Fill out the online survey form on computer dreams:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/computers/computerdreams.htm

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Special Section : C.O.M.P.U.T.E.R D.R.E.A.M.S

Digital Dreaming: Emergence or Replacement Imagery?
Richard Wilkerson

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Included below is the collection of computer dreams sent into Electric Dreams and DreamGate from February 14 to March 15 of 2001. These dreams arrived through several channels, though most came from the online survey page at
http://www.dreamgate.com/computers/
The study is still active. Please fill out the form.

You will also find previous collections of computer dreams on that site.

Note to researchers: If you need statistics for these dreams, the raw data is available from Richard Wilkerson. This study includes: Dreamers age, state, country, sex, marital status, Dream plus title, date and pen-name, religious beliefs, political beliefs, perceptions of most important issues today, how they spend their time on the computer [ranked, 1-5], hours spent on the pc, personal rating of quality of time, how often they recall dreams, favorite dreams, comments, permission to publish.
The data samples in this article here can be referenced as
Wilkerson, Richard C. (2001). DreamGate.com Computer Survey 2 :: 02/14/2001 - 3/15/2001. DreamGate Publishing: San Francisco, CA

Here is the suggested reference for this article:

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 June). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer Dreams VI :: Digital Dreaming: Emergence or Replacement Imagery? Electric Dreams 8(6). Retrieved May 26, 2001 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams

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Emergence or Replacement Imagery?

As our culture shifted from horse and buggy to Ford and Chevy, our dreams shifted as well. People didn't stop dreaming about horses and buggies, but the frequency of the older vehicles dropped as the newer vehicles replaced them. Was this just a simple issue of vehicular substitution, or do dream cars function psychologically in ways that horses and buggies never did? This question is now being raised in this preliminary study of Computer Dreams for computers and the Digital Revolution in general, as well as for the new mixes and interfaces between human and machine, such as cyborgs, implants, prosthesis, transplants and a host of other robotic/human mixes.

Outside of Jung's exploration of the emergence of Flying Saucers as a contemporary symbol of the Self, (1) I am not familiar with any content analysis studies at this time exploring the issues of symbolic dream evolution. But we can posit some general assumptions. At the most abstract levels, the symbols of cars vs horses may operate in similar ways. Simple equations such as losing one's breaks in car and losing control of the horses in a buggy are bound to elicit similar reactions of fear in the dreamers. Or put in a more associational context, abstracting the loss of vehicular control constellates a set of relations that will be similar in each case, such as fears of death and damage to oneself and others, fear of loss of control in general, heroic and creative attempts, successes and failures to re-gain control, abandoning control issues altogether, and so on.

From the viewpoint of a critical theory, we can also make the assumption that those who do interpret either their own or other's dreams will apply similar abstract categories to either automobiles or horses and buggies. That is, an interpreter can be expected to look for a familiar abstract category such as vehicles, means of conveyance, control of destiny, control of oneself and other such abstract categories which are suggested by, and then applied to the dream image.

A question arises here whether the dream image can supply a new abstract category (can function psychologically in a novel way) or whether the dream image is forever condemned to conforming to categories the dreamer or interpreter has prior to the interpretation, prior to the assigning of the image to category. It may seem that this question would be beyond the dream as categories are usually developed before the dream and applied to a dream from the outside. But dreamwork has never been so dogmatic, at least not in its best applications and uses. Dreamworkers often emerge from an encounter with a dream image with a new category, a new perspective, a new viewpoint, a new psychological structure or attitude, a new sense. This occurs even when at the beginning of the dreamwork, old and common categories are initially assigned.

We now have three worlds or realms that are being juggled. The first is the realm of content. Usually this is referred to as the empirical, concrete realm of the dream objects. [To be truly empirical, it is the recorded dream texts in this study, but let's not split hairs yet]
The second realm includes the way these dreams are expressed, the way they are recalled, recorded, retold, as well as the way they are interpreted and otherwise encountered. The third realm consists of the relations of the first two to one another and to other content/expressions which they envelope or are enveloped by in subsequent encounters.

This leads to a reformulation of the original question about dream and computers. Originally we asked whether computer dreams were simply replacing some earlier image the way cars replaced horses, or whether there was something more fundamental occurring which would produce a new category. This question became problematic right away, even with the simplistic car/horse as means of travel analogy.

Further, unlike the horse/car exchange, computers serve several functions. They "replace" (at least time-use wise) telephones, televisions, typewriters, magazines, newspapers, records and CD's, tape recorders, clocks, billboards, calendars, cameras, videos and more.

