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From: star@ut-emx.uucp (Susan Catharine Starrett)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: 19 August dream II
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:58:58 GMT



I was going to swim in an oddly-shaped pool that was very much like a
swampy creek. I dived in but didn't enjoy the water and started talking
to a fellow swimmer while pulling myself out onto the edge of the pool. 
I noticed the water was covered with green algae and there was a clean
circle of it missing from where I had gone into the water. That algae
was probably stuck to my hair, I thought.

I went into my house that was connected to the pool and noticed,
happily, that the pool was being drained and fresh water put in.
I thought about how clever I was to build my pool by the big (lake)
swimming pool, so that it would be cleaned whenever the big one was.

My house was huge and rambling, with lots of different levels and
rooms with (interesting old furniture) that I loved to explore.
I found my consort (of this dream) in one of the bathrooms and we went into
the bedroom to change our swimming suits and go back into the clean
water. I changed from a one-piece black suit to a three-piece charcoal
grey one (top and bottom and detachable swim skirt). I couldn't decide
if I should wear the short swim skirt or long street skirt. I put a jacket
on and walked back to the pool but I ended up walking there alone.

There was a window/wall between the house and the pool that was made up of
12" X 12" glass panes (with a slight green tint) and double doors.
I never got into the clean water, though; I had more conversations with the
person I talked to before and at some point fell and slid down a dark, slimy.
chute.  I landed standing on a darkish street with storefronts on the left side.
I found and then had a conversation with friends who implied that I should
return to the house - that my consort was not to be trusted.

I went back to the house and found a woman with him. She had long, thick
straight blond hair and an attitude. My consort told me she was 
helping him on a project (from work?). I was slightly disturbed so I started 
exploring my house some more. It had lots of beautiful wood. The floor,
steps, and doorframes were all of wood. But the bathrooms were grungy and
were going to need a lot of cleaning. I opened one of my closet doors
and was pleased to see the closet was huge and extended on and on like
the inside of a long train car. I crossed the hall to open my consort's
closet and was surprised that there were only two or three jackets
hanging there, and only about two feet of closet space because the
rest of the closet dropped into steps going down. I didn't enter the 
closet but noticed that halfway down the steps was a 
big hole in the wall that went into another bathroom. The only thing
between the hole and the steps was a dirty, cheap light-pink plastic
shower curtain. I made a mental note to do something about that right
away, perhaps fill the hole with plants...

I once again found my consort and he and the blond woman were obviously
fooling around. The woman made some sort of arrogant comment and I was
disgusted so I made my way out of the dream.
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Subject: Re: Dream replays
From: jtulli@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:51:16 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

Robert Monroe talks about certain experiences in which he would be given a test
and replay it from the beginning until he made the "right" decision.
also, when i was little, in the borderland state probably, and sometimes while
awake, i would imagine things and everything would start spinning and i
couldn't get them to stop.  also sometimes i would imagine a doorbell ringing
or something and i would open the door and people would just keep coming
in...an endless line of people.  i would close the door and they would stop but
whenever i opened it there were people trying to come it.  frustrating.
had a similar experience this morning in which i was imagining talking to
someone and she kept whipping her head back or something and it was very
distracting and i couldn't change it by asking her to stop or mentally trying
to make it stop.
very frustrating.
any more ideas?

Jude
From: star@ut-emx.uucp (Susan Catharine Starrett)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: 13 August dream
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:15:01 GMT


I was swimming/playing in the ocean and realized that my shoes must be
getting soaked. I swam up a river beside a person riding a
horse that was the size of about three horses put together; the
horse's rear and tail were white. We had to jump over a fallen
tree or damn of some sort and the horse and rider jumped into 
what seemed to be shallow water. It wasn't, though, it was deep
and the horse sank to the bottom like a stone while the rider 
floated, staying at the surface. With a bit of coaxing, the
horse swam up from the bottom and we continued.

Lots of fragmented dreams, lots of water.
From: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM (Jerry Watson )
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: fangs....
Date: 14 Aug 1992 00:21:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: concerts.ebay.sun.com



	I just found this alias, and was wondering
	if someone can interperate a dream for me.
	I was talking to mom, and she doesn't really
	have many bad dreams, however she mentioned
	this dream may not nessessarily be the persons she knows
	(which could be my sister w/ black hair) could be me or anyone of
	my family. She had dreamed that she was at this
	house full of people sitting around, and there was
	this girl there with black hair and a blonde guy (I'm sandy blonde)
	anyhow these people 5 or six were sitting around
	and had started laughing, mocking and pointing
	at the couple, and they were getting louder very viciously and
	hateful, then before my mom awoke,(it seemed very real to her)
	she said she looked at there mouth and they all had fangs!! woah..

