E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Subscribe: electric-dreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: electric-dreams-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Subscribe Online: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s Volume #9 Issue #11 October 2002 ISSN# 1089 4284 o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Download a cover for this issue! http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes Special Issue: N.I.G.H.T.M.A.R.E.S ++ The Global Dreaming News Events - Updates - Reviews - More From Peggy Coats - www.DreamTree.com ++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis ++ Article: Matching Troublesome Nightmares With Appropriate Action By Linda Lane Magallón ++ Article: National Nightmare Hotline : Year Two Jill Fischer ++ Article: Nightmares and Dreamwork Resources Online Summary of ASD Nightmare Page By Richard Wilkerson ++ Article: Nightmares! New Approaches By Richard Catlett Wilkerson ++ Article: Becoming Nightmare: the Rhizomatics of Dreaming By Richard Catlett Wilkerson D R E A M S S E C T I O N : Volume #528 - #569 With Elizabeth Westlake and Harry Bosma D E A D L I N E : Oct 16th deadline for November 2002 submissions XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Editor's Notes o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Welcome to the October 2002 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to dreams and dreaming online. This month, a special NIGHTMARE issue. If you are new to dreams and dreaming, please join us on dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com and we will guide you to the resources you need. To join send an e to dreamchatters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com As you probably noticed, the Dream Section now looks ~fantastic~. Why? Because we have a Dream Section Editor, Elizabeth Westlake! If you have dreams you want published, don't send them to her directly, but rather enter them in the form at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple Or you can put them in the dream flow directly by subscribing to: dream-flow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Our news directory, Peggy Coats, from dreamtree.com, has gathered dreaming news from around the world. In the Global Dreaming News you will find the latest dream and dreamwork events, conferences, and seminars. Also you will find research and research requests for subject, updates on your favorite dream websites, book reviews and more. If you have news items about dreams and dreaming for Peggy, send them to her at web@dreamtree.com Our NIGHTMARE special starts off with a new column from Lucy Gillis and Jorge Conesa on "Sleep Paralysis Sensations: Echoes of Body Re-Entry Problems?" If you have ever awaken and been frozen in bed, you will know why this is included in the nightmare section. Linda Lane Magallón challenges some of the over-used metaphorical approaches to nightmares and opens the door to a wide variety of other causes than haunting psychological problems. Be sure to read "Matching Troublesome Nightmares With Appropriate Action." It has now been a year since the National Nightmare Hotline went into operation. Director Jill Fischer gives us an update and a chance for you to participate as a volunteer. Read "National Nightmare Hotline : Year Two." If you are a dreamworker and feel you need more training in working with nightmares, you will really enjoy my summary in "Nightmares! New Approaches" and the full ASD selection of articles by the worlds most renowned authorities, linked direct for instant access or organized study. For those of you who want either good quick advice on nightmares or in-depth and more challenging articles, you will enjoy my summary of the ASD Nightmare Page which we created a year ago. I talk about some of the resources there from some of the biggest players in the field. If you have been wondering if we spend too much time treating nightmares and perhaps not appreciating them, you will get a thrill out the re-run of my article "Becoming Nightmare: the Rhizomatics of Dreaming." The Annual Halloween Dream Swarm. Well, I don't have any specific activities planned, but as usual, this month I will be knocking on your cyberdoor to get updates about your dream websites. So load up your new materials and send me the scoop, or Dreambat may be visiting to haunt you! We don't send the cover with the e-zine, but you can view, download and print up a copy anytime at: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-covers/ -------------------- For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming, be sure to stop by one of the many resources: http://www.dreamtree.com http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library -------------------- Next Month: Aftermath of the PsiberDreaming Conference: What's new in Psi dreaming? Deadline for articles, Oct 11th. Send to rcwilk@dreamgate.com -Richard Wilkerson /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S October 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, web@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/ This Month's Features: NEWS - New Research on Black/White vs. Color Dreams - Dream/Art Weekend offered by Kathleen Sullivan - Autodrama and Creative Dream Re-Staging - ASD's PsiberDreaming Conference - Meeting Psyche: A Jungian Approach to Dreams - Dreaming and Awakening in Paradise: Lucid Dreams Retreat - Awakening to the Wisdom of The Dream - Dreaming Beyond Borders - Exploring Dream Space with Marie Volchenko - Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork - Get your Dreams on T.V. in LA Area - Dreamscape: Smithsonian Institute Conference on Dreaming - ASD Dream Conference in Atlanta, Georgia - SCI FI Channel is looking for guests to tell their dreams - ASD Regional in Bay Area : Dreaming Beyond Borders - The Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars & Cambridge Dreamwork Intensives A Training in Embodied Dreamwork RESEARCH & REQUESTS - Dreams about Islam - Dreams that Have Inspired Wondrous Joy WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES - Dreams and CRC Theory - Dream Interpetations from YieldofDreams DREAM CALENDAR for October 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> New Research on Black and White vs. Color Dreams Do People Still Report Dreaming in Black and White? An Attempt to Replicate a Questionnaire from 1942 In the 1940's and 1950's, many people in the United States appear to have thought they dreamed in black and white. For example, Middleton (1942) found 70.7% of college sophomores to report "rarely" or "never" seeing colors in their dreams. I attempted to replicate Middleton's questionnaire and found that students in 2001 reported much more colored dreaming than their earlier counterparts, only 17.7% saying that they "rarely" or "never" see colors in their dreams. Assuming that dreams themselves have not changed over this time period, one or the other (or both) groups of students must be profoundly mistaken about a basic feature of their dream experiences. Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? In the 1950's, dream researchers commonly thought that dreams were predominantly a black and white phenomenon, although both earlier and later treatments of dreaming presume or assert that dreams have color. The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of black and white film media, and it is likely that the emergence of the view that dreams are black and white was connected with this change in media technology. If our opinions about basic features of our dreams can change with changes in technology, it seems to follow that our knowledge of the phenomenology of our own dreams is much less secure than we might at first have thought it to be. For more information, contact: Eric Schwitzgebel Department of Philosophy - 065 University of California Riverside, CA 92521-0201 http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz >>> Dream/Art Weekend offered by Kathleen Sullivan October 26 & 27, 2002 Dreams, the soul's gold, bring light to the journey of everyday life. Five times a night dreams encourage healing of the past and provide direction for the future, always leading to wholeness. In order to avoid the pitfalls of mistaken literalism, the symbolic and metaphoric language of the dream must be understood. This two-day workshop will provide the tools necessary to clearly see the brilliance of your nightly gems. You will focus on one or two of your dreams applying the techniques to understand symbols and metaphors, story line and therapeutic value of these loving messages from your unconscious. Through lecture and art activities, working in small group and with partners, the approaches you learn will help you understand your future dreams. Cost: $165 includes 2 continental breakfasts, a gourmet lunch Saturday, light lunch Sunday. Hor d oeuvres will accompany the private wine tasting and dream art reception Sunday at 2:00 PM. When: Saturday, Oct. 26 (10:00 to 4:00) and Sunday, Oct. 27 (10:00 to 2:00). Where: The beautiful Sogno Winery in Shingle Springs, CA. 3046 Ponderosa Rd. (530) 672-6968 Call Kathleen Sullivan at 831-372-8534 or email dremwvr@mbay.net for reservations before October 10. >>> Autodrama and Creative Dream Restaging November 16 &17 Amersfoort Holland Exploring the imagery of Dreams and Problem Solving with Ann Sayre Wiseman. A way to deepen understanding of the metaphors of the night mind. Contact: herminemensink@hotmail.com or visit www.annsayrewiseman.com >>> Announcing ASD's First Online PsiberDreaming Conference Join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of Psi dreaming for two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, and chats. If you've ever had a precognitive dream, a lucid dream, or simply an 'unusual dream' that never quite made sense, this is the place for you. For two weeks, from September 22, 2002 to October 6, 2002, participants worldwide will enjoy online experiments, psiber games with prizes, chats, and discussions on paranormal dreaming in the shared meeting space of virtual reality. All for $25 or less for ASD members! Register before August 31st and receive an additional $5 off conference fees. And if you don't belong to ASD, join ASD as a new member from August 10 - October 6 and as a bonus get a free pass to the Psiber Conference! For more information on this historic event, go to: http://asdreams.org/psi2002/ >>> Meeting Psyche: A Jungian Approach to Dreams In our dream life, every aspect of our personality takes its turn on the stage that opens with sleep. Our nobler qualities and shadow side, our aspirations and fears, our troubling fixations and undeveloped potentials all strive to communicate their natures and purposes as they seek to find expression within our unique selves. This course, designed for both new and continuing students of Jungian psychology, will present and explore the basic concepts and dynamics of a Jungian approach to dream theory and interpretation. Participants willing to share dream material are asked to bring clearly written copies of their dreams to class. Basic journal-writing and image-making exercises will be used to amplify dream material. C. G. Jung Institute, 1567 Maple Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. Phone: 847-475-4848 or 800-697-7696. email: jung@jungchicago.net web: www.jungchicago.org >>> Dreaming and Awakening in Paradise A 10-day Residential Training Program in Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga with Stephen LaBerge and Friends. Kalani, Hawaii, November 1-10, 2002 Rejuvenate body and mind. Awaken to your inner life. Stop sleeping through your dreams. Join us in exploring the boundless frontiers of the dream world in a setting of glorious natural beauty. Nurtured by the paradisical, dream-like environment on the sunny secluded Puna Coast of the island of Hawaii, we will cast off our blinders, drop the shackles of our ordinary routines, and take a fresh look at what is real and what is dream. Becoming adept at lucid dreaming requires focused attention and practice that is difficult to maintain during our busy lives. This retreat provides an ideal opportunity to devote time to cultivating your lucid dreaming ability and enhancing your mindfulness in everyday life, using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Tibetan dream yoga and Western science. Although we cannot guarantee that everyone will have (and remember) a lucid dream during the program, in past years, most participants have done so, and all have experienced enhanced awareness of the dreamlike nature of "reality." The retreat includes: Ten days and nine nights of balanced fun and focus on consciousness, dreaming and awakening at the beautiful, dream-inspiring Kalani Oceanside Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii; Daily group and individual exercises in developing lucid dreaming skills and enhancing consciousness, dreaming and waking; Valuable insight into the application of lucidity and mindfulness to all aspects of life; sleep schedule (including naps) optimized for the promotion of lucid dreams; Use of lucid dream induction technology; Discussion sessions and personal guidance by Dr. Stephen LaBerge, world-renowned expert on lucid dreaming; and dreams, dreams, and more dreams! FEES: Standard rate, US$2000, includes room and board. Space is extremely limited; a non-refundable deposit of US$200 will reserve you a place in the program until September 15, when the balance is due. SCHOLARSHIPS: Contingent upon space availability, we plan to offer several scholarships providing reduced fees, as determined by demonstrated financial need and merit. If you would like to attend this program, but feel the cost is beyond your means, fill out the form at http://www.lucidity.com/DAAK02/scholarship.html FOR INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER http://www.lucidity.com/DAAK02 CALL: +1 650 321-9969 or 1 800 GO LUCID (1 800 465-8243)EMAIL: daak02f@lucidity.com >>> Awakening to the Wisdom of the Dream: November 2, Atlanta, GA. Learn to use your dreams for a deeper self-understanding, leading to greater life fulfillment. Explore the use of dreams throughout history. Examine creativity and problem solving through dreams. Discover how dreams can be used for health, healing, personal growth and as a guide through life's passages. Presenters include Deirdre Barrett, Robert Van de Castle, Rita Dwyer and Justina Lasley. Light lunch included. Cost: $80 general public/ $65 ASD members. Registration: www.emory.edu/eve. after Sept. 6. For further info, contact Justina at P.O.Box 52323, Atlanta, GA, 30355, E-mail drmkpr@aol.com or Tallulah Lyons, 3082 Old Cabin Lane, Smyrna, GA 30080, e-mail blyons@mindspring.com( 9:30 AM- 4:30PM) >>> ASD Regional in Bay Area : Dreaming Beyond Borders Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Transformative Power of Dreams November 2 and 3, 2002 John F. Kennedy University Orinda, California A Regional Conference of The Association for the Study of Dreams Sponsored by the Dream Studies Certificate Program, Graduate School of Holistic Studies Through the ages, dreams have been a source of creative inspiration, personal growth, problem solving and spiritual insight. While the twentieth century was marked by important discoveries about the unconscious and the dreaming mind, the turn of the millennium is giving us the opportunity to reflect and envision a new dream for the advancement of human consciousness. What archetypes are embodied at this historical moment and what transformations are possible through dreams? Could dream awareness lead us to global peace? How might dreams be a catalyst for social change? This conference will address these important possibilities. For complete conference information, including presentation descriptions, call 925.258.1822 or visit http://www.ASDreams.org/2002orinda. One-day registration fees for either Saturday, November 2 or Sunday, November 3 are: $125 General, $100 ASD Member, $75 Student, $60 ASD Student Member. Two-day registration fees are: $225 General, $180 ASD Member, $135 Student, $110 ASD Student Member. To register by phone, please call 925-254-0105. To register by mail, visit: http://www.ASDreams.org/2002orinda to download and print a registration form. >>> Exploring Dream Space with Maria Volchenko, Ph.D. Saturday and Sunday, September 7-8, 2002, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 3220 Sacramento, upper floor, San Francisco. Parking on the first floor. Please, register early by sending a check of Eighty Dollars ($80), written to Ruth-Inge Heinze, to 2321 Russell St. #3C, Berkeley, CA 94705-1959. For information, phone (510) 849-2791 or e-mail RIHeinze@juno.com >>>Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work Dream Work Certificate Program. The program features weekend work in San Rafael, CA with Jeremy Taylor; pay as you go; take as long as you need; and small groups. "Projective dream work assumes that thoughts we have about the dreams of others reflect our own internal lives. When we comment on someone else's dream we're really saying `if it were my dream....'" (Jeremy Taylor). For more information, visit http://www.jeremytaylor.com/marin.htm >>> Get your Dreams on T.V. in LA Area The Berman sisters (a medical doctor and a psychologist) have a TV show and are planning an episode on dreaming. They are looking for dreamers who live in the L.A. area. If you live in that area and have some interesting dreams that have influenced your life, contact Laurie Dash at (818) 755-4800 ext. 170. You may have a chance to be on television! http://health.discovery.com/fansites/bermans/bermans.html >>> Dreamscape: Smithsonian Institute Conference on Dreaming Dreamscape: The Intelligence and Creativity of Your Dreaming Brain SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE Washington DC. Saturday, Oct. 5, 10 am — 4 pm Richard E. Cytowic, MD Annette Covatta, DMA FINDING MEANING and creative ideas in our lives can be elusive. Who would think that dreams might point the way? Learn how dreams arise and how they help us solve problems creatively. Avoiding the Freudian psychoanalytic approach to dreams, this intriguing seminar draws on current neurological research about the origin and function of dreams. Learn techniques to make dream symbols objective and bring their relevance to the surface, and discover how dreams can be sources of self­reflection and creative discovery. To register phone 202­357­3030, or visit Smithsonian Institution ( http://residentassociates.org/com/brain.asp ) for a full catalogue description. Richard E. Cytowic, MD Washington DC 20011 e: R@Cytowic.net http://cytowic.net Schedule 10 ­ 11 am: Brainstorm: A Tour of Sleepers and Dreaming Brains Dreaming consumes much energy and therefore serves a biologically useful purpose. Within the 24 hour wake­sleep cycle the dream­state generator cycles every 90 minutes, yet we usually remain unaware of our literal daydreaming and rarely remember our nighttime dreams. We examine the 16 dream­state periods in a typical Washingtonian day. Time­lapse photos of sleepers reveal much about internal brain states. Biological clocks develop stable tempos with one another, and thus two brain rhythms can synchronize such that two people literally "sleep together." We conclude with current notions of what function dreams serve. 11 ­ Noon: Remembering and Recording your Dreams Ways to greatly increase dream recall; how lucid dreaming lets us direct our own dream narratives; keeping a dream diary to make objective what is inherently symbolic. Dreams pull on both intellect and imagination, seeming to relate to something important. But what? What are our dreams pointing to? The first step to finding out is a factual recapitulation in a log. In the afternoon, we extend and examine these fleeting images. 12:15 ­ 1:45 Lunch 1:45 ­ 2:45 Dreamscape: Techniques of Reverie to Evoke Images Once we log the factual data, we proceed with a neutral evocative technique to stimulate insights and creative thoughts. A non­analytical approach avoids the pitfalls of preconceived ideas common to Freudian analysis. In order to connect life's inner threads of continuity to the outer level of experience, you want to evoke the psyche rather than analyze it. Attendees should bring a notebook and brief descriptions of 1 or 2 dreams they may wish to explore. 2:45 ­ 4 p.m. The Creative Use of Dream Images Dream­enlargement techniques bring the dream experience into the waking state so that we can examine our patterns of symbolic thinking from the vantage point of the present moment, and get fresh ideas to work with. Dream and reverie images are inherently creative, solving problems on a subconscious "twilight" level. In bringing our images' underlying intelligence to the surface, we experience our dreams as sources of self­reflection, inner guidance, and creative discovery. >>> ASD Dream Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Awaken to the Wisdom of Dreams Saturday, November 2, 2002 9:30am-4:30pm Emory University Enjoy a day of dreaming with some of the foremost leaders in the field of dreams. Be part of the first Southeastern event co- sponsored by the Association for the Study of Dreams and the Center for Lifelong Learning at Emory University · Learn to use your dreams for a deeper self-understanding, leading to greater life fulfillment. · Explore the use of dreams throughout history. · Examine creativity and problem solving through dreams. · Discover how dreams can aid health, healing, personal growth and guide you through life's passages. · Experience a dream group and learn to make meaning of your dreams. · Enjoy a selection of books on dreams which will be available for sale. The Association for the Study of Dreams is an international, interdisciplinary, educational association. To secure a place, register soon!! Register on-line (secure) at www.emory.edu/eve (Master Card and Visa), by phone at 404-727-6000 from 9-4 (EST), or mail in registration form. $80 complimentary lunch (vegetarian, too) $65 for ASD members (join at ASDreams.org) You will be notified of conference location after registration For more information contact: Justina Lasley at DrmKpr@aol.com or 233 South Plaza Court, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Tallulah Lyons at blyons@mindspring.com or 3082 Old Cabin Lane, Smyrna, GA 30080 >>> SCI FI Channel is looking for guests to tell their dreams Calling all dreamers! The SCI FI Channel is looking for guests for their new series, "The Dream Team with Annabelle and Michael." All you have to do is call or e-mail us with your dream (be sure to include your name and phone number), and you might be picked for a personal dream analysis on the show! Guests will be featured live in studio, via satellite, and by phone. Please call 323.520.5683 or email tvdreams02@yahoo.com And pleasant dreams... >>> The Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars & Cambridge Dreamwork Intensives A Training in Embodied Dreamwork Dreamwork Seminars: September 21 through June 14 (See Schedule) Cambridge intensives : October 3-6, 2002 :: June 5-8, 2003 The Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars: A Training in Embodied Dreamwork Since 1972, Zurich-trained Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak has led dream groups and explored dreaming with individuals, in both analytical and didactic contexts, developing a new method called embodied dreamwork. This technique is based on principles first developed by C.G. Jung, especially in his work on alchemy, and on the work of James Hillman, who focused on soul as a simultaneous multiplicity of autonomous states. By using a variety of body-oriented techniques, embodied dreamwork allows the dreamer to flashback into the dream, in order to experience and relive the dream in hypnagogic awareness, a state of consciousness occurring naturally during sleep-onset. By working on dreams (and memories) in this way, personal as well as archetypal, emotional and physical elements are uncovered, frequently leading to vivid therapeutic effects and bursts of creativity. Embodied dreamwork is effective in psychotherapy (individually or in groups,) psychosomatics, and in work with patients suffering from severe physical illness. It has also been used effectively to enhance the work of actors, directors, visual artists and writers. The Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars have been held since 1998. They offer individual day-long seminars, as well as a two-year training program in individual and group dreamwork (leading to a certificate as dreamwork practitioner). In order to qualify for training, some individual seminars are required. Presently all seminars are lead by Robert Bosnak, currently president of the international Association for the Study of Dreams, and author of: A Little Course in Dreams(Shambhala pub. 1989); Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming; and Christopher's Dreams -- Dreaming with an AIDS-patient . Fees & Information Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars: 9:30am-5pm, $130/day. Location of all Dreamwork Seminars: The 17th Street Loft 206 West 17h Street (corner of 7th Avenue) 9th floor New York City, NY. Cambridge intensives: (Max. 12) October 3-6, 2002 :: June 5-8, 2003 Cambridge Intensives: Thursday 7:30 pm- Sunday 4pm $540 Tuition for the long weekend. Location of Cambridge intensives: Episcopal Divinity School :: 99 Brattle Street (near Harvard Square) On Campus location: 10 St. John's Road, unless otherwise notified. Cambridge, MA 02138 ORDER FORM REQUEST: Send to Robert Bosnak and request a form for mail in or visit the website http://www.cyberdreamwork.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>> Dream Survey : Are you having dreams about Islam? http://dreamgate.com/dreamsofislam/ We are two Western Muslims, a British educator and an American writer, who are interested both in how dreams relate to the spiritual life, and in how Islam is presently perceived by Muslims and non-Muslims both in the west and in traditionally Muslim lands. We hope to collaborate on a book with the provisional title of Dreams of Islam. We are looking for striking or significant dreams about Islam from both Muslims and non-Muslims, dreams which have had a strong impact on you the dreamer, whether or not you think the content would seem "interesting" to an outsider. The Islamic content could refer to people, events, places, beliefs, practices, symbols, memories or associations, architecture, works of art, written or spoken words - anything specifically Islamic, or with an Islamic flavor. You can fill out the survey at the website, or download the questions: http://dreamgate.com/dreamsofislam/ . For more information, contact Charles Upton : E-mail uptonjenny@hotmail.com >>> Dreams that Have Inspired Wondrous Joy I am gathering descriptions of dreams by a dream conversation, an awe-inspiring setting, a melody, a beautiful painting, or a joyful encounter with an animal. Your dream may have inspired wondrous joy through a delicious taste, a soul-energizing touch, a scent that overwhelms you with delight, a sound that soothes ... a color that enchants you ... Fully describe your own and others' feelings during the dream. Please include permission to use your dream descriptions in my research and writing projects. I also need your age, gender, race, nationality, and if possible, the background events and feelings that preceded your inspiring dream. I don't need your name and identifying information will be changed to ensure anonymity. One of the additional purposes of this research is to provide a source of inspiring dream images fro artists, writers, musicians, dancers, etc. Contact: Karen Boileau dreamofjoy@aol.com . Karen F. Boileau, M.Ed., is a writer, community education instructor, dream counselor, and workshop facilitator. Karen has written several workbooks for her dream workshops and courses: "Artists Dreaming Joy"; "What Did You Dream Last Night?"; "Lose Weight Using Right-Brain Techniques"; and, "Stress, Dreams, and Intuition." <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< 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. >>> Dreams and CRC Theory http://www.mediaproxy.com/crc/crc.htm Michael Coop presents speculations on his general CRC theory (Comprehension, Rationalisation & Conclusion, the mechanisms by which people recognize and respond to their surroundings) using dreams and dreaming for illustration and example. >>> Dream Interpetations from YieldofDreams www.yieldofdreams.com Colette Kelso received a BA in psychology, cum laude, from the University of Colorado. She has a MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. She has spent many years involved with symbols and their manifestation in dreams, art, and our waking life. In interpreting a dream, she goes through the description sentence by sentence, making notes by hand, elaborating, conjecturing. The recounting of the dream is as significant as the symbols and activities within the dream. She looks at each piece separately as a metaphor, a message, and then puts the pieces all back together into a final interpretation, which is what you read in the end. She takes the time to stop and think and allow the meaning to come through and make sense. "I have been interpreting dreams for many years. My criteria for success in this area is based upon the feedback of the dreamers. I don't simply tell a dreamer what a dream means based on my experience, nor do I utilize a standardized dictionary of symbols because I don't believe in their general application. A dreamer must feel as if their world is understood or that something personal and relevant has been revealed. That is the "a-ha" feeling we get when something rings true at a deep level. I wish that everyone could get that pleasurable feeling!" Colette Kelso www.yieldofdreams.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R September - October 2002 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Sep 6-7 in San Rafael, CA. "Advanced Archetypal Dream and Myth Study", a weekend seminar with Jeremy Taylor. For more information, contact th Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, at 415.454.2793. Sep 7-8 in San Francisco, CA Exploring Dream Space with Maria Volchenko, Ph.D. For information, phone (510) 849-2791 or e-mail RIHeinze@juno.com Sep 22-27 in Lenox, MA "Dream Teacher Training", a five-day training program with Robert Moss. Requires Completion of at least two previous depth workshops with Robert. Pre-approval is required for registration. If you wish to enroll, please write to Robert –Robert@mossdreams.com or Box 215, Troy NY 12181. Sept - June The Manhattan Dreamwork Seminars & Cambridge Dreamwork Intensives A Training in Embodied Dreamwork Dreamwork Seminars: September 21 through June 14 (See Schedule) Cambridge intensives : October 3-6, 2002 :: June 5-8, 2003 ORDER FORM REQUEST: Send to Robert Bosnak Sep 22-Oct 6, online PsiberDreaming Conference – sponsored by ASD, two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, and chats. Still time to join! For more information on this event, go to:http://asdreams.org/psi2002/ Oct 5, Smithsonian Institute Washington DC. Saturday Dreaming Mind and Creativity To register phone 202­357­3030 Nov. 2 ASD Dream Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Saturday, November 2, 2002 9:30am-4:30pm Emory University 404-727-6000 from 9-4 (EST) November 2 and 3, 2002 ASD Regional in Bay Area Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Transformative Power of Dreams John F. Kennedy University :: Orinda, California To register by phone, please call 925-254-0105. To register by mail, visit: http://www.ASDreams.org/2002orinda to download and print a registration form. