Thread: What are Your Thoughts on This?

International Association for the Study of Dreams :: View topic - Psi Dreaming Contest at Berkeley Conference

Ooop I was too early

Bobbie Ann Pimm had just posted this:

Angel has chosen the target. Dream on ... and good luck.

So, good, because anyone reading this can remember and record their next dream and hope to hit on what the Sender Angel puts out there.

We "off-sighters" can't win any prizes but it is still a lot of FUN to have a go.

Go here:

International Association for the Study of Dreams :: View topic - Psi Dreaming Contest at Berkeley Conference

to send your next dream to Bobbie Ann Pimm

(16:01)Seeing this neural activity as your own, while excluding the environment, would be a misconception.*

Our superorganismal features are also reflected in evolution, where our survival as primates relied on our collective abilities. Over time, the neocortical regions evolved to permit the modulation of primitive instincts and the overriding of hedonistic impulses for the benefit of the group. Our selfish genes have come to promote reciprocal social behaviours in superorganismal structures, effectively discarding the notion of ‘survival of the fittest’.*

The brain’s neural activity resonates most coherently when there is no dissonance between these advanced new cerebral regions and the older more primitive ones. What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed paradigm of identity…*

instead of through a scientific view on what we are:*

(We are) a momentary expression of an ever-changing unity with no center.

The psychological consequences of this as an objective belief system allow self-awareness without attachment to the imagined self, causing dramatic increases in mental clarity, social conscience, self-regulation and what’s often described as ‘being in the moment’.*

Oops wromg thread should be in "Athene's Theory of Everything"

(17:50)

Dear friends

For those who hoped to dream of the psi dream target, here are the four pictures.

Psi2012Berkeley

Look at the last dream you had and see which picture corrosponds to your dream.

Remember dreams communicate in metaphore. Which of these 4 is the one, Angel Morgan the sender was transmitting?

International Association for the Study of Dreams :: View topic - Psi Dreaming Contest at Berkeley Conference

5/133 5:20pm Tues 26-June-22 here in Adelaide, Australia now

When I first saw the pics I was disappointed cos nothing corrosponded to my dream. Here is my dream:

Originally Posted by debrajane

By listening to on-line chatter

I just found out that There are 450 attendees at the 29th Annual Conference at Berkeley, California. It is running from Yesterday the 22nd to Monday the 26th.

I just emailed my (last nights) dream and I hope it has some hits to the target picture that the Sender is puting out there.

This is my PsiDream compitition dream.

Knocking on window.

I goto and lift netcurtain from fulllength window.

One young guy at bottom left is talking to[b] a Mark. [/]
b]There is another youg guy at top right (diagonal) of window talking to Mark too. The guys giggle as I comically look diagonally from one to the other.

I say that I will find Mark for you.

I run down long carpeted halls.

I find a big room and know Mark is at the big table, with 17 young men playing cards with Master. I say "Who/where is Mark". Some point. But I'm not sure who they pointed to so I ask again, "Where/who is Mark". Everyone at table point to Mark.

I say two friends are outside waiting for you at window 17/27.

Mark leaves to see friends saying "" and I reply "we can set them up in the trees" and several giggle.

I go to change into crisp white shorts and shirt.

My guess is, it is the monkey. (hahaha)

Dear Reader

I believe we are all one being in billions of individual bodies. So you may have picked-up what the sender was sending. Did your last dreams have metaphors to any of these pictures?

Here are the 4 pics that the sender chose from to send.


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Dear friends

Bobbie Ann Pim posted this today:

Sorry for the delay, just getting back home. The TARGET image was the DANCE.

So, I didn't hit.

Did you have a go? I hope you did.

Dear Reader

I am now continuing from post 44. Here is post 44:

Originally Posted by debrajane

The target picture involved a black and white photograph of Kuna Indian Woman from Panama standing in front of a house with slanted, wooden walls and thatched palm roof. (picture)

Dear Reader

I just went to Google in hopes of finding the above picture. It is in the pdf from the link in the first post in this thread.

I didn't find the photo of the Kuna Indian woman from Panama standing in front of her house.

But I did find something else. Stay tuned (hehehe).

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(fig1) A detailed description of the results is reported in my book Our Dreaming Mind (Van de Castle, 1994, pp 433-436).

There were many correspondences to the target picture...

Link to target picture in my next post.

Opening Post:

Originally Posted by debrajane

What are your Thoughts on This

Exogenous dream continuity: Exploring the matrix of entangled dreams | Van de Castle | International Journal of Dream Research

I found it Here:
Exogenous dream continuity: Exploring the matrix of entangled dreams | Van de Castle | International Journal of Dream Research | Notes From a Dreamer | Scoop.it

One has to print out the whole PDF because the PDF program won’t let one copy and paste.

Picture is on the 4th page of the pdf which is page 12 of the International Journal of Dream Research Volume 5, No. 1 (2012)

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(fig1) A detailed description of the results is reported in my book Our Dreaming Mind (Van de Castle, 1994, pp 433-436).

There were numerous correspondences to the target picture such as:

mentioning a short sleeve blouse,
unusual ankle jewelry,
foreign locations,
and children.

One woman, Claudia B. from Brooklyn, who was a complete stranger to me, mentioned her young daughter, hands on a structure of beams and poles, wooden sliding doors and a building with an unusual-looking roof. In my written associations to the target picture, I mention that a thatched roof provides good protection from the rain. Claudia mentioned dreaming she heard rain falling and realised she didn't have an umbrella.

