How to Start a Dream Sharing Circle in Your Town

So far, in this post series about ways to work with dreams, I have mostly focused on ways of working with your dreams alone.   Today let’s talk about group dream work and how to start your own local dream sharing group.

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Dream Sharing: the Foundation of Dream Work

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 dream journal is important, and could easily be the first post in this series, but I want to start with the historical, low-tech, and most widespread way of honoring your dreams: sharing them.

Dream sharing is ubiquitous across the world’s cultures and you can bet that dream sharing has been a standard human activity for as long as we have had the ability to: Read more

Solo Dream Interpretation Reinforces Your Personal Mythology

ScienceDaily has really been covering some great dream research studies recently. Earlier this week, SD reported on a group of studies that look into how ordinary people find meaning in their dreams.

The studies cited investigated under which conditions do people find meaning in their dreams. Their results, surveyed from various groups of US commuters and students, indicate that, in the US, people are more likely to find meaning in their dream if the dream reinforces something they already believe.

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Cyber-Dreaming ??? A Quick History

Just uploaded a short history of dreamwork on the Internet. Dream researchers and enthusiasts have been sharing dreams through the Internet since its inception. In fact, dreamers ” who really are the true communicators of this age in my humble opinion ” were some of the first groups that participated in pre-Internet file-sharing too.

I am indebted to Richard Wilkerson for this piece, who not only is a first generation cyberdreamer, but also pointed me in the right direction when I picked his brain a few weeks ago in San Francisco.

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Guide to Dream Sharing on the Internet

Two announcements today:

First, I just uploaded my guide to Online Dream Sharing to the original articles section. These are my top picks for places on the web to safely share and exchange dreams with other dreamers. All are peer-to-peer dream sharing sites, but many are run by dream researchers and professionals. The guide does not cover dream interpretation or dream dictionary sites (run away!).

Also included are two dream sharing sites where you can use their databases to do your own dream research – this is a great resource for students or for anyone interested in societal patterns of dream content.

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