E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Subscribe: electric-dreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: electric-dreams-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Subscribe Online: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Volume #11 Issue #8 August 2004 ISSN# 1089 4284 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Download a cover for this issue: http://tinyurl.com/44y9u o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ News – PsiberDreaming Conference The Association for the Study of Dreams September 19, 2004 - October 3, 2004 Virtual Conference - Online ++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange Lucy Gillis Robert Waggoner interviews Beverly D'Urso ++ Article: ABC's of Dream Benefits Linda Lane Magallón ++ Column: The Dreams of Children The World Dreams Peace Bridge A View from the Bridge Jean Campbell ++ Column: Spectral Waves: The Quest for the Holy Grail Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year Nick Cumbo ++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from July, 2004 Host Kat Peters-Midland XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX D E A D L I N E : August 21st deadline for September 2004 submissions XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Editor's Notes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Welcome to the August 2004 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreamwork online. If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, please join us on dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com and we will guide you to the resources & groups you need. To join send an e to dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Electric Dreams is looking for a Dream News Editor. If you are interested in this position, see the details below. This is a really fun position as you get to know all the players in the field of dreams. This month in Electric Dreams: Lucy Gillis shares travels around the dream world to find the most talented and experimental lucid dreamers. This month, "DreamSpeak: An Interview with a Lucid Dreamer" continues with its second installment. In this three part series, Robert Waggoner interviews long time lucid dreamer Beverly D'Urso. Linda Magallón. author of Mutual Dreaming, offers us a selection this month from her book on How to Fly. In the article, "ABC's of Dream Benefits," Magallón goes to the limits of flying dreams, combining experience and speculative theory to find the most exotic flying contexts for your reading zoo. Jean Campbell notes that the theme of children has been popping up enough this July on the Peace Bridge that it warrants a closer look. " If you have never heard of the Peace Bridge or if you are an active member, be sure to read her column "A View from the Bridge." The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations underway at the Sea Life forum. They take a community approach to dreaming, running monthly dreaming projects to learn more about the world, and the evolutionary path before ourselves and our planet. This month the journey is Crystal Waves: Journey to the Galactic Center, Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year. Keep in mind that the Fall PsiberDreaming Conference is almost upon us. For more information, read the invitation from the Host, Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. Janet Garrett has been working hard this month to bring the Electric Dreams Archives (our articles from the last ten years) up to date. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm A black tornado followed by a white tornado, an erupting volcano, bright purple spiders, a big snake, puppets jumping out the television with knives, a shattered horse, and birthing a black rabbit...sounds like a new Tim Burton movie, doesn't it? Actually they are in the Electric Dreams Dream Section, thanks to Dream Editor Kat Peters-Midland, from the Rocky Mountain Dream Journal. Be sure to read all of these dreams! 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) -------------------- For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one of the many resources: http://www.dreamtree.com http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo) http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/ http://www.dreamofpeace.net/community/electricdreams/ -------------------- Dreamin' up a storm, -Richard Wilkerson /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Global Dreaming News seeks new Editor – (volunteer position) If you feel you would be a good candidate to report the news that is going on in the dream world, be sure to contact Richard Wilkerson at rcwilk@dreamgte.com The GDNews editor will receive the support of the Electric Dreams staff in making contact with all the essential people in the dream world, and will be responsible for putting this information together once a month for publication. This is a really fun position and you can expand then news as you like. In the past, we have included reviews of dream books, dates for conferences, seminars, talks and other events, new websites and research news and requests. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Research Request: Dreams of the 2004 US Presidential Election Have you or anyone you know dreamed about the 2004 US Presidential election? For example, dreams about the candidates (e.g., George W. Bush, John Kerry, Dick Cheney, John Edwards, Ralph Nader), the major issues (e.g., terrorism, war in Iraq, economy), and/or the election process itself? If yes, please contact Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. at for inclusion in an ongoing research project on dreams and politics. In addition to describing the dream(s) in as much detail as possible, please also include the dreamer's age, gender, state of residence, political affiliation, and ideas about what the dream(s) might mean. All dream reports will be kept confidential, and if you like you will receive comments about your dreams from Dr. Bulkeley. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o PsiberDreaming Conference The Association for the Study of Dreams September 19, 2004 - October 3, 2004 Virtual Conference - Online Invitation from Host, Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. E-mail: alef1@msn.com o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o http://www.asdreams.org/psi2004/ Join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of psi- dreaming for two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, contests, and chats at a bargain price. If you've ever had a precognitive dream, a lucid dream, or simply an 'unusual dream' that puzzled you, this online conference seems the place for you. Past presenters include: Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., author of Altered States of Consciousness, Robert L. Van de Castle, Ph.D. author of Our Dreaming Mind, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Ph.D. author of The Dreamer's Way, Robert Moss, author of Dreamgates, Marcia Emery, Ph.D., author of The Intuitive Healer, Alan Siegel, Ph.D., author of Dream Wisdom, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. author of Lucid Dreaming, Dale E. Graff, author of Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness, Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. co-author of Extraordinary Dreams, Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., host of Thinking Allowed - and many others! Previous conferences brought in 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 two, make sure you attend the third! 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 ASD 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 ASD 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. Event Dates and Costs: The PsiberDreaming Conference runs from September 21, through October 5, 2003. Online Participation Costs for both weeks (no one week rate): General Public $38! (US Dollars) ASD Members $33! (US Dollars) Students with valid ID $23! (no additional ASD discount) Note: we've deliberately set the price of attending this conference low to open this conference to interested participants worldwide. Please take advantage! http://www.asdreams.org/psi2004/ ------------------------ END NEWS ---------------------- o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis LDE is pleased to present DreamSpeak: An Interview with a Lucid Dreamer. In this three part series, Robert Waggoner interviews long time lucid dreamer Beverly D'Urso. (Please note, as with all material in LDE, the author retains copyright of his or her material. In this interview, the questions are by Robert Waggoner and the responses are copyright of Beverly D'Urso.) DREAMSPEAK AN INTERVIEW WITH BEVERLY D'URSO: A LUCID DREAMER - PART TWO (c) Beverly D'Urso Questions by Robert Waggoner Beverly D'Urso (formerly Beverly Kedzierski, and also Bev Heart) is an incredible lucid dreamer. She served as Stephen LaBerge's main lucid dream research subject in the early years of his research work, and helped provide key insights into lucid dreaming. Interviewed by magazines, national and local television, and other media, Beverly has promoted a greater understanding of lucid dreaming and "lucid living." The LDE is pleased to provide a multi-issue interview of this fascinating lucid dreamer. Robert: So Beverly, you have been lucid dreaming regularly since you were a child, and helped Stephen LaBerge scientifically prove the existence of lucid dreaming as his main research subject. But did your time in lucid dreaming affect your other dreams, or were they everyday, normal dreams? Beverly: In 1982, after becoming extremely proficient in lucid dreaming,I spontaneously began having precognitive dreams. These are dreams of things that happen later in the waking state. For me, these dreams usually had great detail, were very emotional, and the waking scenario would occur within a few days of the dream. However, my precognitive dreams usually have not been lucid. I was sure that they were not due merely to coincidence. I even described the events, in detail, to others, who were later present during the waking scenario. My previous view of the physical world as being "solid," and having precise rules, had turned upside down! Robert: How did you respond to having your world view altered by your lucid and precognitive dreaming? Beverly: These experiences caused me to explore other psychic phenomenon. I began reading books, such as Jane Robert's "Seth" work. I needed to make sense of what was happening to me. Again, I thought of life being a dream. It would explain how such things like precognitive dreams could occur. Maybe, I needed to become more lucid in life in order to really see it as a dream. My dreams often seemed as real as physical reality, sometimes more so. The more I thought of the implications of life being a dream, the more it made sense. We could all be dream characters in a dream we call life. Was there a Dreamer dreaming us all? However, during this time, I was still a scientist trying to finish my Ph.D. I did not want to be distracted by these ideas so much, that I never finished my degree. I decided to put them off for awhile. Robert: That's understandable. So how did the dissertation go? Beverly: In my waking state, I was having trouble writing my doctoral dissertation. I decided to try writing it in my dreams first. In one dream, I found myself lying in bed. The desk in the room was in the wrong place, so I realized that I was dreaming. I headed for my computer, to start writing. I found that I could not move. I was paralyzed. I told myself, "This is my dream, and I can do what I want!" I slowly made it to the desk. I looked down, and I saw that the chair seat was an opening for "the pit to hell." Flames swept up, and it sounded and smelled awful! I was, however, determined to succeed. Holding my breath, I sat down, ready to be sucked into the pit. Instead, I woke up, and within a very short time, I finished writing my dissertation in the area of artificial intelligence. Robert: That's a great story. I recall being at an Association for theStudy of Dreams' presentation, where one of the speakers admitted that his realistic dream of fighting the devil occurred when he was undergoing the oral and written defense of his doctoral dissertation! So what happened after you finished your dissertation? Beverly: I finished my Ph.D. in 1983 and my career really took off! I was very involved in starting up businesses and traveling around the world. In 1987, I took a short break from this computer science work to help Stephen LaBerge form the Lucidity Institute. By this time, we had been experimenting for awhile with lucid dreaming induction techniques to help others more easily become lucid in their dreams. At first, we tried to send clues to the dream world by using smells and sounds. In one experiment, I tape-recorded my own voice saying, "I am dreaming, now!" A technician would play the tape when I was in REM sleep, making it gradually louder. However, as soon as the sound became loud enough for me to hear in the dream, it would wake me up. This was when we decided to send light to the dream, instead. Light could be more easily incorporated into the dream and used as a clue to induce a lucid dream, for someone trained to look for the flashinglight in their dream. Robert: So, forgiving my pun, you and Stephen saw the light. How did that work? Beverly: We developed a mask that people could wear to sleep at night, which could recognize REM eye movements. If a person was in REM sleep, it would then flash a light, which would get incorporated into the dream. If users were trained to look for the light, they could learn to question whether or not the light was from the mask, and, more importantly, question whether or not they were dreaming. The light might appear as flashing stoplights in street scenes, or as lightning flashing in the sky. Many versions of this dream mask eventually got developed, including the Dream Light and the Nova Dreamer. I created the first business plan to market this lucidity induction device. I also helped Stephen give lucid dreaming workshops. In 1990, I decided to lead my own personal groups and workshops on lucid dreaming, which soon became lucid dreaming/lucid living. Robert: Interesting. When you started out on your own leading lucid dream workshops, did you feel like you had your own unique vision of lucid dreaming? Beverly: Sharing a little of my introduction to lucid dreaming will clarify how I look at things. When we become "lucid" in our sleeping dreams, we become aware that we dream while we dream. Some people never remember their dreams, some remember them after they have been awake for a while, and some remember them just after or before they awaken. Lucid dreamers remember they dream while the dream takes place. They do not necessarily analyze the dream, or look for symbols, but directly and consciously experience the dream, shortening the time it takes to realize they dream. To me, lucid dreaming does not mean merely "visualizing", "daydreaming", "clear" dreaming, or even "controlled" dreaming, necessarily. Also, I personally believe in levels of lucidity, as a spectrum. I would say I am partially lucid, if I just remember to question if I am dreaming. I'd call myself definitely lucid, if I know I am dreaming for sure. I consider myself very lucid, if I can control or change things in the dream, not that I always do. Finally, when I am most lucid, I often do not experience a body, but I have a very powerful, spiritual-like experience. In a lucid dream, I feel free to do whatever I please, have fun, experiment, solve problems, accomplish goals, and go wherever my imagination takes me, taking care to balance spontaneity and control. I have learned that sometimes it is better to surrender to the dream. Other times, it helps to take control, change things, or carry out goals. I have remembered, on average, half a dozen dreams per night, for most of my life. I'd say that between 2 and 20 dreams per week were lucid, to various degrees. So, I'd say a good estimate of how many lucid dreams I have had would be 20,000. Unfortunately, I am not a very