uniqueness of the individual It is exciting to find
subscribers' dreams raising this question right from the
start; for it is also the question posed by the "Sundance
Experiment." (See page 108.)
     One dream does suggest that the contrast between the
individual and the group is not necessarily a problem:
The dance works just as well with my backward steps as it
does with the regular steps. Perhaps future dreams will
provide us with further inspiration.
      At this early stage of our experimental journal, it
might be helpful to attend first to the question posed by
one of the dreams: "Who are we?"

     Dreams are mysterious. And so, a journal that is alive
to dreams will also be somewhat mysterious. This is
partly because we are still attempting to articulate the
nature of the Journal; but more so because it is not
completely a product of our conscious intelligence. The
other day a woman came to say that the subscription
brochure for Sundance was unclear to her and that she
didn't understand what we were trying to do with the
Journal. She then proceeded to relate several of her
dreams in which she was spoken to in a variety of foreign
languages she didn't understand, but how in several
instances she had later learned that they contained
important messages. She wanted to know if anyone had
ever heard of such a thing. We told her about Alissa
Goldring's request (appearing in this issue) to receive
just the kind of story she had to tell Thus, although the
woman did not consciously understand the purpose of
the Journal, at some other level she did.
      This incident reminds us of one of our subscriber's
dreams, in which the dreamer received a bouquet of
flowers from the ship's steward only to discover that she
had received not one, but two bouquets. She wondered if
both were for her. Perhaps the second bouquet is for her
dreaming self. And so with our journal Perhaps some of
it will speak to us and some of it will speak to our
dreams.

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