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From: EDIAS@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Cartoon Dreams
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:59:04 GMT
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I had one of the weirdest dreams I've EVER had the other day.

I was a cartoon character in a cartoon world.  The cartoon sorta
looked like an old movie theater quality cartoon.  None of the
other characters in the dream were famous cartoon characters.

I don't remember much from the dream, (I guess I should have written
it down when I woke up) but, part of it took place on a train and
another part took place at a birthday party.

Has anyone else dreamed about being a cartoon or had a dream
that involved cartoons.

   feeling kinda sleepy right now...		Tony Dias
From: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Darren Gower)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Dying in dreams
Date: 13 Dec 92 14:02:24 GMT
Organization: Comp. Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia

In <Peter_Mcnamee.02zy@kumear.apana.org.au> Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee) writes:


> [...]
>Yeh I've died twice in my dreams as well.  Once I fell and another time I
>was shot in the back.
>[...]

A long while ago I too died, in a nuclear detonation dream (which I
caused, as a matter of fact). There was a moment (as the explosion occured) that
I was as scared as I ever remember being, but a few moments later (encompassed
in white light, floating without any real sense of 'body') I calmed down and
'went with it'. I remember feeling incredibly calm, and just floating,
enjoying the experience. Then I woke up.

Nothing similar has ever occured in my dreams, although I often have wished
it would. It was a dream I would have liked to extend - I feel I awakened far
too quickly.

regards,
Darren.
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From: ugoni@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: dying and loving
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:16:54 +1100
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <Bz3wMx.M7K@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v384rv4k@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Lynn Harper) 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 seem to do this too.....I'll dream that I'll be hugging/kissing (sometimes
even having sex with them) someone I've never been attracted to before in real
life, and when I wake up I have this enormous crush on them. This will last for
days, sometimes even weeks, but I never act on this feeling since it seems
artificial. I can think of a plausible explanation, but I'd like to hear the
opinions of other people.

Antony

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: tpe36878@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry Connick Jr. )
Subject: Grim Reaper dream
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:46:26 GMT

Hello again:

	I have another old dream that is still boggling me. Four years ago,
I had this dream about the Grim Reaper. I dreamt that I was lying in my bed
and I suddenly woke up (woke up in my dream only, I hope). I looked over
towards my one roomate's bed and saw the Grim Reaper floating above his bed.
The only thing is that he was wearing all white instead of black. For some
reason, I knew that this meant that he was here to take me from this world
to the next and the fact that he was wearing white meant that I was going
`up escalator' rather than `down escalator'.
	I guess this whole dream must have startled me (it seemed too real).
I ended up waking up suddenly and in quite a shaken mood. I lay there on
my back, staring at the ceiling; I was too afraid to turn my head, but I
was also not comfortable with falling back to sleep. After about two minutes
of lying in fear, I turned to look where the Grim Reaper had just been and
saw nothing. What a relief! I then was able to fall right back asleep.
	Now I am not one who has really ever been preoccupied with death or
even worried about it. I am wondering if this dream meant anything, as it is
only one of two dreams I can ever remember that has had some sort of religious
theme in it (for the other see my previous post). If anyone has any ideas, as
always feel free to give them to me.

	thanks
	thomas ehardt
	tpe36878@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: katherim@fraser.sfu.ca (Katherine Merle Mason)
Subject: Re: Clinton and black underware
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:54:06 GMT

richardg@idca.tds.philips.nl (Richard Grear) writes:

>Inquiring minds would like to know.....

>Hypothetically, if one dreams of having a meeting with Clinton and a black
>haired woman (in her mid fourties, whou had just bought some black lacy
>underware) in a hotel room to discuss policy, and not understanding a word of
>what goes on.... should one be concerned about one's sanity, or start 
>looking forward to having dreams about loose teeth?

FREUDIAN ANALYSIS:

The woman represents your mother and your sexual desires for her.  The fact
that she has black hair indicates that you are unwilling to admit these 
desires even to yourself.  The black lacy underware represents your own
feminine sexuality which you long to be able to bring forward in all 
spheres of life, espessially the proffessional one (ie your discussion of
policy).  Clinton represents a change.  Perhaps it is time that you
admitted these desires.  The fact that this discussion took place in a
hotel room represents the fact that you are still so insecure about
your disires that you cannot even bring them to your home front.  Not
understanding the discussion obviously refers to your lack of recognition
of your desires.

I'm sorry but this "hypothetical" dream just cried out for Freudian analysis.
And people wonder why I have no respect for Freud.  

