-fashioned frame "farm" house. In the
distance are hills and barnlike buildings. Willette and a dark male stranger
come up to the porch with a wooden pushcart. She asks me for refuse, like
what she has on her cart: lettuce leaves, vegetable peelings, etc. I give
her my leftovers.

When I woke up it seemed that Willie had been asking me for my fears, guilts
and problems. I spent the rest of the early morning hours "giving away" all
my anxieties. I felt grateful that someone else was willing to shoulder my
burdens. My dream theme was very like Sigmund Freud's theory of "day
residue" which posits that dreams are the product of troubling daytime
events that haven't been resolved prior to sleep. Garbage in, garbage out.

It's now quite common among the lucid dreamers to suggest that you become
lucid in order to resolve your nightmares. I certainly have taken advantage
of that advice, with good results. But such a solution only works if you
become aware as you dream. What if you are so deeply entranced by sleep that
lucidity is light years away? The deep unconscious is where most of my
slumber takes place. Was it my good fortune to have an in-dream companion to
haul away the refuse of non-lucid dreams? It would have been nice to lay
back and let Willie take care of me.

But that's not what the dream was about, although I didn't realize it until
years later. I now believe it was implying that I clean up my act before I
go to sleep: to set aside day residue and make the way clear for the
production of positive dreams, uplifting dreams, lucid dreams. In other
words, to put after-the-dream work out of business in favor of
before-the-dream work. Isn't it wiser to stop a problem before it starts?
And suppose you don't have a problem to process? Do you stop dreaming?

The Play Back Game

Besides "day residue," the psychoanalytical field has also contributed an
idea called "Doctrinal Compliance." This is the observation that whatever
dream context you take to heart, well, that's the sort of dreams your
sleeping mind will produce. Freudians will dream Freudian dreams; Jungians
will dream Jungian dreams; Sethians, Buddhists and hip-hop artists will
dream dreams that reflect their outer and inner environment. None of these
dreams are "proof" of any particular dream theory; they are just your psyche
playing in whatever sandbox of the mind you happen to occupy during the day.

Initially, I had doctrinal dreams that were knee-jerk reactions to whatever
book I happened to be reading. But as time went on, I realized that, instead
of complying with other people's dream ideas, my dreaming psyche was
commenting on them, describing true emotional reaction, not slavish
devotion. I call this the "play back game."

Consider the Jungian idea that a black woman is an African divinity like
Oya, a black madonna like Sophia or a dark version of Persephone/Innana who
traveled to the underground. Put the images together and they spell "earth
goddess." Oh, really? I never knew an earth goddess who could thumb her nose
at Icarus and take to the sky.

Or consider the time I asked for a dream about that archetype the Jungians
call the "animus." Although the animus is defined as the unconscious male
element in a female's psyche, I didn't get any males at all. I dreamt of
four dancing females.

Four of women go up on a stage and stand in a row. The two Caucasian women
step out in front (I'm one of them). Two Black women (Willie and one other),
line up directly behind them. All four of us are wearing tap shoes, straw
hats and canes. In unison, we begin tap dancing to a tune. As I wake, I
recognize it. The name of the song is..."Me and My Shadow." I start
laughing.

The shadow is supposed to be the unacceptable or unknown aspects of the
personality. In dreams the shadow appears as someone evil, immature,
troubled, conflicted, deformed, insane, sick or otherwise handicapped. It's
a person of the same sex, similar but inferior to the dreamer. Did this fit
Willie? In my first dream, she had felt superior. But as her dreams
continued to multiply, I discovered she wasn't always. A couple of times, I
had to go rescue her. And sometimes we flew, together, to rescue other
people. I also dreamt that she and I were comparing balance sheets, trying
to see that they came out equal. So, not inferior, not superior. An
egalitarian and reciprocal relationship. Where's the archetype for that?

Exploration of Altered States

I doubt I would have spent so much time practicing shifts into altered
states, if I weren't so curious about Willie. Not only did I teach myself to
go lucid in the depths of slumber, I learned to hold onto consciousness on
the way into and out of sleep. In doing so, I came to understand that, while
consciousness is a spectrum, there are discrete states, each with unique
properties. There were definite shifts between waking and sleeping. I had no
electronic equipment to gauge the changes. But I had Willie.

Take hypnogogia, for instance. While watching pictures flash on my inner
screen, I'd sometimes get quick glimpses of her. I'd ask a question and see
her move, pick up an object, gesture or grin. If I pictured her in the
waking state, then moved into sleep, her image would suddenly disappear and
I'd know that I had entered dreaming. Conversely, if I imagined another
person who suddenly switched to Willie, I knew I had fallen asleep.

Chimeras and Creativity

Nightsun golden glowing nickel
Neither malleable nor fickle
Willfulness

Winter wonder, fix'ed mark
Centered in the piercing dark
Of questing capsulated heart

Shaped at sunset, amber sight
Ebony encircled light
Bondageless
("Nickelsun," 12/14/83)

Depending on which version of Willie's existence I might consider to be
true, I was motivated to continue the search for her essence by the promise
of riches at the end of the rainbow. I might find knowledge about myself, or
perhaps the secrets of the universe. Most of these promises would turn out
to be chimeras, but a few proved worth their salt. As I've stated,
resolution of nightmares, commentary on new ideas and illumination of
altered states were true benefits from Willie dreams.

But since I was doing reality checks, I had to admit that all was not
equally worthwhile. Some dreams seemed very random and pointless, such as
when Willie handed me a rat and a vegetable or when she pointed to a
computer screen and asked, "Where is number seven?" Often she didn't even
get that close to me. I'd see her at a distance: seated, standing, in
silhouette or walking away. She acted like a spy and had a "scary closet."
Once, a man even came to warn me about her. Willie was not a good guide to
health of body, mind or spirit. I had several Willie dreams involving money
that never came true. In fact, I received no verifiable information about
physical reality from her.

But there was one bright star in the waking state. Because of her, I
experienced a Renaissance in creativity. Even though I'd received an English
award in high school, I hadn't done any writing in decades. Recording dreams
was my first step back. Automatic writing, poetry and newsletter articles
soon followed. I'd never had any coursework in drawing human anatomy, but
that didn't stop me from trying to sketch Willie. My musical talent was
minimal, but after I dreamt that I was playing piano, I managed to capture
the tune and record it using musical notation. "Play something simple,"
Willie had told me in that dream. So I did.

Communal Willie

Early on, I realized that Willie was going to be a sociable dream character,
which meant I became more social, too. There were some interesting
synchronicities along the way. For instance, when I read Rick Stack's book,
Out-of-Body Adventures, I was flabbergasted to discover that one of his
dreams, about a singing performance with a huge audience, was so similar to
one of my Willie dreams, it was creepy.

My interest in psi lead me to facilitate mutual dreaming projects and dream
telepathy experiments with other people. During several, Willie
guest-starred in my dreams. At first, I said nothing about her, just wrote
down "Willie" as casually as if I were mentioning the name of a character
based on a waking state counterpart. I was hoping that someone would pick up
on her telepathically.

When this didn't happen, I decided to tell my dreamworkers group about her.
In response, Melinda Nelson suggested, "Why don't we try to dream about
Willie?" The suggestion both surprised and delighted me. Since I wasn't
having much luck in contacting her in the lucid state, maybe somebody else
would. Purposely, I did not share any particulars about her appearance or
personality characteristics beyond her race and sex, but I did reveal her
full name: Willette Nicholson. That very night Melinda reported the
following dream:

Before sleep, I repeat the induction phrase, "Willie Nicholson" over and
over, focusing my attention on hooking up to this being who has emerged with
such clarity in Linda's waking and dream states. As I internally feel a
bodily sensed "click" - a linkage, I drift off to sleep. Immediately the
face and upper torso of a young Black woman looms overhead, as if looking
down on me, the dreamer, a few feet over my sleeping body. She leans
forward, as if to peer into my space, smiling and waving. She is an
attractive, sophisticated woman in her mid to late 30's. She is slim, with a
worldly way about her, a sparkling smile, and a knowing glint in her eyes.
Her hair is pulled back with a kind of saucy topknot, perched on an angle on
the right side of her head. It juts out in a sophisticated version of a
"punk" style. Her energy is focused, and lighthearted. She obviously sees
me, gets a kick out of waving to me, and seems to want me to recognize and
receive the connection in a spirit of playfulness.

An accomplished artist, Melinda had soon sketched her vision. She entitled
it, like her dream, "Willie Nicholson Drops In" and presented it to me at
our next get-together. I was thrilled to receive such a precious gift. At
home, I photocopied two pictures I'd previously clipped from some magazines,
as the closest representation I could find of my idea of Willie, and sent
them to Melinda. She quickly wrote back:

"I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw the comparison of the drawing to
the photo clippings. Every time I look at them my jaw goes into automatic
"hang open". The similarity to both my dream and the drawing is eerie."

I picture Willie with an Afro hairstyle, so the topknot that Melinda drew
seemed totally out of sync. Eventually, two other folks would dream up
Willie with a ponytail. But the rest of her perception was right on. Clear,
straightforward, slender, intelligent, with just a hint of humor and
wise-ass sassiness. Yep, that's how I imagined Willie.

A few months later I attended an Austin Seth Conference. One night I had the
opportunity to do one-on-one dreamwork with some of the conference
attendees. A woman came and sat down with me. As she shared her dream, part
of me was listening to it and chuckling over the similarities with my own
career path and with the symbols in my current life. But another part of me
was trying hard not to stare at the woman. She was Black, and while she had
no topknot, her hair was brushed back and to one side, as in Melinda's
picture. It was her bright, wide-open, honest eyes that struck me so
forcibly. Her nametag read "Charlotte Nelson". The names whirled and echoed
through my head splitting and recombining in multiple permutations:
Willette, Charlotte...Linda, Melinda... Nicholson, Nelson...

Another dreamer was waiting her turn, so I decided to delay further
conversation with Charlotte. The next night would be a party that was the
conference finale, and I was planning to come in costume as Willie. Using a
photocopy of Melinda's drawing, I had created a hand-held mask. I could show
it to Charlotte then. Somehow or other, though, we just didn't connect with
each other during the party. The morning of the following day, I overheard
Charlotte say she was going to leave in an hour. "It's now or never, kiddo!"

I admonished myself.

"There's someone I'd like you to meet," I began. Charlotte responded by
suggesting we go upstairs to her room so she could finish packing. We
entered and rode the ascending elevator as I gave a brief synopsis of
Willie's story. When we reached her room, Charlotte put her key in the lock,
then paused and asked, "What did you say the name of your dream character
was?"

"Willette Nicholson," I replied.

Charlotte looked at me. Her face took on a funny smile. "You know," she said
slowly and distinctly, "when I was a girl, I used to have an imaginary
playmate named Nichole. And I think her last name was Wilson. Yes, that's
right, Nichole Wilson."

Nichole Wilson!

Contact

Finally, about a month later, I again made face-to-face contact with Willie,
in a lucid dream:

I am gazing down a narrow hall filled with women, who all seem to be
variations on a theme: Caucasian with dark hair. Being lucid, I decide to
take advantage of the situation. Gathering my energies with determination, I
let loose a bellow that penetrates to the depths of the corridor.
"WILLIE!!!" One of the women winces because she was directly in line with my
vocal blast. There is a distant response: "Coming..."

Suddenly she's there - Willie's there - her face directly in front of me,
looking me straight in the eye! The first words out of her mouth are: "Well,
it's been a long time since we've seen each other."

I stare in astonishment. I can't believe she's finally here! She continues
to talk rapidly as I watch her look one way and then the other. I note her
hairstyle is at first a frizzy medium-length bouffant with the bangs brushed
to one side but still sticking out above her forehead. Her Anglo-American
features metamorphose, becoming lighter except for her dark brown eyes. Her
hair changes to a smooth Caucasian light brown, but still in a mid-length
style. She reaches over to hug me. This is awkward because I am seated as if
in bed. We shift position slightly so my head is resting on her right
shoulder. As we squeeze each other, I ask in wonder, "Are you who I think
you are?"

She replies, "Oh, about ten percent."


WILLIE THROUGHOUT THE LUCID FREQUENCIES OF DREAM

Besides regular dreams, I had a lot of Willie dreams on the borderlands of
sleep: hypnogogia and hypnopompia, mental and aural states of consciousness,
initial awakenings, plus astral projection and out-of-body experiences. I
never knew where she would show up.

A mental impression dream has no imagery to speak of. It's a case of
dreaming in the dark. I can become aware of cognitive process or have a
sense of what can't be translated into a visual picture. This was basically
a mental impression dream, although I did get a brief glimpse of Willie.

Willie moves from theory into practice, like transferring from one computer
file into another.

During the dark period before the dream scene appears, I can sometimes hear
voices. The statements are quickly spoken and just as rapidly forgotten,
unless I make a special effort to retrieve them. A couple of times, I
actually got a short conversation going between my voice and another's.

I ask, "Willie, are you aware of me?" and hear, "Linda, I am aware of you."

When spontaneous images do appear on the borderlands, their duration tends
to be quite brief.

Willie is furtively carrying a package or carton like Pandora's Box down a
dark hallway. When she becomes aware I am behind her, she rotates to look at
me. "Let's turn it all to good!" I think/say of her mixed bag of blessings.
She grins in agreement.

Several times, my consciousness moved from waking hypnogogia right into the
dream state.

In hypnogogia, I remember the "Magic Journeys" movie I saw at Disneyworld. I
picture the scene of a boy flying over a ski slope. As I enter the dream, I
find myself flying with Willie on my left. Hand in hand we fly down, around,
and back the way we came.  We are seen by the skiers below us who shout
exclamations into the air.

The term "initial awakening" was coined by dreamworker Linda Reneau. It's
the lucid equivalent of a false awakening. When I am aware this altered
state is not waking reality, I can go along with the story willingly. The
initial awakening state is the launching pad for the conscious out-of-body
experience in the dream state.

I become aware of movement at the tips of my fingers and that I am sleeping
on my front.  It seems as though there is a moth under the covers at my left
fingertips. It also feels as if my arm is flung over Willie. If she's not
disturbed by the moth, neither will I be. I begin to have floating
sensations.

Now I realize I am in the initial awakening state, so I try to push up out
of my body. As I do, I hear a slight bubbling sound, which increases
somewhat as I push. "You can do it kid," I admonish myself, "You can do it!"

Realizing that I'm not getting anywhere this way and fearful that I'll fully
wake, I decide to "back off" a bit. I stop pushing forward and seem to
change direction to the back right. I allow myself to reexperience the
floating sensation and let the picture cease. It seems as though I rise back
and to the right about 5-6 feet above my bed. I will to open my "astral"
eyes to see where I am. But - oops - I open my physical eyes and see the
fern pattern on my pillow.

I quickly close my eyes again and will myself back into the same conscious
feeling state. This time I succeed in rising, again to the right and back,
while viewing most of the trip. There is much color. I rise up, past the
sewing machine, over the aisle and dresser.  I am aware of distortions in
the environment. For example, there are two windows on my right, instead of
one. As I arrive at the top of the room, I turn over on my back to look at
the ceiling. It's of acoustical spray and has a mid-beam, just as in
physical reality. The view starts spinning. I decide I don't like this angle
so I turn so that I am standing up in the air. I spread my arms and start
turning around. After two revolutions, I call out the name of a dreamworker
in an attempt to go where she is. The effort nearly wakes me. I let the view
mist.

Next, I am aware of looking at a Black woman with an Afro dressed in a
brilliant yellow sleeveless top and pants. I wonder, "Is this Willie?" and
we seem to move closer. As this happens, her features change: the nose
elongates, the cheekbones become flatter. Then I find myself looking at a
red-haired young man in an elevator with green rippled wallpaper. He
disappears and the background starts spinning like a pinwheel.

