Dream Memes: Infectious Ideas About Dreaming 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 " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " E L E C T R I C D R E A M S Volume 7 Issue #2 February 2000 ISSN# 1089 4284 " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " DownLoad a Cover for this Issue! http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ Announcement: Now, *Two* DreamWheels! ++ Notes to the Editor/Dream Airing ++ Article: An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis ++ Event: Mutual Dream Target for February 15: Giza Pyramids Scott Hughes ++ Articles :Dream Memes: Persistence Dreaming Viruses Richard Wilkerson ++ Dream Meme: All Dreams are in Black and White Richard Wilkerson ++ Dream Meme: Sickness in a dream means you are about to get sick Richard Wilkerson ++ Article: Microanalysis of Visual Dream Content Rod Smith ++ Article: Dreams and Astrology for February. Madame Aionia G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S - Peggy Coats NEWS * RESEARCH & REQUESTS * WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES * * DREAM CALENDAR for February 2000* ASD News Update! D R E A M S S E C T I O N : dream-flow.v001.n213 - dream-flow.v001.n231 D E A D L I N E : February 16, deadline for February submissions XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Send Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: Richard Wilkerson Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Editor's Notes " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " The Dream Movement is in a new and exciting age. Over the past two decades we have shifted from isolated experiments by separated groups and individuals to a group highly networked organizations that freely exchange ideas and information, providing international forums for the topic of dreams and dreaming. But dream awareness is still not part of our cultural main-stream and remains pretty much in the realm of psycho-spiritual concerns and sleep research. Just how to re-vision the educational project to include the culture as a whole is one of the themes of the Electric Dreams community. In this issue, I have suggested that one area is to find the ideas about dreaming that continue to spread like gossip and offer a wider access to more intelligent answers. I am suggesting that we can do this by looking at these infectious ideas, what I am calling dream memes, and then develop informational distribution strategies that will get people talking about dreams. My feeling is that since parents don't discuss dreams, the young children are left to make up stories of their own, many of which persist through adulthood. Be sure to send in your own dream memes and myths about dreaming. Lucy Gillis, in "An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange" explores how she had to cope with learning about lucid dreaming on her own and the issues that surround this isolation. I have included a short introduction to Dream Memes in last month's issue (ED 7(1)) and give a few examples, including dreams predicating illness and black and white dreams. My point is not so much to come up with answers, but to get all our opinions out and begin developing public dialogues that children and interested adults can tap into via the Internet. Also in this issue is a reference article by Rod Smith about his new research "Microanalysis of Visual Dream Content" Rod has developed an empirical method for classifying and analyzing dream content from drawings. Madame Aionia returns! If you have ever wondered how to combine your dreamwork with astrology, Madame Aionia has a creative, yet soulful way of looking at the elements in your dreams from the viewpoint of astrological houses. Be sure to see her suggestions for February and the Second House. If you would like to join us in dreamland for a mutual dreaming event, see Scott Hughes invitation to meet in Giza on February 16th. Peggy Coats, from dreamtree.com, has been gathering the news about dreaming from all around the Net and has the latest conferences, the best workshops, the finest dream events and all the updates on the latest and best web sites. Be sure to look over the Global Dreaming News for the events in your area. Heads Up! There are now TWO dream groups available via Electric Dreams. See the DreamWheel Update by Kathy Turner. Our Dreams this month come from all around the Net and have been organized by the software developed by Harry Bosma. Be sure to look through the dreams and see what on the mind and soul of dreamers in Cyberspace. -Richard Wilkerson NEXT MONTH: Gayle Delaney and All About Dreams. If you have articles on the Dream Interview Method, please send those in by February 16. " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Electric Dreams DreamWheel Update Kathy Turner " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " There are now TWO DreamWheels spinning in cyberspace near you. Are you interested in doing group dreamwork online? Yes! Then join one of the DreamWheels. We both follow Montague Ullman's technique (not slavishly and modified by Richard Wilkerson and others for online dreamwork). Each of the dreamwheelers asks questions about the particular dream we are working on in order to clarify what it was "really" like, then (after listening to all the responses from the dreamer) we make a comment on what the dream would mean to us if it were our own. This technique allows us to honour the mystery and intelligence of the dream and to recognise that each dream "interpretation" is as much about the interpreter as it is about the dreamer. It generates insightful comments for the dreamer and for the interpreter. The first DreamWheel has a fast turn around. We deal with one dream per week - this means that if you are going to participate you need to be able to email the wheel twice each week. It is particularly good for those who would like to try out online dreamwork. You'll get lots of support and we will build into it a connection to Richard's History of Dreaming classes - so you'll have a chance to try out and think about various ways of approaching dreams. If you'd like to join or to find out more just e-mail Kathy Turner (kathyturner@bigpond.com) The second DreamWheel is *new*. It is the eDreams group, with a longer spin time than DreamWheel (a fortnight or even two weeks), and will give 'dedicated' dreamers the opportunity to spend a bit longer with each dream. We'll be starting up the first week of the new millennium - WOW!" If you'd like to join this DreamWheel or find out more, email Phyllis Howling (pthowing@earthlink.net) and say "Hi, I'm interested in the new dream group and would like to learn more!" " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Dream Airing: News, Notes and Events " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " ////////////////////////////////////// If you would like to get more information about the monthly class, the History of Dreams, send and e-mail to the autoresponder at dreamclass@dreamgate.com -Richard ////////////////////////////////////// The Dream are In! The Alchera Planetary Dream Event for 1999 has been posted: http://www.oniros.fr/dreams99.html Now, start getting ready for the final event in July 2000: Rêve planétaire /Planetary dream 2000 Au commencement... /In the beginning... /////////////////////////////////////// Hey, did you know that the Lucidity Institute has a regular newsletter called LUCIDITY*FLASHES To SUBSCRIBE.....Send a blank email message to lucidity-on@mail-list.com //////////////////////////////////////// Request for Online Volunteers: If you are a member of the Association for the Study of Dreams, I would like to invite you to become an online volunteer. Our volunteers keep the online dream program for ASD moving along smoothly, provide support for the office and conference and keep the ASD web site looking really spiffy. If you would like to join, drop me a line: Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com If you would like to Become a member of the Association for the Study of Dreams, stop by http://www.asdreams.org and sign up today! ////////////////////////////////////////// Microanalysis of Dream Content http://www.onyx.co.nz/dreams/d_home.html " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Event: Mutual Dream Target for February 