Dreamspeak: Falling the Stone Wall

Dear Toko-pa; In my first dream, I am married. I am at my parents’ helping build a stone wall and this spouse-person keeps calling and asking where I am, telling me I am the type of person who only does what is best for me – how I am unreliable, ambivalent and untrustworthy – but [...]

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Dreamspeak: Feelings Are Your Friends

In dreams, feelings are our greatest allies. They show us where our energy is being concentrated and which way it wants to go. Like signals from the unconscious to the physical body, feelings show us where our needs are.
Sometimes they warn us to retreat from dangerous situations, other times they magnify [...]

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Dreamspeak: Revolving Door of Love

Dear Toko-pa: I dreamt that I entered a revolving door, in which I had planned to meet my sweetie, but then exited alone. I woke up shaking, like it was a nightmare, because I was desperate to find him there. We’d lost phone connection and I couldn’t get through. This dream comes up at [...]

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Dreamspeak: Keeping the Seeds Alive

Dear Toko-pa: What happens when we turn away from something in our dreams, or hit replay on a dream and re-dream it, trying to change a component of the story? Can the conscious mind sabotage our dream experiences? — Kaleidoscope Mind

Dear KM: So often the two minds, conscious and unconscious, seem at odds. One [...]

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Dreamspeak: Under the Override

There’s a great scene in Osmosis Jones, a semi-animated flick about the insides of zookeeper Frank Detomello’s (Bill Murray) body, when a serious virus hits “City of Frank.” Instead of going to see a doctor, he pops a flu pill saying, “Sick? I’m not getting sick! I have far too much planned.” Meanwhile, down in [...]

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Dreamspeak: Monsters Need Love Too

Every self-respecting superhero has an arch-enemy. No matter how strong you get, there will always be a personal kryptonite that drops you to your knees, reduces you to tears, keeps you up all night churning, or causes you to behave badly. Even if you’ve grown wise to it, somehow it still manages to [...]

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Dream Interpretation Machine

For inspiration this week, I want to share an amazing digital art project called Dreamlines.  It is a self-proclaimed Dream Interpretation Machine which, once you enter the keywords of your dream, searches the Internet for related images and generates a perpetual painting in motion from them.  It is, as the artist Leonardo Solaas writes, analogous [...]

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Dreamspeak: Theatre of Dreams

Understanding a dream is not so different from interpreting a film or piece of literature. Some even say the structure of these art forms, storytelling itself, emulates dreaming. If it is a good quality work, there are no mistakes in how, when and where things are placed. Just like a play, every dream [...]

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Dreamspeak: Be Your Own Expert

There is an old parable that says if you meet Buddha on the road, kill him. However cryptic, the teaching warns that if you think you’ve made contact with your ultimate guru, you have great work ahead of you to integrate their qualities into yourself. You must ‘kill’ off your admiration for the [...]

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Dreamspeak: Grist for the psychic mill

Dear Toko-pa; I dream a couple brings their two sons to a new place, from the east coast to the west coast. Here, the littler boy is happier. He is more sensitive and says he likes being in a place where he is good at things. The landscape and what it offers [...]

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