Nightmare-awake!...oh Moonbeam on my windowsill banishing the dark 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 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 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 #10 NOVEMBER 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 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 C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ Dream Airing: Notes, letters to the editor ++ Column: Dream Trek: The Safe Universe of Dreaming Linda Lane Magall›n ++ Q&A: Watch Your Dreams + Tips Nancy Huseby Bloom ++ Article: "Nightmare-awake!...oh Nora Leonard ++Article: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dreams Harry Bosma ++ Poem: At Home with Strange Dreams William C. Burns, Jr. ++ Interview: with Kris B. Kendrick, Creator of the Dreams Project Interviewed by Richard Wilkerson ++ Nightmares - an Introduction Richard C. Wilkerson G L O B A L D R E A M I N G NEWS If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, pcoats@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/News/global.htm. This Month's Features: NEWS ***** ASD Membership Discount offer until November 1 ** Join now! ***** California Dreaming - ASD Conference in Santa Cruz ** Note the Cyber-Cafe! ***** DreamGate and Canadian Learning TV Dream Course ** Online via email! ***** Jungian Winter Seminars in Switzerland ** Include Dream Work! ***** WOMEN'S DREAM GROUP ** Dream Group for Goddesses! ***** Global Dreaming News now available on AOL ** Visit GD news at AOL AltMed Dreamwork RESEARCH & REQUESTS ***** Life-Altering Dreams for Television Pilot ** Male Bereavement Dream Series ***** Dreams, Visions and Their Effects on Art WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES ***** The Daily Analyst ***** Myths-Dreams-Symbols - New Web Interface. ***** "Through Dreams into Healing" ***** Bobbie and Brandy Phillips Dream Interpretations ***** Dream Inspired Art Gallery ***** Postmodern Dreaming ***** Nocturnal Postings has moved ***** ASD Oahu Art Exhibition Online DREAM CALENDAR for November 1998 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX NOVEMBER 13, FRI deadline for submission FOR Next Electric Dreams vol 5(11) Send in Dreams of Winter and Storms! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Editor's Notes +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ This is a kind of transition edition. Last month we really had our scary Halloween Cover by Bryan Smith and a call for scary dreams and articles. This month we actually have those articles and dreams. Trick or Treat? What, you didn't get a cover for your Electric Dreams? We have three ways to get them. The first is by signing up on a special list and getting Electric Dreams via a zipped file. You just download the email, unzip the parts into the same directory and use your favorite browser offline to view the illustrated issue. To hard? You can always view the latest illustrated Electric Dreams at http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/dma/ed/start.htm To get the whole issue sent via email, send an email to: edreams-web-request@lists.best.com Put in body of email only: subscribe your-email And you can always get covers for back issues at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers/ which is a treat to visit in itself. Quite a dream inspired art gallery. A special treat this month for those of you wondering what to do with your nightmares. "Nightmare-awake!...oh" is a must read article for those who think nightmares are something to get rid of. Nora Leonard will lead you through the personal shadows of scary dreams to the transpersonal energies grounded in mythic vision. I requested from Harry Bosma permission to reprint a very useful reply to a dreamer suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This may not be a nightmare topic, but it can be very scary and Harry knows a lot about the topic. Nancy Huseby Bloom also has a dream - answer column on nightmares this month. Be sure to read Watch your Dreams. Linda Magallon offers a different view to the scary spaces of dreams. Perhaps there are scary dreamwork approaches as well dreamworkers and dreams. Read her Dream Trek column to explore the possibilities of Dreaming in a Safe Universe. If that is not enough for you, I have compiled a list of resources on nightmares that will keep you reading until next Halloween in my Introduction to Nightmares. Also this month, a poem on strange dreams by William Burns and an interview with Kris B. Kendrick, creator of t h e d r e a m s p r o j e c t. Peggy Coats has a wide variety of dream news and activities for you. We'd like to especially call your attention to the Association for the Study of Dreams updates, as some of the special offers are time sensitive. Bob Krumhansl will be telling you all about the dreams this month, and you can see them in the DREAMS section. If you would like to contribute dreams or comments on dreams to the next issue there are several ways sign up on the ed-core@lists.best.com mail list drop off dreams on the web form at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple send the dream with title and pen name to me at rcwilk@dreamgate.com All dream sharing is considered anonymous unless you specifically request a name or address. And of course, our DreamWheel Dream Groups via email continue as always. If you would like to join an email dream group, drop me a line at rcwilk@dreamgate.com OK, next month we would like to see Winter and Storm dreams. Got any? And how do you handle your stormy interpretations? Keep dreaming and blowing up a storm, -Richard +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dream Airing Notes, letters to the editor Send to rcwilk@dreamgate.com +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ To Early Electric Dreamers: Do you know where Chris Beattie is? Do you have stories about the first days of Electric Dreams or posts from the early Usenet about the group? If so, we would like to update our archives. Please send those into Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last year Stephen Laberge and the Lucidity Institute offered Electric Dreams a special re-print from http://www.angelfire.com/ak/electricdreams/ed4-10.html [From: S. LaBerge & H. Rheingold, (1990). EXPLORING THE WORLD OF LUCID DREAMING. Chapter 10, Overcoming Nightmares. New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-37410-X] Reprinted by permission of the Lucidity Institute, Inc. Many thanks to Keith Garcia and Stephen LaBerge in allowing the Chapter into the public realm via Electric Dreams. Including: -What Are Nightmares? -Nightmare Causes and Cures -The Uses of Anxiety -Facing the Nightmare -Practicum for Overcoming Nightmares -Exercise: Dialoging with Dream Characters -Prescriptions for Nightmares -Recurrent Nightmares -Exercise: Re-dreaming Recurrent Nightmares -Children's Nightmares ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am a student at Bastyr Univ in the Seattle area. I live on Vashon Island and am looking for a dream workshop/group/class to be part of. I am doing a reasearch paper on dreams. Any ideas? Lanae Toomie1@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= DREAM TREK By Linda Lane Magall›n The Safe Universe of Dreaming =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Is dreaming dangerous? Lucid dreaming? Out-of-body dreaming? Psychic dreaming? Shamanistic dreaming? Jungian dreaming? At the beginning of my trek, I would have answered a unilateral "No" to the question. Now, older and wiser, I would revise my reply to say, "I don't believe that dreaming is irreparably dangerous, but I have learned there are certainly approaches that are user- unfriendly to me and now I avoid them." Human beings are not perfect. We're not all built the same, physiologically and psychologically. We don't all come to dreams with the same belief frameworks and personal support systems. We aren't all equal in natural talent and we certainly aren't equal in the time and effort we've taken to develop our dreaming skills. What we need to learn and the pace at which we learn it differs, one from another. I consider most dreaming to be like playing in a mud pile or wading pool. Some neophytes to unusual (for them) types of dreaming might dip their faces into the water, freak out and start sputtering and gasping for air. But this is a temporary situation, due to lack of experience. As you acclimatize yourself to the nature of the dream, as your dreaming self practices using her latent abilities, your reaction to strange dream events will transform from knee-jerk fear to confidence in your ability to find resolution. And please understand: courage does not mean that all fear goes away forever. We still need it as a warning mechanism. Courage means that we face discomfort and don't give it the power to stop our growth. If I really stretched my imagination, I could suppose that I could picture that a few people might engage in substance abuse and wind up face down in the wading pool water. But they'd have to be awfully drunk to stay there. For the great majority of us, common sense makes the dreaming experience at least tolerable and even fun. Actually, I think most problems don't stem from the nature of the water-dream itself. A few have roots in the field of dreams. Some of us are allergic to the grass around the pool (we have different reactions to the ideas in the books we read). We need to pay attention when strange notions make our dreams hiccup or sneeze. It's the other kids in the wading pool who can muddy the water the most. I've decided to steer totally clear of. Dream guides who take you on a trip straight into those nightmare worlds of dream (which they think is a universal reality, rather than endemic to their personal belief system). Intruders who poke their nose into your business without asking permission. Intrusive dream guides might be dreamworkers, psychics, medical doctors, shamans, sorcerers, channeled entities, the author of the book you just read or (unfortunately) your dreaming colleague. And I also find highly problematical, those folks who claim to heal but don't do the psychic equivalent of washing their hands. I mean, really digging deeply to dredge up their own shadow-influences, rather than gloss over problems with the phrase, "I'm a light worker." Most people with muddy hand or dirty boot "vibes" are simply ignorant when their influence tracks through your psyche and shows up in your dreams. It can be uncomfortable, even distressing to have to deal with inner or outer- generated garbage, but environmental clean-up is part of the dream hero's journey. (I just wish other people would do their fair share!) The real question is: Is there safe dreaming? Is there a safe, sane, comfortable, even pleasurable universe in dreamland? Yes there is, if you want to affirm, seek and co-create it. There's lots of dreaming-friendly approaches. I suggest the Jane Roberts/Seth material be one of those you try out. A good place to start: "Dreams and Projection of Consciousness" by Jane Roberts (Walpole, New Hampshire: Stillpoint Publishing, 1986). Then, come visit the Fly-By-Night Club web site and you'll have the opportunity to practice what you've learned. http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm (Fly-By-Night Club) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Watch Your Dreams with Nancy Huseby Bloom dream@icehouse.net =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Week of October 18, 1998 Dear Nancy, I have had this recurring dream since I since I was 5 years old. As a child, sometimes I would sleep walk and physically move heavy furniture in front of my bedroom door to keep this dream intruder out. As the years have gone by I find I have these dreams less often but they still upset me tremendously. Tamara I am in the home where I grew up. (I still live there.) I am being hunted down by an evil and violent man who is trying to kill me. I run away to the house next door but he finds me and kills my neighbors. I keep running. There is no one to help me. I try to call 911 but no one answers the phone. I wake up terrified. Dear Tamara, Nearly all of us will experience nightmares at some time in our life. Sometimes they are so disturbing that they play havoc with our waking life, causing anxiety and exhaustion due to lack of sleep. When they are recurring, it is especially important to pay attention to them. Whether these dreams are addressing a particular situation in the life of the dreamer or reliving past events, they always come to teach us. Knowing the truth about ourselves and our lives is always healthy. When we spoke on the phone you shared that although you were close to your father, he was an alcoholic and often had friends over. Since these dreams started at such a young age, possibly something happened in those early years that really frightened you. Nightmares are often the result of past traumas that have been consciously forgotten. Bob Coalson, a therapist specializing in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder states, A nightmare may be a re-enactment of an actual experience, a total fantasy experience, or an actual event portrayed in combination with fantasy. A marked increase in nightmare activity may be more prominent around anniversary dates. In other words, if you had a traumatic experience in the month of July, you would tend to have nightmares about it each year during that time. Nightmares can also be a signal that some issue or situation has become a serious problem. Is there an extreme conflict or a great amount of stress in your life? In your dream, Tamara, you are always running, trying to get away. What do you want to avoid in your life? Is there someone who is cruel to you, who is murdering your spirit or could you be running from a part of yourself that you don t want to face? Tending our dreams requires questioning our lives, values, and beliefs. Nightmares demand our attention, especially recurring ones. One of the most frustrating problems with nightmares is that usually there is no resolution- we just wake up screaming and terrified. I would suggest a technique called dream re-entry to bring some resolution to this dream, with the hope that it will stop. Before you do this, be sure to ask yourself the questions that I have asked above. For your own understanding, it s important to glean as much insight about yourself from the dream as you can. Then sit quietly and visualize yourself going back into the dream. Stop running, turn around, and face that man. Ask him who he is and what he has to teach you. Create a new ending, one that takes you out of the role of victim and into one of strength. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Nightmare-awake!...oh by Nora Leonard +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Nightmare-awake!...oh Moonbeam on my windowsill banishing the dark Nightmares have many purposes-at the time the primary one seeming to be to frighten the bejezzus out of us. Many dreams are scary, but we don't necessarily consider them nightmares; there are also dreams which depict real-life dangers to the psyche which unfold without attending emotion, only to become truly terrifying when we begin to consciously understand them. Some nightmares are evidence of internal "spoilers", attitudes which seem to rise up to knock us down just at the moment when we are finally beginning to make progress. And then there are repeating nightmares in which an actual trauma is relived in all its gory detail-until, that is, we are able to consciously confront it and deal with its repercussions. The nightmarish dreams I wish to address in this article are those I call "visitations". These are dreams when a door seems to open in the psyche flooding us with dread and heralding the arrival of a most unwelcome guest: a ghost, an intruder...an alien. A few years ago, when I was working in an administrative position at a London university, I arrived at the office one morning to find my co- worker in a state of considerable agitation. She had woken in the night to find a stranger standing by her bedside. She was absolutely terrified, but all he did was eagerly proffer to her one-half of a golden spiral notepad. Knowing my interest, this woman had often discussed her dreams with me, and so I was aware that one of her recurring themes was her failure to fully develop her potential. She had not had the opportunity to go to college, and now, at the age of 55, she was taking an extramural course as part of an adult education program. Although her financial situation was not particularly strong, if she applied to do a degree course and got accepted she would not have to pay the fees because she was a member of staff of the university. I asked her about the stranger-what he looked like, etc.-and the way she described him suggested that he represented her intellectual potential. I suggested to her that perhaps the "half" notebook might mean that he was attempting to meet her half-way, e.g. to merge the unlived intellectual potential he represented with her desire to study; not only that, the notebook was gold, suggesting, perhaps, a golden opportunity. I encouraged her to apply for the university course (instead of extending her extramural course for another year, which was also a possibility), as it seemed to me that the eagerness of the stranger suggested she was more than ready to do this. When she had first described the apparition, the dread surrounding his appearance had been palpable. But by the time we had talked it through this had gone; not only that, she marched straightway to the Registry Office and picked up an application. Even though it is one of the most sought-after courses, her application was accepted; I am happy to say that she is now in her second year of study and is enjoying it immensely. It has long seemed to me that certain incursions into the inner circle of the ego's realm bring with them a measure of dread regardless of their content-like the goddess Inanna arising from her stay in the underworld surrounded by the demonic minions of her sister Ereshkigal. Thus any potential that we-for whatever reason-have banished to either the basement or attic of our own psychic domain can become a bogie or a madperson. Or even a species of zombie. A zombie is a person who has been deprived of their will and their power to speak-and the silent screams of the dispossessed can often be the most haunting. >I am with some man who I love, a man called Will? We are out and >we meet Bill Hunter, who recognizes me. He's with his wife and all >his children, and he introduces me to all of them. I forget to introduce >my lover, and I apologize for this afterwards. > >Will and I are going back, he to his place, me to mine. I get to my flat and >realise I am wearing Will's soft leather coat, a kind of reddish suede. >I'm touched that he made me wear it because I was cold, but then I >realise I've got his keys in the pockets. I'm thinking I can't even get >into my flat to phone him (somehow I assume he has my keys). It is a bit >unclear, the next bit, as I may then find I do after all have my own keys. >Nevertheless I decide to go out and meet him, as I know he'll be coming my way. > >I'm out on this bit of wasteground, and I see him rush past getting >way ahead of me. Then I bump into this zombie woman. She is quite >threatening, and I'm flooded with dread. I am trying to push her away, >and trying to scream his name for help. But I can't seem to speak. And >then I wonder whether the zombie has got to him, and that really >puts me in a panic. I wake up, absolutely terrified. The day I had this dream I had managed to overcome inhibitions that had previously kept me from enquiring about the possibility of teaching an adult education course on astrology; I had called the local council, spoken to the relevant department and arranged to send in my CV and a course proposal. On a roll, I then phoned a local Positive Living group to see about giving a talk on dreams; the moderator wasn't there, but I left a message on his answering machine. My subsequent nightmare pictures the terrifying threat of finding one's willpower only to lose it again. In this instance, my dreamweaver heightens the horror by using the real-life figure of a childhood schoolmate (Bill Hunter); although undoubtedly chosen for the symbolism of his name, his presence might suggest that the part of my psyche predatory to my ability to assert myself is both known to me and someone I was once comfortable with. Not only that, he now has a large family. In the dream I assume that it is the zombie who is the threat to my "will", but it is far more likely that she is a portent of what I might become in the absence of will. There are many ambiguities surrounding this dream, but I cite it as an example of my ego being visited by a side of the psyche-the zombie-that I go to great lengths to defend against; I needed this dream in order to confront the fact that it is not the outcast zombie but a more familiar part of my psyche that stifles my determination. The story of the Annunciation as told in the book of Luke is another example of a visitation; someone experiencing a similar scenario of inspiration/impregnation today would perhaps be more likely to perceive it as a form of alien abduction. The author of the gospel describes Mary responding initially with the fear and dread typical of such an appearance-the angel Gabriel actually tells her not to be afraid. That Mary goes on to listen and then willingly submit is all to her credit-regardless of whether you take the story literally or as a myth. Forget for a moment the human Jesus and think instead of the archetypal image of the Christ which Jesus carried. This "chosen anointed one" brought with him the type of new world view that the tarot card of the Ace of Swords represents. It takes considerable courage to nurture and protect the type of radical vision symbolized by such a child, and there is a whole genre of nightmarish dreams which deal with the trials of looking after such creative-but potentially dangerous or threatening-offspring, and their occasional abandonment. That this is not a straightforward "moral" issue can perhaps be illustrated by the following dream sequence. >There has been an alien invasion which may be a great threat >to all of us. There is much panicking and trying to escape. > >Something about June Ackland. One of us may have a bomb >hidden inside a leg. The person may or may not be arrested, > but it appears that no bomb is going off. On the day of this dream, I had spent the afternoon collating haiku to send to some poetry magazines. Later I had gone for a walk, and at sunset I was near some allotments. Seeing two women digging in their plot, I had an inspiration for a poem about the burying of dead year gods. I had also been thinking about a meeting I had had with the owner of a nearby bookshop. I had asked this woman about the possibility of giving a seminar in her shop on dreams. She had replied that she was interested, but that there was a powerful contingent of Methodists in the area who were bound to object. This encounter had brought back my childhood experience of being discouraged to question anything regarding my family's Presbyterian upbringing, whether at home or in the church to which we belonged. I woke up from this dream just flooded with dread. But then I remembered having had the idea about the poem and I decided that I needed to sit with these feelings at the computer. Which I did, working first on the dream and then on the poem (which eventually came to be called "an unforseen planting"). In the dream, June Ackland-a police officer on the British television series "The Bill"-represents the side of me who is still concerned with "keeping the peace". There is also this fear of a bomb in a "leg", which perhaps we can translate as a fear I have that the standpoint I want to present in the poem may be explosive. The dream has no tidy conclusion; its ending is ambiguous. Sitting at my computer, I realized that, although there had been enormous fear, the alien invasion had not, in fact, been portrayed as harmful. Because of this, I worked determinedly on finishing the poem. In this instance, the feelings of dread that the nightmare left with me proved to be a kind of alchemical "prima materia", a chaotic mass out of which I was able to extract the inspiration to produce a poem. But that wasn't the end of the story. Several months later, I had the following dream: >I'm in an advanced state of pregnancy, but I realize I haven't felt >the baby kick in some time. I'm worried it might be dead, but >another woman insists she's felt it kicking. > >I start to give birth. There is a young girl there also giving birth: we >are somehow jointly birthing the same baby. The labour pains are >intense and it is a great struggle to push the baby out. > >Contrary to my fears, the baby is still alive, although there do appear >to be some things wrong with her. There are sores or gaps in her skin, >as if she hadn't quite finished her development. The blood hasn't been >wiped from her eyes, so it isn't clear whether there is something wrong >with her vision-at the moment, all I can see is the blood. > >They've put her in this ziplock bag, but I can touch her. Her skin is >hot to the touch, almost as if she were "cooking", and I make sure >she isn't being suffocated. > >Everyone leaves and I see the child sitting on a shelf in the ziplock bag. This dream woke me up with such a fright, and a sense of being shocked at the state of the infant and her being left in the baggie. I found myself wanting to comfort her; I also remembered reading the day before about finding a way to reconnect with the creativity of the inner child, and wondering whether this was indicated by the girl in the dream who was giving birth in tandem with me. I had many thoughts about what this nightmare might signify. But it only became clear several weeks later when I came across an entry form for a poetry competition. At first I thought I had nothing to enter, but then I remembered the poem I had written the day of the "alien invasion" dream. I got out that poem, along with two others, and started to revise them. The child in the above dream was bloody, unfinished and hot, and I imagine that she is contained in the ziplock bag so she can keep on cooking. This was certainly the state I found myself in for the next couple of weeks. Working on the three poems as a group, I came to realize that they embodied my experience of what is often casually referred to as the return of the Goddess [1]. This was a hugely intense period, during which I struggled with my entire religious upbringing. Here is the dreadful "divine" child who carries as big a threat to my inner world view as any other sword bringer; contained in the finished poems is the passionate standpoint pictured in my earlier dream as potentially explosive. The Mexican god Tezcatlipoca occasionally manifests in a particularly nightmarish form as a bogie known as the Night Ax: "a headless man with a dreadful wound in his chest which kept opening and slamming shut, each time with a spine-tingling thud like that of an ax hurled into a tree" [2]. Anyone confronted with the god in this form seems to have had two choices; either to die of fright on the spot or to reach into the monstrous wound and grab hold of Tezcatlipoca's beating heart, in which case it was incumbent upon the god to grant the person a boon. This, to me, sums up the essence of nightmares. At times we merely "die of the fright of them", which is to suggest that perhaps something might have lived, had we been able to stand firm to the fear. And then at other times we do seem able to grab hold of their boon-giving component. In the summer of 1976 I returned to my family home for two months rest and recuperation following the trial of writing up a PhD dissertation. During the preceeding year I had suffered from a combination of insomnia and night terrors, which culminated in a series of life-changing death dreams. These dreams led me to the works of Carl Jung, and also to a complete change in direction away from an academic life of scientific research into a lengthy private study of dreams, shamanism and comparative religion. In the two months I spent at home, I was plagued by a procession of ghostly visitations. My mother's Siamese cat had grown senile, and as frail as a will-o'-the-wisp. Yet she was possessed by an uncanny voice that would caterwaul through the night at unbelievable intensity and volume. One night I lay in bed in stark terror, listening to Pookie out in the hallway fighting with a poltergeist. It was only many years later, after years of work on myself, that I realized that this had been a visitation experience, that the spirit in the hallway "scaring the cat" had been an ancestral madwoman-a numen of creativity that had been outcast and locked away by generations of my family inhibited by societal constraints. A banshee prowls our house at night- She wakes the dead sleeping behind the photos yellowing on the wall- I can hear them muttering in the hall She howls at all the battened doors that will not let her anguish in, that shutter out her tourquoise rage bewildered by the crunch of age A creaking hinge lets in this fetch: she glides along the sword of light cutting the dark enfolding me- Who gave this ghost the coffin's key? A Siamese cat leaps on the bed- all fur, and bones as frail as birds who cannot fly the height they knew- her sightless eyes of shattered blue... A velvet paw across my face- a warmth so brief fluttering soft within my heart- it draws the tears that