From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
Subject: Experiment Proposal (repost)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:58:36 GMT

I've gotten _no_ responses for this.  If I haven't heard anything by
Nov. 30, I will assume that everyone approves (though I'll have
doubts about how much interest there is in this...) :)

Well, here is the post again:
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Hi everyone...

Well, we seem to have enough people to get a good experiment going...
Time to make some decisions.  
If anyone has any other ideas, please post to alt.dreams, and we will
revise this proposal.  Some indication of approval would also be
appreciated...

Here is my proposal:

Attempt to have a lucid dream any time (as often as possible)
between the dates of Friday, Dec. 4 and Sunday, Dec. 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

The description of the dreamscape is as follows:
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vehicle: a broad river passing through all sleeping minds, in some places white
         water flowing past huge slabs of rock and scattered boulders covered
         with green algae and mosses, in other stretches, slow and wide,
         -- even swampy at the edges with the water and land blending
         gradually.  Thick wooded landscape.

destination: A large mountain lake.  Clean and cold. Pines on the banks reflect
             around the edges and the pale dusky sky across the middle.
             The meeting place is at the far end of the lake, opposite the 
             mouth of the river. A campsite is there.  Within a ring of
             rocks a crackling fire consumes a pile of thick logs.
             Away from the lake, beyond the campfire is a dead tree trunk,
             weathered to a smooth silver-gray.  In the flickering light of
             the fire it is bright against the dark forest behind it.
             One stump of a limb projects out about four feet from the right
             side of the trunk, six feet above the ground.  A foot and a half
             up the trunk from the limb, the trunk branches into to two parts 
             and then ends abruptly.  People can leave items at the foot of
             the dead tree or hang them on the branch.


So, what does everyone think???

Pleasant dreams!
Angela

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