	Would anyone know what this may mean??

	Jerry
From: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: nightmare
Date: 15 Aug 92 11:03:36 GMT
Reply-To: cafer@etek.chalmers.se (Tommy Vaske)
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

A nightmare I had a couple of years ago - please excuse
any typos or bad word choices - I'm not a native speaker/writer...

I lay sleepless one night in the late spring.
The shift from the awaken state to the dream was very subtle;
The only things that really had changed was that the room had
got a bit darker, and I had lost vision on my left eye.
(But at this first occurence I didn't realize I was dreaming.)

Suddenly I felt someone or something poking at my back and
buttocks from under the matress. I tried to ignore this, but
was really scared. The poking stopped, and I noticed a shadow 
with the blurred outlines of a man standing next to my bed, 
and I felt "him" staring at me.

His right eye was glowing brightly red, and I could feel pure
evil streaming towards me. I turned to the wall and tried to
turn my bedlight on, thinking this would make the shadow go away.
It was like moving in slowmotion, and when I finally reached
the switch, the plastics just fell apart under my fingers.

I turned to the shadow again, stretching out my right hand, as
to ask for mercy. When I reached the shadows left hand, I grabbed
it, and immediately knew the feeling - it was _my_ left hand!
So we remained holding hands for a couple of seconds - then he
grabbed my wrist with his left hand - a monster's claw...

I woke up, shivering with fear, a half hour from when I last
spotted my alarmclock.

Later on, I decided to be more active if the dream should
reappear, which it did, a couple of nights from then. No poking
this time, and when I noticed the shift in lighting and my loss
of sight on the left eye, I realized I was dreaming. The shadow
( my shadow? ) was present, but very thin and blurred this time.

I decided to get up from bed, and did so. The shadow disappeared
entirely, and instead i could see a warm glow out in the kitchen,
next to my room. I couldn't see the lightsource directly, it was
rather like someone was carrying a living candle just around the
next corner. I followed the light through the house, and it left
me at the door to my parents' bedroom. I woke up (in my bed).

--tommy 
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From: boyken@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken)
Subject: Re: LUCIDLY DREAMING THAT YOUR DREAMING
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:58:54 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., U. of Iowa

For anyone who has been lucidly dreaming:  have you ever experienced a 
sensation similar to lucidity in the waking state?  While awake, have you
ever had the sensation that waking reality is a dream?

*****        _My_ views, no one else's--except those I plagiarize         *****
Karl Boyken, system programmer | We dance 'round in a ring and suppose, while
Department of Computer Science | the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
The University of Iowa         |
boyken@herky.cs.uiowa.edu      | -- Anyone knows who wrote this?  I forgot.

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From: tmcfarla@fraser.sfu.ca (Tara McFarlane)
Subject: Re: odd Blue Fish dream... it haunts me still...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:00:34 GMT


i had a reoccurring fish dream when i was a child, and it wasn't until
recently that it quit haunting me.

i was a fish swimming in a body of water, and towering high above me was
a cliff. now on the cliff were two fishermen. they were clad in fishing
attire, and had on faces that looked determined to catch a fish. i could
hear these two men tali/talking, and they were discussing how they were going to catch me. no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't escape the body of water.
sometimes i would be caught, but never reeled in. it was very frightening.

it was this dream, and another, that introducted me to lucid dreaming. i got
to the point where i couldn't take this fishing dream anymore, and thus
can/changed my surroundings to something a bit more pleasant.
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 12:36:45 EDT
From: Andrew Scott Frazier <34EUIZH@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Perverse Lucidity
Distribution: usa

I used to read this group regularly.  It was very much a part of the
excitement I had for my exposer to the Internet-
Some Lucid dreams came, I was quite excited about the whole dreaming
- mystical- I was being exposed to a lot of new stuff!
I was elated by my new expriences.  After a little while I
began purposefully waking up from my dreams- Or becoming "Unlucid"
i didn't want to meet all these things that were boiling in my
subconscience.
Not because of nightmares, just because there are other things I need to
concentrate on in my day other than the Incredible dreams I was having.
So I just thought I would put my two sense in--
Dreaming is fun, but I found I get more comfort from letting them come
as they wish.  The amazing "mind" guides me as it sees fit.  it will
wake me up from "consiessness" through a killer dream if it needs to.

