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From: slisa@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: STRANGE DREAM
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:34:14 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <jc!rdcj@lynx.unm.edu>, omega@triton.unm.edu (   --==[]==--   ) writes:
> 
> 
> I had a strange dream last night.  I don't understand it.  Someone 
> may care to comment.  It may just be an overactive imagination.
> 
> It seems I was involved with someone and we stumbled upon the fact 
> that the Government was supressing the operation of small commercial 
> enterprises that did lazer light technology research and development 
> projects.  We investigated.  It seems a form of hypnosis was being 
> used to control people.  I don't know who was behind the hypnosis, 
> or why it was being used.  The person I was with had become 
> hypnotised.
> 
> Then, I was laying down in a semi-conscious state and four humaniod 
> beings, about 5 feet tall, approached me.  I first noticed their 
> presence as one very large being, about 8 feet tall, of the same 
> sort, as it appeared a the door way.  It was like it was there, but 
> it was just an image, and then it was gone, and the little ones 
> appeared.  The beings really did not have bodies.  They seemed to be 
> light energy or some kind of energy holding a human form.  Their 
> color was a soft dull off white.  They moved swiftly, in unison, and 
> with intent.
> 
> I was fearful of the beings as I had never seen anything like them.  
> I felt that I was powerless, so I just laid there and allowed myself 
> to drift into unconciouness while they did what they needed to do - 
> to me, I presume.  I woke up to reality - about an hour ago.  This 
> was an otherwise normal day and night.
> 
> I am not involved in lazer light technology and to my knowledge I 
> have never had any alien encounters or seen anything of the sort.  I 
> am an entreprenuerial sort who considers an alien presence here a 
> possibility.  I am from New Mexico, and having lived in Socorro, I 
> have always found a facination with the incident there in the early 
> '60's.
> 
> Does anyone care to comment ?    Charlie.
>

	Maybe it really wasn't a dream...maybe that is what they want you
	to think...maybe you could make bucks by calling the National Enquirer!
						*smile*
					just a thought..

		                		Lisa C. Poulsen              
		 
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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: clint@waldron.stanford.edu (Jennifer Dole)
Subject: DreamLight
Organization: Stanford Univ.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 06:46:56 GMT

Questions about the DreamLight have cropped up again, so I'll re-post
some information on it. Also, for anyone who has further questions
about this device or the Lucidity Institute, if you email me your US
postal address, I will send you any info on the DL or membership, etc.,
that you request. (I'll also re-post the Lucid Dreaming FAQ, for those
of you who might have missed it.)

The DreamLight, developed by Dr. Stephen LaBerge, is a lucid dream
induction device (in other words, a tool that helps you have lucid
dreams.) It's a computerized biofeedback device that monitors your
sleep and delivers light and/ or sound cues when you are dreaming.

The key to lucid dreaming is memory. If you want to have lucid dreams,
you have to remember your intention to recognize when you are dreaming.
Most of us have memories that are fallible, and so in waking life if
we want to be sure to remember to do something, we use memory aids: we
write ourselves notes, and ask others to remind us.

However, as a reminder to recognize when you are dreaming, written
notes and other people are no help-- you can't take them with you
into the dream!

The DreamLight does that job for you. It watches while you sleep, and
gives you a gentle cue-- a "tap on the shoulder" as it were, to remind
you to notice that you are dreaming.

You wear the DreamLight mask (connected by a long cord to a small,
about walkman sized, control box) at night as you sleep, awaiting
the time when you enter "Rapid Eye Movement" (REM) sleep, the time
when dreaming occurs every night. When the DreamLight detects that you
are dreaming,it communicates with you!

While you dream, lights in the mask flash on and off for a few seconds--
just long enough to enter your dream and cue you that you are dreaming.
The DreamLight's cue is designed to readily enter your dreams without
waking you. When you see the light in your dream you say to yourself,
"Aha! The DreamLight! That means I'm dreaming!"

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: brownt@seq.uncwil.edu (brown todd francis)
Subject: Re: Dream re-entry (was Re:WILD)
Keywords: lucid dream induction
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:30:47 GMT

kester@carson.u.washington.edu (Bill Dogbreath) writes:

>I used a couple of techniques I had read about on the net.  I am not familiar
>with the Tibetan technique, but would love to hear more about it.  Perhaps
>the method I used was similar.

The Tibetan technique can be found in a new book from Snow Lion called
_Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light_ by Namkhai Norbu.

