‘dream’ Articles
Written by Damian Hospital on 27 November 2009
Deep thought provoking questions have always been prevalent throughout my entire life. It has been both a blessing and a curse. Why? ™ I mean, is ignorance bliss or is ignorance just ignorance? Whoops, there I go again asking deep thought provoking questions. Before I get into a list of deep thought provoking questions that are covered in two fantasy books called Dream Seeker: The Velvet Mask and Dream Seeker: Return of Joshua, let me just give you some background.
Concepts and beliefs must pass the “smell test” with me, and I do not believe in one source of knowledge. So, throughout my spiritual journeys in life, I have come across many different belief systems, theories, philosophies, and methods. I try most of them out, and discard some that are no longer practical. Deep thought provoking questions have always been my guide. Perhaps my personality was already formed during conception. Perhaps it was because I didn’t trust people as a kid. As you can see deep thought provoking questions are all over the place with me.
Deep thought provoking questions cause me to digress; I guess that’s why I have thousands of blog posts and articles all over the Internet. Believe it or not, I am not that much of a snob- just because I like to talk about deep thought provoking questions doesn’t make me intelligent or wise. Who knows? Maybe talking about deep thought provoking questions is just a product of my setting and era (21st century United States of America). Would I ask many deep thought provoking questions if I was a Neanderthal woman thousands of years ago? Would I be obsessed with deep thought provoking questions if I was born in 1765 in one of the King’s colonies in the New World?
Let’s get to Dream Seeker: The Velvet Mask. Here are some deep thought provoking questions in that novel:
- Do dreams have meaning?
- Why do we dream?
- Are there beings or things that exist which we cannot experience with out senses?
- What is the affect of time on our human perceptions?
- Is energy immortal?
- Why are nihilists so passionate about denying belief in God?
Return of Joshua has deep thought provoking questions such as:
- How would society react if Jesus returned?
- Does the world need a savior?
- Are good and evil concepts?
- What is morality?
- Does the MEDIA overstep its bounds when it comes to reporting information?
A former classmate of mine once e-mailed me that feelings are merely chemical reactions and don’t really “exist”. Indeed it is a struggle for humans to overcome the wave of emotions and focus on logic. However, I believe that by labeling the human experience with numbers chemistry dehumanizes us. As you can see there is no end to deep thought provoking questions and I went on a tangent again.
If deep thought provoking questions are your thing, check out the Dream Seeker series. It is loaded with deep thought provoking questions (and answers) on politics, psychology, sociology, and much more.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 18 March 2009
Dream Seeker: The Velvet Mask and Dream Seeker: The Return of Joshua are two fictional novels that reference dream interpretation and Enneagram personalities. Tony Vahl and Damian Hospital created the Dream Seeker Universe to express their views on the human condition and psychology.
For example, the protagonist, Dace Senoit, is a young Enneagream Type 9: shy yet charismatic. The antagonist is The Realtor, an unhealthy Enneagram Type 3, who will stop at nothing from controlling reality.
From the dream interpretation standpoint, Dace Senoit inspires people by helping them remember a long-lost dream.
Be sure to check it out at Lulu.com.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 18 May 2008
Dream Seeker: The Velvet Mask
I reread Damian Hospital and Tony Vahl’s first published work recently, and I had to marvel at the uniqueness of their novel.
What is the Dream Seeker: The Velvet Mask about? It’s about a young man named Dace Senoit who inspires people by helping them remember their long-lost dream. It’s about fantastic beings called Icons who govern our reality, and govern us. It’s about misunderstood anti-heroes who capture losers who have lost “It.” It’s about a pastiche superhero in Miami who patrols the streets in a jet-black pick-up truck, fighting murderous supervillains.
The stories are varied, innovative, and intense. The writing feels like a movie, sci-fi TV show, or comic book. There are 301 pages, and the stories won’t take much of your time, but you will feel satisfied at the end. Much like a dream, the stories will come and go quickly, with many unexpected twists and turns, and it will linger in the back of your mind, subconsciously altering your perception of the world.
Dace, the Dream Seeker, helps people remember dreams, one person at a time. This book will inspire a dream within you, and get you to think about your life deeply. The Velvet Mask is the first book in an on-going series of novels, written by two Enneagram and dream enthusiasts.
Click here, Dream Seeker, for more details.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 14 January 2008
Dreams
I believe dreams offer an insight into our subconscious minds. I have rules of thumb when it comes to dream interpretation:
1) According to Freud, our dreams are laced with our greatest desires and/or our greatest fears.
2) Dreams are a physiological function, and well as a psychological one. Our brain needs to get rid of unnecessary data, like rebooting or refreshing our system. We need to get rid of useless data, and move on.
3) Symbolism and metaphors are overrated, but they do exist. One thing many websites and self-help books don’t tell you is that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar OR that a cigar may have a different meaning to you, than to someone else.