This is even further complicated by the way the computer invests itself in the very structure of these other functions and objects that were once analog, converting them all over to digital. The digital revolution is not just much about having new weird objects in your house that are hard to use, but rather in the massive change in the infrastructure of culture and cultural products. Conversion to digital is not swapping an analog clock for a digital clock, but the creation of a digital plane of being. In a sense, the Digital Revolution is somewhat like a virus itself, which invades analog production and reproduces itself within the old analog objects and processes, replacing all analog functions with digital processes. And along the way, new processes are discovered that were not possible with analog functioning, the most important right now being that digital reproduction can be exact, collapsing or imploding the map into the territory, the copy with the original. With analog production, there was often the attempt to exactly reproduce the original, but with digital production, their is no difference between the copy and the original, thus imploding the whole concept of originality. As Baudrillard (2) has noted, we begin to drift from dealing with objects to maps of objects, from reality to simulations of reality.

Thus there are two significant complications with computer dream images and the investigation of novel categories. The first is that we can look at computers as not being in any previous category and not replacing anything that came before it, or we can view computers as replacing all things that came before it, all culture products and processes, including the concept of category itself. There is its novel aspect, and its viral aspect.

In the novel-object aspect, the car/horse analogy is shown as incorrect. Attempting to say that cars replacing horses is like computers replacing X would be a fallacy of Orders. A more fair analogy than cars vs horses would be something like mechanical engines replacing animals. The Digital Revolution is more akin to the something like the Industrial Revolution. A comparable dream study in history will have to be something like the replacement of animal dreams with machine dreams. The horse and car would simple be one example of this larger process at work.

In its viral aspect, the Digital Revolution is more akin to the Neolithic Revolution. Not only is there a change in the materials that make up the cultural objects, but also a whole new set of cultural objects. The cultivation of plants and animals is akin to the cultivation of information. Fields of information are now cultivated and circulated and exchanged. Just as stone objects give way to metal objects, analog objects give way to digital objects. Sometimes it is the same bowl, but the substance it is made of will dramatically alter the society that uses it.

Computers as symbols, as engines of psychological production, will tend to both mimic in dreams their daytime uses, and to go far beyond these uses. We can see this in computer dreams where people fall into their computer monitors like Alice through the Looking Glass (3) or where the computer becomes a flying carpet that takes the dreamer to distant lands. Although there are binary dynamics at work in animal biology, by the time the dream is formed, these digital codes probably have little to do with the dream's content. Still, simulations of digital functions continue to operate at the level of the dream.

And so an interesting collision of forces appear in the computer dream, those forces which will attempt to simulate digital computer operations as they exist in the waking world, and those which attempt to give other expressions to the dream computer. The results are themselves a human-machine mix, which is bound to differ from either and produce novel processes, to produce breaks into the flow of each of the previous processes and open new planes across which these symbolic cyborgs will exist.

References:
(1) Jung, C. G. (1978/1964). Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. (RFC Hull, trans). Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.

(2) Baudrillard, Jean (1983). Simulations. Semiotext(e):New York, NY

(3) Wilkerson, Richard C. (2001). DreamGate.com Computer Survey 2 :: 02/14/2001 - 3/15/2001. DreamGate Publishing: San Francisco, CA

THE DREAMS ------------------------

http://www.dreamgate.com/computers

NOTE: Dream texts are given before name and date.

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:58:40 EST ------

Dreamers Computer Dream = Back in the rah-rah days of the startup I worked at, I frequently had dreams where I would be going about in some normal way; when all of a sudden, windows would pop up: IM windows, application windows, notepad would pop up with html written on it, etc. It was crazy! Invariably at the end of these dreams, my teeth would fall out. This happened quite a few times...and didn't leave me with an altogether great feeling.

Other, better, computer dreams mainly consisted of me actually being inside a computer network, but on the client side. So I could literally push pixels around a screen, and I could physically go to websites and do things and such. These were better because I felt more free and more creative throughout the dream.

