SHARED DREAMS 

        In order to effectively participate in this stage of  "A Course on Consciousness", you need to have some other friends or family who want to participate with the same goals and skills as you.  Dreaming is more fun in groups but it is hard to find groups in your local community that even know that they can share dreams let along attempt to do so on a more regular basis. 
        The importance of this is really for your and their benefit should you share a dream.  Only the actual clear memory of the dream, the written documentation in the journal and your friend's memory and written testimony will help you map how clear your shared dreams are, and how regular they occur. 
       Not documenting the dreams, and not having friends who document makes this part of the course nearly useless to you should you both share a dream.  Having a written segment in a journal helps to compare the details and the memory.  It also makes dreaming a lot more fun when you can entertain friends. 
       If you do not have anyone to share dreams with, then find either some people, or just practice the techniques described here and maybe you can then interest a friend if you share a dream with them first.  If you are unable to find anyone to progress at this level, read this section to the area where we create a "Dream City."  Focus on that segment and see if that assists you in your experiences. 
You can do that or you can skip this section.  I don't recommend skipping this section because this is a very important stage for developing yourself in these levels of experience.  It is only a benefit to you to have these experiences under your list of dream experiences. 

WHAT ARE SHARED DREAMS? 

        A shared dream is this: Two or more individuals participate in the same dream environment as if they were in a real one.  All the individuals involved have their own objective points in the dream.  Dream control techniques do tend to be less effective while in a group medium but still apply. 

DO WE ALWAYS SHARE DREAMS? 

        At a deep level of consciousness. 

WHAT FACTORS MAY PREVENT A SHARED DREAM? 

        When I first shared a dream, I was 16 years old and in grade 11.  I had no previous experience with shared dreams and I did not know this was possible.  What made it possible was the fact that I was fully lucid in the dreamstate at the time.  My friend however was not.  This made it a very good and interesting first study of a shared dream for me. 
        My friend was in a specific state that you will encounter regularly once you begin to journey in shared dream territories.  This state occurs when the participant may not be lucid.  My friend was unresponsive to me when I first encountered him.  It seemed like he was on some type of drug.  His eyes and head were rolling from side to side, and he mumbled incoherently. 
        When I made eye contact with him, he appeared to respond.  I grabbed his arms and gave him direct eye contact and told him he was dreaming.  He started to respond.  We were on a specific location on a street with some very clear visual markers in the dream.  I then proceeded to fly him to my house where we played with a mirror by passing through it. 
        The dream progressed and my friend and I separated.  I met another person who I believe was non-physical in origin.  He addressed me and asked about my friend's where about.  I pointed out my friend to him and held his hand to help keep me anchored to the dream. 
        When we approached my friend, my friend then acted in a bizarre manner.  He was again rolling his head and eyes acting incoherently.  The person to whom I walked with also had a very specific outfit and look.  He was wearing brown monk's robes.  He was about 60 years of age, had a grey goatee and looked a little like Sean Connery.  The person then began to tell my friend about his spiritual development. 
        When I woke up, I called my friend and asked him if he remembered any dreams.  He responded with a yes.  I asked if I was in his dream.  Again, another yes.  Then I asked him if we were by the important markers in the dream.  He responded yes, this time a little taken back.  I asked him if we went to my house, and he remembered it.  The mirror part was not recalled by my friend. 
        When I told him that I also met some guy who's hand I held, my friend immediately started laughing, and described the man, the location and what he was wearing in exact detail to how I remembered it.  He told me that he thought we were gay.  This was at the point where we approached my friend and I noticed his unusual behavior.  My friend then had another dream, which overlapped my dream with him in it where he reacted violently to the man and me.  In his personification of the dream, he claimed that he fought both the man and me. 
         This first shared dream exhibited a number of major factors to why we do not share dreams more regularly.  The first major factor was the level of logical, lucid awareness the participants had.  The more clear, lucid and awake we were in the dream, the more accurate and clear the shared dream was. 
 
LACK OF DREAM RECALL 

        This is the most difficult part of sharing dreams with people who do not understand nor practice lucid dream techniques and dream recall.  If the person is not an active dreamer, and has very poor dream recall, it is next to impossible for them to remember the dream you shared with them.  Not that this was not a shared dream, you can use this state to ask them a personal question which they may or may not reply to, and later tell them that info to see if it relates to the person in any way. 
        Memory is all we have to go on after we achieve these experiences.  If we do not care about dreams, or attempt to remember nor record them, then they will be lost to dream amnesia and probably never recalled.  There is nothing you, anyone, or I can do to cause person to remember if they themselves do not have any conscious awareness of the shared event. 
 