After I wake,  my daughter Teresa comes into my bedroom and reports her
first out-of-body experience.

And, of course, there's the full-on lucid dream.

I call for Willie and walk into a room where a woman is seated at a table,
her back to me. As I round the table, she smiles, her eyes following me. But
when I address her, I get no response. Her hair is close-cropped and curly,
but her tan is very light. Her spacey attitude and appearance lead me to
conclude that this isn't Willie, or at least not the vibrant Willie that I'm
looking for.

Next in the Series - Create Your Own Character: Incubation and Fantasy

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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
September Snapshots
October 2, 2005
Jean Campbell

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What can one possibly say about a month which began with the largest
hurricane ever seen on earth, and ended with the largest worldwide
demonstrations for Peace since the beginning of the war in Iraq?  It would
be foolish to say that I have captured even a fraction of the events of
September, but I can at least speak about the events which have deeply
affected members of The World Dreams Peace Bridge...and there have been
many.

Hurricane Relief

When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States,
The World Dreams Peace Bridge responded immediately with a People to People
Hurricane Relief effort.  Although no members of the Bridge lived in areas
hit by the devastation, several members lived in areas to which hurricane
refugees were being evacuated.  And most of them were working directly with
people affected by the hurricane.

So not only were we collecting funds for hurricane relief (You can learn
more about this ongoing effort by going to our Hurricane Relief page at
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/hurricane.htm), but members of the
Peace Bridge discussion group were talking about Katrina, asking the
questions which were being echoed around the world: Why did the U.S. at
first turn away assistance from people in other countries?  It reminded her
of when the Russians refused help in raising their submarine, Kathy said
from Australia.  And why, once they had finally allowed some "foreign" aid,
did they insult the other countries by destroying the goods, calling them
unfit for human consumption?

Why, when it came to hurricane relief, Ilkin asked from Turkey, did the
Peace Bridge create a special fund, when huge destruction was being created
by Mother Nature in other parts of the world?  One example she sent comes
from India, where a cyclone on September 22 brought enormous destruction.
Here is only a part of the news report:

Powerful storms in the Bay of Bengal have left a trail of destruction across
India and Bangladesh killing at least 64 people and forcing hundreds of
thousands to flee their homes.

The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh bore the brunt of the storms,
which killed 58 people in the region, said provincial Chief Minister
Rajasekhara Reddy.  Six more people have died in storm-hit Orissa state
which adjoins Andhra Pradesh.  "The situation is very grim and so far we
have evacuated 150,000 displaced people to 473 (emergency) relief camps in
10 of the 23 districts hit by the storms," Mr Reddy said in the state
capital of Hyderabad.

Mr Reddy said 9,747 houses were completely destroyed by the storms and
another 82,353 homes partially submerged in the coastal districts....

The airport in the port city of Vishakapatnam was closed for the third
straight day Wednesday, the air force said, adding that military helicopters
were evacuating marooned people.

In Orissa the administration evacuated 12,000 people from low-lying areas in
10 of the state's 30 districts, said revenue secretary Tarunkanti Mishra....

Storms and cyclones which form over the Bay of Bengal in September and
October every year kill hundreds and destroy cattle and crops in India's
eastern states and in Bangladesh.

Questions and responses flew around the Bridge.

And meanwhile, people from the United States, and many other areas
represented by the Peace Bridge sent donations so that hurricane victims
could be helped.  In Austin, Liz bought school clothes and underclothing for
children who would start school with nothing but what was given to them; in
Virginia Beach Stephen collected stuff toys to be sent to Valley in Dallas;
Janice and her friends collected a truck full of essentials to be sent to
families in Mississippi, and May advocated for the animals who were left
behind in the rising flood waters.

One example of the generosity of the friends of the Peace Bridge comes from
Cincinnati, where one family arrived with nothing but the clothes they wore
and an air mattress.

Bill, (Peace Bridge member Jody wrote to the man collecting items for this
family)

I can gather some things this afternoon too and I have $100 given me from my
friend Jean's sister (from the Peace Bridge) that may help. I'll put in a
call again on the car seats, need to know the weight of the kids.

I also have my grandson Simon's little blue bed which should work for the
three year old.

Jody

Altogether several hundred dollars have been collected and distributed in
hurricane relief.

===+++ Dreams and Hurricanes +++===

Another hurricane-related incident came at the end of the month, which a
second hurricane, Rita, threatened the Gulf Coast.  This one involved both
dreams and the storm.

As Rita moved through the Gulf of Mexico during the week of September 21st,
it appeared that she might create a repeat performance of Katrina, hitting
exactly the same area with another huge storm.  The IASD PsiberDreaming
Online Conference began that week, so I suggested that as an experiment,
people might try to dream down the winds of Hurricane Rita.  The invitation
was sent across the Internet, to people on the Bridge (many of whom were
participating in the conference), to several IASD study groups, and to
various other online dream groups.

There was a lot of conversation about this experiment, questions about
whether we had any right to interfere, either awake or asleep, with God or
Mother Nature.  Some people felt all right with the idea of creating an
energy wall for the hurricane to bounce against.  Some felt all right to try
to hush the storm.

Three days after Rita had blown herself out to a Category Two storm, still
significant but much less destructive than Katrina's Category Five, one of
the people who participated in the experiment, Roger, had this to say:

Hurricane Dream news from New Mexico,

Jean, to catch you up, I went to lead a small workshop/dream group up in a
small community up in northern New Mexico this past Saturday....

At the end of the group, and everyone had shared their thoughts and such, It
was obvious to me this group was ready to do something more for "homework."
I asked them if they would join in on the Hurricane Relief Dream Project.
They were interested, but decided they didn't feel comfortable to stop
Mother Nature, but chose to spread the wealth, ie, make it easier for them
to handle. This by spreading the storm to other areas that need the
moisture, ie, northern New Mexico. It has been raining here for two days
straight all over northern New Mexico, Taos, Santa Fe, Espanola,
Albuquerque, and I am not sure how far it is going, but dream on, its a
prayer of its own.

The Middle of the Month

Of course, by the time that the monthly DaFuMu Dreaming for Peace arrived in
the middle of September, things on the Bridge, as in the rest of the world,
were completely stirred up.  We had been dreaming of water, water for the
world, and water arrived by the bucketful.  Should we slow down?  Should we
revise our dreams?

In response to Olivia's DaFuMu dream for September, Kathy replied in a way
that defined the boundaries of group dreaming, peace dreaming, for all of
us.

"IF I were to think of your dream as a dream about peace," Kathy wrote to
Olivia, "I think it is about the need to see the world and our actions in it
as REAL - to focus on what we do and on what the consequences are, for if we
don't we will end up hanging ourselves.     Especially - imagine if we were
to treat fighting with seriousness - if we didn't think of it like a movie
with no consequences - then I think we'd have peace much much more often.
BUT if we continue to treat fighting as a movie then we harm/kill ourselves
(just like that little boy did).  No wonder Mark said he "hung" him.   Mark
seems like FATE.  That is our FATE if we behave like that.

Imagine if all the soldiers and politicians and mercenaries and "insurgents"
were to see what they are doing in Iraq IN FOCUS (not as a movie where they
have "no awareness of danger").

And the middle of September also saw the realization of a long-term dream
for Peace Bridge member, Dr. Ali Rasheed, and the entire Peace Bridge,
especially May Tung who has worked very hard from California.  Utilizing
part of the funds raised by the Silent Auction at last summer's IASD
conference, Dr. Ali was able to host several interns and staff members from
other hospitals in Baghdad for a day-long seminar on Post Traumatic Stress.
The miracle was that though the days prior to this seminar saw the worst
violence Baghdad had experienced in months, still the seminar was held.
This was also the day of the Chinese Moon Festival, an event that the Peace
Bridge has celebrated with dreams and candles for the past two years.
Around the would that night, Peace Bridge members dreamed and lit moon
candles for the success of the Baghdad seminar.

=== +++ The Peace Train Travels to Washington +++ ===

When Jeremy Seligson of Seoul, South Korea, dreamed in July of 2002 that he
was riding on a Peace Train across the United States to Washington (See the
full story of the Peace Train dream and the worldwide movement it has
created at http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/peacetrain.htm ) he could
not have imagined that one day he would do just that in waking life.

But just days before the March on Washington on September 24, Jeremy flew
from South Korea, boarded a real Peace Train in Atlanta, and rode across the
country to Washington.

He sent several emails to the Peace Bridge on the way, describing the ride.
This is one of these posts:

"At one of my rest stops, an old man was sitting near me talking to a guard.
I realized he was Indian and soon we were talking. He had worked for the oil
industry for many years around the world including three and a half years in
Maputo, Mozambique, where the people are very nice. He is visiting his
daughter in Atlanta....

"The India friend also told me the American gun manufacturers are supplying
both sides of the conflict now, as the longer it goes on the more money they
make. He left but later we met again and he shared with me the India dinner
of rotis and veggies his daughter had made for him.

"I viewed the exhibit of Primitive Black Art and walked a lovely mile to the
little red brick Amtrak station. My friend and classmate, Melvin a Black,
Attorney, drove
down and spent an hour with me until the delayed train came. He asked me to
call him if needed from Washington  Also I called Madelyn a 75 year old
friend who was a
playmate with Martin Luther King and she blessed our journey.

"The Peace Train arrived at 8:30 pm, and the engine, like the one in the
dream, was painted with black --this one with silver and was a diesel not a
locomotive. But in
the dark it had the same impression on me as in the dream, the same time of
day, the same long silence. I got on and was assigned to a car --on the way
inquired about the other peace trainers and was told by a porter they were
in another car and that later he would connect me.

"I had two seats to myself, and soon the porter came over as the train was
moving through the night and led me through three cars.  There I met several
people
dressed variously and all ages, friendly and warm and soon was sharing my
material, wearing a Vietnam Vets for Peace Peace Train Button, writing a
peace poem for
a banner and talking poetry with a contemporary from Washington State. In my
dream I had joined another Peace group and was told that it was good because
they
were better organized than mine, that together we could get more done.  This
was apparent here. I had shared food in the dream with others,  and here the
man
Joe shared sweet green Washington State apples.

"Another woman from a group Democratizing with 70,000 members on their site,
said she would add word of our world dreams site to theirs.

"After a few hours of sharing, a conductor sent me back to my seat as new
people were getting on. A very nice Black lady of 65, Gloria, sat near to
me, but
fortunately I had been able to sleep a little first. She was a gentle,
charming soul, a former school teacher there in Greensboro North
Carolina....

"Through the night they hated many times, and the engine whistle would sound
3 or more times ahead.  That was a beautiful sound. Our Peace train was
moving on, calling out to all ahead, "Here we come Here we Come!'  When day
broke the beauty of the natural day, all that green and blue broke through.
We stopped at Charlottesville, and a large group of Peace Demonstrators were
at the stop, greeting us with placards and sending in cakes and fruit for us
to eat. We rode on through the mountains, by rivers and streams and hills
full of trees. It was wonderful,
lying there on roomy seats just a few feet from the trees, peering down over
bridges and streams and listing to that whistle blow.

"At last we pulled into Union Station.  Some pictures were taken with the
group and a few warm farewells and then we parted. I was exhausted. First I
went to the P.O. and sent a package of detox herbs and seaweed my daughter
who has been in Iraq for a week now. Then I called my friend Ed, who wasn't
in. What to do with the rest of the day? I remembered another friend Ed
Richardson, an 86 year old American Indian Child Psychologist, told me in a
recent phone conversation to visit the new
American Indian museum. So half awake I wandered outside, following a map.
and came to a newsstand where I asked for directions. A woman nearby said
she was
going there with her son and to follow her - I looked at her and asked if
she was an Indian. She was.  She had come to demonstrate for protection of
her homeland on the
northern coast of Alaska from a bill in congress, hidden in the budget, for
oil drilling on their sacred land.

She said there is only enough oil there for 6 months, and this land is the
breeding ground 120,000 caribou and also for species of birds from all 50
states. I asked if she was carrying a drum in the round case on her back,
and she was. As we walked I realized the Capitol Building was right there
next to us looming high, just
like in my dream. In my dream the Peace Train stopped right in front of the
Capitol Building where I was greet by Al Gore and Congressmen...."

Several members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge went to the Washington
March, and stayed on to celebrate Jeremy's birthday on Monday.  No words
could do justice to the entire event, but here is a post I wrote to the
Bridge when I returned home:

Dear Dreamers,

I didn't carry a camera with me this weekend at the March, because I was
traveling with only a back pack.  That being true, I thought I would write
down some of the impressions I had of the kaleidoscope of events and images
of the weekend before they got squeezed out of my mind space for other, more
immediate things.

Saturday morning at 5:30a.m., I boarded the bus in Norfolk for Washington,
one of two that went from this area.  The bus dropped us off right at the
corner of 15th Street and Constitution, which made me happy, because my pack
was heavy.  I even called Jody and told her I wasn't going to walk all the
way up to the Corcaran Gallery since I was already on the Ellipse, which was
the center of the action.

After a few minutes of searching for Camp Casey, which was easily visible
from the bus window with its rows of white crosses representing fallen
soldiers, but not so visible inside the throngs of people coming from all
directions, I told Anne that I needed to go find Valley.  I walked across
the street, walked about fifty feet more, and there she was, crossing the
field toward me.  (It's really true that I find telepathy better than
telephones in situations like these :))

"I needed someone to hold the other end of the Crawford Peace House banner
when Hadi speaks," Valley told me.  So I ended up spending the day backstage
at the main stage, with a unique view of all the people: old, young, and
everything in between.  Even though reported numbers varied widely from one
source to another, everyone seemed to agree that there were over 150,000
people there, even the conservative Washington Post.  And that did not
include the thousands of people from Boston south to Philadelphia who
probably never made it to Washington due to a reported electrical problem in
the train lines that stopped all the trains for hours.  People were
demonstrating in Penn Station, chanting "Bring the troops home now!"

I discovered that I've fallen in love with Hadi Jawad, the founder (along
with Valley and another friend) of the Crawford Peace House.  Hadi has the
same soft eyes and twinkling smile I remember from my teacher and friend,
Hector Kuri, who taught me Bioenergetic therapy.  Hadi, being a Sufi, spent
the weekend telling us stories about Nasruddin, the cosmic jester of the
Sufi oral tradition.  (For more on Nasruddin, here's an article
http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/world-religions/sufism/nasruddin-mulla.as
p ).  More about this part later.

For me then, despite the acknowledged horrors we all know about, the weekend
was full of magic...the magic of being with good friends, and the magic of
multiple synchronicities.  Because I was back stage, I got a first hand view
of speakers like Cindy Sheehan, Ramsey Clark, Jessica Lang and others.  And
I know I was able to listen with more attention than I would have surrounded
on all sides by the crowds.

Later, at Camp Casey, I was able to help put out the food (donated by a
friend who recently opened the Poets and Busboys Cafe on V Street) for the
Camp Casey reunion before Jody, Jeremy and friends of Jody's joined us...and
shortly after that, hot, tired and dusty, we left for the hotel.  Jeremy and
Jody's friend Mike joined Jody and me at dinner in (catch this) the New
Orleans Restaurant in Arlington.

Now, Jody and I not only decided to share a hotel room, but we had each
independently decided to do neither civil disobedience (Thank you for
thinking of me, Diana :)) nor lobbying, but instead to spend some time with
each other on Sunday, which we spent by walking in the gardens at the
Smithsonian, visiting the National Art Gallery, and (yes) eating lunch at
the Water Wall which is part of the sculpture which separates the gallery of
modern art from the rest of the building.  Talk about dreams of water.  I
always make a point to eat at the cafeteria near this wall whenever I visit
the Smithsonian Mall.   Jody encountered three members of Code Pink, women
who HAD been at the civil disobedience training that morning, when she went
to get some coffee.  They told her they were taking a "beauty break"...which
is what I felt I was doing too.  Somehow, for me, finding the balance
between horror and beauty seems essential.