good recorder of dreams, nor I have organized my dream reports very well. I have, however, kept track of the ones I consider most valuable. Robert: A thousand here, a thousand there- at that point, who's counting? No, that's incredible. So how have you used your lucid dreaming knowledge and skills in your presentations and workshops? Beverly: Here are a few examples of how I worked with my students in my groups. I would often ask my students to choose a goal for a lucid dream. One student told me he'd like to bike around the world. I told him to start simple. He first had to become lucid, remember the task, stay in the dream, and find a bike to ride. He accomplished this in several months. Finally, one day he reported that he had ridden his bike through Russia in his dreams. Shortly after this, he told me that he could no longer attend my group. He was quitting his job, selling his house, and taking five years off to bike around the world! Another time, a friend I had just met asked me to dream for him. I dreamed I was in a theater and was watching a movie that he is in. Later, I told him the story, and I discovered that I had dreamed his life, including things he never told anyone. Once, I told a friend's eight year old nephew about lucid dreaming. I helped him practice lucid dream induction techniques while awake. I asked him what he'd like to do in a dream. He said he'd like to meet a president of the United States. In a few days, he called me to tell me that he had a lucid dream. He didn't find Washington or Lincoln, but he did meet up with the artist, Leonardo da Vinci. He said that it was okay, because da Vinci was famous too. I asked him what happened. He told me that he asked da Vinci if da Vinci knew that he was in the encyclopedia. Then he showed da Vinci some of his own artwork. The boy was very happy with his lucid dream, and very pleased with himself. Robert: Did listening to your students' lucid experiences and challenges inspire you to try out new things in your own lucid dreams? Beverly: Yes, sometimes I would decide ahead of time to meet up with people in my dreams. I have succeeded in dreaming of the people, but none have ever told me that they had the same dream. That would be called a "mutual dream." It is easier for me to attempt a mutual dream when I am lucid, because I can stop and remember my goal. I have an easier time making it happen, as well. I often try to accomplish tasks for my students so we can discuss issues that arise, and also to see if we could have a mutual dream. Here is a dream I had when trying to have a mutual dream with a student named Sharon. I found myself in front of my childhood home and noticed that it looked strange. The door wasn't in the right place and the house was situated improperly on the block. This happens often in my dreams, so at that moment I became lucid. I knew I was dreaming and I remembered that I had a goal for this dream. However, I saw a neighbor, who I knew had died, and I first stopped to talk to her. In previous dreams, I would see her and say, "You are dead!" and try to get on with my goal. She would get upset and say, "I'm here now, so talk to me!" Unless I did, I learned that I would have trouble completing my goal. My goal for the dream was to meet Sharon in the Bahamas. Immediately, I began to fly like superman heading south, because I was in the Chicago area at the time. It was dark, and I had a long way to go. By this time in my lucid dreaming experience, I could fly through electric wires that were in my way, but now I had another idea. I could make myself miniature, go into the wire as electricity itself, and get there very quickly. So I got tiny and popped into the nearest wire, which appeared like a large tunnel once I was inside. I was whisked very fast, shooting headfirst down the line, until I abruptly popped out the end of the wire. As my normal self again, I was somewhere at the southern tip of the United States, at the ocean's edge, where the electric lines stopped. I realized I didn't have much time left, and I decided to travel the rest of the way underwater, doing a kind of superman swim/flying. I soon got distracted by the lovely underwater life and the joy of moving so fast, while breathing the water. I finally made it to a lovely beach in the Bahamas. I asked a guy, who was serving drinks to the sunbathers, if there was a restaurant nearby. This was the place where Sharon and I agreed we would try to meet. He pointed down the beach, and I walked to a resort type building, and then through a long hall. I was about to ask the host if Sharon was waiting for me, when I saw "her" sitting on a bench. She didn't look like she was expecting me, so I said, "Don't you remember that you said you wanted to dream of going to the Bahamas, and I said I'd meet you in a lucid dream of my own? Well, this is it. We are dreaming now." I was thinking that this dream girl was "Sharon," a dream-body who was connected to Sharon, who was probably asleep in bed in Mountain View, California. If I had seen her as a projection of myself, I may have decided not to talk to her, believing that she wasn't connected in any way to the physical Sharon. In this case, I said to her, "Well, I'll tell you a secret, and we'll see if you remember it when I see you in our group next week." I whispered a secret in her ear, and soon afterwards I woke up. Robert: So what happened after this lucid dream? Did she call you in waking reality or have any memory of the dream? Beverly: When Sharon came to my lucid dreaming group that Sunday night, she had forgotten the goal and had never dreamed of me, nor the Bahamas. I am still waiting, as I am with others, for her to report a related dream or for her to tell me the secret! Around this time, I had a dream where I was riding my bike down the street of my childhood home. I became lucid and started flying into the air. I was flying over the nearby river, when a cartoon figure of a dolphin floated in front of me. The dolphin danced around, and then asked me if I'd like to go on an adventure. After putting out its fin for me to hold onto, it proceeded to pull me down into the ocean, which was now where the river had previously been. Something similar had happened to me, with a whale shark, in the waking state, while I was scuba diving. The dolphin and I traveled deeper and deeper, faster and faster. I felt both ecstatic and somewhat dizzy, almost as though the experience were too intense. I woke up, however, feeling fantastic; very peaceful, yet energized. Robert: That's great. Did you have any more experiences with dolphins in dreams or waking life? Beverly: A few years later, I noticed an ad from a man who took people on dolphin expeditions. I contacted him, and we eventually did a joint lucid dreaming/dolphin swimming workshop on a sailboat in the Bahamas. On this trip, while I was in the crystal clear water of the open sea, one of the dolphins rubbed up to me. Underwater, its color and shape looked remarkably similar to the dolphin of my dreams. Robert: So what other lucid dreaming stories come to mind? Beverly: When I was thirty-seven years old, I became very anxious to find a mate, get married, and have children. During the Christmas holidays, while visiting my parents, I had the following dream. I met up with myself at the age of twenty-one, who was sad because she was about to leave her college boyfriend, so she could travel and have a career. I told my twenty-one year old self that I had done those things. I said that I now wanted a husband and children. She introduced me to my alternative self, who was also 37, and who had married my college boyfriend. They had three children, and now she wanted to divorce him. My twenty-one year old self and I decided that everything was as it should be. Finally, I woke up. As I am writing down the dream, I hear an inner voice, as if from a future self, who says, "Everything is perfect as it is!" I finally believed it. I trusted that I would find my perfect mate, when the time was right. I didn't need to worry about it. I decided that if life is a dream, then my dreams would come true. I imagined that anything was possible, even after I read a Newsweek article, which said that a woman was more likely to die from terrorists, than to get married after forty! I did, however, prepare my life for my future family by buying a house, getting a dog, which was supposed to be good with kids, and taking a job as a college teacher, which I thought would work well with being a mom. I met my husband two years after this dream. Robert: It's interesting in that story how your conversation in the lucid dream leads to a strong conviction that "Everything is perfect as it is!" and following that revelation, you move ahead and buy a house and prepare for your future family. That is one thing that many casual lucid dreamers fail to see - how a lucid dream experience can be as powerful or more powerful than many significant waking experiences. Have you ever used waking reality to practice becoming lucid? Beverly: In my groups, we would practice becoming lucid while awake. I would give my students exercises, such as, questioning if they are dreaming, several times a day. For example, I asked them to check if they were dreaming every time they washed their hands during the day. I jokingly said, "If your hand falls off, you are most definitely in a dream!" Around this time, I was also helping my mother with her dreams of my dad after he died, in 1992. She was having recurring dreams of my dad, who would appear next to her bed. She would fear that he was here to take her to heaven. I told my mom, "If you see dad, remember that he died, and therefore you must be dreaming!" A few days after I gave my group the hand exercise, she was able to get lucid in her recurring dream. My mother remembered that my father had died, and she knew she was dreaming. She was even able to take his hand, and his hand fell off.She did not know about the exercise when she reported the dream to me the next morning. Robert: Beautiful. Did trying to become lucid while awake lead to any revelations? Beverly: Yes, I saw how powerful it could be to become lucid in waking life. I met my husband, Chris, six months after my father died. It was the most lucid day I have ever experienced. We were at a party, and I saw him from across the room. I knew that he was my future. It was love at first sight. I was able to stay in the moment, without fear, and with total trust. I believed in magic, while been totally accepting whatever happened. I was able to listen to him, as if he were truly part of myself. I was very sorry, however, that he never got to meet my father, when I had the next dream. I was in my childhood home, where my mom still lived, and I saw my dad on the couch. I remembered that he died, and that I must be dreaming. I went to sit next to him and told him that I loved him. I asked him why, lately, he hadn't appeared as often in my dreams. He said that he was helping me from under the bridge. I'm not sure what he meant, but I was happy to hear his voice and feel him close. Next, I embraced him, and after we hugged, I looked back into his eyes. He had turned into my husband, whom I so much wanted my dad to meet. I soon awakened and felt as though they had finally met, at some level. Chris and I were married in less than a year after we met. We knew that we wanted to have a child. After much medical help to get pregnant, I decided to work on the issue in my dreams. I decided to dream of our future baby. I would ask questions of the baby in the dream such as, "When are you coming?" I would also try to determine what year it was in the dream. Sometimes the baby would have messages. Robert: It's fascinating how you seem to work on "the future" to some degree in your lucid dreams. Maybe it is not the future, so much as your hopes for the future. Did you have many other lucid dreams of trying to influence the future? Beverly: One time, in waking reality, I was back in my childhood home, alone for the first time. My mom was ill, and in the hospital. My Dad had died over two years ago. I was afraid, crying in my bed. I fell asleep. Spontaneously, without trying to influence the future, I had a type of nurturing dream involving the future. I became lucid in my dream, when I noticed that the baby, from my baby picture on the wall, was coming out of the picture. I walked over to myself as a baby, just in time to take the baby in my arms. As I held her, I saw my face in hers, and I pulled her to my chest. I could see her lips sucking at my breast, and I felt very fulfilled. I slowly awakened, and I felt my own lips moving, as well. I was deeply nurtured. A year later I nursed my own child in that very bed! Before my son, Adrian, was born, however, I also had some interactions with my childhood witches. My witch dreams went through many transformations during my life. In 1960, I faced up to the scary witches from my recurring nightmares. In the 1970's, I looked for the witches of my childhood in a dream, and they appeared as harmless, little old ladies. In the 1980's, I noticed that the witch drama appeared in my waking life as well. In 1994, doctors gave me terrible odds against having a child. So, I looked for the witches in a lucid dream, thinking of them as my "creative power," and I brought them into my uterus. Within a year, I got pregnant with my son, Adrian. Adrian was born during the 1995 Association for the Study of Dreams Conference (ASD95). This was three years after I presented the paper at ASD92 called, "What I Learned from Lucid Dreaming is Lucid Living." I brought him to the ASD96 conference. He also came to the ASD97 conference, where I gave a workshop called, "Living Life as a Lucid Dream." Adrian turned two on the day of the dream ball. Robert: In a way, it seems that your lucid dreaming skills allowed you to use that beautiful symbol of witches as creative power for your own ends. In a sense, you claimed the power of the shadow. ******************************** The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly newsletter featuring lucid dreams and lucid dream related articles and interviews. To subscribe to The Lucid Dream Exchange send a blank email to: TheLucidDreamExchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com You can also check us out at www.dreaminglucid.com o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o ABC's of Dream Benefits (From "How To Fly") © 2004 Linda Lane Magallon o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Ask most folks why they like flying dreams and they'll probably answer, "Because they're fun." They're expansive, energetic, expressive and euphoric. They feel good. Of course, we're talking about the best case scenario, not flights where you're frightened, frustrated, fatigued or flummoxed. Dream flights span the range of emotion and sensation, but even those at the negative end of the scale can be beneficial. While fun may still be topmost on your list of motivating factors, there are plenty of others to ponder. Would any of these ABCs inspire you to have dream flights? Award for Awakening Once I incubated a series of flying dreams when I'd been feeling so stiff in the mornings that I practically hobbled out of bed. During the third of my dreams, I dreamt I was dancing in the air. As the dream drew to a close, my radio alarm clicked on. It was tuned to a station that was broadcasting a song with a rollicking beat. Dancing in my dreams became dancing out of bed and around the room. There simply was no physical stiffness left. The emotions and energy of a buoyant nighttime flight can certainly carry well into the day. On the other hand, if flying causes us to wake while we're still asleep, we get another sort of award. It's called lucid dreaming. Browsing the Body and Brain Have you ever had an in-the-body experience? I don't mean inhabiting the physical body during the day. I mean traveling through it, deep in the night, as a fairy-like bit of consciousness. For dreams, it doesn't matter what size we are. Our awareness of self can shrink and become a traveler on a fantastic voyage through the body's systems, but the pictures will be