Write for their free catalog:  Snow Lion, PO Box 6483, Ithaca NY 14851

The method (actually I adapted it) is very similar to what you and I
were doing my visualizing an object (the Tibetans use the sumbol for
OM, or suggest using the capital letter "A" because it is so well known
and easily visualized) in three dimensions, rotating, even changin
form.  Once you can 'really see' the form, then it is easy to follow
it back to the dream.  Easy is a relative term I guess.


>Anyway, I was waking up from a dream that I very much wanted to stay in, and
>so without opening my eyes, still in the hypnagogic state, I started trying
>to manipulate some dream object in order to direct my attention
>back into the dream world.  I couldn't see anything at first, but gradually,
>I allowed the images to form around me at their own rate.  Then, suddenly,
>it was as though my whole field of vision shifted and I was back in the
>dreamscape, fully lucid.  This became one of the longest and best controlled
>lucid dreams that I can recall having.

Great!  You may also be interested in a new book just out called
_Hypnogogia_, can't recall the author right now - I have yet to
obtain it actually.  

>For some reason I haven't been as intensely interested since then in lucid
>dreaming, and so I haven't experienced it as much.  I have been able to 
>consciously re-enter dreams once or twice since then, though, and I do feel 
>that the technique could become second nature to anyone with enough interest.

I understand about interest levels coming and going.  I wonder why that
is - I too experience it.  Thanks for the pat on the back.  It's very
hard to explain to someone how INCREDIBLE conscious re-entry into a
lucid dream is.  I feel like I have reached some new level or something.

Have a good holiday!  


>Kester

Michael (brownt@uncwil.edu)

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: tpe36878@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry Connick Jr. )
Subject: Holy Spirit dream
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:38:20 GMT

Hi everybody:

	I have a dream that I has a couple of years ago, and it still bothers
me a little (as to what it means, that is). The situation: I am sitting in
my bed studying and am awakened by the sound of my one roomate and his
girlfriend coming home. I leave my room to say `hi' to them and I notice
a swirling fire in the hallway. The three of us look at each other in utter
horror; we realize that this is the Holy Spirit manifesting Itself in front
of us. His girlfriend looks at the two of us and says that this means that 
the end of the world is here and that we are to be saved. We all drop to our
knees and start praying the Our Father.
	While we are doing so, our other roomate comes home and seems to be
oblivious to what is going on. He walks right through the fire (with no 
(e/a)ffect on either party. He then throws his jacket on his bed and closes
his bedroom door. We are pleading with him to join us, but he doesn't even
hear or see us. We decide to just forget about him and then continue praying.
I remember feeling great fear at first, but as the dream progressed, I kept
feeling more and more in a state of peace. I ended up waking up before
anything more happened.
	Now I have a couple of theories. The Holy Spirit and the whole
Armageddon thing may point to some sort of problem (moral?) that I was
having in my life at the time. There was no problem of even a mild nature.
The fact that my other roomate was oblivious to the whole thing may deal
with either 1) problems that we were having with him that would have 
excluded him from the three of us, or 2) the fact that out of the three of
us, he is the only one who doesn't regularly go to Church. As for the first
one, all of us got along very well and did lots of things together. As for
the second, he didn't go to Church regularly, but he was still a religious
person.
	I am really stumped as to what this dream means and I can still
recall it as if the whole thing happened last night. If anyone has any ideas.
please let me hear them! Thanks.

	thomas ehardt
	tpe36878@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: mab7g@Virginia.EDU ("midori meech baer")
Subject: Re: dying and loving
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:38:27 GMT

v384rv4k@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu  writes:
> A few months ago I had a very disturbing and vivid dream
> about drowning.  I woke up before I died.  I believe I
> really did stop breathing in my sleep and that this is
> what induced the dream.  It was so vivid, though, that I
> I obsessed about it for many days.
> 
> I often obsess about dreams.  They are so real-seeming, and
> usually more exciting than waking life.  A few nights ago
> I dreamed about passionately kissing Johnathan Frakes (from
> Star Trek TNG).  Now I have a mad crush on him, but I don't
> really even think he is attractive!
> 
> Lynn
  i know what you mean, falling in "love" with someone form a
dream.  it's happened to me several times.  it's really wierd
when the guy doesn't even exist, or you never seen anyone even
remotely smilar to him before.

meech mab7g@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
From: jasonk@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jason Kraushar)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: DreamLight
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 18:06:52 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

  Hi there, I've only just recently started reading this group, and I am 
interested in hearing more about this "DreamLight" as in, where can one 
be purchased and how much?
  I've always been quite fascinated with dreams (they are much more fun 
than reality, after all) and have usually had some extremely strange 
ones. My friends say they don't get as many weird ones as I do, but that 
doesn't make me feel strange at all (hey, I have a built-in movie theatre 
in my head, that's something worthwhile, no?).. I've been able to dream 
lucidly on only a few occasions that I can recall, mostly when I was much 
younger (about 6-10 years old) in which I would remind myself before I 
went to sleep that I wanted to "open my mind" during the dream. Then, at 
some point during a dream, that phrase would come to me out of the blue 
"Open your mind" sounding sort of ghostly, and I would remember I was 
dreaming and begin to have some real fun. The DreamLight sounds like an 
excellent tool towards this end, and I'd really appreciate any 
information regarding it.
  Please respond via email as I'm only able to access the usenet 
sporadically and am likely to miss a public post.