mourn the loss of stifled years A banshee prowls my dreams at night!! As wild as wind that bears the dead beyond their pain: their silent screams find voice in me and now, at last, the cat goes free All Hallows Eve (October 31) is traditionally a time when the boundaries between worlds buckle and bend and all manner of uncanny visitors attempt to cross the ford into our so-called "reality". Perhaps the side of us attuned to the needs of these outcasts-and possibly even dimly aware of our intimate relationship to them- developed the rituals of laying out food and other offerings to welcome these "visitations from the dead". So perhaps now would be a good time to look back at some of our old nightmares, and to reconsider what-amidst the dread and terror- they might have been trying to bring to us. [1] For a real sense of what the return of the Goddess might feel like, I encourage you to read "Descent to the Goddess" by Sylvia Brinton Perera, Inner City Books, Toronto 1981. [2] "The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World", Burr Cartwright Brundage, U of Texas Press, Austin1983, p 84. Nora Leonard (nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dreams Harry Bosma =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= The Dream Healing Room: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hbosma/healing_dreams/drmwelc.html Note from editor: I received the following note from "K" a man suffering a sleep disorder and forwarded this to Harry. His response was so generous I asked him if we could publish it on Electric Dreams. - Richard From "K" Constant Dreams and Sleeping Disorders I've been interested in dreams for a very long time, as I usually remember them in great detail, and have had precognitive dreams. I have health problems, and have been diagnosed as having a sleeping disorder. I have problems falling asleep, then seem to dream constantly, I'm often exhausted when I wake up. I may have fibro myalgia, and have read that sleeping disorders may be a cause of the condition, or just a factor of it. I would like to know if anyone has any research studies or information on people who dream too much. I don't seem to do very much deep sleep, my husband says most the time I appear to be dreaming. Any info or feedback would be appreciated. Thanks! Reply from Harry Bosma: I'm a CFS patient who initially got diagnosed with a severe case of mono in 1994. Like you I've been interested in dreaming for a long time so when I finally had some energy returned I published a homepage called Healing Dreams, looking for other CFS patients also interested in dreaming. Sleep problems are a factor in CFS and especially in fibro myalgia. From what I hear from other patients there isn't just one single type of sleep problem, but all kinds of problems: sleeping over 12 hours a day, barely sleeping at all, interrupted sleep and more or less normal sleep that however isn't refreshing at all. Two years ago somebody published rather preliminary research results that suggested that fibro myalgia patients have a flaw in the quality of their sleep similar to eldery people, skipping the parts of the sleep that produce growth hormones. I never heard anything from it since. I think you have to be very careful with experimenting. Some people suggest to use melatonin. Recent British research suggest that CFS is caused by too high levels of melatonin. At the Dutch CFS mailinglist this naturally upset quite a lot of patients who thought it was a innocent miracle drug. At my homepage I also warn patients complaining about vivid dreams for melatonin, because this same melatonin is used by (aspiring) lucid dreamers to get more vivid dreams. To prevent sleep problems I can only give the usual advice: don't be overactive just prior to sleeping. By the way, "just prior" can mean hours to most of the day for us because it takes so very little to get our bodies stressed and so very long to calm down again. Use some kind of bed going ritual, etc. You probably know all these things already. As to too much dreaming, I doubt if that is really a problem. It is sometimes suggested that too much dreaming can be exhaustive, but I have never seen any research results to back that up. (I've sent Richard a CC so perhaps he will correct me here). Actually, I personally tend to see it as a good sign because during the early period of my CFS history I went straight into a black coma, only to come out of it 10-14 hours later and even then with great difficulty. It was more like the stories you hear about near-death experiences, but then without the tunnel, the lights and everything else. You say you're interested in dreams. You could consult your dreams for more information on your current state. Though usually dreams volunteer information when it somehow seems necessary to correct your daily view or approach of your situation. If you're interested in this I could tell you a bit more about it. In the meantime I hope I've answered a few of your questions. If you want to take a look at the Healing Dreams homepage, you're welcome. The URL is in my signature. Regards, Harry http://www.xs4all.nl/~hbosma/healing_dreams/drmwelc.html =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= At Home with Strange Dreams William C. Burns, Jr. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Try as I might To set my hand against the sky I could not stop the sun I could not hold back the darkness Silent The gathering dusk flows into the room Pooling on the floor Flowing beneath and around the familiar Furniture Filling the nooks . . . Silent In a silent house Relenting at length Fuzzing along the edges I relinquish the Day The scrunched pillow The flowered throw knitted by Mom I reach into the cool dark water and draw a handful into my mouth The night air opens the bow of my dream ship slices through the hours in search of dawn Strange dream angels come softly across the lake The lights in their eyes dance like tiny fires upon the water A breeze breaks the reflection into a field of rubies Night follows day Day follows night I am dreaming Or am I waking? I'm screaming through the night at the speed of sound Lost somewhere between the Earth and Sky in a dream of steel and glass The clouds water colored in hues of pewter and white The city lights sparkling like diamonds strewn on black velvet I am falling I am swimming with Fishes Fishes in hobnailed boots Stomping the cobble stones In the harbor mists Gasping Cursing their foul luck The whirling ebb of the tidal waters carries many things onto the sand Leaving them like offerings leaving them like verses.... A shell incomplete and broken in places A piece of coral a piece of leaf A bottle without a note Driftwood rubbed smooth by the hands of time and tide Sea weed flecked with foam Rocks and sand Streams of light pierce the draperies Is it morning already? William C. Burns, Jr. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= An Interview with Kris B. Kendrick, creator of t h e d r e a m s p r o j e c t http://www.gobox.com/dreams/ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard C Wilkerson (RCW): When I log onto the Dreams Project http://www.gobox.com/dreams/ I have to slow down to see what's going on, like when I walk into a dark room and have to let my eyes adust. This seems a perfect mood an pace for dreams and sharing dream images. Was this intentional? Kris: Well, in the beginning, I wasn't really sure what kind of imagery I was looking for with this site. I found a scan of my own hand that I had done a few months before, and fiddled around with it for a while. The result was a diembodied hand, which seems to be touching the surface of some type of thick, clear liquid. It really affected me, in a disurbing way. I'm always intrigued when my own artwork disturbs me. The sepia tones came later. I was worried, at first, that they might be too oblique, and sleepy looking -- but I just kept coming back to that blurry, low-intensity amber and black look. I couldn't get away from it. RCW: What gave you the idea or inspiration for a site involving dreams? Kris: In the 6th grade I did an extensive term paper on REM sleep and dreaming, and I've been fascinated since then. Of course, I have my own, bizarre dreaming history to fuel that fascination. The site was born from a fresh dream, emailed to me by my good friend, and mentor, Steven Champeon (this dream, 'undone', appears at The Dreams Project). In turn, I responded with 'shoes'. I started thinking about how well written accounts of people's dreams were such an interesting mirror of their personalities, and that this might be an interesting thing to focus on. RCW: There is often talk about the "Dream Movement", which as I understand it, includes bringing out the significance of dreams in all fields of study, in clinical and non-clinical settings and in the general populus. It also includes dream inspired art, writing and other forms of dream inspired creativity. How do you see yourself in this view of the dream movement? Kris: Dreams are very powerful, and I sincerely believe that there is much of our emotional makeup that can be revealed, and altered in a positive way, by a consciousness of our dreamstates. As for a movement, I have no feeling about that. I am merely publishing people's written accounts of their own dreams in a visually pleasing manner. RCW: Your Web presentation tends towards depth rather than clarity. Is there a particular theme you are heading towards, or are you allowing things to evolve organically? Kris: Oh, I like the organic method for this project... I've designed websites for years. I'm going to let this one design itself. Be aware that I've been known to redesign on whim, however... (RCW): The issue of who the authority is on a dream's meaning has been prevalent the last few years. When you approach dream interpretation, how do you decide who the authority is? Kris: I never try to interpret the dreams I publish, and feel that this would be an invasion of privacy, somehow. (RCW): In Gestalt and much Jungian dreamwork, the images are subjective, about the dreamer himself/herself. Other explorers feel the imaginal realm is independent of the ego and these personal dream images are only cloaked in personal garb, but really live in the imaginal realm independent of the ego. Do you have any thoughts the ownership of the dream image? Kris: I don't buy the theory that all dream imagery is an ego trip. Obviously, a great deal of what happens in our dreams revolves around the dreamer, but there is pretty strong evidence that dreams are as necessary for our mental health as physiological processes, like digestion, are for our bodies. We use dreams to work out conflicts and traumatic events. I think dreams are very often like waste products from our minds. RCW: There has been more than a little concern within the Association for the Study of Dreams on the issue of dream sharing in cyberspace. Some feel that cyberspace is not the place to share dreams, that sharing dreams leaves us too vulnerable to those who might take advantage of us for their own purposes. Do you have any thoughts on dream sharing and the Internet? Kris: I think that the Internet is the perfect tool for publishing or continuing ones' studies of any subject. Whether publishing dreams on the Internet leaves people open and vulnerable is clearly a personal decision for each dreamer. RCW: Do you have some favorite books on dreams and dreaming? Kris: I don't read about dreaming. I don't really persue what people are saying about dreaming as an activity. RCW: Do you have a favorite dream? Kris: Yes, but I can't, and won't, discuss it in an interview. RCW: How has this dream influenced you? Kris: =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Nightmares - an Introduction Richard C. Wilkerson =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ from the cyber-dream Library, topics area. Www.dreamgate.com/dream/library/ There are a wide range of events during sleep and wake that are often referred to as "nightmares" and it is wise to learn to distinguish between them. Most of what we call nightmares are simply extreme reactions and fear that accompany uncomfortable dreams that occur from time to time in most everyone, usually towards the end of the sleep cycle. Often we are awakened by a nightmare and there can be strong feelings of sadness, anger or guilt, but usually fear and anxiety. Often we are being chased, and its not unlikely for children to be chased by animals and fantasy figures, while adults are often chased by male adults. Night terrors usually occur during the first hour or two of sleep. Screaming and thrashing about are common. The sleeper is hard to awaken and usually remembers no more than an overwhelming feeling or a single scene, if anything. Children who have night terrors also may have a tendency to sleepwalk and/or urinate in bed. The causes of night terrors are not well understood, though it appears that night terrors are from a distinctly different stage of sleep. Children usually stop having them by puberty. They may be associated with stress in adults. A consultation with a physician may be useful if the night terrors are frequent or especially disturbing. Why do we have nightmares? Nightmares may have several causes, including drugs, medication, illness, trauma or they may have no related cause and be spontaneous. Often they occur when there is stress in one's waking life, and when major life changes are occuring. What can be done about nightmares? The Association for the Study of Dreams notes that "It really depends on the source of the nightmare. To rule out drugs, medications or illness as a cause, discussion with a physician is recommended. It is useful to encourage young children to discuss their nightmares with their parents or other adults, but they generally do not need treatment. If a child is suffering from recurrent or very disturbing nightmares, the aid of a therapist may be required. The therapist may have the child draw the nightmare, talk with the frightening characters, or fantasize changes in the nightmare, in order help the child feel safer and less frightened ." Nightmares also offer the same opportunity that other dreams do, to investigate the symbols and imagery for life enhancement. The challenge in the last few decades for the dreamwork movement has been to teach a variety of methods that replace the old phase "It was just a dream." In American schools, people like Jill Gregory and Ann Wiseman teach children coping mechanisms that allow the child to come into relationship with the dream monsters and fears in a novel and related manner. Ernest Hartmann and other researchers are finding that those who have "thin" personalities, or sensitive, receptive individuals, are more likely to have nightmares than "thick" personalities. Pioneers like Linda Magallon, Stephen Laberge and Jayne Gackenbach are teaching people to take control of their dreams and have the outcomes they wish rather than becoming the dream's victim. The Association for the Study of Dreams offers some advice and books on nightmares and you will find among its members the top researchers in the field. NIGHTMARE BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY ASD Special Issue of Dream Time, with many researchers articles on Nightmares and Children. Much of the work is applicable to adults. Volume 15 numbers 1&2 Winter/Spring 1998 Available via ASD www.asdreams.org $7.00 Wiseman, Ann Sayre (1986, 1989). Nightmare help. A guide for adults and children. Ten Speed Press. Krakow, Barry, and Neidhardt, Joseph (1992). Conquering bad dreams and nightmares. Berkeley Books. Hartmann, Ernest (1984).The Nightmare: The Psychology and Biology of Terrifying Dreams. Basic books. (New - I haven't reviewed this yet): Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and Meaning of Dreams. A new book by Ernest Hartmann, M.D. is now available for ordering through Plenum Publishers. MORE ON NIGHTMARES Cushway, Delia, and Sewell, Robyn (1992) Counseling with dreams and nightmares.Sage publications. Kellerman, Henry (Ed.) (1987). The Nightmare: Psychological and Biological Foundations. Columbia University Press. Lazar, Moshe (Ed) (1983). The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Daymares in Literature and Film.Undena. Downing, J., and Marmorstein, E. (Eds.) Dreams and Nightmares: A Book of Gestalt Therapy Sessions. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Do you have some favorite Nightmare Books? Send them to me! Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S October-November 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, pcoats@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/News/global.htm. This Month's Features: NEWS ***** ASD Membership Discount offer until November 1 ** Join now! ***** California Dreaming - ASD Conference in Santa Cruz ** Note the Cyber-Cafe! ***** DreamGate and Canadian Learning TV Dream Course ** Online via email! ***** Jungian Winter Seminars in Switzerland ** Include Dream Work! ***** WOMEN'S DREAM GROUP ** Dream Group for Goddesses! ***** Global Dreaming News now available on AOL ** Visit GD news at AOL AltMed Dreamwork RESEARCH & REQUESTS ***** Life-Altering Dreams for Television Pilot ** Male Bereavement Dream Series ***** Dreams, Visions and Their Effects on Art WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES ***** The Daily Analyst ***** Myths-Dreams-Symbols - New Web Interface. ***** "Through Dreams into Healing" ***** Bobbie and Brandy Phillips Dream Interpretations ***** Dream Inspired Art Gallery ***** Postmodern Dreaming ***** Nocturnal Postings has moved ***** ASD Oahu Art Exhibition Online DREAM CALENDAR for November 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< ***** ASD Membership Discount offer until November 1 http://www.asdreams.org/membership_offer98.htm The Association for the Study of Dreams will be raising its membership fees as of November 1, 1999. You can still get in and join or renew you membership at the old rates if you act FAST! Stop by the online registration site and/or download a form and send it in my NOV 1 to get these special rates. ***** California Dreaming - ASD Conference in Santa Cruz he Association for the Study of Dreams 16th International Conference July 6-10, 1999 University of California, Santa Cruz www.asdreams.org IMAGINE walking down a curving path through the redwoods, emerging into a meadow just in time to catch the sunset flaming across the Pacific. As you pause to watch the sky darken and the stars emerge, you hear only bird calls and the sound of the breeze through the tall grasses. The presentations you heard today were fascinating, and you reflect on each of them, smiling as you make connections between what you've heard, your own dreams, and the dreams of those you know. Breathing in the clean scent of sea and woods, you make your way back to rejoin the community of dreamers, friends old and new, just now settling down for dinner and lively conversation. PLAN NOW TO ATTEND the Sixteenth Annual ASD Conference, to be held July 6-10,1999 in Santa Cruz, California, site of two past ASD conferences. The meeting will be on the stunning campus of the University of California, with its miles of hiking trails, tranquil redwood groves, and meadows providing 180 degree views of the Pacific. Accommodations will be in recently built apartments a short stroll away from the hustle and bustle of the conference, a lovely place to relax, socialize, and take in all the natural beauty of the setting. WHO'S WHO? Conference Host Veronica Tonay will reprise her command performance, as she played a crucial role in the two previous Santa Cruz conferences in 1988 and 1992 which were highly successful. A triumvirate of visionary Program Co-chairs: Deirdre Barrett, Johanna King, and Richard Russo, will be orchestrating a cornucopia of dozens of fascinating workshops, symposia, presentations, and events. For the 1999 Conference , the ultimate continuing education track is being planned by ASD C.E. Maven, Alan Siegel. And, an outstanding internet salon will materialize simultaneously in Santa Cruz and Cyberspace with the help of of ASD Webmaster Richard Wilkerson. Fariba Bogzaran will return to create another art show extraordinaire. Plus, we will have the latest research findings, networking with regional dream organizations, book signings with world-famous authors, lots of time to schmooze with experts and old friends, and as always, the Masquerade Dream Ball conference finale. SPECIAL CYBER CAFE: Peggy Coats will be hosting a special on campus that will be linked to the global dream community. If you are not familiar with the Internet, there will be friendly assistance to help you understand the basics. If you are a web master or information provider, you can learn how to link into the dream community and draw more traffic to your site. There will be many special events and meetings with famous dreamers from around the world as well as demonstrations of the latest technologies and dream software. If you already have a site online and would like to know how to participate, contact Peggy at pcoats@dreamtree.com FOR MORE INFORMATION on the conference program or a brochure, please contact ASD: The Association for the Study of Dreams, Box 1600, Vienna, VA (703) 242 0062 or (703) 242 8888. You can Email us at ASDreams@AOL.Com or for the latest conference details, please: POINT YOUR WEB BROWSER TO: www.ASDreams.org for an update. ***** DreamGate and Canadian Learning TV offer Online Dream Course History of Dreams: A Course in Dream Discovery Techniques A DreamGate Education class, in cooperation with Canadian Learning Television and Access Learning Online http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/psychology3.html This six week online course, taught by Richard Wilkerson, offers dream groups, real time meetings online, material and self paced exercises. participants will have a gain a full survey of the uses of dream exploration techniques from ancient interpretive arts to the latest in lucid dream techniques. First Class begins November 1, 1998 Classes being the first of each month Course Fees: $47.38 CAN or $29.99 (US) Pay by Credit Card directly online at the Access Learning Center. ***** WOMEN'S DREAM GROUP (Dream Group for Goddesses!) This new dream group begins Oct. 26 and meets bimonthly in Emeryville, focusing on dreams as spiritual journeys. We will utilize dream incubation techniques from the ancient Greeks to the Senoi to the Native Americans, doing ritual and shamanic journeying and drumming to journey and invoke our personal Dream Spirits, and re-entering our dreams for greater clarity and empowerment. Whatever your spiritual path, you will be supported among your dream sisters. This circle also incorporates psychological dream interpretation techniques, sharing and dreamwork as appropriate yet goes beyond typical psychologically oriented "talking" dream groups. We will dance, drum, create, act, pray, and much more, to explore healing, lucid, creative, psychic, and divine dreams. (510) 653-7293 for more info. Sage Healing Wolf provides shamanic empowerment and healing sessions. Sage facilitates the DreamJourneys shamanic dream circle and teaches The Healing Heart, which includes intensive chakra healing. Author of the upcoming book Dreamjourneys: Dreams of Spiritual Awakening, Sage can be reached at (510) 653-7293 or shaman@sirius.com. ***** Jungian Winter Seminars in Switzerland include Dream Work. Jan 4 - 15 1999 C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich Get together with Europe's best Jungian analysts and teachers for a two week inner journey in dreamwork, mythology and imagination. The Soul and Psyche seminar. Zurich Switzerland location with travel arrangements for North Americans. Info: Cotact Jungian Seminars. 190 Westbrook Rd. Esses, Connecticut 06426-1518 USA Telephone 860/767-3533 800/258-3533 telefax 860/767-2746 e-mail jungsems@aol.com Internet www.jungianseminars.org ***** Global Dreaming News now available on AOL AltMed Dreamwork The Alternative Medicine forum on America On-Line which opened a new area on dreamwork last month is now including the Global Dreaming News. Be sure to stop by, check out the articles lists and leave your questions on the Alt-Med bulletin board. Some of the articles include: - Getting Started with Dreamwork - Predicting illness with dreams - Revival of Ancient Dream Healing techniques - Carl Jung and Wholeness Dream Body work with Mindell and Gendlin (KeyWord: AltMed > Therapies > Dreamwork) or KeyWord: aol://4344:1679.ALTdrem.13664900.588132320 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>> Life-Altering Dreams for Television Pilot I'm looking for people who have had bizarre, fascinating, or life-altering dreams for a television show pilot I'm producing. These are dreams that woke you in a cold sweat...dreams that frightened you, shocked you, or had a lasting impression on your life. The show will re-enact your dream with actors and give you the opportunity to meet with dream experts and find out what those dreams really mean. Please visit my web site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~davegardner/ or e-mail me at : davegardner@earthlink.net >>>>>Male Bereavement Dream Series Men who have suffered a tragic loss by death of a child, spouse, or lover and were recording their dreams at the time, are being solicited for a publication in progress on bereavement dreams, transcendence and the healing process. The recorded dream period should be 6 months or longer following a death that occurred at least two years ago. Research is being conducted by Geri Grubbs, Ph.D., Jungian analyst. She would like to work closely with the participants, which will involve gathering the dreams together, copying or recording them with associations, and some telephone discussions. If you think you may be interested in participating, please contact Geri Grubbs by telephone at (408) 867-9019, or through e-mail at gegrubbs@compuserve.com. >>>>>Dreams, Visions and Their Effects on Art My name is Margo and I am a year twelve student at Cardijn College, South Australia. As part of my Art course I am required to complete a year long study to acquire the necessary marks. The topic I have chosen to research for my special study is "Dreams, Visions and their effects on art." My study involves collecting as much information as possible on the topic, research, conducting surveys, questionnaires and to become an "expert" on the subject. I need as much information as possible. I would be most grateful if you could send any information on any thing that links dreams, visions and art together. An interview, if appropriate would also be very helpful either by phone or in person. If you are unable to help me maybe you could to refer me to someone who could. Any information on anything to do with art, dreams or visions would be of great use to me. Thank you for your help Margo Clark, 14 Geoffery Ave., Pt. Noarlunga, S.A. 5167. Telephone: (08) 8384 8317. Email: mclark@cardijn.net.au <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help spread the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. This is really a public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a point to send changes to the links page to us. ***** The Daily Analyist http://callisto.worldonline.nl/~cb008448/ Free Association in Everydaylife . . . Vrij Associ‰ren in het leven van alledag . . .Explore your dreams, fantasies and anything else on your conscious mind . . . Onderzoek uw dromen, fantasie‰n en al het andere in de geeste... your co-explorer is Willem Linschoten, psychiatrist. psycho-analyst (and.... Sigmund Freud is at the Freudmuseum in Vienna!!!) The Daily Analyst's old and new items daily on work-days. Languages: Dos, Dutch, English, French, German, HTML, Italian, Latin, Windows95 ***** Myths-Dreams-Symbols - New Web Interface. A Jungian Psychology Based Interpretation Where Science And Spirit Come Together. Free dream interpetation is offered. All New Pages-Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Astrology, Tarot, Depression, On-Line Dream Interpretation, And More. http://www.angelfire.com/tn/MythsDreamsSymbols/index.html Jerry Gifford ***** "Through Dreams into Healing" (Article) is now published on the Elevated Therapy website. Elevated Therapy - Live a Different Life http://homepages.which.net/~michael.millett Michael G Millett ***** Bobbie and Brandy Phillips Dream Interpretations A daughter and mother offer a join effort to bring you their insights on dreams and dreaming. http://www.telalink.net/~brandee/ ***** Dream Inspired Art Gallery Photocollages by Kathleen Eiswald and David Wells http://home.pacbell.net/davekat/gallery0.htm ***** Postmodern Dreaming Collection of articles by Richard Wilkerson on how dream work might look when using run through postmodern concepts. Some notions include the attempt to create a non- representational dreamwork, how the missing center at the heart of the universe produces dream narrative, the effects of simulated reality in dreaming and more. Http://www.dreamgate.com/pomo ***** Nocturnal Postings has moved Nocturnal Postings is an electronic publication specializing in fiction. It focuses on, but does not necessarily limit itself to, the hours between dusk and dawn; this might include stories written at night, works inspired by dreams, things involving the night as a central element to the work, etc.. http://www.servtech.com/~juliak/NocturnalPostings/ ***** ASD Oahu Art Exhibition Online Each year the Association for the Study of Dreams hosts a juried art show. Many of the chosen pieces are available for viewing online. This year, Richard Russo has prepared several beautiful selections at http://www.asdreams.org/galery98/subidxshowart98.htm <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R November 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Oct 26 Bay Area, SF California Goddess Dream Groups (510) 653-7293 Nov 1 online History of Dreams http://www.accesslearning.com/courses/psychology3.html Nov 6-8. Gore Mountain, NY. Advanced shamanic workshop with Robert Moss, author of Conscious Dreaming. Call Laurel Masse-Palestri (518) 251 4135. Nov 6-8 in Salt Lake City, UT Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Peg Hunter at 801.364.9854 Nov 11 in Pittsburgh, PA ADream Workshop@ meets at 7:00 pm at 4836 Ellsworth Avenue (Friends Meeting House). Call 412.241.7885 for information. Nov 13 in Concord, MA Icon of the Black Madonna A Slide Show and Meditation with Deborah Rose. Friday, 7:30-9:30PM $15. Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742-3423. E-mail: Dreamwheel@compuserve.com; Tel & Fax: 978-369-2634 Nov 13-15 in Portland, OR Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Diana Clark at 503.657.1331 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor. com Nov 14 in NJ APraying with Dreams@ workshop at the annual Diocese of Trenton Spirituality Conference held this year at Georgian Court College. The featured speaker is Sr. Joyce Rupp and Sr. Carol Teodori. For more information, contact Carol Teodori at wellcare@nb.net. Nov 20 in Chicago, IL ADream: Pointing Finger at our Dream-like Existence@, Jung Institute of Chicago 800.697.7679, Jung@jungchicago.org http://www.Jungchicago.org Nov 21 in San Jose, CA Jeremy Taylor lecture at Holistic Arts , 12 noon. Contact Eric at 408.448.6726 for more information. Nov 29 in Santa Cruz, CA Service and Afternoon Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Call Cathy McCall at 831.662.8930 for more information. Jan 4 - 15 1999 C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ == D R E A M S S E C T I O N == ED V5 N10 == ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** D R E A M S SECTION INDEX BY BOB K. (For ED V5 N10) Hi there! Welcome to ELECTRIC DREAMS - DREAMS SECTION for Vol. 5 Number 10 - November 1998 Hello dreamers! This month we have some special treats- Nora (on a previous issue death theme dream), and Island (on her House Arrest trapped theme dream)) share their unique special insight with extended commentary, Stan K.(buying the farm) brings us into a farmhouse world with a dream economics country store,the repetitive dreams section repeats a relationship theme in varying degrees of intensity, Baby Spice graces our pages (stomach- less?!?), Alien's reappear, a Bomb goes off- then doesn't (who's in control here?), Danger abounds in blank screen TV static-a rocky shoreline- giant french oysters, and problems arise when it's time to take the music class exam (I know the answer, but it won't come out!!!). A French version (care of Alta-Vista)of the Giant Oyster Dream is included in case any of our French readers can help notice some "hidden messsage." Enjoy your journey. NEW CATEGORIES: [NONE] EDITORIAL: HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING To get to the Thanksgiving holiday, we first must go through the Halloween celebration. As all kind of young masked creatures populate the early evening hours on October 31 throughout the United States, a sense of the unreal comes into sight. As humorous and grotesque masks disguise the children seeking candy (trick or treat!,)a fantasy world of sorts surfaces in many lives. I remember so clearly the image of ET, the extraterrestial from the Spielberg movie, joining the children on Halloween eve blending into the crowd. For one short period of time, the outsider fit in with the group. As Thanksgiving approaches, I am thankful for the masked dream images which arise from the depths of our being and bestow a gift of wonder on those who can remember, and food for thought to those who accept the challenge of befriending the sometimes frightening images to feel and penetrate new levels of meaning. Thanks to those who have shared their dreams and commentary with our community. Enjoy your visit to the pages of Electric Dreams. Bob Krumhansl FEEDBACK FROM THE DREAMERS == General Comment & Question from krisP (980927) == == Response from rcwilk on How to unsubscribe from ed-core (980928) == COMMENTARY ON DREAMS FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES ** Dream: Never ending dreary dream by Kos (980924) ** == Commentary by Nora Leonard on Kos's dream (980924) == NEW DREAMS: PRECOGNITIVE/FUTURE DREAMS [Stories from past experiences, or send them in before it happens, if you can] REPETITIVE DREAMS [Significant by nature] ** Dream: X by ?? (981006) ** ** Dream: NUrules by ?? (981005) ** ** Dream: the past by ?? (981006) ** DREAM TRACES IN WAKING LIFE [The effects of external stimuli on our dreams or is it the other way around - our dreams leaving a trace on our physical reality?] DEFYING CLASSIFICATION [Your stumpers may not be so mysterious to others] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = LINKS TO STAGES OF LIFE BIRTH [Starts] CHILDHOOD [Early development] ADOLESCENCE [Maturing, testing] ADULTHOOD [The main event for most] OLD AGE [Wisdom, Approaching the Journeys end] DEATH [Endings] See the REPETITIVE DREAMS and SOLUTIONS sections COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD [Beyond our terrestrial limits] ========================================== ========================================== AGGRESSION [By us or against us- crossing others paths] ALIENS [Visitors or visited - creatures from other dimensions] ** Dream: Truly Electric by DW (981005) ** AMUSEMENT PARK [A place to relax and enjoy, another reality] ANGELS [Visitors from Spiritual dimensions] ANIMALS [Basic Instincts- This month brings us an animal zoo... ] (Check out Baby Spice and the Animal Zoo in CELEBRITIES) BATHROOMS [Maintenance, Cleansing and Elimination] BELONGING [What we are associated with or wish we were] BOOKS (Extensions of our memory and imagination, our permanent records) BRIDGES [How we get across an obstacle or go from here to there] CELEBRITIES [The well known - famous and infamous] ** Dream: "No Stomach" by au? (981019) ** CLOTHING [What we wear tells us about ourselves and the events we participate in] COMEDY [With an accent on puns, funny situations or jokes] COMMUNICATIONS [From telepathic to devices to signs & symbols] COMPUTERS [Extensions of our minds, mind tools, communication] CULTS [Somewhere out there ...] DIRECTIONS [Ever stop and ask for directions? North, South, East, West, up, down, ahead, behind, straight, turn, right, left, make a circle, cross, go through, open, close, mix, add, boil, cook, simmer, but most of all - follow these instructions carefully...and don't be shy about asking someone else down the path, except, of course, for the Big Bad Wolf!!!] == Commentary from Heratheta on Old House (980926) == == Commentary from Heratheta on Static Dream (980929) == == Commentary from Heratheta on Bomb Dream (980930) == == Commentary by Heratheta on Dancer (981007) == == Commentary by Heratheta on X dream (981010) == == Commentary by Heratheta on Oyster/beach/chip (981010)== == Commentary by Heratheta on Zoo (981020) == DISCOVERY [New insights and unexpected developments] ** Dream: The Bomb (Twice) by ?? (980929) ** DREAMING [Dreams about dreaming] DRUGS [Healing or Hurting?] EATING [Getting nourishment for maintenance, growth and pleasure] ELEVATORS [Going UP or DOWN - Push the right button or else...] ESCAPE [Get me outta here!!!] ** Dream: Treacherous rock formation by MG (981009) ** EVENTS [The activity defines or dominates the story - a convergence of people at a place and time for a special purpose] EYES [The organs of sight...the window to the soul...] FEAR [What scares us] FOOD [The source of our physical nourishment] FIRE [Flames bring light, heat and destruction/transformation] FLYING [Confidence, Power, Freedom & Perspective] GIFTS [Offerings to or from others] HOBBIES [Our interests and desires]- COLLECTING THINGS HOLIDAYS [Time off to ...] HOSPITAL [A place for treatment, healing and repair] ** Dream: Dr. Salt by Joe (981010) ** HOUSE [Where our lives take place] ** Dream:"House Arrest" with Comments(98.10.16)by Island ** ** Dream:"buying the farm" by stan kulikowski ii (981020) ** HOTELS [Temporary Dwelling or Special Event location] JOURNEYS [Missions away from our home base -explorations] LOST [Disorientation or abandonment] LOTTERY DREAMS [Sudden Wealth - Randomness favors the dreamer] LOVE [All around us, yet so hard to find and keep] LUCID DREAMING [Knowing you are Dreaming when you are Dreaming] MEMORY [Remembering ...In dreams we often struggle with the issue of memories and remembering a dream which by definition involves the process of recollection.] MIRRORS [Reflection of Self] MUSIC [Melodies of the land within] (See Music Lessons in SCHOOL THEMES) NUDITY [What you see is what you get] PERFORMERS [Entertainers] PROBLEMS [Situations or difficulties sometimes present choices] POLITICAL SCENE [Public issues through positions of power] RELATIONSHIPS [Other parts of ourselves including family which constitutes the first and earliest of our relationships, often influencing how we relate to the outside world] (If you didn't read X and The Past in REPETITIVE DREAMS, they are about the theme of dealing with past romantic relationships) ** Dream: sun chips by poppy (981009)** RELIGIOUS RELATED [The Ritual and the Spiritual] ROMANCE [Thrills and Chills, lost in another] SCHOOL THEMES [Learning and learning related trials] (Check out NURules in the REPETITIVE DREAMS section) ** Dream: Music Lessons by Jazz(981010) ** SOLUTIONS [The answers to problems or quandaries] STAIRS [Bridges between levels, between the upper and the lower] STRANGERS [Who and what we don't know yet] TEETH [Ok, losing teeth is one of the top ten dreams people have questions on. Theories on what they mean range all over the spectrum of possibilities.] TORNADOS [Pretty well defined destructive power of nature] TRAPPED [Temporarily helpless- Sometimes we are paralyzed or imprisoned by jobs, relationships or expectations] ** Dream: Static Nightmare by ?? (980928) ** ** Dream: Attack of the Giant Oysters by cathy(981007) ** == Attack of the Giant Oysters-French Translation (981014)== VEHICLES [Means of transportation, reflection of lifestyle] WATER [A magical earthly fluid, nourishment, cleansing] WORKPLACE [Where we make a living] WRITING & WRITERS [Communication and creativity] = = = = = = = = = = = == DREAM SERIES (None this month) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FEEDBACK FROM THE DREAMERS == General Comment & Question from krisP (980927) == > Would you please remove me from this list? I have tried to reply to things in the past, and it does not seem to work. There are comments in reply to dreams that I have not previously seen, and some of the dreams seem more like amature pornography stories than actual dreams, and I'd wager that the writer made them up rather than really having had dreamed them. As for myself, I see nothing that I can help with here. Thank You, KrisP ********************************************************* *** Remember always, that all power comes from the creator ********************************************************* *** == Response from rcwilk on How to unsubscribe from ed-core (980928) == How to unsubscribe from this mail list: Send an email to: ed-core-request@lists.best.com in the body of the email put only unsubscribe your-email COMMENTARY ON DREAMS FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES Dear Bob This is the first time I've sent comments, so please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. I would like to be known by my real name (i.e. Nora Leonard). Thanks, Nora ============================================ ** Dream: Never ending dreary dream by Kos (980924) ** My dream started when I was a teenager. It has been with me for 25 years now. I have lived a very good life, I'm married with children and grandchildren. My dreams goes like this: I am in my house alone, suddenly a black shadow stranger appears. I dont know who he is, nor what he wants of me. I attack him . I kill this person (who is a man), well not only do I kill him, but I bring him to my basement and dig a hole, put the body in it and fill it with cement. This dream is so traumatic to me, that when I awaken I am about to vomit. It has me upset for the next 2 days before I feel better. I get an awful feeling in my stomach that will stay with me for a day. It's almost like a feeling of deep fright. I feel that after the dream I actually did this to someone. This is weird. If any one can help me to understand this dreams, please feel free to email me. thanks, please help........Kos == Commentary by Nora Leonard on Kos's dream (980924) == If this were my dream I would wonder what unlived potential or character trait the shadow man represents which I keep "killing off" and burying in the basement. I would also want to think back to any change in my behaviour during my teenage years (when the dream first appeared), for instance any fledgling rebellious traits or assertiveness that I might have subsequently squashed when they met with disapproval by my parents and/or teachers. Any aspect of my character that might have proved difficult to integrate into the life I hoped to lead, or the community to which I wanted to belong. The fact that I have to cement over his body suggests to me that he might represent a very strong side of my character that I am not allowing to live, whose presence in my life I perceive as so threatening as to require his constant suppression. Yet still he comes back, and his persistence in my dreams and in my psychic basement suggests he is determined to find a way into my life. In the dream I don't know what he wants of me; waking from the dream, I might want to try and have an imaginary dialogue with him, to find out what it is he actually wants. I am now an adult and perhaps more able to deal with the reaction I might get from expressing that side of my character. Thank you, Kos, for allowing me to comment on this dream. It actually could be mine: I have had several dreams very like this one, and I found it very painful, coming to the realisation that I might have been killing off unlived potentials in this way. The pain and grief attendant to this realisation is the bad news: the fact that these dream figures keep rising from the dead, ever hopeful that we will let them out of the basement, is the good news, as it means that all is not lost: there is still time to resurrect an unlived bit of oneself. Nora Leonard (nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com) ======================================================= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ shadows tumble, swerve across a square of sunlight: kick-boxing crows Nora Leonard nleonard@vatamoen.u-net.com *Accessing the Inner Oracle: astrology, tarot, dreamwork* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Dream: == Commentary by NEW DREAMS: PRECOGNITIVE/FUTURE DREAMS [Stories from past experiences, or send them in before it happens, if you can] REPETITIVE DREAMS [Significant by nature] ** Dream: X by ?? (981006) ** I have dreamt this dream 2 times and each time it changes. It's about my ex-girlfriend and I getting back to gether. I leave my current girlfriend whom I love, and go back to this previous one because she is trapped by her parents in this terrible life. Comments by Dreamer : I hate this dream very much and it disturbs me. I love my current girlfriend very much so why does this dream about my ex bother me and why has it happened 2 times in the last 6 months? ** Dream: NUrules by ?? (981005) ** Reoccuring dream that I'm in the hallways of a school that seems familiar to me...like my jr. high. I'm looking for my locker and am having trouble finding it. I find it...but can never remember my combination. (I've been out of h.s. 8 years). I feel afraid and anxious...not remembering which class I'm supposed to be going to next or what books I need. I wake up dazed and confused. What do you make of this? Comments by Dreamer: I'm new at this...and am very interested in the opinions of what the dream is signifying since I keep having it over and over. ** Dream: the past by ?? (981006) ** I keep having these recurring dreams about my ex-boyfriend from high school. I am now very happily married to someone else, and I live 2,000 miles away from my ex. We had a very intense, and usually unhappy relationship off and on for 3 years, we were very wrong for each other and very much in love. When I was 15 he got me pregnant and I had an abortion, something that I regret every day, but at the time it was the best decision even though it went against my beliefs. Anyway, the past week I have been dreaming about him and his current girlfriend, whom I have never met, but she is close with other friends of mine that I still keep in contact with. The other night I dreamed that we were at our mutual friends' wedding and I wanted to try to be friends and he didn't. I looked fabulous, he looked just like he did when I met him when we were 14. The next night I dreamed that I met his girlfriend and he had left her and I was helping her get over him and we became really close friends. Then last night I dreamed of him again. He wasn't in the dream per se, but there was a newsletter in the dream from my high school group of friends, and in it was an editorial from him stating how much he hated me for not inviting him to my wedding. (I didn't invite him in reality, I was afraid of and he was bitter - he almost came as my other friend's date). I have these dreams every few months or so, sometimes I am getting back together with him, sometimes I am telling him off, sometimes we get along just fine in our new lives. I don't want to think about this person at all, it just brings back painful memories. I never think about him at all if I am not dreaming about him, but when I do, I can't stop and I feel miserable. I know I do not want to have him back, and I have not seen him in over 3 years. DREAM TRACES IN WAKING LIFE [The effects of external stimuli on our dreams or is it the other way around - our dreams leaving a trace on our physical reality?] DEFYING CLASSIFICATION [Your stumpers may not be so mysterious to others] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = LINKS TO STAGES OF LIFE BIRTH [Starts] CHILDHOOD [Early development] ADOLESCENCE [Maturing, testing] ADULTHOOD [The main event for most] OLD AGE [Wisdom, Approaching the Journeys end] DEATH [Endings] See the REPETITIVE DREAMS and SOLUTIONS sections COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD [Beyond our terrestrial limits] ========================================== ========================================== AGGRESSION [By us or against us- crossing others paths] ALIENS [Visitors or visited - creatures from other dimensions] ** Dream: Truly Electric by DW (981005) ** Dear Electric Dreams, I was given your wed site by someone on the Deepak Chopra forum, where I had submitted a dream experience I had as a teenager. I was hoping someone there could direct me to a source that could maybe explain what happened to me. I was 16 or 17 years old and I was in dance class when my dance teacher brought up experiences she's supposively had with aliens. I was really enchanted by the idea. I was already looking into the New Age, but hadn't quite grasped the concept of extraterrestrials. That night, I was dreaming that my dance teacher and I were on a mountain. The moon began changing shape and color. I asked my teacher what that meant, and she replied,"That means they are coming." The next second I awoke having the sensation I was being electricuted. It didn't hurt, but I remeber my back arching, I couldn't open my eyes, nor scream out for help. I felt a presence calming me down. I don't know how long it lasted, but when it stopped, my body tingled all over. I laid in bed trying to figure out if what happened really occured. I finally fell asleep, but then awoke a few hours later, once more going through this strange experience. A couple of nights later, I would awake with just a tingling sensation. Now, I did have an electric blanket on my bed, BUT it was not turned on, AND it only happen this one week, when my blanket had been on my bed many, many nights before this occurance and after. I went to a phychic fair a few months later, and I was told extraterrestrials were raising my vibrations. I don't really know what I believe. Was it my blanket or is there an another explaination? I'm hoping someone else has written you with a similar experience or if you know of another source I can look into. At one time, I read in OMNI magazine, probably, 5 or so years ago, a small mention of such occurances, but not much detail. I'd truly appreciate anything you can think of to have me look into, or direct me in your web to a similar experience someone e-mailed. Thank you, Truly electric AMUSEMENT PARK [A place to relax and enjoy, another reality] ANGELS [Visitors from Spiritual dimensions] ANIMALS [Basic Instincts- This month brings us an animal zoo... ] (Check out Baby Spice and the Animal Zoo in CELEBRITIES) BATHROOMS [Maintenance, Cleansing and Elimination] BELONGING [What we are associated with or wish we were] BOOKS (Extensions of our memory and imagination, our permanent records) BRIDGES [How we get across an obstacle or go from here to there] CELEBRITIES [The well known - famous and infamous] ** Dream: "No Stomach" by au? (981019) ** I was out in a hut in a "jungle"(possibly more like an "Open Zoo") with friends. It was set up to be "educational" - there were many animals around, including giraffes, cheetahs, monkeys and rhinoceroses. The main detail I recall is that Merril Bainbridge, or Baby Spice (a stereotypically cute blue-eyed blonde in either case) returned from her own adventure, and as she began telling the rest of us about it, she realized that the rhinoceros she met had ripped out her stomach while she was reading at one of the lecterns of information. The dream ended with us wondering what we could put in place of the stomach. CLOTHING [What we wear tells us about ourselves and the events we participate in] COMEDY [With an accent on puns, funny situations or jokes] COMMUNICATIONS [From telepathic to devices to signs & symbols] COMPUTERS [Extensions of our minds, mind tools, communication] CULTS [Somewhere out there ...] DIRECTIONS [Ever stop and ask for directions? North, South, East, West, up, down, ahead, behind, straight, turn, right, left, make a circle, cross, go through, open, close, mix, add, boil, cook, simmer, but most of all - follow these instructions carefully...and don't be shy about asking someone else down the path, except, of course, for the Big Bad Wolf!!!] == Commentary from Heratheta on Old House (980926) == old house dream-peace laid to the left or right of half way down the block where there was no "realizing something was forgotten" to yourself or others == Commentary from Heratheta on Static Dream (980929) == static dream-suggested "avoid making yourself or others sick" and seek peace to the right or left of the tv until the next dream == Commentary from Heratheta on Bomb Dream (980930) == bomb dream 1-showed you peace to the right or left of the building if you traveled without "but" bomb dream 2-showed you peace to the left or right of the building if you traveled without "wasn't distracting" == Commentary by Heratheta on Dancer (981007) == dancer dream-gave you the chance to find peace to the right of the mountain if you can avoid becoming "next". as for reality, it's all real but some more real than the rest. the most real peace is what i seek. the most real conflict is in the direction of the dream. there is lesser conflict in where the dream is headed with the lesser still conflict to the left of the dream and peace lies to the right of the dream until the next dream. it has come to my attention that we reflect light to the left so turning toward the right of the dream after you dream it lets the dream show us where the most peace lies knowing dreams are a future reality of stress. as for when i believed this to be true, it was when an alien carved a line in my face in a dream and i woke to find it there standing wide awake befor a mirror. i understand further that aliens have the same urge for peace and that their urge is neither superior or inferior to ours. it is that urge which makes us equal while what may direct that urge for peace is what makes us different. == Commentary by Heratheta on X dream (981010) == following x dream-peace was to the right of the parents if you "trapped" no one following nurules dream-peace was to the right of jr high if you did not "seem like" following the past dream 1-peace was to the right of the wedding if you were not a "didn't want to" dream2-peace was to the right of the girfriend if you did not "leave" anyone dream3-peace was to the right of the newsletter if you were not an "editorial" ----------- why is one side of the answer see www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/ == Commentary by Heratheta on Oyster/beach/chip (981010)== following oyster dream-peace lay to the right of the french town if you could not be "somehow" following beach dream-peace lay to the right of the bay on lake michigan if you could not be "very" following sun chip dream-peace lay to the right of the light if you could not be "only" why is also the answer see www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/ == Commentary by Heratheta on Zoo (981020) == peace was to the right of the zoo if you gave no wonder to yourself or others. DISCOVERY [New insights and unexpected developments] ** Dream: The Bomb (Twice) by ?? (980929) ** Date of the dream: 1st-5/98 2nd-6/98 The first bomb dream occured in a shopping centre. I was there with my boyfriend and we had been looking around for food. Then when we came to leave (without buying anything) we went into the exit area and someone shouted that there was a bomb. Then the bomb experts came in (everyone was panicking but still staying in the building) and they were trying to disarm the bomb, but me and my boyfriend started having an argument and we distracted them and the bomb went off. The second dream was exactly the same up until someone said there was a bomb. At this point I sneaked out of the building and avoided my boyfriend thinking that I would stop the bomb going off because I wasn't distracting them. Then I drove past later and the buiding was still intact. Comments by Dreamer: It happened around the time of the Omagh bomb in Ireland. DREAMING [Dreams about dreaming] DRUGS [Healing or Hurting?] EATING [Getting nourishment for maintenance, growth and pleasure] ELEVATORS [Going UP or DOWN - Push the right button or else...] ESCAPE [Get me outta here!!!] ** Dream: Treacherous rock formation by MG (981009) ** This morning, I dreamt that I was walking over some very treacherous rock outcroppings along the beach near my childhood summer home on a bay of Lake Michigan. I had to choose my route very carefully or risk falling onto the sharp rocks. Someone was walking ahead of me. I remember having an emotion about this person, but now I cannot remember what that emotion was. We came to the end of the rocks, just a few hundred feet north of the cottage. I looked down and thought how dangerous it would be to climb down the rocks and onto the beach. Then I blacked out for a moment, and the next thing I knew I was in the air, having jumped. I landed ankle deep in the water. I was safe. Then I woke up. MG EVENTS [The activity defines or dominates the story - a convergence of people at a place and time for a special purpose] EYES [The organs of sight...the window to the soul...] FEAR [What scares us] FOOD [The source of our physical nourishment] FIRE [Flames bring light, heat and destruction/transformation] FLYING [Confidence, Power, Freedom & Perspective] GIFTS [Offerings to or from others] HOBBIES [Our interests and desires]- COLLECTING THINGS HOLIDAYS [Time off to ...] HOSPITAL [A place for treatment, healing and repair] ** Dream: Dr. Salt by Joe (981010) ** I am in a Doctors office. A young male Doctor enter's. I do not know him. He looks at my chart and ask's "are you still eating Salt?'