Plus, it gave Jody and me time to deepen our friendship, the kind of
deepening that also seems essential to me.  In many ways, I went to
Washington as much to see Jeremy and Jody and Valley and Hadi as I did to
demonstrate against the war...or maybe they are the same thing.  There is a
powerful magic in these friendships.

For dinner on Sunday, the five of us met at the Lebanese Taverna on
Connecticut Avenue, one of my favorite restaurants.  It was the first time
we all had to actually sit down together and talk.  And oh, the stories!

In addition to stories of Nasruddin, Hadi told us the story of going out
with his friend Johnny with detailed maps of the Crawford area before they
decided to buy the Peace House.  With the same twinkle that he told the
stories of God's fool, Hadi told about how he and Johnny drove around the
area, locating every tree and dip in the road, thinking (several years ago
now, right after 9/11) about how to deal with a crowd of 5,000 or more in
Crawford.  Near dark they were not very far at all from the Bush ranch.
Johnny asked Hadi to locate something for him on the map.  Hadi said he
could barely see, let alone see what was on the map.  So they stopped the
truck.  Because the dome light wasn't working, Hadi took a flashlight out of
the glove box.  The two of them sat looking at the map.

Then, Hadi said, it occurred to him to wonder what might happen if the
Secret Service found them there, two men in a truck, one of them of obvious
Middle Eastern descent, looking at detailed maps of the area by flashlight.
His smile lit up his face as he told the story, and he gave a little shrug.

On the bus trip to Washington, one of the organizers of the buses, a member
of Veterans Against the War who had traveled to Crawford gave a little pep
talk, in which he mentioned that the Peace House.  The month before Camp
Casey began, he said, The Peace House hadn't even been able to pay the phone
bill.  It now had received enough in donations to be able to pay off the
mortgage on the house.  When I asked about this, Valley and Hadi both
nodded.

"It's a miracle," Hadi said.  I felt such pride in the two of them, how hard
they have worked over the past two months, and how much they've
accomplished.  It was Hadi who had earlier said that this antiwar movement
needed its own Rosa Parks, and it was Hadi who encouraged Cindy Sheehan to
begin the vigil in Crawford.

I was proud too when I heard Valley interviewed by a journalist, how
articulate and knowledgeable she is.  Like Hadi said when they met us for
lunch on Monday after several hours of lobbying, "Valley is good.  She
really kicked butt!"

At the end of dinner on Sunday, Jody worked her own magic by asking us all
to reflect for a moment on what our deepest wish might be, and then to tell
the rest of us.  Mine was (and is) that all children in the world be allowed
to dream, and be supported in their dreams.

You have already heard from Jeremy the story of his Peace Train travel, but
here's the story of his birthday party which, at his request, we held at
lunch time on Monday in the new Museum of the Native American at the
Smithsonian.

There were many magics.  Jody and I missed our subway stop.  (I'm convinced
that the Smithsonian stop simply didn't exist that day. :)), and got out at
Federal Center, a stop on the line I've never made before, only to discover
we were just two blocks from the museum, much closer than we would have been
if we'd gotten off at the Smithsonian stop.

On his Friday meanderings at the museum, Jeremy had located a quiet lounge
(if you can imagine this in one of the most frequently visited locations in
the world) where we could meditate for half an hour before lunch at the
museum's cafeteria.  The cafeteria there serves Native American foods from
North and South America, some of the best food I've ever encountered.  I
left Jody, Jeremy and Jody's friend Mike still meditating when I went out to
pay tobacco tribute.  I returned to find them standing in a circle with Hadi
and Valley, softly singing, "Peace is Flowing Like a River."

Now, when we asked Jeremy on Saturday night what he wanted for his birthday,
he said, laughing, "An Indian Maiden to sing Happy Birthday to me."  Sure
enough, just as we finished eating, one of the cafeteria staff came by "her"
table, and asked how we were doing.  Hadi told her it was Jeremy's birthday.

She recited her Native American lineage back before slavery, and said that
in Louisiana where she grew up, the saying was that a person's age should be
measured not in years, but in the number of friends he had.  This woman
simply radiated joy.  And of course she stayed to sing the birthday song
with us.

We spoke often of you other Peace Bridge folks during the weekend. Jeremy
told about visiting with Olivia.  We talked about missing Gina and Wendy.
We wondered how May was doing at the demonstration in San Francisco, and how
Liz was doing with hurricane Rita in Texas, and about how Kotaro had sent
Jeremy a birthday flower.  And mostly we allowed ourselves to feel the
deepening, which is so much a part of creating Peace.

Love to all you world dreamers.  I know I will catch up with the rest of the
mail eventually.

Jean

A final note, and a funny story about the March came from Gina a few days
after we returned:

"One of the most impressive things about the peace march was the huge number
of people who took time out of their regular lives, incurring expense and
inconvenience, to go to Washington DC, many traveling hundreds or even
thousands of miles.  All the media I've checked out so far is grossly
underreporting the number of participants in the peace march.  Maybe that's
because no civilian aircraft are allowed to fly close enough to the White
House or Washington Monument to get an overhead view of the crowd.  My own
estimate is at least 400,000.

"I got my undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, which is
notorious for large class size.  I had a several classes in a big double
room in the Common Facilities Building (now called David L. Lawrence Hall, I
think).  That space seats about 400 people -- I used to count them during
boring classes -- so I'm pretty good at gauging clumps of 400 folks.  There
were at least 1000 of those clumps at the peace march -- no way were there
just a few 10s of thousands, or even 100,000.  People were walking 10 or
more across, filling those wide streets by the White House.  At one point, I
got out of the march, went into one of the Smithsonian buildings, stood in
line for the bathroom for about 20 minutes, used the bathroom, went back
outside and, because my sore knee was bothering me, sat on the base of a
lamppost to rest my knee for 45 minutes.  People kept coming past that whole
time - new people that I hadn't seen before (unless they were changing
signs, costumes, and props while out of my sight -- not likely).  Then I saw
a friend from Pittsburgh who had gotten separated from the people she'd come
with, and I walked with her for awhile.  Then my knee started hurting again
so we both sat down on a bench for 20 minutes and watched more people go by
-- different people -- including a large group carrying full-size flag
draped "coffins" that neither of us had seen before.  Whoever is providing
the counts to the media is either lying or should go back to grade school
and learn how to count!"

A busy and wind-blown month on the Bridge.




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Dream: "Porpoise People"

Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE  : 4 sep 2005  04:30
DREAM : porpoise people

=( yesterday was saturday.  mother and i watched videos from blockbuster as
we usually do.  three b-list horror movies was all i could find in the store
that we have not seen yet.  went to bed around midnight and got to sleep
without any difficulty. )=


i am driving east on route nine out of amherst massachusetts.  it is early
spring before the buds on the trees open, the air is crisp and cold but not
unpleasant.  i have driven further out than i usually do, coming into a part
of the state that i do not see all that often.
i am on my way to visit some the family of an old friend from high school,
porter welbourne.  they have a small vacation house on the edge of small
lake known as cold water pond.

when i get there, i have to drive down a dirt lane through a bit of forest.
porter comes out of the small wooden house to greet me when he sees my car
come down the lane.  i am glad to see him as i have not seen him in several
years.  a young boy comes out with him, his son i presume.

i get out of the car and soon he takes me into the house.  after i put my
bags down, we go onto the back porch overlooking the beach just beyond.
porter fixes me a mixed drink and we sit in comfortable deck chairs to talk
and catch up on how our lives have been since we last knew each other.

while we converse, i keep looking out at the cold gray water.  it seems
somewhat odd.  i know that there are porpoises that swim in these waters,
but that is difficult to understand because the pond is many miles inland
not connected to the ocean.  it also way too small to support wildlife as
large as porpoises.

observing my contemplation of the water, the young boy asks his father if it
is alright to show me.  porter thinks a bit then tells me, "don't get
freaked out."  the boy runs off the porch into the shallow water.

wading around, he keeps looking into water.  finally he makes a quick grab
and wraps his arms around a blue porpoise and hauls it up onto the beach.
the creature is almost as big as the boy, but he manages to beach it without
too much difficulty.  it must not weigh very much given its large size.

"come over here and watch this one while i look for another."  he tells me.
i leave the porch and go over to calm the beached porpoise.  i pet its head,
hoping this will comfort it while the boy goes back out into the water.

as i pet the porpoise, i discover that instead of smooth blue skin that i
expect, it is covered with deep soft fur that separates as i touch it.  as
this fur dries, it begins to stick to my hand and comes away in major
shedding.  i recall how cats like to be petted and shed their heavy winter
coats in the spring and i assume this must be the same process for the
porpoise.

as i pet and more and more fur comes away, i see its body shape change and
grow smaller and smaller.  i have to spit some of the finer hairs out of my
mouth that float in the air.  porter comes off the porch.  "how's it going?"
he asks me.

"it seems to becoming a gray fox."  i say as the large porpoise is becoming
pathetically small.

"exactly."  porter says somewhat mysteriously.

i have to shake large amounts of the fur off my hands and wipe it off my
face.  the air is thick with floating hairs.  finally the little fox gets up
and scampers away into the forest.

as i watch the departing animal, two more porpoises beach themselves nearby
and quickly transform into human shape, one a full grown man and the other a
younger boy.  they come over to us, and porter greets them as if they are
friendly neighbors.

"you are probably wondering how we do this."  the metamorphic man tells me.
"i will show you."  he and the boy go back to the water and change back into
cetaceans.  swimming out into the pond water, they submerge but soon surface
again having captured something in their teeth.  they start throwing some
other creature into the air then to catch it and throw it up again.  i can
not see whatever they have caught very clearly.  it has spindly legs like a
spider or crab but a thick body like a smaller dolphin.  i assume that these
crab like animals have something to do with the shape shifting of the
porpoises.

after a little more display of the legged creatures, both porpoises come
back to shore and change back into human form.  when he starts to explain
something irrelevant about living in the sea, i interrupt him.  "i have
about ten questions i want to ask you."  the porpoise man does not like me
asking, but i start in anyway.

"when you are in your marine shape, your tail fin is quite slim, but when it
changes into a foot, it becomes quite thick and heavy.  where does this
extra mass come from?  for that matter, tremendous amounts of matter had to
disappear when the other one turned into a small fox and not much of it
could be shed as hair.  just where does this matter come from or disappear
to?"

the shape shifter mutters something, obviously uncomfortable with
interrogation.  "what do i know about mass?"  he says to me, looking around
everywhere but at me.

i want to ask him some general questions about his knowledge of physics, but
while this would be interesting to me, i think this would be too far afield
from the central issues of interest here.

"how long have you been able to transform like this?"  i ask him.

"i can not say."  the merman replies.  "in the sea, we do not recognize time
as you do."

porter asks me why this is important.  "well, if they could do this for two
million years or more, they could walk to any body of water anywhere and
should basically rule the earth, both land and water well before we humans
would have evolved."

=( awake at 04:10.  one of the movies i saw last night, _the thing below_,
was about an octopus sea monster who could make itself look like people, so
the that seems a pretty obvious association with the porpoise people.
porter welbourne was a friend in high school and is usually a symbol of
someone more successful than me in life.  he was class president and we were
in several teenage social groups together.  he was generally better than me
in everything we tried.
i have been hoping to see him again at our class reunion scheduled later
this month, but apparently he is not registered on the attendance list.  we
lost touch after college, but he has been in my dreams once in a while.
often when i am feeling unsuccessful at something, he seems to show up as a
contrast, perhaps telling me that i have aspects of myself that can achieve
more than i have?  i have certainly made decisions in my life that are at
variance with accomplishment and now that i am winding down in old age i
suppose i should reconcile with mediocrity.  it seems that most of us never
find ourselves to be what we imagine we could be.  only a few celebrities
seem improbably lucky to exceed what is expected, and that is why we
celebrate with them.  these simple porpoise people seem to be very
nontechnical, yet can transform themselves magically at will into something
else, perhaps better. )=

---          stankuli@...




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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.


The International Association for the Study of Dreams website offers a
Nightmare Hotline, as well as articles and books about nightmares on its
Nightmare Page.
Nightmare Hotline: 1-866-DRMS911

  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.


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…

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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 Rocky Mountain Dream Journal


Stabbing someone repeatedly and chopping them up in little pieces, flying in
a car, having a baby, and making love with the devil….some fascinating
dreams in our latest Dreams section of Electric Dreams!

Dream title: none given
Dream date: 8-28-05
Dreamer name: LB
Dream text: I am having a baby and each time it's always a boy.  It is for
my boyfriend, and it always looks like him.
Dream comments: I've had these dreams several times more than (3x) and the
dreams always occur in front or in my house.

Dream title: Over the bridge
Dream date: 07/2003
Dreamer name: MM
Dream text: I was driving down the street with my son in the car with me.
We were talking & laughing. It was sunny.  I bat my eyes & when I opened my
eyes, I was going up to the sky.  My son was crying and asking me not to
die. I just started to go up to the sky with the clouds all around me.  It
was so real that I could feel the air & sun on my skin, the clouds were so
white the sky was very blue (the colors were brighter the ever).
Dream comments: When I woke up I had the feeling that I had been flying.

Dream title: Making love-----I think!
Dream date: 11/1979
Dreamer name: MA
Dream text: I was making love to someone.  The person's body was so hot it
was burning me.  I couldn't open my eyes, I tried to but I just couldn't. It
hurt it was like I was on fire.  I was helpless and I couldn't move or get
away.  He was hurting me, burning me.  Finely it was over I could open my
eyes now, but did I want to know who it was-----yes, I took a deep breath &
opened my eyes, & oh my GOD it was the devil himself.
Dream comments: This dream stays with me & will always be on my mind.

Dream title: They Stole My Car!
Dream date 8/ 31/05
Dreamer name: SA
Dream text:  I went to work in a fast food place.  All was upbeat and I
liked the people.  I hated the work but was glad to be working.  One day
some of the employees were gathered around a window in front of the store,
and I went to see what they were looking at.  There were two vehicles parked
on either side of my vehicle, one was a black 'dooley' pickup and one was a
green regular pickup.  Two black men were arguing with someone as if they
were being asked to leave.  I was afraid for my car.  But they left.  When I
got ready to go home, my car was gone.  This isn't the car I'm driving now,
but the car I had a while back, a brown Mustang.  I didn't have the
registration with me, and the police were not trying very hard to find it.
I had called Mother to get my VIN number off the registration because she
had it.  I was talking to a policeman, and was showing the screen to the
policeman to see if the info it pulled up would help him.  He seemed to be
more interested in looking since he had more info to go on, then I woke up.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: Snakes
Dream date: 1-9-05
Dreamer name: Bec
Dream text: I saw one small snake and it bit me. I had to pull it off me. I
then saw another small snake and it tried to bite me, I cut its head with my
finger nail and it bled. Then an Aboriginal man approached me with some
snake to eat; it was red black and yellow. I didn't want to eat it but I
managed to put some in my mouth and chew because I thought it would do me
good. There were also people from high school there.
Dream comments: What do you think?