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange By Lucy Gillis Sleep Paralysis Sensations Echoes of Body Re-Entry Problems? (c) Lucy Gillis During a recent e-mail discussion with sleep paralysis researcher Jorge Conesa, Jorge wrote: "I induced an SP and accidentally an OBE three nights ago. I panicked seeing my own body and did not know how to get back. So I approached my sleeping body and began chewing on, biting my own toes so I would wake up. This did not work. So instead, I did my "roll up" trick and woke up in a jolt! (The night preceding that OBE and the following night I recorded several SP's, lucid and vivid dreams.)" It struck me funny and I burst out laughing at the thought of being OBE, hunched over your physical body and gnawing on your own feet! A comical image indeed! But then, that image of a hunched figure bent over a sleeping body led me to recall some of the classical nightmare descriptions, such as an incubus crouched on a sleeper's chest, an image often used when describing effects of sleep paralysis. And then I began to wonder... What if, (on some occasions), the dreamer himself is the one producing the sensations felt during sleep paralysis? Suppose the dreamer doesn't recall being out of body. According to one theory, we leave our bodies every night when we sleep. We simply don't remember that we do so. Just like we all dream every night, but not everyone remembers their dreams. (For those who don't believe that we "go" anywhere in our sleep, instead of the phrase "leave our bodies", substitute "withdraw attention from the outer physical environment as our senses become "cut off" or reduced as we enter the sleep cycle.") What if, in the out of body state, we encounter difficulties getting back into the physical body? (Or, if not "out of body" we encounter difficulties in waking up and we hallucinate a dream version of our waking body.) What if we do like Jorge and attempt to get back in (or wake up) by alerting the physical body, trying to stir it to wakefulness? Could some of the sensations felt during sleep paralysis be an "echo" of this activity when the mind switches from dreaming consciousness to waking? Feelings and emotions are often more easily recalled when we awaken than are visual images. I'm sure we've all on occasion awakened from a dream with a lingering feeling, perhaps anxiety, or happiness, yet we couldn't recall what the specific dream was about. If we tend not to remember our dreams when we wake, or not recall out of body excursions, but we have a lasting feeling of anxiety or panic (from trying to get in body or wake up), perhaps the mind produces a distorted version of what is happening, trying to translate the sensations into something familiar, as best it can. Could we ourselves be the "demon" sitting on our own chests, trying to get back into our bodies when in fact it is the mind trying to translate the dream experience of our own attempts to return to waking reality? ******** The Lucid Dream Exchange is a quarterly newsletter featuring lucid dreams and lucid dream related articles, poetry, interviews, and book reviews. To subscribe to The Lucid Dream Exchange send a blank email to: TheLucidDreamExchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or join through the Yahoo Groups website at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLucidDreamExchange o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Matching Troublesome Nightmares With Appropriate Action © Linda Lane Magallón o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o From Electric Dreams 6(4) Some time ago, a "20/20" TV broadcast featured dreamworker and radio host Kathleen Sullivan. Kathleen, who is the author of *Recurring Dreams,* described her dream of an eagle caught in a web. She interpreted her dream eagle as a symbol for herself, caught in the web of alcoholic addiction. She was able to use that insight to change her life, to stop drinking and, as a result, her recurring dreams disappeared. On the same program, another dreamworker, Gillian Holloway, spoke with four people who were suffering from recurring nightmares. Like Kathleen, she used symbolic interpretation in an attempt to match dream content with current life. Afterwards, two of the people interviewed felt that the use of metaphor and pun unlocked their dreams' meaning and revealed helpful information. But the other two weren't so convinced. That symbols reflect current life is only one possible meaning for dreams. And to pinpoint the "meaning" of nightmares doesn't necessarily settle queasy and painful feelings or prickly and fearful emotions. Even those dreamworkers who usually take a passive approach to dreams will agree that a troublesome nightmare is cause for action. Some examples of "behavioral dreamwork" techniques are: re-entry visualization, cognitive belief work, Senoi and lucid dreaming. Furthermore, to focus solely on "symbolic interpretation" can miss the literal cause of the trauma. Just as with any type of dream, each possible stimulus for nightmare must be considered in order to match it with the appropriate action. When dreams are multi- layered, several methods might be used in conjunction. Here are several possible explanations for nightmares and suggested responses: 1. A metaphor for current life attitudes and activities. When you change your life, the dream changes. For example: you quit a job with a demanding boss and your chase dreams cease. 2. A metaphor for a bio-chemical glitch or surge. For example: You dream of your own body's dismemberment, as the pictorial equivalent of intrusive thoughts. Because this sort of nightmare is the result of the mind-body system not functioning at optimum (and expressing mental or physical illness instead), it can require physiological intervention such as diet or drug therapy. Conversely, drugs and normal hormonal changes can trigger it. For example: you dream of tidal flooding just prior to your menstrual period. A light touch of behavioral dreamwork techniques can shift content to a more positive metaphor to describe the sensation. 3. A psychic copycat of a current situation. For example: your sister has repeating nightmares. You "dream her dreams" because you are in psychic resonance with her. Your dreams end when hers do. Or they cease when you break the psychic bond with her, using cleansing or cutting rituals. 4. A repetition of a past traumatic event in current lifetime. For example: you dream of your recent rape, a childhood assault or your wartime battle. This type of nightmare is so deeply etched in the psyche that it can require heavy use of behavioral dreamwork techniques to modify the content and emotional intensity. 5. A depiction of a past or probable life. For example: you dream the last events prior to your violent death. A request for new information may provide additional dreams to shed light on the events surrounding this nightmarish experience. Treatment involves the sort of behavior modification techniques used for traumatic nightmares. 6. A depiction of the future. Confirmation occurs either when the dream comes true or when you change your life so it won't come true. For example: you buy new tires so you won't literally slide off the highway, as you keep doing in your dreams. Methods that determine meaning plus techniques that modify behavior comprise the full tool set to resolve a troublesome nightmare, recurring or not. But selecting the appropriate tool depends on what is actually stimulating the nightmare to occur. There is no one-size-fits-all tool for nightmare work. So, don't rely on that first hammer you bought, when what you really need is a crowbar or a monkey wrench. Linda Lane Magallón Dream Flights http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o National Nightmare Hotline : Year Two Jill Fischer o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o 1-866-DRMS911 On September 11, 2001 in response to the World Trade Center tragedy, Robert Bosnak and Jill Fischer joined with ASD to create the National Nightmare Hotline (1-866-DRMS911). Jill is the Executive Director of the hotline and responsible for overseeing the efforts of 40 volunteer dream specialists who cover phone lines 24 hours a day/seven days a week. Now that the initial effects of this event have passed, we are pleased to announce that The National Nightmare Hotline will remain a permanent service. Skilled professionals will continue to be available on phones, 24 hours a day to debrief adults and children on their nightmares. Nightmares have an enormous impact on all of us. They are ordinary events after great traumatic disasters. Nightmares serve to digest the horrific events. Just telling them to someone can have a positive effect on an individual's sense of well being. We have received 825 Calls to the Hotline as of September 15, 2002 and have worked directly with 105 nightmares. Most callers find our hotline number on the Internet and have indicated that the service is very helpful. The fact that all volunteers have continued to make themselves available has made this service a reality. We have not been inundated by requests and many volunteers have merely been available but have not received calls. This has actually made volunteering manageable and allowed for our on-going service. Please be aware, an article about the Hotline is in the August issue of Hope Magazine . http://www.hopemag.com The magazine features stories about people who are working for positive change in the world. To read the article go to: https://www.hopemag.com/issues/2002/septOct/signsfieldingdreams.ht m To thank volunteers for their commitment to the hotline, we provides callers, who want to work on their dreams, with a Dreamworkers Referral List. It is a list of all our volunteers who have indicated they are available for referrals. Thus, when a caller to the hotline expresses the desire to continue exploring their dreams, he/she is be given the name of dreamworkers in their respective area of the country. The dreamworker who receives the referral is then free to establish his or her individual way to work with the caller. This hotline, is NOT a counseling line. If desired, a dreamer is referred to a counselor after discussing their nightmare(s). The hotline has remained viable because of your generous donations. We will continue to welcome offers, no matter how small, that help support this public service. Please send your tax deductible donations to: The Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Attn: Susan Moreno, Office Manager PO Box 1592 Merced, California 95341-a592 Write on your checks: National Nightmare Hotline phone: (209) 724-0889 ASDCentralOffice@aol.com Electronic billing is also available through PayPal. At the ASD website www.asdreams.org It is a secure system that will allow you to donate with a credit card or transfer funds directly from your bank. You can also send your e-mail request to: ASDCentralOffice@aol.com and you will receive complete instructions about how to proceed. We would appreciate your informing friends and associates that this hotline is available. Forward to your e-mail lists and/or print and distribute our flyer (located at the bottom of this page) where people might benefit. ______________________________________________ Volunteering Your Services Skilled and experienced dreamworkers and Psychotherapists are needed to be available on telephones, for one, three hour shift, once a week to debrief adults and children on their nightmares. Please send the following to: webmaster@cyberdreamwork.com 1. The three hour shift you would be available to answer telephones. (Please indicate specific days of the week and hours). 2. Your telephone no. 3. The full address of that number. 4. The contact person at that number. 5. Your e-mail address. 6. A three line overview of your relevant experience. We will then contact you with all the particulars. Please be advised that we are looking for professional volunteers who have professional degrees &/or liability insurance. ________________________________________________ o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Nightmares and Dreamwork Resources Online: The ASD Nightmare Page Richard Wilkerson o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o After 9-11 the reports by so many people of nightmares and questions to the ASD bulletin board about what to do about them, ASD developed the Nightmare Page. Below is an annotated index of this resource. Here is the phone hotline: Nightmare Hotline : 1-866-DRMS911 Recommended Reading on Nightmares ASD Nightmare FAQ - Common Questions http://www.asdreams.org/subidxedunightmares.htm [Scheduled for updating by the Education Committee] Guidelines for coping with Nightmares after Trauma. Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. http://www.patriciagarfield.com/idx_library_nightmare_guidelines.h tm Article: Nightmare Remedies: Helping Your Children Tame The Demons of the Night. Alan Siegel, Ph.D. and Kelly Bulkeley, Ph. D. http://www.asdreams.org/magazine/articles/seigel98dreamcatching.ht m Article: Nightmares and What to Do About Them. Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. http://www.patriciagarfield.com/idx_library_childs.htm Article: Nightmares? Bad Dreams? Lucky You! D.R.E.A.M.S. Foundation http://www.crhsc.umontreal.ca/dreamsfoundation/nightmr1.htm Article: American Dreans: Nightmares and what to do about them. AARP Modern Maturity. http://www.modernmaturity.org/departments/2002/issues/0510_issues_ a.html ====0==== Advanced & Extended Studies on Nightmares ====0==== A Mini-Course for Clinicians and Trauma Workers on Posttraumatic Nightmares. Alan Siegel, Ph.D. http://www.asdreams.org/magazine/articles/seigel_nightmares.htm Article: The Relationship of Dream Content and Changes in Daytime Mood in Traumatized Vs. Non-Traumatized Children Raija-Leena Punamäki http://www.asdreams.org/journal/articles/pukamamaki9-4.htm Article: Freud and Jung on Nightmares. Tore Nielsen, Ph.D.Article: http://www.crhsc.umontreal.ca/dreams/znm.htm Overcoming Nightmares. Stephen LaBerge and Howard. Rheingold http://www.lucidity.com/EWLD10.txt Article: Dreams of Terror, Dreams of Healing. Robert Moss Article: Dream Work & Collective Trauma - Unconscious Elements In Public Debate. Jeremy Taylor http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed- articles/jeremy_taylor_2001_decl_collective_trauma.htm Article: Working with Your Nightmares. Strephon Kaplan-Williams http://dreamgate.com/skw/nightmares.htm This is an ever-growing resource, so you if have a suggestion for that page, send it to the Chair of the ASD Education Committee http://www.asdreams.org/subidxprojectscommittees.htm o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Nightmares! New Approaches by Richard Catlett Wilkerson o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Introduction If you ever are brave enough to tell people you work with dreams, you will soon be asked how to handle nightmares. This is a tricky spot to be in as nightmares can sometimes be a signal that other things are wrong with the body or mind and require a physician or therapists. On the other hand, nightmares are really fairly common and seeing a professional is not always the best course. I wrote this article for the Alternative Medicine forum on America Online for those wishing to know more about this area, how to determine the best course and the latest procedures and techniques used by dreamworkers. ------------------- Dream: "At first I was going to run like I have done before in other dreams with this thing. The dark creature scared me and threatened to harm me, it even seemed to know where I would hide. But this time I stood up to the thing and demanded that it back off. To my surprise, the creature stopped and sat up like a puppy, as if it were begging for a bone. I was flooded with tears as I thought how lonely this creature must be." BK Although this is a modern dream, it could well have been the dream of a Senoi child, a semi-mythical tribe said to have shared dreams each morning. The Senoi taught their children to confront nightmare monsters and even to extract a gift from them in reparation. These techniques of nightmare confrontation are now being employed and expanded by researchers to help nightmare suffers around the world. Many of the processes can be used safely by adults or parents with their children. There are many scary events in life and in sleep that we refer to as "nightmares" and it is important to distinguish between them. The most common frightening events during sleep are nightmares, night terrors and sleep paralysis. (ASD Nightmare faq quote) Nightmares, Night Terrors or Sleep Paralysis? Unpleasant dreams are not uncommon and may at times wake us up and be called Nightmares. Nightmares are extreme reactions of negative feelings, often with great amounts of fear, that occur during dreams and are recalled upon awakening. Though more common in children, they can happen to anyone. Children are often chased by animals and fantasy figures. Adults are often chased by male adults. Generally they occur in the last part of the night or sleep cycle. Contributing factors in the cause of nightmares include illness, stress, troubled relationships and traumatic event. Ernest Hartmann, a leading researcher in America on Nightmares has noted that some personality types can be prone to nightmares. There seem to be natural or early learned personality styles that produce dream people and thought people. The thought people maintain thick boundaries between contexts, are very focused and can shut dreaming memory out altogether. Dream people have thin boundaries, are more sensitive, have a wider, softer focus and tend to recall dreams very easily, sometime frightening dreams. Traumatic events can trigger a long lasting series of recurrent nightmares often diagnosed as part of PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These nightmares are different in that they repeat the same scene over and over for years. They are usually found in veterans, but other traumas may also bring this about. These nightmare sufferers usually require professional assistance. However, most of our nightmares (and other unpleasant dreams) can be easily turned into positive experiences by new techniques in dreamwork. Night terrors are different from nightmares. First, they usually occur during the first hour or two of sleep. It is not uncommon to hear the person screaming or thrashing around. It is often hard to wake the sleeper and they rarely remember anything. Children who have night terrors may also sleepwalk or urinate in bed. Night terrors are not well understood, and seem to come from a part of sleep that is rarely associated with dreams and dreaming. By puberty, children usually stop having night terrors. Adults having night terrors often are also leading very stressful lives. A consultation with a physician may be useful if the night terrors are frequent or especially disturbing, though often just talking about it or making small changes in sleep routine is enough. One long term researcher notes that "I have found that night terrors are often more disturbing and stressful for the parents than the child." Sleep paralysis is the experience of not being able to move. Often there is a feeling of great weight on the chest making it hard to breath. Fantasy and reality can mix, hallucinations may appear and loud buzzing noises, vibrations and feelings of being touched or electrified. Sometimes the person realizes they are dreaming and still can't wake up. Researchers feel that sleep paralysis is really a partial awakening during REM or Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, when the body is naturally parked off line. Messages from the brain are stopped from entering the body and it is a natural condition that occurs about ever 90 minutes of sleep. Since anxiety about the situation occurs, adrenaline speeds up the body and people can even feel that they are leaving their body. The recommendation by researcher Stephen Laberge is simply to realize it is a dream that can't harm you and to relax. Dreams that proceed from paralysis experiences are often quite intense and wonderful. Facing the Fear The famous dream researcher Calvin Hall notes that Americans say more than half of all reported dreams are unpleasant. Many researchers feel this is due to the attitudes we carry with us to bed. What if, before going to bed at night we brushed our attitude as well as our teeth? This is just what both ancient and modern dreamworkers encourage. With the application of a few simple techniques, we can nurture a dream garden of delights and turn the worst monsters into friends and allies. Some of the techniques are so simple that children can learn them. Ann Sayre Wiseman teaches children in grade school how to confront Nightmares. She has them first draw the monster or fear and then draw a solution. At first children often shoot or destroy the monster, but later develop more creative solutions like magic circles and cages, as well as complex problem solving strategies. Representing the dream by drawing allows the children time to dialogue with the fears, as well as empowering them to feel safe and experiment with options to running away. These powers are carried over into the night time dreams. One child who was plagued by a bear-like monster reported that he was able to yell at the monster "Stop, why are you chasing me?" The monster stopped chasing him and began crying that we was just looking for someone to play with. Jill Gregory has used similar techniques with grade school children by getting them to stage the dream. She first has the children create a costume for the dream monster, and then they get to "show and tell". Gregory would further ask the children to come up with a more satisfying solution to the dream. These stagings or dream dramas become a skill with carries over into the dream world. One doesn't have to even explore the symbolic meaning of the dream for these techniques to work. Adults may practice the same techniques. The daytime practice sessions are important, even when it seems silly. This is because our minds get into habits, just like our bodies. If we have a pattern of running away, this pattern has to be strongly connected with new options. Setting a mental or verbal intention to try these options is an important step, but may not be remembered in the panic of a nightmare as well as actual practice. Draw or sculpt or dramatize the creature and clear options and reactions to being assaulted. If you don't have the time to draw or dramatize your dream, you may wish to try dream-reentry. In dream reentry the dreamer becomes relaxed and begins to recall the dream, to imagine re- entering the dream. However, if there is some part of the dream that is unpleasant, the dreamer then imagines an alternative solution. Laberge and other experts suggest the solution involve something more creative than just wishing the problem away. Wishing the problem away is a sneaky form of the same fear reaction of running away. The model of bringing more consciousness to dreams that started with the Senoi tribe and has been practiced by many modern researchers. 1. Do not flee from threatening dream characters. Confront them courageously. Set limits. Ask for their name as a parent would ask a child who was misbehaving what his or her name was. 2. Try to find a creative solution with the dream monster that satisfies you both. If impossible, try to get the monster to look at the problem as a mutual dispute. Refuse threats and insults, but recognize justified objections. 3. Never surrender to an attack by a dream figure. Take up a posture that shows you will defend yourself. Stare them in the eye. If a fight is unavoidable, try to overcome them but not kill them. Offer a reconciliation. 4. After reconciliation or stopping the dream figure, ask how they might be able to help you. Or ask for a gift if they recognize they have been wrong to torment you. 5. With children, it is very effective to teach them to call on a super-hero friend or parent to help them in the dream. Often people will share a nightmare or bad dream with a friend or relative. If you are on the listening side, there are some simple skills you can use to listen to the dreamer. Jeremy Taylor and Gayle Delaney have been teaching these skills for years. They both see the nightmare as a gift which can be unwrapped alone or with the help of someone else. Jeremy Taylor uses a variation of the "If this were my dream..." technique originally developed by the famous dreamworker Montague Ullman. With the "If this were my dream..." approach, the listener at first does just that, listens without interruption. Then a few clarifying questions are asked, such as the color of a coat, or the contents a box or the feeling in the dream at the time. Any question that might call for an interpretation is avoided, such as "What do you think the blue coat meant?" Finally, the listener takes the dream as his or her own. John Herbert has used this technique online and suggests that before every sentence the thought "In my dream..." is kept in mind. Thus as a listener I might say "In my dream, the blue coat reminds me of something to cover myself with, as if I were cold." The dreamer may or may not see this meaning in their own dream. By taking the dream as one's own, the dreamer needn't worry so much about someone imposing meaning on the dream. Taylor feels that we should keep in mind that all dreams, even nightmares, come in the service of healing and health. Any interpretation that does not serve this view is simply wrong and inappropriate. Gayle Delaney, one of the founding parents of the Association for the Study of Dreams, suggests abandoning interpretations altogether. Delaney has developed a dream interview system that allows a listener to ask questions about a person's dreams without getting involved in suggesting meanings at all. Like Taylor, she recommends that the first step is careful listening, showing empathy without interruption and allowing the dreamer to feel comfortable. She then suggests diagraming the dream. This involves outlining the major actions, people, objects/animals/monsters and feelings. The dreamer is then invited to describe without interpreting each of these elements to the listener as if the listener were from Mars or another planet. This way, usual assumptions are bypassed and the dreamer can explain and explore the dream imagery more deeply. The listener can summaries and repeat or condense these and feed them back to the dreamer so the dreamer feels sure the listener has accurately heard the dream. The listener can then encourage the dreamer to make bridges to waking life. How are each of these elements like something in the dreamer's life? Usually this can be done by generalizing the function of the image. If its a refrigerator, its a place to keep things cool, and where in my life do I keep things cool? If its a car without breaks, where in my life are there things in motion that I can't stop? Finally, the interviewer might ask if there are alternatives. If my life is like a car without breaks, how would I like it differently? Lucid Dreaming and Nightmares "I believe the best place to deal with unpleasant dreams is in their own context, in the dream world. We create our nightmares out of the raw material of our own fears. Fears are expectations-- why would we fear something we thought would never happen?" Stephen Laberge In part II we discussed techniques you can practice before going to sleep or after waking up. But note one item here, while dream monsters may frighten you emotionally, they are after all just dreams. If you realized it was a dream, while you were dreaming, then what could harm you? In some ways, when we wake up, a similar reaction occurs. We realize it is a dream. But researchers have found that this is not the best or most satisfying approach: "'Escaping' from a nightmare by awakening only suppresses your conscious awareness of the anxiety-provoking imagery. You may feel a certain relief, but like the prisoner who digs through his prison wall and finds himself in the cell next door, you haven't really escaped." Laberge & Rheingold Finding a creative resolution is even easier when we realize that it is a dream and we continue dreaming. This is what is called "lucid dreaming". Lucid dreaming occurs spontaneously in many dreamers, but it is also a technique that can be learned. Though not as easy as the previous techniques, it is often more fulfilling and worth the effort to many dreamers. Though lucid dreaming became an object of investigation in the 19th Century, its popular scientific status was not obtained until the late 1970's, when Stephen Laberge was able to demonstrate lucid dreaming in laboratory conditions. This rise into mainstream science allowed others to bring their research on lucidity and nightmares to the public. Lucid dreaming researchers now have a variety of programs and techniques for learning to have lucid dreams and it has become one of the most popular topics on the Internet in the venues that discuss dreams. Lucid dreaming is now even taught to children. Techniques for increasing the frequency of lucid dreams vary with the individual. There are many combinations of methods that work for many people. Here are some ideas based on *Lucid Dreamer's Quick Reference* by Lars Spivock: * Throughout the day, ask yourself "Am I Dreaming?" and imagine something wonderful you could be doing in your dream - this is your dream goal. Use your watch or something you notice often as a reminder to ask. Limit excitement, food, drink, and exercise for several hours before bedtime. Drinking plain water, sex, and small amounts of caffeine may be beneficial. * Arrange your dream space with inspirational items. Keep your journaling materials, writing or taping, bedding, and blinds in good working order. In the hour before sleep, have only relaxing thoughts and activities. Write the date and your goal dream in your journal. Just before sleep, with your eyes closed, review your goal dream and affirm to wake up after each dream. * As you awaken from a dream, memorize it in detail before you open your eyes or change your body position. Record it in your journal. If you are not ready to fall back asleep, get up and do something for a while. * As you fall back asleep, repeatedly imagine your last dream, recognizing that you are dreaming and guiding the outcome. Your continuation of the dream may involve boldly confronting an adversary. You can transform yourself into any object, animal or human role. You can transform someone or something else in the dream. You can apply elements from your goal dream. * When you recognize you are dreaming, calmly enjoy the unfolding of the dream. Optionally perform a reality test by levitating and calmly begin guiding the outcome. When your lucidity begins to fade away, spin your dream body and affirm to start your goal dream when lucidity returns. * Favor waking up to birdsongs instead of an alarm radio set to the news. Upon waking, keep your eyes closed and remain motionless for a few minutes while reviewing your dreams from the night before. Then make your journal entries, even if only fragments. Have a relaxed attitude of acceptance towards the outcome. Sooner or later you will be rewarded with better dream recall and wonderful dreams. Here are some ideas for goal dreams. You supply the important specific details to suit yourself: entertainment - fly to the moon or travel through time romance - have a romantic encounter healing - heal yourself or someone else problem solving - solve a work-related or social problem creativity - create a work of art spirituality - talk to god enlightenment - learn about yourself of the unconscious out of body - visit another place or someone elses's dream self-indugence - gluttony or shopping binges sleep - end nightmares or dreamining dreams The techniques of becoming lucid require some attention and practice for most people. A whole array of technology has now sprung up to assist with this process. Most of them work on the same principle. A mask of some kind is worn during sleep. The mask will detect when the sleeper enters REM or Rapid Eye Movement Sleep and send a signal. This signal is usually light or light and sound that is adjusted to be strong enough to enter into the dream but not so strong as to wake the dreamer. As you can imagine, the adjustment period may take some time. Next the dreamer must practice learning to recognize the light and sounds as a signal and not just incorporate the noise as a dream traffic light or alarm clock. All these technologies are for assistance only, and need to be combined with other instructional programs. PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NIGHTMARES Once you are lucid in a threatening dream situation, there are a wide variety of paths to choice from. Laberge and Rheingold suggest the following: 1. Theme: Being pursued Response: Stop running. Turn to face the pursuer. This is in itself may cause the pursuer to disappear or become harmless. If not, try starting a conciliatory dialog with the character or animal. 2. Theme: Being attacked Response: Don't give in meekly to the attack or flee. Show your readiness to defend yourself and then try to engage the attacker in a conciliatory dialog. Alternatively, find acceptance and love in yourself and extend this towards the threatening figure (see Chapter 11). 3. Theme: Falling Response: Relax and allow yourself to land. The "old wives' tale" is false--you will not really die if you hit the ground. Alternatively, you can transform falling into flying. 4. Theme: Paralysis Response: When you feel trapped, stuck or paralyzed, relax. Don't allow anxiety to overcome your rationality. Tell yourself you are dreaming and the dream will soon end. Let yourself go along with any images that appear or things that happen to your body. None of it will hurt you. Adopt an attitude of interest and curiosity about what happens. 5. Theme: Being unprepared for an examination or speech Response: First of all, you don't need to continue with this theme at all. You can leave the exam or lecture room. However, you might enhance your self-confidence in such situations by creatively answering the test questions or giving a spontaneous talk on whatever topic suits you. Be sure to enjoy yourself. When you wake up, you may want to ask yourself whether you should actually prepare for a similar situation. 