I've also had dreams where I saw html or pictures and such...or thought of solutions to various problems I was encountering while building and maintaining a site.
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Dream Title = poorbob dreams
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I remember a dream I had about a chat room. It was my first experience and I was verbally assaulted. I was shocked. I immediately got off. It involved sucking a certain part of the male anatomy. I told my husband, and he said "never go there again", of course I didn't listen.
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Dream Title = My cyber experience.
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Dream date = 1996
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I remember a dream I had about a chat room. It was my first experience and I was verbally assaulted. I was shocked. I immediately got off. It involved sucking a certain part of the male anatomy. I told my husband, and he said "never go there again", of course I didn't listen.
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Dream Title = My cyber experience.
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Dream date = 1996
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I recall having dreams where I would be instant messaging my now ex-boyfriend and he would try to answer but it would keep getting stuck and all these pop - up boxes would show up.
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Dream Title = IM Interferance
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Dream date = about 1 month ago
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Dreamers name = britty80
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i had a dream once that i was using a messenger service in red ink but i was talking to someone that i didn't know. They were a stalker or something and were threatening to kill me. all of the words kept running down like blood on a mirror. i heard a knock at the door. so i answered it. they told me that they were the stalker. they pulled out a knife and blood was dripping off of it and i woke up.
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Dream Title = stalker
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Dream date = 2-15-01
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = the systems were going down at work. I was frantically rushing about trying to discover the problem. No-one would listen to any of the souloutions I had. My g-friend said that in real life I was muttering computer codes in my sleep.
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Dream Title = Chaos
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Dream date = recurring
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i was with a friend in my room and he wanted to watch t.v. on my computer.... I wanted to ask the computer a question because I had the game taipei on it and it gives a fortune at the end when you win. We use to play the game when we were younger...
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Dream Title = fortune
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Dream date = last week
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I am a data analyst at a large company [no, really, I am] and in my dream I am working, but I am the computer even as I am typing at the keyboard, it is as though I am entering the data into my own head. I feel powerful, and alarmingly fast. Everything goes faster and faster, but everything around me is slowing down.
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Dream Title = Intraday
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Dream date = I've had it several times, most recently feb '01
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i dreamt that someone had sent a virus to my Napster program, and it was big lion that ate my songs, and it was terribly upsetting because i have dial up and it takes forever, and every time the lion ate a song it roared a bunch of times and this message would flash on saying
" didn't you finish high school? why cant you stop the virus?" and the lion would keep eating my songs.
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Dream Title = Lion Virus
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Dream date = February 20th 2001
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i dreamt that i married a key board put it looked like a computer and our kid was a mouse pad
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Dream Title = computers are bad at sex
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Dream date = last night
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = A few months ago: I was looking at a guys website. He had done it in FLASH. I was looking at it to get ideas for my own site. There were two layouts on his page you could choose from. The layouts were on the same page...and now I can't remember what the difference was. That's all that I remember now.
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Dream Title = FLASH design
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Dream date = about two months ago..so, in December 2000
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = In my dream, my computer basically started making insane booping noises while I lay in bed trying to sleep (in the dream), which scared me for some reason, and then it escalated until the computer was jumping up and down and screaming Satanic references at me, asking me to "Submit" to it. It was a very scary realistic dream, and I felt like I was awake, because it all took place right in my room. Then there was fire outside my door apparently caused by the evil computer, and my parents running away from it, and the computer continued to jump up and down making strange noises, so I threw a rock at it (non-descript, I don't think I could see it, I just felt for it). For some reason, throwing the rock was a gesture of submission to it, and so I was defeated by that action somehow. Then I woke up. I keep my rock collection beside me bed, and in the morning, I discovered the rock I had "thrown at the evil computer" laying beside my computer, so I guess!
s I must have been doing things in my sleep. Oh, and colors were mostly black and gray, because it was dark in my room, except the fire was brilliant red and orange, and I think the computer had a reddish glow surrounding it, but this is an old dream, so I may be wrong.
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Dream Title = psychotic computer
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Dream date = a few years ago
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I was sitting at a desk not normally used for a computer in my house and wondered about the strange shape, A year later Apple came out with the iMac series but it still was not right as the machine I saw was white. In October of this year my wife bought the Snow version of the machine and set it up on the desk. There it was...

In the next dream I had we were working on a bunch of computers, trying to get them up and running again. The screen was activated by touch on the bottom of the screen, BY THUMB ONLY, as fingers did nothing. To even see the activating icon, one had to (look through the machine as one does on the prints that have images buried in them and do not look like pictures at all. These machines seemed to be voice activated after the icon was found. There was no keyboard...

