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$3.00 dream network bulletin volume 7.number 1 A NEWSLETTER FOR PEOPLE WHO DARE TO DREAM safe sex and the erotic dream by Dick Mcleester - ~ Where could one find a safer - ··.''.:····· place than dreams to express socially unacceptable desires, to boldly try .. .. .: <_i\}~l~ out new actions that the timid waking mind would never consider? What r does it matter if those actions turn out {#(1_!}(:'~ .. :. :_:~-~: to be mistakes or breakthroughs (or both)? In dreams, one would hope, .',•: .. l. w- - ~fY' ~ ~::d there might still be one place where all c__ l-- ;v;~fi.·' ··-· . r .· sex is safe sex. Continued on page 4 . c ·_--1~ In this Issue: ~ .... ab.:il Scott Sparrow on ~ ~ Dreams as Initiations _... l.·- ..... 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I have dream and the failure to act on that Well, fear not, I do not come to had several good in-depth awareness is a painful disparity to me. tell you that a rare African mosquito discussions of the issue in my Men's Yet this dream offers an opportunity has been found invading people's Group and one with the regional to learn about that disparity. The dreams and infecting them with the Dance Community. I see the issues conflict in the dream is too much for AIDS virus. However, I did have a that AIDS brings up as tough ones for me, so I blow it off and go for the Big dream recently that got me thinking us all, but important to push ahead 0. Then what happens? about the complexities, mysteries and and educate ourselves about, both I notice two things. First, I flog paradoxes which may visit our dreams individually and as a part of our various myself for awhile. My inner bully is in the age of AIDS. Let me share it communities. This dream challenges mercyless. "You jerk! Now you've with you. my waking stance, suggesting that my really messed up. You probably have We are rolling around on the resolve could slip in certain situations, AIDS now. And it serves you right, floor, this blond woman and I. I don't that I may still have more work to do on too! You'd better go off alone so you know her very well, but this is fun. As this. Dreams seem to be particularly won't be as likely to mess up again, we play, it gets more sexual. I wonder good at pointing to that edge where and where I can beat on you without just how far the sexual play can go, so each of us can grow and do better. interruption." This authoritarian top I get more sexually aggressive and Let me return to that dream for dog pops up at times, and I am getting she is very responsive and willing.