Wishing on a Dream
Sometimes I’m stunned silly by the call and response between the lines I set down in my journal and the responses that light up my consciousness when I close my eyes. My hopelessness was soothed by a series of vignettes that literally enlivened me.
Can’t Sleep? Meditate!
It’s four o’clock in the morning, there’s nothing on the calendar, no phones ringing, and the laptop is sleeping — even if you aren’t. So why not use this time to meditate like the monks and mystics do?
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.