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From: kevinc@adp.uucp (Kevin Cherek)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: help with interpretation...
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:24:11 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin ADP

Hi all,

I had this extremely vivid dream that I am having problems interpreting.  I
though perhaps some external input might be helpful so if anyone has any 
ideas...

I was at work in a tall high rise building.  However, instead of the usual
work stuff we were rigging an atomic bomb on the roof to a timing device in
our offices.  We guess 90 seconds is enough to allow us to escape, but we 
decide to have a test run first to be sure.  We set it and evacuate the
building.  We all reach saftey just as the 90 seconds are up.

We go back into the building, reset and start the timer for the real thing.
This time we get caught up in irrelevant details on the way out, such as 
gathering papers, etc.  Some people start destroying the building.  I realize
we are wasting time so I start running, jumping large numbers of stairs.  
However, we wasted too much time and didn't make it out.  There was a wierd
buzzing in my ears and a buildup of pressure.  I realized the bomb had gone
off and I wouldn't make it out.  A shock wave swept me out a nearby window,
up and into the mushroom cloud.  I could feel the heat, but kept my eyes 
closed out of fear.  I was hoping for a quick and relatively painless death
(and expected it).  However I was quite amazed and curious to be still alive
after a minute or so of being tossed around.  I even opened my eyes and saw
the orange fireball around me.  <end>

Notes from reality:  I work in a short bldg, not a high rise;  I have no idea
where the atom bomb idea came from; I tried to "bridge" this into my waking
life but have had little success.

Later...
- kev -

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Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 04:07:24 -0400 
From: Jack Liu <jl9d+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Weird Stuff that happen to me (posted under wrong name first time-RE:Lucidity and me)
	<BvqMFo.Eq4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

I'd just like to ask if anyone has experienced this before:

	In times of high fever, I would sometimes fall into a semi-conscious
state.  Actually, I'd be more conscious that unconscious.  Once this
happens, I experience the horrible feeling of the world becoming
nonexistent, like apocalypse.  The only images I would see in my mind
are cubes of all different sizes.  Though it's completely black around
me, I can still make out the giant shapes, shrinking and growing.  It
gets the worst when the cube becomes so large that it exceeds the limits
of my imagination, where I would then feel like all hope in everything
is lost.  At this point, I can feel my physical body floating in this
darkness.  All gravity is gone and I can't tell if I'm lying down or
standing up.  It's only when I open my eyes again that I snap out of it.
	What I've just described is rather vague, but I can't really describe
it any further because the rest can't really be related to the five
senses.  It's a totally different experience (one that I don't hope to
be having soon).  

I doubt that there is a real meaning in this, but I'd just like to know
if I'm not the only one who goes through this.  I've asked my friends
and none of them seemed to have even nearly ever experienced it.  
	One more question:

	I'm sure this has happened to some people.  When I take naps at around
6P.M. and wake up at 9P.M. to do whatever and then go back to sleep
again after a few hours, I find that I can always know when I'm dreaming
once I've entered one.  They're usually nightmares, and though I can't
control them, I can exit myself from them at anytime by finding
inconsistencies in reality (i.e. "I could never be there" or "That could
not happen").  The creepy part comes after I wake.  I find that I can't
move any part of my body on awakening but my eyes.  No matter how hard I
try, I can't even get my fingers to wiggle.  I eventually break out of
this in about ten seconds, but when it happens, even though I know that
I'll break out, it freaks me out.  Maybe if someone would tell me that
this is natural or explain the "physics" of it to me, I can rest more
assuredly that my eyes aren't looking out from a lifeless body.  

Thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Water imagery
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 10:17:38 GMT

I don't know what the seashore means in your dream, but if it were my
dream and I was, say, walking along the seashore it would likely 
meaning that I was skirting some issue rather than "taking the
plunge."  

Erik Timmerman
From: gj156879@prince.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: dream lover
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:12:56 GMT
Organization: Carleton University

>I have a seemingly silly question.  For two and a half years now I keep  
>dreaming about someone whom, in my dreams, I love very much.  If I ask him  
>his name, he says he can't tell me because it would ruin our future  
>together.  I can't remember anything about him except basically the feel  
>of his presence.  Is this possibly a precognative dream or just fantasy?


I used to have dreams where I'd see a brunette and she'd kiss me and I
would be very surprised.  It got so that I thought it was always the
same person, coming back over and over, and eventually I would meet
her...
 
Well, now I'm not so sure.  It seems that that's the "type" of person
I'm most attracted to: brunette, short, etc.  and that maybe the
dreams were the results of desire for such a person.
 