Dream title: My Battle
Dream date: 9/ 2/05
Dreamer name: Ka-ban
Dream text: I was some kind of a journey with 4 people who at first were a
few friends, and then it only ended up being one friend (whom I really care
about and had a falling out with a few months ago) and 3 strangers.   I
can't remember much of what we did except I know my friend was being
attacked by someone and I had to get to him quickly.  So I jumped on a big
black horse to gallop to where he was, and on the way I stopped and had one
of the others jump on the back of the horse with me. Once we arrived where
we were going, the other person got off of the horse.  I continued to ride,
at which point the horse kept trying to buck me off. I kept falling off, and
getting back on. I remember specifically saying I wasn't going to let him
win. The owner of the horse kept telling me what to do to handle him, but it
wouldn't work, so I eventually ended up not riding him anymore. (I don't
remember if I gave up or he did.) After that, I saw a white (grey) horse,
and got on his back bareback, and rode him around.  He was very calm and
quiet. I was showing a girl how to ride, and came to realize that she was my
friend's new girlfriend, and I felt a sense of loss of him. I was very sad.
He was leaving to go somewhere, and I remember hugging him, and asking him
how long he'd be gone. I woke up after this.
Dream comments:

Dream title: A Haunting Tale
Dream date: Sept 05/05
Dreamer name:  SJ
Dream text: I am in an old house with a very musty smell.   I am a young
girl, with my sister and parents.  Night has fallen and there is an ominous
feeling in this place.  Things begin to move along the walls as if the walls
themselves were pushing pictures and books about like leaves.

I am in an old bedroom at the top of the stairs. Something is in the room
with me. I sense it is dark and unfriendly.

My parents enter the room. They believe the house is haunted. They want to
leave but they cannot organize themselves. I am told by my mother to gather
some things and we will leave in the middle of the night.  As we depart the
house, I look up at the exterior. What a grand old house this is.  I have no
fear of it.

I return to the house many years later with my daughter who is a baby.   I
put her in a crib in a small upper room and go back down a flight of stairs
to my bedroom to sleep. (I awaken at this point looking at my clock which
reads 2:22 a.m.) As I go back to sleep, I am again in the bed in this room.
A drop of water hits my head and I turn the light on to see where there is a
leak in my ceiling. It is not a leak. There are thousands of tiny water
droplets, amber in color, that are hanging from my ceiling.
My daughter cries and I must get to her.  Something is rocking her bed. I
take her out of the bed, and hold her close to me.  When she has calmed
down, I lay her back down to sleep. I return once again to my room to
explore the water phenomena more but it is gone.

Now there is a trap door above a hall closet and I see my small daughter
climbing through it. She is terrified and needs me to catch her fall. I run
to her and take her down safely from an upper shelf that hides the door.

My daughter has now changed to a cat and I am holding this tiny animal,
protecting it.
It begins to cough and I am worried that it will be sick so I put it
outside, downstairs on the back porch.   As l look through the back glass
door, I see the cat cough up a fur ball larger than its own body. The fur
ball becomes another cat, then transforms to a vulture, then to a man with a
tall black hat. His eyes are completely black and he smiles and walks
towards the door. I close the door quickly and say "Evil will not pass
through this door" He smiles and tells me that I will be visited again. I
watch him back away and then he turns into a woman with dark shoulder length
hair. She is dressed like a char woman and has the same black eyes.

I walk away from the door but her face appears simultaneously in every
window of the house. I begin to pack unusual things from drawers all over
the house. I am leaving this place.

Time has past now and I am bringing a friend with me to explore the house
during the day. I am still going through drawers filled with old clothes,
books, spoons etc.. A small kitten plays in the room while we search.
We leave on a small motorbike and drive up a hill. I realize that the kitten
is still back at the house and I must return.  We turn around and begin to
go down the hill until we come to a tunnel. Inside the tunnel is a
Chinese/Asian guard. He stops us and wants to know how to dance. He is
lonely but he has a weapon and is also threatening to not let us pass. There
is a guy there also who states he is from California. He says that he knows
important people in Hollywood. I don't know him but I am thinking that he
should not be in this situation. There are large boards with mildew on them
and behind them are flowers planted in the tunnel for food.

I must escape this place and free the kitten from the house, but I cannot
leave here without a fight. The California man wants to hit the guard over
the head with a shovel. I tell him not to do anything that would harm the
man, unless there is reason.  My friend is dancing with the guard now to old
phonograph music that seems to resonate from the walls of the tunnel. I am
plotting my escape but I see no door. I visualize the house now and the
kitten and the man with dark eyes. I am looking for a reason that this man
is around this house. Now I see myself trapped in this tunnel, underground
and I am not going anywhere. Another man is there now, also trapped.

He is being friendly with the guard but still no door has opened to release
us from the tunnel. Water begins to drip from the ceiling. As I look up, I
see the ceiling of the bedroom all over again. Water droplets are
everywhere. I am now in the room again, alone. The woman with the dark eyes
floats past my window and I wake up.
Dream comments: Crazy visuals in this one. This was one lengthy nightmare.
During this dream, I woke up several times but oddly at the hours of 12:22
2:22 4:22 a.m. I kept falling back into the dream exploring aspects of the
evil of this house. The drawers were significant as they never emptied, but
were full of useless things. I left out a lot of visual stuff because there
was just too much to mention.

Dream title: none given
Dream date: 9/7/ 2005
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I am with my grandmother eating and my boyfriend calls me.  He
tells me that he's leaving. He didn't tell me that he swallowed a whole
bottle of pills but somehow I knew. I started to cry then I woke up and
called him. The crying woke me up, then I went back to sleep thinking I
won't dream anymore.  But the dream continued with me being in school and
him being dead. I kept crying and holding his picture in a frame in school
and no one would comfort me.
Dream comments: I've been going out with my boyfriend for two years. I love
him to death. I can't live without him.  The weird thing is that I start
school today and as of yesterday he completely changed his life around.

Dream title: none given
Dream date: 9/7/05
Dreamer name: Unicorn
Dream text: I was a prostitute at a nice spa. I walked up to the client and
he handed me a glass pipe full of speed shards. I started burning the pipe
and melting the shards. I was so anxious to inhale that I didn't melt it all
the way. So I inhaled a thick chemical hit but was excited to be getting
high again. We finished the bowl and I knew fucking this guy would be
easier. With numb feelings we did it. I remember being horny as hell in my
dream. A few more things happened after that but didn't remember it as much
as this part of my dream.
Dream comments: I am a recovered meth addict but never a prostitute. This is
about the average dream I have at least once a week. I have been clean for
almost a year. I don't want to do drugs anymore. I know it's a dead end road
but it is my first love.

Dream title: The Giant Tree
Dream date: 09/08/05
Dreamer name: Nog
Dream text:  In this dream there is an enormous tree. The tree is so large
that I seem to have been walking past it without realizing either its sheer
size, or even the fact that it is there. One of its immense roots is visible
by the side of a sloping path. This path is somehow reminiscent of, or
associated with, the road with leads to the bottom of the incline, opposite
Father Deiniol's church. But this path is much longer, and I think has a
fence between it and the tree. I am at the top of the path when I begin to
notice the tree. Upon reaching the bottom of the path I meet my father, who
then begins explaining things about the tree. We cross the fence and begin
walking around or toward the tree. I look up with awe at the sheer immensity
of it its bulging roots and magnificent trunk. I seem to recall there being
a restaurant or a café carved into the bottom of the actual trunk, which we
enter. There is also an elevator which travels up inside it. I think I ride
the lift to the top of the tree (I don't recall if there is anyone with me
as I do this)

  At the top of the tree is a small street, with what may be shops. I seem to
recall everything being very white, giving it a decidedly innocent feel,
perhaps reminiscent of Christmas, although I do not recall the white being
snow. The following scenes are very hazy, although I am sure that an immense
amount of time passed. In one of the buildings in the street there lives a
fairly old couple, perhaps in their sixties. It is in this building, and
with this amicable couple that I live with while up there. I think the
building has a large single pane window at the front, like a shop, and I
also recall there being a spiral staircase at the back of this same room. I
have little sense of time regarding how long I spent there, but I'm sure it
was quite a while.

  My relationship with this couple was at first very warm. I develop
particularly strong feelings towards the woman, either of sex or love, or
maybe both. At one point I present this woman with a gift a drawing I think
(of her?). There is a small group of children gathered around and watching
excitedly as I present it. But I become very uncomfortable when the man
appears close by; as I am sure the gift is designed to draw her towards to
me. I cannot recall what happened after this, but things became very sour
between us, and the couple begins to show their dark side, or at least the
man does. I think he begins to attack me, or otherwise behaving in a very
cruel and punishing way towards me. I recall at one stage that I have died,
but my existence continues in spirit or ghost form. The man, who has also
died and continues to exist in the same form, is throwing fire balls at me
which connect very painfully, and I am amazed that he is able to continue
punishing me even beyond my death. I am standing inside their shop as he
punishes me. Soon after, he encourages a young boy, who is standing down the
street with some other boys, to throw things (stones or bottles) at the
front of the building. I think the boy is his son. He is reluctant to begin
with, but eventually he joins in, and from where he is standing begins to
throw rocks, which hit the front of the building with the sound of breaking
glass.   I cannot recall what happens after this point.
  Dream comments: This is quite different from the dreams I usually have, and
seems much more magical or mythical. After much thought, I am aware that the
older couple may well represent my parents, which I guess would fit with
Freud's Oedipal theory.

Dream title: A Cheating Husband
Dream date: 9-1-05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I was at my mother's house, and I woke up and walked down the
hall.  I went to open the door to the laundry room, when my husband opened
it first from the other side.  I asked what he was doing, and he quickly
tried shooing me away.  I put my knee in between the door and the jam so
that he could not shut it.  I was getting scared at what he was doing.
Through the crack, I saw his ex-girlfriend in the mirror on the wall, with
no top on.    All the sudden I was trying to hurt her with all my might but
just could not; it was almost like I was in slow motion. Then I awoke.

Dream comments: I would really like to understand what this means, but it is
very detailed.

Dream title: Haggard
Dream date: 1955 to1960
Dreamer name:  LL
Dream text: I am running down the hall because my mom is at the door or
window.  When I let her in, she turns into a Haggard or Witch, which scares
me so much that I wake up not breathing
Dream comments:

Dream title: Small, hairy dog
Dream date: 9/10/05
Dreamer name: LZ
Dream text: Suddenly I was the owner of a small, hairy off-white dog,
something which I have never owned before. I believe the dog was a female
dog. I really did not know where it came from or who gave it to me. In other
words, the dog was there and it happened to be mine. The dog was mostly
friendly and active, running and walking around the house. Most of the time,
the dog was also beside me as if trying to play. However, it gave the
impression that the times when the dog was not after me or following me, I
was looking for him as if feeling a little concerned for him and concerned
about what he might be doing. My mother was present at the same time.  She
looked a little depressed and afflicted. It looked as if she did not want to
be home. At one moment she mentioned a desire to be with and to take care of
her ill mother, who is really sick in another state (actually, in reality my
mother left to take care of her).

Dream comments: Overall, these things were happening at the same time; the
pretty, hairy dog that I owned and my afflicted mother, thinking about her
sick mother as if wishing not to be present.  I acknowledged that the dream
is a bit complex and probably confusing, but I found it to be strange and at
the same time interesting, therefore, I had a strong desire to have a
logical idea regarding the meaning of its content or if it is trying to tell
me something important or meaningful.

Dream title: I'm a murderer
Dream date: September 11, 2005
Dreamer name: PA
Dream text: I dreamed that I had stabbed someone repeatedly and chopped them
up in little pieces. This had happened past tense, so the dream was all
about creating a good alibi. I feared that the police would see through my
alibi, so I kept thinking of ways to improve on it. I also considered
confessing and going to prison, but this was just too depressing to
seriously consider. That's when the dream ended -- when I considered
confessing.

Dream comments: I am a 56-year old divorced mother of three grown kids. I
have NEVER dreamed such a thing and I'm dying to know what this means! I
consider myself a really nice, kind of passive, quiet person, and work as a
copywriter contractor for a credit card company.


Dream title: Watchdog
Dream date: 9/7/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I come out of my flat and go down the stairs to the back door. I
notice there is a bed by the door and that one of my cats is lying on it. I
shoo her off as she is not supposed to be there. I go out into the garden
down a leafy path, at the bottom of it there is a stream which I have to
jump over to get the gate, which is in an archway.
On the other side of the gate there is a kind of man-man stream. I decide to
get in and see where it leads. After a while there is a huge pool area off
to the right and the stream also carries on ahead. I look in at the pool
area and in the middle there is a bar area (like the sort you get in the
posh resorts) with people round it with drinks. On the edge closest to me
there is a line of men and women taking part in some sort of singing
competition. This is not for me and I decide to carry on.

Eventually the stream leads to the local hospital. For some reason I decide
I should walk around the outside of the building to see how easy it would be
for older people to get around. Once I start to get round the back there is
a narrow path with overgrown bushes on either side that scratch my arm as I
go past. The hospital is on the left hand side of me (which I guess means I
was walking counter-clockwise?).   There is a large drop between the path
and the hospital (the path is not right next to the building) which is
protected by railings. There are large stone steps that lead to the bottom
of the drop and there is a gate by where the top of the stairs should be,
but there is a gap too big to jump. I decide not to risk it and carry on
down the path.  I don't remember much about the building itself, other than
the fact it was quite an imposing building, possibly Victorian.

The path eventually veers off and ends up at a private hospital, which is a
much smaller, more modern building. There is something in the back of my
brain telling me that something is wrong there and I should investigate it.
I go inside and walk around - from what I can see it is more like an old
people's home.

I come to a long narrow room with a long table in it. There are lots of
people in it and there are lots of people sitting at the table, having a
board meeting. They are all sat along the same side of the table with their
backs against the window. The only two people I remember there are the
matron (who is every inch the old-fashioned type of matron you used to get)
and a Sir somebody-or-the-other who is the one in charge of the place. He
stands up to speak, I can't hear what he is saying but I know it is damning.
I walk behind them and they don't see me.

I go up some stairs and I see young nurse who is upset about something. The
matron is there tearing into her. She sends her away and I see this as my
opportunity to confront her about what is going on.

She is standing in a room with windows looking into the corridor and behind
her the door is open to another room in which there are lots of elderly
people sitting in chairs. I don't wish to upset them so with the magical
powers I suddenly seem to have I put them into a sleep without moving. That
done, I summon up a steel door to close the room off and another one in the
doorway between me and the matron. Now that she is trapped and I demand to
know what is going on. She says nothing so I keep asking her over and over.
Then I hear her voice start to tell me what I want to know (although I can't
remember what it was.) I look away from her and down at my hands to see that
I am holding some sort of device that can change your voice and it is
actually me saying the words.......
Dream comments: none


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September  2005

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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

                      LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge

                      Ed Kellogg, Ph.D



  ++ Article: Dreamwork, DreamPsi and Ethics:

                     An Invitation to the Psiberconference

                     Linda Lane Magallón



++ Column: The View From the Bridge

                      August 2005

                      Emus, Hiroshima, and Dreams Come True

                      Jean Campbell



++ Dream:  “Turning into Stone�

                    Stan Kulikowski II





++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from August, 2005

                    Host Kat Peters-Midland



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  Editor's Notes



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Welcome to the September 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams
and dreamwork online.



If you are new to dreams and dreamwork,  there are a few e-lists where Electric
Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is

dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com

Subscribe by going here and registering

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/



.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.

Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork
topics.

http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm



  The 2005 PsiberDreaming Conference will begin a just a couple of weeks. The
whole conference is online, so all you need to participate is a web browser.
What is really nice is that unlike typical conferences where you are lucky to
get one question in after the presentation, these presenters (tops in their
fields) will stick around for two weeks and discuss their papers with you. Great
prices for this conference. More information at http://www.asdreams.org/psi2005



Our prayers and support go out to the people suffering from Katrina’s effects.
The new nightmare hotline, for those who can even find a phone, is posted below.
Next month Electric Dreams will have a nightmare focus, and if you have articles
that related to trauma and dreams, particularly from natural disasters, please
consider contributing those or links to those articles.



