A History of Dream Sharing In Cyberspace


	Dreams and Dreaming on the World Wide Web
		DreamGate Cyberdream History
		Explosion of Dream Sites World Wide Web
		While a few pioneering sites existed before 1995, like Dan Cumming's Dream Mosaic Project, Dreamlynx (then called DreamLinks) and Electric Dreams, the mass entrance of sites began in 1995.
		In the two years, 1995 and 1996, a fleet of dream sites concerned with dream sharing were launched. I'm using the term "dream sharing" very loosely here to include journal exhibition, dream inspired art, sound recordings, dream predictions, dream inspired poetry and texts using dreams, as well as cultural & other exhibitions inspired by dreams. Some dream sharing web sites turn the dream into a huge hyperlinked image that becomes linked to a multitude of other sites. The elephant in my dream text, for example, can link to a site about elephants, or the Hindu elephant god, or both.
		Index of Dream Related Venues & Sites Commercial Carriers & ISP Programs, AOL, ect. Mail & Discussion Lists (Listserv, majordomo..) Usenet Newsgroups WWW SITES by CATAGORY `Dream Sharing` `Magazines and Journals` `Information & Education Organizations` `Personal Dream Journals` `Religion, Spirituality and Healing (and Shamanism)` `Lucid Dreaming` `Psi, Paranormal, Telepathic Dreaming` `Dream &/or Sleep Science, Research, Organizations & Sites` `Sleep Research, Disorders and Information Sites` `Dreams and Anthropology (and Sociology, Culture)` `Dream Bibliography Collections` `Dream Inspired Art` `Dreams and Film` `Jung and Dreams` `Freud and Dreams` `Books and Articles Online` `Dream Products and Technology: (Book Ads, Software, CD's,` `Computer Programs and other Items for Sale)` `Lists of Link Lists` `Miscellaneous Sleep and Dreams`

	Groups and Organizations
		Groups and Organizations
		Although the beginning of the Net has been more about grassroots dream sharing than organized projects in dreaming, as things settle down, the organizations have now begun to made their presence known. Now one can find out programs and offline resources that are available around the Globe, from the Association for the Study of Dreams in Virginia to the Novato Dream Library in California, and from the esoteric Eckankar to the no nonesense research at Santa Cruz Dream Content Analysis Labs. And of course it was inevitable that purely ONLINE organizations began to emerge, such as DreamLink, DreamGate, DreamWeb, DreamTree, the Electric Dreams Virtual Community and the Oneiro-Network. It is the hope of the online dream network that most of the offline resources will eventually be represented and easily accessable via the Net.

		Groups and Organizations
	Groups and Organizations
		For the History of the World Wide Web and connections to full guides to the millions of web sites and resources now available, see Net History and Resources

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