Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Volume 5 Issue 1 Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams January 1998 Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams To subscribe to Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to subscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: subscribe your_email_address_here To unsubscribe from Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to unsubscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: unsubscribe your_email_address_here 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=Z=Z E L E C T R I C D R E A M S Volume 5 Issue #1 29 January 1998 ISSN# 1089 4284 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=Z=Z Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web USA www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams AU www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/ 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=Z=Z -- Send Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: Bob Krumhansl --Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats --Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: --For back issues, editors addresses and other access & Staff see ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION at the end of this issue 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=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Download a GREAT COVER for Electric Dreams 5(1) www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/home.html 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=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ Dream Airing Column Victoria Quinton ++ Column: Dream Trek Linda Lane Magall˘n ++ Column: Divine Messages: Divine Origin Dr. D. ++ Book Review: _The Way of the Dream_ Karen Walker ++NLP and Dreams Michal Wallace ++ Review: Interactive Dreaming CD G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S - Peggy Coats This Month's Features: NEWS +Dreamcatching: Every Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares +15th Annual International Dream Conference +Radio Dreams +DreamUp Version 2.0 Available +Gateways to Self Discovery: Dreams and Shamanic Journey +The Dreamer's Companion +Dream Gatherings in the Netherlands RESEARCH & REQUESTS Dream Questions WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES +The Gospel of One Favorite Child +The Dream Game +Dream Pot +The Dreamer Sleep Paralysis and OBE +The Epic Dewfall FAQ +Anthony Dubetz Easy Dreams: Making Nightmares Pay +Electric Dreams Around The World +Dylan's Dream Inspiration +DreamScape Web Ring : Dream Journals +The History of Dreaming - Monthly Class +Dream Tree Has Grown DREAM CALENDAR for February 1998 DREAMS and COMMENTS: coming out later this month! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX FEBRUARY 13, WED deadline for submission FOR Next Electric Dreams vol 5(1) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Editors' Notes +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Welcome to Electric Dreams, the first issue of 1998 and the fifth year of online publication. We plan this year to continue covering all the events we can online as well as offline that have to do with dreams and dreaming, and to continue being an open forum to discuss dreams and dream related issues. Backissues, articles, reviews and interviews are all available online. This year I'm going to focus on a couple of new areas. The first is getting a good dream faq. I still can't believe that all we have are bits and pieces from here and there. You can find the collection on the USA Electric Dreams site www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams but what I would really like to see is a larger topic base and distributed answers by a large number of contributors. To start this off, let's collect the questions. Send them to me (with your response if you can), post them, perhaps on the ASD bulletin board www.asdreams.org and poise them around the Net in usenet newsgroups and mail lists, discussion lists, etc. Then we can begin to collect them and create a public document. Also, I would like to have some Online programs for beginning dream folks. I once called this program the Dream Fountain, which would be kind of like Rush Week at a fraternity. A taste of many online sites and approaches to dreams. At the heart is a dream. The dream will move across the Net into various web sites, newsgroups, dream groups and other venues. Would you like to be included in the Dream Fountain? Drop me a line. For some time, Peggy Coats has been reviewing dream products and we have been publishing them in the Global Dreaming News. I'm planning on pitching in this year and helping with some of the reviews and you should be able to find a regular column on this, either in the GD news when I'm organized, or as a separate article when I miss the deadline. Peggy has also done some major renovations on the www.dreamtree.com site and you really should stop by and see all the additions. This site continues to be one of the top spots online for information and exploration of dreams and dreaming! Speaking of the Global Dreaming News, there are a lot of new sites and upcoming events this month! I'm adding a new review on the Interactive Dreaming System, (be sure to read the note from Ann Klein in the Dream Airing Column on Group Dreaming), and Peggy has a review of the Sky Systems Dream Journal. Web sites are popping up all over, including Kelly Bulkeley and Alan Siegel's DreamCatching site and Henry Reeds Dream Site. Henry is soon to add articles from the famous grassroots (out of print) dream periodical the Sundance Community Journal. The Association for the Study of Dreams Hawaii Conference is coming up this summer - do you have your plans made yet? Be sure to read the update and follow the progress of this fabulous International conference. Read about these and more in the Global Dreaming News! Usually we look at psychic dreams as portents of something ominous. Linda Magallon is here to cure our overworked desires to turn dreams into significant events in the dayworld and help us delight in the fullest joys of paranormal dreaming in her Dream Trek Column. Why do we dream and where do dreams come from? This question and others will addressed by Dr. D., whose new monthly column, "Divine Messages" aims to restore the original status of Dreams. Dr D. encourages direct contact with him, pertinent comments or even insults, or preferably to share their dreams, if they relate to this controversial issue, by e-mail....at gdaoust@icrdl.net Read the column, write the author! Ad Christiaensen, host of the ASD www.asdreams.org bulletin board visits us with some research from Japan. He also has some suggestions for helping out dream research online. Keith Garcia, from the Lucidity Institute takes a looks a the question of dreams and health - what are newest developments in the mind/body healing game? Next month: Anthony Dubetz begin a several month series on one of the many approaches to dreams he has developed over the years. In addition to getting the information piece by piece, the whole book is available now on the Web. Anthony will also be available on the Electric Dreams ed-core mail list for discussion of the material, or via private email. ] www.dreamgate.com/dream/dubetz/ Editors Note: Where are the Dreams and Comments? We are still putting this section together for the last month and it will arrive separately later this month. -Richard =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dream Authors and Web Site Owners - Please Read =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Have you been trying to get information published on Electric Dreams for months and just don't know why you are getting cut out? Have we said we would interview you and then never gotten back to you? Well, don't despair, its not because we have cast you aside as not important, but simply because you have fallen through the cracks of a volunteer network. We get tons of information and try to get it all out each month by donating dozens of unpaid hours. I'm not complaining, we all love the online dream network, but the tasks do get squeezed in between everything else going on in life. Like some great dreams themselves, some projects get forgotten. I apologize personally, as we really do make an effort to get *your* project out and heard. If this has happened to you, please, please, keep sending in your requests, articles, dreams and dream related projects. If you would like to help us sort and explore and expand the online dream network, drop me a line rcwilk@aol.com =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ QUESTION AIRING FORUM I am still looking to expand my children and dreams page: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid/childdrm.htm and would welcome any ideas. May you all have fulfilling dreams. Victoria Quinton mermaid@alphalink.com.au http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dear fellow dreamers, I wish to send a sincere thank you to everyone who participated in my Mutual Dreams survey. I will update Richard on the results as soon as possible. To anyone who hasn't done so, I still welcome your participation. Thank you all so much. I also wish to thank Richard Wilkerson and everyone else connected with Electric Dreams for allowing me the opportunity it include my