Jason Kraushar              jasonk@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: tbuzzeo@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Tom Buzzeo)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Video-Dreams (Was Tetris and Dreams) I like my title better.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 18:48:13 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Yes... probably the worst period of my life was in the days of the 8 bit 
nintendo machine.. I hadn't one of my own so my friends was the only way 
to get a good buzz... But... yeesh.. did I ever start having weird 
"quest" like dreams.. mainly around "Zelda" of course. 
Now, years later, when I've got my sanity regained, Zelda III is made.. 
could I handle it?
nah... nightmares everynight :)

 Dis claimer - not mine. :o) tbuzzeo@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: rory@bluemoon.use.com (Rory McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Future Seeing in Dreams
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 09:19:56 EST

I have also had experiences similar to Dano's; in fact, my experience is
so similar to his/hers (sorry, Dano, I was unable to determine your 
gender-I apologize) that I had to post this.  

Beginning when I was a child, I have had glimpses primarily of "future
moments" between full-fledged dreams, as I recall.  As with Dano, the 
moments themselves were unremarkable in any situational way--no high, 
dramatic crisis moments were ever seen, but rather I would recall the 
dream as sort of an overlay from inside my head onto my external 
environments.

There was one experience a couple of years ago, though, that was a little 
more substantial.  For 2 nights in a row, I dreamt of a woman named 
Jennifer, with whom, in my dreams, I was quite taken.  I told a friend
after the second dream, and the following night, I met a woman who was
introduced to a woman by the name of Jay ( can you see this coming?)  We
talked for some time, and I was quite taken with her.  I asked her about
her name, unusual for a woman, and she said (you guessed it) that it was
a nickname for Jennifer.  When I told my friend about this, she said that
she would have thought I was joking had I not told her about my dreams.

This experience was quite a relief, as it served to prove, to myself, 
that all the other "moments" weren't just my deluded mind.

rory@bluemoon.rn.com

 This is from
     rory@bluemoon.use.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: cb3365@u.cc.utah.edu (Chad Beeder/CS)
Subject: Re: Tetris and Dreams
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:05:47 GMT

In article <102050@netnews.upenn.edu> wesley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Wesley HRJ Gaus) writes:
>
>
>I was just wondering if anyone has ever played Tetris or any other video game
>and dreamed about it sometime later.  I recall playing Tetris a few times for
>an hour or so and lateer that day I put my head down and saw the pieces 
>falling and coudln't relax cause the pieces kept coming down. But for some
>reason all the pieces always seemed to fit! Any else experience anythin
>similar and, if so, is there a name for this occurrence??? Thanx.

Yep.  After playing Tetris for a couple hours one day (I was bored...OK, I
was addicted too :-), I dreamt of playing Tetris all night long, and as
with your experience, the pieces always seemed to fit.  I think it was
because if I got in a situation where they didn't, I would change things
so they would fit.  Or perhaps I would only have pieces fall that would
fit.  (Too bad you can't do this in the real game...)

Another computer game which had similar effects on me was "Lemmings."  A
friend also tells me he sometimes dreams of playing chess. 

A name for this occurrence?  I haven't heard of one.  How about "Dreaming
of puzzles and games?"  <GRIN>
-- 
|| Chad.Beeder@m.cc.utah.edu            "If you never have the time, ||
|| syzygy@pension.uucp              and never get to see Cloud Nine, ||
|| ...wicat!pension!syzygy        there's a place where you can wait ||
|| Zonk.                          on Cloud Eight."  --Frazier Chorus ||
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine Merle Mason)
Subject: Travelling in LD's
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:19:44 GMT

I'm having trouble altering the setting of my Lucid Dreams.  I want
to go somewhere else.  Visit the scene of a book I have read, or
return to another dream.  I tried the conventional way, by flying,
but I couldn't stay awake (asleep?) through the flight.  I also
tried standing in front of a door and making the scene on the other
side before I open it, but I always seem to see through a crack
between the door and the wall, and I can't seem to make it be what
I want.  Has anyone come up with a way to do this, or is it possible?

