Dreaming on the Page Wins Top Honor at IBPA Ben Franklin Award™️ Ceremony
“This recognition reaffirms the power of dreams and storytelling to inspire, connect, and transform lives. … Now more than ever I hope this book will inspire people to claim their dreams and their unique stories so together we can create a better and kinder world.”
Why would you want to talk about your dreams?
I couldn’t stop thinking about how eager the people I met had been to learn about their dreams, and how many people are suffering needlessly from nightmares. Mostly it occurred to me that people don’t realize that dreamwork, which can be as simple as a conversation with a trained professional, has been proven to help with everything from grieving to relationship issues, to nightmares, and feelings of overall well-being
Dreams Aren’t Winning Any Popularity Contests…Here’s Why
“One does not become enlightened by imaginary figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” CG Jung Dreams: What’s not to love? When a …
The Case Against Interpreting Dreams, And an Argument for Doing it Well
Considering Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 In which the dangers of dream divination are discussed This week I volunteered to be the darshan at the meditation group I attend at my synagogue, where each week one of us takes …
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 …
The Dream Journey from Overgrown to Growth-ful*
The untended garden Recently a client brought me a dream in which an unkempt man, who the client described as repulsive, stormed into his home and found the dreamer’s garden untended and overgrown. In the …
Your Brain on Dreams
Deficient, or just plain different? Throughout history, dreams have alternately been hailed as messages from the gods and dismissed as random hallucinations. But rather than place dreaming on a mystical pedestal, or look at dreaming …
You Don’t Need Dr. Freud—It’s Easier Than You Think
Much has been made of the mysterious nature of dreams—too much, I’d say. We’ve been duped into believing that you need a degree in psychology or a high-paid analyst to understand them. At the very …
Dreamwork: From the “Life is But A Dream” Department
What’s your purpose? One quick way to unlock the messages in a dream is to consider the objects or characters in a dream and ask each one: “What’s your purpose?” This question can be asked …
Q&A: What do I do when dreams get confused with reality?
Q.I sometimes have a hard time distinguishing dreams from waking reality. I can fool myself into thinking I’m dreaming when I’m awake if I try. It’s kind of disconcerting and un-grounding, like reverse lucid dreaming. …