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Electric Dreams: Dream Flow
A fountain of dreams in Cyberspace
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Subject: I dream about my husband's ex-wife
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:18:39 -0800
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Dream Title I dream about my husband's ex-wife. �rsula
Date of Dream 12/07/1999
Dream Frequently, I dream about my husband's ex-wife.
In the dreaming he has to decide with who he wants to stay and he's always
in doubt, always talking to her and forgeting that i am in the same place
that they are. I would like to have an explanation.
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Future of Dreaming
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:53:30 -0800
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The Future of Dreaming and Dreamwork
I would like the next Electric Dreams issue to be about the future. A kind
of Science Fiction and Fantasy issue on the future of dreaming. Feel free
to submit articles and ideas.
These may be about dream science, a sci-fi guess at how people in the
future will dream and share dreams, or...
Some questions:
Have all the good dreamwork techniques been found, or are there more coming
soon? What are some of the possible new dreamwork movements that are
likely to appear?
There will come a (hypothetical) time when one cannot easy tell the
difference between Virtual Reality and what we now call common
reality. How will this effect dreaming and dreamwork?
Will virtual reality reach a point where one cannot tell the difference
between lucid dreaming and VR? (when is the holodeck going to appear?)
Are there going to be dream-machines, how soon, and what kind of phases
will they go through in their development?
What will be the largest participation in a mutual dream by 2010?
Will interest in dreams continue to flourish in the future or will images
mediated by the outside become more dominate?
How much dreamwork in the future will be nostalgic (all about the past),
how much teleological (about the future) or autotelic (kind of just play
with itself?)
We now use email, mail lists, bulletin boards, usenet, iphones, cams and
avatars to share dreams online. What's coming up in the next year, the next
decade, the next century?
What will be the average amount of time a person can spend in lucid
dreaming if they give it 10 minutes or so of attention each day? That is,
given that our techniques, machines and intentions develop, what can the
average person expect to experience in terms of number of lucid dreams?
When will the first Dream Church or Religion appear? Will dreamwork have
a disaster like jonestown or heaven's gate? Or will dream religion appear
more like neo-urban shamanism?
As cyber-personalities begin to gain more legal status, will dream
personalities begin to demand more rights as well? If people like Linda
Magallon are correct, that their is a distinct dream personality(s)
separate from the ego, and we grant this personality entity status, how far
will this go?
If we meet up with aliens, and they dream, will they have the same
psychodynamics in their dreams, or will they be so different we will be
pressed to call it dreaming? What might this look like?
What will happen in various dream fields in the future? Dreams and
Biology, Dreams and Neurology, Dreams and Anthropology, Dreams and
Literature, Dreams and Film, Dreams and psychiatry, and so on?
Send me your wildest guesses, hopes, fears, articles or dreams about this
topic by December 15.
-Richard
Richard Wilkerson
Editor, Electric Dreams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electric Dreams http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
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