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The Dream Invisibles

 
  

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Nietzsch E. Coyote
23:09 / 28.02.03
Well this was brought up in Misleading dream messages... and an overeacting imagination by Sypha Nadon and by me

Essentially we've had a dream where an invisibles-like group has been trying to communicate with us and possible to recruit us. In my dream and in Sypha's the recruitment seems to have something to do with sexual attraction.

Anyone else had similar dreams lately?
 
 
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02:58 / 01.03.03
I've been thinking about this a bit. About 3 months ago I started a fantasy novel that took place in a Victorian-ish type steampunk city, and the main character was a sewage worker named James Curtis (my initials, same first name of mine). I quit the book after 20 or so pages, as I often do, but there was a scene where the character is contacted by a rebel anarchist group in his dreams, telling him they'll be meeting him soon. I was hoping such a thing would happen to me.

Then, a month or so later, I had that dream I reported in that thread. Weird. I'm still hoping a gay coven of anarchist witches are looking for recruits, anything to break the tedium of everyday living.
 
 
Baz Auckland
04:54 / 01.03.03
About a year or so ago I had an amazing dream that I joined an Invisibles cell. One of the first revolutionary actions called for 'fucking in the streets' with one of my new comrades, partly for fun, partly to blow people's minds... I ended up in jail, but John Dillinger rescued me by giving me Nathan Hale's ID bracelet.

Don't ask about the last bit, but maybe the rest represented who I wanted to be, and what I wanted to be doing?

Lately I've just been having lots of dreams where I'm back in London, just having picnics or going to off-licenses and hanging out in Stokie...

Sypha - After reading Lovecraft, I just assumed R.I. would be the centre of gay anarchist witches!
 
 
Papess
17:10 / 01.03.03
Fight Club?

Noo........Fuck Club.

 
 
--
19:38 / 01.03.03
Lovecraft is pretty much the only cool thing about the state. Well, Wendy Carlos was born here too.

I once dreamed there was an Invisibles cell in my hometown also, but that was awhile ago. This was literally the Invisibles though, King Mob and Lord Fanny and the gang, they were hiding out in one of the old deserted mills downtown (my city used to be one of those mill towns).

Fight Club. Damn, I said that student I had a crush on looked a bit like Tyler Durden and even talked like him. And there's a goth girl in the class who reminds me of Marla...
 
 
thedude
22:12 / 01.03.03
I had a dream the other night where I had to stamp on an octopus to stop it choking the life from Joaquim Phoenix in the bookshop where I work. I know this has nothing to do with the current thread, but I can't describe to you how utterly horrifying this dream felt!
 
 
LVX23
17:24 / 03.03.03
Nicely synchronistic...

I had a dream just a few nights ago - my first Invisibles dream that I can recall (odd 'cause it's been years since first reading the work). My dream journal is at home so I'll try to summarize from memory.

I was on a rocky coast running with a crew. It was an Invisibles cell, though I can't remember if any of the key figures were there or if it was another cell. We're on the move and preparing for some event/assault when I begin to channel the alien tongue - like key23 is how I remember it. I start talking in this incomprehensible though very rich language. It is taking over my head and forcing its way through me. I start to realize that it's winning and seriously infecting my mind, as it may be infecting others around me while I speak. I assert my Self as hard as I can and banish the stream. It takes all my effort. Then I wake.
 
 
reFLUX
19:09 / 03.03.03
maybe that was someone talking to you?
 
 
Tamayyurt
03:20 / 04.03.03
This is weird. I had a dream the other day about me being in an Invisibles cell and I hadn't even been to this thread (actually, cause from the title I thought it was going to be a "What Invisible would you fuck" type of thread or something.) Anyway, nobody from the comic appeared in my dream but they were real, some where in the world. My cell was composed of Donnie Darko, Enid (from Ghost World), Powder (Don't fucking ask me why!), Kennedy (from Buffy), and me only I didn't look like me, I looked like Warren (I kinda sorta resemble him but I'm waaay better looking.) We had engineered this super contagious bacteria (it was a modified mitochondria or something) that invaded skin cells and flooded them with chlorophyl. We released it upon the world making the entire human race bright green like a newly sprung springtime leaf. Thus eliminating Race. And allowing humans to get energy from the sun and eliminating a lot of the world's hunger problems. It was the ultimate artistic/terroist prank and the world was a better placein the end (except of course for the mass suicides and waves of panic that followed.)
 