4) If I sound credible to you now, I risk losing all credibility when I tell you that *some* dreams do have a precognition message, which Tony Vahl and I- Damian Hospital- believe to be tapping into an alternate timeline or parallel earth.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 02 January 2008
Dream Seeker Presents…”The Goat”
Dace Senoit, also know as “The Dream Seeker” is the master of dream interpretation. He takes requests. If you’d like Dace to interpret your dream, post a comment to this thread or e-mail us at numbersix@dailyskew.com
Dream:
i was lying in a yard filled with flowers .
and as i sat up i saw a cottage a few
feet away.and out of the doorway, walking
towards me walked a goat! he came right
up to me.and at first i was a bit scared but
he came closer and stared at me. then i
knew i should not fear him.
-Submitted by J.R.H.
DACE’s INTERPRETATION:
Flowers in a field generally mean happiness, joy, and bliss.
A cottage also means tranquility, peace, and security.
Goats can symbolize quite a few things:
1) Stability, especially with finances
2) Goats can be the “scapegoat” or “heel” (bad guy)
3) The Devil
4) What does a goat symbolize to you? You don’t see one in real life often. It is a wild farm animal.
I believe that you were afraid that something or someone was going to disturb your state of comfort zone and happiness, but it turned out that you felt at ease with this person or thing. All three objects- goat, flowers, and cottage represents stability and happiness. Although you were startled by the presence of a goat that didn’t seem to belong in the scene (or you life), it turned out to be peaceful like the rest of the scene.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 30 December 2007
My grandmother played the role of the Dream Seeker tonight by saying a key phrase that made me remember a great dream that I had forgotten this morning! Thank you, Grandma!
Here it is- one of those REALISTIC dreams that are scary:
The setting- NOW (literally- the Friday before New Years).
The employees: Current Tashman roster
The C.E.O. of Tashman Technologies made an announcement in the morning: today was the last issue! End of an era! Done! Final episode! Not even one day’s notice! He’s closing up shop by 3 pm, so we are to finish whatever work we are doing, and clean our desks up!
My main worry was that we had a few in-house jobs! How are we supposed to finish them? How cocky is it to call them up and say, “C.E.O.’s retiring, so we can’t finish your project”????
So I asked Christina, if it was official, or will a skeleton crew hang around and finish these projects. I never got a good answer. All I know is that I felt that my whole life was turned upside down, and as soon as the countdown to 3:00PM occurred, I had to move on with my life. I told my wife about the situation, and acted brave, and felt ready.
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Written by Damian Hospital on 26 December 2007
I had one of those dreams last night, that just seem so realistic and believable.
Tony Vahl and I were sleeping upstairs in a fictitious house being rented out by Tashman Technologies Hall of Famer Captain Hardware. Tony and I came up with another catch-phrase after having an intense conversation for 10 minutes. We both noticed a pattern in people’s speeches. Similar to the phrase that we had Barry Bonds’ coin: “that’s fine”, we came up with a similar quote that symbolizes people’s behavior. As much as we were both excited to come to this new revelation, I forgot it when I woke up, of course. It has something to do with “that’s true”.
It was very late in the dream, past midnight, and we both had work the next day. I tried to get some sleep, but Captain Hardware and his seemingly endless number of family members came in downstairs. Hardware told them not to go upstairs, but didn’t say why. I figured out that it’s because I’m RENTING upstairs, and that my bedroom is off-limits. It still didn’t stop him from walking up the stairs and chatting with Tony Vahl about some DVD movie. Tony was being polite or was unaware of the time. I pretended I was sleeping after he ignored me the whole time. Suffice to say, I felt uncomfortable not having any privacy, so I told Tony pretty loudly: “TDA- He’s a CARD-CARRYING MEMBER OF THE TDA!”
The End
Definitions:
TDA: Time Displacement Authority. Ever have someone who “makes” you be late? Don’t you ever just want to do your own daily routine without being sidetracked? Did you ever wish you could throw your cell-phone in a river? Well, if you find your time-line getting screwed up by someone over and over, there’s a great chance they are members of the TDA. They exist solely to ruin your original time-line. They are the people that call you up and cause you to forget something or kill an hour of your productivity. They are the ones who force you to watch Star Wars marathons when you really need to be going to sleep. They are the ones that keep saying “goodbye” when you try to leave their house, and wind up causing you to be late or get into an accident. Sometimes it’s perfectly harmless; other times your time-line can be ruined.
Tashman Technologies: A fictitious office created and copyrighted by Damian Hospital and Tony Vahl that sells teleporters. The Tashman Hall of Fame is a parody of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Captain Hardware: A great friend and a great worker in Tashman.
“That’s fine”: Barry Bonds said this quote when he was informed that baseball commissioner Bud Selig may not be planning an official celebration for his record breaking homerun, and may not even be in attendance. “That’s fine” means that Barry accepted a situation out of his hands, and simply shrugged it off instead of expressing unproductive feelings.
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