The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. Attending Were eliza, Arisia, Bleu, Hana, and Xirana. We start with general discussion around daydreaming and then enter a group daydream...it feels very rich and energizing...

Eliza Madrigal: 's current display-name is "Eliza".
Arisia Vita: 's current display-name is "Ari".
--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: Hello Lucinda! Glamorous gown this morning ^.^
Arisia Vita: welcome Luci
Lucinda Lavender: HI Everyone:)
Lucinda Lavender: Glad to see ...you
Eliza Madrigal: I am listening to music... lively piano. It is especially entertaining to see the typing animations along with
Eliza Madrigal: gives a kind of sountrack... like a silent film
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: sounds lively!
Eliza Madrigal: "Lazy River" is anything but lazy
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Arisia Vita: welcome Bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Morning Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: hi everyone :)
Lucinda Lavender: I am afriad I need to get my glasses...brb:) HI bleu:)
Lucinda Lavender: back
Arisia Vita: wb
Bleu Oleander: back and able to see :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Arisia Vita: there is much beauty here to see
Bleu Oleander: just came back from an early morning walk ... lovely
Lucinda Lavender: that sounds wonderful...
Eliza Madrigal: does :)
Bleu Oleander: so many birds
Bleu Oleander: we now have a big "community" of peach-headed love birds
Bleu Oleander: such a sweet song
Arisia Vita: what a lovely name
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Hana Furlough: 's current display-name is "Hana".
Eliza Madrigal: they've found a suitable setting in which to play?
Bleu Oleander: http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-spec...ovebird-2.aspx
Arisia Vita: welcome Hana
Eliza Madrigal: Hello Hana :))
Hana Furlough: Hello all!
Bleu Oleander: hi Hana :)
Lucinda Lavender: HI Hannah!
Lucinda Lavender: oops Hana
Hana Furlough: haha both are good
Eliza Madrigal: this morning I was remembering the song Daydream Believer, and that Pema was introduced to virtual worlds by Michael Nesmith
Lucinda Lavender: That is very interesting...
Eliza Madrigal: so a few more steps and PaB came from a Monkee
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Hana Furlough: : )
Lucinda Lavender: evolving as it goes...
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Lucinda Lavender: I am curious...do you all find daydreaming happens for you? ...I do not do that much tho I do take time thinking about things...
Bleu Oleander: I do daydream
Lucinda Lavender: when I have a moment
Bleu Oleander: yes
Arisia Vita: what is the difference between day-thinking and day-dreaming? :)
Hana Furlough: i spend a lot of time daydreaming
Hana Furlough: or some version of that
Lucinda Lavender: good question...
Bleu Oleander: daydreaming seems a bit more detached from what's going on
Lucinda Lavender: does it feel dreamy?
Lucinda Lavender: do you have to jostle your self awke sort of?
Bleu Oleander: dissociation from immediate surroundings
Arisia Vita: A hope is a wish your mind makes, a dream is a wish your heart makes.
Eliza Madrigal: I'm not sure if what I do is daydreaming... there is a kind of daydreaming I'd like to be "better" at, or more fluid with
Hana Furlough: me too
Lucinda Lavender: I like that Arisia...dreaming and the heart
Bleu Oleander: perhaps daydreaming is an escape from boredom or the mundane?
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: to allow the mind to let go enough to wander is not always easy...for me it seems to travel through automatic landscapes...the escape feeling is interesting
Bleu Oleander: I develop my artistic ideas by daydreaming
Arisia Vita: to paraphrase Shaw...Some see things that are and ask why. I dream things that could be and ask why not.
Bleu Oleander: lately I've been daydreaming about dreaming lol
Eliza Madrigal: can be... like when one realizes their mind was awandering... or, daydreams can be actively creative (lucid or not, though I think even not has lucid aspects)
Eliza Madrigal smiles at Bleu
Hana Furlough: yes, like letting images come
Eliza Madrigal: me too I think, since we began focusing
Lucinda Lavender: shall we experiment with creating a daydream landscape here and now?
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: sure
Hana Furlough: great!
Bleu Oleander: sl feels like a daydream sometimes
Eliza Madrigal nods
Lucinda Lavender: we could randomly suggest elements as if they were part of the landscape
Bleu Oleander: the thought of a sea breeze always starts me daydreaming :)

And so it begins...

Lucinda Lavender: I will start...it will be "In a golden light of morning...sky blue...and I will imagine the perfect tempurature ...
Bleu Oleander: can I add my breeze to that?
