DRMSTREAM posts "When You Grow Up Deaf." Check it out here.

"When You Grow Up Deaf" is a powerful poem published at the website, DRMSTREAM.  Here are a couple of excerpts:

 

When you grow up deaf there are so many things you don’t know.

 

The sound of rain on the roof.

 

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When you grow up deaf you worry that you’ll never really know the world, that every moment your back is turned some thing irre place able will pass you by. When you close your eyes, silence.

 

 

The piece includes an evocative photo illustration.  Click the link above and enjoy.

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Tools for Dreamers - Part IV

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The Five Dream W’s

Questions to ask myself . . . . .

Who

Who are the characters in my dream?

Are they people I know?

Are they strangers?

Are they alive today, or have they already passed on?

Am I a character in my dream, or an observer?

Who might these characters represent or stand for,

or do they represent themselves?

Where

Where is the dream setting?

Where is the dream taking place?

Is it a familiar place; or is it a place to which I’ve never been?

Have I dreamed of this place in the past?

Is it an interior scene or an exterior scene?

Do the scenes change, seemingly without reason, or does the action go “on and

on and on.”

When

When does the action of the dream take place?

Is it in the past, the present or the future?

How old are you in the dream? How old are the other characters?

Is this a recurring dream?

Does this dream represent one in a series of dreams with the same theme?

What

What is the action in my dream?

What is going on in my dream?

Does the scene have a beginning and an end?

How does the plot turn out?

What are my feelings as these things happen?

What is going on in my life these days, that might be a precipitator?

Why

Why did I dream this dream?

What was the function of this dream?

What did I need that might be fulfilled by this dream?

Why did I dream this dream at this particular time?

Why was I “ready” to have this dream?

By Carol Gee.

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Tools for Dreamers - Part III

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My Dream Language

How does my dream-maker write my dream story . . . The Five W’s

By Carol Gee

Who

Who are the regular characters in my dreams? Do they stand for themselves, for another, or for parts of myself?

Name the people or representational types that regularly inhabit my dreams, or the dream in question:

Who speaks and what is the dream dialogue like?

State some ideas about what characterizes the usual conversations in my dreams, or the dream in question:

What

What is the plot of my dream drama?

Write a synopsis of the story of what happened in this dream or in my typical dreams:

The language of objects or dream props –

For what do the “things” in my dreams stand, or what are the meanings of the main items that my dream-maker showed in this dream?

Where

What does the dream location say?

Describe the place in which the dream events happen. What are the most frequent locations of my dream dramas?

Inside or outside is a question

Do most of my dreams take place inside or outside? Where does the dream action occur in this dream?

When

Orientation to Past, Present or Future?

Is this dream set in the past, present or the future? What is my normal internal consciousness orientation to time?

Time’s message from the dream

Do the time orientations of conscious and unconscious match? How long does it take for the dream to unfold?

Why

Translating from conscious to unconscious

What “day material” routinely influences my dreams or influenced the dream in question?

Remembering my (habitual) internal dialogue’s shorthand phrases -learning my own unique words, my dream language

What is the literary style of my internal dream-maker? What does this shorthand tell me about what I might infer about the meanings of my dreams?

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Tools for Dreamers - Part II

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On Archetypes

Joseph Campbell, in a conversation with Bill Moyers, defines archetypes this way:

“The human psyche is essentially the same all over the world. The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground has come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

Moyers asks, “What are archetypes?” Campbell replies:

“They are elementary ideas, what could be called ‘ground’ ideas. These ideas Jung spoke of as archetypes of the unconscious. ‘Archetype’ is the better term because ‘elementary idea’ suggests headwork. Archetype of the unconscious means it comes from below. The difference between the Jungian archetypes of the unconscious and Freud’s complexes is that the archetypes of the unconscious are manifestations of the organs of the body and their powers. Archetypes are biologically grounded, whereas the Freudian unconscious is a collection of repressed traumatic experiences from the individual’s lifetime. The Freudian unconscious is a personal unconscious, it is biographical. The Jungian archetypes of the unconscious are biological. The biographical is secondary to that.

All over the world and at different times in human history, these archetypes, or elementary ideas, have appeared in different costumes. The differences in the costumes are the results of environment and historical conditions. It is these differences that the anthropologist is most concerned to identify and compare.”

Arthur Benard, Ph.D., M.F.T., in his workshop, “Dreams: Awakening Your Sleeping Genius,” lists archetypes:

“There is a part of the unconscious that all people have access to, which Carl Jung labeled the ‘collective unconscious.’ It is a psychic storehouse for all humankind, and the contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes: patterns that are found within the conscious of everyone.

