Recognizing the Calls from our Ancestors: Shouts and Whispers
Family legacy, like dreams themselves, can move forward and backwards in time. Welcome all dreamers and seekers to the new year! How do your ancestors get your attention – through shouts or through whispers? Over half of Americans (53%) report connection with their ancestors who have departed according to the Pew Research Center, most of […]
Honoring Our Namesakes: When Waking and Sleeping Dreams Collide
“Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” Welcome Dreamers, What does it mean when our waking and sleeping lives coincide? When the inside dream and the outside dream reflect each other? The doubling of an image or theme in dreams, or when waking life and sleeping life overlap generally means, “This is […]
“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 […]
Unpacking a Dream: From Toilets to Mindfulness
“I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world” Jay London Welcome dreamers, Understanding the meaning of our dreams can move us in surprising directions. The art of interpreting or understanding a dream has been referred to in several ways: working on […]
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! The Animals in our Dreams
“The animals which are our totems are mirrors to us. They reflect lessons we need to learn and abilities we can most easily develop…(they are) a medicine for healing your self and your life, and a power that can be accessed to help manifest your dreams”. Ted Andrews Welcome dreamers, Animals are one of the […]
The People In Our Dreams, And What They Want to Tell Us
treehouse at moonlight by poetico (In our dreams) “We encounter a whole family of aspects of ourselves, and as we recognize them and bring them together, we become much more than we were” Robert Moss Welcome Dreamers, In the last post we talked about visits from the other side; when our loved ones cross the […]
Understanding Joseph and His Dreams: A Message for Our Times
“Dreams transport us each and every night into that strange and radiant world inside ourselves wherein… we come face to face with powers greater than ourselves.” ~ James Hagan Welcome dreamers, We had such an interesting discussion about Joseph’s dreams in Torah study with Rabbi Allan Ulman. I’ve been in a study class with […]
Dreaming In Color
“I dream my paintings, and then I paint my dreams.” Vincent Van Gogh Welcome dreamers, I had been thinking about the importance of color in dreams for a while. However, when every dream that I recalled for the last two weeks had a significant spot of color, I knew that was a sign- fingers to […]
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 […]
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 […]