6. Theme: Being naked in public Response: Who cares in a dream? Have fun with the idea. Some find being naked in a lucid dream erotically exciting. If you wish, have everyone else in the dream remove their clothes. Remember, modesty is a public convention. Summary on Nightmare Help While lucid dreaming allows us to control our dreams, it is difficult for some to learn and may not deal with the underlying causes. Dream exploration, keeping a dream journal or sharing dreams with others are often enough and a good practice whether one is having nightmares or not. Learning confrontation techniques and lucid dream techniques will further help nightmare sufferers and empower ourselves and our children in waking life as well. If the nightmare persists or reoccurs, it may be time to discuss this with a physician, especially since some drugs, medication and illnesses can be a contributing cause of nightmares. It is useful to encourage young children to discuss their nightmares with their parents or other adults, but they generally do not need treatment. Having the child draw the nightmare, talk with the frightening characters, fantasize changes in the nightmare or learn to call on dream protectors and dream parents will help the child feel safer and less frightened. Ernest Hartmann has noted how the dream state is like therapy in two special ways, they both are a safe place to make connections. Dreams will play with everything we do and feel and it makes connections with a wide variety thoughts, feeling and memories. Some of these connections are bound be uncomfortable for us. But to the degree we can see and make our dreams the safe place that they are, is the degree to which these dream worlds will unfold their treasures and the dream monsters will reveal their gifts. Bibliography and Citations Gackenback, Jayne and Bosveld, Jane (1989). Control Your Dreams. New York: HarperPerennial. Gackenbach and LaBerge , Stephen (1988). Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming. New York: Plenum. Garfield, Patricia (1974). Creative Dreaming New York: Ballantine. Gregory, Jill (1988). Bringing dreams to kids!. Dream Network Bulletin 7(2), 12-13. Gregory, Jill (1987). The power of the image: An interview with Ann Sayre Wiseman. Dream Network Bulletin. 6(1), 1,6-7. Hall, Calvin (1966). The Content Analysis of Dreams. New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Croft. Herbert, J.W. (1991) "Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and Computer Dream Work Groups" Unpublished Manuscript, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco Hartmann, Ernest (1998). Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and Meaning of Dreams. New York, NY: Plenum. LaBerge, Stephen. (1985). Lucid Dreaming. New York: Ballantine Books. LaBerge, S. & Rheingold, H. (1990). Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. New York: Ballantine, LaBerge, S. & Rheingold, H. (1997) Overcoming Nightmares: Chapter reprint of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. (1990 New York: Ballantine). Electric Dreams, Volume 4 Issue 10. With permission of the Lucidity Institute. Saint-Denys, Hervey de. (1982/1867). _Dreams and How to Guide Them_. (N. Fry, Trans). London: Duckworth. Spivock, Lars (1994) Lucid Dreamer's Quick Reference. Copyright 1994 by Lars Spivock. Permission given for extensive re-printing of this material in the above article. 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. Taylor, Jeremy. (1983). Dream Work. New York: Paulist Press. Tholey, P. (1983). Techniques for inducing and manipulating lucid dreams. _ Perceptual and Motor Skills_, 57: 70-90. Ullman, M.& Limmer, C. (1989) _The Variety of Dream Experience_ . New York: The Continuum Publishing Co. Worsley, Alan (1982). Alan Worsely's work on lucid dreaming. _Lucidity Letter_ 1(4) 21-22. Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996). Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Control. San Francisco, CA : DreamGate Publications. Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1996). From the Couch to the Culture: Dream Work Moves Outside. San Francisco, CA : DreamGate Publications. Wiseman, Anne Sayre (1986). Nightmare Help: A guide for Parents and Teachers. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o Becoming Nightmare: the Rhizomatics of Dreaming. Richard Catlett Wilkerson o|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|o There is a lot of jargon in this file that may be cleared up if you read my article on Deleuze and Guattari's postmodern philosophy, http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/articles_rcw/deleuze98.htm In general, this article questions the overly-quick response we generally have to nightmares. That is, we generally respond to them by treating them as an illness to be gotten rid of at any cost. What if the cost is that we are blocked from the deeper transformations available in life? I. Signs and Subject, all well greased and in place. All social/familial taboos in operation. All tasks of production and consumption completed and finally Brian goes to sleep. Some time later that night Brian awakes, too frightened to scream, heart pounding and he is on some kind of roller coaster ride in a land without gravity. Brian just had a nightmare. There has been a break in the flow and the insertion of a nightmare machine in the factory of the unconscious. It shreds its way through signification (what is what) and subjectification (who is who). The usual codes have unraveled, and the flow of de-coded signs circulate in things that are only themselves. Brian' ears are red and buzzing, and he wonders why they are on his foot. He hears an old voice of a therapist asking what he thinks the ear on the foot represents, and now he knows the therapist must be mad, speaking about what the falling mast might mean symbolically as another wave pushes his ship under the swell. Both a breakthrough and a breakdown of a world that revolves around the subject. Now the subject is whirled around. "Around" may not be the right word, as around implies a center and there is no center here, only falling. Standard wisdom dictates that we move away from offensive and frightening scenes. These reactions keep us out of trouble, keep our hands from being burned by the stove, keep germs off our food, keep our bones from being broken by cars and rocks at the bottom of cliffs. However, this aversion reaction also keeps us in line and in alignment with early training that may no longer be valid. Taboos may be said to function in the same way. There are boundaries we are taught not to transgress, or there will be "Hell to pay!" But were these boundaries put into place by a perfect parent, guardian or teacher? Unlikely. And in a society whose parameters and values change at an unparalleled pace, one's value programs need to be upgraded more than once a generation. In fact, this is the classic definition of the neurotic. The neurotic is a person who encounters offensive, frightening scenes and backs away. We all do this, but the neurotic will keep backing away until there is no further back to go, becoming deeply compressed within themselves, and no longer venturing out the front door, no longer touching anything without washing their hands, no longer peering over steep cliffs or into foreign eyes. Societies too become neurotic, become paranoid, and then begin trying to control everything, the media, the way children are raised, what we eat and drink, who we talk to and when. Modern societies have tried to do away with these tyrannical systems, but in doing so have not replaced them with anything, and so our values have become confused, conflicted, fickle. One group tries to save trees, and another tries to save the jobs so they can feed their family. The higher, synthetic truth that will bring together opposites is harder and harder to find. When people don't have an inner value to call on, they look around, see what the neighbors are doing, and follow suite. There is no real inner status, so outward signs of status become increasingly important to stabilize life in the flux. Dreamworkers have always been aware of this condition of the retreating self/society and the machines that keep it in place. Spiritual dreamwork discusses these issues in terms of enlightenment and salvation. That is, there is a veil of illusion we call our lives, and the paths that allow us to transcend these illusions. Psychological dreamwork discusses these illusions in terms of neurosis and psychosis, and the appropriate level of challenges and supports are set up to allow the individual to make choices from places other than overwhelming affective/emotional states. Postmodern dreamwork addresses these illusions more as social constructs and looks for ways to subvert repressive forces and open up creative lines of escape. In this view, the nightmare is not something for the subject to escape from, but a path to escape the neurotic subject. II. What are those gaps in the dream, those shifting scenes of the dream? There are many ways the flow of life gets organized. We have organs, skin, bones, thoughts, behaviors. But the flow and flux of life could have been organized differently, and the particular configurations organized around physical and psychological bodies, material and social bodies, can also be not so organized without falling into total chaos, the can align themselves around a body without organs. The self passes through various states as it (they) rolls around the body without organs. Some of these states are quite discontinuous. Freud and Jung both addressed this discontinuity. They knew it was more than a lapse in brain activation. Interestingly, recently, the REM theory of dreaming collapsed. In 1953, Aserinsky, a grad student of Nathaniel Kleitmann, found that when you waken a person whose eyes were moving rapidly during sleep, they tended to recall dreams. Eventually the REM cycle was found to be fairly regular and that it activated parts of the neo- cortex through fairly random neural bursts. Since then, Alan Hobson and his friends have insisted that dreaming is simply the sleepy mind dealing with these random firings and gaps are times when there are pauses in this activation. Over the last few years, a whole new picture began to emerge from the studies of a neurosurgeon who followed the dreams of patients with brain damage. Mark Solms noted that the activation sequences that the brain needed to dream (or more accurately, to recall dreams) was *independent* of the REM activation. Oh, REM brain stem activation got this new Dream-On sequence going at times ( a spiral like activation that cycles through our motivation centers, our spacio-temporal-imaginal centers, our higher visual centers) but so did other things, and once activated, it follows its own independent activation. But all organization that is representational will lead back to the forces that are binding content, and all the content will be interpreted from the view of these forces. Large organized molar aggregates scrap and fight about territory all the time. But when this occurs over millions of years, brain structures get pushed to the limit and turn into revolutions. Dream discontinuity here becomes more a matter of intersecting lines disrupting the subject of a synthesis of micro-connecters that both break into old flows and create new flows. At least from the point of view of the body without organs. The body without organs. Imagine a body that has not been organized into brains, hearts, genitals, legs, arms, skin. A body like this has no real interior, there are just flows, almost a perverse polymorphic distribution of intensities that offer a smooth surface around which the dynamics of the subjects, the objects, the affects, the cognitions, the forces of production and consumption travel, not in paths where the end is known, but in partial paths, in trajectories. An egg, crisscrossed by forces, dynamics, vectors. As we approach the surface of this egg, the intensity drops to zero and everything begins to slide. In waking life, the ego uses narrative bridges to compensate for this discontinuity. Even when we wake up, the technique for learning dream recall is journalling. But when sleeping, the access to the neurotransmitters that allow identity structures to rigidly hold together and produce grids, thereby reterritorializing dominate cultural axiomatics, disappear. That is, the dream state is full of narratives and subjects, feelings and thoughts, repressions and productions, and these work in a way that is unfamiliar to the subject, who upon waking may recall a "dream" but in fact is only recalling a few slices, the one it can piece together as a story. Disjunctions appear as gaps between dreams because the subject relates to them from its experiential story-frame. Deterritorializations may be experienced as apocalyptic or may be seen as loss of consciousness. Each dream story, while it is being produced, is like a child playing on a train track, and a track at the intersection of infinite vortices. The subject consumes the dream as narrative, but can only rarely use that narrative structure to reterritorialize its identity. Again, probably due on the bio-chemical level to the dissolving or wavey grid of control that occurs during dreaming. (Interestingly activated first by the very spot that leucotomies -earlier called lobotomies - are performed, ie dopamine, active-producing, connecting, interest- producing, action-producing, desiring centers). Gaps in the Dream. Freud saw them as a cover-up, but one in which a sharp mind could follow back by association, to a source. Oedipus gouging out his eyes, then retracing the steps of the crime. Whether one goes for the theory of being able to recover authorial intention or not, the process, free association, did emerge as a skill by which the subject could begin to produce his/her own streams and new lines of escape. Jung, in his charming Hegelian way, saw the gap as a portal being held open by two unreconcilable opposites, two things that the ego just could not let go of, yet could not have, two horrors, two beasts in eternal struggle for one reality they could never both consciously inhabit. Through this portal held by the struggle emerged the uncanny transcendent. OK, perhaps its just another tyrant awakening in the desert and slinking off to Bethlehem, but when the dream becomes one of many sites where the intolerable may first occur to us, where the organized molar limit produces micro-molecular cracks and bleeds the brood of the night, then here there is a factory that produces the un-containable rupture across which the nomad may skate. III. Like desire (and madness) dreams seem to be the most powerful when they bring us into contact with radical otherness. Daniel brings Nebruchanezer into contact with a dream that transforms the religions of Babylon. Joseph brings Pharaoh into contact with a dream that alters the state of Egypt. _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ is written after a Robert Lewis Stevenson encounters his own Hyde in a dream. Freud and Jung encounter desire and madness in dreams and create and alter the course of psychotherapy. This radical otherness is better characterized as a continual process of becoming other, which begins in the desire to escape bodily limitations. These limitations can be both cultural as well as natural. To regress back to representations for a moment, in dreams we often find ourselves up against our own cultural and psychophysical limit-expectations. We stop at red lights in our car in a dream. We open dream doors instead of floating through them. We walk upstairs and eat meals. Yet in other dreams we fly, we breath water, we walk through walls, men become women, we can be several identities at once, we become animals and crooks, we have sex with taboo people and inanimate objects. And perhaps most radically, we stop being we. I am not the center of my dream, but just one trajectory intersecting the dream. *zzzzz* Desire as productive, creating breaks in the flow and connecting one desiring machine to another. *zzzzz* Dreams/nightmares as productive, and what they are producing and how does this work? Careful, does each dream produce a singularity, or can we abstract and generalize since we have all been caught in the same habits of western culture? *zzzzz* Dreams/nightmares in their different phases of deterritorialization of subjective space, their territorialization of brain space, the teterritorialization of ? *zzzzz* If you must remain psychoanalytic, how about a slight shift? Instead of seeing nightmares as a failure of the censor, what happens if we posit that the nightmare is a deflection of something so ungraspable that it can only be said to be a successful censoring of that experience. *zzzzz* Dreams/Nightmares as ruptures between the binary thinking of conscious/unconscious, wake/sleep, aware/not aware, here/not here? *zzzzz* What might have young Felix or Gilles have thought to themselves when they first had to tackle Descartes Dream problem about reality and knowing? *zzzzz* How might the dream/nightmare be seen as a co-patriot of disfamiliarization? In ancient Delphi, people would sleep on the steps of the temple of Apollo, seeking (incubating) the dream that would allow them access to the oracle inside. Mythically, this access to the truth was a later imposition of Apollo on a pre-Greek people who practiced dance and rites that were assigned by the Greeks to Dionysos. Pan is one of his entourage and was said to have taught Apollo dream work at Delphi. In the Dionysian groups, the questions or problems, if that is what they really were, were danced along the hillsides and meadows and involved transformations in ecstasy. This moving-into may be distinguished from Apollo's seeing-from afar. With the dominance of Apollo, the dramas were all contained in the amphitheater and the ecstasies relocated to the dream (and the one oracle, who was imprisoned in the center of the temple and surrounded by the priests who did all the interpreting of visions and dreams). This same set-up was found in the cult of Asklepios (Aesculapius in Latin). At these popular dream healing sanctuaries the amphitheater was ever near the spa. The patients would be cured when they encountered Asklepios or one of his family or animals in a dream. The becoming other, so to speak, was limited to particular containing vessels. Still, Dionysos is seen as Apollo's dark brother and has his own months where he is still the god at Delphi. Like Dionysos, the nightmare remains nomadic subject, the free autonomous subject which exists momentarily in an ever shifting array of possibilities as desiring machines distribute flows across the body without organs. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Where is the Global Dreaming News? Now at the beginning of Electric Dreams! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS ** DREAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ New Series begins with dream-flow@egroup.com Digest #1 09/29/2000 This issue includes volume #528 - #569 Hello and welcome to the DREAM SECTION of Electric Dreams. This section is edited by Elizabeth Westlake and the DreamEditor, a software creation of Harry Bosma, author of the Dream interpretation and journaling software "Alchera". (homepage: http://mythwell.com) Please note that we print these dreams as they come to us and that means we do not correct the spelling. Some dreamworkers find these spelling mistakes a great window on the dream and dreamer. The Electric Dreams DREAM SECTION includes dreams and comments from the DREAM FLOW, a project to circulate dreams in Cyberspace. 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An Archive of dream-flow is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@egroups.com/ Pre-November 2000: http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow@lists.best.com/ Pre-November 1998 http://www.mail-archive.com/ed-core@lists.best.com/ Pre-April 1990 Use Electric Dreams Backissues http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/ed-backissues __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 528-001 Subject: the dead well Dream: a few older people and I were all standing around a well. There was a scooba diver already inside the well. Aparently some one had fallen in and was drowning. the scooba diver came back out of the water and reported that the boy was in different rooms(I can't remember the exact #'s) of floor 2 or 3. So inside the well was either a hotel or an apartment building that had been flooded. I saw what seemed to have been some kind of flashback then...There was a robber inside some one's house and no one was there except 2 children, a young boy and girl. The theif was threatening the girl but she kicked him in between the legs and then stabbed him with a type of knife you use to gut a dear. she then cut him all the way down his belly. all the sudden i was back to the well, all alone. And there infront of me stood(or floated i should say) the dead boy inside the well. He told me alot but all i can remember is that he said he wasn't the only one down there, that there were alot! more. he wasn't grusome looking but still you could tell he was dead. next thing i know he is gone and some ppl are pulling a grose old man out of the water. we were nxt at an old filthy hospital and the old man's head was swollen. they pushed him on a gurney but they ran into a door and he fell off and his mouth began to overflow with blood. after that i was standing next to a young woman. she explained ot me that she wasn't scared of the water because she always kept a light underneath her pillow and that the light was also a video camera, so that ne thing that happened to her would be recorded. then i woke up. Comments: I wanted to cry after i woke up, this dream was very real and very scary. ne ideas would be appreciated! tinx!~SNT~ Comments: 528-002, 528-003 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 528-002 [528-001] Subject: Re: the dead well All this crime (kidnappings, murdered children, terrrorism) could be getting to you. It's starting to get to me, too. And that camera under the pillow thing sounds like a good idea. My grandpa grew up on the south side of chicago, where there's a lot of crime, and someone even attacked his mother once. He's a human motion detector, he can tell you every morning how many times you got up in the night and what time each incident occured. He can't mentally force himself to sleep unless his door is open. He also sleeps very light, and not very often at all. He considers himself "the protector". He feels it's his duty since he's the only man in the house. You'll be surprised what people will do to prevent MORE break-ins, but no one bothers to think about it until it's already happened to the neighbors. This is my philosophy: If you weren't worried about it before, you shouldn't be worried about it now. Though crime rates go up and down now and then, nothing about robberies or murders has changed since the peaceful 1950's ended, people are just watching the news more because of the war. You just relax and take it easy. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 528-003 [528-001] Subject: Re: the dead well thnx 4 the help. i'll think about it some more. it kinda does make sense. thnx again...snt __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 529-001 [ed.note: message removed - off topic post] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 530-001 Subject: Strange dream_title: Strange dream_date: 7/18/02 dreamer_name: WHAT?!?!?! dream_text: ok..its a continues dream...ok im like a spirit killer or something..and i can summon a tower/platform in mid air and my dad works oon it..and his 'BOSS' puts something in it but me(brad) and my friend(jake) know its a bomb!so i have jus moved and this dream takes place in my old town but then half the town isnt right it is like in an older era we didnt have a police station and NOW we did!so we being chased by the cops and we trying to get my tools back so i can summon the platform and get the bomb out!but the people can see it!! the tool looks like this: [ed.note: image missing] | dont ask why! but i remember running thru my house and my dad says 'what u doing?' and i say 'me and jake are running from the police' and he says 'ok have fun' and we run out the back door and jake keeps running but i trip and i woke up right when i hit the ground and ever since i havent had the dream:( i want to know what happens! dream_comments: I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AND WHAT IT MEANS:(! Comments: 530-004 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 530-002 Subject: old friend dream_title: old friend dream_date: 06/27/02 dream_text: An old friend pops up in town after a few years. I few months i was expose to be married and then we started to talk and going out and I knewn that he liked me from grade school and high school. As soon as we started getting serious/ he leaves me for the first lady that he was with..... dream_comments: He cancelled his wedding after talking to my mother and his parents are rooting for me. but i am so scared to talk to him i wrote hime and told him how I felt and stuff and then from there we talk and stuff but I was getting mix signals from him. SO what should I do. we are good friends I think things changed over the years.... Comments: 530-003 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 530-003 [530-002] Subject: Re: old friend We all have loves in our lives that we dream about now and then. I just had one of those dreams this morning. And like you, I woke up feeling the urge to contact him. But a few minutes later I realized why I stopped talking to him in the first place and became very angry about that dream. The mind tortures, but the heart heals. I don't know the whole situation with this guy, but my advice to you isn't to go by what his family thinks. He's a grown man with a mind of his own, and if he cancelled a wedding he might not want a relationship at all. You need to be blunt and tell him your feelings. If he rejects you, you'll get over it and those dreams won't result in so many old feelings. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 530-004 [530-001] Subject: Re: Strange Dear WHAT?!? One way to find out what happens is to meditate upon the dream as you're falling asleep and let it take you to its conclusion. Interesting that you illustrated it. I f you're really into drawing you could draw it out like a comic strip and let the conclusion suggest itself to you in art form. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 531-001 Subject: Working Together. dream_title: Working Together. dream_date: ? dreamer_name: GHOSTHunter dream_text: This dream happened long ago I cannot remember all that has happened but I will give it a try. I am walking down a street at night with a friend "Jill" (not her real name, this is because I am sure she would not like to use her name here). Well, either way, we are walking down this street at home in Calgary, Canada and we are talking about something ( I cannot remember what, it was something about relationships I think) and then I hold her tight against me by holding her waist. We then reach this arsen sight and for some reason we are there to help solve what has happened. As we are working together, "Jill" tells me something, I respond on how I have no idea why I am here and am not trained to do anything. This is where the dream ends. dream_comments: I have no idea on what this dream represents and if anyone does, email me at ghost2k90@hotmail.com (please do so, I want to know this dream meant). Thanks. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 531-002 Subject: Jesus asking me the thing I love very much dream_title: Jesus asking me the thing I love very much dream_date: 14 july 2002 dreamer_name: Noreen dream_text: I was with my best friend (a girl) and we both saw that Jesus has appeared in front of us and we are so surprised that we are sinner how can it be possible, we asked each other is He really Jesus? my friend said yes He is. Jesus also assured us that this is Me, then he asked me the thing I love very much, I took out the gold ring from my finger and gave to Jesu but he refused and said I need your best friend who is with you. dream_comments: 12 July was my birthday, I was expecting telephone call from my boyfriend who live 1500Km far from me, he could not call. next day he called n i got angry with him and shared my doubts about his love towards me( according to him he loves me very much-which is true)he ask me to do the things which are good for both of us but i refuse, I took a decision but shared to him as a proposal to ask his opinion for that, he suggested not to take this step in any case. (as I had already taken the step and told lie to him)I do check time by time with strange questions to check if he really loves me. I want him to follow my will instead of following his will or openions. The same day when he called me at night 14 July I saw this dream. Please give me answer I am much worried. I love very much my frien and some are telling me that she is going to die soon. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 531-003 Subject: Falling dream_title: Falling dream_date: 7-23-02 dream_text: I can not remember it all because I have not made it a habit yet to write my dreams down as soon as I wake up. I was with my friends and we were in a strange place like a dessert kind of but there were mountains lots of them,and we were looking for something I dont know what, but we started climbing the mountain and we kept getting higher and higher. It wasnt like walking up a mountain either I mean like hands and feet climbing, some of us almost fell because of how windy it was. I kept remembering my terrible fear of heights and I went higher to the top and when I got there I could see the other side and everyone came and looked and there were tons of trees and a little town. The next thing I know I was walkin in grass to the other side and all the sudden I fell and i was rolling very fast to a stone arch and they came running after me to try to save me. I finally stopped and my friends caught up with me and I was lying on the ground and there was this women there next to the arch and she was saying something, I couldnt make it out. Then someone said she is going to blow up and she did, she was made of stone, I jumped in my sleep and woke up. dream_comments: I dont know what they mean or why I have ones like this but I cant stop thinking about them and I would like you to tell me what they mean. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 531-004 Subject: The Devil vs GOD/ Ribbons in the field! dream_title: The Devil vs GOD/ Ribbons in the field! dream_date: July 23,2002 dreamer_name: Donatelo dream_text: (First Dream)- I Dreamed I was in a where house with a very evil man who was trying very hard to scare me and break my spirit. I witnessed him abuse an old lady, and I felt it was my obligation to save her from him. The pastor of Fremont Assembly of God appeared to me very young and very glowing, so Glowing I couldn't see past the light that shined around him (he was surrounded by two other men-Perhaps angels in appearance of man). I pleaded with God before the Pastor, feeling God is working through him, and in tears I told God to forgive me of my sins, so he blessed me and said for me that he will grant me strength during these hard times. I confronted the evil man that represented the devil who too wanted my soul, and cursed him back with much profanity and cuss words. So I left him alone, and found myself in my parents old home, seeing my parents young again, as I closed the shades in the front room, I noticed the it was raining outside, and the payment wet. (I could smell the wet payment)- Then I returned to get the old woman back to safety and grabbed her out of the evil mans arms, and he said I couldn't have her - so he grabbed her out of my arms, and then I told the devil "I will come back to get you what you deserve" I learned that the Devil was afraid of my strength and faith in GOD! And the old lady knew I would return for her. (Second Dream)- I went on a long journey and noticed people laying down in this huge amusment park (I noticed Truck drivers using this amusement park as a rest area). My husband was with me, we walked together with a man who resembled an angel (old man)- he brought us to a land of many cots scattered through this vast green field! The cots were in many colors and in the art form of a ribbon (cots made out of a rubber mat with a spongy metal support underneith it so they would last and no one can steal them out of the ground). Many ribbons that pictured award ribbons to lie down on. Ribbons in striped and flowery bright colors, ribbons representing for mothers, and fathers. It was amazing the many beautiful colors of so many of these ribbons to see, and to lie down on. So me and my husband lie down together trying to pick out a nice ribbon that represents ourselves, I picked a ribbon with an award metal on it, and it was deep purple or blue, and my husband lays on a striped ribbon. I turned to my husband (as Music is playing in the backround, like elevator music) I said to my husband,"where are we, are we in the state of Washington?" My husband responded, "Maybe?" I said within my thoughts (we're in Heaven!) dream_comments: Went to bed after eating a full plate of pasta. 2nd dream - I returned to bed after using the bathroom. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 531-005 [ed.note: no message text] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 532-001 Subject: (unknown) Salam alikom This is the first time to think of writing down a dream of mine. I was in a club or a public area, it was daylight, i was on a Wheelchair, all i needed to do is to show all people around that i became paralyzed , i was going on that rouming around with my wheelchair as if am trying to tell all about what had happend to me.. the point is that i was proud that its an Electric modern chair (not just like any other ordinary wheelchair). i was wondering how does it feel when you are paralyzed!!! i was asking myselfe "won't i be able to put my feet on the ground and wake up if i tried to??" and was replying to myself "this is the point when you are paralyzed, u won't be able to move your feet or stand up" and i was reluctant to stand up coz. i was afraid to take that shock when i know for sure that am not anymore able to walk. that was my dream, i think i know what was it about, but your comments will surly add more to me. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 533-001 Subject: tornadoes/hurricanes dream_title: tornadoes/hurricanes dream_date: 7-25-02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: in one night i have two dreams, one is a tornado dream which i am not hurt, but am terrified of it. the other, a hurricane. both of which i am in a house, but i am never hurt. dream_comments: a friend said a hurricane dream means someone in real life is conspiring against me and means me harm (as in my maring my reputation in my company, or to get me removed at my job). what do you think? Comments:533-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 533-002 [533-001] Subject: Re: tornadoes/hurricanes That friend of yours sounds like he or she has serious issues. Your dream demonstrates your ability to get through the worst crisis, no matter how scary it is. It was a dream to boost your self-esteem and stop you from being nervous about your life. If anything, it was the opposite of what your friend said. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 533-003 [ed.note: no message text] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 533-004 [ed.note: post deleted - VERY off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 533-005 Subject: the end of the world dream_title: the end of the world dream_date: augest 14, 1992 dreamer_name: popdiva dream_text: It was A warm nice day I was getting the kids off to school and I told My Husband that there is something wrong he said I was being paranoid so ibrushed it of but when I turnd on the T.V the T.V went blank and across the screen it said America has been evated and to get your kids and take cover my husband and I got in the car but we when we tried to leve the road was blocked,so we had to get out and run down the street for 6 blockes to get our kids out of school. As we run there was havek all over the streets Isaw people beating each othere and and jumping out of windows we made to the school and got the kid swe were able to get out of town and I fell asleep and when I woke up there were airplanes landing all over the filds I told my husband that we are being invaded by forin allies we need to take cover we went into the mountins where we found shealter and safty from the war that was going on I heard over the radeo that president bush declared war and to push the red but He said my god be with us all then everthing went dead. Itold my parents and husband that It dosent matter where we are everyone is going to die we all walked out on a fild and we came across a fince when we got there I told everyone to holed on tight and all the adultes gathere around the kids do not look at the bright light, I looked up for a moment and I saw my familys flesh just mealt right of there bodys then I woke up. dream_comments: I dont Know what it ment but cherise what you have instead of what you dont because in a moments time it can be taken away from you __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 534-001 [ed.note: post deleted - VERY off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 535-001 Subject: talking infant dream_title: talking infant dream_date: recently dreamer_name: -psychonaut dream_text: all I can remember is that I was in the back of a vehicle on a multi laned freeway. The sky was blue and the clouds were wispy. I was holding onto the baby and it was trying to hold the baby, but it was so strong and it just wanted to get out of my arms. I think i was trying to protect it from some people in a car beside us. It kept on struggling and squirming. And then it stopped for a second and it looked at me and told "you are beautiful" , it actually spoke, but it was mearly an infant. Later on in the dream, I laid the baby down in a crib and left the room, I looked through the walls and I saw my mom walking down the road. I got in a truck and caught up to her. I asked her what she was doing and she answered " we're out of milk, so I'm walking to the store to get some" I asked her why she was walking when we could just take the truck, and it dawned on me that I had left the baby. I rushed back, and it was gone, the people had taken it..and I woke up. dream_comments: It was strange the whole baby being so strong. It was so strong, and I wonder why it didnt want me to hold it..to save it. Also, i'm a teenager, and I haven't a lot of confidence, even though everyone say's I'm "hot" or whatever, but it made me want to cry when it told me that I was beautiful. It was also neat that it spoke at all. I really love dreaming though, its so necessary in my existance. My life is a dream __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-001 Subject: baby between us dream_title: baby between us dream_date: 7-29-2002 dreamer_name: silly dream_text: i dream about me and my boyfriend had a baby girl and were only in our teen years. Both our parents were fine with it and i was still able to finish school. dream_comments: why would i have a dream about us with a baby girl. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-002 Subject: hair cut dream_title: hair cut dream_date: 20/7/02 dreamer_name: winona dream_text: i am walking down the street to the patphone when i see my best friends ex boy friend pull up in hes car and they call me over and start talking to me.then i went home to go to sleep. i have really long hair and i love it, and anyway the next morning i wake up and my hair is short i am really upset about this and cry, i think that i look horrible. dream_comments: i thought this dream was really weird because i woke up really upset as in all my dreams they feel so real i even checked to see if my hair was still long. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-003 Subject: really weird dream_title: really weird dream_date: 23/07/02 dreamer_name: jessica dream_text: im at a gurl from schools house who i hardly talk to and i wouldn't trust her with anything.She is aboriginal and is laughing hysterically.anyway she shows me a really sharp two sided knife and tells me it is a dildo. i look at it and think that it would hurt me if i used it. so i study it hard and realize that the knife has been placed over the real dildo so i take the knife off and use the real dildo dream_comments: ok this dream is really really weird and embarrassing!! __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-004 Subject: boyfriend dream_title: boyfriend dream_date: 19/07/02 dreamer_name: kristy dream_text: My boyfriend tells me that he is really glad i made him wait to have intercourse with me. he tells me that he respects me so much for it. dream_comments: my boyfriend keeps asking me to have intercourse with him and i told him that i want to wait at least two months.i dont want him to think that im some easy gurl that sleeps around __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-005 Subject: alien abuduction dream_title: alien abuduction dream_date: 7-23-02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: me and a friend are in my bedroom and we notice a spec of light through the window 5miles away, (night time), and i point at it, it instantly appears at my window, the next thing i know, we are being examined by aliens who scare us but tell us not to be afraid. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-006 Subject: Suicide dream_title: Suicide dream_date: July 26, 2002 dreamer_name: Sponebobc17 dream_text: I had this dream where I asked my mom what happened? And she said that my older brother Timmy had gotten arrested. So i asked why and she said Because he wrote a suicide note. I then asked my mom if anyone was going to talk to him about it and i don't remember the anwser. dream_comments: I think the anwser was no. But I'm not positive though. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-007 Subject: Watch What You Wish For dream_title: Watch What You Wish For dream_date: 05/26/99 dreamer_name: Conkatliz dream_text: I was laying on a bed, close to the window that had a little bird nest up in the corner and all I can remember thinking was why wouldn't my husband sleep with me? " That was all I wanted in life was that to much to ask for? Next thing I know I am living with this very handsome man and all we did was have sex. Then before I know I am sitting in the hood in an old run down house, with the utilities all cut off, no food for my children. The handsome man turns into a drug user, and he won't work and beats on me occasionally, hates the children so won't he won't give me any money to feed them. Oh! God, Please somebody wake me up this is a nightmare and I can't wake up. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [This message contained attachments] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-008 Subject: man of my dreams dream_title: man of my dreams dream_date: 7/25/02 dreamer_name: chuckyzhune dream_text: i had a dream that i waz riding on a bus and the boy i like asked me to marrie him and i said yes. So he tooke me dancin and he bought me myu weddin dress and he told me to put it on and dance with him. So we danced and kissed . dream_comments: what does it mean when the boy you liek ask u to marrie him but in real life yall are not datin and he has a girlfriend. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 536-009 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 537-001 Subject: New Dream dream_title: big snakes dream_date: 7/31/02 dreamer_name: lovett22 dream_text: I dream of very large snakes, it about this person who was butting on a show with the snakes, and in this dream I was in love with the person that was putting on the show with the snakes, and their was and older in the dream to, he was close to the guy that was putting on the show with the snake. One of the snakes ate a baby, and the person that on the snakes, took the snake that ate the baby somewhere to get the baby out, but the baby was dead. The old man was trying to hide one of the snake in the washing machine, but it got out, but this snake started walking and it was talking to the old man, than it had the old man under it spell, the old man was in love with the snake, and the snake kill the old man, the snake told the old man before he kill him, that I told you that I will get you. The snake trainer walks in the room where the snake kills the old man and laugh. At the end of the dream the snake trainer hate me, and did care about me. What do this dream? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 537-002 [ed.note: no message text] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-001 Subject: puzzling Note: Stan requests that his name and email be kept with his dream. - rcw DATE : 1 aug 2002 08:18 DREAM : puzzling stan kulikowski ii =( last night was a wednesday and i was up until 03:30 printing the CD disk labels and jewel case inserts for my web design course. on friday evening, the branding teams from my two class sections will be here for the production party to burn the CDr disks with their projects of the summer term. i print the stick-on labels and case inserts before we get together for the production because the color printer is too slow to do it the night everyone is here. during the early part of the evening, while mother was watching television, i was also draining a batch of homebrew into a cornelius keg so i could force carbonate it with the CO2 cylinder. when i finally got to bed, i was tired and went right to sleep. )= with a click, the puzzle piece which completes my forehead is snapped into place and i can resume thinking. i still cannot move for a while yet, but i can see several people scurrying about putting the last pieces where they belong. soon my eyes thaw enough that i can look around. beside me in this puzzle is a young woman. the last few pieces of her are put together which completes the puzzle block we are in. soon the paralysis will resolve so we can get out of small cubical frame that surrounds us. i do not know how long we have been here. probably a day or two as the people who come to this fair to play these games often take a weekend to complete a puzzle like this. as the stiffness in my neck indicates that i can now move my head, i can see several other puzzle blocks around the field in which we have been standing. there are clusters of people around each of these other blocks, working to assemble them. it seems like the one i have been in is the first to be completed. as soon as i can move my arms and shoulders, i am given a glass of water. i find that i am quite thirsty as i drink the liquid. but the people gathering around us seem mostly concerned with the young woman beside me. "are you alright?" asks someone. "do you know who you are?" the young woman shakes her head, but it seems more to stretch her thawed muscles than an answer to the question. a man standing in front of her holds up a card which we both signed before we were frozen and cut up into the thousand or so game pieces. he seems to be one of officials of the fair. i can see the card and it has two names listed on it. "this card lists your name as 'mickey mantle', but that does not seem to be right. most of know mickey mantle and you are obviously not him." it will be a while before either of us can speak, but i wonder what the solution to this will be. she might have been named after the famous baseball player. long term amnesia is not a common side effect of standing in for a puzzle, but it is not unheard of. =( i wake just before 08:00. my mouth is dry and thirsty and my neck has stiff feeling in back of it. i feel still tired and want to sleep more, but i can tell that i will not be able to sleep much more, so i sit up to type this dream into my bedside laptop. a stiff neck in the morning has been fairly common lately with my frozen shoulder from the bursitis. i do not recognize any of the people in this dream from my waking life. i wonder what it means to be taken apart and reassembled by strangers at a fair. )= Comments:538-004 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-002 Subject: horse shit dream_title: horse shit dream_date: 07/31/02 dreamer_name: need to know dream_text: i had a dream that i was surrounded by horse poop yellow green color dream_comments: why i'm i dreamning it Comments: 538-005 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-003 Subject: The Accident dream_title: The Accident dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I had a dream where I was with my fiance. We were playing hacky sac in the middle of the road. Well, he must have kicked it too hard because I missed it and had to run to get it. At the same time a car came up and ended up hitting me. My fiance was by my side saying it's ok. The ambulance will be here. I'm right here with you. And that was the end of my dream. dream_comments: Actually I did have this dream interpreted once. The person who interpreted my dream said that I was dreaming about one day having a baby. At that time I happened to be pregnant. So she was right on that one. Comments: 538-006 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-004 [538-001] Subject: Re: puzzling The fact that there was a woman in the dream means that you're probably lonely. The woman also held your attention and the attention of those around you through most of the dream, as if you were just an outsider and she was the one turned into a puzzle. Dreams are like that. Even so, the puzzle sounds like a metaphor. Either you feel unsure at this particular point in your life or someone else does and you've barely noticed. Your dream might also have something to do with someone you know having a complex personality, and maybe you were taking them apart so you could figure them out. There are many ways you can look at your dream. It just depends on what is going on in your life right now that you might want to associate with a puzzle. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-005 [538-002] Re: horse shit That sounds like a combination of one event of hte day and one thought or memory. Some dreams are that simple. They combine two or three things that were on your mind, even if it was only for a moment. The idea of "horse poop" probably comes from a lie or an embellish that somebody told you, it could've been days before the dream, it all depends on how your mind works. Do you have an infant or happen to care for one in the daytime? A lot of infants poop out weird yellowish-green poop because of all the milk or formula. You also could have had an unusual slurge in the dairy foods or maybe you saw somebody else do it. But then again you could have seen something yellow at some point that caught your eye and then something green that stood out in your memory as well. You'll never know. But I have those dreams all the time. Sometimes they're the result of a few songs I had in my head. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-006 [538-003] Subject: Re: The Accident In common dream lore, a lot of symbols are opposites. Death means life, life means death. Falling into the ocean means new life. Maybe you're pregnant again. Or maybe you have common fears about something happening to your fiance, or maybe even the child you had after the last dream. I wouldn't worry about it. Destiny will eventually unfold itself, and you can't prevent God's will no matter how hard you try. Just go with the flow. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 538-007 Subject: Live Board Game dream_title: Live Board Game dream_date: July 23 dreamer_name: Shelly dream_text: I had a dream about me and about 3 or 4 of my friends. We were playing this board game called "Japanese Monopoly" but we were actually in the game. Anyway, me and my friends each had to go and sleep in a child's room where the child had died.. One of them died from being cut and scratched to death, another one drowned, one suffocated, and one died from shock. Each of my friends had to pick a child. I had the one who was cut and scratched to death. I had to lay in her bed in her room, but then all my friends were there with me and we had dolls, kinda like voodoo dolls and we "killed them" by the same things the children died from. (It's kinda weird.. I'm not like pshycotic or anything and my dream scared me.. neway..) Then something happened and we ran downstairs. (It was like a house) and my mom was in the kitchen and we told her we were scared. She said not to worry about it, so we went in the other room and kept playing. Then later on I was at school. My ex-boyfriend was there, and I saw him and started talking to him. (we're friends.) Everyone around me was scared and looking at me weird cuz I kept seeing ghosts and no one else saw them, so they thought I was insane. I told Greg (my ex) about it and he just kinda stood there and didn't say much. We were walking down the hall and I saw one of my friends from elementary school. She started walking with me and Greg, then she disappeared after a few minutes. Me and Greg kept walking.. and all the sudden we were about to turn the corner when all the doors in the halls slammed shut and we were the only ones in the hallway. So I got on his back for some reason and he ran down the hallway toward the science rooms. One of my enemies saw me and made fun of me, like making weird noises like a ghost or something. Then she ran off laughing. Greg was gone as soon as I got to the science hallway. I had to hurry and get in one of the classes because the doors were shutting. I found my class and sat down. Everyone was staring at me and I was scared because my papers were flying up and someone or something was pushing my pen or pencil into my arm trying to slit my wrist. I started crying and everyone around me was laughing. They couldn't see the things I saw.. I ran out of the room and I was back at the house where we were playing "Japanese Monopoly". I was outside putting something in my sister's trunk of her car. My friend Joni came up to me and she was possessed. Out of no where a dog that was by us died and after it died it got inside the trunk. Then it tried to kill Joni and I ran back to my mom. Joni came after me and tried to kill me since she thought I was the one who was possessed. Then I woke up.... dream_comments: My dream scared me really bad and I actually remember a lot of it and I usually only remember pieces of it. There's a lot more to it but I didn't want to make it too long.. What do you think? Comments: 539-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 539-001 [538-007] Subject: Re: Live Board Game Kids your age tend to pay too much attention to all that wicca and buddism nonsense. Your dream was probably your subconscious reaction to it. Since you saw someone from elementary school, you might, in the back of your mind, be wondering how she is. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 540-001 Subject: my knight in heaven dream_title: my knight in heaven dream_date: 07/31/02 dreamer_name: Samantha dream_text: My friend was escorting me to a doctors appt, when we saw his (my doctor) secretary In passing in the hallway I can't stand her ( because she's mean-spirited)Then I saw my doctor all of sudden< at that point I have no idea where my friend was. As we locked eyes we embraced. i don't remember anymore. dream_comments: I can only remember part of it: which is a bit strange to me considering I have been dreaming alot lately, and never seem to remember any of them until this one recently, usually I have dreams pertaining to the end of the world and I'm not a big worrier. Comments: 541-004 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 540-002 Subject: Granny's house Granny's house dreamer_name: Duck dream_text: I was at my Granny's house as I usually go for dinner on Mondays (despite the fact that the dream wasn't on Monday). I was in the kitchen when she inormed me that there was a thief in this area. I walked into her living room and looked out of the drawn blinds in the front window. I looked to the house over the street, it was a dark night. In the window I could see the thief coming down the stairs. There was a light on in the house and he was silhoutted against the wall. I knew it was the thief right away somehow. I found myself suddenly in a small room, full of large pipes. I was now with my Aunt, brother and two cousins. Without warning the thief reappeared, he was a vampire. I went to hide under the pipes, I felt as if he was after me because he couldn't see the others. I think I fell through a wall before finding my self in a large room. Behind a table in front of me stood my school headteacher, he had a large knife in his left hand. On the table in front of him were five colourful and highly decorated toy soldiers, four in red and one in blue. He cut an arm from each of them, right arm from the red ones and left arm from the blue one, who was in the centre. I approached him to tell him about the thief. I said 'Sir, there is a vampire thief chasing me!' At that moment the thief appeared in the same gap I had fallen through. I looked him in the eye. That was the last thing I remembered about my dream. However, later on I heard from my Granny that the house across the street (the one in my dream) had been robbed in the early hours of the morning (probably about the same time I had my dream). By this time I had already told people about my dream so nobody thought I was lying. dream_comments: I've always wondered how I knew about the robbery, or whether it was just coincidence. Comments: 541-003 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 540-003 Subject: Teeth dream_title: Teeth dream_date: recurring dreamer_name: randelions dream_text: The setting or circumstances of the dream may vary but the same event happens over and over: my teeth are falling out. Usually the molars on one side painlessly and bloddlessly shatter and fall out. Sometimes they come out in pieces or as a whole tooth. There is never any pain and I am always frightened or startled at this event. My parents are usually around and I alert them to what is going on. dream_comments: I have no idea why I keep having this dream. I am 22 years old and take very good care of my teeth and have never had any fall out. Comments: 541-001, 541-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 540-004 Subject: Thief dream_title: Thief dream_date: 08/02/2002 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: In my dream my boyfriends tools were being stolen out of the washer/dryer room or as he calls it utility room. We were living in what I considered to be an apartment in my dream but it was built more like a house and the landlord or owner lived across the street. In my dream I caught her using her key to get into our utility room. She had her little girl with her. Well I screamed to my boyfriend to get them and he and I both chased her throughout the neighborhood. I guess I didn't know her identity because the woman lost the little girl and I caught the little girl and told her that she needed to go home. Well my boyfriend and I followed her home and the mother had locked her own daughter outside. She eventually opened the door and when my boyfriend and I went inside we saw that she had been remodeling the entire apartment with stuff she had been steeling from us. Then my dream switched to us being back in our apartment and there was a shaved lion lying by the arcadia door in the sunlight and then a tiger (not bald) appeared on the outside of the arcadia door. I wasn't frightened but I knew I should be. I was then trying to think of ways to open the door so I could let out the Bald Lion so it didn't try to attack the tiger right through the door and let the tiger inside our house. I think eventually the apartment became a house because what I remember from the end of the dream we had a back yard. Both the Lion and Tigers turned into human beings and I woke up. Comments: 541-005 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 541-001 [540-003] Subject: Re: Teeth If I remember correctly, a dream about teeth or oral problems symbolizes a lack of control. I could be wrong though, but I'm pretty sure that's what I heard. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 541-002 [540-003] Subject: Re: Teeth As far as I can remember..teeth in a dream have various meanings. IF TEETH R FALLING OUT, IT MAY MEAN TOO MUCH TALKING, SCATTERING YOUR ENERGY, OR NOT UNDERSTANDING A PROBLEM OR SITUATION. LOSS OF TEETH MAY REPRESENT CARELESSNESS. TEETH STAND FOR DECISIVENESS, LOSS REPRESENTS THE UNABLILITY TO MAKE A DECISION. OR A DREAM WITH TEETH IN IT CAN REPRESENT DENTAL PROBLEMS. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 541-003 [540-002] Subject: Re: Granny's house I was told once that there is a part of the brain that all of us have, but not all of us use. But some of us use it when we feel like it, like the way an old man can hear whispering but not yelling. Sometimes we premonize about bad things so we can either prevent them or become aware of how serious they are. You can have these dreams about anyone, even the paperboy, if the powers that be think that it's necessary. I use the term powers that be because no one really knows who controls psychic phenomenon, whether it be God or your subconscious warning you. It's a question of faith. To make a long story short, your granny might need you for some reason, maybe for companionship or something. But that's jsut my theory. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 541-004 [540-001] Subject: Re: my knight in heaven I dream about the end of the world all the time. It's only natural with what's happening lately. I'm sure if you try not to watch the news or read any papers for a while those dreams will decrease in large numbers. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 541-005 [541-004] Subject: Re: Thief You've just described an abusive home and part of a nightmare that is typical for a troubled child. Do you work with children? I don't know your life situation or if you know anyone who hurts their kids, but that's what I gather from your dream. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-001 Subject: unworthy but kissed Note: Stan requests that his name and e be kept with the dream. - Richard DATE : 5 aug 2002 07:02 DREAM : unworthy but kissed by: stan kulikowski ii =( last night was sunday. i spent about twelve hours grading the web sites from my web page design course. 43 students finished the class with CD branding party at my house on friday night. saturday was a washout, and my grades are due in monday afternoon. so i spent the day scoring their sites for technical merit, then the evening until about 01:00 rebuilding the gradebook to get all the grades rank ordered. i am not as happy with the final results since i allowed the quizes to be open book. some of the students are getting into the A range with less than excellent site design due to high testing results. i will need to scale back the testing so the design work matches the grading. i got to sleep without problem. i have to teach another class all morning starting at 09:30 which is early for me. )= i am following gail wagner down the stairs of her apartment building toward the ground floor garage. the stairs are narrow and rather dilapidated, tread worn from many years of use. even from behind, i can not help but admire the bounce in her stride shown off by the swing of her short skirt. we arrive at the bottom landing and step into the garage in which there are many people moving about. they seem to be mostly men checking the fluids under the hood of their cars, or carrying boxes and bags of groceries for their wives. some of them i recognize from the high school where gail and i used to go. i am hopeful that she will go with me to my car parked down the street so i can take her out to dinner. the matter was left without any commitment from either of us, but now that are leaving her place, i have hopes for the evening. unfortunately, the car i have is not one of the sports cars i usually drive, but some clunky chrysler sedan with an automatic transmission and bench seats. i dislike driving the thing even when i am not wishing to impress a date. when we get near one of the open bays near an open garage door, gail suddenly stops and turns toward me. "look, you are never going to take any lead in this, are you?" she says to me with a exaggerated sigh of exasperation. i do not know what she means. lead in what? i stammer a bit, shrugging my shoulders. i can hardly breathe under the nearness of her. the dark brown hair and flashing dark eyes seem perfectly matched to render me useless of conversation. "huh?" i manage to croak. she is a little shorter than me, so she reaches up and takes both sides of my head to pull me down. then a pause which causes my heart to almost stop as it struggles to burst from my chest. finally she turns her face up to kiss me square on the mouth. i am awkward and almost miss the kiss, but manage to an adjustment just after her lips touch mine. strangely, i am embarrassed for her to be seen here in the garage, like this with me. but she holds on and keeps pressing the kiss. i do not want to disappoint her, but am uncertain what to do to please her. i try a little tip of tongue between my lips hoping to add a hint of the tender sweetness, but since she does not return it, i can not tell if this was too much or not. still, she has kept this kiss active for a dozen heartbeats which should mean something, i suppose. of course, my heart has accelerated so much that this measure may only be a few seconds. the outer world just beyond us seems to have stopped totally. finally, she releases me but does not look into my eyes when she opens hers. not a good sign. i seem to be left suspended in a vacuum, but i have no urge or need to breathe ever again. i just look at her with the sensation that all my blood is draining away somewhere so my heart is beating so fast trying to reclaim it. i try to swallow once, but my throat is a dry gulp and nothing else. "now that wasn't so bad, was it?" she says to me, finally glancing up into my eyes. her eyes are so clear, deep and dark that i fear i will lose my balance. "ah." is all i can say. i do not seem to be able to move my mouth properly. =( i wake at 06:42 feeling rather exhilarated and strangely refreshed. this gail wagner was a cheer leader, and i was fourth seat on the chess team. there never seemed to be any pep rallies for the chess squad. she probably knew my name in high school, but that was about it. obviously, i found her attractive but never thought for a minute that i was near her level of interest. in this dream she is shorter and more exotic or greek looking than i remember. the worn out stairs remind me of the apartment in yellow springs, ohio, where susan and i lived for most of a year, but the first floor garage in this dream was much bigger. susan was also a cheer leader in my high school (a year younger), so there may be some association here, but this was not her in the dream. it was a very pleasant experience to have these feelings again even if i was a total spaz in the dream. i can remember moments like this in real life, but they don't seem to happen after 35, i suppose due to the loss of innocence. it felt like i was in my mid20s in this dream. oh yes, today is my birthday. almost forgot. this dream must be a gift to myself. )= __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-002 Subject: Love from Mom dream_title: Love from Mom dream_date: July 29, 2002 dreamer_name: VRWil dream_text: My mother past away this past April. I recently had a vision of her at night in my bedroom approx. 