 
.
09:40 / 04.03.03
This isn't entirely along the same lines, although it does seem related:

As mentioned at the bottom of Syphia's original thread, I've been having recurring dreams of being contacted by some sort of invisibles-esque group. As far as has been told to me in dreams, they consist of fellow lucid dreamers who can explore the entire of the (collective) dreamworld at will. My recurring guide has been a petite red haired girl, aged in her early twenties- funnily enough, she is the same across many dreams, but it's not someone I know from waking life at all...

In a very bizarre semi-lucid dream (ie. I was aware that I was dreaming, but I wasn't controlling the sequence of events) this girl lead me through different periods of history, until we eventually ended up in a Starbucks circa 2030. Into the Starbucks wheeled a robot thing (basically a load of robot arms on caterpiller tracks) which, in a blur of movement, ripped all the Starbucks logos off the walls, and replaced them with a rival brand. It then reprogrammed the till to redirect payment to the rival brand instead of Starbucks. This sort of guerrilla rebranding is what passes for "war" in 2030, the red haired girl told me. Make of that what you will.
 
 
.
09:42 / 04.03.03
I hasten to add that that one is just the most recent of this series of dreams.
 
 
LVX23
18:16 / 04.03.03
This is weird. I had a dream the other day about me being in an Invisibles cell

Maybe this is how they first contact us....
(spooky organ sound in background)
 
 
MrHyde
19:03 / 04.03.03
Odd that you should mention...now I'm just a humble lurker here, so I figure this was a subconcious message to post more, but-
I dreamed I was talking to someone in a bar, who I'd just met. I'd bought a book and had it open on the bartop. Suddenly, this person grabs the book and holds it up to my face. On the open page, amongst all the normal text was the word B A R B E L I T H laid out just like that, highlighted in red. I woke up with a massive jolt and the unnerving sensation that someone was standing by my bed.
Get that a lot though...
 
 
Seth
19:14 / 04.03.03
It's very possible that the recent proliferation of these dreams is linked to the Barbelith working. Would any of you be interested in joining us in that thread and investigating further?
 
 
slinkyvagabond
20:48 / 05.03.03
definitely weird. I had a really vivid dream that I was in an Invisibles cell on the 20th of February. I wrote it down but am too lazy to transcribe. Basically, I seemed to be a new member of a cell that were posing as a group of travelling players/artists. King Mob featured at one point: I was supposed to parachute from a plane (yup...I know...) and below me I could see a satellite map of North West America but i didn't know when i should jump. Then the lakes and inlets re-arranged themselves to form what I realised was the shape of King Mob beckoning me down. There wasn't any link to sex/attraction though but it was very high octane exciting stuff. I'd definitely be interested in looking into it some more, it was a very striking dream and I was pretty excited to see that it's been something of dream theme (excuse me please) recently.
 
 
Potguns
01:32 / 06.03.03
Yup Iv'e had two initiation dreams recently. One seemed to be a test of my dream fighting skills and using imagination to defeat vampiric oppenents in original ways, much like Promethia in the immateria. At the end of the dream they wanted me to sign my name on a palm pilot, when I refused to do and subsequently woke up. They all looked a bit too evil I seem to recall. Very high speed violent imaganitive dreaming.

The other one I had to chase three people around who constantly kept on changing apperance and were wearing orange gossamer clothes. cant remember much of this but it was very chaotic. When I finally caught them and convinced them it was time for a change they agreed and let me into another room at which point I woke up. My dreams seem to be more linked to violence and problem solving than sex. I also find that if I post here I am guranteed to have a weird dream in the night.

Pot.
 
 
little big bang
02:50 / 06.03.03
yeah, i've had a few invisibles dreams in the recent past. none of them involved characters from the comic, but it seemed i never went through an initiation (or i did, but that dream was a really long time ago).

in these dreams i'm already operative, with a small group (tho not always limited to five and sometimes less than), there is the kind of trust and interaction that you'd find in a group that's been operative for a while. we're usually in the process of a mission, the objective not always clear, but we know what we're doing. in these dreams i'm not necessarily lucid, but we all have extraordinary powers, but it's like, nothing we aren't used to. strangely enough, the team is different every time, but there's always that same feeling.

in regards to the person who referred to the redhead, i do think there is a network of lucid dreamers who navigate easily through the dreamspace. I'm pretty sure a couple of my old friends are out there, though it's nothing like the invisibles--they just sort of call each other (and sometimes me) up to party. and though i don't remember the details, i've sat in with a lucid group, while lucid, and they taught me some things and gave me some advice, and we sat around and chilled.
 
