See also journal.From 1977-1981, I attended dream workshops with Lila Forest, who is now Azima Lila Forest. Also, I attended a class with her teacher, Jeremy Taylor. This page starts there, but continues over the years. Ongoing memoirs include dream journaling and dreams with dreamwork.
Dream Journaling
See Dream Index, Dreamwork, or Incubation.
Dream Index
I kept a Dream Index from 1977-1983 (when I became a technician). The last dream title entered is "Regained control of car, road turns right". In the index, each left page is entitled Day Dream. Each right page is entitled Night Dream. Each line notes the main events of the day, the date, and the dream title(s). The dream index helps track major events over time. We covered our dream books with collages of our dream images. Here are the parts of my Dream Index cover with a few notes (copyrights of any materials used in these collages belong to their respective creators):
- Front cover has two ovals over Mt. Shasta, solar flares, a Viking ship, iridescence, circles, and colors. The quote is, "Life is nothing more, nothing less than the structural arrangement of certain molecules". Except for dreams, I muse.
- Back cover has a seer, sphere, singer over ocean in redwood forest ferns.
- Inside front cover has a mandala by Rainbow, a landscape by Arwin Steinke, lenticular cloud over Mt. Shasta, self-portrait tintype photo by Gordon Adelman, and a cartoon of Alice in Wonderland.
- Inside back cover has the famous overwhelming waves of life, a Native American leader, Jeremy Taylor, Azima Lila Forest, a Zen monk tearing up the scripture of dogma, a "Minneapolis" scout emblem from my son (and hometown), and a valentine from my daughter.
Dreamwork
The Circle of 9 event, dreaming a Major Event of Transformation, led to an important drawing via its dream journaling in 1979. In later years, dreamwork has become a valuable extension of dream journaling. Since it is solitary, I play the different parts so I can imaginatively grasp different points of view emerging from the dream. I'm the questioner, asking Caroling to BE the house, the car, the road, the friend, the color, or whatever else happened in the dream. Or the questioner sees opportunities for psychodrama where I act out the dream characters. I'm the writer, recording the reflections.
Dream Incubation
Incubating dreams starts before sleep with a letter to Dream Power, a mythical entity of attention and focus. I explain my issue and express intention by asking for help. I acknowlege a need for greater, deeper, more inclusive awareness about the issue and open myself to messages from beyond. This can be as crazy as need be.
Dreams and dreamwork
Recording a dream and dreamwork starts in my journal. But a dream that results in artwork might show up in other website sections, too. These four dreams are from time in Monte Rio. See later years.
Lila and the Red Hand as recorded in a wall hanging.
A Healing Dream as published in WomanSpirit magazine.
Major Event of Transformation (MET) as developed from the Circle of 9 event.
On the Way to Machu Picchu letter to Dream Power on page 23.
Later years
I add them, last dream first.
Photobiont Dreams 2009
Higher Emotions dreamwork movie 2007
Glow Beams as animated in a Flash movie in 2007.
Evolving featured in a panorama in March, 2006.
Dreamwork for 1999, May 24
Zen/0 dreamwork 1987, October 18
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