30 days ago. She was kneeling at my bedside. More recently, I had an extremely vivid dream of her. We were both watching TV togeather, as she loved watching TV, and were laughing histerically over one of the seens in the show. Right in the midst of our laughter, I realized that it was not possible for me to be interacting with my mom. The whole thing seemed so real at the time. We were holding hands. She then leaned over head first, then kissed me on the cheek and stated that she Loved me. I awakened from this dream after the kiss in shock. dream_comments: What does this all mean? Is that my mom's way of reaching out to tell me of her love? Man, it is all that I can think about. The realism was stunning. Comments: 542-003, 542-005 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-003 [542-002] Subject: Re: Love from Mom Thanks for sharing your dream. Dreams of this kind can bring joy and sorrow at the same time. There is a medium named John Edward that believes very vivid dreams of departed loved ones can be their way of trying to contact people they have left behind and express their love. I read his book called "One Last Time" and found it comforting. Another possibility is that this dream is what is called a "wish fulfillment" dream. The desire to see your mother is so strong in your mind and heart that your sleeping mind conjures her up in your dreams, and the experience seems very intense and real. I have experienced vivid dreams of loved ones after their death, and they always seemed to be comforting. At the time, I chose to believe that those dreams were my departed family member's way of contacting me to somehow let me know that they are at peace and near to me still. As with most things in life, it really depends on how you look at it. I'm sorry for your loss and will mention you in my prayers tonight. Best of luck. Peace, Harmony __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-004 Subject: Skilled Killer dream_title: Skilled Killer dream_date: March 2002 dreamer_name: Kasual dream_text: The dream started as a chilly Autumn day, I was near a semi large private womans college.There was a single drive to the college and it was surrounded by trees, some dense and some sparatic.The ground was covered with leaves as they had mostly turned and fallen. There was a single man,strolling along the embankment(not sure about water...never saw it)the treeline dropped off.The man was clean, dressed in a grey twill suite(3 piece) with slick black shoes, and a docked hat that matched. his face was light skinned, looked like he should have had a mustache, he looked much to babylike without one.His eyes were blue but steel, hair and eyebrows were a solid dark brown which matched his eyelashes. He wore black gloves that were sleek like his shoes. very tidy. He strolled like he was enjoying the brisk day.Classes were about to begin, the women were becomming less common among the grounds.there was a light brown haired girl that seemed to entrigued by his presence or she had known him. the friendliness was mutual between them. they talked as they strolled. I was distant but I was watching everything.I kept my eye on the school and people and that man.They were laughing and enjoying each others company.The man did not see me.... as the girl had joined them, she looked right at me but did not acknowledge me. a time passed.the girl was on the ground struggling. the man standing above her, pointing commands at her.she was crying.the things he had done I cannot repeat.it is beyond demon. but i was watching over her and i often was taking her place so she didn't have to be put through hell, at one point I was being threatened with his ciggerette and his face looked distorted when it was angry.In common place i have aquired dentures, in the dream I had thrown one of them off in the leaves to let someone know I was there as they have my name printed on them.when all was said and done the woman became a sculpted version of his art and he was gone. dream_comments: I am submitting this dream as I was devasted. I have never dreamed this violent before. when I do dream of people, specific people, they have happened. It is now august and I have not read anything in the news but I am worried, as I stated in the dream, I cannot even speak the details as they should not be spoken of, If there was a serial killer in the past or something that I could link this to, It would help ease my mind. the evening I had this dream I was working on a baby shower invitation, no books, no TV, no music, no influence of any kind. Please see if this could be something else __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-005 [542-002] Subject: Re: Love from Mom Your description of this dream is eerily similar to a dream I had of my mother shortly after her death, about a month and a half after. The same thing happened, I became aware that it was not possible for her to be here, and then we had a very vivid hug. Also, she asked me to pray with her. I believe this was a genuine visit from my actual mother as she was ggetting used to the afterlife. She wanted to reassurre me that she is happy. Your mother probably also decided to visit you. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-006 Subject: cat dream dream_title: cat dream dream_date: 7-15-02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: It was about a cat that attacked me and was biting me all over. i finally got it lose and i broke its jaw. after that i had a few more differant dreams and in every one i got bit by a cat. dream_comments: what does this mean. this is not the first time to have this dream. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 542-007 Subject: Disney World dream_title: Disney World dream_date: Recurring dreamer_name: Goofy dream_text: 1 to 3 times a month for the past few years or so I have a dream that I am going to or I am at Disney World or Universal Studios and something is ALWAYS preventing me from getting to the rides. I am so excited to be there and alot of times, it is other people who are walking too slow or sometimes we just can't find the rides. It's always different people with me. Sometimes we just get there too late and only have a couple of hours and I know that's not enough time to ride everything. In one dream, I actually did get to some rides and my cousin was with me and the ride malfunctioned and we were flung off and she died. Only, I could still see her. dream_comments: In 1997, I went to Disney AND Universal and LOVED it so much that I vow to go back as soon as I can someday. I wonder if it's from my feelings of not being able to go or if it's something deeper? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 543-001 Subject: XYZ dream_title: XYZ dreamer_name: confused dream_text: it involved a girl that i like and a good friend (male) of mine. I get on well with this girl, i see her at a party and she comes up to me and hugs me. Then she sees my friend who she does not really know and he kisses her, i try to stop them. This girl was happy to see me at first but then that was it. dream_comments: i am confused by this, perhaps because of the people involved. This girl has a boyfriend right now,it isnt my friend in the dream.No doubt i would like to be with the girl but not as badly as the dream suggests __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 543-002 Subject: old very dark house dream_date: august 5, 2002 dreamer_name: Chantal dream_text: I was inside a large old very dark house. I don't recall many details about the house itself, except for very wide stairways - not high, but wide.(this is feature is usually in recurring dreams) Although features of the house were vague, the overall "feeling" or aura generated by being inside was that of despair or fear. The fear factor developed when I was approached by a lady, who appeared to be a familiar friend or relative, only to be frightened by a very long hypodermic needle she wanted to inject into the joint of my knee. I started to run and met up with someone else who asked me what was the problem. I felt I was going to be a ble to trust this person so I started to explain, but before I got to the part about the needle, she injected into my body at the knee while the other person I was running from came up along side me and held me still. After that they disappeared, and shut and locked the door. I remember tapping on the glass window of the door but it made no sound as people passed by, nor could they see me through the glass. It was a feeling of betrayal, frustration, hope and anxiety. Somehow, I ended up at a former friends house where they were having some kind of gathering. (I have not seen or talked with this person for a year) Her brothers told me to go look for her. I walked through a yard filled with people and I recall a high white picket fence I was looking through. Sections of the yard were blocked off because of some kind of reconstruction, but I don't recall finding my friend. I heard her talking to people but I could not find her. dream_comments: THe feelings generated in this dream , even when I think about it are so heavy and dark, yet I can't stop thinking about that feeling __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 543-003 Subject: Dead Dreams dream_title: Dead Dreams dream_date: 7/6/02 dreamer_name: ~Em~ dream_text: first me and my boyfriend had gotten into a fight and i took a bunch of pills i looked at myself in the mirror and i looked so different you could see my veins and i was really really pale , my eyes turned red i was wearing a black cloak and a long black dress on then i walked to him and said i love you but i can no longer take this and i went in my room locked the door said goodbye then all i remember was me laying on my bed with alot of blood on the sheets with one of my arms all sliced up and i had blood coming from my eyes in the shapes of tears dream_comments: i have no clue what so ever but the night before i had a dream similiar to it but it was in a carnival setting __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 544-001 Subject: Death of a crush dream_title: Death of a crush dream_date: August 4th, 2002 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: For the past several days i have been really freaked out. I had the most disturbing dream about my crush Andrew. I dreamt that he died of a Heroin overdose........this really scared me b/c i'm really fond of him and he knows it and as far as i know he doesn't do drugs (all he does is act!). i'm still all shaken up. PLEASE!!! i am fearing for his life!!!!!!!!!!! i checked out my dream analysis books and they all said that it means that bad things could happen to my friends since i dream about them dying....(I haven't heard of anything bad happeneing to an of them)...i also checked out my horoscope for today and they said that nothing unusual was gonna happen.... HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comments:546-003, 547-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 545-001 Subject: Snake-bit dream_title: Snake-bit dream_date: 08/06/2002 dreamer_name: Arrena dream_text: I dream I bitten by a poisonous snake that is only about 12 in long, white, with 2 black rings spaced about 2" apart, and there are patches of coral between them. I barely make it to hospital in time. My mother shows up but her name is now Chaos. dream_comments: I lost both my parents a few years ago and then my husband divorced me because I was diagnosed with lupus and couldn't do what I used to. I found out 3 days ago there was another woman. I have bad dreams every night. Comments:546-004, 548-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 546-001 Subject: Nightmare Pregnancy dream_title: Nightmare Pregnancy dream_date: March 2002 dreamer_name: Insecure Girl dream_text: My dream was that a girl I am no longer friends with was pregnant with my boyfriend's baby. Everyone, including the girl's husband knew about it but me. I went over to her house to find her with a huge belly, and my boyfriend sitting at the table with her husband. She walked right past me with out acknowledging me. There were a lot of people there, including the girl's 7 year old neice, who I love very much. I asked her neice if my boyfriend came over there a lot and she told me yes, they went to the doctor together and everything. I was so distraught I started crying hysterically to the little girl and I kept saying "That's just so messed up". She comforted me and told me it was ok and it was really messed up. dream_comments: The girl in the dream who was pregnant with my boyfriend's baby is someone I used to love very much until she broke my trust. We lived with her for a short time, which ended on a bad note. After moving out, my boyfriend told me she had made passes at him a couple of times, which he refused. That devastated me and I haven't spoken to her since. This dream occured shortly after he told me of her deception. Comments:546-005, 547-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 546-002 [ed.note: no message text] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 546-003 [544-001] Subject: Re: Death of a crush You're reading way too much into this. First of all, dreams about death don't always mean problems. Whoever said that wanted to get a rise out of people so they could get more readers and more money. It has been known for decades that dreams about someone you care about dying mean new life or rebirth for that person, if the dream had any meaning at all. A lot of people seem to think that every dream they have is a premonition. It only happens once in a while. All the other weird dreams are jumbled up thoughts from a really busy or stressful day. You're trying to analyze your dreams way too much. If you keep letting them work you up like this you're going to crack. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 546-004 [545-001] Subject: Re: Snake-bit I think that you're taking your life the wrong way. Things change, and, as disappointed as I am to be saying this, divorce and despicable men are a way of life. You're thinking of all these tragedies of yours as serious problems. Your husband was a pig, and mark my words he will get what he deserves. But you have lupus, which is a disease that I am familiar with, and if you know what's best for you you'll finish your grieving and live life the way you want to, because it might not be long before you won't have the chance to do so. Your husband leaving you was a good thing. You are free to do what you want to do and you don'thave to worry about what any man will think. As for your parents, I doubt they would want to be rememebered as a cause of nightmares. Someday you will see them again, but for now you have to take care of yourself, and think only of yourself. That's how you get over a bad divorce and a family tragedy. You become selfish when you need to, regardless of what anyone might think. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 546-005[546-001] Subject: Re: Nightmare Pregnancy You're deeply mortified about this, aren't you? You were probably just worried, expecting the worst, and feeling that if you can't trust your friend, how can you trust your boyfriend? Just trust him. Skanks make passes all the time. It doesn't mean that anything came of it. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 547-001 [544-001] Subject: RE: Death of a crush If this were my dream, as I remember dreams often talk in opposites and in symbols, the death of Andrew is my dream talking about my process of psychospiritual growth. My question is what part of me might Andrew symbolize? and that is the part of me that has had to 'die' for me to grow. Is there something in my life that I'm taking a lot in of and in that process of taking that something in, I'm growing and transforming myself? The best tip in working with my dreams is to not take my dream images literally - my dreams all talk in symbols! Dream blessings, Kat __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 547-002 [546-001] Subject: RE: Nightmare Pregnancy If this were my dream, as I remember all images and happenings in dreams are symbolic, pregnancy symbolizes something is growing inside of me.something that I'm preparing to 'hatch'. Am I working on a new project? How is this new potential 'baby' coming along? Am I preparing to go to school soon? When I think of going to school, I hold a potential image of what I'll become after I am done with school. I am also reminded that all images/people are symbolic of parts of me. How do these dream characters symbolize parts of myself? Tip in working with my dreams: dreams come in the service of health and wholeness and my dream is coming and giving me information on what's going on in my interior life. Don't take anything in the dream literally. Dream blessings, Kat __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 548-001 [546-004] Subject: RE: Snake-bit If this were my dream, I am bitten by a poisonous snake, which could symbolize my sexuality, instinctual part of myself, intuition, a part of me that the opportunity to make change happen, and perhaps my unconscious. So I wonder if something in my unconscious is trying to get my attention. As I remember that dreams often talk in opposites, this snake symbolizes my opportunity for me to grow and change, as it is poisonous and almost kills me.and death almost always symbolizes psycho- spiritual transformation. I am also reminded that snakes shed their skin, to renew themselves, and every image and character in my dreams symbolizes parts of myself, so there is a strong reminder (snakes scare me so I will remember it biting me!) that I do have the capability to grow and change. This dream is a nightmare, and nightmares are wake-up calls and this dream is a good dream! My dream also triggers some other questions: as the dreamer, am I feeling that something 'poisonous' or venomous is happening around me in my waking life? Am I involved in a 'poisonous' relationship or job or something else? Since the snake can also symbolize medicine (snake coiled up the staff - sorry can't remember the name of the staff ).so do I have some health issues that are biting me.so I pay attention and take care of it? Dream blessings, Kat __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 549-001 Subject: mom's goodbye dream_title: mom's goodbye dream_date: august 18,1994 dreamer_name: sleepless dream_text: When I was 12yrs old I had a dream of my mom the day after she died.My mother died of cancer. It started out with me in our apartment in the living room. I was eating and watching t.v. I then went to put my dish in the kitchen. when I eneter the kitchen my mom was at the sink doing dishes. I let out a startled scream and droped my plate. As it broke she turned around I walked up to her and said "no,mom your dead". She put leaned over and put her hands on my shoulders. she looked so sad as she smiled.she didn't look sick she looked like she did before she got cancer.she told me "honey, I want you to remember me like this not how I died". she kneeled down and hugged me. The hug felt so real I could smell her perfume. she felt so warm. I woke up crying but i still felt her hug. dream_comments: My mother told me that when she died that she wouldn't let us see her ghost. that she knew how scared we would be. She said that she would visit us in an other way. Comments: 549-002, 550-008 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 549-002 [549-001] Subject: Re: mom's goodbye What a beautiful gesture your mother made towards you! My mother also visitted me, and it was similar, when we hugged it was very very real. you will always have this memory to ease your mother's passing. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-001 Subject: My Life dream_title: MY LIFE dream_date: EVERY NIGHT dreamer_name: ARROGNANCE dream_text: I dream every night about the things that usually end up happening to me within the next few days or weeks. I dreamed of the exact day that my son would be born, the day that my fiancee' would cheat on me, and the day that i would get into a bad car wreck. This dreams are vivid and always right on the money. They cover every detail and aspect of the day on question. These dreams never stop. I dreamed last night that I would be writing this letter. dream_comments: I wish i knew what these dreams mean't or better yet why I am having them. If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them. I also wondered if that i could change what i dream to something more enjoyable to dream about. Comments: 550-007 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-002 Subject: War Time dreamer_name: Gemma dream_text: In my dream i'm a man in his 30's, i think, but i never see his face. He has a wife and one child, a little girl around 6. There is a war going on and he is not fighing, he's changing bed sheets which look very different to the ones we have today. While he's doing this he's thinking about his family and how he wants to be with them, so he walks into a metal hut and tells the sargent he's going home, and the sargent say's ok. On the way out the man picks up my coat ( that i wear every day) and walks out the door only to appear in my front garden and i'm back to being me. I put my hair up in a clip, open the gate, walk out and then i woke up. dream_comments: Please use real name Comments: 550-005 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-003 Subject: teeth dream_title: teeth dream_date: 14.8.2002 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: in the 6 months i have had about a good 15 to 20 dreams about my teeth falling out. all tho last night was the first time i had dreamt about my teeth not falling out but they where really swallen an they hurt like mad it was like they had a rubbery surface Comments: 550-004, 550-006, 560-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-004 [550-003] Subject: Re: teeth I've been having the same dream. I sometimes dream that all my teeth are loose and ready to fall out and resently i dremt that most of them had come out but i was confused that some stayed in others were still loose and they were all croked. These dreams are very distrubing to me and in my dream i know i'm to young for them to all fall out and then i battle with the thought that i'll have to wear false teeth that you have to take out at night and clean. Does any one have or know of a meaning about this??? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-005 [550-002] Subject: Re: War Time You sound like you're a very busy person who wishes she had more time with herself. You're comparing yourself to the soldiers in Afghanistan who are probably wishing the same thing. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-006 [550-003] Subject: Re: teeth Dreams about teeth falling out usually mean stress. Just keep reminding yourself that your teeth are staying where they are and you're probably just worrying too much about something. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-007 [550-001] Subject: Re: My Life Hi if you are seeing some form of the future, this is probably a gift worth keeping and developing.....atleast while you have it. We must be careful if what we are seeing, is always/often negative,(your mentioned dreams are dissasters)because we can unconciously be manipulating our own fears into events. Making things happen or dreaming of our fears, then asumming thats why it happened. I have dreams that are both good and sometimes troubling, but have develloped a good way to use them , so that I recieve a possitive power from them, ie. warnings, reminders of my need to be accountable, descernment and directive meanings. If you would like to talk more...my email is prov25v11@yahoo.com Otherwise I think you may have a good gift woth developing and there are many great books around to help you. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 550-008 [549-001] Subject: Re: mom's goodbye I would think that you loved your mother very much. If you dream, this does not mean you have seen a ghost. Most people I dream about are alive and know nothing about my dream. I think that perhaps you missed your mum and have remembered her vividly...right down to the perfume. And that in some way she has been a comfort to you in a time of need. Treasure the moment, any memories like this are precious. God bless you. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 551-001 Subject: I had a dream in which my bf and I were staying at a house and a friend of mine came to "rescue" me and said to pack my things and we can leave when I was ready and that they will wait outside. I tred to leave but I couldnt. I kept getting distracted. In the morning my bf told me he dreamt that I didnt want to be around him. It seems like he picked up part of my dream! Any comments would be very helpful! Comments: 551-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 551-002 [551-001] Subject: Re: I think your dream would probably have to do with more about maybe you feeling trapped in the relationship, but your slightly confused on what you want. Your bf might have sensed this and dreamt about it. I'm not really sure, but that's what it seems like to me. You should probably ask and talk to him about it though. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 552-001 Subject: Bug Ring dream_title: Bug Ring dream_date: 8-15-2002 dreamer_name: Fawn dream_text: I dreamed there were several large bugs...like beetles with hard shells that jumped like cricketts, jumping all around my feet. I started to smash them, and one of the bugs started making a sound like it was angry...I can't remember now what the sound was. It jumped higher and higher until it landed on my right hand and wrapped itself around the ring finger and squeesed it tight, cutting into my skin. I tore the bug off me, ripping it's shell off and killing it. I remember thinking "It paid with it's life for attacking me." I looked down and there a much larger version of the bug at my feet. Then it's shell came off and I realised it was a turtle. I showed somone close to me the marks on my finger where the bug had bitten and burned me. dream_comments: My boyfriend and I have a pet turtle in a tank. I'm not crazy about it, but I don't hate it either. We live in a slab house, so we get cricketts, spiders and other kinds of bugs all year. I DO hate them. Comments:552-002 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 552-002 [552-001] Subject: Re: Bug Ring I would say the most significant part of this dream is the image of the bug tightening around your ring finger, causing you discomfort and creating an angry reaction in you. Explore that feeling on a deeper level. Only you can answer the question of how it relates to your present relationship with your boyfriend, your feelings about marriage, etc. Take care, Balthazar __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 552-003 [ed.note: repeat of 552-002] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 552-004 [ed.note: repeat of 522-002] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 552-005 [ed.note: no message text] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 553-001 Subject: Kitty and Squirl dream_title: Kitty and Squirl dream_date: 7/30/02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I had a kitten, which I hate cats and somehow a squirl had gotten in my house and began fighting violently with the kitten, I woke up screaming at my late boyfriend (who had died in May) to break up this fight with the kitten. Comments: 554-001 __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 554-001 [553-001] Subject: Re: Kitty and Squirl Either the cat and the squirrel represent something or someone that you and your boyfriend were both familiar with in his time, or, without realizing it, you take a liking to small backyard critters. I can't blame you for hating cats, though. I think that instead of harrassing everybody with a dog at a park, law enforcement should be spending more time keeping the cats on leashes and in the houses. I have a neighbor who has cats and she won't stop letting them out. A lot of times they wander into our yard and kill baby birds, leaving the corpses on the ground. My grandmother throws things at the cats when she sees them. There is not a single dog in our neighborhood, of any breed, that does things like that. Dogs can be trained to only do their business in their own yard, but cats will take off no matter what you say and not come back until sunrise. But if I had the dream you're descirbing I would wake up laughing. Seeing a squirrel hold it's own with a cat would be a wonderful sight to see. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 555-001 Subject: Wolf Totems dream_title: Wolf Totems dream_date: 1992??? dreamer_name: Fairydust dream_text: I had this dream about 10 years ago when I was 20 years of age. The reason this dream never left my memory is because It felt far too real and far too spiritual to be deemed ordinary. ********* I was walking along a pier by the ocean. This pier was extraordinarily long, and it consisted of wooden boards that were painted white and had some sand coveing it. There were no railings or stairs, no stores or people, just this wooden road to the sea. The pier was perpendicular to the sea and it seemed to almost reach the ocean's shore line. As I walked along the pier, I noticed 2 female vendors right accross from oneanother. On one side there was a Native American woman. She was older and seemed to know me. She was selling Turquois jewelry and dream catchers. On the other side was a white woman, younger, she seemed conniving and sinister, she was selling junk. She knew that what she had was useless but was passing it off as priceless. I walked over to the Native American woman and looked at her table full of jewels and art. I picked up a neclace, silver with a huge turquois stone and silver feathes. I abasolutely loved it but could not possibly afford to pay for it. I told the woman I could not afford it. Her reply surprised me. She said, "Take it. This is yours. It always has been." I took the neclace and put it around my neck. I sinserely thanked the woman and went on my way. I reached an elevator and entered it. I don't remember pressing any buttons, but I wnt down. When the doors opened at the bottom, there were two white wolves waiting for me. I felt no fear for them, only loyalty and love. One was male and one was female. They seemed to love me too. I stepped out of the elevator and began to walk foward. The wolves walked beside me, one to each side. I remember feeling their fur. I ran my fingers through those silky manes and thought it it was the softest my hands had ever touched. As We reached an olimpic size pool, i noticed that everyone I had ever known at that time was there. All my friends, acquaintances, boyfriends...everyone! They were all congregated by the pool, but noone was in it. As I began to walk towards them, the female wolf fell into the pool. She was drowning!!!!! I screamed for help but noone moved! They just stared at her helplessly, incredously! I jumped into the pool to try to save her. The wolf, now a real woman was drowning! I tried to lift her frightened body out of the water, but evertime I tired to grasp on to her, she would turn to water and would just flow right though my fingers. She became this intangible being I couldn't save! But I could not let her die. I remember looking up from under the water and seeing the male wolf at the top of the pool looking down at us, and i felt his fear, i felt all of his pain in seeing this fight for life. I had to save his mate! Suddenly, a man came out of the tiles of the pool. He was trying to kill us both. I sensed how evil he was, he was trying to drown the woman. I began to fight him with all my might! But nothing I did to him hurt him, he just laughed at me, mocked my attempts to defeat him. This was all occurring underwater, but i never lacked a breath. I grabbed his head, in a desperate attemt to defeat him. I knew then that I had to kill him or he would kill us! I slammed his head repeatedly into the walls of the pool. I slammed and slammed and slammed and there was just so much blood, the water was turning a crimson shade. He continued to laugh even as I killed him. Somehow he went back into the tiles of the wall of that pool and I knew I had very little time to save my woman-wolf before that evil entity came back after us. I continued to try to grasp her but she was water and I could not hold her in my arms. I yelled at her, " you will have to hold onto me!!!!" She wrapped her arms around my neck and i pulled us out of the pool. The male wolf automatically ran towards his mate, who was now a wolf again. he liked her face lovingly and then came over to me and licked my face, wagging his tail. I wrapped my arms around the two wolves and endlessly kissed them. I stood and saw everyone looking at me in awe. They began to clap and whistle and called me a hero. They clapped and patted my back in such admiration for my heroics, but all I felt for them was disgust. I was surrounded by so many yet I was just so alone.Noone helped me save the wolf, noone. I walked away from the and left them behind in their merriment. I was returning to the beach and needed to get to the elevator. My boyfriend at the time wanted to come with me. We began to walk to the elevator but the ground had turned to mud. I saw a motorcycle and jumped on it. I carried the wolves on the motorcycle too. My boyfriend, John juped on behind me too. We treaded through the mud on this motorcycle until we reached the elevator doors. I pressed the button and walked in. I told John he could not accompany me any further and let the elevator doors close in front of him. I reached the pier and went towards the water in search for the Native American woman. What I found was her station still smoking from an aparent fire. Her stand was burned and destroyed. I looked accross to the white woman with who had been selling garbage. She hid her eyes from me for a moment, not in shame, but in mischif. She had all the jewelry at her stand now. The other woman's art and dreamcatchers were all there, stolen, I knew it! She ahd stolen them from the other woman. I asked her what she had done with the otehr lady, She said she didn't know where she went but she gave her all the things so that she could sell them. I knew she was being untruthful, she had done something horrible to the other woman and stolen her things. I threatened her and threatened her to tell me the truth, but she would not comply. I then woke up. dream_comments: This dream seemed to last all night long. I never forgot it. I still remember the details as if I dremed this last night. My email address is Fairydust619@yahoo.com, you may share it. My name is Kelly, you may share it. