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Index:
- Book Extract. Rebecca
- Haiku Dreams
- Interview J. Milleck On Creativity and Dreams
- From the Archives:
Time and Dreams
I Can‘t Wait
Dreams, Relevance to Waking Accuracy
- D.A.S. Bookshelf
- D.A.S. Book Review
- Inside Out: Haiku and Dreams
- Current Scientific Abstracts
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/fmid1.html
- International Dream Conference
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me...” Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938.
night dreams ...
through a shadowed doorway
a pale moon
Ray Rasmussen
Hut on Pink Mountain
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Archives: Time in dreams
C: I am in the middle of an exercise to do with mutal dreaming. We have several people in different time locations and we are all trying to meet at a specified dream location. Knowing ahead of time that we will most likely be dreaming at different times, we are still trying the experiement based on time being an illusion. Knowing that we have had dreams of the future, of things to come. And knowing that we have had dreams of the past, of things that have happened. We believe that we can meet at the same place at the same time, in the dream, even though in waking life we are experiencing it from different time frames. Based on our time traveling thoughts, what do you think, do you think it will work?
K: I think it does. And I have experienced that it does! Trying to coordinate an international list of dreamers is almost impossible as everyone is asleep at different times - yet I’ve recalled dreams of connecting with people, and they’ve remembered their version of them, and it didn’t matter one iota when we were asleep.
I’m a firm believer that we experience physical reality linearly, but that’s just how our physical senses are geared to perceive it. It really IS all happening simultaneously, and its your intention to connect that counts... creates. This is how it’s also possible to chat with a future or past self at any time and why the term ‘holographic universe’ works here.
A few moments ago, I had the thought that the idea of “fate” or “predestination” could just be a linear interpretation of a feeling tone of KNOWING. For instance, say you just chose to say yes to a marriage proposal. That is your linear experience. However, when we choose this life “outside” of linear time, we are also choosing “before,” although it’s not really “before” - its simultaneous. When it seems like something was just sitting there waiting for us to come into contact with it, it’s just us, setting something up nonphysically, and then experiencing it physically - when we’re curious we draw in more information than we might usually. Does that make “sense?”
Kristen
Enjoy your dream experimenting!
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Jill Mellick on Creativity and Dreams
KS: This evening, we are delighted to be interviewing Jill Mellick, who has written a remarkable book called The Natural Artistry of Dreams. Jill comes at the dream from a multi-faceted perspective and opens up your innate abilities as an artist as you engage with an art form called The Dream...I’m going to start by introducing my audience to you through your writing, Jill. Let me do a little quoting now from your book writer:
“Dreams prove us creative artists, natural poets, capable of simile, metaphor, symbol and shear imagery unbound by the cognitive restrictions of waking life. Dreams prove us painters, sculptors, superb storytellers and mythmakers. Dream images are sketched in fugitive ink, however. We do not reexperience them immediately; they fade to invisibility on the fast-turning pages of waking consciousness. In the ocean of the unconscious, dreams are swells that rise and pause and break on the shores of personal consciousness, leaving precious flotsam and jetsam on the beach of waking awareness. We cannot influence the tides and the currents, but we can ride the crest of the waves into shore and gather the treasures to us, as we walk at dawn. We cannot make a contract with our dreams, and dreams do not make contracts with us. Dreams promise nothing. They don’t give answers. They don’t even promise us their remembered presence. We can, however, make a covenant with our dreams. Dreams ask trustworthy questions. Questions from our deepest selves; perhaps deeper. We can choose to have a passing acquaintance, or a deep, long friendship with them. We can promise them we shall be with them, sing them, dance them, laugh them, weep for them, draw them. If we are willing to make this covenant, we can then receive what comes from our dreams as unbidden gifts. Two separate, trusting people, in a loving, conscious relationship cannot demand reciprocity, they can only offer each other the possibility of being together in ways that allow their best selves to fly accompanied into the unknown, often moonless sky, sustained by quiet air currents of acceptance. Like lovers, all we can do is promise to be there for our dreams, with heart, soul, intellect, body and discernment. If we can let go of demanding, we can begin to learn the dream’s language of love.”
KS: I would make the statement that people who are reading dreams literally and interpreting them without benefit of symbol or metaphor are working in service of the ego, the old script; the original myth. They are staying stuck, rather than, as I hear you describing it, going into a relationship with the dream which presents a broader perspective unavailable to my conscious ego self, and which has very different goals from the person who went to sleep last night having this image of the world or self. My sense is that we are always being presented with models, more than images, of how we can be, as Jean Houston refers to us, as “the possible human.” And that these models come but if we don’t work with them, don’t move into partnership with them - these fabulous diamonds sit, almost wasted.
JM: Yes, a very tragic waste. I think you would agree with me though that there is no guarantee that even if the dreamer had worked with the dream at that time that he or she would have come into partnership with it, and not in the way that we can twenty years later. That’s where the covenant part comes in. We can only be with the dream; it doesn’t guarantee us that automatic wisdom, but the act of being with it allows us to stay in relationship with something larger.
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midnight
white in the garden
my moonlit window
- Debra Bender
I don’t think I do anything specific in my waking reality. I know that I “prefer” my dream reality to my waking one :-) I can’t wait to go to bed at night, I take naps in the afternoon when I can. I LOVE to dream!
I have remembered my dreams all my life. I usually have 5, 6 or more dreams a night and remember all of them in vivid detail. Whenever I tell people about my dreams they usually say something like “ALL THAT was ONE dream!” or I am told I should write my dreams out in a short story format, because that’s what they are, little stories. I have some pretty fantastic experiences in “dreamland.” I dream of other worlds, realities, sometimes I am different people (I can be male/female, any color, from any century), I “know” it’s me, but not me.
