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John Ellefsen's article, A I'm su re John, as a member of AI-Anon, Dreamer's Journal, in the March/April has learned all about co-dependency and issue, confirms a personal hypothesis through my own association with other co­ dream network about precognitive dreams, especially the dependents, I have observed th is ones dealing with emotionally charged phenomenon quite often. In fact, before a bulletin issues. My theory is that people who recent ice storm that hit Dallas, almost is seeking a have developed a co-dependent person­ without exception, we all had precognitive ality as the result of having grown up in a dreams of the event. new Editor/Publisher dysfunctional environment have a greater Another interesting phenomenon for this grassroots propensity toward these types of dreams. that happened recently was: I had a As a child, I developed a hypervigilant nightmare of running and hiding from a community effort. personality so that I could always be a potential Indian massacre (a dream I've For further Information step ahead of negative situations and I had periodically over the years); a friend contact Linda Magall6n precognitive dream almost every night. had a Viet Nam dream of a true experi­ 1083 Harvest Meadow Ct. ence in which he was the sole survivor of San Jose, CA 95136 a massacre (a periodically recurrent nightmare for him); and an acquaintance or call (408) 266-5397. had a nightmare of frantically trying to get into a house and not succeeding. These three dreams all happened the same I was 12 years old, and upon awakening, night and a day later the incident about recorded word for word on a "real" piece author Salman Rushdie became public of paper: knowledge. This reminds me of (Jane Roberts') Seth's statement that we are Most Wonderful Place never at the periphery of knowledge; that it is always at hand. Ever since I stepped in that door Billie Petty, 1019 Westwood Dr. Nothing is as it was before. Lewisville, TX 75067 Now I can be anyone, anything, From a princess to a hermit, Or a bird taking wing. Dorothy M. Rossi has my deepest respect as a dreamer, as a writer, and as Across the world I see myself fly, an artist. I am referring to "The Banquet," Watching countries and continents go by. Vol. 8, No. 1. I see it as having a very Through deserts and jungles positive outlook because she realizes she and tropical dr}olands, is always the one with the real power Over mountains and hills and plateaus because she can always choose. and highlands. For all of us there is an important Now that I've entered, the Present's not lesson in courage to make changes. Although to make changes can be my home, I can travel back to the days difficult, it can be more difficult not to make changes. I love the books in the of ancient Rome. library being telepathically fed to her. I can gaze at Egyptian slaves carrying stone, She says, "We are prisoners." We Or listen to Civil War bugles blown. can all make our own prisons, but we all have the power to break out of them. Into the Future, I now rocket to the stars, Linda Benincasa I can land on Mercury, Venus or Mars. 638-C Hertel Buffalo, NY 14207 I can see what will happen when genera­ tions have grown, I've been a prolific and vivid Peer ahead into Time, dreamer since I was three years old. In explore the unknown. 1982 I experienced my first lucid dream Past, Present and Future and since that time have been getting mean nothing to me, more involved in the dream world through The far corners of the Earth reading and participating in groups, and I now can see. of course by dreaming! Right now, I recall Then into my world someone is nosing, around 5-8 dreams per week and around "Hurry up, young lady," comes a voice, 3-5 lucid dreams per month. I keep a "The library is closing!" journal and employ my dreams in psycho­ therapy which I attend twice a week. Lorraine Grassano, 1424 Polk St., #55 This poem I wrote in a dream when San Francisco, CA 94109

may/june 1989 3 THE DESIGN OF A HOME COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR STUDYING DREAM JOURNALS by Dennis Schmidt Part 1: Behind The Design Of subspecialty areas), where the links weren't going for the same niche. ((Dream On!)) represent well-understood relationships HyperCard is a large general-purpose In the early 1970's, I had begun and the aim in using them is a well­ hypertexVhypermedia development working with sets of transcripts of defined goal. Associations in dream system. My program-called ((Dream hypnosis sessions and with dream journals need to be kept open to more On! )}-would be a small hypertext journals. I had also begun my career in tentative and flexible interpretation and program somewhat specialized for journal computer science. As I noticed recur­ use. work. The small size would be advanta­ rences of themes in the events I studied, I Hypertext finally burst on the public geous in the coming days of memory envisioned an interactive computer consciousness in 1987 when Apple shortage, as well as for high performance program for rapidly finding other refer­ Computer introduced Bill Atkinson's in a multitasking environment. ences to the themes at hand. HyperCard program. No one having been I fashioned ((Dream On!)) in the I was thinking of a concordance, able to make a commercial ripple with the light of successes and failures of several pointing to all the occurrences of every hypertext idea before, Atkinson arranged related systems. The primary reason that word, to search for words likely to indicate that HyperCard be given away (with personal retrieval systems fail is that the a related writing. I would also want to purchase of a Macintosh computer). This user either gets lazy or was too ambitious stick different writings together, once I created a tidal wave of excitement. (depending on how you look at it). A had determined that they were related. It struck fear in my heart-as well system that bogs down unless the user Then in subsequent searching, once I as excitement. By then I was developing keeps the data entry and indexing up to found one of them, it would point me my own hypertext program, for the Amiga date is trouble, for most of us. My system directly to the others. The concordance computer. Would HyperCard render my would have to work well with varying and the linkages could be created and effort wasted? Or would it, by boosting levels of ambition; it must support partial maintained automatically by the computer awareness of hypertext, raise interest in records and partial indexing as readily as program; the program would also do the programs like mine? extensive descriptions and cross­ searching. Freed of those tasks, I would I had chosen the Commodore referencing. For my own use, and for be left only to key in the writings, decide Amiga computer for several reasons. Its some others', it must also support what to search for and choose which operating system supported both a reference to volumes of paper records, items to link, as I explored away. graphical window-based user interface which may only gradually be transferred Ted Nelson, around the same time, (like the Macintosh) and full multitasking to disks. had similar ideas (1 ), which he dubbed (unlike the Mac). Multitasking is the Indexing presents another set of hypertext (because with the links, text ability of the computer to run multiple hazards. Looking up dream in a concor­ doesn't just flow linearly but has jumps to programs simultaneously; its advantages dance, you may find several occurrences distant points, as if through hyperspace). are hard to foresee but addictive, and I of the word, some of which mean dream, We were both preceded by Vannevar was hooked already. Special hardware others of which mean hope or ideal, still Bush, who, in a visionary article in 1945 made the Amiga's window operations others of which mean other things. This (2), described a personal workstation for fast, and I needed lots of windows in my is called a failure of precision. At the thinkers. Bush anticipated nearly every program. (A window is a rectangular same time you will fail to find references feature of modern "hypermedia" sys­ region of the screen, which may partially to dreaming that don't use the word tems-without computers! or fully obscure other windows.' A few dream-even if they contain (e.g.) the Hypertext remained little known for overlapping windows can contain much word dreams. This is called a failure of nearly twenty years after Nelson named it. more information than would fit at one recall. Both recall and precision tend to Other types of programs for searching for time on the screen. The user can easily be poor and to get worse with keyword stored information became popular. move the windows around and in front of indexing. Uncontrolled keyword indexing, Database programs work well with tabular and behind each other.) Full color was while easy on the indexer (it can even be data, or data in standardized forms. standard on the Amiga; I had plans for automatic), is hard on the retriever. To Information storage and retrieval systems color in text-processing as well as for improve both precision and recall, a are like library card catalogs, allowing graphics. And the Amiga was by far the system may have a controlled vocabulary. more flexible forms for the data. What's least expensive computer providing the A controlled vocabulary assists the missing from both of these, for creative level of performance that I needed. retriever by consolidating references to journal work, is the ability to make The main tradeoff was obscurity. (e.g.) the subject of nocturnal dreaming unforeseen kinds of links, and keep "A what? Amiga? What's that?" Amiga is under one term, regardless of the words changing them, as you work with the a minority computer in the U.S., although used in the texts. Systems using a things in the files. Some knowledge­ it's a best-selling home computer in controlled vocabulary usually also provide based systems allow such dynamic Europe. It is compatible with neither IBM an entry vocabulary and thesaurus, to aid linking. But they are geared to work in nor Macintosh. the searcher in finding the right search fields like medical diagnosis (in some Studying HyperCard, I realized we Continued on page 19 4 dream network bulletin GUBOO TED THOMAS: 'y-

