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From: c60a-gx@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey Twu)
Subject: Re: Similar dreams, over and over again.
Summary: Interpretation of dreams
Keywords: girl
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:11:56 GMT

>These two years, I have these similar dreams, and they will be in my sleep
>approximately once every 2 months.

>I always dream of a person who I used to be head over heals with.  But that
>was 7 years ago. I dream that she is taking the same class with me and we
>talk and have fun.  All the dreams abount this person are of pure friendship.
>And all these years, I still miss her a lot, though I have never seen her again
>after grade 8.  I know where she had been or is all the while because I have
>friends who know her, too.

From what you've written, it sounds like your "head over heels" encounter
with her was an idealistic slip into love--an infatuation.  Now, as
infatuations go, much of the time, no real contact is actually made with
the object of desire, so I would probably ask if you ever became the great
friends so frequent in your dreams.

But from the tone of your message, it sounds like you never did get to know
her very well (well, her getting to know you is the real problem).
Therefore, I would interpret these dreams of past infatuation along the
same cause--that of an idealistic reversion from the pressures (or lack of
it) today.

In other words, you've probably discovered love is much more complicated
than it was back in the "wonder years" of junior high.  And you're dreaming
of this girl simply because you desire something simple--yet pure and
intimate--amidst the trials and tribulations of adulthood.  In essence,
you probably don't have any (or, at least, not many) bad remembrances
of her, and therefore can associate everything "right" and simple with
this girl.  Thus, what's intimately innocent to you lacks all that is
sexual in your dreams.

And since I'm not one on precognition or deja vu, I would say no in answer
to your question of whether the dream will toll the event of your reunion.

However, I would strongly encourage you to actively seek her out,
instead of relying on some recurring dream to fulfill its "prophecy."
Talk to her...get to know her.  She'll be out of your dreams (if that's
what you want), and you'll get a better understanding of your idealistic
wants versus the reality of your objective.

Jeffrey Twu
c60a-gx@danube.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Similar dreams, over and over again.
From: salina@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:05:46 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

Can someone interpret this dream for me, please?  I am frustrated.....

These two years, I have these similar dreams, and they will be in my sleep
approximately once every 2 months.

I always dream of a person who I used to be head over heals with.  But that
was 7 years ago. I dream that she is taking the same class with me and we
talk and have fun.  All the dreams abount this person are of pure friendship.
And all these years, I still miss her a lot, though I have never seen her again
after grade 8.  I know where she had been or is all the while because I have
friends who know her, too.

Now, my questions are:
1. Why did she come back to my dreams all of a suddden after some 5 years??

2. Does that mean I still have strong feelings for her, or that I just want
   to see her?

3. Why are there no sexual scenes in those dreams?

4. Does that imply that I am going to meet her somewhere sometime?

All dreams interpreters out there, please try your effort and tell me if my
dreams mean anything...

Thank you.

-Sal-
From: abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Morley A.B.)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Drug-induced dreams
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:58:59 GMT

In <1992Sep1.225043.4665@leland.Stanford.EDU> kessler@roses.stanford.edu (Will Kessler) writes:

>Hello dreamers,
...
>Or perhaps I'm restating the obvious?  In any case, I'm curious because
>recently I've been put on a medication that relieves symptoms of
>"glandular fever", aka CFS, a debilitating immune system disorder.  One
>of the side effects of this drug, however, is that as the body adapts to
>new levels of dosage (it's applied gradually), many patients tend to have
>vivid nightmares that seem to last all night.  This weekend, for example,

Does anyone know by what means a drug influenmces the
nature of your dreams, ie increased hightmares?
-- 
Andrew Morley - Flossie | abm88@uk.ac.soton.ecs ... abm88@ecs.soton.uk.ac
                        | University Of Southampton, UK.
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From: mneugeba@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Mike Neugebauer)
Subject: What a dream!
Keywords: wow
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:26:08 GMT

	Well, last night I had a disturbing dream so to speak (because that's   how I felt in the morining).  I dreamt about my best friend (Natalie) and my    ex-girlfriend right after.  Strange things happened in that dream, I barely     talked, and the other girls didnt talk at all, yet I KNEW what they were thinking.  I remember only the sound of the wind, and the smiles of both girls.  This is the first time something like that entered my mind. 
	Also, if any of you good people know how to reach the OBE (out of body experience) I would be eternally gratefull.  I have two books on the subject, butthe techniques described within don't  seem to work for me or my friends.  I    am totally convinced of OBE's existance and the realms beyond.  Please help me out on this one!