16th : Giza Pyramids " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Picture at: http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://www.guardians.net/egypt/gp1.htm How would you like to meet with the Electric Dreams Community in Dreamspace? We will be meeting in our dreams on Saturday night, the 16th of February. Party at the Great Pyramid, Wednesday night, the 15th of January, 2000. The Great Pyramid is the mutual dream target for February. Located on the Giza plateau, right outside of Cairo, Egypt, this is the only remaining wonder of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World." This pyramid has many passages and several chambers. The main chamber, the so called the King's Chamber contains an empty coffer. The main party will be in this room, but we will be running all over this pyramid looking for hidden passages and treasure. If you must, take a dream boat up the Nile river to get here. Keep an eye out for Osiris, Napoleon, or Cleopatra who all played a role in the mythology and history of this great structure. A pyramid builder, myself (I usually build my pyramids out of ideas), you may see me lifting a dream stone or two into place. For the larger stones, I will be assembling a crew... Scott Hughes scott.hughes@hboc.com Procedure: Just before going to bed, make the intention to join the Electric Dreams community in your dreams and to recall and remember that dream in the morning. Keep and pen and pad by your bed and send in any dreams you have that night. Be sure to title and date the dream, and note what the target was. Don't worry about what time zone you are in and if everyone will be asleep at the same time. Consider this dream-time asynchronous. That is, you may dream about the target days before or after the event and we will still include it in as a mutual dream. Post your dreams at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple For more information on Mutual Dreaming, Visit Linda Magallon's site at: http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " This month I would like to share one of my own lucid dreams. In fact, I consider it to be my first lucid dreaming experience. Although I didn't know the term "lucid dreaming" at the time that I had this dream, I had recently begun reading the Seth books by Jane Roberts, and was learning that you could become "awake and aware in your dreams." This information triggered the following dream, which at the time I called a "conscious dream." This marks the first time I recall knowing that I was dreaming and could control my environment while still asleep and in the dream state (even though that recognition was brief at the end of the dream). ******************* December 14, 1987 I dream that a group of us at Saint Mary's University campus are going to a lecture on Edgar Cayce. On our way, some young woman and I fall behind and become late. The SMU football field is huge, and we have to cross it to get to the lecture. The scene changes and we are then in a dorm room getting ready when all of a sudden the young woman looks different. She has become sinister looking. She is dressed in tight black leather and either she has her black hair piled on top of her head, or she wears an elaborate headpiece of some kind. She holds up a sword, and is now standing about two metres above me. I am tangled among thick ropes against a wall, holding tightly to keep from dropping. There is no floor below me, only a dark void. I know that with one slash of her sword the ropes will break and I will fall into the void. She begins to chant something Satanic; one word over and over. I look down into the bottomless pit and think "Shelf. I need a shelf." I release my grip and know that a shelf will materialize for me to land on. It does. When I land, I look back up at her, with a slow triumphant smile. She begins to vanish as I open my eyes to end the dream. ******************** I was not purposely trying to have such a dream; but in reading that it could be possible to become consciously aware in your dreams while still asleep was a fascinating and exciting idea. I believe it was my excitement and desire that brought about the above dream. After this experience, I continued to have several "conscious dreams," for a few years. Then I found books about lucid dreaming and discovered that my "conscious dreams" were called "lucid dreams" and that numerous studies had been and were being done on the subject. I began corresponding with other lucid dreamers, and my own lucid dreaming took off like a rocket! I was incorporating new ideas and techniques for inducing lucidity. My lucid dreams were undergoing an accelerated evolution; becoming longer, more rich, more meaningful and more adventurous. Ideas triggered ideas which triggered experience which triggered more ideas....and the cycle continued (and continues!). (If a meme can be described as an "infectious idea" then dream memes must certainly exist!) My lucid skills were showing up in my non lucid dreams. For instance, I dreamed one night that milk had spilled over a shelf. There was no dish cloth or paper towel nearby to wipe it up. I decided to make wiping motions with my hand until a cloth manifested itself in my hand. Which it did. But I was not aware that I was dreaming. When I awakened I was disappointed to note that I had "failed" to become lucid when I began thinking of making things manifest (something that I thought should have triggered me to become lucid). But a friend (and fellow lucid dreamer) suggested that I hadn't "failed," but that I was now incorporating lucid skills into non lucid dreams. And with that (infectious!) idea sitting nicely in my mind, my non lucid dreams took on a new evolution as well. I was doing things in my non lucid dreams that would suggest lucidity, but I would continue to interact in the dream, unaware that I was asleep and dreaming. These lucid skills gave my non lucid dreams a new dimension of meaning. Problems were solved more easily now that I had additional tools. (i.e. I could fly over barriers instead of trying to climb over them, or instead of giving up). The "can-do attitude" that came with these experiences spilled over into my waking life as well. It was subtle, but enough that I could notice a change over a period of time. Since my dreams were "easier" and more free, I would awaken more often with pleasant dream memories. (I am the type of person who can have a lousy day at the office if I've had a disturbing dream the night before; the emotions of the dreams tend to linger if they are particularly strong.) Even problem solving while awake was improved, perhaps because I had learned to expand my limits in the dream state and this belief, or attitude filtered down to my waking state. Keeping in touch with fellow dreamers and learning about what they are doing in their dreams and about their ideas and questions about dreaming continues to inspire new learning for me. This is one of the reasons that it is such a joy to be involved with The Lucid Dream Exchange. The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly issue of lucid dream experiences, articles, and announcements submitted by individual readers. If you'd like more information about The Lucid Dream Exchange contact Lucy Gillis at lucy@turbotek.net " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Dream Memes: Persistence Dreaming Viruses Richard Wilkerson " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " How often have you heard people ask "Will I die if I die in my dream?" or "All dreams are in black and white." Or "A dream of hours takes place in a few seconds."