DR~EAMTIAfE An Interview with an Aboriginal Elder of the Yuin Tribe by Antero Alii

In his youth, Guboo Ted Thomas was selected from 3,500 Aboriginal tribal members to inherit the position of chief elder of the Yuin in Australia. In 1984, after outliving five young brides, the 78- year old Guboo chose to travel around the world teaching principles of the Dreamtime-the heart of Aboriginal spirituality. Guboo says Dreaming develops the mind for long-distance telepathy and other powers that have ' become the norm for Aboriginal living. - This interview followed a rather peculiar ' ""t, - path as Guboo occasionally insisted I stop asking him questions and read him ~ stories instead (which he had written). Guboo played a dijeridoo (a traditional Aboriginal instrument made from a small tree previously hollowed out by termites and then stuffed with beeswax) before we wind is blowing. Here, all around, are to the mountain; sometimes small groups; spoke. Nature Spirits. You have them around other times a few hundred. One thing you Antero Alii: Tell me about yourself. here, too; not where you have cleared the must know. You come as a child and Guboo Ted Thomas: My name is land. The spirits go back to the trees Jearn how to crawl before you walk. I Guboo Ted Thomas. Guboo is my tribal then, to the woods, and wait there. In know today you have your education but I name and guboo means "good friend." Australia, we take you to the outback and don't want you like that. I want you to So, today, I am your good friend. As I sit you down where I put red ochre on come the way I want you to come, as a look back in Dreamtime and see Austra­ your forehead. This means respect, like little child. Take every step. So, if you've lia, it is a land of dreaming where the law the red band I wear on my head when I got an education, you've missed two or comes from the mountain. Here, the travel here in America. Then, I would talk three steps. Listen what I say. How do Aboriginal people have roamed around to you and be in the spirit of the land and you touch a tree and feel the love of that the bush for 50,000 years, listening to the bring that spirit here (gestures to Antero's tree? Sometimes, you have to blindfold birds, animals, Mother Earth. And She heart). people and let them find their way around teaches us to send messages by our After walking in the woods for the rocks to learn. The rocks there are minds, hundreds of miles to our people. some time, you would dream and spirits like natural churches-alters-so we don't Up in the mountain is the place to talk to would visit your vision. Yes, you would need no artificial churches, you see. Just the Great Spirit, who we call Darama. see these spirits and they talk with you. stand by the rock circles on the mountain And Darama saw that the Aboriginal People today know that something's and speak to the Great Spirit. You will people were in tune with the Mother Earth going to happen, that the world is going to feel a vibration. You will hear Darama, and blessed them. There has been no change, but we've never changed with it. the Creator. Your words must come from war on Australian soil. This is why the We're still back where we first started. the heart or it's just blah, blah, blah. This Dreamtime is so important to us. It is The dreaming is a way to be in the you must learn before Dreaming. always bringing us together. change of this world; and Australia is the Antero: What kind of tools do you Antero: Is there a way to speak last land on Earth that has the dreaming. use in your work? about the Dreamtime, Guboo? Antero: Are there ways you help Guboo: We have stone imple­ Guboo: Yes, there is a way; and others enter the Dreaming? ments. We make our own knives, then, maybe not. Dreamtime is a very Guboo: We need a spiritual tomahawks, and that. The Aboriginal important tool for our people. Dreaming is cleanout first. Fasting on grapes for two people were stone masons long, long the main way we use the mind, you see. days will bring you more power; so will ago-50,000 years-tempering the stone It starts outdoors in a very quiet place praying and meditating. We have so they could hit the hard wood without where there is no noise and where the Dreaming Camps where we take people Continued on page 20

may/june 1989 5 REMEMBERING ASD, '88

The Association for th e Study of Dreams (ASD) has been holding annual conferences since 1984. The interna­ tional ASD is a professional dream or­ ganization serving a diverse populace of dreamworkers, artists, educators, clinicians and researchers whose numbers have grown to over 470. The conferences have been held in San Francisco (1984), Charlottesville, Virginia (1985), Ottowa, Canada (1986), Washing­ ton, D.C. (1987), and Santa Cruz, California (1988). The '89 conference will be held in London, England. The conferences have produced a number of featured events and new organizations. I will focus on one event, the Dream Ball, and one organization, the Dream Educators' Network (DEN). DEN formed at the Virginia conference in answer to a need for a more personal networking resource. It has grown to 55 members who are listed in a directory which includes their orientation and approach to dreaming, materials, expertise and products that they are willing to share with other dreamworkers, some free and some at a small charg e. The photos on this page were taken at the Santa Cruz conference where DEN met over lunch on two consecutive days. The future direction of DEN is nebulous at this point due to a lack of leadership and clear goals. The group has a lot of potential as a rich dream resource which includes expertise in areas such as research data, ethics, promotion and the practical aspects of being a dream educator in this cultu re. There is also the possibility for valuable shared projects such as dreamwork handbooks, bicoastal festivals and a resource catalog. My first participation in the Dream Ball was in Virginia and I have seen it grow in terms of the percentage of people participating and level of enthusiasm. The event itself is a costume ball where participants are encouraged to be a significant character or symbol from their own dreams. Besides dressing as that character or symbol, party goers can give voice and action to it, introducing their character to the group. Prizes are given in a number of categories including most nightmarish, most Jungian and Freudian and most reincarnative. The Ball includes dancing and refreshments and is the most