          Mike.
From: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: fake veteran dream
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:17:45 GMT
Reply-To: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

Together with Mel Gibson I was to reveal that a presidential(sp?)
candidate had lied about being a Vietnam war veteran. Mel knew
that it was a lie, from being member of a club for veterans/
disabled. We were going to announce this at a combination of
veterans' meeting/trial(court)/rock concert. No evidence seemed to
be necessary; All vets in the club knew all the other vets, so
it would do to show only that the candidate had made the claim
to be one.

First Mel would do his show, then a concert was to take place. 
We were standing on a stage, Mel at the edge, facing the audience 
- mostly veterans, but I noticed a TV-team as well. The revelation 
was stated on a kind of billboard, covered with a drapery(sp?) 
until the moment of truth. I was standing further back on the 
stage, wearing a bass guitar. I was obviously going to play in 
the band at the concert.

To the left of the scene was the judge's podium (or whatever it's
called) and to the right was the jury's place. Looked much like a
court room in that, and had that typical court room furniture,
wooden details, etc.

Me and the guys in the band were waiting for the announcement,
and impatiently played with our (musical! :-) instruments, with
the volume turned down not to disturb the audience. Another guy
in the band, an old schoolfriend from 11 years in the same classes,
came up to me and started to fiddle around with the knobs on my
bass guitar. At first, this was annoying, but my friend discovered
that one of the knobs yielded a "phaser" effect, and that delighted
me. He encouraged me to turn the volume up, and jam a while to
show the phaser effect to the audience. As I played (I didn't do
too good), the audience started to mumble and move impatiently.
Some guitar player joined in for a while, but we stopped playing
as the moment of the announcement seemed to come closer. The 
audience was now quite upset.

Just as Mel was going to pull away the curtain that was covering
the board, the court room turned totally chaotic. It seemed that
the PR crew of the candidate had sneaked in, and was now pulling
cords, moving cameras, disconnecting connections etc. to prevent
the announcement to take place. The judge was shouting, demanding
order and telling the PR people they were to be convicted if they
didn't stop.

Looking to my left, I noticed that the jury consisted of (that guy
from _back to the future_) and a steadily built blonde, whom he was
trying hard to seduce, saying: "I want to rub my belly against you!"
or similar. The girl thought he was pulling her leg, and rejected
him.

Enjoy!

--tommy 
*************************************************************
*       semper idem!        *     "O Frabjous Day!          * 
*  cafer@etek.chalmers.se   *      Callooh! Callay!"   -L.C.*
*************************************************************
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From: Michael.Gunderson@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Michael Gunderson)
Subject: Willing but unable
Followup-To: alt.dreams
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:15:55 GMT

  I've had a strange problem for a time now, and thought I would share with
you in case you might have advice for my poor beleagured soul.  I seem to
loose the ability to do anything paranormal once I understand how to do it.

  For example: I had heard that a nightmare can be converted into a lucid
dream (or a spiritual revelation, according to the source) by confronting
the source of the terror in the dream.  Fine.  Can't wait to try it.  Only
problem is, _NOW_ I don't have (recallable) nightmares. Not a one. Not since
I learned that they could be useful.

  Another: I'd experienced night paralysis episodes for most of my life.
I'd read that these experiences could be used to initiate an out-of-body
experience.  Fine.  Except that _NOW_ I don't have such episodes.  Not
any more.

  Is there a problem with my mindset?  Could expectation of or
preparedness for an eventr somehow nullify the conditions under which such
an event could occur?

  Or am I actually having phenominal successes that I can't remember? (*Sigh*)


--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Drug-induced dreams
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:04:30 GMT

In <1992Sep5.092820.15596@ultb.isc.rit.edu> entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
	(Erik Timmerman) writes:

> 1. The information I have is that subliminal selling in movie theaters
> didn't work and was discontinued rather than outlawed.

I seem to recall reading or hearing that it was on television that the
practice was outlawed.  There were some best-selling books about twenty
years ago on this whole subject that have become classics.  The first
was called _Subliminal Seduction_.  I've forgotten the title of the
second, but it had something to do with oysters, I think (a place mat
at Howard Johnson's, I think it was, was claimed to have an illustration
of a plate of oysters that had sexual symbolism, or some such).

> 3. Finally, a story, not about dreams, but about drug induced
> insights...
>
> ...there, written
> on a piece of paper were the words: "something in here smells bad."

Well, if the point was to discount or discredit insights obtained in
altered states of consciousness, I don't think Erik succeeds here.  It
seems to me that those words could have an import and significance to
the person that ordinary consciousness just cannot fathom.  It reminds
me of statements made in Zen koans - which go beyond what the logical
mind can deal with, which is precisely their point.

