Dreaming Together to End Gun Violence
Welcome dreamers, Our hearts go out to the victims at Newtown, and all the other victims of gun violence. In addition to signing petitions, showing up, and contributing funds, we as dreamers can contribute in a special way. We can work to dream the world we want to see into being by actively incubating dreams. […]
Things That go Bump In the Night: Part 3 – the Really Scary Nightmares
The Scream, by Edvard Munch “Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you’re waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.” (Mike Carey, “The Naming of the Beast”) Welcome dreamers, Here is Part 3 in our series on working with nightmares, and […]
When Two (Or More ) Heads Are Better than One: Dreamwork With Others
Doing dreamwork by yourself on your own dreams can be like trying to see the back of your own head without two mirrors. Linda Schiller Welcome dreamers, If this post seems a surprise in the series on nightmares, that may be both true and not true. I had initially planned the next post on […]
Things That Go Bump In the Night, Part 2: Our Hero’s Journey
“I’ve had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.” Jonas Salk Welcome dreamers, Nightmares. There seem to be two main categories of adult nightmares. There is the uncomfortable or upsetting dream, and then there is the heart-pounding panic-stricken terrifying one. Some nightmares are so vivid that they […]
Things That Go Bump In the Night
“I don’t use drugs: my dreams are frightening enough”. M. C. Esher Nightmares. We’ve all had some version of them, from a single mild disturbance to all out panic and repetitive horror shows. This next series of blogs will begin to address the “full catastrophe” of this ubiqitous phenomenon. (to quote one of my favorite […]
The Orchard of Dreams (Understanding Dream Depth Through the Lens of Kabbalah)
“A dream un-interpreted is like a letter unopened”- The Talmud Welcome dreamers, As we shift in the seasons, and get ready to enter the New Year , (or back to school, as the case may be) I thought it might be a good time to look through this dream lens. (as an aside, did […]
What’s In A Name? A “Dream by Any Other Name…”
“Sweet dreams are made of these…” Welcome to the dog days of summer, Summer time- this one’s just for fun. I started thinking about how many different ways we use the word “dream” in our language. This little word can have so many different meanings—so versatile! It seems that we are fascinated with this […]
The World of Waking Dreams
“Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream” Greetings fellow dreamers! This has been a summer of inner and outer travel. Since my last post in June, I have journeyed on the physical plane (actually by plane) to Berkeley, CA. to present a workshop at the International Dream conference (IASD), then two weeks later […]
Shamans and Sages: The Why, the Who, and the How of Dreamwork
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Zhuangzi Welcom dreamers! In two days I am off to the annual conference of the International Association for The Study of Dreams (www.IASD.org) in Berkeley, CA. […]
Title and Re-Title: How Dreamwork Can Be Like EMDR
Von Franz reminds us that when Jung spoke of the transforming nature of dream work he said, “It is not understanding the dream that brings about transformation, but the intensity with which we engage the images.” I had a Eureka moment a few weeks ago. We’ve long known that working on our dreams can be […]