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represented since the dream presents the structur~treesand all. unexpected contact with Bantam on the itself in pictures and images and not ninth of March unbeknownst to the analytically. dreamer. However, I am still awaiting At the first meeting of the reconsti­ word on a final acceptance. tuted group on December 14, 1987, we On March 28, 1988 we focused on decided on our target. We asked our more personal concerns for the group dream tigers for a picture showing the members by asking, What major changes next significant archaeological discovery. are coming up this year for anyone in the Our success rate for this topic was poor dream group? What changes are coming and though random images intruded in up forme? the dreams, we truly lacked verifiable Robin shared the following dream data. As Alan pointed out, it may be sh. in answer to this programming. Nineteen­ difficult to get feedback since archaeolo­ seventy-six, Bicentennial year. Nineteen­ gists often take so long to report their We felt all of these dreams were seventy-six was the year I graduated from discoveries. We realized that we had to highly significant and were particularly high school. I was on our senior float for find something current that could be pleased since the Grand Rapids winter homecoming. Our float was of the clearly validated. distractions did not influence the content. Declaration of Independence. My overall We easily identified our target at We shifted our target from outside feeling is of freedom. Though varied the January 25, 1988 meeting. En­ events by focusing on a group member's meanings could be attributed to this sconced in the mid-west during winter personal concern. At that time, my book dream, Robin felt that she was being where the threat of paralyzing weather manuscripts were being considered by shown that this year would be liberating looms, we asked that our dream tiger several publishers. On February 23, for her. show me the scene of the next immobiliz­ 1988, we decided to focus on these The group members' response was ing environmental situation. This was a books; namely, Developing Your Intuition: poor to this question. We all felt that the good test in more ways than one since we A Beginner's Guide and Managing word "change" was too traumatic for had to clear our minds of anticipating Intuitively. The group asked, What members. Even though the group as a snow and ice scenes. The exciting publisher will accept these books and whole was highly intuitive, they seem to results showed that three group members when will Marcia receive notification? In block future visions of change. Another had hits depicting the devastating Rio de addition, after an answer was recorded, possibility could be that we had been pro­ Janeiro floods and mudslides which the group member was urged to program gramming for four months and the dream­ forced the Mayor to declare the city a for an intuitive-precognitive dream ing vehicle may have been tired. disaster area. Following are some dream showing the resolution to a personal Our last attempt was programming excerpts: problem. an event that could be validated within a Kathi: I see myself in thick rubber The months of April and May were few weeks. We asked, Who will win the green boots. They are covered with reported. by group members but were off Old Kent River Bank Run and could you 10 dream network bulletin precoQnition show me what the winning situation will look like? Nanci's response was the on my shoulder. It was very large. clearest. She said, I see two men. One BLACK WIDOW I was really afraid. I pushed it off is on the left. He is heavier, stocky, dark, and woke up. shorter. The one on the right is taller and ALERT! thinner, lighter, called Steve or Pete. That morning, as I walked in There 's some question regarding who is by Janice Baylis to work, our building boss asked the winner. The scene changes. I'm me to take over a chore/report seated at a large table with two males The mistakes and inefficien­ that had been assigned to my and two to three females. The two males cies at work which cause us prob­ immediate department boss, Pam. are runners from the dream within a lems are not always of our own Pam was out ill and the building dream. I talk to the thin runner on my doing. Sometimes we get caught boss was using this opportunity to right. He says that they (he and the short up in other people's messes. This clear up a bit of a mess Pam had stocky man) were not evenly matched. dream alerted me to a dangerous made on this report. In other Later, the results show Mark Smith as the but unavoidable situation. As it words, I had to reach into a mess winner (close to name Steve!) and a unfolded, the dream helped me to created by those "over my head." picture of the outcome of the short stocky realize the danger and to handle man in the wheelchair as the winner in At least the top boss was right the handicapped division. Indeed, as the the delicate situation with great beside me to help stamp out op­ dream sequence showed, they were not caution. position. evenly matched. Someone was with me on In this department there From our preliminary exploratory my right side (action). We were was a hierarchy of devouring results, we are pleased to see that we going to clean out an area. I had females (black widows). Two could program our intuitive-precognitive to reach up over my head and were especially close to Pam and dreams to describe future events we take a book off of a dirty shelf. if I wasn't careful they would try to knew little or nothing about. Also, it Bunches of black widow spiders cause me trouble for going into seemed to be easier to program for others crawled out and the other person Pam's area of jurisdiction. Plus, than for ourselves. In this informal study, stamped on several baby ones Pam (the really big spider) could we were focusing on actively program­ that fell to the floor. Two medium­ ming our dreams. In contrast, there are be troublesome if I were unaware times we spontaneously or passively sized ones were on my lower arm. of where she made her next receive intuitive-precognitive dream I pushed them off and felt re­ move. I was able to satisfy the information about outside events or lieved. I feared there was another building boss and handle the po­ people we know. The group felt that their one somewhere that might bite tentially poisonous reaction of responsiveness toward receiving this type before I found it. I feff this big one Pam when she returned. of spontaneous predictive information was heightened as a result of our informal research probing. Robin has a white dove come to temperature. Some were literally frozen The correlation between the her to preface the intuitive-precognitive or rooted to the spot feeling an awesome presented dream content and the dream. Often the colors of white and quality about the dream. The dream has accuracy of the predicted information is purple are presented while two or three been described by many participants as substance for another study. Though doves come to fly around. At times there bigger and more powerful. It seems that many spontaneous intuitive-precognitive are sparkling white lights as an inner something was working through their dreams have been collected from the voice carries on a dialogue. thoughts but not of their thoughts. Mary group during this six month period, I will As mentioned, Nanci sees a deer shared that in her intuitive-precognitive end by sharing what symbols or outside or two and has had the actress Jane dreams, time is meaningless. The action information informed the dreamer about Seymour appear frequently to validate the stops while she is fully conscious and the intuitive-precognitive nature of the precognitive nature of the dream. We clear headed. The message seems to dream. were amused by the punny nature of her come through her forehead like water into CONFIRMING SIGNALS FOR THE dreamer presenting someone who will a sponge. She mentioned, "My forehead INTUITIVE-PRECOGNITIVE DREAM help her "see more." opens to this message. Visually, it is like Though we were calling on our Kathy has an Eagle accompanied looking up through water toward the dream tigers, only Kathy literally made by a bright white light. When dreaming of surface. Then instantly it becomes clear contact with a tiger. She was able to the mud slides, she felt pressed to her and focused. This is real and I under­ cuddle and pick up this animal as she bed during the dream and upon awaken­ stand that I'm dreaming while I'm not." would her cat. Whenever the elicited ing. Other symbols given were an eye For many members the relation to the information was presented, Kathy and a hawk. lucid dream was strong. While lucid thanked the dream tiger, hugged him Members of the group also knew dream researchers don't usually touch on generously and said she would be back the dream was premonitory by their the precognitive aspect, this dimension soon. She wanted him to feel appreci­ physical states. 