Nightmare Hotline: 1-866-DRMS911



This month in Electric Dreams:



Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis offer ED readers an excerpt from her
Lucid Dream Exchange, this month an article from the Host of the upcoming
PsiberDreaming Conference, Ed Kellogg. In this article, you can learn techniques
that will help you in both dreaming and waking through methods of focus and
incantation. These methods are particularly useful if you can use them in a
lucid dream.  Read and study the � LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge.�





Linda Lane Magallón is the author of Mutual Dreaming and has been a pioneer in
the Field of Dreams for decades. Later this month she will be presenting at the
online PsiberDreaming Conference and would like the lay some ground work for
that discussion here in “Dreamwork, DreamPsi and Ethics.� Here you will
enter the world of mutual dreaming, and begin to develop a sense that our dreams
are not as isolated as we typically imagine them to be.



Emus, Hiroshima, and Dreams Come True. What else but the World Dreams Peace
Bridge?  Jean Campbell updates us their latest projects of peace and connection
to people around the world, and messages from the World Soul. Find out what is
happening and how you can join the Bridge in The View.



Stan Kulikowski II dream selection this month from his dreaming mind and pen is
called “Turning into Stone.� I’m sure you will find his dream renditions
inspiring.



Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues  are online in an
easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range of information for
dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of
article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm



Harry Bosma searches  around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which
you can read about in  the Global Dreaming News.  If you have any dream news,
conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or events, be
sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each month at
ed-news@...



Teeth falling out, being killed in a car crash, being unable to call out on a
phone, being chased by someone, and being dead in the dream…another colorful
dream section of Electric Dreams! From Kat Peters-Midland.



Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.

If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple

or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com

(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)



Cover this month by RCW

“Reflecting on the Flood�

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For those of you who are new  to dreamwork,

be sure to stop by one of the many resources:



http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams

http://dreamgate.com/dream/library

http://dreamunit.net/news-en/

http://www.dreamtree.com



Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)

http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/



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From Planet Dream,



-Richard Wilkerson









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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma

at his special ed-news@... address.





Online:

- Announcing Dreambay.org

- Lucidity Letters now online

- IASD Psiber Dreaming Conference

- All About Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney



Physical world:

- Dream Institute of Northern California



Books, movies, research:

- Children's Dreams Seminar to be Published

- Angel dreams wanted by Bob Van de Castle



Recurring events:

- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace



Last minute additions:

- Ullman Presentation in Manhattan



* * * ONLINE * * *



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- Announcing Dreambay.org

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The IASD online auction has its own new website - Dreambay.org! It has a new
look, new items to bid on, and opportunities to donate your books, services etc
to support the IASD! Don't miss the debut of Dreambay on September 1st !



Of course don't forget to bid on items What we will have up for bid so far are a
beautiful mosaic mirror, Dream Interview with Gayle DeLaney, Dreamwork session
with Ron Masa, a total of $800 discount, a signed copy of The Ennegram Field
Guide by Carolyn Bartlett, An Introduction to Psychology of Dreaming by Kelly
Bulkeley, a Circle Round book and CD set, Women's Bodies Women's Dreams by
Patricia Garfield, Dreams: Unlock the Secrets of Your Subconscious by Frank
Garfield and Rhondda Stewart-Garfield, 2 Eye of God key chains, a Tommy Hilfiger
set (body wash, body lotion, and deodorant stick), and so much more!



http://Dreambay.org



If you have any questions or would like to donate an item to the auction, you
may contact Kat Peters-Midland at IASDauction@... .





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- Lucidity Letters now online

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For ten years, 1981 to 1991, the Lucidity Letter published articles and
information about lucid dreaming. This wonderful collection is now online and
free to the public.



http://www.spiritwatch.ca



This project is from Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology and Sociology

Grant MacEwan College





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- IASD Psiber Dreaming Conference

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September 18 - October 2, 2005



Join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of Psi-dreaming for two
weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, and chats. If you've ever
had a precognitive dream, a lucid dream, or simply an 'unusual dream' that never
quite made sense, this seems the place for you.



For two weeks participants worldwide will enjoy online experiments, psiber games
with prizes, chats, and discussions on paranormal dreaming in the shared meeting
space of virtual reality. Previous conferences received rave reviews:



"Bravo!", "Incredible!", "a wonderful experience," "amazing!", "topnotch", "I am
really thrilled," "great conference," "please, please do this frequently," "I
don't know how many accolades I can give you, too many to count, I believe. The
conference was simply great!! Good presenters, topics, participants, and great
energy."



If you missed the first three, make sure you attend the fourth!



This Year's Presentations:

"Video Game Play, Dreams and Consciousness Development." / Gackenbach

"The Art of Dream Healing" / D'Urso

"Dreams Near Death." / Siegel

"Dream Precognition: Possible Ways to Improve and Control It." / Robinson

"Calling the Animal Guides: Crossing the Boundaries." / Broughton

"Parallel Universes /Probable Selves." / Gillis

"Primitive Rock Art and the Formative Dynamics of Psi Dreaming." / Graff

"Redreaming our Global Self: An Identity Upgrade to "I" version 2.0" / Webb

"Oneiric Cartography: Mapping the Dream-body" / Jenkins

"Does Scientific Honesty Still Require Skepticism About Psi?" / Sturzenacker

"Lucid Dream your way to Creativity." / Johnson

"Dreams, Whitehead and Psi: Using Microcosmic Event Awareness." / Wilkerson

"Psi Dreams-The Agony and the Ecstasy." / Potts

"Interactive Dreaming and Ethics." / Magallón

"Mercury Retrograde and its Effects on Dreaming." / Hoffman

"Using Lucid Dreams to Seek Future Information." / Waggoner

"Dream Language - Path to Personal Transformation." / Hoss

"Enter the Matrix: Exploring the Source Code of Dreams." / Kellogg



Contests:

Mutual Dreaming Contest (Facilitator Ed Kellogg)

Precognitive Dreaming Contest (Facilitators Cynnie Pearson & Beverly D'Urso)

Dream Telepathy Contest (Facilitator Rita Dwyer)



http://asdreams.org/psi2005/





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- All About Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney

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an online course in Dream Interviewing Techniques



September 6th for four weeks.



In this course, Gayle Delaney, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of modern dream
interpretation and author of seven books on the subject, shows you how to ask
the right questions about your dreams rather than relying on the standard
"one-size-fits-all" dream dictionary. You will liberate yourself from
psychological dogmas, and learn to look before you leap to an interpretation.
When you know how to look and listen carefully, your dreams will become clear
statements of your deepest insights.



Gayle Delaney, PhD

http://barnesandnobleuniveristy.com

http://www.gdelaney.com







* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *



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- Dream Institute of Northern California

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The Dream Institute of Northern California offers the following activities:



Open House & Art Exibit

Friday, September 30, 4-8 pm



Pre-Death Dreams & Visions

Saturday September 17, 1-4 pm $35, 3 CEU (BBS only)

Patricia Bulkeley, Ph.D. and Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.



Fields, Forms and Fate

Jung, Dream and the Environment

Thursday September 22, 6-8 pm, $25, 2 CEU

Michael, Conforti. PhD



Culture Dreaming

Monthly Event, September 10, Oct 1, Nov 5, Dec 3

Saturday Afternoons, 3-5 pm, $20

Meredith Sabini and Richard Russo, MA



The Dream Institute of Northern California

1672 University Ave

Berkeley, CA 94703









* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *



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- Children's Dreams Seminar to be Published

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The Philemon Foundation will be publishing thousands of previously unreleased
documents from Swiss Psychotherapist, Carl G. Jung. Dreamworkers know Jung's
work quite well as Jung produced so many technques and procedures, as well as
providing underlying theory in dreamwork. Now the Philemon Foundation will be
releasing the Children's Dream Seminars, and may other documents. For more
information please visit



http://www.philomonfoundation.org





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- Angel dreams wanted by Bob Van de Castle

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Bob Van de Castle  is seeking accounts of dreams in which angelic figures or
beings of light appear for a book he is planning to publish . Background
information about the dreamer and any circumstances associated with the dream
would be most appreciated, as well as an indication that permission is granted
to use the dream.









* * * RECURRING EVENTS * * *



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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace

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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly
DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.



In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace within
the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal level, how
to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and supporting the
general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please join in on the 15th
of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to dream towards the mandala
of peace.



If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used within
the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of peace,
please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World
Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .



******** Late News ********



Dreaming as a Natural Healing System

with Montague Ullman, MD

Thursday, November 10, 2005 

40 East 35th Street

  (between Madison and Park avenues),

  Manhattan, NY, USA

Details and flyer at

http://asdreams.org/2005ullman/







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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange



By Lucy Gillis



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LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge

December, 2004

by Ed Kellogg



((c) 2004 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 and all risks
should they choose to undertake these tasks, which may possibly bring about
mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you who attempt
these tasks to send your dream reports to LDE.)



THE LUCID DREAM INFORMATION TECHNIQUE





In a lucid dream in May of 1985 I finalized a Lucid Dream Information Technique
(LDIT) that has worked quite well for me, as well as for others, in obtaining
clear and easily understandable information on a variety of topics (Kellogg III,
E. W. (1986). "A lucid dream incubation technique", Dream Network Bulletin,
5(4), 16).



     "In a lucid dream I demonstrate an incubation technique using a silver bowl
to a group of other [dreamers]. Basically the technique consisted of the
following -   First the lucid dreamer decides on a question, in which he or she
asks for the information most needed at that time. After deciding on a specific
question, the dreamer inverts the silver bowl and consciously focuses on the
question. After waiting a few seconds for the answer to materialize, the dreamer
then turns over the bowl to find a materialized note with the answer written on
it. I took a number of my fellow [dreamers] through this incubation technique,
and each received a clear and discrete answer. For myself I asked for a message
from an official in a government agency about the possibilities of future
research grants, and received the answer "Good bye!" , which I clearly
understood meant that I would receive no further funding from this agency (note:
which incidentally, proved quite true). "



Since that time I've experimented with variations of the LDIT, which one can
break down into four steps: 1. Finding a medium for the materialization of the
answer (such as a closed drawer, or blank piece of paper); 2. Asking the
question, waiting a few seconds (important!); 3. Opening the drawer (or turning
over the paper, etc.) and seeing what has materialized, and finally;

   4. Memorizing what you see, waking yourself up from LDR (Lucid Dream Reality)
and then accurately and completely recording the information in WPR (Waking
Physical Reality).



If I open a drawer, sometimes I find a written note or drawing, at other times
an object or objects symbolizing the answer appears. And as for reading, I need
to read it clearly the first time through, as rereading messages usually doesn't
work very well for me. Some materializing mediums work far better than others,
and the best give discrete, specific, answers, easily remembered in the
transition from LDR to WPR.



One can for example, ask the question and then turn over a piece of dream paper,
open a dream book, turn on a dream television, or even type the question into a
dream computer and press Enter to display the answer.

Finding a suitable medium may require some ingenuity on your part - not every
dreamscape has empty drawers, blank pieces of paper, or silver bowls lying
about!  In order to use the LDIT I need to maintain a clear headed lucidity
throughout the incubation process, and then consciously retain and clearly
recall the answer on returning to WPR.



As an oracle of information I've found the LDIT very useful, and the information
received usually of a very high quality. This does not mean that I always get
usable answers to the questions I ask!  In one case, where I had requested
investment information, I received my answer on a clay tablet in what looked
like cuneiform!  I've used the LDIT as a kind of dreamtime search engine to
successfully access information of all kinds, from remote viewing targets to
investment advice. However, to begin I suggest that you first use the LDIT to
obtain information on improving health and healing, either for yourself, of for
someone you care about.



Lucid Dreaming Task

Using the LDIT to Obtain Healing Information



Before performing this task: incubate dreams for guidance on how to

accomplish this week's task - what to ask about, which medium to use, etc.

Record your experiences and / or the answers that you get in your dream journal
in as much detail as possible - use illustrations to depict your experiences if
appropriate. Use this information to better focus on the task for this week. Use
different magical spells to incubate both lucid dreams, and dreams on specific
topics that interest you. Keep a record of how well different procedures work.



When you next gain lucidity in a lucid dream (where you know that you dream
while you dream) use the LDIT (Lucid Dream Information Technique) to generate an
answer to one (or all) of the following questions:

  1. Why do I have ____?

2. What can I do to cure _____?

or,

2. What can I do (or take, or eat) to optimize my health?

Alternatively, you can use the LDIT to ask for healing information for a friend
who needs help, and who has given you permission to do so. Record your
experiences and / or the answers that you get using the LDIT in your dream
journal in as much detail as possible - use graphical illustrations to depict
your answer if appropriate. Also, look for health and healing information in all
of your dreams.  Often, after rehearsing the LDIT as you go to sleep, the
answers will show up in your dreams whether you become lucid in them or not.





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Dreamwork, DreamPsi and Ethics:

An Invitation to the Psiberconference

© 2005 Linda Lane Magallón



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Prior to the Freudian revolution, no culture discounted dreampsi. At the very
least, dream prophesy and precognition (foretelling the future) were known and
acknowledged. Additionally, there's evidence as far back in history as the
Babylonian period that clairvoyance (seeing at a distance), telepathy
(perceiving other people) and mutual dreaming (having the same dream as another
person), if not common, were widely recognized.



So what happened? Scientific materialism developed such a distrust in unseen
experiences that some people questioned whether dreams even existed.
Fortunately, the scientific approach is eventually self-correcting, especially
with the advent of new technology. Besides demonstrating the reality of dreams,
the scientific method provided a test of dream telepathy (at Maimonides in the
1960's), with related forays into waking psi like remote viewing and Ganzfeld
exploration. Reacting to a flood of criticism by skeptics, Ganzfeld became one
of the most rigidly controlled experiments in the laboratory. The evidence for
verifiable psi is quite in accordance with scientific standards.



But that seems to have made little impact on dreamwork. There is currently no
dreamwork method that routinely asks, "Is this a psi experience?" or seeks a psi
explanation. The evidence for psi must shout to be heard over the murmur of
non-psi dream interpretation, which favors the idea that the world of dream has
only one inhabitant -- the dreamer. Any notion of communal dreaming gets quashed
as a result.



Sigmund Freud actually mentioned telepathy in his writings, but it made no
lasting impact because a telepathic explanation is not a component of his "free
association" technique. Instead, the dream was presumed to refer backwards, but
not retrocognitively to previous psi events. Rather, the stimulus was supposed
to be known events of childhood that had been repressed; their memory being
subsequently triggered by current events. Or the stimulus was assumed to be
known events of recent occurrence that had not yet been fully processed. Because
his theory limits dream influence to whatever the dreamer was previously aware,
it never occurs to users of Freud's technique that a dream might refer to
something that has never been known, like psi or subconscious perception. Or
never put into words, like subliminal or subverbal sensing. Dreamers are right
to question the practice of assigning free association (which depends on known
words) to each and every dream.



Dreampsi involves the verifiable *perception* of what's "out there." This is 180
degrees from the practice of *projection* which is built into Freudian
psychoanalysis. It's assumed that the dreamer is going to *project* his own
ideas, hopes, fears and expectations on to the analyst, who welcomes it as part
of the therapeutic process. It's only when the dreamer accurately *perceives*
something about the psychoanalyst that the analyst gets nervous. Sometimes I
think the confidentiality requirement is more to protect the analyst than it is
to protect the dreamer. I also wonder how much dream interpretation is the
analyst's presumptions *projected* onto the dreamer. Quite a lot, I suspect.