Cheers,
Katherine Merle Mason
Ne Oublie....
And people wonder why I have no
And people wonder why I have no respect for Freud.  Stupid Git.
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From: slisa@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: lucid finally!
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:15:13 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

  HURRAY!!!  

    i have been reading this groups for about three months know...i have been
fascinated by lucid dreaming and have been trying to practice it. Well..
yesterday afternoon i did it for the first time! It was so encredible!
    i was studying for finals and i was falling asleep *surprise* and so
i decided this would be a good time to try and go lucid and get to the 
dream ship. so i laid down all warm and comfartable and thought about the
ship as i fell asleep.
    i started dreaming a crowd dream...i have them often especially after a day
of Christmas shopping :) i was walking along a hallway and there were people
coming by me and walking towards me...i could hear the crowd murmering and
talking as they passed. i saw many familiar faces and then i saw a kid's face
that i had went through grade school with.  He had been killed in a gun
accident years ago.  This kinda of scared me and the dream turned into a slow
motion kinda thing and i got really scared. It was then that i realized this
could only be a dream. i calmed myself down and kept walking down the hall.
	i slowly pulled my hands up to where i could see them and thought 
COOOOOL! i am lucid. i began to get excited and start to wake up. i calmed 
myself down and thought i need to try and fly before this ends.
	i spread my arms strait out and turned around. All of the people
had dissapeared i started to fly down the hall. i remember thinking that i
didn't want to hit my head on the ceiling but i couldn't get my feet of the
floor. i wasn't moving them but i was moving quickly down the hall with them
dragging.
	i needed to get outside. i walked out the doors and stood at the top
of a small stairway. i jumped down them in one jump and surprised my self how
far i had leaped. i was consciously trying to find a place to fly from. i
looked to the roof, gathered my self and jumped up there. i had misjudged how
high it was and had to pull myself up with my arms. 
	There i stood at the edge of the roof and it was then that i began to
worry that this wasn't a dream and i was going to hurt myself. i desided to
test it out. i would jump from that hieght and if i made it then i would get
back up and fly. i made it and got back up to the roof. took a big breath and
woke up because my husband called me from work to say hi to see how studying
was going *laugh* he felt bad that he had cut me off right before i flew to
the ship.

	oh well... better dreams next time right??  

		                  LISA CROOKSTON-POULSEN
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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: hf10@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (FieryPhoenix)
Subject: Re: Tetris and Dreams
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:50:28 GMT

Yeppers.  Definitely dreamt about Tetris freshman year when I used to play it
all the time.

Now here's an odd one:  How about dreaming in mush code?
:smiles.

-FP

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: cbatorow@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (these are the days of our lives)
Subject: old woman in my dream, yikes
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:39:12 GMT

Hello, this is my first time posting in this group but i have a terrible
problem to which i hope to get an answer. 
Last night I had a very strange and rather scary dream, more like a 
nightmare. I dreamed that i was walking through the hall of my dorm.
I was just going to the bathroom from my room (which is about 10 feet away),
with a male friend of mine, btw--i'm a female. On the way to the bathroom we
saw an older woman, in her 80's, in a wheelchair. She was very petite and thin.
The weird thing is that there is no one here like this, neither older or
in a wheelchair. Anyway, first of all, the hallway was rather murky and dark,
unlike the very lighted and clean one which we have. As i was coming out of the bathroom, along with my friend, the woman was riding her wheelchair towards us.
We were now walking away from her but she was following us. All of a sudden she
got up from the chair and started running after us. She was very short, about
4'8", and very wrinkled. As she slowly, and with some difficulty, ran after us
she stretched out her hand and started waving her finger while jabbering 
something. As we stopped and faced her she turned around, ran bach to her 
wheelchair, and sat down.
 Then I woke up frightened. I was really scared because this woman who was
 sitting in a wheelchair, nearly crippled, all of a sudden got up and 
 ran after me. And why was she waving her finger at me? Was she trying to tell
 me something?
   Please, if anyone can tell me what that awfull dream meant I would really
   appreciated.

   thanx
   --olivia


Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: bdd@onion.eng.hou.compaq.com (Bruce D. Davis)
Subject: Re: BODY POSITION
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:28:35 GMT