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may/june 1989 11 Except for one, so far my precogni­ interpretation as to whether I was PRECOGNITIVE tive dreams of impending death deal only dreaming of my aunt's death or not, but DREAMS OF with my relatives. when she died, I "knew" it to be so. DREAM- Apr117, 1983 DREAM - February 14, 1986 DEATH I win a trip to Los Angeles. I am The family is together because staying with a young relative and her daddy died and we are trying to settle his by Billie Petty husband. People keep coming over, affairs. (He has on the same suit he wore including Aunt Sue (wearing black to the hospital last Monday.) We are More than once my mother has cashmere coat, black dress, shoes and going over his bank statement. The told me, "If Betty has a dream about me, purse), who is related to the girl/ am account started with $15,000 and don't tell me." Mother and her neighbor, staying with. This guy keeps saying if dwindled to $750. The last check was to Betty Smith, live in a small Texas town in they play the Super Bowl in Miami he will pay for a restaurant bill. Mom says it is the heart of the Bible Belt and are very come and see me because he already okay. They did a fine job. fundamental in their religious beliefs. has tickets. His favorite team is the Los Early morning, September 14, Both deal with my New Age philosophy by Angeles Rams. 1986, my ex-husband was driving on an not talking about it because anything that Over the years I had very little expressway (elevated above city traffic) doesn't fit within the confines of their contact with my Aunt Sue as she lived on and began having chest pains. He pulled religious dogma makes them very the West coast and we saw each other off the expressway into a restaurant nervous. In this small town, however, every dozen or so years. (And in eight parking lot. EMT was called by wit­ Betty has a "reputation" for dreaming of years of keeping dream journals, I haven't nesses, but he died on the way to the people who are about to die. So, when had any other dreams of Aunt Sue.) hospital. He wasn't driving his MG. I was mom says she doesn't want to know if However, I did have a younger cousin, unaware that he had bought a different Betty dreams about her, she is really also related to Aunt Sue, who had car. At the funeral his father and a close saying she doesn't want to know if she is recently moved to L.A. with her family. friend individually told me that Jerry had about to die. The next part of my dream about recently told them, "If I knew it wouldn't But my own experience with the Super Bowl is what I have learned to hurt, I wouldn't mind dying." He had been dreams of others' impending death recognize as a time frame, telling me very unhappy. suggest to me that possibly we do know when the event will take place. As you DREAM- January 27, 1987 on a subconscious level when we are know, teams destined for the Super Bowl I am alone in the house and it is going to die, and communicating with are decided in December each year. In dark inside and I bump into someone or others in the dream state could be our 1983 the Los Angeles Raiders (not Rams) something. It scares me because I can't way of preparing those we love who are, went to the Super Bowl. My aunt died in see and in a state of panic I say, "What is quite literally, deciding to stay or go. Here December, 1983. it?" or "Who is it?" Then I see the shadow is what I have encountered. I realize this dream is subject to of a man's form slumped over and it says, precognitive dreams were provided in the dream. We are now simply going back to meeting of the Association for the Study days following the meeting. This is when study future dreams. As prophets we can of Dreams, Arlington, VA, June, 1987. the suggestion was strongest since we become more profitable in living as we O'Connor, P., Dreams and the just talked about intuitive-precognitive acknowledge and understand that dream Search for Meaning, New York: Paulist, dreams and members felt strengthened information does forecast future events. 1987. by the support from each other. No one REFERENCES Ullman, M., Krippner, S. with A. ever felt far out or unusual for having Artemidorus, The Interpretation of Vaughan, Dream Telepathy, New York, such dreams. Dreams: Oneirocritica, trans. R.J. White, Macmillan, 1973. Is this study and inquiry of precog­ Noyes Press, Parkridge, NJ, 1975. Vaughan, A., "Dream Tigers," nitive dreams new? Hardly! The out­ Crowley, J., "Examining Some Single File, October, 1987, 4-12. standing second century Roman, Artemi­ Precognitive Dreams: Do They Simply Vaughan, A., The Edge of Tomor­ dorus (1975) in his well known book The Predict or is There Something More?" row, New York, Coward, McCann, Interpretation of Dreams described Journal of Religion and Psychical Geoghegan, 1982. various dream activity. He listed the kinds Research, July, 1966,9, 3, 175-181. Walters, K., "An Ostensibly of dreams with different qualities including Drown, R., "Possible Precognitive Precognitive Dream of the 1980 visions, oracles, fantasy and apparitions. Dreams of my Father's Unexpected Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster," He saw divine message dreams as Death," ASD, February, 1987,4, 1,11-12. Journal of Religion and Psychical equivalent to oracles. In fact, the Bible, Emery, M., "Precognitive Dreams," Research, April, 1987, 10, 2, 97-103. with its many references to psi phenom­ DNB, November/December, 1984, 3, 6, 4- Windsor, J., The Inner Eye, ena, states, "If anyone among you is a 5. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1985. prophet, I will make myself known to him Emery, M., "Dreams," Single File, If you are interested in further in a vision, I will speak to him in a dream." March, 1987, 6, 2, 39-41 . information or sharing your intuitive­ (Numbers 12:6) The ancient writings Emery, M., "Identifying and precognitive dreams, please contact me : referring to oracular dreams seem to Interpreting the Intuitive-precognitive Marcia Rose Emery, Ph.D., 3512 McCoy correspond to the intuitive-precognitive Dream." Paper presented at the annual SE, Grand Rapids, M/49506 12 dream network bulletin "Billie, I'm Uncle Joe's disembodied Medium, to be held in a hotel in Kentucky to cope with dad's death from two years spirit." Then it falls into my arms and we in March, 1988. This was my time frame. ago. The family could also see mom sit down on the couch. Uncle Joe is dying I knew when she was planning to leave. I going downhill with grandma. Grandma and he is confused about it. I keep was determined to try my best to change lingered from February into May and I felt looking into his eyes and they almost the course of events. relieved that mom made it through the glow as though it is his life form. I ask As "luck" would have it (I don't projected time frame. him if he wants to (die) and he says, "Yes, believe in accidents), an unusual turn of Then my brother found himself in a it feels so good-the peace." I tell him, events brought mom to town to stay with needy situation, needing emotional with much compassion and love, "It's me the last weekend in January. support from the family but not asking for okay. It is nice, isn't it?" Then the spirit MOM'S DREAM - January 31, it. My sister and I relayed this information starts to feel remorse about leaving Jenny 1988 to mom, fairly confident that she would (his daughter). I know he is trying to (Mom woke up crying and at step into this role, and we were right. make a decsion. breakfast shared this dream with me.) Almost overnight mom's strength and On March 4, 1987, Uncle Joe was am going somewhere. I give a ride to a vitality came back as she emotionally let hospitalized for a mild heart attack just little girl and her mother. Then the little go of grandma and came to my brother's after Jenny called to say she and aid. My grandmother died May her family were moving back to 22, 1988 and my mother is very Texas to be near her parents. much alive. I haven't told her Uncle Joe is still alive and doing about my dream of her. well even though Jenny didn't These dreams have posed move home after all. interesting questions for me DREAM - December 31, about how much influence we 1987 have in helping others decide (I woke up crying.) I am whether to live or die. And, in a public place with a friend. further, is death our choice and We see this guy. He is a British ours alone to make? Here's entity (not the channel). He more fuel for the fire: takes hold of my arm and DREAM - October 4, 1983 expresses his sympathy at the (Three years before my dad's loss of my mother. I am shocked death.) because I am unaware she has I'm packing. Mom, dad died. Then I am in the lobby of a hospital girl and mother are in my home and just and Sarah (my sister) are here packing about to go up to visit mom. Before I go take over and I don't know how to get rid with me. I take a bath. Everything is up, a nurse friend of mom's takes hold of of them. Then I am downtown and I am packed but a towel (pink), wash cloth and my arm. She says, "I'm sorry, but your bending over looking into the hearse soap. Daddy is rushing me. He really mother just had a heart attack and died." because my husband has died and I am wants to get going. He is happy and When Susy (my sister) answers the crying. Sam Davidson, a friend who died gives me the keys to the car (older white phone I say, "I've got some terrible news." about five years ago, comes up to me and Chevy). Daddy is agitated because it is She says, "Aw, is it time?" implying asks me what is the matter. I reply, taking so long, but very happy we are Grandma. (My mother's 95 year old tearfully, "Rey has just died." going. mother has been bed-ridden for 10 years. The way mother explained the In November, 1984, on impulse, I My nurse mother takes care of her.) "No, dream to me I got the impression that if decided to move from Miami, Florida (my mother died." I can see Grandma still in she stayed alive she would finally have to home of 15 years), back to Texas and bed and she is okay and I think how ironic face the fact that daddy really was gone into my parents' home. An early Christ­ it is that she outlived mother