Not to say your dream ISN'T precognition:  I wouldn't rule such a
thing out, stranger things have happened, but I'd probably write it
off as what you think results in what you dream.
 
If you believe in freudian theory, your dreams tend to be freudian, if
you believe your dreams are a precognition, your dreams will take on
that sort of context.  (I'd also push it further and say "If you think
your lucid dreams are astral projection, then that's how it will
look.")

                              Nik
                              Dreaming in technocolours.
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: c8841288@cc.newcastle.edu.au (CHRISTINA THE BIMBO)
Subject: Dream about wishing and a snot rag
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:18:16 GMT

Hi there REMers,

Here is my dream. I had it about a year ago, when I very desperate
for a female companion, and that has something to do with it I'm
sure. (I have since then found a girlfriend, which is another source
of weird dreams).

Anyway I was with my friend (another guy) and we were just hanging around. We
then came across a magic handkerchief (wrinkled, but not snotty). This 
handkerchief had the power to grant you any wish. So we went about wishing
away; you know, millions of $'s, nice cars. Then I realised something that I
wanted more than anything else in the world (I's sure you can guess what it
was). So I wished ... and when I looked behind me there was a beautiful girl!
She smiled and immediately fell into my arms. It was great!

After some time she wandered off, and I became concerned and started looking
for her. Then a dreadful thought occured to me. OK, I wished her into
existance, but she is a person now, with her own likes and dislikes. She
probably just doesn't like me in an emotional way. She wants to see the world,
do all those things. So I accepted this fact, however much it hurt. Then I
found her again, and she was very pleased to see me. I was happy again.

After this I woke up, and shitty that my magic handkerchief was only a dream.

Weird huh? 

Come to think of it, not long after the dream I started going out with a girl.


I have had many weird dreams, and I shall share them with you in future
postings (when I remember them).

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Jason Quarry
University of Newcastle, Australia.

Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 10:48:41 -0400 
From: Patrick C Leger <pl1u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Enhanced creativity when dreaming?
	<1992Oct6.144943.13195@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

Not trying to be picky, but the story I heard was that when Kekule was trying
to figure out the structure of benzene, he dreamt of a snake eating its
own tail.  When he awoke, he had his answer.  I'd never heard the monkey
story before, just curious which version people have heard?  (If at all?)

Chris
From: belkhaya@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mohamed Belkhayat)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Dream in a dream...
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:55:40 GMT
Reply-To: belkhaya@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mohamed Belkhayat)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In alt.dreams, pjc@mirage.nynexst.com (Peter Colonel) writes:
>I would like to preface this by saying that I am *not* a Christian,
don't sleep after dawn if you don't want your double dreams.
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From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
Subject: Re: How do I dream?
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:22:33 GMT
Keywords: Dream, how

Joan A. Sprague writes:

>    Well this may seem like a stupid question, but how do I dream?  I mean
> I sometimes have dreams, and they are all very extensive and vivid, but
> how do I "Force" myself to dream everynight?

  It's not a matter of forcing yourself to dream, because everyone dreams every
night.  It's a matter of *remembering* the dreams when you wake up.  The only
way to achieve this is through practice.  Some helpful hints:

  1. Tell yourself before falling asleep that you want to remember what you
     were dreaming when you wake up.

  2. Keep a notepad and pencil beside your bed in readiness to record any
     dreams.

  3. Delibrately sleep in one day and see whether that improves your dream
     recall.  (I'm not suggesting you sleep in every day, just that it's one
     way to catch a couple of dreams, say on the weekend).

  None of these suggestions are *guarenteed* to work, but with a little bit of
effort, and a fair dab of desire, you can remember your dreams on a more
regular basis.

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From: v005r7um@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Katrina S Lustofin)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Some Weird Dreams et alia.
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:56:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <4er7NLa00WB78=GpdX@andrew.cmu.edu>, sa2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Anselmo Aiello) writes...
>First of all, please address any correspondence to this message (except
>for regular reply posts) to saiello@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu, NOT
>sa2y+@andrew. cmu.edu.  THANKS.
> 
>Okay, I would like to do TWO things.  1) List a couple of weird dreams,
>and 2) Tell about an experiment that I've been conducting.
> 
>Okay, about my experiment.  It's basically a self-hypnosis exercise, but
>I do it to force myself to sleep at will.  What I do is relax and take
>some deep relaxing breaths for a minute or two, then I begin to count
>down from 50, at medium speed.  I concentrate on each number, and let my
>mind think of whatever it wants to.  By the number 30 or so, my brain
>will often be coming up with about 10 or 15 distinct thoughts and images
>per second, which I can recognize at the time, but cannot recall by the
>next number.  Around 20, everything gets really hazy and dreamy, and
>occasionally I'll remember to count down to the next number, but I
>cannot think about it consciously.  It is then that I am able to
>recognize for a split-second that it worked, then I am asleep.  This
>process may take from 5-10 minutes, or I guess maybe even less, but my
>concept of time is utterly useless.
> 
>Has anybody done stuff like this?  Tell me about similar things also,
>for I am curious about it.
>

