2013.03.13 19:00 - Stopping to gain vision, a dream

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Korel Laloix, Santoshima Resident, Bleu Oleander, Paradise Tennant, Geo Netizen, Ewan Bonham

and Aphrodite Macbain joined in tonight

Korel Laloix: Heya
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Korel
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: how are you?
Korel Laloix: Having an intersting day.
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, I;ve been having a week like that
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi san
Santoshima Resident: hi
Santoshima Resident: )did you get the hair?)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, thanks, I usualy change in private
stevenaia Michinaga: how was your late class yesterday?
Korel Laloix: A bit more modest than I am... smiles
Santoshima Resident: late class was ... late
Santoshima Resident: it is a little later than i'd like
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, ntoI just forget how to put things back
stevenaia Michinaga: was it one or many ppl?
Santoshima Resident: many as can fit in the room
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Korel Laloix: Which class was this?
Santoshima Resident: um, one i was at
Korel Laloix smiles
Bleu Oleander: evening all :)
Santoshima Resident: hiya Bleu
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Bleu
stevenaia Michinaga: we were just settling in
stevenaia Michinaga: to what I do not know
Bleu Oleander: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: How was your day Bleu?
Santoshima Resident: brb
Bleu Oleander: busy, yours?
Bleu Oleander: did go to Sun's class
Bleu Oleander: very fun
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: so has there been any thought about this week's theme, What Stops?
Bleu Oleander: there have been several conversations I think

--BELL--

Bleu Oleander: not sure how to formulate an answer to that question
stevenaia Michinaga: 90 seconds of stopping
Bleu Oleander: from the article that Zen posted along with this question - Every moment is an invitation to stop, acknowledge, and deeply allow all of life to move.
Bleu Oleander: so invitation to stop ... what stops?
stevenaia Michinaga: do you have the link handy
Santoshima Resident: *\
Bleu Oleander: yes one sec
Bleu Oleander: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bdcZKpQtZPeAriQwYe6ItOmK0sbk-ORjEdG9XCU9MMM/edit?pli=1
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Ewan
Ewan Bonham: 's current display-name is "Ewan".
Bleu Oleander: hi Ewan
Santoshima Resident: must stop, and head to class ... so long
Korel Laloix: Ciao
stevenaia Michinaga: bye San
Korel Laloix: Heya
Bleu Oleander: bye san
stevenaia Michinaga: I should have asked San, but do you know when Luci's next dream circle is?
Bleu Oleander: hmmm no, not sure

I remember a dream and begin

stevenaia Michinaga: I've been having strange dreams lately... unusual for me in that there is a recurring them
stevenaia Michinaga: theme
Bleu Oleander: yes?
Korel Laloix: Do tell please.
Bleu Oleander: what theme?
stevenaia Michinaga: well, I didn't know the theme was recurring until I remembered it the next day but they go something like this.....
Bleu Oleander: hi Para :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi PAradise, just in time for a dream
Paradise Tennant: smiles and waves all round

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: I'm driving
stevenaia Michinaga: as I am driving I notice thengs are getting darker around the edges of my vision
stevenaia Michinaga: soon it is very difficult to drive since all I can see is what's in front of me but only a very small amount.. and it dark so I have to slow down
stevenaia Michinaga: and I rub my eyes and noting is clearer
stevenaia Michinaga: so I have to drive slower and I think I may be falling asleep
stevenaia Michinaga: thinking if I wake up some light will come in
stevenaia Michinaga: , that is the recurring part of these dreams
stevenaia Michinaga: then I did an iChing reading last night and the theme/title was Darkness Darkness
stevenaia Michinaga: Just a related item :)
stevenaia Michinaga: then end
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: you have had this dream more than once ?
Bleu Oleander: how do you interpret this?
stevenaia Michinaga: just the part about driving and loosing sight ahead
Bleu Oleander: hi Geo
stevenaia Michinaga: oh.. I usually don't interperate them
Geo Netizen bows to Blue
Paradise Tennant: hiya geo :))
stevenaia Michinaga: when I share them I usually get "Oh, a stress dream"
Geo Netizen: Good to see you again Stevenaia
Bleu Oleander: you think about them throughout the day?
Geo Netizen bows
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Geo, it;s been a while
Geo Netizen nods

stevenaia Michinaga: Just this morning and wrote it down this morning as I am keeping a continued log on my computer when I remember. Now the dream itself was interesting, there was beautiful rural landscapes and darkess and getting lost, when I ran off the road, there was a police car in the field with no one in it and a lovely field , a road in the distance that I could drive to but when I got to that road I didn't know which way to go to get where I was going

Paradise Tennant: we were just listening to Stev tell us a dream Geo just gave it to you on a notecard
Geo Netizen nods in appreciation
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks, I'm sure it will not clarify anything :)
Geo Netizen chuckles
stevenaia Michinaga: the end
Paradise Tennant: it ended with being at the road and not knowing which way to go ?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, near a fork and there was a farmhouse and barn, but I could not connect the road I was driving to this roadhere is what I wrote about it this morning
stevenaia Michinaga: here is what I wrote:

 I was driving, following a car down a winding road, my vision was diminished and I could only see the tail lights in front of me loosing site of the road edge and everything else. I thinking I was going to a rural vacation cabin or something out in the country, not sure where or why. Eventually I couldn't see anything and ran off the road into a field where there was a unmanned police car parked. Once I left the road my vision cleared (it was daytime) and I could see the beautiful countryside, the farm in the distance at the fork in the read in the distance. I couldn't get back on the road the way I came but when I drove a short distance to the road past the fork, but I was lost and wasn't sure if I should backtrack or proceed on the road.