. I am confused. I think I must not have heard him properly. I say "pardon?' He repeats "Are you still eating salt?' . I am confused and think, what has salt got to do with anything? I'd appreciate input. Thanks, Joe HOUSE [Where our lives take place] ** Dream:"House Arrest" with Comments(98.10.16)by Island ** Dreamed that somehow I am with a young man and young woman in his house. Somehow he learns that I have several hundred dollars on me, and he tells the woman that I am not allowed to leave the house because the next day he will rob me of my possessions, then kill me. He leaves the house for a time during the day, and I am living in the heart of terror in the meantime. There is a sense that she may be a prisoner there as well somehow, for she is a willing helper in my behalf and opposed to his plan of action. The dream takes on a nightmarish intensity for a time as I live with feelings of having been betrayed, the treachery of the man, and knowing my death was planned in this manner. While under "house arrest," I stumble on a stairwell that leads into a basement. In the basement are many rooms with many openings onto the outside world, though the latter was not immediately evident. It is as if there is another, even larger, house built underneath the house on the ground. The female is with me, and I elicit her cooperation. I am excited by the possibility of escape. First, I wonder if I might hide in one of the rooms in an area where he might never discover me. He wouldn't even think to look in the basement. Slowly it dawns on me that I don't need to hide in the basement; I can actually leave the house through one of the openings, I believe a window. But I am stumped because, if I leave, I won't have any possessions with me, and must then deal with the world, and I imagine in my dream other encounters with people whose character is as treacherous as this man. I imagine being preyed upon by others, especially without possessions. So I debate on how I might leave the house with possessions intact, then another plan dawns on me. I might leave the house, immediately go to the police, and report this man's intentions. The dream ends vaguely, and I have left the house and enter the world without money. I do not know if I have imagined this step clearly while in the basement so that it seems as vivid as reality, or if I actually have done so. But the feeling accompanying my being in the world without money was surprisingly one of pure freedom from burden. The masculine side of my personality, represented by the man who has me under "house arrest," is treacherous, suggesting my anger (because treachery is a monstrous act) toward all that represents masculinity for me -- sense of purpose, strong will, decisiveness, active and powerful in the world -- perhaps because I feel I have none of those qualities at present? While I am imprisoned in this house, symbolizing my personality/psyche/intellect, I stumble upon an entirely new area, the basement, which suggests that I am in search of a solution to a dilemma -- entrapment, confinement, imprisonment -- which could be resolved in the basement (subconscious). Because the house is unfamiliar to me, and the man owns it, the suggestion is also that I am a stranger to my masculine side (or animus). The young woman, though in relationship to the man, doesn't appear to be in close partnership, suggesting the male/female sides of my personality are not well aligned. In fact, if I consider the possibility that she may represent a shadow component of my personality, I may conclude that there is a part of me that is an accomplice to the masculine side that would destroy me by robbing me of $300, then killing me. The money, symbolic of my emotions, the energy I have to give, what I value and cherish most, is interesting. I have it on my person but I am not doing anything with it. Further, the number "3" with two zeros following may emphasize these values: Creativity -- mysticism, spirituality or triangular relationships. It also represents the body, mind and spirit union. So as a man, woman, and dreamer are involved, then there is the suggestion that the relationship of body/mind/spirit may be at cross purposes and in a state of confusion. Further, not only am I trapped inside the house, but my possessions are on my person and, in a sense, trapped. The question evoked is what should become of them? Should they be usurped by the male -- that would mean death as my "identity" would be diminished. Should I enter the world, relieved of my possessions, with only mySelf? Because one solution I think of in the dream is to go to the police, report the man, thereby reobtaining my possessions, but the dream ends with my not choosing this solution, then a further implication is that I may be deliberately abandoning my possessions, my talents. Why would I do that? For growth? Am I afforded the opportunity to make decisions about myself and my future life? Because I feel liberated when I either enter the world without possessions, or imagine doing so, the sense is that my $300, and all that it implies -- my own preconceived notions about my talents, my values -- could benefit from reevaluation. Regardless, leaving the house suggests I am looking for other possibilities to solve the problem presented by my "house arrest." Because the man wishes to steal the money from me in the dream, implied is a sense of cheating, dishonesty, inability to commit, on the part of my masculine side. In other words, the masculine part of myself may feel completely powerless and without talents or gifts of his own. Because I am to be murdered, though I'm not certain how I will be murdered or how violent the murder will be, the suggestion is intense feelings of aggression will accompany separation of the male from the female. This is the most curious part of the dream to me -- if he has what he wants from me, why must he kill me, too? That's where the feelings of betrayal and treachery come in to play. The only answer I can come up with is, if what I value is the feminine side of me, and all that that implies, should the male part of me take it and use it, then the female side should be annihilated because my values have been desecrated by maleness. The dilemma is I cannot at this time fathom how the male/female works in harmony. Primarily this relationship is jeopardized, I feel, because I am under "house arrest" when males are around, due to the fact that they are stronger than myself, more dominant, and controlling -- in fact, tyrannical, leaving me little choice except to meander through the house and stumble upon a stairwell to a basement -- wherein lies my freedom. Another question arises: since death suggests transformation, is my avoidance of being killed the next day an avoidance of transformation? Part of me wants to believe that death, violence, war, though frequently chosen by humanity as a solution -- these paths are not necessary to transformation and are a poor choice. Rather, implied that placing Self in the world as a clean slate (with no possessions) is a better alternative to bring about transformation. Time is an element here. I am acting under great pressure, having only a day, for "tomorrow I will die," unless the problem is resolved. The fact that I am under house arrest by my male side -- this may imply my femininity evokes guilt, paranoia or even justifiable fears. Moral judgments or questions of right or wrong may limit self-expression. Because I do not recall in the dream precisely how I find myself in the world, only that I was first in the basement, next -- after considering alternatives -- suddenly in the world, the suggestion is a dramatic, or magical, leap of some kind. The implication is a set of uncomfortable factors may converge at once so that I quite suddenly find myself elsewhere -- out of the house. I prefer seeing clearly the way as I go, making my choices, with clearly apprehended transitions. Regardless, in the basement are more than one opening, and more than one type of opening, I believe (door/window). This suggests that a variety of new influences will open up, allowing me freedom from entrapment. The fact that I at first want to hide in the basement from the man on the ground floor because he would not think to look in the basement may suggest a number of things: my perception of my masculine side is that of unconcern and indifference with the unconscious, feminine aspects -- grounded in practical, every day life. This is where I am thoroughly confused because part of my dissatisfaction with a woman's role is that she has no time for the deeper mysteries, even her femininity is often at stake, because none of that seems valued in reality. What does the feminine side want to do? Hide in the unconscious. Not live its life on the ground floor. This dream and the dilemma it represents suddenly reminds me of a poem from a play to appear on Broadway some years ago that I committed to memory because it rang so true then, and now -- [From For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange] somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff not my poems or a dance i gave up in the street but somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff like a kleptomaniac working hard & forgettin while stealin this is mine / this aint yr stuff / now why dont you put me back & let me hang out in my own self.... [6 lines omitted] hey man / where are you going wid alla my stuff / this is a woman's trip & i need my stuff /.... [49 additional marvelous lines follow] Maybe a part of me feels that the feminine has become so trashed by the Western world, as I have seen it in the history of my personal life, though not so much lately (because I have hidden myself?) that the only recourse is to let the males just take it, by God, go ahead, just do it your way, I'm tired of fighting it out, I'm sick of this constant battle, just grab it and do away with me, and then you'll see how far you'll go with it -- because the odd thing about it is, if what I possessed wasn't valuable, then why would anyone want to steal it from me, then kill me? Obviously, the masculine side of myself wants to have what I have -- take possession of my gifts, my values, but never acknowledge where they came from -- sort of like the Borg in the Star Trek episodes -- I AM THE BORG...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. Maybe, too, why I didn't go to the police, report the man, have them arrest him and reclaim my possessions is because the police represents male authority. Perhaps I fear running up against the same restrictive wall, also suggesting implicitly that the masculine part of myself is in the wrong, something that the feminine side doesn't really agree to, because so ashamed and guilty of the feminine? In the dream, the female who is with me is a friendly helper (or part of my shadow, a positive, supportive part that I have not yet acknowledged?), who lets me know that she would help and support me in my aim of escaping tomorrow's fate. At the dream's conclusion, I find myself in the world, without my possessions. I feel oddly liberated; a blank slate. The question I must ask myself is, am I hiding in the world, like I wanted to hide in the basement? It seems that my ultimate solution in the dream is not to give over my values, my identity, to my masculine side, nor to continue ownership (disowning my identity, values) as I am released into the world without possessions. Why do I feel that the dream doesn't really shed light on choices directly before me, rather revealing the inevitable conclusion to the double bind dilemmas (Damned if you do; damned if you don't) that are a part of my current life perspective. I welcome comments. Island ** Dream: buying the farm by stan kulikowski ii (981020) ** =( i have been falling behind in my coursework as four of them are running now for these two weeks and the storms last month threw off the working cycle a lot. at least we are past that now, and the navy course ends for me tomorrow. perhaps i can catch up again. i have spent the last several nights working, trying to get caught up but am still way behind. i spent most of the evening archiving some newsletters. i got tired around midnight and went to sleep early after getting my java grading program to work for the network course, but a student in the web course complained that the gradebook there was showing all the grades. i fell asleep early thinking i might wake up early enough to get some web design done. )= bill griffin is driving me up the bumpy, rock strewn driveway to the farm house. it is an old, slightly tattered farm house, layers of white paint flaking away in big chunks. the lands around the building have that bleak, wet wasted look that worn out farm land gets after a series of hard frosts. the scraps of vegetation, brown and withered, still clings here and there to branches and bushes, but the rich harmony of life seems broken and flat. everything has a streaked dirty brown color, the stalks of weeds mashed and lifeless. as bill's truck climbs the small rise up and turns around the corner of the house, i see frank wittwer is already here. the worn out barn comes into view, a few vertical siding boards missing. as bill parks the truck, i get out to meet frank inside the kitchen. "well, what do you think?" asks frank as i step inside. even though i bought this place with what little money i had, i was buying this totally on bill and frank's word of its value. they had said it was a fixer upper that would need a little sweat equity. they were certainly not exaggerating. the inside of the farm house is empty and hollow, dirt packed in the corner of the floors. still, dirt can be scrubbed away, eventually replaced by my own dirt i suppose. the hardwood floors look to be in good enough condition. the kitchen seems dominated by massive white porcelain surfaces: sink, refrigerator, stove, washer and dryer. all them slightly nicked and chipped. this is probably where i will start cleaning as i move in. i quickly tour the rest of bottom floor of the house. all the rooms are empty except the back bedroom where my stuff has been delivered and sits in piles of brown cardboard boxes. in this huge house, my things will disperse quickly, but that is hardly any worry. space seems to fill up when you live somewhere no matter what the initial condition of relative volumes. i find agamemnon in the bedroom, apparently guarding all the boxes for my appearance. he seems happy to see me since all his life was suddenly boxed up and transplanted to this empty building. one of the my main reasons for deciding to buy this property is the 20 acres of land that surround it and the empty fields and woodlots beyond. agamemnon will be able to run freely over the area without worry of bothering neighbors. the space around the buildings seems more important to me than the actual architecture itself. frank wittwer is getting ready to leave now. i never met the previous owners, but settled on the purchase through him. he wants to show me the barn before he goes. i doubt i will ever see him again once he leaves. when frank pulls the creaking barn doors open i have pleasant surprize. unlike the house which just contains dirt from the previous occupants, the barn is filled with things all arranged in neat order around the walls. there are transmissions and engines from unknown vehicles laying on steel shelves. ropes and chains dangle on the walls. i see at least three inflatable boats of different colors and a couple outboard motors that look recently used. on one wall there are several fiberglass satellite dishes lined up, partly buried in the earth floor for support. i had not expected all this stuff to be left here. especially the satellite equipment will make things more pleasant once i set it all up. frank has to leave and shakes my hand before he goes. his dealings with me never seemed quite to connect to any success, just enough substance to exist but never enough to shine. this farm seems to be an example of that. bill is about to leave too, but i ask him to take me into town for some groceries before he goes. until