When the Dream Forcasts Rain (CV)
Dream: I find myself in a warmly lit parking lot outside a restaurant. Clouds are gathering, thickly layered, black and gray. There’s lightning in the distance. How will I get home? I ask if anyone …
Dreams within a dreams … so what’s real?
Anyone who has experienced the phenomenon of false awakenings, waking from a dream only to find she has entered yet another dream, has pondered the question of whether the dream is perhaps the true reality, …
If only you could bottle that … or … Anything goes in dreams
Once while I was working at a job where it seemed I could never quite measure up, I had a dream that I was flying. The next morning I had to make a presentation to …
Feeling dark and gloomy? Autumn is the ideal time to discover you shadow
Celebrate the season with a spooky book and a scary dream When the leaves start to fall and the sunlight slinks away, I often assign my college English students “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by …
Dreaming of Famous People — Corner View
Awake we can’t necessarily dance with a current or future president (as I do in the dreams quoted below) — but in dreams anything is possible! Lucky for us, dreaming of famous people is fairly …
Pondering: Who goes to sleep? Who goes to dream?
When I go to sleep I ask myself: Who is going to sleep and who is going to dream? The “I” that I know by day, (my body, my familiar identity, my ego), goes to …
Vacation Photos: Dreamy Montreal — CV
While on summer vacation in Montreal, David and I found ourselves talking about dreams, precognition and mutual dreaming — while we tried to cool off during a brutal heat wave. David is a scientist, I …
A Poem on the Nature of Dreams
On the Nature of Dreams “As is generally known, we cannot manipulate dreams: they are, as it were, the voice of nature within us.” – Marie-Louise von Franz Wild animals are in the …
Insomnia – gift to the dreamer
When sleep won’t come It used to be that when I couldn’t sleep, I’d lie in bed and feel the anxiety building in my chest. I’d worry about not sleeping, I’d worry about how tired …
Corner View — Orange (Dreaming in Color)
For days, it seemed, my thinking had been fuzzy; my mood detached. My dreams had been hard to “catch.” I wasn’t writing — that would require focus, which I didn’t have. Then, dreamed I was …