produced for normal size comprehension. For instance, the flash of light created by the visual nervous system might be perceived as a storm with lighting in an inky dark landscape. When we're small enough, the lungs may seem to be a huge cave of howling wind. I bet you didn't know that Hades is located in the intestines! The flyer is graced with a gift to keep the underworld under her skin from being too overwhelming. She has the ability to rise above it. Courage to Confront; Choice to Create In the schema of American psychologist Abraham Maslow, there are two major motivations that help determine our thoughts, feelings and behavior: basic needs and growth needs. When our basic needs (like air, food, safety, companionship and esteem) are not met, we worry and fret, even agonize and fear. These reactions are converted into the normative nightmare and anxiety dream. The flyer has a tactical advantage regarding threats: flight or fight. We can run away from problems (flight) or come back to confront them (fight). When basic needs are satisfied, the energy that had been forced to fulfill them is liberated for the growth of human potential. Instead of trudging through trouble, we are free to fly. As we fly free from survival imperatives, we expand our artistic horizons. We sculpt creative dreams; we create our own reality. Decoding Day Residue Flying dreams have been labeled "bizarre," that is, they don't conform to the constraints imposed by the physical world. It's true that your physical body will walk or run or drive a car down the street. But your inner body-sense surely doesn't. It floats along for the ride. Your physical body may break into a smile over a happy event, but your inner body leaps for joy. Your physical body may sit on an office chair, while a spark of your inner consciousness soars to the South Seas in reverie. Comes time to form a dream about daytime events and the sleeping mind is not limited to a literal depiction of life. Rather than a mundane description of your daily commute to work, it may well depict a slow but steady flight through city streets. Or perhaps the orchestral sounds from your car's loud speakers may invoke uplifting emotions that evoke an ecstatic flight to anywhere but city streets. Thus, when you get ready to decode a flying dream, ignore the blatant "bizarre" imagery. Dig underneath it. Concentrate on sensations, emotions and thoughts. These are the elements that echo an actual waking event. Dream pictures don't have to be photographic records of a recent daytime experience. For flying dreams, the mind reveals the hidden side of self. It paints how you feel. Emotional Environmentalism Dreaming together with other people doesn't guarantee a communal high. If it happens spontaneously, it's far more likely that a shared dream will be a nightmare or anxiety experience. It's deliberate co-dreaming that's likely to shift focus towards mutual agreement and harmony. Successful mutual dreamers have this in common: most all know how to fly. Although their dreams may begin as an anxiety event, resolution can occur in-dream and the dream will end on an upbeat note. This is the Environmental Effect: the conversion of negative to positive while the dream is still happening. Instead of shadow land, the dream becomes a land of light. In the long run, the percentage of negative dreams drops rather dramatically. The flyer is, then, a dream environmentalist, recycling the residue of daily waste and polluted programming and retrofitting our minds with attitudes and aptitudes that build us new Edens. Finding Friendship As the flyer matures, flight away from life into the long night of the hermit's cave transforms into tentative return. The flyer becomes more willing to risk human relationship and finds new courage to attempt communication. When I'm lucid and other dream characters share the same scene, I often ask if anyone would like to come fly with me. The characters may raise their hands or simply come forward to join me. A co-flight can be parallel, hand- in-hand or enmeshed with co-mingled bodies. This flow of interaction carries over to the waking state. As a whole, flying dreamers are more likely than most to share their dreams with other people when they wake up. Flying dreams are a highly prized gift of relationship. Glimpses of a Gorgeous Globe Since there's no need to breathe in the hyperspace of dream, there's no limit to how far you can fly. Dream flight can send you streaking through the stars, en route to a distant planet or rounding the moon and sun as if you're propelled by a celestial sling-shot. But there's one spot where stopping and hovering is a glorious joy. That's where you can view the whole of our Great Blue Marble supported only by the infinite dark. Many people write about "oneness" as if it's some abstract concept in the land of mental ambiguity. This dream is an opportunity to actually see it: the beauty of the whole Earth from a vantage point aloft. The flow of the pen may produce promises or release an ancient longing, but the fulfillment of human hope happens in Technicolor, feelie- vision, surround-sensation and the utter reality of suspension in space. Herald of Health How healthy are you? Your dreams can hand you the clues. Because dreams have a high relation to sensation and feeling, they can picture such aspects of your being. They might indicate that you are in less-than-perfect health. Conversely, they can display the activities of a robust and vigorous psyche. Flying - how fast, how far, how high - serves as a thermometer of health. Do I fly through fair skies or foul? Do I get airborne at all? The styles, moods, obstacles (or lack of them) can indicate the state of my emotional, mental and physical health. They can signal that well- being is on the way or warn me that I need pay closer attention to my body, my car, my relationships with other animals and people. I incubate flying dreams to get my dreaming self moving away from sickness and other sub-standard modes of being. We both feel better that way. Intentional Imagination I'd like to quote British poet W. H. Auden here: "The trouble with dreams, of course, is that other people's are so boring"! Oh, my, can we have boring dreams? Yes, indeed. Once in a dream group, a dreamer related a long tale of trying to become lucid. When she finally achieved her goal, she found herself in a empty room, without any characters, without any props or scenery or a script being automatically produced just for her. Since there wasn't anything interesting going on, she shrugged her mental shoulders and let go of her lucidity. After this, she had no desire to have any more lucid dreams. That shocked me to the core. But I came to realize the fundamental difference between fate and free will. The fated dreamer lets only happenstance direct his drama. The flyer understands she had a choice to be either passive or an active agent in the emergence of her story. In flight, we awaken the Inner Child who is never bored or boring because, in her theater of dreams, she remembers how to play. She knows how to release her emaciated imagination from its stark cage and let it take flight. Jokes and Jumping Jehosephat Do you recall the last time you laughed in a dream? Have you *ever* laughed in a dream? Here's another quote to ponder. When psychoanalyst Victor Monke was asked about proactive dreams, he responded that dreams were the results of "conflicting emotional needs at the same time." If a person truly were able to direct the course of a dream away from its "natural" conclusion, said Monke, "he wouldn't be having the dream" in the first place. As our legacy from Freud, we are weighed down by the grave supposition that dreams are repressions of some seriously perverse psychological problems. There is an insipid inference that only troubled dreams warrant our attention. Humor has little foothold in such a fault-finding occupation of the mind. It comes as no surprise to me to find out that Freud never had a flying dream in his life. Did you know that, in dreams, it's possible to jump, laugh, sing and giggle yourself into the air? After all, aren't flying dreams premiere examples of "levity"? Before you groan, you might like to know that flying dreams are great punsters, too. Our dreaming selves can have a very humorous perception of waking life. Knowledge versus Kryptonite The Kryptonite Effect is the nemesis of the flyer. It's everything that keeps her grounded, makes it hard to launch, slows her progress and creates a glass ceiling for her efforts. Understanding these obstacles, and how to overcome them, translates into helpful hints and an attitude that aids in solving problems in related sorts of dreams. For instance, if you come to realize that phenomena like sleep paralysis, myclonic jerks and floating feelings are quite natural and common on the borderlands of sleep, then the surprising sensations of flight will intrigue rather frighten. Cognitive therapy can change a negative mind set for flying. Behavioral therapy helps convert knee-jerk reactions to more positive activities. Programming for flight is practice in incubation, a primary tool for any proactive dreamer. The more you know and put to use, the better your dream adventures. Comprehending Kryptonite means reviewing one's biochemical, psychological, physical and psychic health and selecting the appropriate tools for the job of healing. It's a holistic approach to dreams. Launching the Lucid Dream My body's fatigued, my mind is mush, my self-discipline is practically nonexistent and my dreams are few. I don't know if you've ever been at the bottom of the barrel, but I sure have, more times than I care to remember. A highly desirous goal, like becoming awake as I dream, seems totally beyond my reach. Pie in the virtual sky. There's only two ways I know to win the prize. One, take a tremendous leap and hope you land in the treetops rather than atop a footstool. Pull yourself together, take a deep breath, and activate your will with all the power of an Olympic weight lifter and jump. However, the number of times I've leapt tall buildings with a single bound is very low indeed. For the second option, take the slow and easy way, one step at a time. This approach is longer, but along the way, you can have some pretty interesting dreams. My dreaming self begins in low gear; I take a walk around the block. My dreaming self starts to walk; I walk and imagine flying. My dreaming self begins to fly. Only then, do I give myself the directive to go lucid. This route from flying to lucidity, from slug to Super Hero, has been used successfully by many dreamers. Mundane Milieu To Mary Pop-ins What's the most tedious dream you have? For me, it's a slight variation on some trivial activity in waking life. It's when my dreaming self is acting like my clone, and a pretty robotic one, at that. Flying is certainly not mundane; it's a promise and fulfillment of fantasy. So, what's a fantastic alternative? How about Alice Through The Looking Glass? Instead of staying in mundane reality, you imagine yourself into a mirror. Or into a story, a movie, even a symbol. My dreaming self likes Pop-ing Into A Picture best, so that's what I'll choose to look at before I sleep: solid visual blocks with which she can build the scenery, props, characters and even story line. Flying into the picture in my imagination translates into flying into realms of adventure when I sleep. Or I might try Pop-ing Into A Picture on the borderlands of sleep. During hypnogogia, I watch the scenes flash like a slide show, then take a mental breath and launch myself into one of them. I can start a flying dream that way. Boring, they are not. Nullifying the Nightmare Flight or flight is an automatic response to fear bred from millions of years of evolution. Since dreams can react to instinctual promptings, running away from terror is a very common theme. The flyer has an advantage over surface dwellers. She can leap above grasping hands or sharpened teeth. But fleeing is only a first step in the flyer's defensive repertoire. She can turn and watch the threat from above or return to fight, frighten, negotiate a cease-fire or befriend. Should she stand her ground, learn to face down fear, she still knows, deep in her soul, that she has a back-up plan. She can always get airborne if need be. Opportunity for Out-of-Body Flying in dreams is preparation for astral projection. The feelings of floating and soaring are already known. It's simply a case of shifting the scenery. Instead of a fantasy landscape, a change of consciousness provides awareness of one's own bedroom. Being stuck in the thrall of sleep paralysis may be scary at first, but the flyer soon realizes she can escape that heavy, frozen feeling. By relaxing and reaching back in her mind for the memory of gravity-free movement, she can retrieve the sensation of lightness that enables lift. If she exchanges her serious concern for levity, then out-of-body she will float. Lightheartedness is the key. Practice for Physical Life Wouldn't it be great to fly like Superman in the physical world! Well, perhaps someday, someone will find the key to unlock that secret. In the meantime, flying is still good practice. It provides the self-esteem to stand up and face problems in waking life. It models movement for the physical body. Since the sensations of flight in dream derive from sensations felt in daily life, the dream can do an about-face and inspire still more movement, now backed by the confidence and control that comes from practice in a safe arena. Now matter if the goal is to roll a scooter, ride a horse, drive a car or yes, even fly a plane, the dream builds experience for such activities. It is a first-rate, custom made, flight simulator. Questioning the Status Quo Go with the flow. A wonderful feeling. A heart-swelling ecstasy. An effortless ride. When you have no place special to go, catching the wind and taking it wherever it may go is the name of the game. But supposing the flow isn't sending you where you wish? Is it sucking you downward, shooting you upward at too fast a pace? Then you may wonder whether the flow is flowing in your best interest. Perhaps it is taking you exactly opposite your optimum path. Flows come from all sorts of sources: illness and heath, peer pressure and support, enthusiasm and warped will power. Only some of these are worth your while. The flyer may catch the latest surge of energy if she wish, but she is no victim of circumstance. She has the awareness to wonder where and why and how and with whom she is going. And the determination to stop and consider other options. Religious Revolution and Reality Tests In the annals of religious history, many a dreamer has been swept up by compelling forces and flung skyward to serve almighty purposes. Should the journey be rapturous, the dreamers may well respond with adoration and awe. But their own wills and intentions are sacrificed on the altar of passive surrender. Is this an admirable trait in a spiritual seeker? A spontaneous surprise may offer little choice. But the dreamer has the power to awake from the enthrallment of sleep; to wonder, to compare, to judge. There are many religious paths, none of which are exempt from reality tests. Am I being swept along by gods or ghouls, angels or demons, by aliens or fairy folk, by friend or foe? Must I rely on others to reach enlightenment or do I have some say about the route of my Hero's Journey? When the spirit learns to fly on her own, her inner myth can't help but change. At this, the dawning of the air- age of Aquarius, willful flying contains the seed of religious revolution. Sports and Skills of the Super Hero Dream researcher Paul Tholey used lucid dreams to help perfect his skateboarding skills. Then he taught other dreamers to practice the skills of their sports in-dream, too. One dreamer was an Olympic equestrian. In order to improve skiing prowess, Tholey suggested that another dreamer practice, but not within his dream body. The dreamer flew along out-of-body, at the end of his skis. Flying helps the physical athlete, but it also keeps the mind flexible. Players of chess, board games and virtual reality