I had a lot of short dreams, all with very positive emotion. In one, I dreamed that everyone participating in person in Oneironauticum had something in common (this is the first time I’d met most of these people). I thought maybe it was that everyone present was a Cancer, like me. I remember exclaiming how great it was that we all had this thing in common. Then I dreamed of pulling a guy down a snowy ski slope. He was in a stretcher, but he...

Present at the January, 2010 Oneironauticum were dreamers Vibrata, David S., lissa ivy, Dean, Erik, Christine, David W., Stacy, Nathan, Phoebe, Zak, and yours truly, Jennifer. We started the evening with a viewing of the NOVA special on dreaming, followed by a discussion of the contents. Several items interested the crowd particularly. One point involved the dreams of depressed people. According to the special, depressed people go right into REM...

The next Oneironauticum is Sunday, January 24. For this session, we’ll be working with 5-HTP (short for 5-Hydroxytryptophan), a supplement derived from West African Griffonia plant seeds, available in most health food stores or vitamin sections of supermarkets. 5-HTP has oneiric properties because it is involved in the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in the regulation of sleep. Serotonin is also involved in the regulation...

In the middle of the night, I got up to go to the bathroom. When I got back into bed and fell asleep again, I had a dream that started with me getting up to go to the bathroom, then coming back and getting into bed, only it was the wrong bed. Jennifer came over to talk to me about it and I realized that hours had gone by that I didn’t remember. Then suddenly I realized that in that time I had been possessed by the devil. At that moment, I...

The dream took place in the space where we were all actually sleeping, and in the dream we were all there asleep in the midst of Oneironauticum. This guy came in and was walking around the apartment. He started hovering over me, getting really close and in my face. Jennifer yelled at him, told him that it was totally inappropriate for him to be there. Then his friend started trying to make excuses for him, saying he was on something, not in his...