Three Ways to Beat Insomnia without Pills or Potions
Take a mindful approach when sleep stealers like stressful thoughts keep you up at night.
What If I Can’t Become Lucid?
While the classic definition of lucid dreaming is to know you are dreaming while you are dreaming, there are many degrees of lucidity—both awake and dreaming.
What do you mean I can wake up in my dreams?
There’s nothing complicated about lucid dreaming, and you don’t need supplements or substances to achieve lucidity. Because I practice and teach lucid dreaming as part of mindfulness, and as a way to explore consciousness, I teach a simple, natural approach.
So, You Have Questions About Lucid Dreaming. You’re Not Alone.
Interest in lucid dreaming has always been high, but these days, with more attention paid to this exciting and transformational dream-state, I’m getting even more interest from my dreamwork clients, students, and Dreaming on the Page writers.
Where has my writing time gone?
As the pandemic shifts, writers navigate the new normal Last week I drove through three states and rode a ferry to visit my father, stepmom, and brother for the first time in what feels like …
Mirror, River, Kayak: Dreaming on the Water
Is this the dream’s appeal: A world hidden below the surface of the one that bobs so self-assuredly above? One so real it topples what we think we know? The lure of a destination we can never quite describe on our return?
Q&A: On being a life-long dreamer and journalkeeper
I use my journals, especially my dream reports, to jump-start my own writing when I’m stuck, and I coach others to do the same.
5 Reasons Writers Should Keep a Dream Journal
Why keep a dream journal? Because as writers, when we are literate in the language of dreams, we gain access to fonts of understanding, imagination, and information that are valuable to our craft.
Celebrating One Year of Dreaming on the Page
After a few months of sketching out curricula, and researching online teaching platforms, (then learning to use said teaching platforms!) on March 4th, 2020 I officially launched Dreaming on the Page online. Today, that online school looks very much like the one I dreamed up in the pool while swimming on that late autumn afternoon.
Today, just as I imagined, Dreaming on the Page offers a variety of options for engagement
There’s a pandemic out there, and my journal is full
Some were counting rolls of toilet paper. I was counting down pages till my notebook was full. The day before Tax Day I ran out of paper in my red, Moleskin journal. I’d known this …