HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Seth.Morris@launchpad.unc.edu (Seth Morris)
Subject: Requesting relaxation and brain exercises and sources.
Summary: I am compiling a list of exercises and would like to receive more. 
Keywords: relaxation, visualization, autogenics 
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:18:12 GMT

 I am compiling a file containing relaxation exercises and various brain/mind
exercises. The original impetus for this was to create two files: one on
relaxation and one containing concentration, memory, visualization, etc
exercises. I realised soon that the second file relied heavily on material
presented in the first. The current plan is to have a section containing
various relaxation methods, exercises, and systems (progressive, autogenic,
visualization, breathing systems, etc), a section on affirmation and
visualization technique ("Now that you've got a silly grin on your face, 
what're you gonna do?"), and a collection of exercises developing other
mental facilities.
 I am very interested in source material and bibliographies. Also, I would
like to discuss my collection's organization and biases with interested
parties.
 I would prefer replies by e-mail, but will continue to read these newsgroups.
(Please tell me if my attempt at cross-posting failed, I've never tried before)

 My material strongly reflects my bias towards the Falcon Press school of 
thought and is geared towards the Inteligence Increase portion of the SMIILE
formula. My source material includes:
 _Superlearning_ by Ostrander and Schroeder (Dell press, 1982)
 _Angel Tech_ by Alli (Falcon Press, 1986)
 _Psychological Exercises and Essays_ by Orage (Weiser, 1974, orig. 1930)
 _Undoing Yourself_ by Hyatt (Falcon Press, 1989, revised fourth printing)
 _Trance-Formations_ by Grinder and Bandler (Real People Press, 1981)

 I am intending on obtaining _Pumping Ions_ and using material from _Prometheus
Rising_ by Wilson and _Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer_.

 My exercises are marked as exercising Visualization Technique (which I prefer
to call "Virtualization" unless there is a focus on visual stimuli), Memory,
Concentration, "Multitasking", Perception, Emotion/Self-Awareness,
Assosciation-Making/Imprinting (Learning how to learn), Creativity, and
Somatic Control (mostly breathing).

 I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, advice, and especially any
exercises you may have on any of these topics (or opinions on my topic
breakdown, I'm certainly not married to it). Also, I would like to hear
of any source material I've overlooked (like existing net compendiums, or
more recent books).

 In addition, if any of these newsgroups are inappropriate for this discussion,
or if I've missed any groups, please tell me.

 Thank you.

 Seth Morris (seth.morris@launchpad.unc.edu)

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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Flying in Dream...
From: watling_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:48:15 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

> 
> 	Any people out there who have ever dreamt flying (not in a plane. 
> of course) ?  Share you experience with me. Analyses of this kind of dreams
> will be appreciated.
> 
> 					Taiping Zhang

My last flying dream was years back but I remember it clearly. I had to lie on
my back with my arms at my side. I first made small circles with hands out flat,
just using the wrists. Once I got off the ground I could do circles from my
elbows and finally as my height increased I made great sweeping circles with my
whole arm. I rememebr fearing hitting power lines...
From: katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine Merle Mason)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Flying in Dream (power lines)...
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:08:54 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

drakonar@cs.montana.edu (Charles L. Stewart III) writes:

>In article <1993Jan7.231824.21328@npal.rn.com> cthomas@npal.rn.com writes:
>>In article <1993Jan6.084815.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>, watling_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>> whole arm. I rememebr fearing hitting power lines...

>>That is very interesting to me that you mentioned the power lines.  For a long
>>time I have had a fear of not being able to get high enough soon enough to
>>clear power lines.


>Power lines have in the past presented an odd problem for me, as well.  It
>wasn't so much that I had a fear of hitting them, but instead had a sensation
>of being actually drawn toward them or that my control would be interfered 
>with in some manner.
>An interesting side note, anytime I encountered said lines, the belonged to
>a real-world landscape.  There's never been such a feature in a fabricated
>dream-scape.  Odd?

I too have had difficulty with power lines in flying dreams.  I remember
having a particularly difficult time rising up past the powerlines.  I
couldn't get the clearance, it was like they were stopping me.  In the
only dreams I remember, I have always made it past them, but it is always
close.

It is quite interesting that I am not the only one who has experienced 
this.  If there is anyone else, please speak up.

