Nightmares, Trauma, and Healing from PTSDreams
Nightmares are dreams on steroids Welcome Dreamers, After a long break from posting here (in order to get my book out!) I’d like to invite you to focus on the interface between nightmares and trauma. Nightmares that relive or that symbolically recreate traumatic events in our lives are one of the most upsetting and intractable […]
Dreaming in the Time of Trump: A Guide for the Anxious
“There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.” Dandelions, The Disappearance of Annabelle Fletcher, Rochelle F. Goodrich Welcome dreamers, Have you noticed lately that your dreams are more permeated than usual with a vague or not-so-vague sense of […]
Pulling In the Net: Dream Sharing with Others to Catch Your Big Fish
Welcome dreamers,Sleeping and dreaming are generally quite solitary acts. Even though we may share a bed or a room with others, when we dip below the horizon of wakefulness into our dreams, that journey is taken alone. We then have whatever adventures our dreamtime soliloquies take us on, often with others playing their roles as […]
“Traveling Without Fear: Journey Dreaming for the New Year
“And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” Kahlil Gibran Welcome dreamers, It has been some time since I last posted here. But last night “I had a dream” – maybe not as powerful as that of Dr. King, but […]
Dreams of Grief, Dreams of Healing
“And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” Kahlil Gibran Welcome dreamers, So, my mom died recently. It has been a sad period of time, up and down, days of being “fine” interspersed with days with tears. The whole […]
Dreaming for Both Sides of Our Brains
Welcome dreamers, We are multi-faceted beings: logical and imaginative, made of clay and made of stardust. Warning: I am a little bit of a neuroscience geek, so the first part is a bit scientific; but I think very cool. Apparently, science has figured out why our eyes move (REM) while we are dreaming: Our […]
Dream Drought or Dream Deluge? What To Do With Too Few or Too Many Dreams
…ways to either enhance recall or to contain the deluge when the problem is dream overdrive.
Embodied Dream Work: Understanding Your Dreams Through Movement and Play
Art by Carla Golembe “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions” Edgar Cayce Welcome dreamers, When we dream, we are in a place, a world that is just as real to us while we dream it as the one we inhabit while we are awake. In this dreaming place we talk, walk, run, play, interact […]
What Are Dreams (Actually), and Where Do They Come From?
(travelblog.org: vulcan osorno at dawn) Hello fellow dreamers, At the end of the movie, when Dorothy returns from her sojourn in Oz, her aunt and uncle and their 3 farmhands are there to greet her at her bedside. On waking, she is told by her Auntie Em and the kindly doctor (who looks remarkably like […]
Tree Dreams, Liberation, (and Mary Oliver)
Welcome dreamers, At this time of year, we celebrate Easter, Passover, the equinox, and the coming of spring. Themes of renewal, resurrection, and freedom abound as we mark this season, and remember that the healing potential lays under the darkest of places. Although here in New England we are still dealing with a layer of […]