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My Breakthrough in Psi - Dreaming
I don't really want to discuss the reality of psi (dreams) here. That is done elsewhere (e.g. in the ASD E -Study group: Psi Dreams)
The interested reader may find information on psi all over the web. Just take a look in my links - section.
I recommend two books on the topic of psi in general:
For English readers: Dean Radin: The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, 1997
Für deutsche Leser: Walter von Lucadou: Dimension Psi - Fakten zur Parapsychologie, List Verlag 2003. (Begleitbuch zur Serie "Dimension Psi", die von der ARD im November und Dezember 2003 ausgestrahlt wurde)
The following is a report of my experiences with some psi dreams. I say "psi dreams", to make the writing more fluent, although there is of course no scientific proof that psi plays a role in the dreams I'm going to write about.
But I must say, that after all my interpretation of the events is, that psi played a role in these dreams. The experiments, or better said, the contests, in psi dreams were at least somewhat controlled, so these dreams are more than spontaneous occurrences. They were intended, they were explicitly incubated for the purpose of winning the psi contests, which have taken place during ASD's first online Psiberdreaming Conference Sep 23 - Oct 5 2002.
Get an impression of 2002 by looking at the program of the sequel in 2003.
The mutual dreaming contest
First example consists of parts of my dreams for the mutual dreaming contest. Mutual dreaming means, dreamers share the same or a very similar dreamspace / dreamscape. Just imagine dreamers getting together in a room. Only that this is a room in a dream. (See Ed Kellogg's Definition)
The task for the dreamers was to enter / tune into Ed Kellogg's dreams. To meet him in his dream(s) in the space / landscape, where his dream(s) took place.
Sender / target dreamer was Ed Kellogg III, PhD, to whom I have addressed the dream - reports.
One important annotation: I can only quote fragments here of the discussion and dreams. So you might miss the special and encouraging flair of the conference. I respect the privacy of the group of dreamers, who participated the online conference at the time. This publication of my experiences in the frame of the Psiberdreaming Conference is approved by Ed Kellogg, host of the conference and of Mutual Dreaming contest, as well as by Cynthia Pearson, host of Precognitive Dreams Contest.
After some other of my dreams:
In waking physical reality (WPR): I get up, have a small breakfast, drink a cup of coffee (not too strong).
...
I start relaxation and MILD
at 700 am. My special intention is to see, who was with me in the latest dream
(maybe you?), in any case to see you (intention as written above). I'm drifting
in and out hypnagogia, small scenes, but don't catch a stable dream to enter or
am not aware. I turn from back to right side, it is 840. Not much time left. I
decide to let go of all intention, effort and focus to maybe simply sleep in and
enter dream this way.
Thursday, September 26, ca.
910 am (8:10 am GMT):
Ralf Penderak's dream No. 5.:
Lucid, then a false awakening:
There is a naked woman ...
(censored ;) ) ... After a few seconds I ask myself, if I want ASD
dreamers to see THAT.
I awake and sit up with feet on the right side of the bed. Many things are spread all over the floor. There is a large two - part window in front of me. And a gap of maybe one meter between the long side of the bed and the window. In front of me on the floor lies a blue t - shirt, with horizontal crinkles all over (crinkles like some sunblinds have), with white printings on it, and much to small for me. I'm pondering how or why I should put on this. And awake one more time. Now in WPR.
One of Ed Kellogg's Dreams
September 26, 2002 (serving as target in the mutual dreaming contest):
3. 5:50 AM PDT, 12:50 AM GMT, Lucid, Title: “Wishing Others Well”
“I get out of bed and walk down the hall (wearing my blue Harry Potter T-shirt
and white pajama bottoms that I wore to sleep in WPR), feeling disappointed that
I didn’t have a third dream. However the hallway doesn’t look quite right,
too long - more like the hall in my childhood home. ...
My comment in December 2003:
I had my dream nearly five hours before his dream happened. I POSTED my dreams Sep 27 on 12:04 am (BEFORE the deadline, but AFTER he had his dream). He POSTED his dreams Sep 27, 2002 on 04:11 p.m. (AFTER the deadline for dream submission for the contestants). Sceptics would say: He could theoretically have seen my dream reports online and could have later on invented a dream report fitting with my dream. I say: Theoretically, but practically we are no idiots wasting our time with self-deception.
