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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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: Participation Mystique

“I’ve been dreaming my ex’s girlfriend keeps trying to befriend me. In the dreams I just ignore her, but she’s following me around. When I first met her 3 years ago, she was a ‘normal’ girl, in capris with very little makeup, but about 2 years ago she got breast implants, a few tattoos and [...]

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Dreamspeak: Dream It Forward

With science, we strip things down to get at their heart. With dreaming, we are as shaman-writer Martin Prechtel describes, adding layers to the bulk of our soul by remembering. He is not speaking simply of remembering stories that are passed down through generations, but of a much further memory than that.
Every [...]

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Dreamspeak: Playful genius

I dream of a wise little girl. I’m very drawn to her but am interrupted by her father arriving before we can connect. He is urgent, speaking another language. He is difficult to understand and stressed out. He has crumbs all over his hands. I am asked to tell stories [...]

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Dreamspeak: The You in Me

Of all the skills called upon in dreamwork, a tolerance for ambiguity is perhaps the most vital. As with relationship dreams, it can be difficult to decipher on which ‘level’ they occur. Is the dream about the actual person, or does the character represent an aspect of myself? I find yes is usually the [...]

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Dreamspeak: Tiny Light

When Swiss dream pioneer and founder of Analytic Psychology, Carl G. Jung, was in university, he dreamt he was walking at night into a mighty wind with his hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Even as a gigantic black figure pursued him, he knew that everything [...]

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Dreamspeak: Nightly Amnesia

At the end of our lives, we will have spent almost 7 years dreaming, most of which we won’t remember.
“I don’t dream.” Is the most common response I get from people when they discover the line of work I’m in. Never more than two minutes elapses before the same person will say, “…but [...]

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Every ounce a queen!

“I want to die having lived my own life.” Woodman began, her temples white with the mark of cronedom, and we breathed a collective sigh of relief. The sort of relief that one feels in finally belonging, after having lived a long life in a world divorced from the cosmos, in denial of nature.

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