The Virtual Dream Ball

Host, Linda Lane Magallón/Caseyflyer

Host DJ, Mary Whitefeather

2006 IASD Psiberdreaming Conference

Sending of the Secret Dream Tune: Saturday night, September 30, 11:00 P.M. PDT.

Final deadline to post dreams: Sunday, October 1st, 12 Noon, PDT.

Reveal of the Secret Dream Tune: 1 o'clock P.M., PDT.

 This way to the Ballroom.

Dream Report Format

Dream Report Format

1. Your name (or username)

2. Costume (whatever you selected before you went to sleep and/or what you actually wore in the dream)

3. Tune (music, lyrics or rhythmic noises, sensations and movements in your dream)

4. Short title for the dream and date (you can also number dreams if you have more than one)

5. The dream report

6. Any comments

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The Costumes

The Virtual Dream Ball is inspired by the Dream Ball that has been a vital part of every IASD conference since 1985. At the waking state Dream Ball, folks wear original costumes that they create themselves. The costumes can depict favorite dreams, dream characters or dream types (such as a "colorful" dream or a "flying" dream).

Likewise, you are encouraged to don a costume for the Virtual Dream Ball. (See Incubation Tips on how to do that.) Please remember that this is a social occasion, so be kind when you make your selection. You don't want give your fellow dreamers nightmares! There's a chance that some of the other participants might see your costume in their dreams. And vice versa.

The Secret Tune

At the annual Dream Ball there's always contemporary music ('60's to the present) for lively dancing. Similarly, the Virtual Dream Ball has a clairaudient target: an mp3 file that our host DJ will be listening to and "sending" on Saturday night. Keep your psychic ears open. The music or lyrics might show up in your dreams.

You may know Mary Whitefeather from the "Drumming Into Dreaming Summer Solstice" at this year's Bridgewater conference. She's had so much experience as a DJ, she's been known as "Musical Mary." Mary has selected a tune just right for the Dream Ball. Or rather, her dreaming self did, because when time came to pick it, she woke with the tune in her head!

Dreaming Ahead of Time

What if you suspect you'll have such a busy weekend that it might interfere with dream recall on Sunday morning? No problem. You can deliberately incubate your dream ahead of time.

Often participants will get spontaneous dreams before the "official" dream date. It seems their dreaming selves just can't wait to go to the Ball! Why should they? They exist where it's already happening now. In the dream state, time and space are very loose ­ and must be for any dreampsi to occur. No matter whether your Ball Dream is spontaneous or incubated, if you have one before Saturday, go ahead and post it.

Incubation Tips

Give yourself some quiet time just before sleep. If you have any pressing concerns or distracting thoughts, acknowledge them, promise you'll get back to them after a good night's sleep, then tuck them into their own beds and say goodnight.

Imagine yourself at the Ball, enjoying friends, dancing to music and saying hello to our host DJ, Mary Whitefeather. After this dress rehearsal, let the images fade.

Visualize yourself in your Dream Ball costume as if you were in a spotlight surrounded by quiet darkness. Hold the image brightly in your mind for a minute or two. This picture is the gift you'll be bringing to the Ball.

Create a phrase like "Tonight I'm going to the Dream Ball." Concentrate (tighten your energy) while repeating it several times. Then relax and let yourself "go" to the Ball as you fall asleep.

Keep your psychic ears open for Ball music, but don't force yourself to hear something. Let random sounds and images come and go as if they were passing scenery on a train. Gently remind yourself of your true destination one more time

Sleep and dream. Wake and record your dreams.

Is It A Ball Dream?

It's a subtle sense, but social dreams tend to "feel" different than your usual private nighttime reveries. Since a dream ball is upbeat, the very "flavor" or emotional tone can be the key. Visually speaking, there might be many people in your dream. Since we have a clairaudient target, you may hear music, or you could pick up our host DJ, Mary Whitefeather, and what she's doing to broadcast the tune. You might be moving around ­ dancing ­ more than usual. Or maybe it's your personal associations with celebrations. For instance, my social dreams often have plenty of food in them because, at parties, I like to eat!

If you aren't sure, post your dream anyway. You' probably have a new interactive twist to share.

Comments on Connections

While it's true we provide the creative materials with which our dreaming selves can craft our dreams, in the end, they have the final vote. No matter what we might intend, they can present us with artistic productions we never expected. And, of course, such surprises are part of the fun. Dreams might be clairvoyant, clairaudient, precognitive, telepathic, mutual or simply story-like and sociable.

You are free to comment on any aspect of the Virtual Dream Ball. We suggest you read other Dream Ball participants' dreams while looking for connections with your dream or your waking life. When you find any correlations, please post them. If you need clarification from your hosts, just ask us.

What? No Prizes?

Unlike the precognitive and telepathic presentations, the Virtual Dream Ball has no prizes. Why? Because we'd probably have to give prizes to everyone! The types of dreampsi that can occur are many-fold. Plus, whether or not you have some sort of psychic "hit," you can demonstrate stellar non-psi skills, like recall, recording, reporting, incubation or lucid dreaming.

The foremost of these skills is simply the ability to be social. Your participation in the Virtual Dream Ball makes you a winner. Congratulations. I applaud the courage you show in posting your individual dreams on a public board. Thank you.

The History of the Virtual Dream Ball

In 1996, folks who couldn't come to the physical Dream Ball were invited to come in the dream state. I suggested that they "dream ahead" of time so that their dream reports would be ready for display during the conference. This "Magical Mutual Ballroom" project was the very first IASD dream state Ball.

For more information on the 1996 conference and Ball, go here.