THE UNCONSCIOUS PARTICIPANT 

        This again relates to lack of dreaming skills.  Remember how I emphasize so much on having full logical abilities in the dream for total lucidity?  This is why.  The unconscious participant tends to show signs of a dormant logical mind.  The person is present, but not mentally.  Other factors are causing the person to be in this catatonic state.  Asking a simple question like, "What is your Name?" or "Where are you right now?" tends to create confusion, alarm and irrational behavior.  If you are getting this kind of response from a friend, they are probably not going to remember any clear details. 
If the person is semi-lucid, that is a bit better because at least then they may recognize you, the may be able to answer some questions, and you might be able to induce full lucidity on them using nothing more than eye contact, holding their hand and be kind and assuring. 
      My friend and I who I have shared numerous dreams with have labeled the state of unconsciousness in a person, "Sleeper's Grog".  A slang label we like to use when we make fun of each other when we meet each other in a logically deficient state while in a dream. 
        Do not be afraid, or alarmed if a person in this state acts violently, irrationally, or seems totally insane or psychotic.  I have met many people in this state and they all tend to show signs of psychological disorders which I attribute to the lack of lucidity, and logical faculties inactive during a shared session. 
          Sometimes they may be very catatonic, you're better off just leaving them alone, and going elsewhere.  You will become the judge.  Never get alarmed by the state that they are in, this is normal.  Just try to be patient and kind with them.  Any acts of aggression, or too much over powering control on your part will just trigger natural defense mechanisms such as violence, screaming, or just plain waking the person up where they will just disappear in front of you. 

PERSONIFICATION OF THE DREAMSTATE 

        When my friend had the fantasy of him beating up the robed stranger and me, the stranger and I did not experience this part of the dream.  What this indicated to me, and I observed this a few times in other shared dreams is this: when a person is faced with something that triggers a strong emotional response such as fear, hatred, anger etc, they tend to act out these emotions and project a strong layer of personalized imagination over the dream spectrum. 
        This projected mechanism I believe is a form of self-defense for us all as dreamers.  Since we cannot really be hurt or destroyed while in a dream, this mechanism seems to be just a distortion of thought due to heavy emotional discharge.  That is why I encourage meditation, love and peace because it makes sharing dreams a lot easier. 
        The dream-realms at the higher levels do not reflect the kinds of violence, fear, greed, hatred, anger etc that we experience while here as a human.  They tend to reflect art, beauty, creation and love.  It would be hard for any heavy person charged with dark emotions and thoughts to move upwards to these more graceful levels.  It's hard to induce any effects on these higher levels, should those effects come from a violent, hateful mind.  Chances are, the person will just experience a fantasy over-riding the objective setting that we share. 
        Good dream control, and a good heart makes it easier to share dreams because you are less likely to trigger the personification defense mechanism in a person if they are comfortable with you at some degree of connectiveness.  I.e. Friendship or a loved family member. 

TIME DISPLACEMENT 
 
        Another very frustrating aspect of shared dreaming, and another major contributor as to why most people do not share dreams.  On a rarer occasion, I have noticed that people who I tell certain dreams with them in it recall such a dream weeks prior to my being "there" in the dream. 
        Our consciousness is not bound by time/space when in a dream.  I cover the reasons for this in the Lucid Precognitive Dream later in the Lucid Precognitive Dream section.  This has been made even more evident by the verification of others who do recall such a dream, but at a earlier date.  This only adds to my awareness that we can move forward and back through time spontaneously.  I still have yet to fully realize how to do this with efficient control. 

CLEANING UP THESE FACTORS. 

        The only way you can overcome these factors is by clearing them up in yourself.  By practicing lucid dreaming techniques, with an openness to the shared aspects of dreaming.  In addition, having people to share in this common interest is a major help if they are trained in shared dreaming. 