survey in last month's issue. Sincerely, Julie Keyser keyser@mwt.net >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Kat from alt.mythology In Japanese Mythology a Baku is the eater of nightmares. A friend of mine has a beautiful ivory Baku netsuke in his collection that is part lion, part elephant, part bird. It devours bad dreams and restores soothing rest to a person disturbed by nightmares. Especially, those nightmares brought on by illness. netsuke is the Japanese art of bone carving ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Europe: Ad Christiaensen a.christiaensen@pobox.ruu.nl Now I want attend (point your attention) to information that may be useful for E.D. As you understand, a journal as Sleep accepts research on REM sleep from time to time, and although I do not know of devices to measure the movements yourself (devices that are affordable), and the movements alone, up to know seem not to show clear relations with all kinds of behavior (as far as I know, but I may be totally wrong), information about them may be sought for, and can be important pieces of the dream-puzzle and its relation with bodily functioning, and mind-body connections. That is why I want to draw your attention to Japanese researchers in Sleep nr 9 1997, where they describe the invention or construction of 3 new Eye Movement parameters, and 4 refined measures of known REM characteristics The writers and title: ---------------------- Takahashi K. - Atsumi Y. Precise measurement of individual rapid eye movements in REM sleep of humans Address correspondence and reprint requests: Takahashi K. M.D. Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital 2-1-1 Kamikitazawa Setagaya-ku Tokyo 156 Japan. -------------------------------------------------------- Because of copyright I want to state that part of the following text is copied literal from the original -------------------------------------------------------- They developed an automated analyzer, working with 3 basic measures of eye movement: time of onset, duration, and amplitude of each EM. The seven indicators: EM count (number in a period of time) EM frequency (number EM's per minute) EM interval (time between 2 successive EM'S) EM duration (time from onset to end) EM rotation (degree of eyeball rotation) EM velocity (angular velocity: degrees/second - of eyeball rotation) EM power (EM rotation)2/EM duration (total energy estimation during one EM) As I wrote in the beginning I might doubt my knowledge on the absence of he usefulness of REM density, because the writers mention research in which REM-density was used to 'evaluate mental characteristics such as intelligence, and mental development(27-29), depressive illness (22,25, 30,31), schizophrenia (32), and aging (24,33). EM frequency apparently is more sensitive then REM density. McPartland (22) used the measure and found differences between normals and depressive people 'as well as fine changes in EM frequency that correlated with the amount of medication and severity of symptoms' REM density seems also to change during successive REM periods of the night. In healthy adults they increase progressively. An inverted V pattern in childhood that changes to the ascent -to-right-pattern in adolescence. V shaped in depressive illness, that is partially normalized by medication, an inverted V pattern reflecting the severity of Alzheimer's disease, and a flat pattern in narcoleptics. 'More detailed classifications of these patterns could be obtained based on EM frequency ' Reading the whole article - which I advise - shows the usefulness of these new and refined measures. The authors state that the new indicators will soon be combined with PET and MRI measures, and I wish to conclude with my hope and request that they will be complemented by dream-content of the groups and individuals to be examined. --------------------------------------------------------------- A second idea, that I also wrote to Peggy, may be to use the different addresses written in published articles, to construct a list of addresses of dream (and sleep) researchers, that you place on your home page or bibliography-list. Problem is that you have to update them (with their help, if you ask), and that only one of the team members addresses is printed in the article. Again one may try to ask the one member to give the other addresses if the others do not object. Access to libraries facilitates such a task. Keep dreaming. Ad ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Questions and Answers from The Lucidity Institute Posted by sharon smallwood, M.A. on Friday January 2nd, 1998 at 3:39:20 PM > PST: > I have been experimenting with lucid dreaming for myself for several years and have found a strange, exciting link between the state and physical healing. I am also interested in how to use the lucid dream state with clients in the psychotheraputic setting. I hope to connect with/find others who are also interested in lucid dreams, have actually experienced them, and have discovered this exciting side-effect of how it can influence the physical and emotional states. My gut- feeling regarding these dream states is they closely parallel the shamanic healing realms, and that research needs to be done in the area of mind/body connections, psychoneuroimmunology, and other arenas where the mind can be demonstrated to effect the body's healing response. Is there anyone else out there who has discovered this link, either through their own clinical practice, their own personal experience, or have heard of others doing research in this area? From Keith Garcia, Lucidity Institute Research has found that people's emotions and how they feel can affect their health. I saw an article in Science and Medicine that Scientific American publishes that illustrated a beginning to an understanding of the mechanism of the mind/body connection. It would seem that in dreams, we are closer to that mind body connection than we are when awake, so whatever influence one may have over health would be even stronger in the dream state. I recently read an article in the "San Jose Mercury News"(San Jose Mercury News; Science & Technology; Tuesday, January 6, 1998;page 2F) that discusses research done at the National Institutes of Health and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. They used positron emission tomography scans to see what parts of the brain are active during REM sleep and found that most activity took place in the limbic system which is known to modulate emotions and long term memory. Since emotions are related to health in some way and the limbic system is very active during REM sleep, there seems to be some logic that dreaming could facilitate healing. Keith Keith Garcia ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------ The Lucidity Institute, Inc. * tel: 650.321.9969 * fax: 650.321.9967 keith@lucidity.com * ftp://ftp.lucidity.com * http://www.lucidity.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Ann Klein Hi Group Dreamers: Here's this month's group dream intention statement. (A Valentine's Topic: "Beloved" can be a person, dream lover, The Beloved, etc.). Statement: Dreams, Teach Me New Depths of My Beloved! Graphic: See the website (address/link below) How to participate: 1. Dream on this month's topic from 2/1 - 2/7, and record your dreams. 2. E-mail me any dreams that you feel relate to the group topic, along with any comments about them and their meaning to you and/or impact on your life. Include dream date. 3. Specify whether you want your e-mail address included in the posting or not. 4. Tell any interested friends about this project! Please send me an e-mail if you do not want to participate in this project. (I could not tell from some of your comments in my Guest Book which of you wanted to be included). =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= DREAM TREK By Linda Lane Magall˘n Jingle Dreams =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= A dream to hang on the holiday tree, that's what I needed. It was Friday, the night before the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group party, and I still hadn't dreamt up an experience to share with the party-goers. So I gave myself a strong "it's now or never" suggestion and drifted into sleep. In the late morning, my mind began to weave an elaborate dream. After many adventures, my dreaming self started to question the dream plot. Finally, I became lucid. "I remember playing music earlier in the dream as well as my incubation task. I decide it would be more appropriate for this Christmas dream to have Christmas music. Dark-haired women are rushing here and there throughout this old house of many odd, greenish rooms with thick walls and skewed doorways. I try to stop the women and get them to sing with me "Away In A Manger" and "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem." But they only accompany me through the first few words before running away again. "Finally I figure I might have more success with an easier song. "Does anybody here know 'Jingle Bells'?" I ask, entering still another room with a slanted floor step. A strong woman's voice responds to the tune of "Jingle Bells:" "'Jingle bells / Oh, little bells / Jiggling in the sun...' "Obviously this woman is creating her own humorous variation of the song. I look up at another door across the room. In its center