2012.01.12 19:00 - Dreaming Dogs

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant. Participants included stevenaia, Archemage, Ewan, Aphrodite, Tess and Lucinda

stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Paradise
Paradise Tennant: hello there
Paradise Tennant: smiles how are you tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: I am good, you appear to be a contortionist
Paradise Tennant: hmm sl is funny tonight
Paradise Tennant: I am just sitting on my screen
Paradise Tennant: fully clad I hope :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes fully
Paradise Tennant: how was your day
stevenaia Michinaga: there you go, oh thought you meant sitting on your screen, never mind
stevenaia Michinaga: had Tai Chi class tonight, was relaxing
Paradise Tennant: nice I had a miserable gruelling day ..
Paradise Tennant: but was nice when it was over .. and home with pup :)
stevenaia Michinaga: awww
stevenaia Michinaga: days like that are rare for me, usually the worst is when nothing happens or there is nothing to do
stevenaia Michinaga: glad you made it here, usually relaxing here
--BELL--
Ewan Bonham: Hello folks
Paradise Tennant: hiya Ewan
Paradise Tennant: how are you tonight
Ewan Bonham: I am well Para and you?
Paradise Tennant: very well thanks
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Ewan
stevenaia Michinaga: nice to see you again
Ewan Bonham: Hi Steve...yes, and you..:)
Paradise Tennant: what shall we talk of tonight
stevenaia Michinaga: I think it’s time to take down the Christmas tree
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: yes
Ewan Bonham: Funny, how it was just time to put it up...:)
Paradise Tennant: we always did that new year’s day family ritual
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: it goes by in a blink
Paradise Tennant: actually really liked the winter when I was skiing lots .. would fly by .. if you are not out playing in the snow .. kind of slow :)
stevenaia Michinaga: assuming there is snow to play in
stevenaia Michinaga: but you have memories to play in
Ewan Bonham: yes, I did when I was a kid...and loved it...
stevenaia Michinaga: Paradise went poof
Ewan Bonham: oops wonder if I said anything..
stevenaia Michinaga: can your words crash a computer?
Paradise Tennant: so sorry my sl is odd tonight
Ewan Bonham: Some say yes..
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: that's an amazing skin Ewan
Paradise Tennant: have a friend whose body chemistry seems to break watches :)
Ewan Bonham: thank you, Steve
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Luci
Ewan Bonham: Hi Luci..
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci
Paradise Tennant: so nice to see you :)
Lucinda Lavender: so nice to see you all also:)
--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga: nice dress Luci
Paradise Tennant: love the scarf too :)
Paradise Tennant: shall we talk of dreams ?
Lucinda Lavender: thanks:) scarf for cooler weather:)
Lucinda Lavender: would love to hear of them...
Lucinda Lavender: Luci has not remembered on for oh so long
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: I had a strange dog dream, I never remember dreaming about a dog
Paradise Tennant: listens
Lucinda Lavender: listening too
stevenaia Michinaga: just remember a fragment, I suspect it relates to recent story about a Presidential candidate driving somewhere with dog caged on his car roof
Lucinda Lavender: ...which candidate was that Luci wonders
stevenaia Michinaga: but this dog was cuter, all I remember was the dog climbing up the cage which was out on a porch
stevenaia Michinaga: (Romni)
stevenaia Michinaga: it was a cute white dog, but I don’t remember if dogs can climb up fences
stevenaia Michinaga: or cages
stevenaia Michinaga: (in RL)
Lucinda Lavender: dream dogs can do lots of things
Paradise Tennant: only the really talented ones use to have one that could climb a ladder
Lucinda Lavender: more to the dream?
stevenaia Michinaga: not that I remember
Lucinda Lavender: porch seems a safer setting...putting that out there into the dream weave perhaps you were...
stevenaia Michinaga: dog did not seem to be in any distress
Lucinda Lavender: a porch is such a lovely place as long as what is happening there is not difficult
Paradise Tennant: nods porches have a lot to recommend them :)
Lucinda Lavender: part in and part out
Lucinda Lavender: halfway into the house
Lucinda Lavender: what color was this house?:)\
Lucinda Lavender: ah...remember dof is wha=ite
Paradise Tennant: shade ..cozy furniture .. not far from the fridge .. music accessible ... semi private .. but neighbours can stop and chat:) dog can watch the street .. sort of dog tv :)
Lucinda Lavender: dog is white
stevenaia Michinaga: the dog was white
stevenaia Michinaga: don’t remember the house color
Lucinda Lavender: animal beings have such big hearts...serve in so many ways
Paradise Tennant: oh yes
Paradise Tennant: they really bring one in touch with what is real
Lucinda Lavender: climbing the cage...