Dream On!! (just not too much)  :-)
From: sihd_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dan Shimmyo)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Forcing yourself out of a dream.
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:27:32 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York


  I used to have some pretty bad dreams early in the night.  Some times
 they weren't actual dreams where anything seemed to happen.  They might
have been a feeling that included some sounds like a movie soundtrack or 
maybe even a vision of something scary.  Regardless,  sometimes when I had
 these dreams I'd be in this semi-conscious state and I'd feel that I had
to wake up or else I'd be miserable.  IT's like the longer I stayed the worse
it would get.
  Anyway, when I'd first try to wake myself up, it's like feeling paralized
and I'd try to shake or get up or whatnot.  Sometimes I'd actually think that
my arms were in the air but they actually probably weren't.  Well, the whole 
experience felt like I was suffocating or as if I were engulfed in something.
When I finally succeed in waking up it feels like I'm breaking thru something
and then I have a hard time going back to sleep.
 Sometimes I'd fall back asleep into the same situation.  It hasn't 
happened lately but I'd be interested in hearing if someone else has had
a similar experience.
From: star@ut-emx.uucp (Susan Catharine Starrett)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: 11 August dream
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:07:24 GMT



I was with a group of people (from high school, I think) 
and there were a couple of women I didn't know. One had brought her
two young sons. 

Everyone was encouraging me to try out a new method that they said 
would make me smarter and a better person.  The two boys were
there because their mother was anxious to try it out on them.

I didn't want to do it, but everyone kept insisting that I  
should. I asked that they do the boys first, so they did the
process on one of them. They made a cut (more like a scratch) about
three to four inches long on his head above the temple, along the 
crown. There was a box of what looked like little leather "pillows".
(They looked like two pieces of leather cut four by four inches,
sewn together along the edges, and filled with air - they looked 
puffed up, not stuffed.)  They put one of the pillow's edges along
the cut on his head, and after a second or two the process was
complete. I asked him how he felt and he said fine, but I still DID NOT
want to have the process done on me.

I asked what was in the pillows and was told it was a Soul. They were
holding me so that I couldn't get away and made the cut on my head.
As they put the edge of the "pillow" to my head I asked what happens
to me if this other soul goes into my body? I remember painlessly
going out when the other soul went in and realized that this
is what it's like when one dies (or when the soul leaves the physical
body). The only emotion I felt was a little peeved since I wasn't
really supposed to leave yet. 
 
~
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From: rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie (Robert Walsh)
Subject: Explaining lucid dreaming to someone IN A DREAM!
Organisation: Amalgamated Durables
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:56:48 GMT

The other night I dreamt I was explaining lucid dreaming to someone.
Weird thing was that even though you'd have expected that to alert
me that I was dreaming, and starting me lucid dreaming there on the
spot, it didn't. Oh well..

BTW: I've only ever had one lucid dream..
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From: mcsdc1jcwj@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: RE: Problems with lucid dreaming .
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:04:42 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Lucid dreaming .

I find that I can't maintain a lucid dream in normal sleep , but I can have a

lucid dream whenever I want . I let myself wake up in the morning and then

just lie there and drift back to sleep . As I lie there I concentrate on 

maintaining full consciousness . Once in the dream , it is lucid , but I have

no control for the first five minutes or so (subjective time) until the dream

scenario is properly established . Then I can start to concentrate on shaping

the dream . I too find that my dream body only seems to exist as I look at it.

It's almost as though my eyes radiate the only light in the dream and that 

everything else is in darkness until I look at it . I notice that whenever I 

look hard at anything , more and more detail is built up . If I glance at my

hands , I am aware of their shape at first , then I can differentiate all the

fingers and joints . Then , I can see the skin . Then the fingerprinting on my

hands becomes available and veins are visible . I find that after a while , my

hand becomes transparent and I can see right into the blood cells as well .

This is a bit odd and a little frightening , as I have to make a real effort to

disengage my attention from this "tunnelling" into myself .

I have also noticed , my dreams are never in stereoscopic vision , that is to

say , it is as if I am looking with only one eye open . Depth perception is

never there , but I am always aware of distances .

Set out what you want to do in your dream before you go in and concentrate on
it .

Be careful that you don't try too hard , as you may wake up from the effort and

it won't be a usual slow return , but a sudden enforcement of reality at full
consciousness .
 