Lucinda Lavender: yes:)
Hana Furlough: and ocean with no end
Eliza Madrigal: bits of seaweed tangled in toes
Hana Furlough: smiles
Bleu Oleander: fishy smells
Lucinda Lavender: a fire cracking beside a beach...
Arisia Vita: a circle of friends, holding hands...
Bleu Oleander: sound of sea gulls
Bleu Oleander: fishermen taking their boats out early
Lucinda Lavender: smell of woedsmoke
Eliza Madrigal: girl sits against a large rock, playing a guitar softly
Lucinda Lavender: humming a new tune
Hana Furlough: to the waves
Bleu Oleander: breeze move through her hair ... must be flexy :)
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Eliza Madrigal: child walks up playing a platic bucket, blending in
Eliza Madrigal: little red ringlets bouncing around
Bleu Oleander: interesting how I'm slipping back and forth between sl and rl in this daydream
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Lucinda Lavender: someone opens a basket to reveal...
Bleu Oleander: bagels
Eliza Madrigal: and the makings of mimosas
Bleu Oleander: yay!
Bleu Oleander: such a change in the moods of our daydream
Bleu Oleander: amazing the power of words
Eliza Madrigal: SL reallly is so amazingly dreamy... in another IM, someone sent the following message to a group: "can someone please send me the cloud fixer"
Arisia Vita: is the power in the words? or the one who hears them?
Bleu Oleander: :) Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: both Ari
Bleu Oleander: we probably all "see" a different basket but somehow the meaning gets across
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Eliza Madrigal: as we're talking, the little girl is still playing, in my imagery... scattering glitter into the sand and sound
Hana Furlough: ooh glitter!
Bleu Oleander: and collecting small shells
Bleu Oleander: for her basket
Lucinda Lavender: and out in the sea the whales have arrived
Bleu Oleander: wow so "west coast" hehe
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Eliza Madrigal: time has disappeared
Hana Furlough: yes
Bleu Oleander: yes
Lucinda Lavender: transported by imagery
Bleu Oleander: yes
Lucinda Lavender: carried by it sort of
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: An eagle arrives high in a tree and looks down upon the scene...in curiousity.
Arisia Vita: sand and sea and dreams brings to mind lines from a poem..
Arisia Vita: I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? - Edgar Allan Poe
Lucinda Lavender: amazing choice...
Eliza Madrigal: a few spy the eagle, stopping in wonder
Arisia Vita: also speaks to the march of time
Bleu Oleander: dream within a dream
Eliza Madrigal: blending of eyes
Hana Furlough: : )
Lucinda Lavender: A fine sight...
Lucinda Lavender: Haha! an aside here...
Bleu Oleander: we've created so many visuals here ... one could imagine using many of them in our AoB projects to tell this dream
Lucinda Lavender: on the first day of summer...I decided to post a list from my classroom work
Eliza Madrigal: true... and still proliferaing like particle emitters ^.^
Eliza Madrigal listens
Lucinda Lavender: this list was what we thought we would see at the beach...and then what we actually did wsee
Bleu Oleander: fun
Lucinda Lavender: ...feeling I am in a real dream here
Bleu Oleander: did the list match?
Lucinda Lavender: not exactly...we thought we would see some really wild stuff
Bleu Oleander: ha!
Lucinda Lavender: and the list of what we did see was shorter
Bleu Oleander: ah nice
Lucinda Lavender: it included much fewer sea animals
Lucinda Lavender: more of the small type too
Arisia Vita: welcome Xiri
Xirana Oximoxi: 's current display-name is "Xirana".
Bleu Oleander: hi Xiri :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hi xrir...
Hana Furlough: hello xiri
Bleu Oleander: we're daydreaming by the shore
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Xiri :)
Arisia Vita: I think there is always more to see than we saw. :)
Lucinda Lavender: xiri...we are doing some daydreaming of a beach scene here
Xirana Oximoxi: hello everyone! :-)
Bleu Oleander: for sure Ari
Arisia Vita: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
Lucinda Lavender: I loved that one child chose...Island Far Away...
Xirana Oximoxi: where is the beach scene?....
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: wherever you want it to be
Xirana Oximoxi: ok :-)
Lucinda Lavender: OUr current one here from your imagination
Bleu Oleander: help yourself to bagels and mimosas
Eliza Madrigal: someone spies the hard dark edges of something peeking out of the sand and begins to dig...
