How can dreams help you to reflect on your path? How can they help you, practically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, to gain perspective on the path that has led you to where you stand today, and the choices that lay ahead of you? How can they help you to decide on your next steps, or to find the courage to take them? How can reflecting on your dreams help you to find your path when
What does it mean to dream of rotting fish, or a rat jumping onto your shoulder, or a cougar breaking through the ice on a frozen pond? What does it mean to dream of a field of snakes, a talking dog, Wally from Where’s Wally?, or the panic of a dam about to burst and a frantic race through a prison mental asylum? What does it mean to dream of being comforted by a mother
Why is it that we can experience things in our dreams that we haven’t experienced in our waking life? Like piloting a plane, levitating and flying without a plane, breathing underwater, feeling snakes slithering over our arms, or living as the opposite sex a few centuries back in time? How do these dreams relate to our life today? There’s an argument for simply enjoying the sensual adventure and wonder of dreams when they’re good experiences.
Karen is my guest with a scary dream about trying to stay in control of her car. She notices the fuel is low, but how low exactly? Has she got enough petrol to get home or is she close to running on empty? Her body is in the driver’s seat but suddenly her mind is floating above the car, and she can’t drive from up there. But she has to, somehow. Or does she? Every
In this episode we dance with synchronicity, in both a light-hearted and deeply exploring way. Oh, and we relate it to dreams on many levels. When was the last time you experienced synchronicity? What happened? How did it make you feel? A synchronicity is a coincidence or series of coincidences that are not really coincidences at all. A coincidence is a chance thing, but a synchronicity feels far too meaningful to be due to chance
How do you respond when the winds of change sweep your way? Do you hold back in fear, look for an escape route, try to put off the inevitable, fight to stand your ground, defend and strengthen the status quo, take a giant leap of faith and let the winds of change carry you, or take baby steps as you sniff the wind and move instinctively moment by moment? Do you go with the general
“You don’t have enough nightmares on The Dream Show,” said Abigail, my guest in this episode, “so I’m bringing mine, a nightmare about three scorpions.” The dream is scary enough, as Abigail notices three scorpions in her bedroom, and zooms in, in the nightmare, to their shiny black stinging tails. One has her cornered. Should she move away fast, or move slowly? Will it deliver a fatal sting? Abigail woke up completely terrified, and the
Gay is my guest with a dream about going into a dark cave to look for her grandmother’s bones, discovering, to her delight, American Indian cave drawings, following these deeper into the darkness, only to be led to a terrifying demon. At this point Gay tried to wake up from her dream, but she was unable to move, feeling trapped, weighed down, panicky. This frightening experience of feeling paralysed and unable to move, either during
Where do dreams and nightmares come from? The brain, the body, the mind, the soul, the universe, God, or the dream movie production unit at work, nightly, in the depths of our unconscious? Last week I saw the Pixar movie, Inside Out, (I give it five stars), which included a peek into the dream production studio where the main character’s dreams were being created, staged and screened. It reminded me of my own tongue-in-cheek take
Do you remember your childhood dreams? What’s the earliest dream you can recall? How old were you? Was it a nightmare, or was it pleasant? Did you tell your parents about your dream? What did they say or do? Do you remember any of your teenage dreams? At the time, what did you think they meant? Did you take them literally? Did they upset or worry you? Where did you think your dreams came from?