toys are flyers. Flying is a sort of dream air-obics. Many video games require an active mind and quick reflexes as the player speeds from one onrushing scene to the next. Flying is no sport for couch potatoes! Even if physically immobilized or confined to bed, a dreamer with a strong and flexible mind can soar like a Super Hero. Traveling through Time and Space If you wished to travel in Wonderland, how would you get there? Fall down a rabbit's hole? The ability to fly might come in very handy just then. There are all sorts of tight spaces that can be traversed with ease if you have the ability to move in a unique direction. Not just forward and back, but down into the depths of the underworld, up from dungeons and despair and through long dark tunnels out into the light. I've always thought that time travel would be most practical if it took place suspended in the air. Less traffic up there. In dream, if I travel in time, I usually teleport or go via space vehicle. Either way is an opportunity to try out variations of the flying theme. Understanding a Universal Symbol Since flying dreams have been found down through history and across the world wide, flying has a solid claim to be called a "universal" symbol. But is it an archetype? It seems Carl Jung's primary experience aloft was a vision induced by medication. Floating happened to Jung; he didn't happen to it. He was fascinated by UFOs and little girls who turn into birds, but they were objectified symbols at a safe distance away. The most popularized flying myth is Icarus, the guy who fell out of the sky. Why not Daedalus, the fellow who actually got it right? Hmmm? When I went searching the annals of ancient legend and myth for tales of flight, there wasn't a lot of positive adventures to pick from. So I looked further and found examples in Chinese fairy tales, African-American folk tables, American tall tales, Japanese comic books, British science fiction and, most especially, the children's section of the library. Flying expands your world, in more ways than one. Visiting Virtual Reality Ever seen VR images on TV? Virtual reality is a series of connected images, a simulation of life on the move. In a VR helmet, you can visit locations (such as a mimic of Mars) with all the visual reality of a physical trip, but without the danger and expense of going IRL (in real life). Or you can inhabit realms of fancy. In VR your point of view "flies" from one angle, altitude and attitude to another. Whether fantastic or realistic, flying provides unique perspectives no earth-bound individual can have. Just like dreams can do. Dreams are our own personal virtual theaters of the mind. In VR you can fly through walls. In dreams you can fly through earth, air, fire and water. Shrink to the size of a molecule, grow to the size of a galaxy. Have experiences you've never "dreamed" of having, here in waking life. Flying is a fairly comfortable introduction to even more extraordinary dreams. Wallop of Wonder The first experience of any "big" dream can shake you to the core. It's a sensory, mental, emotional explosion of feeling that impresses you forever. It remains with you in the present to serve as an inspiration for the future. And as a standard against which you judge all new occurrences. Unfortunately, succeeding experiences may never come close to equaling the first. Perhaps that's why some folks treat a flying dream as something sacred, something they never dare repeat. It would diminish the awe and amazement of the original impact, they presume. Now, that's just sad. It's true - no flight will be exactly like another. It could be better! For me, one of the greatest joys of flying is the view of the passing landscape. A dream scene can outrank any VR or physical version with its vivid color, sparkling essence and overall sense of realness that is unlike any other. I've lost count of the times I've called out spontaneously, "Oh, how beautiful! Oh, how wonderful!" while I watched a scene unfold in all its heart-filling glory as I flew over, around and through it. Words of astonishment rise like an underground torrent and gush right out of me. You may have heard of repeating nightmares, but what about repeating big dreams? That's what flying dreams are for me. X-trasensory X-perience What's the most common psychic dream? These days, it's likely to be the preview of an air disaster. Airplane and space shuttles top the list that includes prophetic dreams of Apollo, Challenger and the New York World Trade Center. The theme of flight permeates of our culture down to the depths of our dreams. Sometimes such dreams have great practical benefit: some folks have been warned away from taking airplane flights that later ended in tragedy. But there are also plenty of positive examples of flying psi: clairvoyant, empathic, telepathic and mutual as well as precognitive. If you want to visit another person in-dream, then at least one of you has to travel. Mutual dreamers often use the premiere method of locomotion, the out-of-body experience. When you move into extraordinary dream space, where the unknown is the rule rather than the exception, being able to fly will get you out of potential trouble spots and shift your paradigm. It can change the way you view psi phenomena over all. Instead of a prisoner of prophetic fate, you rescue your own destiny and place it back in your hands. You and Your Dreaming Self What do you actually do in your dreams. Or, I should say, what does your dreaming self do? Because, if you are a flyer sans vehicle, you know darn well that you, as physical self, aren't doing the flying. The "you" of waking reality isn't the "you" of dream space. Never in waking life have I become invisible, shrunk to a pinpoint of light or metamorphosed into a bird. My dreaming self has that sort of fun, although vicariously, I come along for the ride. It's as if we lead parallel lives, each with their own unique properties. They might be separate lives, if we pay no attention to one another. When we learn to become aware of each other, though, we can develop a reciprocal relationship. I suggest new ideas; she may or may not carry them out. Instead of always asking her to serve my needs, I ask, "What would you like to do?" I provide new building blocks of vivid memories for her to shape the dream; she provides me with a life of magic. Who gets the best of the trade? We do! Zero In, Zone Out If I had to pick just one benefit of dream flying, it would be this: I am more. As a flyer, my concepts of both waking and dreaming reality have been radically altered. I live in a wider, richer universe than even before. It's multi-leveled meaning, not surface symbol. I feel myself to be bigger; that is, there's more substantial me to fill me up. Fulfillment or enlightenment aren't mental concepts to write about, with which to play literary mind games. They are first hand experiences of beingness. Sometimes I wonder if folks who write about extraordinary spiritual, mental, psychic or emotional highs have ever actually been there. Imagining them is not the same has having them. I wonder what would happen if we could separate speculation about reality from reality itself. But that's just speculation. Guessing, theorizing, writing, talking. And talking. And talking. And talking... They're flimsy substitutes for the real thing. So time to stop simulating sleep and start sleeping. Pleasant flights! Zzzzz. http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights) o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE July 2004 Jean Campbell THE DREAMS OF CHILDREN o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Meanwhile - Let us be good to the children in our lives - and add more children to our lives who need some good - Joy Fatooh On The World Dreams Peace Bridge this month, a major theme seems to have been the dreams of children. In war-torn Iraq; in Peace Train activities in Germany and Australia; in Dallas, Texas and Manchester, England, members and supporters of the Peace Bridge have been thinking about and listening to children and their dreams. During the recent conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Copenhagen, Denmark, attended by several members of the Peace Bridge, I began to listen to people as they talked about working with children and their dreams, "I would be worried that the parents might think I was trying to influence the children," said one man. "I love children; and they love me," said another. "The most important thing in working with children's dreams is being able to listen," said Brenda Mallon, author of Dream Time With Children. On Monday, July 12, just before a scheduled Peace Train workshop in Germany, Ralf Penderak's eleven-year old son, Alex, had the following dream: I get a letter saying I must go to the army. I am eighteen. It is just seven days of school left. I have nightmares every night in that week. I don't know what will happen. I'm fearful. I fear I'm going to die. I awake after the seventh night and think, now I have to go. Then I awake one more time, and wonder, what is going on. Is this reality or is it another dimension? It dawns on me that I actually am eleven years old and don't have to be a soldier now. A Peace Train workshop, is an activity that can be taken on by anyone interested in peace. Information on Peace Trains can be found on the World Dreams web site at http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org Before the workshop Ralf planned, inviting Alex and his cousins, Ralf also had a many dreams. "I had dreams related to the Peace Train meeting, showing that his was also for me bringing up issues of self confidence, creativity, anger, war and peace. But this wasn't only due to the Peace train activities," Ralf said. "but a result of the intense dream work related to the Copenhagen conference and the World Dreams Peace Bridge." One of Ralf's dreams was this one: Ripping the Red Rag There is a deep red cloth right before my face, that fills my entire field of vision. I grab it with both hands and tear, until it is beginning to rip in the middle. Through the rip I see blue skies. Now I see myself sitting there on a table with the cloth and passing on my work to a boy. He is supposed to continue, what I have begun. The work of the Peace Bridge operates on many levels, both in dreams and in waking reality. Peace Trains were also created in Australia this month in a workshop led by Victoria Quinton. Nick Cumbo celebrated A Day Out of Time, the New Year's day of the Mayan Calendar, and the anniversary of Jeremy Seligson's Peace Train Dream by having a Peace Train DaFuMu on his web site at www.dreamofpeace.net Immediately after the Copenhagen conference, members of the Peace Bridge held a DaFuMu dreaming for peace during the NATO meetings being held in Istanbul, Turkey. Possibly these dreams contributed to the fact that there was no major outbreak of violence during the talks. One could hope so, even though not even all members of the Peace Bridge knew about the DaFuMu dreaming. Joy Fatooh wrote on July 12: I've just quickly skimmed through all your writings that came in while I was away. I gather that there was a DaFuMu last night? Sorry I missed the announcement, but I didn't miss the DaFuMu! I stopped at my mom's house on my way back over the mountains and slept on her floor, and decided I might dream something pertinent to our discussion about violence and peace to share with you all. --- In an overpriced specialty ice cream shop I bought one small scoop of pistachio and set it on a table while I paid. When I turned around, a tall, gaunt, scruffy man had taken my ice cream to another table and was calmly eating it. He looked probably poor, possibly homeless, and I didn't so much mind him having my ice cream; but my thought was that it might not be good for me or him or society if I didn't insist on something in exchange. So even though I was a little worried that he might be a bit deranged, I said, "Hey, that was mine - what are you going to give me for it?" He just sat there and looked at me while he ate. I said, "You don't have to pay what I paid for it, but you should give me something to make it fair." I saw a pile of coins on the table beside him and asked, "How about one of these quarters?" But he said, "Those aren't quarters," and on a closer look I saw that they were some kind of foreign coin. I asked, "Could I have one for my nephew's coin collection?" He said,"No, you can't have one of those. But here," he took from his big coat pocket a double handful of clever little wire sculptures. They were very nicely made little human figures of shiny black wire, all posed with various weapons like toy soldiers. I don't know any kids who play with toy soldiers and I didn't care for the combative poses myself, but I sorted through them and chose three hat were unarmed. However, arriving home a moment later, I realized that I hadn't taken them with me. I went back - now the place was somehow at the other end of my own house, near the hot springs - and I was informed that by accepting three of the figures I had been inducted into some kind of secret society. The unarmed three I'd chosen were gone. I looked through the pile again and found three that were armed, yet did not look aggressive - rather, conveyed a sort of graceful, tai chi-like readiness. My favorite was a woman with bow and arrow, the drawn bow forming a lovely curve that led into the curve of her body, held far forward as she stood on the toes of one forward-striding foot, somehow incredibly balanced. "Yes, Balance," the impersonal narrator/voice-over/Dream-Voice-of- Wisdom intoned - "Balance is what it's all about." With an amazing set of synchronicities involving our old friend the Phoenix and a new member from Sydney, Australia Su Leybourn, a set children's dreams of peace brought Valley Reed back to the Peace Bridge. You may remember Valley's dream of the Crow and the Phoenix which she danced at the ASD Regional Conference in 2002. You can see photos of the tale of Anna Belle and her friend the umbrella in the dance at http://asdreams.org/conferences/2002cincinnati/crow_and_phoenix.ht m Valley had dropped out of e-mail contact several months ago. Though the entire story is too long to tell here, toward the end of July, a post arrived in the contact box on the World Dreams site from the director of the youth program at a Unity Church in Dallas, Texas. Children from the church had written cards and drawn pictures expressing their dreams of peace, which they wanted to send to children in Iraq. They wondered if we could help them find somewhere to send them. Well, of course we knew just the place, as we have been sending packages to the Seasons Art School in Baghdad for the past several months, but out of curiosity I asked where the Unity Church in Dallas might have heard of the Peace Bridge. Through Valley Reed, of course. She is now on staff at the Dallas Peace Center, one of the oldest and most respected peace groups in the country. So the dreams of the children in Dallas connected with the dreams of the children in Baghdad, and one more contact has been made. From the children who attend the Seasons Art School, we have begun to receive individual e-mails. The program at the Seasons Art School is not a regular school program, but a therapeutic program, directed by a graduate student from the University of Baghdad, Emad Hadi. The school sees several hundred children in morning and afternoon sessions, working with them in art, theater, music, computers and other means of self expression, attempting to deal with the effects of war. So far, in the past month, a dozen children from the school, who are learning English and computers, have written individual email notes to the Peace Bridge, and have received in return e-mails, postcards and letters from individuals on the Bridge. We are hoping to establish a page on the World Dreams web site, through which individual children can be paired with others around the world to develop a true communication. The Childhoods Voices program, the parent program of the school, has also set up another program this summer in one of the poorest districts of Baghdad, the Peace