Projection is such a pervasive practice that when dream interpretation moves
from the individual couch to the group therapy circle, it comes along for the
ride. In one popular method, there are cursory attempts to solicit information
from and about the dreamer, but the method doesn't really reach its stride until
the projection begins. Then the reigns are cut loose and every other person in
the group is permitted, nay, encouraged, to gallop through the wide field of
dream meanings, while the primary dreamer gets left in the dust. The result is
that the poor dreamer is pelted with possibilities, none of which is designed to
hone in on what the original dream actually said to the dreamer. Supposedly,
from this erratic display of hoof sans harness, some pebble of truth will fly up
and hit the dreamer, who will feel a resonance. But what if *none* of the
explanations really fit? Is the dreamer protected from being bamboozled into
claiming a resonance that he doesn't really feel, just to satisfy the group's
need for speed?



Carl Jung actually had psi experiences from childhood, but instead of defining
them as psi, he developed an interesting cover story call "synchronicity." This
concept deliberately turns our attention away from cause and effect and
substitutes happenstance in its place. I have never understood why Jung felt he
had to resort to this alternate explanation for every profound life event. Some,
perhaps, but not every single one. Maybe Jung felt his own life was so out of
control, that he wanted to avoid the seemingly impossible idea that he could
control it?



At any rate, a worst-case use of synchronicity is designed to excuse the dreamer
from all blame or credit for dream events. If dreams just "happen," if writing
them down freezes them into a fixed modality, then we don't have to take any
responsibility for change. We just react to our fate accompli. We don't track
down the possibility that *we* may have influenced the construction of our
dreams. Therefore, it's just archetypal that I'm having shadowy dream figures
threaten me. It has nothing to do with the fact that I obsess over my health
rather than get off my duff and make a medical appointment. Oh, no. It's just
synchronicity that I'm having precognitive dreams about airline crashes. It has
nothing to do with the fact that I spend every night scanning the evening news
for catastrophes. Does it?



Fritz Perls produced a popular dreamwork presumption that arises from Gestalt
psychology. Dreams are part of me; dream characters are part of me. Actually, I
like this approach, but as one step in the process of maturation, not as the end
of growth. It encourages us to take responsibility for our own "stuff," rather
than ascribing it to the gods, the demons, the community, the archetypes, fixed
fate or our unreachable past. It helps us define our projections and take back
what we projected onto other people during psychoanalysis.



There's a built-in problem, though. Ego-centrism. If everything is part of me,
I'm not likely to pay attention to the fact that the other guy exists. I'll
never see him, not within dreams, not without. The world, waking and dreaming,
becomes all about me, me, me. Pushed to its extreme, this attitude converts to:
I can do anything I want in the dream because it's all my dream. I can interpret
this dream however I want, because it's all mine. To blazes with everyone else.



If the dream is totally my world, then elements like manners, morals and respect
for dream characters are mute. Ethical questions, about impact on humans in the
waking state, don't even enter the equation. While this attitude may be fine for
a hermit (although I doubt it), it breeds havoc with interactive dreaming and
dream sharing. It becomes a real problem when telepathy and mutual dreaming are
natural dreamtime events. It brews trouble, if not for you, then for the others
in your community who have to put up with you.



These are only some of the current dreamwork practices (and underlying theories)
that impact our attitudes and ideas about dreampsi. There are plenty more. In
the upcoming IASD Psiberconference, I will tackle the difficult job of
discussing dream ethics, in relation to interactive dreaming. It's a challenging
task because we bring to the discussion popular beliefs about dreams that we've
never questioned. It's time we do so.



I invite you to join the discussion. You can surf to the Psiberconference of the
International Association for the Study of Dreams at
www.asdreams.org/psi2005/index.htm



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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

August 2005

Emus, Hiroshima, and Dreams Come True

Jean Campbell



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Emus



The month of August has been filled to the brim with excitement.  On the very
first day of August, Olivia, who lives in England, dreamed of emus.  This dream
set the pace for the month.



"I stood there in the 'desert'", Olivia said of her dream, "when I suddenly saw
a few emus, and then more and more, and then I couldn't understand why I hadn't
seen them immediately, for they stood everywhere - all, but one or two,
standing, sleeping. (But not in head in sand, like ostriches, instead sleeping,
or even hibernating, in that position).



"Does anybody have any insight into what emu might stand for? Any habits of the
birds? Any news snippets? (Apparently California has some emu farms?)"



Ilkin immediately replied from Turkey, "I don't know if this can help you but we
call emus as 'camel bird' in Turkish and I think it is same or similar around
middle-east. You are also mentioning being at a desert in your dream. Both
camels and camel birds (emus) are strong animals against hunger and thirst. They
can smell sandstorms etc before they come, can use the fat and water they store
under bad conditions etc. Camel birds' eggs used to hang to protect from spiders
etc in houses and other places. There are hundreds years old camel bird eggs
hanging in beautiful handmade carvings in Haia Sophia and many churches, mosques
and antique palaces against poisonous spiders etc."



And from Australia, Kathy, who named the emu as the law bringer, the enforcer of
the Australian Aboriginal tribes, said to Olivia a day later: "Your Emu Dreaming
has captured my dreaming mind!!!     I hardly ever have dreams of aboriginal
people BUT after your dream I have had two!



"For the RV (Remote Viewing) experiment - I dreamed in part of people looking
for a lawyer (taking the sense of "law man" rather literally, I think - but the
one chosen was a young WOMAN); and I also had Sam W. an Aboriginal poet in the
dream as a possible contender! and I was on a community which was not really an
Aboriginal community although I thought of it as that; and there were aboriginal
elders coming in procession to choose the lawyer, having first cast their lot
(small round bags containing stones/marbles).



"You would think that would have been enough - but NO.



"Today I had a short sleep in the afternoon - and more aboriginal dreaming!   I
dreamed that the Chief had died - and all the tribe had gathered - I was amazed
that the entire tribe had gathered (and I knew they'd also be gathering at
Cherberg - an Aboriginal settlement).   Some supper had been made by my friend
R.   She had fed all of us with very little (I felt sorry that all the tribal
people did not share in this).  I noticed that although I'd arrived last, there
was still a piece of bread and a piece of bacon (something I don't eat!!) left -
the food was perfectly the right amount.



"AND I don't think Aboriginal dreaming is about individual dreams but about the
essence of things (and that is how the thing lives and is connected to all else)
- and hence also connected to how the tribe sees itself (their sense of
identity) and of the tribe's possibilities - just my understanding after reading
very little.  I think the Aboriginal language of dreamtime and dreamings is not
easily translated into our individual way of viewing things."



Kathy also suggested that, as the emu dream seemed to reflect an earlier dream
Olivia had mentioned in the context of talking about Australian dream Shaman,
Robert Moss, that Olivia might see what Moss had to say about emus too.



Within two days, Olivia wrote: "I had a brief, but very prompt, reply from
Robert Moss in my inbox this morning. Just a couple of his comments:



"Perhaps the Emu People are dreaming YOU. ... ...the ancient ones of different
traditions come looking for us, through dreaming..."



Then Olivia had another dream, "Oh, wow!!" she said. "I had a dream last night,
a rather abstract one, where I received instruction about water holes in the
desert, and how keeping the water together, in holes, rather than it permeating
the soil, prevented it from evaporising.



"The dream also had the image of a young girl, a child, of East Asian origin,
but no other people. I wondered if that part related to my trying to dream with
Kotaro, while he visited Hiroshima."



Hiroshima Day



August 6



On Hiroshima Day, Peace Bridge events took place in two major ways.  In
Melbourne, Australia members of the Peace Bridge Victoria, Nick and Janette, 
conducted a Peace Train Workshop as part of the Hiroshima Day events; and a
display of children's Peace Train art, collected from Peace Bridge members
around the world, was on display in the Town Hall.



In Japan, Kotaro traveled from Tokyo to Hiroshima.  What began as a personal
journey soon turned into an important process for the entire Bridge, as members
from around the world sent small items to Kotaro like incense to burn and a
folded paper crane.



On the train to Hiroshima, Kotaro said, he read Ilkin's beautiful poem "To All
the Children of My Dreams."  This poem can be found on the World Dreams web site
at http://worlddreamspeacebridge.org/aiddreams.htm



>From Germany, Ralf sent a Haiku, from which Kotaro created a surprise.  Here is
Ralf's poem:



War--so easy to set the trees on fire

Peace--so long to grow the seeds

Now let's plant the forests for our children!



Kotaro spoke of the custom at Hiroshima of putting out memorial messages.  He
wrote, "Thank you Ralf, I will send your message (only message and your name, no
address) to one of my friend who live in Hiroshima. He will write down this
message on a small wood block. I think I can send what it look like soon."



August 15 DaFuMu Dream of Water



In the meantime, another world crisis caught the attention of Peace Bridge
members, that of children dying in Niger from drought and famine.  Niger, the
second poorest country in the world, relying mostly on agriculture, has been
hard-hit in the past year with both drought and a plague of locusts.  On August
10 Kathy revealed a plan for assistance to the people in Niger which we found so
compelling that we gave it its own page on the World Dreams web site:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/niger.htm



Beyond this, several of our friends in Baghdad were sick with dysentery from
drinking polluted water, something that has plagued thousands in Iraq, where the
infrastructure has been destroyed by war.



Olivia suggested that we should do a group focus on water, and that we could use
the subject of water for the August DaFuMu Dreaming for World Peace coming up on
the fifteenth of the month.  "Every time we take a drink or use the loo..." she
suggested, we could imagine all of the people of the world having safe, clean,
drinkable water.  And further, we could think of water filling the Reservoir at
the Peace Bridge.



The dreams began immediately, amid a conversation of the synergistic power of
group dreaming.  In a response to one water dream from Ralf, May replied, "I
have been reading Sarah Allen's book, *The Way of Water.*  She quoted this
paragraph from the book:



"Water, with its multiplicity of forms and extraordinary capacity for generating
imagery, provided the primary model foe conceptualizing general cosmic
principles.  Both water and plants provide metaphoric roots or early Chinese
ideas about time. (Earlier, quoting Confucius' contemporary Heraclites saying
that you cannot step into the same river twice.) Water, in the form of the
stream with a natural spring as its source, provides a model for ideas of both
transience and continuity. Plants, with their annual patterns of change. .. in
their reproductive continuum, for the concept of lineage..."



Apparently the emus were dreaming through all of us.



When Kotaro returned from Hiroshima, he had this tale to tell:



"Today, as I am get tired I cannot write long mail.



On my cell phone. It worked very hard in Hiroshima too. Today, at noon, I was
walking around near by Hiroshima Station. And nature called me. When I was
washing my hands, my cell phone seemed to decide to take a cool bath and jumped
from my chest pocket into the stream of water. Woops! Too late.  My cell phone
is resting now to dry itself up. I don't know if it works."



And Dreams Come True



Close on the heels on the Hiroshima Day events, another drama began to unfold on
the Peace Bridge, and across the world.



"Greetings from a mom on the front lines of peace in Crawford at the Crawford
Peace House with Cindy (Sheehan) and her strong stand for peace," wrote Valley
on August 13 from near President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas.  Valley, one
of three founders of the Crawford Peace House, was in the thick of things.



"My daughter has been here with me" she said, "and she is in love with Cindy,
she is a hero to her. It is so wonderful for her to be involved with all of
these strong women activists out here. I met the two women who started code pink
today Medea and Jody. Ray McGovern is here for the rally Saturday....  We can
all be inspired to take a strong stand against this war and keep pressuring our
congressional representatives to be held accountable for bringing us into this
war.  We are also organizing an action in Dallas for the Sept. 24 action. This
feels like the tide is changing and people are beginning to talk about the
issues related to this war again."



At the same time, Ali, living in the midst of the chaos around the completion of
the Iraqi constitution wrote:



Dear friends..



I would like to convey the pain and agony of my people here in Iraq,and in
particular Baghdad.



Death Toll is going up and daily bombings are getting more brutal and savage.

No description can draw the bloody scene.....3 successive bombings( today
morning ) in the same location, and the wounded people who survive the bombings
had another one at the entrance of the nearby hospital.  More than 50 were
killed and about 80 wounded...



These bloody events are to be recorded and the I find no words to describe the
pain and sadness every one here feel!!!!



Peace Bridge members began a nightly dreaming, praying and lighting candles for
the people of Iraq.



Jeremy, returning to all this activity after an international peace conference
in Poland, wrote from his home in South Korea:  "I am thinking of joining the
Southern Peace Train (to Washington D.C. for the September 24 protest) - so many
lies behind the war and nobody accountable - The DU poisoning is what scares me
the most, and what I would speak out about. Even people at the above conference
hadn't heard about it before - even the Attorney General of Delaware - a
receptive woman whom I discussed it with."



For Jeremy, the original dreamer of the Peace Train dream which started the
Peace Bridge on it's course of creating Peace Train art around the world, riding
the Peace Train from New Orleans to Washington will be, quite literally, a dream
come true. Read Jeremy's original Peace Train dream at: 
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/peacetrain.htm



Another Peace Bridge dream which could be seen as precognitive was mentioned by
Valley in another update from Crawford:



"Thanks for the support and offers of support for the Crawford Peace House. The
donations are coming in and people are coming in droves and many of the finest
volunteers I have ever seen. These people are committed and they are working
very very hard to keep this action coordinated in Crawford.



"We have 50 bags of ice delivered each day, we provide meals 3 times a day for
500 people, we have two camps and one peace house, and around 10 shuttles
running between the camps to transport people around. Five core groups are
helping to organize with Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families, Military Families
Speak Out, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans against the War, along with Code
Pink and Crawford Peace House.



"It is strange to see all the satellite tv trucks parked along the side of the
road next to a cow pasture. The neighbors are getting tired of all the people
driving around the road and the events we are having nightly in the main tent
where we feed every one and have interfaith services and speakers and
performers.  It is about 2 miles from the Bush Ranch and right next to the
Secret Service Check Point.



"Crawford is a place of miracles and the people and resources that are needed
show up. We have had people from as far away as Alaska come down. It is a kind
of spiritual pilgrimage for many people. We have a labyrinth in the peace garden
that people take the time to walk and contemplate peace.



"We don't want to take away any of the resources from the good work that is
going on here at the bridge. Just keep us in your dreams!



"This is another instance of a dream realized, when we first thought about
Crawford as a peace house I had a dream of a long white banner that was from far
away and it lead to Crawford that said Peace is the Way. Now so many people are
making their way to Crawford to speak out against the war and work for peace. 
My son and I made a banner together from that dream that has been to many
rallies since this war began. I will bring it to DC!"



In the midst of all this activity, a controversy broke out on the Bridge, when
one member referred to the U.S. President as "Shrub."  Was it respectful to air
this kind of slur, some asked?  Weren't we just showing our own aggression?  It
appeared that war might break out on the Peace Bridge, until discussion began to
open a new space for everyone involved.



On August 27, May wrote:



Dear Jeremy, Olivia, Valley, Victoria, Ron, Louise, myself, and everybody: When
I read the posts from some of you this morning, I felt "What a group!" I was 
impressed and inspired by all that you have said.  The  question came up to me
after the reading: Is there legitmate  place  for hatred, anger, disgust,
condescension, dispise, distrust...? What and where is the "best in us" and how
do we balance -- is that it? -- and make room for all these human qualities.
What is the alchemical process do we need.  Then I recalled last night's dreams
and they are:



BEARING THE BEST I am in a procession with a  small group of people, probably
all women,  walking down hill on a street. I happen to be the first (no
leadership implied). It's all very grey, the pavement and the sky. We each hold
a box as if in  a ceremony, respectfully. In the box (size of a  shoe box but
shallower) there are  maybe six objects (artifacts?) -- in it, carefully
partitioned to keep them in place. They are precious objects for some reason. We
are careful that they stay in place and are safe. I look at mine and others also
notice, that I have the "best" of whatever it is. I feel good, realizing  that I
am fortunate to have the best. I wonder for a moment of perhaps the reason of
why or how come I happened or worked for what turned out to be the best. There
is a mild realization that I worked for this end result. EOD



THE BEST AGAIN There is a second dream just before I woke up  but I could only
remember a little part of it.  I am also walking in front of a small group of
people and also about I have the best of whatever it is, maybe clothing, the 
long, classical Chinese garment I have on. Again, I am surprised by it. EOD



********************************** Somehow, I connect these dreams with what has
been taking place here on the Bridge. In both dreams, I was surprised when I
found out that I had the best. In relation to the recent Bridge posts I felt I
am in touch of the best of this group, therefore, it all became part of my Self.
I incorporated all the qualities in you. It is also true, that, in recent
months, I've had several dreams that I could only understand as some good things
in me are beginning to consolidate, to surface, to be realized. So, these two
little ones are also part of that process. As you  all know, I hope, by now,
that I am quite capable of experiencing and expression anger  and even cruelty
but I do believe in the fundamental "good" in me and in most people I know in my
life  and you are all part of my inner and outer life.



