My site is at: http://www.iAmLucidDreaming.com

I remember when I had my first truly involved lucid dream. Really jarred me, I popped out of bed and immediately onto the computer to search on “dreaming when you know you’re dreaming”. But that was sorta in the pre-Google era, I think I even used AltaVista back then. :)

I was a bit unnerved at the time, twitching around at 6am. One of the articles I came across explaining lucid dreaming talked of the presence of the “demon dream” and had this totally scary picture of a demon. That page seems long gone, but I was like “oh no!” Little did I know how much “oh no” there was going to be. It’s fun when you think it’s part of your imagination, and then gets to be less fun when you start getting your bearings and feeling like you’re actually visiting alternate universes.

I offer up my journal if you are interested…and in terms of your summoning objects to your hand, I have a telekinesis tag for those dreams where I summon objects, or otherwise cause physical effects with my mind:

http://realityhandbook.livejournal.com/tag/telekinesis

I’ve found what really helps in conjuring objects out of thin air is to start a feedback loop by squeezing my hand into a fist where I rub my fingers against my palm. As I do this, I try to remember the sensation of what it feels like to hold that object and mentally focus on it. Very strange how causing the tickling gets the process rolling…

Regards,
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http://www.richardalois.com

Richard

“I believe President Bush is going to order air strikes (on Iran) before he leaves office”
-Norman Podhoretz (Lyons, 2007).

Bush and his cronies say they want peace and diplomacy, but the problem with the members of Bush administration is that you can’t trust them. You can’t take what they at face value. As former Nixon aide John W. Dean wrote, “George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have created the most secretive presidency of my lifetime. Their secrecy is far worse than during Watergate” (quoted in Wittkopf and Jones, 2008, 329).
The administration secretly planned and prepared for war with Iraq without disclosing it to the general public. Planning began in November of 2001 and included upgrading airfields in various Gulf countries, moving supplies to the region and the construction of necessary facilities. By April 2002, the planning and preparation for war was also being hidden from Congress. Bush had instructed General Tommy Franks not to make financial requests through Washington. “Anything you need, you’ll have.” The money would no longer be appropriated through congress. By the end of July 2002, Bush had approved more than thirty projects totaling over $700 million. Congress had no knowledge or involvement (Woodward, 2004, 122).
In December of 2002, Bush and Rumsfeld agreed to start secretly deploying troops into the theatre so as not to attract the attention of the press or the rest of the world. The first deployment order went out on December 6, 2002 and deployments continued every two weeks or so thereafter. Troops were given less than a week’s notice at times. In January 2003, the Bush administration arranged for much of its humanitarian relief to be disguised as general contributions to conceal its war planning from the NGO recipients. Yet, when asked about Iraq, Bush’s favorite response was “I have no war plans on my desk.” At one point or another after the planning began, nearly every member of the administration publicly denied any plans to go to war with Iraq (Woodward, 2004, 129).

A better approach to Iran would be negotiations. While Fareed Zakaria agrees that there is no reason not to use sanctions and embargoes against states such as Iran, he suggests that we also need to “allow a viable way out.” That is to say, we need to negotiate and not merely mandate.