 
Seth
04:50 / 06.03.03
I dreamt of King Mob last night: he was a bit of a prat. Gurning and acting like Jim Carrey, dressed like someone trying to dress like KM on a low budget. He was pretty inoffensive and easy to just ignore. Still... other aspects of the dream (sexual scenarios, an initiatory image) reminded me of this thread.
 
 
FinderWolf
15:13 / 06.03.03
Imp, that's a really cool dream! Hey, Powder has to have some purpose in life besides being in a movie that bombed!
 
 
thedude
20:34 / 06.03.03
I had a dream last night that followed similar lines to much of the above after reading some of the replies to this thread, (which makes me think it was an idea planted there by my interest in the subject). Most of the details are pretty sketchy, because I didn't have time this morning to write it down, but I can remember that I was supposed to be back at school. I was initiated into a secret society that operated within the school, but instead of being an Invisibles-style group, (dedicated to liberty and all things cool!), the whole tone of the group was really dark and cruel. They had a whole programme of rape and torture, and I woke up feeling really nasty and unwell. So, it makes me wonder if there is, concurrent to the dream Invisibles, an opposing group trying to recruit people to the other side? Has anyone had any similar experiences?
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
00:29 / 07.03.03
The Dream OUTER CHURCH!
 
 
LVX23
21:22 / 07.03.03
heh, that's just what I was thinking. Black Church and all that...
 
 
ciarconn
23:05 / 07.03.03
Shrtly before this thread started, had two dreams where I was a part of aa anarchist group that was running away. But since I didn't remember many details, I did not comment on it.
But last Night I had a different dream.
I was a part of a repressive group.
I remember handling and throwing hi/tech grenades, and enjoying as some wood shacks from poor (no money) people blew away.
So, what's going on, are we seeing the invisible reality from the two sides?
I am starting to fear I'll dream myself as a part of The Hand (from the Filth)
 
 
ciarconn
23:10 / 07.03.03
AS a side note, Castanedian Warriors tend to form communities in the dreaming (which has considerably strengthened that consensual reality)... maybe there is an Invisible comunity in the dreaming/astral? an access to the Invisible School?
 
 
Baz Auckland
00:41 / 08.03.03
I tried doing a divination thing about the Barbelith thing in the other thread where I meditate and pick a passage at random from an Invisibles type book (Borges, Herman Hesse, Illuminatus, Invisibles).

My first day I landed on a passage in Borges that said "Sleeping as we all know, is the most secret thing we do. We devote 1/3 of our lives to sleep, yet we do not understand it. Some believe it is only an eclipse of wakefulness, others a more complex state which embraces at once yesterday, the present, and tomorrow"

Time travel through dreams and sleep? I've been trying to program in recruitment to my dreams, but last night I ended up walking through México instead, finding Celtic rings in the sand of Spain. (Muslim Spain was just south of Mexico City for some reason)
 
 
ciarconn
12:21 / 08.03.03
Wll, Mexico was a colony of Spain for about 400 years, but there's not much Mudejar architecture anyshere in Mexico. (the celtic rings sound interesting).
Last night I dreamt I was teaching the "long" alphabet to some of my pupils... the most problematic ones.
 
 
Funktion
21:09 / 08.03.03
The Invisible College
 
 
penitentvandal
09:12 / 09.03.03
Hmmm. I had a dream last night that was otherwise fairly normal for me (travelling on a train with Homer Simpson, a nymphomaniac woman, and a guy who wrote porn novels about Kenneth Anger style leather-clad bikers...), but I do remember seeing King Mob wandering about somewhere in the dream. Neither of us did much, though. I just wandered past and went 'Oh look, it's King Mob.'

As you do...
 
 
Caleigh
01:14 / 10.03.03
I have never read "The Invisibles" at all and came across this site in a very tengental way but I've had numerous dreams where I belonged to a group of like-minded neo-pagan chaote people exploring the edges of concensus reality. I think it has to do with both the inkling that sometimes when we contact groups like BARBELITH etc. we are beginning to touch upon some kind of common current/tribe and also I think that the whole idea that there is some sort of meeting place for people when they are lucid or semi-lucid in their dream state is not too far fetched.
 