Katherine Merle Mason
Ne Oublie....
From: jswyt@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John T Swyt)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: cliff falling/hit bottom
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:48:44 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <dsmither.724003774@cunews> dsmither@alfred.carleton.ca (Diane Smithers) writes:
>In <1992Dec10.055611.189429@zeus.calpoly.edu> rfritz@zeus.calpoly.edu (Ryan E. Fritz) writes:
>
>>In alt.dreams, krusebrianke@bvc.edu spewed:
>>>    
>>>	I'm sure everyone has heard of the old addage, if you fall off a 
>>>cliff in your dreams and hit bottom, you will die. (1). how do "they" know 
>>>you will die if you hit bottom, you were dreaming and if you did die you 
>>>can't tell anyone what you were dreaming, right? (2). I ALWAYS hit bottom 
>>>when I fall off of a clifff(i'm still here....) I usually just get up and 
>>>run away after i hit.
>
>>I remember having a dream when I was a kid.  In this dream, I slid [or
>>rode] down a banister that went on for what seemed like forever.  The speed
>>increased and increased until it was frightenly fast.  Finally I flew off
>>the end of the banister and hit the concrete slab waiting for me below.
>>I remember feeling what I thought was pain, but I'm not sure if that is
>>possible in a dream or not.  I'm not sure if that is classified as falling,
>>but it was very steep and very fast, so I'd think it would be the same.
>>From what I remember, I woke up after this occured [from the pain my mind
>>thought my body was feeling?] but I do remember hitting the floor.
>
>>-- 
>>Ryan E. Fritz
>>rfritz@zeus.calpoly.edu
>
>I didn't see the original posting on this; I just sort of happened
>onto this group today, but I thought I would share my experience of
>falling in dreams and hitting bottom. It seems like every person that
>I have ever spoken to on this subject does say that they always wake
>up before they hit bottom in dreams in which they fall.  If only I
>were so lucky.  Like Ryan Fritz, I ALWAYS hit bottom - and it seems
>like I fall a lot in my dreams. 
>
>Like Fritz says regarding his experiece, I feel what I would describe
>as pain (it's very intense; sort of like a shock of pins and needles
>over my entire body) in a kind of rapid wave. And almost every time I start
>falling in dreams, it's like 'uh-oh'; because I know what's coming.  I
>just hate it. There needs to be some sort of central dream regulatory body
>that I can take my grievances to.
>
>Diane Smithers
From: Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: bald dreams (was Re: beard dreams)
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Dec 92 16:16:10 EST
Organization: The DUNGEON BBS

In a message dated Fri 18 Dec 92 23:39, Miket@hermes.tcs.com (michael Turne
wrote:

 MT> a bald spot -- my own cold fingers against the skin, THAT real -- and
 MT> spent a lot of the remainder of the dream in anxiety, wondering how
 MT> some-
 MT> thing like that could have happened to me overnight.

I've had a similar experience (sort of).  When I first started doing a bit
of exercise, I had a dream that I was flexing my arm muscles, and suddenly
my biceps would blow up like balloons!  This happened a couple of times,
and the dream ended when I pushed it too far and my arms exploded like
balloons.  Needless to say this woke me up :)

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: st921751n@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: vampires
Reply-To: st921751n@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:23:06 GMT

You might see vampires because something about the movie or the thought that there might actually be vampires excites or scares your subconscience.  If it really bothers you, you might want to ask a proffessional.  otherwise, try to think about a particularly pleasing subject before you go to sleep.  This thought may take over your dreams and push out the vampires.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: kaminl@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: CAFFEINE AND SLEEP
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:00:45 GMT

In article <101825@netnews.upenn.edu> wesley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Wesley HRJ Gaus) writes:
>I don't know if this happened to anyone else before but I remember this
>happening to me exactly three times to date:
>	I woke up early in the morning or sometime in the middle of the night
>but I felt as if I were not awake but dead.  I could not move, yell, breathe, 

Well, this sure sounds like sleep paralysis to me. My first time freaked me
out, too.

>	The last time this happened to me was when I was extremely exhausted
>and was taking about 5-6 caffeine pills (Vivarin) a day. I never got the 

This could be yer problem. I'm no expert, but maybe the high doses of caffeine
disrupted your rem sleep, causing you to wake up while you were still
paralyzed by that brain chemical everyone is talking about.

BTW, does anyone know more about this paralysis chemical? Is its existence
pretty well established? 
--
Matt Garretson                    :-)                 temporarily kaminl@rpi.edu