Inside the Legend: Dream A Little Dream Of Me

SILENE CAPENSIS

This African Dream Root also commonly referred to as Ubulawu is a sacred plant which the shamans of the verdant river valleys of the eastern cape province use to induce remarkably vivid dreams.

It’s widely believed that this sacred plant’s oneirongenic, dream-inducing activity, is due to the triterpenoid saponins contained within its roots.

Although the plant only exerts minimal alterations in waking consciousness, it’s effects upon the dream can be profound.

These dreams are exceptionally colorful, vivid and are long remembered after awaking.

Ubulawu is traditionally used to access the dream-time so that one can communicate with one’s ancestors. Before going to sleep those who are seeking their ancestors must focus on a question that they want answered. During the dream one of their ancestors will appear to answer their question.

It can be prepared in two methods. The first requires the dreamer to mix half a teaspoon of silene capensis with a half cup of water and drinking early in the morning upon waking, while the stomach is empty. Another method is using a heaped tablespoon mixed with a liter of water that is then blended until a froth is formed; the dreamer must then suck the froth from the contained until they feel bloated after which they are instructed to go to sleep.

DREAM WALKING

Recently Sam and I came across a dream walker, someone who is able to travel around the dreams of others kinda like Freddy Krueger.

Have you ever had a dream that didn’t feel like it was your own? A dream that was full of strange elements that didn’t make sense to you or in which you found yourself doing things that were out of character? Or what about a dream that was full of people and places that you didn’t recognize? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you may have been dream walking.

Have you ever had a dream that felt like someone was intruding into it? That felt like someone didn’t belong or that you were being threatened or attacked? If so, then you may have been experiencing someone walking through your dream. Imagine someone with the worst motives possible entering your dream, killers chasing you into the eternal darkness, monsters and boogey men waiting to strike, nightmares…

The best way to think about it is that all our minds are connected and constantly communicating on a subconscious level. Jung called this discovery the collective unconscious. It’s an interlacing network of ideas and thought forms. So a dream walker is practically surfing channels going from one person’s dream to the next visiting the thoughts of other people as they sleep. The reason why many people don’t realize that this is happening is because they fail to remember the majority of their dreams.

ONE, TWO, FREDDY’S COMING FOR YOU

‘The Nightmare on Elm Street’ is a horror franchise created by Wes Craven in 1984.

In the film Robert Englund plays Freddy Krueger an undead serial killer who attacks his victims in their sleep. His trademark image of a burnt disfigured face, red and green striped sweater, brown fedora hat, and trademark metal-clawed leather glove has striked fear into the hearts of many, particularly those who live on Elm Street.

Wes Craven claims his inspiration for the basis of Krueger’s power stemmed from several stories in the LA Times about a series of mysterious deaths; Cambodian refugees and their children, who, after fleeing to America from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, suffered from horrific nightmares and refused to go to sleep. Acting on medical advice and their parents encouragement, they went to sleep and were never heard from again…

“It was a series of articles in the LA Times, three small articles about men from South East Asia, who were from immigrant families and who had died in the middle of nightmares—and the paper never correlated them, never said, ‘Hey, we’ve had another story like this.’ The third one was the son of a physician. He was about twenty-one; I’ve subsequently found out this is a phenomenon in Laos, Cambodia. Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: ‘You must sleep.’ He said, ‘No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before—this is different.’ He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the total days he stayed up was, but it was a phenomenal amount—something like six, seven days. Finally, he was watching television with the family, fell asleep on the couch, and everybody said, "Thank God." They literally carried him upstairs to bed; he was completely exhausted. Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack; he just had died for unexplained reasons. They found in his closet a Mr. Coffee maker, full of hot coffee that he had used to keep awake, and they also found all his sleeping pills that they thought he had taken; he had spit them back out and hidden them. It struck me as such an incredibly dramatic story that I was intrigued by it for a year, at least, before I finally thought I should write something about this kind of situation.”

Robert Englund has expressed numerous times that he feels that the deeper meaning behind the character is that he represents neglect, particularly the neglect that children and teens are sometimes subject to when growing up.

Inside the Legend by Dean5339