Director Jane Campion, who wrote the screenplay for the 2021 film, The Power of the Dog, based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, and Benedict Cumberbatch who starred in the film as a 1920s cowboy oozing a toxic masculinity designed to protect his deepest sensibilities, each drew from their dreams to enhance
Waiting for a train, I glanced up at the station clock. It was a beautiful, antique, analogue clock, its hands set at 7.30. I glanced away and noticed another clock, a little further away. It was showing a completely different time. I noticed a third, and fourth clock, each indicating various times of the day.
Twenty years ago, I read Geraldine Brooks’ book, Year of Wonders, an international bestselling fiction based on the true story of an English village, Eyam, in Derbyshire, that went into voluntary lockdown in 1666, to stop the spread of the bubonic plague to nearby villages. Somehow – perhaps on a bolt of fabric delivered from
If you’ve decided to do a dream alchemy practice, should you complete the prescribed dose before starting a second? Is it ok to combine practices? Tim, one of our Dream Academy students, posed this question, and she also wondered if it’s wise to park any interesting dreams that come up during the time that you’re
What does it mean if a symbol from your dream appears as a synchronicity the next day, or as multiple synchronicities in the days to follow? Let’s start with an imaginary example: Cass buys houses to renovate and sell for profit, but recently she had a run of bad luck. She lost money on a
Maybe you have a regular yoga, meditation, writing, music, journaling, or exercise practice, but do you have a dream practice? What do you do with your dreams when you wake up in the morning? Do you catch a wisp of a dream, ponder for a moment, and then jump out of bed and get on
Why do we have bad dreams? Should we pay them attention? How can we stop them? Let’s face it, no-one wants to experience bad dreams, whether they’re of the full-on horror variety that leave you terrified to go back to sleep, or whether they’re more of the anxious, stressful variety that disrupt your sleep and
Here’s an extract from my 2020 book, Bird of Paradise–Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition. And if this entices you to keep turning the pages, you’ll find more details about this, my seventh book, here. Introduction: Garden of Dreams This book that you have before you is part whimsical memoir, part healing
“I dreamed about you last night, and I think you should know …” Can our dreams help other people? Yes, and no, and perhaps not in the way that you think! Let’s explore: Let’s look at the opening example first. If you dream of a friend having an accident, have you tuned in to a