? These might be viewed as dream memes. A "meme," is an idea that works in a mind the same way a gene or virus works in the body. These infectious ideas or viral memes can jump from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from body to body. While the theories involving memes and the cultural transmissions they effect are complex [see Dream Memes, Richard Wilkerson, Electric Dreams 7(1) 2000] the notion of an infectious idea is very easy to grasp and something we might explore in notions of dreams and dreaming. I would like to call on the Electric Dreams community to look through some of the dream memes you have heard and send them in. I will add a couple each month myself. Also, we might start to speculate on why these particular memes are so virulent and continue across generations of dreamers. " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Dream Meme: All Dreams are in Black and White This surely must be one of the first questions we pondered as kids and debated about. In a way its very confusing how this ideas is so popular. One only has to observe one's own dreams for awhile. Perhaps children have learned to be very careful about what inner realities they can share. There is no experimental proof I have seen of this, but researchers agree that most dreams are in color. However, because the dream fades so quickly after we awake, our memories of the dream are often recalled in gray tones. Studies show that those who are in tune with color in waking life tend to remember more color in dreams as well. It has also been noticed that those of us who grew up with black & white TV have more black and white dreams. When I was a kid, I heard someone talking about black & white vs color dreams. I felt bad because I recalled most of my dreams in b&w. That night I dreamt of thousands of iridescence lizards running along by my room. I was really delighted and tried to collect as many a possible, commenting the whole time about the color. This dream indicates satisfactorily to me that there is color *in* the dream and its not just added afterwards, since I was commenting on the colors in the dream itself. Try the following exercise: During the day, notice at least once an hour the color of something, anything. My guess is that you will start recalling more dreams in your sleep. Dreamworkers will often use black and white dreams to explore whether this situation is black and white in the metaphorical sense of "You feel this is a black and white situation?" Used in this way, it allows us to explore that we perhaps are feeling a loss of options or the situation is very clear. What are some other approaches to black and white dreams? " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Dream Meme: Sickness in a dream means you are about to get sick Dreams were used in the ancient dream sanctuaries to heal a variety of illnesses, but sank into disuse in the Dark Ages. Psychoanalysis revived the dream to address psychological and emotional illnesses. Contemporary dreamwork furthers the work of psychology, including the realm of the spiritual and human potential. Can dreams be fully revived to the status of healing the body of illness and wounds as in ancient Greece? Research has confirmed that illnesses can sometimes be found in dreams before the symptoms actually appear. However, the hard science of dream prognosis is new. With the advent of MRI brain scans, this research is beginning to show reproducible results. Vasily Kasatkin, a psychiatrist at the Leningrad Neurosurgical Institute, studied the content of dreams over a forty year period. His finding corroborate the American content analysis studies of Calvin Hall and go further. Calvin Hall found that the recalled surface of dreams tend to reflect the general life condition of the dreamer. When one is ill, there tend to be ill dreams, nightmares, struggle and often violence. Kasatkin?s findings further found that these violent dreams often precede an illness. How to avoid running to the family physician every time we have an uncomfortable dream becomes a problem for the dream watcher who scans for illness. Kasatkin has some observations that may help. The first is that these dreams are often longer than regular distress dreams. Patricia Garfield has been a pioneer in this field of prognostic dreaming as well and collected the accounts of thousands of dreamers in her research. Dr. Garfield suggests a simple measure as a way to distinguish regular distress dreams from those we might wish to further explore. If it really hurts, it may indicate a problem. If it is just scary, it may be better taken as symbolic or metaphorical. Garfield suggest using the metaphor to locate the troubled area. If you have objects or other people in a dream that are broken or damaged, an analogy can be made. Thus a broken refrigerator my have something to do with the stomach, or an acquaintance who you think of as a headache may indicate trouble with your head. Note that these metaphors are used in conjunction with real pain being experienced in the dream, not simple the occurrence of a friend or refrigerator in a dream. Kasatkin observed that the part of the body in distress is often portrayed literally, though not necessary happening to oneself. In one case translated by Van de Castle, a doctor saw a patient in a dream being mugged in the street. The patient?s kidney was lying detached from the body. It turned out that the doctor himself had a seriously infected kidney. The work of these two researchers has been reflected in many other sample cases reported by other researchers, but has not been fully studied in any kind of laboratory condition. New studies are finding parts of these theories true. Mark Solms investigates the world of brain disorders. For several years he has investigated and compared dream reports with neurological information. Lately, this has included MRI brain scans. Though his conclusions offer little specific advice, they do indicate that general types of dreaming anomalies occur in tandem with specific problems with the brain and the area warrants further research. Health related dreams may be different in men and women. Robert Smith studied about 100 patients at Michigan State Universty College of Human Medicine and looked for ?Death Scores? and ?Separation Scenes.? Death scores had references to graveyards, funerals, wills and physical body failures. Separation had to do with social disruptions i relationship. For men who came in the hospital, it was the death score dreams that indicated a deterioration in health. But for women, it was separation dreams. Just a caution. These studies were done with patients who were all already identified as cardiac problem patients. Just having a death dream or separation dream is no indication in itself of problems. Jung noted, for example, that patients who did die suddenly rarely had dreams about it, as if the dream maker wasn?t particularly concerned by such events. Robert Haskell, a cognitive psychologist, offers a viewpoint on dreams & health that may be helpful. He feels that dreams offer us a ?cognitive monitoring system?. His research into dreams and health include hundreds of studies in psychotherapy as well as somatic medicine. He found that dreams do seem to reflect internal somatic conditions, often predicting them and even more, are a good way to explore how the patient is coping with these conditions. o Dream and Health Practices There are many case histories of people using dreams to find cures. One of the most historically famous being a dream of Alexander the Great, who dreamt of a dragon with a plant in his mouth. He send soldiers out to find the plant, which was located where the dream indicated and it cured Alexander?s sick friend, Ptomemaus. Locating healing cures in dreams is usually the providence of Shamans, specially trained individuals who travel in various states of ecstasy to find cures for their community. But modern dreamers often find cures as well. Van de Castle relates a story of a woman who had been on antibiotics after an operation and was suffering from a chronic vaginal yeast infections. Failing traditional treatment, she tried the advice of a friend and took folic acid. She had a dream with two parts, one of moving bowls of acid around her kitchen and another of her kitten gobbling up brown yeast and strawberries. She stopped taking the folic acid and tried the yeast tablets, which produced remarkable results for her. Patricia Garfield has also documented many dreams that have healed people. In one case a woman had suffered for years with severe migraine headaches. In a dream she was taking care of an old woman. The dreamer wanted to leave to take care of her own family, but decided to stay and help the old woman. The old woman finally died. The old woman?s husband and son came to visit the dreamer and indicated they would help the woman with her headaches as she had been so kind to the old woman. They laid their hands on the dreamer and when she awoke, she stopped having