I always thought my “love” of dreamland was because I lived a pretty horrific abusive childhood, and when I went to sleep I could “escape” even if for just a short while, plus in dreamland I was so FREE!! Anything and everything was (is) possible :-)
I have also noticed lately that the line between dreaming and waking is becoming smudged, almost blurred. Things will happen in waking reality which will make me stop and say “I just dreamed this the other night, didn’t I?” I also have been getting this weird sensation of being awake, but feeling like I am dreaming (and vice versa). I used to get this every once in a while, but now it happens almost every day and can last for hours at a time. Time has also been doing strange things to me. Sometimes I will get this extreme sense of clarity and the concept All Time Is Now engulfs me totally and completely. I have literally seen my whole life from start to finish flash before my eyes, but it didn’t flash in linear time, it was all at once!
Dianna
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
- Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924.
Inside Out: Haiku and Dreams
by Joseph Kirschner
The haiku, when it works, makes us suddenly aware of our own awareness. The flow of ordinary experience stops for a wonderful moment; we are arrested by our own surprising ability to reflect on our experience at the very moment of our having it. The dream, when it works on us (that is, when we let it work on us) does exactly the same thing. We are surprised; we are brought up short; we are in a state of momentary confusion as we puzzle about what we were doing in that enormous mansion, why that dog was following us, why we can’t get to the right classroom. All this oddness brings us up short, and with good reason. Professor Kirschner’s book is a testament to that “good reason.”
- Daniel Lindley
C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago from the Introduction
In his Introduction to Joseph Kirschner’s book Inside Out, Daniel Lindley of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago calls it “a celebration of living.” It is also like the featured Jungian theory of synchronicity (“meaningful coincidence”) a call for balance (inner-outer) and harmony. Kirschner’s many examples of haiku based upon dreams reveal, as did Jung, that the archetypal elements in the collective unconscious represented by dreams may prove more creatively productive and universally relevant than the purely rational. Dreams are a guide to an integrated self and thus an antidote to ego-centered expression. Altogether, this is a book rich in valuable insight, especially revealing of that shared world of “twists, turns, surprises, and mysteries” that dreams and haiku have in common.
winter dream
white mounds protrude
herons’ legs
- Debra Bender, http://tinyurl.com/yrwnq
D.A.S. Bookshelf
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Archives: Dreams and Relevance to Waking Accuracy
Last night I had a few thoughts about dreaming. I’m really good at remember what seem to me to be the more “metaphorical” dreams but don’t seem to “remember” dreams that would be like premonitions, although I have done this a few times. I’m GUESSING that its because maybe the metaphorical ones intrigue me more? I do have deja vu’s quite a bit.
So, it got me to wondering about how to use dreams not only to clear the path (psychologically) to help create something we want, but to help us figure out our creating and timing. Like, creating a dream monitor or graphing thing that shows me how close I am to creating something - vibrationally, timing-wise - whatever.
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K: I think I want to start seeing the correlation between my “waking” symbology and my dream symbology because they seem to be diverse. I want to start mapping how my waking life and my dreaming life relate to each other - I’m a pattern finder - I love finding patterns and connections - seeing how they all work together.
I think what I’m sort of trying to do is get a handle (understand consciously the flow of) events in my life - why some things happens at THESE times and some at others, and why some DON’T - I admit this could be a multiple lifetime undertaking if its at all possible, but you gotta start SOMEWHERE, eh?
And then there’s sometimes when I think that exercises like what I’m attempting here are just techniques to help me better tune into and become conscious of my intuitive self that SEEMS to be the ‘whole’ self behind the physical expression I’m currently experiencing - becomging my higher self, that is. Erasing the line between ‘ego’ and ‘other’, while still being an individual of course.
F: I am now at the point where you have spoken the exact feelings I have. It isa continuing discovery of self, and it never ends. We go from one stepping stone to the next.
I myself have not put much importance to dreams on a whole, and just in the last few days, I have been discovering just what dreams can be and what they can do for my self discovery. And in that understanding my dreams have changed. So, I just ordered Seth’s Dreams and & Projections of Consciousness, which I hope will help me have an even deeper understanding.
It’s all about the psyche, and the more we can understand the workings of our psyche, the better to create our realities. Can’t wait to share experiments and results with you.
Also, I have been reading Datre all afternoon, I love it, and it also helpsme to understand Seth’s material better.
Love,
Flo
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in my dreams last night
wild Arabian horses--
I butter his toast
- Billie Wilson
Grazing Horses
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Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
- Edgar Cayce
International Association for the Study of Dreams
Copenhagen June 18 - 22 2004
2004 Conference Themes
- Clinical and theoretical approaches to dreams
- Dreams and the creative process in expressive and visual arts
- Advances in the biology of dreams in the 50 years since REM was discovered
- Cross-cultural approaches to dreams around the world
- Children’s dreams
- Dreams and dreamwork in cinema and documentaries in the 20th and 21st century
- Theories and therapies for nightmares and posttraumatic dreams
- Diagnosing and treating dream and sleep disorders
- Advances in dream content analysis
- The functions of dreams
- Jungian and psychoanalytic approaches to dreaming
- Dreams and PSI phenomena, religious and spiritual approaches to dreaming
- Dreams in education and training
- Dreamwork and dream groups in the 21st century
To commemorate the 21st annual ASD conference, submission of presentations that address the history and future of dreamwork around the world will also be encouraged.
A program of performing and visual arts is planned in conjunction with the conference.
P.S.
“This may frighten us a little. Dreams are often socially transgressive. They chafe at boundaries, championing the rude, lewd, and wholly unacceptable.”
- Marc Ian Barasch - Healing Dreams
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