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 […]
Covid-19 Nightmares, Dreams, and Reclaiming Life
Welcome dreamers, What is emerging in your dreams during this pandemic? For many of us, our dreams have become more vivid, more complex, and often fraught with images, stories and emotions that are not part of our usual dream repertoire. The fact that many of us are off our usual routines, changing our sleeping and […]
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 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 […]
Taming Demons and Transforming Nightmares: Resolving Repetitive Dreams for Children and Adults
When we recognize the patterns in our dreams and in our lives, then we have the power to shift and transform them. Welcome dreamers, Amanda, age 8, developed a fear of intruders breaking into her house. She dreams that some one will break in and kidnap or hurt her or her family members or her […]
Dreams of Healing: Marathon Bombing Anniversary #1
Dreaming is a healing process…a vital means by which we bind up our wounded spirits and rekindle our hopes for the future.” (Kelly Buckeley) Welcome dreamers, Last year the Boston area held the world in horrified thrall during the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon. Stories have appeared in the news media off and on […]
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 […]
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 […]