It is important to understand that the universal meanings and generalized definitions are of minimal value in terms of self-understanding and personal growth. Only through discovering your own translations of symbols, even universal ones, can you effect any real change or insight. Another limitation is that symbols change meaning according to the context in which they appear and the personal experience of the dreamer.

Angel – spiritual ideals; higher self-image, guiding angel

Bull – strength; earthly desires; take the bull by the horns; ‘bull market’.

Cave – hidden aspects of self; deeper levels of mind; exploring the depths of the inner self; site of mystery and healing; secrecy; hiding place when troubled.

Cross – difficulties we have to bear; the way of Christ; rebirth

Fire – at its worst-uncontrolled temper, jealousy, vengeance, hatred; its opposites are the fires of love, zeal, patriotic fervor, cleansing and purification.

Light – mental understanding; insight; spiritual illumination.

Mandala – designs usually enclosed within a circle, which represent wholeness and the higher self.

Mountain – attainment of spiritual awareness after surmounting obstacles; high ideals; mastery of earthly concerns; climbing a mountain – making spiritual progress.

Ocean – our emotions and their condition; subconscious and super-conscious areas of the mind; mysteries of the deep within us.

Rainbow – God’s promise to people; protection, happiness, joy and good things to come.

River – the course of life; flow of ideas and emotions; spiritual activity

Serpent/snake – the kundalini, the creative force that flows through us and can raise our energy to spiritual awareness; represents both good and evil; negative aspect - lust and temptation; positive aspect - wisdom and healing.

Star – high, spiritual ideals

Stone – foundation of truth, solid, dependable

Tree – support, strength, permanence, dignity; indicates growth and un-foldment; flowering tree – inner beauty, abundance, promise of the fruits of your labor.

Water – source of life; spiritual depths; feelings and emotions; deep, clear still water often represents truth about the inner self; murky water – emotions upset and in turmoil.

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Tools for Dreamers - Part I

My Dream Kit

A “Dream Kit” is something I put together in order to enhance my dream work. It allows me to do dream work more effectively, and have more fun in the process. What else should I think about? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

The purpose

Why would I need a dream kit? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What would I actually do with it? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How hard to make would it be? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The contents

How often would I use it? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What would the kit need to contain to serve the purpose?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How much would I need to invest? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The container

Where would I keep the container? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

What form would the container take? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Would it be an open or closed container? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

References on Spirituality

Today's post is a reading list of books in my library on the general subject of spirituality, mental peace, stress management, and questions related to existential philosophy. Enjoy!

"A Return To Love: Reflections On the Principles Of a Course In Miracles" By Marianne Williamson. Harper Collins, 1992

"A World Waiting To Be Born: Civility Rediscovered" by M. Scott Peck. Simon and Schuster, 1993

"Chicken Soup For the Unsinkable Soul" by Canfield, Hansen and McNamara. Health Communications, 1999

"Compassion in Action: Setting Out On the Path of Service" by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush. Bell Tower Pub., 1992

"Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain. MIF Books, 1978

"Finding Values That Work: The Search For Fulfillment" by Brian O'Connell. Walker & Co., 1978

"Fire in the Soul" by Joan Borysenko. Warner Books, 1993

"Further Along the Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. Simon and Schuster, 1993

"Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson" by Joan Borysenko. Warner Books, 1990

"Inner Simplicity: 100 Ways To Regain Peace and Nourish the Soul" by Elaine St. James. Hyperion, 1995

"Insearch:Psychology and Religion" by James Hillman. Spring Pub. 1994

"Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May. Signet Books, 1953

"Mythologies" by William Butler Yeats. Macmillan, 1959

"Myths, Dreams and Religion" by Joseph Campbell. Spring Pub. 1988

"Passion for Life: Psychology and the Human Spirit" by John and Muriel James. Penguin Books, 1991

"Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hahn. Bantam Books , 1991

"The Heroine's Journey" by Mureen Murdock. Random House, 1990

"The Hope For Healing Human Evil" by M. Scott Peck. Simon and Schuster, 1983

"The House of Belonging" poems by David Whyte. Many Rivers Press, 2004

"The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth" by M.Scott Peck. Simon and Schuster, 1978

"The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling" by James Hillman. Random House, 1996

"The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought" by Jaroslav Pelikan. Little, Brown & Co., 1990

"Unconditional Life" by Deepak Chopra. Bantam Books, 1992

"Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation" by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Hyperion, 1994

"Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice" by Thich Nhat Hahn. Doubleday Dell Pub. 1974


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My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about Russia.
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When Dreamers Get Together

This is the story of some old friends. We are dreamers and we share the same profession. So we get together once a month to exchange ideas about our lives and our dreams. Some dream more than others, all share equally in the group work.

