'Similarities:

1.  More than two people mentioned large bodies of water.  This of
course is nothing very significant - but it does indicate that the
person knew they were physically seperated from the Sphinx by large
bodies of water and managed to at least visualize what should be
expected to be encountered on a trip to it.  Two people mentioned
losing forward motion while travelling across this large expanse of
water.

2.  It seems like about four people mentioned a very intense man with
light hair and beard.  But the descriptions of the man vary in some
ways - for instance, I didn't give a good description of the man
(though he matched with another description I read after the fact); his
age and race is not clearly defined (I saw him as being around his 50's
- others describe him at around 30 or 50)...We need to be a little more detailed in our
descriptions when we meet someone like that.  Probably become a little
more serious ourselves.  Those meetings sound important.  Let's not
take it lightly that we are becoming a group of travellers that span
the globe with a predetermined goal and that there may be adepts who
have taken notice of our activities.  This trully is the first serious
effort of its kind.

3.  At least two mentions of getting kind of stuck in a city and not
being able to continue on to the Sphinx.  Personally, I was very happy
to see that someone else had the same problem :-)  Since this was one
of the people that also had a bit of a problem crossing the ocean,
perhaps we are on to something here - if only to suggest that we both
need to find a better method of travel and avoid the tourist traps :-)

4.  Nobody saw the hotdog/donut stand - even though it was mentioned
several times before the main experiment.  This indicates *something*
about 'suggestion'.  I don't know what... but something...

5.  On the other hand, I did see one or two people mention that they
saw things that were mentioned in posts previous to their experience. 
One said that they saw a man desperately travelling to the Sphinx and
carrying a pillbox - saying that he would get a great reward if/when he
made it.  I haven't been in alt.dreams.lucid for a long time, so I
decided to go there today just to see their comments on this
experiment.  I found a post with a method for LD in that a person
deprives themselves of a certain pleasure until they achieve a goal (of
lucid dreaming).  Then when they get to this goal, they get the
'reward' of permitting themselves the pleasure that they had denied
themselves.  Was the experience of seeing a person carrying baggage
with them toward their goal of the Sphinx 'suggestion' caused by a
previous post... or did he really see someone attempting to get a
'pleasure-for-success-reward'?

6.  One person claimed to have left a blue vase at one of the paws - up
in the air.  One person claimed to have seen a vase and another claimed
to have seen a hawk (statue of a hawk?) in that approximate position.

7.  One person claimed to have left a glowing Polish flag at the
meeting place.  Another person claimed to have seen a bright fire at
the same approximate location.  However, my understanding is that the
flag of Poland is red and white while the fire was described as being
greenish in color.

8.  Sounds like at least two people ran into Jean while she was 
there...' Bart

9. 'One person mentioned a "Ken doll" type person, and I remember a 
"robot" dummy waiter.  It was kind of funny to see someone else posted 
a similar "person."' Claire

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