who was in and she was having a very hard time mas present arrived from mom and dad excellent health. because she missed him very much. I felt before I left Miami. The package con­ This dream was very hard for me this information was very much for my tained pink towels. due to my recent losses and also some benefit, to help me put to rest my selfish In February, 1986 (the month I had unresolved emotional issues with mom. need to have her stay around. I felt more the dream of dad's death), mom, dad and Immediately I felt abandoned and began at peace with her decision when she went Sarah helped me move into my own wrestling with my psychological "little girl." home. home. Dad bought and gave me a car; a I was thrown into a state of panic, not However, I'm convinced that a 1979 Chevy that was pale, pale blue knowing if I could change her mind or not. couple more turns of events did alter her (almost white). I had no reason to doubt the validity of course. My grandmother developed The move from Florida back to this dream. pneumonia in February and slowly started Texas was a very hard, emotional January 2, 1988, I was opening "going downhill," as mom said. Mom transition for me and my children, but it some mail mother had brought to me tended her day and night and was really allowed me 16 months with my dad during the Christmas holidays as I had suffering emotionally at the impending before he died. My sister Susy told me recently moved to Dallas. In the mail was loss of her mother. I could sense her he had often stated how much he wished a brochure for a Metaphysical Confer­ inability to emotionally deal with this I were home with the rest of the family. ence, featuring a British Spiritualist possible loss when she hadn't been able He got his wish. may/june 1989 13 DREAM TREK By Linda Magall6n-'' ---\:""__ ~---...._....,.._

MUTUAL DREAMING or sitting? Even before then perhaps we could have F: Standing. visual and audio, maybe a television rig. (The following is from a Psvchic L: On the table? Of course if we saw him that doesn't Dreaming class at the Dream House in F: Sure. I hope he doesn't break necessarily mean that he's there. It could San Francisco during Spring, 1988.) it! be a video tape. 8: I had him sitting because that F: You could send him a modem Linda: Mutual dreaming occurs was just my image. message. when two or more people share common L: Standing, sitting. What kind of L: You could. One of the things elements in their dreams or experience expression does he have on his face? that really intrigued me about Superman. the same dream. Actually, there's a J: Thoughtful. The Moyje was when Superman is talking whole range of dreaming that can R: Boyish. to a holographic image which is acting as happen, from the most obtuse kind of J: Boyish and thoughtful. though it were a real person. But you indications that we're on the same wave 8: He's very much into what he's know from the script that it is not; his length all the way up to the whiz bang "I expressing. He's very ... father has been dead for many years. know you're in my dream and you know K: Sincere. And yet Superman is able to have this I'm in yours" which is the shared dream­ L: Okay, is he paying attention to interdynamic conversation with his ing experience. any of us? father's image. When I first heard about and J: Uh-uh. (Laughter.) If we can imagine such technology, started reading about it, I had in mind that K: The first image I had when you consider that our dreaming minds are mutual dreaming had to be of the whiz said Bob Trowbridge was of him standing. much more free in terms of how we can bang variety. But what I've discovered as I had him with a kind of krinkle, a smile in communicate with one another or be with I've worked with group and telepathic his eyes, but you're right, not paying any other people. Then when we start asking, dreaming is that there's a wide spectrum attention to any one of us. "Can I mutual dream with another of things that can happen between being F: Actually I've got him over here, person?" what do we really mean? What in your own private dream space and this ·when he was trying to put in the wiring level of contact are we talking about? Are more public goal. We come together and saying, "I can't do this, I can't do we talking about eyeball to eyeball even in physical life, not always looking this," trying to figure it out. contact? Are we talking about a replay of one another straight in the eye. Even L: Okay, do we have the same an old tape that happened several though we may be physically in the same Bob Trowbridge? Well, obviously we months ago in time? How valid are our room, in our minds we can be in Tahiti or have overlapping variations of Bob dream contacts? on the moon or in the midst of a game of Trowbridge. But there are some things In a certain sense, it may not Dungeons and Dragons. that are in common and others that are matter, because we consider that TV's Certainly it's been made very clear not. I had him with a yellow shirt on, for and radios and phones and letters are all to me how many different layers of instance. legitimate forms of contact with other consciousness and ways of connection R: I had a blue one too, but not a people, although they may not be there there are in the waking state. So it's not T-shirt, just a long-sleeve, but cotton, too. physically. surprising, when we move to the dream L: That's pretty apropos of Mr. Bob When I began looking at my own state, which is a much freer place to Trowbridge. Okay, now if we wanted to dreams and reading the reports of other experience our own consciousness, that contact this gentleman, and let's not get dreamers I started considering this model we get into spaces where other people too psychic about it right now, how would and saying, "Okay, maybe we're coming appear as symbol only and not as we go about doing that? in at quite oblique angles, but there can themselves. J: I'd call him on the phone. still be a very valid contact even though When you think about it, how many L: I'd like to move back a step and we're not having exactly the same different ways are there in the waking say that one of the first ways we could get dream." What are we having instead? state for being in communication with into contact with him which wouldn't even The same symbols are showing up; the another person? I can be thinking about involve his voice presence would be to same feeling tone. The phrases being someone else and project a very strong write him a letter. We could put informa­ spoken by our dream characters are very hallucinatory image and indeed, that's tion down on a piece of paper and send it similar. So I took those elements back to something I'd like to suggest we do right and he could send a letter back to us. the dreamers. now. Let's see-let's pick somebody who Next would be the phone with actual R: What do you mean, you took we all like. voice contact, but without visual image. them back? K: Bob Trowbridge. R: We could send him flowers. L: To the dreamers and asked, L: Okay, Bob Trowbridge is right K: A singing telegram. "Hey, does this sound right to you?" here. Can you see him? What's he L: All right. So there are very R: And they would basically tell wearing? symbolic ways of communicating with Mr. you whether or not they thought the K: A blueT-shirt. Trowbridge. Then we could move to a correlation was valid or whether it was L: What's he doing? 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14 dream network bulletin L: Right. On the frontiers of this kind of dreamwork, it's not just the dreamers who are exploring, it's us rfflrrre(ffj,mmflJ©rE arry Destination facilitators, too. Because there are very the elevator that takes me up few rules, we are making them up as we THE DREAM has holes in the floor. moreover, go along. That's why I encourage as it's disconcerting to have it pause much feedback as I can get because it The house was Paris Green. and move stealthily sideways. helps me to help everybody else. A color she hated. We need to begin to get a sense of I do arrive, to be sure, at the ballroom. the subtleties, to ask, "Where was I Autumn leaves covered a comer the dog, however, who meets me speaks sharing symbols or actually getting in of the roof only Italian. touch with another person as opposed to like a brown/green coat. another part of my dream where there When the rain came it rolled Communication was absolutely no correlation? Was there from the leaves onto cracked not only are the frames a feeling level difference in this part of the tiles where it gargled its way in the art gallery empty, dream as contrasted with that part? Was down gutters to a wild profusion the place is alive there a scene shift in between? What of dead blossoms. with a badly-behaved bunch of boys. was going on so I would relate to another The long wide path was punctuated "be quiet!" I yell, "where's the phone?" dreamer here and not over there?" These with petals. Rose. Russet Mum. then I wrench the thing from its moorings are some of the questions I and other And skulls sunflowers. dreamers began to ask ourselves. What of to hurl at the ringleader's head. goes on seems to be like switching from daydreaming at the ceiling to suddenly She stood, breathless, Frustration com ing back to the group and realizing, facing the reseda door. the passport which admits me to the airfield "Oh, yes, there's a conversation going on Reached for the brass knob is a document roughly the size here." encased in green crust. of a dream-journal page. most impressive. 