--
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: HELP!
Date: 7 Sep 1992 06:07:43 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

I am overwhelmed by these recurring nightmares about absolutely mundane
topics, like my refrigerator is full of rotten food, or that I missed a 
class.  How can I start having more dreamy dreams?  Your e-mail would
certainly be appreciated.

robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: mk2289@cehp6.cen.uiuc.edu (Milan Keser)
Subject: Re: Remembering Dreams
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:55:41 GMT

Mike Monello  writes:

>I'm new to this group, but I find the subject fascinating.  Here's my dilemma: 
>I often cannot remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning.  If I wake up
>in the middle of a dream, I remember everything, but when my trusty alarm
>buzzes me awake in the morning I can't recall a thing.  This may have something
>to do with the fact that when I was little I suffered horrible nightmares for
>several months, and I forced myself to repress my dreams.  What I'd really like
>to know is what can I do to help me remember my dreams?

 An easy way to improve your dream recall is to keep a dream log. At first, you may find that you only remember bits and pieces of dreams, or fleeting images.
That's fine. Right down absolutely everything you can remember. After a month 
of this, I found myself able to remember up to ten dreams a night! Usually
five or so... You will probably find that you can remember a lot more dreams
on the weekend, that is if you are like me and tend to sleep a few extra hours
then. It seems that the few hours after you wake up are the best hours for
dreaming, if only you could have stayed asleep....

                                          -Milan
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dreaming, if you would have stayed asleep...
From: wincerw@fe616.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Wincer)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Ghost(?) in dream
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:05:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University


     When I was a kid, I used to have this dream of a ghost (I think).  It was 
your classic glowing body like ghost, and it was clear enough to see expressionson its face.  I could tell that it was a female of about 28 years.  Well, anywaythe dream I had of it was always the same:  I would be in my bedroom when this
ghost would just come walking through the doorway.  Of course, being 7 years oldI was SCARED and would start running from this ghost.  I would run past it, out
the doorway, and downstairs.  I would then stop to see if it was still followingme (which it was).  The weird thiong is that it never did anything that should
scare me.  It always had a calm look on its face (almost expressionlessly calm)
and when it was following me, it would only move at a very slow gliding rate. 
This always gave me the impression that it was trying to say, "You can run all
you want, but you`ll get tired soon enough.  Of course I won't, so why should I
hurry?"  I would always wake up before she caught me but when I woke up, it
always felt like it really did happen, I just blacked out and woke up in bed.
     All of a sudden, 10 years after my last dream of this sort, I dreamt that
a ghost of the same glowing quality came to me while I was in my bedroom.  This
ghost appeared to be around 60 years old, but I KNEW that it was the same one.
Well, once again I ran downstairs (with her folowing as casually as ever), but
somehow, this time I knew that she couldn't leave the house so I walked out the
door and left it open.  I stood about 6 inches outside of the door so I knew it
would be safe to talk to her without any harm to me.  So I asked her what she
wanted and all she said was, "If you want money, remember this number XXXX."  
For the life of me, when I woke up I couldn't remember any of the four digit
number which reall got me mad because I usually get A LOT of winning 3 digit
lottery numbers and I knew that I would hit the Big 4 if I could remember the 
number.  Anyway my question was:  I was wondering if possibly this might have
been an actual (benevolent) spirit that lives in my house.  Some people have
told me that spirits can contact you in dreams (of course just as many people,
if not more, don't even believe in spirits).  Just wondering what you guys
thought on the idea that spirits can contact us through dreams.
                                                                  --Thanks, 
                                                                    Baedrik 
 

 
 



 
 
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From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: music
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:36:11 GMT
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In <18qo0eINNhtj@bigboote.WPI.EDU> satan@wpi.WPI.EDU writes:

>  does anyone out there ever wake up on a given morning with a song in their 
>  head. I often wake up and the first thing on my mind is a song - lyrics
>  melody and all. The song is always a song i know, but often times i haven't
>  heard it for days or even a couple of weeks. 
>  
>  i figure this is normal, but i am curious to see who else experiences this.

As I mentioned in a posting some days ago, this is common to me too,
and I think it is common to many people.

MfG,
        Olaf
-- 
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(_)>(_)   +49-721-60439 - did i forget something?
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 auf nem Schrotthaufen. - Thomas Volkmar Worm
From: lazarus@venture.ksu.ksu.edu (Bart -Laz- Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: music
Date: 12 Sep 1992 01:40:36 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
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In article <18qo0eINNhtj@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer) writes:
>does anyone out there ever wake up on a given morning with a song in their 
>head. I often wake up and the first thing on my mind is a song - lyrics
>melody and all. The song is always a song i know, but often times i haven't
>heard it for days or even a couple of weeks. 

