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ASD 2000 Conference 17 Abstracts

Millennial Dreaming: Washington, D.C.

I describe how unusual dream experiences led to systematic dream exploration that provided insight into possible brain/mind interaction processes.  The introductory section, (1) Cracking Open Dream Gates Through Need and Trauma, describes the significance of a timely lucid dream and subsequent synchronicity in providing unexpected help during a wilderness canoe journey on the Harricanaw River in Quebec, Canada in 1970.  (2) Revisiting the River’s Canyon are seemingly real dream-like experiences, or lucid dreams, that occurred shortly after return from this arduous journey.  They were entered directly from the conscious state and were like vivid recollections of the river adventures.  They evolved into lucid dreams about other previously known places and eventually included areas not yet visited that provided evidence of information obtained via psi (e.g., extrasensory perception, remote viewing).  These experiences motivated me to pursue systematic exploration of psi phenomena and led to my connection with remote viewing research and applications in the government’s STARGATE program.  (3) Creative/Destructive Dream Cycles  replaced the lucid dream phase and were extremely puzzling.  They offered encouragement but were also disturbing with intense destructive elements¾tidal waves, earthquakes, fires.  (4) Hints of a Connecting Process occurred in a new dream series that also invoked intense energetic feelings with both symbolic and real components.  The real aspects remained after wake up and included intense feelings of electrical and magnetic sensations, and sometimes feelings of heat and vibrations.  (5) Energetic Re-formation of brain networks was implied following a milestone archetypal dream, Fiery Horse.  This powerful dream led to energetic sensations that were astonishing and also highly disturbing.  I did not understand the experiences, and even suspected that some type of brain anomaly, possibly epilepsy associated, had occurred.  Eventually, a dream incubated for insight led to The Clue dream and shortly after to a synchronistic discovery of books that provided some understanding of the “energetic blast” phenomena. For the first time I became aware of the Eastern tradition of kundalini yoga and associated energetic effects.  I had discovered a framework for a beginning understanding of my own experiences.  (6) Mental Resonance and Quantum Consciousness explains how I came to associate the kundalini experience, accelerated healing and psi phenomena with quantum physics concepts.  Dreams provided insight into a “form and meaning” connection, or resonance, that may be a fundamental principle for memory and psi. (7) Implications and New River Dreams track into my current understanding of how these energetic experiences could relate to “nonlocal” phenomenon, holographic principles and other quantum physics concepts.  I conclude by musing on the emerging role of psi dreaming and on the implications that “form and meaning” have as a new interdisciplinary endeavor, perhaps called quantum consciousness, for the new millenium ahead. 

DALE GRAFF 

Dale Graff is an internationally recognized lecturer and writer on psi topics.  He is a physicist and a former director of project STARGATE, the government program for research and applications of remote viewing phenomenon.  His books Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness and River Dreams present his experiences with remote viewing, psychic dreaming and synchronicity. 

Contact information: 

Dale E. Graff 
Prince Frederick, MD 
Email: baygraff@chesapeake.net
Web Site: http://www.chesapeake.net/~baygraff/