Birds School. This is what they say about that program: All over the world, a child wakes up cheerfully every morning with his/her dreams and ambitions, with the innocent hope, that he/she will have a future without fear. However, the dreams of our Iraqi children have become more special, not because of their beauty or colour, but because of their tragic pain and sorrow. Our Iraqi children wake up with a big burden of fear, and with no smile. They are afraid of everything and nothing, because their fear has become the tangible reality in which they live from day to day. Their fears range from not being able to reach school because of the razor wire put by occupation forces in many areas, and sometimes around their schools, sudden explosions which may occur at any time, the security situation in the streets which prevents them from playing with their friends or outside their homes and even their homes have become unsafe for them. Put simply, Iraqi children are afraid, from childhood, of annihilation. Obviously, this is not something they enjoy but is a reality which is enforced on to them. Therefore, it is our duty to carry the message of peace with us, so as to implant in the minds of our birds that they can live in peace. For this reason, "Peace Birds Art School" has been established in the Al-Dura District. During the month of July, one final thing has been happening on the World Dreams Peace Bridge that has to do with the dreams of children. Brenda Mallon from Manchester, England, author of the excellent book *Dream Time With Children*, has agreed to send copies of this book to the teachers in Iraq, and we have begun conversations with Emad and others in the school about the possibility of working with the children with their dreams. This is a delicate activity, of course, but Brenda, who has worked with children in northern Ireland and other situations involving conflict, is particularly well-suited to the task of helping people to understand the role of war and conflict in the dream lives of children: "Dreams act as an internal information system--they are messages from ourselves to ourselves," says Brenda Mallon. "They reveal inner struggles and expose the complexity of working out who you are in a confusing world. This is particularly the case for growing children who find that both the physical and emotional changes they experience influence their dream life." (13) By making connection with the dreams of children the world over, members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge hope to assist in facilitating a communication between adults and children, and children with children, that can broaden the field of possible peaceful interaction. We encourage you to visit the World Dreams Peace Bridge web site at http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org or to subscribe to the World Dreams discussion group at worlddreams- subscribe@yahoogroups.com If any of you have ever dreamed, as I have, www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org Thank you. ****************************************************************** Crystal Waves: Journey to the Galactic Center Crystal Moon. White Spectral Wizard Year © Nick Cumbo ****************************************************************** The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations underway at the Sea Life forum. We take a community approach to dreaming, running monthly dreaming projects to learn more about our world, and the evolutionary path before ourselves and our planet. Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/sealife During the Crystal Moon, we set off for a 'Journey to the Galactic Center'. In Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Major Jenkins suggests that the Maya derived their amazing knowledge of the cosmos through journeys to the galactic center in heightened states of consciousness. "How can we know for sure?" Jenkins asks, "the only way to test this theory of course, would be to repeat the experiment. What would be possible if a team of neo-shamans opened their mind to the Galactic Center?". http://sealife.dreamofpeace.net/viewtopic.php?t=1488 While Jenkins affirms that the Mayan ceremonial thrones were often built as a "hotline of communication with the cosmic center", we didn't have such luxuries available. Basically, we had to start from scratch, and so finding a suitable visual gateway became our first goal. Upon meditating, a rectangular tunnel showed itself to me. While the shape faded into the depth of darkness behind it, I felt that we were supposed to travel through it. Interestingly, Jenkins claims that "astrophysicists now believe that a Black Hole – a Hyperdense object from which even light cannot escape – exists at the center of our galaxy. "Please allow me to see the beauty of the Center" GreenEyes had asked before her journey. She was met with a vision of the human spine, seemingly a reflection that the galactic center is both within us and without. "I am looking at a human spinal column against a black background. The disks are each almost the size of my fist. The rib bones are as long as my arm, but fade to shadows away from the spine. I can see the nerves in little bundles running up and down the spine. I was like, Oh! The Central nervous system, eh? and admired the beauty of it. After all, that's why I was there....." THE SIRIUS CONNECTION ChrisNA felt that the Galactic Center may be in some way related to Sirius, which he believed to be the origin of this plane. He set out into meditation with the intention of learning more about the galactic center. After praying for guidance, protection, and truth, "something extraordinary happened". A small but symmetrical symbol appeared. "An incredible strong, blue-white energy beam from the circle in the middle - after seemingly traveling light years [though the feeling didn't feel like any physical distance at all] - hit my heart chakra and started illuminating my whole body in white-blue radiance. I don't know what this means but I on experiencing it, remember that I have experienced something like that before, but the lightbeam started from my third eye that time. I was lying in bed letting go of all my ego, trying to find the center of everything, and this immensely strong energy beam blasted out of my third eye into the distance carrying my awareness with it.." His experience was especially fascinating from a personal perspective; since this blue-white beam of energy had become a trademark of our dream journeys to Sirius, undertaken almost a year ago. http://www.dreamofpeace.net/thewaves/03sirius/ Intrigued, I decided to follow up with meditation of my own, using the image he provided as the starting point. I was surprised to see it unfold into a 3-dimensional structure with a circular base. A theme later extended through ChrisNA's own meditation "I had another 'vision' while taking a bath yesterday. It had been raining the whole day and the forests around me lay in white fog. I visualized myself surrounded by it - without any clue where I was or should go. My mind steady; a bright-bluish light beam [similar to the one I experienced the other day, but not at all filled with energy - just simply a light ray] shone through the fog to my heart chakra. I followed it until I came to it's origin. I recognized it as Sirius, but unlike the previous time there was only positive energy radiating form it, not –everything- the center piece remained the same, the smaller circles around it changed from black to white correspondently. I asked myself what this means and it transformed instantly to deliver the answer. The image transformed into a three-dimensional cone-shape structure, which entered my heart chakra and created another structure (similar, but black, not white) at the back. I was floating in space. I realized what I previously puzzled over, what these higher and lower dimensions mean; me saying 'higher and lower' was confusing, they are infact negative and positive dimensions, with eternal bliss on one end (the white cone) and misery on the other (black cone at the back). I understood that enlightenment (I don't particularly like the word) is the transcendation of both positive and negative, because both are just two sides of the same coin – of us – and we won't identify with ourselves as long we identify with one side. Infact 'ourselves' are the energy of the cosmos, and no subjective mind." THE POWER OF FLIGHT Waterstarrainbow made a number of fascinating attempts at journeying to the galactic center. One of which began after becoming conscious in a dream, and looking up to the night sky. "There are hundreds of stars. I see what first looks like a leaf actually turn into an umbrella. I think of the Galactic center and I am trying to get the umbrella to come back to me. I turn around and see a car and I wish with my body and ask for the unbrellla to be in the car. I see that it is. I grab it and I am willling it to go up. It is slowly doing this, but what makes it fly off was actually just letting it happen. I'm flying very fast and very high. I am getting nervous and scared and decide to wake up." Some of my own attempts at journeying there left me with similar fears; perhaps an unwillingness of the ego to let go, and become propelled by a force beyond words. One quickly comes to understand why such a task was left to experienced shamans. Eager to succeed, I set out into conscious dreaming to meet my spirit guide, and to ask for assistance. "I decide to ask him if he can help me with the dreaming adventure to the galactic center. Next thing I know his earlier fading form has disappeared. He's shape shifted. Now before me lie a large group of seagulls flying into the sky. I decide this would be the perfect opportunity to call on the guidance of my totem animal. Remembering a trick Waterstarrainbow used, I bring my totem animal into manifestation using my intention. A group of pigeons materialize beneath my hands. Without waiting, they begin to rise up into the sky. I'm dazzled, and especially intrigued by the heights to which they rise. As they come back closer to ground level, a transition takes place, and I attempt to shift into my true pigeon form. Unfortunately, I'm not such a good flyer as the rest of the group are. I'm caught between half human, half pigeon awareness. Watching the pigeons in flight, I begin to realize something. That pigeons don't just flap their wings at every opportunity; they are patient and graceful, and flap only when required. This is the secret to flying. Not only this, but the pigeon doesn't just fly in any old direction. You have to follow the way of the wind and move with it. It's still possible to shape the direction of your own personal journey, yet you need to attune your path to the direction of the wind. I experiment with this new found power of flight, knowing that I still have a lot of learning ahead of me." This attempt to reach the galactic center taught me about the power of calling on one's totem animal, and the month ended up filled with some extended coaching from the pigeon family, in the art of flight. THE GALACTIC LIBRARY Setting her intention for a dream about the galactic center, Waterstarrainbow keyed us into the Galactic Library, seemingly a storehouse of galactic knowledge. "Me and a large group of people were on our way to somewhere. It was somewhere in the galaxy. We were standing in a huge room; this was the galactic library! A little cute bug had landed on my shoulder and it wanted to go home, although it's grip sometimes dug into my skin. Me and the group were standing over a huge map of the universe and the little big pointed out where it lived on the map. I asked someone if we could go there but they said that they didn't have the right co-ordinates (or technology??) to get there but it would be ready in a few hours. This began a series of dreams about the Galactic Library. A few nights later, I found myself returning to what appeared to be the very same library. Not once, but twice. Here I found great numbers of books about '3d worlds', and dreaming and waking consciousness. In an earlier dream, I had found myself reading a book called "The Pleidian Agenda'. The book made mention that the Earth was actually a Mobile Phone, and that to make use of it, we had to touch down on the keypad. I found such an analogy intriguing, and wondered if it might relate to an image of 'Timeship Earth 2013', in which we activate our awareness of the Earth's rainbow body, through daily meditation synchronized with the 13 Moon Calendar. Reentering the library, I found to my surprise that my ordinary mobile phone now had new features. It could not only receive radio but also colour TV transmissions. The dream left me wondering about Earth's place in the galaxy, and the use of meditation and dreaming to facilitate communication with the larger world, communication of the intergalactic variety. Just as we were nearing the end of the project, I had one last dream, in which I found myself watching a security camera, where I could clearly see Sunwolf making his way into the library. The experience had me intrigued; I couldn't help wondering what book he might have received. My question was answered only a day or so later, by a dream of his own. "I was on a new bed, and a guy next to me was on another new bed. We were on a track and this car pulled us ahead, really fast. So fast, I had to grab his arm and I told him I hoped he didn't mind. He understood I would fly off if I didn't. We heard this woman's voice, she was from the factory, asking if the beds were comfortable, even tho we were going at a fast pace down the track? I guess we agreed it was darn comfortable, despite the bumpy ride. Then we got to the end of the track, somewhere in downtown Boulder. There was some flirting between me and this guy, a Mexican, when I looked up at the sky. It wasn't dark yet, but I saw this jewel of a light, pulsating. I asked him if he saw it. He said yes. It seemed like the center of the universe, and I felt some cosmic shift was happening, perhaps ascension. Then a huge newspaper flew up and tried to block out the jewel of light, then I heard radio and TV try to blare it out, but the jewel kept shining. Comments: The symbol of the jewel of light was very neat. I felt this consciousness, kinda like they scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey, where the monkeys were touching the vibrating slab of stone. It seems the symbols of the newspaper, TV and Radio were our culture and news of the day trying to drown out our spiritual evolution. But from all the problems and troubles in the world, people forget that more people marched and stood for peace, world-wide, in greater numbers than ever before" Perhaps the significance of the Galactic Center, is that it helps us to remember! ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Stay tuned next month for 'The Adventures of the Peace Train'. We welcome new dreamers to join us in our adventures. Email Nick: explora@dreamofpeace.net The Waves (with pictures): http://www.dreamofpeace.net/thewaves/ 13 Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement: http://www.tortuga.