SHARED  DREAM POTENTIAL 
 
        Part of the shared dreaming focus of this course is to actually create in a non-physical reality, a place where we all can meet and share our experiences.  This very advanced and organized layer of dreaming is not unrealistic.  My experience with this  shared dream potential comes from 10 years of shared dreams with friends. 
        In one such instance, I had a very vivid dream while living in White Rock BC, Canada.  This dream was in a gothic mid 1920's style wood house.  This house had a large fish aquarium, which had an ugly, deep-sea style fish.  The fish had long sharp spines, large pointed teeth and looked almost like it was dead and rotten, yet still alive and swimming. 
        The dream was being narrated to me by someone I somewhat recognized as an old friend who at that time lived in Penticton BC.  My friend was taking me on a tour of this strange dream setting.  He was describing the fish and the house as being one of horrific potential. 
        The aquarium also harbored a vicious parasite, which if in contact with flesh immediately burrows into the body and gestates until it reaches a large, leech sized maggot.  This maggot then bursts from the victim and falls to the floor.  These parasites do not stop at that, they have a very specific method of defense. 
        A large burly fat man was leaning over the aquarium, his hand slipped, and he fell part way in.  His arm and face entered the water and he reeled backwards from the aquarium.  The man then grasped his throat and his skin turned a deep shade of grey.  The man's cheeks swelled and his eyes bulged as he crouched over and vomited a pile of worms. 
        My friend, explaining in clear detail the nature of these worms then proceeded to pierce on of them with a pencil to demonstrate their effective form of defense.  The worm's bodily fluid then bubbled and I was quite mystified by the detail.  Then, without notice, a long fleshy tendril shot from the bubbling mass with a high velocity.  This tendril had sharp fish-hook barbs covering nearly all it's length.  The tendril reached a distance of about thirty feet. 
        Realizing the possible danger, I stepped back from the pile of worms, as more tendrils shot out, and in doing so, they ruptured more worms.  Soon a barrage of deadly tendrils shot in every direction.  I moved back and hid in another room watching the gory display. 
        When I woke from this particular dream, the content was so inspiring that I decided to sketch a rough story board of the events.  This rough sketch then remained in my sketchbook hiding the soon-to-be-discovered fact that it was a shared dream. 
       When I returned to Penticton a little over a year later, I met with my friend.  He then told be about a re-occurring nightmare that he had where there was this old Victorian style house, a large aquarium and in this aquarium was this ugly fish, that looked rotten. In his nightmare, the fish would leap from the aquarium and attack him. 
        I then asked if there were any parasites in the water.  He said yes, then I explained how they would burrow into skin and turn into worms.  He also agreed.  I told him that I had the same dream, but in my dream, he took me on a guided tour, and I told him he showed me how the worms would shoot out a barbed fleshy tendril when damaged.  He also agreed on the worms. 
        To help him verify the reality we had shared this re-occurring nightmare, I immediately told him to come over to my house where I showed him a rough storyboard of my perspective of his re-occurring nightmare.  That helped him verify the experience as well as myself. 
        The potential is that we can create in a non-physical reality, a very tactile, and vivid experience.  My goal is to create something a lot more positive and rewarding than a nightmare to share.  I want us to pool our creativity and create and actual dream city that we can build and visit as we become more advanced at shared dreaming. 

ROAMING DREAM GANGS 

         Roaming dream gangs represent a group of people that myself and a few others have noticed who seem to go around and try to tell people who realize they are dreaming that they are not dreaming.  At the shared dream level, my observations of these people are that they are strictly human.  They seem to lack any advanced spiritual development aside from the fact that they seem to be aware of dream realities and shared dream potential. 
        My theory is that they are some of the people who have passed away. Since the close proximity of shared dreaming fields and after-life fields are quite close, these people can move between the two.  It seems that they have nothing better to do than mess around with unconscious dreamers.  When I have become fully lucid, several occasions these people would try to convince me that I was not dreaming.  Others would bark commands like, "Go to sleep!" 
        At any rate, be aware of these types of people and don't let their suggestions cause you to become unbalanced and loose focus.  They seem to be people like ourselves who we meet in regular life.  They are committed to preventing us from realizing we are dreaming for what ever motives they have. 
        To counter the effect they have on sleeping dreamers; I encourage you to tell people when you encounter them in a fully lucid dream that they are dreaming.  Tell them to become aware of the fact that this is a dream reality and not a physical one.  This may cause a positive shift in that spectrum of shared dream potential.  This may help many of us to reach these higher levels with more of a support system intact. 

FOUR STAGES OF A SHARED DREAM 

        Just as in dreams, and lucid dreams.  Shared dreams follow the same guidelines for success. 

Stage One: - The initial pre-sleep stage.  The stage we program our affirmations and 
                      intent. 

Stage Two: - The journey towards lucidity in a dream through hypnogogic territories. 

Stage Three: - The actual dream. 

Stage Four: -The moment we wake up to record the dreamed experience. 

TECHNIQUE FOR FINDING SOMEONE IN A DREAM.  