8: That's an interesting analogy. One tum ... and the door opened. much good does it do me, however. L: That seems to go on all the time The room's ceiling was covered I can't seem to find the official in our dreams because we wander about, with sliver/white moths who can give me a license to fly. maybe focussing on other people and and hundreds of larvae moved then we're off again. like long sea green fmgers. I'd like to share a commentary from Consternation They pointed. Beckoned. a mutual dream experiment. Actually it's a terribly slender bridge. it spans a shared dreaming experiment. From a single window a terribly cavernous hole. "come along," K: What's the difference? cool flames of light says my guide-girl. "''ve got ancestral L: At one end of the spectrum we steeped the walls connections here." but I, refusing, try to find common elements, get psychic in virulent moon glow. fmd myself sad "hits." I dream about a dog; you dream in a wasteland edging the city. about a dog. I'm crying in my dreams; She stared, hypnotized you're in bad spirits in yours. There are by the moths as their wings Edith S. Gilmore bits and pieces that are similar. But, as transformed into ears turned you move up the scale these incidents in the direction of every breath. grow. She pressed back against the wall, So, in the midst of these massive tortured her mind dream reports, there's this one little scene. I have a flash of people walking to find a new dream on a beach and all I can see is from the within the old. knees down. The same night another Closed her eyes. Screamed. member, Barbara Shor, has that image in Sound waves bounced in the dream/ her dream. They were up on a cliff above room. the sea, though. Shattered the tall window. K: But she saw them from the She found herself running knees down. through a tunnel of endless echoes, L: Right, she had a flash. I just until she awakened looked at Bob Trowbridge's report and he surrounded by French lace. comes at it from a more oblique angle, but A noisy clock. The drowsy cat. that little scene is in this dream too. K: So that's a shared dream. L: No, we're not there yet. We're · Elizabeth Raymond really not aware of the fact that I'm seeing Continued on page 19 may/june 1989 15

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"I "I a a suspended from three tall trees in our back yard. My brother and I play on it a cHILDREN'S DREAMS lot and it is real fun. Most of my dreams are fun. My favorite things are flying, swimming deep Chidren 's dreams down and meeting my friends. If you feel are precious things nothin's going right, dreams will tell you why. Dreams help you out. tiny castles Noah: Mostly I dream of flying. in the air. Sometimes I have big white wings and sometimes I use a hang glider. Some­ And wise we times I just kick my feet and float around. are Lots of times I breathe under water and who make it seem it's really real. I have had two or three as though they're lucid dreams that are neat because then I really there. can do anything. I like to think about my dreams. Whenever something happens in my life like the dream, I think it has to Marty Folin do with the dream. The best things about ~- --·-·~ -~~ dreams is that you can't get hurt in them, . ~llfl\ but what I hate is that I can't taste :-··~"":"~·. · - anything. I want to start flying from the ground instead of having to fly from the peer pressure, but just to be who I am. dream workshops at local colleges. roof. I also want to fly farther than 20 Basically, everything that is going on in Erik: I like dad being a dream­ yards. my life is helped by my dreams. My worker because he doesn't get tired, Gabe: I have lucid dreams most of dreams are usually very pleasant. greasy and dirty, and the work is not the time. Once in a while I wish I didn't They're about everyday things, like about dangerous, so I don't worry. I really enjoy know I was dreaming, like if I find a my parents and friends. I haven't had the interesting stories he tells. I some­ treasure or something. My dreams make repeated dreams or nightmares in a very times dream about animals that are a special sound and look fuzzy around long time. One thing I always wanted to combinations of different animals. the edges , so I can tell they're dreams. I do was fly in my dreams, which I just did Sometimes they're really huge. I have want a dream which is just like reality so twice. In one, I flew around a supermar­ lucid dreams and nightmares, but not very that I can't tell the difference. I think ket. I'd like to be able to have a lucid often. I have dreams that come true a about my dreams during the day if they dream. I think that would feel great. If couple of days later and it feels like deja seem important. you don't know what's going on in your vu to me. I have a repeated falling Tricia, age 11, and Elyssa, age 16, dreams, you don't know what's going on dream. I would like to fly in my dreams. I are the daughters of Adrienne and Barry in a very big part of your life. like dreams because then it's not all dark Anbinder who recently moved to Tricia: I've remembered my when you're sleeping. I think dreams Norcross, Georgia. Adrienne formerly ran dreams since I was three. I used to have help us gradually get used to what it's like the Dream Group of Cincinatti with a nightmares about me or my parents to die. Dreams give you information on friend. She now runs the Dream Group of dying. Now I just dream about normal what is going on in your life that you don't Atlanta which offers classes to adults and things and people. I had one lucid dream notice. It's impossible to predict what children on understanding their dreams. and I tried to change what was going on you're going to dream about each night. I Both girls like having their mother around me. I usually dream about the have remembered my dreams since age as a dreamworker and say it has helped same topic two nights in a row. One night two. I savor my dreams and carry them in them in their life. Tricia says, "I feel pretty I dreamed I went to a party and the next my mind for a day or two to notice lucky having a mom be a dreamworker. night I dreamed I was at school talking patterns. Most of my dreams take a long It's sort of like having a horoscope every about the party. Dreams help me time to have but a short time to tell. day. Just because being a dreamworker understand, sort out and realize things Erica, age 5, and Shamrock, age is different from being a secretary doesn't about myself and what I've been thinking 12, were interviewed by Bob Trowbridge. mean it's bad. It's a good career." about. They are usually the answer to They are the daughters of Jill and Bob Elyssa: I like it a lot. My mom problems and worries. I can depend on Gregory who also live in Novato, Califor­ taught dreams to my psychology class my dreams. nia. Jill is the director of the Novato and everyone was real impressed. My Erik, age 13, is the only son of Ken Center for Dreams, an educational and mom has helped me understand my and Charlene Keizer who live in Novato, resource center for dreamers and dream­ dreams. I grew up with dreams and I like California. Charlene is a therapist who workers. She teaches dream skills them because they help me understand works with dreams presented by clients, through classes, tutoring and self things about my life and about myself. but doesn't consider herself a dream­ published materials. Dreams help me with relationships and worker. Ken has recently published a Shamrock: I know how to handle with problems. Like the one last night book on lucid dreaming entitled The Sun nightmares and I have someone to talk to. showed me not to change myself out of and the Shadow. He teaches and leads The only thing I don't like is that it seems may/june 1989 17 that mom is always on the phone and if I and working on dreams. the oval. Then I sit on something else interrupt her I get busted. I have all kinds Erica: If my children have a scary and when I do, it becomes a slide. At the of dreams, mostly confusing ones. I have dream I would always put them in bed bottom is fire and crocodiles. I feel a false awakenings, lucid dreams and lots with me to help them have a good drea!"'l. push and go down the slide. Just before of dreams of horses. I haven't had a Victor: I'd probably do what my the bottom I wake up. nightmare in a long time. I had one out­ mom does. I would try to analyze their Erik: I had this dream when I was of-body and one flying dream. Dreams dreams