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From: wolffie@u.washington.edu
Subject: Controlling one's behavior in dreams
Reply-To: wolffie@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:23:27 GMT

	I'm a mountain climber and have climbing dreams regularly.  They  
feature incredibly beautiful and imaginative mountainscapes, and some have  
occured in previously-dreamed terrain, so that I "know the route."  One of  
the odder dream climbs was a thin, vertical crack inside an elevator shaft  
in my old high school (which actually had no elevators); you had to break in  
on a weekend and post lookouts, because this climb was actually a felony  
(breaking & entry).
	A frequent scenario finds me stuck in an extremely exposed position  
where I can't climb further upwards and can't retreat back downwards;  it's  
a death fall if I slip, so I cling to the rock, desperately trying my  
absolute best to climb out of my predicament.  I clearly realize that this  
is just a dream, and I consider jumping off deliberately, an option  
unavailable in Real Life.  I've never been able to do it!  I've always felt  
like I was literally climbing for dear life, and I always wake with a  
start...
	I had another dream in which I recognized that I was dreaming and  
tried to use the "safe" opportunity to try something I'd never do in Real  
Life:  I decided to rob a bank, and immediately a bank appeared on the  
street I was walking along, but I awoke as soon as I opened the door.
	I don't seem to have much moxie in my dreams.  I'm pretty much a  
coward in Real Life, too.
	Has anybody ever been able to consciously direct their behavior in  
dreams?   Have you been able to do things forbidden in Real Life?
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From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Emergency Exit
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:55:38 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

Now that some other subject has focused my view on this again, I have
to post it...

First, I have regularly lucid dreams, and nightmares are VERY uncommon.
Some weeks ago, I dreamt something in conjunction with my parents'
cat, which had been ill for some time not long ago (but was only 2
years of age). That ended with the cat vigorously attacking me, and in
that moment I thought something like 'where is the emergency exit'...
I woke up, realized that I was taking some very quick, deep breaths (as
in high distress), and thought 'now, exit... uh-oh, the cat is dead.'

When I visited my parents last week, they told me the cat had indeed
died around the time I had that dream.
One could rationalize that the probability for the cat dying was
rather high, but I wonder if there are other reasons (see my previous
post).

Finally, I have already had comparable 'lucid nightmares' where I
thought of some means of an 'emergency exit', sometimes that worked,
sometimes not... Any comments?

MfG,
        Olaf
-- 
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uknf@dkauni2.bitnet - praetorius@irc - +49-721-60439 - did i forget something?

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From: alanj@dadd.ti.com (Alan Jones)
Subject: Dream replays
Reply-To: alanj@dadd.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:19:30 GMT

My wife has always had very good dream recall, and her dreams are usually
pretty vivid.  But she told me something interesting about her dreams that
I find terribly fascinating.

She tells me that as situations are unfolding in her dreams, if she is
unhappy with the results, she can "will" a rewind or replay of the situation!
She then uses the opportunity to try out different approaches to solving the
problem at hand.  She sez she often goes thru several scenarios before she is
satisfied.

Anyone else ever hear of this ability?!?

---
sincerely,
Alan Jones  /  Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX  /  email=alanj@dadd.ti.com

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From: kelly@spyro.cray.com (Matt Kelly (4274))
Subject: Re: Explaining lucid dreaming to someone IN A DREAM!
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:09:06 CDT

rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie (Robert Walsh) writes:

>The other night I dreamt I was explaining lucid dreaming to someone.
>Weird thing was that even though you'd have expected that to alert
>me that I was dreaming, and starting me lucid dreaming there on the
>spot, it didn't. Oh well..

I had the EXACT same thing happen to me 3 nights ago.  I was discussing lucid
dreaming with an aunt of mine whilst driving in a GTO convertible with the
top down (I've never owned a GTO...).  I didn't go lucid either.  

This makes sense, if you think about it.  It's perfectly normal and natural
to talk about lucid dreaming with someone.  The trick to lucid dreaming is to
recognize something "wierd" or unusual as a clue that you're dreaming, or to
condition yourself to "reality check" to see if you're dreaming.  Talking to
someone about lucid dreaming probably would fail any kind of reality check.

Hmmm... since I'm replying to this posting about lucid dreaming, maybe *I'm*
dreaming!  Everything indicates, however, that I'm not.  If you don't see this
posting, then you'll know that I AM dreaming.....

On to lucid reality.

Good luck with your lucid dream adventures. I hope you can have more of them.
They're fun!!!


Matt

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From: k.c..bennett@madness.network23.com (K.C. Bennett) 
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Dream Written Up
Date: 22 Aug 92 03:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Terminal Madness BBS - Newport, RI - 401-848-9069
Reply-To: k.c..bennett@madness.network23.com (K.C. Bennett) 


        I had a dream several months ago that was so twisted and bizarre
that I typed it up in story format.  My friends seemed to like it, so if
I get the chance I'll upload the bugger.

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