Ali, touched by the discussion, wrote from Baghdad:



Dear Victoria: and all friends and dreamers.



I believe that there are many things that we can do.

exchange of ideas can evoke others to think and brain storm their

minds ...

What to do

Who do what, and when.



Each one can dream of peace and tranquility.

Each one can pray and ask His Lord for more stability and peace for

the Humanbeings and to behave in Human way.

Every one can light a candle and that might ligh the pathway in our

dark hostile paths that are full of criminals and merciless

mercineries......

The wish list will never end....



But dear friends I feel so good to have your reflections and that is

really impressive.

I usually have print out of these electonic encounters and show it to

my colleagues in the hospital and else where to prove to them, that

we are not alone.

Ali









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Dream: “Turning into Stone�



Stan Kulikowski II



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DATE  : 26 aug 2005  05:00

DREAM : turning into stone



=( yesterday was thursday.  school has started up again and i have short classes
scheduled every day around noon.  it feels odd to be so employed after the
entire summer with nothing.  the programming project i worked on all summer is
about two weeks from done but i do not know when i will have time to get back to
it with this schedule.

during the evening i had to get the student pictures into the seating charts on
the web site and review material for my next classes on

programming and multimedia.   mother and i watched some DVDs of the

series _earth 2_ before i got to bed around midnight.  i fell asleep rather
easily.  )=





it is late afternoon, almost sunset.  i am walking down the long country road
past the farm where janeen lives.  i am not expecting anything in particular,
indeed not expecting to see her.  just walking past the place where i used to
feel so happy.



"stan?"



i hear her voice say my name.  i look around as if finally noticing where i am. 
janeen is standing in the small garden behind her father's house, picking some
vegetables from the lush, ordered rows of plants.  she is wearing her tight
jeans and a simple tee shirt, looking as thin and beautiful as ever.



"i did not mean to disturb you."  i tell her.  "i was just walking and happened
to pass here without thinking."  the last part is true, about not thinking.



"well, come on in here for a while.  my parents are away and i could use some
company."  my heart starts racing, filled with hope.  i never did see why i
failed with her and have always lived with the hope that someday she would want
me back.  i go into the garden to help pick some of the hot red peppers she has
been gathering.



janeen talks for a while, saying just little things about but i can hardly hear
her over the rapid beating of my heart and trying to keep my breath from racing
away from me.  finally i hear her ask a question and realize that i should
answer.  "would you consider eating a second dessert with someone else as double
dipping?"  she had asked.



"i wouldn't want to."  i reply simply.



"well, i am thinking that i might have some coffee and doughnuts with you just
now."  i just understand her implication that she has already had dessert with
somebody.  my heart goes suddenly cold with fear but keeps beating at its
frantic pace with hope and desire.  god knows i would take her anyway i could
get her.



janeen keeps talking, but now about some other man she has been seeing as if i
were some confidant about her romantic affairs.  she hopes that nothing will
stop her from getting pregnant with him and marrying him but he is so into their
church that she might not be able to catch him at the right time.  whatever that
means.  janeen wanting to get pregnant?  that is not like her at all.  i can
hardly hear her words as i am still feeling the hope churning deep inside me
while everything she says is locking up everything else in me.



janeen finally comes over close to me just as the sun flares just before it goes
under the horizon.  oh, that familiar smell of her.

she puts her arms around my shoulders and i stiffly respond by taking her waist.
she feels so firm and solid.  she bends her head slightly to the side.  i taste
the salt on her skin as i lightly kiss her neck.



"nothing is going to stop from being with earl."  she says.  earl.

so now i must know his name even.  it sinks into me like a nail.

"but i might from time to time share a little comfort with you on the side."



a little comfort.  all my muscles are slowly clenching tighter and tighter but
she does not seem to notice.  inside my heart is still pumping madly with insane
hope but her every word is now sealing me into despair.  i look down at my
hands.  i can not move my cold fingers.  the ends of them are turning gray.  i
can still taste the salt of her lovely slim neck upon my lips, but i feel like i
am turning into stone.



=( awake at 4:41.  my body still feels tense and leaden like it did in the
dream.  the somatic reaction i felt continued on for a while as i lay awake in
bed.  i guess this was somewhat like janeen as uncomfortable she made me feel
when she broke my heart, but she was usually straight forward with me.  earl was
the name of my maternal grandfather, who i generally liked.  i have no other
association with the name here.  the farm in the country was not like the one
janeen lived on in hadley massachusetts, but rather more like the one janet came
from in ohio.  so there seems to be some crossover between these farm girls that
i loved.  it takes me a while to decide to type this uncomfortable dream into my
journal files, but i have not had a dream lately and there is plenty of time
before i have to get ready for classes.  if i skip a dream when i could write
it, it seems to suppress others from coming so i hope to prime the dream pump
with collecting this one.  it certainly seems to have more significance to me
than i like to admit.  the feel of her, her smell and taste, seem so familiar
like it was just yesterday that i could hold her.  )=



---          stankuli@...





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The Dream Section is edited by Kat Peters-Midland

  from the Rocky Mountain Dream Journal



Teeth falling out, being killed in a car crash, being unable to call out on a
phone, being chased by someone, and being dead in the dream…another colorful
dream section of Electric Dreams!





Dream title: Calm of the Night

Dream date: August 23 2005

Dreamer name: st-jacques

Dream text: I am walking through a village in the early morning hours. There are
huts made of some sort of grass all around me that blend into the scenery like a
jungle. Village people are running from me into their huts.  I see a large hut
down one dirt path and enter. I go down a few steps and find myself a bottle and
have a drink from it. This liquid burns my throat as it goes down but I feel
very warm and content.  I leave this hut and go back into the dirt street. Far
down this path in some dense ferns, sits a lion on some large leaves. He looks
at me and rises. A small lion cub is seated behind him. They nod respectfully at
me and go back into the jungle. I follow the path for some time in the heat of
the mid-day sun until I see a hill with a large tree at the top.

I trek up the hill for some distance until I arrive at this one lonely tree. I
climb the tree and rest on a limb that looks out over the lights of fires coming
from the now distant village.

  A man walks the path with a small boy. The man is injured and walks with a
limp. He has a long staff made of warped wood. The boy helps him along. They are
dressed in rags and look as though their journey has been long. They are weak,
but I sense inner strength.

I look at them both as they stand in the dusk staring back at me. The man is
speaking in a language foreign to me. He is showing me to the child. They seem
to want permission to pass. I allow it with a nod of my head and I am making a
soft rumbling sound. As I watch them walk on down the path, I look down and
begin to lick my large black paws. My tail is flicking gently as night begins to
fall. I am thinking now that my world is calm and as I drift into sleep on this
hot starry night, high on the tree limb, I am content.

Dream comments: This dream was so colorful. Absolute reality. Absolute calm.



Dream title: The Lawyer’s Daughter

Dream date: August 27, 2005

Dreamer name: St. Jacques

Dream text: I am in a diner or bar with another woman. I am a prostitute or
something like that and so is she. I am seeing myself in the mirror and laugh at
the sadness of this image: Thin and tall, with black tank top and blue jeans.

Four men are seated at a table. One calls my friend over and offers her a beer.
She declines and he pulls her arm to seat her, and then licks the side of her
face. She slaps him and rises from the table.  I am with a man that wants sex,
but has no money. I push him aside. He is boring me anyway with idle chatter. He
is a law student and I am not impressed.

Two men at the table begin to harass me verbally and I am angry now. They are
young law students in their twenties but are arrogant and rude in their
behavior. I have seen this before and my mind now flashes to a man that I had
been seeing. He was a lawyer with two mistresses and plenty of cash to burn. I
knew his fate, I saw it happen... then I flashed back to the table to jeering
men. A slapping sound distracts me and I turn to see two girls hitting my
friend. I grab one girl and pull her off but a taller blonde girl is pushing and
slapping my friend.  I take her by the hair and pound her head against the
window until she runs crying from out of the diner/bar.

Moments later she rushes back with two police officers. One of the men at the
table tells me she is a law student and her father is some big lawyer. They ask
me what will happen to me. I tell them that she will prevail even though she
started the fight. I tell them law protects the rich not the poor.

The cops are respectful with me and ask what has happened. I explain the
situation but I know I cannot win. I look to the law students and say "Tell them
what you saw". Now they are all standing before me with disguises on. They will
not say the truth. They only leave the diner one by one with their heads down to
avoid any further confrontation.

"What will happen to you"? Asks the other girl who I helped. I look down at my
beer on the table and laugh. The cop asks me to stand now and I am being led
away.

Dream comments: Well I like this dream because I am not a violent person, I
don't drink beer, I’m not a prostitute, but... I don't particularly like
lawyers... so at least a part of me was there in the body of that girl. I
frequently see myself in my dreams as other people with completely different
characters to that of my own.



Dream title: The Unexplained Coupe

Dream date: August 24, 2005

Dreamer name: St-Jacques

Dream text: I am riding in a bus around 3a.m. The bus slows to a halt and I jump
out onto a barren field, in the dark, in the middle of nowhere. I begin to run
across this field until I see a street lamp in the distance. A small corner shop
is open and I enter and ask for coffee. I am given a small cone-shaped object
and two small round balls. I pay 4 dollars for this. It is some form of caffeine
(coffee flavored liquid-condensed cone) with nutritional food supplements. There
is now a line-up behind me to get some. I light a cigarette outside under the
street lamp and chat with someone who is awaiting a bus.  A car pulls up. The
driver is a man, a friend, but virtually faceless.   I get in and we continue on
to the inner parts of a large city as dawn approaches.

We are parked on the rise of a hill, surrounded by large buildings. Two high
rises are at the bottom right of the hill. I sense there is something coming and
I feel electricity in the air.  The humidity of this morning is unbearable.
There is no wind and too much silence for such a metropolitan area.

As the occupants of the car chat and take in their supplements and caffeine, I
turn, looking down the hill at the two large buildings. I see three people
dressed in orange suits (like haz-mat suits) with masks, scaling down the left
side of one of the buildings using black ropes like cliff descenders.  Suddenly
gunfire breaks out in the streets. I cannot see very well down the hill directly
behind me, but there appear to be several people involved.

As I turn to look back, a middle age man in a gray suit approaches the passenger
side of the vehicle where I am seated. He pulls a gun out and points it to my
head. I lean towards the driver awaiting the impact and looking directly at the
gun. The man says "is this your day to die".  I cannot respond nor move at this
point.

Gunfire sounds much louder now as if it is coming toward us on the street. The
man pulls the gun back away from my head. He turns and begins to run. The car I
am in speeds away to an interstate highway above the city. We are driving toward
a familiar part of the city now that I have been to in many earlier dreams. "I
know a woman here who once sold me an antique typewriter" I tell the driver. I
am looking for the street to find her. She was a thin older woman who often sat
on the front steps of her building and sold items she had salvaged from the
clothing district not far away. I find myself in familiar territory now, seeing
the derelict buildings on side streets. I am approaching my destination. I am
thinking that this was not my day to die.

Dream comments: none



Dream title: Unable to call out on a phone

Dream date: 08/26/05

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: I drove a truck to a secure work place that was not my own. I left
the truck unlocked with my purse in it. On the way to the building, I find my
emptied purse with just my keys in it. All my cash, credit cards, identification
checks that make up everything in the purse are gone. I am in the work place -
it has work stations and small offices without windows. People are dressed
professionally and are working. I asked to use the phone to report the loss of
the contents of my purse. A woman asks if I would like her to make the calls for
me. I say, "of course not, I can take care of the problems in my life. I have
been doing so for a long time."  I can not seem to call out. I get busy signals
or wrong numbers. The time creeps by. I keep trying and speak with people on the
phone that are not who I am trying to call. It is now 5:00 P.M the banks are
closed. I have not gotten the message out to cancel my cards and stop the use of
my checks and identification. I feel helpless and at loss. I realize my money
may be gone and my debts run up by a thief. I tell myself to leave this place
and get in my truck and handle the situation from somewhere else.

Dream comments: Does this mean I am not able to control my finances? I am at
loss.



Dream title: Weird Disco Science

Dream date: August 23, 2005

Dreamer name: SD

Dream text: We are in my room, which is big enough to be a school.  There is a
huge lab table set up near my door where a teacher and student are doing
scientific experiments with chemicals and they spill a few.  I run and hide
under my bed for some reason and then I am at a disco. While I am there, I am a
girl until I start to dance with a girl I have never seen before. (Her name is
unknown to me but she was wearing a red dress and heels and she had brown hair).
All of a sudden, I am a guy in disco clothes.  I have to beat someone in a
contest to live. We do the Sunday night disco, The Soul Train. And then I flip
almost over her backwards –it is not what I was supposed to do! But we all
crack up laughing and I am allowed to live because we all agree that I won. Then
all of a sudden my mom says "Sue I really hope we can see you again sometime!"  
I find out Sue is engaged, which surprises me because I never saw the ring. Then
I use my cell phone and get out from under my bed. I run over to the two science
guys and knock over all their chemicals and they just stare at me. Then I am in
my bed larger.

Dream comments: none



Dream title: deaf

Dream date: 08/19/2005

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: dead bodies where all around and we called the police and they said
that we were crazy because they wasn't no where to be found

Dream comments: none



Dream title: Crash!!

Dream date: 8/17/05

Dreamer name: none

Dream text:  I was driving in my mom’s car with my sister.  All of a sudden
the car started to spin out of control and we ended up hitting a bunch of side
rails on the side of the road.  Then we ended up being wrapped around a pole and
we both didn’t survive.

Dream comments: Every time I would wake up then fall back asleep the dream would
start over.



Dream title: Our Old house

Dream date: August 16, 2005

Dreamer name: anonymous

Dream text: The old house my parents, two of my brothers, and I used to live in
had been occupied by the owner.  He had tons of children - not his own - living
with him. I had gone to claim the house as ours but he told me it wasn't; then I
left.

Dream comments: When my mom died we all moved out of the house.



Dream title: The frog in the stream and bread

Dream date: 8/16/2005

Dreamer name: Victoria

Dream text: I was relaxing on a window seat (the size of a bed) with a work
colleague, whose name I know but have not actually met.  We were lying down
looking out of the window, watching a beautiful clear stream flowing past.  I
saw a frog that was red and white in a swirl pattern.  I also saw a small rodent
that we could not identify which was small and had long brown hair and black
spots.  It was wearing a purple collar and we remarked that it must belong to
someone.  After leaving the room, we walked through a large kitchen that
belonged to one of my work colleagues.  In the middle of the kitchen there were
lots of loaves of freshly baked bread on the large marble table. After walking
through the kitchen we were back on the window seat looking out at the stream
and frog.

Dream comments: This loop occurred about 6 times in the dream.