i assemble some vehicle from the parts in the barn, i will have no means of transportation for a few days. a supply of food will be the minimum i need to get by. he says he will wait. i go back inside to make sure that agamemnon will be alright by himself while we are gone. i see that he is already poking into something over in the corner of the living room. he is pulling on some rope or cord it looks like. i go over and take the cord from his mouth and then i see that it is actually the naked skin tail of some animal. as i tug on it, an opossum all gray and shaggy comes out of a hole in the wall. it is a large male. he is not really angry or hissing, just looking around in a stupid befuddled way. holding him up by his tail, i take him out through the kitchen to release him into the barkyard. on the way i see a female opossum just by the door and i put the male down near her. he immediately trys to mount her from behind, so i decide to leave them if they want to mate before i toss them both out into the yard. over in the corner i notice a round wooden cover over what a hole that once may have been a well for a hand pump. i am a little surprised to find one inside the house. i lift the lid and look inside. the small area between the floor and soil is packed with mud turtles of all sizes. they seem torpid and slow as if hibernating in a colony. a few of them turn toward the light and open their jaws in defensive threat. there is a thick slime dripping everywhere from them. yuck, i will have to clean these out someday soon. i think there is small pond nearby where i can dump them. some of the turtles are no larger than a quarter, most are the usual four inch size, and one is maybe three times that size. i put the wooden cover back and get ready to leave. before i go, i reach over to grab the male opossum by the fur on its neck and toss him out into the yard. the female was not be seen, but when the male is out i see her laying on the floor under him. she has been bitten in two pieces. i can not tell if she was dead like this before or not. i pick up each piece and throw them out into the yard next to foundation. i will have to bury the parts later. not a very auspicious beginning for the new house. bill drives me in his pickup truck to the town. it takes about five minutes to get there through the drab woodlands. "wow, this really is a country store" i say as we get there. the store is freshly painted up bright red with white trim, really bright in the otherwise flat brown territory. bill goes somewhere, leaving his truck waiting for me as i go inside the store. i am greeted right away by a girl, maybe she is twenty years old or less. i look around and do not see any isles or shelves of merchandise, just empty counters and scales and such. "i am here to buy some groceries." i tell her, looking around. "how does this work?" "you tell us what you want. we go in back and bring it out for you." she is joined suddenly by half a dozen younger sisters. "ok, i will need some cleaning supplies. a broom, a mop, buckets, bleach, cleanser, some detergent." the younger girls all scurry off to find things in the back room. i am not sure how they price the items as the pile of them begins to grow on the counters. obviously i do not get to select any item, as the store has but one kind of each. "now, what about vegetables?" she asks. "we have a good supply just picked from the harvest." two of her sisters bring out what looks like a giant ear of corn, maybe six feet long. they each take an end and start to shake it. i can now see that the thing is not a natural corn husk, but some sort of basket woven to resemble one. when the girls shake it, out fall large clumps of broccoli, cabbages and cauliflower. after two or three shakes there are more vegetables than i can use, so i tell them to stop. i wonder if there was a freezer back in the house to store this much produce. the girl who had been my salesperson now hands a slip of paper over to a young man, probably a brother. they both have a similar dark hair appearance. i get the feeling of an inbred family here. "now, how about some meat?" he says with a gap tooth smile. i do not feel much like buying any meat, although agamemnon would probably appreciate some. "i got a really good buy on some fish just caught today in the river." i get a look at the bill, it says $74.75 which is not a bad price considering the large volume of groceries sitting on the counter. it will take bill's pickup to haul all this back. "i just moved into the parker farm up the road, and i do not know if there is a freezer to store all of this. i think i better pass on the meat until i see what i have in that kitchen." the boy looks at me with a slightly menacing look, but i do not feel threatened. he shakes his head and walks off, unable to make the sale and i presume he is disappointed. is there something about inbred families that seems to make them deliberately ineffective? i step out the door onto the porch of the country store while the nameless girls scurry around to load the produce into the truck. i look down the street to the rest of the town. i realize that i do not even know the name of this town, now my home, or how to drive back to my house. i see many of the buildings are boarded up, hollow red brick exteriors from the last century waiting for eternity. even the property they stand on is of so little value that demolition is unprofitable. a thin fog moves through the streets like ghosts marching without anyone to haunt. does this town need a computer programmer? i think. it does not matter. the internet diaspora has begun, returning its high tech offspring to the postindustrial wastelands for renewal. =( i wake at 08:25 having slept all night in one stretch. i look at clock startled, but see that i have plenty time before i go into to teach again today. this dream reminds me a lot of the beans of egypt, maine in its feeling. my mother and watched a video with rutger haur a couple weeks ago based on that novel. i suppose that is where the content came from. the feelings about frank and bill are true, their working effectiveness with me was not much greater than the inbred country people. )= stankuli@gulf.net === qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit | | who not is today, tomorrow less suitable will be --- -- Ovid _Remedia Amoris_ i 94 HOTELS [Temporary Dwelling or Special Event location] JOURNEYS [Missions away from our home base -explorations] LOST [Disorientation or abandonment] LOTTERY DREAMS [Sudden Wealth - Randomness favors the dreamer] LOVE [All around us, yet so hard to find and keep] LUCID DREAMING [Knowing you are Dreaming when you are Dreaming] MEMORY [Remembering ...In dreams we often struggle with the issue of memories and remembering a dream which by definition involves the process of recollection.] MIRRORS [Reflection of Self] MUSIC [Melodies of the land within] (See Music Lessons in SCHOOL THEMES) NUDITY [What you see is what you get] PERFORMERS [Entertainers] PROBLEMS [Situations or difficulties sometimes present choices] POLITICAL SCENE [Public issues through positions of power] RELATIONSHIPS [Other parts of ourselves including family which constitutes the first and earliest of our relationships, often influencing how we relate to the outside world] (If you didn't read X and The Past in REPETITIVE DREAMS, they are about the theme of dealing with past romantic relationships) ** Dream: sun chips by poppy (981009)** early morning/ about one month ago There is this guy at work that I dream about every night. Every other night he is being a real sweetheart, but on the other nights he is being a complete jerk. One dream I had featured him in a black room with light only on him and he was eating a bag of french onion Sun Chips. That was all he did in the dream, and finally I woke up wondering why I dreamt of this because I don't even like sun chips, but I do have a huge crush on this guy who also works with me. Please advise. RELIGIOUS RELATED [The Ritual and the Spiritual] ROMANCE [Thrills and Chills, lost in another] SCHOOL THEMES [Learning and learning related trials] (Check out NURules in the REPETITIVE DREAMS section) ** Dream: Music Lessons by Jazz(981010) ** I'm a teenager at college in England and I'm just finishing my A levels and then hope to go on to university to study music. In the last week or so, I've had two dreams which seem to me to be connected, and I reckon they're pretty important to my future. In the first dream, I am in my A level music class. Everything in the classroom is as it normally is, everyone who is normally there is there and the teacher in the dream is my normal music teacher. In the dream, I am asleep at the desk, although I am completely aware of everything that's going on around me. I feel absolutely tired and can't open my eyes, and when I wake up briefly, my music teacher asks me a question which I think about for a second, then go back to sleep again. I can hear him trying to get me to wake up but I won't. I don't even want to wake up, I can feel myself thinking "I'm not even going to bother waking up". In the second dream, I am again in my normal music class. This time, my music teacher has set us an exam that he didn't warn us about. I read the paper, and I know the answers to the questions. I start to write, but I can't seem to find the words that I need. I keep rewriting the same first paragraph and then scribbling it out. Eventually I scribble over the whole page, then I tear up the page and storm out yelling something. SOLUTIONS [The answers to problems or quandaries] STAIRS [Bridges between levels, between the upper and the lower] STRANGERS [Who and what we don't know yet] TEETH [Ok, losing teeth is one of the top ten dreams people have questions on. Theories on what they mean range all over the spectrum of possibilities.] TORNADOS [Pretty well defined destructive power of nature] TRAPPED [Temporarily helpless- Sometimes we are paralyzed or imprisoned by jobs, relationships or expectations] ** Dream: Static Nightmare by ?? (980928) ** Date of Dream: unknown; several years ago I am in a typical two or three bedroom house at night. There are no furniture or lights in the house, except for a television set tuned to a static channel, and the grey light coming from the screen. I can't go outside; I know that *something* is out there, and it will get me if I leave, but the buzzing of the static is starting to make me feel sick. Gradually, as I pace around the house, trying unsuccessfully to see what it menacing me outside, I feel more and more anxious and ill, until the feeling of dread starts choking me... Comments by Dreamer: This nightmare was first related to me by a friend. He described it just as I did. Less than a week later, I had the same nightmare. Be warned--this nightmare may be contagious. ** Dream: Attack of the Giant Oysters by cathy(981007) ** I dreamed I was in France, very excited to be there as I never have been. After some assorted adventures involving shopping, currency exchange,looking at odd houses that went up the side of a hill like stairs, and taking a bus, I was wandering in a poor section of a city with a dock area. I was walking in a dried up small docking bay, when a large oyster--about 5 feet in diameter started to roll over to attack me. I fled up onto the dock and into a long narrow street of the town.There were very old brick townhouses and buildings lining the street. The giant oyster was known in the town to attack strangers. It came up the dock and street after me. I went around the back of a brick building and climbed up to the top floor, so I could look down out of a small window at the oyster and the street. It was somehow catapulting rocks up at the building at me. I somehow knew it was evil, an evil generated in a big green industrial dumpster down in the docking area. I took a sword, went to the dumpster and started chopping up the inside of a large two to three foot in diameter oyster in the dumpster. I knew the large oyster and other large ones were coming to prevent me from destoying all the smaller oysters in the dumpster. I felt a darkness come over me, and the sword was gone and the dumpster behind me. I could see strange little cartoon figures and weird colors, and I felt trapped in an alternative world because of the oysters. I have no clue what this means! It is totally unusual. I've never dreamt of France before or oysters. == Attack of the Giant Oysters-French Translation (981014)== -Richard << L'attaque des huîtres géantes la nuit passée (10/7/98) que je m'ai rêvé était en France, très passionnante pour être là comme je n'ai jamais été. Après quelques aventures assorties comportant des achats, change , regardant les maisons impaires qui ont monté le côté d'une colline comme des escaliers, et prenant un bus, j'errais dans une section faible d'une ville avec une zone de dock. Je marchant dans étais séché vers le haut du petit compartiment d'amarrage, quand une grande huître -- environ 5 pieds de diamètre ont commencé à rouler plus de pour m'attaquer. Je me suis sauvé vers le haut sur le dock et dans une longue rue étroite de la ville. Il y avait les maisons urbaines très vieilles et les bâtiments de brique rayant la rue. L'huître géante a été connue dans la ville pour attaquer des étrangers. Elle a monté le dock et la rue après moi. J'ai circulé le dos d'un bâtiment de brique et me suis élevé jusqu' au plancher supérieur, ainsi je pourrais regarder vers le bas hors d'un petit Window l'huître et la rue. Il catapulting de façon ou d'autre la roche vers le haut au bâtiment à moi. J'ai su de façon ou d'autre qu'il était mauvais, un mal produit dans un granddumpster industriel vert vers le bas dans la zone d'amarrage. J'ai pris une épée, suis allé au dumpster et ai commencé à couper vers le haut de l'intérieur de grand deux à trois pieds dans l'huître de diamètre dans le dumpster. J'ai su que la grande huître et autre grande venaient pour m'empêcher de destoying tout les huîtres plus petites dans le dumpster. J'ai senti une obscurité venir plus de je, et l'épée a été allée et le dumpster derrière moi. Je pourrais voir de petits chiffres étranges de dessin animé et de couleurs étranges, et je me suis senti emprisonné dans un monde alternatif en raison des huîtres. Je n'ai aucun indice ce que signifie ceci! Il est totalement peu commun. Je n'ai avant jamais rêvé de la France ou des huîtres. VEHICLES [Means of transportation, reflection of lifestyle] WATER [A magical earthly fluid, nourishment, cleansing] WORKPLACE [Where we make a living] WRITING & WRITERS [Communication and creativity] = = = = = = = = = = = == DREAM SERIES (None this month) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Well, that's it for this month. See you next time in ED 5 #11 - December 1998. 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