A4 - Sunday, December 18, 1983 - North Shore News GLORIA SAMPSON is one of those who bring the Christmas spirit to the s streets with her store-front paintings. And she’ s no dummy either — she knows where the holiday money is. She specializes in airports and banks, such as the Bank of Nova Scotia, pictured above. my own dreams? So | fetched a notebook and told myself sternly, just before going to. sleep. ‘**Dream Ike mad and as soon as you wake up, write it all down.’’ Well, the first night, nothing happened. The second night, nothing happened On the third mght, | woke up clutching a fragment of some cpic story that had thundered through my mind while 1] slept) It was just a hint, totally incompre- hensiblic After ao week of this, however, | was having to spend hours in the morning frantically scribbling one towcring, surrealistic drama after another down tn my notebook After two weeks, | had so much matenial, | didn't know what to do with i 1 didn't was teahize then, apparcnily a dream researcher” Believe tt or not, that’s the latest fad sweeping the US) There are dream octworks, dream com muntty workshops, cven dream clubs) Phe Assouation for the Study of Dreams os planning o first international convention inp San tn dune of 1984 In the — last but | Proncer Prancisce ycart market books have appeared with tithes lthe Living Dreams, by Grayle Delancey The Dream (rame by Anu bharaday and € reuative TASS Vorur Strictly personal by Bob Hunter Such stuff as dreams MANY YEARS AGO, while writing a novel, | decided I needed a dream sequence. What better way to get some authentic stuff than to check out Dreaming by Gar field According to Mare Barasch, writing in New Age Journal, ‘‘informal dream groups — some with trained leaders, others just friends and neighbors — are pro. liferating like mushrooms after a spring rain.”’ It’s seldom possible to real- ly pin down a trend or fad, and in the case of dreams, it would be futile to point to any one cause to explain the sudden popular interest Dreams, after all, have been used throughout history for a vanety of purposes The ancient Grecks at one point had no fewer than 400 dream temples where oracics were employed, basically, to remember their dreams The six tribes of the bro quots Federation all had for malized dream rituals = In Europe, of course, dreams were viewed with suspicion for a long time because the medieval church considered them the work of the devil tt wasn't until Sigmund Freud published On The In terpretation of Dreams that the whirlwind activities that go on tn minds during the tume we sleep came back into Patricia the light of day and cven then all Ereud = cdhd was teplace the Devil with the id a child the superego secthing with repressed urges The drcams current approach to which ts sparking all the interest, is to view them as direct channels of com- munication with the bottom- most layers of your psyche. Yet instead of seeking out a psychiatrist to tell you what it all means, you are advised to beware of anybody else’s interpretation. As one enthusiast puts it, ‘‘dreams are a_ readily available altered state of con- sciousness which needs no intervention from a guru, no mind - altering drugs, no ex- cessive training, no dogma.”’ Best of all, dreams are delivered in a private code. At home, I have a routine with my family whereby, at breakfast, we exchange reports on the night’s dream activity. It is astonishing how often we will have had parallel dreams. For in- stance, I'l] dream that our lit- tle boy is lost and he'll wake up complaining bitterly that we left him behind somewhere. It is quite common for us to remember two or three dreams every night in con- siderable detail. Why bother? Well, for one thing, it gives us something infinitely more personal to talk about than the bank rate or the latest in- vasion or strike or threat of war. And it keeps a sense of the mysterious alive, part of our everyday life. I’m not sure you can readily understand what ‘‘awake’’ means until you understand what being asiecp 1s all about.... Call Classified 986-62222 UNUSUAL CHRISTMAS IDEAS “Large Setection *Heasonable Prices “Knowledgeable Stat Meniber Antiquarian Bookseliers Anson Of (Canada Pacific Books 1136 Lonsdale North Vancouver 880-2121 throughout the year CALL IKE FOR APPOINTMENT WE ALSO SERVICE DOMESTIC CARS 1188 W 1t6th St PuUZOLT PAOK