The parallels I see: Both dreaming of getting up (the false awakening), the blue t-shirt with print on it. But they are more or less telepathic or clairvoyant. They were not scored as mutual. Seemingly I partially tuned into Ed K's dream, but I wasn't there with him, not like people meet in the same room. Nonetheless I counted this as a success for me, as a telepathic or clairvoyant (seemingly precognitive) hit.
See another example of Ed Kellogg's experiences in lucid mutual dreaming
Some of the readers might now say: This first example is somewhat weak. One could speak of pure chance, still. And there is the chance of (unconscious) information leakage.
OK. I must concede, that this might be the case. But psychologically it was of great importance to me, that I could incubate a dream, lucid, at the right time and share some elements of my dream with one of the target dreams.
The following example is better, is more convincing, I guess. For me at least, the best interpretation is, that psi played a role. I seem to have been able to somehow peek into the future and "see" some of the features of the target picture, that has been randomly chosen from a pool of more than 1000 pictures, AFTER the deadline for sending in dreams. I didn't even know from which pool the picture would be chosen before the deadline. So the nature, the style and content of the picture was (in common sense) hidden to me. Hidden in one of the best hide-outs, we have: The future ;)
The precognitive dream contest
(click for info on precognitive)
Excerpt of precognitive contest schedule:
"DREAMS are due in by 9
PM EDT tomorrow, 9/29
TARGET will be selected Monday, 9/30
RESULTS will be posted Tuesday, 10/1"
My dreams for the contest:
| Dreams for precognitive
contest in chronological order
Ralf Penderak #1 The tornado in game world I'm playing a computer game called "Anno 1602". It is a simulation dated in Medieval times. I see the Island form above. Its shape is nearly square with round corners. There are three places with rocky grey surface near the shore. Everything else is green. Water blue... I place watchtowers on these places. Oops. I didn't care for the tools and the bricks. Now I've used all. I'll have to wait until they are offered on market again. There is an update about the marketplace. Don't know details. But what strikes me is a spiral, looking somehow similar to a whirlwind or tornado, but drawn with only one thick line. It is placed on the Island. Relative to the island it is huge. #2 The surprising shot Inside a hall. People are trying out weapons. Shooting on a round mark with concentric circles. One of the men has a kind of rocket pistol. The impact of the shoot is gigantic, an extremely loud explosion. I protect my ears with hands. After the dust cloud settles, there is a round large hole in the lower right quarter of the aim. People are staring, as if they can't believe, what happened. #3 Healing torture We (a group of men) are searching for someone. There is a cave inside a large hall. Cave consists of grey rock. Seeing a woman inside. I first think it is Lara Croft. We duck and enter the cave. This woman hangs on strips, naked, as far as I remember from the caves ceiling. At first it seems, as if this shall be a kind of torture. She cries: "Kill me, please." She swings from side to side, her front directed mainly towards the ground, her head towards right side, above a naked man, who seems to be dead. Her face strikes his with every swing. What an ugly torture! But the longer we look, the more lively both get, until it looks, no it is, they are kissing each time she meets him while swinging. Now they seem to enjoy it. Then I see a line of versions of the man. Maybe six "persons". They are meant to show his development through time. These versions are standing, not lying. I'm surprised, because he gets younger from right to left, the youngest version stands closest to the lying man. As if he did get younger through time until to the present. Somehow this attribute decreases his "quality" in the eyes of the woman. As if she doesn't take him seriously, now, because he is childish. In fact he looks more like a young adult. #4 My sweetheart cares too much... I'm waiting for my nine year old son. I'm in a version of the home of my long deceased grandma. In one of the rooms. This one is meant to be my son's place, while he visits us. The red / orange curtains are closed, because it is warm outside and the sun burns onto the window, that is oriented south - west. So now it is likeable cool, thanks to my spouse. My grey rucksack has doubled. That is surprising. I search for my ring binder with all my personal contact information. I feel it inside both rucksacks. I think my sweetheart in this case cares too much for me, supplying two identical rucksacks. #5 ... and she did it again. There are a lot of fish - tanks, most of them small with only some small fish, two or three. Must be in a basement. Wonder, how the can live here, I never feed them. I only feed those in my large tank (we have one in WPR). Must have been my spouse, who cared for them. Some tanks are out of water, the heaters running dry. That isn't good. On one of the tanks is a label indicating which kind of fish is inside. It doesn't fit with the fish in there. That was some time ago. I think I should remove the label. Date I posted dreams #1 through #5: Sep 29, 2002 on 03:41 p.m.