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 555-002 Subject: Down dream_title: down dream_date: 22/07/02 dreamer_name: MonsterJet dream_text: I walking beside a river, some 'big colour' fellowing me, make me feel scared. when i met some beauty, they have sex with me, like a game. dream_comments: stronge, sexual __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 555-003 Subject: Hand of God dream_text: This dream came to be in a room. With the bunk bed that we have in the tents. I was try to get to SGT Castle, But she was mad and upset at me for some reason, so my sister Shanna showed up with her friend with no name she look ok but not SGT Castle so oh will. I lifted her up in my arms and carried her to the bunk that I was laying in. I got in to the bottom bunk. She the top. After while I grab the top bunk and pulled my self up and lift my head up over the bed so I can kiss the no name girl. She than turn and said lets go to my room. I said ok you got to tell me which way to go in the hallway while turning my head to check if SFC Mack was looking around so we can get out. By the time I turn my head back around she had al ready lift. So I went into the hallway. I look left, and then look right. Right I went. I ran into the lady of house her mother I guess. She told me that I had to put on some cloths, for I was walking around with jean shorts on, hanging off my hips. My draws was showing so I grab some rainbow color short that was on the floor and covered my chest. I notice that the lady was shorter then me and a lot of kids started to run all over the house. She start to walk away from me. She turn back to me and asked if I was part of SFC Mack's crew? I said yes. Then she walk to me and place her arms around my neck. We started walking to the back door that leads out said to the back yard. I look out the window and seen the no named girl sitting and talking with others ladies, I guess her sister. At the same time the lady that was with me started to grow taller then I and her cloths turned red, and was long like a robe. Took me out side and lead me pass the beautiful black women sitting at the table out. She shown me the garden. It was so beautiful and peaceful. A holy place is where she took me. She walked and sat me down next to the waterfall in the garden. She told me to pick which one I want. I know what she was talking about I looked down and slowly looked over to the woman. I know that How can I have a pick at these women if I am still married? I looked from left to right, because that was sitting from oldest to youngest. But I had all ready made my choice, The no name girl. Then I look back to the garden and started to prey for the Lord's wisdom. Me and the lady start to spoke in toughs. As we did so I seen a cloud in the sky that was coming toward us. It was fill with fire. As the cloud was coming the earth started to shack and a mountain spunk up in front of me. As this was happing the power in side was getting stronger. At the top of the mountain the larva started to flow. It was coming down the mountain towards me and the lady. I hear her still preying as I was. Her hand was on my eyes. I can feel them while I was seeing all this happening before me. The larva was coming faster and faster. I was heard her say wait and wait and wait. As the larva was running down closer by each second. Then She said now. I said with a loud voice JESUS! This force came out of me throw my eyes hitting the larva pushing it back a little. I said that Powerful Name again JESUS! The larva moved back some more. Than I stood up with all the force in my hand and stretch forward my hand to the larva say JESUS! The earth started shacking again as the larva resealed. I then started to using my powers to stop the hot water from hitting the house by splitting the ground open and allowing the water to go in to the earth. And I wake up. dream_comments: I must find out what is the meaning of this dream. Why was I to chose from those women? Why was that garden the way it was with three ponds? Why was the Hand of God in the cloud of fire? What is it that I must do. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 555-004 Subject: a need to be seen dream_title: a need to be seen dream_date: 10/01/2001 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: i walked down the hallway, then i stoped at the end of the stares.i saw a door down the first flight of stares. i went to the door, then i turned around and looked back up the stares and saw and old woman standing by my sister's bedroom door. she had a blank stare in her eyes, amost a dead look. i looked closser and saw a blood stane on her white sweatshirt, and a tare down the side of her pink sweat pants. my sister and look horrified. dream_comments: it was a reacurring dream. our house was made in 1912. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 555-005 Subject: the special card dream_title: the special card dream_date: june 13 2002 dreamer_name: faith dream_text: it is a beautiful sunny day. i walk into a restaaurant and the girl behind the counter asks me what i want. i tell her just to be welcomed and wanted. a lady in a booth to my right smiles and tells me she understands. i go over and chat with her for a while. they i turn and head for a large table facingg a huge glass window. the whole restaurant has a pink hue to it. i sit at the large table and my doughter is now with me. we seem to be at a party of some kind. my doughter and i open a card which reads best wishes from the wise guys. my doughter and i look at each other and have no idea what this means. i hold the card in my hands for a long time before waking up. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 556-001 Subject: The stair case dream_title: The stair case dream_date: 08/20/89 dreamer_name: Jenny dream_text: I had this piticular dream when I was sixteen years old. I was walking up a steep, tall staircase that rose up into the sky for what seemed like forever. Their were many other people on the staircase as well. Some were running up the staircase, other's like me were going at a snails pace.Their was other's who could only cling onto the stair with little or no efforts on their part to move. As I climbed the stairs, I became so utterly tired. It took everything I had just to pull my way up just a few stairs.But I had a deep desire to go faster as I noticed other's had. Suddenly I realized what part of my problem was. I noticed that I had been carrying a big black trash bag upon my back. It was really weighing me down.It was full of something, but I was puzzeled as to what it was. For some reason I knew I couldn't put the bag down, until I understood fully what it contained. I also understood somehow that I needed to elimate each item in the bag by some means that I did not yet understand. So I put up with this heavy bag on my back, and continued up the never ending staircase. Somehow I knew something really great and wanderful was waiting for me at the top. Other's around me seemed to understand this as well. At one point I had grown so tired, so I stopped and looked around for some place to rest. I noticed that a dark vast forest grew all around the stairscase I was on. I knew somehow that the forest was not permitted to grow onto the stairs itself. Within the forest I heard people crying and wailing. I saw dark glowing fustrated eyes, and eyes full of dark morbid horror. I heard many loud sound's, such as explosions and cios.I knew within my whole being that I did not want to go into that place....EVER! I noticed a little area off to the side of the stairs that appeared to be some kind of rest stop. Though the forest was not allowed to grow in this small little clearing that made up the rest stop, the forest did however grow so much closer to it. The sounds of the forest were much louder near this rest stop, and the demon eyes that peered out of the forest were more dramatic. The forest seemed even more darker. But I was so tired, so I decided to get off and rest anyways. I told myself as I was getting off that I would only rest briefly. I knew I had so far to go, and I didn't want to take too much time out from my journey onward. I found a small park bench, and sat on it so that I could put my heavy bag down. I noticed that a few other weary traveler's had also come to the rest stop to seek relief for their exhausted bodies. After a short rest on the bench, I grew very uncomfortable staying there. The noises from the forest were so much louder. The noises penetrated my senses through and through. I heard many cry out in scornful pain and anguish. The pain in their voices was so raw and deep. I wanted to help, but did not know how. I remeber feeling so much sorrow for them. Their pain was hard to just sit and listen to. I didn't understand why they choose to stay in such a God awful place. It made no real sense to me why they just didn't come out of that dreadfully dark habitation. I finally left so that I could get as far away from those awful sounds and alluminating eyes as I possibley could. I came over to where I remeber getting off of the staircase, only to discover that Their were now multible mazes of stairs that rose up and over and down every which way.I remeber thinking, "OH, SHOOT! WHICH ONE WAS IT." Somehow I understood that their was only one right stairwell which led to that most desirable place that I so wanted to go.I knew I must be careful not to choose the wrong one, or I might end up terribly lost and misplaced. I decided I would ask someone since their were others coming and going all around me. I decided to ask someone who looked alittle more wise and insightful than I was.I then spotted a woman with kind eyes and a welcoming smile. Something in her eyes told me she could be trusted.So I asked her which staircase was the right staircase to take. She seemed to know just what I was asking.She laughed alittle.It was not a kind of teasing laugh. It was more like she was amazed that I did know which set of stairs were the right ones."Don't you know." she said pointing to a piticular cluster of stairs."That's the one." She said giggling in a gentle way.When she pointed to the stairs, I somehow reconised them as the right stairs, even though they looked so similiar to all the other staircases. Once I was back on the stair's I fought my way back up that long triffling staircase. Suddenly a young man who had been hurrling his way up the stair's at a higher speed than my own, stopped for a moment when he noticed me. He looked to be in his early twenties. I began to study his features, and was drawn by them. He had blond hair, and blond eyebrows. I even noticed that his armhairs were blond. I can't remeber the color of his eyes. He was about the same height as my brother Donald ( around 5'10 to maybe 6ft.) He was around 160 to maybe 190lbs. I remeber that I was very attracted to this man, which struck me as odd. Because in my teenage years, I was only attracted by that tall dark handsome looking type of guy. But the man that stood before me looked so different from the type of person I would have prefered to be with, despite the fact that he was very handsome. I remeber wanting him to stay and be with me. He had such a warm smile and gentle eyes. I could feel that he deeply cared for me too. I was a little uncomfortable when he noticed the big black bag on my back. He then asked me what was inside the bag. I then told him in a puzzeled tone that I did not know. He then asked me whay I couldn't just put the darn thing down. I awncered him in the same puzzling way, and told him that I didn't know. He seemed unsatisfied with my awncer, and even a bit confused.But his feelings for me did not change. He told me he needed to go so he could get to the top. I sensed he was so much more advanced than I was. It was not like he was of more worth as a person than I or anyone else was. He was simpley more wise and awake to thing's I presently was not. I had the sense that he, along with other men and women who were traveling up the stairs at a much faster pace, had earned the right to progress at a faster pace. I also had the sense that I too would earn that right to progress faster, but only after I learned more about the Black bag that I carried along with it's contents. I felt like he too understood my potential, and fully expected me to progress faster too. He said that it was time for him to go. I felt a deep sadness, though part of me understood why he needed to continue. I wished that I had more options, or some other way to be with him. And I felt dispair in knowing that their were no other options. Before he left he said he wanted to leave me with a gift. I was curious as to what kind of gift he would leave with me. He then handed me what appeared to be a stuffed Santa Clause ( about the size of your average stuffed bear) and the Santa was wrapped all up in plastic wrap.I was confused as to why he was leaving this gift, but I didn't want to appear ungrateful. I pretended to be thankful.He offered no explaination. He took off running up the stairs. The sight of him leaving made me ache from the deepest part of my being.I felt like he was my soul mate or something, and I just wanted to be with him in the worse way.Just before he was totally out of sight, he turned around and told me, "Don't worry, I'll meet you at the top" and then he added "I'll be waiting for you there." It was as if he felt my anguish about him leaving, and left those words of comfort. After he left I tried to catch up with him at first, but the heavy black bag weighed me down to an almost unbearable level's of exhaustion.I knew I could not keep up, and yet I felt like I would never give up. ...Then the dream ended. Six months after that dream I had another dream with the same exact man in the dream. I won't go into the details of that 2nd dream right now. But that was the last dream I ever had with him in it.I have developed many ideas over the years as to what the dreams mean. I have even seen some of the event's already unfold in my life, and some of them have yet to be unfolded.The greatest mystery to me concerning the dream, was of course the gift. I don't fully understand the meaning behind the symbolization of that gift....though I have a few thoughts & ideas. -Thanks Jenny! __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 556-002 Subject: Drowning in the car underwater dream_title: DROWNING IN THE CAR UNDERWATER dream_date: 8/20/02 dreamer_name: LOSTGIRL dream_text: WELL IT ALL STARTED OUT MY EX FIANCE(FATHER OF MY SON) AND WE WERE DRIVING IN HIS TRUCK. OUR 5 MONTH OLD BABY TRAVIS WAS IN HIS CAR STEAT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN RYAN DROVE OFF THE ROAD INTO A DEEP BODY OF water. IN A PANIC I QUICKLY GOT TRAVIS OUT OF HIS SEAT, THE WHOLE TIME TELLING RYAN TO KICK OUT THE WINDOWS. I GOT OUT WITH MY SON AND WE SOUGHT REFUGE AT AN OLD MANS HOUSE. A KINDA HIPPIE GUY. RYAN DID NOT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT TRAVS WELL BEING OR THE FACT THAT HE HAD JUST PUT ALL OF OUR LIVES IN DANGER LET ALONE SANK HIS TRUCK. dream_comments: WATER? OLD MAN? RYAN NOT CARING? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 556-003 Subject: wedding band dream_title: wedding band dream_date: 8/21/2002 dreamer_name: thinking92 dream_text: i walked into a lounge where my wife was had a drink and with a stranger. she looks at me and puts her father's wedding band on his finger. then she walks away with him. this dream has come back a few times. but in different places but the same thing happens. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 556-004 Subject: The Bloody Man in the Mirror dream_title: The Bloody Man in the Mirror dream_date: August 22 , 2002 dreamer_name: peggy dream_text: I was in an old house. Some friends of mine told me that the upstairs was haunted and that they had seen ghosts up there befor. I didnt believe them so we went to check it out. We were up there for awile but we didnt see anything. We were about to go downstairs we someone shouted " there's one in the bathroom "! I looked in the bathroom, but I didn't see anything. But when I turned around a second time I saw the reflection of a bloody man in the mirror. But there was no man in the bathroom. I screamed and ran down the stairs. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 556-005 Subject: Is he the right one? dream_title: Is he the right one? dream_date: Unknown-Long time ago dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: One morning I woke up confussed, on the dream that I had earlier that morning. Here is a little about myself back then, it was my senior year in high school and I had a high school boyfriend in the Marines, we both had our up and downs, however, we still hung on to each other. Well my dream started out I was at some apartments that was strutured in a shape of a squar it was a two stroy apartmemt that had a swiming pool in the middle. After I was done glanceing at the scenery, I relized that I was holding my boyfriend's hand. As we walked into the gate were to pool was located I then noticed alot of people in the pool area. Most of the people that were swiming and lounging around were my family and some friends that I was aquainted with for a long time. As my boyfriend and I slowly walk to the other side of the pool, I politely said hello to the people I cought an eye with. Everything was loud people were talking and laughting, everyone seemd happy. Then I feel a cold chill I then realized that I got pushed into the pool by my boyfriend. He cought me off gard that I was'nt ready to hold my breath, as I was under the water I stared to swim up, an as I was looking up I could see my boyfriend on the side and he started to hold my head down so that I couldnt catch any air. As I fought with him, I started to fante and I knew that I was dieing slowly. Then I was dead. I woke up crying trying to wonder what kind of message that was suppose to mean. Well what comes up a couple of days later my psychology teacher started a new lesson on dreams. At the end of class he tells us that our homework was to go home and sleep and have a dreams, and to write what we had dreamed about. With out hesitation I wrote my dream down and turned the paper in the next day. The following day my teacher called me up to his desk and he said that he read my paper and he asked if I was having problems with my boyfriend, and if he was hiting me. I told him that my boyfriend never hit me, and if that he did that we wouldnt even be a couple. Then he asked "Is he trying to force you to do something that you dont want to do?", with his reply I knew exactly why I had that dream. I replyed saying "He wants to get married." The teacher said "Dont get married if your not ready too, if you do end up getting married at the wrong time you'll end up with alot of problems later in life with each other." If course I should of relized that was the answer to my dreams. As I thought about it more and more I couldnt hold back my emotions I started to cry in front of the class, and left the class as soon as possible. dream_comments: I now found out the hard way, I'm now married to my high school boyfriend. With all of the pressure of family and him saying "lets get married" and them saying "you should get married to each other" I finally held my breath and told I was ready, when I knew that I was'nt. Now we have been with each other for four years and married one year. I now relized that I'm happy that I did. We still have little aruguements but, we fix them right away. I told him about my dream, he laughted and said that he was sorry if he did force me into marrying him. I forgave him, and told him that I was glad that I did. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-001 Subject: The Mysterious Temple On The Hill dream_title: The Mysterious Temple On The Hill dream_date: NA dreamer_name: Tim dream_text: I have had at least 3 dreams of where I am walking up this hill or mountain and once I am at the top, I see an ancient city or temple along the top of a hill directly behind the one that I am climbing. In one dream (I think it was the second one), I go into the temple, and I get this feeling that I shouldn't be there, because this place is sacred or something. I seem to be the only one in my dream that finds this place truly inspiring and fasinating (if there is other people with me). I feel like I have been at this temple before. In the dreams the temple is on the hill beside of the house where I grew up but I know there is no such place as this. I don't normally remember or care to remember the dreams that I have, but this one in particular always stands out in my mind and I feel like I have to find this city or find out what the meaning of this dream is.... __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-002 Subject: werewolf past dream_title: werewolf pest dream_date: 8/23 dream_text: in reality my backyard is the woods and in the dream the werewolf used to live in the woods and always try to get in. in the dream my family knew about the werewolf but they wouldn't do anything, they wouldn't take it seriously!! the werewolf would follow me anywhere !! in my dream i got tired of the werewolf and decided to ask my grandpa for advice but the dream finished before he said anything. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-003 Subject: RunAway Mind dream_title: RunAway Mind dream_date: 08/23/02 dreamer_name: DreamerWithAMind dream_text: It starts with me and my friends sitting at the lunch table. Well my friend Whitney grabs my piece of pizza and eats it. So I go tell the teacher and the teacher goes to have a word with my friend and Whitney punches the teacher really hard and runs out into the hall. I run after her and I see her stop and I see out dare instructer who is also a police officer running towards Whitney and when she reaches her, Whitney punches her then kicks her into the wall and she falls to the ground. Then I punch whitney and knock her out so she won't hurt anyone else then I kneel down, put Off. Coopitelly's head on my lap and call the cops and and abulence then I sit there, stroking her head and telling her everything will be ok. dream_comments: Ok. So what is up with this dream? I think its wierd and stuff. I really would like to know what it means. It confused the hell out of me.Please use my email address on the page so others can maybe explain what this dream means. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-004 Subject: Ghostly Image dream_title: Ghostly Image dream_date: 8/25/02 dreamer_name: Lawrence dream_text: I went to sleep rather early last night, at least early for a 15 year old on a Saturday night. As the dream began, it was in a house near the water. In the house, the family went to sleep. The daughter, who was about 5 or 6, went to sleep. Out of a window, or pictureframe on the wall, a ghost leaned out and grabbed her and pulled her in. She was in some sort of a trance and made no noise. Around 10 years later, myself and some other people whom I do not know were talking to the family. The girl's disapeerance had become some sort of a legend, even a myth. We were going to try and get her back. Somehow, I have no memory of how, we managed to retrieve her from the place she had gone, and get her back with her family. That night, everyone went to sleep in the house. I was watching the girl, as she sat in a trance by the same window, when the ghost, an old lady in a white sheet, reached in and grabbed her again. I tried to pull her back, but the ghost was too fast and she was gone again. This stunned me, and I decided to do research. I looked on the internet, and found all this information of the legend of this missing girl. They desribed exactly how she was taken, and what it possibly was. Somehow, we managed to get the girl back, and once again that night the ghost took her away again. This happened again the next night, and the next. Finally, we managed to get her and keep her. My family was taking care of this girl, who seemed very withdrawn. Somehow, she became a bird, and my family was taking care of this bird. The bird was very mysterious, it had human traits, and a human personality. It could not talk, or make any noise at all. As the years went by, and they went by very, very fast. The bird grew old, and flew away. There were other things that happened near the end, but They have been forgotten. dream_comments: I have no clue what could have given me this dream. I have had no dream remotely near this. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-005 Subject: Street Beggar dream_title: Street Beggar dream_date: 1999 dreamer_name: HawkAngel dream_text: Alone in bed in my house in the mountains of northern California, not quite asleep and I smell my deceased mother's perfume as if she were standing next to the bed. What follows are images of my younger brother, "J",who is in his mid fifties, ragged, filthy and homeless on the street in some dirty city ghetto. His eyes are red rimmed, he does not recognize me although I try to communicate with him. I can smell my mother's perfume more strongly than ever, which I felt meant that she was showing me this scene, although to my knowledge my brother was home with his wife and children in their beautiful hillside home in southern California. I am very close to both of my younger brothers, and this picture of "J" caused me to cry helplessly there alone in the night even as I told myself "this is just a dream." dream_comments: The dream disturbed me so much, that it created much anxiety for me. I told all three of my children and two friends who know my brothers about it. I was consumed with the horror of the sight of my brother which seemed so real, I couldn't get the picture out of my mind and spent the next two nights unable to fall asleep. Finally, my daughter insisted that I share the dream with my other younger brother, "M", to end my anxiety and reassure myself that everything was fine, even though I prefaced this with, "I know you'll think I'm crazy but I have to tell you about this dream I had a couple of nights ago." The youngest brother informed me that he had recently discovered that our sibling, "J", was in terrible debt from gambling, was in danger of losing everything, hiding the unpaid bills and mortgage from his wife and family. The facts were unearthed when "M" found large amounts of cash had been charged to our elderly father's credit cards, his insurance policies and savings bonds had been forged and cashed, all the evidence coming in the mail to our father's house and being picked up daily by "J" who would also sneak to his own house in the middle of the day to pick up his mail, in order continue hiding his debts and destruction. "M" bailed "J" out, saving his house, worked tirelessly to find him another job,placing a hardship on his own finances, helped him into a rehab program while encouraging "J" to find a way and a time to tell his wife what had happened. If I had not shared the dream with six other people, had "M" not confided in me about "J's" situation, I would have continued to think: "This is just a dream!" __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 557-006 Subject: Wolves dream_title: Wolves dream_date: 08/23-24/02 dreamer_name: YIT dream_text: I am in my room lying in bed. I sense something under my bed as if I sensed a blackness underneath it, and I know it's a wolf. I try to get it out but can't, my father comes in and scares it out, but ten minutes later its back under my bad, without me seeing when or where it came back in from. This time I get frustrated and want the wolve out so bad that i want to get rid of it myself, but i do it without getting out of bed, I wave my hand at the botton of my bed and the wolf bites me, I wave me hand in the air then get up seeing the wolf run out my door I notice that part of my door has been scrapped out by the the wolf claws in a perfect square, hence how the kept coming in, and then i wake up. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-001 Subject: a little head Note: Stan request that his name be kept with the dream - rcw DATE : 23 august 2002 06:30 DREAM : a little head stan kulikowski ii =( yesterday was a thursday. during the afternoon, i taught a couple periods at the university and did a little shopping in town on my way home. the human computer interface course is not one that has been offered very often recently, so the classes did not seem to be very well coordinated. during the evening i watched the last two episodes of _i claudius_ on DVD with my mother as i did my email. i think the scene where messalina gets her head chopped off is a very effective bit of filmwork. around midnight i came into my bedroom and spent the next three hours on some courseware for a course in web programming which starts next week. this coding has gone rather well, i got two additional and complex design features without any debugging at all. it is unusual when a tricky bit of code falls into place so effortlessly. around 03:00 i shut down my titainium laptop and when right off to sleep. )= it is late afternoon, a sunny clean day, and i am at men's athletic club. i am not a member, but for some reason that escapes me now, i am visiting there. as i come up to the main club house, i pass my van which is parked with the side door slid open. i look inside to see that my dog, agamemnon, is happily lying inside on the pad which is his traveling bed. another dog, a brown mutt, has joined him for a siesta in the shade. agamemnon starts to get up when i approach, but i tell him to stay where he is. i am going inside and it is better if stays out here. near the front of the van, however, i see something laying on the ground. it is the head of a small brown chihauhua. the dog's eyes roll up to look at me with a pleading expression of concern. oh no, i think, it is one of those dogs that lose their heads. a little bit further on, near the steps to the clubhouse, i find its body laying on its side. i slap the side of my leg and give a short whistle to bring agamemnon to heel beside me. he scrupulously avoids looking at the headless body of the chihuahua as he passes it, which is something he would normally investigate. this tells me he is aware of the circumstance and is denying any responsibility for it. i take him inside and tell him to lie on the floor beside the receptionist booth. i do not know what he understands about the little dog's head, but it is about the size of one of his dog treats and i do not want him to mistake it. i ask the receptionist if any of the club members has a dog that loses its head. she says she thinks a man named pablo has one, and he is with the group swimming at the natatorium down the hall. i proceed toward the swimming pool which i can identify first by the sharp odor of its chlorine in the air. several men coming out of the dressing room pass me, but soon i see a dark skinned man over by the lockers. "are you pablo?" i ask. when he nods i tell him, "there is a little dog outside which has lost its head." "that happens from time to time." he tells me. "it is nothing to worry about." but he drops his shirt and hurries past me. i follow on after him. i get outside just as the man replaces the head with a twist and a crunch on the stump of the neck, holding it there until the legs begin to twitch. soon the small dog shakes itself and he puts it down on the steps, but it is not coordinated yet and quickly falls over on its side. "it takes a little while he him to recover." pablo tells me. "his head pops off when he is playing too hard, usually with other dogs." agamemnon has come out with me and is leaning against my leg, as interested as i am with the little dog's recovery. =( i awake a little before 06:00 without any alarm which i had set for 08:30 this morning. there are many apparent associations in this dream. the van was my old VW which went to the scrapyard just before i moved from massachusetts in 1988. the last few weeks, i have been going to a health club gym where i am not a member for massage therapy on my injured shoulder. agamemnon is my great dane who died three years ago. he was a very large muscular dog with beautiful black and white boston markings. it was good to see him again as i have often missed him in my life since he died of a stroke. last week, at least two people asked me about him. i do not know what to make of the little dog whose head pops off when it plays too hard. there must be some direct association with the beheading scene in _i claudius_. perhaps this is no more significant than a dream pun, like messalina was a bitch? usually my dreams do not have these simple direct connections with recent events. )= __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-001 Subject: being loved dream_title: being loved dream_date: repetitive dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: in my dream, my really good and close male friend holds me and tells me that he loves me dream_comments: please interpret for me if you can __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-002 Subject: I started smoking pot again dream_title: i started smokig pot again dream_date: 2001 dreamer_name: Noah Phence dream_text: i was sitting in a graveyard chained to a tombstone chain , around my neck, hands behind my back. On both sides of me were strangers chained as well. From the shadows came all sort of demons encircling us, approaching closer and closer till i could see their teeth and claws, and their intent to drink our blood. