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: Daydreaming Your Way to Genius
Posted in Dreamspeak, creativity, dreaming, dreams, inspiration, recurring dreams, symbols on November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dreamspeak: Tiny Acorn; Mighty Oak
Posted in Dreamspeak, ambiguity, art, beauty, creativity, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, paradox, recurring dreams, symbols, visions on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Dreamspeak: Stretching Your Dreambody
Posted in Dreamspeak, consciousness, depression, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, grief, myth, paradox, recurring dreams, symbols on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We think of dreams as occurring only in the night, but the truth is we dream all day long. Waking dreams are the experiences of the day that hold a meaningful charge for us and are no less significant than the nightly ones. The more intimate we get with our symbolic life, the richer [...]
Dreamspeak: Lucid Dreaming
Posted in Dreamspeak, consciousness, creativity, death, dreaming, dreams, lucid dreaming, recurring dreams, visions on July 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
More than six thousand years ago on the matriarchal island of Malta, a subterranean temple called The Hypogeum was built to house individual dreamers on vision quests. The Tibetan Buddhists call it Dream Yoga and practice it in preparation for dying consciously. They say that if you get really good at it, [...]
Dreamspeak: Participation Mystique
Posted in Dreamspeak, Rumi, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, jung, recurring dreams, symbols on April 27, 2007 | 9 Comments »
“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 [...]
Dreamspeak: Recurring Dreams
Posted in Dreamspeak, consciousness, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, recurring dreams, symbols, visions on February 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Physics teaches us that there is a finite amount of energy in the universe, and though its forms can be transmuted, it is often left entirely untapped. Our psyches operate in much the same way. The forms that appear in our dreams; be they tyrants, allies or tidal waves, are simply energy that [...]