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The target picture (selected monday September 30):
Quote from posting of Cynthia Pearson, hosting the Precognitive Dream Contest, together with Robert Waggoner. They were the jury, too.
"Robert and I felt fortunate to find a large online database of art we could use-- a collection of the cover art of the New Yorker magazine. Today [Sep 30] I rolled dice and used a random number table to arrive at our target, and here's how to see it:"
Published in The New Yorker December 10, 1927
Find pic (ID 48114) in:
My comment, before the jury published results:
"...
I'm surprised, that my dream had some elements in common with the target. So surprised, that it was worth a reality test. The mutual thing has already been a dream come true (although I didn't make it to the pedestal), and now this:
...
The comic like style
The posture and action of the woman!
The hideous look (ok, that is subjective...)
The cubic parcel reminds of the lump sugar
Maybe the mentioning of a large city
NOT that she is young (does that mean devaluation for me?)
I must add, that the girl in my dream didn't look like the woman here.
So now I am curious for the result, you may
imagine.
Funny, that I nearly forgot to post this dream. I didn't seem precognitive to
me. The others were much more impressive. Just like: Oops, ok, post this one,
too, just for the completeness.
Man, that would have been annoying for me to not do it.
...
Date: Sep 30, 2002 on 04:13 p.m."
Results/ Comments of the jury:
"...
THIRD PRIZE: Liz (Lynne) [*]
Her dream #6 has “cartoon like” features, as does our cover; and a woman “using her nose...walking with her head bent back, snuffling the way...” This was very compelling! The woman on our cover may not be “snuffling” per se, but she is clearly looking up with her head bent back, her nose prominent, presumably to ascertain/sniff out the weather.
...
HONORABLE MENTIONS -- There are many!
Several other dreamers seemed to pick up on the NEW YORK CITY theme:
Ralf’s first dream: Because a tornado was the way Robert’s dreams depicted the 9/11 atrocities before the fact, and then Ralf’s “marketplace” spiral is placed in the “Island,” we thought of the World Trade Center. His next dream features a “rocket pistol” and “an extremely loud explosion...After the dust settles, there is a large hole in the lower right quarter.” This also made us think of the WTC -- explosions, dust and the lower right quarter of Manhattan.
...
Happy dreaming to all and to
all a goodnight,
Cynnie
Date: Oct 01, 2002 on 04:05 p.m."
[*] As you may easily see, the jury exchanged names of dreamers. This was my dream #6.
Comment of Liz:
"Woops...I would be honored to take 3rd place but there is a confusion. This is Ralf's dream you are referring to! Congrats to the other winners!!Liz
Date: Oct 01, 2002 on 06:39 p.m."
Conclusion and outlook
So, this is the report of my breakthrough in psi dreaming. Of course (dream) life went on since October 2002. I had other dreams I interpret as psi - experiences. But this conference of 2002 was certainly an important step forward in my personal development. Ever since I do "feel" (at least time by time) and know, not merely "believe", that we are connected in wonderful ways. I see the psi effects in their highest aspects as an offshoot of love, as an aspect of love. (Or vice versa?) But must add, that there is also a mundane aspect to psi (dreams):
One day in summer 2003 I dreamed of lavender and water, just while my sweetheart watered the lavender in waking physical reality. Mundane information, one could say. But it is still intriguing for me to see and experience, how things are connected, how my dreams are seemingly reaching out in space and time of physical reality, regardless of commonly accepted physical limitations.
Today psi effects seem for me to be something natural, like temperature or gravitation. Only we find it - at the time - hard, given the facts of parapsychological research, to find hypotheses, how psi is working. And it is still even harder to integrate the implications, we have to face, once we accept the psi side of our lives.
My thanks go out one more time to the hosts of ASD's first online psiberdreaming conference and to all the participants, some of them I still meet in ASD's E - study groups and on the WorldDreamsPeaceBridge (WDPB).
The experiences on WDPB are maybe the next subject, I'll put online here, or maybe some words on a precognitive psi experiment, I facilitated in the ASD psi dreams e-study group.
Enjoy your dreams!
The psyche's attachment to the brain, i.e., its space - time limitation,
is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible, as we have hitherto
been lead to believe ... it is not only permissible to doubt the
absolute validity of space-time perception; it is, in view
of the available facts, even imperative to do so.
Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and the Occult