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December 22, 2011 at 2:00 pm
linda yael schiller
here’s my dream: I am taking some one’s temperature, and it is 97.7. I think-that is a good temperature, but I need to regulate it so it doesn’t get any higher or lower.
The life connection is that this was my actual temperature yesterday (i had a dr. apt and they took it as a matter of course) and then that is what showed up when i incubated on healing the earth!
December 23, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Laura
Hi Linda,
Thanks for dreaming with us and sharing your dream.
When I think about the images as my own dream, I’m intrigued that now I find myself in the role of healer. If I imagine the “Patient” as Mother Earth I’m encouraged to learn that her temperature is good!
Wishing you good health and wellness,
Laura
December 23, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Sylvia
Being a ‘good’ temperature, seems to be hopeful to me for our ability to help regulate our earth’s ‘warming’. Thanks so much!
December 23, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Sherry Puricelli
“Star in the Sea of Infinite Possibilities”
Standing outside with a small group. We’re looking up discussing the stars. Someone mentions there are other meanings for the word star such as tv or movie star.
Switch scenes… Standing in a circle on a beautiful green grassy hill. We’re singing one of the songs I played when I facilitated a Winter Solstice Celebration yesterday.
Song: Winter Solstice Song — By Lisa Thiel
Here are the lyrics:
Winter Solstice Song
Chorus:
Enter the night and you’ll find the light,
That will carry you to your dreams.
Enter the night, let your spirit take flight,
In the field of infinite possibilities
On the longest night we search for the light,
And we find it deep within.
Open your eyes to embrace what is wise,
And see the light of your own soul shining.
(Chorus)
Wrap up in the cloak of starry darkness my child,
And you’ll find the center of all things.
For from this space of the deepest dark place,
Life Eternal does spring.
(Chorus)
So when you find that spark
When you dream in the dark,
Hold it close to your heart and know.
All that you see is all that can be
When you give birth to the dreams of your soul.
(Chorus)
Happy Winter Solstice — dreaming healing for the Earth.
love & blessings,
Sherry
December 23, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Laura
Hi Sherry,
Thanks for sharing this beautiful song.
I’ve played it twice already!
Laura
December 23, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Tzivia
Hi Sherry, thanks for providing the lyrics, as I’m catching up with my online biz at a public library and can’t listen to music at the moment. I just wanted to say hi for now and to note that my dream also had musical accompaniment! (Plus I got a delicious glass of wine in mine:) )
xo& happy Solstice!
December 23, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Sylvia
What an absolutely beautiful song, Thanks so much Sherry. This could be a great incubation for any night…. I can picture singing with you in a circle under the stars…
I had a musical instrument in my dream, heralding how important music is to humankind.
XO Many blessings.
December 24, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Sherry Puricelli
Thank you all for your feedback.
I noticed some more music in the dreaming 😉
Harmonic World Healing!
xoxo
December 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm
David
This is the first dream of the night:
Paintings
I’m in an art appreciation class. We are asked to comment on a series of paintings by several different artists. The first few series are rather interesting but no one painting sticks out in my memory. Then the teacher asks us to look at a series of paintings that at first seem dull, all are blue strokes on a black background. I don’t care for the first two. But the next two or three or four I find quite beautiful and interesting. They have beautiful flowing movement of bright blue on the black background. And when I go back to the first two, I now find they are also beautiful and not boring anymore. I want to comment on the paintings and especially how and why I changed my feelings bout the first two paintings, but the teacher is finished with these and asks us to look at the next series of paintings in hues of orange and red. I’m disappointed in not having the opportunity to express my thoughts. The next series aren’t really paintings. They are cartoon like pictures printed on magazine paper. He asks us to look at the pictures and to comment on them. I look and I see the faces of the drawn people turn blurry, going in and out of focus. And the words the characters are supposed to be saying, written in balloons above their heads, become more and more illegible, so I am unable, as hard as I try, to read the words.
I feel frustration at not being able to read what the characters are saying and in having their faces become more and more blurred.
December 23, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Tzivia
Hey, are you sure you weren’t practicing Remote viewing, David? In wake life last night I was making little caption bubbles on my father’s birthday cards above the cartoon characters (Snoopy, Lucy, Charlie Brown, etc.)! Sounds just like your dream!
And when you weren’t remote dreaming maybe you were having OOB projections, because you turned up in at least two of my dreams! (As did Sylvia, who was also dreaming with us!)