In article <Peter_Mcnamee.031s@kumear.apana.org.au> Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee) writes:
>In a message dated Fri 11 Dec 92 17:16, Tarzan wrote:
>
> T> chance for success is much increased.  But it can be very difficult to
> T> lay
> T> still in one position allowing the sleep paralysis to take effect. 
> T> Has anyone
> T> got anything to add to this?
>
>A lot of the literature states that one of the better positions to lay in
>is with the head to the East.  Personally I've not found this to alter
>things, but it may help some people.
>
>What was your first Lucid dream like?  Mine first started with an
>earthquake.
>
>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
>

OOBE's are MUCH EASIER to attain if the head points toward magnetic north...
ref: _Out of Body Travel_ by Robert Monroe or _Astral Projection_ by Yram...

and IMHO, lucid dreams & "sleep paralysis" are stages in the process; for
most, sleep overtakes the person and normal (or lucid) dreaming begins

bruce (spin doktor)
From: cole@physci.psu.edu (Robert Cole)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Jung and clairvoyance
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:08:51 GMT
Organization: Penn State, Physical Sciences Laboratory
Distribution: world

	I have a book of Carl Jung's, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections"
which looks interesting and while I haven't read it yet, I have paged 
through it some and came across and account of Jung's in which he relates
a clairvoyant dream of his:

	I dreamed that my wife's bed was a deep pit with stone walls.
	It was a grave and somehow had a suggestion of classical
	antiquity about it.  Then I heard a deep sigh, as if someone
	were giving up the ghost.  A figure that resembled my wife
	sat up in the pit and floated upward.  It wore a white gown
	into which curious black symbols were woven.  I awoke, roused
	my wife, and checked the time.  It was three o'clock in the
	morning.  The dream was so curious that I thought at once
	that it might signify a death.  At seven o'clock came the news
	that a cousin of my wife had died at three o'clock in the
	morning.

-- 
I understand about indecision
And I don't care if I get behind
People living in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
Subject: Re: Tonight's the night!...
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:51:18 GMT

In article <Peter_Mcnamee.031u@kumear.apana.org.au> Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee) writes:
>
>can someone explain this experiment to someone who has only just joined the
>thread?  Thanks...
>

THE EXPERIMENT:

Attempt to have a lucid dream any time (as often as possible)
between the dates of Friday, Dec. 4 and **Wednesday, Jan. 20**.  When
you find yourself lucid dreaming, use any means possible to find
the scenario described below.  Attempt to interact with others there,
and look for "personal objects" that others may have left.  Try to
leave a personal object of your own for others to find.  

You are free to report to the Net that you made it to the Meeting
Place in your dreams, but please do not post any details about the
dream until the experiment is over.  Send email to our Third Person
(who prefers to be called a "judge" -- I don't know why, ask him) :)
containing all the details you can remember from the dream, especially
any personal objects you found/left.  He will save & post the messages
after the experiment, and if he sees possible correlations, he may 
write back, asking specific questions about what you saw/left/did...
(For example, if you left your wallet, he might ask for a description
of the wallet & it's contents.  Another person who said they found
a wallet would also be asked to give a description of the wallet & its
contents...)

Our Third Person/Judge/(whatever you want to call him) is
Allen Chen
aec1@cornell.edu

You do not have to let anyone know ahead of time that you are planning
to participate in this experiment.  Just try to get there, and write
to Allen if you make it...

The description of the dreamscape is as follows:
*************************************************************************

Vehicle:  A large white cruiser ship with the words "S.S. Dreamers"
in large black letters on both sides, and the back.  Since it is a boat,
it can "sail" through any body of water (or anywhere else, depending on
how bizarre some of your dreams can get!) :)  The interior of the ship
has three decks, one for living quarters, one with a kitchen & a large hall 
for meals (and laden with lots of delicious food, as all cruise ships always
are!) :),  plus other rooms, including a game room, etc., and an
upper deck with "outdoor" games (shuffleboard, etc.), including a
swimming pool and other recreational activities.  All dreamers are welcome
to enjoy all of the ship's facilities, and they are invited to interact with
anyone else on the ship, and they may also look at and/or leave
objects by the swimming pool or in the dining room...


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Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Subject: Convincing characters you're dreaming.
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:57:14 GMT

Recently while lucid, a friend of mine in the dream said "This isn't a
dream!"  I was annoyed.  It was too a dream.  I grabbed the end of his
nose and stretched it out about a foot, as if it were rubber, and then
it snapped back into place.
 
"Ok, it's a dream," my friend admits.
 
          Guess I told him.
 
