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From: gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Subject: Dream Deja Vu
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:40:28 GMT

I'm reminded of the one experience I had of this:
 
In the dream, I was cold, barely dressed, and it was snowing heavily.
I was walking along, staring at the amazing scenery.  It was
breathtaking.  I was looking down a street near my home, walking,
feeling the cold, feeling extremely happy.
 
MONTHS later...  It was snowing beautifully, I grab the dog and decide
to run around the block without a coat on.  I get to the exact point
from the dream, and I'm stunned.  MY dog stood there staring at me,
wondering what the hell was going on.  It was an amazing feeling.
 
Another example:
 
I am walking around in this building, and I enter a room with one
dangling lightbulb and a pool of water on the floor.  It's dark, but
in a neat way.  Not scary.  I go lucid and think to myself that the
room is very important, and I'll see it in the future while awake.  I
stare at the room until I wake up.
 
Now, I never ran into the place.  (YET?) I wonder why it seemed so
important?
 
                                        Nik
From: Tarzan
Subject: Re: My Lucid Experiences
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:07:57 GMT

In article <c5eP02CY2bJo01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> drp40@cd.amdahl.com (Doug
Puchalski) writes:
>  I seem
>to be able to feel my body as it is in reality, in bed.  But I am unable to
move
>and I am unable to open my eyes.  I fight it for a while before I'm finally 
>able to move.  My first impression would be that I am actually trying to
>physically move but cannot, but on second thought maybe it's all part of the 
>dream.
>
>Any similar experiences?
>
>-- 
>Doug Puchalski       You have the right to your opinion, even though it's 


Doug, do you believe in out of body experiences?  Your experience sounds very
similar to the initial stages.  Next time imagine yourself in an elevator or
plane or fast car.  Imagine going to a friend.  Think of your friend and how
nice it would be to see them.
								Tarzan
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: kekamins@zeno24.math.UWaterloo.ca (kekaminsky)
Subject: Re: A Question to lucid dreamers
Summary: Telling a dream character that this is your dream
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:56:35 GMT

In article <1eaofmINNo83@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown) writes:
>>In article <92308.190029SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> Senthil Ramas Kumar
>
>>>hi, I just have this simple question for u all pple.  while being in this
>>>lucid dreaming state, when u ever meet anyone else, has anyone told that
>>>other person in the dream "hey, do u realize that this is all a dream ?".
>>>if the answer is yes, then I'd like to know thier responses.
>>>

Yes.  When I was much younger I had terrible nightmares about the deaths of my family 
and friends.  In a particular one a group of family members and close friens are standing
in front of a sinister house at night.  The clouds are moving a million miles an hour but
without wind, and hence sound.  One by one these loved ones solemnly enter the house, but
none are coming out.  In increasing panic, and in realization I was dreaming, I asked
my cousin that why are you going in there, you'll die, this is only a dream.  

His reply, with a horribly decayed grin was "we're doing it for you".

I had no notion at the time of the subconscious, or any psychological theory.

Kirk
From: emartine@digi.lonestar.org (Edgar Martinez Martinez)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Physical discomfort while lucid
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:34:02 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX


 I have this strange problem:

I become lucid every once in a while by going a little earlier to bed and
making my body relax until I can't feel it at all. Right after this I get
the sensation of falling and I either end up in a normal dream, or end up
lucid. When I go into lucidity this way, my dream consists of me laying in
bed staring up at the ceiling, then I proceed to get up and walk around
the room (if I'm lucky to be able to get up). Yes, I'm sure I'm lucid
because of the weird things I can do, like walking through windows.

 Now for the weird part: Some of the times that I become lucid, I feel
like somebody is tickling my right armpit, and the feeling is so intense
that most of the times I make myself wake up just to stop it! Last night
this happened to me again, but I decided to take it for as long as possible.
I couldn't ignore it or make the sensation disappear, and it ended up
breaking my concentration and waking me up. The weird thing is that when
I wake up from these dreams, the ticklish sensation keeps on going for
about 15 seconds or so. And it's always my right armpit! Why!?

I sleep shirtless and it's never the sheets tickling me. I've never had a
traumatic experience of this kind (being tickled for a long time or until I
fainted), so what could this be?



Edgar Martinez                UTArlington Co-op program (Great!)
emartine@digi.lonestar.org    DSC Communications Corp.  Plano, TX
b645ZOA@utarlg.uta.edu        University of Texas at Arlington
"My bathroom fan goes out straight into my living room"
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: clint@waldron.stanford.edu (Jennifer Dole)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: DreamLight on TV!
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:56:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Psychology Dept, Stanford Univ.

