bump into friends or dreaming partners on the weave and "dance" together. They result in waking reality change, although the change is not always as trackable as the healing, teaching or oracular dreaming.

Ceremonial Dreaming

When these dreams occur, you appear at a ceremony in the dream realms in order to work with other dreamers to pull something towards manifestation. That something may or may not be recognizable and the other dreamers may or may not be recognizable. In ceremonial dreaming you are "intending" the world. Ceremonial dreaming is a higher octave of the Teaching Dreaming. In these dreams you are using intent.

Intent, in its purest form, does not originate in the individual's personal will. Intent is a force that exists within the Weave with which the dreamer may align. "Intending the world," means aligning yourself with potential, with Great Dreamer, with God, if you will. When you align with intent for dreaming, you're allowing energy to move through you in order to manifest itself in form. Ceremonial Dreaming involves joining with other dreamers to align with intent.

Aligning with the intent of ceremony is not something that you "do." It's something that you "become." You simply allow your doingness and your personal will to fall away, so that the ceremony is choreographing you. Pay attention to these dreams, and you'll see what I mean.

Shamanic Dreaming

The shaman lives (literally and metaphorically) at the edge of the village -- at the edge of consciousness, if you will -- not quite a part of the social structure, not quite a part of the jungle. The shaman bridges between the universes, living in the world but not of it. Shamanic dreaming involves journeying into the other worlds in search of information for someone else's healing. These are the shape shifting dreams, the underworld dreams, the dreams in which the dreamer's frame of reference changes almost entirely

In these dreams the dreamer communicates with the dead people, with the ancestors, with the fairies, with the animals, or with the angels. They always involve direct communication with realms which are usually inaccessible. The information is for the purpose of healing the planet or the circle or the client. If the dreamer needs healing, another type of dream energy is evoked.

Shamanic dreaming is rare. It demands special circumstances, and it requires a very sophisticated sensitivity.

Phenomenal Dreaming

Phenomenal dreaming breaks the laws of the physical world in some kind of synchronistic way. Of course, we break the laws of the world all the time in dreaming, but not many of those constitute phenomenal dreaming. When there is synchronistic, serendipitous, waking reality aspect to the dream, it is phenomenal.

In phenomenal dreams, you visit parallel universes, and then something in waking reality mirrors that experience to you. The synchronistic element, the waking world feedback, is the key.

Phenomenal dreams are different from telepathic or clairvoyant dreams because the dreamer actually effects the change. They are not prophetic, because they are in present time, they are synchronistic. They are literally dreams in which the veils between waking and sleeping disappear.

Soul Dreaming

The soul dream occurs under unusual circumstances, like life threatening illness or the death of a loved one. These dreams often have no story line but involve vivid color, sound, geometric shape, and/or intense sensation. The dreamer awakens from the sacred dream with a stronger sense of her incarnational purpose. Sometimes there is exact information, sometimes it is just a knowingness. She has peeked at her soul contract!

The neon tornado dream at the beginning of this teaching could certainly be defined as a Soul Dream. The pneumonia in my lungs created a rather interesting state of consciousness. In one sense I was in full time meditation because each and every breath was my main point of focus. I was aware primarily of the need to breathe slowly and evenly in order to prevent a coughing spasm. This slow easy breath evoked the neon tornado -- and the tornado moved directly into my womb, my knowing space, my dreaming vessel. I awoke with the teaching of the 13 types of dreaming.