Thank you for dreaming with us 🙂
December 23, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Sylvia
Hi David.
As I was looking at your first series of paintings, the thought ‘black and blue’ came to me…. ouch! bruising…. but then, it felt like the blue on black was soothing. Do I like it cooler than hotter (hot colors in the second series)? Most definitely, and so does Mother Earth, I expect. Looking at it from our incubation for healing, maybe there’s new perspectives I could have, appreciate Mother Earth more. Something comical about it that I’m not getting…. The joke’s on me?
December 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Laura
My dream images from last night:
I’m arriving at my store named “Moombai”. I unlock the door and find dirty white clothes scattered all over the floor. I have a baby with me that needs to be fed. But all the baby bottles in the cabinet are dirty.I don’t have time to clean them. I walk with a group of people through a park. An historical re-enactment is in progress. Some sort of festival. We have a map showing where all the events and activites are located. I see a team of horses pulling a large wagon. One of the horses has a lame leg. I worry that the wagon driver is working the lame horse too hard. The horse needs time to rest and can’t keep up. My vision zooms in to see the horse more clearly and I realize the horse has a prosthetic leg.
I have no associations to “Moombai” at all and don’t know what that’s about. I welcome any comments. Right now I’m exhausted from all the holiday preparations and my inner horse is probably running on 3 legs.
December 23, 2011 at 9:00 pm
linda yael schiller
“moombai” is the Indian word for “bombay”- where there was a serious terrorist attack a year or 2 ago there. White can be a color either of death (eastern) or holiness, depending on your spiritual orientation. From a western perspective, i would say that the white of the holiness of our earth is soiled, as is our food source ( baby bottles). we have to make time to clean it up! we all need a “shabbat’ to rest, and we all need “to pull together” as the team of horses is to if we want to be able to celebrate at the “festival” of our life on earth. if we work ourselves,and our animals and our earth too hard,even the “fix’ of the prosthetic leg wont be sufficient to be able to keep up
wishing you and us all peace and joy and restfulness at this season
linda
December 23, 2011 at 4:41 pm
tzivia
Hi Laura,
The theme of needing to clean things seems very resonant with the theme of our dream for the environmnent. If this were my dream I’d think about the need for clean water and clean food sources to nurture all that is born on our planet. The dream taking place in a store is interesting, especially this time of year … how we stress our powerful planet (horse?) with all our consuming/consumer needs.
Moombai sounds like Mubai (is that how you spell it?) and also “More Buy” to me 🙂
Good luck with your holiday preparations! –Tz.
December 23, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Sylvia
If this were my dream, I’d say it’s about time to ‘clean up my act’! Mother Earth is hurting from my rubbish..I don’t seem to learn from past mistakes (historical re-enactment)… For me, one team of (work?) horses doesn’t seem like it’s enough to pull that large wagon. What about a team of six horses? I’m (Mother Earth) carrying a heavy load? More is merrier… I don’t know about Moombai, but it sounds to me like Moon Bay – a place to dream! I need to feed what’s growing in me with healthy food and drink- and that’s what I relate to in my dream, Laura
December 25, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Laura
Thanks for all the comments and help with Moombai. Happy Holidays and sweet dreams to you all.
December 23, 2011 at 4:45 pm
tzivia
Greetings dreamers! I had a rich night dreaming with you all! I hope to post some of my dreams here soon.
Today is my dad’s 80th birthday so I’m on Long Island with him. Dad has no computer and no Internet so I won’t be able to check in with all of you as much as I’d like for the next day or two!
I hope you will make each other feel welcome on the site, greet each other and reflect on the dreams.
I recommend resisting “interpreting” dreams. If you do comment please use the “If it were my dream … ” structure, to ensure that you are not imposing your interpretation on another’s dreams. But it certainly is useful to help each other find possible connections between their dreams and the incubation we all shared!
Wishing everyone happy, healthy holidays!
December 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Tzivia
So many dreams, where to begin?
The first dream of the night had to do with someone wearing a knit cap. While I was dreaming the image I *Knew* this was important to the incubation about Global Healing, but now I can’t fathom why 🙂
Also in the early dreams of the night the song, “Blowing in the Wind” was being sung by Bob Dylan.
Other dreams involved removing parasites and jelly-fish like worms from my ankles and feet.
