Dreaming Peace

During the most recent GLiDE, Dreaming Peace, my dream was of myself and Balbir Mathur, President of Trees for Life. Balbir has found his mission which has spread throughout the world. He has engaged people to plant and care for trees with a commitment from each person to share the knowledge with at least two other people. Through people giving to other people, he program has grown rapidly in India and has spread to Guatemala, Cambodia, Nepal, Costa Rica, Haiti, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

In my dream, I was sitting at a table at the Moon Valley Ranch House with Balbir. I was quiet, simply receiving what Balbir had to say. While I do not recall his specific words, being in his presence demonstrated a stage in becoming rooted in my own mission in life.

The quest for peace is a journey which I believe culminates in knowing the unique gift each of us has to give. This gift is called our dharma, or our mission. The Universal Peace Covenant states that Peace is Active. Every soul has a unique gift to give and becoming rooted in that is active and it is peace-filled.

Thoughts are real, they are the seeds of today that grow and produce fruit tomorrow. Cultivating peaceful thoughts and Dreaming Peace provide a unique opportunity to move a bit closer to Living Peaceably. It is a journey that we share, with an occasional bump in the road, sometimes an experience of disappointment or sadness. What we do with those bumps in the road really defines who we are. Choosing to be peaceful no matter what occurs is empowering. It gives the one making the choice to be peaceful a transcendent state of consciousness.

Peace can be caused through choosing to create peaceful thoughts. We can gauge our progress through our dreams which will reflect our growing consciousness!

Hi Karen,

Since dreams relate the conscious state of awareness within the last 24 to 48 hours, your dream is certainly relating the peaceful state of mind you were in during the day. The dream describes you feeling integrated and connected to yourself which is the state of mind that was produced by focusing on peace and meditating.

Your comment on having unknown people often in your dreams is reflective of your need for greater self-awareness. People in dreams represent aspects of yourself. These are traits such as being creative, stubborn, judgmental, patient, organized, generous and so on. Every day we experience a myriad of different thoughts and attitudes. We use different traits. In a short amount of time, you could be focused, energetic, sympathetic, rebellious and humorous. I would suggest you ask yourself throughout the day, "What trait or quality am I using right now?" Seek to identify and answer this question with, "Right now I am being ______." Little by little you will get better at identifying qualities in yourself. As people you know begin to appear in your dreams, you and be assured you are making progress with knowing yourself.

Peace be with all ways.

After focusing on Peace most of the day, and staying at home alone and meditating and studying all day, I awakened twice during the night, and both times I recalled dreams where I was working in a large office. It consisted of one huge room with no interior walls. There were no cubicles, either, just rows of desks.

There were hundreds of people who worked in this office, none of whom looked familiar.

(I work in an office of 200 people, but we have cubicles.)

What was outstanding about this group of people is that they were all happy, and they loved their jobs. They knew their assignments and performed their duties without complaint. They finished their assignments early, and would go ask others if they could help them in any way.

There was a great spirit of cooperation and a desire to complete the common goal. At break times and lunches, they all stayed together, ate together, and there was laughter and good will among them. They truly seemed to enjoy each other's company and all worked for the common good.

I always have unknown people in my dreams, but this was a larger number of people than usual. I work in a large office, but it is not nearly so peaceful! This dream office staff (pun intended) was so much more harmonious, productive, and helpful than any group of people I have worked with anywhere. There was no conflict of any kind.

Hello Paul. A thought to consider concerning the presidential part of you… You do not clarify that the president is the U.S. president nor do you identify him as the present one. These are important pieces of information to collect when decoding a dream.

Since I know you to have strong Caucasian genetics, a dream-Pres. Obama for you would bring up some interesting factors since his genetics are both Caucasian and Negroid. This kind of dream message is cause for you, personally, and for all of us to reflect upon the place race holds in dream imagery as we journey toward realizing, thinking like and acting like we are all of one race – the human race.

What becomes important in dream message is where we are now (dreams always tell you the state of your conscious awareness) and how we can move toward where we want to be (dreams are always about the dreamer). An analogy might be space travel. You are aware it occurs. There are those who have experienced it and will experience it. It happens within the realm of humanity. You however have never space traveled and are not making choices that will lead you in that direction. This is the kind of thinking that dream-race reflects. The Dreamer's Dictionary says race "symbolizes a collection of thoughts comprising an attitude foreign to the dreamer." In other words, with our space analogy, most of us are not and have no intention of learning to become an astronaut, therefore being one is foreign to the experiences we have chosen in life.

This perspective could be a factor in your dream message. There is a reason your subconscious mind chose to put the President in your dream rather than your father or some other male who represents your superconscious mind. That is worth your consideration.

However that works out, the dream is about how you want to transform the way you see and play the game of life, and your desire to claim those possibilities as your own, but…… What do you see?

