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: 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: Daydreaming Your Way to Genius

Do you have your best ideas in the shower? Have you ever grappled with a question all day only to wake up from a nap with a sudden answer? How about looking madly for something and the moment you give up you remember where you left it? What if your daydreams are like [...]

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Dreamspeak: A harmony named Desire

I once had a dream that a blind fool began wreaking havoc in my community with his eccentricities. He sang so loudly, people put their fingers in their ears. He danced like a madman and knocked things over with his drunken pirouettes. He really knew how to clear a room. Somehow, [...]

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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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Dreamspeak: Tiny Acorn; Mighty Oak

A friend recently asked me if there was any danger of tainting one’s dreaming by becoming more active with it…as if bringing one’s designs into an otherwise pristine province might cause it to spoil. I found myself responding with a question; do you influence your own reality, or does it unfold autonomously? As [...]

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