There were no new machines being built after the severe geophysical changes we were fighting... only the salvage of what we had left intact.
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Dream Title = Mobius Dreams (computers)
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Dream date = Both were within a year of 1997, both the same week
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I was in bed with my laptop computer. Chatting in a city chat on MSN. My instructor was in the room. He was wearing on neon blue shirt. The blue was the color of blue that looks like it had 10 cups of coffee.
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Dream Title = neon blue shirt
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Dream date = December 2000
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = Being assmilated by the borg, then being liberated from their collective mind but retaining all advanced features the borg offer.
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Dream Title = Being assimilated
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Dream date = 1/25/01
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I think this dream was precipitated because of my work pager; it went off, and I woke up briefly to shut it off, then went back to sleep. When I started dreaming, I was at work. I was inside my cubicle, standing up. I looked all around me, and everything in my cubicle was inside out. The computer monitor was inside out, the keyboard was inside out, the computer was inside out. A terminal server normally sitting on the floor is sitting on my desk, with all the components normally on the inside on the outside.

Then, quite suddenly, there's a square table inside my cubicle, with people sitting all around it. I don't recognize any of the people. And I suddenly realize there's no enterance to the cubicle anymore. Two people walk up; My boss's boss's boss, and a person directly underneath him in the scheme of things. Neither of them say anything, but they stand just outside my cubicle and stare at me.

None of the person sitting at the table say anything at all. They stare at me with absolutely no expressions on their faces. I look down at the ground, then at my body, then back down at the ground again. I get the oddest feeling something isn't right in the world, and a doorway opens up in the cubicle wall, and I walk out into the walkway. Every where I walk, people just stand (or sit) and stare at me.

The feeling I just experienced comes back again, and I mutter to myself, "I'm dreaming, aren't I?" It's the only rational explanation for everything that's going on; so I ask myself, "How can I prove to myself I'm dreaming?"

I tentatively lift up my right foot, and I place it in the air approx. six inches off of the ground, and I do the same for my left foot. I'm suddenly standing on air, and I feel a rushing exhaltation from the discovery of me being asleep and dreaming. I suddenly get a huge grin on my face, and I can't stop laughing. Everyone continues to stare at me. I ignore everyone, and start flying around the building at blinding speeds. The dream turns very sexual for a brief moment when a lovely young lady in a red dress shows up, but then I quite suddenly wake up.

This was my first and only lucid dreaming experience. I very rarely dream of computers at all, which is suprising given I work with them every single day. This is probably the only dream I've ever had (which I remember) about computers.
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Dream Title = Lucid dream at work
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Dream date = 2/29/2000
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = Sometimes I dream I am part robot. Basically I can use the phone line or
my computer without touching them. I think this is just the result of being lazy and using
the phone and my computer too much.
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Dream Title = At night I am a lazy mobile phone.
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Dream date = common.
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I dreamed I got a message from my daughter's school, that it was urgent I call there. I dialed the number, couldn't get through; dialed again, no luck. Dialed & dialed, no luck. Suddenly:

WHOOSH! Wow-- where am I? What is this place? Everything is pink and white here, a pink sky with white puffy clouds, a tiny bit of orange too... it's rather sunsettish here. This "sky" is all around me, even below my feet... Oh, and I'm floating effortlessly, suspended in mid- air, weightless hehe! This is wonderful!

And what is this in front of me... icons? Yes... rows and rows of them. Icons of folders and other things... Oh, I get it! I have entered someone's computer program! That's what this is. This pink sunset is someone's "background," and I have simply entered his webpage. Yes, it's a "him," all right; I sense him. I think he's working on the page right now, in fact. But he doesn't know I'm here.

Oh here we go, switching to something else now... poetry? No, maybe not... song lyrics? Yes, it looks like song lyrics. Oh, and there's a picture-- a young woman. Oh, haha! I see, this guy has created a web page in honor of this woman he's in love with. Or rather infatuated with, as he barely knows her. But he has quite the crush. These lyrics-- oh my! And there are some words of her! He has plastered her words everywhere. He can't get enough of reading her words. And these colors he's chosen for this cyberspace "background", the pink & white, little bit of orange... very romantic. I have basically walked into his secret shrine.

Hmm... secret, yes. I'm feeling embarrassed now. I shouldn't be here. This is terribly private, and I am an intruder. I should be leaving.

Oh-- oh my gosh! It's an oversized cartoon character, popping/ floating right up in front of me, haha! I guess this guy must like cartoon characters too. Maybe. Wow, that was soooo realistic! Hard to believe I'm only dreaming. I'm in a simulated environment, but wow, how real it seems. I'm bobbing up and down in this limitless pink cyberspace, no ground below me, moving only by the direction of my will.