 
Baz Auckland
05:00 / 08.04.03
I had a very very intense dream last night about Barbelith. I was going to post this in the Barbelith Workings thread, but I haven't had the time to read the preceeding posts yet, and I feel like getting this off my chest.

The dream had very few concrete moments. I varied between being myself or Jack Frost. I've never felt so much in a dream before. I kept meditating on Barbelith in the dream, or touching a piece of graffiti where "the paint was still wet" and suddenly being hit with energy that threw me out of my mind. I was urged by voices to "try to remember" and through counting backwards I was able to keep reactivating the energy blast. At one point I was hit with the red circle, which with my urging, turned green. The dream continued for awhile, and since waking I've been flying mentally. It felt like such a great initiation, contact dream.

I guess it's also a great feeling since I've been trying to get an experience like this going for a couple of months now in dreams, and the result was much more powerful than I expected since my experience with this sort of thing is zero.

Has anyone had anything along these lines?

I've not done hallucinogens yet, but I've dreamed of being on them before, and it was similar to how I've imagined the hallucinations to be like. Anyway, it was just a great Invisibles Dream. In the end I ended up as #5 trying to steal #2's car to get out of The Village, but that's just more entertaining than anything...

...and in reading the preceding posts, I just remembered that night or the night before I had yet another dream where my name was Barry Auckland. I think that's #3 now...
 
 
Quantum
13:12 / 08.04.03
!! Baz, please, please join the global working, that's exactly the sort of messages we have been getting. Spookily similar.
"the result was much more powerful than I expected" Seems to be a common theme when dealing with B, it's definitely trying to tell us some things...
 
 
mixmage
14:57 / 08.04.03
hmmm... I've got a bit of a Jack/Tyler going on with dreaming. The bastard don't wanna share his quality time with me - ie I have almost zero dream recall generally, but have been lucid and known it while dreaming.

Just recently, when i quit Bud for a week.

Odd thing is, I seem to barge into other people's dreams and tell them stuff that means nothing to them, but shocks me with its pertinence to myself. Tricky little dreamboat - he just loves the cloak and dagger! - if there's some kinda network of cells being built, I reckon he wants to reassure me, but keep me In the Dark like poor Jack, who knows Jack.

He know's i hate having the ending spoilt... haven't even read Invisible Kingdom yet I just gotta trust that he knows what he's doing and is every bit as skillful as I intended him to be. Gizza leg-up, mate!

My lucid adventure happened while on holiday with a group of friends. I lost control at one point, spun out, then eventually got dragged back to lucidity by the dreamform of one mate saying "this is lovely and everything but we need to sleep now." So i woke up and let them sleep.

Nobody mentioned it the next day.

sorry if this is rot.
 
 
aquaboy
20:16 / 18.04.04
i knew there would be a thread about this here!
just had a dream last night where i percieved myself to be jack frost on some level and i was meeting king mob. suddenly the nature of the relationship changed and i was straddling mob who bears an uncanny resemblance to an ex-boyfriend. there was a moment of tenderness that i can only compare it to his moments with edith back in the '20s.

it was interesting seeing my dreams manifest King Mob in his rarer sensitive moments. i'm going to reread the parts involving jaqui, the mourning of his cats, and edith's death.
 
 
Chiropteran
13:43 / 19.04.04
I just took a look at this thread for the first time, and something clicked, so I went back to my dream-diary to double-check. And yes, I had vivid (and vaguely erotic) Invisibles/anarchic "initiatory" or "Mission" dreams in clusters roughly corresponding with several of the bursts of posts in the thread. It certainly seems like something was going on back then -- or are at least some of us having these kinds of dreams most of the time?

Interesting.

~L
 
 
madfishmonger
00:08 / 20.04.04
hmm. *the following post should be read in a really burnt out type of stoner voice for full effect...man*
so what if like, we're all waring to help accomplish our goals in our dreams. everybody. not just those who read or post here but everyone who sleeps, all fighting for the chance to be the dream supreme. people often dream about things they are doing or want to do, maybe those of us who want freedom are astrally battling against those who would enslave whether we want to not...it's like unconscious magick, man.
 
  

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