Another involved walking on a rickety catwalk on the 3rd floor of a hotel, and nearly falling off … toward the end of the precarious catwalk was a bar where an Indian (from India) man served me delicious white wine! I asked if he was sure that was a good idea (to serve me wine when I still had a bit more balancing to do before getting off the catwalk) and he seemed to insist. I could taste the wine and see the man so clearly. It was a lovely moment at the end of a harrowing balancing act.
The final dream I’ll mention here involved being with my friend D. at my dad’s [where I was sleeping last night] and looking at the deck around his pool to evaluate whether it was time for a new one. We’d just replaced the deck recently so I expected it to be in good shape. Nonetheless we found lots of boards splintering and missing. I thought it was very dangerous, all those missing boards suspended above deep water, but D. found one gaping hole and decided to jump right in! He was happy but I called out, “Be careful!”
Another theme that ran through the dreams was having a homework outstanding for my dream school certification [which in waking life I completed last spring!]
There was also a dream in which I’d given someone a full Reiki treatment but forgot to “smooth out their energy” at the end. Afterward I noted how hard it is for me to hold an intention for long enough to complete even a Reiki treatment properly 🙂
END OF DREAMS (FOR NOW)
I don’t feel a direct connection to the incubation, but the themes of balance, danger and fun were notable. There seems to be a message here that I can have fun: Dive into the water, drink the wine … even while trying to balance the needs of the planet, my personal needs, etc.
Also, the image of the gaping hole in the deck that D. joyfully jumped into looked like an image I used in my dream incubation of the mouth of a quiet (non-spewing) geyser in Yellowstone Park.
I welcome your comments or reflections 🙂
December 23, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Sylvia
Hi Tzivia.
There seems to me to be something about the parasites and jelly fish.. They feel like ancient sea creatures that have been here long before humanity. The image of the jelly fish always reminds me of our dreaming for healing and saving the Starfish. Then the diving in, without fear, feels joyful, celebratory to me. What am I waiting for? just dive in. And the fine wine being served to me. The balancing act – I ask What is my responsibility as an earth citizen, and what does Mother Earth have in mind for herself in the healing process. I don’t think I can ever learn enough (assignment). Was the instrument with a cat figure on the end in my dream, your ‘wind’ instrument ‘Blowing in the Wind’? My incubation had Goddess Tara dipping her toe in water, too.
Sending blessings to you and yours.
December 23, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Sylvia
Hi Tzivia,
The knitted hat makes me think of weaving, maybe since it’s a hat, weaving ideas together for healing the planet. Belonging to a Prayer Shawl Knitting group, we knit hats for citizens of third world countries and for those less fortunate in our own community. That’s what brought me to this thought.
Thanks so much for sharing when you are visiting your Dad on this very special occasion.
December 23, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Joann Sanchez
I am running deep with this ancient forest, bare foot embracing the life that I could feel moving around me. A light mist circled around my ankles every time I would stop to get my baring. The colors were so vivid even in the dark of the night with only the moon as my only light. I can upon a waterfall cascading down stone steps. The cool moisture rose high around me, but as I gazed into the clear water my reflection stared back at me only this person who stared back was the person I want to be in my waking life. The image shimmered, I look up to find fireflies dancing around me. Peace in the moment came over me as I simply enjoying being with what is in this sacred place.
December 23, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Sylvia
Hi Joann,
What an amazing dream! If this were my dream, it would be a vision, myself a wood nymph. The magic of being in the world, in this sacred setting. Completely magical. Our Mother Earth is a magical place to me. She has all this to offer me, if only I look and really ‘see’. This feels like a very special healing dream for the planet to me. I also was in a natural setting in my dream. Thanks so much for this. I hope to visit your special place again and again. Blessings to you.
December 23, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Sylvia
Sylvia’s Incubation for Global Healing on Winter Solstice 2011
Goddess Tara’s toe touches a lotus – opening, glowing with healing energies. Covering the surface of the waters it absorbs all emotional pain. Tara smiles and a sweet ringing sound is heard, and the ills of the world are transformed and healed. I take the lotus she offers me, placing it in my heart and in my dreams of healing for all mankind and Mother Earth.