This morning I remembered that I've had the visual malady in my dreams at least 2 other times, vision dark and narrowed while driving to the point I was very uncomfortadble driving, had to slow down or stop and then my vision cleared.

Paradise Tennant: wow

--BELL--

Geo Netizen: A very interesting juxtaposition of lack of vision and clarity
Paradise Tennant: there are interesting layers to those dreams ... suggestions of .. the need for clarity .. and that coming only with stopping :) or stilling :)
Paradise Tennant: snap :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, I view it more f if I continue there could be danger
Aphrodite Macbain: I've had reams where I couldn't see properly. Very frustrating. The more you want to see the harder it gets
Paradise Tennant: oh hiya aph :))
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: hi
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry - I dyed and grew my hair
stevenaia Michinaga: didn;t see you arrive
Geo Netizen: I think of the need for a goal if one is to know which way to go
Bleu Oleander: hi Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: you were talking about your dream!
Geo Netizen bows to Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Bleu, Stevenaia, Para
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Geo
stevenaia Michinaga: nods a dream about trying to wake to gain claity and sight
Ewan Bonham: Hi Geo..
Paradise Tennant: hiya ewan :))
Ewan Bonham: Hi Para..
Aphrodite Macbain: through a glass darkly
Geo Netizen bows to Aphrodite
Ewan Bonham: and all..
Geo Netizen: Ahhh .,.. precisely
Geo Netizen: Which way do I go … depends on where you want to get to
Geo Netizen smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: like gummy contact lenses
Aphrodite Macbain: the trick is to know where you want to go
stevenaia Michinaga: or... which way do I go depending on where I came from
Geo Netizen nods
Ewan Bonham: That may get a bit blurred...
Aphrodite Macbain: I have many dreams about trying to find my way home.
Aphrodite Macbain: But I have no idea where home is
stevenaia Michinaga: this was more like tunnel vision as opposed to gummy bear vision
Aphrodite Macbain: narrowing
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Ewan Bonham: Smile... i have many dreAMS ABOUT BEING HOME... BUT UNABLE TO GET INSIDE...SIGH
Aphrodite Macbain: frightening I would think
Paradise Tennant: sometimes I think dreams voice our most inner most .. concerns joys fears ..
Aphrodite Macbain: get inside your home Ewan?
stevenaia Michinaga: nods, could hit anything anytime or run off the road
Ewan Bonham: Yes, get inside my home..
Geo Netizen: I agree that dreams can be an important window
Aphrodite Macbain: that's awful
Paradise Tennant: the door is locked ?
stevenaia Michinaga: they do take some study
Geo Netizen: Go in the window?
Geo Netizen smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: many parts
Aphrodite Macbain: I can fly but I cant pass through windows
Geo Netizen chuckles
Ewan Bonham: Usually, I try to get in a window... but it is closed..
Paradise Tennant: is jealous of people who can fly in their dreams :)) have never had one like that .. :))
Aphrodite Macbain: what is inside?
Geo Netizen: Good question
Aphrodite Macbain: It was very liberating
Aphrodite Macbain: but it stopped

stevenaia Michinaga: wow today is 2300 days in SL, a nice number
Geo Netizen: O I have slipped the surly bonds ….
Aphrodite Macbain: of earth and danced the skies on silver something wing
Aphrodite Macbain: 2300 days. what i s that in years?
Geo Netizen: "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth – Put out my hand and touched the Face of God."
stevenaia Michinaga: 6 yrs 3 months
Aphrodite Macbain: the last line of the poem "High Flight" Grade 9 & 10!!
Aphrodite Macbain: wow
Geo Netizen nods
Geo Netizen: full poem :
Geo Netizen:

"High Flight"

 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
 Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
 of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
 You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
 High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
 I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
 My eager craft through footless halls of air....

 Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
 I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
 Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
 And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
 The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
 - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Aphrodite Macbain: laughter!
Paradise Tennant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.
Aphrodite Macbain: all Canadians learned that!
Geo Netizen: Yes ... there is something about flying ...
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: you can see for miles!
Geo Netizen: With due concern for Icarus of course
Geo Netizen smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: of course
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: he was trying to reach the sun
Aphrodite Macbain: we just want to fly
Geo Netizen nods
Korel Laloix: Off to church service... take care all.
Aphrodite Macbain: waves at KOrel
Geo Netizen bows in farewell
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Korel
Bleu Oleander: bye Kori
Paradise Tennant: nitenite korel sweet dreams

stevenaia Michinaga: just realized how my dream relates to tonight's theme

--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: Strange things are happening in SL
stevenaia Michinaga: stopping to gain vision
Aphrodite Macbain: whispers- going to eat dinner...
stevenaia Michinaga: night Aph
Paradise Tennant: enjoy aph :))
Geo Netizen bows
Bleu Oleander: nite Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: nite all
Bleu Oleander: nite all .. take care
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite bleu
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for joining us Bleu
Bleu Oleander: bye
Geo Netizen: Or vision in motion ...
Geo Netizen: Bye Bleu
Paradise Tennant: smiles think I will say adieu also :)) sweet dreams of clarity , light :))) and finding your way home safe and sound to the chair by the hearth :))
stevenaia Michinaga: night Para
Geo Netizen: Goodnight Para
Paradise Tennant: namaste :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: gtsy
stevenaia Michinaga: yawn, time for another dream perhaps
Geo Netizen: Ah yes ... perhaps to dream
stevenaia Michinaga: nice to see you again, Geo, Ewan
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Geo Netizen nods
Geo Netizen: And you to stev
Geo Netizen: Guess I'll wonder off too
Geo Netizen: Goodnight Ewan
Geo Netizen bows deeply