Okay, here it is. Since I cannot lay it out in the same way as I have in my journal I'll write it up in the same order as I did it.
1st stream
It is dark and the sun is just starting to come up. It was a stormy night, the calm after the storm, the rocks at my feet are wet and the green grass has water running down the blades. There is a breeze coming in from over the ocean.
2nd stream
Female brown bear with 2 cubs eating berries, there was a shot fired this alarmed the female bear. She chased the cubs up a tree on the right and took off to the left (her right). A hunter shows up he he is not alone although I do not see the other hunters I know there are more. The hunter I see shot the female bear. The others joined him they got together cheering and clapping him on the back. The cubs are still safely up the tree unaware, I have a sense that they will have to fend for themselves but they will survive.
3rd stream
Shack in forest near a waterfall, run down rotting long deserted, .there is a waterfall nearby, the air is still. Inside the shack is leaf litter and twigs blown in from the wind over time. The curtains are frayed and torn with age. The shack has seen its time. Can see the waterfall out through the missing back door. Nature is taking back it's land.
Ok you'll notice that my notes have been shortened over the actual Image stream. However my Image Streams are much more detailed. When writing notes I quickly go for core elements, and unusual phrasing in my description.
Decoding:
1st stream
Sunrise new dawn; new beginning
Storm tempest; frustration; battle
Breeze - ease
Ocean depth of mind, my non conscious
2nd stream
Bear burden to carry (play on words I find that images can often represent words that sound the same); grin and bear it
Cubs responsibility (of 2 things in this case)
Hunter - hunting, looking to find,
Others -
Cheering. Back slapping celebration
Cubs (listed again since they came to mind again and the message was clear within the IS) need to fend for themselves.
3rd streams
Shack old dwelling
Waterfall overflow of emotions; strong emotions
Deserted gone, still
Leaf Litter natural elements of time
No door - there is no barrier to seeing the emotion
Nature takes back
My interpretation I have already given. What I do when I take elements from my recording; notes; list is to let my mind tell me what it means to me. Some are pretty standard for me... like ocean being emotions from my non conscious mind. Others I look a play on word like bear.. I go with the first impression I could have gone with 'bare / naked but I take the Image Stream as a whole. Also I don't spend too long at it I would never have the patience to start Image Steaming if the process took me longer than 15 to 20 minutes from start to finish.
I came by this method through one of my first Streams. One of the questions was How can I improve or find a better way of doing this process? Through it I played with a technique of association, writing a questions, selecting 13 words at random from an encyclopedia and then played a kind of game like chain reaction association. The odd thing was it worked I found an answer to my questions each time. Without realizing it I adapted it to my decoding and boy do I find them stunning in predictions.
Alex
[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited July 03, 2004).]
