In your dreams Blog

“I don’t usually remember my dreams, but during the New Year period I’ve had four dreams about death. Should I be worried?” Natasha is a journalist, and her death dreams prompted some research that led her to wonder whether there was a connection between New Year and these kinds of dreams. Are they more common around this time of year, why, and what do they mean? She called me for an interview. As it turns out,

One of the first questions I ask when a client finishes telling me a dream is, ‘How did you feel in the dream?’ People usually mention the big emotions they encounter in a dream: fear, anger, sadness, but otherwise focus on telling the dream story. If you keep a dream journal, and you haven’t studied dream interpretation methods with me, look back through several dreams to see how often you mentioned your feelings. You may

“In my dream last night, I was floating on the ceiling, looking down on my body,” my mother told me one morning while she was rushing about the kitchen organising breakfast. I was a young teenager, a prolific dreamer myself, and the mention of her dream captivated me. Although I talked a lot about my dreams as a child, I don’t think anyone was really paying any attention. There was too much else going on.

Have you ever had a dream where you met the divine, or touched upon a sense of life’s deepest spiritual mystery, or were filled with indescribable awe? A numinous dream is one that arouses spiritual or religious emotions, inspires deep awe, or carries a sense of the sacred or mysterious. You might wake from a numinous dream feeling deeply moved, perhaps inspired to be in the world in a different way, yet unable to communicate

“I have so many dreams! Where should I begin? Which are the most important dreams to interpret?” When you become practised and adept at interpreting your dreams, you’ll look through each night’s catch and have a pretty good feeling for their meaning and a strong sense of which one to focus on. Or you might decide that an overview is sufficient, and save your energies for a future more compelling dream. But when you’re just

You know the value of working with your dreams, the insight, clarity, and healing they offer, but too many mornings slip by with no dream recall. What can you do to remember more dreams, or to remember more details? When you’re able to remember four or five dreams a night, you’ll notice that a single night’s dreams often have a similar theme. They might all feature trying to get somewhere with varying degrees of success

“The past is an illusion glimpsed in a misty rear view mirror,” offered the shaman in my dream. “Pass your hand over the mirror, clear it all away.” He was a magnificent being, polished mahogany Caribbean skin, long dark hair as a backdrop to thick, glossy, silver white curls that framed his face and tumbled down to reach his waist. A modern shaman, offering a car metaphor rather than a story from nature. The dream