       When you fall asleep.  Fall asleep with the purpose in mind to locate and share a dream with a desired friend.  As you progress, imagine them visually as well as get a good feel for "who they are" and focus on those feelings. 
       When in the dream, if they are not already present, then just work on homing in on them mentally.  Call their name a few times aloud, and they sometimes appear before you. 
        One technique I have used a few times was creating a door in the dream with their picture on it.  Then focus on the fact that they will be behind the door.  Open the door and walk through searching for them.  This is all practice, drive, intent and motivation orientated.  Also maximizing our "total conscious self" helps in guidance, location and keeping the time frame more localized. 

DAY FIFTEEN  

FRIEND FINDER  

        This is probably one of the more exciting things to do if you really love someone.  Imagine the most spectacular dream you create and then share that with someone who brings your life meaning and joy.  On the other hand, perhaps someone who you want to cheer up and give a gift of your love in ways that words cannot convey.  The potential for pure expression meet's it's self in the light of brilliant thought, and brilliant dreams. 
        For the purpose of shared dreams, move with a lot of understanding that this level of dreaming is a profound way to say I love you to someone as much as it is to make them laugh and smile.  That's what my heart moves with when I want to share a dream.  The freedom of being, the loss of all limits.  This is where you can shine with the skills you have acquired in practicing how to create dreams. 
        Finding someone you love is easy because love brings us close together.  This person can be a friend you care about, or a family member, or the person who lights you life such as a soul mate.  Who ever it is, sending them love and following that love to them is a good way to locate a friend or love one while in a dream. 
        Moving with love and kindness is less likely to trigger a defensive response.  Moreover, it's good to share in the better parts of our lives with the people we care about.  We do that here, so why not do the same in our dreams, where we can extend our feelings and thoughts over time and space.  Your first shared dream should reflect your true desire to share something profound with someone you love.  Have fun with someone who shares the same interests as you both here and in the dream. 
       Both of you, or the group should agree on just trying to meet in a dream for the first run through.  Apply the same techniques we have learned in the first two weeks of dream lessons.  Focus on the lucid dream skills and apply them to sharing dreams as well. 

STAGE ONE  

        We have the Logic Test that we must ask ourselves while standing by the edge of the bed. 

THE LOGIC TEST  

What is my name? 
What is the Date? 
What is my Phone Number? 
What is 2x5?  [Any simple math question] 

THE STANDING AFFIRMATION  

         Like you did in week two stand and make a mental map of yourself as a waking conscious you.  Impress that this is how you will be and feel in a lucid dream.  Tell yourself aloud, or in your mind, 
 
        "I am going to bed for the purpose of having a lucid shared dream.  I know that I do dream. 
         I am allowing myself as my waking consciousness to enter a dream with all my logical faculties. 
         I will consciously, willingly dream with full knowing that this is my desire, my intent, my will to 
         do so in a fully lucid, conscious and clear state of mind." 

        "I will be as I am now here in Waking Physical Reality with my full mental abilities needed to 
         observe, record and remember as clearly as I do now, but this time, I will use these natural 
         tools in this lucid shared dream." 
 
WHILE IN BED  

Prepare yourself with a final affirmation: - 

          "I am clear, fully awake, fully aware.  My intent is to have a clear lucid shared dream where 
           I will be as I am now in my waking state, with full mental abilities to recall my logical quiz and 
           my intent as well as to have full clear memory my dreamed of experience.  I will willingly, 
           knowingly, allow myself to share my dreams with my desired friend(s).  When I awake, I will 
           remember my dream in full, clear and vivid detail.  I am in bed; my body will fall comfortably, 
           deeply asleep, as I will remain awake and alert enough to enter the dream consciously.  I 
           know that I will be dreaming.  " 

INTENT: - "I am allowing myself to share a lucid dream with my desired friend(s).  I will allow my 
                    total conscious self to locate and guide me to my friend(s)." 

SAFTEY NET: - "Should I fall unconscious for any reason during this sleeping phase.  I will 
                             suddenly wake up in the dream and realize that I am dreaming with my full waking 
                             self." 

STAGE TWO  

        The hypnogogic territories should be very familiar to you.  Working with these levels progressively will make each journey easier. 

STAGE THREE  

        Recall your logical test to gauge how conscious you are, recall your intent and just stretch out with your feelings towards your friend.  Let the feelings guide you to them.  Let go, move with your total conscious self. 