(Adapted from “The Ultimate Guide to Goddess Empowerment” by Sophia)
Dec 23.11 DREAM Scouting with the Boys
I’m in some family’s house with a group like Boy Scouts (or similar), am one of the leaders. The boys are around ages 12-16. The boy I am coaching is tall, lanky, but not one of the older ones. We’re going to make a meal, are positioned at a long table in the main room of the house. I’m teaching him how to peel potatoes, first with a peeler, then paring knife. A pot of water is boiling, I’m adding chunks of rock. The Mother rock is brick-red, gray, silver speckled in places. To my surprise, potato-size pieces break off without much effort. I ask the leader B.H. sitting with his back to me to the right, if this could be the Red Rock I’ve heard so much about. B. asks me to look on my computer – he’s sent me something. I open the laptop (on the table behind me) and there’s a topographical (lots of green) map on screen, the cursor showing exactly where we are, at a small lake. I didn’t know I had Wifi, but B. tells me to push the CC button and it will kick in. I’m delighted my computer works here and does have Wifi. B. suggests we hike to another small lake, about an inch away on the map, called Bispo, after dinner. I say we’d better hurry then, to be able to get there and back before dark. I need a drink, decide to have water rather than beer. Bottled water is stacked up in the corner behind B. The boy I’m coaching says he’ll have Kool-Aid, in the royal blue cooler with wihite lid. I go over to the large windowed side of the room to look out at the natural landscape view. There’s a bronze long, curvy wind instrument (small around0 with a cat figure at the end of it. I put it up out of reach. I tell everyone this family is very musical, seem to know them personally. I’m real happy about the way things are going and excited about going on a hike to new territory. The day is bright, a perfect day in late summer or early autumn.
Notes: 1) The word ‘Bispo’.reminds me of the spa at San Luis Obispo, CA where I had an amazing experience at the Labyrinth and hot tub outside in the forested area. 2) B.H. is an amazing leader of IASD..
I like the idea of this dream that we are finding new healthy ways to use our earth resources and music as food for the soul too. I love cats, there independent ways but offering love and comfort. It seems to speak to my ability to teach, and for my youthful parts to come forth, to appreciate Mother Earth, travel to new places.
I’d love your comments. Sending you all blessings and thanks for sharing..
January 2, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Tzivia
Hi Sylvia,
Wow, the fact that it’s BH who is “Leading” this experience is heartening. How wonderful to have a dream leader along for this beautiful experience. Of course, we have the theme of music again in your dream. The part about the internet is interesting because in the dream you didn’t realize you are already “connected” to the World Wide Web, even when you thought you weren’t! I love that. All in all this feels like a truly healing and hopeful dream. Thank you so much for sharing it!
–Tz.
December 24, 2011 at 12:28 am
Lori Desrosiers
I don’t remember as much of my dream as I would like, but it was entirely sung, like a musical, rather than spoken. I remember singing all the words, and in my half-waking state still being able to sing parts of the dream. Sorry I didn’t write it down, now!
December 24, 2011 at 6:40 am
Sylvia
Welcome, Lori, so glad you joined us. A few of us have had music in our dreams. Maybe you were in Sherry`s circle singing the Winter Solstice Song, or with Bob Dylan in Tzivia`s dream, or perhaps a musical instrument was accompanying the singing, as in Tzivia`s or my dream. I believe in the healing power of music, something that can bind people together in peace no matter what language we speak. The words or music may come back to you when you least expect it, bringing with it the magic. Thanks so much for sharing.
December 24, 2011 at 3:16 am
Gale
Title: To Each His Own
I am standing by a rushing creek. It is summer. The grass on the banks is green. Floating down the creek are circles which seem organic in nature. Each circle offers one of three kinds of wisdom and all vary in size, strength and ability that is unique to each individual. Some float to the edge of the creek, others rush onward, while still others keep coming in the current.
December 24, 2011 at 6:52 am
Sylvia
Hi Gale,
I feel completely mesmerized by the floating circles with three kinds of wisdom. Even though the water is rushing, they go their separate ways. If this were my dream, I would be appreciating the individualism of each whole (circle) organism, all going in the same direction, but each offering me something different. Acceptance of differences is healing for me. I am one with the rushing water. Thanks so much for this beautiful image, and for sharing.
December 24, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Gale
Dear Sylvia,
Thank you for your comments. Yes, I feel it was a dream of wholeness and also individuality. I live by a creek now and am constantly fascinated by it. My dream also reminded me of Heraclitus saying, “You can never step in the same river twice.”