Oh, there's something else off in the distance, a mere fragment of an image... Oh, this must be something Computer Guy is working on right now, something in its beginning stages.

Gee, I wonder what's behind me... If I were standing on my own 2 feet, on solid earth, I'd be able to easily turn around and look. But floating as I am in this cyberspace, it's not easy to turn around. I must focus my attention, concentrate... turn around... yes, here we go... turning to the right now... I can bob up and down a little... Ah-- here we are! Nothing? Nothing but pink sky and white clouds. Well I guess this proves I'm not on a stage, otherwise I'd see an audience. Well good, it's nice to be able to move in all directions, even if there isn't anything special to see.

I just can't get over how real this is... an excellent simulation. But if a mere dream can seem this real, what then is my waking reality? Could it be a simulation too, a grand illusion?

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When I woke up from this dream I tried to get on the internet to type it up, but wasn't able to. I dialed and dialed and dialed, many times, no luck. I never have any problem connecting to my AOL, but this time I did. It was down for hours, was told it was probably earthquake (Seattle) related. So this dial-up problem was kinda coincidental, considering this was how my virtual world dream started in the first place!

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Dream Title = Pink Sky Virtual World
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Dream date = March 1, 2001, 10:15am PST
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Dreamers name = Adondlei
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Dreamers Computer Dream = The dream consisted of my taking a computer apart and actually repairing it. I spend hours on it when I am awake but if I dream about it, I don't think about other than it was probably just on my mind.
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Dream Title = Asaliah's computer dream
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Dream date = It's been about a month or so
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i had a dream about having a computer in the car, like a lap top. The road was like open and clear,and it was dusk outside. I was driving and I couldn't keep my eyes on the road cuz I was playing with the damn computer. When I like realized that I was still driving, I looked up and we had almost hit something. It was weird.
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Dream Title = Car Computer
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Dream date = dont know.. months ago
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Dreamers name = zerostar182
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i had a dream about having a computer in the car, like a lap top. The road was like open and clear,and it was dusk outside. I was driving and I couldn't keep my eyes on the road cuz I was playing with the damn computer. When I like realized that I was still driving, I looked up and we had almost hit something. It was weird.
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Dream Title = Car Computer
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Dream date = dont know.. months ago
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Dreamers name = zerostar182
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Dreamers Computer Dream = Dream 1: I'm at home, and my mother walks in with a box. She says there are parts for me to build a new computer with. I take a K7 chip, 800mhz, etc... I build it. Then she walks in with another box and asks me to build another one and network them, she doesn't tell me why. I do it. Then with ANOTHER box of parts... finally I have built 3 computers (all K7s) and have networked them all, including my own (k7 700mhz). Now she tells me we have to play Counterstrike... (?) hehe
Dream 2: I'm standing in the CounterStrike map cs_italy, and I have to marry my uncle coz his girlfriend left him, and he wants a marriage so he can get drunk. I tell my mom I DO NOT want to marry my uncle, we get in a fight and I tell her to screw-off. Then I'm walking around in the game map, shooting things.
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Dream Title = CounterStrike dreams
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Dream date = 2 days ago and last night.
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Dreamers name = Syralid
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I used to play an online game called Subspace, it was quite addicting and i played it during all of my free time. i had dreams where i was playing the game, and my eyes hurt in the dreams, just like they do if you stare at a computer screen for too long.
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Dream Title = Subspace dream
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Dream date = 1997-1999
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Dreamers name = fnord
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I (on quite a FEW occassions) have had dreams about talking in a chat room i normally go to. It's usually just me, a friend, and some other people and we are tlaking about something, usually whos a lamer, who deserves to be /kill ed by someone, and who we hate... then somehow my parents showed up in chat and bugged me so i left, and went outside and walked to a bulding, ad once inside i found myself IN the chat sevrer, where i could walk from room to room to room and talk there and set furniture, all my friends were there as themselves and i could hug them and fool around and be myself. Then the prson whom i had a HUGE crush on showed up (net friend, we are bf/gf now), and walked over to me, he said hi.. then my DAD walked in.. "You gotta come back and set the table.." Well, he had to be living in his dreams cause i aint about to walk away from being with the guy i have a crush on, so i told him to go away and he got mad so i ran from room to room to !
room and eventually hit in a room mode +i +s, and +p. My crush showed up (since he was an IRCop) and invited dad in ebcause he kept on bugging everyone and i screamed and ran away, leaving dad there, and John (crush, real name, i love him so..) chased me, nabbed me and cuddled me, as he dragged me to the ultimate hiding spot... the operchannel... where.. strangely, the server admin was tlaking in citrust type of multi-colored text (those pale skittle type colors, light greens, oranges, pinks, yellows). He wrapped his manly, ircoppish arms around me and kissed me...

