Shared Dream Experiment

Try with friends for a fascinating immersive experience?

Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko
The Story Hall

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Want to try something completely different?

Do you ever want to do something extraordinary instead of the typical party, TV, sports, clubbing, video and board games, meals or whatever routines you might fall into when you get together with your closest friends? Avoid any default commercialized predictable entertainment?

Do you ever want to orchestrate a shared experience to explore the layers beneath the usual conscious levels from which you normally interact?

Want to stimulate all the senses to make a living dream?

I did. And I’m going to tell you how to go about it. You might want to make your own version and see what happens.

In Wilton, Alabama, I gathered together several Montevallo friends from nearby Montevallo for a weekend. Once they walked in the door to my house, they were committed to staying the whole time, fully present. No one was was making phone calls or driving off on little real-world sprees. Instead, the whole weekend, we delved deep down into the imaginative world of the subconscious.

We wondered if we might find there the Collective Unconscious that Carl Jung wrote about, so we actively cultivated…

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Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko
The Story Hall

Gold-medal-winning psychological suspense novelist, writing Instructor, manuscript editor living in Berkeley.