Lucinda Lavender: interesting image
Lucinda Lavender: skill
Lucinda Lavender: cage is like the dream weave
stevenaia Michinaga: dream weave?
Lucinda Lavender: threads of connection
stevenaia Michinaga: aww
Lucinda Lavender: lines of intersection
Paradise Tennant: can you say more about the dream weave luci ?
Lucinda Lavender: well...there are these invisible threads of connection...illusion perhaps yes...and perhaps it is how we connect to the world and the universe
Paradise Tennant: smiles and feels invisibly connect to this circle :)
Paradise Tennant: *connected
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Lucinda Lavender: when dream images come in that seem to be from without of one’s personal view...more like connecting to the dream news
Lucinda Lavender: we could also suppose that hearing of the dog in cage on top of a car was unpleasant...and that part might be personal reaction...
Paradise Tennant: makes me think of an enormous cable dream tv network .. linking everything :)
Lucinda Lavender: I often think we kind of help others by seeing potential for a better way
Ewan Bonham: Yes, for me a dream goes with an interpretation..
Lucinda Lavender: in the dream
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: we dream insight into others somehow ?
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps into the image
Ewan Bonham: I think we can offer them dream energy..
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes think our energy is very much connected
Ewan Bonham: Yes, it is ...and you can feel it across the net..
Lucinda Lavender: and sometimes what is seen is already about to happen...or also just a remote possibility
Paradise Tennant: nods yes often think we are just one slice of a multindutenous confabulation lol going to have do a spell check
Lucinda Lavender: have to really listen to the image...for a feeling or lack of it...
Lucinda Lavender: the most clear seeing dreams for me were without feeling...just curiosity
Lucinda Lavender: "I wonder how this could be?..."
stevenaia Michinaga: watching dreams?
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Lucinda Lavender: noticing dreams
Ewan Bonham: nodding
stevenaia Michinaga: like a movie playing
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Lucinda Lavender: I think paying attention to the language used is important too
Lucinda Lavender: studying the words we use to describe the dream experience
Ewan Bonham: yes...tells a bit about us..
Paradise Tennant: words put such a spin on things
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, if what we see are surely ours
Lucinda Lavender: if it were my dream ( Robert Moss says that...)I would wonder if there Romni was in the porch of the house(white house) and bringing in the animal being spirit...uncaged
Lucinda Lavender: with climbing skills
Aphrodite Macbain: It's the late Aphrodite
Paradise Tennant: smiles hello aph we are dream talking :)
Lucinda Lavender: HI Aph:)
Paradise Tennant: and invisibly connected :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I talk in m sleep a lot. I think I scare the cats and maybe the neighbours
Paradise Tennant: lol
Ewan Bonham: And I may talk in my sleep...but how would I know?
Paradise Tennant: my dog barks in his sleep .. often wonder if he is giving me dream orders .. pretty sure .. they are commands to mom :)
Aphrodite McCain: I wake myself up sometimes
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Aphrodite Macbain: There's a moment when I start talking that I am aware I'm sleeping but I continue to talk. Strange feeling. Like being in 2 worlds
Ewan Bonham: A foot in both worlds..
stevenaia Michinaga: like trying to get up while in the dream
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. do that on the phone sometimes ramble away know I am sleeping .. have said funny things :)
Aphrodite Macbain: oops
Ewan Bonham: Hello Aphro
Lucinda Lavender: I used to do that too (phone answering)
Aphrodite Macbain: GTSY Ewan. Long time no see
Aphrodite Macbain: phone answering while dreaming?
Lucinda Lavender: in college days...much deeper sleep that was hard to come out of sometimes
Aphrodite Macbain: Level 4
Lucinda Lavender: long time ago
Aphrodite Macbain: that's even deeper than dreaming
Lucinda Lavender: I think it was related to a bit of PTSD as well
Aphrodite Macbain: what kind of stress?
Lucinda Lavender: adjusting to being on one’s own
Lucinda Lavender: not having others to care for as main concern
Aphrodite Macbain: you came from a big family?
