"Shielded behind rusted armor the murderer runs from the detective who’s searching for a vanished life. Time to examine evidence, Turn myself in" There are books about art, and there are books about dreams, but there are very few books that seek to knowingly bridge the gap in being a book about both dreams and …
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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 …
Continue reading What Do Dreams Have to Do with “Real” Life? Part I by Jean Raffa
This clearly described and quite simple activity from Thich Nhat Hanh for dealing with emotions in waking life can also be really helpful in working with images that arise from our dreams. It can be especially useful advice for healing bad dreams or nightmares. Accepting the images, regardless of how strange, disturbing or scary they …
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Imagine this: you’re exploring things and emotions you never thought possible. You have the opportunity to control anything that goes on, and have the power to change anything if needed. You’re exploring these crazy ideas as if you were doing it in real life, however you’re merely dreaming. This only some of what Lucid Dreaming …
Continue reading Guest Post: The Wonderful World of Lucid Dreaming by Kerry McGlone
As we work on our dreams and grow awareness of our inner Selves, so too does our awareness grow of our connection to other things. On one level, we may begin to notice more synchronicity in our lives, on other levels, we may simply feel more in tune with nature, with animals, plants, the seasons …
Continue reading Sacred Dreaming: Seasons and Cycles of Nature
Advent Calender Day 23: Feast or Banquet Welcome to the twenty third day of the Dream Well advent calendar! Today I am writing about a feast or banquet, to dream of a table laden with food and drink, or of eating and celebrating with an abundance of food. I have already written about food in …
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Advent Calender Day 20: Bird in a Cage Welcome to the twentieth day of the Dream Well advent calender! Today I am writing about quite a specific symbol, that of a bird in a cage. This symbol contains two other symbols, the bird and cage itself, but the two combine to create a meaning all …
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Wendy wrote: "I had a weird dream last night and I can’t remember much of it. I have noticed I have had a few dreams with some common elements though. The common elements are that I have to climb upwards through a very small passageway in the ceiling to my apartment as in a ladder …
Continue reading The Meaning of Passages and Tunnels in Dreams
This is the dream of deep dark places. We may experience this dream as a cave, or series of caves, a well, dark underground tunnels, or even a basement that seems to go further underground than normal. Whatever the form this dark, unknown place appears as, when it does we can be pretty sure we …
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