It is a very valuable association that we all treasure. We must because we have been doing it for years. We meet for a meal and to catch up on each others' lives, work and grandchildren.


And we catch up on our latest dreams. We all grow from the process. And we honor the relationships we have with each other and with each others' dreams.


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Circular Imagery

Circles, squares, triangle and rectangles are common geometric forms. I have sometimes thought that my thinking "pattern" would take the form of a triangle. When I am "doodling," however, I often draw circles. This tells me that I am unconsciously drawn to the circle motif, and would benefit from understanding a bit more about circular imagery and the unconscious. Since dreams are "the royal road to the unconscious," that is where I started.

The meaning of dreams about circles, according to the Dream Interpretation Dictionary, is, to quote:

The circle symbolizes infinity, the circle of life and the eternal unknown. You, the dreamer, may have come to a greater degree of spiritual awareness, so the dream could be spiritual in nature. Carl Jung called all circular images a "mandala." It is one of the most important dream symbols which represent the psychic center of personality. It is symbolic of wholeness, completeness and unity of the self. However, as always, examine all of the details in the dream, as well as its tone and mood, and rule out the possibility of "going in circles" as the primary message in the dream.

A dreamcatcher is supposed to catch nightmares and let the good dreams through.

I have a very beautiful one hanging on the wall near my bed. About.com explains:

The legend of the Native American dreamcatcher varies somewhat from tribe to tribe, but the basic theme or intention was to allow good dreams to slip through the web and into the sleeper during the night while the bad dreams were caught in the web and would be perished at morning light. The Lakota Legend has the opposing belief that the web will catch your good ideas and the bad ones will go through the hole.

Dreamcatchers are often very beautiful, but they can also be rather "tacky." According to Wikipedia, to quote:

In Ojibwa (Chippewa) culture, a dreamcatcher (or dream catcher; Ojibwe asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for "spider"^[1][2] or bawaajige nagwaagan meaning "dream snare"^[2]) is a handmade object based on a willow hoop, on which is woven a loose net or web. The dreamcatcher is then decorated with personal and sacred items such as feathers and beads.

. . . they came to be seen by some as a symbol of unity among the various Indian Nations, and as a general symbol of identification with Native American or First Nations cultures. However, other Native Americans have come to see them as "tacky" and over-commercialized due to their acceptance in popular culture.

Where to obtain them -- NativeLanguage.org has a dreamcatcher section that discusses the origin of the objects, and gives a good list of sources. Dreamcatcher.com sells handcrafted dreamcatchers, medicine wheels and other native inspired crafts online.
Closely related to dreamcatchers are mandalas, another example of ancient circular imagery.

Mandalas, according to Wikipedia, are, to quote (includes Wiki links):

. . . in practice, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective.

. . . Its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." ^[2] The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self,"^[3] and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. ^[4]

Closely related to dreamcatchers, medicine wheels originated as much bigger images, stones laid out on the ground in a spoke and wheel pattern.
Medicine Wheels -- The Sacred Destinations travel guide described a site located in my home state of Wyoming, that is known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel. To quote:

The Bighorn Medicine Wheel is the most important of several medicine wheels in the American West. Constructed around 700 years ago and aligned with the stars, it is an important sacred site for local Indians as well as New Age practitioners.

For centuries, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel has been used by Crow youth for fasting and vision quests. Native Americans also go to Bighorn to offer thanks for the creation that sustains them, placing a buffalo skull on the center cairn as a prayer offering. Prayers are offering here for healing, and atonement is made for harm done to others and to Mother Earth.

A number of great chiefs, including Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, have come to the Bighorn Medicine Wheel to pray for wisdom and guidance to lead their people in the transition from freedom to reservation life. The medicine wheel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

So now I will go back to thinking in triangles and dreaming in circles. But what do I do if it is the reverse? I guess it would be "back to the drawing board" in that case.
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My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about domestic surveillance.
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More of today's news about sleeping and dreams

Today's post is a digest of internet resources for people interested in learning more about sleep and dreaming. Making Good Mondays will provide the latest on these subjects periodically.
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream? " -- Holistic articles:

Our rapidly expanding article library contains a wealth of holistic, complementary therapy, spiritual & self-improvement resources. Our articles cover subjects ranging from Aromatherapy and Reflexology, affirmations and self-awareness, meditation and spirituality, to Feng Shui and ear candling.