I recalled four dreams that night and there were striking correspondences between my dreams and Claudia's dreams.

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My first dream involved a fishing dream:

"I was somtimes on a boat and sometimes on shore

The man I was with caught two large flounder and a woman insisted that I put them on top of the boat and gut them.

I attempted to cut the fish open with a razor blade.

Some blood came out;

the fish's face turned into a man's face and he was bleeding.

I told him to rinse his face with water and said

I would need his advice as to how to cut around his ears and nose.

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Claudia managed to to pick up on the imagery of my dream to a remarkable degree. Here is an excerpt from here first dream.

"I am outdoors, perhaps on the deck of a ship ...

mounting the fresh, whole wet skin of small whale or whale's head (fish-size) on a board.

After removing one eye, (it's a side view) with the knife I'm using, I hear a conversation ...

(this could be influenced by a recent waking experience of washing flounder for cooking, not removing their heads.) I felt a kinship, or sympathy, with the whale, which at some point transforms into a person.

The wet, stretched, mounted skin is now a man's face, reddish-brown."

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The odds against two complete strangers on the same night, geologically separated by 500 miles, dreaming of being on a boat cutting open a fish and having the face of the fish turning into a bloody man's face are astronomical, and that both dreamers specifically mentioned flounder seems to argue against any notion that the correspondences are a chance occurrence.

Although not as striking in matching details, another female dreamer saw an:

"animal face and an animal with an open wound that I wamted to sew up or heal before too much was lost. "

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My next dream

involved providing drinks that cost $0.41 each for a group of studemts working on a project.

In Claudia's next dream

she had stolen some money with several other people and offered to count another person's share. She wrote down figures which were an "odd amount of dollars and cents."

My second dream also involved something about a mother dividing a cake or other dessert into two portions.

In her (Claudia's) second dream, Claudia's daughter was with her and asked the others to count out a share with "equal denominations".

In my second dream, the scenario involved a group of students and a project ,

while in Claudia's third dream she described a group of people watching a film depicting college students and the instructor was working on an art project.

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Other dreamers besides Claudia also seemed to tune into various features mentioned in my first dream involving a water setting, a boat and fishing.

They mentioned an ocean, an ocean ship, a river, a boat, a yacht, oars for a rowboat, fishhooks and a hook

There is no material in the target image that bears any relationship to any of this shared dream material.

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In my 3rd dream, there was crowd of people in a slanted auditorium, and some board members and I were sitting down to eat at a table on the main floor.

A total of eleven dreamers made references to activities taking place at different elevations -

in a grandstand,
on stage,
in the balcony,
in a theater,
ect.

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In my 4th dream, I was using a hose to water down a pile of leaves.

Two of the nine male dreamers reported urinating in their dreams,

and

one woman dreamed that something like tea was being splashed or dripped on the rippled pages of a magazine.

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Unlike Rechtschaffen's study where subject subject B was instructed to dream about subject A's dream, who the A and B subjects are in my study is impossible to decide.

Since 1985, the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) has carried out an informal testing protocol that allows interested conferees to participate in "telepathic dreaming contest" at their annual conferences.

The most typical protocol

involved a "sender" that focused on a target image (chosen at random from a pool of four images) several times a night,

as

the participants ("receivers") slept.

In the morning,

the pool of four possible images was shown to the participants

who then placed their dream reports into the box which displayed the image they believed was the target (based on their dreams).

The protocols for the first 25 years were not designed meet scientific standards, but to provide conferees an opportunity to participate in a light-hearted fashion to explore whether they could dream about the contents of a target stimulus that they had not previously seen.

Year after year, participants dreamed and chose the target image to an impressive degree, and to the suprise of everyone (initially) also dreamed of the three none-target images in the pool as well.

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But

the most impressive finding was the dream correspondences displayed between the dreamers

on objects

and themes

that were not shown in any of the target stimuli.

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Starting in 2010, the contest design changed to meet more stringent scientific standards.

The hits on:

the target picture,
non-target content
and
dream-to-dream shared correspondences in imagery

continued.

Below is a summary of the dream-to-dream results from the contesys held in

2009
2010 and
2011.

Pdc opens in 17 days

Notes From a Dreamer ... on Dreaming

It is the 11th annual pdc

It runs 24/7 on-line for 2 weeks.

There will be three psi-dream (share dream) opportunities.

Goto Opening Post, print out this paper and be fully informed on how the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) study share dreaming

Then register for the 11th pdc and witness "It" unfold.

The methodology used in the 2009 contest was the same as previous conference contests and was based loosely on the Maimonides protocol. Bobbie Ann Pimm chose four images, as dissimilar as possible from one another, and placed each into a sealed opaque envelope prior to the conference.

On the night of the contest conferees gathered and instructions were given.

The 'sender', Angel Morgan, was introduced and she selected one of the pre-prepared sealed envelopes.

Bobbie Anne kept the remaining three envelopes sealed in her room for the night.

Angel opened the envelope in her room. She then spent some time focusing on the image, meditated and went to sleep.

As a prolific lucid dreamer, she had a lucid dream,

woke up and recorded the dream.

Then

she meditated,

fall asleep and

repeated the the process several times. In all, she recorded 8 lucid dreams during the night.