Dream Blog

I recently returned from Australia’s first conference on dreaming, Dreams & Imagination: Healing Pathways, hosted by Dream Network Australia in Sydney. This professional conference brought together a rare combination of scientists, environmentalists, academics, and counsellors, who stand united on the importance of dreaming to our health, our sense of community, and and our connection to the … Read more

A Dangerous Method is a gripping historical film mixing sex and psychoanalysis, while depicting the demise of the most influential relationship in psycho-history: the bond between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The film shows Freud protecting his “authority” by not sharing a revealing dream, but omits the crucial importance of dreams in Freud & Jung’s … Read more

The key to your dreams is always in the details. If you often dream of flying, start paying attention to the way in which you’re flying, and what emotions accompany your experience. Flying is one of the most exhilarating experiences we can have in our dreams, and perhaps this is why so many people ask me about it. While … Read more

“From my encounters with patients and with the psychic phenomena which they have paraded before me in an endless stream of images, I have learned an enormous amount – not just knowledge, but above all insight into my own nature. …My patients brought me so close to the reality of human life that I could not help learning essential things … Read more

Are your daydreams merely innocent flights of fancy? Evidence suggest otherwise. Day dreams seem to fulfill an important emotional function, and can tell us a lot about what we’re longing for, what we’re repressing, and what emotions our psyche is trying to process. Daydreams help us to release built up emotional tension without having to ‘act-out’, just as night dreams do. … Read more

You’ll forget around 1,500 dreams this year. Ever wonder why? You dream four to six times every night, and will have around 1,800 dreams this year. 90 – 95% of them will instantly disappear from your memory, and there’s no final answer as to why. While dreaming, our brain functions entirely differently to when we are awake. Our dream experiences … Read more

When doing dream work, we’re looking for the hidden connections between a dream image and an experience in our waking lives. The battle between Freud and Jung proved that what you’re looking for can influence what you find. Vivid dreamers have a lot to be grateful to Sigmund Freud for. It was he who gave credibility to our eternal hunch that … Read more

No, you can’t  brush your teeth first: When you wake up, you usually have around 2 minutes to start writing down your dream before it begins to fade. By the time you get some water and brush your teeth, your dream may have turned to mist. Maintain a habit of keeping a little dream journal and … Read more

While you seek to get to know yourself in your waking life, ‘the dreamer’ sits in a watchtower overlooking the endless landscape of your psyche, with a perfect view of of who you’ve been, who you are, and who you could be. One of the great paradoxes of the human condition is our inability to truly know ourselves. Why do friends sometimes … Read more