Thank you, Dr. Clark, for contributing to this topic. The depth of your experience is elucidating and instructive demonstrating the best of what this forum for learning can offer. I hope it stimulates others who experienced the recent GLiDE to submit dreams, questions, and insights, for we have just begun on this journey toward Self realization.

GLiDE increasingly is revealing itself to be a significant force in humanity’s evolution. As we move toward realizing our wholeness as a species and as we set our sights on what unites us, the research GLiDE is conducting now will become more valuable for all. Flying in our dreams and moving things around, are the first steps toward that realization. GLiDE puts science to meta-physical realities that will in time open the Mind of humankind to higher pursuits in reasoning. This is what we are contributing to when we offer the type of feedback you have given here.

I'm sure Dr. Clark joins me in looking forward to hearing others' thoughts and responses to their recent GLiDE experience.

Dear Dreamschool,

I am a graduate of the SOM course of study and have been recording and studying my dreams for 30 years. I have participated in the other Global Lucid Dreaming Experiments conducted by Dreamschool, and in every case have found that my dreams have been influenced by the experiment itself. I am curious to know what other people experience in that regard. I am also interested in hearing any comments that Dreamschool has regarding the dreams I am submitting.

At this point, this is what I have experienced and considered: my intention to participate in the experiment influences the dream that I have. The concentrated thoughts of other dreamers, united in the collective effort to dream on a particular day, or for a particular purpose, creates a group mind that influences the dreams. Sometimes I experience telepathy in dreams (I often experience telepathy when awake, so this is something that is a part of my conscious awareness.)

As an aside, some years ago I was in Puerto Rico, and I was having a hard time falling asleep. I was in a hotel for a conference. I was in a reverie state, not quite asleep, not quite awake. I thought, at first, that my brain was busy with thoughts about the day and that I needed to mentally relax. So I caused my mind to be still, and then I "heard" the thoughts that were in my mind ... they were in Spanish! I don't speak Spanish ... so this told me that these were not my busy thoughts; I was hearing the thoughts of the people in the hotel. This was a significant experience, aiding me to recognize that there is indeed a lot of mental activity (other people's thoughts) that can be received by the dreamer.

So, in this particular Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment, I had I similar experience. I was aware of a group of people who were all united in this endeavor to dream of peace. During the day, I was with a group of people all united in an endeavor to Live Peaceably. The daytime unity and the night-time unity were linked.

I was also concerned that I would be able to remember a dream, since we were living in a group situation, with many women using a bathroom that is right next to my bedroom; in fact, the sink and shower are a few inches away from my head. I have often been kept awake or jolted awake by loud voices and in some cases, have even been awakened by the aggressive thoughts of another person! This shows me my need to develop greater command of stilling my mind NO MATTER WHAT external influences are in my environment. H.H. the Dalai Lama describes what is taught in Confucius' teachings: that peace begins within the mind. When there is peace and harmony in the self, then it can be extended to the family, then to the nation, then to the world. Peace of Mind is caused by stillness of mind. This is what I see is the thread of all of the dreams and dream fragments I remembered the morning of September 6th:

Dream: #1
Jean Campbell and some other people are at a gathering. They are walking to an area that is for group dreaming. People in a circle. (This seems lucid.)
(At this point, I was interrupted by people making noise in the bathroom next door and couldn't get this middle part of the dream back.)
It is confusing because it is not clear how. One man says that you just put .org with the name. (Kenn Parks?)

My interpretation: Jean Campbell was one of the speakers at the Living Peaceably event. She has been researching group dreaming for 30 years. Currently, she "dreams for peace" with a group called the World Dreams Peace Bridge. Kenn Parks is a social networker. Both of these people symbolize to me aspects that are invested in and committed to social change through each individual fulfilling their part of a greater whole. I see this first dream as the introduction to my evening of dreaming: my intention to unite with a group of dreamers to dream for peace and to understand how to cause peace, within the self and within humanity.

Other fragments: (dream thoughts)
#2
People need to get together to dream. Intentional dreaming.

#3 Keep people focused on the dream. The inner mind is more important.

Interpretation: I see these fragments/ inner level thoughts as significant; indicating the need for peace to come from receiving what the subconscious mind has to offer.

#4
I am in a room. (it is my room, but it looks different.) I am wanting to write my dream down but keep getting awakened by people in the bathroom next door. K and C come in. I say, "Shhh!" to K -- she keeps talking to me. I say, "K, please, I want to write my dream down." She says, "Oh, yeah, I need to do that." I am sitting at a desk. There are notebooks and papers on a shelf in front of me. She keeps talking about how she needs to write her dream down. I say, "K, please! stop talking." She says, "I don't know what you mean." I say, "You're talking. Please stop!" She says more about how she needs to write her dream down. I am getting frustrated, angry, and anxious because the dream keeps slipping away. I get a pad of paper out from the shelves about the desk, hand it to her, with a pen, and say, "Here! Write your dream down." She rummaging around for a yellow legal pad. I say, "that's what I gave you that paper for." (I had given her a white pad, smaller than 8 1/2 x 11. I am wondering if it will be okay even though it's that size.) She says, "Okay," and is still talking. I say, "K, please! Stop talking!" She says, "I don't know what you're talking about." I say, "I need to be alone with my dream."
I feel like I have finally gotten it.