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-003 Subject: red birds dream_title: RED BIRDS dream_date: 8/28/02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I SAW A RED BIRD FLYING IN THE AIR AND I JUST WAS WATCHING IT AND WONDERING WHY DID IT APPEAR BEFORE ME. IT WAS CLASSIC RED, BUT THE TYPE OF BIRD WAS THE SHAPE OF A DOVE OR PIGEON, NOT A TYPICALLY RED BIRD, AND BIGGER THAN A CARDINAL. THE NEXT THING I SEE I AM LOOKING OUT OF A WINDOW OF A CASTLE. I AM SITTING AT THIS OLD TIME WINDOW, THAT IS REALLY JUST A OPEN SPACE IN THE STONE WALL OF THE CASTLE, AND I SEE THE RED BIRD IN THE WATER BELOW. THE BIRD IS JUST UNDER THE WATER, FULLY SUBMERGED AND DIRECTLY BELOW ME, BUT I AM PRETTY HIGH ABOVE IT BECAUSE THE I THINK I MUST HAVE BEEN UP A FEW FLIGHTS OF STAIRS IN SOME SORT OF TOWER. THE BIRD FLEW UP OUT OF THE WATER FOLLOWED BY 20 OR 30 MORE BIRDS, ALL IDENTICAL AND FOLLOWING THE SAME FLIGHT PATH UP INTO THE AIR. THEY DID NOT FLY TOWARD ME OR MENACE ME IN ANY WAY, THEY JUST FLEW UP INTO THE SKY. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-004 Subject: Taking control and making a decision dream_title: Taking control and making a decision dream_date: 8/28/2002 dreamer_name: Butterfly Spirit dream_text: I was in the passenger seat of this car. A girl that I knew in my dream (but not in real life)was driving. We were on the freeway and I remember it being a nice sunny day outside. The girl was talking to me about something that she did and I remember thinking that it was rediculous. So I started laughing and was telling her why didn't you just do it this way. It would have been so much easier if you did it this way. Well she got upset with me because I laughed at her and tells me I'll show you. She slams her foot on the gas pedal and starts driving towards the cliff and boom we go crashing over the side. My first reaction was panic and I couldn't breathe. Then I tried to calm myself by closing my eyes and controlling my state of panic by bringing my breathing regular and slowing it down little by little to get to that point. While I started my breathing it was like I took myself to a different dimmention or something. It was like all the color around me turned pale blue and white. Me myself my hair color and skin color also turned pale. It's so hard to describe. It was like a haze I guess you could say. But I remember thinking while I am falling and trying to stay calm "I hope I don't die". But I took myself to this other dimmention so I feel safe and calm now. Then I finally land in the car. It lands perfect on it's four wheels with a little damage but I am fine. Nothing happened to me. Then my dream changes and I have left my boyfriend and moved back home to California. But I still have to go back to get all my belongings. When I get to the house no one is home. So this guy goes with me and I tell him to throw me my bags so I can just shove all my things in them. But I go into this room and there are all kinds of brand new boy toddler shirts hanging on a wall rack like you would see in a store and on the dresser there are a bunch of the same toys brand new in boxes. I was thinking what is all this, he must be starting a new business or something and I blew it off and started packing again. But then my Boyfriend shows up and he is very upset that I left. He is so sad. I didn't want to leave him. I wanted him to go with me but he had refused. So then I am standing there in the middle of the room. My body limp and my arms just hanging there along the side of me with my bags and stuff in my hands. I Find myself changing my mind about moving back home to California and thinking of staying. I look at the guy that came with me to help me pack and I am feeling sorry and not really knowing what to do. Thats all I remember. dream_comments: I can't remember what the girl inside the car was saying to me. I just remember how I felt and what I was saying. But I think this is like me laughing at my self. I am telling myself what are you doing you should have done it this way. It's like I am struggling with myself inside. So I say to myself I will show you and my anger takes over but then the calm side of me takes over and I end up safe. if I would have stayed in a panic something more drastic probably would have happened. So I feel like I should be listening to my intuition more and not just doing things to satisfy everyone else. The part about me leaving is really something true in my life. A little over a year ago I moved from California to Indiana with my boyfriend. I miss my family so much, We are very close and i can't stand being apart from them, yet I don't want to leave my boyfriend behind because he wants to stay here. But financially we are stuggling and we were doing much better financially in California. So I want to go back and he doesn't. Me standing there possibly changing my mind, is me struggling should I stay or should I go. I think the car going over the cliff and me leaving have alot to do with each other. The driver is me staying in a situation that I really don't want to be in and the passenger is me telling that side of me lets just go home. What are you doing this is rediculous. I guess I am just afraid of making the wrong decision. I am afraid that if I say I am moving back he will stay here and I will have to go back without him. My dream is my reality. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-005 Subject: unknown dream_title: unknown dream_date: 8/28/02 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: i dream that i was at school and then we were at a big room then i saw my fried and he was with his girl friend then i called him and told him hat i needed to talk to him so we tried to go out of the class room but there were teachers out in the hall ways doing exescise and they wouldnt let us out.so we got behingd the door and i started crying and begging him to dump his durl friend then he hugged me really tight and he looked at me then at her. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-006 Subject: wedding dream_title: wedding dreamer_name: missdreamer dream_text: i had a dream that i was getting married, the groom was my current boyfriend and i had a huge diamond ring. dream_comments: i have been pressuring my boyfriend for quite some time to get married. my mother doesn't like him at all but in the dream everyone including my mother was happy. am i just wanting this so much that now i'm dreaming it too. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-007 Subject: the bodacious way dream_title: the bodacious way dream_date: aug 28 dreamer_name: faith dream_text: there is a grand procession going on down the road. lots of beautiful hores and carriages. the horsemen wore nay blue. all of a sudden the horses were rearing up and coming to an abrupt stop. the horsemen were thrown from their carriages. everyone watching rushed to the scene. all the horsemen were dying. the people were saying it was the song they were hearing. all the while i have been perched on a ledge in front of what appeared to a grandeous hotel or movie theater. the people began to look at me thinking i knew something about why the horsemen were dying. a magican or a jester was singing a song as he walked up to me. i sat very still on the ledge and did not move as he poped a card out of no where waved it slightly before placing it in the right breast pocket of my shirt. there was nothing on the card i could see.during all this he is still singing. there is a flash as though he hid his action from everyone else as he placed the card in my pocket. then as he disappeared into the crowd i flet now everyone thought i had something to do with the horsemen dying. they were all looking at me on the ledge. i awoke saying it is the bodacious way. dream_comments: i have had numerous dreams since my husband past away in april where someone in my dream is always trying to hand me some type of card or note or asking me to read a book. such as the other dream with the special card that read best wishes from the wise guys. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 558-008 Subject: spirits dream_title: spirits dream_date: aug 29th 2002 dreamer_name: massena dream_text: I was dreaming I was shopping with my mother, she had lost her legs before she died and she just wanted to show them to me and took me shopping.For some reason,I kept telling myself to wake up and I did at 3am. Sat up wide awake and felt there were 5 spirits around me, which I felt 1 my mother and the other two her parents,don't know who the other two were. They seemd to slowly go away. But before this dream for a couple weeks now, i have been waking myself up. I keep feeling someone was in the room with me. dream_comments: My mother died almost 3 years ago. So i have had dreams about her, but never waking up and feeling spirits around me. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 560-001 Subject: Re: Teeth Wow...I have the same dream periodically for many years. I am 39 years old and take good care of my teeth. I do have a fear of loosing my teeth. My mother didn't take very good care of hers and while I was growing, she had a rotten smile. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-001 Subject: The Club dream_date: 29/08/2002 dreamer_name: angelous dream_text: my friend and i were walking along past a club for over 18s, we were on our way to get a top 4 me before the shops shut so i could go to the unders at the cat house in glasgow which was about to start. And this strange tall man in a large trench coat started to follow us from the club. Me and my friend started to walk a little faster and he took a dive at my friend, but missed. I was very saared but subconciously i thought we were going to be ok. Then he stood by me as we were walking by a corner watching my every move. I could feel his eyes on me but again thought hed go away. The all of a sudden as we were walking he turned around and stabbed me in the side of the throt with a pointed object. I quickly laid down on my front with my friend panicing. I tryed to stay calm and i could feel the blood pour out of my neck and told my friend that my mobile was in my bag and get help. Then i woke up. dream_comments: This dream was so weird i dont no what to make of it and now i cantr stop thinking about it. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-002 Subject: Falling from a sky-scraper dream_title: Falling from a sky-scraper dreamer_name: mcagirl dream_text: I just stand on a sky-scraper. Then I suddenly fall down. And before landing, I wake up and start. The strange thing is, that half of my class has got that nichtmare, and quite often. It happens so often to me that I`m not really frightend anymore. But I´d still like to know if there is a connection between me and my friends having the same dream. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-003 Subject: Orgasms Dreams dream_title: Orgasms Dreams dreamer_name: mcagirl dream_text: I sometimes had a dream, where I am getting an Orgasm. Or I want to have one, but can`t get it because of anything. Why do I dream of having one? Does it means I´m not satisfield with my sexual life? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-004 Subject: Terrifying Plane Ride dream_title: Terrifying Plane Ride dream_date: 8/30/02 dreamer_name: Passenger X dream_text: Maybe 3 times in the past couple years, I've had dreams where I see planes drift/fall out of the sky. Last night I had a dream that my plane was crashing. I saw smoke, and there was terrible turbulence. Shaking, and loud cruunching noises. I was telling my boyfriend that if it was going to hit the ground, I didn't want to look out the window. I also didn't want to know what happened. Just for him to hold me. He told me that while we were in the air the sun went out and came back on again. I looked out the window and there were fires everywhere, I heard sirens and the earth was a mess. I wondered if we'd live longer and maybe be saved cause we were in the plane. I thought about the thousands of other planes in the air at the same time and all those scared people just like me. I wondered why since we were close the ground we couldn't just taxi to our destination. It was very scary and left me with a weird feeling all day. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-005 Subject: Dreaming about dead spouse dream_title: Dreaming about dead spouse dream_date: 8-30-02 dreamer_name: Deam dream_text: My first husband comes back to earth to bring me with him. I decide to go with him, instead of staying with my present husband. dream_comments: Do I want to die, or get away from all the health marital,financial problem at home? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-006 Subject: Dreams Of Gods dream_title: Dreams Of Gods dream_date: Fall of 99' dreamer_name: Kyanite dream_text: I woke up one morning and found out that I didn't have to work, so I returned to sleep. This is usually when my best dreams take place. It started when... ..I saw myself floating up from my body. Up into the sky. I noticed that there were these streams of light coming up from the Earth and going to the Moon. I used my body as a propultion system to 'ride' this stream of energy. When I allmost reached the moon I noticed my best friend here at the same location, in a meditive postition. He was actually in California at this time here on Earth, so it was really nice to see him here. He too noticed this stream of energy from the Earth and pointed out more going from the Earth toward the Outer planets. I then noticed these formed a Spiral. There was a Spiral of Energy coming from our Sun, going though all of the planets in a spiraling pattern. I then started 'riding' this steam of light, going outward toward the edge of our solar system. I spiraled out and out until our star disapeared and I was the galaxy forming around me. Outward I flew though space on this spiral of energy. Soon the galaxy too become a distant spot and others started coming into focus around me. Millions of galaxys all around formed and fell as I flew outward in a spiral. Soon the entire universe itself become a small dot as I floated away. It became very small and nothing back emptyness was around me. It became one atom in the middle of nothing. But then other atoms came into focus. A unlimted number of atoms were around me. Then a thought came to me. Why am I leaving behind this wonderfull place? I want to come back to the universe that I had spiraled out from a moment before. So now I spiral back into it. (At this point I realize that I'm dreaming and this becomes one of my first lucid dreams) As I return toward the start of my journey, I see all the star systems allong the way. As I get nearer to them, I realize that I no longer seem to have a body...my body has become everything! All the stars and everything that I see is not separate, but it is actualy me! I can 'feel' everything in the universe at once. Be everwhere at one time. I feel that there is only one time and one space. I see the creation of all matter and every living thing in the universe. I can look into worlds as they develop and watch planets evolve. I see entire races of beings all over the universe. At this point I realize that I am able to manifest a body to be able to communicate with all of these beings. I am able to go to a planet and appear to beings that live there. I can take any form that I wish...a person, a plant, the air, energy waves. I am all these things and can be them all at once. ...now...durning all of this. I make a discovery. Of all the beings that I meet and see all over the universe, I rarely if ever meet anyone that's on the same level as this. There are a very few on each planet that understood what I was when I would communicate with them. Of Trillions, only some would know my true nature. This was that I was them. Another part of the universe that understood what could realy happen. Only beings like Ascended Masters or people that had almost Ascended could understand me. All the others thought that GOD had come and appeared before them. Most could comprehend that all peolpe have this in their soul. They thought that this was something outside of themselves. In truth, it was just another part of them, just as they were another part of me. I was aware they had the free will to choose to accept this reality. These people could not 'wakeup' and see the larger picture. But I must admit, right now when I'm awake to Earth, I forget this knowlegde and find it hard to let go and accept it. I know that I went through this, but it's hard to remember. Now...though all of this searching, I found ONE being who really understood everything! Only one being. This being was represented by a female figure named AIREAL. I saw that this being was on every planet that I went to. In most forms she had long jet black hair and deep, sky, blue eyes. The moment I saw her I realized that see was me. Our souls seem to combine into one and our awareness split into two different parts. I was the male part and she was the female. And now having found her, we would materalize onto new planets together and help the beings on this planet evolve. By appearing to them and helping them awaken to their true nature, we helped countless beings ascended. Now through all of this time, we came across many beings. Many of whom were very lost and very evil. Alot of them did not understand that they were a part of everything and choose to do great harm to the world and beings around them. Of all these beings that we meet, there was ONE of which we had a very dificult time with. This being was very old. An Angel. The energy of this being had been here since the beginning and will be here until the end. This being was a lucifer type of being. A being who understood things but choose to ingnore them. We tried to talk to this being. For in him we saw ourselves. ...just a differernt vibration of engery...misunderstood... forgetting all his beginnings. Not caring anymore. ..We had a hard time. This being would destory worlds, take over galaxys,...influence countless thoughout the ages. We didn't know what to do. We tried everything we knew to teach him about what was really going on. But he just didn't care. No matter what happened he just kept doing the same thing. So...a plan came to us. We would trap this being so that he could no longer hurt the world around him. We felt that to keep him around so many who were powerless around him would be a great disaster to many, many worlds. So the only thing we could think of was to send him away for a little while. We would not keep him away forever, or destroy him, because we knew that he waw just as much as a part of everything as we were. It wouldn't be fair to take away his freedom, even though he did that to others. ...he just dosen't seem to get it. So we traped his soul inside a CRYSTAL... ...we then split it into 12 parts and scattered it throughout the universe. The evil that he spread would be surpressed for many years to come. A thousand, or something like that. For we knew that one day he would return and be free to come upon the world again. But for now...things seemed a littl better. Aireal and I continued our searching and started to make our way back to Earch. In this time a thousand years passed. ...and this being that we had trapped in this crystal return. Somehow the crystals found their way back together and he was released. Now we thought this might have been able to help him. Mayble he would see the light now and understand would much he was loved. But he didn't. ...this seemed to only have made the matter worse. Now it seemed that he was even more pissed off at everything and everybody. He doubled his efforts and did the same thing again. So the only thing that we could do, was to do the same thing again. Again we put his spirt unto this crystal and split it up hoping that when the day came again and he returned, he would see how much love we had for him and would understand. For we could never detroyer him because he is a part of us. But again a thousand years passed. He returned to get revenge on all that he saw and could harm. ...and so this went on for years and years. ...and the day came that finally we returned to EARTH! Now when we came to Earth, this being had already been here for a long time. And Earth is diferent from many places across the universe. Most people don't believe in these kinda things and manifesting bodies dosen't suite too well with many of the inhabinates. So we decided to descend to Earth for a period of time and help beings on thie planet Ascend. We choose to be born into different families and at some time meet back up when ever we are able. Durning this time there will be many of these beings on Earth that don't understand such things and will continue to do evil and harm to everyone and everything. But the time will come soon when again this being will be forced to be alone and take a look at what he's done. GOD will put him back into his crystal prison, and a long time will pass without his influence. ...but it seems that one day, he will be let out and forgiven again for everything that's ever happened. For things always change, including all of us, and all of them. We will all grow. Now at about this time in my dream I saw myself floating back down to my body here on Earth. I saw Aireal returning to hers. Soulmates we are, but lost right now. We will find each other and help create more LOVE on Earth for everyone to enjoy!... I saw myself settling back into my body and slowly I started to wake up. When I awoke, I felt that I hadn't realy been sleeping, but a vision had shown me how I really got here...what I am doing...and what I am doing it for. As I woke up, I felt that I was just waking up into another dream and living it just like I lived all the others. Now, everyday I wakeup feeling that this life is a dream that I am living just like the dream I live when I go to sleep and return to those worlds that I've seen somewhere before. I am sorry that this is so long of a post. I know that this section would be the place for this though...this DREAM of mine is REAL. I really had this dream and I wanted to share it with you. Thank you so much sharing your time and reading this. I hope that this helps you in someway....even if this is only to awaken just one person or something. Something told me to write this to all of you and I really hope you get a chance to sit and read my dream. Please feel free to E-Mail me if anyone has any comments or questions. I have many, many other dreams realated to this type of material and would love to post some if you would like to here more. This is my life. Thanks for your time. With Love and Light Nexus Kyanite Triairarthmed@Hotmail.com dream_comments: I recently worked at a Meataphyical bootstore in Atlanta and had a wonderfull chance to share many of great dreams with people from all over. Including many of our phychic readers who we had at the store. This dream is kind of a starting point in my life in which I started have lucid dreams and Dreamwalking with friends from all over the world. I hope you will give me a chance to explain a little and maybe get some feed back from you. Please, anyone may feel free to E-mail me anytime @ Triairarthmed@Hotmail.com __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-007 Subject: Bag dreamer_name: Glory dream_text: I was shopping, looking for shoes, but instead I bought a bag. Then when I left the shop I was on the other side of town, in a park, I couln't leave the park because there were more parks on either side, ones which should have been in other parts of the town, in each park a football game was going on, so I couldn't walk through them. Then a boy, who I've never met before, walked over to me and took my hand and said "I know the way" I went with him, and he took me onto a path, every person we walked past on the path was walking a dog, which was growling, and baring their teeth. When we reached the end of the path we weren't where we should have been, we were outside a boys house, the boy I have a crush on, the boy I was with said "It's ok, I'll wait with you till he gets here" then he walked away. A moment later Gary(the crush) walked over to me, I turned to look for the other boy, but he was gone, so I told gary "I wasn't alone, he said he would wait" Then a friend of Gary's walked past(James) and gary said "I'm going to go call him, I'm going to go call Clare, ok" Then he walked away in the opposite direction of his house. dream_comments: The bag I bought was one I had seen in a catalogue, the day before the dream. When I came out of the shop it was as if our sports centre was the shop. I'm afraid of dogs. Clare is the name of a girl who used to have a crush on gary. All the parks were on hills, If i looked right i looked downhill, if i looked left i looked uphill, if i looked forward i looked uphill, if i looked behind i looked downhill. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-008 Subject: Flying Carpets dream_title: Flying Carpets dream_date: September 6,2002 dreamer_name: anonymous dream_text: I would like a flying Carpet that you can control, and it can go pritty high, if you wont it to. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-009 Subject: Distress... dream_title: Distress... dream_date: Feb 2002 dreamer_name: Cherish1230 dream_text: This is what I dreamt. I was in a Supermarket and there was my boyfriend Leo and my best friend Reyna. So I walk up to Leo and he is braging to his friends at the grocery store that he has two girlfriends.**Forshadowing** So all of a sudden I have a letter in my hand and I was reading it. And my boyfriend was reading it from behind my shoulder and he was getting angry from what the letter said. Than I'm back in the supermarket and Leo was paying lots of attention to Reyna and he wasn't even talking to me at all and he was just flirting with Reyna. So I storm out of the supermarket and I screamed, "Whenever Reyna is around you don't pay attention to me." That's the End. dream_comments: After I had this dream, the very next day I had an eerie feeling because I was going to see Leo in his neighborhood and I took Reyna with me. Before I went to see him I called Leo on the phone and he was very upset. And I told him about my dream and he was like wow I dunno about that one. And I asked him why was he was upset and he said," I'm upset because someone just told me something that I didn't like." So when I went to see him me and my bestfriend Reyna stopped by Roy Rogers to call Leo on the telephone to say that we are almost on our way to his home. And all of a sudden Leo said that he wanted to speak with Reyna so I gave her the phone and she was speaking Spanish. I don't understand Spanish at all. So she hung up and she told me he was mad because she made fun ofhis eyes. Than we see Leo in his neighborhood they are both being very odd. Reyna flipped my hair up to show Leo my damage hair and I looked at her as why she did that. Than Leo was making fun of me playing in my hair. Than we go to his house and Reyna and Leo are play fighting she hit him and he backed away and she puts her hands on his face like she was going to kiss his bruise away. So I'm in shocked..than we just hang out. The next day Leo calls me and he tells me that Reyna wrote him a letter saying that He is never going to get her..and in previous letters that she wrote to him that he desired him. So basically Reyna tryed to steal my man behind my back. And I broke up our friendship. And I didn't break up me and leo's relationship because he told me that he didn't say anything in response to her letters. A couple of months later he confess to me that he was writing back letters to her and that he really liked her. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-010 Subject: Phone Call dream_title: Phone Call dream_date: Sept 2001 dreamer_name: Cherish1230 dream_text: *~Dream*~* I dream that my boyfriend Leo met some mysterious girl in Mcdonalds and that he was chillen with all his friends. Than in the dream he calls me and says that he does want to be with me and that he wants to be with this mysterious girl. dream_comments: My dream came true a week later. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-011 Subject: The Ceremony dream_title: The Ceremony dream_date: 3rd August dreamer_name: blue dream_text: There were lots of people around late afternoon on a grassy area overlooking the sea. I was watching a ceremony of some sort they were native people. I thought I understood what they were chanting. I heard someone say it's your turn next. The area cleared and it was just me and the people performing the ceremony. I realised this was a sacred area. I was lying on my back and the older man doing the chanting spread this sheet over me. I heard thousands of voices in the distance yelling screaming, they were coming closer. In seconds they were surrounding me I felt them clawing at my feet and shoulder. The old man continued to chant and spread the sheet closer around me then he said not long now. As he drew the sheet over my head I felt the voices come from deep within me coming up out of my mouth forcing out like vomit...I was awoken by chirping of a bird outside my bedroom window early parts of the morning. dream_comments: I think this dream was like a clensing of some sort and protection for myself. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-012 Subject: This can't be happening dream_title: This can't be happening dream_date: 9-4 dreamer_name: wondering dream_text: My dream was bronken into two segments. In the first segment I was chasing and being chased by a flyingwhich with two enormous swords. There was what seem to be blotches of light here and there, but never enough light. It was definately dark. I do remeber fire. Then it was myself and an old friend who I meet in the service getting beat up, by a girl I new in High School. My mother had mentioned to me the other day that she had ran into her. She was beating us up in front of this bar in what looked to be a circular downtown. We were both me and my friend under an awning. This girl, had these extremely large darts and she was stabbing us in the back. She inserted all six of them(darts) into my arms around my elbows. We were beaten pretty bad, but my friend managed to take the darts and stab her in the face multiple times, I took off and ran to what looked like an old police station, but they really didn't care that I was all banged up. They kind of gave me the run around, and I took off. I caught up with my friend who was still alive, and we then met up with another person from my high school, a guy I wrestled with on the wrestling team, who was probably the most popular guys in school. He ended up protecting us and watching out for us. He took us over to this hotel, where all the girls in high school that I like were there, just lounging around. This one girl came out of her top while sitting down, and didn't even bother to fix it. We finnaly took off in this guys Suburban(white) and I woke up. dream_comments: I'm not sure what to make of this but if someone could give me some in sight. Oh, and when I went to where the girls were at, they asked me what had happend as if it was just another highschool fight. I remeber telling them that I didn't hit girls, but that this one was crazy. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-013 Subject: my ex-girlfriend dream_title: my ex-girlfriend dream_date: 08/20/02 dreamer_name: dreamaddict dream_text: This dream has been nightly since the above date. Situations are different but the feelings are the same. I dreamt of my ex-girfriend of 10 years. In the dream, I am at her house in which she lives w/her current girlfriend. We are at some sort of gathering because other people are there. Christina follows me around and gets close to me several times. When she sits next to me, our skin touches and I can feel my heart pounding out of my chest. I know I am still in love with this girl. There are no words between us and I know that she knows exactly what she is doing. I am nervous and confused because somehow I can't see me with her anymore. She is making jestures, like she wants me to kiss her, as I approach her, my dream always goes blank. In all of my dreams, her girlfriend is in the background. dream_comments: After 1 1/2 years, I still have big feelings for this girl. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-014 Subject: The devil dream_title: The devil dream_date: 1987 t/m 1995 dreamer_name: Mark dream_text: Maybe someone knows, I might have had sleep paralysis when I was a child. I was analysed by doctors when I was a child. I didn't had a normal CNS (central nervous system) and as a child I had hundreds of dreams about 1 guy, named FUT. I don't know what this means but it where always nightmares. I know the name FUT because it was called in every dream. I remember from every dream that FUT was a devil that tortures people. The dream was always plays in the house I lived before. I was there with my family in the living room and I just felt FUT was there. I've never seen him in my dreams. I guess I was 4 or 5 years old and has never seen movies about ghosts. But in my dreams books fly out of the closet and tables and chairs moved. When I dreamed this I always got really afraid and I ran away from the house but it seems I couldn't run (hard to explain) I try to run hard but I can only move slowly. Then I felt a sharp pain in my back which holds for 2 minutes. Then I'm awake. I surely had 100 dreams about FUT and they where always ending with the sharp pain in the back. I'm 20 years old now and I didn't had any dreams about FUT since the last 10 years. But I still remember them as yesterday. I think I've some paranormal activities. When I was young I had many of these experiences. Once I stoud in front of the window with my dad, and suddenly I heard a woman screaming at top of her lungs for 10 second. I ask my dad, what's happening?? But nobody else heard it!!! I still remember these things 10 years later. Once I had dreams about fire everywhere which continued for 3 nights and guess what? A week later a department at my sreet burnt down completely and killed 2 people!!! Two women!! I had lots of dreams about dogheads wich bites me and that weird shit. My grandma had always had such experiences such as talking to my sister when shes 14 years old while she was still 7. She could tell exactly how she looked (a beautiful girl) and she always felt when something was going to happen. I didn't had any dreams since then except a month ago, I dreamed that I was in the city and there where dead people all over the place, a terryfing dream. My girlfriend told me I was sleeping with my eyes open!! dream_comments: Some spiritual guy ever told me I was standing open for ghosts. He could feel it he told me. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-015 Subject: Spiritual Dream dream_title: Spiritual Dream dream_date: 2000 dreamer_name: George Ulysses Sourrys dream_text: I once had the most amazing dream where I was floating in some sort of space, but it wasn't my physical self, it was more like my soul or energy. I saw another person in this space who was also just a light like energy but I could tell who it was. It was a girl who I knew. We came close to each other and feelings of immense pleasure and oneness were felt as we kind of interconnected. It's a really hard dream to describe, I had it a couple of years ago and it felt very spiritual. George Ulysses Sourrys dream_comments: Might as well have real name and email __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-016 Subject: Broken eggs dream_title: Broken eggs dream_date: 9/9/2002 dreamer_name: Cuzzin dream_text: I had this weird one last night, where I went into a dingy barn type place and there was a scraggy chicken on a hay bale, I nudged the hay bail and the chicken got off and there were two eggs. I broke one being clumsy and the dog (dunno whose dog) but the dog ate the egg including a half formed chicken, under a bit of hay I found another egg, which was grubby and badly misshapen. I told myself I'd look after this one and hatch it, it was still warm, then I leant against something and the egg cracked on the underneath side and the chicken fell out in a gooey mess, it's eyes were covered with a membrane but it's wings fluttered and then it died, but the sticky stuff kept it stuck to my fingers until I eventually put it in the bin in the kitchen. I dont know what happened to the 3rd egg or the chicken. But I was very upset when I woke up........ any brite ideas? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-017 Subject: Running waters dream_title: Running waters dream_date: 7/11/2002 dreamer_name: Enigma dream_text: I recently had three very vivid dreams on three consecutive nights. I am sure they mean something but I cannot work out what. Maybe someone can give me some insight! All three involved fast flowing rivers (they were all obviously caused by floods). I was never in danger of drowning or aware of any sort of devastation relating to floods and each different scenario ended with seemingly nice things happening to me.... DREAM 1 - I waded through a flood to go and remarry my husband (we are not divorced and are very happy). Etienne (my brother in law) was meant to drive me but he couldn't cos of a river flowing down the road. I lifted my wedding dress and we waded through the running water. When I got to the "church" (a hall on the edge of Hardebeesport Dam in South Africa) the sun had set already as we were so late....all the guests were in darkness. I told Etienne to hang on as God promised sunshine for me and I proceded to phone God and tell him so....... he told me to hold on and the sun rose again rising above the water (from the west as if he just reversed it)....too beautiful, then it lit up ONLY the hall where I was to be married!!! DREAM 2 - In the second, I was with friends near a beach and the water was raging through the streets and houses (obviously a flood) making beautiful waterfalls over their marble patios. When I got to the beach it was full of prawns and mussels for us to collect ( the prawns were already peeled and de-veined). DREAM 3 - In the third dream, the water was again raging down a river and my work colleagues and I jumped into supermarket trolleys to ride with the water......there was no sense of it being competitive but I won by reaching the end of the raging river first! The water, though raging and obviously a flood of sorts was peaceful and beautiful???? I never felt vulnerable or scared. What could the significance of the raging water have been in these very vivid dreams? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-018 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-019 Subject: The Cat and the Cresent Solar System dream_title: The Cat and the Cresent Solar System dream_date: 9-11-02 dreamer_name: Feral Cypher dream_text: Approximately 3:00am - 3:30am. All of a sudden I was in my cousin's apartment/home. Just hanging out with her and my twin brother Leon. I don't see my cousin very often and I wouldn't really consider us close since my childhood, but, for some reason we were all together. I wasn't uncomfortable, but the air was full of silence. My cousin had a cat. A dark color cat, I'm unsure of the exact color, but I know it was dark, maybe black or grey. I don't remember engaging in any conversation. I just remember playing with the cat a little. After a while, the cat began to get mad and started to act strange. I heard voices coming from somewhere in the room that we were sitting in, but couldn't tell exactly where they were coming from. I realized that the cat was trying to talk. My cousin wasn't saying anything maybe she was in a trance or something. The cat started talking, more and more clearly. Then, the cat got violent and started using profanity and running around the room, basically attacking my brother and I. We finally got out of my cousins place and I was scared to death. I wondered what had just happened. I started to look around and for some reason I looked into the sky. When I did I saw a set of stars/planets shaped into a crescent in the sky. The cresent shaped solar system was surrounded by a cloudy mist. The planets/stars were very visable. Almost as big as a full moon. Very noticible. At this point I was horrified. It seems as though that feeling only lasted a couple of seconds. Mind state completely changed. Now I'm hungry. My brother and I used to work at Arby's (fast food chain). We decided to get some food from one of the restuarants in the area. I found myself driving through an alley (I have numerous dreams with alleys) with my brother and all of a sudden he turned to me and said something like, "Look there's Leatherface". On a dumpster in the dark, murky alley there sat a Leather mask. I was paralyzed with fear, then my friend woke me up. I could hardly breathe, it was at that point that I realized that I was dreaming. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-020 Subject: The Courthouse dream_title: The Courthouse dream_date: 09/10/02 dreamer_name: Katrina dream_text: Mom and I were at an Aerobics class inside a courthouse. The floor was marble and the ceilings were very high. She introduced me to a woman in her early 40's, relatively short, and somewhat pudgy. She was working out, smiling and breathing heavily. I knew somehow that this was the woman that my Dad would marry. I knew that she had three teenage boys. Mom seemed to like her although it didn't seem like they had known each other very long. I remember walking down the staircase of the courthouse with mom discussing their marriage. I thought they would be getting married soon but Dad said they were going to wait until October 12th. (My nephews birthday) when I asked why he said because her divorce would be final on that date. I began asking my father a lot of questions and trying not to sound judgmental like, "So, you're going to be a stepdad? You're going to have to pay for three kids colleges?" I remember trying to be okay with it but woke very confused as my parents have been together for 38 years. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-021 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-022 Subject: terror attack dream dream_title: terror attack dream dream_date: sept 10,2001 dreamer_name: me dream_text: the day before the sept 11 attacks before i went to sleep. i started getting bad vibes about the world i wasnt for sure what though. i was feeling so scared, i went to bed with a bible. ok on to the dream. i was in some building it was becoming night time and i was scared of the elevator. i looked out a window and saw something on fire and lots of black smoke. im not sure where the smoke was or what was burning. then the place i was in just went dark and collapsed. then after it went dark i was outside and in the air i saw a building on fire but it was at night time and the lights were on it in the building then i woke up. dream_comments: ok i now know that my dream was in regards to the sept 11 attacks. i have never been to new york and when i went to bed on sept 10 i was scared and even felt eerer in the moring . see when i woke up from m y dream there was a man in my room dressed like a priest staring at me and it really bothered me so i went to my sisters room and turned on tv and the n saw the breaking new on the attacks __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-023 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-024 Subject: more terror dreams dream_title: more terror dreams dream_date: sept 4, 2002 dreamer_name: anonymous2 dream_text: ok im having more bad dreams about terror attacks. i had one the night before the 9/11 attack on sept 10 of last year. and i just had another recent one which is frightening me also. im in a building im not sure where it is at. there is a store in there where im supposed to work at in the dream and all of the sudden there is chaos in the store im at. i run to leave and outside the store itself is the rest of building. in the building i saw two elevators. like old time ones with black steel in front of them were you could see people in them. the elevators didnt stop and the people were screaming and just went down without stopping. the walls and everything in building is a tan color. i continue running but never get out. i see the glass door to leave out of but the outside is smoky gray and debris is all over. then i wake up. dream_comments: not sure what this dream means. but with the recent terror heightened alerts its something that i thouthg id share cus it is still bothering me. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 561-025 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-001 Subject: Ketchup for Your Fries? dream_title: Ketchup for Your Fries? dream_date: 09/10/02 dreamer_name: TigerLily dream_text: I dreamt that upon returning to my home the man I had left to care for my dog had injured him. I walked in the door and the dog was laying on the floor bleeding from several cuts and wounds. I asked him "What happend to my dog?" And he said he didn't know, he just found him like that. I knew he was bad and wanted to hurt me so I picked up the cordless phone and tried to call 911 inconspicuously but he wouldn't leave my side. I turned from him to walk towards the staircase and he grabbed my hair and pulled my head back and cut my throat. As the blood started to pour from my throat he held up a plate of french fries and let the blood pour on them like ketchup. Then he propped my head back up and as I stood there staring and gurgling and dying he looked at me and starting eating the french fries! Then I woke up. dream_comments: What the hell is that all about? I don't have a dog, my house in the dream looks nothing like my real house, not to mention that is just really messed up! It's disturbed me all day. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-002 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-003 Subject: I am Jesus Christ dream_title: I am Jesus Christ dream_date: September 10 2002 dreamer_name: Chris dream_text: I am walking on a beach, and I notice a large puddle of water in front of me. I walk into the puddle and calmly raise my hands into the air. There is a little bit of resistance, and I lift up above the water, I am now walking on the puddle. People gasp and gawk at me. I notice that I am in a white robe. I continue to go through this dream, and I can movethings just by willing it. It was quite a fun dream and I would just like to welcome any input on this. Thanks for reading. dream_comments: Please use my real name. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-004 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-005 Subject: hyperdermic syringe dream dream_title: hyperdermic syringe dream dream_date: 10 september 2002 dreamer_name: mikey dream_text: I dreamt I was being chased by someone with a syringe. They were repeatedly stabbing me with it all over my body. The syringe had been used and was contaminated with something - maybe a number of things. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-006 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-007 Subject: Birthday climb dream_title: Birthday climb dream_date: 10 September 2002 dreamer_name: Busybee dream_text: I was invited to a friend for her birthday together with all her close friends. We all had to climb up a very high scaffolding to get to her house as it was too steep to have a road leading to it. We were all halfway up when the scaffolding fell backwards. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-008 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 562-009 [ed.note: post removed - off topic] __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 563-001 Subject: Ice in summer/running the course Was at ny neighbor's house down the hill from me. I had to get to my car (blue VW Golf), but it was at dusk, and even though it was summer, there had been some type of ice storm, with a granular layer of ice pellets/hail that was several inches thick. Turns out my neighbors were the Taylors of "Tool Time", and "Tim" gave me something that he said would handle the job. It was a shovel that actually looked liked a squared off scoop - shiny metal (aluminum, steel?). While it only cut a swath about 12" wide, it did in fact get me to my car without any problems. I then drove to Port Ewen (?) and found myself going through some training obstacle course. Don't remember much of the course except the very end, which was a passageway underneath a white picket fence, only the passageway was also supported with the same type of white painted wood. I was carrying a kitten. I saw that there were cobwebs in this passageway, and I kept saying, "Spiders, spiders, spiders," thinking that I would encounter some, but didn't. I got to the end of the passage, and found it blocked by the painted wood slats, but broke through it and crawled out. As I stood up, cuddling the kitten, there was Capt. Picard standing there, asking "How can I use an officer who can't even bother to find the proper way to exit?" I then saw that there about 3-4' back from where I had exited, which was at the absolute end of the passage, there was a hinged opening, with white Velcro holding it closed. I started to make the argument that the object was to finish the course, not how to finish, when I woke up. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 563-002 Subject: New home - no curtains dream_title: New home - no curtains dream_date: 8/14/02 dreamer_name: aodiec dream_text: 4:55 AM I had just moved into a new home. Not sure if it was an apartment or a condominium, but it was several large, airy rooms. It was in a building next to a taller building, also with either aprtments or condos. I don't remember there being much in the way of furniture - a single overstuffed chair, a pull out couch, couple of plants, kitchen table and chairs. Still, I was delighted with this new place. It had windows all around. I could look out and see a harbor, with boats, etc. From this same vantage point, I could also see a bridge going across what looked like a river (perhaps this was at the mouth of a river or a coast?). In another direction, I could see more of a city, although not a large one. Then, I looked in the other direction, and saw - my neighbors in the next building getting ready to start the day, brushing teeth, getting dressed, getting breakfast. It seemed like a family. The husband/father in his underwear (boxers) was looking out the window towards the harbor, brushing his teeth. I now realize that I can see them, and while they can't really see me because the lights are not on in the apartment, they will be able to once the they are. "Hmph - nice airy place with large windows overlooking the world really needs window shades, blinds, drapes, something," I think to myself. As I look around the place to decide how I want to do this, I see that the windows already have something in place, but that they're just pulled up. They seem like roman shades, but they are made from a light and airy (almost gauzy) blue-green cotton. I pulled the string to close the blinds on toward the other complexes, and was working to straighten one shade which had come down crooked, one side of the shade all the way down and the other caught at about the halfway point, when I woke up. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 564-001 Subject: Turtles dream_title: Turtles dream_date: 13/09/02 dreamer_name: Disarmed dream_text: the dream i had last night ties in with a dream i had a few weeks ago and i think i should include it to give a bit of background information. i have a pet turtle named Laura.The dream i had a few weeks ago was that i was cleaning her when i pressed down too hard and broke her shell making it such that i could lift it and see her pink flesh which was pretty gross. i thought that it was irreparable and was considering whether i should kill her or just throw her away since i was convinced she was going to die. that was when i saw a man who was healing someone. i went to him and asked him if he could heal my turtle..he didnt say anithing but he took my turtle into his hands and when he gave it back to me,Laura was whole again=) Last night i had a similar dream where i accidentally broke Laura's shell again. this time it was so much broken as much as the top of her shell simply came off exposing her broken flesh again. this time no one came to heal her though and i woke up. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 564-002 Subject: weird dream dream_title: weird dream dream_date: 09/13/02 dreamer_name: sensuousdreamer dream_text: In my dream I saw a patient of mine (I am a nurse). She was lying on her bed when she had a bowel movement and her heart came out instead of feces. Weird huh? dream_comments: I really don't know what to think of this. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 565-001 Subject: Puddle of Water dream_title: Puddle of Water dream_date: A year ago dreamer_name: Sniper dream_text: I was at my old college working security when I came upon the big BFI garbage can that was not suppose to be there. As I approached the garbage can I noticed it was full of water and that there was a person floating face down. Garbage was all over the place inside and it smelled. I went to go touch the man inside, as I thought he was dead and he suddenly jumped up. It scared the crap out of me so I began to run. As I was running I had to jump over a huge puddle of water and my dream went into slow-mo and as I was jumping over the huge puddle I looked down and saw a family of three, which consisted of a dad, mom, and baby. The family was submerged and floating dead in the puddle of water. My dream went back into fast mode and I began to run, but as usual in a dream you can't run as fast as you want, so I was trying to run with all my might and the guy who was in the garbage can started to catch up to me. I turned to see how far I was from the security desk and when I turned around the guy was at my shoulder and went to grab me, but I woke up. dream_comments: This dream was only the beginning of my puddle of water dreams. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 566-001 Subject: Why did Travis die? He's only 15! dream_title: Why did Travis die? He's only 15! dream_date: September 13, 2002 dreamer_name: Allie dream_text: It was my birthday party. I had some friends over, and they started dying. If you want me to go into detail, okay... Ren from the Disney show Even Stevens has a clone, and they were both there. They were at my school. That's all for them. Then I was in this house at night with my best friend Kay, her brother Tom and my ex-boyfriend Jake. Nevermind about Jake... but anyway, Tom ran off, so I was stuck with Kay and Jake. Then me and Kay left and people haven't started dying yet. We called Jake on a cell phone to tell him there was a bomb in the house. Switching scenes... I was at this theme park, and on this roller coaster that goes upside down, only I wasn't fastened in and I didn't fall. I don't know what that has to do with my dream but anyway... switching scenes again. I was at my house with Ren and her clone, some cute little girl named Kelsey, some other people and most importantly, my ex boyfriend Travis. All of a sudden, they just die. I started freaking out when I saw Travis just dead as a doornail, standing, and not breathing. I tried to bring him back to life, then I tried to revive Kelsey, (by the way, Kay, Tom, Jake and I didn't die.) and didn't bother for Ren and her clone since they aren't real. I don't know why I was so worried about him, he's only my ex. Probably because I'm a people person and get real attached easily. Anyway I moved on to Kelsey again, and all of a sudden I saw a bunch of corn in her ear. I was all like, "If she's alive, I don't want her to be deaf! I don't know which is her eardrum!" Weird, huh? Anyway, I managed to getmost of it out, (Her ear was big but keep in mind it was a dream) then I found myself in her body. I actually became her, I thought I was her, I knew her past and didn't know mine. Anyway, I got the rest out (This part is gross) and her eardrumwas all mushy like stuffing (You know, the stuff you eat). Then I found myself in my grandma's bathroom over the toilet, and the stuff was coming out of my mouth! I was all like "Ew gross!" So I got a cup and spat it out and picked up what was on the floor cus I didn't wanna go deaf and all... I could actually taste it! How gross! Anyway,I put it all back in so I started talking and I couldn't hear right. Then eventually I could. Then I was myself again, wondering how Kelsey was, then I saw the guy who casted magic on everyone to kill them and I beat him up. Then I ran back inside and cried because Travis was dead and then I hugged his dead body. Then I woke up and I was thinking "Oh, my God... This is gonna traumitize me for the rest of my life." And this was just last night's dream. dream_comments: It was weird and I hope Travis is alright. Please use my real name. __________________________________________________________________ ______ __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 567-001 Subject: chanting under the trees Dreamer: Samantha Tullos Contents of Dream: I was under a tall patch of pecan trees in my back yard, only in my dream they made a circle instead of just being all clumped together. I was standing on the inside right of the circle, on the left sider were six ppl, some i knew and some i didn't know. among them were my mom and a couple of my friends. i don't remember the words but i said something then i began chanting something, then the six others joined in. like dominoes one by one they fell backwards and seemed to have fainted or died. i ran to one of them and looked up and told God that if he saved them that i would never speak those words again. then they one by one woke up. i think it was lightly raining in the 1st half of my dream but after the chants it stopped. Comments: umm... i used to dabble in witch craft, maybe that has soemthing to do with it?? ne comments would be appreciated! __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 568-001 Subject: (unknown) dream_title: Leaking water dream_date: 14th september 2002 dreamer_name: emminx dream_text: I dreamed I had just started a new dance class that involved experimental embarrassing dance moves,it meant I had to loosen up and make a fool of myself, after class i found myself in a room with a desk, I stood in front of the desk and noticed a tipped over water bottle, water was pouring out of the bottle, leaking through the wood of the desk and coming out of a hole in the desk leg, I bent down and tried to figure out how to stop the leaking, I open draws with writing pads in them, but the water just keeps flowing from this bottle and out from the hole in the desk. dream_comments: At the moment I am restless and frustrated in my life and and wishing for new beginnings. Could this have any relation to the dream. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 568-002 Subject: (unknown) dream_title: Working to death dream_date: 8-30-02 dreamer_name: litfuse dream_text: I was at a customers house and working, when I got shot in the forehead. I was panic stricken and hurting, and even thought I was going to die. I had some co-workers come by to help me get finished so I could go get medical attention, they were moving their hands, talking and pretending to help, but, the job wasn't getting done except for what I was doing. I kept thinking to myself while I continued to work, Can't these people see I am dying? why can't I get any help, I see my reflection in something, and there is a hole in my forehead, I have to finish so I can get help. But when I finish, my sister and nephew need a ride to somewhere, so I need to do that then finish a few other jobs, but no one notices or if they do notice, they don't care, but I am dying. The dream ends after I drop off my sister and nephew, and head to another job. dream_comments: The sister and nephew I mentioned in the dream I have no relationship with, I have two kids they were not in the dream, just the job, co-workers and siter with nephew. I have had a lot of people try but I really want your opinion. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 568-003 Subject: (unknown) dream_title: run down playground dream_date: 9/6/02 dreamer_name: bathed_in_brena dream_text: I was dreaming my boyfriend and I were in an old, rundown playground really late at night, and it was a full moon, so he started to turn into a warewolf. I noticed that he was and I told him to not bite me, and he said ok, then he started chasing me, and I kept having to jump over ditches, and I jumped high in the air and he grabbed me and bit me. So I turned into a warewolf too, then I woke up... dream_comments: It was a strange dream, and I've been having dreams like that often. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 568-004 Subject: (unknown) dream_title: Upset dream_date: September 12th dreamer_name: Snoek dream_text: Had a dream that I was giving birth and the baby arrived dead. This was a very vivid dream and would like to know if there is a hidden message or can someone explain why such a 'nightmare'. __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 568-005 Subject: Nonsense dream_title: Nonsense dream_date: 27/7/2002 dreamer_name: Enigma dream_text: I recently inherited a house quite by suprise. As I often have dreams where I talk to dead relatives I decided to go to bed and ask my relative if leaving me the house was really her biggest wish (I should have known it was as I have been very close to her since I was born). I went to sleep and sure enough, there she was, and it was all very vivid! Instead of asking her about the house, I asked her if it was alright if I wore her ring (which I also acquired). She said "Yes, but just remember, shoe polish is addictive!" .....now what on earth (or not on earth) does this mean? I would laugh it off but it was SO vivid. Maybe it was just confused as she had just passed away and I was in shock? __________________________________________________________________ ______ Message: 569-001 Subject: Common for some, but not for me... Last night (or maybe I should say early this morning) I dreamt that I awoke in a hotel room. This hotel room was dimly lit and the walls were red. There were two beds, side by side in this hotel room, and as I turned and looked into the adjacent bed I see my live in boyfriend. Not in the bed with me, as he should be, but in the other bed, with another woman. She looked similar to me, in the fact that she was petite, and had very long, curly dark hair. They were not in the midst of any sexual activity. They were both fully clothed, cuddling and giggling. They were comforatble with my presence, and at first I almost felt as if this were ok. Until they got up to leave to go to "her" hotel room. I jump out of bed, I threaten the other woman, face to face (which is how I knew she was petite. :)) I am friendly, and smiling, but I tell her if I follow the two them to her room, I will cut all of her hair off. She leaves, and my boyfriend is preparing to follow. I try to stop him, want to know why he is doing this, tell him if he leaves this room he is losing me, and he argues, and taunts me, and then leaves anyway. The funny thing is, instead of anger, I feel guilt, and a sense of failure. The dream ends... I know this is a common dream..."the cheating lover" but not for me. I have never ever had a dream such as this before. Yet he was not cheating, he was amourous towards this other woman, unabashedly right in front of me, and they both seemed shocked at my outrage. In true life, my boyfriend and I are incredibly close, and I have NO DOUBTS of his love and fidelity. __________________________________________________________________ ______ -------------------- END DREAMS ----------------- -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION =---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---= -===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===- Subscriptions: The Electric Dreams E-zine (issn 1089 4284)is *free* and distributed via email about once a month. 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