Article on "How to improve your chances of a good night’s sleep. By The Holistic Shop's Margaret McGoverne. To quote,

Having suffered the worst insomnia to date in recent months I’ve searched out the advice of both conventional doctors and some more alternative views. I’ve found that the following advice certainly helped me – I wouldn’t say I’m cured but when the insomnia recurs, these methods seem to do the trick for me.

However it’s important to remember that sleep disturbances may be the symptom of a stress related, or other ailment - if in doubt, it’s always best to consult your GP. Having said that, the suggestions listed here are all tried and tested, and may help you to improve your nighttime sleep allowance considerably.

The Center for Sleep and Dream Studies, Ottowa, Canada -- Probably a trustworthy site, professionally managed, I suspect.
The Psychology of Dreams: Myths-Dreams-Symbols -- Features one of my favorite resources, a video of Joseph Campbell/Bill Moyers conversations.
Dreams A to Z -- Sister site to Myths-Dreams Symbols. This is an interesting link-rich website worth exploring.
The Global Oneness Commitment -- "The meeting place for cultural creatives. Co-creating a happy world." Everything under the sun in the New Age Style, kind of a fun site.
My links:
Cross-posted at Southwest Blogger
My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about the space business.
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About - Dreams

I dreamed . . .

Anything can follow from this phrase. We might be attempting to remember a recent dream that now seems remote. We might be telling someone else about one of our dreams. Or we could be wanting to understand more about dreams.

Try here: About.com is a very interesting website. As you can surmise, it is one of those resources that lets you know "everything you ever wanted to know about _____(you fill in the blank). I have used it for years and subscribe to a number of their newsletters via e-mail.

Beginning with Dream Quotes by Simran Khurana at About.com - Here are a few of my favorite Dream Quotes:

• James Dean:
  Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
• Henry David Thoreau: Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

"Drilling down" is what web surfers do when we want to learn more an more specific pieces of information. This process has always fascinated me because it (of necessity) imposes a very arbitrary sorting system of key words onto my thought process about a subject. Take the subject of "dreams and dreaming." My key words would be very different that those used by About.com. Theirs makes the subject appear to be weird, and somehow "out there."
Questioning the connections - Follow the site's thread into the subject of dreams and the internet about which I sometimes blog here at Making Good Mondays. The About titles are in boldface; my reactions follow each:
About> No problem here; it is self-explanatory.
Religion & Spirituality> Dreams are not necessarily connected to either religion or spirituality. Dreaming is a natural and normal physical and psychological process necessary to maintaining sanity.
Holistic Healing> Dreams are not necessarily healing. In some cases the dream is a normal part of the process of maintaining wellness. People plagued by recurring nightmares can have terrible and long-lasting pain, on the other hand.
Holistic Therapies> Dream work does not have to be therapist guided. And it may or may not be holistic. It may be day to day - very routine or even sporadic. Millions of people deal with their own and others dreams in a regular manner.
Innerwork Therapies (journaling)> I agree that it may indeed be self-therapeutic to keep a dream journal. And writing a journal certainly is inner work, even though it may be shared with others.
Dreamwork> Here we have arrived at the key word for me, but by linking of the wrong group of associated words, in my opinion.
Exploring Your Dreams. The About site, to its credit, is very rich with resources and talented writiers. My objection is to how they get us here.
How would I do it you might ask. My thread might look something like this: Brain> Mind> Internal Mental Processes> Psychology> Journaling> Dreaming> Dreamwork> Dream Journal> Exploring Your Dreams.
What would your thread look like?
My links: Cross-posted at Southwest Blogger
My topical post today at South by Southwest and The Reaction is about what's going on in other countries.
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Deam stuff and creativity revisited

What will you do with your dream, now that morning has come and you're awake? What will you do to to implement the night's dream or dreams into your daily life?

What we know is that one of the functions of dreams is to enhance one's creativity. Creativity is often about setting aside the conventional, going with the unusual or paradoxical. The freedom of the dream is that rules are broken, novel solutions arise or a problem gets solved as a result of implementing the dream.

