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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Dreamspeak: Stretching Your Dreambody

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 [...]

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