Katherine Merle Mason
Ne Oublie....
From: agwing@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Andrew Wing)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: B/W repeating dreams
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:52:13 GMT
Distribution: alt.dreams
Organization: Temple University
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	As I stated in a previous post, a large number of my dreams are
connected geographically if not linearly in time.  Often a new dream will
take place in a previous dreams setting or immediately adjacent to a previous
dreams location.  Sometimes right before I fall asleep, I'll realize that
some of my past dreams are connected in a way that makes "perfect" sense.

		Andy Wing

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Any disclaimer issued by me is subject to change without notice
From: brazier@ph.und.ac.za
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Flying in Dream...
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:24:32 GMT
Organization: University Of Natal (Durban)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc25.ph.und.ac.za

In article <1993Jan3.042218.1@climat.geology.yale.edu> zhang@climat.geology.yale.edu writes:
>	Any people out there who have ever dreamt flying (not in a plane. 
>of course) ?  Share you experience with me. Analyses of this kind of dreams
>will be appreciated.

Oh, and I forgot to mention in my flying dreams, I often dive at the ground 
and just float around as I please, rather as Douglas Adams describes it!

Tom Brazier
From: sobelman@cco.caltech.edu (Steven M. Sobelman )
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: can't be lucid dreaming
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:00:27 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

glenne@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Neuromancer ) writes:

>I have had some strange experiences with dreams.   On a couple
>of occasions I have had nightmares where I have woken up, and
>I feel like my head is going a million miles a second, I can
>hear and even feel this sound like a machine made of gears
>that is moving so fast that it is near the exploding point and
>this is exactly what my head feels like.  And I know that I am
>fully awake.  I open my eyes and see my room, but I also see
>a line of huge spiders crawling toward me in super high speed.
>They look like a computer animation that keeps repeating itself
>over and over again.  This has happened a couple of times, and
>is not a lucid dream, because I am fully awake when it happens.

>Anyone have a clue what I am experiencing, or had similar experiences?

Along time ago, 10 to 15 years ago (I don't remember exactly when) I had a
very similar experience.  I woke up from a dream that wasn't about anything
particularly good or bad, but that kept continuing after I woke up.  I
remember laying in bed, staring up at the ceiling, watching the end of my
dream as if I was watching the end credits to a movie on a movie screen.  I
even remember part of it scrolling like credits.

It was definitely not a lucid dream.  I had one once and it definitely did
not continue after I was awake.  This was some kind of afterimage, perhaps I
dream that I was awoken from before my mind was ready to end it.  And like
you, I got up immediately afterwards, so I know I wasn't still dreaming.

I hope this helps.


Steve
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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams,alt.out-of-body,alt.consciousness
Subject: Author of Dreams, etc (was Re: Lucid Dreaming FAQ)
Followup-To: alt.dreams
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:44:45 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau31.ira.uka.de

In article <1irkslINN72s@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> malcolm@geog.leeds.ac.uk writes:

>I've had a few lucid dreaming experiences, unsought. The thing that
>bothers me about them is the Author of Dreams' determined efforts to
>trick me back into orthodox dreaming usually via false awakenings. On

YOU are the author of your dreams. Don't forget this ;-)

(Especially in lucid dreams when you grab control, but otherwise too,
and you seem to be not exactly aware of the fact.)

Btw.: we had this just a few days ago, someone suggested that our mind
does indeed trick us out of LDs, and I think false awakenings for this
purpose are common...

>one occasion becoming aware during one of those mildly embarassing
>dreams I said to myself "I will not have this dream", sat down and
>deliberately sank through the floor. The result was an extremely
>unpleasant series of false awakenings which smacked of punishment. I

...but I still don't see anything *wrong* with it.

>have not set out to engage in lucid dreaming because I suspect that
>the AOD knows more about dreaming and it's purpose than I do.

That is it. You, subconsciously, worry about lucid dreaming perhaps
being 'wrong' in one way or another, and this prevents you from going
further into it. Your mind is tricky, beware.