                              Nik

Newsgroups: alt.dreams
From: dvarela@cipres.cec.uchile.cl (VARELA LOPEZ DANIEL EDUARDO)
Subject: wath`s dreams?
Originator: dvarela@araucaria
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:23:10 GMT
Organization: Centro de Computacion (CEC), Universidad de Chile

	por que solo
	encuentro textos en ingles
	y no en espan~ol u otro idioma
	acaso los latinos no tienen \
	derecho a ocupar un espacio aqui
	ya es hora que participemos
From: Peter_Mcnamee@kumear.apana.org.au (Peter Mcnamee)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: no dreams!
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:52:03 EST
Organization: The DUNGEON BBS

Greetings Dreaming Units...

Has anyone else had the experience of going through a time when you could
dream all you want (including lucid dreams), you were getting good at
it...and then suddenly dream recal ceased?  I know i've been a bit tired
lately but thought that recall would come back when I started holidays, but
as yet, nothing!

Anyone else experienced this dream block?

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: Future seeing in dreams.
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:36:49 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: usa
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In article <1992Dec10.215854.29717@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman) writes:
>
>Oddly enough, this future-seeing doesn't bother me.. I created a theory that
>we more or less have free will throughout our lives, and my flash dreams were
>just my awareness of 'checkpoints' we always had to come back to every now
>and then...

Sounds really interesting to me. Could you elaborate more?

Olaf
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From: 00cmmiller@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: dir
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:21:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <n6n2-=g@rpi.edu>, kaminl@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Matt Garretson) writes:
> All this talk about Tetris and Tetris dreams only reinforces by belief that
> Tetris was part of an insidious russian plot to brainwash America. Hell,
> it worked on me!   :) 
> -- 
> Matt Garretson                    :-)                 temporarily kaminl@rpi.edu

ok, i think i have to say something.

as a behavioral psychologist, i must reject any attempt at freudian dream
interpretation.  all this talk about the tetris dreams----i feel the need
to reply.  :)  the brain usually dreams about what happened during the
day.  that's all.  people who lucid dream are simply taking control of
their dreams, something anyone can do.  so, if one plays tetris (or any
other game), or does something (anything) during the day, there is dream
potential created.  most psychologists agree that while in rem sleep,
the brain tries to "make sense" of what happened during the waking
hours.  

as to the "paralysis chemical".....quote from one of my psych texts:

"REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because the brain is showing
activity that during awake periods would lead to movement while at the
same time showing inhibition and immobilization of the muscles that
otherwise would be moving.  The twitching that sometimes accompanies
REM sleep apparently results when the brain's messages to move and not
move do not quite cancel each other.

(later)  Dreams vary among individuals and betwen the sexes and 
apparently depend on what goes on in an individuals's life.
Researchers who have systematically awakened subjects during dreams
(Cartwright, cited in Kiester, 1980) find a more-or-less standard
format to the sequence of a night's dreams.  The general sequence p
[oops] proceeds from first dreaming about concerns from the previous
day, to generalizing about similar experiences, to a final imaginary
and often tense and vivid conclusion.  All components might be wuite
[oops] quite fanciful.  If anything is remembered for long after 
waking, it usually is only the final scene, as if one saw only
the end of a confusing movie.

(later)  Recent alternate interpretations, however, [in answer to
typical Freudian interpretations] have focused more on the
physiological aspects of dreaming.  Hobson and McCarly (1977)
proposed and activation-synthesis theory of dreaming based on 
neurophysiological evidence.  According to this theory, parts of the
brain periodically and endogenously generate impulses during sleep
that activate the forebrain.  The forebrain then attempts to make sense
of, or synthesize the hodgepodge of impulses, perhaps using past 
memories from the real world to match the new imput."

if any of you waded through this, cool.  let me know if you have
any comments, questions, whatever.

candace miller
From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: vampires
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:42:57 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <Bz25xq.CLr@news.udel.edu> avril@chopin.udel.edu (April Christi Clark) writes:
>Okay, this may sound pretty silly.

I think it sounds not silly at all.

>I recently went to "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and ever since then 
>(however long that is, I went on opening night), I dream about vampires. 

:-)  Such things can happen...

>Is there an interpretation of this or did the movie just really zone me?

Most likely precisely that.

>P.S. Can one learn to be lucid? I have tried according to the advice in all
>the posts, but I feel like you have to be able to already.

No, everyone has the ability. It can be learned. The most important
point is that learning it can be difficult, and gets more difficult if
you get frustrated about it not "working"! 

Just hold on. It may take a lot of effort, but can be done.

Hope this helps by encouraging you :-)

Olaf
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