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"dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience...a vehicle for exploring reality."
tarthang tulku, openness mind, 74
Ojibwe Dreamcatcher,
early 20th century
The practice of dream incubation (study) was important to the Greeks, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and Chinese. The Hebrews incubated dreams in order to receive divine revelation.
Bwaajige Ngwaagan
(Ojibwe - Curve Lake Band - "dream snare")
nativetech.org:dreamcatchers / wiki
Spider Woman: she who creates from a central source
Teotihuacan Spider Woman
"A mouse study suggests that sleep helps restore the brain by flushing out toxins that build up during waking hours.
Dr. Maiken Nedergaard and her colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center recently discovered a system that drains waste products from the brain. Cerebrospinal fluid, a clear liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, moves through the brain along a series of channels that surround blood vessels. The system is managed by the brain’s glial cells, and so the researchers called it the glymphatic system."
--NIH
The Australian Aborigines speak of jiva or guruwari, a seed power deposited in the earth. In the Aboriginal world view, every meaningful activity, event, or life process that occurs at a particular place leaves behind a vibrational residue in the earth, as plants leave an image of themselves as seeds. The shape of the land - its mountains, rocks, riverbeds, and water holes - and its unseen vibrations echo the events that brought that place into creation. Everything in the natural world is a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world. As with a seed, the potency of an earthly location is wedded to the memory of its origin.
The Aborigines called this potency the "Dreaming" of a place, and this Dreaming constitutes the sacredness of the earth. Only in extraordinary states of consciousness can one be aware of, or attuned to, the inner dreaming of the Earth.
"Dreaming" is also often used to refer to an individual's or group's set of beliefs or spirituality. For instance, an Indigenous Australian might say that they have Kangaroo Dreaming, or Shark Dreaming, or Honey Ant Dreaming, or any combination of Dreamings pertinent to their "country". However, many Indigenous Australians also refer to the creation time as "The Dreaming". The Dreamtime laid down the patterns of life for the Aboriginal people.
read more:
Peter Muraay Djeripi Mulcahy:
Wayamba the Turtle
A dreaming story given by Auntie June Barker.
Warabah (the turtle) symbol of the warrior and protection. A man that put himself and his desire above that of his people. The painting is to be read section by section (bottom left clockwise).
This depiction describes in detail the events that would unfold in this ancient and dramatic story.
a songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised 'creator-beings' during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
A knowledgeable person is able to navigate across the land by repeating the words of the song, which describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, and other natural phenomena. In some cases, the paths of the creator-beings are said to be evident from their marks, or petrosomatoglyphs, on the land, such as large depressions in the land which are said to be their footprints. - wiki
mapping (sleep) sub-dream events
to (awake) dream events
[dream constellations]
create sigils/codes/symbols/thoughts
to trigger lucidity in waking and sleeping
experience
create connections: dream as school for life
to realize and experience
what you were told is impossible
my dreamlife
is so vivid and colorful. i almost always remember my dreams. maybe i can't help but remember, so often they are incredibly powerful. i also write them down most of the time. it is interesting to go back and read them, sometimes they come true or resonate with a waking experience or another dream years later.
do you remember your dreams? do you keep a dream journal by your bed? if you make a practice of writing down your dreams when you wake up, you may be prone to be able to recall future dreams more vividly. even if you think you don't remember, try this:
when you wake,
clear your mind and drift in the place you go when you're about to fall asleep.
rest your mind in the cradle of hypnogogia.
see if you naturally start thinking about details that may spark your memory.
how did you feel when you woke? sad? entranced? angry? excited?
what may have caused that feeling?
write about it. even if it is just a feeling, without details. this activity may help increase your dream recall in the future.
this is dream incubation
Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
NDEs are often equated with dreamtime
more info:
Mellen-Thomas Benedict's Near-Death Experience
Navajo sandpainting
in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
a medicine man uses a sandpainting to help guide Tayo out of a psychic funk from his traumatic experiences in WWII
coming soon:
more info
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handwritten entries from my dream journal
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please feel free to share your dreams below
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