Listen to Toko-pa speak on Dreams

Chris Gibson interviews Toko-pa on Dreams for CJLY’s Psychtalk

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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: Lights of the Night

Dear Toko-pa; what is the significance of the moon, stars and constellating night skies in dreams? – Astrodreamer
Dear Astrodreamer; This past spring I was invited to go caving with a friend of mine who is a seasoned spelunker. Naturally, I was terrified at the thought of going underground into total darkness to [...]

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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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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: Mining the Metaphor

“To dream of bananas foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and unloved companion. To dream of seeing your home burning denotes a loving companion, obedient children, and careful servants.”
These quotes are from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, first published fifty years ago but still widely stocked in bookstores today.  My guess as to [...]

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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: 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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