Steve,
	Although I have never tried counting as you do, I often listen to my
walkman in bed, to one song in particular.  Instead of listening to the singer
or a major instrument I listen to the percussion, which is constant throughout
the song.  By halfway into the song, I reach that some point you do at the
number 30.  By the end, everything is hazy and dreamy, as you described it, and
then I just remember to put my walkman away before I fall asleep.  I started 
doing this about two years ago and it only works with the one song.

				Katy
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: TARZAN
Subject: Re: Lucidity and me.
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:19:03 GMT

In article <Bvs5xw.2q7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Karleenus Schwartz Davis) writes:
>Ever since I can remember, I've has this conscious nightmare
>just before I fall asleep.  It is the only dream of mine that
>I have ever called a nightmare.
>
>The whole dream is fraught with visual, tactile, and aural
>extremes.  What I can see is an extremely bright darkness,
>in the form of a gigantic sphere, behind which I see a dim 
>brightness.  It seems like a planet, and I can faintly hear
>voices shouting and talking animatedly on the other side.
>Overpowering me, however, is crushingly loud whispering, so
>loud that I can't even breathe.  The more I strain to make
>out the words on the other side of the planet and the faster
>I fly toward the dim brightness where they are, the more
>insistent the whispering becomes and the harder the noise
>seems to press down on my breastbone.  
>
>The whispering finally overcomes me, and I close my eyes.  
>I feel my body suddenly expand beyond imaginable size, almost
>as if I were inflated, and then in an instant every part of 
>me loses its "air" and I am squeezed as thin as a Euclidean
>line.  The process repeats itself, faster and faster, drawing
>air into my lungs and squeezing it out faster than I can make
>use of the oxygen.  
>
>Since my eyes are closed, I am no longer being "punished" by 
>the whispering for seeking the light and the voices.  I am no 
>longer terrified -- in fact, the tactile feeling of this
>expansion and contraction is intensely pleasureable.  My skin
>is tingling over my entire body in much the same manner as
>one's face does when one gets an unusually sudden and intense
>headrush.  A natural high, like an orgasm, but it is not a
>sexual feeling at all.  
>
>Summary: sheer terror, followed by intense pleasure, and every
>	time I dream this, it is exactly the same.  Is it still 
>	a nightmare if one wishes for it?
>
>-sz  (I know what it means; do you?)
>
   SOUNDS LIKE A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUT OF BODY ACTIVITY...
From: ssaf+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sreyas Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: How to Dream
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:27:33 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, Biology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


   I've tried to "create" famous people in my lucid dreams (mostly
philosophers) so I could speak with them. The problem is that I
concentrate hard in my dream, and the scenery changes but nobody
appears. Calling to a person sounds like a great idea. Thanks for the
advice.
                                -Sreyas Srinivasan
From: TARZAN
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: RE. MIKE'S ABILITY
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:36:45 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

MIKE, NEAT!  TARZAN. 
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From: ABLB000 <ABLB@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU>
Subject: Dream Recall
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:39:37 GMT

A few months ago, I was really obsessed with trying to lucid dream. I re
ad all about this phenomenon, and saw that the first step to lucid
dreaming is to be able to remeber your dreams. After a few days, I found
that I could remeber my dreams if I wrote them down as soon as I woke
up (I had a pen and paper right by my bed). Soon, I was recording my
dreams (often several each night) every morning. I did this for several
weeks, then got lazy and stopped. Anyway, what I have now noticed,
a few weeks after no longer recording my dreams, is that I can't seem
to remember them anyway. This just seems to emphasise the fact that
what you do when you are conscious can affect the subconscious. By
trying really hard (and thinking about it all the time) I could
remember my dreams...now, no longer thinking about remembering them,
I fail to recall them upon awakening...