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _ A black tornado followed by a white tornado, an erupting volcano, bright purple spiders, a big snake, puppets jumping out the television with knives, a shattered horse, and birthing a black rabbit...sounds like a new Tim Burton movie, doesn't it? Actually they are in the Electric Dreams Dream Section. Be sure to read all of these dreams! If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at dreamflow@dreamgate.com. Dream title: death Dream date: 7/1/04 Dreamer's name: "A" Dream: I was at my boyfriend's house with him and his cousin who was with some girl. My boyfriend and I were in his room. His cousin and this girl were in the other room. This guy broke in and he killed the woman and hit my boyfriend's cousin. My boyfriend's cousin was unconscious. This guy came into my boyfriend's room and my boyfriend was kissing on my stomach. This guy came in and threw me into the wall. I was so weak I couldn't move. He sliced my wrists and on one arm it said "jack killed" and on the other arm it said "me". He left me bleeding. My boyfriend came over and laid me on his bed and was crying. There was blood everywhere and my boyfriend's cousin came running in yelling about the girl and saw me. Then he read my arms and saw my boyfriend just lying in my blood crying. He told his cousin to call 911 and the ambulance came and took me into the ambulance. My boyfriend was with me and before they could pull off I died. Dream comments: I really want to know what this means... it scared me so much. I woke up from it and had to look at my arms. When I laid back down to go to sleep I kept redreaming it. Please I would really like to know what this dream means. Dream title: Really strange predictive dream Dream date: 1979-present Dreamer's name: jdlech Dream: This dream first made me feel as if I were flying through the room, then it progressed to flying outside. Then it moved on to me being somewhere not of this universe. It's very hard to describe because where I was had no physical location. Thoughts were physical forces just as gravity and electricity are physical forces here. You cannot see them, but you can feel them and witness their effect on other things. The best way to describe it is that I saw the whole course of human events in its entirety. Quite understandably, I was totally overwhelmed by it all. It was all I could do to watch the overall picture pass by while noting only a few details. Of the overall picture, I can tell unequivocally that human events are not a single line nor are they a multiple universe sort of thing. History is immutable and cast while the future is a set of probabilities and possibilities. And the influence of all the organizations and entities are all manipulating the present in order to produce what they think are the best possible future for themselves. I saw events that will never happen as well as events that have happened and others that should happen but their time has not yet come. But time is not an immutable thing. There is no set time for any particular event. Not even the weather has an established time for which specific events occur. Dream comments: This recurring dream occurs clearly about two or three times per year. But there are also dozens of times during a year that I will dream some dim reflection of it. In fact, I've grown to look forward to having this dream since I usually wake up feeling better than normal, more relaxed, tolerant of others, and even a bit pacifistic. To date, I've never been able to control anything, merely to look on passively. Dream title: Two tornados Dream date: 1977-84 Dreamer's name: jdlech Dream: I had a recurring dream that always start out with me on a grass covered ledge looking down upon a large village. From the storm clouds overhead comes two tornados, one after the other. The first tornado is black and totally destructive. Everything is destroyed down to every blade of grass, every bone in the body, every piece of wood; the destruction is absolute. But everything goes up the first tornado and down the second one. The second tornado is white and it puts everything back in its proper place all the way down to each blade of grass. After the second tornado, all is exactly as it was before. Dream comments: I had this dream several times from the ages of 10 to 17. Interpreting this dream is relatively straightforward. Dream title: confusion Dream date: 6/29/2004 Dreamer's name: L Dream: I'm at someone's house and I'm seeing a volcano erupting very close. Everyone is sleeping so I'm trying to tell them but next thing there are no walls in the house and the lava chunks start flying and rolling. I'm scared. I think I remember kicking one back out of the house. Then the floor was covered in water so I ended up leaving and had to start over somewhere else, like a school or something. I was noticed by this nice woman. When I went into her house I saw that she had a BAD spider problem and I was seeing all kinds of spiders. Bright purple. She had this bad bite on her face and I noticed that her eye wouldn't open all the way, kind of like she had an abscess. I ended up getting the bite on my face and I remember trying to pop it. I remember seeing my eye roll down, not out, but up. Then I could see some sort of mechanical yucky stuff. Dream title: The step sister Dream date: 4/20/2004 Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: my step sister was trying to kill me because of what I told her. She had started to tell me 'I going to chop you' and all kinds of horrible things. Dream comments: Really she and I don't like each other. I just want to known what this means. She does witchcraft. Is she trying to scare me or what? Dream title: Weird Dream date: 06/26/2004 Dreamer's name: mizS Dream: I went to a candles shop where you can make them. Someone took me over to a sandbox over on the floor and told me that's how we make candles and to dig for the clay, so I did. Out came the tip of a worm. At first I left alone but then it got bigger and bigger and it came at me. It was huge and mean. Dream comments: So what does that mean? It was so weird. Dream title: discarded Dream date: 6/26/2004 Dreamer's name: H Dream: I am in a room, I think a basement, that contains piles of used junk up to the ceiling, old and discarded stuff. Second hand stuffed animals that are ripped exposing yellowed stuffing is all I distinctly remember. I am there for what seems quite awhile. I sleep in there and dream I am in a room/world hard to describe. It's so vivid I think it's real. Best example I can give is mostly black with a gigantic rectangular window and dark blues. The window frame looks like a Van Gogh painting or something and outside the window is dark-blue with intermittent flashes of light with treacherous ascending hills leading up to a huge abandoned house. It's a haunted house and the people in this world do not go into the house. I am climbing the hill and I get adjacent to the house, though it is quite some distance away and I can only see it in outlines. I remember seeing all the way through the house as the windows were very large and I couldn't see anything inside the house. I vaguely recall being in the house. All I remember from that is not feeling right at all, and walking on ashes. Dream title: This road with crosses Dream date: February 2004-ish Dreamer's name: K Dream: I am at a restaurant with people I went to high school with. I am sitting with my friends and ex-boyfriend. My ex- boyfriend is telling jokes but besides that no one is talking to me. I have no ride home so I get in the van with my friend and ex. My friend is driving and doesn't know the way to my house even though I am telling her. We are on a skinny winding road in the forest on the side of a hill. We keep passing this clearing that is on a bend of the road. Next to it are three cement crosses, the one in the center is the tallest with purple jewels in the middle of each one. Next to the crosses down the hill is some sort of sports stadium. My friends in the car have quit talking to me and this ride seems to take an hour. I finally get to my house and my ex opens my door for me. I say we'll talk again and he says "I doubt it" and hugs me. Dream comments: Any thoughts? Dream title: my old friend Dream date: 21 Jun 2004 Dreamer's name: M Dream: I have some dreams about my old friend. First dream: I was in bed with a man and we are both naked. Our bodies were covered by a gold blanket. He inserted the gold ring in my right hand. I felt the guy was my old friend. The second dream: I was in a bridge and I saw my old friend walking in the land part near the bridge. I stopped the car. I followed him. He went to the last house, unfortunately, and I failed to see him. I asked where he is leaving. I saw him entered to a certain house but they told me that they never saw him. The third dream: I was in an oval field, standing in the circle path. There is a young man at my back, he is my old friend. I am waiting for him. I am standing while he is walking near to me from my back. I am just looking at him and waiting for him. He hugged me from my back when he reached me. Then we hugged each other. I introduced him to my parents. After that, my parents left us. We stayed in a room and slept together. Dream comments: I haven't seen this man for about 2 years. I loved my old friend much. We were close friends before we felt the romance. We both stopped it for a while because it was not the right time. I thought we have connections. I can feel when he is there in my side. Please help me what these dreams meant. Dream title: Grocery shopping Dream date: none Dreamer's name: herennow Dream: I was in a supermarket pushing a cart but the cart was lower than normal; I needed to bend over to push it. Without warning, an old Vietnamese woman took my eggs from my shopping cart. Dream comments: I know there is symbolism here but I can't make sense of it. Dream title: Eagle and Snake Attack Dream date: 6/19/04 Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: Last night I dreamt that I was living in a house on a hill. The place was very rustic and the hill was rusty red with soil, not green. My daughter and I were at the bottom of the hill. Suddenly, I saw a big cobra or python coming towards me. It grabbed on to my arm and I started spinning with my arm out in order to throw it off, but it started constricting on my arm a little. Finally, I managed to get it off. Then this big, giant eagle came down from the sky and started attacking me. It had really sharp claws and it scratched as I was trying to defend myself. It was trying to bite me with its beak too. I was so scared, but my daughter (who was a lot bigger now, it was like we were sisters) and I started running up the hill and into the house. We got inside and slammed the door shut right before the eagle came in. Very scary. Then the dream switched and I went to my parents' house or some family member's house. It seemed like an apartment in the city, but one of those ghetto-type apartment buildings with the long hallways. As I was walking in, I saw a couple of guys wearing nothing but towels. Then I went downstairs to the basement and there was an Indian woman (a teacher) teaching something about spirituality, I think. The guys in the towels were there too, but I'm not sure if they were paying attention. Dream comments: By the way, before I went to sleep last night, I asked to be given a dream that will show me how I can be truly happy. Dream title: none Dream date: none Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: Last night I had an extremely emotional, uplifting and faith-renewing dream. The dream started out that we were all waking up. I was in the bed with my husband, but he was still sleeping. My sister was awake and so was my father, but my mother was still sleeping. I sat up in bed next to my husband because I was hearing these weird sounds, like a whispered conversation. I realized that I was listening to his dream. I looked out the window which was huge and right near the bed and was able to see some images from his dream before they disappeared. Then I was suddenly next to my mother. In her dream, I heard screams and fighting, like a little girl trying to defend herself or something like that. When I looked out the window, I saw three men, possibly military, holding my father's hands behind his back and taking him away. Strange. Dream title: none Dream date: none Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: Here is one of those dreams that are hard to describe or understand. I'm at someone's house...and I'm seeing a volcano erupting very close. Everyone is sleeping so I'm trying to tell them but next thing there is no walls in the house and the lava chunks start flying and rolling. I'm scared and I think I remember kicking one back out of the house. Then everyone was awake. My mother came into the house from outside (or maybe it was my mom's sister) saying that my grandmother had just died. We were all shocked, but no one cried right away. I was the first one to start crying hard and I went to hug my mother. She acted like if I was a little ridiculous for crying the way I did. It seemed like everyone was kind of unaffected, although it was evident that they were just in shock and didn't know how to react. Then, some of my cousins showed up and some other people from my father's family started showing up. I took the opportunity to go to my parent's room (in my childhood apartment in the city) and lock the door and be by myself. I lay down on their bed and cried. Then I got up from the bed and started saying "Why God? Why now? I was just a few weeks away from going to see her. Why didn't I get the chance to go and see her?" I was so upset about that. I felt like if I had just narrowly missed her. As I was saying that, I was looking up at the ceiling and the light, when suddenly the light either blinked or moved (not sure, but something happened out of the ordinary). I kept crying. Then I went outside into the living room and I was telling my parents the same thing, about how I was just a couple of weeks away from being with my grandmother. I looked up at the ceiling fan/light and realized that on the base of it, it had a smiley face on it. I looked up at it and said, "Grandma, I wish you were here" and suddenly, the whole entire fan moved in a circular motion. I was shocked and told everyone to look up at the fan. I started talking again to the fan saying in Spanish "Grandma, I miss you so much. I really wish that I would've had a chance to see you again." Again, the fan moved. Everyone was shocked. I was so happy and excited at the realization that my grandmother was not gone. So, I said," Grandma, you're still here, you're still here" The smiley face seemed to smile wider and the fan moved in an even more obvious way. I was ecstatic at the realization that my grandmother had not gone anywhere, she had merely lost her body, but she was here after all. I was so happy. At this point, the dream ended. Dream comments: Before I had this dream, I asked God to show me in a clear manner what my life wants for me (as opposed to what I want from my life) within the next two years, with regards to my career. When I woke up from the first dream I felt that my question was answered. The message that I heard in my head said "Don't despair". This fits in perfectly with the dream I had just had, where I was in complete despair about Abuela's passing, all to figure out at the end that she hadn't gone anywhere. She was here all along, just not in the same form. She was waiting for someone to realize that she in fact, still existed. Very symbolic. I cried when I woke up from this dream and I thanked God and my spirit guides a million times for blessing me with such an insightful and uplifting dream. I feel like I just received a special, personalized gift. It means so much to me when I have these dreams that serve to confirm my spiritual beliefs about life. Dream title: A sign of a soon to fail relationship? Dream date: 22 Jun 2004 Dreamer's name: LM Dream: I recently had a dream that my boyfriend came home with our child that I never seen before (we were all drunk). I remember having this distinct feeling that the child was several months old. When he arrived with the child he wouldn't come in the house and instead gave the child to my father to bring to me. I remained on the cell phone as if the call was more important. Dream comments: Is this a sign of a soon to fail relationship. or is it my mind telling me we aren't communicating enough?? Dream title: My Death in October 2004 Dream date: May, 2004 Dreamer's name: Kokopelli & Me Dream: I am in an area of brightness with a feeling of extreme hurt and loss. In blackness, a calendar page "October 4, 2004" floats by. I see myself and experience emotional pain. Dream comments: My close friend and sister-in-law passed in a violent car crash 7 months earlier. I feel that either my mother or I will die on the date shown. Dream title: Demons Dream date: 6/23/04 Dreamer's name: 8675309 Dream: The dream is that I am watching Tales from the Hood, and I am sitting down eating a bowl of spaghetti with Hallucinogenic mushrooms in