[extropy-chat] FWD [forteana] "Dream Elementals" (toxic mold, ASP, lucid dreaming)

[Terry W. Colvin]

Leslie Ellen Jones wrote:

 
> Don't know about the poltergeist thing, but I can say that the period
> of my life when I was having the most vivid dreams (not ASP, but
> extremely lucid) was when I was living in Oregon in a house where the
> landlady had used cheap paint in the bathroom and there was mold I
> just couldn't get rid of, even with bleach (mostly because I couldn't
> get up to get it on the ceiling without the bleach coming straight
> back down into my face). I kept pestering her to repaint the bathroom
> because I'm allergic to mold and mildew and in addition to the dreams,
> I was having constant, debilitating sinus headaches, and when she
> finally did, the headaches abated and the dreams got less intense. So
> I definitely think there's a relationship between mold and dream
> states.

Hey Leslie! Like you, I was always a dreamer and had some normal ASP
episodes but it wasn't until I worked in that government building that
the ASP went to new and horrific levels. At the time, I wondered if it
was my apartment, you know, that it was haunted. 

During the time I worked there I had one cold after another and so did
everybody who worked there. It was awful. And they weren't ordinary
colds. I can remember once phoning in sick because I had such a bad
cold. I used a box of kleenex in two hours. When I look back on my dream
journals of that time - I used to write about ASP then trying to figure
out what was going on - I now see that often wrote: "I've got a
headache". Also, I remember going to my doctor because I figured out I
had a sinus infection in the sinus cavity in the forehead - I had had a
dull headache for months. She agreed and gave me antibiotics, which
interestingly helped the ASP subside. 

I figure that I transferred the mold from the office to my apartment,
although I never saw mold in my apartment. Two things happened at once -
I moved out of my apartment and I left working in that building and the
ASP dramatically stopped. At the time I thought it was because my
apartment was somehow haunted. 

But in retrospect, I think it was because I got away from the mold in
that office building. It was years later that I read about mold and how
it can make a person sick with sinus infections and cold-like symptoms
that aren't really a cold but an allergic reaction to mold.

So, maybe I was stoned on an LSD-type mold for those three years. I
remember a workman coming into my office one day and he took the top off
of the heating/cooling system and stuck his arm down and when he pulled
it up his arm was covered in pure black slime to his elbow. I was only
thinking about colds at the time, and I said: "No wonder I've been
sick!" He told me that there were *mushrooms* growing throughout the air
conditioning/heating system. At that time, I don't think the powers that
be really knew the effect of toxic mold on people. I've sorta been
piecing this story together for years now. Because I could never figure
out why I hit with such intense ASP dreams for a three-year period. I
thought there must be some environmental reason, whether that be
electromagnetism or even a virus that caused hyper-dreaming, as I call
it. 

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But, on the bright side, Leslie, maybe we've solved the ASP/lucid
dreaming mystery!

Kelly



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