Turns out he had a crush on me too... now we are a couple, adn wish to meet irl, weve talked on the telephone and all that stuff... he is really sweet... weve left the server that the dream took palce on and now are both ircops on a friends server, which is growing quickly.

-kv
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Dream Title = Chat Building
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Dream date = Mid December, 2000
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Dreamers name = kvarn
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Dreamers Computer Dream = It is all written down in a memoir in storage but the 'gist is as follows:
The entire dream occured in reverse as we comprehend time to be.
It fades in at some point in a "day" out in the open bays of a HUGE warehose in which humans and robotic /yet living and evolved Dinosaurs live and work in semi-co-existance. Be it that there was no utopia it was a "real lifescape" with the twists of a typical day just the oddities of etirely in reverse time wise; and a structural accomidation to the Dinos mobility, very large doors, and walls. These dinos were not ALL cyborged out, but rather a blending of reptilian(in a few cases amphibian and psuedomamailian) dino's with mechanical agmentaions... a broken leg was graphted with a bio-mechanical area as appearently the dinos evlution had "stopped" but the mental evolution didn't hence the self awareness, and socialogical elements of a society and the whole nurture "human" qualities....
it was very cool, just dinamicly odd in the whole Time reversal was understandable yet not....
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Dream Title = Dinobots in reverse
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Dream date = Oh about 10 years ago
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Dreamers name = Electryc_monk
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I was at work, there were several desks, chairs, office equipment, etc. set out on a nice green lawn. People were going about their business as though there was nothing unusual about their location. As I walked through the "office" a panic broke out, the computers were not behaving correctly...as data was being input the output was coming out in the form of punched cards and nobody knew how to read them. We finally tracked down a card reader but then had problems feeding the cards into the reader and ended up putting them in sideways.
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Dream Title = outside office
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Dream date = 3 months ago (DEC. 2000)
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Dreamers name = mzmouze
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I had a dream at one point in time that I was taken into my computer, literally sucked inside of it. My computer was larger than normal, and normally it's very large. I kept seeing Linux commands and text... nothing else. Eventually I felt compelled to leave and I woke up.
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Dream Title = Linux
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Dream date = I don't remember.
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i dreamed that i was in a chat room and i was talking to someone and then i found out that it was a serial killer in prison.i was afraid because i thought that somehow he might be able to find where i am and come after me and kill me.
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Dream Title = serial killers on the net
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Dream date = a week ago
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i dream(ed?) that i was on my friends website posting messages. i like the page alot, since it`s fun and i`ve had dreams about it before. it`s an inernet wrestling thing. i dreamed that i was on it, and he made banners for everyone`s names, and that they all got really wavy and big and came out of the screen at me. then i woke up.
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Dream Title = EHWF
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Dream date = last night(3/9/01)
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i had a dream i was riding a IBM monitor from the 1990's through a field of orange grass and yellow sunflowers. a white unicorn came in and it's tail was made up of red, yellow, blue, and green computer wires. Then a duck came in and was made from a CPU unit from MAC.
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Dream Title =
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Dream date = 9 days before the birth of my baby
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Dreamers name = nerual
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Dreamers Computer Dream = Playing computer games (often, usually text based mud games), dreaming that I need to type "sleep" to sleep, or type "say hello", having drop down menus appear before me. Dreaming of intense swirls of numbers and colours and knowing it was inside the computer. These are often good dreams with little emotional input besides just cruising along in a digitasl world doing similiar dream stuff to other dreams. I do occassionally have a few dreasm where I am frustrated and trying to do something with a typed command or clicking a mouse but cannot get it to work.
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Dream Title = Digital dreaming
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Dream date = Since started getting into IT. 2 years every few months
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = i was inside my computer and all my friends were there but i couldnt see them i could hear them talkin and see their type then i woke up
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Dream Title = where are they
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Dream date = feburary 15 2001
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I was in front of a large building in the parking lot and looked up into the sky. At first it was a UFO that I saw and then it turned into a computer screen that had some sort of windows programming software opened, I think it was Visual C++. It said something on the screen, but I was unable to remember when I woke up.
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Dream Title = Unidentified Flying Monitor
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Dream date = February 28, 2001
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = Shortly after having learned HTML, as I was beginning to get seriously into Web development, I frequently found myself, in my dreams, unable to determine whether the situation that was occurring in the dream was "real life" or was a Web page I was working on. This didn't especially cause me any distress. In the dreams I thought of all kinds of inventive HTML tricks that I could use to tweak the scenery, people, even events in the dream. They weren't always "improvements" - sometimes they were purely experimental, just to see what would happen if I tried this or that.