Happy Holidays Dreamers, Bless You All,
Gale
December 24, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Claudia Ermey
I am invited to a couples party where each couple dresses up as a bride or a groom. The purpose of the party is for each couple to convince the other couples that they were invited to celebrate their wedding. They must do this with actions only , not with words. The couple that gets the most votes wins a prize which is a trip around the world. The dream then switches to a vast area where people are handing out flowers to strangers and asking them to pass them on to other strangers. I am especially happy to find someone who doesn’t “need” a flower because then I tell him “Great! So hand it off to someone who does” I know that will give the one who doesn’t “need” it to experience the expansive quality of giving.
I am going to include another dream I had last month when, unprompted by this project, I set the intention and asked “How do we achieve World Peace?” This is the dream that followed:
I see a room full of twins. Each baby in a set was different from his/her twin. I had the realization (upon awakening) that all of our essence was created at the time of the Big Bang, like a big egg exploding and splitting like twins with bits and pieces bonding into what would someday become our ancestors. If we can look at all others as our “twin” then our compassion will grow and perhaps we can experience a deeper connection with those we currently see as “other.”
I am in Washington, D.C. I see people gathered in an outdoor circle. They all look different one from the other. One person gets up and reads from his sacred text, then sits down, then another and so forth. There is no discussion. There is no dogma. There is no sense of right/wrong or my god is better than yours. It is a vigil of people of all types reading what their enlightened master came to tell us about Love and how to live without causing harm to one another.. An opportunity to find the common thread. I woke up remembering that Gandhi had done something similar during the riots in India and it worked.
December 29, 2011 at 12:06 am
Sylvia
I am so blown away by your marvellous dreams, Claudia. I am so taken with actions speaking volumes here. “Actions speak louder than words”. The messages seem loud and clear to me. If I may share, I have this vision I carry with me – seeing the world encircled by all `tribes`holding hands. Your dreams mirror my beliefs, and I thank you so much for sharing. You might be interested in reading “Gaia, the Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos” by Elisabet Sahtouris, 1989. I’m finding it fascinating. Many Blessings.
January 2, 2012 at 4:40 am
Seajay Crosson
Hello Three-Fifty-Plus,
Still recovering from 19 days of no computer, after it died of a virus on 1 December, at 4:30pm. Here are my dreams from target night. They are abridged/ condensed.
~~~HAPPY NEW YEAR!~~~
23.12.2011 Moon in Sagittarius
1) Two Windows Left Open in Rain
I am somewhere when downpour of rain begins. I realize I left two large wooden-framed windows wide open at another location. I will not be able to get there and close them before everything in that room is soaked.
2) “Nancy” All Night
Every time I awaken, all night, the name “Nancy” strong in mind. I think is likely Nancy Maier, my choir director who passed away in February 2010. She instructs me in subtle singing methods sometimes in dreams.
3) Profound Connection
In class, maybe yoga or meditation class, with about 20 people. I have overwhelming sense of not being successful in what we are supposed to be doing in this class. Man next to me begins gently stroking my arm with his hand in a swirly, graceful way, as if his hand is dancing on my skin, and my hand responds in turn, feathery touch dancing on his arm. We are dressed in summer clothing. I have 4 100 dollar bills. I have difficulty talking, as though my throat is completely dry. The man & I leave class and walk outdoors with arms around each other’s waists; we walk through beautiful flower-laden landscape. I tell him many things. The emotion of love, the joy of connection, and excitement at meeting were all quite strong. A happy dream!
January 2, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Tzivia
Hi Seajay,
Welcome back to the cybersphere after your computer-less hiatus.
Thank you for sharing your dreams. Interesting that your late choir director appeared in your dreams in this night (or at least was present through her name) as so many of the dreams this Solstice included music in some form!
Happy New Year,
Tz
January 5, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Mary Lounsbury
Here is my dream from 12/22/11 — thanks for offering this event!
I am deep underground moving from room to room. The rooms are dark with orange or reddish glow. This is an international dance network. As I move from room to room I see many different dance classes of all ages and cultures. I am in the US, then Europe, Russia, China… It is a vast network and I feel amazed at how developed and extensive it is, yet I also feel claustrophobic and I retrace my steps through many rooms, trying to find the stairs to take me back up into the fresh air.
For me, this is about the power and depth of art and the ability of the arts to connect all people– indeed, the connections that already exist. At the same time, I wish that there was more above ground awareness of the value of art– rather than being an “underground movement”, I wish there was more connection to our everyday world, that it be more available for all to value and participate.