Individuals and groups that study dreams and dreaming have come together after the attacks on New York and D.C. to provide the survivors and others terrorized by the 9-11 events resources on nightmares that often occur after these kinds of trauma.
For parents coping with children, The Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) has provided guidelines and articles by some of the worlds top authorities, such as Patricia Garfield, Ph.D, Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. and Alan Siegel, Ph.D. all of whom were recently discussing these issues on major networks (ABC Good Morning America, MSNBC Today Show. The importance of having children talk about dreams that scare them, and the preference of having the children come up with creative alternative solutions rather than giving the dreams intepretations are discussed along with many other suggestions that apply to adults as well as children.
ASD is also providing articles and guidlelines for those on support lines and for clinicials, as well as research articles and bibliographies. There is a bulletin board for the discussion on how to use these materials most effectively and special live chats with experts. An 800 hotline is being planned for the near futrue. For more, stop by http://www.asdreams.org
The grassroots dream community also knows the importance of sharing dreams during crisis. The Electric Dreams community has been offering to discuss dreams and nightmares in their online dreamgroups and publish dreams on their online magazine. Both nightmares after the event and precognitive dreams before the event are being gathered and will be in the October 2001 issue of Electric Dreams. Many online listserv discussions are connected with Electric Dreams as well. For more information on the community, stop by http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
Send any material to Richard Wilkerson rcwilk@dreamgate.com or drop you dreams off at http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Richard Wilkerson http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
Richard Wilkerson is a pioneer in online dream sharing and publication. He has been creating and exploring these online communities since 1994 and has developed a wide network of groups and individuals interested in dreams and dreaming. Besides being the editor for the Electric Dreams community e-zine, Richard is also the Chair of the Electronic Communications Committee at the Association for the Study of Dreams and the ASD webmaster. He writes a regular column for Dream Time magazine, the Cyberphile, and has contributed to the New York Times, Wired magazine, Psychology and Self Help, Dream Tree News, Dream Newzzz and many other publications. Richard is the author of A Brief History of Dream Sharing, Theory, Techniques and Cyberspace. (1999, DreamGate Publishing, SF isbn 1-58548-008-8 ) and wrote "Dreaming in Cyberspace", a chapter in a book called DreamScaping with Stan Krippner, Mark Waldman, Marie L. von Franz, Robert Bosnak, Eugene Gendlin, Oliver Saks and others.