headaches. This was a condition that had lasted for nearly 40 years and was spontaneously relieved by a dream. It is interesting to note that many of the spontaneous healing dreams involve a person or animal that touches or interacts with the dreamer?s body in the dream, much like the ancient Asklepion dream sanctuary practices. However, there is little evidence outside of anecdotes that is available. What does seem clear is that dreams can pick up clues from the body and do so often long before the dreamer is consciously aware of them. o Conclusion While much research is still needed, it seems clear that persistent and painful dreams about the body are worth exploring, if not for their predictive value, then for the opportunity they offer in exploring our own experience of our life condition. Attention to dreams brings a wide variety of benefits, ranging from insight and understanding to healing and wholeness. They are a gift that naturally occurs every night and need only a little attention to be one of our best friends in our journey of heath. o Recommended Readings Achterberg, Jeanne (1985). Imagery in Healing. New York, NY: New Science Library. Garfield, Partricia (1991). The Healing Power of Dreams. New York: Simon & Schuster. Jung, C. G. (1964). _Man and His Symbols_. New York, NY: Doubleday. Taylor, Jeremy (1992). _Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious._ New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc. Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New York: Ballantine Books +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* +'* +-* + " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Microanalysis of Visual Dream Content Rod Smith " "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" "§" "¥" " Detailed drawings of dream content are made during dream recollection These are classified according to their atomic visual features (colours, curvature, linearity, etc.) They are then compared with photographs of recently-sighted and other physical objects Object To identify the sources, or derivation, of visual dream content. Overview Drawings can provide a better record of visual dream content than written or spoken descriptions for a number of reasons. Drawing is faster than describing, it doesn't entail intercession of the linguistic system, and some elements of dream content can only be accurately recorded in drawings (for example, particular shapes). I've developed an empirical method, which I call Microanalysis, for classifying and analysing dream content from drawings. Only visual content is analysed. Microanalysis reduces drawings of dream content to their atomic visual characters such as curvatures, colours, lustre, positions and elemental movements. These features are compared to similarly-reduced photographs (or in their absence, drawings) of physical objects sighted during the prior-day and earlier. The results suggest new facts about dreams. They provide empirical evidence for the existence of Freudian entities and processes including day residues, condensation and displacement. Other Empirical, Quantitative Methods Various other quantitative methods of dream content analysis have been in use for some time. These typically entail classifying visual dream content according to holistic content objects; for example, according to types of food, or types of transport (cars, ships, planes, ...). Microanalysis classifies visual dream content not by holistic object, but by the atomic visual characters which compose holistic objects. http://www.onyx.co.nz/dreams/d_home.html =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series: Dreaming Through the Houses, Second House =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Have you ever wondered how dreams and astrology are connected? There are many ways we can connect dreams to astrology, and many don't require that you know all about your Natal Chart. In this column we will be exploring the symbolic rather than predictive aspects of astrology. Symbolic astrology attempts to use the images of astrological to give meaning to one's life and empower choices rather than predict paths. We do this by imaginal overlay. In this process we impleach, (poetically interweave) dream, image, feeling, life and symbol in a way to evoke a felt sense of the dream's imagery and its position in our life. This year I am focusing each month on a different House. The inner circle of the Natal or Birth Chart is divided into 12 distinct regions know as Houses. They relate to everyday activates. One will be about physical appearances and temperament, while another relates to possessions, for example. Planets and signs fall within these Houses and influence the areas of focus. We will be watching for images of planets, signs and other celestial events and hopefully begin to see the emergence of an astrological chart that dips into birth charts, dreams, and our waking life. The Second House. The Second House is about acquisitions and possessions. From here one may assess capacities to earn a livelihood, and examine attitudes towards things we define as security. Also of concern here is how we make a living. Thus it is more about the desire that underlies our possessions than the things themselves. The possessions will be the outcome of our attempt to satisfy these desires. There is a collective need in humans to own something outside of ourselves. Since many people are hip to the fact that things change, there is often a shift of desire from objects to values and relationships, things more eternal. Thus the key to this house is our definition of that nebulous term "value". In dreams, when examined from the viewpoint of the second house, we search for objects, people relationships and our attachment to these. Here is an example of what I might call a Second House Dream: Martha's Dream: 'Off to Tea' "In my dream I am on my way to a tea party. There is a new person who is coming and the whole group is excited. I think to myself that I'm going to make this person my friend and this pleases me. It is kind of hot as I walk along to my car as I'm wearing furs. I'm taking three little dogs with me on leashes. I seen to have just gotten back from shopping as the driver is carrying several packages which I know to be mine. He is having trouble with them, like they are hard to balance." I think the main issues possessions and attachments are quite obvious, but let's look at this dream a little more closely. Notice that there is an aquisitional attitude towards the new person coming to tea as well. This might be a new part of the dreamer's psyche emerging and the typical Second house response to the situation, aquisition. It is also noticeable here that the packages or other collected psychic items are beginning to pile up and cause problems. Astral Aerobics: Keep an eye on your dreams this month for Second House influences. Note where there are possessions, but even more, the dreamers relationship with these possessions. Also note if they occur at night, or in the day. Are there other celestial clues, stars, moons, and/or symbols of astrological planets and sign? Allow these side symbols to add to your interpretations. If you are interested in the whole year, stop by the full collection at http://members.tripod.com/~rickcw50/ Madame Aionia aionia@dreasmgate.