What:  The DreamLight (a lucid dream induction device)
Where: Beyond 2000, the Discovery Channel
When:  Wednesday, November 18th (check local listings for times)

Good News!

The DreamLight will be featured in a segment of the television program,
"Beyond 2000." The show airs on the Discovery Channel, Wednesday,
November 18th. It's probably on in the evening, but check local listings
for times.

It's a good segment, informative and humorous. For anyone who's
been wondering about the DreamLight (what it looks like, how it
really works, etc.), this show is a must see!
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Subject: I had a dream
From: davisson@ab.wvnet.edu
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:39:53 -0500
Organization: Alderson-Broaddus College

I do have one aspect of my dreams that I fail to understand. In ever one of my
dreams no matter if they be bad or good dreams the same sexy women shows up in
my dreams. She is a blond women with blue eyes and a great figure.In the bad
dreams she saves my life . In the good dreams we are at a huge manson at pool
side. But in both cases just about the time we kiss and I ask her her name I
wake up. I wonder if anyone can tell me what it means or repersents.
From: cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: I SEE LIGHTS...
Date: 17 Nov 1992 12:19:36 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Nov6.215120.6792@m.cs.uiuc.edu> mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.183358.18050@gnosys.svle.ma.us>, gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
>|> In <002369c.39.720913401@ace.acadiau.ca> 002369c@ace.acadiau.ca
>|> 	(WILLIAM FREDERICK CUSTANCE) writes:
>|> 
>|> > Have you ever had the experience of closeing your eyes at night or whenever 
>|> > you go to sleep and see patterns form?
>|> 
>|> Yes.  The experience is called "hypnagogia."  There's a good book on the
>|> subject by Andreas Mavromatis called simply _Hypnagogia: the Unique State
>|> of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep_ (Routledge & Kegan Paul,
>|> London & New York, paperback edition published 1991, ISBN 0-415-05794-9).
>|> 

As an alternative to this, who has had the experience of closing their eyes and
being able to *see* (not "mind's eye, I mean a visible picture) a sometimes
stationary, often moving, image. This has happened a few times to me, I never
recognize the location or the people, and there is no accompanying sound. This
happens while I am wide awake, it is not the onset of dreaming.....Any ideas?

The picture is usually a small circular area within the "black" that you normally
see when you shut your eyes. What is this called, if it is not a form of
hypnagogia.
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From: sm@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Suicidal Maniac)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: dreams
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:51:28 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: like communism, but nicer.

I don't know about anyone else...but when I'm dreaming
 
I'm always trying to accomplish something...or trying to do something 
over and over until I get it right...like different ways of picking up 
the chick who says no...
 
Weird stuff like that...
 

------------------------------------------------------------------darkpark BBS
sm@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Suicidal Maniac)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 16:09:57 EST
From: The Judge <IO20444@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Evil Twin ?

In a recent post, mssande1@eos.ncsu.edu (Michael Shane Sanders) said:

>When I was much younger, I had a reoccuring dream that my mother had an
>evil twin. In my dream, I would always open the front door of my house and
>see the evil twin standing outside with a big, white gown, flowing in the
>wind. I can't remember what she would say, but it was something that fright-
>ened me, and I would immediately wake up being very scared.
>I don't recall how many times I had this dream, but it was more than just a
>couple.
>One night, after seeing her outside again, the dream-setting switched to my
>living room and she was in there with me. For some reason we began arguing,
>and the next thing I know we are sword fighting. I knocked her sword out of
>her hand and she said something to the effect of "Go ahead, kill me. You'll
>go to jail". At that time I realized it was a dream, and killed her. After
>this dream I never dreamt about her again.
>maybe she wasn't an evil twin......but that's just what I always assumed.

>As stupid as this dream may sound, I have always wondered about it.
>Anyone out there have any interpretations of the dream(s)?                    ?
>Anyone had any similar dreams?........Please share.

I don't necessarily think this is a sign of your possible mixed feelings
about your mother, like some of the other posters have indicated.
I have dreams all the time about people who look like my parents, but
who really are evil beings who want to hurt me.  What I think is that
your mind (or my mind, whoseever (?) mind) is like a really good
writer, and knows that we will trust these people, just because they
look like our parents.  Then, when we are relaxed and trusting,
they will attack us or make their evil intentions known, thus making
us even more frightened.  For example, once in a dream I was running
around this haunted house, filled with really stereotypical monsters
(Dracula, werewolves, tigers, etc.), when I saw my mother.  I ran to
her for protection, and she suddenly grinned evilly, and I knew it
wasn't my mother.  In another dream, this non-Mom showed up again,
and tried to convince me that she was my mother and that I should
do what she said.  It didn't work.
Anyway, maybe your unconscious mind is doing something like that.
Anyone else?