with them. I would ask them what two. I don't remember it myself but my help me wake up in the morning so I get happened during the day or the day parents have mentioned it many times. I ready in time for school. They've helped before that might be connected with the came into their bedroom very scared me get over my fear of my horse and dream. I might suggest who a particular because in my dream a "fok" was chasing make her respond to what I want her to character may be representing in their me. I don't even remember what I was do. I have learned a lot of different ways waking life. referring to when I called it that name. My to dream but I don't know how to incubate The children have learned a lot. parents told me to fight it. The next dreams yet and I would I like to swim in a Noah: I have learned that you can morning I told them I fought the "fok" and I dream. One thing I did was really neat. I depend on dreams. They don't lie to you was very happy and excited! wanted to bring a song from the waking and they can show you things about the All of the children are happy that state into my dream and not have it get past and future. their parents are dreamworkers. They changed. I did it two nights ago. The Tricia: Sometimes dreams are see dreams as an important part of their song was 'I Feel the Magic,' by Belinda embarrassing. People don't want to work own life and plan to be involved in dreams Carlisle. on it or find out what it means. You for the rest of their lives. Comparing their Erica: I've remembered dreams shouldn't be embarrassed of it because it dream lives to most children, I find a since I was three. You see, my dreams is usually just something that you need to striking level of positive rapport with their helped me learn to talk. I dream a lot know. dreams and a high degree of sophistica­ about horses and swimming. My dreams Following are some of the dreams tion in their dreaming skills. Interestingly have taught me how to swim better. I that the children chose to share with me. enough, none of them wanted to become wou ld like to have more horse dreams. Erica: I dream that my sister goes a dreamworker. What they plan to do What I don't like about my mom being a swimming and drowns. I go to get her instead is be an architect, archeologist, dreamworker is she works in her office and I drown. Then my mom and dad try anthropologist, western horse rider, and doesn't play sandtray with me. and drown. After I die I come alive. I kick basketball player, author, zoologist and In every case parents were the my feet and come to the top of the water. rock star. I find myself feeling happy for instigators of dream recording and All of the others are holding onto me so I these children that their parents have dreamwork, encouraging their children to save them all. (This dream taught me taken the time to make dreams such a do as much on their own as possible. that to swim better I needed to kick my positive part of their lives. Some children tape record or write down feet.) ASD continued from oaqe 7 special dreams. Other things children do Shamrock: One time I couldn't find with their dreams include drawing, writing my riding hat and it was a real problem. It executive level resists doing hands on poetry or short stories and doing rituals. went on for weeks and everyone blamed experiential dreamwork within the None of the children, except Tricia, do me, including my teacher. I asked my conference because of a belief that dream journaling with any consistency, dreams to help. That night I dreamt my dreamwork can be dangerous and is but all say they will do so in the future. All hat was in my instructor's locker. We told therefore a potential legal and financial share dreams as a family, depending on her about the dream and asked her to liability. That fear restricts what we can individual schedules and interest. open the locker. There it was. She had do and ultimately undermines the strength Elyssa: We usually share dreams put it there and forgotten. of the organization. at breakfast or at dinner on the week­ Victor: This is a dream I remember The second involves the three ends. We talk about dreams so we can from age five. I'm down at the end of our interest groups at the conference­ see them from different viewpoints. street with Don, a neighbor. All of a research, clinical and community dream­ None of them know other kids who sudden a multi-colored dragon appears. worker. Each of us feels somewhat have parents as dreamworkers, but when It is transparent with swirls of red, blue insecure, as an individual within our field asked, most of them had some advice for and black. The dragon says he is going of expertise, as a member of one interest kids in their situation. to kill all of these people. I yell, "No, no!" group in relation to the larger group (ASD) Tristy: They shouldn't think they're Don says, "Yes he can. It is inevitable." and in relation to the larger community/ the only kids in that situation, because Don disappears and the dragon repeats society. We are presented with a choice they're not. They should not feel his statement. Then the dragon starts as to how to handle that insecurity. We ashamed. They should feel happy and laughing and flies off. can feed it by perceiving each other as proud. Tricia: This is when I was five. I'm threats and by expending time and Elyssa: I'd tell them just to take it in the dining room of my aunt and uncle's energy justifying our own work. Or we as an advantage and, yes, it is an house. There is a booth and on the wall can respond to it positively by putting time unusual profession, but it is an interesting behind the booth are ovals, like decora­ and energy into our creative work and one and they can learn a lot from it. tions. My uncle and cousin want to show embracing the other interest groups as All said they would help their own me something. The oval is full of junk. I allies, supporting their growth as they children with dreams, sharing, recording sit up on the booth but still can't see down support ours. Collectively we become like 18 dream network bulletin three legs of a stool and can present a COMPUTER continued from page 4 had thwarted my plans for years: to trim united voice to the public without being in my ambition to a design that, while less total agreement with one another. terms. A controlled vocabulary, easier on than I would like, I could implement in a In order for the organization/ the retriever, requires more effort in limited time. A simple tool, ready this org anism to be living, dynamic and indexing. What I wanted was somewhere year, to help locate and organize the wholistic, a better balance of these three between a controlled and an uncontrolled discoveries and ideas adrift in piles of groups should be evident on the board as vocabulary. Indexing must be open­ paper journals would yield a greater catch well as in the conference programming. It ended-who knows what meanings than the ultimate hypertext system stuck will be interesting to see the influence of you're going to find as you study your on the drawing board. the European dream community on the dreams? But rather than support casual Seasonings in my recipe included growth of ASD and on future conferences. keyword indexing the system should limitations of disk space (I wanted the (If you see your picture in the DEN facilitate care in avoiding scattering program to run on an inexpensive home photographs, please write or call and meanings among several terms. system) and concern about the inherent identify yourself. I will be happy to send Other difficulties arise with the slowness of many hypertext operations each of you a copy of the photograph you freedom of association in hypertext. The (requiring many disk accesses for single are in. (415) 898-2559.) primary problem is of disorientation. Take tasks). a few digressions, and-what was it I was My dreaming mind informed me MUTUAL DREAMING cont. from pq. 15 doing? This problem arises partly for the one morning that it was sou~a new you and you're seeing me. What we're same reason that recall and precision design, simplified, brazen in its omissions, doing is mutual dreaming. failures accompany uncontrolled keyword but elegant in what remained. I wrote it J: Mutual dreaming but not shared indexing. Unrestrained linking can make out. dreaming. spaghetti of your records instead of Coming next issue-Part 2: The L: Then up the scale, shared organizing them. As with indexing, the Design of ((Dream On!)) dreaming is, I see you in my dream, you program should facilitate thoughtfulness see me. We have a dialogue or some in linking, without restricting it. Another References: event is happening so that when we component of the problem of disorienta­ (1) Nelson, Ted. Literary Machines. compare dream reports there is the "ah­ tion is the lack of a sense of which way is Swarthmore, PA: Ted Nelson (1981 ). hah!" of recognition. We were both there. up. With free linking, one direction is as (2) Bush, Vannevar. As we may think. K: I would think that the ultimate good as another. (With indexing, you Atlantic Monthly 176, 1 (July 1945), would be to become skilled enough in know at least which is the topic and which 101-108. doing it so you make plans to meet in the text referred to.) Free linking also Copyrights and Trade Marks: order to engage in a project. tends to blur boundaries of sets or This article Copyright 1989, Dennis L: Right. And we'd go off and categories--often desirable, but it makes Schmidt, All Rights Reserved. have our adventures or do something it harder to hold "things," or sets of things, ((Dream On!)) software Copyright 1989, together. We create our own reality and in mind. A minimal conceptual super­ Dennis Schmidt, All Rights Reserved. hopefully bring back some of it to the structure can help provide both bounda­ ((Dream On!)) is a trademark of Dennis waking state. ries and direction, by categorizing the Schmidt. 