If you find yourself frustrated with an apparent lack of success at either remembering or interpreting your dreams, take a break from it.  Simply stop trying to do anything with your dreams other than enjoy them. Surrender to the joy and wonder that your dream world holds.  Sometimes when we try too hard, we end up holding the reins too tight and we don't get anywhere at all. Once you can feel relaxed and j ...

  Imagine you are suddenly taking an exam.  You’re not in school right now, so this exam is out of the blue but you are going to take it anyways.  If you are lucky you might know a little bit about the subject or be able to make calculated guesses, and so perhaps getting a passing grade, if, like I said, you’re lucky.  However if you had known you might eventually be taking this exam, you might have at ...

  Working with clients as a Dream Interpretation Therapist I get to really see the difference that dream analysis can make in a person and their life. Dream Interpretation Therapy allows my clients to really see themselves in a new and dynamic way.  Letting yourself open up to acknowledging your own unconscious motives, repressed feelings and hidden desires takes a lot of courage, but allows you to gai ...

The way we perceive the world and our place in it comes from the combination of nature and nurture that helps define and develop our psyche and our sense of self.  This is the place and space within us that is totally unique.      This space inside us tells us what is good or bad or right or wrong and can be called our emotional guidance system.  Our emotions are how we navigate through the world, ...

When people start realizing that their dreams are as essential to their health and well being as sunshine and air, maybe they will stop treating it sleep like it’s a secondary thing.  If the body and mind are deprived of a good night’s sleep (which includes both sleeping AND dreaming) there are negative consequences that can have dramatic and often times devastating effects.   I have long believed that ...

These days it is harder than ever to ‘be present’ or be ‘in the moment’, but there are so many rewards to be gained from slowing down and being conscious of ‘now’. I was watching Oprah’s (LOVE her!) Life Class today and she was talking about being ‘in the moment’ and striving to be ‘conscious’ in our lives in the midst of all that we are constantly bombarded with (technology, work, family, errands etc. etc. ...

Bad dreams. Nightmares. It doesn’t matter what name you give them, the result is the same. Having violent, traumatic and often horrific images and dreams at night leaves us disturbed; often with a lingering sense of worry in our minds. Sometimes when our dreams become filled with horror and violence it can leave us worried and feeling plagued by the visions that seemed so real. Just as when we have good dre ...

There is no book that exists that can divine the future.  As much as we sometimes wish that others could tell us what we should or shouldn’t do or what the ‘right answer’ is, life is a series of experiences that we must go through for which there is no handbook. The same is true for dream interpretation. There is no one answer that any given therapist can tell their patients to make them feel better or to h ...

Reading an article on various interesting and surprising 'facts about dreams' I came across this one. The planet Neptune, discovered in 1846, is considered the planet of dreams. The planet is named after the Roman god of the Sea because it is covered in a slushy fluid mix of water, ammonia and methane ices under its atmosphere and because its cloud cover has an especially blue tint to it. Neptune is said to ...

Dreaming is like 'defragmenting a computer' while it is in ‘sleep mode’ for the night. Our brain is sorting and organizing the huge amount of information we have been inputting for the last few days and trying to make sense of it all while we rest.  Without dreaming we would be less able to function as rational, logical, emotionally balanced people...eventually we would just get overloaded and cease to func ...