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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: etodd@league.engin.umich.edu (eric hugh todd)
Subject: Re: chocolate
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:37:45 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: etodd@league.engin.umich.edu


My only question is, how do you feel about
chocolate, Succubus? <grin>
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: 002369c@ace.acadiau.ca (WILLIAM FREDERICK CUSTANCE)
Subject: Re:I SEE LIGHTS
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45:21 GMT

And another alternative...I have a little test for those imaginative people:

1-Before you go to sleep at night, close your eyes (gee now that's hard)
2-Hold your hand out about a foot from your eyes, directly in front of your 
  nose.
3-now open your eyes and carefully look at your hand.
4-close your eyes and picture your hand as if you were looking at it (you 
  may just want to picture the outline because this is easier to do).
5-Now move you hand to the right or left, while pictureing the image moving 
  in the same direction.
6-Once you have a new position that you think your hand is actually in, open 
  your eyes and see if your hand corresponded to the place that you imagined 
  it to be.

This little exercise seemed to help my imagination, hence giving me more 
vivid dreams with exciting (Happy and Scary) things in them.

Any dream that appears scary, should be appreaciated. I sometimes look at 
them as being works of art. Sure, the initial shock is sometimes frightning  
but once, and if you can get over that, all things become pleasant.

Scary dreams to all. B-)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: drakonar@cs.montana.edu (Charles L. Stewart III)
Subject: Re: Dying in dreams
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:56:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.195821.24417@nrtpa038.bnr.ca> Tarzan writes:
>
>>
>>Hey, you flyers out there.  Try this one.  Fly high, up through the ozone,
>>into airless space.  You may feel the need to create a streamlined
>>artificial environment to protect yourself from friction and atmosphere/
>>temperature effects.  Then, head on out past the planets.  I've been
>>out far enough so that the Earth/Sun was just a dot.  Got a bit scared
>>that I'd lose my orientation so I came back.  Am currently playing
>>with an idea to "beaconize" our Terran system and head out at FTL speed.
>>I figure some kind of gravity-well concept should work, provided I can
>>find a proper target to "pull" toward.
>>Thots?
>>
>>		
>>
>
>	This sounds like astral projection.  Can you travel to your friends during
>dreams?  Talk with them?  Enter their dreams??
>											Tarzan


I may get into these subjects some time in the future.  I've had some 
interesting experiences, a couple of which have been shared.  While I don't
suscribe to certain metaphysical theories, e.g. astral projection, I *do*
know that there are things going on for which relevant answers are somewhat
absent.
Hmmmm.

-- 
      ---=>   Charles Stewart (aka Scott) : drakonar@cs.montana.edu   <=---
	          "Oh oh.  Looks like we need another Timmie!"
			   For Dinosaurs fans only.
From: bee@ms.uky.edu (Elizabeth A. Gilliam)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: side-effect dreams
Date: 22 Nov 92 07:49:06 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

dmorton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (daniel dean morton) writes:
>  Has anyone elso had experiences where medication has influenced
>their dreams? If so, I would like to hear of them. Dream the
>impossible...

I have to take this stuff for my migraines. it's a beta blocker called
Betachron.  The doctor told me right up front that vivid dreams were
a side effect. "Not just vivid. I'm talking Indiana Jones-kind of stuff
here."  Also, people on this drug tend to have very sexual dreams.
This is true.  Although I am a vivid dreamer to start, I had never
had *any* sexual dreams whatsoever, but now i have them.  My dreams
are sometimes lucid now, and they are always very very adventurous.
(This morning, for instance, I was floating down the Thames in a
Tall Ship, right before I docked and went to my castle).  Also I have
found that when someone/something wakes me up, if I'm not awake
for very long, and if I keep it on my mind, I can go back to sleep
and pick up where I left off.  That's a neat little trick, whereas
before I would have to just be bummed for losing the dream.  

Maybe someone can help me out here...
I'm not sure just what beta blockers do, or why they cause dreams
like this.  The Dr. said something about it being like LSD/ergot     
(I also get mild hallucinations on occasion, along with slowed 
heart rate).  One theory I have heard is that since this drug 
depresses my overall sexual desire and make me lethargic, these
dreams make up for it.  

So, it sounds like the anti-malaria stuff was much better than
when I have, as far as dreams go, but this still makes for a 
pleasant sleep.


