What do you do when you’re ill the night before a live TV appearance? Dream, of course!
All week I’d been looking forward to this day, because for the first time I’d be appearing on a local television show to discuss dreams and dream work. Unfortunately, I’d been sick with a bad …
The Greatest Story Ever Told…by your Inner Author
“Art is the lie that tells the truth.” –Pablo Picasso I recently re-read one of my favorite works of fiction: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. The main character narrates 94 chapters about his life …
Make Room for Dreams (CV)
Follow your dreams! May all of your dreams come true! Dream big! These slogans and expressions are repeated often in our society. But do you really make room for your dreams? Do you make room …
The Colors are the Movement (CV)
Morning Garden Both Hands Dreaming When words from two dreams got caught in my drawing the word feelings became birds flying. The sky became the story, etcetera became flowers and my journal a beautiful garden. …
By The Sea: The gateway to sleep (CV)
Some of my happiest memories are of lying down to go to sleep after a day at the ocean. The sound-memory of ocean waves breaking against the shore continue to crash and retreat in my …
Waking up is hard to do
“Am I awake or dreaming?” This questions becomes something of a mantra for people who are attempting to increase their powers of lucid dreaming. In order to be awake—that is aware—in a dream, one needs …
Synchronicities: Dreamer meets Poetry — plus a bargain
Today I was wandering downtown in the rain when I found a book on the sale rack of our local bookstore titled, Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming by Catherine Shainberg. Right there three of …
Dream Houses
Houses in dreams are said to represent the Self: Windows for eyes, doors representing what you are letting in or locking out, and so on. Lucid dreamers often have a dream house through which they …
“Nothing Matters”-The Voice of the Dream
One night, during a recent visit with my mother, who is suffering from age-related memory loss, I went to sleep feeling sad, small, angry and frightened over what is happening to her. This is the …