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Working with Dreams

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

Lucidity is not the same as Dream Control

By Ryan Hurd

Despite the constant repetition in popular media that lucid dreaming is “controlling your dreams,” these two concepts are not the same. One can be lucid and not “in control” of either the dreambody or the dreaming environment, just as one can … [Read more...] about Lucidity is not the same as Dream Control

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: cocreation, dream control, Lucid Dreaming, meta-cognition, Scott Sparrow, self-development, stephen laberge

Breaking the Silence about Sleep Paralysis

By Sheila Pryce Brooks

Since the 1970s autoethnographies have been used by researchers to explore and reflect upon different aspects of a personal experience. As more people are today aware of the sleep paralysis phenomena, I write in autoethnographic style, feeling no … [Read more...] about Breaking the Silence about Sleep Paralysis

Filed Under: sleep paralysis Tagged With: hypnagogia, incubus, sleep paralysis

Dreams, Liminal Objects and Magical Thinking

By Ryan Hurd

It may reek of new age sentimentality, but the ability of talisman to traverse the worlds is really effective. Using a talisman as a dream tool is an efficient strategy because the dreamworld is precisely where magical thinking works. It’s the … [Read more...] about Dreams, Liminal Objects and Magical Thinking

Filed Under: Working with Dreams Tagged With: dream amulet, liminality, Lucid Dreaming, lucid talisman, magick

The Spiritual Science of Mirrors in Dreamwork

By Melinda Powell

I invite you to explore with me the properties of light and symmetry in mirrors and how these appear in dreams and dreamwork. Through the ages, spiritual traditions have referred to the enigmatic property of mirrors as a metaphor to convey spiritual … [Read more...] about The Spiritual Science of Mirrors in Dreamwork

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming Tagged With: dreamwork, interpret mirror, Lucid Dreaming, lucid surrender, mandalas, mirror in dream, Sufi dreamwork

Calling forth your dream: the power of Dream Incubation

By Kelly Lydick

Dream Incubation is a process that has been used by cultures worldwide for thousands of years. The Greeks, the Egyptians, and many others, all revered dreams and the process of engaging with dream content as a way of being part of the greater reality … [Read more...] about Calling forth your dream: the power of Dream Incubation

Filed Under: Working with Dreams Tagged With: dream incubation, dreaming, healing dreams

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