8: The ultimate for me would be things one is working with-as themes, Apple is a registered trademark of Apple being able to do it consciously where the events, or words, for example-and the Computer, Inc. other person could be 10 miles away and elementary ways they can be related. Macintosh and HyperCard are trademarks both of you just go into meditation and Some links then are asymmetric, provid­ of Apple Computer, Inc. you're instantly together. ing orientation, while others are symmet­ IBM is a registered trademark of Interna­ R: What might be fun would be ric, allowing free clustering. Finally, the tional Business Machines Corp. material intended to stimulate this kind of system should provide maps giving Commodore is a registered trademark of dreaming, to add the element of play to it, overviews of regions, where possible, and Commodore Electronics, Ltd. as another avenue of shared experience. reminders of recently viewed items. Amiga is a registered trademark of L: I'll second that. A final-rather, initial-challenge Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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may/june 1989 ' 19 BOOK REVIEW cont. from page 24 strange, incredible, unreal occurrences in know that The Satanic Verses is express­ away, Chamcha's dreams again and The Satanic Verses precisely in order to ing real meanings and ideas that cut right again grab at his attention and force him express how strange and incredible the to the heart of their religion. We must to face the conflicts his anglophile experiences of Indians in the modern certainly deplore the riots, the deaths, and persona is causing. world really are. the threats against Rushdie. We must, So what, if anything, do the The Satanic Verses affirms the however, at the same time not try to experiences of these characters tell us power of dreams to illuminate realities dismiss the Muslim world's uproar as an about the nature of dreams? Even in and convey meanings that ordinary irrational reaction to a "mere novel." these short descriptions we may see that rational awareness simply can't recognize Insofar as The Satanic Verses is a dream Farishta's and Chamcha's dreams are on its own. But what is especially in the full sense mentioned above, important vehicles of memory, of what significant here is that Rushdie (and other Muslims are reacting to something real they have forgotten and of what they must Magical Realist writers) is using dream­ and meaningful. We may utterly disagree remember. Their dreams are powerful, in­ logic to describe not just personal, but with that reaction, but we should at least escapably provocative, and absolutely social, communal experiences. The refrain from branding them as crazy for real in the sense of having an impact on Satanic Verses addresses the nightmar­ taking dreams so seriously.(2) their lives; the dreams reconnect Farishta ish reality of a whole community strug­ The Satanic Verses is a tremen­ and Chamcha with their spiritual roots and gling with the horrifying complexities of dous novel-funny, beautiful, poignant, indicate new meanings and possibilities, the modern West. thought-provoking, and hugely entertain­ pointiing them towards the future. Here, then, is something new that ing. It also happens to be one of the best Is any of this new, though? Don't this work of creative art teaches the works on the nature and meaning of we already know all this from our own individual dreamworker: dreams can dis­ dreams written in this century. dream experiences? Yes, but that's close not only personal, but communal (1) Other prominent writers in the precisely the important point here: the meanings as well, dreams can revive Magical Realist tradition include Jorge dreams in The Satanic Verses are truly memories, highlight conflicts, and point Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and accurate portrayals of "actual" dreams. towards the future possibilities of a Gunter Grass. This answers the concern that dreams in people. (2) In recognizing works of art as works of art aren't like real dreams. In The Nove/Itself as a Dream. embodying the essential qualities of this novel the characters' dreams do have Indeed, this notion of dreams and dreaming, we quickly come up against the the qualities of our own dreams, and we communal experiences can be extended all-too neglected issue of dreams and do have enough associational material to to a view of The Satanic Verses as a ethics: we may have certain dream make justified interpretations. The very whole: the novel is in many ways itself a experiences (in our sleep or in a work of fact that we find so many similarities communal dream. It is a work of imagina­ art) and we may perceive certain mean­ between our dreams and these fictional tion, apart from and yet related to waking ings in these experiences; but then, what dreams should embolden us to look for reality, a special world which we enter guides us in acting upon those dream ex­ differences, for special aspects of the through reading and which we share with periences? This is the ethical question fictional dreams that may reveal new all others who read it. This is a character­ which is called forth in all dream interpre­ features of our own dreams. istic of all powerful works of art, from tations. The behavior of some Muslims in Dream-Logic. The plot of The literature to film, that we experience them relation to The Satanic Verses is an Satanic Verses often takes bizarre, as we experience a dream-they pull us example, I would argue, of an ethically fantastic twists which lead us far beyond into their imagined realities, challenge us, reprehensible reaction to a dream. the bounds of ordinary, day-to-day logic. move us, shake us up, and then return us Mr. Kelly Bulkley,1400 N. State, #5D For example, Farishta and Chamcha fall to the "waking world" with new insights Chicago, IL 60610 (exactly) 29,002 feet from an exploded and understandings. airplane, and survive-and Chamcha still Perhaps this special kind of has his bowler hat on; soon after a halo experience constitutes the essence of DREAMT/ME cont. from oaqe 5 gradually appears around Farishta's dreaming-the reveries occurring in our breaking their tools. We know how much head, while Chamcha grows horns, sleep involve more individual forms of this power is needed and where to hit the tree hooves, a tail, and thick hair all over his special experience, while works of art to chop it down. Any time we take increasingly goat-like body. seek to stimulate the dreaming experi­ something from the Mother Earth, we pray In these and many other ways the ence for a community. to her first. We make killer boomerangs novel has what can best be described as I would go even farther here, to from wood and hunt kangaroo. Before we a dream-logic: things that just couldn't suggest that The Satanic Verses is one of hunt the kangaroo, we pray to its spirit happen in "real" life do happen in this the most powerful and most real artistic and to the Mother Earth. You know, the story. Mr. Rushdie is writing here in the dreams of recent times. Many literalisti­ Aboriginal people were once very tall­ modern literary tradition known as cally-minded critics have been shocked at seven foot tall-big, powerful men. Look Magical Realism.(1) Writers in the all the violence surrounding the book's at us today. I'm only five foot six. Since Magical Realism movement share the publication. They cannot believe that we've been eating white man's food, I'm conviction that ordinary prose is too people are getting so upset about a piece getting smaller. So, you see the differ­ limited, too familiar to describe adequately of fiction-~wenmore inexplicably, about ence? The Aboriginal food was blessed the bizarre and often horrifying realities of some dreams within a piece of fiction. and had vitamins. It was good for you. I the 20th century. Thus, Rushdie writes of But millions of outraged Muslims think the Aboriginal people were better off 20 dream network bulletin classifieds then, than they are today. 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