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S January-February 2000 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< 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 Call for Entries, ASD Millennial Dream Art Millennial Dreaming Register now for ASD Conference 2000 Join the Lucid Dream Exchange RESEARCH & REQUESTS Skilled Lucid Dreamers Needed for Scientific Research WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES Fern's Dream Page Moss Dreams Expanding Dream Quest Choose Your Dreams - Learn Lucid Dreaming Pegasus Dreaming Online Dream Time Live DREAM CALENDAR for February 2000 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> Call for Entries, ASD Millennial Dream Art Exhibition "Dream Journeys" will be a juried multimedia slide show presented at the 17th Annual International Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams, July 4 - 8, 2000, at the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. All artists are invited to submit slides of dream-related work for possible inclusion in the show. ASD is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied study of dreams and dreaming. Entry fees are used to fund ASD arts programs. Original work in any medium about or inspired by dreams is eligible. Since no actual pieces will be displayed, choose works that hold up well in slide format. Each artist whose work is accepted will be represented by one to five images. A gallery book of artists' statements, with thumbnails of the images and information about how to contact the artist, will be available for viewers to browse. Detailed information about how to submit work, along with a copy of the entry form, is available online at the ASD website http://www.asdreams.org/asd-17/art.htm or from Dr. Deborah Hickey, National University, 2022 University Drive, Vista, CA 92083. Dr. Hickey can be reached by email at . Slides and paperwork must be received by March 31, 2000 >>> Millennial Dreaming Jane Anderson has written an article on "Millennial Dreaming" as a special Millennial gift with a surprising opening for you. Start here then follow the links: http://www.dream.net.au/millennial_dreams.htm >>> Register Now for the ASD Millennial Conference The ASD's millennial conference, Dreaming in the New Millennium, will be held July 4-8, 2000, in Washington, DC.. See the spectacular fireworks and stay with ASD at the lovely conference site, the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel on the Mall near the Smithsonian, the Capitol and many museums. View or Download the registration form and conference poster at the following URL: http://www.asdreams.org/asd-17/asd17_registrationidx.htm You can register online with a credit card or print the registration form and mail it. Please assist ASD by E-mailing the poster and registration form to a number of friends or colleagues to encourage a high level attendance! http://www.asdreams.org/asd-17/poster2000.pdf Make your hotel reservations at the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel 1-800-635-5065. To volunteer for the ASD 2000 DC conference July 4-8, 2000, contact program host Robert Gongloff at: Drmjourney@aol.com >>> Join the Lucid Dream Exchange Lucid dreaming is a unique and distinct state of consciousness - in many ways, a totally magical one. Where else do you clearly see the intangible forces of your inner 'intent' and 'will' immediately acting upon your (dream) reality? Where else do you feel that special rush of excitement, as you realize that you have transcended the ordinary relation to your environment and now have new possibilities of interaction? Where else can you fly? The Lucid Dream Exchange hopes to expand your dreaming horizons and expectations of the possible by sharing lucid dreams from a wide group of lucid dreamers. Reading others' lucid dreams should result in significant new insights and new activities in your own lucid dreaming. And lastly, the Lucid Dream Exchange hopes to keep the lucid dream conversation growing with questions, discussions and musings on the vast (and relatively unexplored) territory of Lucid Dreaming. The Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE) is a quarterly issue of lucid dreams, and lucid dream related articles and poetry submitted by readers who enjoy sharing their lucid experiences and learning from those of others. Sometimes common themes will be evident, and so several dreams may be grouped together, (for example, flying lucid dreams), or certain themes may be suggested for future issues. The themes that are indicated in LDE 13 are not set in stone and may not appear in future issues, so please don't feel that you must send only dreams that "fit" a theme. A variety of lucid dreams are always welcome and encouraged as they demonstrate the vast richness of the lucid dream world and the special uniqueness of each lucid dreamer's experience. Lucid dreams can be submitted from any time in your personal history; you needn't have to send in dreams that are recent. All contributions remain the copyright of the author's. You may use your name or a pseudonym if you prefer. It is not necessary to title your dreams, though many dreamers do so. Correspondence Between Dreamers Some dreamers may wish to contact one another, so for that reason, we'd like to include in future issues a list of names and addresses for those who are interested. When you submit your lucid dream, just include your mailing address and/or e-mail address. Feedback Comments, questions, etc. are always welcome and suggestions for lucid dream experiments or themes, (for example, in this issue Arthur Gillard invites us to share our first remembered lucid dream) are invited as well. Please email Lucy: lucy@turbotek.net, or write Robert: PO Box 11, Ames IA 50010. Also, if you have lucid dream related information, like websites or general announcements, we would be pleased to publish them as well. Submission deadline for the next issue is February 15, 2000; mailing date is March 1, 2000. Please send your submissions to Lucy Gillis at lucy@turbotek.net or to Robert Waggoner at PO Box 11 Ames, IA 50010. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> Skilled Lucid Dreamers Wanted What is happening in your brain when you realize you are dreaming? Dr. LaBerge is currently seeking volunteers to help answer this question in research at Stanford University. 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He's launched a "Dream Exchange" feature in which he comments on experiences and questions that are sent in, and have posted lots more goodies, including articles and suggestions for using dreamwork to help the dying, bringing dream education into schools, healing through dream imagery, his"home precognition experiment", new research projects and annotated dream bibliographies. >>> Dream Quest Henry Reed now has information on dream quests at www.creativespirit.net/henryreed/dreamquests >>> Choose Your Dreams -- Learn Lucid Dreaming http://www.pipeline.com/~aislinn The site offers an ebook "The Dreamquest Portfolio" and Lucidity coaching, including an approach called "Dream Alchemy" which tackles the challenge of being consistent in doing daily dreamwork. >>> Pegasus Dreaming Online Interested in dream poetry? 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William Domhoff, Ph.D., on Interpreting a Dream Series: February 2, 2000, 7 PM PST Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., on Universal Dreams: March 8, 2000, 7 PM PST Alan Siegel, Ph.D., on Children's and Childhood Dreams and Nightmares: April 5, 2000, 7 PM PST For information on joining the Dream Time Live chats, come to the ASD website within one week of the chat. http://www.asdreams.org or send an e-mail to chat@asdreams.org or visit the Chat Center at http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionschat.htm or in case of the site being down http://members.xoom.com/asdreams/subidxdiscussionschat.htm <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R February 2000 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Feb 3, 10, 17, 24 in Benicia, CA 4-week group with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Jackie at 707.745.4459 Feb 5 in New York City. The Healing Power of the Dream Animals. One-day intensive with shamanic dream explorer Robert Moss. Call (212) 753-3835 or email robert@mossdreams.com. Feb 8 in Oakland, CA University of Creation Spirituality "Theory Class" Open to all. 7-10pm. Call 510.835.4827 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com Feb 9 in Oakland, CA University of Creation Spirituality "Dreams Class" Open to all. 7-10pm. Call 510.835.4827, or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com Feb 12 in Saratoga, NY area. Dreaming at Midwinter: Learning from Native American Dreaming Traditions. One-day retreat with Robert Moss. Call (518) 587-4967 or email robert@mossdreams.com. Feb 12-13 in Stockton, CA All day workshop with Jeremy Taylor, 9:30-4:30, Saturday and Sunday morning service. Call Darcy at 209.466.7743 for more information. Feb. 16 in Morwalk, CT Workshop, "Working with Your Nighttime Dreams" 7:00-9:30pm. $30. Total Life Care Center, Norwalk, CT. Nancy Weston and Isobel McGrath, 203-744-6823 Feb 18-20 in Ventura, CA Weekend Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact: Dick Weston-Jones at 805.379.4523 Feb 25-27 in Bermuda. Dreaming Your Dream in Bermuda. A weekend of dream adventures with Robert Moss. Contact Barbara Bluck (441) 297-2554, email dreams@ibl.bm. Feb 26 in Kensington, CA All day workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Martha at 510.528.3417 for more information. Feb 26 in Lafayette, CA Dialoging with Dream Characters, 2p.m. -6p.m., BADG Potluck with Rahima Warren. RSVP to Rahima for directions: (925) 295-1224 or email to: RahimaW@aol.com Feb 26 in Ridgefield, CT "Understanding Your Nighttime Dreams", 12:30-1:15 Free. Dreamwork Mini-Sessions starting 1:30 , $20. Nancy Weston and Isobel McGrath. Touch of Sedona, Ridgefield, CT 203-438-7146 Feb 27 in Danbury, CT "Understanding Your Nighttime Dreams", a workshop, 1:00-4:00 pm, $30. Nancy Weston and Isobel McGrath. 