is a small rectangular pass-through just large enough so I can see the woman's eyes, moving lips and the fact that she has light hair. I come closer to see if I can recognize this jokester. I do. It's Patricia Keelin." Keelin called me later that Saturday saying she couldn't attend the festivities but could I stop on the way to pick up her Christmas dream and the ornament she had created in ceramics class? Yes, I could, I said and told her I had dreamt of her that morning. "Oh, I hope it wasn't anything embarrassing," was her immediate response. I laughed, thinking how close she was. "You'll have to decide that for yourself!" I made a copy of my dream and exchanged it with Keelin's while we met briefly. Five days later Keelin called me on the telephone. She told me she was feeling a strong sense of d‚j… vu because of the dream she'd had that morning: "I telephone Linda to tell her about the amazing and amusing synchronicity of her dream with my own waking reality experience." So what was the waking experience that triggered my dream of her? Here's Keelin's own journal entry: "Thursday evening (November 29th) en route to ceramics class, I spontaneously burst into song. A few traditional Christmas carols suggest themselves but I settle on "Jingle Bells." There is no one else in the car, and I'm feeling quite impish and full of child-like mischief as I change the words a bit, improvising a version I'd never sing in public: "Dashing through the snow / In a one-horse open sleigh O'er the fields we go / Farting all the way (Here I add 3 short raspberries) Jingle bells, jingle bells / Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to fart / In a one-horse open sleigh (Rasp!) (Repeated) "After I finish singing and chuckling I think my behavior somewhat bizarre and wonder what has gotten into me. I remember feeling grateful that no one was within hearing distance! "...I'm still laughing o'er this one and the amazing synchronicity of Linda's dream. Oh, what fun it is!" No one within hearing distance, indeed! My telepathic dreamself is an imp, too. What better holiday fun to share than one where two jokesters giggle/jiggle/jingle together? CaseyFlyer@aol.com http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm (Fly-By-Night Club) http://members.aol.com/dreampsi/archive/index.htm (DreamPSI Archive) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ DIVINE MESSAGES " DIVINE ORIGIN " Dr. D +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ It was believed, in the past, that dreams were of divine origin. This profound belief persists, still today, in many places around the world, but, generally, in the Western world, dreams have long lost their divine character. In a remote past, the Assyro-Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Celts, the Greco-Romans and many other civilizations believed that dreams were "Divine Messages". The Greeks, well known for their rational logic, often considered them to be messages from Zeus. Elsewhere, in India, the holy scriptures also describe dreams to be "Divine Messages." In the same area, Chinese wisemen, similarly to the Ancient Egyptians, believed that dreams occurred when the soul, the "hun", was momentarily separated from the body and could then enter in direct communication with spirits, ghosts of the dead and gods. Furthermore, up to the present day, all the so-called primitive civilizations, whether Amerindians, African tribal nations or Aborigens of Australia and the Pacific, all agree about the importance of dreams, which they believe to be adventures of the soul, when this one leaves the body during sleep and often attribute them to be messages from their ancestors! Closer to us, in Islam, where dreams are considered with highest respect, the Prophet Mohammed makes of them "a conversation between Man and God"... an ideology which he clearly defines in his most famous words.... " He, who does not believe in the true dream, does not believe in Allah nor in the Day of Reckoning." ....and carries on saying that, furthermore, dreams are glimpses of the Other World to which we aspire after death! " Now Allah has created the dream not only as a means of guidance and instruction, I refer to the true dream, but he has made it as a Window on the World of the Unseen. " And finally, over here in the West, where Christianity and Judaism are predominant, it was also believed that dreams were also "Divine Messages", as clearly indicated in many places in the Old Testament of the Bible.... " And He said, " Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I , the Lord, will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." Words of the Lord of the Universe, Himself... revealed to Moses, Aaron and Miriam.... and preserved in Numbers 12.6 " In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instructions." words of Elihu, in Job 33.15.....Holy Land, sometimes B.C. " For the Days of the Lord are coming..... . And it shall come to pass afterward, saith God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Even on my servants and handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, my Spirit; and they shall prophesy." Words of the Lord himself revealed to the prophet Jo‰l preserved in Jo‰l 2.28-30 in the Old Testament and, due to their crucial importance, repeated in the New Testament in Acts 2.16-18. Very unfortunately, there came at the turn of the 5th century a guy, by the name of Saint Jerome, who brutally reversed this trend. Troubled by the fact that some dreams " said to be difficult" which appeared to go against Christian ethics, Jerome decided that dreams were messages of the Devil and consequently, condemned them. (In 383 Pope Damasus asked Jerome to translate the Greek bible into Latin, the so called Vulgate Bible. A terrible (for dreams) mis-translation occurred. Jerome translated the Greek "You shall not practice augury or witchcraft." into "You shall not practice augury nor observe dreams." Dreams interpretation became classed with soothsaying and witchcraft. Since Jerome himself was led back to the Church from paganism (or study of the "classics" like Cicero) by a dream vision, this act is more difficult to understand. Whatever the reason, the Latin Vulgate translation would eventually lead to the people (usually women) being accused of witchcraft for dream sharing, and clearly set the practice of dream sharing on the side of pagan practices, even though dreams and visions through dreams were a deep part of the Hebraic-Christian tradition. ( Courtesy from RC Wilkerson and referenced from Morton Kelsey's work.) Most unfortunately, since, the Church followed in declaring that dreams had to be ignored..... but, if you look carefully, this was exactly in contradiction with the truthful words of God himself which were clearly written in the Bible... a most awful decision which plunged all Christians in total darkness for nealy 1700 years... by preventing God to freely communicate with the children of his own Creation! "Divine Messages" is a new monthly column, whose main purpose is to restore the original status of Dreams....and I am your host " Dr. D." .... and those who wish to get in contact with me directly, to pass their pertinent comments or even insults, or preferably to share their dreams, if they relate to this controversial issue, are most welcomed to do it by e-mail....at gdaoust@icrdl.net ... Don't be shy! -------------------------------------- OK! in this first monthly presentation, we will rapidly try to answer two main questions in regards to dreams...actually two mysteries.... "Why do we dream and where do dreams come from?" During the last century, many individuals have tried to answer these questions... and a person who came very close to discover the key to this enigma is Carl Jung, who without any method, still analyzed some 2,000 dreams per year and made a discovery about what he calls the "Collective Unconsciousness".....which has, at times, in the past, been also called, by the Ancient Egyptians, the "Mind of the Universe"... or God's Head by others. Regardless, it is in a book entitled in french..."L'Homme a la decouverte de son ame"... which should be entitled in English something like "Man in quest of the soul"... that Carl developed the idea that "Big Dreams" came from the most profound depths of the Collective Unconsciousness. There is a paragraph in this book, of which I have the french version... which I will try to translate....for now, until someone provides us with the original english translation. " If we could personify the unconscious, we could make of it a collective human being, who would have the characteristics of both sexes and who transcending time, life and death and having an experience of two million years, would be considered almost immortal. If this being would exist, he would be intemporal.... his dreams would be secular and his inestimable experience would make of him a wonderful...DREAM INTERPRETER. He would have lived a 1,000 times the experience of all individuals and would possess a living sense of the rhythm of growth, blossoming and decrepitude. Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, this Being DREAMS...." You see, this is extremely interesting, because what Mr.Jung is saying tries to indicate that a certain Being seems to envellop the whole Collective Unconsciousness! Most impressive isn't it? But again why would that be? The answer, is quite childish and so simple once we think of it.... but in order to understand we must go back very very far in the past. Let me briefly explain... Prior to the material Creation of the Universe.... only one single entity prevailed in the whole Universe.... namely the Primordial Soul of the Creator. That's all! In this regard, many scriptures exist, and for instance in the "Taittiriya Brahmana" 2.2.9.5, on may read.... " In the beginning this World was nothing at all. Heaven was not, nor Earth, nor Space. Because it was not, it bethought itself : "I will be." Also, in the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,1.4.1-3, one may also read... " In the beginning, this World was Atman ( Primordial Soul) alone in the form of a Being. Looking around, he saw nothing else but himself. He said first: "I am.".... Also, in Tao Teh Ching, XXV, Lao-Tzu says of it... " There was something formless yet complete, That existed before heaven and earth; Without sound, without substance, Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing, One may think of it as the Mother of all things under heaven." As stated in the the Egyptian Book of the Dead where God is the "breath of Life"... " He did not bring me forth from his mouth, nor conceive me in his hand, but he breathed me forth from his nostrils." The important point here to make, is not to find out what God, or the Creator, if you prefer the term looked liked at that time, although we will get to that during the next months... but rather to put emphasis on the fact that "He" thinks and dreams.... and to realize that ....because He made us to his image ...this is the reason why we, his children, therefrom, also think and dream just like Him! Because to think and to dream are two different forms of expression of our immortal souls, respectively in both the conscious and unconscious modes! Let me explain better. The Primordial Soul or Primordial and First Anima, the Life Principle of the Universe, created everything including everything that exists and lives in the vast Universe, in both the material and spiritual domains, of the whole of Creation. Therefore, every animated living being, which exists in the flesh or in the spiritual nature, is originally issued, when we go back countless generations to the same and unique Primordial Soul. Interestingly enough, once this Being, managed to exist in the flesh, it found ways to multiply itself. For example, from the union of a man and a woman, can occur the miracle of life, which can be transmitted by flesh into a greater number of individuals, called children, which in turn with the parents create a family, the smallest group in society... which through time expanded into much larger groups called nations and civilizations which united together form humanity as a whole. So, this is the reason why, generally speaking, we can surely affirm that we are obviously all issued from the same original soul....and this is also why we all think and dream the same, besides giving a logical foundation to "unifying principle" of the phenomena of inter-activity existing between all souls in the dream realm.... and, finally and most importantly, this is also the simple reason why souls are immortal because they are directly linked in this unique perspective to the Eternal Primordial Soul from which they cannot dissociate! However, it must be understood that even if new individual souls may be created everyday... that some others, obviously the ones which dream of very ancient archetypes, may be much older than other newer ones! Acknowledging the fact that an individual soul which may have been in existence for Ages, will be stronger than a new-born one, it may decide to occupy this new incarnation, another mystery which is linked to the mystery of Reincarnation.... " I held that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise, Another mother gives him birth. With sturdier limbs and brighter brain The old soul takes the road again." ( John Masefied, A Creed ) .... this may sound bizarre at first...but an hierarchy exist among souls, a certain seniority, from which young souls benefit from the presence and experience of older "guiding" ones, who have undergone, many times, the cyclical processes of Life and Death! Also, in this respect, a disciple of C. Jung, by the name of Erich Neumann, who carried the research of Jung quite a bit further in this field, made some interesting discoveries in regards to the individuals, who are animated by "very old souls" and which he refers to as "Great Individuals"... which we shall, among ourselves, call "G.I.Joes". In his terms, the Great Individuals.... (which he attempts to describe, with more or less success, in a chapter entitled " The Group and the Great Individual" of the appendices of his book called " The Origins and History of Consciousness", in pages 421 to 435....from which the following might be some of the best extracts....(we have to remember that this book is a translation from a 1949 german text.)) .... are very special human beings.... " The phenomenon of the guardian spirit is particularly interesting because in it we can observe, in collective form, the act which was normally the experience of the Great Individual (alone)." " Not only is the spirit alive and active in the group psyche, that is, in the group's unconscious, but these spiritual phenomena of the collective unconscious manifest themselves in revelations which are perceived by particularly gifted individuals who, precisely because they become revelatory bearers of the transpersonal, prove to be Great Individuals. The collective unconscious of the group manifests itself by taking possession of the individual (who is in the process of becoming a G.I.), whose function is, as an organ of the group, to convey to this group the content of the unconscious." (423) " We have, therefore, a whole hierarchy of phenomena revealing the deep layers of the psyche, and a corresponding hierarchy of revelation bearers who appear as Great Individuals." (424) Very interesting, Mr.Neumann, your theory of G.I.Joes.... "The G.I., ...., is characterized not only by the fact that the unconscious content has him in its grip, but by the fact that his conscious mind also has an active grip on the content (of the universal collective unconsciousness)." (426) ... in simpler terms, he is saying that the G.I.Joe is a form of victim of the Dream Realm which has him in its grip...but, even more surprisingly, his "Will Power" also has a grip on this Collective Unconsciousness. In other words, he may appear in dreams of many individuals, if not all, if he wishes it. Incredible isn't it? " For the group member, the GI is primarily the carrier of projections. The unconscious psychic wholeness of the collective is experienced in the person of the GI, who is at once the group self and the unconscious self of each member." (428) So, this is the main reason why, he is supposed to be a good dream interpreter... And for those really interested about dreams it may be good one more time to stress the fact that God or the Mind of the Universe also dreams and it has been known by many old civilizations that when this being comes in the flesh, it does among many other things... interpret dreams!! For instance, take the words of Joseph, as stated in Genesis 40,8, in reply to the cupbearer and baker of the Pharaoh....who could not find anyone to interpret their dreams. " Do not dreams' interpretations belong to God? Tell me you dreams." .... and can teach or approve the divine art of dream interpretation, because many others who have this talent can also do it ! " The GI who breaks away from the anonymity of the primordial collective is, on the heavenly plane the god-figure, while on the earthly plane he is the medicine man, chief and god-king." " The King now turns into a worldly ruler....and this is accompanied by a process in which every individual acquires an immortal soul, that is, becomes (just like him) Osiris..." (429) .... a very profound theory, which indicate that indeed the presence of these G.I.Joes may have a very powerful and benevolent effect on the younger souls of other individuals and as such of humanity in totality! Actually, to simplify Mr.Neumann's profound words, the "Top GI" which is our Old Primordial Soul.... which is extremely active in the dream realm.... and many people happen to dream of Him who is the King of this realm. Just like the Druids who could see the future king in their dreams.... any dreamer can also do that ... and this is where the fun really begins with dreams.... because with our dreams we do not only get to know ourselves better... but we also get to know God, the Creator... who surprisingly comes in the flesh, cyclically, and more often than we may think, in order to preside to the completion of his Creation!!! " Adam...his soul passed by transmigration into David...his soul transmigrated into the Messiah." - The Talmud ( Hershon's "Treasures of the Talmud", p.242 ) " And He said, " Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I , the Lord, will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." Numbers 12.6 " For the Days of the Lord are coming..... . And it shall come to pass afterward, saith God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Even on my servants and handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, my