What implementation means is to put into practice what we learned as a result of figuring out the riddle of the dream, i.e., interpreting what our Dream Maker was trying to tell us through the dream. it is one thing to know; it is another to act. What we can hope is that the dream-maker's gift will be freeing enough that we we will actually do something, rather than just muse about it.

When we learn more about dreams and dreaming we are then more likely to venture out with implementing actions during the day following an important dream. The Dreams Foundation is is a very content rich web site from Canada, chock full of good information that will help you decide what dreams are important and why. The one on dream interpretation is particularly interesting.

We, by acting and getting positive results, learn that we can be more creative, gain more confidence, and be more willing to let go of self-imposed barriers. We learn by doing, in other words. Here's something you can do, for example. You can do a current search on another basic dream question - can"dreams predict future?" Using a teriffic search engine called "dogpile," you will get an intriguing set of possibilities for further understanding.

Why not try it out now?

My topical post today at South by Southwest is about freedom.
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Don't be offended, but . . .

There is a very good website about dreaming to which I point today. Please press on past the title - "Science Friday Kids Connection"and click here to visit it. You will be richly rewarded with interesting links, questions to think about, and new information. I am still a kid at heart, so I loved it. I hope you do, too!

My topical post today at South by Southwest is about poverty.


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My "creative post" today at Southwest Blogger is about my childhood Christmas.

Searching, searching

The world wide web is a great reference resource for material on dreams and dreaming.

Here are some examples of web searches that you can replicate:

1. IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams) - site search tool. The term "dream interpretation" yielded 181 specific results on the IASD site alone. This site is highly trustworthy, as far as I can tell.


2. WebMD search yielded 71 results; interesting for what we would have thought was a medical sight. Some of the items have to do mostly with sleep, of course, but those two subjects are related, after all.


3. Wikipedia - "dreams" is to be taken "with a grain of salt," so to speak as anyone can edit entries in this public encyclopedia. But it will make for very interesting reading, indeed. Here is a paragraph as an example (italicized words are linked in the original):
   

   Using dreams in therapy -
   The expectation fulfillment theory of dreams has introduced a more practical way of using dream metaphors in therapy. Human givens therapists know that dream metaphors that clients bring to therapy have therapeutic value because they can often grasp through the metaphor what is worrying their patient. They can then help clients to see more objectively what is troubling them. Depressed people dream more intensely than non-depressed people, and the expectation fulfillment theory explains why Griffin also proposed that hypnosis is most usefully defined as a direct route to activating the REM state, and that all hypnotic phenomena can be explained with this insight. Since trance and suggestion play such an important role in psychotherapy, this fact is of great significance to psychotherapists and counsellors.
   
   Embodied Imagination is a therapeutic and creative form of working with dreams and memories pioneered by Robert Bosnak and based on principles first developed by Carl Jung, especially in his work on alchemy, and on the work of James Hillman, who focused on soul as a simultaneous multiplicity of autonomous states. From the point of view of the dreaming state of mind, dreams are real events in real environments. Based on this notion, one can “re-enter” the landscape of a dream and flashback to the images, whether it is a memory from waking life or from dreaming. One enters a hypnagogic state—a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping--and then, through the process of questioning, images are explored through the perspective of feelings and sensations manifested in the body, enabling new awareness to develop

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My "creative post" today at Southwest Blogger is about free photo and art web resources.

Dream News

Dreams are the topic of study. And what we find is often covered in the news. Today's post links a few interesting articles found online. To begin, These articles from Psychology Today might be useful:

• 1992 - "Directing Your Dreams"


• 1995 - "How to Build a Dream"


• 2005 - "Why We Dream"

An Index - The New York Times' dream article collection index is a great resource for stories about dreams and dreaming.
A website - Daily Celebrations - "today in history and more... to motivate, educate and inspire." (More from the site):

Daily Celebrations features original writing, artwork, and photographs, with thousands of special celebrations that have been researched, written, edited, and indexed to motivate, educate, and inspire. Please take your time... look around... and enjoy!

Re "Dreamwheel"

About a year ago I participated for a time with a group of dreamers on a list called the Dreamwheel. If you follow this link, go down a bit from the top of the page and you will find the list with information about how it works.
The group had plusses and minuses. It tended to be a bit clicque-ish, but not impossible. The dreams being discussed were fascinating, and a number of different countries were represented. The facilitator of the group was pretty thorough, fair and competent.
I am neither recommending nor not recommending. I give information.
"See you" later.