203-744-6823 February 25-27 in Bermuda "Bermuda Dreaming" A superb mid-winter getaway, with loads of fun, adventures in a Sea Cave, and the chance to hone practical skills for bringing through creative innovation and personal growth. For more information, contact: Barbara Bluck, tel: (441) 295-2554,e-mail dreams@ibl.bm. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ dream-flow.v001.n213 - dream-flow.v001.n231 Hello and welcome to the DREAM SECTION of Electric Dreams. This section is edited by the DreamEditor, a software creation of Harry Bosma, author of the Dream interpretation and journaling software Alchera (homepage: http://mythwell.com) The Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION includes dreams and comments from the DREAM FLOW, a project to circulate dreams in cyberspace. Many mail lists participate, including dream-flow@lists.best.com dreamstream@topical.com DreamsRus@onelist.com The Dream Sack http//www.deeplistening.org/ione If you would like to send in single dreams for the flow, you can leave them at http//www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple If you have a mail list or would like to contribute dreams and comments on a regular basis, you can subscribe to the dream-flow by sending an E-mail to TO: dream-flow-request@lists.best.com In the body of the E-mail put only subscribe your-email please substitute your real email address with "your-email" You may get a note back to verify the subscription. Simply hit the return or reply key, change REJECT to ACCEPT in the subject field and send the note back. -------------- BEGIN dream-flow.v001.n213 -------------- 001 - Anonymous - old boyfriend 002 - Heratheta - Re: Digest dream-flow.v001.n212,211,210,209,208, --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n213.1 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: old boyfriend Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:00:09 -0800 Dream Title old boyfriend by me Date of Dream 12.21.99 1:12 pm Dream I had a dream just before I woke up this morning. It had to do with a guy I used to date. He had a girlfriend at the time, but we fooled around anyway. It didn't work out for us in the end. The dream goes like this: He and I both were in this kind of school for people from age 2 to his age (20). We were watching a movie and he and I were about two seats down from one another, ignoring one another. He got a call on his cell phone and had to leave during the movie. As he was leaving, I tried to wave to him. He pretended not to see me, except his face became somewhat annoyed looking, and he left. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n213.2 --------------- From: Heratheta Subject: Re: Digest dream-flow.v001.n212,211,210,209,208, Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:25:41 EST #212 who is this drm-peace had lain to the right of joey if you had avoided becoming "distinct' #211 julie drm-peace had lain to the right of where you used to live if you had avoided becoming "known" wolves drm-peace had lain to the right of the sky if you had avoided becoming surrounded by "your own light" #210 leg sore drm-peace had lain to the right of the legs if you had avoided becoming "covering" #209 confused drm-peace had lain to the right of the roses if you had avoided becoming "lots" kissing drm-peace had lain to the right of the lollipop if you had avoided becoming what you "didn't want" lotto drm-peace had lain to the right of the train if you had avoided becoming "just" #208 hare drm-peace had lain to the right of the path if you had avoided becoming "seemed" chased drm-peace had lain to the right of the dream locations if you had avoided becoming "really" and "trying" help drm-peace had lain to the right of the mountain if you had avoided becoming "confronting" more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/ --------------- END dream-flow.v001.n213 --------------- -------------- BEGIN dream-flow.v001.n214 -------------- 001 - Anonymous - chas --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n214.1 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: chas Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:20:31 -0800 Dream Title chas Date of Dream 12/23/99 Dream First of all you must know that i am 23 years old , therefore have not been in jr high school for a long time. However in my dream, i was back in jr high, but at my current age. Anyway, I waas part of an elaborate band of terrorists among the school and we were planning an attack. There were several bombs planted around the school and set to go off at any minute, when all of a sudden i was taken over by a huge wave of guilt by doing wrong. Although I knew everyone in the group would kill me,(literaly) if i told anyone, I went to my principle and told him what was about to happen, and that he should have everyone evacuate. But he didn't believe me, then I woke up. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- END dream-flow.v001.n214 --------------- -------------- BEGIN dream-flow.v001.n215 -------------- 001 - Heratheta - Re: Digest dream-flow.v001.n213,214 --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n215.1 --------------- From: Heratheta Subject: Re: Digest dream-flow.v001.n213,214 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:29:16 EST #213 old boyfriend drm-peace had lain to the right of the school if you had avoided becoming "kind of" #214 chas drm-peace had lain to the right of the school if you had avoided becoming "elaborate" more at www.dreamgate.com./dream/dubetz/ --------------- END dream-flow.v001.n215 --------------- -------------- BEGIN dream-flow.v001.n216 -------------- 001 - Anonymous - The Grave 002 - Anonymous - saving children? 003 - Anonymous - haunting-lll --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n216.1 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: The Grave Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:30:27 -0800 Dream Title By Izabelle Date of Dream december 1999 Dream I'm standing on the ground with my two feets, when I realize I'm standing on a grave I havent seen before, and I can see the contours of it under the mud and then I also realize that underneath is the grave of my long lost(and dead) cat, I dont feel any fear, but are slightly confused when I realize all this and the ground feels a bit "swinging" under me. Comments by Dreamer An odd dream Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n216.2 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: saving children? Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:32:29 -0800 Dream Title saving children? Date of Dream 12/27/99, early morning Dream I had a dream that I was standing a the base of a bridge going over a creek and there was a little girl, couldn't be more than 1-2 years old, who was playfully running away from her father who was chasing after her. She was heading towards the creek very fast and I was worried so I was going to try to catch her. I remember, in the dream, she stopped right before the creek and looked directly at me with a determined strange look on her face, her blonde hair all messy, then dove into the creek and swam amazingly fast away from me. I ran in after her, (I was already barefoot) but was slow because I was worried about stepping on glass. The water was not deep, it didn't even come up to my knees. I think her father did end up getting her but I don't remember. Comments by Dreamer This is the second time I've dreamt of being worried about a child I don't know while they were playing with a parent. Last time it was a mother playing too roughly with her baby in a lake. Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n216.3 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: haunting-lll Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:48:18 -0800 Dream Title haunting-lll Date of Dream Dream Every once in a while i have a dream about a place or a thing in my dream that is haunted. One me & friends were checking out a place that was haunted but not because it was haunted. And the last one I was sitting at a picnic table with two people sitting across from me and we were outside a white house that has shelves on the outside wall facing us and on each little shelf was an antique item. Three shelves had antique cameras. As i was sitting there talking to my friends one of the cameras took a picture. My friends said "woah that was weird!" and I said "yeah it does that sometimes" because I knew it had done that earlier when they werent there. We were leaving the tablw when out of the corner of my eye I saw the photo float to the ground near the picnic table like a leaf falling from a tree and I caught the image of the three of us. Unfortuneatly I woke up after that but i was a little scared but not very, as in all my dreams about hauntings.! ! It's like i know that there are spirits present and because they are something mysterious and unknown that is the root of my fear but I've never been really afraid they were going to hurt me. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- END dream-flow.v001.n216 --------------- -------------- BEGIN dream-flow.v001.n217 -------------- 001 - Anonymous - Friend with family 002 - Anonymous - A Strange Morning 003 - Anonymous - Can't penetrate! 004 - Anonymous - Forbidden Kiss 005 - Anonymous - The Grave and the ugly man 006 - Anonymous - what could it mean? 007 - Anonymous - South American Quest - the Shared Dream 008 - Anonymous - Abandoned House/ Raynedaz3 --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.1 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: Friend with family Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:27:55 -0800 Dream Title Friend with family -Seema Date of Dream 12/30/99 around 4am Dream I dreamt about my old college mate who is now married.( In reality-We live in different parts of the world and have not contacts after college) She and her family were there. She had 2 little girls. I was surpised to see her having 2 kids.She seemed to be happy. But after talking to her she complined that her husband does not help her in anything at home.That she is a stay at home mom for now and that she'll go back to work after a while to the same job 'coz her boss is a very nice person and has let her go back to same job whenever she is ready Comments by Dreamer I don't know what it means. I was pretty upset that night and went to bed thinking why am I in this world, for what purpose etc Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.2 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: A Strange Morning Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:36:19 -0800 Dream Title A Strange Morning Tom Date of Dream 31/12/99 01:50 Dream It begins with a small crowd of us waiting on the intersection of Sukhumvit 55, a very busy three-way intersection in downtown Bangkok, not far from where I work. There is a small crowd of us waiting to cross the street, the cars moving so thickly and quickly that we cannot jaywalk our way across. No red lights, so people, one by one, make it across on their own, each one just missing being hit by cars. Finally, I am standing alone, the streets are deserted, no cars, no people. Everything is greasy black; the sidewalks, sides of buildings, streets, what few trees there are scattered here and there on the meridian, all black and resinous. A woman appears besides me, pushing a stroller. I assume a baby is in this traditional black stroller with a little hood/flap thing over the end. Wordlessly I offer to push the stroller, and wordlessly she accepts. We make our way across the now ever-so deserted street. She begins to tell me that she is running errands. She has to walk all the way down to Sukhumvit 4, about two miles from here, and has over 120 things to do before the afternoon is over. I have to keep jumping over and maneuvering the carriage past these huge potholes in the road that are filled with greasy, black, roiling water. Her first stop is at a paint shop. She recites the address to me. I have never heard the address before, but I know of a paint shop nearby, and assume that it's the one she wants. Since it's on the way to my work, I offer to show her the way. I continue pushing the stroller. I haven't yet looked into the stroller, but assume that her child is in there. We pass a series of furniture shops, all filled in the fronts with fashionable wooden lawn furniture. Each shop is deserted of people except in the front of each shop there is the same obese, blonde-haired young girl of about 8, who is wearing a red and yellow party dress. At some shops she is looking and smiling at us, at others her head is turned away, still in others she is sleeping. The woman laughs whenever she sees the girl, thinks that it's funny. I'm creeped out. It's not the paint shop she wanted, the one I am thinking of and have led her to. Besides, this one is closed anyway, boarded up and covered with slimy black greasy dirt. Everything around us is closed now, nothing open at all. I show her which road she needs to go down to look for her paint shop, the first task on her list, and she takes the carriage from me, heading off down the street. A man follows behind her, a large mop in his hand. The end of the mop has been dipped in white paint, which is dripping all over the greasy black ground. As he follows closely behind her, he leaves a white drippy trail of paint behind them, starkly contrasting against the oily black and gray ground. I get to work. It's actually not work, but a large room filled with tables and couches. People are sitting here and there, about 10 of them. They are all doing semi-erotic or taboo things, I know. Whenever I try to ask what they are doing, they shyly look away or try to hide what they are doing. I dance with one woman. She is dressed in a red dress. We tango a moment. I then sit down next to a large man, who is probably about 25 years old. He has sunglasses on, even though it's quite dark in the room. I put some sunglasses on too. He's reading a small comic, filled with very soft cartoon porn. It's in German. He only lets me see selected pages, the rest of the book he hides from my sight, looking very embarrassed. I see these strange comics of televisions flying through the air, of bizarre barbecues, of funny cats. The pages he hides from my sight (thinking I cannot see them) are usually of woman fellating men. "Have you ever been to San Diego?" he asks. He ! ! opens a page and the black and white cartoon book changes to color, frame by frame. It becomes fields of rolling grassy hills, stone markers scattered here and there, old trees swaying in the soft wind. It becomes a graveyard. I am in San Diego, in the gravelly parking lot of the graveyard, sitting in the front seat of the car with the man and a friend of his. "There's a body up there," he says, pointing to a small slope in front of the car, about twenty feet away. I can just see the edge of a recently discovered and dug up unmarked grave, and inside the grave I can see the tattered folds of a rough thick plastic bag which holds something red and green and sickly- rotten. Though I have not taken a close look (I am still in the car) I assume that it is a woman and that these men have killed her and are going back to see the body. The man and his friend leave the car to look, cameras around their necks. Two police who are milling around close by see them but don't stop them. The man and his friend are happy and excited, looking in the grave and taking pictures. Dennis and Pam are sitting in a car to my left. Dennis is excited and wants to see too. He gets out of his car and runs over to the s! ! ide of the grave and peers in. His face goes ashen, and he turns, walks a few steps, doubles over and starts heaving up bucketfulls of thick black sticky vomit. Seeing it makes me almost get sick too. Pam gives him an ironic look of 'I told you so'. Dennis makes his way back to the car, where Pam is waiting. He is still vomiting at the side of the car, when I wake up. Comments by Dreamer Dennis is my brother, Pam his wife Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.3 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: Can't penetrate! Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 05:38:21 -0800 Dream Title Can't penetrate! Date of Dream 12/29/99 2:00am-10:00am Dream I have this reoccuring dream in which I am with a stranger and we are about to have intercourse but he can never penetrate me, no matter how hard he tries. In a current dream I was with my boyfriend in a park, laying on the grass, and we were about to have sex. He too, could not penetrate me. I remember telling him "sorry" and looking up at the starry sky. After struggling a little more, my boyfriend actually penetrated me; then we continued to have sex. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.4 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: Forbidden Kiss Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 05:38:54 -0800 Dream Title Forbidden Kiss Date of Dream 12/10/99-Night Dream I was in the kitchen talking to a guy that I have lusted after for a long time. We appeared to be roommates in a large white house. With a stern look on his face, the guy told me to kiss him. I had a bottle of brown alcohol in my hand, I drank some, and then kissed him. We were both very passionately kissing each other. We kissed a second time and then he rushed out of the house mumbling something to the extent of "I am going to my girlfriends." He got into his car and drove off just as my boyfriend pulled up to the house. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.5 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: The Grave and the ugly man Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:36:22 -0800 Dream Title The Grave and the ugly man Date of Dream December99 Dream 1. I'm standing on the ground with my two feets, when I realize I'm standing on a grave I havent seen before, and I can see the contours of it under the mud and then I also realize that underneath is the grave of my long lost(and dead) cat (one of them), I dont feel any fear, but are slightly confused when I realize all this, and the ground feels a bit "swinging" under me. 2. Then I was dreaming about my oldest son..I was in a public bathroom somewere,when he was "storming in" chased by the uglyest and biggest man I ever saw, trying to beat my son up and I was thinking" were can I find something to hit this man dowm with"and I was looking around me for a weapon of some kind. and before this dream, I had a short one were I was trapped in the wildersness in a cabin somewere with some people and there was a couple that hold us prison inthere. Wish you a happy new millenium Karin. Comments by Dreamer There are some problems concerning my son and grandson circumstances right now Permission to Comment yes_share_comments Permission Comments I would be happy for other peoples opinions about this --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.6 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: what could it mean? Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:35:35 -0800 Dream Title what could it mean? -Sapphire Date of Dream 12/31, 4 AM Dream I had a dream last night that my sister and I were visiting my first love at his parents house. Within the dream there are 3 times where I walk in on him sitting on the toilet and all I see are his legs and plaid pajama pants and I say I'm sorry I didn't know he was in there and close the door. I can feel my face turning red even though I'm asleep. And then throughout the dream, we are doing stuff like we used to do,(we never really dated we were just really close and loved each other, we lived very far apart) going out and hanging out bowling and playing pool and driving in the mountains and riding his horses and just sparatically he would kiss me throughout the dream and I kept feeling this tremendous feeling of love. I am married now and so is he, but do I still "love" him? I know I love him, he is one of my best friends, but am I "in love" with him? and what's the deal with walking in on him in the bathroom, but not really seeing anything? Comments by Dreamer If anyone can figure out this dream they must be a genious, because I have looked through so many websites and books for an interpretation! Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.7 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: South American Quest - the Shared Dream Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:12:46 -0800 Dream Title South American Quest - the Shared Dream Date of Dream 1998/1999 Dream I and my partner have shared dreams about a certain area of South America for the last year. We have few details, no names or places other than that. There is an airport, a area of deep forest being cleared. I have been a researcher or archeologist there and experienced my own murder by armed guards. I saw them steal the money from my dead body and my blood flow over a heap of loose (foreign and unexchangeable) change on the ground, low demoninations of all countries, evidence of serial murders in the same location. We are both convinced something is trying to reveal itself deep in the forest. Has anyone else had similar reccurring dreams? Comments by Dreamer Only shared experience please - we have had enough of critics - email us info: ukrecruit@sussex.totalserve.co.uk Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.8 --------------- From: Anonymous Subject: Abandoned House/ Raynedaz3 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:23:06 -0800 Dream Title Abandoned House/ Raynedaz3 Date of Dream 12/27/99 Dream My friend and I approached an abandoned building that was the size of a large factory and castle mix. It didn't have any windows and it was made of cement blocks and mortar. We found a garage door and my friend excitedly encouraged me to investigate this deserted house/ mansion. I was hesitant. Upon entering we encountered a kitchen that appeared to be lived in a short time ago, but recently abandoned. The occupant seemed to have died a sudden death, as there was signs of everyday living strewn about...dirty dishes, mail on the table, etc. Upon further investigation, we walked up a narrow flight of steps to an attic that was full of old clothing and memorabilia. We just dabbled in the things for a moment and I became increasingly uncomfortable. The we decided to continue our investigation and exploration of the rest of the house. Some of the rooms were decorated elaborately, like that of a queen and then we approached rooms, through narrow hallways, that were unfinished and the walls were bare, exposing partical board. Before finishing our tour of this queer and unusual house, I got very nervous and insisted we turn back. When we did, I went outside, walked down a road and found my sister and a few other people looking through photographs. They were photographs of my childhood and most of them showed me crying and my face blotchy red (meaning I was crying for a while). Some showed my mother, who in reality died in a car accident when I was eight. Then these treasures of photos got wet with water on the table and I tried desperately to dry them off so they wouldn't get ruined...to no avail. I was bitter towards my sister because she kept all the pictures that were of my mother in a pile that she intended on not sharing with me. Eventually I went back to that abandoned house. This time, there was a woman in there that apparently knew the history of the house. She said that it was a house that had many parties in it, usually of obsene natures. I grew increasingly uncomfortable, but the people insisted that I continue on with the tour. The final stop was in a gigantic room that was full of people. There was a bar, dance floor and tables. I sat at a table and observed all the people, some having a good time, others obviously distressed with emotional baggage. I don't remember how the dream ended, but the house itself remains etched in my mind. Comments by Dreamer Permission to Comment yes_share_comments --------------- DREAM dream-flow.v001.n217.9 --------------- 001 - "Wilkerson, Richard"