“Every night the same scene appears in her dreams: a bus, people getting on. She runs to catch it, with a heap of luggage. However, when she reaches the stop, the bus closes the door and leaves. Without her. Nearly every night, for several months, this dream repeats, turning into a nightmare.” Dana-Sofie Šlancarová, a […]
Adelaide, my guest, dreamed of falling from a window. She hit the ground and thought she had died, but a passing cat licked her face and revived her. Later in her dream, she found the perfect home – old, falling apart, holes in the walls, a broken drinking glass in the kitchen. Yes, she thought […]
“Are we meant to learn lessons from our dreams?” asked Cheryl, in an email I received this week. It’s a good question, both simple and complex, and one many people ask. So, are we meant to learn lessons from our dreams? I’ve been watching Isobel, my eight month old granddaughter, learning to crawl. You might […]
Imagine downloading movie clips of your dreams each morning. “What did you dream last night?” “No idea. Hang on a minute, I’ll have a look.” Research published this month in the journal Current Biology has led to speculation that this may be possible in decades to come. While no-one has yet captured footage of dreams, […]
