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Working with Dreams

Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters

By Ryan Hurd

This morning, Christmas Eve day, I noticed a holiday card on the coffee table. It was slightly crumpled and curled around the bottom as if it has been discarded for a while. I opened the card and gasped – it was signed by my grandmother, who died … [Read more...] about Dickens’ Christmas Ghosts and Lucid Encounters

Filed Under: Dreamy Book Reviews, sleep paralysis Tagged With: Brugada syndrome, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Christmas ghost, ghosts, hauntings, Lucid Dreaming, night-mares, Nightmares & Dream Terrors, sleep paralysis, supernatural assault

From the Journals: Thoughts about Dream Interpretation

By Ryan Hurd

Recently I have been inspired by the work of writer Matt Cardin—who you should be reading if you're interested in creativity, horror and the divine. Matt also has lifted up the importance of personal journals in tracking the evolution of a writer's … [Read more...] about From the Journals: Thoughts about Dream Interpretation

Filed Under: Dream Interpretation Tagged With: backpacking, Dream Interpretation, journaling, Kurt Vonnegut, Matt Cardin, Sterling Watson, Unitarian, wilderness dreams, writing

Connecting with the Other Side during Dreams

By Julie Beischel

People have believed in an afterlife since as least the time of the Neanderthals who buried the dead with flowers, jewelry, and utensils, most likely for use in the next world. And for just as long, people have recognized that our departed loved ones … [Read more...] about Connecting with the Other Side during Dreams

Filed Under: Visitation Dreams Tagged With: after death communication, afterlife, ancestral dreaming, departed loved ones, Julie Beischel, life after death, visitation dream

Dreaming of Fairies and Connecting to the Ecological Self

By Ryan Hurd

Not long ago, I was doing a nature meditation practice at my usual creek-side spot by the sycamore tree and became aware of the strong presence of a small spring that joins the creek. This mingling of waters became my meditation. Later, I found the … [Read more...] about Dreaming of Fairies and Connecting to the Ecological Self

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: ecological self, fairy dreams, integral archaeology, Lucid Dreaming, nature awareness, nature meditation

Dream Journaling is Mindfulness

By Ryan Hurd

I had an interesting conversation with dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley recently about the benefits of keeping a dream journal.  Having a record of our dreams is incredible, as we usually forget even our previously recalled dreams otherwise. When we … [Read more...] about Dream Journaling is Mindfulness

Filed Under: Working with Dreams Tagged With: contemplative practice, creativity, dream journal, dream journaling, dream meaning, dream meditation, Kelly Bulkeley, mindfulness

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door: The Line Between Realities

By Jason DeBord

The line between the world we experience in dreams and the one we experience while awake seems to be clear. You cross it when you wake up and open your eyes to the real world, and the one you leave, that seems to exist only in your mind while … [Read more...] about Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door: The Line Between Realities

Filed Under: Dream Interpretation, Nightmares & Dream Terrors Tagged With: Carl Jung, Dream Interpretation, dreaming, Jason DeBord, Nightmares & Dream Terrors, RadOwl, Reddit dreams, synchronicity, Wolfgang Pauli

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