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O·neir·ism
(noun)
1) Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
2) A state of abnormal consciousness in which dream-like experiences and hallucinations happen while awake.1
ONEIRISMS is a metaphysical journal that we can share together, a place to post your dreams, visions, and synchronicities within a community. Though we prefer visions that happened during sleep, Oneirisms is really an attempt to document human experiences that occur outside the four dimensions of space and time — beyond the physical realm. The primary goal of the site is to expand the popular conception of “normal” human psychology.
The definition above reflects the fact that this site is accessed while we are awake, though it will contain tales from outside waking life or full consciousness. By telling and reading the stories here, we are re-creating them; they “happen” in our minds, thus building consciousness loops of increased complexity. With any luck, we will become aware of how much of “real life” is actually metaphysical — that is, it happens or is co-created in our minds.
Oneirisms is a subsection of Supraterranean, an online magazine where you can self-publish any type of creative work. Both sites were created by Nick Meador. Oneirisms was inspired by the book The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. In his book (originally published in 1948), Campbell used dreams from real people to provide perspective on myths from various cultures throughout human history. Gretchen Hageman (Nick’s girlfriend) found the word “oneirology” as a possible name for the site, and one thing led to another.
Most of the dream stories in Hero came from Dreams: Their Meaning and Practical Application by Clement Wood, who wrote a syndicated newspaper column on dreams in the 1940s. Campbell writes, “In contrast to most of the dreams presented in the standard works on the subject, those in this popular introduction to Freud come from people not undergoing analysis. They are remarkably ingenuous.”
Nick thought it would be fun to create that sort of a dream directory online. And having learned about Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, Nick became convinced that we as a species would benefit from learning more about the meaning of dreams, both our own and the dreams of other people. As Jung writes in Man and His Symbols, “The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.” It seems that our world could use some “psychic equilibrium” right about now. Please join us on the adventure.
Contact
oneirisms[at]supraterranean[dot]com
User Agreement
By submitting your dreams to Oneirisms, you hereby acknowledge the possibility that they will be analyzed and compiled for reports published either on this website or in another publication. If your dreams are used for this purpose, we will never publish your real name or any personal information (other than general location).
Legal
Unless otherwise noted, all content on Oneirisms is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. In plain language, this means that you are free to use and share the content, as long as you:
- Provide adequate attribution (the author’s name and a link to the URL on our site where the content was originally posted).
- Do not sell the content or duplicate it in a commercial nature.
- Share under the same CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license if you remix, add to, or modify the work in any way.
These guidelines may change for specific articles or pages, and deviations from the norm will be clearly stated. All rights are reserved on the site itself, the name “Oneirisms,” the slogan “A collective journal of metaphysical experience,” and site design.
To better understand why we use and support Creative Commons, please view this short video (length: 6:37):
F.A.Q.
Q. Do I have to include my real name with my dream submission?
A. No, in fact we recommend that you use a screen name or a pseudonym so that you can be more honest in telling your experience. But please use the same name each time you submit a dream.
Acknowledgments
The spiral background (also used on our social media) is a free-use image by ilco on sxc.hu. The dream catcher in the site banner was adapted from a free-use image by gravityx9 on sxc.hu.
