Copyright 2010 Roberta Osborn. All rights reserved.

Real Dreams

Twenty years ago, I recorded approximately 500 dreams over the course of

several years. I was trying to evolve spiritually (those were the “new age” days)

while working for a corporation owned by some seriously manipulative people. I

was naive and utterly dumbstruck to find myself embroiled in weird, completely

unnecessary office politics, when all I wanted to do was work. It was a punishing

atmosphere, so I sought solace and guidance from my dreams, with generally

productive results.

I would often ask a question before I went to sleep, then interpret the dream as if

it must contain the answer. I typically recorded dreams in a chunky, spiral-bound

notebook as soon as I hit the throne, making every effort not to wake up very

much as I did so. I dated each page and entered whether I was recording a

dream, a comment, or an event. (I was seeking correlations between dreams and

events.)

Based on my own interpretation of these dreams and the comparison to later

events, I have found that there are long-term precognitive aspects to many

dreams. I found five levels of dreams, and very specific themes and tricks at each

level. Amid the more fascinating, aesthetic experiences of some dreams, I also

found a pretty standard symbolic language and a generous amount of the

mundane.

I offer these dreams and related recorded events and commentaries as a body of

material for research.

I will be loading dreams to this site for some time, as only a fraction of my journal

entries have been typed to date.

Attentive readers will find the portions of my real dreams that I stole for inclusion