STAGE FOUR  

QUESTIONAIRE  

1.) How long do you estimate it took before you fell asleep? 
2.) Did you notice any hypnogogic effects? 
     a.) Color, images, flashes of light?  Please Describe. 
     b.) Faint sounds, music, noise?  Please Describe. 
     c.) Vibrations, physical sensations?  Please Describe. 
     d.) Did your thoughts change to abstract thoughts?  Please Describe. 
     e.) You don't remember you just fell deep asleep?  Yes / No 
3.) Give a small detailed list of what you can remember before falling asleep: 
4.) Did you have an intent before sleeping?  Yes/No 
5.) What was that intent? 
6.) Did you remember dreaming?  Yes/No 
7.) Were you Lucid in the dream?  Yes/No 
8.) Did you recall your logical test?  Yes/No 
9.) Did you dream your desired intent?  Please write down your desired intent. 
10.) Do you feel that you shared this dream?  Yes/No 
11.) Please describe in as much detail what you recall of your dream. 
12.) Did you manage to verify this dream with your friend?  Yes/No 
 
DAY SIXTEEN  

MEETING AT A DESIGNATED MEETING PLACE 
 
       Setting up a designated place to meet is a fun opportunity to organize your dream schedule with another person or group.  Make the location a familiar place to you all.  Try a Mall, Movie Theater, or a natural park.  This place must be agreed on and then visualized and sought out while you are in a dreamstate.  Like any navigation, just focus on the spot and either fly/teleport/walk or phase there.  Your mode of travel will relate to how you perceive your ability to move through these states. 

STAGE ONE  

       The same procedure as in Day Fifteen.  Replace the old intent with the new one. 
 
INTENT: - "I am allowing myself to meet with my dream group at [designated place].  When I recall 
                     this intent, I will effortlessly, easily move to that location and observe the meeting." 

STAGE TWO  

       Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

       Recall your logical test and your intent.  Travel to the meeting place and join or wait for your friends. 

STAGE FOUR  

       Use the same questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained. 

DAY SEVENTEEN  

CREATING IN A SHARED DREAM  

        If you are starting to have success with your friend and/or dream group.  Then try to create things like objects, music, art and see if the other people can observe the desired changes.  Take your time, communicate with one another and practice simple dream control techniques to achieve this.  Dreaming is an art form that does take practice, and the only way to practice efficiently is to lucid dream regularly.  All these exercise will build layer by layer a foundation of experience, which you can draw upon for any possible future dreamed experience. 

STAGE ONE  

       Same procedure as in day Fifteen.  Replace the old INTENT with the following: 

INTENT: -  "I am allowing myself to meet with [desired friend/group].  We will share creative 
                     control of the dream, and create an object or music or effect in the dream." 

STAGE TWO  

        Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

          Recall your logical test and your intent.  Travel to the meeting place and join or wait for your friends. 

STAGE FOUR  

         Use the same questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained. 

DAY EIGHTEEN  

EXPLORING THE DREAMSTATE AS A GROUP  

       At this point, have the group become more adventurous and start to examine and explore the dreamstate as a group to pick out various details and events.  Compare all the data to understand what is accurate or what is inconsistent.  Like Hypnogogia, dream information can be distorted and hard to clear see at times.  Practice, patients and lucid exploration is all you need to help understand these states further. 

STAGE ONE  

      Same procedure as in day Fifteen.  Replace the old INTENT with the following 

INTENT: -  "I am allowing myself to meet with [desired friend/group].  Our group purpose will be 
                     to explore the dreamstate as a group." 

STAGE TWO  

       Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

        Recall your logical test and your intent.  Travel to the meeting place and join or wait for your friends. 

STAGE FOUR  

        Use the same Questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained. 

