Dreams and synchronicity
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 couple of houses then invested in another one and worked long hours doing all the renovating herself to save labour
Dream incubation
Can you order up a dream about a specific person or induce a flying dream or an answer to a question you pose before sleep. Is this possible? It’s known as Dream Incubation, and I’m going to offer you some practical tips on how to do this before sharing a dream incubation experiment I conducted, many years ago, that yielded some exciting insights into the relationship between dreams, synchronicity, and manifestation. How does dream incubation
Create a dream practice
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 with your day? Do you vaguely consult a dream book, or the internet, and then give up because the proffered
How can I stop bad dreams and nightmares?
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 leave you feeling a lingering sense of unease. There are ways to stop bad dreams and nightmares from recurring (for
What’s your recurring dream theme?
When you look back over a lifetime of dreams, how many recurring underlying themes spring to mind? At first you may think about some of the common dream themes that many of us experience from time to time – teeth falling out, flying, being chased, being late, being unprepared to give a speech, and so on. Write those down and then close your eyes and relax and see what else pops up, beyond the more
Garden of Dreams
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 balm, and part alchemical guide to navigating your human journey by observing some of the deeper mysteries of the human
What is dream therapy?
What is dream therapy, and what does a dream therapist do? If you are skilled in understanding and working with dreams, you might consider offering your services as a dream interpreter, a dream analyst, a dream alchemist, or a dream therapist. Or you might choose to facilitate a dream group, or to introduce dream exploration as an adjunct to your work with clients in a related field. So, let’s distinguish between some of these offerings
Can our dreams help other people?
“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 future event, and should you warn them about the details and advise them to take care? Or, if you dream
Dream tide
I love the tang of seaweed on the air, although, as a young child, I was scared of slip-sliding across the beached slimy tangles to reach the waves. Once in the water I was happy enough, but on murky green sea days, eels lurked below the surface, wrapping themselves around my legs, or so I imagined. On clearer blue sea days, I could see they were nothing other than harmless fragments of drifting seaweed. Earlier
The feel or fear question
“Where do you feel or fear this in your life?” It’s a simple question you can use when interpreting a dream, and one that can yield deeply rewarding insight, but at first glance it looks a bit odd. After all, isn’t fear a feeling? Let’s start with an example. If you dreamed of driving a car and reaching a block on the road, you might ask, “Where do I feel blocked in my life, or