-- 
elizabeth a. gilliam: bee@ms.uky.edu
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
"Any problem can be fixed if you throw beer at it."  -Scott
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: dwjurkat@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jurkat)
Subject: Tired from lucid dream
Keywords: tired  
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:05:05 EST

When I have a lucid dream the next morning I often feel less rested
than normal.  Also when I just have a short nap and go lucid being 
tired is even more pronounced then with a similar nap on another day and
no lucid dream.  I know the faq contradicts this and I was just wondering
if others also feel less rested or as if "effort" was expended.
I'm new to this group and maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I tend to change things a lot in my lucid dreams, i.e. change the
colors of the walls, make things move, mess with time, etc.
I also have done lucid dreaming for over 15 years and still think
it's very worthwile and just plain fun.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: kwi@postman.hsn.no (KLAUS WILLIAM WIK)
Subject: LUCID DREAMS
Organization: Nordland College
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:35:44 GMT

	Lucid dreams?
Is that when you dream but are aware that you are sleeping and dreaming?
If not , what is it then?
From: U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (Cathy Ridings)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Getting enough sleep
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:07:40 GMT

Hi all.

I have a question.  Someone was talking about sleep patterns and sleep
deprivation, and the different cycles of rest the mind goes through.
I would like to know more about these cycles, and the effect of being awakened
in the middle of the night every night.

I am a mother and I have to get up with my daughter every night.  How can the
mind get enough rest with this happening?
How about new mothers who have to get up with thier babies every three hours
thru the night?  Is there any technique that will ensure the mind gets the
rest it needs?
Thanks
Cathy
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From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: chocolate
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:21:04 GMT
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <92328.144005LCM111@psuvm.psu.edu>, LCM111@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I had a dream that a man gave me a bar of chocolate
>in return for my love but the chocolate bar
>melted so i rode away on my hellhound
>and bought some acid from the spirit of my dead aunt
>but i gave the acid away :(
>ANY INTERPRETATIONS?
>                              -the succubus(suck you best)

Beware of Greeks (or anyone else) bearing gifts.

Erik Timmerman
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: ericksoh@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Hans P Erickson)
Subject: Dream about Clinton
Summary: weird
Keywords: Clinton politics dreams
Organization: doubtful
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:33:42 GMT


I had a weird political dream the other night.  I don't remember very
much about it, but I remember waking up with the one obsessive hope that,
sometime during his term, Bill Clinton would deliver the State of the Union
address in a bunny suit.

What does this mean?  I don't think I want to know.

HPE
From: ak044@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Borger)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: alt.dreams in my head
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:36:49 GMT
Reply-To: ak044@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Borger)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) says:

>In article <1992Nov9.162146.1498@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu> teschultz@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu writes:
>

>A proof of evidence that knowing and active thinking of lucid dreams
>helps in actually getting lucid dreams.

Really? I began to think just the opposite. The first times that I had lucid
dreams was when I knew nothing about them and really didn't know what to 
think. I haven't been able to lucidly dream lately (lucid block). 

I did try last night to just kinda "float" gradually into a lucid state. I
thought about a place and created other characters and stuff and hoped that
the more tired I became, my thoughts would change into dreams.

If it worked, I can't remember.
-- 
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From: 00brwoodson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Weird Dream
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:29:25 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <92320.121626ACADLAB2@LMUACAD.BITNET>, ACADLAB2@LMUACAD.BITNET writes:
> This is my first time posting anything so please bear with me.
> 
> I had this dream a few years ago. I was at my house sitting in the den watching
> tv, it was dark outside and I looked out the window.  I saw a poolman goingto
> a house at the corner of my street and I thought to myself, "somebody's gonna
> kill him." I then proceeded to walk around my house and found piles of dead
> bodies everywhere.They were piled up against the walls or outside the windows
> looking in.  They all had bullet holes in them.  Then I heard someone walking
> up my front porch.  It was Dan Fielding from Night Court and I knew he had
> come to kill me.  Dan hada key to my front door and everytime he would unlock
> it I would lock it back.  I moved away from the door and began to think, "I
> wish I would wake up, I wish I would wake up."  Then I thought, "Maybe if I
> stand in front of the doorDan will pull out a gun, the bullets would fly
> through the door, hit me and I'll wake up." I moved back to the door and what I
> thought would happen happened and I woke up.
> 
> I would appreciate any comments. Please post or e-mail.
> 
> Thanks,
>                                     Kris
Kris, how long did this dream go on?  If it happened only once it could be
because you were tired and watched too much television.  Is this serious or are
you playing around?
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