Sometimes I would also find myself, between waking and sleeping, not wondering "am I awake or asleep" but "is this my bedroom or is it HTML?" :)

My take on all this is that perhaps dreams symbolize life in much the same way that HTML symbolizes the resulting compiled Web page. In a way, it almost seems like "knowing it's only a Web page and tweaking the HTML" was akin to lucid dreaming.

Now that Web design is old hat to me (I make my living doing this now) I don't have these kinds of dreams as often - but occasionally I still do!

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Dream Title = Is it real, or is it HTML?
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Dream date = many times between 1996 and 1999
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Dreamers name = sleepymaggie
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Dreamers Computer Dream = not a full dream, just a vivid image of the top of a Netscape browser from a few years back. the 'Location' bar was being filled with an ever-lengthening URL that was full of random characters and gibberish. it had the feel of one of those pumped-up information superhighway type commercials.
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Dream Title = netscape browser location bar
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Dream date = last night/this morning
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = j ai commancé a rever a messanger les petits bonhomme vert.Tres amusant et en meme temps terrifiant pour mon sphychique ,il semble s integré de plus en plus dans mon spy. les (monitors,chat,programing languages...)Les couleurs sont vive aussi .Mais ,il faut dire aussi que sa ne fait que 3mois que je suis sur l ordinateur. ET je pense bien revenir a mon acienne disipline de comtemplation ,pour nettoyer mon spy.de ces vibration trop electronique comme vous le mensionné
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Dream Title = envaders
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Dream date = frist week
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Dreamers name = jplaniel
Dreamers Computer Dream = First I would like to say that the link that brought me here asked for dreams that included dreams with robots in them, so if this one helps, here it is. If not, sorry.

My best girlfriend and I were out of town. I was traveling with her through a few different cities for about a week while she attended some classes. The first few days of the trip went well. We ended up staying in a little bit of a seedy motel one night. When we woke up I packed up a lot of our stuff, we had a bunch of soda in the 12 pack and case boxes they come in, and some beer. I lined it all up against a wall of the motel room with our suitcases. We packed stuff into the car which I had moved into a spot real close to our room. There was some toilet paper on the driver's side rearview mirror outside with a dried up moldy orange, pieces of one with the rind, attached at one end. We joked about the car being teepeed and my friend took the orange and for some totally unknown reason she actually took a small bite of an edge of the orange. Back in the room, we realized that the door would not lock, it did not even latch fully when it closed. I thought about how lucky!
we were to have slept without being burglarized or killed in our sleep. I tried to engage the deadbolt lock but the doorjamb and the door kept moving, almost like they weren't really attached to the wall that well. Then this robot thing, which came with the room, came over and helped me get the deadbolt engaged. That at least kept the door from being totally insecure. I thanked the robot and was happy that it came in handy for something. It went back and sat down on the floor. She got ready and left for her class, leaving me alone in the room. I looked at the clock and realized it was about 11:30 and check out was 12:00. So I called the manager and asked him if I could stay until about 2, and explained that I was waiting for a friend who would not be back until then or later. He said okay. I told him if the robot needed recharging or something he could have it because I didn't need it. I think it either went to the office itself, because its batteries were dead or !
the manager came and got it. I started to take off my clot!
hes to bathe and took off my pants when the door suddenly opened and I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around my naked lower body. The guy who came into the room was apparently the cleaning person (maid), he had the cart and all. He was quite unkempt and didn't appear to be very clean. I explained to him that he would have to wait, since I got approval to check out late. I had trouble explaining to him, because he was Hispanic I think, but he finally left. I laid the towel down and started to prepare for my shower again when the door was opened again. This time I didn't have time to grab the towel and I yelled, "I'm naked, close the door" or "Get out" or something along those lines. This time the cleaning guy "just wanted to do something real fast" I don't know what. I was trying to cover my naked lower body with my hands and by sort of bending over and backing away from him. I made him leave, but not without difficulty. So then I tried again to bathe when the door op!
ened again and this time it was a handyman, also Hispanic, who was there to fix the door. Before I had a chance to say anything to him, he had the door off of the hinges and struck up a broken English conversation with me. He appeared to be slow (mentally), but was pleasant enough. I still was holding the towel around me as we spoke. Something came on TV about a missing woman, who was presumed dead and they gave a short story about serial killers and their profiles, giving a profile on someone who may have killed the woman, who had the last name of Alvarez, or something close to that. He asked me what they were talking about, and I explained how psychologists were able to "profile" killers and gave him examples of profiles. He was lounging on the floor near the front door, which was now completely gone as was part of the front wall. The cleaning guy then came in and they both left. I was relieved because now I could take a shower, but then they came back with a third g!
uy who I had not seen before, and were saying amongst thems!
elves how the manager of the motel told them he used to date the missing woman and they were all surprised. I, still wrapped waist down in a towel, walked toward the doorway as they entered and they pushed me back in and were obviously planning to rape me. I cried and begged them not to, but the three of them would not let me go. They got me down on a couch and I continued to speak to them trying to talk them out of it, when I realized they would probably kill me because I could identify them. I was now naked and somehow I got away from them and ran out the door (which had reappeared) and ran up the parking lot screaming, naked. It seemed I could not scream or yell loud enough. No one was around. I ran past the manager's office and saw the door just closing with no one coming out to see what was wrong. I was desperately looking for someone even going by in a car, no one. There was a grocery store next door and I was going to try to get there to escape, I turned around!
and saw one of them right on my heels and I knew there was no way I could escape. I woke up. When I dozed back off I decided that I was saved by a woman in her car in the grocery store lot.

