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This post is to help explain the process of dream incubation. New dreamers should reference this as they go about incubating dreams for the Mission P1_12:
What is Incubation?
From Project August, we learned that you can actually ask to dream about future events. In that project, dreamers made a pre-sleep intention to dream about the biggest headlines for a future time period (in this case, August 2014). We also learned that it wasn’t so much the individual resulting dreams that provided the insight, but the collective overlaps that occurred for details that mattered. Therefore, it was paramount that dreamers document their dreams even if the dream seemed to be completely irrelevant. There might be an important color or symbol in the dream that overlaps with others, and even if there isn’t, the linguistics can help us find more detail, too.
For example, the Project August linguistics told us that “Earth food hard ice,” helped us create a headline that matched this past summer’s Polar Vortex, which wiped out almost 100% of the US’s northern grape harvest. So, we know that incubation does have effectiveness, no matter if one actually dreams about specific future events. Thus, the incubation process is very fruitful if done in a group setting such as what we’re doing here.
The Process
INCUBATE: Everyone can incubate future dreams. You don’t have to have any sort of latent talent to do this. All you will do is think or speak that you will receive a dream about what the word “Fireworks” has to do with big headlines in December. You don’t have to request “Fireworks;” maybe you’d rather incubate about “Apocalypse.” Choose one of the big memes, and try to take one that you’re really interested in. One that gives you a lot of emotion. If all of the words give you equal emotion, then try to choose one that others have not chosen.
DOCUMENT: When you wake up, no matter what the content of the dream (unless too graphic or explicit), you go to the DreamBase and set up an account if you haven’t done so already (start an account by hitting “Register” and supplying a valid email address in the form; after submitting the captcha at the bottom, you’ll then need to go to your email to pick up the first password for your account.)
When you come back to the DreamBase with your login information, you’ll first login and then proceed to “Submit Dream.” In the resulting dropdown menu, you’ll select “DreamBase 2.0” and begin filling out the form. Please realize that this incubated dream will go under our new mission called P1_12.
DISCUSS: Although not mandatory, it is very beneficial to also head back here to the forum so that your dream can be discussed and assimilated with the others. The discussion takes place right here in this thread.
Remember, though, our two divisions (the dreams database and the forum) are not yet bridged, so you’ll have to register again for the forums, and here again you’ll have to active the account with the email you provide during this second registration process. If you’re thinking that this confusing and redundant, you’re not alone. We put this together with free products and are currently designing a whole new system that will bridge the two together. I apologize for the inconvenience.
What’s Next?
As the dreamers are providing dreams and discussing the various metaphors and implications of those dreams, the DreamForecasters are analyzing the dreams and the linguistics to come up with possible headlines/predictions. This is designed to be an iterative approach, meaning that we incubate dreams to help bring further details to what we already know about what the collective is dreaming about (in this case, Apocalypse and Jim and Fireworks).
Some of the dreams will be exact replicas of future events, while the others will provide further linguistics phrases to aid in the incubation process. It sounds complex, but it’s rather simple once you get the hang of it. Just pick a meme to dream about, construct a detailed incubation, document the dream, and then discuss it. While discussing, you help the DreamForecasters with important metaphors that can be easily overlooked when reading and analyzing tons of dreams.
That’s it in a nutshell. Thanks for helping us! If you have any questions, simply ask them below.
What is Incubation?
From Project August, we learned that you can actually ask to dream about future events. In that project, dreamers made a pre-sleep intention to dream about the biggest headlines for a future time period (in this case, August 2014). We also learned that it wasn’t so much the individual resulting dreams that provided the insight, but the collective overlaps that occurred for details that mattered. Therefore, it was paramount that dreamers document their dreams even if the dream seemed to be completely irrelevant. There might be an important color or symbol in the dream that overlaps with others, and even if there isn’t, the linguistics can help us find more detail, too.
For example, the Project August linguistics told us that “Earth food hard ice,” helped us create a headline that matched this past summer’s Polar Vortex, which wiped out almost 100% of the US’s northern grape harvest. So, we know that incubation does have effectiveness, no matter if one actually dreams about specific future events. Thus, the incubation process is very fruitful if done in a group setting such as what we’re doing here.
The Process
INCUBATE: Everyone can incubate future dreams. You don’t have to have any sort of latent talent to do this. All you will do is think or speak that you will receive a dream about what the word “Fireworks” has to do with big headlines in December. You don’t have to request “Fireworks;” maybe you’d rather incubate about “Apocalypse.” Choose one of the big memes, and try to take one that you’re really interested in. One that gives you a lot of emotion. If all of the words give you equal emotion, then try to choose one that others have not chosen.
DOCUMENT: When you wake up, no matter what the content of the dream (unless too graphic or explicit), you go to the DreamBase and set up an account if you haven’t done so already (start an account by hitting “Register” and supplying a valid email address in the form; after submitting the captcha at the bottom, you’ll then need to go to your email to pick up the first password for your account.)
When you come back to the DreamBase with your login information, you’ll first login and then proceed to “Submit Dream.” In the resulting dropdown menu, you’ll select “DreamBase 2.0” and begin filling out the form. Please realize that this incubated dream will go under our new mission called P1_12.
DISCUSS: Although not mandatory, it is very beneficial to also head back here to the forum so that your dream can be discussed and assimilated with the others. The discussion takes place right here in this thread.
Remember, though, our two divisions (the dreams database and the forum) are not yet bridged, so you’ll have to register again for the forums, and here again you’ll have to active the account with the email you provide during this second registration process. If you’re thinking that this confusing and redundant, you’re not alone. We put this together with free products and are currently designing a whole new system that will bridge the two together. I apologize for the inconvenience.
What’s Next?
As the dreamers are providing dreams and discussing the various metaphors and implications of those dreams, the DreamForecasters are analyzing the dreams and the linguistics to come up with possible headlines/predictions. This is designed to be an iterative approach, meaning that we incubate dreams to help bring further details to what we already know about what the collective is dreaming about (in this case, Apocalypse and Jim and Fireworks).
Some of the dreams will be exact replicas of future events, while the others will provide further linguistics phrases to aid in the incubation process. It sounds complex, but it’s rather simple once you get the hang of it. Just pick a meme to dream about, construct a detailed incubation, document the dream, and then discuss it. While discussing, you help the DreamForecasters with important metaphors that can be easily overlooked when reading and analyzing tons of dreams.
That’s it in a nutshell. Thanks for helping us! If you have any questions, simply ask them below.