Commercial-type sites

If you are curious, as I was about how people might make money off the business of dreams, here are a few sites (72 today) returned with my Dogpile search engine. The search term I used was this, "Jung dreams unconscious." I vouch for Dogpile, but for none of the websites.

Take a look -

These sites have a rather commercial look:

• Dream Moods - chock full of "stuff"
• Here be dreams - Trevor Mendham
• Myths-Dreams-Symbols has been up since 1998
• Dream Educator - products and interpretation for a fee
• Dream Psychologist - Paul Overman, PhD. Link to index.

I recommend a previous post "Legitimate dream resources on the internet" if you are still interested in online dream sites.

Day dreaming, etc.

Hmm, I thought to myself. I wonder if daydreams are an under utiliized resource. Yes, I said to myself. They probably are.
Exploring day dreams - via the web:

• Here is a fractal art gallery, with some lovely images.
• This is the Wikipedia "daydreams" page.
• Web MD even gets into the daydream game.

Here is another dream website that I found interesting. It is called Dream Moods.com. It is not professional, does not make any innappropriate claims, and is very rich with information. If you think it should go on the list to the left, let me know and I will add it. Here is a quote from what they say about daydreams:

Daydreaming is often disregarded and a neglected aspect of dream study. Not a lot of emphasis seem to be placed on our daydreams. They are often overlooked as fleeting and wandering thoughts. However, the meanings to your nightly dream symbols are also applicable to your daydreams. The content in our daydreams are helpful in the understanding of your true feelings and help in fulfilling your goals.

Legitimate dream resources on the Internet

Part One - looking at legitimacy

What is that makes a dream website trust worthy?
That is a hard question to answer. First of all, it is very subjective. Second, arbitrary "standards" might limit new and interesting experiences yet to be discovered on the world wide web. Third, who am I to presume to even suggest having any wisdom about the answers.
But here goes, anyway - I'll start with a good example from my online research that made me think to pose the original question.
With my favorite Search Engine, dogpile, I did a search on the phrase "tribal dreams." This brings up all sorts of stuff, including a lot of belly-dancer sites, Native American music sources, etc.
The author - One of the things I discovered was linked to Miami Magazine articles, "Impossible Dreams," and "Banking on Brainpower," both by David Villano. Villano, "A.B. '83" is listed as frequent contributor to this Florida university alumni magazine. I was unable to learn anything more about his academic credentials, and reading the articles clearly reveals his keen interest in brain/mind subjects.
Associations - I found, through further investigation, that he was a guest on radio's Democracy Now and has written for Mother Jones. Well, that means he is independent spirited and probably liberal. OK, so far.
Recognition - In 2003, the author won a National Editorial Awards honor for contributing to the winning news article in Florida Trend.
Review - Up to this point he has a certain standing as a writer. But I didn't stop researching. For him to pass muster in my mind, I needed to see what others thought about him. This is what I found. The Columbia Journalism Review published a blistering critique of this reporter in 1996. So now I do not trust the information in his articles quite as much, though they seem OK.
Judging reliability - See what I mean? Of course, you won't necessarily go to this much trouble before passing along references. I was merely using this research an an illustration about checking out assumptions.

At the edge

On the web -

Occasionally, I will post something that is rather "out there." It is not an endorsement, nor a plug for the site. Today's is Dreamhawk. It is a very voluminous resource, with all kinds of new age stuff. But it looked like it was fun enough to bookmark.

Authenticity matters

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell
Fine art is not necessarily better, but good art is always better, because it is real.
It has been authenticated. The artist has been proven to be the one who actually produced the work of art.
It is often hard to figure out what is behind the artist's work.
What is it they want to say? What is really going on with the artist's vision? Does the landscape depict the way the place actually looks; does the portrait look like the real person?
We know for sure that the pieces we love and that stand the test of time are those that have a deep ability to match our internal mythical pictures. There is the resonance of "Real." We even sometimes say to each other, "Get real!"
Being personally authenticity is just as hard a goal to achieve as the artistic goal of achieving a masterpiece . But it is worth the effort. The satisfaction of being all we can truly become is matched by nothing else.
Clues to our direction, our destiny are often buried at an unconscious level. Dreams come from the unconscious. In our dreams we are sometimes more real than in waking life. Knowing what your dreams are saying to you, what is being real for you, representing your true self, is the work of becoming authentic. It is an elusive quest, as elusive as the artist's masterpiece, but well worth the effort.
Tags: art authentic self reality. My "topical post" today at South by Southwest is about the current pessimism regarding the Hamas victory in Palestine.