it. All of a sudden (at the part of the movie when the puppets started popping out of the wall) they slowly started jumping out of the TV with knives, jabbing at my feet. Dream title: special car Dream date: June 22, 2004 Dreamer's name: rockergurl Dream: My friend was driving my mom's car and we went over a cliff. Dream comments: what does that mean? Dream title: ex-boyfriend Dream date: 6/22/04 Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: My ex-boyfriend came back into my life. Dream title: shattered teeth Dream date: 23/06/04 Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: All I dream is that my teeth shattered and then fire out of my mouth with such speed. My jaw feels stuck and I'm very frightened then I wake up. Dream comments: I can't think of anything I'm my life that this dream can relate to. Dream title: Terrible Tornadoes Dream date: Monthly Dreamer's name: Karmelred2003 Dream: I am in a house running towards the basement when it hits. I always get to the basement just in the nick of time. Sometimes I see family members that I haven't seen in a long time and sometimes I am alone. (This dream re-occurs very often). I can hear the howl of the wind; I can feel the pressure changes within the house. I wake up in a cold sweat. Dream comments: What does this mean??? I am anxious to know. Dream title: Strange dream Dream date: n/a Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: My friend and I were walking and we stopped this bus to ask him about a fieldtrip we were going to go on, for him to explain it. He stood up and we realized that he was mentally handicapped and wearing boxer-briefs. He said that we would normally watch a movie in the back of the bus that he was driving and he would change the type of underwear he wore depending on the day. My friend and I were like um ok and we just ran off! Dream comments: I would like to know what it meant I don't get it! Dream title: Hotel Party Dream date: 24 Jun 2004 Dreamer's name: rjj202 Dream: I had this dream a couple nights ago and me and a bunch of my friends were at a party at some really big hotel with my friends from school and out of school(we were all drunk). There were these guys that my best friend and I used to hang out with before (and one of them liked me). At the party, they had gotten rooms for us in groups and we go up. My best friend and the guy she likes went to find their room. When they found it the door was already open, so they go in and sit on the floor in the middle of the two beds. Two of our other friends go to their room which was in between the room we were going to and the one my friends were in. The guy and I go to our room and we find the door already open. He turns around (and I followed) and goes down the stairs to get keys. Then he realizes that the door was already open so we go back up. Something happened and we start chasing each other around the room, and then we went to the bed in front of the t.v and laid there. All of a sudden this little girl with short brown hair comes in and comes and sits in the corner of the bed on my side and stares at the guy. We ask her what you are doing here. She says I want to make out with you (to the guy) so I ask her how old are you anyway. She says 7!!! I start laughing, but the guy says ok. So she leans forward and he kind of backs up but she leans more towards him and does something on/to his lips (I didn't see) but he goes...ooh eeew gross...GET OUT! So she leaves and I woke up. Dream title: Discover Dream date: 16-06-2004 Dreamer's name: zoktor Dream: In my old school where I have to go to the class where a member of family is waiting for me to bring them to a higher grade. At first I cannot find the person but later I do find him. I enter my new classroom where I meet my new teacher who is dressed in a white laboratory coat and is very small. I make the remark that it doesn't matter he is very small and I'm rather tall. {Which is in real life it's true - 2 meters}. I'm going to learn from his machine which is situated in the new classroom. I see this new machine floating on a flat wooden crate through water which is at both sides fenced by brick stone walls. I mentioned to the small white dressed teacher not to have it floating to the lake and we managed to pick it up. I am catching with a fishing rod a big eel out of the water and then throwing the line back into the water again. I notice that lead sinking weight has the form of an obelix. I notice that I have a catch. The water is stirring strongly and I see that I caught a black rabbit. All this fishing happens in the water fenced by brick stone walls. On an island in a swampy lake now with 2 two white dressed teachers with the machine, were they are going to teach me about the workings of the machine. End Dream title: None Dream date: random reoccurrence Dreamer's name: peznducky Dream: I'm driving a car and approaching something like another vehicle or a building or even a tree. I hit the break but the car doesn't stop. Instead it keeps going but I can feel the breaks trying to stop it. The resistance continues until I wake up right before I hit the object I'm approaching. Dream comments: I've had this dream numerous times and each time the vehicle, environment, and object I'm approaching are different. But the same thing happens. Dream title: meteors Dream date: 25 Jun 2004 Dreamer's name: L Dream: I've had about 30 dreams about an asteroid hitting earth and killing us all for about a year now. The last dream, I see the meteor coming fast. It's dark grey and there is a slice taken out of it. As its hitting I embrace a hug of a man who's next to me. I don't really know who he was but I remember appreciating life and love at that moment. I close my eyes and wait a few seconds, and then nothing happens. Then there is joy and somehow it disappeared. Dream comments: I don't understand it. I am usually good at predicting things. I am wondering what it means. I know that Catholics believe that there will be one that will hit the earth and there is nothing mankind will be able to do to stop it. Dream title: Babies Dream date: ongoing for weeks Dreamer's name: anonymous Dream: I been having a dream with babies: one a boy and the other one a girl. Dream comments: what does this mean? Dream title: Taken Babies Dream date: June 28th, 2004 Dreamer's name: M Dream: I dreamed that I was pregnant four different times and each time around my 5th or 6th month some event would happen where my unborn child was taken from me. The first time was when a thug tried to take my purse and I resisted. He stabbed me right in my stomach and killed my child. The rest of them went on in similar ways. Dream comments: It makes me think that I may not be able to have anymore children. Dream title: Bus Dream Dream date: 4 Jul 2004 Dreamer's name: Sapphyre Dream: I dreamt of being on a bus going to work, but the driver got up on a ramp under construction and couldn't go any further. There was just us on the bus and we got off and were on an interstate that was barren. Suddenly we were in a very odd town. By odd I mean I've never seen this place, on television, in real life, nowhere. We went into a bus depot and I waited for another bus, but somehow we both missed it. Then I was at home I think, or had made it to work, and was getting all these notes from my boss. This was significant because she didn't think she wrote them but I assured her she did because it was in her handwriting and written in light blue ink (like from one of those gel pens). Dream comments: I'm still unemployed so there is no real boss, and I never saw her face she was to my back as I was talking to her looking over my shoulder at the notes. The bus driver was a black man, no one I've ever seen, not an actor I've seen or anything. I was left with a sensation upon waking of being lost and frustrated. In the dream I worried I'd be fired because I couldn't get to work. I have an idea where this one came from but thoughts are welcome. Dream title: with a baby Dream date: 6-21-04 Dreamer's name: me Dream: I was holding a little baby girl and feeding her. She was dressed in pink, and was so small. Dream comments: have not been feeling good Dream title: Nightmare on my street/in my parking lot Dream date: 7/5/04 Dreamer's name: God's Angel Dream: I was looking outside my bedroom window and I saw my father sitting on the step closes to the entrance. It was a dark night and I saw a child running down the parking lot. He looked as though he was 6 or 7 yrs old. He ran fast and appeared to have a smile on his face. Right behind him was a group of people trying to catch him. Older and younger people ran after him. I saw him run all the way down to the end of the parking lot. My father eventually got up from the step he was sitting on and looked towards the direction the boy was heading. I was stunned to see my father in this dream because he never looked up to where I was or knew I lived there. He just remained calm and quiet and looked to where the boy was running. I looked down at my father for one last time and looked toward the end of the parking lot. I couldn't see that far. After 5 minutes went by, I heard a gun shot. At that moment I woke up from the dream. Dream comments: My father has been dead for 8 years now and passed away on December 31, 1996. I don't know why I had this dream or why my father never looked up at me. Maybe he guards my house or he wants to stay close by. Dream title: Monster Truck Dream date: 07/07/04 Dreamer's name: The One Dream: I went into the garage and got in my vehicle, I proceeded to let the garage door up. My car was facing the alley, so I was ready to pull out. There was the over-sized, huge red monster- looking truck facing me. I use the word monster only to describe how huge the truck was. The truck appeared to be revved-up and ready. When I noticed the truck was coming full speed ahead towards me. I immediately tried to let the garage door down with the opener. The garage door came down on the truck. However, the truck backed up and came after me again. But, I woke up with a bad headache, wondering what that was all about. Dream comments: So, what do you think? Dream title: Frog Dream date: 08 July 2004 Dreamer's name: Pole2876 Dream: I saw a frog twice. First, it was just staying in one corner then I'm just looking at it. Then the next thing happened was I was standing in front of the frog and I signaled it to get out of my room. It just stayed and jumped for a long while. But its like I'm dribbling a basketball with glue or something, because it won't get away from me. Dream comments: kindly tell me what the meaning of this dream, is this good or bad, I'm just curious to know it. Dream title: Big Wheels Dream date: 7/7/2004 Dreamer's name: Moonlight Dream: I was standing with my friend out in front of the High School that I attended when I was young, but as the age that I am now. Older people, senior citizens, were riding out of the front doorway of the school on bikes, big bikes, which grew bigger as they pedaled. The people were dressed in biking attire, colorful pads, and helmets. And the bikes themselves were very colorful: neon oranges and pinks. It's hard to describe the bikes: they were mostly wheel, but more like a really big, really long balloon (no spokes) and at least 1 story tall. The bikers were very high up on the tip top of these balloon-like wheels, and there was a pedal on each wheel way at the top. The wheels were side by side, not front to back, like an upside down V, with the biker at the top of the V. There were about 3 or 4 bikers that pedaled past, and then the last one wiped out and came crashing down and couldn't get back up. It looked kind of funny, but other bikers went to help the one that fell down. Dream comments: What do you think this means? I'm very interested to know!!! Dream title: Father travels from the balcony to the ground Dream date: July 9/10 2004 Dreamer's name: 1latham Dream: Scene: Balcony of two-story building or hotel. My father was being lifted down to the ground by two people, helpers in white. One of the helpers had my dad by the feet. I don't know where the other helper was or if there even was another helper but I believe there was. I have no idea how he had my father or if he was standing on the cab of a truck or something. As he was going down I was scared to death. My dad said they do this all the time. When my father got to the ground his hands almost touched the ground I think, or got pretty close from the jump Dream title: Cancer scare Dream date: re occurring once every few months Dreamer's name: A Dream: I find myself constantly dealing with cancer of the lungs. If not me, then someone close to me. Most of the dreams I am grieving the upcoming death. Dream comments: I am a nurse who often works with cancer patients and a friend recently died of cancer. Is this a simple connection to those factors? Dream title: A Spider and a Cat... Dream date: 7/10/2004 Dreamer's name: Moonlight Dream: Last night I dreamed that I was back at my mom and dad's house where I grew up. I was trying to make a cake - mixing the batter, a yellow cake mix, when a fat spider dropped down from the ceiling and right into the batter! (I am very afraid of spiders- any size). So I stepped back and just watched it, and it slowly started to pull itself out of the batter with its web. But then it kind of swung a little past the bowl and dropped back down and onto the cupboard into a bunch of peanut butter cookie crumbs that I had been nibbling on. The crumbs stuck to the spider and its web, but the spider still managed to pull itself back up a little. Then, out of nowhere came a little orange cat that swatted the sticky, cookie spider across the kitchen. I jumped back into the living room because I didn't want the spider anywhere near me. The cat tossed the messy spider up in the air and whipped it around and back to the other side of the kitchen. Then I saw the spider's web was all over the room! Dream comments: It's another of my weird dreams. What does it mean? Dream title: The dream of The Shaman. Dream date: July 7 2004 Dreamer's name: ALF Dream: My dream starts off just like any other day: get up go to bathroom then go to the kitchen. But there are people that I don't know in a house that I have no recollection of getting to. It switches: Now, I am sitting in a circle the people I don't know. We are sitting and being very attentive to this American Indian. He talks us into a meditative state. Then the vision starts. He says to me "You are a very special girl; I don't know why you do not want to accept who you are...Look inside and stop lying to yourself. If you are lost contact your spirit for further help." Then it starts to rain. Everyone wakes up and looks at me for some odd reason. We all including the shaman go to the house I don't even recognize. Dream comments: I have very odd dreams especially if I am thinking on how to turn my life around to make it better....Who knows it might be the future! Dream title: bullets Dream date: 7/3/04 Dreamer's name: maky Dream: I stood in my house, barefoot, staring coldly at the bloody floor. Someone had broken in. I was so afraid it would get me, my insecurities took over. For some reason there was a pistol in my pocket. I went to the kitchen and there it was the killer. A beast with a terrible smile on its face, covered in blood. Without hesitation I shot it. It lay there dead I was still afraid. I closed my eyes then woke up. Dream comments: oh scary Dream title: visit from Joseph Dream date: 2002 Dreamer's name: camp1 Dream: I was walking through a strange place, lush green. I saw my stepson Joseph and I yelled "Joe it is you" and I patted down his rib area. He said, "I am ok now the plastic is gone". I hugged him and talked awhile and said, "You are alive!" He said, "Yeah I came to tell you". We were talking without words though, just our minds. He said he was happy and left. Dream comments: My stepson Joe was killed in a car accident in 2001. We were very close buddies. I believe he came to see me in my dream to visit. Dream title: true love Dream date: 07-11-04 Dreamer's name: me-me Dream: I had a dream that a rat was eating on me and