Following on from yesterday's post from Jean Raffa, here is the second part that explores how dreams can have lasting significance to our lives. Thanks to Jean for allowing me to share this with you, and kindly offering to answer any questions you may have.
Today and tomorrow I would like to share with you a wonderful example of dream work undertaken from a Jungian/symbolic perspective. If you have trawled through my posts on the symbols that appear in dreams, but still feel unable to string them together to form a meaningful story, I hope the process outlined by Jean …
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Advent Calender Day 16: Window Welcome to the sixteenth day of the Dream Well advent calender! Today we are going a little meta, and opening the advent calender window to look at what it means to dream of windows. The first aspect that comes to mind when we think about windows is usually of looking …
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Advent Calender Day 14 Welcome to the fourteenth day of the Dream Well advent calendar! Today we have the beautiful symbol of the candle in our advent calendar window. We have already looked at the symbol of fire with our post on fireplaces, and due to the flame of the candle, there is much overlap …
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Advent Calender Day 13: Bells Welcome to the thirteenth day of the Dream Well advent calender! Today we are looking at dreams of bells. In our dream we may see bells, or hear them or both. Bells are important to many religions and cultures around the world. They may be deep and resonant, light and …
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Advent Calender Day 10: Fireplace Welcome to the tenth day of the Dream Well advent calendar! Today we have a special request to look at the symbol of a fireplace in dreams. What a wonderful warming image to find behind day 10 of the advent calendar! Fire itself is a very primal symbol, and holds …
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Advent Calendar Day 9: Mouse or Mice Welcome to the ninth day of the Dream Well advent calendar! Today, we are looking at what it means to dream of a mouse, or mice. Like many animal symbols, to dream of a mouse can be ambiguous, and have many positive as well as more challenging or …
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Advent Calendar Day 8: Bread Welcome to the eighth day of the Dream Well advent calendar! (Sorry it is a bit late, but don't worry, day 9 will follow shortly after so we will keep on schedule!) Today we are looking at dreams of bread. This may be a dream of bread baking, of eating …
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Our first dream question to explore this month has been sent in by Daiva - thanks very much Daiva! Daiva writes about a dream in which she is surprised to find herself in an apartment that she knows she lives in, where the furniture is shabby and even broken. She feels she is seeing it …
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I recently came across this site that may prove useful when trying to understand the roles of colour in your dreams: http://www.dreamscience.org/idx_dream_language.htm#Color%20Questionnaire
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