Lucinda Lavender: having own life
Lucinda Lavender: tiny actually
Aphrodite Macbain: I call that LESS stressful
Aphrodite Macbain: hell is other people
Lucinda Lavender: in some families yes
Aphrodite Macbain: as Noel Coward said
stevenaia Michinaga: I must sleep now
Aphrodite Macbain: or someone said it
stevenaia Michinaga: night all
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams stev ..hope you .. enjoy them
Aphrodite Macbain: sleep well Stevenaia
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
Lucinda Lavender: yes...steve...sleep well
Ewan Bonham: Bye Steve..
Aphrodite Macbain: Ewan are you still living in your tree house?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi arch
Lucinda Lavender: HI Arch:)
Ewan Bonham: And i will go as well...thank you both for the convo and insights...:)
Paradise Tennant: hiya arch
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye! ewan
Archmage Atlantis: Hello Dream Sister
Lucinda Lavender: Hello:)
Paradise Tennant: nite nite ewan :) sweet dreams :) full of energy
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: dream well Ewan:)
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: I have to go too. whispers: Bye! all
Paradise Tennant: nite nite aph :)
Lucinda Lavender: see you later Aph:)
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Paradise Tennant: very seldom see scary movies remember watching one with snakes once that gave me a nightmare
Archmage Atlantis: When dreams may come, what dreams they be
Lucinda Lavender: nodding ...
Archmage Atlantis: Lucy
Lucinda Lavender: yes?
Paradise Tennant: I leap off the bed .. one toe touching the ground hit the light switch did a back flip back to bed and woke on impact :) staring at the ground . a very normal carpet thought it was covered in snakes in my dreams
Archmage Atlantis: in sky with diamonds. :)
Lucinda Lavender: wow Paradise...you are very skilled!!
Archmage Atlantis: I had a Blue Russian Cat......her name was sky
Lucinda Lavender: Lucy like diamonds
Paradise Tennant: lol was very gymnastic at the time :)
Lucinda Lavender: and the sky
Paradise Tennant: hmm what a lovely name
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Lucinda Lavender: and smiles
Lucinda Lavender: practicing
Archmage Atlantis: Yes sky had to learn about Nimbus
Archmage Atlantis: He was my first Bengal kitty
Lucinda Lavender: what did she have to learn?
Archmage Atlantis: That she was not loved as she thought she was
Lucinda Lavender: hard lesson I bet
Lucinda Lavender: I am reminded of a snake dream...
Archmage Atlantis: My partner at the time, whom she trusted, left her
Lucinda Lavender: hard!
Lucinda Lavender: it seemed like a dream of transformation since the snake left it's skin
Lucinda Lavender: transformation/change is an interesting/hard thing to get through
Lucinda Lavender: sometimes
Archmage Atlantis: I approve of snakes.....and alligators.......and of understanding the role they play in the wilderness
Archmage Atlantis: We are destined to find a new way
Paradise Tennant: wow arch
Lucinda Lavender: one book I have which is a book of women's dream symbols ...say the snake is a feminine image
Paradise Tennant: love that sentence
Paradise Tennant: we are destined to find a new ay
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: /
Lucinda Lavender: finding a new path?
Paradise Tennant: wonders how different from men woman really are
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps not that different but symbols differ I guess in what time period they come from
Lucinda Lavender: what was the view of the time
Archmage Atlantis: To be a man, as my mama taught me, is to protect the "wimen and chillin"
Lucinda Lavender: protector...
Archmage Atlantis: What women teach their sons, is what men become
Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks about her son
Paradise Tennant: oh boy
Lucinda Lavender: ?
Paradise Tennant: hmm think men .. become more than one parents teaching
Paradise Tennant: we are an ever changing synthesis of breath, thought, interreaction, memory, circumstance
Lucinda Lavender: much figures in...
Archmage Atlantis: boys take their teaching from their moms........being gay, I took mine from my dad
Paradise Tennant: with a bit of puppy dog tails thrown in .. or spice as the case may be
Paradise Tennant: is that different to be gay
Archmage Atlantis: A child is a huge obligation
Paradise Tennant: cannot imagine it really being that different always think it is sort of the same . love is all love
--BELL--
Archmage Atlantis: No one gets it "right"
Paradise Tennant: lol so true arch so true
Lucinda Lavender: I was pretty amazed to fine ancestors marrying very young...in their teens...