Spirit; and they shall prophesy." Jo‰l 2.28-30 and Acts 2.16-18. So, in conclusion, not that you know why you dream and where your dreams come from... when God decides to come in the flesh... he warns people " in dreams" about his coming in the flesh.... and for those who would like to know his numerous human incarnations have usually been known as Avataras, Christos, Messiahs, Celestial Messengers or simply Covenants or Prophets of God! That's all!!! So, finally, this is the reason why lately, so many people make different dreams about the actual Advent! For example, the "Revelation" Dream of Angst Ridn, exposed in last Nov.'s issue of "Electric Dreams"..... Dream: "Revelation" by AngstRidn (971114) ** God, in (male) human form, was going around the town telling everyone to meet at a specific time, at a certain place the following day. We (my family) gathered up food (roasted chicken), clothes and whatever items we could fit into a small bag to take with us. The place we were to all meet had stadium seating built into a hillside, overlooking a lake or ocean. The next day arrived and we hurried to get into our seats. Far up in the sky, off to my right, the clouds began rolling furiously, turning this way and that and they were in beautiful colors of melon and gold. Amidst the clouds came God, riding in a white chariot. There was a mermaid standing behind him wearing a green sequined mermaid type outfit. As we sat there waiting for God to pass above us and take us either to heaven or hell, I said to the people on either side of me, "I wonder if I'll go to heaven? I've never killed anybody and I'm truly sorry for anyone's feelings I've ever hurt." Although I had already seen and heard God speak (in the flesh), I was afraid that I wasn't worthy enough to meet him face to face and by all rights, he should shun me. In an instant, people were gone from the stands, some to heaven (me) and some to hell. Others were left behind, like my sister, so that they could stay on earth and start a family before God came back for them in three years time. (11/13/97) ..... a very interesting dream indeed. Now, interpretation wise... a good interpretation of any dream should have its whole essence exposed in only a few words or sentences...and the message contained in this dream is very simple... "God has decided to come to town, now!!!"...that's all. And when he comes he always comes the same usual way... governed by certain constant rules... to make it easy to recognise him...that's all! Anyways, this rather amazing "Revelation" dream, cited above, indicates exactly how he will come, and what he will do, which is always the same "Old Thing" as usual, as he did at countless occasions in the past...in order for people to again "easily" recognise him... " No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Angels in Heaven, nor the Son, only the Father. As it was in the Days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man." ( Matthew 24 : 36-37 ) .....which clearly indicates that the tradition never changes... and he speaks in the ears of people at night in their dreams... " In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instructions." ( words of Elihu, in Job 33.15.....Holy Land, sometimes B.C.) .... and this is exactly what happens with AngstRidn "Revelation" dream... in which God who "always" speaks in dreams, actually said in a dream that he was coming... that's all! And this is quite normal because he is the King of the Spiritual Realm... which on earth we know as the Dream Realm...simply because he is the first... the primordial, the first to live and the first that died...and consequently the first one in the other world... which is, therefore, consequently and logically... His. That's all! In this dream again, it is quite interesting to see how God, in his Glorious Spiritual Forms, comes and appears in the dream realm... as Angst Ridn says... "Far up in the sky, off to my right, the clouds began rolling furiously, turning this way and that and they were in beautiful colors of melon and gold. Amidst the clouds came God, riding in a white chariot." ... and take your time to compare this with prophetic biblical accounts... " Look! He advances like the clouds, his Chariots come like a whirlwind, his Horses are swifter than eagles.." (Jeremiah 4:15) " See!,the Lord is coming with Fire, and his Chariots are like a whirlwind." ( Isa‹ah 66:15) .....and we can easily see that it is always the same way...simply because he is revealed to the world in that very subtile and particular way!!! " The Lord (Christos) shall be revealed with his Mighty Angel....in flaming fire..." ( 2 Thessalonians, 1: 7-8 ) The Lord's identity shall be revealed in a dream...by his Mighty Angel which happens to be his Chariot... the Chariot of God... " He is the Chariot of Isra‰l and the Horsemen thereof." (2 Kings 2,12) ..... talking about some Horse of Fire!!! In this divine respect, we shall begin to get acquainted with the Individual Eternal Holy Spirit of the Lord in the next monthly issues of "Electric Dreams" under this column of "Divine Messages".... and until then stay tuned... " Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and "every eye shall see him", even those who pierced him ; and all the peoples of the earth will wail because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am Alpha and Omega", says the Lord God " who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." ( Revelation 1, 7 - 8 ) "If men who have been warned by heavenly messengers have been indifferent to them, as regards religions, they suffer long, being born in a low condition." "If virtuous men who have been warned by celestial messengers in this World, they do not neglect them and investigate and profess the Holy doctrines. Seeing the danger of attachment, which is the cause of birth and death, they have in this life extinguished the miseries of existence by arriving at a condition free from fear, happy and free from passions and sins." ( Anguttara Nikaya, Eka Duka and Tika Nipata (Galle, Ceylon,1913 pp.160-5, translation by E.R.J.Gooneratne) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Book Review: THE WAY OF THE DREAM Reviewed by Karen Walker +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ THE WAY OF THE DREAM - Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with Marie-Louise von Franz by Fraser Boa (Shambala 1988), paperback, 239 pages . This fascinating and readable book on Jungian dream interpretation is based on a documentary film series by Fraser Boa. In conversations with Fraser Boa, Marie-Louise von Franz analyzes dreams obtained in street interviews with people around the world. Von Franz, a Jungian analyst, had worked with Jung for 30 years and at the time of the series had already interpreted 65,000 dreams. She analyzes the dreams from the street interviews like a master decipherer, drawing on vast experience and knowledge, yet the tone of the book is conversational rather than abstruse. In interpreting our own dreams, von Franz warns us that usually we project what we already know into the dream. The purpose of the dream is to show us what we don't know. Jung would tell his dreams to his students or to someone who knew nothing of dream interpretation. If they could not say what the dream meant, at least they could give him a sense of what it did not mean. For Von Franz, dreams are like letters delivered to our conscious mind from our Self. In Jungian terms, the Self is that which guides our psychic life. It could be called our divine center. Dreams give us direction, predict future events, and show us the way towards harmony with our Self. It is when we are out of harmony with the Self that the energies, unexpressed emotions and unrealized potentials of our lives result in neurosis or neurotic symptoms. Restlessness is the most general neurotic symptom today, according to von Franz. This restlessness, a bottled-up energy in the unconscious which we do not tap and do not integrate into consciousness, "can take the form of an all-pervading anxiety, a fear that somewhere, something dark is lurking and might happen at any minute. Then one is anxious about nothing all the time....Irritability, aggressiveness, oversexiness, or a feeling of complete meaninglessness or emptiness — all the symptoms of different neurotic diseases come from that restlessness." The Self, along with the shadow, animus and anima, can be seen as dream figures. Each dream figure can personify aspects of our total personality. The shadow figure usually appears in the dream as a person of the same sex as the dreamer. Whether a positive or negative figure, it is a part of ourselves we'd rather not take a look at, a part we haven't integrated into our lives. The anima or feminine aspect in a man appears in his dreams as a woman. One man dreamed of a sexy vampire from whom there seemed no escape. Von Franz comments: "The dream tries to tell him it's a ghost which is haunting him because, actually, he's haunted not by reality but by a fantasy which is draining his whole psychic energy.. . .The blood is the emotional, active psyche in us, the affective psyche. After being sucked by a vampire, people have no activity left, or no life activity left. They just sink into passive wishful dreams. That is really the characteristic of most negative or split-off complexes. If