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How to Keep a Dream Journal

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 30, 2009 | 22 Comments

This is the third post in my series about working with dreams without a dream dictionary. Today I’m focusing on dream journalling. Besides basic dream sharing, this is the easiest way to start remembering more dreams and working with them.
Everyone has their own way of keeping a dream journal, so of course the trick is [...]

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Dream Sharing: the Foundation of Dream Work

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

This is my second article in the series 10 ways to work with your dreams. Over the next week or so, I’ll be rolling out my favorite ways to deepen the experience of the dream. The real foundation of working with dreams is getting them out of your memory and into the world. Keeping a [...]

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Dream Interpretation without a Dream Dictionary

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Over the next week or so, I am going to cover my ten favorite ways of working with dreams without buying a dream dictionary.
It’s not that I think dream dictionaries are useless. Actually I have one and consult it at least once a week. However, the dream dictionary can only provide one way of working [...]

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Dream ReLiving: An Advanced Lucid Dreaming Practice

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 22, 2009 | 9 Comments

I’d like to share an advanced lucid dreaming technique taught by Scott Sparrow, a psychotherapist who played a major role in the beginning of the modern lucid dreaming movement. Dreams often give us gifts, but sometimes as lucid dreamers we ironically lose our lucidity about the value of the dream’s spontaneous gift. This technique [...]

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Calling Northern California Dreamers

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

For my readers in the San Francisco Bay Area, make note of a Dream Studies Open Forum this Friday June 24th, in Berkeley. Hosted at the Dream Institute, this gathering is open to the public and anyone interested in discussion and networking with dream workers and researchers. If time permits, we will have a round [...]

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Managing Cancer Pain with Healing Dreams

Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments

Often the claim is made that dreams are healing. Usually, dream workers are talking about psychological healing, or the knack for dreams to highlight the areas in our lives that need attention, courage and renewal.