Lucinda Lavender: in the 1600s
Paradise Tennant: yes they did not live that long
Paradise Tennant: 40 was old
Lucinda Lavender: really something to image
Lucinda Lavender: imagine
Archmage Atlantis: If one's life is measured by the most 30 years, 12 is adult
Lucinda Lavender: now that age is pretty young
Archmage Atlantis: Yes
Archmage Atlantis: Yes and we need to use that time
Archmage Atlantis: Because time is flexible, and it can flex
Lucinda Lavender: when I was 12 I told my mom I could not live with her...it seems like an age that one is becoming more adult in some ways
Archmage Atlantis: Agree
Archmage Atlantis: There are changes in neurobiology that document the changes in goring
Lucinda Lavender: can you say more about time flexing?
Archmage Atlantis: I will try to do so, Luci
Paradise Tennant: gives luci's 12 year old self a hug .. such a brave little girl/grownup
Archmage Atlantis: As I think that comment was directed to me
Lucinda Lavender: bravely committed to survival
Lucinda Lavender: go for it arch
Lucinda Lavender: thank you Paradise:)
Lucinda Lavender: receives hug
Archmage Atlantis: In the beginning, we humans became aware of the challenges of life.....and it was good
Archmage Atlantis: Then we saw that other beings in this time space continue
Archmage Atlantis: So we began to ask questions
Archmage Atlantis: We are still asking
Lucinda Lavender: how time might flex is another question...
Lucinda Lavender: that seems like a sort of scientific one...
Archmage Atlantis: Luci, science is imagination, with shared observation'
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: I only know from my experience that it appears to move slow and fast tho it is not really changing...just my view is
Archmage Atlantis: Actually, both change....one's view, and what is
Lucinda Lavender: ...ok...how can what is change?
Archmage Atlantis: That is why dreaming is both, poetic and science
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles at Arch ..
Archmage Atlantis: The scientist who began organic chemistry as a subject all pre med students now study
Archmage Atlantis: He dreamed the way the carbon atom dances
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Tess
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Lucinda Lavender: to Arch
Lucinda Lavender: we are informed by dreaming
Lucinda Lavender: because perhaps when un fettered by sensing in the moment we focus differently
Lucinda Lavender: ?
Paradise Tennant: yes we are free of our senses in a way .. more open to reality as it may be
Paradise Tennant: hiya Tess
Lucinda Lavender: the information gets sorted:)
Archmage Atlantis: hello Tesss
Tess Aristocrat: hello
Archmage Atlantis: Oops....to much black snake in the mix
Lucinda Lavender: Nice to see you Tess
Tess Aristocrat: and you all
Lucinda Lavender: why too much?
Lucinda Lavender: black snake I mean...
Archmage Atlantis: BS tries to be friendly, while snaking up on mice
Lucinda Lavender: Luci sees Tess and thinks of skating...
Lucinda Lavender: skating snaking...
Tess Aristocrat: ah, skating..
Archmage Atlantis: Poligize
Archmage Atlantis: need to separate
Lucinda Lavender: snaking skating
Tess Aristocrat: Suddenly, Christmas seems so far away..
Paradise Tennant: smiles it does doesn't it
Lucinda Lavender: I think fondly of the skating, Paradises cabin with christmas cards and dogs
Tess Aristocrat: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes took down the xmas decorations but the dogs the cabin and the skating rink are still there
Lucinda Lavender: nice:)
Paradise Tennant: hung a couple of Zen's pictures up instead and a photo of Blue ;)
Paradise Tennant: really been enjoying it
Paradise Tennant: funny almost as nice as rl :)
Archmage Atlantis: patatothis has become rll
Paradise Tennant: just to sit in a room with roaring fire
Lucinda Lavender: fun to decorate
Paradise Tennant: lol yes indeed
Archmage Atlantis: this has become rl
Paradise Tennant: and not dusting
Paradise Tennant: *no
Archmage Atlantis: as we share, so shll it be
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes arch .. it is all about sharing
Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks about the sharing...and says thank you to all
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: nicely put Arch...
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes thank you :)) so nice to sit .. together ..
Paradise Tennant: be together :) our little invisbile connectors ... lighting up :)
Lucinda Lavender: practicing connection
Tess Aristocrat: Goodnight :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles I am going to have to say good night though late here and I have a busy day tomorrow
Paradise Tennant: nite nite Tess
Lucinda Lavender: note Tess
Lucinda Lavender: nite Tess
Lucinda Lavender: I should go too
Archmage Atlantis: nite to you tess.....and a good tomorrow
Lucinda Lavender: have a great rest all:)
Archmage Atlantis: yes....nit to you all
Paradise Tennant: nite nite luci arch sweet dreams :)) ones you remember maybe with dogs in them :)
Archmage Atlantis: blessings and namaste
Lucinda Lavender: :)