we reject or split off some complex of our psyche, then it begins to sap our energy secretly behind our back. . . They come into analysis and they day, ‘I feel listless, I just feel tired, I just don't want to do anything. I wake in the morning already depressed. Nothing means anything to me any more. I have no interest or anything.' " The animus dream figure appears in the dreams of women as a male figure. It is a woman's inner man. In a chapter entitled "The Tyrant," von Franz discusses the dream of a woman in which her father appears as the chief of police. The dreamer is stroking a cat. ". . . the cat often is an image of something feminine, independent and sure of itself, just what modern women so often lack . . . . the chief of police is that animus in woman who wants orderly, conventional behavior that will not be shocking to anyone. Just the opposite of a cat." The Jungian technique for discovering the meaning of a dream is to look at it like a drama and "examine it under three structural headings: first, the introduction or exposition — the setting of the dream and the naming of the problem; second, the peripeteia — that would be the u ps and downs of the story; and finally, the lysis — the end solution or, perhaps, catastrophe." Von Franz warns that the dream world can be dangerous. "It can suck us away from reality and spin us into a neurotic or even psychotic unreality. The dream world is only positive if it is in a living, balanced dialogue with a lived, actually lived, life." Do you have a new dream book you would like reviewed? Whether you are a publisher, and author or just have a suggestions, drop me a line at walker@ix.netcom.com (Karen Walker) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ NLP and Dreams by Michal Wallace (sabren@manifestation.com) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ There's no question dreamwork changes lives. Dreams provide adventure, inspiration, a chance to be anyone or anything we want. Psychologists analyze dreams to fuel their work. But is there more? What if we could choose a specific change we want to make in our behavior, apply some simple mental techniques, and completely transform ourselves? That's the promise of a system called NLP. What's more, NLP can work synergistically with dreams to help us take control of both our sleep and waking lives. NLP, (short for neuro-linguistic programming), is a system of skills and techniques that allows people to quickly change their subjective experience. Its purpose is to help people do whatever they do better. Salespeople, teachers, athletes, and therapists all over the world use NLP to improve their skills. Why not dreamers? The field of NLP is too large a topic to cover here. It's crammed full of linguistic models, hypnotic induction techniques, exercises to enhance observation, and bits and pieces of just about every other field of study that's ever existed. Rather than explain what NLP is all about, I'm going to suggest a few ways in which we can easily apply it to dreaming. One of the most famous NLP patterns is the sleep strategy, or insomnia cure. How come some people lie awake all night, unable to sleep, while others start snoring the moment they lie down in bed? An NLP'er exploring that question would look at insomniacs and "fast" sleepers, and ask them questions about what's going on with the pictures, feelings, words, and sounds in their minds. It turns out that many insomniacs make huge, flamboyant mental images and unconsciously chatter at themselves in high pitched voices. A person who falls asleep quickly, however, tends to talk to themselves in a slow, sleepy voice and dim the lights on their mental pictures. You see, we can control our minds the way a movie director controls a scene: by changing the lighting, focus, angle, and soundtrack of whatever we imagine. Mix that in with a little knowledge of dreaming and hypnosis, and we can come up with a strategy to increase our chances of wake-induced lucid dreams: First, relax your body and use the "fast asleep" strategy to bring sleep closer. As you lie in bed, slow your internal dialogue down, and make the voice sound sleepy. Tell yourself you're sleepy and are about to drift off. As you keep that tone of voice, begin to talk about the dream you'd like to have, or whatever hypnogogic images come to mind. Use sensory based words. Talk to yourself about how the dream sounds, feels, looks, smells, and tastes. If you find the images are far away, imagine them drifting closer and getting larger. Eventually, make them door-sized and imagine yourself drifting through. The real power of this technique is that you can use it to induce sleep almost any time. Of course, NLP is all about subjectivity - so if this particular technique doesn't work for you, try something else. Another area of NLP is called modeling. Modeling is a way of learning in which we attempt to duplicate another person's results by duplicating their mental and physical behaviors. We all did this as children when we learned to speak, but once we learn language, we tend to learn mostly through often-less- efficient verbal instruction. NLP offers several refined patterns for modeling people. One simple technique, called "Circles of Excellence", works quite well in dreams. To do this exercise, first think of something you want to accomplish or improve. Ask yourself, who is already getting this outcome? It could be someone you've met, a celebrity, or a character in a movie. You could even make the person up. This is the person you want to model. Now, imagine two circles on the floor. Step into one, and in the other, imagine a life-sized version of the person you want to model. See them doing what you want to be able to do. Go inside yourself and arrange with your unconscious mind to leave yourself behind temporarily. When you are able to do this, step forward, out of your body, and into the image of the other person. Experience what it would be like to be them. Notice what it's like to do things their way. When you are ready, return to your body and incorporate this experience into yourself. That's how to do it while awake, but we can enhance "Circles of Excellence" with lucid dreaming. For one thing, in the dream state, you're using every ounce of your brain power to create a fully realistic version of the other person. Not only that, you have the added ability to move around in the other person's body, and actually dream yourself into the situations they encounter. Even if you don't have a specific outcome in mind, it can be fun to "dress up" in someone else's body for a while. One of my favorite applications of NLP has to do with the way people structure time. For example, how do you tell the difference between a daydream about the future, and a memory of long ago? To explore that, make a mental image of something that happened two years ago. Make another image of something from a year ago, then six months, then last week. Now make an image of something you expect to happen next week, next year, and two years from now. If you're like many people, you'll find that you can draw a single line to connect all these images in space. (And if not, rearrange the pictures and try it on for a while - it's your brain after all.) These "timelines" have a lot of uses in NLP. They're a convenient way of looking at your life as a whole - past, present, and future. If you imagine yourself floating above your timeline, you can quickly see times in your life that stood out - memories that you can enjoy, learn from, and improve. You can also use timelines to find recurring patterns in your life, or see the effects of your current behavior into the future. In dreamwork, timelines can double as a navigation tool. If you imagine your timeline as your brain's built-in time machine, you can use it to travel far into the future, or into the past. What happens when you go further back than the moment of your birth? Some people have reported visions of past lives, while others report that their timelines connect with those of their parents. And if you're particularly adventurous, you might ask what happens at the other end of your timeline, far in the future? As you can see, NLP gives us quite a few ways of exploring dreams. This article has barely scratched the surface though - there's more to NLP than strategies, modeling, and timelines. If you're interested, you can learn about NLP online at any of the following links: http://www.nlp.com/nlp http://www.manifestation.com http://www.nlpinfo.com http://www.carmine.net +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Interactive Dreaming CD and Online Program Review by Richard Wilkerson +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Interactive Dreaming System www.dreamcd.com/ The Interactive Dreaming CD is a real delight and front runner in the techno-shamanistic journey to the Self. The CD provides dreamers personal, self-paced dream education and multimedia self exploration at several levels. Generally the aim is to access the inner wealth of wisdom we all have in dreams and bring this into your waking world for positive growth and change. The multimedia includes video, audio, animation, graphics, text and continual updates and project through the online web site. The CD has a friendly guide to help you explore all the parts of the program, including a searchable dream journal (including voice recording), guided imagery, self-paced dreamwork, excellent guides to becoming lucid, solving problems with dreams, suggestions on dealing with nightmares, dream recall help and personal change and growth activities and programs. I really enjoyed the wide variety of activities I could take my dreams through, and the creative process that emerged from them. I'm a long term dream journal keeper and dream worker, yet I still found good suggestions I have never heard or tried. For example, ever since Carl Jung had his patients drawing pictures of their dreams, it has been a central piece of dreamwork advice. The Interactive Dreaming CD continues this tradition, but also brings the dream into the social field. I liked, for example the suggestion to bring the dream drawing into one's office and get other people asking questions. This movement into the social sphere can continue on their web site. Monthly group dreaming projects are offered as well as personal consultation. The Interactive Dreaming crew don't believe in telling other people what their dreams mean (They feel that's treading on sacred ground), but you can e-mail your dream or dream question, and they will e-mail you back some provocative questions and directions to explore to find your own meanings. dreamcd@usa.net The CD is full of dreamwork information and would be a great tool for teaching dreamwork to others. Also, there are some areas that are addressed to the advanced dreamworker, and to those who wish to take dreaming into other realms of shamanism, lucidity, out-of-body experiences and parapsychological paths. For example: the information and lucid dreaming program are useful for all levels. There is a whole section for those who have never been lucid in a dream but would like to become lucid. I felt the guided imagery approach particulary nice. And no matter how many lucid dreams a person has, one always wants more of them and to have them longer. The Interactive Dreaming CD allows the lucid dreamer to set up a strategy for this to occur. For the very advanced, there is a shamanic journey section on the CD. I was hoping for more extensive bibliographies and book reviews, but they do give online web addresses from which extensive dream bibliographies can be found. About the Interactive Dreaming Journal. Starting the Journal Speed Rating: medium Functional Rating: medium Graphics Rating: high When I created a shortcut icon and left the CD on the player, the load time from click start to the journal being ready to open runs a little under a half a minute. This sounds quick, but I need my dream journals to open faster. There may be a way to disable having to type in my password, but I didn't find it. Practically speaking, I can't leave just one cd in my player all the time, so one either has to get in the habit of leaving the CD in at night or adding another half a minute to the load time. A compromise would be to load the CD while the system is booting, but I'm usually cooking breakfast during this time. Also, the journal is buried 4 screens deep including one password protected sequence. This means I have to go down that path each time I want to get to the journal. The graphics are nice, and worth going through the first dozen times, but I'd really like to see an option that allows for bypassing all the security and immediately loads the journal. Journal Works: Ease of Use: Easy Extra Functions: Lots Save into a file?: No The Interactive Dreaming Journal allows for quick selection of types of dreaming and has auto-date selection. The types; regular, celebratory, lucid, and 15 others allow quick categorization and is a great idea. There is a category for regular dayworld journaling as well. Over time, this allows for approaching the groups of dream imagery. I may feel the need after losing my job or a loved one to collect together my grief dreams, or for inspiration to gather together and view dreams that will lift my spirits. I hope in the next revision there is a way to *add* my own categories and delete ones I don't like. (I don't like "x-ratings" and what they have done to the movie industry and I would rather have a more differentiated erotic - sensual set of categories to place my dreams in as well). The categories can be collected, viewed and a summary printed out. Categories can be changed as well. I couldn't find a way to put a dream into more than one category without fully re-entering it as if it were a new dream. I also would like to see a way to run out these reports into a printed booklet with the dreams as well as being able to print them into a file, even if the file is in ascii. The only way to do this is to copy and paste one at a time. Additional notes to every dream can easily be added. And it was easy to pull out of the dream the images that are meaningful and write up personal notes. I could see that one could write up collective notes as well - building a collection of dream images that have both personal and collective meaning. These images can also be collected together for a report, though again, printed only to the printer and not a file. There is a really nice touch in this glossary where the first incident that the image was mentioned will be displayed with the meanings assigned to the image-word. The Journal Reports also include sorting dreams by date, by title, and combinations. The journal can be Searched as well, in titles, dreams, and/or notes. The search function will take one string only and no arguments, but does build a great looking and very useful title and content viewer. I really enjoyed typing in various key words and scanning through the dreams that contained these words. I couldn't find any way to print these, nor to create a file of any kind out of the results. Journal Extras: There is a Microsoft Sound Recorder and if you are hooked up with a microphone, this is a great way to relieve those typing wrists of some pressure. Also, some people just prefer to voice their dreams first and record them later. Watch out, my smallest dream went over a megabyte! Also, I had to look elsewhere to figure out what the date was to label the .wav file. Hard on my sleeping brain! I recommend an option to pre-set up a directory and have the .wav files automatically dated. The journal is very useful in recording and searching dreams for display and view. I could even see clinicians being able to keep track of a variety of clients dreams as well as their own. Jungians will appreciate the ability to track personal as well as collective meanings over a long period of time. There is room for a third party product or later revision in the journal to allow for more detailed reports and file generation as well as collective dream correspondence tables. In General, the Interactive Dreaming CD is the best I dream program I have seen to date on CD - CD/Net mix. For the beginner, the lessons are clear and there are self-questionnaires all along the way to keep grounded and in touch with both everyday life as well as its wonderful and exciting possibilities. Advanced dreamers will appreciate having the ability to sort through tons of dreams to find patterns and significant imagery. This program would also work well in teaching venues for parents or clinicians wishing to empower their clients with personality enhancement dreamwork. Be sure to stop by the Interactive Web site as well. If you do this soon enough, you may be able to get in on the 1998 New Year discount! Be sure to say you heard about the product in Electric Dreams. - Richard Wilkerson Interactive Dreaming Site: http://www.dreamcd.com/ Email: dreamcd@usa.net Call toll-free (888)259-1299 or send your e-mail to order. Visa and Mastercard are accepted. Please include expiration date. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S January -February 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< This Month's Features: NEWS +Dreamcatching: Every Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares +15th Annual International Dream Conference +Radio Dreams +DreamUp Version 2.0 Available +Gateways to Self Discovery: Dreams and Shamanic Journey +The Dreamer's Companion +Dream Gatherings in the Netherlands RESEARCH & REQUESTS Dream Questions WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES +The Gospel of One Favorite Child +The Dream Game +Dream Pot +The Dreamer Sleep Paralysis and OBE +The Epic Dewfall FAQ +Anthony Dubetz Easy Dreams: Making Nightmares Pay +Electric Dreams Around The World +Dylan's Dream Inspiration +DreamScape Web Ring : Dream Journals +The History of Dreaming - Monthly Class +Dream Tree Has Grown DREAM CALENDAR for February 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<< My Name is Jon Shelver, and I have a few questions about how dreams affect our daily lives. They are some pretty easy questions, but I need them answered for a research paper I am writing. Any help you could give will be greatly appreciated. My first question was how much credence do you give dreams? There are multiple theories about what dreams are, what they mean, and even how they are created, so I was wondering if you believe that dreams play a major role in our daily lives, or if you believe they are just random brainwaves improperly pieced together by the sub- conscious. I would also like to know where you stand on dream interpretation. do you think that dream interpretation is