Rocky [To study or not to study, that is the question]

From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:08:08 GMT
Subject: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.dreams

              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
Yes                  [ ]
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Other                [ ]

2.) Are you pro choice?
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Other                [ ]

3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
Yes                  [ ]
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Other                [ ]

4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
Yes                  [ ]
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Other                [ ]

5.) What sex are you?
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6.) How old are you?
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7.) What religion are you?
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8.) What political party are you affiliated with?
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9.) How many years of education have you completed?
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From: gj156879@prince.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: dreams changing reality
Summary: Well...
Keywords: cube
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:20:52 GMT
Organization: Carleton University

My most life changing dream ever was extremely symbolic and bizarre,
to the point where I still remember everything about it very clearly.
This probably isn't what you were asking about though, but here goes:
 
I am heading off to some sort of concert, and I see this secret
passage like thing that leads to this room with black walls.  The
walls are coverred in graffiti that swirls strangely.  I find this
cube on the ground.  A person standing nearby tells me I souldn't pick
it up, but I do anyway.  It's made of glass with a brass base at one
end.  A brass claw sticks out of the side of the cube opposite to the
brass base.  I play with the claw and see that I can screw or unscrew
it.  I turn the base and it comes off like a lid.  Despite the fact
that the cube is made of glass and is transparent, when I take off the
lid/base, the cube is filled with a brown mud.  I take a stick and
swirl the mud around until it's a dark bloody red.  
 
Now what the hell does all that mean?
 
At the time, I had broken up with somebody, and the dream indicated
to me that I could reach out with the claw, or not, but that either
way, I've stirred up a lot of guck inside me.  It was definitely a
power giving dream, making me realise that I could do whatever I
wanted to do.  

This dream was extremely emotional, and changed my outlook on a lot of
things.

                              Nik
                          Emotions Cubed.
From: heard@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: The killer dream dude.
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:01:53 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

In article <gj156879.718575917@cunews>, gj156879@prince.carleton.ca 
( gj student 156879) writes:

> Maybe if you asked him why he is trying to kill you.  Perhaps this
> something vital, essential, that you just CAN'T kill.  I've often
> wondered WHO dream characters are.  I mean, they're in YOUR
> subconscious, so you'd assume that this guy is somehow a part of
> yourself.  Maybe you should take a more defensive posture.  Have you
> tried talking to him?
>  
> The most obvious questions to ask this guy:
>  
> "Why are you attacking me?"
> "Why don't you leave me alone?"
> Etc.

You don't have to be asleep and dreaming to ask this
person questions. When trying to understand a dream, I
often find it valuable to act out the role of the
significant characters (or things) in the dream. That
is, to take on the role of the character in a sort of
method acting way and get the character to explain
him/her self via a dramatic monologue. I am often
surprised how much this reveals -- things I could never
arive at by pure analysis. 

Take care
Ronno
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From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
Subject: Re: dreams etc. (help!)
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:09:34 GMT

tb205cs@opie.bgsu.edu writes:

>Hi my name is mike, every dream i remember comes true.  I have been having
>these dreams ever since my grandfather died when i was 10 yrs old and believe
>it or not he came and visited me after he died.  Imagination, i think not, but
>he said i had a special purpose here on this planet and i was to use it to help
>others.  He said i was chosen.  For a 10 yr old this was a wierd experience. 
>That experience helped me strength my belief in powers from the unknown, and in
>the existance in ghosts.  Last year i went to a psychic and she told me about
>my grandfather and what he said to me. She also told me that i was psychic and
>that my abilities will strength enormously in the next 2 years.  It is wierd
>because i can read peoples emotions and sometimes see their future, past and
>tell specific details about each.  Does anyone else have the same experiences
>or have anything to share with me on the subject! Please reply!

Nothing so exciting as being told you're chosen, however...
In 1989 I had a dream which my grandfather (then dead about 9 years)
walked into.  I knew that he had nothing to do with the dream.  He
walked up to me, I stood up and took his hands.  He looked into my eyes
and said "I'm sorry".  I was overwhelmed by a wave of sadness, and felt
on the verge of tears.  I knew (without speech) that he was apologising
for not having been able to say goodbye.  I think I said "So am I"
meaning I was sorry for not being able to say goodbye to *him*.  We
hugged and he left.

I have some vague prescient abilities  - a have had many predictive
dreams, but certainly not *all* of them!  I am also slightly empathic
and I suspect I may be capable of being a trance medium (not that I'm
sure I want to ;).

*very* interesting to read your post!

Rob

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Rob Geraghty                         | Time, flowing like a river
robg@durian.citr.oz.au               | Time, beckoning me
CITR                                 | APP
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