Hi,

in response to the dream mapping thread I'll post the information I read about the Dreamhackers (a group of Russian dreamers) and their discoveries.

A person called Aelfrede writes:

'I have some information that has been shared before on other forums. I'll post it here in installments. Please note I DID NOt write the stuff in brackets, some other guy did that. Here goes:


"I (someone on some other forum) noticed that someone wrote that they didn't "understand the
Dreamhackers", so I'm posting these edited posts to hopefully make
clearer what they are actually saying, and also in the hope that they
may show themselves again, and answer the points raised [bracketed]
in the edit.

#1

"Hi.
First, please forgive me for my weak knowledge of the english
language, and for the fact that I am using an auto-translator. You
may know that in Russia there is a group of strong dreamers
called "Dreamhackers". If you have a interest in their achievements,
I can tell you about them. This will be something new for you. [Not
for everybody] But for now, I'll give you a small fragment from the
ultimate source.
Sergei Izrigi (group leader):

Zero danger level.
Preliminary analysis.


Once upon a time there was a crazy hacker who got an idea to
"break
in" to the Dreaming world. He was an eccentric type-a wild
mix of Don
Quixote, Baron Munchausen- a fortunate adventurer who managed to
come
across one and a half million dollars of "easy" money! His
name was
Sam Gorbunkov. Or, maybe it was Sergei Izrigi? What difference does
it make now?
He organised six dreaming clubs, in Minsk, in Riga and in four major
Russian cities. The guy hired 5 advertising agents and 16
psychoanalysts who enticed people to the clubs and conducted
questioning according to a method which was specially developed for
the research. The conversations were recorded on audio and videotape,
and then the tapes were sent to 6 analytical groups. 41 retired
military analysts compiled their fancy classifications, extrapolated
common patterns, and sent the results to their employer.
Those were the great days-insane interest in the powerful
project,
combined with fatigue, irritation, and anger. People were arriving in
a never-ending stream. Imagine a large well-lit conference hall, a
huge table with food and drink set out in the middle, an atmosphere
of friendship and warmth. Casual chit-chat, people meeting people,
and of course, flirting. Then the questioning began, and people
talked and talked and talked.

"Psychologists nodded, asked their questions, the tapes were rolling.
Everyone enjoyed being someone important for a change. People liked
the feeling that their knowledge and experience was needed by
someone. They shared it to the best of their abilities. More than
that-it was hard to stop them. We heard stories of dead people on
balconies, of chases through old ruins, flying over cities, and so on
and so forth.
After two weeks I began waiting for a sign to end this social
experiment. The sign came in the flesh, a bodybuilder-type chap with
a square face, and fists bigger than his head. I had just come to
Riga to check on the local Dreaming club and stumbled upon this guy
while walking in the hall.
"Is this the Dreaming club?" he asked.
"Yes sir, it is."
"So..." he shouted... "You're the one who's sleeping with my
wife?!"
and his fist sent me flying across the hall. I spat out a tooth and
decided that this was undoubtedly the sign I had been looking for.
We called it a day, shut down the clubs, and started to analyse the
results. The psychologist wrote up volumes, but the principle finding
was simple. The dreams were a bit of talking, a bit of action and a
fantastic cliché-the same thoughts, the same plots, the same
movements. When speaking of one hundred cases one cannot see many
similarities; however, when it came to thousands of dreams the
synchronicity was astonishing.
For example, on February the 3rd 1994, a lot of people were dreaming
about playing with children either on a construction site or amongst
ruins. What was that? A "dream-movie" broadcast? Or some file that
was stored on the "disk drive" of those people? Was that a
correct
interpretation of the data that was sent to them? Was it a warning?
An instruction? Even now these questions remain unanswered. It's
virgin territory for pioneers like you. The synchronicity issue had a personal touch. While reading the
reports I came across a dream that resembled my own in some detail. A
woman described sneaking inside a pyramid where, to her surprise, she
found a little hen house. That was funny, a pyramid, ruthless guards,
underground labyrinth and-a chicken farm. The fact is that I had
almost exactly the same dream, only in my dream there were some cows
present.
I met the woman and we became friends. She entered the group of
enthusiasts that began forming around me at that time. Her name was
Alla-a bright star of a little town in the suburbs of Moscow.
Later
she became a dreamhacker and broke into the kernel of "dream
security" which traces our conscious trips in the world of forces
and
energies, the world of our private, collective and social
personnifications.
Alla- a tragic fate, and a rebellious spirit who broke the chains
of
physical illness. She is the real-life example that a true hacker is
a warrior. We will meet her later, in the next chapter, but for now
let's get back to some analysis."

To be continued....'

DS