Xirana Oximoxi: perfect:) better to dream :)
Lucinda Lavender: and the sunny day with whales, guitars, eagles,
Arisia Vita: ...and friends
Bleu Oleander: carefully moving the sand away
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm a hard edge...
Eliza Madrigal: so heavy.... calls for help are heard...
Bleu Oleander: can you really dig a hole to China?
Lucinda Lavender: digging and digging with effort...
Arisia Vita: you can in your dreams
Eliza Madrigal: seeing a chinese dragon etched into the side of...
Bleu Oleander: a boat of some kind
Xirana Oximoxi: building with the sand...drawing stories...
Eliza Madrigal: could it be...
Lucinda Lavender: nods
Xirana Oximoxi: and seeing how the water delets them
Lucinda Lavender: eyes wide
Arisia Vita: I recall the delightful feel of wet sand dribbling through my fingers to create sand sculptures
Eliza Madrigal: how strange, it IS a boat... can we fit? and you know I never noticed that island before... (sees child off to the side smiling saying "I told you!")
Hana Furlough: : )
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: if we can just free it from the sand
Bleu Oleander: ok who's driving?
Eliza Madrigal: what's the chicken doing here? giggles
Bleu Oleander: haha
Lucinda Lavender: :))good question! wandered in from a nearby farm:)
Hana Furlough: (sneaks out to go to bed... sweet daydreaming to you all!)
Eliza Madrigal: night Hana :) lovely to see you
Bleu Oleander: nite Hana
Eliza Madrigal: maybe we'll sail to you
Lucinda Lavender: thanks for daydreaming haha
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye Hana...sweet dreams :)
Lucinda Lavender: hana
Hana Furlough: haha yes! please do!
Hana Furlough: good night!
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Arisia Vita: we'll see you in your dreams
Hana Furlough: : )
Xirana Oximoxi: hehe yes,... we can meet there :)
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: Thanks everyone for trying this...have you any thoughts about it?
Eliza Madrigal: so much fun, Luci, ty
Bleu Oleander: very nice ... like a mini vacation
Eliza Madrigal: group sally ^.^
Lucinda Lavender: it feels rich and rejuvenating to me
Eliza Madrigal: yes!
Bleu Oleander: yes
Xirana Oximoxi: sorry I've been late and I've missed the big part
Lucinda Lavender: rich and rejuvenating to me...
Eliza Madrigal: would be fun to begin at this end point on another day
Lucinda Lavender: bring back sure
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: maybe next friday?
Arisia Vita: Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. - Kahlil Gibran
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Lucinda Lavender: I will post and if anyone sees and wishes to continue tonight at 7 pm...I will suggest
Bleu Oleander: yes nice
Lucinda Lavender: or ok..next week is fine too:)
Lucinda Lavender: we shall see what the mood is tonight then
Bleu Oleander: I won't be able to come tonight but will enjoy following how it goes
Eliza Madrigal: what are your thoughts Luci? a bit similar to dream circle isn't it?
Lucinda Lavender: yes...ideas coming together joining and weaving
Bleu Oleander: a dream tapestry
Xirana Oximoxi: I will be sleeping at 7 pm...but maybe I can come dreaming :)
Lucinda Lavender: we are good at that here in this landscape
Lucinda Lavender: yes xiri:)
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Lucinda Lavender: send in the dreams
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: ok...I'll try :))
Eliza Madrigal: heard that in the tune of "send in the clowns"
Xirana Oximoxi: but my dreams are chaotic :))
Lucinda Lavender: this sl place is such a place of intersection...almost a dream initself
Bleu Oleander: yes
Eliza Madrigal: maybe we can tame them Xiri :)
Bleu Oleander: like a dream in that sense
Xirana Oximoxi: yes:)
Lucinda Lavender: yes..we will soften them
Eliza Madrigal: offer them goodies
Lucinda Lavender: by pouring sand on
Eliza Madrigal: mmm
Bleu Oleander: strange things coming and going but making a story of it
Lucinda Lavender: trusting
Lucinda Lavender: and allowing
Lucinda Lavender: and including
Lucinda Lavender: building
Arisia Vita: sharing
Bleu Oleander: visualizing
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Arisia Vita: The mind succeeds by dreaming, the heart by loving, the hand by doing.