I do it whether I've just gotten up, or am going to bed, or maybe even at work.
What's really annoying is, usually it's a song that I REALLY like, but don't
happen to have on tape, and I can't remember who the artist is...	

>satan

--
Bart -Laz- Smith
Kansas State University
In one week the 'Cats go hunting for Grizzlies...
"Do you live around here often?" -- Steven Wright -- "I Have a Pony"
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From: rishb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (H. Beiers)
Subject: Re: Voices.
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:59:49 EST

kaurs@next05wor.wam.umd.edu (Sharanjit Kaur) writes:


>Hello all,
>         I recently had a dream where the voice of someone I knew several  
>years ago (and have not seen since) spoke to me on the phone. What I'm  
>perplexed about is that this voice sounded so lifelike, it was amazing -  
>almost like a conversation in real life. I never had a dream where the  
>audio (as opposed to visual) aspect stuck out so prominently. Can ayone  
>explain this?
> 
>-S. Kaur
>

I once had a dream during an afternoon nap that consisted of just one word,
there was no visual at all.  It was just out of the blue someone shouted my
name.  "Henric!!"  It was enough to wake me up and go to the front door
thinking that someone was there.  I then realised that it was a dream.

The strength of the audio image was really powerful. That's all there was.

Henric Beiers
henricb@rmit.edu.au
From: ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: The Larn
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:53:27 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


     I had a dream a few days ago about the Larn.  If this sounds familiar to
anyone, please e-mail me.  I don't want to discuss it on the group because it
might have been a shared-dream experiance and I would like to keep things
somewhat valid by not giving clues as to what "The Larn" means.
     Did this make any sense?

     Love and Peace and The Larn,
            -The Dreamer-
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From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: Voices.
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:21:29 GMT
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In <1992Sep10.145456.29807@wam.umd.edu> kaurs@next05wor.wam.umd.edu writes:

>  
>  Hello all,
>           I recently had a dream where the voice of someone I knew several  
>  years ago (and have not seen since) spoke to me on the phone. What I'm  
>  perplexed about is that this voice sounded so lifelike, it was amazing -  
>  almost like a conversation in real life. I never had a dream where the  
>  audio (as opposed to visual) aspect stuck out so prominently. Can ayone  
>  explain this?

I've regularly made the observation that in dreams and in
half-sleeping state I can hear some music (usually rock songs) from my
memory so clear and exact that I sometimes could think the radio is
on. This is not really a hallucination, though, because I always know
that it is not for real.  As soon as I get disturbed by waking up,
thinking with effort about something different or a real noise, the
sound image will disappear, leaving the regular memory image of music.
From what I remember I can always state that the dream music was
completely exact, i.e. not a mishmash of broken parts as dream images
usually are; but maybe this memory is wrong.

I explain this by stating that we can memorize images (audio images,
in this case) *perfectly* but it takes some effort for the brain to
reconstruct it, thus this effect is not present when awake (as the
brain has other things to do, loosely speaking.) It is frequently
surprising how exact dream images can be even if they memorize
something 'long forgotten', but I think that nothing ever memorized
gets lost, 'forgetting' taking only the meaning of 'inaccessible'.
(The brain is not a computer-like storage with store, recall and
delete functions...) And subsequently it can be reconstructed, as some
experiments show. It may come out that all dream images are taken from
memory, sometimes very precise and mostly just corrupted, as the
familiar dream images.

Btw.: Has anyone experiences that lucid dreaming also produces
regularly 'better' (more exact) images? I think it is the case with
me, and it would fit into my theory about how memory and dreaming
work...

MfG,
        Olaf
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From: satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Dallas Cowboys Rule
Date: 10 Sep 1992 18:07:45 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
Summary: screwed up as usual

Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Keywords: football




Two weeks ago i had a dream where i pictured a news article that was about
Joe Jacoby, the offensive linemen for the WA Redskins.  I didn't exactly 
read the article in the dream, but i knew what it was about. It said
that he was suffering the same 'disease' that lyle alzado  just died from
recently and that this may have been brought on by his abuse of steriods. 
In the article, Mr. Jacoby had dropped down from his plaing weight of 
around 300+ to about 180. It showed a clear picture of him and he looked 
awful.

Then thiis monday, in real life, not the dream, Dallas kicked the redskins
butts in their game and at one point in the game Joe Jacoby left the game with 
a knee injury. He didn't return for the  rest of the game although there was
the impression that the injury was too serious. 

Any comments? 

just another manic depressive,

satan




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