Early Signs
Notes from a dreamer’s past As a child, I’d sit on the kitchen counter, my bare heels tapping the tops of the cabinet doors below, and watch my mother unload groceries from stiff paper bags. …
First Book: One Thousand and One Nights Worth of Questions
Dreams, Narrative, and The Meaning of Life Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie. (2015, Penguin Random House) In honor of the holiday season, a few weeks back, I had dinner with …
Q&A: What if My Dream Says I’m Sick?
Q: Help! What to Do When A Dream Offers a Diagnosis? I just had a scary dream in which I heard a voice tell me that I should see a doctor because I have something wrong in my heart. I trust my …
Losing Sleep Over Dreams
Hold fast to your dreams? On the first night of a weekend Dream Poetry workshop I offered to a group of writers, I suggested the participants try to remember their dreams. I offered them my standard instructions for improving …
Dreaming on Lake Atitlan
Finding Comfort And Meaning Half a World Away It was like a dream, stepping off the boat and entering a world defined by a glistening blue basin of a lake, watched over in the distance …
Rainbow Dreams: A Post-Hurricane Post
Shortly before I was scheduled to offer a program on “The Yoga of Dreams,” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, I dreamed I saw dark stormy clouds nearly obscuring the retreat’s palm tree-dense property. This wasn’t …
Mooning Over the Moon
To moon is to be idle, and in love—it’s been rhapsodized over repeatedly–but could one more ode to that pearl in the night and the dreams it inspires possibly hurt?
The Elusive Dream*
I’m currently at work writing a book about dreams, so the first task is to try to define my terms. What is a dream? And before I even get to page one—I am stuck. The …
The Dream Journal: An Essential Tool for Dreamers
Dream Journal Basics, Step by Step The dream journal, whether you keep yours in a notebook or in a computer file, is the most useful tool you have when you set out to examine your …
Birthday Dreams: A gift to me–and you
Each year on my birthday eve I incubate a dream to offer me guidance and wisdom for the coming year. Today I woke with several dreams including this one: I wonder what I could or should be …