More Ancestor Dreaming: From Whence They Come?
“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping…” Paul Simon Hello dreamers, Recently there has been a lot of ancestor activity filling my in-box. In any given week, I get two or three or more emails about a new […]
Resolving Nightmares, Part 2
“I’ve had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because my dreams.” Jonas Salk Introductory post here Nightmares are frequently one of the aftershocks that follow traumatic events. They reflect the trauma in one of three ways: Either an “instant replay” of the events that occurred, a close replaying with […]
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 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 […]