Dream title: This is my destiny

Dream date: 1997

Dreamer name: Kel

Dream text: I am walking along with my parents and a young girl (around 9 years
old). All of a sudden a crevasse opens up and my parents fall in. I struggle to
get them out, and manage to get my mother out but not my father, who disappears
into to the hole. We carry on walking and reach a door surrounded by Doric
columns. The girl turns around and is about to leave us. She holds up her hand
which acts as a camera and shows a picture of my father falling into the hole,
and says "this is your destiny".

Dream comments: This dream has haunted me for many years, and I still don't
really know what it means. My mother is very religious while my father believes
that there is nothing after death. Initially I was terrified by the dream
because it seemed to be saying that I would not achieve any spiritual progress,
but rather fall into an abyss of ignorance. However, I know for certain that
there is life after death, having done many shamanic practices related to dying
(psychopomp etc) so it cannot mean my own ignorance.  Maybe instead it means
that my task it to stop people falling into the abyss. In the eight years since
this dream occurred my father has become much less closed to the possibility of
spirituality of some kind existing, as has my brother, thanks to my sharing my
experiences with them.



Dream title: Getting married

Dream date: 8/10/05

Dreamer name: JA

Dream text: I was at my wedding, and I was trying to figure out who I was
getting married to. Then I asked my cousin and she showed my picture, and
everyone could tell that I couldn't remember. And then I told everyone that he
is ugly and I stopped the wedding, and left. Then he was showing my mom the
wedding ring, but I think it was a watch!!!

Dream comments: This is really weird I am a teenager!!!



Dream title: The Dry Sea

Dream date: July 9, 2005

Dreamer name: LB

Dream text: I am walking out of the house into a valley of banks and shores
there were acres upon acres of shrimp and fish lying on the ground, as though
the sea had gone dry and the shrimp and fish were just lying there... they were
not dead.  There were mostly shrimp.  I have never seen anything like it... it
went on for miles.

  Dream comments:  This is a very short dream or the only part I remember I am
not sure what this all means but it is just one of the many fascinating dreams I
have been having lately.





Dream title: Death or Beetle Juice flashback

Dream date: 8/06/2005

Dreamer name: BM

Dream text: I was in a car accident and paramedics pulled me from my car and
into the ambulance. I do not remember much of the wreck, just that my car was
fucked and had flipped a few times (a lot like the accident I had a couple years
ago)   As soon as the stretcher was in, I sat up and made my way out of the back
door of the ambulance. None of the paramedics stopped me from doing so. From the
scene of the accident I walked home which took a matter of seconds. Upon opening
my front door I felt something wasn’t right. As I walked into my house I saw
someone sitting on my couch, it was me. I was sitting on the couch watching TV
just as I had done prior to the wreck. I watched myself walk out the front door
and I noticed a book on the table. It was almost like being in the movie Beetle
Juice for a moment. The book mentioned something about death on the cover, and I
avoided the book and continued to walk around my house. "I'm dead" oddly enough
the mere thought of being dead and the effect I know it will have on people in
my life depresses me, but I was not sad. I was anxious and tense and wanted
nothing more than to explore. As sad as it seems I was trying to sign on-line in
death to let the love of my life know I was dead. Why? I do not know. I guess
even in death you can use yahoo messenger. I signed on and began talking with
Arthur, every time I tried to tell him that I had died or explain any part of
it, the letters on the screen would scramble. And the second I would press enter
on the key board everything around me would ripple like I had been crossing some
boundary. Everything would become blurry and a vibration would overcome me like
I was doing something unnatural. I gave up on the computer and went and lay down
in my room. (At this point I am lucidly dreaming. If you have ever experienced
this you will know exactly what I am talking about. The only difference here is
I knew I was dreaming yet I seriously thought I was dead. In lucid dreams you
can control them and you are completely aware you are dreaming.  My lucid dream
had limitations I suppose. It was also in color which is not so common with
dreams.) As I lay on my bed, knowledge filled my mind with what was going on. It
wasn’t a voice, but thoughts and answers that filled my head. I was to remain
in my house for 24 hours if I were to close my eyes or fall asleep I would leave
for my destination sooner. I was not certain about my destination because
religion is not a major part of my life. But it also became clear that someone
who has already passed to the other side wherever that may be will come to take
me to my destination. Having a career in nursing, I have been with many people
at the moment of their deaths, so I wasn’t sure who exactly would come to get
me.  There was too much going on in my head and I felt drained. My eyes began to
flutter I was tired and freaked out by this whole thing. As my eyes closed......
a baby blue old style low rider pulled up in my room right next to my bed. "They
are here to pick me up" "NO!" The low rider started to blur and ripple and fade
away.

Dream comments: I sat up quickly and turned off my alarm clock that was blaring
in my ear. I’m alive and it is the creepiest feeling to wake up from death let
me tell you. Even so, I lay back down and slept some more. I read once that
dreaming about death can mean the start of something new in life. My death could
very well signify a phase in my life that desperately needs to draw to a close.
I hope that this is true, and that new beginnings and life changes happen.



Dream title: Panic

Dream date: 08/05/2005

Dreamer name: NoSecurity



Dream text: I am in a mall or some type of a building, I am in a panic, there
was some type of alarm which I did not hear, but everyone is scurrying to get
out. As I open every door to a store, the lights go out - this happens in two or
three different stores.  I proceed to the stairwell and for some reason I go up
instead of down. I open doors on different floors that lead outside and the
first is sunny and bright with grass and swing sets. I shut the door and proceed
to go up the stairs. I get to the top floor and there is a menacing-looking man.
I know he is the person that everyone is running away from, but I am not afraid
of him. I open the door behind him that leads outside, there is a toy
plane/rocket, that looks like plastic.  It is red, yellow and blue, (I found out
later that it was an Atomic bomb), and I shut the door. There is a little boy
with him (a toddler) and he is standing up and looking straight at me. The man
says to me "If you do not want him, I know what to do with him!" I knew deep
down that he was going to kill the child if I did not take him. I picked up the
child and ran down the stairs like a bat out of hell. I get home somehow; I
proceed to tell someone about what just happened. I don't know who I told but it
was a man I knew. Then my boyfriend calls me on the phone and tells me that he
is drunk, this irritated me and I think, "Damn, he's never around when I need
him!" Well at this point I am in the backyard with my boyfriend’s boss; we are
sitting at a picnic table with a black gas grill next to the table. My
boyfriend’s boss drinks my boyfriend’s Nesquick chocolate milk after I told
him not to (because my boyfriend would be pissed). The child that I brought home
is now somehow a kitten. My boyfriend finally shows up, (but it doesn't look
like him) and I told him what happened.  I proceed to tell him that his boss
drank his chocolate milk, expecting him to be pissed, but he just shrugged it
off. I am then in a small living room and the little boy that turned into a
kitten has now turned into a little girl about 7-8 years of age, she is wearing
a pink dress white stockings and pink shoes.  I seem to be talking to a female
family member-but I can't actually see them-and I am proud of the little girl.

Dream comments: I've had a lot of emotional downs in my life recently and I
doubt just about everything that I have to make a decision about, I avoid
decisions and confrontations at all costs, even my own happiness and sanity.



Dream title: Losing my teeth

Dream date: August 1, 2, 2005

Dreamer name: Sunshine

Dream text: I have dreamed for the past 2 nights that I am losing my teeth.  One
by one they start falling out, and it hurts, but I am more scared then anything.
I just remember panicking and not knowing what I can do or what can be done.

Dream comments: I read somewhere that teeth falling out is normally an
unfavorable sign in a dream. It signifies displeasure and also shows that you
are afraid of losing someone dear to you.



Dream title: Baseball

Dream date: July 28, 2005

Dreamer name: Macaroni

Dream text: I was on my way to a baseball game and when we got halfway there I
realized that I didn’t have any money on me. I figured that I was going to
have to get some money somehow but I just couldn’t figure out a way. When I
got to where I was going someone loaned me a dollar so that I could get a drink
from a machine. When I put my dollar in the machine out came like thousands of
dollars and all the food and drink I could dream of.  When I split the money
with a kid I was rooming with, he went out and bought about 200 juice packs and
about 30 packs of hotdogs.  We were set for the rest of the trip.  Then our
hotel room that we were staying in got robbed and everything that we had bought
was gone. We ended up fighting a big huge group of people to get our stuff
back...then poof I was awake again

Dream comments: weirdest one to come yet



Dream title: I Jump

Dream date:

Dreamer name: Helena

Dream text: I am being chased by someone they are quite far behind me. I come to
a flight of stairs and go down three - I stop I Panic I jump. But I am ok.

Dream comments: none











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Electric Dreams for September will be out in a few days, but I didn't
want any ED subscribers to miss the Sept 1st deadline for discounted
rates for the online dream conference coming up next month.  RCW -
Editor

Registration at:
http://asdreams.org/psi2005/

What is it?

Announcing IASD'S 2005 PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE: For two weeks, from
September 18 - October 2, 2005, participants worldwide will again
enjoy online presentations on paranormal dreaming, psi-contests,
chats, and discussions with celebrated psi-dreaming experts at a
bargain price. Previous conferences have brought in rave reviews -
even if you missed the first three, make sure you attend the fourth!


NOTE: If you wish to take advantage of the new IASD member offer, go
to the New Member Form and follow instructions. If you become a NEW
IASD member between August 1 and October 2, 2005 you can attend the
PsiberDreaming Conference with no additional charge!
http://asdreams.org/idxmembership.htm


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Join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of Psi
dreaming for two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions,
workshops, and chats. If you've ever had a precognitive dream, a
lucid dream, or simply an 'unusual dream' that never quite made
sense, this is the place for you.



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"Bravo!", "Incredible!", "a wonderful
experience," "amazing!", "topnotch", "I am really thrilled," "great
conference," "please, please do this frequently," "I don't know how
many accolades I can give you, too many to count, I believe. The
conference was simply great!! Good presenters, topics, participants,
and great energy."
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Even if you missed the first three, make sure you attend the fourth!


PDC2005 Presenters:

Chris Robinson, scientifically validated precognitive dreamer who has
worked with Scotland Yard and British Intelligence, co author of the
book The Dream Detective; Alan Siegel, Ph.D., author of Dream Wisdom:
uncovering Life's Answers in Your Dreams; Dale Graff, author of River
Dreams: The Case of the Missing General and Other Adventures in
Psychic Research;  Robert Waggoner, co-editor of The Lucid Dream
Exchange; Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D., author of Control Your Dreams;
Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D'Urso, Ph.D., an internationally known
lucid dreamer, known for her role in Stephen LaBerge's groundbreaking
studies at Stanford; Mena Potts, Ph.D., dream psychologist and psi
researcher and Dominic J. Potts, Esq., J.D., author of The Mystique
of the Legal Lexicon; David Jenkins, Ph.D.  author of Dream RePlay:
How To Transform Your Dream Life; Cynthia Pearson, author of The
Practical Psychic, Curtiss Hoffman, Ph.D., archaeologist and author
of The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey through Space and Time;
Gloria Sturzenacker, developer of the Inner Guide Mapping symbol
system; Linda Lane Magallón, M.B.A., author of Mutual Dreaming: When
Two or More People Share the Same Dream; Rita Dwyer, IASD PsiDreams E-
group Host, a founder and facilitator of the Metro D.C. Dream
Community; Bob Hoss, M.S., author of The Language of Dreams; Lucy
Gillis,  co-editor of The Lucid Dream Exchange; Craig Webb, co-
founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Dreams Foundation;
Bitsy Broughton, M.A. in Human Consciousness Studies from John F.
Kennedy University, Clare Johnson, Ph.D. researcher with the
University of Leeds investigating the link between lucid dreaming and
creativity; Richard Wilkerson, Editor-in-Chief of Electric Dreams;
and Ed Kellogg, Ph.D., host of IASD's 'Paranormal Phenomena' forum,
and of the 2002 - 2005 PsiberDreaming Conferences.

  This Year's Presentations:
"Video Game Play, Dreams and Consciousness Development." / Gackenbach
"The Art of Dream Healing" / D'Urso
"Dreams Near Death." / Siegel
"Dream Precognition: Possible Ways to Improve and Control It." /
Robinson
"Calling the Animal Guides: Crossing the Boundaries." / Broughton
"Parallel Universes /Probable Selves." / Gillis
"Primitive Rock Art and the Formative Dynamics of Psi Dreaming." /
Graff
"Redreaming our Global Self: An Identity Upgrade to "I" version
2.0" / Webb
"Oneiric Cartography: Mapping the Dream-body" / Jenkins
"Does Scientific Honesty Still Require Skepticism About Psi?" /
Sturzenacker
"Lucid Dream your way to Creativity." / Johnson
"Dreams, Whitehead and Psi: Using Microcosmic Event Awareness." /
Wilkerson
"Psi Dreams-The Agony and the Ecstasy." / Potts
"Interactive Dreaming and Ethics." / Magallón
"Mercury Retrograde and its Effects on Dreaming." / Hoffman
"Using Lucid Dreams to Seek Future Information." / Waggoner
"Dream Language - Path to Personal Transformation." / Hoss
"Enter the Matrix: Exploring the Source Code of Dreams." / Kellogg


Contests:
Mutual Dreaming Contest (Facilitator Ed Kellogg)
Precognitive Dreaming Contest (Facilitators Cynnie Pearson & Beverly
D'Urso)
Dream Telepathy Contest (Facilitator Rita Dwyer)



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Features:

1. Online Presentations, including provocative papers and workshops
on popular and cutting edge topics, such as: remote viewing,
precognition, dream telepathy, mutual dreaming, psychopompic dreams,
lucid dreaming, visionary dreaming, prodromal dreams, dream healing,
the nature of dream reality, and dreaming as a spiritual practice.
Workshops will provide resource lists for those who wish to explore
topics in greater depth, and practical instructions for techniques or
experiments detailed enough so that conference participants can try
them out at home.

2. Dedicated PsiberDreaming Discussion Boards where participants can
discuss each paper and workshop in depth with authors and other
participants, and can post specific questions, etc. Links to relevant
threads would appear conveniently at the end of each posted
presentation, updated daily to show new threads of interest.

3. Scheduled Chats each week of the conference with presenters and/or
other experts on cutting edge topics.

4. Numerous PsiberDreaming Events where participants can test their
skills and explore different facets of paranormal dreaming, including
dream telepathy and remote viewing, precognition, and mutual
dreaming. Judges will evaluate how well dreamers tune into the
designated targets, or how well dreamers perform a specific dream
task. And IASD will provide prizes to the winners!

5. A PsiberDreaming Gallery of Dreams and Art. One section of this
gallery will feature the "best of the best", graphic images of dream
art selected from the submissions to past IASD conferences, formatted
into a sequential point and click cyber tour. A second section of the
gallery will provide a place where participants can display their own
dream art (with accompanying dream text or dream poetry), sharing
them with other participants.

COSTS:


Event Dates and Costs:
The PsiberDreaming Conference opens Sunday, September 18, 2005
through Sunday, October 2, 2005. The conference then becomes a read
only archive for an additional two weeks for participants (through
October 16th, 2005.)
Online Participation Costs for both weeks (no one week rate):

General Public $41! (US Dollars)

IASD Members $36!

Students with valid ID $26! (no additional IASD discount)

Participants who register and pay by August 31st receive a $5
discount! (Early registration Discount Rates: General Public $36,
IASD Members $31, Students with valid ID $21)

Note: we've deliberately set the price of attending this conference
low to open this conference to interested participants worldwide.
Please take advantage!

Registration at:
http://asdreams.org/psi2005/

OR: Considering joining IASD? Join IASD as a new member anytime from
August 1st through October 2nd and you can attend IASD's third
PsiberDreaming Conference for free!
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