Olaf
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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: jones@eskimo.com (Laurie Grey)
Subject: Re: can't be lucid dreaming
Organization: Eskimo North in Seattle, WA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:51:22 GMT


I've woken up and seen things many times over the last 2 or 3 years. 
I've tried to figure out if there's some kind of pattern to when/why it
happens...it seems to occur when I'm under a lot of emotional stress,
e.g. when a relationship is ending.  Sometimes the things I see are very
scary and other times they are just curious oddities....once I awoke and
found myself looking up at a big bulge in the wall, like someone in the
other room was pushing  a large ball through the wall...I stared at it,
trying to figure out how/why it got there and it gradually faded away so
I realized I had been "seeing things" again.  
A strange thing about this is that even though I sleep in a dark room,
somehow the things I am seeing (insects crawling on an object, spider
webs, a person, a porthole <portal?>, etc.) are not dimly lit.  Rather,
they appear as though it is daytime.

--
jones@eskimo.com
From: melissa@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Melissa Ingells)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Music and time (was Re: Inclusions)
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:54:28 GMT
Organization: Broadcasting Services, Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: music-library.wkar.msu.edu

In article <0uVTwB2w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> vortexae@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Niki LeBoeuf) writes:
>From: vortexae@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Niki LeBoeuf)
>Subject: Re: Music and time (was Re: Inclusions)
>Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 19:12:20 CST
>
>> some particular piece of music, or a radio show, runs in the
>> background maybe for several (dream-) hours and you know that it's
>> only five minutes. This sometimes shows the difference between dreamed
>> and real time (and, in my experience, disproves the theory that these
>> are identical). 

I SECOND THE DREAM-TIME OBSERVATION. And this is why--when i was very young, 
i dreamed of a tornado that made this awful roaring sound.  when i awoke i 
still heard the sound--it was my father snoring in the other room!  the 
difference, though, is that the tornado seemed to be making that sound, say, 
five times in five seconds, while my father (obviously) was making snores 
about once every five seconds.  so, yes, i don't think we dream in real 
time, either.  at least not always.

have a nice snowstorm--we are.

msi



>> | Olaf Titz - comp.sc.student  |   o     | uknf@dkauni2.bitnet | old address 
>> | univ. of karlsruhe - germany |  _>\ _  | s_titz@ira.uka.de   | is still    
>> | +49-721-60439                | (_)<(_) | praetorius@irc      | valid       
>>   "My heart is human - my blood is boiling - my brain IBM" - Mr. Roboto
>
From: 00brwoodson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Sleep Disorders Res. Report disclosed
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:38:54 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's



According to the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, Americans are
becoming menaces to themselves by not getting enough sleep.  A report given at
a news conference on January 6, 1993, estimated direct costs of sleep disorders
was $15.9 billion and the indirect costs were $150 billion in 1990.  This
commission held eight hearings that focused on sleep problems- snoring, bad
dreams, and insomnia.
According to the report, some sleep problems are medical problems but most are
self-induced.  In the last century, Americans have reduced their amount of
sleep by 20%.  Adults should get 7 hrs. of sleep a night,on average, while some
people need more than 8 hrs.
The Commission called for education on this subject to the American Public.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: pjm@isis.cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Re: can't be lucid dreaming
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:27:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.234555.11422@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>glenne@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Neuromancer ) writes:
>
>>I have had some strange experiences with dreams.   On a couple
>>of occasions I have had nightmares where I have woken up, and
>>I feel like my head is going a million miles a second, I can
>
>	This is called a night terror.  There is some medical
>reason for it, but it boils down to you are awake but the 
>"dream mechanism" is still running.   It is more common in
>children, and having a fever can trigger sometimes in 
>adults also.

interesting. i awoke in a jolt from a nightmare where
my house was set on fire. it was very strange sensation to
see/feel the receding flames as i woke. is this the
same mechanism?

-- 
-- Pat Monardo
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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: etlcrcy@bugs.ericsson.se (Chris Cleverly)
Subject: B/W repeating dreams
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Distribution: alt.dreams
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:31:41 GMT


  On the subject of black and white dreams I had this recurring dream as a child which has recently returned where there are a series of b/w shapes.  Firstly there is a white square with a balck square inside it, with a white square inside the black square, with a black square inside the white one and so on.  The squares get smaller and smaller to infinity all inside each other.

  This pattern is then animated.  It is as if I'm moving into an endless void and passing through the tunnel of squares.  They pass me by giving an illusion of black turning to white and white to black etc.

  After what seems like an hour or so of the squares these squares become triangles and the whole process repeats.