just a whole lot of rationalization, or do you feel that it is a credible way of understanding our dreams? It would also be greatly appreciated if you could just explain a few ways you believe that our daily lives affect our dreams. If you could answer any of these questions, It would be very helpful in finish my paper. Email responses to sshelver@midstate.tds.net, <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<< The Gospel of One Favorite Child http://www.kreative.net/dreamword "The Gospel of One Favorite Child" is a work of original visionary experience consisting of and based upon dream-material which came to the author over a period of the last fifteen years. A spiritual cookbook of sorts, in which one may find the "recipe" for a number of dishes including those which relate to the socio-political aspect of religion and those which relate to the purely mystical, "The Gospel of One Favorite Child" contains sections composed of dream-stories and exegesis, of dream-based poetry, three subject oriented dream-diaries, and a compendium of dream-sayings and epigrams. There is also a growing gallery of original dream-inspired illustrations. In each case, the selected dream itself, is but the gateway and the spark which leads to an intense philosophical and/or poetic exploration of the spiritual, moral and psychological truths the dream appears to convey. <<<<< The Dream Game http://www.delphi.com/newage/dgame.html The Dream Game consists of a Sender, Observer and an unlimited number of Dreamers. The object of the game is for the Dreamers to pick up impressions of the Sender's selected object. The Observer takes the part of witness and verifies the results from an objective viewpoint. The game usually runs for seven nights, Saturday through Friday. Before the game begins the Sender selects an object and emails a detailed description of the object, its history and location to the Observer. Every night before going to sleep, or anytime during the day the Sender concentrates on the object and visualizes the information reaching the Receivers. The Observer oversees the game, tallies and posts the results. After the week's dreams have been received the Observer sifts through them looking for correlations. The Sender's description of the object, along with a detailed list of all the "hits" scored by the Receivers, is then posted in the Dreams and OBE's topic. The Receivers are the dreamers and their task is to record every scrap of recalled dream information during the entire week. They email a complete account of the week's dreams to both Sender and Observer. <<<<< Dream Pot http://www.renga.com/rengeiza_e/dream/ Dream Pot searches for links in a myriad of dreams. Dreams documented as text are thrown into the pot, and relocated, after undergoing Dream Notation, Dream Carpentry and/or Dream ReVision, to an uncanny time and space. This Japanese-English site is part of an experimental online art and dream experiment. <<<<< The Dreamer Sleep Paralysis and OBE http://www.eden.com/~sbonham/dream.htm Sirley Marques Bonham has created a unique page dedicated to her personal experience with self-awareness while dreaming, and the sleep/awakening onset. Packed full of useful information on lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and obe (out of body experience), the site is well worth visiting. <<<<< The Epic Dewfall FAQ http://www.storm.ca/~lucid/faq.html I actually see paintings in my lucid dreams. I have to go looking for them though by walking around in the dream looking at the walls. I call them lucid dreams because I become awake and aware in some dreams and realize where I am is in a dream. In a lucid dream I know I can do anything. It's possible to fly and walk through walls. When I walk through walls I feel it strongly moving over my skin. Read more about this and all the major lucid dream techniques in my new FAQ file. Epic Dewfall <<<<< Anthony Dubetz Easy Dreams: Making Nightmares Pay www.dreamgate.com/dream/dubetz Its just around the corner and you have no place to hide. It knows where you are, follows you relentlessly and reads your mind. eeeek! And then you wake up. It was a nightmare and now you really would like to talk to someone. Who to Call? Anthony Dubetz, author of EASY DREAMS has a special phone line just for you! the Dream Hot line in Chicago (312) 589-2471 has been helping those puzzled by dreams for several years. "the *main* thing is what your think about your dream..", he says, "...that is, what you must eliminate the next day." Overused parts of the personality leave other parts neglected. "Maybe your dream is actually telling you that you've reached a burn-out level in your personality. the dream might be getting a little scarier every day - it may be shouting at you." Now the theories and workshops are online! You can receive them *free* at via email over several installments of Electric Dreams during 1998, or read the whole book online right now! <<<<< Electric Dreams Around The World AU Site www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/home.html USA Site www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams Though the Electric Dreams community is really a distributed community made up of many fantastic contributors, they have for years maintained an Australian site courtesy of Matthew Parry. However, this site is difficult at times for those in the Americas to access. Now there will be a US site so you Northerners can easily access back-issues, articles alphabetically, events, resources, FAQ files, subscription and contact information and dream group information. <<<<< Dylan's Dream Inspiration http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/series.html Music is often inspired by dreams. Here's a site where you can see the influnce on Bob Dylan. Courtesy of Special Rider Music <<<<< DreamScape Web Ring : Dream Journals http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-52580/mikia/dreamscape/dreamscape.html Are you familiar with Web Rings? Web Rings tie concepts together on the Net. DreamScape now has a Dream Journal Ring with a growing group of online personal dream journals. If you have an interested in journaling, dreams or managing your own concepts, this ring is a great find. <<<<< The History of Dreaming - Monthly Class www.dreamgate.com/intro_dream_hx.htm Information for the famous History of Dream Sharing Class taught by Richard Wilkerson is now available online. This $29.99 class has always included 20 essays and dream groups, but now the information is available in detail online. Find out the details of each class, from Freud and Jung, to Anthropology and Science, to Lucidity and Dream Sharing in Cyberspace. Classes start at the beginning of each new month. <<<<< Dream Tree Has Grown http://www.dreamtree.com/ The Dream Tree, an online and offline resources center for dreamers, has been completely revamped and is chock full of interesting new dream-related projects, activities, events, and news, including research opportunities, dream news and calendar, The Dream Tree Newsletter, dreams on film, dreams in art, creative dreamworking methods, famous dreamers and their dreams, dream quotes and much, much more! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Jan 29 - Feb 19 in Portland, OR Gillian Holloway is teaching a four week course called Active Intuition and Dreams at Portland Community College, in Portland Oregon.For information call: 360/694-0201 or courseinfo@lifetreks.com Feb 3 in Oakland, CA "Archetypes of Authentic Gender in Dreamwork", University of Creation Spirituality class with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Marlene DeNardo at 510-835-4827. Feb 6 in Berkeley, CA Author Reading and Publication Party for Dreamcatching: Every Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares, 1400 Shattuck Avenue (at Rose St.) Berkeley. For Information Call (510) 548 4172 Feb 8 in Lafayette, CA "The Spiritual Dimensions of Children's Play, Fantasy, and Dreams" with Kelly Bulkeley, co-author of the new book Dreamcatching: Every Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children's Dreams and Nightmares. 9:55-10:45 am Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church. For Information Call (510) -283-8722 Feb 11and 25 in Pittsburgh, PA "The Dream Workshop", 7:00 pm, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue (Friends Meeting House). For more information, call Cynthia Pearson at 241-7885 or email netcadet@nauticom.net Feb 13 in San Francisco, CA Workshop, "Dreamcatching: Exploring The World of Children's Dreams", with Alan Siegel and Kelly Bulkeley , 7-9:30 PM at John F. Kennedy University . Cost $10 For Information Call (510) 254 0105 16 Feb in Mountain View, CA "The Last of the Dream People" with Alice Ann Parker, 7:30 pm, $5. For more information, contact East-West Bookstore, 1-800-909- 6161 or visit the website at http://www.eastwest.com. Feb 20-22 in San Francisco Dream Workshop with Jeremy Taylor, Luisa Teish and Kaleo Ching. Contact Kathy Taylor at 415-454-2793 for more information. 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=Z ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION 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=Z Subscriptions: The Electric Dreams E-zine (issn 1089 4284)is *free* and distributed via email about once a month. 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