Bleu Oleander: changing pathways and ways of thinking
Eliza Madrigal: would like to be able to hold objects of imagination longer... it is like, they begin to dissipate but one offers another image or feeling in and gets to stay a while
Lucinda Lavender: a certain flow involved
Lucinda Lavender: movement
Bleu Oleander: objects of imagination are like birds ... they need to fly
Eliza Madrigal: very much so, yes
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: music seems to help me, contain a kind of continuity
Lucinda Lavender: it certainly feel like music stirs my emotional body
Lucinda Lavender: and the mental body
Bleu Oleander: we want to hold on but can't ... can only feel imagination's freedom
Lucinda Lavender: the whole self
Eliza Madrigal: musical body
Lucinda Lavender: I once had a daydream at a dream workshop
Bleu Oleander: :)
Lucinda Lavender: following some instructions
Eliza Madrigal listens
Xirana Oximoxi: / me too
Lucinda Lavender: and shared it with a chjoir frind and learned she had the sam daydream
Lucinda Lavender: choir friend
Eliza Madrigal: *nice*
Lucinda Lavender: it was rather straking
Lucinda Lavender: striking
Lucinda Lavender: sorry for misspell
Eliza Madrigal: particular images?
Lucinda Lavender: a dwelling by the ocean in which water came up into the house
Lucinda Lavender: and it was shaped like arch
Lucinda Lavender: the water coming up to meet the fire place
Eliza Madrigal: unique
Xirana Oximoxi: oh!
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Xirana Oximoxi: oh!
Lucinda Lavender: each side of the arch had a special studio room for work
Lucinda Lavender: one for art and one for thinking
Lucinda Lavender: just interesting
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: needed a complete room just for thinking:)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Xirana Oximoxi: :-)
Bleu Oleander: thank you Luci for a lovely daydream session ... must be going
Arisia Vita: alas, I too must fly
Eliza Madrigal waves like the ocean
Lucinda Lavender: Thank you Bleu!
Bleu Oleander: take care all !!
Arisia Vita: it was great "dreaming" with you all today
Bleu Oleander: sweet daydreams
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye all..have a nice day dreaming...and night:)
Lucinda Lavender: thank you Arisis
Lucinda Lavender: Arisia:)
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye Ari!
Arisia Vita: you are all the stuff of dreams
Arisia Vita: be well and happy
Xirana Oximoxi: you too:)
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: powerful stuff daydreaming
Eliza Madrigal: mmmmmmmhmmmmmmm
Xirana Oximoxi: I will read later:)
Lucinda Lavender: I will clean up my misspells
Xirana Oximoxi: :-)
Lucinda Lavender: I need a little sign over my head:) Miss spells
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: wabi sabi spelling
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: any more thoughts...I feel very transported
Xirana Oximoxi: I also go now! see you soon! :-)
Lucinda Lavender: see you xiri! thanks for coming:)
Eliza Madrigal: bye Xiri :)
Xirana Oximoxi: thanks for hosting this dreaming session :-)
Eliza Madrigal: I feel the same really, Luci...
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye
Eliza Madrigal: we reach the edges of these dreamy places and it is fun to jump in
Eliza Madrigal: feel guards falling, or relaxing a bit anyway
Lucinda Lavender: maybe we are remembering and see further at the same time
Lucinda Lavender: new combinations
Eliza Madrigal: it taps the same place doesn't it... memory
Lucinda Lavender: with new people
Eliza Madrigal: mmm
Eliza Madrigal: one begins to feel like we've done this a million times in different ways
Lucinda Lavender: funny thing...the SL Retreat was by the beach...
Lucinda Lavender: and remembering it was happening
Lucinda Lavender: or...maybe we give ourselves permission...to re-create
Eliza Madrigal: to be what we are...in a sense
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Lucinda Lavender: what better way to play
Lucinda Lavender: ?
Eliza Madrigal: begin to remember being play (ful)
Lucinda Lavender: dive in
Lucinda Lavender: to deeper levels
Eliza Madrigal: mmm and sustain those levels
Lucinda Lavender: yes the form of it kind of sustains the energy created
Eliza Madrigal: I was asking the other day about the level of dreaming that reaches into premonistic vision
Lucinda Lavender: shall we go now? I should check the chickens...
Lucinda Lavender: oh...yes?
Eliza Madrigal: think it is similar... this tapping into memory and imagination at once
Eliza Madrigal: collective memory... pretty wild
Lucinda Lavender: yes...perhaps we go back to a remembered setting and invite in what is coming
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: okay... love to the chickens <3
Eliza Madrigal: will try to come tonight not sure yet , hugs and thanks
Lucinda Lavender: thank you for everything:)
Eliza Madrigal: thank *you*
Lucinda Lavender: hugs to you too