  I thought nothing of this as a child ( although pretty mind-blowing ie headache inducing ) but recently it has returned.

  Another little twist is sometimes I would dream of an air-runway ( of the rope and pulley kind ) from a really high tower over water and I would reluctantly launch myself off and go into the b/w shapes dream.

  Can anyone shed any light on this ?
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From: pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader)
Subject: Re: What can't you dream about?
Originator: pv@gagme
Organization: Inline Software Creations
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:28:05 GMT

Peter Mcnamee writes:
> PV> Dreaming
> PV> that you fall into a deep, dreamless sleep? So there.
>
>Buzzzzzzzzzz.  Sorry contestant but that answer is incorrect.
>
>I know myself, and a few others, that have dreamt of going to sleep.
>Almost a reverse dream within a dream scenario.

That's not what I meant (I have gone to bed in dreams too). It's kind of
like near death experiences. Nobody who's actually died has ever come up
with a way to tell anyone about it, so there's nothing to compare the near
death experiences with. You can't dream about dreamless sleep, because then
it wouldn't be dreamless, would it? PV
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From: Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Literacy in dreams
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:10:42 EST
Organization: The DUNGEON BBS

In a message dated Sun  4 Jan 93 18:27, Joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (jonathan A. 
wrote:

 JA> I'm not so sure, because I am positive that I have read well-formed
 JA> words and sentences while dreaming...

The first time you read something, it usually appears well-formed and
coherent.  However, upon second reading, the words have usually changed,
and so has the meaning.

Mind you, I haven't tried to read something twice when lucid (he says...now
ducking the stones thrown by other dreamers :)  The words have only changed
when I have been in the usual dream state.

cheers,
               ...pEtE...{#->

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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: kwi@stud.hsn.no (KLAUS WILLIAM WIK)
Subject: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Organization: Nordland College
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:03:33 GMT

	Pardon my joke.

There was recently a question about if deaf people spoke in dreams.
I guess they do as a lot of them speak in reality too.
My question is , do deaf people hear in dreams and do mute people
speak in dreams???

	Klaus Wik
From: ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Lucid dream inside a regular dream
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:32:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	I had a lucid dream last night... Actually, it was one that
involved a false awakening - I woke up from the lucid dream (which
was really fun, btw) and ended up in another normal sort of dream,
in which I was telling people that I had been lucid dreaming.
	This dream occurred after I had woken up once and fallen
back to sleep. I don't recall what it was inside the lucid dream
that made me realize I was dreaming though.

	Maiko ^_^
From: preiser@cancer.unm.edu (Doug Preiser)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: SUNSHINE IN DREAMS ?
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:29:52 GMT
Reply-To: preiser@cancer.unm.edu
Organization: UNM Cancer Center

In article <1993Jan6.215309.10501@cc.umontreal.ca>, mcnichol@ERE.UMontreal.CA (McNichols Andre) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.184755.28038@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> agwing@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Andrew Wing) writes:
>
>--- Some interesting stuff deleted, read previous posts for details ---
>
>In a few of my rare lucid dreams I remember going outside and it was a nice
>summer day.  It was sunny and I could see better than in real life without
>my glasses.  I've never seen plants so green in real life and everything
>was extremely real.  Most of my dreams are full of grey and the colors are
>almost never very bright but in these lucid dreams there were plenty of light.
>
>Is it usual to see better in lucid dreams than in ordinary dreams?

That's been my experience.
>
>
>Andre
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Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 16:27:14 EST
From: Laura Kittleson <LAURA@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Flying in Dream...

Hi there.  I have flown in my dreams quite a lot.  More when I was a
child, but still some as an adult.  (I have heard that there is some
hormonal connection to some dream-flying, which is why many kids of a
certain age / stage of physical development do it.)

My flying seems to be a product of mental effort.  If my concentration
breaks, I will start to fall.  I have to "think" just right to get off
the ground and stay off the ground.

It's wonderful.  I don't have to flap or swim or do anything in parti-
cular with my limbs or torso; I just fly.  One thing that surprises
me is that I am not really scared of the heights I fly to in my dreams.
I *am* scared of heights in waking life.  Sometimes in my dreams I
*fall*, and this is scary, but the flying isn't.  Maybe it's because I'm
in control of the flying and not of the falling.

Have fun flying!

--Laura Kittleson

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