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participants' experience and perception of
the project.
Since some of the dreams relate to our present
venture
with this Community Dream Journal, I'll share
a few,
along with some brief
comments concerning the
process of community dream reflection.
A number of the dreams referred
to me and some of
them were startling in
their apparent extrasensory
intelligence. One participant sent
in some dreams,
dating back eight years to when
I was still a graduate
student not yet interested
in dream research. These
dreams gave significant details of my personal
life and
important psychological aspects
of my eventual
involvement in dream research, including the
design of
the present project. Other people
sent dreams which,
unknown to them, contained explicit
references to
intimacies of my life, both actual and fantasized.
There
is one dream I'll share because of its significance for the
kind of interaction in dreams that may be possible.
The
dreamer was a woman who unfortunately was forced
by
circumstances to discontinue her formal participation in
the project. She knew nothing of me or my
research on
incubating healing dreams using a "dream
tent," (6) but
her dream is an exact photographic
portrayal of my
work, and perhaps more than a symbolic compensation
for her having to discontinue the written project:
...
I see a tent out in front of my house. A tall thin young
man dressed in a white undershirt
and light tan pants
walks into the tent. I want to see into the
ten, and decide
to wait until night when he will have a
light on. At night,
the whole tent stands out, lit by
a single light inside. It
shines through the canvas, changing
it to a solid warm
cozy glow of a tent. I sense
that this is a refuge in the
dark ...
There
were several dreams about the people that were
interesting in suggesting how dreams symbolize
them-
selves and the attempt to research them:
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