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 […]
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 […]