Addendum:

The manager, the cleaning guy, the handyman and the missing woman were all of Hispanic origin, I can't figure that one out. Actually I can't figure out much of this dream.
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Dream Title = Motel Hell
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Dream date = 12 March 2001
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Dreamers name = DianeMRPD
Dreamers Computer Dream = Sending the same tpye of email to my friend sover and over again but every time in a different font colur or from a different terminal. They would recieve my mail and send a similar sort of reply based on the type of font I used.
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Dream Title = Repetative emails!
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Dream date = repetativley
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I was downloading a ton of songs on napster during the day, then in my dream i kept seeing listings of songs scrolling down the page, and i was clicking every song on the page, and then i broke the mouse!
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Dream Title = NAPSTER
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Dream date = 1 week ago....while i was sleeping
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I slept with a guy I met on the computer
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Dream Title = Sleeping with the computer friend
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Dream date = last night
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Dreamers Computer Dream = I dreamed that I was in the library
at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
There was a computer terminal in there with the name "CompUMate" on it. The screen was black with green letters.
This was a semilucid dream so I was interested in playing with the machine and seeing how it would work. I noticed that any words I typed remained on the screen only as long as I looked at them steadily; if I looked away then back they would have
disappeared. Pressing various keys would call up screens full of characters, which looked convincing in overview, but if I tried
to read them the words would either be real words that made no sense taken together, or else nonsense words that looked like English but were quite meaningless.
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Dream Title = CompUMate
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Dream date = February 3, 1991
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Dreamers name = Anonymous
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Other articles:

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (1999 August). Research Request: Computer's in Dreams : Pre and Post Internet Perceptions. Electric Dreams & Part I Pre-Net Electric Dreams 6(8). Retrieved October 30, 2000 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_1999_aug_computers_in_dreams.htm

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 March). Digital Dreams: The changing (inter)face of dreams in the twenty-first century. Electric Dreams 7(3). Retrieved October 30, 2000 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_2000_mar_computer-dreams1.htm

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 July). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer Dreams II : The changing (inter)face of dream texts. Electric Dreams 7(7). Retrieved October 30, 2000 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_2000_july_computer-dreams2.htm

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2000 November). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer Dreams III :: The Digital Shift in Culture. Electric Dreams 7(11). Retrieved October 30, 2000 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_2000_nov_computer-dreams3.htm

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 January). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer Dreams IV :: Dream Code and Decoded Flows. Electric Dreams 8(1). Retrieved December 31, 2000 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_2001_jan_computer-dreams4.htm

Wilkerson, Richard Catlett (2001 May). Digital Dreaming Series: Computer Dreams V :: Emergence of Digital Imagery in Analog Dreamers. Electric Dreams 8(5). Retrieved May 1, 2001 from Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web: http://members.telocity.com/rcw666/ed-articles/richard_wilkerson_2001_may_computer-dreams5.htm