Interpretation: C and K is are students of mine. Both have made progress recently in understanding more completely how to use dreams for self awareness. K can be a chatter-box and is sometimes oblivious to where my attention is. She symbolizes an aspect of my conscious mind that can think too much, be too aggressive. This dream was in itself a practice of stilling my mind, commanding the chatter to stop so that my outer mind could be silent to receive from my inner mind. When I finally said, "I need to be alone with my dream," it was a commitment within myself to be single-pointed in my attention, to cause outer stillness enabling me to receive what my inner mind wants to communicate. It was a commitment to listen rather than worrying about whether or not I could do it. I see this as related to what causes peace. Peace of mind comes from being able to listen, to be still, to trust, to use undivided attention.

#5
Before this, I am walking on a street. I walk by a doorway. Tad is inside -- he reaches his hand out with a piece of single-wrapped seaweed. All I see is his hand and the seaweed but I know he's inside; apparently he has given me that seaweed before.
I thank him and eat it. He is chewing and I realize he is eating some too. I tell him he could probably find a Chinese store in Springfield where he can buy seaweed. He starts to ask me questions. I say, "Please let me write my dream down before I talk about it." He starts to ask more questions, then stops.

Interpretation: This is similar to the previous dream, with a notable exception: Tad, being male, is a subconscious aspect. This aspect of my subconscious mind is giving me knowledge that is wholesome and that is produced in conscious life experiences. (Seaweed comes from the water. Water symbolizes conscious life experiences.) I see this dream as telling me that I am being purposeful in drawing upon the knowledge that comes from subconscious mind, and that I am causing my mind to be still and focused on what I want to build in myself: the listening to my subconscious mind. Peace of mind comes from harmonizing the outer and inner mind.

These were the comments I wrote when I submitted the dreams: Living peaceably begins by thinking peacefully. Peace comes from being inwardly centered. These dreams all have the theme of needing to withdraw my attention from outer chatter and being focused on the inner mind. All aspects of self united in this endeavor, as well as uniting with other people/minds in this endeavor.

Dream #4 reached a state of consciousness when the dream ended of getting to cause, the need for single-pointed attention, for isolation like being on the isle of Patmos.

This was my registration dream (Submitted when I originally registered for the experiment):

Dream: A fragment: In the dream, I am looking at Facebook pages. The Art of Sacred Space and the School of Metaphysics. I have the thought that I need to shine the light of attention on them.

Interpretation Yes: I am giving consideration to my thoughts and visualized images of how to create my life and identity, and what I want to learn and develop. I need to shine the light of attention on what I image regarding my ideals.

Hi Paul,

You have a good grasp of the two dreams. You have identified what the tiger represents in yourself which is valuable for you. Obviously this habit affects many aspects of yourself, symbolized by all the people in the village. I think it's important to identify what you think the young man represents. This is the aspect of you that is being most directly affected by the mental habit you've identified as depression. The fact that you fought off the tiger shows the strength of your conscious mind and that definitely the mental power growing in your consciousness.

The second dreams shows you are using your inner authority to put things in proper perspective in redirecting how you approach life. This is from the subconscious perspective. You are wanting to make a shift that creates a state of mind for reflection and receiving important ideas that are foreign to you. What I see with this is you are wanting to use your subconscious experiences to create greater insight, wisdom and vision --- aha moments. You are in the planning stages or visualization. So keep visualizing and bring those great ideas into physical manifestation.

I had a couple of dreams last night. One was about a giant tiger that attacked a villager, and a big bunch of people and I fought it off the young man. The young man escaped without a scratch, and the tiger was sorely beaten, and fled.

Another dream was about the President redesigning the White House golf course into a study area/office and reception gazebo for international dignitaries. He said "I don't play golf, and this seems a much better use of resources." I was somehow involved in the planning or design or building. There were some that favored the golf course staying, but mostly people were surprised and impressed with the adaptive use of the area. It involved a little pond and part of the greens and most of the middle of the parking lot. I remember thinking I would love a study like that.

I'm interested in any feedback on either of these two dreams. I figure the first is about a giant menacing habit I have been struggling with for a while, that I finally fought off, most likely the habit of allowing depression. I know it still lurks, but me-myself-and I beat it soundly for a while. The second dream shows how I'm calling on some inner authority to change the way I use my subconscious mind, to use it more productively and connectedly in service and for deeper study. I'm not as familiar with that 'presidential' aspect of me, but I do sense it is there and active.

Thanks for deeper feedback!