chasing me and water is around and then it turns into something else Dream title: none Dream date: 12 Jul 2004 Dreamer's name: Sapphyre Dream: I had a dream that I was in a work environment, and wanted a snack. Everyone else was having one, so I went to a refrigerator and found a Carmello, a Hershey's with Almonds, and a Mr. Goodbar. I took the Carmello. Then on a counter were some marshmallow eggs and I took one that was in a box. I opened it up and it was this softball size round green marshmallow bunny with string sugar all over it, it was really cute, and I started eating it on my way to my desk. Dream title: Flower from heaven Dream date: 1st March 1999 Dreamer's name: Solomon Dream: It was very cold outside and I was playing with old friends of mine, (can't remember exactly). I decided to go inside the house and I happened to look up in the sky. Then I noticed that there's something in the sky. I strongly concentrated on the sky and I saw a flower. I called my brother and my sister to come and witness this. As we were watching this with disbelief, the flower changed into a little kid. Surprisingly the child started to crawl, then slowly coming towards us. As this child came closer I noticed that it was a boy. Suddenly he opened his arms and there was something that was written in his palms like a post card. It was a massage and I read it "what ever you do I'll be with you, I'll be watching you". Then it disappeared in the sky. We went inside the house but I was still shocked and I was excited but I couldn't express myself. Dream comments: I think there's this special gift that I have but I it doesn't come out clear. Dream title: Angel visited my house Dream date: 08 January 2003 Dreamer's name: Solomon Dream: I was at home at home my boyfriend and my daughter were also there. Outside it looked dark and strange. I felt that something strange is about to happened. I told them that it would be better for us not to look or be outside because we are not supposed to see what's happening outside. We went to bed (the three of us). While my child was praying the front door was open and my mother was speaking loudly and she was with her husband. I became worried because we were sleeping on their bed. While I was still wondering my elder sister came in, I was surprised because I thought that she was in the other bedroom with her family, because her boyfriend was very sick. A wounded man showed up and my sister explained to us that this man just came behind her, scared her and she thrown something to him that is why he's bleeding. I looked at the man closely and I realized that, this man is an angel. I was so disappointed and I spoke with a shameful voice, "I'm sorry sir for what happened to you, may you forgive us". The men wiped his face with the cloth. I turned around and said to my mother, "This man is an Angel, and don't you realize that? Don't you read the bible? Look I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears me my voice and open the door, I will come into his house and take the evening meal with him". My mother answered me without caring, "how do you know that this is an Angel and if he is an Angel, why is he attacking your sister?" I looked at the man and I humbled myself to him then I said to him, "I know you re an Angel". I turned around and looked at my family and told them that "I think you should read the bible, in Revelations it is said that blessed are those who listen and hears my voice when I stand at the door knocking and opens the door. I will come to their house and eat with them." I felt spiritually matured and the man stood up and he said, "I should be going now". I knew he was an Angel, I felt that this man came to destroy the wicked and that was the reason why we were not to be found outside. After he closed the door my mother started arguing about it. Quickly I thought that Angels are spirits and I told my mother to go out and see if she could see that men walking down the street. When she rushed to the door, her friend entered and she looked shocked. She asked about this man, "who is this man?" She paused, no one answered her and she told us that, as I came I looked at this man and he vanished. We looked at each other and I was pleased that someone saw that. Later we were in an open place there was a hill there while my child was praying, my boyfriend was sitting next to me. My sister's child was sat toward the top of the hill and she threw the first baby to me and I told myself that this child is for my sister. Later he threw another one and this one landed nicely into my hands and I told myself that this is my child and I putted him aside and looked up again at her. She threw the same baby (first) again and the baby fell into my hands but not as nicely as mine. I was surprised and shocked where do these kids come from but I was pleased with mine. Dream comments: Some of things are dreamed of come true. Like this one, my sister got her baby in June 2004 and I'm sure I'm the next one to conceive, after trying for more than 15 years. Dream title: The vision of Jesus face Dream date: 21 December 2002 Dreamer's name: Solomon Dream: I was in the room with other people but I don't remember exactly who I was with. It was late at night and I was sitting in another room. Others were sitting in the next room. I sense a very strong attraction and looked towards that side. I saw the wall moving forming an image. I looked closely and that was the face of Jesus Christ. I moved my eyes away from there because I thought I'm getting crazy. I looked down for a while trying to clear my mind and to see whether what I saw is true. Slowly I looked at the same place again but nothing happened and I wanted to tell someone about this but I couldn't. I stood there watching; just when I thought of moving out from that room the vision started forming again. And it was the same face of the Lamb and it clearly showed up. I was shocked and stand still for while staring at it. Dream comments: When I woke up I was very pleased and I believe that I carry a special gift from God. Dream title: Welcome Home 113 Dream date: 07/13/04 Dreamer's name: dreamer Dream: I dreamed I was on a date with this guy, he was taking me and my daughter swimming. I was going to change my clothes and a lady told me my tattoo could not be seen. I told her I didn't have a tattoo. So she pointed to it and it said Demetrius. I was in shock. I came back out from changing my clothes and I heard someone calling my name, and it was Demetrius. So I ran to him forgetting my date and we hugged and talked for awhile. When I got to him I realized that he had a lot of jewelry on with the number 113. I saw my date walk away shaking his head at me. Demetrius asked who he was and I told him he was my date. He got upset, but he shrugged it off and asked me if I wanted to get something to eat. So we got in his car which was red and yellow and on his seats the number 113 where on them. So we went out to eat and then we went back to my place and we got in an argument about my date, then he apologized and he got on his knee and was about to ask me something, but I was awakened by the phone. Dream title: abandon Dream date: none Dreamer's name: liquid love Dream: I dreamt of an old girlfriend, from a few years back. I've always held a special place in my heart for her, and in this dream, she left me behind. We were walking in a field, and she left me far behind, and I was never to see her again. I vaguely remember what came after, but I remember everything being dark and gloomy and isolated. Dream comments: Does this mean something about my current girlfriend, whom I've been with for a year and a half? I just would like a little input, is all. Dream title: The mall and baby Dream date: 7 14 2004 Dreamer's name: naikfe Dream: My friends and I are in the mall. My friend and her baby boy went and got a new baby boy then we got in the car and left with both babies. Dream comments: I just lost my baby by a miscarriage 6weeks ago. The new baby in the dream I could not take my eyes off him. And right now I am trying for other baby. Could this be a sign? What did this dream mean? Dream title: none Dream date: 16 Jul 2004 Dreamer's name: JR Dream: I keep having dreams that my husband is not being faithful to me. Dream comments: I keep having these dreams that he is having sex with another woman. He tells me time and time again that he respects the whole husband thing and that he loves me and my children and that he would never do anything to hurt me. Please help! Dream title: fishbowl Dream date: few years Dreamer's name: J Dream: I dreamt I took a fish from a fishbowl and killed it. I was relieved that there two more fish alive and swimming around. Dream title: The Black Horse Dream date: around a year ago Dreamer's name: "power dreamer" Dream: I am running with a beautiful black horse down a wide path lined with trees. We are going very very fast, and I'm running neck and neck with him. I find great joy in this and laugh in my dream. We are running and running, and I can see the trees fly past us, one after the other boom boom boom. I can see them coming up on the horizon as we start to climb up a hill. The grass is very very green on either side of the path. Suddenly, the horse takes off at tremendous speed, and I can't keep up with him. He is flying over the stones down the long path as it curves over the hill in front of him. Suddenly a white stone barn appears at the end of the path, many trees on either side of it. The horse cannot stop and he careens into the side of the barn and breaks into a million pieces. He screams (as he hits it and shatters) a horse-ish scream that I've never heard in waking. Sobbing, I begin to pick up bits of the horse (which I realize is mine) and carry him off in my arms. I wake up with a scream. Dream comments: I have had several dreams about horses being mistreated or killed, the most notable being a horse autopsy. I believe these were stress dreams about not being in control and fearful of the future; mostly due to the fact that I was about to leave for my first year of college. Dream title: "The Ships" Dream date: A year ago Dreamer's name: Power Dreamer Dream: I am on a raft made of small logs and quilts. It almost seems I'm floating on a quilt, with a quilt for a sail. I am on the blue sparkling ocean; it's rather warm, with a bright sky. There comes a huge cruise ship and it looms very very close to me. (I am watching my self on the raft at this point, and I can see the people on the big ship as well). There are people looking over the sides of the ship, and an announcement comes on, a male voice saying something like "Patrons, we are about to release the cargo. Those of you with weak stomachs might want to step back from the sides of the ship." Momentarily, a door opens in the side of the ship, and thousands of dead bodies are let out into the sea all around my little raft. (I am back in the raft at this point) I am horrified, the twisted bloated bodies are extremely vivid in my dream, and I distinctly remember the stench of dead bodies hanging in the air, with all these empty faces floating by me and lapping up against the side of my raft. I scream and wake up. Dream comments: You should have seen the look on my boyfriend's face when I told him about that one. Dream title: drugs Dream date: 7/16/04 Dreamer's name: mj Dream: I was at my friend's house hanging out with friends when I realized they were doing heroin and speed in pill tablet form. I found the pills and was really scared so I decided to rinse them down the sink. They some how evaporated into my skin and all of the sudden I was tripping out Dream comments: This really freaked me out because I have never done those drugs and I don't understand why they were in my dream or what them meant but I felt like I was really on them when I was dreaming Dream title: death of an ex Dream date: 07/18/04 Dreamer's name: wrong era Dream: The dream occurs in a building in which I have reoccurring dreams, although the dreams have different themes the place is the same. It seems to be hotel, yet it is where I live. One wall is missing and I can walk outside, up a hill to other dwellings. I am sitting on a sofa, and become aware that my ex-husband is dead. But there seems to be other things more important to me: the washing machine in the other room. It is an old fashion wringer washer and I don't understand why it is a problem. I seem to be alone still and I sense there are other people in the room but I can't see them. I am not sad about the death of my ex but something deep inside is troubling me. I never move off the sofa I continue to look at my surroundings. Dream comments: The hotel/ house is very old and is the back drop for many of my dreams for the last 10 years. It seems to be from the late 20's or early 30's. Dream title: The Black Rabbit Dream date: 20/07/04 Dreamer's name: J Dream: All I can remember that in my dream I woke up in the middle of the night and I felt sick, so I ran to the toilet and threw up, twice. My partner was at this stage at the toilet door and asked if I was alright and I said it was nothing, however in the dream I thought I was pregnant but didn't want to tell him yet because I had no proof. I thought to myself I would wait until tomorrow to see if I would throw up again. For a split second, I remember that I went into our kitchen and my ex-boyfriends parents were there telling me that my suspicions of being pregnant (to my current fiancée) were correct and that I was expecting a baby. Then I was handed a black little rabbit and they said that I had given birth to it first and the baby would be coming in the expected time frame (9 months). I cradled the bunny like it was my own child trying to figure out for the first time how to hold the rabbit like a baby over my should to burp it. I couldn't figure out why it was a little difficult to do this (I saw the rabbit virtually as a baby). I walked from the kitchen to the lounge room and on the white carpet I saw all these bugs. I was scared and protected my rabbit (baby) in my arms and shielded it from the bugs while with the other hand I tried to kill the bugs. They were weird and distorted but my brain was telling me they were spiders and grubs. The next scene was when I entered the bedroom and put the bunny on my bed to protect it from the bugs. I noticed that the covers were pulled right back to expose the deep sky blue sheets underneath. That's when I woke up to the alarm. Dream comments: Please help me to unravel my dream. I have tried using online dream sites but to me there is no clear story of what I was feeling. Thank-you. -------------------- END ISSUE ----------------- -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- Subscriptions: The Electric Dreams E-zine (issn 1089 4284) is *free* and distributed via email about once a month. 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See http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z= The Electric Dreams Staff (Current) Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z= Peggy Coats - Global Dreaming News E-mail: web@dreamtree.com http://www.dreamtree.com Nick Cumbo – Electric Dreams PDF Archive http://www.dreamofpeace.net/community/electricdreams/ Phyllis Howling - Dream Wheel Moderator (eDreams list) E-mail: pthowing@earthlink.net Victoria Quinton Electric Dreams Archives & Reporter DreamChatters Host http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/dreamchatters mermaid 8*) E-mail: mermaid@alphalink.com.au http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid Lars Spivock - Research and Development Director E-mail: lars@dreamgate_remove_to_email_.com Dream Section Editor Kat Peters-Midland http://www.rmdjournal.com/ Archive Specialist Janet Garrett http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm Richard Wilkerson - General Editor, Publisher, Articles Editor Subscriptions & Publication E-mail: rcwilk@dreamgate.com http://www.dreamgate.com o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o All dream and article text and art are considered (C)opyright by the writers, artists and dreamers themselves. 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