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New lucid dream research suppo…
February 1st, 2010
New lucid dream research supports brainwave entertainment theory: http://is.gd/5Ntwv
Dreams and their waking life a…
January 29th, 2010
Dreams and their waking life application: http://bit.ly/7zwhFv
a webpage about sleep paralysi…
January 28th, 2010
a webpage about sleep paralysis: http://bit.ly/7b67JN
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep…
January 27th, 2010
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep: http://is.gd/5Ntil
The Value of Dream Workshops
January 26th, 2010
Recently I had the pleasure of participating in two dream workshops: "Lucid Dreaming" with Christine Boyer and "Dream Yourself Awake" with Jeremy Taylor. As always after attending an event ofthis type, I left feeling creatively inspired, spiritually nurtured, zinging with energy and excitement, and reconnected with a community of fellow dreamers. The effects infused both my waking life and dream life for weeks! Aside from the chance to get away, I feel there are many benefits in immersing oneself in a workshop or conference specifically devoted to dreams and dreamwork:
- It reinforces the value of dreamwork, and gives one an opportunity to meet and work with other dreamers; to share experiences and support.
- It often brings immediate results, or intense breakthroughs, which can be slower in coming when one works alone on their own material.
- Personal contact with the instructor (often an author and always a highly experienced dreamworker) allows room for asking questions, clarifying concepts, and generally tapping into the knowledge that person has to offer.
- Working in large (or small) groups reinforces dream community and affords practice or experiments in new techniques.
If you have yet to give yourself a chance to try this kind of process, plan on doing so in the future you’ll be glad you did! For a great opportunity to work with many people in a variety of workshops, consider attending the International Association of Dreams annual conference coming up in June 2010.
Wish fulfillment? No. But Drea…
January 26th, 2010
Wish fulfillment? No. But Dreams do have meaning: http://bit.ly/7LhNDL
William C. Dement’s site on sl…
January 25th, 2010
William C. Dement’s site on sleep, sleep disorders, and dreams: http://short.to/12jj7
How dreams can save your creat…
January 21st, 2010
How dreams can save your creative life: http://short.to/12jj6
Carl Gustav Jung: Using Dreams to Find Our Myths
by Richard Wilkerson
Carl Jung was both a colleague and student of Freud, yet their views and ideas differed. Freud thought dreaming as a means to cleverly allow the sleeping mind to disharge repressed and disturbing desires by disguising them. Jung acknowledged this level of dreaming, but felt that the unconscious was much more vast andthat dreams were an unconscious attempt to bring about our most wonderful potentials as human beings. We could actively participate in this process by seeing what the dream was revealing rather than disguising. What was the dream revealing? Our path to wholeness as unique individuals – something Jung called Individuation, which simply means that because each individual becomes who they most essentially are,themselves, the path is unique and different for each person. Each dream presents a unique set of circumstances, so that the application of any theory we have acquired in the past violates its uniqueness in the same way thattreating new people we meet (or old ones for that matter) like they should be someone else or something else we have previously decided upon would violate the essence of who they really are.
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