Dreams from the Women’s Visionary Congress Oneironauticum
Though we did not undertake a group dream sharing the morning after Oneironauticum, several people related their experiences to me the next morning. One of the speakers, a caniosacral therapist who works with an activist network of recently returned Iraqi war veterans, experienced a deep encounter with her son. A junky who she fears may end up in prison, he came to her in her dream and told her that he was doing what needed to be doing and that she needed to let go of it. She found this very healing.
An impressively bearded man named Pasha experienced strange sensory phenomena, not entirely out of keeping with the findings from past Oneironautica, although his occurred while awake. Before sleeping, a glowing light hovered around his head. Upon waking, he experienced ringing in his ears.
Marcela, who had been dreaming of birds during the stay at Wilbur, had a precognitive dream in which one of the Congress attendees had fallen quite ill. In the morning, we discovered that this person had indeed been very ill the night before. Marcela’s partner Seabrook, who rarely dreams, pursued the Chontal tradition of using the Calea for oneiromancy, divination through dreams. He asked for guidance with the land they recently purchased. In his dream, he saw a house made in the shape of a molecule. He examined a model of the house closely, explained how it would work, took it apart and put it back together.
A woman from the Bay Area had a rare flash of lucidity that freed her from an unpleasant dream. In the midst of an anxious situation, she realized that what was happening was too unlikely and must therefore be a dream.