DAY NINETEEN  

CREATING A DREAM NETWORK MEETING PLACE  

        At this point, we are going to work together to build a location in the dreaming spheres where dreamers around the world can go and meet to share dreams.  This location is something we will all focus on creating and going to.  The major focus is the intent we have to create this location, and agree to meet at this designated place. 
        Since so many of us dream, advancing an order of creatively controlled dream environments where mutual and shared dreaming is possible comes as effortlessly as anything else we create in a dreamstate.  I like to think of this as a type of "human dream reality" that those taking the course will create.  We have to queue our attention to the fact we all will be creating this location.  In addition, we all have to agree to share this location unconditionally with any other dreamer. 
        The purpose of having it is just to organize ourselves more as we advance forward to more exciting levels of social dreaming.  The idea that we can use thought, as the very basis of reality construction should be a fun explorative journey of a synchronized group of lucid dreamers.  We will attempt to create this location at the most advanced, highest level we can go as a lucid dreaming consciousness.  The reason for this is to insure that we are using the most advanced parts of our creative abilities while in a shared dreaming environment. 
        My envision of this has been a the start of a small town with a surreal dreamscape with big signs indicating that this is created by dreamers for dreamers.  We'll call the town, "Lucid Metro", since we want to be lucid when we are there, as well as create a town to grow and add too.  Make sure to be social, and ask names, telephone numbers and locations of people to see if you can link up with people from all over the world participating in shared dreaming. 
        The whole goal is to create a worldwide meeting place that is unbiased, strictly for shared dreaming and meeting people.  From this point, create a special house, apartment or office building for yourself.  If you are a dream group, create an agreed dream agency, or network building.  Be creative and let's see if others can find you and observe your creative handy work.  Most importantly, have fun. 

STAGE ONE  

        Same procedure as in day Fifteen.  Replace the old INTENT with the following 

INTENT: -  "I am allowing myself to go to "Lucid Metro", a mutual shared dream meeting places 
                     that I am allowing my total consciousness to organize, meet, and share my creative 
                     potential with other dreamers.  While there I will meet with my friends or group and 
                     create a special building for myself to return to." 

STAGE TWO  

        Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

        Recall your logical test and your intent.  Travel to the meeting place and join or wait for your friends. 

STAGE FOUR  

       Use the same questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained. 

DAY TWENTY  

RETURNING TO "LUCID METRO". 

        The whole vision of this new dream-villa is to help us all organize ourselves as creative intelligence to help other people share in the exciting avenues of our dynamic, multi-dimensional consciousness.  Organization, focus and creativity along with love, friendship and an honest sense of adventure and fun will only help others move towards a collective future out side of the normal physical reality we are currently accustomed. 
        Returning to this place will require the some practice, but in general, just knowing we are creating this town helps your super-subconscious self to effortlessly locate and guide you there.  Like any city, we need builders, and hopefully by now you have had some shared dreams that open you to the potential of a more structured, easy to follow routine to help us find friends, family members and perhaps new dreamers to share ideas, thoughts and experience with. 

STAGE ONE  

       Same procedure as in day Fifteen.  Replace the old INTENT with the following 
 

INTENT: -  "I am allowing myself to return to "Lucid Metro", a designated mutual dreaming 
                     location, which others and I are creating. 

STAGE TWO  

      Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

       Recall your logical test and your intent.  Travel to the meeting place and join or wait for your friends. 

STAGE FOUR  

        Use the same questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained. 

DAY TWENTY-ONE  

WORKING AT THE MUTUAL SHARED DREAM NETWORK STATION 

        This is the last day of the "Shared Dreaming" section of this course.  I want to invite you to help me create a Mutual Shared Dream Network Station in the heart of Lucid Metro.  We will all have successfully created this dream-based reality.  I have no doubts that we will.  We can start to organize even more by creating a network station, which I envision as a great storehouse of offices and computers.  The purpose is to work at a more professional level as we get better at dreaming and create resources that other people can access while in this network station. 
        I want to try and hold meetings, carry out research projects and a variety of other events with people who are working hard to uncover more of the mystery behind our ability to share dreams.  It's a good place to set up professional offices, work with other dreamers and compare notes.  Treat it as the heart of our information database.  Perhaps one day we will have universities, libraries and other faculties in this town for everyone to learn and grow from at an accelerated organized level. 
       When you are at the MSDNS, focus on it being a very structured, organized, informational building.  I will create my office here so you can seek me out.  We have a lot of time to build our dream city, so let's have fun and be orderly in its construction. 

STAGE ONE  

         Same procedure as in day Fifteen.  Replace the old INTENT with the following 

INTENT: -  "I am allowing myself to return to "Lucid Metro", our mutual dream city which others 
                     and myself are creating.  I will then travel to the Mutual Shared Dream Network 
                     Station, where I will add my knowledge/intelligence/scientific knowing/intuition/love for 
                     dreams and shared dreams to the MSDNS database.  I can set up an office, 
                     and attend mutual shared dream meetings if I desire." 

STAGE TWO  
  
           Continue to consciously pass through the hypnogogic territories to the lucid dream state. 

STAGE THREE  

           Recall your logical test and your intent. 

STAGE FOUR  

           Use the same questionnaire as in Day Fifteen.  Later, compare the notes with your friends who are also participating and taking notes to see if any shared or mutual information is obtained.