Help:Introduction

Welcome Oneironauts!
This is a site for people to connect the waking reports of their dream experiences and connect them to others and relevant information.

Intentions for Creating this Project
My intentions for making this wiki was to have an interactive rhizomatic dream journal, and I quickly realized the implications of a social wiki, a community dream collection hyperlinked together. My personal belief and hope for this project is to enrich the areas of dream research, create community to engage in sympoeisis, healing, and knowledge, that is accessible to all and at any time; to increase the probability of co-dreaming and explore the possibility of an interconnected dreaming environment, and to generally gather explorations of and topics about dreams.

This, to me, is a project of love. I urge you to read and follow the note on respect. Posts including personal information of someone who is not the editor will be edited to something bland and place-list-ish so I encourage you to express identification in ways you find respectful person. Even if only products of the mind, dream symbols reflect social life, and thus are part of social life. Remember that this is a public conversation of often very deep and personal nature. Share at your comfort level. If dreams show an infinite amount of symbols, all must be accepted, but please recognize their powers. Symbols can convey thought as soon as they're recognized, so please be mindful of the possibility to cause pain or grief. I'm not going to force people to use a trigger warning system but I encourage something to allow people to understand what they're about to reflect into their conscious awareness.

Sharing Dream Reports
see: style guide

Type or copy your dream reports into a new page and style at will. My initial idea was to upload dreams and link them to symbol pages, then have lists on the symbol pages of all the dreams that link to it, so instead of only being information for reflection on the symbols, the symbol pages can serve as nodes for all uploaded dreams involving that symbol, action, mentation, setting, persona, archetype. If there are other users of this wiki in your dream you can link to them like I have been with the http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User:#name code, but the only way I can think of right now for users to track links to their pages is by searching for their username on Wikia. Please use the Wikipedia style guidelines as much as possible but I feel that to keep a standard of objectivity is unrealistic for those working with something of an intersubjective nature. I encourage embedded external links too, but the only ones that can contain lists of dreams that link to it will be the internal pages.